In a tense and depressing atmosphere, time passed bit by bit, and the middle-aged jailer stood there frowning, weighing the benefits and losses of Li Hongyu's incident, and it was difficult for him to make up his mind for a while because of the many concerns in his heart.

Li Hongyu, who was lying on the recliner, felt a little wet on his back, it turned out that the clothes on his back had been wet with sweat, and he was now more nervous than the middle-aged jailer and others.

With a creak, I don't know how long it took, the door of the torture room opened, and Ma Qianhu strode in, which made the middle-aged jailer and the others hurriedly bow down to greet them.

"Send him back, remember to clean his tail, don't leave any trouble, let outsiders think that he has a sudden illness and dies."

Ma Qianhu glanced at Li Hongyu, who was lying quietly on the recliner, thinking that Li Hongyu was dead, so he said to the middle-aged jailer and the others in a deep voice, "After this matter is over, you will be rewarded heavily, which is enough for you to spend the rest of your life." ”

As he spoke, Ma Qianhu turned around and prepared to leave the torture room to report to Zhang Quan, Cui Gongzi, and Liu Yiyu that Li Hongyu was dead.

"Lord Qianhe, we haven't done it yet." Seeing this, the middle-aged jailer hurriedly shouted to Ma Qianhu.

"What?" Ma Qianhu's figure suddenly froze when he heard this, and he turned to look at the middle-aged jailer in surprise, with an unbelievable look on his face.

You must know that this period of time is enough to kill Li Hongyu five or six times, if it weren't for the middle-aged jailer's side not reporting the news for a long time, he wouldn't have rushed over to check, he didn't know why the middle-aged jailer would disobey the order, didn't he know how serious the consequences were?

"Lord Qianhu, he said that his grandfather and Lord Zuo Du Yushi are sworn brothers!" The middle-aged jailer hurriedly stepped forward and explained to Ma Qianhu in a low voice.

"Zuo Du Yushi?" Ma Qianhu was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Li Hongyu lying on the recliner with some astonishment, he didn't know this situation before.

"Watch him!"

Subsequently, Ma Qianhu instructed the middle-aged jailer, strode out of the torture room, and went to report this sudden situation to Zhang Quan and others.

Li Hongyu naturally heard the conversation between Ma Qianhu and the middle-aged jailer, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but flash a wry smile, it seems that his lie can't last long, to be honest, he doesn't even know the name of Zuo Yushi.

In the hall of Wuchangwei's backyard.

"What do you say? Zhao Guangfeng and Zuo Yushi are sworn brothers? Liu Yi looked at Ma Qianhu standing in front of him in surprise, never imagined that this kind of thing would happen.

"How is this possible! Zuo Yushi is a native of Jiangsu and has been serving in Jiangnan before he was transferred to the capital, and he only passed the year of confusion last year, how could he be Zhao Guangfeng's sworn brother? At this time, Zhang Quan, who was sitting on the Taishi chair with his injured leg, couldn't help but speak, and said coldly, "Those fools have been deceived!" ”

"Don't go quickly, let them end his life quickly." Liu Yi immediately reacted when he heard this, and shouted at Ma Qianhu in a deep voice.

For Zhao Guangfeng, Liu Yi is not very jealous, although Zhao Guangfeng enjoys a good reputation in Huguang Shilin, he specializes in academics, and his friends in Shilin are all gentlemen's friends, so he does not belong to any force in Huguang Shilin, so naturally he can't put pressure on Liu Yi.

Compared with Zhao Guangfeng, Zhao Xin and other young students brought more pressure to Liu Yi, you must know that those students are the most impulsive, and if they don't do it well, they will make a big mess.

"Let's go." Ma Qianhu smiled and bowed to Liu Yi and walked away quickly, he had never encountered such a bizarre thing, a middle-aged jailer so experienced veteran would be bluffed by a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy.

But then again, although Li Hongyu is young, he is the head of the child test case in Xiangyang Mansion, and he is not an ordinary idle person, so it is understandable that he can scare the middle-aged jailer.

"He's bluffing you, Zuo Yushi has never been to Huguang at all, so it's impossible to think that Zhao Guangfeng." After returning to the torture room, Ma Qianhu glanced at Li Hongyu on the recliner, and said in a deep voice to the middle-aged jailer who was anxiously waiting there, "Lord Liu has already spoken, and he will be dealt with immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Although the middle-aged jailer still had doubts in his heart, since Ma Qianhu had already issued an order, he had to carry it out, and he bowed down a little helplessly, he didn't know if what Ma Qianhu said was perfunctory to him, and he had no choice at all.

Then, the middle-aged jailer waved his hand, and the big men standing on the edge of the recliner rushed up and held down Li Hongyu's limbs.

Ma Qianhu stood there expressionlessly looking at Li Hongyu, in order to avoid another accident, he was ready to watch Li Hongyu be executed with his own eyes.

"Do you know what you're doing?" Li Hongyu sighed secretly in his heart, things that should come will always come, so a wry smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and then he slowly opened his eyes, looked at Ma Qianhu, who was standing not far away and watched the execution, and asked with a serious expression.

"Case leader Li, this official is also forced to do so, if you want to blame, you will blame yourself, you actually offended the little marquis for a woman!" Hearing this, Ma Qianhu looked at Li Hongyu indifferently, and said regretfully, "The next time you are reincarnated, remember that some people must not be offended, otherwise they will definitely die, and they have wasted those good talents in vain." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, my classmates are now running around for me, how do you think the government will appease the agitated students after my death? Is it just a scapegoat of these poor jailers? ”

A sneer flashed at the corner of Li Hongyu's mouth, and he looked at Ma Qianhu and said expressionlessly, with a trace of pity in his eyes, "You shouldn't be involved in this matter, this black cauldron is up to you nine times out of ten." ”

"Don't be sensational, you will die a violent death, and then the yamen's work will prove it, and no one will pay attention to your life or death when the township test is approaching."

Ma Qianhu frowned slightly when he heard this, and said coldly, he didn't like Li Hongyu's compassionate eyes, you must know that Li Hongyu was just a lamb to the slaughter, but now he acted like a master.

"It is precisely because you are going to try it that you will definitely die, and only in this way can you appease the excited students, do you think those students are so easy to deceive? Will you believe that I died a violent death for no reason? ”

Li Hongyu couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, "Originally, I thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect that you would be so stupid that you were still helping others count money when you were dying, who do you think those people in the government can afford to be charged with disrupting the township test?" Who wants their yamen to be attacked by the students? ”

Hearing this, Ma Qianhu's face suddenly changed, and he had to admit that what Li Hongyu said was the truth, if those students did not die down as Zhang Quan and others expected, but were excited, then in the end, someone would definitely be used as a scapegoat, and he was undoubtedly the best choice in terms of official rank.

Although Ma Qianhu and Li Hongyu have no grievances, it is still easy to put a charge on him for murdering Li Hongyu, as long as it is said that he did this to curry favor with Zhang Quan, then it is a reasonable explanation.

If Ma Qianhu is not deeply involved in the world, I am afraid that he will not believe Li Hongyu's words, but the key is that Ma Qianhu has rich life experience and has seen a lot of ugliness in the world, so he was touched by Li Hongyu's words, and then felt uneasy.

"His grandmother's, I hope there won't be a next time in this situation!"

Seeing that Ma Qianhu fell into silence, Li Hongyu couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, this Ma Qianhu's mind is not too high, otherwise it would not be easy to fool him, which made him buy valuable time.

The middle-aged jailer and the others looked at the scene in front of them blankly, their eyes showing a look of fear, and Li Hongyu's previous words made them feel creepy.

"Although you will definitely die, you still have a chance to save your wife and children, and after killing me, let them take enough money to go away and live incognito for life."

Looking at Ma Qianhu who was deep in thought, Li Hongyu decided to hit his psychological defense again, so he groaned for a while and said expressionlessly, "Of course you deserve to die, but your family is innocent and should not be implicated." ”

"You're scaring me!" Ma Qianhu's face suddenly became even more ugly when he heard this, and he looked at Li Hongyu with a grim face and said, "Do you really think that I don't dare to kill you?" ”

"I knew I was going to die, I didn't expect to live at all, I just didn't think there was any need to implicate so many innocent people for my business."

Li Hongyu's eyes flashed coldly when he saw this, and he knew that Ma Qianhu's mood was already in chaos, so he said while the iron was hot, "You should already have lovely children, what you can do now is to find a way to arrange a back road for them, maybe they are not old enough to kill their heads, but I don't know if they can withstand the wind and sand of the frontier." ”

Normally, the emperor would show mercy to those who were beheaded, and men and women under the age of sixteen could be spared death and sent to the frontier to serve as an army.

But if the criminal is unlucky and annoys the emperor, then the consequences will be unimaginable, and the whole family, regardless of men, women, children, and even livestock, will be killed.

If Ma Qianhu kills Li Hongyu, then he will be guilty of the same crime as killing officials, and it will definitely affect the whole family and behead him, but those men and women under the age of 16 will be confiscated from the army nine times out of ten, and since then they have lived a lonely life, living a life that is worse than death, and many people even can't stand the bumps on the road and die miserably.

"Shut up!" Ma Qianhu was furious when he heard this, brushed out his waist knife and put it on Li Hongyu's neck, and said angrily, "Do you think I'm going to be afraid of your words?" Believe it or not, a knife will kill you! ”

"If there are so many people to accompany the funeral, presumably there will be no loneliness on Huangquan Road." Li Hongyu glanced at Ma Qianhu, whose chest was rising and falling sharply and his face was flushed, and slowly closed his eyes and said.

At this time, Ma Qianhu was undoubtedly told that he was in the sore spot, and then threatened him with a fierce heart, so he would not believe that Ma Qianhu dared to kill him with a knife.

"Thousands of households are angry, don't act impulsively!"

Seeing this, the middle-aged jailer hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded with an anxious expression, if Ma Qianhu impulsively slashed Li Hongyu, then the consequences would be unimaginable, not only Ma Qianhu but also them would be unlucky.