"You...... You are committing perjury! ”

Meng Shi was stunned by the scene in front of him, although he didn't know how to read, it was obvious that what was written on the piece of paper was his "confession" to admit his guilt, so he looked at the big man with the handprint paper in his hand and shouted, his eyes were full of panic.

Obviously, the people of the Shen family would not tell him any morals and rules, their purpose was to exonerate Shen Shaoqiang.

"Whether you are perjury or not, it depends on how the county master judges." The big man sneered and handed the confession in his hand to Luo Bantou.

"Send him on his way." Luo Bantou glanced at the handprint on it, folded the confession and stuffed it into his arms, and then stared at Meng Shi and said coldly.

"What are you going to do?" Meng Shi was taken aback for a moment, and an ominous premonition appeared in his heart, even the most stupid person would not think that Luo Ban and the others would keep his life after getting a false confession.

At this time, a big man came over with a bowl of water, Luo Bantou glanced at the bowl of water, and said coldly, "This bowl of water is filled with poison bought at a high price from the Western Regions, it is colorless and tasteless, and the cause of death cannot be found at all, and it is also your blessing that you can enjoy it today!" ”

As he spoke, Luo Bantou waved his hand, and several big men rushed up, opened Meng Shi's mouth and inserted it into an iron funnel used when pouring sesame oil, and poured the bowl of poisoned water into the funnel and sent it directly into the throat of Meng Shi, who was struggling.

When the big men took the iron funnel out of Meng Shi's mouth, Meng Shi coughed violently, retching there incessantly, trying to spit out the poison he had drunk into his stomach, but unfortunately he couldn't use all the solutions in his body.

"You died unjustly, my young master didn't kill anyone, so you must have killed him."

Luo Ban walked up to Meng Shi, who was retching there, leaned into his ear and whispered, "A wicked person like you, when you go down to the Netherworld, the king of Yama will definitely knock you down to the eighteenth layer of hell, and you will never be able to live beyond life, so you can enjoy your future hell life!" ”

Meng Shi couldn't help but raise his head when he heard this, and looked at Luo Bantou with a frightened face, many of the people of the Ming Dynasty believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, especially in cause and effect, so as soon as Luo Bantou said it, he suddenly felt inexplicable fear in his heart, you must know that he didn't want to enter the eighteenth layer of hell.

At the same time, Meng Shi felt a wave of tiredness coming over him, the things in front of him became more and more blurred, and his heart was suddenly shocked, knowing that the Western Regions poison in Luo Bantou's mouth was working, so he shook his head vigorously to keep him awake.

It's a pity that his resistance had no effect in the face of that Western Regions poison, and soon Meng Shi lost his mind and fell asleep with his head tilted.

Obviously, Li Hongyu would definitely not poison Meng Shi, an important person involved in the case, so what Meng Shi drank was just a mixture of sweat medicine and mandala powder, which would only make him sleepy and confused, and it would not kill him at all.

"Take him away." After Meng Shi was confirmed to be asleep, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin walked out from behind the goods, glanced at Meng Shi, who was sleeping soundly, and said to Luo Bantou in a deep voice.

Luo Bantou smiled when he heard this, beckoned his subordinates to untie the rope and carry Meng Shi away, and followed Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin to the county office.

At this moment, the dimly lit county government hall is gloomy and smoky, a group of actors wearing regional ghost costumes such as bull heads and horse noodles are fiddling with the props used, the dignified Qingyuan County government hall has become a gloomy Yama Palace, and the plaque of "Mirror Hanging" originally hung on the lobby has also been replaced with three big characters of "Yama Palace".

Of course, the most eye-catching person at the scene was naturally the middle-aged actor in the costume of King Yama, who was directing people to arrange the scene in the lobby, wanting the lobby to look as much as possible like the legendary Yama Hall.

Anyway, no one has ever seen what the Yama Hall is like, so people naturally have to imagine what the Yama Hall looks like based on the real yamen.

"Class Master Wu, how are you preparing?" Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin entered the lobby, glanced at the scene with satisfaction, and then asked in a deep voice about the actor who pretended to be the king of Yama.

"Master Xie Yuan, now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." The middle-aged actor bowed to Li Hongyu when he heard this, and said with a smile.

This Wu class master is the class leader of the opera troupe that sings for the Zhao family, and was invited by Li Hongyu to perform a good play of Meng Shi at night, and the Wu class master is naturally willing to help with this, not only can he get money but also become famous, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Please, wait." Li Hongyu arched his hand to the Wu class master and said solemnly.

"Master Xie Yuan, this is what the little ones should do." Hearing this, the head of the Wu class hurriedly bowed and saluted, with a look of excitement on the corner of his mouth, to be honest, the status of the drama was low, and he thought that Li Hongyu would find the troupe to help.

Moreover, if the case is cleared up according to Li Hongyu's plan, then he plans to adapt the interrogation process into an opera in the future, which will definitely be loved by people.

Li Hongyu smiled when he heard this, and led Zhao Xin to the back hall at the back of the lobby to rest, only to see more than a dozen people sitting in the room, drinking tea and chatting there.

Except for Yang He, Shen Yuntian and Master Zhang, the rest of the people were respected villagers in Qingyuan County, who came to supervise the trial of the case.

"Li Xie Yuan, Zhao Yayuan, how are things prepared?" Seeing Li Hongyu coming in, Yang He hurriedly got up and greeted him, and asked with a concerned expression, in his opinion, the success or failure of the case was in one fell swoop.

"My lord, everything is ready, just wait and see." Li Hongyu bowed to Yang He and said quietly.

Yang He breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, bowed his head slightly and sat back in his seat, Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin sat on the two seats on his lower left, and the room immediately fell silent, everyone held their breath, secretly guessing what would happen next.

Soon after, the door of the lobby creaked open, and two ghostly actors brought the sleeping Meng Shi in, and at this time Meng Shi had changed into a white prison coat and was placed on the ground in front of the lobby, lying there with his eyes closed.

Seeing this, the head of the Wu class sitting in the lobby almost nodded to a ghost standing on the side of the lobby, only to see that the ghost took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, walked up and opened it and shook it in front of Meng Shi's nose, and the pungent smell in it suddenly made Meng Shi's nose twitch.

Seeing this, the ghost almost closed the cork of the small porcelain vase, got up and retreated to his own queue.

Under the gaze of the Wu class master, Meng Shi's body moved, and then sat up with his drowsy head patted, his mind a little blurred.

"Bold Meng Shi, when you see the king of Yama, you don't kneel down and salute!" Just when Meng Shi's brain was dizzy, a shout came from the front, and he subconsciously looked up, only to see a monster with a human body and a horse's head pointing at him and shouting.

"Lord Yama?" Meng Shi was startled when he saw this, and then looked up the lobby, only to see a middle-aged man in a black dragon robe with a beard on his face sitting upright in the lobby, staring at him.

Next to the middle-aged man stood a bearded man in an official robe, holding an account book-like object in one hand and a large brush in the other.

"King Yama! Lu Judgment! After seeing those two people, Meng Shi's Adam's apple moved, and he couldn't help muttering two names in his mouth, and with his experience, he would naturally "guess" the identities of the two people in the lobby.

Not only that, Meng Shi also noticed that there were rows of ghosts standing on either side of him, staring at him fiercely, and there were some iron cages behind the two rows of ghosts, and some men and women in prison uniforms were shouting grievances inside, coupled with the gloomy and dim atmosphere, which suddenly made him feel dizzy and tremble.

"Little ...... The little one meets the king of Yama! In a panic, Meng Shi remembered that he had been robbed from his home by the Shen family's subordinates and poisoned, and realized that he was dead, so he quickly knelt down and knelt down to the Wu class master sitting in the lobby in a panic.

"Meng Shi, do you know why you appeared in this Yama Palace?" Class Master Wu naturally ignored Meng Shi, and the "Lu Judge" on the side asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know if it's small, please make it clear to the adults." Meng Shi touched the ground with his head and replied tremblingly.

"Miss Zhang's family, the county seat of Qingyuan County, Taiyuan Prefecture, sued you, accusing you of breaking into a private house at night and raping and killing a woman, you can plead guilty!" "Judge Lu" sneered when he heard this, pointed at Meng Shi with the large brush in his hand, and asked sharply.

"This ......"

Meng Shi suddenly ran down his cheeks when he heard this, he naturally knew that the "Lu Judge" in front of him was talking about the murder of Miss Zhang, so he felt very frightened in his heart now, where did he dare to admit the murder, so he retorted with a fluke mentality, "Da Ming Mingcha, it was Miss Zhang's adulterer Shen Shaoqiang who killed him, and it has nothing to do with the villain." ”

"Hmph, it seems that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin!" Li Hongyu had already guessed that Meng Shi would not give in easily, so he had already dealt with it, and after Luo Banzhu sneered, he took out a order from the lottery holder on the table in front of him and threw it to the ground, and shouted in a deep voice, "Black and white impermanence, go and detain Zhang's soul!" ”

"Black and white impermanence is ordered!"

Following Lord Luo's words, two flames suddenly appeared out of thin air in the darkness in front of Meng Shi's right, and then two thin and tall men dressed in black and wearing black high hats walked out of the darkness behind the flames, came to the front of the hall, picked up the order that fell on the ground, and disappeared into the darkness on the side.

Seeing this, Meng Shi was suddenly frightened and bloodless, and couldn't help but stretch out his sleeve and wipe the sweat on his forehead, the scene in front of him was too weird and terrifying.

How did he know that the two flames were spewed out of the red-hot charcoal in the mouth of the actor in the shadows, this kind of little trick with no technical content, as long as the wandering artists on the rivers and lakes are trained a little, everyone can play handy, and there are naturally actors in the troupe who are proficient in this.