After that, everyone also knew about it, Xiang Cheng and the three killed the nine soldiers, and learned the whereabouts of Ma Yuanyi from Bai Ren.

Xiang Cheng and the others were naturally anxious to rush towards Luoyang, and there were only bursts of smoke and dust on the road.

The camera turned back to Ma Yuanyi's side.

Because of the importance that the Han court attached to Ma Yuanyi this time, the cavalry took Ma Yuanyi back to Luoyang non-stop.

"The guards in the city quickly opened the city gate, and General Lu returned victorious!" It was late at night, and a team of less than thirty horsemen pressed a prisoner cart under this Luoyang city and shouted at the city.

The watchtower in the city was brightly lit, but the gate was already closed. The soldiers on the watchtower poked their heads out and looked down at the city, which had already prepared the token.

A cavalryman shook the watchtower with Lu Zhi's general order in his hand, and then shouted: "Open the city gate quickly, General Lu will return to the city." ”

The soldiers on the watchtower looked fixedly, as if they had seen the token, and beckoned everyone to open the gate.

The city of Luoyang in the Han and Wei dynasties was not the Luoyang of today. Instead, it is on the north bank of Luoshui in the east of the East White Horse Temple in Luoyang City.

Lu Zhi and his entourage came to the northwest again, and the city gate where they are now is not the four main gates of Luoyang City, but the "Upper East Gate" on the northeast side.

The Upper East Gate is a small gate, but the walls are nearly ten feet high. I really don't know how the soldier of the watchtower saw this token clearly. But fortunately, they didn't misplace the wrong person, it was just Lu Zhi and his party who came.

After entering Luoyang City, Lu Zhi escorted Ma Yuanyi to Luoyang's edict prison, but he didn't say a word on the way.

After the handover in prison, Ma Yuanyi's next severe torture and beating is not within the jurisdiction of Lu Zhi. Until the day Ma Yuanyi went to the execution ground, the whip wounds and stick wounds on his body were still shocking.

It is said that Ma Yuanyi was imprisoned in this prison, which was damp and cold, and from time to time there were some not very cute little animals to visit the door.

What Ma Yuanyi committed was naturally heinous to the Han court, and he was taken to the place where the sinners were interrogated before he could sit down in prison.

The person in charge of the punishment was named "Tingwei" in the Han Dynasty, but now this Tingwei is old, and he has not seen anyone in this prison for a long time, and he did not even come to interrogate such a "vicious" sinner as Ma Yuanyi in person.

The only three officials who interrogated Ma Yuanyi looked very young were young because the beards on their lips had not yet grown.

The ancients said: "If you have no hair on your mouth, you can't do things well." ”

In the Han Dynasty, a dynasty that likes to look at people's qualifications and age, with such a lineup of officials, it is conceivable how mediocre the current Han court has become.

The three men sat behind a table, eating the melons and fruits on the table, swearing and spitting out the peels. Probably because I woke up in the middle of the night, I was dissatisfied.

The two soldiers pressed Ma Yuanyi into the interrogation room.

The interrogation room was spacious, with all kinds of torture instruments on both sides, except for the table. In the middle was a wide wooden bench and a humanoid wooden frame with chains. The bench was used for cane punishment, and the wooden frame was used for whipping.

At this time, I have to say that the punishment items of the Han Dynasty are really single, far more perverted than the punishment of the Whip Dynasty.

"Tie him up." The young officer on the far left spat the jujube kernel in his mouth to the ground and said to the two soldiers.

The interrogation in the Han Dynasty was not as elegant as it is now, and the plaintiff's lawyer had to be asked to make a statement before the defendant's lawyer was asked to defend himself. In the Han Dynasty, they first tied you up and beat you, and then questioned you after the fight. In the official history, even Cao Cao's son, Emperor Wen of Wei, Cao Pi, was interrogated like this when he was young, so in this era, these people are no longer strange.

Ma Yuanyi did not resist either, and allowed the two soldiers to tie themselves to the humanoid wooden frame.

After Ma Yuanyi was tied, the young official of Sanning didn't see any movement, just eating melons and fruits on the table and chatting, while the soldiers who kidnapped people took out two leather whips from the basin next to them.

Spat twice at his palm, and the two soldiers waved their whips one on the left and one on the right, one in front of the other.

The whip was whipped on Ma Yuanyi's body, and the sound was extremely crisp, just like the firecrackers set off on Chinese New Year's Eve.

At first, Ma Yuanyi gritted his teeth and held on, but when the three officials saw that this thing was still a hard bone, they snorted coldly and didn't care about it, and let the soldiers beat Ma Yuanyi. Later, all the skin of his shirt was torn, and the soldier dipped the leather whip in the water, and when he smoked it, Ma Yuanyi, a British and Chinese, cried out in pain. It turned out that the liquid that seemed to be clear water was actually alcohol.

In this way, after half an hour, Ma Yuanyi's chest and back were all cracked. The blood did not flow out like a scar from a sword, but oozed from the skin layer by layer.

Ma Yuanyi also fainted and woke up, woke up and fainted, and it was really good to toss over and over again. The three interrogators seemed to feel that they had talked enough and eaten enough melons and fruits, and finally waved their hands and shouted to stop beating Ma Yuanyi's soldiers.

Ma Yuanyi was still in a coma, and a basin of cold water was poured on his head and face, and Ma Yuanyi, who was in a coma, immediately woke up.

"Say, What are you planning? Who are the same party members? "But one of these three people is the presiding judge, and the other two are taking notes. The face of the presiding judge was almost on Ma Yuanyi's face, so he asked.

Ma Yuanyi's aching eyelids couldn't be raised, but he didn't say a word, just the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he was laughing at the official.

The official was so angry that he was about to summon the soldiers to come in and execute Ma Yuanyi, but he stopped halfway through his hand.

The presiding judge put down his raised hand, but the hideous expression on his face slowly turned into a joke, which was looking at Ma Yuanyi and said: "If you don't say it, I also know, your mastermind is called Zhang Jiao, a giant deer man." Right, right, or not? ”

Ma Yuanyi was shocked, and the expression on his face was unnatural, although his original expression was unnatural because of the pain.

"Do you want me to continue?" The presiding judge asked, and without waiting for Ma Yuanyi's reply, he continued: "You meet in Guang and Yecheng in the seventh year, and act together inside and outside Luoyang, in a vain attempt to directly take away my Han River. It's a pity, it's a pity, this plan is very good, but it was ruined by you chickens, dogs, and rabble. ”

"You...... How do you know! Ma Yuanyi stared at the official with wide eyes, as if he remembered something but couldn't believe it.

"How do I know?" The official asked rhetorically, and then continued: "I guess you also know that whether you admit it or not is a dead end, so I will be kind to let you know the whole story." ”

With that, the official clapped his hands, and a person walked out of the dark back hall.

This person is too far away, Ma Yuanyi can't see the appearance clearly, just this figure is turned into gray Ma Yuanyi can remember.

Who is this person who is not Tang Zhou!

"Brother Yuanyi, don't come unharmed?" Tang Zhou lifted the hat on his cloak and gave Ma Yuanyi a shy smile.

Originally, the sparse beard on Tang Zhou's mouth was gone, but now Tang Zhou's whole person was motherly and ugly, coupled with the shy action, his eyes could be spoiled.

"Tang Zhou!" Ma Yuanyi, who had just been whipped and didn't scream, roared at Tang Zhou like a beast at this time, and the wooden frame that bound Ma Yuanyi made a squeaky sound.

Tang Zhou made a frightened look, and said in a sharp voice to the two jailers: "Hurry up and hold this guy." After saying this, he patted his chest delicately, and then said: "This person is really vicious, but he scared the slave family to death." ”

There was a chill in the room.

"Tang Zhou, why did you betray the great sage and good teacher! Why betray me! Ma Yuanyi was held down by two jailers, and his mouth continued to growl.

Why did people who were originally like a family get into such trouble? Ma Yuanyi is a loyal and courageous person, he can't figure it out. In fact, many people can't figure it out, why did this Tang Zhou betray him when he was obviously a disciple of Zhang Jiao? It may be that Tang Zhou saw that the Zhang Jiao uprising was bound to fail, or it may be that Tang Zhou was originally a member of the Han court. In short, these things can only be left to future generations to evaluate.

And here, Tang Zhou said why he did this.

"Why did he betray you? Then you have to ask your good brother! After listening to Ma Yuanyi's question, Tang Zhou's eyes finally flashed with a hint of fierceness.

Ma Yuanyi was stunned after hearing this, and before Ma Yuanyi could understand Tang Zhou, he continued: "Your good brother Xiang Cheng is now by Zhang Jiao's side in Jizhou?" ”

"You..... You...... How do you know? "Ma Yuanyi is really an honest man, and he was said by someone who said a set of words.

"It's good if you admit it." Tang Zhou took out a handkerchief and covered his mouth and nose lightly, as if he was a little tired of the smell of this prison: "You and Zhang Jiao deceived me and lied to me that I couldn't find this person, but fortunately, I also had some means, so I found out the location of this person." If I didn't have these means, wouldn't I be bullied by you? That success ruined my man's foundation, but you ignored it, in vain I still recognized you as a big brother at that time, and tried my best to assist you, but you treated me like this! ”

The more Tang Zhou spoke, the more excited he became, but he was choked by saliva and coughed for a while.

"If you kill my uncle, I won't argue with you for the time being, but you put me and my teacher to death because of such a trivial matter!" Ma Yuanyi took advantage of Tang Zhou's cough and finally interjected: "I regret not listening to what Yu said, I should have killed you with a knife at that time!" ”

"Kill me? Hahahaha! Joke! After listening to Ma Yuanyi's words, Tang Zhou laughed loudly and said: "Tomorrow noon is your death date, I, Tang Zhou, will go to the prison to behead, I will see who can kill me!" ”

After saying this, Tang Zhou turned his face and chuckled softly at the interrogator: "Lord Tingwei, this thief chief shouldn't be as simple as beheading, right?" ”

The interrogator who called "Tingwei" was a little fluttering, and replied with a fist at Tang Zhou: "Lord Neiguan, just rest assured, how can such a villain easily behead him and let him die, he should be 'broken'." ”

"That's good, that's good, this thief chief has already explained. I might go and watch it tomorrow when the execution comes? Tang Zhou then asked.

"Lord Neiguan, it is naturally okay to come to prison, and I will prepare a good position for you when the time comes." The inquisitor hurriedly smiled.

"Such a slave and maid have to thank Lord Tingwei." Tang Zhou turned around and wanted to leave, and the interrogator he called Tingwei also hurriedly got up to see him off.

Before leaving, the interrogator greeted the two jailers, and Ma Yuanyi's roar of pain and Tang Zhou's chuckle were floating in this Luoyang prison......