As soon as the sky was slightly bright, Cao Wenbing got the news, and then led people to the edict prison in a hurry. He looked at Zhong Chu kneeling with his head down with a gloomy face, and said in a cold voice, "How did this official order last night?" Now that Liang Wendao is dead, you still have a face to live. Is it true that the words of the official are not in the ears? ”

Zhong Chu kept kowtowing on the ground and begged with a wailing voice: "My lord, spare my life!" Spare your life! The villain knows that he has committed a big sin this time, and begs the adults to spare me for the sake of the villain's saddle and behind the horse. The villain will never dare again! My lord, my lord, spare my life! ”

"Oh, it looks like you've had a lot of hard work over the years!" Cao Wenbing bent down violently and lowered his head in front of Zhong Chu, and said gloomily: "Zhong Chu, if the confession is useful, why do you need to get it in your hand?" You've been in the spy department for so long, and you still seem so ignorant! He straightened up and commanded to the left and right: "Pull Zhong Chu into ......the torture room and suffer first, and then leave him a whole corpse." ”

Cao Wenbing's henchmen secretly froze in their hearts, and they were clever. The spy department who followed behind today hurriedly bowed down and agreed: "Yes, my lord! He kicked the subordinate next to him hard, "Be nimble!" Don't leave this turtle grandson here to get in the way of adults. ”

Zhong Chu also accepted his fate, hanging his head and being dragged away, not as rampant as yesterday. After entering the torture room, Lekin said to his subordinates: "They are all their own brothers, let's give him a rough beating." Alas! And when he had finished speaking, he came out of the torture chamber,

At this time, Cao Wenbing was listening to his subordinates report on the situation last night.

A spy officer Xiaoqi said in a panic: "My lord, I was fine in the first half of last night. In the second half of the night, it was too cold, so everyone lit the braziers. At the beginning of the ugly time, Li Da took the wine and came out. Lord Zhong, oh no, it was Zhong Chu who asked us all to drink a little to warm up. After a few sips, everyone fell asleep even more. The next morning, when the brothers woke up, they found that Liang Wendao was dead. Speaking of this, he couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead, then secretly looked at the expression of Cao Wenbing, who was sitting on the top seat, and quickly lowered his head.

Cao Wenbing's face was still gloomy, and then asked, "What about Big Li?" ”

A lieutenant preemptively spoke: "If you go back to your lordship, Li Da is also dead." At the same time, there was also a prisoner from the cell next door to Liang Wendao. Their symptoms were all the same, all of them committed suicide by poisoning, and they bled to death. ”

"Did anyone go into the cell at night?" Thinking that nine times out of ten it was a ghost in the spy department, Cao Wenbing's face became even more ugly.

The henchman next to him hurriedly bowed down and said cautiously: "My lord, the villain just asked the brothers and Situ Lei who were guarding outside, and no one has entered the edict prison at night. ”

"Smack!" Cao Wenbing slapped the wooden table beside him violently, and said hatefully: "Drag them all out and take fifty boards seriously." ”

"Thank you, thank you!" A group of people were overjoyed, thinking that their own leaders had been killed, and now they still have a chance to live. Now this board, that's really a blessing from heaven.

After everyone left, Cao Wenbing fell into deep thought, beckoned his henchmen to come over and ordered: "Go and check how many empty cells were there last night, and then interrogate all the prisoners who are close to those cells." Remember, do it yourself, and don't pretend to anyone else! ”

The henchmen saw that Zhong Chu, who was the most favored on weekdays, had been killed, and where did they dare to slack off, so they hurriedly said, "Yes, my lord." The small ones will do it. ”

Two and a half hours later, it was noon. There is no sun in the prison all year round, and it is still gloomy and cold. Cao Wenbing drank casually, waiting for his henchmen to report.

"My lord, there are seventeen empty cells in the prison, and five of them have prisoners next door. Most of these people were criminals or big thieves, and the small ones had just interrogated them one by one, but they didn't find any clues. ”

"Let's go down." Cao Wenbing sighed, and then crushed the wine glass with a hard hand in his hand. "No matter who you are, you actually stretched out your hand to the spy department, and this official has to find you out. ......"Actually, even if there are no clues, he knows in his heart that there will be no such people." He stood up abruptly and ordered, "Let's go, this official is going to enter the palace!" ”

There were no candles in one of the rooms, because the doors and windows were closed. Sitting for a long time is also a little stuffy. Among them, a rickety old man said: "Master, there is news from the edict prison this morning that Liang Wendao is dead. ”

A tall figure turned his back to the old man, rubbed his brows a little tiredly, and said, "Did he say the answer as instructed?" ”

"Master, this minion doesn't know very well. Now Cao Wenbing has asked the people of the Espionage Department to seal off all the prisons, and no one is allowed to enter or leave. It will take a few hours to know the exact news. But ......"

The tall figure said with some displeasure: "Don't babble, you have something to say." ”

According to the report of the spies planted in the spy department, Cao Wenbing's face was gloomy, and he went directly to the palace as soon as he got out of prison. The slave guessed that Liang Wendao might have been killed before he could say the answer. ”

"yes, I see." The tall figure's tone didn't fluctuate without any fluctuations, and he waved his hand to let it go. After the old man went out and closed the door of the study, he began to plan again. After a while, he whispered: "It seems that none of these old foxes who have been in the officialdom for decades are easy to get along with." ”

Cao Wenbing knelt in the main hall of the West Garden of the Imperial Palace, without saying a word, and was already covered in sweat.

Emperor Jianping threw a precious porcelain bowl on the ground and said coldly, "Wen Bing, you have disappointed me too much. You can be so negligent about something so important. How do you make me believe in you again? You said! ”

Cao Wenbing kowtowed more than a dozen times before he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen has failed the emperor's trust, and he really deserves death!" Weichen didn't expect that someone would insert a nail into the spy department, and the crime was unforgivable. Please condemn the emperor! ”

When Emperor Jianping heard this, his face became even more ugly. Now not only have people reached out to the prince, but also to the spy department. He was furious in his heart, and couldn't help but secretly say, "Is it really that I am blind? Thinking of this, he exclaimed, "This time I will put the head on your neck first." You go back and comb through the inside and outside of the spy department, and pull out all the nails. If you let the spy department be like a sieve again, I won't keep you anymore! ”

"Yes! Wechen went back and started. ”

"Hmm. Xue Pingchuan is in the Espionage Division, right? ”

Cao Wenbing was a little stunned, he didn't know how Emperor Jianping knew, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart: "Could it be that Jing'an Hou is going to regain his holy favor again?" He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Xue Pingchuan is indeed in the Spy Department. Weichen sent him to Huai'an Mansion a few days ago to kill the rudder of the Blood Hand Alliance, and his performance was remarkable. ”

"Hmm. Stand down. ”

Cao Wenbing bowed down and exited the hall a little confused, and secretly made up his mind to go back and promote Xue Pingchuan.