The wind at the mouth of the Hutong at the end of the four was a little strong, and when Su Wuming and the others left, their clothes were blown away.

When they escorted Lu Qing back to the county office, Li Jingdao Qian Sheng and others were already waiting, Qian Sheng didn't expect Su Wuming to be so neat, and he only went for a while and escorted Lu Qing over, didn't Long Qi embarrass him?

In fact, Long Qi wanted to embarrass Su Wuming at first, but when he saw Su Wuming drink the wine he poured without hesitation, he understood that he was by no means Su Wuming's opponent, and it was better to make a friend than to suffer by himself.

Su Wuming saluted Li Jingdao and said, "Master Li, this person Lu Qing is an important person in this fake silver case, as for whether he is the mastermind behind the scenes, I am afraid that we will not know until after the interrogation." ”

Li Jingdao was also amazed by Su Wuming's efficiency, and after bowing slightly, he said: "Since this is the case, then please ask Master Su to start interrogating, this case must not be delayed, and the case must be solved as soon as possible!" ”

Su Wuming bowed his hand slightly, and then looked at Lu Qing, and said: "If you know each other, you will confess all your crimes, if not, Lord Ben will look good with you today!" ”

Making fake copper coins, but it is a big crime, the light one is exiled for three thousand miles, and the heavy one is going to be killed, Lu Qing is by no means stupid, how can he admit his guilt, so after Su Wuming said those words, he only smiled coldly: "The grass people have not committed any crime, let alone made fake money, you suspect me of guilt, but what about the evidence?" ”

"The people you tricked into helping to exchange money are proof!"

"That's because they framed me, they want to blame me, adults have to know clearly, if there is an unjust, false and wrongful case because of this, it is not a joke."

In the face of Lu Qing's sophistry, Su Wuming hated to kill him immediately, but Su Wuming forcibly suppressed his anger, he saluted Li Jingdao slightly, and asked, "Master Li, in the face of such a villain, do you think you can use torture?" ”

As soon as he heard this, everyone present knew that Su Wuming was going to torture Lu Qing, and Lu Qing had cold sweat on his forehead, but he still had no remorse.

Li Jingdao's brows condensed slightly, for a person like Lu Qing, he also hated to torture him immediately, but now that Su Wuming wants to torture, he wants to take this opportunity to sue Su Wuming for the crime of coercing a confession, but he first asked himself, what makes Li Jingdao embarrassed? If you agree, after Su Wuming's torture, there is no way to deal with him, and no matter who wants to trouble him with this matter, he can pull himself out as a shield; And if you don't agree, I'm afraid that this fake silver case will have to be delayed for a few days to be solved, and it may happen at any time in a few days, so the place where the fake silver is smelted has not been found, and I don't know how much fake silver will flow into the market.

After some hesitation, Li Jingdao nodded slightly: "Torture is allowed!" ”

After getting Li Jingdao's permission, Su Wuming smiled lightly, and then ordered someone to bring all kinds of punishments in the county government, in the early Tang Dynasty, there were not many punishments, but after Wu Zetian became the dynasty, because of the use of a lot of cool officials, the torture tools in the prison gradually increased, and one was more cruel than the other, as soon as these torture instruments were released in front of people, it made people feel an indescribable trembling.

Su Wuming asked the servants to put all these torture instruments around Lu Qing, he wanted to give Lu Qing a sense of oppression, Lu Qing's forehead was bruised, now he really wanted to admit the crime immediately so that he could be exempted from these punishments, but everyone had the desire to survive, so until the last moment, he would never surrender.

Su Wuming glanced at those torture instruments, and said with a shallow smile: "This is a whip, it is very simple to use, it is nothing more than to take off your clothes, and then pump hard, there is no good place in your body to smoke, but it can't kill you, at this time, sprinkle a handful of salt on the wound on your body, the salt melts when it meets blood, and slowly invades your skin, that kind of taste...... Tsk, it's not good. ”

After saying this, Su Wuxing pointed to an urn and said with a smile: "You should have heard the story of Junchen inviting you into the urn, right?" This is the punishment created by Junchen back then, this punishment is actually very simple, it can't be just ask you to get into the urn, and then we will order someone to light torches around the urn, until the whole urn is hot and red, as for the taste inside, you can go in and try it later! ”

After Su Wuming finished saying this punishment, Lu Qing was already trembling, the tip of his tongue trembled, and at this time, he saw a bucket of water, a bucket of cool water, he felt that his lips were dry, he was very thirsty, and he wanted to take a sip.

And just when Lu Qing wanted to drink saliva, he really drank the water, he grunted and drank a bowl of water, after drinking it all, he looked up and found that Su Wuming was looking at him and laughing, Su Wuming pointed to the bucket of water while laughing and said: "These waters are for you to drink, but this water is not delicious, because I will let you drink it all the time, knowing that your stomach is swollen, but, don't think that this is over, when your stomach is swollen, I will order someone to step on your belly, step on it hard, at this time, You will feel like your belly is about to burst; However, you don't have to worry, your stomach won't really crack, it's just that the water in your stomach will flow out through the seven orifices of the human body, that kind of taste, hehe, you will experience it immediately. ”

Speaking of this, Su Wuming seemed to remember something again, so he added: "The name of this punishment is called Shui Luo, is it a very poetic name?" ”

Su Wuming's words made everyone present tremble, and they didn't dare to look at those torture tools after listening to Su Wuming's words, for fear that one day these torture tools would be used on their own bodies. And in addition, they felt that this Su Wuming was too terrifying, and this description of the torture instrument was terrifying, and only he could depict it so terrifying.

At this time, Su Wuming looked at Lu Qing and smiled: "There are a lot of torture tools here, you can pick any one, let's try slowly!" ”

Lu Qing felt the wind in his back, and felt that his bottom was cold, but he didn't dare to look at it, but he knew that he was incontinent when he urinated, and he was scared like this; He was extremely frightened, so at this time, he suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to Su Wuming and begged for mercy, and said that he was willing to tell all the crimes.

The torture tools were withdrawn, and Su Wuming had no intention of using torture on Lu Qing at all, he just wanted to use these torture tools to break through Lu Qing's psychological defense.

"Tell me, how did you make the fake silver, where is the place where the fake silver is smelted, how many companions are there besides you, and who is the mastermind behind it!"

Su Wuming asked several questions in a row, and Lu Qing answered them one by one.

"The place where the fake silver is smelted is in a village five miles east of Qiantang County, that place is relatively hidden, we dug a big cellar, where all the work of smelting fake silver is carried out, there are seven or eight accomplices in smelting fake silver, and the rest are just gangsters we are looking for, let them help exchange the silver for copper money, as for the mastermind behind the scenes...... He's dead! ”

After Lu Qing finished speaking, before Su Wuming could speak, Qian Sheng suddenly said angrily: "Nonsense, how could the mastermind behind the scenes die?" ”

Lu Qing had a bitter face and said, "My lord, the mastermind behind the scenes is really dead, because the mastermind behind the scenes is Mi Cangqiong!" ”

After Lu Qing said this, everyone present was shocked, and after Qian Sheng, who was surprised, he scolded again: "A bunch of nonsense, I think you are the mastermind behind the scenes, and you are afraid of being punished, so you framed a dead person." ”

Everyone agreed with Qian Sheng's words, because Mi Cangqiong, a businessman, how could he do such a thing, and if he did such a thing, how could he keep the fake silver in his own house? And how did he die?

Everyone turned their eyes to Lu Qing, Lu Qing was sweating profusely, and explained again and again: "The mastermind behind the scenes is really Mi Cangqiong, he was looking for me at the beginning, saying that there is a way to exchange fake silver for copper coins, he led me to the cellar outside the city to have a look, I found it feasible, and this reached a cooperation with it, and later in order to attract customers to exchange, that Mi Cangqiong set an example, and we gained a lot for a while." ”

Speaking of this, Lu Qing hesitated a little, and after a long time, he continued: "The miserable silver is not worth much, so in just a few days, we exchanged a lot of money, but just when we were about to do another big deal, Mi Cangqiong suddenly said that he wanted to stop doing it, and said that sooner or later this matter would be noticed, and at that time, it would be extremely easy for the government to find them, and he wanted to destroy those smelting attacks, and then stopped, but a few brothers and I felt that the money we made was not enough to stop, therefore, We feel that it is necessary to keep Mi Cangqiong's mouth shut, and the surest way to keep a person from speaking is to kill him. ”

"In order to avoid suspicion, we stole a coffin, and poisoned Mi Cangqiong with poisoned wine, and after putting Mi Cangqiong's body into the coffin, we made some arrangements, and when the people in the government found Mi Cangqiong's body, they would only think that he had committed suicide by poisoning, because only those who committed suicide would think about buying a coffin for themselves; Of course, in addition, we also thought of a posterior move, Mi Cangqiong was right, this thing we did would be goofed sooner or later, so we thought about stepping up to make money, and run away after making enough money, and at that time, the fake silver matter was exposed, and Mi Cangqiong's body was found, so that the people in the government would link the two things together, and they would only think that Mi Cangqiong committed suicide because she was deceived. ”

After listening to Lu Qing's words, Su Wuming and the others had already understood all these things, but at this time, Su Wuming asked again: "With your situation, it is completely possible to escape after killing Mi Cangqiong, but you did not escape!" ”

Lu Qing sighed: "At that time, our business was very good, and a lot of copper coins were put into our accounts every day, and we ...... We can't bear to stop there! ”

Lust for profit, lack of moderation, in the end there will be no good results!