In the wing room of a house on the street of Tatou Street, Master Gao has been sleeping for a long time.

He finished handling the grain affairs in the palace today, and after talking to the eldest master, he returned to the house in a sedan chair. As he did a few days ago, he asked the housekeeper to serve wine, and prepared to drink a few cups during the meal, but he didn't know that today's wine seemed to be very strong, and he didn't drink to the level of the previous days, and he was actually a little sleepy.

"Give me the wine and bring it to the room." Master Gao didn't suspect him, and thought it was just a matter of his own amount of alcohol today, so he instructed the housekeeper to send the half-drunk wine to the room.

Master Gao felt that he couldn't open his eyelids, so he asked the housekeeper to help him and staggered into the upper room. When he returned to the room, he sat at the head of the bed, and the housekeeper brought hot water to wash his feet, and then poured it down on the bed, and he fell asleep soundly after a while.

Seeing that it didn't take long for his master to snore, the housekeeper who was standing aside was afraid that the master would have other instructions later, but now when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but wonder a little, this master is really a little abnormal today.

But the housekeeper thought about it again, thinking that the lord was too tired in the affairs of the palace today, so he would rest so early, he walked into the bed to look, and found that the lord slept soundly, so he turned his head to the small table in front of the bed, and gently blew out the oil lamp on the table, and then turned around and went out, and slowly closed the door.

Master Gao lay on the bed and slept for a long time, feeling that he hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time, not tossing and turning like in the past. But after a long time, I felt that my breathing became more and more difficult, and my body seemed to be crushed by the thick earth.

"Get the hell out of here...... Get out of the way......" In the dream, Master Gao saw distorted and hideous faces, and these people seemed to have emerged from the depths of his memory......

"Isn't this the one who received 50 taels of silver from Master Li a long time ago, and then became a bitter master, I heard that he later hanged himself...... The man with a bleeding head is ......"

It is very strange that the old man Gao in the dream seems to have some consciousness, and suddenly remembered the identity of these "evil ghosts" who are now chasing after him, but he ran slower and slower, and after a while he caught up with the "evil ghosts", he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, so these "evil ghosts" flew down from mid-air, pinched his neck with both hands, and pressed him, so that he couldn't move at all, and his eyes were vicious, and the sound seemed to come from the sky.

"Kill you, I want revenge!"

"Gao Lingyu, give me back my life......"

Master Gao wanted to shout "help", but the words seemed to be blocked in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound at all, only the meaningless syllables of "uh-huh-hmm".

When he really felt that he couldn't hold his breath and was about to be strangled to death by them, he woke up with an "ah", and now he doesn't know what time it is, the room is still dark. He wanted to turn his head to look out the window, but when he tried to move his hands and feet, it was as if he was still in a nightmare, and he was pressed by something, and he still couldn't move.

"What's going on?!" Master Gao, who had just woken up, was a little puzzled, thinking that he was still in a dream.

At this time, there was a person's voice in his ears, his voice was very low, but in the dead of night, he could hear it clearly, "Master Gao!" ”

Master Gao wanted to speak, but found that there seemed to be something blocked in his mouth, although it was very soft, but it filled his mouth, so that he could only make a meaningless "hmm" sound.

"Master Gao." The same voice from just now whispered in his ear, "Don't move, if you wake up others, it's not fun, and our mission will fail." ”

Master Gao said "hmm" twice, his body and hands and feet couldn't move, so he tried to raise his head, because this person would call himself "Master Gao", which means that he should recognize himself, but the accent he spoke was very strange, there was no southern accent, it should be an official dialect belonging to the north, but he had never been in contact with such a person in his impression.

As soon as he raised his head a little, he was suddenly pressed onto the bed with his hands, and Master Gao was a little frightened, not knowing what these people wanted to do.

Then he heard a "snapping" sound, and then he saw a trace of fire lit up above, and Master Gao's head was so pressed that he couldn't move, so he had to look towards the light, and by the light he suddenly saw a strange gadget under the faint flame.

The little thing was small, not at all like a fire, but a little like a little candle on which the flame was dangling, and now it was being held by a large hand to light the oil lamp on the table.

As the oil lamp lit up, the hand seemed to loosen its fingers, and the flame was extinguished, and the little thing was put away. At this time, Master Gao had a chance to see what was going on, it turned out that there were three people in the room, each wearing a black hood on his head, and a black shirt on his body, he was now being ridden by two people, they pressed their hands and feet to death, and their heads were pressed by the person who spoke just now.

Although I was a little worried before, but this time, Master Gao was so frightened that he almost fainted, thinking to himself, I'm afraid this is not a simple thief!

Sure enough, as he feared, not long after, he saw the man in black standing, who had conjured out a pack of paper from somewhere, and did not know what kind of paper it was, very white and fragrant but very thin, and placed it on the table, not knowing what he wanted to do.

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Hu Guang obviously didn't let Master Gao wait too long, pulled out the lump of stuff in his mouth, and then took out a tissue from the bag of "Heart-to-Heart Printing" and gently covered Master Gao's face. Then he took out another thing from his arms, it was a small sprayer, which contained a whole bottle of liquid, all of which were the soju that had been sold to Master Gao recently.

After a few clicks, the tissue covering Master Gao's face was carefully sprayed from top to bottom.

Master Gao's face was covered with a thin white paper, and he didn't know what these people wanted to do, so he was a little stupid for a while, and he didn't think to shout, so he watched the paper on his face become wet and sticky on his face.

Although he covered the paper just now, because the paper was very white and thin, Master Gao could still see the room through it, but now that the paper became wet, it suddenly stuck to his face, not only his eyes couldn't see, but his mouth and nose suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe, so he instinctively puffed up his mouth and blew up, wanting to blow the paper away, but the tissue was sprayed with wine mist, and it became heavy and heavy, and it was blown away for a while.

"Are they trying to suffocate me?" In a hurry, Master Gao suddenly remembered the methods he talked about drinking and chatting with his colleagues on weekdays, and letting the prisoners be "killed" in the Yamen prison.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the unnatural death in the prison was very serious, at that time it was called "Yu death", Zhang Jixin, who had been the Sichuan envoy, that is, the vice governor in charge of politics and law, recorded in his self-written chronology, "The number of people who died in the province before was not less than 12,000 people every year. "In a province, there are as many as 1,000 or 2,000 detainees who die unnaturally every year.

Prison officials and prison officials regard the prison as a serval, and treat the prisoners as fat, but whenever a prisoner falls into their hands, regardless of whether they are guilty or not, they are all handcuffed and chained, and they are first thrown into the old prison, and then they do the ideological work of the prisoners, whether you want to stay in the old prison again, or pay a sum of money to come out, change the cell, or release on bail pending trial. The amount of money usually depended on the prisoner's family background, and when received, it was divided between the jailer and the relevant officials.

In the face of the naked blackmail of the jailer, the unlucky ones who have already suffered in the old prison, and those who have a little property, have tried their best to find someone to bail out; Those who can't afford so much money also want to remove the torture equipment and change to the current prison, and the cost will be dozens of taels of silver. The penniless poor could only stay in the old prison in shackles and slowly consume, and many of them were "killed" by hunger, cold, disease, and resentment.

"Yu death" is actually a "universal cause of death", whether it is really due to illness or other unnatural deaths can be called "Yu death", such as prison officials and prison officials receiving other stolen money, trying to find a way to kill a prisoner or witness. What's more, the government is not responsible.

What Master Gao thought of in his heart at this moment was such a terrifying method of "Yu Death", and he couldn't help but want to open his mouth and shout for help when his heart and gall were broken. Unfortunately, when the man in black saw that he was about to open his mouth, he pressed his index finger lightly on the small socket under his Adam's apple, and cut off his voice alive.

Hu Guang smiled "hehe", "Master Gao, if you bear with it, you will be able to finish it soon." ”

After speaking, he quickly took out the second tissue and covered it on Master Gao's face, still using the sprayer to spray it carefully. When he sprayed the sixth one, he saw Master Gao's body twitch for a while, and then he stopped moving.

It was the first time for Hu Guang to do this kind of thing, and he felt a little unbearable in his heart, after all, this was not a face-to-face killing with knives and guns on the battlefield, but a kind of torture and killing. But thinking of Brother Huang's confession and the criminal materials of this person on the intelligence, he had to be ruthless, and then did what he had just done meticulously, until five minutes had passed, and then he stopped.

"Alright, he should be dead, you guys come down." Hu Guang quietly looked at Master Gao, who was motionless on the bed, and said to the people on both sides.

"Yes, Chief." The two warriors who were riding on Master Gao let go of the hands that were pressing his hands and feet tightly just now, and then stood aside and moved their wrists, this person's resistance before death was very strong, and the two of them almost got rid of it.