The anklets and bracelets on his body add up, I am afraid that there are more than 30 catties, and because of the excessive blood loss before, Wen Jingyuan can't exert any strength all over his body, so now he can only let the two jailers set himself up.

As soon as he was gone, a foul smell filled the entire cell, and the two jailers looked down and saw that the straw was crawling with terrible leeches, and those leeches were all fat-headed and big-eared, and looked very disgusting.

Even the two jailers who tortured people all day long couldn't bear to turn their heads, and they couldn't help but feel respect and pity for this pampered son, so the strength of the two couldn't help but lighten up.

"Gongzi Wen is offended, let's go." Seeing that Wen Jingyuan's face was already white at this time, a jailer whispered, and then helped Wen Jingyuan out of the cell with his companions.

"Haha, let the two adults wait here for a long time, the official has already brought Wen Jingyuan over." Now in the hall, there are already Lord Cheng of the Imperial Palace, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and the Lord of Dali Temple, because the location of today's trial was chosen in the Criminal Department, so the two of them left the middle position to Ye Gan.

After seeing Ye Gan, the two got up slightly, and then sat down in their places again.

Master Fang is an old man over sixty years old, although he has white hair and white beard, his eyes are clear, and a righteous aura has been floating on his face for a long time, and he didn't say anything after seeing Ye Qian, he just stood up politely, and then sat down and waited for Wen Jingyuan's arrival.

On the other hand, Lord Qingcheng of Dali Temple, although he has a square face and a square nose, looks loyal, but there is a faint hint of cunning in his eyes, look at this, he nodded lightly at the other party when he saw Ye Gan, and the eyes of the two glanced at each other in the air, and then turned away.

'Smack. Ye Qian sat on the table and slapped the desk, and then said loudly: "Press the prisoner Wen Jingyuan up." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw two jailers walking up with Wen Jingyuan on their backs.

Lord Fang immediately frowned when he saw Wen Jingyuan's bloodless face and covered in blood, and his sharp eyes suddenly looked at Ye Gan, and asked, "It is not possible to be sentenced before the trial, Lord Ye, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, how can he not even know this bit of criminal law?" ”

When Ye Qian heard this, he immediately clarified for himself: "Lord Fang has misunderstood this official, this Wen Gongzi was already injured when he was escorted back to Beijing. The official just asked Wen Gongzi to be put in a cell, and he was never tortured, if the adults didn't believe it, they could let him come up and examine Wen Jingyuan's injuries. ”

Ye Qian's face was serious at this time, and those who didn't know thought that Lord Fang had wronged him.

Seeing that this had not yet been tried, there was going to be infighting between the three of them, so he immediately acted as a peacemaker and said with a smile: "Don't be in a hurry to get angry. This official also heard that Wen Jingyuan was seriously injured when he was at the border pass, if Lord Ye really used the punishment, I am afraid that this Wen Jingyuan would not be able to bear it for a long time, Lord Fang just now was just for the sake of fairness, lest the three of us try an unjust, false and wrongful case, and then we will live up to the emperor's trust in the three of us, besides, this official only has a bad face when he sees this Wen Jingyuan, and his clothes are also neat, and he really does not look like a person who has been tortured. ”

As soon as these words came out, Lord Fang and Ye Gan's faces softened slightly, but Wen Jingyuan glanced at Ye Gan's contrived expression, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but sneer.

"Wen Jingyuan, are you guilty?" At this time, Ye Qian immediately aimed the spearhead at Wen Jingyuan and asked sharply.

Wen Jingyuan slowly raised his head, put away the sneer that hung on his lips, and said in a weak but extremely firm voice: "There is no excuse for the crime you want to add." ”

As soon as these words came out, a trace of ruthlessness immediately flashed in Ye Qian's eyes, and then he spoke: "Wen Jingyuan, now that the evidence is conclusive, do you still want to quibble?" The emperor is now sending me and the other three to come, just to make you confess your guilt, so as to give you a chance to reform your ways, but you are obsessed, like you and a chaotic minister and thief, the emperor should not bother for you, you should be directly pulled to the vegetable market to behead the public! ”

Ye Qian's coercive and seductive remarks made the eyes of Lord Fang who was sitting on the side appear dissatisfied again, and Lord Cheng also spoke after Ye Gan finished: "Wen Jingyuan, you said that you wanted to add to the crime, but we did find the token given to you by the people of the Nanyue Imperial Family in the placket of your underwear, how do you explain this?" ”

Wen Jingyuan glanced at Master Cheng above, although he spoke in an orderly manner, but like Ye Qian, he imposed the charge on his head, and then turned his gaze to Lord Fang who was sitting on the other side, and then said word by word: "What I haven't done, how do you ask me to explain?" Is it possible that these letters and tokens alone will condemn me? Don't you know that these letters and tokens can be fabricated, and this crime can also be arbitrarily deducted, but what I have not done, even if I die, I will definitely not admit this trumped-up charge. ”

Lord Fang saw that Wen Jingyuan was reasonable, so he thought of the relationship between Ye Qian and the Protector Mansion, and he had some understanding of his words and deeds just now, so he said: "That is the case, please ask Lord Ye to present the evidence." ”

Ye Qian saw that this Zuodu Yushi was so shrewd, and he was not moved by his own words and that of Dali Siqing, and then his eyes immediately shot to Wen Jingyuan, but he saw that he was just staring at Lord Fang at this time, so he was furious in his heart, and the murderous aura in his eyes was even worse, but his face was still solemn and ordered: "Come on, present the evidence." ”

After hearing Ye Gan's order, the jailer below immediately went down, and after a while, he held two pieces of evidence and placed them in front of the three of them.

"Two adults, please see, this is the evidence of Wen Jingyuan's fornication with Nanyue, this letter has been carefully read by the official no less than a dozen times, the words in it are all expressing dissatisfaction with the son of heaven in my dynasty, and at the same time it is flattering the son of heaven in Nanyue, and it involves the towns of my dynasty, and some towns with economic essentials are also written on it, it is really suspicious to look at. And this jade waist plate engraved with the word 'Nan' is probably given to him by Nanyue in order to facilitate Wen Jingyuan to enter the Nanyue Palace. ”

Ye Qian saw that Lord Fang Cheng got up and walked to the desk to check the evidence, so he immediately spoke, and then raised the waist card so that everyone present could see the handwriting and patterns on it.

And after carefully reading the content of the letter and the waist card, the faces of the two changed one after another.

If the letter can be forged, but the waist card is unique to Nanyue, and the carving technology on it is also unique to Nanyue, and it is impossible to imitate, and this waist card is only qualified to be owned by the people of the Nanyue royal family, but this waist card was found on Wen Jingyuan's body, even if someone wants to help Wen Jingyuan, but in the face of ironclad evidence, I am afraid that there is no power.

Wen Jingyuan also saw the emerald green waist card at this moment, but although he was shocked in his heart why such a valuable thing appeared on him, he still looked frank between his eyebrows.

"It seems that Wen Gongzi refuses to admit his guilt, and it seems that he intends to remain silent to the end." Ye Qian also deliberately let Wen Jingyuan see the waist card, so he deliberately raised the waist card just now, just to see Wen Jingyuan's panicked expression, so that he could take the opportunity to convict him.

But he didn't expect Wen Jingyuan to be so calm, and the expression on his face was actually not moving, which made Ye Qian feel that he was afraid that the situation would be reversed if it went on like this, so he immediately said: "Come on, go to punishment." ”

At this critical moment, all the physical evidence pointed to Wen Jingyuan, which was very unfavorable to him, but he refused to speak, and if Ye Qian was tortured at this time, the other two would definitely have no objection.

Soon I saw several jailers carrying up the torture tools that had been prepared in the morning, and one of the jailers walked up to Wen Jingyuan with an expressionless face, and then began to rudely tear off Wen Jingyuan's clothes.

Lord Fang had heard about the punishment of the Criminal Department early on, but he didn't expect Ye Qian to treat Wen Jingyuan with such cruel torture as grooming today, so he felt inappropriate in his heart, so he immediately stopped him: "Wait, Lord Ye is too cruel to do this."

Even in the face of prisoners, it shouldn't be like this, do you want to force Wen Jingyuan's words out of his mouth, or do you want him to be humiliated to death? If Wen Jingyuan is proven to be innocent in the future, how will Lord Ye explain to the emperor? Explain to the Auxiliary Princess? ”

Aside from the fact that the punishment of grooming will make the prisoner feel painful and worse than death, the practice of stripping people naked before the execution will make the prisoner completely naked.

This extremely humiliating punishment was definitely the most humiliating for them as scholars.

Even Wen Jingyuan, who had always remained calm just now, was angry in his eyes after seeing his shirt taken off, and his eyes were full of hatred to look at Ye Gan's villainous appearance, eager to cut him with a thousand knives.

"Lord Fang's words are wrong. This Wen Jingyuan looks like a hard bone, if he doesn't have to be punished heavily, I'm afraid he won't spit out the truth at all. Besides, now the emperor is still waiting for our results in the palace, but there is not so much time to spend here with him at the moment. ”

Ye Qian didn't smile at this time, looked at Lord Fang and spoke, and then said sharply to the jailer who had stopped: "What are you all doing in a daze, don't hurry up and torture!" ”

The group of jailers spoke when they saw their bosses, and one by one they didn't dare to slack off.

Immediately began to get busy with the things in his hands, and for a while the hall was steaming hotter and hotter by the steam of the bucket of hot water, and everyone was sweating.

But Ye Qian seemed to dislike that the hot water was not hot enough, so he had another shelf set up and put the iron bucket containing hot water on it to heat it.