Chapter Seventy-Seven: Punishment

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From the county office, there was an unstoppable scream, the sound was like a ghost, so that the people passing by the county government were frightened, looked left and right blankly, and quickly left the place.

The county government did not have a decent torture room, and almost all the other rooms were being renovated, so Li Zhongxin could only take them to the open space outside the cell for interrogation. The screams were unstoppable, and they spread out, and the people in the surrounding houses and streets were so frightened by the screams that they couldn't rest in peace.

When Shi Zang returned to the county office with Zhuang Rou with a box, Zhu Dianshi had already gone home, and the master was doing the aftermath work. He was the only one left in the yamen, a few honest officials, and a clerk.

Li Zhongxin really didn't confess anything, no matter what Lin Laicai and his wife recruited, he was like a stone in a latrine, smelly and hard, and refused to draw a detention.

The two of them talked to the master, and went directly to the prison to get Li Zhongxin out, and Shi Zang opened the box he brought and revealed the torture tools inside.

What is torture, Zhuang Rou is an eye-opener this time, every kind of torture is unheard of, and those torture instruments look different.

The three-pronged fork with a sharp tip is similar to the tool used by a gardener, and a single grasp of a person's body can be grasped until the skin and flesh are exposed.

There are more than 20 thin needles from fingers to two palms, and I don't know what they are used for.

The small and delicate barbed iron hammer, Zhuang Rou felt that it was good to break the pork bones when boiling the soup, and there were some other things that I couldn't tell what they were, and each one was polished shiny.

And at a glance you can see that it is not a new object, and many places have been worn to the point that the patterns are gone, but there is no rust or filth at all.

It's been half an hour since the torture, and although Shi Zang has a cold face, he looks very happy, silently picking up one torture tool after another, and using it on Li Zhongxin non-stop. It's only the time to go to bed early, and the people who go to bed early have just fallen asleep, but the people who live around here will definitely not stop tonight.

Li Zhongxin's screams were one after another, and occasionally he just fainted, and compared to the servants splashing water, Shi Zang had a better way to wake up.

At this time, he would always take out a long needle and prick Li Zhongxin's head a few times, without splashing water, then Li Zhongxin would wake up. Then Shi Zang took out the torture instrument again and began to torture him in a new round.

Seeing that Li Zhongxin was tortured in an inhuman form, suffering so much that he could not die, Shi Zang was still having a good time, and had no intention of stopping, Zhuang Rou finally coughed and said, "Brother Shi, can you let him try it?" ”

Shi Zang glanced back at her, his face looked very terrible in the shadow of the lantern, and his always cold face showed a hint of a smile at this time, "It's still early, you have to let me have fun." ”

"In the future, there are cases that want to trouble Brother Shi, let me ask first, if he still doesn't recruit, Brother Shi will play until dawn." Zhuang Rou looked at him and said.

Shi Zang turned his head and looked at Li Zhongxin, whose tongue was caught in the iron piece, and could only scream but not speak, and said regretfully: "Looking at his appearance, it seems that he doesn't want to confess yet." ”

Li Zhongxin had already collapsed, and his lifeless head suddenly raised and shook vigorously. He didn't want to be tortured anymore, the feeling that he couldn't survive and couldn't die, it was better to die.

"Look, he shook his head and said he didn't want to confess." Shi Zang's face returned to his original indifference, and he said expressionlessly.

Before the words fell, Li Zhongxin shook his head vigorously, the blood on his face was thrown onto Shi Zang's face, his eyes were about to fall, and his mouth was silent, and he couldn't hear what he was talking about.

"......" Zhuang Rou walked up and looked at Shi Zang quietly, "Brother Shi, it's not good to sleep late." ”

Shi Zang hadn't had enough of it, and stared at Li Zhongxin coldly for a while before taking off the iron clip from his tongue.

Li Zhongxin was finally able to speak, he was weak and said in a hoarse voice: "I'll recruit, I'll recruit...... There are several girls who bought them from Gonggong Liu, the secretary of the teaching department. ”

"Father-in-law Liu?" Zhuang Rou looked at Shi Zang, wanting to get the origin of this father-in-law Liu from him, but he didn't expect him to look at Li Zhongxin expressionlessly and say, "It's up to you?" Try other torture instruments. ”

"Nope! What I'm saying is true! Li Zhongxin shouted vigorously, he was willing to die and didn't want to be tortured anymore. Zhuang Rou hurriedly sat down at the table, picked up the pen that had been prepared, dipped it in ink and wrote what he said just now.

Li Zhongxin panted and confessed, all of which Lin Laicai and his wife did not know, that is, the origin of the girls who knew the book as soon as they were sent over.

As Zhuang Rou guessed, in addition to Song Zhiruo, there were four other people who were bought from the Teaching Workshop Division, including the little baby led by the nurse.

They themselves are official ladies, and this cultivation is much more convenient than picking up a few poor girls and then teaching them a little bit to save money.

He didn't want to be tortured anymore, and he wasn't a tough guy bandit, he could hold on to it before, and he wanted to recruit him after two hits in Shi Zang's hands. But his tongue was clamped, and he couldn't confess if he wanted to, and he suffered a lot.

If Zhuang Rou hadn't come forward, Shi Zang wouldn't have let him go so easily, and he would have to play for a few more hours.

Even how to buy it, he explained it all, as long as he went to check it.

Looking at what he explained, Zhuang Rou asked, "How did you make Lin Yubao obedient and go to seek death?" The carriage suddenly startled, it was Lin who took advantage of the crowd to slow down, walked to the side and pierced it with a sharpened hairpin, and Liu Zizhi's groom did not notice it at that time. ”

"Lin Yubao has been stopped by me a few times before, how did you coerce her to seek her own death?"

Li Zhongxin didn't hide it, he was dead anyway, so he said: "I threaten them, if they don't do what I say, let their relatives who were exiled to the army die." The relatives in the Sect Division were the same, and they were all killed. ”

"You have such a great ability?" Zhuang Rou was a little surprised, it's just that the housekeeper of Shangshu Mansion has such ability, it's too exaggerated!

But when she thought of her brother, she felt that maybe they were just hiding their identities, but they weren't what they looked like on the outside.

"No, just to scare them." Li Zhongxin said weakly, "Except for those who are too young, the older ones think they can really do something like that when they see that we can buy them." ”

"Sometimes as long as they promise to do it and get her relatives out, they will be very obedient."

Looking at this man who had lost his conscience, Zhuang Rou stood up, walked up to him and said, "You won't be able to cut off your head so quickly, it's really cheap." ”

Li Zhongxin didn't speak, at this time he had nothing to love, he wanted to bite to death and not say it, waiting for Liu Gonggong to find a way to save him for fear that the matter would be revealed.

But this torture is really unbearable, as long as I can avoid that crime, I am willing to die!

The confession made him draw a charge, Zhuang Rou wanted to give it to the master, but found that he had just used the excuse to go to Gong, and he hadn't come back yet. The clerk had been scared away at the beginning of the torture, and was now asleep at home.

She tilted her head to look at the two who insisted on being here, the two of them had already vomited and their legs were weak when they were huddled in the corner, and they were much better than others if they didn't run. She smiled and said, "Please put him in jail for the two of you, but don't kill him, you have to live until the day you cut off your head, and the more pain you will suffer." ”

The two servants looked at her timidly, this woman was really terrible, even if the man with a cold face was punished, how could she stand by and read it all the time, and she was not afraid at all!

"Well, can't stand up?" Zhuang Rou saw that the two of them didn't move, so she walked over to them and wanted to pull them.

Seeing her coming, the two of them jumped up as if they had seen a ghost, and hurriedly ran to Li Zhongxin to drag him to prison as if they had seen a ghost.

Zhuang Rou tilted her head a little strangely, but she still put away the confession, and went to see if the master was in the lobby later.

Shi Zang took the water and wiped the torture instrument with a white cotton handkerchief, with a cautious and serious expression, as if the torture instrument in his hand was like his lover, and he should take good care of it.

"Brother Shi, I'm really bothering you, do you want me to send you back later?" Zhuang Rou watched him put a long needle that had been wiped clean into the box, and quickly asked.

Shi Zang raised his head and stared at her coldly, and when he saw Zhuang Rou, he smiled a few times, then waved his hand and said, "Don't forget it, then I'll go first, and next time if someone still doesn't make a move, I'll trouble you again." ”

"Never recruit better, so that you can play more." Shi Zang said indifferently, and then ignored her and continued to wipe the other torture instruments.

It's really a person with a unique hobby, and it's not so cold. Zhuang Rou smiled, and then took the confession to the lobby outside, and saw that the master was really sitting here, drinking a little wine and peanuts.

"Master, you are so cunning, you actually came here to drink." She walked over and grabbed a peanut and threw it in her mouth, chewing it and saying, "This is a confession, it has been drawn, this matter has something to do with the Teaching Division, but it shouldn't be our business, do you want to report to the court?" ”

The master touched his beard and said with a smile: "Don't worry, this case will be completed first, and the person will be locked up in prison, and His Royal Highness will deal with the affairs of the Teaching Workshop Division." ”

Zhuang Rou nodded and said, "Okay, what about the placement of those girls in the Lin family?" ”

"Wait until I ask His Highness and see what he means, anyway, let's stay on the opposite side for a while, and it won't be in the way." The master said.

Since it's okay, Zhuang Rou has to go back to rest, obviously saying that she doesn't need to be on an errand at night, but she has been tortured for a long time, which is really tiring.

"Master, then I'll go back first." She arched her hand and said, and wanted to turn around and leave, but the master went to call out to her, "Wait a minute." ”

Zhuang Rou couldn't help but ask curiously, "Is there anything else going on, master?" If you want to drink, then I can't accompany you. ”

The master smiled and brought out a small basket from under the table, covered with a white gauze handkerchief. He put the basket on the table and said, "This is something Your Highness just sent to Sister Zhuang, saying that you like this thing." ”

"For me?" Zhuang Rou was a little confused, the little county king could send things to himself, and he asked someone to send them over at night, what is it?

She pulled the veil from the basket and was stunned. Inside the basket was a bunch of crystal clear purple grapes, not the one she had eaten, but a brand new one.

"A golden ......" Zhuang Rou smiled, put the handkerchief on the cover and carried the basket and said to the master, "Master, I'll go back first, thank you Xiaojunwang for me." But I'm not going to give you this to eat, I'll see you tomorrow. With that, she ran away happily with the basket.

The master shook his head and only thought it was funny, such a simple guy, just a bunch of grapes, at least he had to put away the red coral head to be so happy.