Chapter 184: Punishment (2nd Watch)
Dali Temple, a solemn and solemn place, may see that she is a woman, the guards were not too rude to her, but when they arrived outside the gate of Dali Temple, the guards explained their intentions to the officials at the door, as soon as the door opened, Hu Man walked in first, but Yezhi in the back was stopped: "It is her who wants to be tried, you are waiting outside!"
Ye Zhi was not at ease: "I'm just accompanying Miss!"
"What is this place? Can you accompany you as much as you want? The guard muttered a few words to the servant and closed the door directly.
Ye Zhi stomped her feet anxiously, remembering that the old man didn't know Hu Man, and bit her lip: "No!" I have to hurry up and find the young master! With that, he turned around and walked towards Su Mansion.
But she didn't know that as soon as she left, Wei Qingpeng, who had stepped out of the restaurant, came with someone, and the official saw that it was Lord Shangshu, so he opened the door without saying a word.
Hu Man had just been brought to the hall here, and Su Ze had just come up, and before he could ask who in the hall had committed something, Wei Qingpeng came in: "Master Su!"
Wei Qingpeng was one step higher than Su Ze, and Su Ze naturally walked down to greet him: "Lord Shangshu? What is the wind that blows you here today? ”
Wei Qingpeng strained his face: "This woman is suspected of buying and murdering my son, I specially came to interrogate it in person!"
"Oh?" Su Ze looked at the petite Hu Man in surprise: "Who is this girl?" What is the grudge against Ling Gongzi? ”
"You can't know until you review it!" Wei Qingpeng glanced at Hu Man, this girl has not been in a hurry since the beginning of the restaurant, it seems that she is not easy to scare, and glared: "Come on!" Hit twenty boards first! ”
Hu Man was shocked, she thought that when she came to Dali Temple, she would at least not be tortured, but she didn't expect Wei Qingpeng to come with her in person! Hurriedly opened his mouth and said, "Master Su...... Woo! I wanted to show my identity first, although Su Ze had never seen her, but he would not know about Wu Zhan and Manxiangju, but as soon as the words came out, he was stuffed into a piece of cloth by a guard behind him, Hu Man's heart sank, and he felt that he was going to suffer!
As soon as the words fell, the bench was moved, and Su Ze looked at such a delicate little girl and frowned: "My lord, I will be executed without asking this question, isn't it okay?"
Wei Qingpeng sat down on a chair next to him: "What's wrong?" I asked it all just now, but she didn't admit it! Which of the interrogators is willing to confess honestly? If she doesn't suffer from a little flesh and skin, she doesn't know what kind of place this Dali Temple is! ”
Su Ze was a little displeased when he said this, as if this Dali Temple was his place, but after all, he was a colleague, and he was injured by his son, so it was inevitable that he would be excited, so he thought about it and didn't stop it.
Hu Man was dragged and dragged onto the bench, and he couldn't say a word no matter how much he whined, and he wailed in his heart that it was too miscalculated! This surnamed Wei really doesn't agree with her, this is simply trying to bend into a trick!
Hu Man closed her eyes and gritted her teeth, and the two guards pressed her and couldn't move.
"Smack!" The wide board fell mercilessly, Hu Man snorted, feeling the hot pain in his buttocks, twenty boards...... Hu Man felt like he was going to be beaten to death!
Although these people usually torture prisoners, Hu Man is just a little girl after all, and she doesn't look like a bad person, her body is so petite, if you really use all your strength, twenty boards will be really useless, so I still have some affection.
After five or six boards, Hu Man was already in a cold sweat on her forehead, her face was as pale as paper, her cheeks were against the bench, she didn't even have the strength to struggle, it hurt... It can't be described as painful anymore, she really thinks she might die here!
"Stop! Stop it! ”
Just when Hu Man's consciousness was in a trance, suddenly a familiar voice came, Hu Man vaguely identified who it was, and finally couldn't support it, his eyes closed, and he fainted.
"Miss! Miss?! Ye Zhi fell to her knees, looking at Hu Man who had fainted, and her eyes couldn't help but burst into tears: "How can they do this to you?!"
Su Lijiu looked at a large patch of blood on Hu Man's clothes, and clenched his fists fiercely: "Quick!" Lift it down, doctor, please! ”
"Who dares?!" Wei Qingpeng slapped the table: "Su Lijiu, you are a hairy boy, and you dare to interfere with the trial of this official?!"
Su Ze also frowned: "Lijiu!" Don't mess around! ”
Su Lijiu exhaled deeply: "Dad! Do you know who she is? She is the girl who saved General Yuan's life! The proprietress of Manxiangju! ”
"What?!" Su Ze was surprised: "This, this is the girl you usually mentioned?"
Su Lijiu nodded, and looked at Wei Qingpeng with some dissatisfaction, and Su Ze wrinkled his eyebrows: "Why didn't Lord Wei clarify her identity in advance?"
Wei Qingpeng looked displeased: "What's wrong with her identity?" It's just a restaurant owner, even if he has some friendship with General Yuan, can't he be tried if he is suspicious? ! ”
"If this board is finished, I don't know if I can save my life! Does Master Wei have evidence or witnesses? I can't be sure that she is the one who hired the murderer, how can she use torture and beat people? ”
"Humph! Don't worry, this official will go back to interrogate those assassins, and he will naturally know! With that, he got up and left Dali Temple with a disdainful face.
"My lord? That's it? The guard in the back asked.
Wei Qingpeng looked sad: "Then what else can I do?" That lord didn't let me kill her! It's to make her suffer a little and make the military war compromise! ”
"But that's... What does that mean? Let a six-grade petty official marry a young lady, and let this woman be a concubine, isn't this not only wronged our young lady, but also offended General Yuan? ”
Wei Qingpeng was also angry: "If you don't do it, if you don't do it, the whole house will be unlucky!" It's okay to offend General Yuan, after all, he has a gentle temperament, if he offends the uncertain one, no one can eat and walk around! ”
The subordinates nodded hurriedly and didn't dare to speak, Wei Qingpeng felt that he was also unlucky, I really don't know when the master took the handle, let his daughter pay for it, and let his son suffer!
Hu Man was lying in the guest room of Dali Temple at this time, because the injury was in an inconvenient place, the doctor just took out the medicine and taught Yezhi how to do it, and Yezhi helped her disinfect the medicine.
Looking at the already bloody skin, Ye Zhi gritted her teeth angrily, it was really too deceitful! If she knew that she had gone to find someone to work on, people would have become like this, and she would rather break in!
After waiting for the good medicine to be bandaged and covered with a quilt, Yezhi got up and opened the door: "Doctor, the wound has been treated."
The doctor nodded, came in to check the pulse, Su Ze and Su Lijiu also followed, looked at Hu Man, who was lying on his stomach and was not angry at all, and hurriedly asked, "How is the doctor?"
The doctor touched his beard: "Although this injury looks serious, but fortunately it didn't hurt the bones, as long as you take care of it and don't get infected, I'm afraid that there will be a fever, and the old man will prescribe a prescription first."
Su Ze looked at Su Lijiu, who had a bad face: "This is the woman who lives with Wu Zhan?"
Su Lijiu nodded: "Yezhi accompanies her, Dad, let's go out and talk."
The two sat down in the pavilion outside: "I heard Yezhi talk about today's Manxiangju, it's very strange!"
"What the hell is going on?" Wei Qingpeng didn't say anything, and he beat people when he came up.
"Today is Wei Chao's birthday, a banquet was held in Manxiangju, and before the banquet started, Wei Chao was stabbed by the lion dance team!"
"No wonder he suspected it had something to do with that girl."
Su Lijiu shook his head: "Doesn't Dad think he's too eager?" First of all, Hu Man has no contact with them, how can he be so sure that he has something to do with her? Even at the expense of bending into a trick? Besides, if there is an assassin who has been caught, why didn't he interrogate the assassin first and ask the mastermind behind the scenes, but he was in such a hurry to interrogate Hu Man? ”
Saying this, Su Ze also felt that something was wrong, especially when he asked, Wei Qingpeng was secretive, but he didn't say her identity, he didn't know anything about Hu Man: "Then what do you think is the inside story?"
Su Lijiu knocked on his forehead: "This is also what I can't figure out!" It doesn't make sense! No matter how smart he is, he would never have thought that it was a set directed and acted by the Wei family.
"Looking at Lord Wei's posture, I'm afraid she won't give up easily, and speaking of which, this lion dance team was invited by Manxiangju, and people are in Manxiangju, so it's not wrong for her to be suspicious."
Su Lijiu sighed lightly: "Dad sent someone to the Wei Mansion to ask for someone, see if they are willing to hand over those injured assassins!" I'm going to go to Manxiangju. ”
Manxiangju is completely out of business today, and when Su Lijiu left, there were only a few guys there: "What about martial arts?"
The guy hurriedly said, "Wu Gongzi has gone to the barracks."
About to go to Yuan'an, he went to find it in that province, let the guy serve a pot of tea, and called a guy to ask about the situation while drinking tea, Ye Zhi was on the second floor like Hu Man, and he didn't see what was going on.
The guy said what he saw at the time, there were a lot of people in the restaurant at that time, Wei Chao, as today's host and birthday star, was at the door to welcome guests, almost everyone arrived, when the banquet was about to start, the martial arts let the lion dance team stop, everything happened in an instant, several lion dance teams suddenly threw down their hoods, and the person closest to Wei Chao stabbed him with a dagger.
Su Lijiu took a sip of tea: "Then Wei Chao didn't hide?"
The guy shook his head: "Wei Gongzi didn't move, probably because he didn't react."
If no one is hiding, the assassin can't hit the vital point, and it's enough to eat! Su Lijiu waved his hand: "Okay, you can go with your business!"
About half an hour later, the door of the restaurant was pushed open, and sure enough, Wu Zhan and Yuan An came back, and when they saw Su Lijiu, Wu Zhan hurriedly said, "Su Gongzi?"
Su Lijiu got up: "You are also confused!" Why don't you go to me first? What about running so far to find Yuan'an? ”
Wu Zhan was a little puzzled: "Ye Zhi followed the vine, I think she will go to find it."
"She's looking for me, but she's still a step too late!"
Wu Zhan froze for a moment: "What do you mean?"
Su Lijiu sighed: "Then Lord Wei is going to rectify Hu Man at all, and he followed him to Dali Temple, and stopped Yezhi outside, my father didn't recognize Hu Man, and Lord Wei didn't let Hu Man speak, when I went, I was already beaten and the skin was opened!"
Wu Zhan's face sank suddenly: "He hit her?!"
"Don't get excited!" Su Lijiu knew how much Wu Zhan cared about Hu Man: "The skin and flesh are only skin injuries, and they are still timely, and they only hit a few boards!"