Chapter 14: Old Things
After separating from Song Puppet, Song Yi walked five or six hundred meters to the temporary torture room of Minghao Hall.
Although this torture chamber is temporary, the scale is also enough to accommodate one or twenty people, on the ground, there are more than a dozen iron cage-like rooms, guarded by a number of patrolmen, these places are usually used to punish those slaves who violate the family rules, and the most common method is to confine people for a period of time, but the place where Song Yi wants to go is underground.
"Young Master Song Yi, are you here?"
Seeing Song Yi coming, a patrolman also stepped forward immediately, and at this moment, a sense of worship could be seen on his face, after all, when Song Yi faced Song You last night, the interlocking rigorous inferences had convinced many patrolmen, including him, which was simply divine.
"Song You, they... Is it here?" Song Yi asked, looking at the patrolman.
"Yes, after escorting them here last night, they were directly interrogated, but it seems that nothing has come of it, and if he doesn't pry his mouth open by noon, I'm afraid he will have to be sent directly to the highest torture chamber in the family. The patrolman said, pausing suddenly, "It's just..."
"What?" Song Yi frowned, looking at the other party's appearance, there was something wrong with him.
"The other slave had just been brought here yesterday, and he had bitten through the poison hidden in his teeth, and he was dead in an instant, apparently not wanting to reveal any information. The ranger said.
In other words, the only clue now is only Song You, right? Song Yi thought to himself.
"Was Uncle Song Wu personally interrogating all night?" Song Yi asked again.
The patrol nodded.
"It's too hard to interrogate this kind of thing overnight, let me do it next, Uncle Song Wu should also go and rest first. Song Yi said, looking at a passage leading to the underground torture chamber in front of him, which was dimly lit, only the flickering oil lamps on the walls on both sides.
"They're inside, I'll take you in..."The patrolman was about to take Song Yi in, but Song Yi stretched out his hand to stop him: "I'll go in myself, you go and help me find something." ”
"Looking for something?" asked the patrolman.
"For example, there are gongs that make a lot of noise, and there are some big iron bowls, you can knock on them yourself when you choose, the louder and scary the better. Song Yi commanded.
"Young Master Song Yi, you..." Song Yi's strange request made the patrolman stunned, but he immediately came back to his senses, no matter what Song Yi wanted these things for, he had to help him find them first.
Song Yi walked into the underground torture chamber alone, he took a breath, the air here was more humid than he expected, and he soon heard the sound of scolding coming from the depths, it was Song Wu's.
"Song You, don't be ignorant, I've spent the whole night with you, and now you should be able to foresee your fate, so I advise you to be honest and explain who asked you to attack Song Yi!"
"What the hell is your purpose?"
Walking to the deepest cell, Song Yi stood outside the iron bar, looking at the situation inside, and that scene was quite like the torture in the costume TV series, I saw that Song You's hands, feet and neck were all locked with Feng Yuan, and his body was tied to a thick wooden stake, compared with last night, he was much haggard at this moment, his hair was messy, and his clothes were torn.
And Song Wu, who was full of anger, stood in front of Song You, holding a handful of silver needles in his hand, while torturing, he inserted these silver needles into Song You's body from time to time, such a scene made Song Yi suddenly think of a character in a TV series.
This is the otherworldly version of... Mama Yung?
In fact, what Song Wu used was a special method used to torture people, especially for cultivators; at this time, Song You's whole body vitality and meridians had been locked by the Yuan Seal, but this strange silver needle had an effect, not poisonous, but able to forcibly suck the Yuan Qi in the human body.
It is conceivable that when a silver needle was inserted into Song You's body, the originally locked vitality in his body suddenly began to surge uncontrollably, and forcibly impacted those meridians that were locked by the sealed yuan, and because of the poor operation of the vitality, the final trigger was the backlash of the vitality, how would the terrible pain from within the body torture a person?
However, Song You actually endured this terrible pain all night, which shows that his perseverance is far beyond ordinary people.
As soon as Song Yi arrived, Song Wu immediately noticed it, and he glared at Song You angrily, before putting down the silver needle in his hand and walking outside the cell.
"Alas, Xiaoyi, it's my uncle who is incompetent, and he still doesn't open his mouth after a night. Walking in front of Song Yi, Song Wu sighed helplessly.
Song Yi didn't care, in fact, when he was on the earth, there were more prisoners who were even more difficult to torture than Song You, all of these people had undergone professional training, especially spies, and although Song You was stubborn, but judging from this matter, Song Yi didn't think he was a professional.
Combined with his profile of Song You, Song Yi is more inclined to Song You was originally the housekeeper everyone knows, but he would suddenly do such a thing, probably because he was rebelled by external forces, and being able to make such a high-level of Minghao Tang have to carry out these unprofessional things shows that Song You is likely to have some handle to be grasped by the unknown party.
Therefore, Song Wu's interrogation failed to pry Song You's mouth open all night, which does not mean that Song You is really a hard bone, but that he has something that he desperately wants to defend.
"Uncle Song Wu, you have been interrogated all night, and it has been hard, but I have something to ask you, and it may not be convenient to talk here. Smiling at Song Wu and kindly, Song Yi turned around and led him to the stone gate of the underground torture chamber.
"What do you want to ask?" Song Wu looked at Song Yi and asked.
"I want to know, Song You is already so old, doesn't he have his own family?" Song Yi asked directly, this time he was not worried that Song Wu would wonder why he didn't even know these things about Song You, because the original owner of this body really didn't know this information.
"Speaking of Song You, I remember him four years ago... was promoted to the steward of Minghao Hall, and before that incident, he had a wife who was over half a hundred years old and a son who was strong in blood. Song Wu said thoughtfully, pausing when he said the words 'four years ago'.
"That thing... Do you mean the fire four years ago?" Song Yi seized the pause when Song Wu spoke, he can now be sure that four years ago, a fire suddenly broke out in the Song Family Library Pavilion, and the fire burned to death 'Song Yi''s mother-in-law Su Wan'er, and then 'Song Yi' became cold, and his twin brother became a fool in people's mouths, and now Song Qing and Song Yuqing, who seem to have come out of that incident, actually still have a knot in their hearts.
Obviously, the incident that Song Wu was talking about was the fire four years ago.
Song Wu was silent for a moment, in fact, about the fire incident four years ago, Song Qing did not allow anyone to talk about it again, after all, for Song Qing's family, mentioning that incident would remind them of Su Wan'er, who was once known as the pearl of the family.
"Young Master Song Yi, you... Have you already come out of that memory?" Song Wu looked at Song Yi and asked.
"Let him pass the past things, but this time I must know about Song You, otherwise it will be difficult for us to make progress in this matter. Song Yi waved his hand and said.
"Okay. When Song Wu heard this, he also let out a long sigh, and then he said: "Song You's family originally had three people, including Song You's wife Li Xiangyu, in addition, it was Song You's son, Song Tianyuan, in fact, four years ago, although Song You had not yet become the housekeeper of the Ming Horn Hall, but their family also had a very high status in the Ming Horn Hall, the reason is that Song You's cultivation has reached the psychic realm. ”
Song Yi nodded slightly, he knew that not only the Song family, but everywhere in this world was extremely respectful of the supremacy of strength, here, strength is the right to speak, and the specific way to display strength is a person's cultivation in the realm of vitality.
Song Qing had already said last night that even among the tens of thousands of people in the Song family, there were only thirty or forty people who could reach the psychic realm, and among them, there were only a handful of five or six in the Minghao Hall.
"And then?" Song Yi then asked.
Then half a year before that fire, Song Tianyuan suddenly decided to respond to the call of the Northern Wilderness Dynasty and go to the border battlefield to resist the invasion of the Zhongxuan Empire. Song Wu said.
is really strong-blooded, with the determination to protect the family and defend the country, it seems that this Song Tianyuan is a man, Song Yi thought in his heart.
But the next two things that happened almost made Song You a lonely person. Song Wu said: "Half a year after Song Tianyuan went to the border region, because of an accident, the family's library was suddenly engulfed in flames, and the flames were so fierce that even some people in the psychic realm in the family did not dare to rush into it, and when Song Qing Hall Master and they arrived, although the fire had weakened, irreparable things still happened, and you were also watching at the scene at the time, so you should remember it clearly." When Song Wu said this, he sighed again: "May your mother be in the spirit of the sky, she sees that you have now walked out of that matter, and she will rest in peace." ”
"Well, she would. Song Yi nodded slightly, when Song Wu redescribed this matter just now, he could faintly feel that some memories in his mind were suddenly evoked, Song Yi seemed to see the fire again, and he could hear those endless screams.
Song Yi came back to his senses and asked, "Does this matter have anything to do with Li Xiangyu?"
"Of course there is, because in addition to your mother, there were a few people who were killed in the fire at that time, and among them, Li Xiangyu was included. Song Wu said.
"Li Xiangyu was also burned to death?" Song Yi frowned, it seemed that this matter hit not only their family, but also Song You's family.
"That's right, because of this incident, Song You knelt in front of the burned library for three days and three nights, and no one could persuade him. Song Wu said.
"Something happened to my mother, didn't Song Tianyuan rush back to take care of some aftermath?" Song Yi asked.
This is the second thing that made Song You almost collapse. Song Wu said to Song Yi: "Song You, who had already lost his woman, received another news half a month after that fire, his son Song Tianyuan's team was surrounded by the army of the Zhongxuan Empire on the battlefield of the border region, and the whole army was annihilated. ”
Hearing this, Song Yi also probably understood, if what Song Wu said was correct, then now Song You is already single, so in this matter, the handle he was held by the unknown party may not be a relative, so what could it be?
For the current Song You, what is more important than his own life?
"In the two months after that fire, your father has been in a state of depression, ignoring all the affairs of the Ming Number Hall, and in the end, it was the head of the family that his old man personally came forward and selected a housekeeper who could handle affairs in place of your father in the Ming Number Hall, and Song You stood up on his own at that time. "Song Wudao.
Song Yi knew that the head of the family in Song Wu's mouth was the supreme ruler of the entire Song family, and even Song Qing and them had to surrender when they saw them, but Song Yi suddenly felt strange: "Wait, Uncle Song... You said that Song You wants to be the housekeeper of Minghao Hall?"
"That's right, that's the way it is, everything you want to know, I've already told you. Song Wu said to Song Yi.
Just as Song Wu finished saying this, at the door of this underground execution chamber, several patrols suddenly walked in, and what made Song Wu strange was that these people were holding some gongs and large iron basins of different sizes in their hands.
"Stop, what are you doing here? Who let you come in with something?" Song Wu stretched out his hand to stop the patrolmen, he interrogated Song You all night and got nothing, now he was in a good mood, and these patrolmen made this posture, did they want to have fun here?
"Uh... Did Young Master Song Yi ask us to help him find these things?" Among the several patrolmen, the one who was the leader looked at Song Yi next to him and said, he was the one who talked to Song Yi before.
Hearing what the patrolman said, Song Wu was also stunned, he looked at Song Yi and wanted to know what was going on.
At this time, Song Yi smiled at Song Wu: "Uncle Song Wu, let me come to the next interrogation, you have been interrogated all night, and it is time to rest." ”
But what does the interrogation have to do with these gongs and iron basins? Song Wu looked at Song Yi with an inexplicable expression.