Chapter 33: Coerced Confessions
Shangguan Xiu's method of blocking the Zhongfu acupoint and shoulder acupoint has played an effective role.
The alien aura was indeed sealed in the meridians of his arms.
He first slowly withdrew the aura of the Zhongfu acupoint, and with the withdrawal of the aura of the Zhongfu acupoint, the external aura trapped in the Zhongfu acupoint also leaked out, but the gap opened by Shangguan Xiu was very small, and the seepage of the foreign aura was also slow.
The process was slow, but safe, and didn't cause any harm to his body.
After Shangguan Xiu collected all of Zhou Man's aura for his own use, his cultivation realm also broke through to the fifth level of the spiritual realm.
Now he was only one Spirit Realm level away from the Sixth Spirit Yuan Realm.
When he woke up from meditation and opened his eyes, he found Ding Leng standing in front of him, holding a bloody human head in his hand. Zhou Feng's head.
"Brother Xiu, are you hurt?" Seeing him wake up, Ding Leng squatted down and asked with concern.
"No, I'm fine. Shangguan Xiu stood up, glanced at the corpse beside him, shook his head at Ding Leng, and said, "Let's go, let's go back!"
Shangguan Xiu randomly changed into Zhou Man's appearance, robbed Zhou Qian, and deliberately left Yi Niang as a living mouth, just to transfer the government's investigation target to Zhou Man through her mouth.
Since he wants to plant the blame on Zhou Man, he can't leave a living mouth, including Zhou Feng, who has always been inseparable from Zhou Man. As soon as Zhou Man and Zhou Feng died, the case became a headless case, and no matter how much the government investigated, it couldn't investigate the head of Shura Hall.
Shangguan Xiu and Ding Leng returned to their home in the north of the city, Luo Ren, Cao Lei, and Yuan Mu had been waiting for a long time, and when they saw them coming back, the three of them stepped forward together and asked, "Brother Xiu, how is it?"
"That's it. Shangguan Xiu smiled and looked at Luo Ren and Cao Lei, both of them had blue noses and swollen faces, which were left by the two of them when they fought with Zhou Man and Zhou Feng. He asked, "Is the injury serious?"
"It's okay, Brother Xiu, skin trauma. Luo Ren and Cao Lei said nonchalantly.
Shangguan Xiu nodded and asked, "What about Zhou Qian?"
"In the house. ”
"We should meet this Lord Zhou!"
At this time, Zhou Qian was stuffed into the kitchen water tank, his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was stuffed with a large ball of rags.
Shangguan Xiu glanced at it, stretched out his hand, and didn't see how hard he did, so he forcibly lifted Zhou Qian out of the water tank and threw it to the ground.
Zhou Qian was slammed, and the bones in his body seemed to be about to fall apart.
Shangguan Xiu squatted down and pulled out the cloth ball in Zhou Qian's mouth.
As the cloth ball was pulled out, Zhou Qian snorted and inhaled wildly, gasping for a while, he glared at Shangguan Xiu and the others, and shouted: "You are so bold, you dare to kidnap this official, do you know who this official is......"
He was shouting, Shangguan Xiu returned his hand, picked up a kitchen knife from the stove next to him, and said, "I only know that if you dare to say one more nonsense, I will use this knife to cut off your head!"
Zhou Qian looked at the kitchen knife in front of him, and Ji Lingling shuddered, and stammered: "Ben...... This official is ...... If you let go of the official now, the official may be able to blame you for the past, otherwise, the Inner History Mansion will not let you go, and you and your family will all die......
Before he finished speaking, Shangguan Xiu had already waved his hand and slapped him in the face.
The sound of the slap was crisp, and Zhou Qian's head was tilted to the side, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
In the blink of an eye, half of Zhou Qian's cheeks were swollen and high.
"If you don't want to die, don't talk this nonsense to me, whatever I ask you, you will answer anything, do you understand?" Shangguan Xiu grabbed Zhou Qian's hair and forced him to look into his eyes.
Zhou Qian's bravado was completely slapped by Shangguan Xiu's slap, he grinned, snot and tears flowed out together, and nodded tremblingly.
"I now want you to write down all the things you have done for bribes. While speaking, Shangguan Xiu nodded to Yuan Mu. The latter took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone that had been prepared from the back room and placed them in front of Zhou Qian one by one.
Zhou Qian's heart trembled when he heard this, he sat on the ground, shook his head again and again, and said: "This official has been an official for more than ten years, and he has never been corrupt and bent the law......
Not wanting to listen to his nonsense, Shangguan Xiu turned his head sideways and shouted, "Take off his shoes!"
Cao Lei and Ding Leng held down Zhou Qian, and Luo Ren took off Zhou Qian's shoes and socks. Shangguan Xiu grabbed a kitchen knife from the side, looked at Zhou Qian, and asked, "I'll give you another chance, do you write or don't write?"
"I ...... I really didn't have ......."
Without him finishing, Shangguan Xiuming nodded, he grabbed Zhou Qian's instep with one hand, raised the kitchen knife with the other hand, and slashed it on the ground. As the kitchen knife slashed to the ground, Zhou Qian's little toe snapped.
Zhou Qian let out a miserable scream, but as soon as the scream came out, Ding Leng covered his mouth with his big hand. Zhou Qian made no sound, his hands slapped on the ground in pain, his body trembled suddenly, and after only a while, his face and body were covered with cold sweat.
Shangguan Xiu pressed the instep of his foot and asked again, "Do you write, or don't you write?"
Zhou Qian's mouth was covered by Ding Leng, and he couldn't speak, he could only shake his head vigorously.
Seeing him react like this, Shangguan Xiu also understood what he meant.
Shangguan Xiu didn't say a word, he slashed down again, and the kitchen knife once again cut off one of Zhou Qian's toes. Zhou Qian rolled his eyes upwards in pain, and the person fainted on the spot.
"Wake him up!" Shangguan Xiu looked at Zhou Qian, who was unconscious, and said expressionlessly.
Such a bloody scene, Luo Ren, Cao Lei, and Yuan Mu had never seen it before, and now they finally saw Shangguan Xiu's cold and vicious side.
But this is exactly what they want to see, only by following such people will they have a broad future.
Cao Lei brought a basin of water, aimed at Zhou Qian, and poured it on his head.
Zhou Qian shivered and woke up slowly, he first looked at Shangguan Xiu and the others, and then raised his head to see the soles of his missing two toes, snot and tears flowed together, and a whining choking sound came from his throat.
Ding Leng removed the hand covering his mouth, and Zhou Qian cried intermittently: "Don't ...... Stop chopping...... Stop chopping ......"
"Zhou Qian, don't expect anyone to come to save you, no one knows you're here!" Shangguan Xiu was close to Zhou Qian, and the distance between the two was so close that the tips of their noses were about to touch each other. He said word by word: "These two knives, I just want you to understand, I'm not joking with you now, if you don't do what I say, I will use this kitchen knife to stomp off your toes and fingers one by one, if you still refuse to cooperate, I will cut your flesh and cut your bones, do you really plan to force me to do this?"
Zhou Qian's body was shocked, and he couldn't help but shudder, and he asked in a trembling voice, "You...... How do you want me to ......?"
"As I just said, write down all your corrupt deeds over the years, one by one, when, where, how many bribes you have received from whom, and for what reason you have framed them. If there is anything missing...... Shangguan Xiu picked up the kitchen knife in his hand, deliberately shook it in front of Zhou Qian, and rubbed the blood on the knife on his cheek a few times, and did not speak again.
Zhou Qian was completely frightened by Shangguan Xiu.
"I write...... I write, I write, isn't it...... Are you willing to let me go if I write it?"
"As long as you are obedient, I will not be difficult for you, but if you are not obedient, you have already learned my methods just now. ”
The pampered Zhou Qian had never suffered such torture in his life, and now where could he stand it, after two toes were cut off, his psychological defense line had completely collapsed.
Zhou Qian didn't say more, he trembled and picked up the pen, glued the sticky ink, pondered for a while, and began to write quickly on the paper.
He wrote more than ten pages just for what Zhou Qian could remember, and even more for what he couldn't remember.
After he finished speaking, Shangguan Xiu picked up the more than ten pages of confession he had written, glanced at it roughly, and asked casually, "That's all?"
"I ...... All I can think of is ...... That's all...... I'll ...... the rest I really can't remember......" As he spoke, his tears flowed again.
Giving him a blank look, Shangguan Xiu continued to look through Zhou Qian's confession, in the confession, he found that Zhou Qian himself had received a lot of bribes, but at the same time, he also sent a lot of bribes to his superiors, which involved the officials of the Inner History Mansion who were of higher rank above him.
His heart moved, and while looking at the confession, he said casually: "You are not the only corrupt official in the Inner History Mansion, right?"
"No...... It's not ......"
"Why don't you write about the corrupt deeds of the other people?"
"This ...... This ......"
"You don't want to write again?" Shangguan Xiu asked with a smile, but the smile on his face made Zhou Qian's spine shiver.
"There are too many of them, and most of them are my hearsay, and I don't know if it's true or not. ”
"It doesn't matter how much, whether it's true or not, you just have to write. Shangguan Xiu smiled and said: "The bigger the rank of the officials involved, the better, and the higher the position, the better." ”
He collected the criminal evidence of the officials for King Yu, if he only collected some evidence of the crimes of small fish and shrimp, it would be insignificant, and he would not have any credit at all, but if he could collect the criminal evidence of the high-ranking officials of the Inner History Mansion, it would be different, and it would inevitably leave a deep impression on King Yu.
And now, this Zhou Qian knows a lot about the situation in the Inner History Mansion, and he will inevitably be able to squeeze out more valuable information.
"You just have to write more, as for whether it's true or not, I can tell for myself!" Shangguan Xiu urged.
Under the coercion and inducement of Shangguan Xiu, Zhou Qian wrote another confession against his colleagues and even subordinate officials.
In this confession, up to Song Sheng, the minister of internal history, and down to the eight-grade secretary of the Inner History Mansion, he counted them all over. Looking at his resignation, there are simply no good people in the Inner History Mansion, everyone is corrupt and perverts the law, and officials protect each other, which is shocking and appalling.
As for the accuracy of this confession, even Zhou Qian himself could not say, and most of the content was heard by him and his colleagues when they were idle and chewing on the root of their tongues.