The Penal Division is a very special institution in the palace because it has three departments at the same time.

Inner Court, Dali Temple, and Zongzheng Temple.

When a palace maid or eunuch makes a big mistake, the inner court can ask the Prudential Department to torture him.

If the lady in the harem and the eunuch of the inner court above the fifth grade have committed a crime, because it is inconvenient to escort them out of the palace, Dali Temple can ask the Shen Criminal Division to review the criminal detention on their behalf.

In addition, when the prince commits a crime, Zongzheng Temple will generally appoint the Criminal Justice Division to conduct a preliminary trial.

It stands to reason that the forbidden army only has the obligation to take care of the Prudential Division, but does not have the right to use the Prudential Division, unless there is a will of the Emperor.

Therefore, Ye Qianhuai did not think of the Shen Criminal Division at first.

There are many secret methods in the Shen Criminal Division, and Ye Qianhuai has heard the Empress Dowager Jingmin mention one or two, which is very terrifying.

If Qin Baozhu was really brought into the Criminal Division, then even if the capital crime could be escaped, I am afraid that it would be a living crime.

Ye Tianhuai didn't dare to think about it.

The group soon arrived at the Punishment Division.

The door of the Shen Criminal Division is not big, there are two dim lights in the stone lamp outside the door, and there is a guard on each side, and when he saw Ye Tianhuai, he immediately knelt down with a knife and saluted.

Ye Qianhuai didn't even look at the guards, stepped over the threshold and walked in quickly, heading straight to the room of the main hall.

The staple eater was eating alone in the house, and when he saw Ye Qianhuai pushing the door in with so many people, the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground, and he hurriedly got up and bowed.

"Did the forbidden army come here with Lan Guiren at noon today?" Ye Tianhuai asked eagerly.

The principal was stunned, sweat instantly dripped from his forehead, and he stammered and asked, "Lan ...... Lan Guiren? ”

"There's only one master in my harem, don't you know?" Ye Qianhuai asked sharply.

The principal's face changed suddenly, and he immediately knelt down with the front swing, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said, "Your Majesty spares your life, it's really not about the lower officials!" The forbidden army said that it was ordered by Dali Temple to borrow the local torture of the Shen Criminal Division to infiltrate the spies in the palace, and the lower officials really didn't know that it was Lan Guiren! If the lower officials knew that it was Lan Guiren......"

"What about people?" Ye Qianhuai interrupted his crying and explaining.

"In, ...... below"

"Take me to see it." There was a hint of imperceptible tremor in Ye Tianhuai's voice.

She had already guessed Qin Baozhu's situation from the panicked eyes of the principal, but she couldn't believe it.

The principal hurriedly got up from the ground, lifted a small lamp from the table, and took Ye Qian to carry them down to the dungeon of the Shen Punishment Division.

Although this dungeon is not big, it is full of dark and gloomy mysterious atmosphere, and Ye Tianhuai is keenly aware of a bloody breath in the air.

The principal stopped at the door of the first room, and he stood at the door with a lamp, hanging his head and not daring to look at Ye Qianhuai.

Ye Tianhuai pushed open the door, and a cold air rushed to his face.

There were five stone beds in the room, and a small window on the top of the wall from which the moonlight shone down.

It's a morgue.

On one of the stone beds was a corpse, covered with a rough white cloth.

Ye Tianhuai's breath suddenly suffocated.

She shook, walked to the stone bed, and slowly lifted the white cloth.

Under the white cloth was a face she knew all too well.

Qin Baozhu was lying there, his face as white as a piece of paper, and there was still a faint blood stain on the corner of his mouth.

Those big, lively eyes were closed forever.

He will no longer show a sly and bright smile to Ye Tianhuai.

Ye Qianhuai's hand hung down weakly.

Qin Yang, who had been following Ye Qianhuai, suddenly rushed out of the crowd, and he staggered to the side of the stone bed, looking at the corpse on the stone bed in disbelief.

"Orb ......," Qin Yang muttered softly.

He raised his head to look at Ye Tianhuai, his eyes were chaotic, and asked, "Is it her?" ”

His voice was soft, a little vague, and a little choked.

Ye Tianhuai didn't dare to look at his eyes. She saw in his eyes a distressing, almost pleading urgency.

Desperately hoping to get Ye Qianhuai's denial.

Ye Qianhuai lowered his head and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry." ”

A feeling of despair surfaced on Qin Yang's face, and it was as if something had suddenly shattered in his eyes.

He fell to his knees on the edge of the bed, buried his head in the bed, and began to weep bitterly.

A man so tall was crying like a child helplessly at the moment.

The cry was like a sharp knife, and all the sounds pierced Ye Tianhuai's heart.

Ye Tianhuai suddenly felt that people always said that they were distressed, but it turned out to be a kind of physical pain that could really be felt.

Qin Yang's hands pressed on the white cloth became tighter and tighter, and his nails sank into the flesh of his palms. The white cloth was slid aside by him and fell to the ground.

Qin Baozhu's body was completely exposed to the moonlight.

Ye Tianhuai glanced at it, couldn't help but widen his eyes, and took a deep breath.

Her outer robe had been stripped off, and only a white midcoat remained. There was an inch-long blood hole in the chest, which was pierced through the chest by a sword and died, and the white clothes below the chest were soaked with blood, which was shocking to look at.

What is even more shocking is that the place where she desecrated her pants and her lower body is also stained with blood.

Ye Qianhuai frowned.

In her mind, the frightening punishments that the legendary Prudential Division had used to deal with women, were terrifying.

Her heart seemed to be wrenched in anger, remorse, guilt, and hatred.

Qin Yang also seemed to be shocked by the scene in front of him, he knelt beside the bed, looking at his sister's body a little bewildered, like a frightened child.

Then he saw Qin Baozhu's hand hanging by his side, and suddenly his expression was mournful.

The little hand that he had led to grow up since he was a child was gone, and the nail groove of each finger was blurred with blood, and blood was still dripping slowly.

Qin Yang raised his hand, but he didn't dare to touch her hand.

He has been in the streets since he was a child, and he has been hit by countless fists and knives, but he has never hurt so much as he did now.

Ye Tianhuai followed his gaze and looked at Qin Baozhu's ten fingers, and for a moment, she felt as if her internal organs had been drained away.

"Who did it?" Ye Tianhuai turned his head and looked at the head of the Prudential Division.

Her voice was colder than this iron prison, and her eyes were bloodshot.

The two guards escorted the principal to Ye Tianhuai, and without waiting for others to push, the principal had already knelt down by himself.

"Your Majesty! The lower officials are wronged! Xia Guan really didn't know that it was Lan Guiren! The forbidden army came in with a lot of people and went straight to the dungeon, and the lower officials couldn't stop it...... "The head of the chief slammed on the ground, and the black yarn on his head fell to the ground and rolled to the side of the stone bed.

"I'll ask you again, who did it?" Ye Qianhuai leaned down, grabbed the main person's hair, let his panicked face face him, and asked word by word.