Gao Tingwei sneered, was silent, raised his arm, and motioned for Yan Jing to enter the torture room.

Wan Yanjing was at the door of the torture room, squinting and looking in, a little reluctant to enter. But the situation is stronger than people, Gao Tingwei is strong, and there are five or six fierce jailers around her, she is not an opponent.

There were no windows in the torture room, and a strong smell of blood lingered.

Four blood-stained wooden frames stood in the middle, and some strangely shaped torture instruments hung from the walls. There was a huge bucket on the edge, and in the bucket was an ordinary gourd scoop, but the handle was also stained with blood.

There was a pile of paperwork spread out on the heavy iron table, and there were already three seats behind the table, two of which were already seated.

One is Master Fan Hongfa Fan of the Criminal Division that Wan Yanjing has seen before, and the other is about fifty, looking at the style of the official robe, it should be three grades, and his eyes are sharp and majestic.

In front of the wooden frame, two places were given to the prisoners on trial, and one of them sat a woman with a covered face.

As soon as Gao Tingwei entered, he lowered his eyebrows and smiled and arched his hand: "I have seen Lord Fan, Lord Chu, and the lower officials have brought the princess over." ”

Master Fan and Master Chu also got up and returned the courtesy.

Gao Tingwei sat down next to the two adults.

Wan Yanjing glanced at it, her heart was suspicious but her face did not leak at all, she took a few steps forward, consciously sat down where the prisoner should be sitting, and looked at the slightly familiar woman sitting next to her.

When the woman saw that she was sitting down, she moved the stool far away from her in a panic, and looked at her cautiously through her fingers.

Wan Yanjing recognized who she was, and frowned in surprise: "Tang Xiu'er? ”

Tang Xiu'er was so frightened that she shuddered when she called out her name, and she put down her sleeve covering her face with a trembling swish, revealing a face with thin eyebrows and sharp cheeks.

Master Fan sat in the middle, patted the wood, and shouted: "The sinner Wan Yan Jing, you are suspected of bribery, plotting rebellion, and murdering the only daughter of the Imperial Doctor Huang family, the crime is unforgivable, and it is not recruited from the truth!" ”

Wan Yanjing was slapped by this tangmu and trembled, she settled down and found that she had one more crime.

This battle is really amazing!

But Huang Shaolan is dead?

"The only daughter of Lord Huang's family, Huang Shaolan? What's wrong with her? ”

At this time, Tang Xiu'er glanced up at her, and quickly lowered her head.

Master Fan said in a deep voice: "Bring people up." ”

Two jailers brought in a young man who had been beaten and who couldn't tell who it was.

Wan Yanjing carefully identified the young man's appearance and found that she had never seen this person.

The young man seemed to know her, and as soon as he came in, he cried bitterly: "Your Highness, Your Highness wants to save me." ”

Don't be sorry for Lao Tzu, who are you and what do you have to do with me?

If it weren't for the two jailers behind him, Wan Yanjing would have suspected that he was going to pounce on his feet.

Master Fan sneered: "The criminal Guo Bei, on the 27th day of April in the sixth year of Hongwen, he stopped Huang Shaolan's carriage in Anming Lane, raped Huang Shaolan first and then killed him, and then dismembered and threw his body under the river bridge in the city. ”

Guo Bei couldn't stop kowtowing in a panic, and after a few clicks, his forehead was bleeding: "My lord, the grass people have indeed committed a great sin, I just ask the adults to give me a good time." But this is all instructed by the princess to do it, and the lives of my family are in the hands of the princess, so I have to do it. It's not a pity for the grass people to die, I just ask the adults to protect my family. ”

Wanyan is calm and calm, there is a saying that there are more lice and no itching, and she is in this state now.

Master Chu of the Criminal Department held a pen and recorded something from time to time, and at this time he faced Tang Xiu'er and asked, "Mrs. Tang, don't be afraid, tell me what you know." ”

Tang Xiu'er glanced at Yan Jing in fear, pointed at her and screamed: "It's her, Shaolan must have been killed by her, at the banquet that day, we just chatted with her behind our backs, and she said she was going to kill us at that time." And then a few days later, Shaolan disappeared, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it......"

"Your Excellency, you must bring the murderer to justice."

Tang Xiu'er cried and cried, and moved the stool under her ass farther away from her.

Master Fan snorted coldly: "The sinner woman is finished, Guo Bei is the guy in the backyard of the Yongle Dyeing Workshop under your jurisdiction, he is usually timid and afraid, if it were not for your instructions, how would he know Huang Shaolan's whereabouts, how could he dare to do such a rebellious thing?" It's just a few words of gossip, and you dare to disregard human life, which is simply lawless. ”

"Your maidservant Gan Tang has also been recruited, what else do you have to explain? This time, I don't want the black gauze hat on my head, and I want to tell the world about your crimes, and ask Your Majesty to decide. ”

Fan Hongfa bowed upward, righteous and awe-inspiring.

"The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and he will not be tolerated!"

A bunch of malicious eyes were on his back.

Wan Yanjing felt that the bench she was sitting on was the same as the one Tang Xiu'er was sitting on, burning her buttocks.

"My lord, it's all wronged! How can a woman in this palace who does not leave the door and do not step out of the second door, how can he do these big things, where is there evidence to prove that I did it? ”

"Humph!"

Master Fan stood up, looked at him left and right, did not mention the evidence, and threw a stack of silver bags in front of Wan Yanjing.

"Don't say anything else, bribe the Heavenly Prison Court Captain, this crime is enough for you to eat a pot. Your handmaid Gan Tang, in order to get rid of the crime, personally handed over this money bag to Lord Gao, but Lord Gao saw it with his own eyes, and the human and material evidence are all there, so you still have to quibble? ”

Gao Tingwei also stood up, smiled embarrassedly and said: "The princess can't help it, this official is an upright official, and this kind of corruption and bribery is really impossible to do." ”

Wan Yanjing bowed her head expressionlessly, picked up the money bag, and turned it with her hand, probably more than a hundred taels.

"One hundred taels of silver, is it worth being so serious for all your adults? This palace is not used to eating food in prison, so it is so strange to trouble Lord Gao to help improve the food, and Lord Gao will not give him food, forget it, this palace is now a prisoner, I can bear this grievance. Just for a mere 100 taels of silver, is it too much to add another bribery charge to me? ”

"Master Gao has a bad memory, so I'll remind you that you won't forget about going to Suiqing Heyuan so quickly, right?"

When Gao Tingwei heard the words "Qingheyuan", the smile on his face disappeared suddenly.

"Besides, Master Fan, I don't know if you still remember Xiao Li in Changning County?"

"You!" Fan Hongfa's face also changed, and he pointed at Wan Yanjing, three points of doubt, three points of panic, and four points of anger.