Huzhou Mansion Jail.

Dai Chang sat on the side with a pale face, kept wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, and glanced at Su Huangzhe next to him from time to time. Su Huangzhe took a leisurely sip of fragrant soup, and glanced at Chen Dong's interrogation below from time to time. Suddenly, he heard a terrible scream, Dai Chang suddenly closed his eyes and turned his face, and his hands couldn't stop wiping his sweat.

The person who screamed just now was actually just a woman, and it was He Qing who was chained on the other side, Chen Dong said on the side: "I just picked the tendon of your wife's right hand." I heard that your wife is good at the piano, by the way, I also found a scorched tail from your house last time, it should be your wife's. It's a pity that the hands are wasted and the piano is scattered. ”

He Qing's eyes widened, he struggled hard, and let out a long low roar from his throat, but he didn't speak.

Chen Dong said coldly: "It is said that your wife is also good at dancing, and the hamstrings are below, you can think about it." ”

As soon as Su Huangzhe put down the tea bowl, he walked down and stood in front of He Qing and said: "Your wife met you in Weimo, and she didn't dislike your family for being poor and living a good life in the first few years of marriage, right?" Do you feel that if you recruit it, you will die, and if you don't look for it, you will die, so it is better to resist to the end. Why can't you think for your wife and children, whether they are willing to endure such torture? First you have a wife, and then your son and daughter, if you recruit you, everyone will have a good time, and if you carry it like this, your family will have to taste torture. ”

He Qing struggled to raise his eyes to see that his wife was already dying, and it looked like it was just a ball of blood, and in the cell next to him were the children who were huddled together in fright, he moved his lips, but he didn't make a sound, Chen Dongzheng motioned to his subordinates over there, Su Huangzhe shook his head lightly to stop it, and continued: "Your private tea is a serious crime, no matter what you recruit, it is a felony to kill the three clans. But there is one thing that is particularly interesting, by the way, bring He Qing's eldest son and eldest daughter over to listen to it together. ”

After a while, He Qing's eldest son He Xiaoran and eldest daughter He Xiaoqiao were dragged aside, and even He Qing's wife Yao was brought over, He Xiaoran and He Xiaoqiao cried and lay beside Qin to see her injury, but Yao's face was calm.

Su Huangzhe said: "Mrs. He, I heard that there was a concubine in your house, it was Luo Huanniang from Luojia Village, do you know? ”

Mrs. He nodded weakly.

"I heard that she was pregnant with a child, because the father is unknown, so you arranged for someone to beat the child?"

Mrs. He glanced at He Qing and nodded.

"Do you guess who I brought with me to intercept the fleeing Luo Huanniang from the official road?"

He Qing raised her head suddenly, Mrs. He shook her head blankly, and just said softly: "She has the ability, she can actually escape secretly." ”

"It's not that she has the ability, but that your husband has the ability." Su Huangzhe looked at He Qing's distorted face and said, "Luo Huanniang has a baby less than a year old by her side. ”

Mrs. He looked at He Qing suddenly, and seemed to use all her strength to say, "This is the back hand you arranged?" ”

He Qing closed his eyes and said nothing.

"What are you talking about, father, mother? What the hell is going on? He Xiaoqiao didn't understand what was going on between his parents, and the emotions that had been soothed by his mother were suddenly tensed, and he couldn't help screaming.

Su Huangzhe glanced at He Xiaoran, who was silent, and He Qing, who closed his eyes, and continued: "Your father's concubine gave birth to a son, and your father secretly arranged for the concubine and the youngest son to escape, leaving you here to die. ”

"He Qing, my good husband, this is what you said about keeping your back hand?" Regardless of the injuries on her body, Mrs. He struggled to get up, and even grabbed the corner of He Qing's clothes with her blood-covered hand, her weak and tactful voice couldn't help but make Dai Chang above look unbearable.

He Qing still closed his eyes and was silent, but his body was still trembling.

Su Huangzhe said to Mrs. He and He Xiaoran's brothers and sisters: "It seems that your father still doesn't want to say it, then it's up to me, I guess you don't know." Mrs. He, the fetal pill you arranged for Luo Huanniang was replaced with a tocolytic pill, and the housekeepers in your house were recruited. Luo Huanniang was transferred to the other courtyard purchased by He Qing in Yuhang and gave birth to this child. You said that the child's father is unknown, is it because He Qing always asks Luo Huanniang to accompany guests, right? ”

"Yes" Mrs. He didn't look at her anymore, but she was already in tears.

"I interrogated your housekeeper, and although He Qing took Luo Huanniang with him every time, he never let her accompany the guests. The child in her womb was pretty sure it was He Qing. He Qing told you that he arranged a backhand? He Qing is probably talking about the nobles in the capital, right? Su Huangzhe said slowly, and at this time, He Qing opened his eyes and looked over.

"He Qing has traveled frequently in the capital in recent years and has made many noble friends. It is estimated that someone promised to protect Luo Huanniang and her son, so there are people on the official road to protect them all the way. If we hadn't chased after us closely, Luo Huanniang would have arrived in Xia Country at this time, and she could take a large amount of money and live a peaceful life, but it's a pity that you mother and son are three. ”

"Master, let me ask you, are these true?" Mrs. He asked softly, "You just reply to me." ”

He Qing turned his face away and said nothing.

"Mother, don't ask. It is true that my father sent Luo Xiaoniang to Yuhang, I saw it with my own eyes in Yuhang, and I asked my father after I went home, and he said that he was afraid that you would be jealous, so he made such a decision. I was afraid that you would be sad, so I didn't tell you, thinking that in the future, it will only be a child, and it will be a matter of more food, and you are not in good health, so there is no need to hurt your body for this. I also told my brother about this, brother, you can say something. He Xiaoqiao cried and grabbed Mrs. He and said.

Mrs. He didn't answer He Xiaoqiao and Su Huangzhe's words at all, but just stood up, faced He Qing and said, "Are these true? ”

He Qing let out a long sigh, closed his eyes, and nodded.

Smack, Mrs. He slapped He Qing with all her strength, but compared to the torture in prison, this slap is really nothing.

At this time, He Xiaoran, who had been silent, plucked a wooden hairpin from his sister He Xiaoqiao's head, handed it to Su Huangzhe and said, "You go to the Meiji pawnshop at the head of the Denggao Bridge in Qiantang Mansion, where I have stored a few boxes of things. There is a box that can be opened with this, and it contains the letters that my father has exchanged with the capital and the Xia Kingdom over the years. When the news came from the capital, he asked the housekeeper to burn these documents, and I kept an eye on it, took the housekeeper away, and secretly left these. It was also through these letters that I learned what my father had done in the past few years. On weekdays, he feasted guests at the house, and he didn't let us go, he only took Na Luo Xiaoniang. Later, my sister saw Luo Xiaoniang appear in Yuhang, and I asked people to investigate, and then I knew that my father had deceived my mother. ”

He Qing turned his face as soon as he heard his eldest son speak, and looked at him expressionlessly.

Compared with Dai Chang's joy, Su Huangzhe squatted down and looked at He Xiaoran and said, "Before I arrived in Huzhou, someone sent me a letter on the official road to tell me Luo Huanniang's whereabouts, which was also arranged by you, right?" ”

He Xiaoran nodded, "I implore Master Su to say a few words for my mother when the case is closed, there is nothing to say about what our children have suffered for their father." But my mother, as you said, married my father, worked hard all day long, I still remember when I was a child, the family was not so rich, in order to feed my father and us to eat and clothe, my mother and mother pawned all the dowries one after another. We don't know what my father did, and we have never spent the money he earned from private tea, and the family expenses can be found out by Lord Su. ”

Chen Dong on the side glanced at He Qing and said sarcastically: "Lord He, the money you have saved for private tea over the years has really been spent on the blade. ”

Su Huangzhe said: "Don't worry, I will show these things to the saint." I'll ask the doctor to come in and show your mother the wounds later. He turned back to He Qing and said, "Now it doesn't matter if you don't speak." We also got the account book of the Luo family in Shuanglin Village, and we can know all your expenses and income in the past few years by comparing them twice. Do you still think that the nobles in the capital can leave you a way back? ”

He Qing sighed again, because his shoulder blade was pierced, and a layer of dense sweat appeared on his painful head when he moved, he looked at his eldest son who was kneeling on the ground, and said slowly: "I thought the arrangement was foolproof, it was actually you!" ”

"Father, the child doesn't understand why you did this. You don't think about my mother and Xiao Qiao, but I have to think about them. My mother pawned all the dowries for the family, and it was easy to get out, so that I could live comfortably in the future, but I didn't expect to have to suffer so much, and it was difficult to protect my life, are you worthy of her? He Xiaoran said coldly: "You let a few of us die tragically here, and arrange for Na Luo Xiaoniang to fly away, what do you do with our mother and son?" ”

He Qing was still silent.

Su Huangzhe continued: "He Qing, your parents died when you were young, and you and your brother depended on each other, such as your brother's family of seven except for the one-year-old grandson, everyone else is guilty of death. ”

Dai Chang said on the side: "Don't talk nonsense with this person, the evidence is already complete, it doesn't matter if he opens his mouth or not." We hurried to sort out the evidence so that the case could be closed. ”

Su Huangzhe glanced at He Qing, turned around, and heard He Qing's hoarse voice sound: "Master Su, I want to talk to you alone." ”

Su Huangzhe turned around, looked at the mother and son of the He family on the side, shook his head and said, "I don't want to talk to you alone." ”

He Qing was stunned, followed Su Huangzhe's gaze, and said clearly: "Then let's talk about it here, so as not to die in a daze." ”