Zhang Fatzi, who was hanging in the air, had long lost the strength to struggle, and could only look at the red-hot iron hook in Ji Gang's hand approaching step by step with eyes full of fear, feeling that his whole body couldn't help but tremble slightly, and a layer of shiver broke out on his skin.

The iron door of the torture chamber was knocked on at this time.

Ji Gang was stunned for a moment and stopped.

When he enjoyed the pleasure of torturing prisoners, he hated being disturbed by others the most, and everyone in the edict knew this. Therefore, now that someone is running to knock on the iron door, there must be something very urgent.

Ji Gang put down the iron hook in his hand a little disappointed, and walked towards the iron gate stupidly, while Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi here were all relieved.

The iron door opened, and a man dressed in a jailer's costume stood outside the door, looking at Ji Gang with some cringe.

Ji Gang's poison and ruthless methods are known to everyone in the edict prison, and they don't have to be seen with their own eyes, but they can be imagined from the heart-rending screams that resounded throughout the edict when he interrogated the prisoners, so even the jailers who worked in the living hell of the edict prison and were used to seeing the tragic scenes were also afraid of Ji Gang.

Ji Gang asked impatiently, "What the hell is going on?"

The jailer whispered back, "Your Excellency, someone from the palace is here." ”

Ji Gang was stunned for a moment, could it be that the emperor was anxious to know the result of the interrogation and sent someone to urge him? Being so anxious is not quite like the emperor's temperament.

He casually asked, "Who is here?"

The jailer paused and said in a low voice, "It is said to be the prince of Wang Quan, the chief attendant of the Great Inner Palace. ”

Ji Gang frowned, how could it be him?

The chief eunuch of the chamberlain is responsible for arranging the rotation and service of the eunuchs in the palace during the emperor's daily life and travel, and is the most trusted person close to the emperor.

Such a character, as a foreign minister, should be afraid of it.

But this Wang Quan's relationship with Jinyiwei, especially with his Ji Gang, has always been incompatible.

Fundamentally, this matter should actually start from the time of the former commander of the Jinyi Guard, Ye Zhiqiu.

Since the success of the Battle of Jingyan, Zhu Di ascended the throne, Ye Zhiqiu led the Jinyi Guard in accordance with the holy will to remember the Emperor Jianwen who had died of self-immolation, and the literati who had a lot of complaints about the new dynasty were arrested and fabricated, after all, the emperor's disgust for these sour and smelly rotten Confucians is well known.

However, there are many cases of this kind, but this matter has caused a lot of discussion among the government and the opposition, and in the final analysis, if you want to govern the world, you still need to rely on the support of these literati.

At the beginning, the emperor could still protect Ye Zhiqiu and Jinyiwei, but after a long time, after all, the three of them were tigers, and there were many people chattering in front of the emperor, and gradually even the emperor had a little dislike for Ye Zhiqiu in his heart, at least, Ye Zhiqiu's actions were too high-profile, and he did not take into account the pressure that public opinion would cause to the emperor.

So, two years ago, there were rumors in the government and the opposition that in view of the excessive power and arrogance of Jinyiwei, the emperor had intended to form another organization, called the "East Investigation Factory", to check and balance Jinyiwei.

And the rumored person responsible for the formation of this so-called East Factory was the deputy chief eunuch of the inner chamberlain at that time, Wang Quan.

However, now that two years have passed, the commander of Jinyiwei has changed from Ye Zhiqiu to his Ji Gang, and the word "deputy" of Wang Quan's deputy chief eunuch is gone, but there is still no news from this East Factory, and there is no movement.

It's just that in the past two years, this Wang Quan always seems to look at Jinyiwei unpleasantly, and Ji Gang has heard more than once that he has talked to the emperor about all kinds of misdeeds in Jinyiwei's behavior behind his back, provoking it

Right and wrong. Recently, there were even a few times when Ji Gang was doing something to the emperor, he dared to interject from the side and refute Ji Gang's words.

How dare a little eunuch be so bold?

However, the emperor seemed to turn a blind eye to this matter and did not reprimand and stop Wang Quan, which made Wang Quan's arrogance more and more arrogant, and also made Ji Gang's heart even more angry.

The contradiction between him and Wang Quan is no secret in the government and the opposition, and it is only the last step of tearing the skin.

Regarding the contradiction between them, the emperor is naturally well aware, but when he sent him to see him at this time, he really didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

Ji Gang pondered while beckoning several big men in the torture room to come over, and said in a low voice: "You continue, this official will go back when he goes." You greet these two sons well, and if you want to be hard-mouthed, you will break the bones of their bodies for me one by one. Until the two of them spit out the truth. ”

The big men bowed down and answered, "Yes!"

The iron door closed, Ji Gang walked out along the dim passage, and there was a terrible scream from Xie Zhenliang behind him.

When he was about to walk to the gate of the edict prison, Ji Gang from a distance saw Wang Quan's somewhat bloated figure.

I heard that Wang Quan has been in the palace since he was a child, and he studied under the master of the palace, with unique skills and martial arts.

Ji Gang couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart, like such a bloated appearance with a fat brain, where does he look like a martial arts master? I'm afraid that these are just rumors about the sycophants of the chief manager in front of him.

Although he was very disgusted with this eggless eunuch in his heart, he was now here on the emperor's order, and he always had to pretend on the scene.

Ji Gang walked up quickly, and his face was habitually filled with a hypocritical smile and gave a deep salute: "Chief Wang deigned to come to a place like Xiaguan's edict in person in the middle of the night, which really made Xiaguan panic, what is there to send someone to give an order, how dare you work on your father-in-law's master?"

Wang Quan stood proudly with his hands on his back and his head up, as if he was listening to the screams of the prisoners coming from the edict with his ears pricked up, not knowing what he was thinking, and did not immediately deal with Ji Gang, which made Ji Gang, who was bowing down, frozen for a while, unable to advance or retreat, and was very embarrassed.

After a while, Wang Quancai turned his head as if he had just woken up from a dream, his face was full of smiling expressions, and he said in his somewhat sharp voice: "Lord Ji said that he was laughing, he was just an old slave beside the emperor, how dare he be lazy when the emperor ordered him to come down? Not to mention your edict, even if it is a sword mountain and a sea of fire, Longtan Tiger's Den, the old slave must go, don't you say, Lord Ji?"

Although his words sounded polite, he was full of needles, as if he was reminding Ji Gang not to forget his identity, even he himself was just a slave next to the emperor, and this edict naturally belonged to the emperor, not his Ji Gang's private territory.

After speaking, he laughed, and the fat on his body shook with laughter.

Ji Gang lowered his head and looked at Wang Quan's shaky belly, and scolded in his heart, this fat-headed and big-eared gelding has cut his eggs, and he doesn't even have a beard, so he won't have enough meat left!

He scolded in his heart, but replied respectfully: "What Chief Manager Wang said is right, the lower officials have been taught." ”

He had a smile on his face, but he scolded Wang Quan's ancestors for eighteen generations one by one in his stomach.

After Wang Quan stopped laughing, Ji Gang asked again: "I just don't know that the emperor sent the king in the middle of the night to come over, but what is the matter?"

Wang Quan's face was full and he said: "The emperor decreed that Lord Ji should immediately enter the palace with the old slave to face the saint, and there must be no mistake!"

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He bowed down and said, "Obey!"

After hesitating for a moment, he asked quietly: "Dare to ask Chief Wang, what is the matter with this emperor's summoning late at night?"

Wang Quan said with a smiling expression on his face: "How can this old slave know? Master Ji is the emperor's trusted confidant, according to what the old slave sees, the emperor may miss the adult, so he just invited." ”

With that, he laughed dryly.

The emperor misses, hell!

Ji Gang didn't believe half a word of Wang Quan's explanation.

After thinking about it, he felt that the emperor's late-night summoning should be related to Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi, who were being tortured in the torture room at the moment.

Although he didn't know the inside story, it could be seen that the emperor was very concerned about Ye Feng, who was said to be dead, and was even a little nervous, this son of his predecessor Ye Zhiqiu must still have some special secrets.

Although he also felt curious, he didn't want to ask, what he shouldn't know, it was better not to know at all, he still understood the truth of self-preservation.

However, what puzzled him was that if the emperor was anxious to know the progress of the interrogation, he could just send someone over to pass the word, why did he deliberately send a person of Wang Quan's status in the middle of the night to pass on the message? Not to mention the situation that he knew that he was at odds with himself?

What is the profound meaning of the emperor's arrangement?

For a moment, Ji Gang couldn't figure it out.

Wang Quan still had a smiling expression at this time, and said, "Master Ji, let's go now, shall we?" The carriage and horses outside the door have been waiting for a long time. ”

Ji Gang nodded again and again: "Everything is according to the orders of the chief manager, and the chief manager will invite you first!"

Wang Quanyi stretched out his hand and said: "Lord Ji is an official of the imperial court, and the celebrity in front of the emperor is still invited by Lord Ji first." ”

The two politely pushed each other and walked towards the door, in the eyes of others, they were like friends who got along very well, where could they see the slightest discord?

In the torture chamber.

The big man poured a bucket of ice water with coarse salt on the naked body of the fat man, and the huge pain stimulated the fat man, who was already about to pass out, did not know where the strength came from, and the body that was hoisted high began to struggle desperately again, and let out a heart-rending scream.

The big man shouted loudly: "Tell me quickly, where is Ye Feng?"

There was the sizzling sound of a red-hot soldering iron burning flesh on the side, and Xie Zhenliang shouted in pain: "I have said it a long time ago, Ye Feng is dead...... Ah~~!!"

Facing the two who were still hard-mouthed, the big man couldn't help but shake his head.

He didn't understand that the two people in front of him had been tortured for a whole day and a night, and in this hellish torture room, in front of these punishments that were enough to destroy people's wills, how many iron-clad men had been tortured to the point of being paralyzed like mud, crying for their father and begging for mercy, but these two people did not let go.

What kind of power can support them to endure this endless flesh and skin pain? What kind of secret are they guarding? Who is this Ye Feng in their mouth?

At this moment, there was another knock on the iron door of the torture chamber.

Lord Ji Gangji came back so soon?

The big man dropped the bucket in his hand, turned around and opened the heavy iron door.

When he looked up, he was stunned.

Standing outside the door was not Ji Gang, but a man in black with a black cloth covering his face.

The big man couldn't see his face, only the sparkling eyes that he was exposed to the outside, and the cold light that flashed between his throats.

Knife light!