I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 408: Your Majesty, please let Wei Chen torture Huo Xian, she will definitely plead guilty!

Not long after, Huo Xian was brought to the main hall of the prison and knelt in front of Liu He.

Although Huo Xian and Chun Yuyan were thrown into the violent cell prison on the same day and were held for the same length of time, her energy was much better, and she could even be said to be excited.

As soon as this poisonous woman came to the main hall, although she had a low-brow look, she was actually secretly looking at the surrounding situation.

When she saw Liu He sitting in the first place, her eyes suddenly dimmed.

She is not scared or frightened, but is showing weakness to disguise her femininity.

"Concubine, I wish the Emperor well." Huo Xian bowed obediently and said.

"Give me a seat." Liu He said lightly.

Xu Guanghan was very smart and immediately moved a couch and placed it next to Huo Xian.

Huo Xian did not pretend to be pretentious. After bowing and thanking him again, he sat down.

From beginning to end, she looked calm as usual, as if this was not the main hall of the prison, but the main hall of Huo's house.

Regardless of whether this calmness and composure are fake or not, his city and mind are far beyond those of ordinary people.

"Mother-in-law, someone has accused you of instigating Chun Yuyan to poison Emperor Xiaozhao, Jieyu Zhang Anjun and Jieyu Cai Wenyan. Can you plead guilty?"

The emperor did not call her by her first name, but still called his mother-in-law, and there was not much anger in his words, which made Huo Xian think he saw a glimmer of hope.

"Your Majesty, this is a false accusation. Your Majesty can call this person out to confront me. This bitch will never dare to do such evil things!"

Huo Xian suddenly shouted in a high-pitched voice, followed by a burst of curses and oaths, and finally even squeezed out a few tears, as if he had really been greatly wronged.

It's more confusing than Chunyu Yan's performance just now.

Liu He watched Huo Xian's performance coldly and was not in a hurry to refute it.

Because today, he had no intention of forcing Huo Xian to confess.

On the contrary, Liu He still wanted to find a reason to let her go home to reunite with Huo Guang and Huo Yu. This was the last trap Liu He dug for the Huo family.

Chunyu Yan has confessed, and Huo Xian's regicide is a certainty.

It doesn't make much difference whether Huo Xianzhao confesses or not.

Liu He wanted Huo Xian to go back in a panic. In the panic, he forced Huo Yu to kidnap Huo Guang and escape from Chang'an City together.

The whole family fled north and surrendered to the Huns: once they did this, the Huo family would be in disgrace for thousands of years.

The purpose of interrogating Huo Xian at this moment was not to force her to confess, but to scare her to the point of splitting her liver and gallbladder, leaving her in constant panic.

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Huo Xian made a fuss in the hall for a long time. Seeing that the emperor didn't react at all, and couldn't guess what the uncertain emperor was thinking, he slowly calmed down.

"So, my mother-in-law is unwilling to plead guilty?"

"Your Majesty, it is true that this concubine is innocent. Our Huo family is in bad luck right now. My husband and Yu'er were confused for a while and made many mistakes..."

"But who would dare to do such a vicious thing as regicide? It would be a serious crime that would not be punished by death ten times..."

"This concubine is just a woman from a family who doesn't know anything about the affairs in the court. How dare she do such a thing..."

"Someone must have seen that my Huo family is in decline, so they want to take the opportunity to suppress my Huo family. They want to use the opportunity of overthrowing the Huo family to claim credit from Your Majesty so that they can replace them!"

"Your Majesty must not be deceived by treacherous ministers, not to mention that Chengjun has always been frail and sick. If she were to know about this change, she would probably be frightened!"

Liu He obviously just asked a question, but Huo Xian kept talking excitedly, and then immediately started crying again, with a very expressive look of grief and panic.

Liu He watched this farce without saying a word. He had to say that Huo Xian had a very strong desire to survive, and he still did not give up any hope of living in this field.

This saves trouble. The desire for life will make Huo Xian desperately grasp the last straw, and then get lost on the road of survival and bite Liu He's fishhook.

"Okay, mother-in-law, I heard you." Liu He said calmly, and Huo Xian gradually became quiet.

Since you want to act, I will act with you.Everyone joins the drama together to see who can't get out of the drama in the end.

"Huang Qing, you are a Tingwei, how should we handle this matter?" Liu He asked pretending to be embarrassed.

"Your Majesty, regicide is a serious crime and must be investigated. Since Huo is unwilling to confess properly, the only option is to use torture." Huang Ba said fiercely.

"Torture? Isn't it possible that he will be beaten into submission? What's more, if Chengjun finds out, I'm afraid he will be frightened!" Liu He pretended again.

"Your Majesty, I have figured out one thing after spending decades on the execution ground..."

"This person, no matter how high his official position is, he is a cheap person. It is useless to talk to them about education and laws. Only when he is in pain will he reveal the truth..."

"Even if a child is three or five years old, if he makes up his mind to tell a lie, no matter how hard his parents try to persuade him, it will be in vain and he will never be willing to speak..."

"But if we try another method and give them a few blows with a thin, prickly bamboo whip, they will become honest immediately."

"According to Wei Chen's opinion, Huo Xian should be tortured first. Seven or eight kinds of punishment should be given first. If she can withstand it, then it will be too late to listen to her cry for injustice!"

Huang Ba spoke eloquently, and when he looked at Huo Xian on the way, his eyes flashed fiercely.

When he got excited, he even rolled up his sleeves and stood up involuntarily, as if he thought of the people in the hall touching Huo Xian.

This vicious look made Huo Xian panic and beg again and again.

"Your Majesty clearly knows that this concubine once had a quarrel with Huang Ba due to personal matters in the past. Now he is seeking revenge for his personal vengeance!"

"Your Majesty must not listen to his nonsense. Maybe he is falsely accusing this concubine. Your Majesty must investigate clearly!"

This time, Huo Xian's panic didn't seem fake, but more of a real fear.

"Your Majesty, Huo Xian keeps saying that he is just a weak woman. This is wrong!"

"Who in this huge city of Chang'an doesn't know that Huo Xian, the wife of the general, is a ruthless character? A shrew and vicious woman like her will never speak out without severe punishment!" "You, you vicious scoundrel, if you... If you dare to touch me, the queen will definitely not let you go!" Huo Xian screamed.

Just when Huang Ba and Huo Xian were fighting fiercely, Liu He pretended to come out to persuade them to make peace.

"Huang Ba, if punishment is really tried and true, why do you need legal punishment? Isn't punishment punishment enough? What you just said is biased." Liu He said.

Huang Ba didn't care about the emperor's questioning and continued to talk proudly.

"There is no case that cannot be solved by torture. If it really can't be solved, then torture again!"

"If torture can't get the prisoner to confess, then the torturer will be a disgrace among torturers."

"Your Majesty, I have to say something arrogant. This official is proficient in this. The number of prisoners who have been served by this official is countless, and there is no one who has not confessed."

As he said that, Huang Ba's complacent expression became more ferocious, and a pair of eyes gouged out of his fat face shot out several fierce lights, staring at Huo Xian fiercely.

"Huang Qing's words are too arrogant. It seems to exaggerate the role of torture." Liu He said calmly.

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient. You can listen to what I have to say in detail, and then you will naturally know that what I have said is true."

The emperor tried to stop Huang Ba from saying the shocking words, but when Huang Ba was getting excited and excited, he didn't take the emperor into consideration at all and continued talking on his own.

"Mencius once said that people have four virtues, including shame and shame, especially for female prisoners. Before torture, take off all Huo Xian's clothes and pants, and her soul will be gone..."

"There is also a saying that ten fingers are connected to the heart. This finger is the most painful part of the human body. You can use a sharpened bamboo stick to nail it carefully along the gap between the nails. Although the pain is unbearable, it will not hurt the muscles and bones, and you can go back again. Then use other tortures.”

"If you don't speak up at this point, you can use a knife to scratch the female prisoner's face, and then sprinkle coarse salt on her face, causing her to lose all face in the misery. This is what the female prisoner fears most."

"Hehehehe, if you still insist on not telling the truth, it doesn't matter..."

"There are many soft spots in this man's body. Use a red-hot iron to burn them. One spot cannot be used twice, and two spots cannot be used three. There will always be a time to beg for mercy!"

Huang Ba talked about his methods and abilities in detail, and from time to time he pointed at Huo Xian's body, as if he was ready to torture Huo Xian.

Huo Xian was so frightened by those horrific punishments that she was shaking like chaff. She tightly protected her clothes with both hands, as if she was afraid that Huang Ba would really rush over and strip off all her clothes.

Although Huo Xian was very harsh on the slaves in the back house on weekdays. Beating, scolding and scolding were commonplace, and his methods were rarely vicious. But those methods were simply out of the question in the face of Huang Ba's full of torture.

The more people like to torture others, the more they know the horror of these tortures.

If time goes back 30 years, Huo Xian was still the down-and-out girl desperately trying to survive in Chang'an City, then she might still have the courage to endure several tortures.

But after all, she had been living pampered in Huo's house for decades, and she had always lived a life of fine clothes and fine food, and her skin was like cream and her fingers were like onions.

How can it withstand the torture of a red-hot iron when you don’t even need to touch cold water in winter?
Just listening to Huang Ba's casual nonsense made Huo Xian so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.

It was as if those weird tortures had been used on her body, and her lower abdomen was even more swollen, and the need to urinate with fear became more and more intense.

Not even a strong man, let alone a woman, would be able to withstand such torture.

But Huo Xian had no other choice but to look at the emperor pleadingly, hoping that the emperor who wanted to be a benevolent emperor would remember Huo Chengjun's affection and Huo Guang's prestige, and not let Huang Ba do what he did.

Finally, when Huang Ba was telling more and more embarrassing things, Liu He finally opened his mouth to stop Huang Ba.

"Huang Qing is very clever. I said I saw it today. But when I came out of Jiaofang Palace today, the queen begged me not to torture my mother-in-law."

This was obviously a lie, but Huang Ba pretended to be discouraged when he heard it.

And Huo Xian felt even more like he had received amnesty: Sure enough, the queen had some status in the emperor's heart and could save him!

"Your Majesty, if Wei Chen is not allowed to be tortured, Wei Chen will have nothing to do!" Huang Ba said with some dissatisfaction.

"Huang Qing, can you interrogate Chunyu Yan first in the next few days? As for the mother-in-law, let her go back to the house first, in the name of my benevolence and filial piety?" Liu He said hypocritically.

Huo Xian, who was crying so much, didn't know that Chun Yuyan had already confessed, and he couldn't see that this was a puzzle set for her.

When she heard the emperor begging for mercy for her, her heart suddenly relaxed, and she seemed to see some possibility of survival.

But the joy of this life only appeared for a short moment and then disappeared.

Because even if she is temporarily returned to the house, she still cannot escape.

Huo Xian, who just wanted to survive, thought about many questions in his mind and began to figure out what to do next.

Does the emperor really want to let him go?The Huo family has fallen, can Chunyu Yan endure the torture and not betray himself?Returning to the back house, is there any other way to escape the crime?

Huo Xian probably didn't expect that when she was thinking about these questions, she had already fallen into the emperor's trap.

Huang Ba seemed a little annoyed by the emperor's proposal, and said angrily: "What your majesty said is not impossible, but this matter is a matter that Tingwei Temple should take care of..."

"Wei Chen is willing to fulfill your majesty's idea of ​​being a benevolent king, but Han law cannot be ignored... I hope your majesty can agree to Wei Chen's request first!"

"Huang Qing just mention it. As long as I can do it, I will definitely agree!" Liu He asked eagerly, as if he was willing to agree to anything as long as he could get Huo Xian out of trouble.

"Your Majesty, considering the love between flesh and blood, can temporarily put Huo Xian back..."

When Huang Ba said this, his vicious eyes turned to Huo Xian again, and then he stated his request word by word.

"Wei Chen does not need to torture Huo Xian at this moment, but if Chunyu Yan confesses Huo Xian, then Wei Chen will immediately take Huo Xian back and torture him!"

"Huang Qing, this Chunyu Yan is also a prostitute, can you..." Liu He said again in a difficult position.

"Your Majesty! Don't show any kindness to women anymore. What they committed is a major case of regicide, and they must be severely punished!"

"This..." Liu He said hesitantly again.

"If Your Majesty refuses to grant this request of Wei Chen, then Wei Chen will beg for bones from Your Majesty and will no longer be a court lieutenant!"

As Huang Ba spoke, he took out the small official seal from his waist and slapped it on the table. The huge sound made people worry that it would fall apart.

(End of this chapter)