Good morning Mr. Zhongtang

Chapter 35

The Construction Department is an institution that is responsible for the repair of palace houses. The servants in it are all lower class, and most of them have no connections and no background to enter the palace as eunuchs.What they do all day long is some drudgery, and the construction department is the most numerous among the sixteen departments of the palace.

If he relied on manual inspections, he would not have been able to find this person at all, but now, because of the phosphorous powder and itching powder sprinkled on his body, his spontaneous image became weird and his feet were exposed.

Although the virtuous man is just a nobleman and has the lowest status among the concubines in the palace, he is still a master. If he wants to take away an insignificant slave from the construction department, even the head of the construction department cannot stop him. To offend a pregnant nobleman for the sake of a little servant.

Shuiyundian made a quick move and captured the little eunuch whose face was scratched.After checking with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I found out that the little eunuch was named Sanquanzi, a member of the lower third class. Six years ago, when the new emperor ascended the throne, there was a shortage of people in the palace. After dying at sea, he was so heartless that he eunuched himself into the palace and became a eunuch, hoping to see if he could be appreciated by his master and rise to the top. People can't get along well, and after six years of being in the same place, they are still just a third-class slave, specializing in hard and tiring work.

It stands to reason that such an inconspicuous slave has many kilometers, but this slave grew up in a fishing village. His family has been fishing for generations, and his water skills are very good. No problem getting out of the water.

Tong Wanrou sat behind her case in the side hall, listening to the results of the interrogation by Shen Xingsi, she asked in puzzlement:

"Then did he say why he did it?"

Because she has never interrogated anyone, and there is no one around the virtuous person who is capable of interrogating, so she can only be handed over to Shen Xingsi for interrogation.

Tie Yulan, the aunt in charge of Shen Xingsi, sat at the head of Tong Wanrou. Her life was very rough, she was burly like a woman, her skin was dark, and she was dressed in a palace attire that was nondescript. Her fierce appearance made her look very imposing. .

Her eyes, which were as small as soybeans, only lifted up slightly, glanced at Tong Wanrou, then lowered them again, holding tea and saying:
"He only said that he was going to do it himself, and it had nothing to do with others."

Seeing Tie Yulan's nonchalant expression, Tong Wanrou had a suspicion in her heart. Knowing the depth of the water in the palace, even Shen Xingsi would not dare to openly blame the master in the palace. We still have to weigh it up, whether it's easy to mess with the mastermind behind the scenes.

Tong Wanrou continued to say calmly:

"However, based on these basic information, I'm afraid it's not easy for me to do business with the nobleman. There must be a reason for this. Even if no one instructed him, why did he do this decapitation himself? ?”

Tie Yulan's obese body stood up from the grand master's chair, almost hanging from the armrests on both sides, pulled up the grand master's chair together, pretended to flick her sleeves, and then said:

"He said that he had a personal grudge against the virtuous, but we also know that this is not true. The virtuous have always been virtuous, and everyone in the palace knows it. This slave must be talking nonsense. However, he has used all kinds of punishments. Bitten a word, it's none of other people's business."

Tong Wanrou also stood up from behind the desk, came to stand beside Tie Yulan, and suddenly felt as if there was a mountain in front of her.

"So, can I ask him in person?" Tong Wanrou asked Tie Yulan in deliberation.

Tie Yulan was condescending, looked up and down Tong Wanrou who was like a jasper, and then said with a cold snort:
"Why, Aunt Tong doesn't believe us in Shen Xingsi?"

It's not that Tong Wanrou didn't see the huge oppression coming from above, but she still kept her face unchanged, and smiled gently at Tie Yulan:

"Auntie Tie is serious. It's just that I am in charge of the affairs of the Shuiyun Palace temporarily under the benevolence of the master. Now that such a big thing has happened, if I don't explain the cause and effect to the master clearly, I'm afraid I will feel sad. I hope Auntie Tie Make it easy."

After Tie Yulan and Tong Wanrou looked at each other for a while, her fat cheeks moved slightly, and she said to Tong Wanrou:

"Since... Aunt Tong insists, then... well, I want to see if Aunt Tong can make him speak up."

Tong Wanrou looked at her seriously, and gestured to her: "Auntie please."

The two left Shuiyun Palace hand in hand, and walked towards Shenxingsi.

The Department of Shenxing inspects and detains criminals in the palace. It is equivalent to a private cell, and the environment will not be much better.

Tong Wanrou followed Tie Yulan, who was like a mountain, and walked in the dark, damp, stale and bloody passage, which seemed to only accommodate Tie Yulan alone. , or yelling wildly, or the inmates with a dull expression, seeing someone coming, these people who have been imprisoned for a long time, all involuntarily walked to the prison door to wait and see, and those who yelled deliberately were caught by Tie Yulan's vicious look. I was forced to retreat.

Tong Wanrou said that she was not afraid that it would be a lie, she never thought that she would go to such a place in her lifetime, her heart was filled with panic, but she forced herself to calm down.After all, she has seen the situation of the virtuous and noble with her own eyes, and now she and the virtuous and noble are like grasshoppers on the same rope.

After going through this long road, Tong Wanrou was finally brought to the innermost place. The cell design of Shenxing Division is arranged according to the size of the offender. Small offenders are usually placed outside, and big offenders are placed inside. At the end of the room is an interrogation room. There are a few wooden shelves, simple tables and chairs, and various instruments of torture hanging on the walls. Some mottled iron chains seem to be covered with faint blood stains. It makes people's scalp tingle when they look at it.

Tong Wanrou was invited by Tie Yulan to sit on a chair, and then she saw her fat body saying to a female guard with a sword beside her:
"Go and bring Sanquanzi up, Aunt Tong from Shuiyun Palace will interrogate herself."

After the man took the order, Tie Yulan also sat down on one of her special oversized chairs, and asked the servants to serve Tong Wanrou a cup of hot tea.

Tong Wanrou held the cup in her hand, even if it was the best tea, she was not in the mood to drink it, so she just held the cup and looked around.

Not long after, the sound of iron chains being rubbed on the ground came from the long and narrow corridor. Tong Wanrou's face was so frightened that she turned pale in an instant with a face that had already been changed beyond recognition.

Seeing her shocked, Tie Yulan couldn't help sneering, and said:

"Put on airs. Ask Aunt Tong if you have any questions. He has been severely punished. If he doesn't go down to rest, he probably won't even see the sun tomorrow."

"..."

Regarding Tie Yulan's attitude of not caring about human life, Tong Wanrou felt a chill down her spine, put down the teacup in her hand, mustered up her courage, and walked towards the terrifying Sanquanzi.

When Tong Wanrou stood in front of him, a guard who was guarding him pulled Sanquanzi's braid back, pulling him who seemed to be in a coma to wake up, waiting for Tong Wanrou to ask questions.

Tong Wanrou met a pair of despairing eyes, and before she could speak, Sanquanzi said on her own initiative:

"How many times have I told you that no one instructed me to pretend to be a ghost to scare her because no one instructed me to pretend to scare her? It has nothing to do with others! You beat me too, and I drew my bet. I reported it early and arrested me. Just beheading."

After saying these words, Sanquanzi lowered his head as he did at the beginning, as if he really passed out.

After hearing what he said, the stocking puppet set its eyes on his ragged clothes. Blood was all over his body, and the holes in his clothes were full of bloody welts. It seemed that Tie Yulan was not lying, they really moved. However, Tong Wanrou felt it was even more strange because they had committed such a severe punishment.

Why would they dare to hear the news and extract a confession so recklessly before the truth of a matter came to light?Unless...they didn't intend to let this person out alive at all...

Tie Yulan did not know when she came behind Tong Wanrou and said to her:

"Is Aunt Tong optimistic about it? But what else do you want to ask?"

Tong Wanrou turned her head and glanced at her fleshy face, those small mung bean-like eyes were filled with contempt, sighed, Tong Wanrou shook her head lightly, and said:
"There's nothing left to ask."

Tie Yulan snorted undisguisedly, pointed to the location of the passage to Tong Wanrou, and said:
"Since Aunt Tong has nothing to ask, please go back. Although Shen Xingsi is not a noble place, it is not just anyone who can stay for a long time. If there is something really wrong, it will be a loss. mortal sin."

"..."

Tong Wanrou ignored the blatant hostility in these words, suppressed the anger in her heart, smiled at Tie Yulan again, and then turned around.

When Tie Yulan took her out, she deliberately gave up a space beside her for her to walk, and at the same time told her about some rules in the palace, acting like an old man, Tong Wanrou didn't speak, and let her go she went to talk.

But suddenly there was a loud noise that drew everyone's attention, and Tong Wanrou couldn't help turning around to see that it was meal time in the prison, and there was a vicious prisoner in a cell who stretched out his hand from the cell and put the jailer on the ground. The rice bucket placed on the side of the cell hit the ground.

A paper-thin jailer, with a haggard figure, was bending over to pick up food on the ground. Tie Yulan didn't want to pay attention to it, but when she saw the jailer lying on the ground, she strode over without saying a word. Kicking the jailer over, he cursed loudly:

"What do you eat? You can't do this little thing well, haven't you been taught enough! I've never seen you so stupid in this life!"

Speaking of this, Tie Yulan suddenly became furious, pulled out the soft whip around her waist, and whipped the jailer crazily, the jailer who beat her screamed, it was inexplicably distressed.

Tong Wanrou couldn't help but stop her words:

"Auntie Tie, don't fight any more, otherwise you will die."

She saw that the jailer didn't have much meat at all, Tie Yulan was of such a size, she swung the whip with all her strength and estimated that most of the jailer's life would have been lost, but seeing that she had been whipped several times, Tong Wanrou couldn't stand it anymore, Just made a sound.

Tie Yulan glanced back at Tong Wanrou viciously, but the movements of her hands slowed down a little, and after a few more whips, she asked the subordinates beside her to drag the jailer who made a mistake, and Tie Yulan took the whip Pulling back her waist, she came to Tong Wanrou with a hulking back, condescendingly said to her:

"Let me teach you another rule. You can't manage the affairs of the palace if you want! Don't even know how you died!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)