Tianyuan Fenghuajing

Chapter 115 No need to force a confession
As the biggest piece of rotten flesh, Gu Lingbo absolutely wanted to get rid of it, but the time was much earlier.

No one can shake Ji Ge's determination to get rid of Gu Lingbo.

He said:
"You don't have to worry about this matter. Your shop is closed. Those shops are owned by the government. If someone wants to buy your shop, they can reopen the shop immediately. It will not affect the life of the town at all."

Seeing that his hint was useless, Gu Lingbo began to deny it, saying that he was innocent.He also said that he has someone in Beijing, he has sent a letter to him, someone will take Ji Ge's place soon, and find out his innocence.

Ji Ge sneered in his heart, no matter how powerful your background is, can you surpass my mentor, Zuo Xiang?

"Since Mr. Gu refuses to admit it, let's add her incriminating evidence and present them one by one to see if there is anything wrong."

Master Gu was overjoyed. He also wanted to know where the money came from. He had no memory of it at all. He only thought that Ji Ge had given him a big hat that didn't exist.

But as Ji Ge dug out the accounts bit by bit, he recalled all the difficulties of the money, and some of the impressions were already very vague, but he knew that he had indeed done it.So as Ji Ge passed on more and more evidence, Gu Lingbo's cold sweat became more and more, and his back was already wet with sweat, but he still insisted that he was innocent and refused to admit it. Plead guilty, and say that the so-called evidence is simply false.

Ji Ge would not let Gu Lingbo go on like this. He had just received a message from Mu Yun that he was going to have a big meal at Lin's house today.He was impatient right now, and wanted to deal with Gu Lingbo's matter early so that he could claim credit from Mu Yun and have a harmonious and perfect reunion dinner.

He signaled the servants beside him to bring up the instruments of torture.

Seeing that they were all walking towards the backyard one after another, Gu Lingbo thought they were going to leave him alone and do other things first, so he couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

But before he finished speaking, he saw them lift out a pair of torture instruments.

Gu Yunbo's cold sweat was even more violent.

He shouted in horror:

"You can't abuse lynching, I... I haven't pleaded guilty yet, you can't do this to me."

Ji Ge sneered and said:
"What abuse of lynching? According to the law, if a sinner does not plead guilty, he can be tortured to extract a confession. If you plead guilty obediently, can we still use these things?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he signaled the yamen servant to try all the instruments of torture on Gu Lingbo.

As soon as Gu Lingbo sat on the tiger stool, he begged for mercy, saying:
"I plead guilty, I plead guilty!"

His body was already used to a comfortable and comfortable life, how could it bear this kind of torture, but at the slightest discomfort, he couldn't help it, and yelled loudly.

Now that the prisoner has pleaded guilty, Ji Ge starts to search the Gu family.

Before he entered the door, he saw a young boy carrying a large pile of things.

The boy was about to run out, when he saw them, he seemed to have seen a ghost, and he ran away regardless of the things that kept falling out from under the cloth bag.

Ji Ge didn't care about these small shrimps and fishes.

After he searched the Gu family, he knew the names of all the servants of the Gu family, so he was able to catch them and spit out all the things they had embezzled.

So he went straight into Gu's mansion and directed the yamen servants to count all the rich things.

He dispatched a lot of people, and the Gu mansion was not very big. Apart from the main courtyard, there were only five small courtyards. It took less than half a day to sort out the remaining property of the Gu mansion.

Ji Ge also pried open the hints in Gu Lingbo's study and took out the contents.

He asked the master to register all of them.

After the master finished sorting out, he reported all the valuables in the mansion to Ji Ge:

"There are a total of 490 taels of cash and 68 taels of banknotes in Gu's mansion; among jade objects, bracelets..."

After the master finished speaking one by one, Ji Ge nodded.

He asked the yamen servant to move all the things into the government yamen, and then said to Mrs. Gu and Yanwu:
"This house is also being taken over. I will give you half a month to find a new residence. During this half month, you can live in this house, but you must not damage any items in the house. If there is any damage, I will If you find out, you will be compensated according to the price. After half a month, this yard will be sealed and will be auctioned by the government in the future."

After he finished speaking, he turned and left regardless of Madam Gu's and Yan Wu's pale faces.

On the way to Gu's mansion, he was already guessing what delicious food Mu Yun would cook at night.

Just thinking about it for a while, he felt very warm, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

The master saw that he was very happy, and said flatteringly:
"This Gu's mansion is really rich. In the next few days, the brothers can have a good meal."

Ji Ge also knew that those who work in government offices like to search other people's homes, because there is enough oil and water in them.If he didn't sit in the township, half of the Gu family's money would have been embezzled by these yamen servants and masters.

But as the saying goes, when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and he can't hand over all the things you have in the Gu family, so he still has to keep some of them for the brothers to eat and drink well.

This is not to collude, but a necessary means for officials.

At the same time, Mr. Gu in the prison of the government office listened to the guards discussing where to go to have a massage at night, and said that there were many good things in Gu's house, and they got a lot of benefits and so on.

Gu Lingbo didn't expect Ji Ge to be so fast. In just one day, he was arrested, interrogated, and finally copied!

This means that even if he goes out in the future, those properties will definitely no longer belong to him, and he can't help but despair.

He looked around, there was only a bit of straw in the cold and damp cell for him to lie on for a while, and there was a pot as small as a spittoon in the corner, which looked like a spittoon, but it was used to solve all his toilets.

Gu Lingbo, who always eats well-made food and uses the most comfortable food, how can he bear such treatment?
He only felt that the future was bleak, and he would definitely be disgusted to death by himself in the future.

Thinking of this, he felt so ashamed and angry that he wanted to die, so while the prison guards were chatting hotly, he took off his clothes, tied them to the iron bars in the small window on the wall, and committed suicide in a sitting position .

On the day of Gu Lingbo's death, no one found him.

The next day, when Ji Ge was about to interrogate him again, the prison guards discovered that he had committed suicide.

They reported the incident to Ji Ge.Ji Ge didn't feel any emotion in his heart, so he sent an order to the yamen servant to go to Gu's mansion to find someone to take back Gu Lingbo's body.

Mrs. Gu and Yanwu were shocked when they heard the news.

They didn't expect that Gu Lingbo would commit suicide before waiting for their help.With tears streaming down their faces, they dragged Gu Lingbo's body back to the mansion.

Looking at the bleak scene in the mansion, the two were speechless.

They didn't have spare money to bury Gu Lingbo, but it was early autumn, and the corpse would soon smell of decay.

They dug a pit hastily in the backyard and buried Gu Lingbo in it.

After eating brown rice and wild vegetables for two days, Mrs. Gu felt that she couldn't take it anymore.

Her delicate body has been used to delicacies from mountains and seas.

Thinking about a few days ago, she brought the bird's nest because the maids cooked the bird's nest a bit rotten, and punished all the maids, but now that she thinks about it, she feels it's a pity.

She didn't know that her life was already very good now.

In fact, Gu's mansion has no money at all, and all of it was confiscated by Ji Ge. All that was left to Mrs. Gu was some gold and silver jewellery, and there was not much money after those jewelries were sold.She can still afford to eat now because the servant girl Ruyi took out her private money for many years.

But she was still dissatisfied and wanted to return to the luxurious life before.

She went out to ask relatives to borrow money, but was beaten out. She felt very ashamed, and when she returned to the mansion, she wanted to hang herself.

Fortunately, Ruyi came back early today, found out about this, and rescued her in time.

Mrs. Gu didn't thank her, she beat Ruyi crying and said:
"What did you tell me to do? My current life is worse than that of a pig or a dog. I am only suffering when I live. You still let me get rid of it as soon as possible and go to the Paradise of Paradise as soon as possible."

While crying, she tightly grabbed Ruyi's sleeve.

The moment she was suffocated just now, she realized that she had not done many things she wanted to do, and she had only passed half of her life. She thought about her life in a flash, and she didn't want to leave this world early.

Ruyi comforted Mrs. Gu softly.

After that, she asked Mrs. Gu to rest at home, and continued to look for a temporary job to subsidize the family.

Madam Gu's situation is not that bad, but Yanwu is even worse.

Her confidants are all by her side because she is favored.Now without Gu Lingbo, those servants would loot everything in her house, Yanwu couldn't accept this reality, and wandered around the town a little bit lost.

People in the town saw that her clothes were disheveled, her originally delicate bun was messed up, and all the decorations on it had been snatched away.

She is now the youngest widow in the town, and the rogues in the town have targeted her long ago, wanting to attack her all the time. Seeing her walking alone in the town in a daze, they wanted to kidnap her.

And Ruyi happened to see it, and sternly chased away those rascals, and sent Yanwu back to Gu's residence.

As soon as she saw the situation in Yanwu's courtyard, she knew that Yanwu's situation was worse than Mrs. Gu's.She asked the villagers of Anjia Village to tell Yuan Shi about Yanwu's current situation, and wanted her to come and pick him up.

Yuan Shi knew about Gu Lingbo's arrest a long time ago, but she was afraid that Yanwu would be involved, so she hid at home and never went out for a long time, nor did she inquire about the news in the town.When the villagers of Anjia Village told her what happened to Yanwu, she started to worry about Yanwu, went to Gu's mansion, and brought Yanwu back.

But Yanwu walked around the town wearing single clothes for a long time, and developed a high fever at night.When she had a high fever, she was talking nonsense and thought she was the fourth aunt of the Gu family.

She kept repeating:

"How dare you treat me like this. When Master Gu comes out, I will definitely deal with you severely and say that your skin has been peeled off."

"Those things are all mine, you are not allowed to touch her, they are all mine."

"Ah, stop beating, stop beating, it hurts so much, mother, I hurt so much."

Yuan Shi looked at Yan Wu distressedly, while holding her hand tightly to comfort her, she whispered in her ear:

"Yanwu, my good daughter. It's alright, they're all gone now. Mother is here with you, don't worry, mother will take good care of you."

The tragedy of the Chen family quickly spread throughout the village.

Lin Jinyan also knew about Yanwu's tragic situation and told Mu Yun about it.

Mu Yun sneered:

"This is what the Chen family deserves. Who made them spend their lives in a lazy life, and have inexhaustible money?"

(End of this chapter)