Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 319
When the yamen servants brought the heavy shackles, the four yamen servants stepped forward together, hurriedly placed the heavy shackles on Xie Zhongju's neck, and then moved a one-foot-square bluestone brick from the outside, all of them looked like wolves and tigers, watching Xiang Xie Zhongju was even more vicious.

The two yamen servants put the water and fire stick under Xie Zhongju's heavy shackle. Because of its length, the water and fire stick did not directly touch the heavy shackle, and there was a gap two fingers wide between them.

The other two yamen servants piled bluestone bricks on top of the heavy flails. As the stone bricks continued to accumulate, Xie Zhongju was bearing more and more weight on his shoulders and neck. He wanted to bow his head, but was firmly resisted by the two water and fire sticks below him. In desperation, he had no choice but to grit his teeth and hold on, and a dense layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead.

Although "Immortal Presenting Fruit" does not cause as much pain to the body as sticks or sticks, it is better than the long-term continuous torture. Just like this, Xie Zhongju did not say a word, and his shoulders and necks were already bruised. If it weren't for the two water and fire sticks under the heavy yoke, Xie Zhongju might have fallen down.

After the yamen servant put six bluestone bricks weighing seven to eight catties on the heavy shackle on Xie Zhongju's shoulders, Changsun Wuji slapped the gavel angrily, and said coldly: "Xie Zhongju, do you want to recruit or not?"

Xie Zhongju resisted being oppressed, and felt severe pain from his shoulder and neck. He only looked at Changsun Wuji, gritted his silver teeth and managed to force out a sentence, "There is no trick!"

Seeing Xie Zhongju grit his teeth, Cai Shaobing, who had finally found a chance to show himself in front of his eldest grandson Wuji, would not let Xie Zhongju go so easily. He opened his eyes and said to the yamen servant with a ferocious expression: "Add bricks to me! It depends on your ability." How long will it last!"

As time went by, ten square bricks were piled on Xie Zhongju's heavy yoke. Each of these square bricks weighed seven or eight catties. Adding the weight of the heavy yoke, the pressure on Xie Zhongju's shoulders and necks was already as high as Hundred catties.

If it were an adult man, such a severe punishment could still be dealt with, but Xie Zhongju was a woman, and in addition to being pinched by a stick before, he injured his knees, and at the moment he was under tremendous pressure on his shoulders and neck, and his legs softened twice, but Before she collapsed to the ground, she was resisted by the water and fire sticks under her body, and then two fierce government servants asked Xie Zhongju to stand up again. Repeatedly, Xie Zhongju's legs, which had old injuries At this moment, it has already become overwhelmed, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will become permanently disabled.

The eldest grandson Wuji sat in front of the public case, holding a lamp to watch Xie Zhongju being tortured with great interest. Seeing him almost fell to the ground twice, he thought it was almost time. Are you recruiting or not?"

Before Xie Zhongju could answer, Changsun Wuji added again: "Little brother, why would you risk your life for an outsider when you are still young? As long as you recruit the person who instigated you to kill Xiao Rui behind the scenes, I will make the decision to save you from suffering." How about the torture?"

Ma Zhou frowned, looked at his eldest grandson Wuji, and thought to himself, "What the presiding judge said clearly meant that Xie Zhongju's confession was the mastermind behind the murder of Xiao Rui. Isn't this just an opportunity to take revenge for personal gain! "

Xie Zhongju was tortured, and her mind became dazed again. After hearing Changsun Wuji's "teaching" words, she was immediately touched by Fanxin, and she immediately thought of the prodigal son who behaved frivolously and had a frizzy personality.

"If you saw the scene of my being tortured, would you weep for me as you did when you pitied Xiangcheng?"

"It may be that in your heart I have always been a little eunuch with facial paralysis, and the secular world does not allow you and me to be together."

Xie Zhongju's silent murmur aroused Changsun Wuji, Ma Zhou and Cai Shaobing's emotions. After listening for a while, they didn't hear a clear tone.

"What are you talking about?!" Changsun Wuji frowned, his patience was exhausted, he slapped the gavel and said coldly: "Xie Zhongju! I will ask you again, is there any trick?"

Xie Zhongju, who had been tortured so much, finally uttered the words Changsun Wuji dreamed of this time, "I just recruited it!"

As soon as this remark came out, Changsun Wuji laughed loudly, Ma Zhou's face changed, and Cai Shaobing also showed a flattering smile to Uncle Guo.

After ordering the yamen servants to remove the heavy shackles and green bricks from Xie Zhongju, Changsun Wuji walked up to Xie Zhongju himself and asked, "Xie Zhongju, who is the mastermind behind the poisonous murder of Xiao Rui in the prison at night? And who is it with you?" Are you an accomplice?"

"If you ask the accomplices." Xie Zhongju stood there with a pale face, looked up at Changsun Wuji, and stopped half of his words.

"Who!"

"Who!"

"Who!"

Seeing that Xie Zhongju stopped talking when he said something important, Changsun Wuji, Cai Shaobing, and Ma Wednesday all walked up to Xie Zhongju with different thoughts, and asked urgently.

Xie Zhongju stretched out his palm with ripped knuckles, pointed at Changsun Wuji and said, "If you ask the accomplices, you are among them!"

As soon as this remark came out, Changsun Wuji was very annoyed, he snorted coldly, turned around and sat back on the public case, "Bah!"

Seeing Xie Zhongju's gritted teeth answering indiscriminately, Ma Zhou's hanging heart fell to the ground. It's not that he deliberately favored "He Zudao", it's just that this matter is obviously the trouble of Changsun Wuji looking for the enemy's family. During the night scouting for political opinions, Ma Zhou and "He Zudao" chatted very happily. Yu Gongshi, the supervisory censor, had completely different thoughts from the eldest grandson Wuji who deliberately revenged his family, and Cai Shaobing, who deliberately curry favor with the eldest grandson Wuji.

Changsun Wuji looked at Xie Zhongju who was covered in bruises. He who had never worked in interrogation and investigation felt dizzy for a while, and turned to Cai Shaobing who was standing beside him: "If you don't want to be punished, I won't do it, Cai Shaobing! You Go to prison!"

"Yes." After Cai Shaobing responded respectfully to his eldest grandson Wuji, he had a completely different expression when facing Xie Zhongju, "Come on! Heat up the soldering iron for me, soak the whip in salt water, and let me Let's see how long he can speak hard!"

Cai Shaobing's voice fell, and before the servants rushed to fetch the torture tools, the gavel in Ma Zhou's hand, which had not been sounded the whole time, finally slapped like thunder.

"Wait!"

As soon as Ma Zhou's words came out, Changsun Wuji, Cai Shaobing, and all the yamen servants were all taken aback, they all looked at the supervisory censor, no one could guess what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

"Xiao Rui has already confirmed that he was infected with the plague and died. Although Xie Zhongju inspected the prison at night, the Imperial Army also inspected Xiao Rui's situation after they came out. How can he continue to torture him without evidence?!"

Ma Zhou's eyes were only on Cai Shaobing, and he hated this cunning villain who was following others and torturing others in exchange for his own prosperity and wealth.

Changsun Wuji never thought that Ma Zhou would "cover up" Xie Zhongju. Seeing that he was about to catch the "He Zudao" flaw, he pointed at Ma Zhou angrily and said, "You Ma Yushi!"

"Prime Minister Changsun, I was ordered to assist the Prime Minister in the case of Xiao Rui's sudden death. Although there are still doubts about this matter, it is against the law to use large scale against Xie Zhongju right now!"

Cai Shaobing saw that the opportunity to curry favor with eldest Sun Wuji had failed, so he became angry from embarrassment, and yelled at Ma Zhou in a cold voice, "You are just a deputy presiding judge, what qualifications do you have?"

Cai Shaobing half-spoken, was stared back by Ma Zhou's sullen eyes, "How dare a small subordinate clerk dictate in the lobby of the Procuratorate, come on! Pull down this madman who disturbed the court and despised the superior, and beat him hard!" Thirty boards!"

Although Ma Zhou is the deputy presiding judge of this case, he is quite prestigious in the procuratorate, and his official position is the supervisory censor of the supervisory officials. As soon as he said this, he saw that Cai Shaobing had made a mistake, and Changsun Wuji came to the court. It's not easy to say anything, I can only watch the yamen servant drag Cai Shaobing out of the hall and go outside to be tortured.

"Prime Minister Changsun, it's better to put Xie Zhongju in prison temporarily, and wait until tomorrow morning to play the sage before making a decision."

"Okay, just follow Ma Yushi's words." Changsun Wuji responded superficially after Zhou Zhou, seeing that the method of finding "He Zudao" from Xie Zhongju's body was not feasible, so he thought of a more intuitive method. The handwriting of Fang Yiai and "He Zudao".

In the Zichen Palace, Li Shimin was suffering from a headache from Xiao Rui's sudden death, and was dozing on the Longshu table when he was awakened suddenly by the sound of the palace door being pushed open.

"Bai Jian! You old bastard, why can't you enter the palace?" Rubbing his sleepy eyes, Li Shimin realized that the person who came was not Bai Jian, but was sent by him to Changshan County, Hengzhou to investigate "He Zudao" "The detailed captain of the Habayashi Army.

"Are you back? How did He Zudao's investigation go?"

"Long live the report, I rushed to Changshan County in eight hundred miles, and spent seven days in the county to investigate and unannounced, but..."

"But what! Tell the truth!"

"However, we haven't found anything about He Zudao's deeds, not even the name of He Zudao in the population register of the Changshan County Government."

"At first, the general thought that there was a mistake in the population roster, or that He Zudao was too low-key, so he took the yamen servants to visit the towns and villages in the county, but found no such person as He Zudao!"

"What! There is no such person!" Li Shimin's face was gloomy, thinking of Ma Zhoushangzou, Xiao Rui's dying night, someone entered the prison under false pretences, one of them was He Zudao's school boy, and the other was unknown. Immediately, Longyan was furious, stretched out his hand to slap the table, and said in a low voice, "What is the way! What is the way! Who the hell are you? Why do you hide your hometown! Could Xiao Rui's death be related to you! What a waste! I have high hopes for you!"

(End of this chapter)