Crowned with Pearls

   Chapter 696 Ninety-five · Confession

Manager Xu did not expect Chen Dong's first question to be so terribly secretive. In an instant, even his dull mind, which had been frozen all night, was suddenly awake. I was stunned, and for a moment, I shivered suddenly.

  The things of the first prince were done by them.

   At that time, the sage was softhearted, and after listening to the advice of the court officials, he planned to recall the first prince. The first prince and the first prince set off from Shandong under the protection of more than 400 guards.

The facts of that year were too long ago, and for a long time, Manager Xu thought that this matter would never be brought up again in his life - after all, the matter of the previous prince had already been framed by King Zhuang, although there was no definite evidence, everyone felt that the first The death of the prince had nothing to do with King Zhuang.

   But now, Chen Dong actually mentioned it again! And it seems that he knows him very well, or in other words, he has already determined that he is related to this matter!

   Chen Dong admired his expression with all his time, and raised his eyebrows with a click of a tut: "Xu Guanshi, I just praised you for being aware of current affairs, you must be really aware of current affairs?"

   Manager Xu was speechless, his hands and feet were cold, and a chill ran from head to toe, making him freeze like an ice sculpture in an ice cellar, and he didn't even remember how to react.

Chen Dong didn't have the patience to wait any longer. He wanted to drag it slowly. He winked at the person next to him, and a clerk suddenly scooped a basin of water from the bucket, and took his head from Manager Xu. After drenching it, Guanshi Xu was instantly chilled.

Manager Xu was so cold that his heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were completely cold. Before he had time to speak, Chen Dong had already opened his mouth coldly: "Master Xu, you have to think about it. Who do you want to keep? Xu You have already seen the end of Chong. As for Xu Cifu, there is more of this thing than not much of this thing. For him, it is just that he has more debts and does not worry about lice or itching, but for you it is different. As for me, I have never been impatient. You see, Xu Chong refused to talk, so I just didn't bother him to speak. The same is true for you. Don't think that you can't do it without you. Since I can ask you three questions , You should know the name of Saburo Umekawa, I have other ways, without you, things are just a little more troublesome."

   Director Xu, what else can I say? He was so frightened that he shivered. All the coping strategies and methods he had thought of were useless at this time. He was completely at a loss, threatened by Chen Dongyi, and finally slipped to the ground unbearably.

  Chen Dong snorted and raised his eyebrows: "Is it a mountain bandit or a Japanese pirate?"

Manager Xu was lying on the ground, his eyes were blurred and he couldn't see anything. Being urged by this, he struggled with a splitting headache for a while, and finally opened his mouth in horror when Chen Dong was about to stand up: "It's a Japanese pirate. It was Japanese pirates! Saburo Umekawa brought people to do it!"

Chen Dong retracted his foot that had already stepped out, sat on the head and laughed, looked at him for a while, and hummed: "That's good, how can the whereabouts of the prince be known by the Japanese pirates? The prince is still around. With more than 400 escorts, why can't they resist these Japanese pirates?! Why did the Dengzhou Guard's army be delayed, why was the prince attacked but no one came to rescue, why?!"

   The questions were like knives, stabbing Manager Xu's heart into holes.

His lips turned white, he knelt on the ground and shook his head, kowtowing in a crying voice: "I said! I said! Back then, the little boy was instructed to contact Saburo Umekawa and give him and his more than 60 subordinates to Tibet. Get up, and let them lie in ambush on the only way for the prince of Dengzhou to return to Beijing, waiting for the prince and the princess to return to Beijing, then”

  Chen Dong snorted and said to the scribe, "Write it down!"

   He turned his head and looked at Manager Xu, who was lying on the ground, and asked coldly, "You are ordered, whose order are you under?!"

   has already said this for the sake of it, and there is nothing to hide. Manager Xu replied: "Follow, on my master Xu Chong's order!"

Chen Dong pressed step by step, walked to Xu Guanshi, and even squatted down, looking directly into Xu Guanshi's eyes: "Okay, I will ask you again, why did your master hide the Japanese pirates!? He is a court official. , how could it be related to the Japanese pirates!? How did they contact, and how did you cover the gang of Japanese pirates all the way to the territory of Shandong, how many of them were implicated, and helped you to **** you?! Say!"

   Manager Xu no longer dared to take any chances. He finally understood that the corpses of Deng Jidong and Shenjiacun were all fake. It was these people who were playing the game and were ready to take the bait! The eldest grandson of the emperor never set his sights on the gain or loss of the Xu family and the others. What he wanted to investigate was the death of the previous prince!

   Director Xu was bitter, and he knew what it meant.

   But now he has no way out.

   As Chen Dong said, if he didn’t say it, Xu Chong’s example would be in front of him, but would he be willing to die? If he was really willing, he wouldn't have been begging for mercy, and he would have come to this point.

After wiping the sweat off his head, Manager Xu resisted the pounding heart and the needle-like pain, retched a few times, and then collapsed on the ground like a mourning concubine: "I said, I said it all. After marrying the eldest grandmother, I have a close relationship with the Tong family. Originally, the prince was involved in the matter of recruiting soldiers in the paddock."

   Manager Xu's mind was chaotic, his head was dizzy, his teeth were clucking, he was shaking uncontrollably, and without thinking, he poured out all the secrets he had been hiding in his heart.

  Chen Dong looked at him condescendingly, and let the clerks on the side memorize them all with indifferent eyes.

   After all the confessions were transcribed, the candles in the torture chamber had been changed a few times. Manager Xu lost the strength to speak, and he didn't know how much time had passed, but he just collapsed on the ground with his eyes straight.

Chen Dong took his testimony, walked up to him and took the stack of testimony and patted his face, sobering him up, and then said lightly: "Paint it, as long as what you say is true, I don't know if you can save your life, but you still have mother and children, right? Their lives can be saved after all."

   His wife and children have already settled down! Manager Xu thought so in his heart, he suddenly raised his head and saw Chen Dong's smiling eyes, and immediately understood the deep meaning of Chen Dong's words - his mother and children were also controlled by Chen Dong and the others! They were really prepared!

   Manager Xu lost the last trace of luck in his heart, sitting on the ground motionless, like a dying old dog.

   (end of this chapter)