In the dim corridor, the jailers only patrolled the inner room.
Tung oil torches must be lit here from time to time to maintain a certain level of brightness.
Otherwise, this is an underground fortress that never sees the light of day.
The prisoners here are usually all kinds of death row prisoners, so there are very few people coming and going in this prison.
Of course, it is not that no one comes here. Although these people are no longer allowed to visit the prison after they are imprisoned, if the management is done properly, or the power is in place, or the prisoner is about to die, then in the prisoner's last day or two, In principle, they will allow the prisoner's family to see the prisoner one last time as a final farewell.
Of course, the first two are illegal underground activities. It's just because it's in a gray area, so everyone just tacitly understands it.
When Lu Zhizhang walked in from the outside, he could hear low cries in the room. He could also see that several prisoners who had not yet reached their death sentence were being visited by their families, but Lu Zhizhang was not in the mood to pay attention to these things.
At the moment, he just went straight to the location of the cell head.
The cell leader probably didn't expect that Lu Zhizhang would come to inspect. For a moment, the fat cell leader was as panicked as a spinning top.
"My lord! My lord, why are you here?"
It's not that Lu Zhizhang didn't notice the panic of the cell leader. If he had thought about investigating the other party's behavior before, but now he didn't have any thoughts to pay attention to the other party's panic.
He just said straight to the point, "Is the prisoner named Fang Dali going to the execution ground in the future?"
Facing Lu Zhizhang's question, the prison chief immediately nodded in agreement, "Yes. Sir, do you have anything else to ask?"
Facing the cell leader's questioning, Lu Zhizhang chose to ignore the other person's words this time. He just continued to ask directly to the cell leader, "Then he has met the requirements for being visited by family members, right?"
The cell leader no longer knew what Lu Zhizhang wanted to do, but he estimated that he was safe, so after a brief panic, he finally regained his composure and said, "Yes."
Lu Zhizhang then asked, "Has anyone come to visit the prison recently?"
Facing Lu Zhizhang's question, the prison head whispered, "Sir, Fang Dali's parents are dead, and he has not married. How can anyone come to visit him now?"
Hearing the other party's words, Lu Zhizhang still looked a little disappointed, but soon he put away his disappointment and said to the other party, "But it doesn't matter, you can do something for me. If someone comes later, Visit Fang Dali, even if the person has no money, you must let him in. After he goes in, you should send someone to notify me quickly! Do you hear me? "
Facing Lu Zhizhang's inquiry, the cell leader just whispered, "I understand."
After Lu Zhizhang finished giving instructions to the cell leader, he said to the cell leader, "Okay, please take me to see Fang Dali quickly."
The cell leader still said yes, and then he led Lu Zhizhang to Fang Dali's cell.
Fang Dali is now imprisoned in the innermost prison. The light here is even darker than in the front. If it weren't for the tung oil torch lighting up the passage, then this place must be more despairing than the deepest night.
But even though there were tung oil torches lighting up the road, the prisoners detained here were already in despair.
After all, they are a group of people with no hope at all now.
Death is coming at any time. At that time, all that is waiting for them is to lose everything.
So even though they saw a prison guard arriving accompanied by people wearing official attire, no one complained about injustice wherever Lu Zhizhang passed.
Even when Lu Zhizhang came to the cell where Fang Dali was, Fang Dali was just lying on the wooden bed covered with straw. He didn't even raise his head. His posture looked no different from death.
The prison boss was not sure why Lu Zhizhang came here, so on the way to accompany Lu Zhizhang, the prison boss was also filled with fear.
Now that he saw this arrogant person again, the prison chief became even more panicked.
"Sir, I haven't done anything. I have been following your orders since you left!"
Faced with the chatter from the prison boss, Lu Zhizhang just said impatiently, "I understand, you don't need to explain to me."
After the words fell, Lu Zhizhang only called Fang Dali directly. When Fang Dali heard the call, he raised his eyelids. He looked at Lu Zhizhang lazily and said, "Who am I? It turns out to be Mr. Lu? Mr. Lu, I cooperated with you in recruiting everything I should have done, what? Mr. Lu, is there anything else you want to modify? In fact, if you need to modify it, you can just modify it yourself. No matter what you say, I will not change your confession!"
Everyone present heard Fang Dali's sarcasm, and the cell leader immediately reprimanded him, "Fang Dali, you are so brave, you dare to talk nonsense in front of Mr. Lu! I think you don't want to live anymore!"
However, facing the prison boss who was helping him maintain his dignity, Lu Zhizhang just waved his hand to him impatiently, "Okay, go down, I don't need you here yet."
Although the prison boss was a little unconvinced, he finally cooperated with Lu Zhizhang and left.
After the cell leader and everyone else had left, Lu Zhizhang told the other party the true purpose of his trip.
"Fang Dali, I remember you told me before that when you arrived at the scene of the crime, all the servants of the Zhou family were already dead, right?"
Facing the mention of Lu Zhang's past events, Fang Dali couldn't help but have a sarcastic smile on his lips.
"Master Lu, why are you still asking these questions? Anyway, I am just a death row prisoner now. This case has been settled. What else do you have to ask? What's the matter? Could it be that Master Lu wants to name some of my accomplices? Is it possible to modify it?"
"I've told you before. I've already signed and signed it. If you need to add or delete anything, just bring it over and let me sign it. I will cooperate with you no matter what you do. Mr. Lu, I beg you. Okay, please stop tossing me."
When Lu Zhizhang heard this, he immediately said, "What if I can reverse the case for you?"
However, when he heard Lu Zhizhang's words, Fang Dali felt even more amused, "Mr. Lu, do you mean what you said? You still gave me the death penalty! Now you are saying that you want to overturn my verdict! This is not shooting yourself in the face." Feet? Please stop making fun of me. This joke is not funny at all." Kanshu La
When Lu Zhizhang heard this, he just said expressionlessly, "I'm not joking. If you feel that you were wronged, just tell me honestly what you saw and heard that day. If you feel that you were wrong, you don't have to." Waiting for death without saying a word."
Hearing what Lu Zhizhang said, Fang Dali just laughed to himself, "Mr. Lu, I have already told you what I should say. You don't believe me anyway. I am about to die now. What else do you want to test me for?" What? Don’t worry, even if I go to the execution ground, I will not retract my confession."
"I want to hear you tell me about that day again. This time, I will try to believe your words, so can you trust me again and tell me what happened before?"
Hearing Lu Zhizhang repeatedly emphasize this point, and seeing that his expression was very serious, it didn't seem like he was joking.
Although Fang Dali still didn't understand why the other party suddenly changed his mind, if there was still a way to live, who would want to die, especially in such an unjust way of death, so even though Fang Dali realized that this might be a test, he finally decided He said in cooperation, "Are you telling the truth?"
Lu Zhizhang said calmly, "Of course it's true."
Seeing that Lu Zhizhang didn't seem to be joking this time, Fang Dali finally talked about what he saw that day again.
And because he had almost died once, Fang Dali no longer concealed some key information this time.
"Master Lu, I have to admit one thing first. Before that, I did want to kill a girl named Zijuan. Because my cousin was in a lawsuit with Mrs. Zhou, and she really wanted to kill her before she became a slave. I was sold to a flower house by Mrs. Zhou before, but my cousin's father and I didn't know about this. On that day, my cousin's contract expired, and I accompanied my cousin's father to the Zhou Mansion to pick up my cousin. But for some reason at that time, But they pushed back and refused to let me
I met my cousin, and later they even privately signed a contract of sale of my sister with my uncle. It was only when I met my sister later that I found out that my sister had been sold to Li Chun Yuan. It was also because I heard that with this deed of sale, it was legal for my sister to be sold, so I originally wanted to get the deed of sale from Zijuan for my sister. But I didn't expect that when I went there that night, all those people were dead in the house. I didn't find anything, so I left in a hurry that day. "
Hearing Fang Dali's words, Lu Zhizhang only said, "Who did you hear that selling one's body with a deed is legal?"
Facing Lu Zhizhang's question, Fang Dali hesitated for a moment, and then he whispered, "I also heard what Young Master Xu said."
Hearing Mr. Xu, Lu Zhizhang suddenly looked shocked, and he immediately continued to ask, "Which Mr. Xu?"
"That's Mrs. Zhou's uncle, Xu Tianyi."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zhizhang felt that everything was finally right. At the moment, he just continued to ask excitedly, "How did Xu Tianyi get involved in your affairs?"
Fang Dali shook his head blankly, "I don't know about that. Maybe he has a good heart and doesn't want to see my cousin suffer this injustice. Moreover, my cousin's escape from Lichun Court was actually thanks to Mr. Xu's intervention." Help me."
After Lu Zhizhang heard this, he asked in a low voice, "Do you think Xu Tianyi is a good person?"
Fang Dali nodded immediately, "That's natural!"
Lu Zhizhang then whispered, "Then have you ever thought that from the time your cousin was rescued to the time you were wrongly accused and became a prisoner by me, all of this was actually his plan?"
Faced with Lu Zhizhang's speculation, Fang Dali immediately said without hesitation, "That's impossible, Mr. Xu is a good person!"
