"Master Ding, you have already been caught by him and confessed everything, so why bother forcing me, a slave, to grit my teeth and insist on being a hero?" Zhou Huaiyi's eyes were red and his voice was mute. road.
"Confession, what confession?... I didn't say anything, Zhou Huaiyi, are you too stupid to fall for their plan to sow discord?" Ding Jiying's eyes widened.
Zhou Huaiyi was speechless for a long time with his mouth wide open, and then he realized that he had fallen into their plan to sow discord.
However, to be fair, what really destroyed his will was not just the instigation of discord by his enemies; the most important thing was the cruel punishments.
When he thought of the torture he suffered in the torture chamber, which was worse than life, his face turned pale involuntarily, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
Horrible, so terrible... The cruel and terrifying situation at that time easily destroyed his outlook on life and broke through his psychological defense.
It turns out that those heroes who keep their mouth shut and would rather die than surrender are really not that easy to become.
It was a corner that was spurned and forgotten by the world. It was surrounded by walls. A faint ray of light came through the narrow iron window. Occasionally, a cold wind squeezed in through the cracks in the wall, causing the friction of "Woooo" The screams penetrated deep into his heart, and he was filled with inexplicable fear.
He was tied tightly in the dungeon, his bloody hands were hung up by chains, and his body was covered with bruises. The whip marks on his chest were repeatedly raging, and the scars of the wounds were just relieved, but they reappeared. Being torn apart mercilessly.
Alas, if I had known that this would be the case now, it would be better for him to grit his teeth and hold on when he was at Guangling King Zhao Rui's place. He would have died happily, instead of being tortured and miserable like he is now!
Who are Li Ruiyun and Bai Yu Taoist? They are cunning, cunning, murderous, each one is more difficult to deal with than the other; but these cruel officials with their teeth and claws in front of them are simply devils from hell.
"I ask again, will you say it or not?"
He gasped hard, and the words he spat out were weak and confusing, "You... what on earth did you ask me to say, I really don't know anything..."
"Oh, you are still pretending to be confused," the other party's voice was a bit cold and helpless, "Ding Jiying has already confessed, Zhou Huaiyi, do you think it makes sense for you to hold on any longer? In addition to suffering more physical pain - —”
"What are you talking about? Ding Jiying...has confessed?..." A hoarse voice came out from his rolling throat, as if he didn't believe his ears.
"Yes, he received a secret letter from Ding Jinzhi and tried to escape in the name of going to Xiangguo Temple to see incense and fulfill his vow, but we caught him..."
Zhou Huaiyi felt that his heart suddenly sank, and he felt cold to the core. The last trace of luck and the last bit of faith that was holding on suddenly collapsed.
"I recruit, I recruit anything."...
While he was dazed and stunned, a sharp pain hit him without warning, instantly dragging him from the painful memories back to the more cruel reality in front of him.
It turned out that two ferocious guards came forward and without any further explanation, they violently pulled him up from where he was lying on the ground and dragged him to the front of Ding Jiying.
"Mr. Ding, do you still want to continue to deny it? Do you have to force us to use extraordinary measures, and have to be reduced to a state of inhumanity like the person in front of you before you are willing to say it?" Li Ruiyun? His eyes were like poisonous snakes, cold and slippery, entwining around Ding Jiying, making him tremble with fear.
Ding Jiying's body couldn't help but tremble, and his tongue seemed to be frozen, and he was a little unruly, "Mr. Li, you... what exactly do you want me to say?"
"What did you say?" Li Ruiyun's voice was tight and hoarse, showing a bit of anger, "Humph, Mr. Li has always treated you father and son well, and he has treated you as a confidant and entrusted him with important responsibilities; I never expected that you would actually commit such a traitorous act of betrayal and betrayal, why?..."
A self-deprecating wry smile appeared on Ding Jiying's gloomy face.
"If I'm not wrong, you have had ulterior motives since your father recommended you to take charge of the emperor's guard work, right?"
Ding Jiying held her forehead, squinting her eyes and staring in front of her in a daze for a moment.
"Did your father know what you were thinking at that time?" Li Ruiyun pressed forward step by step.
"He didn't know anything at the time. It was me who suggested it on my own initiative." Ding Jiying said weakly.
"Haha, are you still thinking of excusing him now? You are such a filial son!"
Ding Jiying sighed helplessly, "Is there any difference between doing ten things and doing eight things now? For you, Mr. Li, all in all is unforgivable. I still need to excuse myself or my father. What?"
"It makes sense. So your father had no different intentions at the beginning, but it was just you, Mr. Ding, who had ulterior motives and evil intentions?"
"It's up to you to say whatever you want." Ding Jiying now looked like he was breaking a jar.
"Did the Emperor's secret decree reach Ling Yun through your mediation?"
"So be it." Ding Jiying said dejectedly.
Li Ruiyun struck while the iron was hot, "Tell me about the specific situation at that time."
——Well, the matter has come to this, death is still death once, death is still death ten times, the final result is the same, there is no need to continue to cover up.
After understanding this, Ding Jiying no longer had any worries. He simply put aside all his worries and began to talk:
"At that time, the emperor was forced to drink deadly poison, and then you made matters worse by forcing him to write the imperial edict to recall King Guangling. I couldn't stand it any longer, so I contacted Ling Yun to come to the palace to meet the emperor. Took away the secret decree..."
"Wait a minute," Li Ruiyun's pupils couldn't help but shrink, "You mean Ling Yun has been to the palace before?"
"Not bad." Ding Jiying said expressionlessly.
Li Ruiyun took a breath, and his face immediately turned extremely ugly, "Tell me, when did that happen?"
Ding Jiying said dully: "It was the night you forced the emperor to write the edict calling Prince Guangling back to Beijing to correct the imperial edict."
"The night when the emperor wrote the edict..." Li Ruiyun murmured to himself, frowning slightly, and his immersed thoughts were infinitely stretched, and he suddenly returned to the restless night a few days ago.
"Guard, the guard standing behind the emperor!?..." Li Ruiyun's mind was spinning and he almost screamed out in surprise with a sudden flash of inspiration.
Everyone present, including the Taoist priest Bai Yu who had been watching calmly and calmly, were also startled by his exaggerated scream and glanced at him with a strange look.
——What a big deal, isn't it just a guard? So what if that person is really Ling Yun? Is it worth making such a fuss about? Our gang leader has always been calm and unfazed by favors and humiliations, but why did he lose his sense of proportion as soon as he arrived at Ling Yun's place? Oh, I can’t figure it out, I really can’t figure it out!
In fact, we can't blame them for not understanding Li Ruiyun's ups and downs at this time, because they were not immersed in the situation and could not stand in the other person's shoes to truly understand the connotation of this matter.
As the saying goes, "One stone stirs up a thousand waves." Ding Jiying's seemingly simple and casual words hit home the truth, instantly awakening Li Ruiyun's originally dark and unclear thoughts, and at that moment he suddenly understood.
No wonder the emperor suddenly agreed so happily to write the edict to recall Prince Guangling - and at the beginning, he would rather endure the heart-wrenching abuse of the "Calming Pill" than relax even a little bit. Orally.
It turned out that before this, he and Ling Yun had just made a plan for his loyal minister to rush to the three passes to deliver the secret order to reveal the truth to Prince Guangling - because he was emboldened, he would be unscrupulous!
"Ling Yun, Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." He murmured these names repeatedly, and the evil aura in Li Ruiyun's eyes surged.
After all, the culprit still lies with the emperor who is still extremely restless even though he has been imprisoned!
Zhao Yu, you are quite powerful! Although you are in prison, you can still make ministers such as Ling Yun, Ding Jiying, and Prince Guangling serve you wholeheartedly, and they are loyal and would rather die than regret - very good, really good!
In this case, I will accompany you to continue to fight unyieldingly, and let things end wherever they begin!
As his thoughts reached this point, a cold light flashed in Li Ruiyun's eyes, which made people shudder. Without saying a word, he went out and ran towards the side hall where Emperor Zhao Yu was imprisoned, walking as fast as flying...
