Afternoon·Prefect’s Yamen
Huang Liangping slept here all night. He woke up a little mentally exhausted due to repeated nightmares.
The food brought in was light, which was good for the people. However, Huang Liangping was a man who had enjoyed wealth for many years, so the food was tasteless. He only ate some reluctantly and stopped eating it.
After the yamen officer took away the things, he was flipping through books in the study. He looked calm, but he was already a little anxious.
"I said the day before yesterday that I had contacted the Governor, but the Governor hasn't sent anyone to rescue me today?"
"Nantunba must have been raided overnight, right? It's been raining, so something is going to happen soon."
"Hmph, Luo Pei dares to do this to me. When I get out, he will die without a burial place. So what if he is a third-rank man? There have been more than a dozen third-rank men who have fallen in recent years."
Just as he was thinking wildly, the class leader came in. At this moment, everything was quiet. Huang Liangping didn't look back, he looked at the sky casually and said, "Oh, are you done?"
"Sir, it's done. Yao Ping was killed last night. The villain said that it was caused by the prisoners fighting each other, and he has already reported it." When the squad leader said this, he thought of Yao Ping's expression of death and his last words: "Master , Master, hello..."
I couldn't help but shudder, and my voice couldn't help but become a little hoarse.
Huang Liangping was in an unexpected situation at this time and was very sensitive. He immediately sighed: "Hey, Yao Ping is actually a good person, but it is a pity that he is not smart and did a big bad thing."
"He didn't even think about it. Even if he wants to kill Jia Yuan for me, can he do it openly?"
"It's okay to kill, but in front of the imperial envoy. If the imperial envoy says that he not only kills Jia Yuan, but also assassinates him, what then? Should the whole family be buried with him?"
"This idiot deserves to die!" When Huang Liangping said this, he couldn't help but blush, and his voice was a little louder. He suppressed his anger and then said: "But after all, it's a master-servant affair. I'll give him a hundred taels of silver." With a generous burial, you can take care of it for me."
"I will not disappoint anyone who works for me."
The class leader hurriedly replied: "Yes!"
"Is there no news from the province?" Huang Liangping took a look and asked, this is the most critical question.
Just when the class leader was about to answer, there were sudden cluttered footsteps outside. Hearing the sound, more than one person came. Huang Liangping shuddered and became wary.
This situation doesn't look like reinforcements.
"Well, the imperial envoy issued repeated orders and issued a constitutional order that no communication between inside and outside is allowed!" The person who came in was Qiu Chang, a young civil servant who was originally gentle, with a hint of a smile on his face: "There are still people who dare to test the law and dare to collude with the prison officials - you Do you know your guilt?"
The squad leader's face turned pale at this time, and he kowtowed: "I'm really ignorant, sir. Please forgive me."
"Excuse me? I forgive your sins, but who will forgive mine? Come on, drag me down and beat me with a big stick!" Qiu Chang was an officer following the imperial envoy. When the imperial envoy collapsed, he also had to fall heavily. Of course there was no mercy at this time.
Several soldiers swarmed up, picked up the squad leader like a hawk catching a chicken, and rushed down. The squad leader did not dare to call for help, and suddenly remembered Yao Ping's mouth full of black blood.
"Hit!" The soldiers had already ordered him to hit him hard. Even if he didn't kill him, he wouldn't be able to kill him with fifty strokes. But if he wanted to kill him and hit his vital points hard, even an iron man wouldn't be able to hold on.
The class leader begged loudly for mercy, but something was stuffed in his mouth, which was a bit slurred. Everyone was horrified when he heard it. Huang Liangping held on to his courage and said, "Mr. Qiu, isn't this too rude?"
"Lu Lang?" Qiu Chang looked at Huang Liangping with gloomy eyes. To be honest, he didn't want to break the rules, but what the imperial envoy said made sense. Huang Liangping had been running Shuanghua Mansion for a long time, and he had his enemies both inside and outside. Man, it’s so easy to think bad things.
Thinking about the news just reported, Qiu Chang's heart skipped a beat: "Huang Liangping, you have been dismissed from your post now, so don't be arrogant. Let me ask you, but you instigated the squad leader to kill people, silence them, and destroy evidence?"
Huang Liangping remained silent.
"If you don't say it, I will naturally find a way to make you say it. Come here and make Mr. Huang sober..." Qiu Chang smiled grimly.
"Yes!" Four wolf-like soldiers rushed forward.
"Ah, what are you doing? I am a second-ranked Jinshi. Even if I am dismissed, I will still be an official!" When Huang Liangping saw it, he immediately shouted, and the soldiers stopped for a moment.
"Hurry up!" Qiu Chang sneered and waved his hand, and the four men no longer hesitated and rushed forward to push Huang Liangping to the ground.
On the cold ground, Huang Liangping's limbs were tightly held down. Seeing the leader, he directly covered up a thick and wide towel and tried to struggle, but to no avail.
A towel that smelled a little like dust covered his face tightly.
Wow!
The fishy-smelling water was poured on his face.
The towel was tightly covered by someone. The towel soaked with water made Huang Liangping choke when he tried to take a breath, but he couldn't cough out. He breathed hard, and the water he sucked in was also water. His ears began to ring, and his chest , his throat was so burned that someone stabbed him with hot coals.
This is even more uncomfortable than being pushed into a bucket!
Where has Huang Liangping ever suffered such a crime?
Buckets after buckets of water were poured on his head and face. The pain was so painful that he wanted to shout and couldn't feel it. His whole body spasmed, and his hands and feet were kicking randomly.
For a moment, Huang Liangping even felt that he was dead.
When his mind went blank and he was about to die, the wet towel that had been stuck on his face was suddenly lifted off, and the fresh and sweet air rushed into his nostrils. It was too slow for him, so he opened his mouth wide and breathed greedily.
When he finally calmed down, the anger in his heart could simply burn out his reason.
"How dare you, how dare you!" Huang Liangping shouted with real anger. Even if he was removed from his official position by the imperial envoy, he would still be a fifth-rank official if the emperor did not issue an order!
After taking another 10,000 steps back, he was still a second-ranked scholar with a great reputation. How could they dare to torture him?
Although a towel is used, what is the difference between this and "sticking and adding official"?
To torture yourself to extract a confession is to challenge the entire scholar-officials and the entire bureaucratic class.
Since the establishment of the Zheng Dynasty, this kind of torture has been no longer used in the previous dynasty. Unexpectedly, Luo Pei, who was usually gentle and gentle, would turn out to be so ruthless when he became an imperial envoy!
"As long as I can get out, this thief will be the target of thousands of people."
Huang Liangping thought bitterly. At this moment, there was a muffled groan outside, and the squad leader seemed to let out his last scream. Then someone reported: "Sir, the squad leader has been beaten to death with twenty-seven sticks." !”
"Master Huang, tell me, why are you doing this?" Qiu Chang came over with a sinister smile again: "There is news to tell you that all of your more than 20 servants have been arrested. If you don't say it, some people will. , Under three trees, what can you ask for? You have been an official for a long time, so you should know this truth, why not just offer it."
"Bah!" Huang Liangping's arms were grabbed by someone and he couldn't break free. He stared and spat hard at Qiu Chang.
One more word, no more.
"Stubborn." Qiu Chang raised his head and said coldly: "Torture!"
At this point, even as an imperial envoy, there is no way out.
