The commander of the inner guard was speechless for a moment.
The emperor rested his forehead with his hand, and the string of wrist beads collided together with this movement, making a crisp sound: "Then arrest the Su family, hold them in solitary confinement, and torture them severely. Everyone will be questioned one by one. Can you ask me something?"
The commander of the inner guard responded respectfully and saw that the emperor seemed to have no other orders, so he was about to retreat.
At this moment, the emperor stopped him again.
"During interrogation, don't say unnecessary words and ask them to vomit out."
The emperor smiled and said: "I think there may be something particularly interesting here."
Chapter 87
Even if they are as strong as King Xin and King Wu, when facing the power of the emperor, they are as fragile as tissue paper and can break with a poke. Compared with these two royal brothers, what is the Su family?
The emperor gave an order, and the internal guards immediately arrested everyone in the Su family, held them in solitary confinement, and tortured them severely. They asked the first thing:
Before the outbreak of the epidemic, you stocked up a large amount of symptomatic medicinal materials. Who was in charge of this matter?
The Su family only ran a small business in the past, and were not considered prominent figures in their hometown. What's more, in the capital, they were suddenly caught by a group of vicious people and held in solitary confinement in the capital. Most of the time, they didn't even need punishment, so they just vomited all over.
——When my little sister went to the provincial capital, she heard that the prices of those medicinal materials were going to increase soon, so she encouraged us to hoard and purchase them in large quantities.
Only Erlang of the Su family is a fool, he is also naughty, and at first he talks about things and refuses to explain clearly. The inner guard is least afraid of this kind of people. After the beating, Su Erlang cried for his father and mother.
Everyone said that the idea of hoarding medicinal materials came from Su Xiangnian, the youngest daughter of the Su family.
Moreover, this daughter was also raised in the outer chamber of King Wu.
The commander of the inner guard thought slightly and reported the matter to the emperor. He soon received the emperor's order - focus on Su Xiangnian and be sure to pry her mouth open!
The commander of the internal defense sat in front of Su Xiangnian and asked her methodically: "Miss Su, your family said that you heard in the provincial capital that the prices of those medicinal materials were going to increase, so you encouraged your family to buy them in large quantities?"
Su Xiangnian began to worry from the moment this group of people broke into the house and took away the whole family indiscriminately.
How is this going? !
This kind of thing obviously never happened in the previous life!
Was it done by the mayor of Chengning County?
Su Xiang thought with pain in her heart. She recalled that she died alone in the firewood shed in her previous life, and her own flesh and blood Xiaobao also didn't know whether he was alive or dead. Her heart was filled with hatred - Cheng Ning, you were the one who harmed me in the previous life. In this life, you are the one who harmed me. Why are you still so vicious and unwilling to let me live? !
Her teeth were clenched tightly, and her hands could not help but clenched into fists. Su Xiangnian could hardly restrain the urge to curse, but she endured it when she came into contact with the cold walls of the cell and the indifferent eyes of the interrogator. Living.
Her family is still in the hands of the other party, and Xiaobao...
If I think about it more carefully, I'm afraid things are not as bad as I thought.
If that vicious woman Cheng Ning really ordered her arrest, she would definitely kill her immediately. Why would she lock herself here and let others interrogate her?
She may not have done this.
But if it wasn't Cheng Ning who did it, who could it be?
Su Xiangnian couldn't help feeling a little sad when she thought about this: Could it be him?
He abandoned her in his previous life and watched her tragic death in the woodshed. What tricks does he want to play in this life?
Su Xiangnian smiled mockingly.
Internal Guard Commander: "..."
The commander of the internal guards also laughed: "If you don't want to answer, you can wait until you are tortured. It doesn't matter. I can wait."
After saying that, he stood up, pulled the chain hanging on the wall, and the torture instrument that occupied an entire wall was slowly lowered by the iron rope.
Su Xiangnian glanced at it and saw only the cold metallic luster and the blood color that had not faded. She turned away in panic and quickly answered the other party's question: "I, I heard that the prices of those medicinal materials are going to increase. I just encouraged my family to buy it..."
The commander of the inner guard asked: "Who said that?"
Su Xiangnian paused: "The owner of a drug store."
The commander of the inner guard asked: "Is he your relative or friend?"
Su Xiangnian replied: "No."
The commander of the inner guard asked: "Then you are not related to him, why would he tell you this?"
Su Xiangnian paused for a few more seconds: "I overheard it."
The commander of the inner guard asked: "The drugstore owner is either sitting in court or at home. Where did you hear that?"
Su Xiangnian's mind turned quickly: "He was talking to someone on the street. I was passing by and heard it."
The commander of the inner guard said "Oh": "I met him by chance."
Su Xiangnian nodded: "Yes."
The commander of the inner guard smiled and asked: "Since we met by chance, how did you know that he is the owner of the drug store?"
Su Xiangnian's mind went blank for a few seconds, and then she replied with a forced smile: "He said hello to others, and the other party also greeted him. He mentioned it during the conversation."
The commander of the inner guard smiled even deeper: "The other party also greeted him - then you must know his last name and which pharmacy owner he is?"
Su Xiangnian was completely speechless.
The commander of the internal guards stared at her steadily, flipped out a page from the pile of records at hand, and flicked it: "There are a total of eighteen drug stores in the provincial capital where you are, and we checked these eighteen. The accounts of the pharmacies show that before the epidemic occurred, these 18 pharmacies had no records of purchasing large quantities of those medicinal materials..."
Su Xiangnian's heart was in her throat, and she heard his knuckles on the desk, and he made three sounds in a row: "Miss Su, from which boss did you learn that? Are the prices of these medicinal materials going to increase?”
Su Xiangnian was speechless.
The commander of the internal guards looked at her silently, watching her nose tighten in fear, watching her fingers tremble unconsciously, watching her uncontrollably move her feet back, and suddenly she felt bored.
If it weren't for the emperor's personal appointment, how could such a mediocre person be qualified to be interrogated by him personally.
In the past, the people who could ask him to do the surgery himself were the kind of masters who would rather die than give in. Half of the skin and flesh on their bodies were cut off, and they could still talk and laugh with him happily.
As for this now...
The commander of the inner guard stood up, walked up to Su Xiangnian, stretched out his hand under the trembling eyes of the other party, and removed her jaw, making sure that she had no chance of biting her tongue to commit suicide, and then suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Here comes someone. , bring those two old guys over here!"
The iron door suddenly opened, and a cold wind mixed with the smell of blood blew in from the outside and penetrated into Su Xiangnian's bones.
She couldn't help but shudder, watching the two strong men dragging her father and mother. When she raised her arms, her father and mother were like two sheep whose skin had been stripped off, dripping with blood. On the iron frame on one side.
"Miss Su, I still really want to talk to you. I hope you do the same."
The commander of the inner guard held the back of the chair with one hand, and held the hook with the other hand, flicking the burning charcoal basin in front of him: "I never like to joke, you'd better listen carefully to what I'm going to say next. , and believe it.”
Su Xiangnian swallowed shudderingly, her eyes filled with tears due to fear.
But I heard the other party continue: "In the next hour, I won't ask you any more questions. You can choose to say it or not. However, if you can't spit out something that satisfies me, I I will remove your parents’ bones one by one in front of you until they turn into a pile of rotten flesh.”
"My skills are very good. I can dismantle two people in one hour, which is enough. This basin of coal should be hot enough by then. I will bring over the little cub you gave birth to..."
He smiled slightly, his teeth were white, and his eyes were so cruel that they were almost cruel: "Burn him in front of you!"
Su Xiangnian screamed uncontrollably.
…
An hour later, the commander of the internal guards left in a hurry. No one noticed that there was also a deputy commander of the internal guards who quietly sent a letter.
"Resurrection from the dead?"
The emperor tasted these words playfully: "Is that what she said?"
"Yes," the commander of the inner guard said: "She said that she had died once, and when she woke up again, she went back to the time more than a year before her death. Because she was killed by the Lord of Chengning County in her previous life, and the prince of Qi State looked on coldly, so She doesn’t want to go to Beijing again in this life, she just wants to live a peaceful life in her hometown..."
The emperor said "Oh" in surprise: "Cheng Ning? How could she be involved?"
The commander of the inner guard frowned slightly and said with some confusion: "She seems to think that Wu Shuren's true identity is the prince of the Duke of Qi."
"In her previous life, she took her children to the capital to look for her husband. She saw a common man named Wu riding a horse passing by on Chang'an Street, all the way to the Duke's Mansion of Qi. When she came to look for her, a steward kept her, saying that the prince had just married his wife yesterday, and the prince's wife was She is the daughter of the East Palace, the Princess of Chengning County. It is inconvenient to see her at this time, so she temporarily found a courtyard to accommodate the mother and son..."
The emperor asked with great interest: "What happened next?"
The commander of the internal guards said: "Later, she never saw the so-called 'husband' again, and because she was inferior to others, she had to demote her wife to a concubine. Even her children were taken away by the county master in the name of mistress, and she The days in the Duke of Qi's Mansion were getting worse day by day, and in the end, I was imprisoned directly in the woodshed and starved to death..."
The emperor couldn't help but sneered: "Without a matchmaker or a wife, what kind of wife is she?"
He said solemnly: "How brave the Duke of Qi is to dare to make such a fuss on the second day of marriage!"
The commander of the inner guard said: "It seems that the Duke of Qi has taken on a false reputation for my nephew."
The disdain on the emperor's face deepened: "How can I bear this false reputation for no reason? I just want to take the opportunity to sell it to that scoundrel! As for that scoundrel..."
He sneered: "I also wanted to settle the wife clan of Duke Guofu, but I couldn't bear to let go of the wife's wife, so I asked my mother's family to recognize the mother and son for me. For the sake of this wife's humble background, this... By slapping his own niece in the face, where does he put Dong Gong's face? And does he still remember the tolerance and care he showed to these young brothers when Dong Gong was still alive?!"
The commander of the inner guard listened silently and did not participate in the direct assessment of the prince.
The emperor obviously did not want him to participate. He stood up and walked around the pavilion a few times, and suddenly said: "When did she die in her previous life?"
The commander of the inner guard said: "Probably two years after entering Beijing."
The emperor asked again: "What happened in the capital in those two years?"
The commander of the internal guard had a bitter look on his face: "She never even left the Duke's residence in Qi in those two years, and she knew nothing about anything in the court. She really couldn't ask anything..."
He is not afraid of the interrogator lying, nor is he afraid of the interrogator being harsh. There are indeed people in the world who cannot be pried open, but they are very few.
After being in charge of the internal defense for many years, he is only afraid of one kind of people - people who really know nothing!
For this kind of person, even if he is beaten to a bloody gourd or chopped alive, it will be useless, because he really knows nothing!
This is what Su Xiang thinks of him.
Seeing the depressed look on the face of this close minister, the emperor laughed and said, "This may not be the case."
The expression of the commander of the inner guard changed slightly: "Your Majesty, do you mean that the Su family is lying?"
"How could she deceive you?"
The emperor said slowly: "Subjectively speaking, she didn't mean to deceive you. She didn't dare."
The commander of the inner guard bowed respectfully: "Your Majesty, please give me your permission."
"She didn't dare to deceive you. She got to this point in a daze - all because she was stupid enough, but it was also because she was stupid enough that you were deceived by her unintentionally at this time, but you were unaware of it. .”
The Emperor said: "The Duke of Qi's residence is a first-class family in this dynasty! Her real husband is the prince, her nominal husband is the prince of the Duke of Qi, and her nominal mistress is the daughter of the East Palace. She was imprisoned in the woodshed and starved to death. , it only occupied a small part of the two years after she entered Beijing. For a longer period of time, she lived in the Duke of Qi's mansion with the tacit approval of many people."
