Chapter 102
Chapter 102
Wang Lu had just been arrested the day before, and Wang Shilang and King Rui wanted to have a private conversation with Zhong Shao after the morning court the next day.Zhong Shao didn't need to think about what they would say, thinking that if she wanted to gain a foothold in Dali Temple, she couldn't just play favoritism on the first case, so she didn't wait for the two to get close, and she went straight behind Dali Temple Secretary and followed .
Dali Siqing's stern and selfless face is well-known in the court, Zhong Shao hid beside him, and Wang Shilang stopped walking immediately with a regretful expression on his face.King Rui was not easily bluffed, and continued to follow, but Dali Siqing very cooperatively raised his eyes and glanced at King Rui after he approached, and then asked, "Is there something wrong with His Royal Highness?"
Xu Shi was overwhelmed by the majesty of Sir Si Qing, and King Rui was taken aback for a moment.It was just this dazed effort that he immediately gathered around a few people from his own faction, held him up and left, not forgetting to give a slight nod to Dali Siqing before leaving.
Dali Siqing had no expression on his face. Seeing that King Rui was taken away, he just pretended that nothing happened and continued to walk out.It wasn't until he got out of the palace gate and got into the carriage that he turned his head and said to Zhong Shao who was following behind him: "Try the case well."
Zhong Shao hurriedly agreed, and was about to thank Sir Siqing for helping her out, but saw Dali Siqing boarded the carriage without knowing what to do.The coachman took a look at her, then waved his whip and drove away.
With Wang Lu's confession, after Zhong Shao returned to Dali Temple today, he was not in a hurry to go to interrogate Wang Lu again.She also ordered people to arrest a group of people, and arrested all those related to the case recruited by the boy for interrogation. He refused to confess, and the charge of him forcibly robbing civilian women and destroying his family was also confirmed.
On the third day, Zhong Shao held Wang Lu's trial again.
Wang Lu was imprisoned in the cell of Dali Temple for two days, not to mention Wang Shilang, even King Rui sent people to visit the prison, but they were blocked back.He hadn't seen outsiders for two days, and he saw prisoners in all kinds of misery in the dark and humid prison. Although he wasn't frightened, it was obvious that the past few days were not very good, and he was emaciated. Many, and now they are all blue and black.
Zhong Shao has interrogated many people these days, and because they are all serious crimes involving human life, those people naturally refused to speak easily.So she used a lot of torture, blood flowed all over the ground, and she gradually got used to it—human adaptability is so terrible, even though the first time I saw it was full of unbearable and uncomfortable, but I saw it more, The heart really hardened.
At this time, Zhong Shaogao was sitting in the courtroom. When he saw Wang Lu being brought in, he didn't care about his emaciated appearance, and asked, "Wang Lu, you rob the women of the people by force, and you lead people to pretend to be bandits to destroy people." Manmen, can you plead guilty?"
Wang Lu gritted his teeth tightly, and didn't speak for a long time in a whirl of thought - he hadn't been interrogated in the past few days, and Wang Lu was not stupid, so he naturally guessed that Dali Temple must have interrogated other people.Whether it's robbing women or destroying people, obviously he can't do it alone. Of course there are helpers, and most of them are people around him. It's too easy to arrest and interrogate.
Seeing Wang Lu gritted his teeth, Zhong Shao slapped the gavel and asked, "Wang Lu, can you plead guilty?!"
Wang Lu was startled by the gavel's voice, and his brain, which had been unable to think of a countermeasure, went blank, but he still remembered that the crime could not be admitted no matter what, so he opened his mouth and said, "I'm not guilty, Why admit it?!"
Zhong Shao was not surprised, she took a look at Wang Lu, and then, as she has been used to for the past two days, she took out a chip and threw it down: "Take it down, and hit twenty big boards first."
Wang Lu's eyes widened all of a sudden.Of course he knew Zhong Shao, knowing that she was new to Dali Temple, and two days ago, relying on her immaturity, he spent the whole afternoon talking with her.But who would have thought that today the other party didn't talk nonsense, didn't even ask someone to confront him in court, and didn't show the collected evidence, so he was ready to be sentenced? !
There were officials on both sides who ordered to come forward, grabbed Wang Lu's arm and dragged him down the hall.Only then did Wang Lu recover from his astonishment, and hurriedly raised his voice and shouted: "I am the chief minister of the palace, and I am an official of the imperial court, surnamed Zhong. Why do you torture me? Let me go, let me go..."
Zhong Shao didn't even raise his eyelids when he heard the words, instead he sneered at an official who dragged Wang Lu out, and said, "What's the matter with the chief minister of the palace? Even if the prime minister came to our Dali Temple to inquire about his crimes, we should still fight when it's time to fight." .”
Wang Lu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered that this Dali Temple was the place where criminal officials were judged, and he, a small official of the sixth rank, might really not pay attention to them.Just as he was thinking, he was dragged to a wide stool and tied up.Then there was no time to struggle, and no time to shout more, the palm-wide board fell down with a crackling sound.
The officials of Dali Temple are all veterans of torture, and they always know how to use them just right, they will never kill the disabled, and they will never leave a second mouth if they leave their breath.For Wang Lu, who was tortured for the first time because of his stubborn mouth, he would naturally have to be beaten severely and painfully, but he could not be beaten to death or maimed. Can't not have the opportunity to continue to display it.
But Wang Lu couldn't think of this anymore. Where has the pampered person ever been beaten?Not to mention the board, he hasn't even had a cane!So when the first board fell, he started screaming.After the three-five board was beaten, he already felt the pain in his lower body and he almost lost consciousness. Halfway through the beating, he saw his own blood, and felt that he might die under the torture rod of Dali Temple...
Are you going to die?How can you die!He just wanted to be favored by King Rui, and he did some things to flatter him, how could he lose his life just like that? !No, he couldn't just die like this, his father would try to save him, and King Rui relied so much on him, so he would definitely not watch him die!
Wang Lu thought of King Rui, his eyes lit up again, and he suddenly shouted: "Don't, don't hit me, I'll do it, I'll do it!"
Sure enough, the board stopped, and the officer who had spoken earlier sneered again, and said, "The mouth is hard, but the bones are soft."
Wang Lu was immediately annoyed when he heard the words, but he was under the eaves, but he couldn't help this little official, so he gritted his teeth and thought that he would have revenge in the future.Afterwards, his hands and feet tied to the wide stool were untied, and the two officers dragged him back to the courtroom like a dead dog and threw him on the ground, covered in blood, in extreme distress.
Zhong Shao glanced at Wang Lu, and it was no surprise that his skin was torn apart again.She also heard what Wang Lu said outside before, so she turned her eyes away slightly at this moment and asked, "Are you ready to confess?"
Wang Lu lay on the ground, as if all his strength had been exhausted, and he couldn't struggle at all.He was still bleeding, and his forehead was full of cold sweat. Hearing this, he sneered and said, "Should I beat you to death?!"
Zhong Shao didn't take his vicious words seriously at all, she said indifferently: "Well, you can say it, so that you won't suffer from physical pain again. Tell me what you did and what you did in detail, and then sign it. After she finished speaking, she paused, and added: "You must have guessed it, the nurses around you have already been recruited, so don't try to fool them casually."
Those strong and strong servants who guarded the courtyard before couldn't stand the board of Dali Temple, so naturally Wang Lu, a pampered son, couldn't stand it even more. Zhong Shao wasn't surprised at all that he recruited so quickly.It's good if you recruit quickly, and you can go to the office on time today.
Wang Lu suddenly gave a "chick" smile, his breath raised a cloud of dust on the ground, he raised his eyelids to look at Zhong Shao who was sitting high in the hall, and said, "Okay, I'll recruit, I'm robbing the women of the people, but The person was robbed by His Highness King Rui, and after the robbery, he was sent to Prince Rui's mansion, and what happened after that, I don't know. Master Zhong, since you want to investigate the case, go to the mansion of King Rui to investigate."
It is a crime to rob people's daughters by force, but the crime does not entail death. What's more, there is King Rui on top, so Wang Lu is not afraid of it.However, he couldn't admit to killing people all over the house. Killing people is a capital crime.The left and right were masked in the middle of the night, and no one else saw it. Even if the people around him were recruited, but what Zhong Shao did today, if he said "torture into a trick" at that time, he would not be able to get away with it.
What's more, according to what Wang Lu saw, Zhong Shao might not dare, nor would he want to confront King Rui!
Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Wang Lu saw Zhong Shao's expression turned ugly.He was about to be proud, but saw Zhong Shao wave his hand to the officer standing beside him, and said: "Go, bring the corpse up."
The officer clapped his hands in response, and then hurried down.
After a while, a group of people came back carrying the corpse covered with a white cloth.Shan Chang's family has a small population, the old couple has no children, only one daughter, plus a few servants, a total of five people were massacred that night, plus the daughter who was robbed and committed suicide, a total of six corpses were all killed. He lifted it up and placed it neatly in front of Wang Lu.
Zhong Shao came down from the hall, paused in front of those corpses, said "offended" in his heart, then stepped forward and lifted all the white cloths.When she lifted the white cloth of the woman who committed suicide, she said: "I have sent someone to investigate, this girl was sent out from your mansion that day, and then dragged to the mass grave outside the city, and I haven't seen anyone from Prince Rui's Mansion intervene."
After she finished speaking, she covered the woman's white cloth back again, apologized in her heart again, then turned to look at Wang Lu and continued: "Wang Lu, it is a serious crime to frame a vassal king, what else do you have to say? ?”
In fact, Wang Lu did not falsely accuse King Rui of Lai. It was indeed King Rui who first took a fancy to the girl that day, and then Wang Lu took her away to please him.It's just that he didn't send him to Prince Rui's mansion, but took advantage of King Rui's excitement to bring him back to his home nearby.So the next girl died in Wang's house, and Wang Lu could only handle the body.
If it is really necessary to investigate, King Rui's whereabouts that day will naturally be investigated, but Zhong Shao does not intend to reveal these in public.She was only going to investigate silently, and then report to Sir Si Qing, and then try to directly submit the criminal evidence related to King Rui to heaven for hearing.After that, it's up to Emperor Taiping how to deal with her. After all, he can't make a fuss in advance.
But at this moment, Wang Lu was also dumbfounded when he saw the corpse, and after a while he couldn't stop roaring in his heart: "Didn't they let them burn it directly? How could it be turned out without any problems?!"
The author has something to say:
Boy (wronged): Master, do you know how long it takes to burn a corpse?In the middle of the night, everyone was in a hurry to go home and sleep.
Wang Lu (…): Life is full of pitfalls
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