blue shirt oath

Chapter 62 The Rat Plays the Kitten
Song Guichen is a fool.

Knowing that Duan Yi'an and Duan Xiaochen are mother and daughter, now that he is taking on Duan Xiaochen's identity, he doesn't pay attention to Duan Yi'an's corpse. If Du Qingshan hadn't played around with it and asked Uncle Wu to ask the criminal department several times, I'm afraid Gu Tixing Everyone thinks that she is disloyal, filial, benevolent and unrighteous.

Of course, Song Guichen didn't know what Du Qingshan did.

"I'm sorry, Brother Gu, but I investigated your father without your permission."

Gu Yi smiled wryly: "Brother Du is not to blame for this matter. In fact, I also mentioned it to my father. Duan Yi'an's bones have been recorded in the records. The bones should have been handed over to his family members, but my father was unwilling."

As he spoke, he slowly explained the reasons for being punished today with Du Qingshan.

According to the results of the autopsy, Duan Yi'an committed suicide by hitting his head against the wall.However, her bones showed that she had multiple fractures all over her body, and she had obviously suffered inhumane punishment during her lifetime.

Ever since his father knew that Duan Yi'an couldn't bear Han Song's torture and chose to commit suicide, his father, who had always enforced the law impartially and never abused lynching, actually used the cruelest "mouse playing the kite" in the criminal punishment department against Han Song.

The so-called "mouse playing the kite" was originally a torture handed down from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

It tied the fingers and toes of the prisoner behind their backs with a thin rope, and then beat the tightly stretched rope with a wooden stick to make a "boom boom" sound. Although there was no bleeding, the prisoner was beaten to death.

This punishment is similar to pinching sticks, but more cruel than pinching sticks.

During the Taizong period, a commoner named Wang Yuanji was falsely accused by his stepmother of poisoning and went to Kaifeng mansion. The officials of Kaifeng mansion used the torture of "rat playing the kite" to extract a confession from Wang Yuanji.

Wang Yuanji's family refused to accept the verdict and knocked on the drum. Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi personally intervened in the case after learning about it. In order to prevent the trend of extorting confessions by torture, he ordered the prison guards to be sentenced on the spot and let the prison guards also try the "rat playing the kite". taste.

How could the jailer be able to bear this severe punishment? He screamed and wailed in an instant.

Song Taizong asked: "If you can't overcome the suffering, can others overcome it?" He said to the prime minister: "There is such cruelty in the prison! The capital is still like this, but it is far away?" So he ordered the abolition of this torture.

In other words, as early as Taizong's period, the penalty of "rat playing the kite" had been abolished.

However, a few days ago, Gu Tixing used this punishment privately. After Gu Yi knew about it, he disapproved of his father's approach very much, so he argued with his father.

Today, he went to the Criminal Division Dian Mao as usual. Seeing that his father was not in the main hall, he knew that he must have gone to the prison to interrogate Han Song. He hurried to the prison, when Han Song's suppressed muffled sound came just in time, and Gu Yi heard it in his heart. Great compassion.

"Father! Han Song killed innocent people indiscriminately, and death is inevitable. After the emperor's order comes down, he will be executed immediately after autumn. Why do you want to torture him?"

"It's none of your business here!"

Gu Tixing glanced at Gu Yi coldly, and ordered the criminals to continue using the torture.

The criminals pulled the mechanism vigorously, Han Song was already sweating profusely from the torture, and suddenly let out a shrill scream, shaking violently, two or three criminals held him down and did not let him move.

Han Songru was struck by lightning, his breath was short of breath, and he was sweating profusely, but he still held on, saying one word at a time:

"Your salary is rich, the people anoint the people; the people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully."

What he read was the original words in "Proverbs of Orders" written by Meng Chang during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

After Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, he extracted these sixteen characters to show the world, and awarded them to all prefectures and counties, and carved stones in front of the hall.

As soon as Ti Xingsi entered the door, these sixteen characters were engraved on the big stone in the courtyard.

When Gu Tixing was satirized by him, he immediately lost face and ordered the criminal to take care of Han Song, and left in a huff.

Gu Yi heaved a sigh of relief, took a deep look at Han Song who was tortured so weakly, and sighed

Coming to the lobby of the Criminal Division, Gu Tixing sat in the upper seat with a sullen face. When he saw Gu Yi who had come late, he said expressionlessly, "Today I will return home."

Hearing this, Gu Yi was overjoyed and nodded quickly, Gu Tixing waved his hand at him: "Go down, I will take care of Han Song's matter."

Until dusk, Gu Yi happily left the criminal justice department with his father and went home together.

Unexpectedly, after returning to the Gu Mansion, Gu Tixing actually called his wife Zhang and three sons to the study room, announcing that he would take care of Duan Yi'an's funeral and bury Duan Yi in the Gu Mansion's ancestral grave.

Burying an outsider in one's ancestral grave is no small matter, and the three brothers were shocked.

Only Mrs. Zhang just sneered: "My husband has already made up his mind, so why call us here hypocritically, just let the servants inform us."

"I respect your opinions, so I will tell you personally."

Mrs. Zhang said calmly: "The ancestral grave belongs to your family. Who you want to bury in it is your business, so I won't bother you."

As she spoke, she turned her head and walked away. Seeing this, Gu Yi felt that the back of his mother was thin and proud.

Looking at his father disappointedly, Gu Yi chased him out.

However, Mrs. Zhang entered the Buddhist hall and told his servants not to disturb anyone. Gu Yi had no choice but to return to the study, and had the first quarrel with Gu Tixing since he was a child.

After Gu Yi finished speaking, he straightened his waist, looked at Du Qingshan who was lost in thought, and sighed, "Brother Du, sometimes I really envy you."

"What do you envy me?" Du Qingshan sat up straight, and said seriously, "Envy my parents are dead, brothers are separated? Or envy me for being homeless and running around?"

"No, that's not what I meant." Gu Yi knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly apologized and explained, "It was my slip of the tongue, Brother Du, don't take it to heart."

"It's just that sometimes when I see my mother's lonely back, I can't help but feel a lot of resentment towards my father. After marrying my mother, he treats my mother coldly and doesn't give any warmth."

When he said this, he sighed deeply: "Brother Du, if I want to marry a wife in the future, I will definitely marry someone who loves each other."

Du Qingshan said: "Then you and Miss Song of Gushan are in love with each other?"

Although Gu Yi and Xiaochen's marriage was delayed because of the fake Xiaochen waking up, he didn't remember anything, and the Gu family also knew that Miss Song was reluctant about this marriage, but their marriage has never been resolved. Take it to the surface.

Should we continue to form a family with children?Or just break off the engagement?
There has been no conclusion.

Du Qingshan was more concerned about this matter. To be precise, he was more concerned about what Gu Yi thought about Miss Song, so he asked without thinking.

Gu Yi couldn't help but fell silent.

Of course, he and Miss Song are not in love with each other.

But his marriage to her was not what others thought.

In fact, he did not accept this marriage at the order of his parents.

However, regarding this matter, he has decided to keep it in his heart and never mention it.

He said: "Miss Song has no intention of marrying me, and I don't want to delay her, so I will go to Fanghe Hall in person in a few days and cancel the marriage with her."

Du Qingshan didn't see too many other emotions from Gu Yi's usual meek face.

"Brother Gu's remark seems to be an irrelevant answer to the question."

(End of this chapter)