Da Suining

Chapter 189

All Lan Tui thought was Xiang Suining.

Xiang Suining was taken away by people from the Punishment Department, and he didn't know what happened.

Department of Punishment.

The people from the Punishment Department dragged Xiang Suining and Guo Kai in like ducks.

A place like the Punishment Department is not comparable to a prison in the Yamen.

The Punishment Department is in the southeast corner of the imperial city. There is no Dengwen drum at the gate, but there are two stone lions, two vermilion lacquer gates facing each other, and two guards stand on the left and right sides of the gate.

Looking from the door, there are clusters of flowers and trees, and the shadow wall stands tall. It doesn't look like a place where people are judged, but it looks like a big family's house.

Bypassing the screen wall is the main hall of the Punishment Department, where bureaucrats try cases.

Most of the cases tried here are inside the imperial palace, and they are not publicized. If there are any exceptions, they need to be sent to the Punishment Department for handling. After the bureaucrats have tried the case, they will hand it over to the emperor for the final ruling as usual.

In this way, sometimes, the Department of Punishment is very serious.

The matter of the Huguo Temple involved the royal family. This group of people was brought to the Punishment Department, and the officials also paid attention to it. They all knelt down in the lobby and questioned them one by one.

Mr. Zhao said, "I'm a good person. I don't know anything. I haven't done anything bad."

Liu Pingan said: "I was just confused for a while, everyone said that there are women who can sleep in Huguo Temple, so I just..."

"Come on, slap your mouth." The official in the hall threw a lottery.

Soon, a fat round guard came forward, holding a wooden sign, grabbed Liu Ping'an's ear and slapped Liu Ping'an's ear. Within ten strokes, the corners of Liu Ping's mouth and nose were covered with blood, and his teeth were covered with blood. One was also knocked out, and he covered his mouth and lay on the ground crying: "My lord, I'm telling the truth, why did you hit me? There are women who can sleep in Huguo Temple, and I went for that ah."

"Furthermore, I will slap my mouth again." The official was obviously displeased: "Huguo Temple is a royal temple, how can you allow it to be defiled?"

"But my lord—"

"Liu Ping'an, shut up quickly." Mr. Zhao tugged at the corner of his clothes: "Huguo Temple is a place where the royal family burns incense and prays. How could there be a woman sleeping? You don't understand what my lord means? Are you trying to frame me?" How many of us are there?"

"Zhao Si'er, how did I frame you?" Liu Pingan was very wronged: "There is a woman in the cemetery cave of Huguo Temple. Others don't know, don't you know? Mrs. Lan's son is How did you come here? Didn’t you, Zhao Si’er, come out of sleep? That child is two or three years old now, and that child is the evidence.”

"You—" Mr. Zhao slapped himself, "I'm still persuading you, but I didn't expect you to speak so hard."

"Liu Ping'an, don't talk about it." Mrs. Lan leaned on the ground and said to him, "Although my child is not yours, I have slept with you anyway. Do you want to kill us all by saying this?"

Liu Ping'an cried: "It's not you who were beaten for the frivolous words you said, my teeth were all knocked out."

There was a mess in the hall.

The officials adjudicating the case sit on the high hall, behind them is the plaque of "Mirror Hanging High".

The cases tried here are either extremely small, which the small Qingcheng Yamen doesn't bother to try, or extremely large, which shake the government and the public.

Apparently in the case of Huguosi, the officials wanted to make a major issue into a minor one.

"You guys have to think about what to say, don't fool your boss with nonsensical words." An official fiddled with the stick in his hand: "The man with the missing tooth is the raft. You just have one head, think about it."

As soon as the official finished speaking, he heard the door of the side room squeak open.

A guard with a knife pulled a man's arm and slowly passed by. The man was dressed in sackcloth, his body seemed to have been beaten to pieces, his legs were bloody, and the blood in his mouth was spraying out like water. Messy, covered with blood, the whole person is smelly and dirty, and has probably lost consciousness.

The guards pulled him in front with a blank expression, like pulling a dead animal, like pulling a lifeless wooden cart, like pulling a bag of noodles and a bag of rice
bloody.

violence.

cruel.

This kind of thing probably happens often, otherwise the guards and the adults sitting in the hall would not change their faces or beat their hearts when they are so bloody?

God.

Liu Pingan was so frightened that he almost peed his pants, knelt there like a chaff: "My mother—human life is ignored here—dogs eat people."

"Shut up, Liu Pingan." Mr. Zhao really wanted to give him a mouthful. When he was in the cave of the Huguo Temple, Liu Ping'an was also very angry. As long as he brought a tall, low, fat and thin lady, he would be fine. Dare to come forward to say hello, it is a woman in her 50s who wants to have a son. Liu Ping'an is also familiar with life, suitable for all ages, and arranges everything.Why did he look like mud when he arrived at the Punishment Division?Look at that point of interest.

The black dog that had gnawed on the bone jumped out and bit Mr. Zhao's sleeve. Mr. Zhao jumped up from the ground in fright, and ran away far away with his arms folded. Good: "Small....Small....Sir....Forgive me."

The people in the hall waved their hands, signaling the guards to take the black dog away, then waved the sticks in their hands and said, "The Punishment Department is not a place to make fun of, nor is it a good place to go. If you tell the truth, we can save money." Some effort, otherwise... I have plenty of means here."

The pictures in front of me are too strong, so the words of the people in the hall are also very important.

Everyone knelt down, as if they just went to a private school and listened to the teachers, they didn't dare to move, and they didn't dare to lift their heads.

"Who dug the cave in Huguo Temple?"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, shaking their heads.

"No one said, so they dug together?"

Everyone shook their heads again.

"Then who dug it up? If I don't confess someone else, I will be tortured."

"My lord, please forgive me. At the beginning we went to Huguo Temple because of what others said." Mr. Zhao kowtowed: "I heard people say that Huguo Temple is very effective for seeking children, so we went to see it, and then someone told us that there is a lot of people in the cemetery. There is a burrow where women who want children go in all the year round. If anyone wants to show kindness and help them, they can go in and sleep with them. I am the fourth child in the family, and my parents have never valued me, so I don’t care about men and women. I don’t care much about me, I thought.... Go to a brothel and spend money, go to sleep with these little girls... Go to... Huguo Temple to do good things, if you don’t do it for nothing, don’t do it, I didn’t expect it, alas , I’ll be addicted to this, my lord——” Mr. Zhao sat down cross-legged with his robes lifted: “Maybe it’s the Bodhisattva’s blessing, just me, in two or three years, at least three or four wives gave birth to sons, my lord, I didn’t There is also hard work for the credit, right?"

"Palm mouth."

Soon the person who slapped the mouth ran up again, grabbed Mr. Zhao's ear and swung his bow left and right, hitting him until stars came out of his eyes, and he knelt on the ground and howled.

"Come on." The attendant pointed to Liu Ping'an.

Liu Pingan was happy that Mr. Zhao was beaten badly, and when he heard his name, he trembled again. Mr. Zhao talked a lot, and he was beaten. I am afraid that if you talk too much, you will lose it. It is better to say less, Liu Pingan Just wanted to make a fuss: "My lord, I just..."

"If you miss a word, your waist will be broken."

"My lord—I was wronged too." Liu Ping'an hurriedly kowtowed: "I have never been serious since I was a child, and I am also timid. The first time someone took me there, and then others didn't go, so I don't think so." , but those ladies... are very difficult to deal with. Maybe it's because I'm good-looking, young, good at serving, and sweet-mouthed, so there are many repeat customers..., but I don't have Zhao Si'er's ability , I guess, probably only one or two ladies are pregnant, I can't count, anyway, they wear veils every time they come, and they wear veils from the beginning to the end, so... I can't recognize them clearly, It can only be distinguished by the sound, my lord... It is because they like me and cannot do without me, so I often go there. The burrow has always been there, and I did not dig it. I am in good shape, spoiled and spoiled. menial work."

"Slap your mouth."

"Crack clap clap."

Liu Ping fell on the ground and spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"You tell me." The attendant pointed to Mrs. Lan.

Mrs. Lan hurriedly covered her face with her hands, and there was no movement for a long time. She looked up at the hall and saw the official staring at him. What about confession?Mrs. Lan thought over and over again, and then she knelt up delicately and cried: "My lord knows, the little girl... is also a poor person."

"You speak."

"The little girl used to sell jokes in a brothel. She was lonely and lonely when she was a child, but she suffered accidents when she grew up. Later, she got my master... blue eyes, redeemed me, and gave me the title of a concubine. I also want to live a peaceful life with him I remember that not long after I got married, I gave birth to a son, but God has no eyes. My son died at the hands of his own father. If a weak woman wants to survive, she can't afford to compromise, she can only find a way by herself."

"So what is your solution?"

"If you want to gain a firm foothold in a high-ranking family, one is your family background, and the other is your children. I was born in a brothel, and my family background cannot be relied on. Only children can be relied on. But because of conflicts, our master has not come to my room for a long time. , how can I have a child? If this continues, I will grow old and look bad, even if he is willing to come, I will not be able to have a child, so I can only hurry up and hear... the Bodhisattva in Huguo Temple is effective, I So I went to ask for it. That evening, it rained, and I was taken to a living room to rest. I just drank tea and fell into a hole in the ground. I was scared to death. There are chairs and beds, eating, drinking and singing and dancing. It looks like an inn, and inside..."

"What's in there?"

"There was still a man inside...so I made the mistake. Not long after that, I was pregnant and gave birth to my son..."

"Why are you still going?"

"My son's real father is in it. I'm jealous of other women getting him, so I often go to stare at him. Besides, the old one in our family has long been out of use."

The attendant frowned.

Mrs. Lan hurriedly kowtowed: "I beg your mercy, I know I was wrong, please don't let our family know, if it is discovered, not only the child's life will be in danger, but the rest of my life will be over."

The people in the hall ignored Mrs. Lan's crying, and asked several other ladies. After everyone finished explaining, they called the guards to come forward and put them down.

These crying people were taken away, and the hall became much quieter.

"The one who kneels in the hall and wears the monk's robe is a monk?" asked the official in the hall.

Guo Cheng didn't speak.

He didn't even want to kneel, but the guard kicked him down, kicking him until his knees softened, and he knelt down.

Those people at the beginning forced Lai Lai, talking a lot, as if they were afraid that others would not know what they committed, and described each one in detail.

At this moment, Guo Cheng's legs were numb from kneeling.

Finally waited until the official questioned.

Guo Cheng didn't return, and stood up directly.

"I asked you, how did you answer?" The official sternly said, "He came to our Punishment Department and is still sneaky and wearing a mask. Come, someone, take off his mask for me."

"You dare." Guo Kai directly pulled out the dagger.

You must know that the Department of Punishment has its own set of regulations for punishing people.

The person was beaten so badly that his muscles were rotten and even his bones were broken, but on the surface, there was no injury at all.

The prisoner looked at his miserable state, and was either scared to death or disgusted to death. The stench made people outside the Punishment Division want to vomit.

Dare to shine a dagger in the Punishment Department.

No. 1 in the world.

The people sitting in the hall walked down the steps with a cold sigh, and stared at Guo Cheng with great interest: "Take the knife, it seems that you are not a monk, tell me, where did you jump out, and tell me honestly, maybe I can reward you all!" corpse."

"Keep your eyes open." Guo Cheng waved at the official, signaling him to come forward.

The official stepped forward cautiously, Guo Kai lifted his mask and gave him a contemptuous look: "Can you see clearly?"

"See clearly."

"What should I do, understand?"

"understood."

"Then do it quickly."

"Come here, knock down this lifeless thing, and hit ten killing sticks first."

The guards trotted forward, knocked Guo Cheng down neatly, and raised their sticks to swing at his ass.

After all, there is knowledge.

I have worked in the Punishment Department for many years, and I know a little bit about it. It is not that the Punishment Department has not imprisoned the emperor's relatives. Ordinary heroes and heroes come here, and their calves are trembling in fright. Those who are related to the emperor, if a flood floods the Dragon King Temple, it will be difficult to deal with it.

Another official trotted forward, looked up at Guo Kai's face, and hurriedly raised his robe and knelt down: "Little man... has eyes but no eyes, and I'm sorry for making you kneel for so long." Then he waved to the guards: "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and bring the brocade stool."

The guard trotted to carry the brocade stool.

Guo Kai sat down swaggeringly, and took the tea offered by the official: "What are you doing in a daze, don't you want to hit ten killing sticks? Hit it."

(End of this chapter)