It’s too difficult to cultivate immortality, so I used a strange beast to clone myself into a Taoist

Chapter 99 The water is too deep and I can’t grasp it!
  Li Qinglin was a little puzzled when he saw this, so he pulled over his acquaintance Lao Bai and asked,
  "What's going on? Why is the prisoner still being interrogated in the department?"

Lao Bai seemed to have not slept for several days. His face was tired, and paired with his handsome appearance, he looked morbidly beautiful.

"What else can you do? The prison can't hold it anymore! These are all sitting together. The main leader is locked up in the prison, and the three generals have gone to battle in person and are interrogating them."

Li Qinglin became even more strange when he heard this.

This was the first time he encountered this kind of battle when he entered the Sentencing Department, so he asked about the case.

"In the military camp, a brave cavalry school leader is so bold that he dares to smuggle and sell the forbidden weapon Jackdaw Crossbow!"

Lao Bai smiled coldly: "How dare he sell such an important weapon of the country? It's not enough to take off his skin! Now the three general banner masters are interrogating him overnight. Who is his seller, who is his contact person, and who has sold it? How long has it been? We need to find out everything!"

Jackdaw crossbow?
  Li Qinglin was stunned when he heard this.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

Could it be that the Jackdaw Crossbow in the hands of the Rakshasa Sect came from the leader of the Valiant Riding School? !

How did this get online?

Lao Bai explained a few words and then hurriedly left to interrogate these prisoners.

Li Qinglin walked into the document room with a heavy heart.

He seemed to have thought of something, so he asked the officials, and after rummaging through the files for a while, his eyes lit up, and he took out a volume of "Chronicles of Wangfeng County - Daoguan Chapter".

After burning the incense, Li Qinglin's eyes flickered, thinking to himself that it was true.

The owner of the Rakshasa Sect, Hai Dakuo, is a member of the Shan family, a large family in the inner city. He ran away more than thirty years ago and took root in the outer city. It has been a smooth journey and he has established the current Zhongcheng Martial Arts School Rakshasa Sect!
  "Hai Dakuo is obviously the black glove of the Shan family. He is one of the spies in the outer city. Could it be that the jackdaw crossbow in his hand was obtained by the Shan family?"

"The knight smuggling the banned weapons, the buyer behind it is the Shan family? Or is it more than just this one?!"

When Li Qinglin thought of this, his expression was solemn, and he suddenly felt that this matter was very risky, and he was afraid that there would be more to come!

It’s hard to say, but I, as the punishment chief, will be implicated!

"Li Zhangqi, we don't have enough manpower. Could you please come over and interrogate how many prisoners?"

Just as he was thinking about it, a voice came and he was in trouble.

Jin Qiandai came with a few flags.

Jin Qiandai is in charge of the flag. From the ninth rank, he can control ten small flags.

Originally, Li Qinglin was also qualified to recruit his own team, but when he arrived, his foundation was still shallow and he was too young, so not many people believed in him.

Secondly, Li Qinglin didn't want to be too distracted by other avenues, so it was best to practice martial arts as fast as possible so that the power would be his own.

Jin Qiandai invited him personally, and not far away, Bai Jing was carrying a prisoner towards the secret room. Li Qinglin couldn't refuse, so he had to follow.

Opening the door to the secret room, it was dark and damp. The layout was completely modeled after that of a prison. All kinds of torture instruments for interrogation, including knives, benches, nails, chairs, and steel needles and irons were all available. The blood that could not be washed away was black.

The prisoner who was interrogated before was still hanging upside down from the iron chain, and his long hair was wet with blood.

Just as he was whipping the punishment, he saw Jin Qiandai and the others, called out to his lord, and immediately made room for them.

Bai Jing tied the prisoner in his hand to the iron stool and grabbed the whip from Xiao Qi.

pat!

The whip was whipped, and the unconscious prisoner woke up immediately, with a dripping blood mark on his body.

This whip is not smooth, but has some root barbs, and is stained with salt water. Once it falls on the body, it will tear off large pieces of flesh and blood.

I don't know if it was Li Qinglin's illusion, but he saw a hint of enjoyment on Bai Jing's face. His hands were trembling, and his pupils were slightly dilated due to excitement.

"Well, it turns out this guy has this hobby..."

Li Qinglin muttered silently.

In fact, there is no need for Li Qinglin to carry out the execution himself, he is here to set things off.

Generally, when interrogating prisoners, especially those with martial arts cultivation, there must be more than one prisoner of the same level accompanying them during the interrogation.

After all, even if a person who practices martial arts has steel nails, has his hands and feet disabled, or even inhaled sesame powder, there is still no guarantee that he will not be able to survive a desperate situation.

Jin Qiandai entered the secret room, sat on the Imperial Master's chair, slowly drank herbal tea, and her interrogation skills from time to time to evaluate who was being punished had improved.

Li Qinglin listened to the continuous screams in his ears, and all kinds of bloody scenes were everywhere.

Subconsciously he frowned.

It's not that he is too soft-hearted to see the scene of being punished, but he feels that the situation of the Knight Riding School Leader selling prohibited weapons is too deep for this group of criminals to grasp at all.

Now that people have been tried and punishments have been meted out, when the time comes to investigate, the first person to be held accountable will be to impose punishments.

Li Qinglin walked up to the clerk in charge of recording and scanned the confessions one by one.

Suddenly, his eyes froze.

"Tan Tu, the son of a carpenter in a shanty town, has a tight skin and a good reputation. He is a guard with a knife before collecting accounts at Zhangzhou School. He joined the job five years ago. He was in the Tiger Cavalry Camp on the day of the incident..."

When the clerk saw Li Qinglin's eyes stopping in front of Tan Tu's confession, he couldn't help but explain,
  "This man hasn't confessed yet! He's tough and refuses to confess. Li Zhangqi wants to interrogate him personally?"

Li Qinglin did not answer, but looked at a man not far away who was dying and could only breathe instinctively. He was still tied to a rack.

Li Qinglin could still vaguely see the appearance of Carpenter Tan's wife from this person's appearance.

"Carpenter Tan..."

Li Qinglin muttered a few words silently in his heart, then turned to whisper to the scribe,

"This man has already lost half of his life, so what else can be done to interrogate him? Go and get some healing golden sore medicine, and when he wakes up, feed him some thick porridge, and when he regains consciousness, let's torture him again!"

When the scribe heard this, he looked a little hesitant and looked at Jin Qiandai. Jin Qiandai was stunned for a moment, grabbed his stubble, and laughed,

"Why are you standing there in a daze? Brother Li is kind, so of course he can't let his heart go cold. Go get the medicine!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the prisoners in the secret room cried louder and screamed at the top of their lungs.

Jin Qiandai was so angry that he stood up and slapped the case. His eyes as big as copper bells stared at the prisoners in the secret room. A fierce aura enveloped him, and he was so frightened that the whips in the hands of the prisoners nearby dropped.

"Pretending to be miserable? That means it's not miserable enough! Try harder!"

Li Qinglin frowned when he saw this, walked to Jin Qiandai and said,

"Brother Jin, I think there is something very fishy about this case. If you have no choice but to change it day and night, it's better not to use torture."

When Jin Qiandai heard this, the smile on his face remained the same, but it was a little colder. He waved his hand.

"Brother Li is worrying too much. Lao Jin and I have been punished for decades, and I don't know where the twists and turns are. This kind of smuggling and selling of prohibited weapons will lead to the beheading of the nine tribes involved! Who will change it?

Who dares to change! "

When Li Qinglin heard this, he sighed secretly and stopped trying to persuade him.

In the end, he made an excuse, saying that the punishment was harsh and he was not feeling well, so he simply left the secret room and resigned in advance.

Before leaving, he informed Lao Bai and hinted that he should not be violent and that it would be fine if he meant it.

I don’t know if Lao Bai listened.

Seeing this, many officials looked at him strangely, either sneered or puzzled...

But Li Qinglin is in charge of the flag, and the official level can crush people to death, so how can they dare to say anything?
  The next day.

Li Qinglin originally wanted to take advantage of the situation, and instead of mentioning the crime department, he could just ask for sick leave afterwards.

But he never expected that Zaoban from the Yamen would come in person, and asked him to go to the punishment department with an anxious look.

As soon as he arrived at the Criminal Division, he saw Mr. Bai Qi, whom he had met once before, and who even borrowed his warrant to go to Tianyi Pavilion to read books.

President Bai stood in the corridor of the courtyard, without any dignity of the general flag. He stood aside with some restraint and fear, explaining something to the three people in front of him.

One of them, wearing a white pheasant collar with big sleeves, a leather belt around his waist, and a futou on his head, went to the magistrate of Feng County, Lu Yuan!

The other two people, one with a Chinese character face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, are Jiang Yan, one of the 100 households appointed to the Criminal Division.

There was another person who looked like a butler, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were as sinister as a poisonous snake.

And in the middle of the courtyard of the Punishment Division, there was a row of people kneeling in the Sentence Division!
  Dozens of Xiaoqi, Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing and other seven or eight flag-bearers, and a few scribes, all confessed with bare chests and backs, their faces were pale, and their bodies were covered with traces of the cane punishment.

They are the same people who carried out the execution yesterday and tortured the prisoners to extract confessions!

There were more than a dozen people who did not participate in the execution, standing nearby with their eyes and noses in sight.

Lao Bai looked at Li Qinglin's figure and winked, asking him to come to him quickly.

Li Qinglin returned to the team immediately.

After a while, the housekeeper smiled and respectfully asked Magistrate Lu to leave, and they got on the carriage together.

Jiang Yan and Bai Zongqi walked up to the group of prisoners one after another.

Jiang Yan smiled coldly,
  "Isn't it a good feeling to hunt geese all day long and get pecked in the eye by the geese?"

Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing and others buried their heads like quails and said nothing.

"If you think about it with your ass/eyes, you should know that School Leader Zhangzhou dares to transport the banned weapon Jackdaw Crossbow at the risk of beheading. There is no powerful person behind him to support him. How dare he? Even if it’s ten thousand taels of gold and a chance to reach immortality in one step, he wouldn’t dare!”

Jiang Yan was like an angry lion, with a neck as thick as a torture stake and exposed veins.

"The person who was executed yesterday will be demoted one level. If Xiaoqi says so, just pack up and get out!"

"Jin Qiandai, Bai Jing, you two will be suspended for three months and fined for half a year!"

"Get out of here!"

The kneeling Ti Xings stood up one after another. It was so quiet that it was scary. Many people took off their round collar robes, took off their fire tickets and waist knives, leaving only their close-fitting white coats, and walked out from the Ti Xing Department barefoot.

Many people who passed by Li Qinglin looked ashamed, covered their faces, and walked around.

Xiaoqi is not part of the establishment and is considered a temporary worker in a sense. If something happens, they will naturally be the ones to take the blame.

Jiang Yan walked up to Li Qinglin, took a deep look at him, and said,
  "You are Li Qinglin?"

Li Qinglin cupped his hands and clasped his fists: "Mr. Jiang, I am right here."

Jiang Yan's tone softened slightly.
  "School Leader Zhangzhou asked me to tell you that I want to thank you for saving that boy Tan Tu. I will treat you to a drink if you have the opportunity in the future."

Speaking of this, Jiang Yan paused and suddenly said meaningfully,
  "It's good to be cautious, but some things can't be avoided by being cautious..."

When Li Qinglin heard this, he was thoughtful and looked at Jiang Yan in surprise.

But seeing that he didn't want to say more, he glared at Jin Qiandai and Bai Jing fiercely, turned around and walked away in a stride.

"What's going on?" Li Qinglin asked Xiang Laobai in a low voice.

Lao Bai looked around and said,
  "It's a slap in the face. The buyers behind those jackdaw crossbows are the Shan family, the Jia family, the Wang family and other big families in the inner city! And there is a big shot standing behind Principal Zhangzhou!

The housekeeper just now belonged to the Shan family. These big families are closely intertwined with each other, and there are even people in the imperial court. The eldest lady of the Shan family is still the concubine of the current Holy Emperor!
  Beheading, who dares to behead their heads?
  Many of the military equipment, even the Jackdaw Crossbow, were made with their own money! "

Um, isn't this the person who dares to sue me?
  Li Qinglin was a little puzzled when he heard this.

In this case, why do big families such as the Shan family, Jia family, and Wang family hide themselves and secretly ask for jackdaw crossbows from the army? Moreover, it seems that there are other forces fighting against them...

(End of this chapter)