Chapter 449: The King of Hell's Trial
Tonight, the Censorate worked overtime to handle the case, and many Censors did not rest. It seemed that they wanted to make full use of the time of the night to interrogate Zhu Jie.
The two people sent by Ma Xuanliang wanted to visit Zhu Jie. In order to prevent them from colluding with their confessions, the censors only allowed them to observe from a distance, and specifically asked them not to speak. The task of these two Ma Xuanliang's subordinates was to monitor the censors not to punish Zhu Jie and avoid being scolded. As for other matters, they could not control them.
At this time, Zhang Baogui came. When he saw these two people, he smiled at them and said, "Two brothers, come with me."
The two people hesitated a little, and one of them said, "Young Master Zhang, I am not convenient to leave because I am a little official business."
Zhang Baogui smiled and said, "Let's go to the room in front to talk, and we are not asking you to leave."
The two of them were unwilling to offend Zhang Baogui, and they felt that the house was very close to the cell where Zhu Jie was imprisoned and could hear any movement. So they followed him in.
After entering the room, the two saw four burly men standing by the door. As soon as they entered, the door was closed behind them. Then, the two men blocked the door directly.
When the two Hundred Riders saw this formation, they felt a little distressed. One of them asked, "Young Master Zhang, what do you mean?"
Zhang Baogui took out two purses, put them on the table, took out a pair of dice and said, "Two brothers, let's play a few games, if you lose, I will take them all. If you win, you will take them. Tonight, Brother You have something to do. Let's play here, so don't leave this room. Tomorrow you can report the situation here to your Lord Ma. What do you think?"
These two are smart people. Looking at the situation in front of them, they know that they can't get out. They dare not offend Brother You in Zhang Baogui's mouth. Is Your Highness King Qi easy to mess with? He has money and no risk, and even fools know what to do.
The two reached out to grab the wallet and said, "Okay, let's play with Mr. Zhang."
It's late at night.
After finishing supper, Zhu Jie felt confused, then he felt sleepy and fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, but Zhu Jie was awakened by the woman's crying in a daze. He opened his eyes and saw that it was pitch black all around, and he couldn't see his five fingers.
Suddenly, he heard the whistling wind, and then a gust of cold wind blew, which made him tremble. It was already June, and the weather in Chang'an was gradually getting hot. Where did the biting cold wind come from? Zhu Jie suddenly became a little scared. He thought he was dreaming, so he reached out to pinch his thighs, but found it really hurt, and he was sure that he was not dreaming.
At this moment, a woman's cry suddenly came from nearby: "I'm still alive..."
Then, there was the child's childish voice: "Ah, mom, I'm afraid..."
The sound was getting closer and closer. Soon after, a faint light suddenly appeared around him, and then several figures appeared, no, to be precise, a few ghosts.
I saw a few women and a child. They were wearing gray or black clothes. They couldn't see clearly anyway, but their pale faces were vaguely visible. Under the faint light, their mouths had fangs exposed, and their blood-red tongues stretched out more than half a foot long.
They walked towards Zhu Jie step by step.
Zhu Jie was so scared that he was scattered. He wanted to escape, but his body was so limp that he couldn't move. Seeing these ghosts approaching step by step, Zhu Jie was so scared that he almost fainted.
At this moment, a strange voice said, "What the hell are you? How dare you make noise here?"
Then, a guy with a very tall figure appeared, and he saw his face was fancy, ugly, gloomy, and terrifying, and had fangs in his mouth. The more he was, the more he was.
The female ghosts and the little ghosts all knelt on the ground, pointed at Zhu Jie and said, "Mr. Yincha, we were all killed by this evil man for no reason. He also set fire to our bodies, leaving our souls without attachment and becoming lonely ghosts. Please master Yincha make the decision for us." As he said that, he kowtowed to the Yincha.
The Yinmai walked towards Zhu Jie, staring at him with raised eyes. Zhu Jie was so scared that he hurriedly hurriedly hurriedly, but his body couldn't move. The Yinmai said, "Come on, take this guy away."
Following his voice, two extremely thick and tall ghost servants walked in outside, wearing strange hats on their heads, one with dark face and the other with pale face. Zhu Jie was so scared that he was incoherent and said, "Where are you going to take me? I won't go."
The two ghosts said nothing, and God lifted him up and dragged him out.
When Zhu Jie passed by the women and children, they bared their teeth at him one by one, stretched out their claws with long nails, and scratched them like him. Zhu Jie was so scared that he closed his eyes and did not dare to look at them again. The women and children followed closely behind Zhu Jie.
Soon, Zhu Jie was taken to a gloomy and terrifying hall. As soon as he entered, he smelled a scent of burnt flesh. When he opened his eyes, he saw a huge oil pan in the middle of the hall, with a raging fire burning below.
Through the oil pan, you can see a huge table behind it. Behind the table was a guy with a dark face and couldn't see clearly, and an unseen official hat on his head. A guy with a bookkeeper's appearance was sitting next to him, holding a pen in his hand and recording. On both sides of them were a few ghost servants, one by one, one with a fierce and vicious one.
At this time, a thin young man with iron chains around his neck was kneeling on the ground, saying something.
The guy sitting in the middle (Zhu Jie didn't know whether they were humans or ghosts, nor how to call them), said gloomy: "Is he true?" His voice was vague, as if he had something in his mouth.
The guy who looked like a bookkeeper said, "Yan Jun, what he said before was true, and what he said later was false. On the third day of the second month of last year, he was obviously in Tanzhou, killing his father-in-law, and deceived his wife, saying that he had gone to Hedong."
The young man kneeling on the ground said in horror: "This, how do you know this? I didn't..." He had already collapsed on the ground.
The guy called "Yan Jun" was furious, slapped the arbor, shouted at the young man below, "You are so brave, how dare you deceive me, what crime should you be guilty?"
The bookkeeper said: "According to the laws of the underworld, liars cut off their tongues, cut off their right arm, and threw them into a pan and fry them. When they are reborn, they will only be innate disability."
Yan Jun pulled out a sign from the tab on the table and threw it on the ground.
Several ghost officers came forward to drag the young man up and brought it to the oil pan. A ghost officer grabbed the young man's right arm and slashed it down with one knife. The young man screamed and fainted. The ghost officer threw the chopped arm into the oil pan, and a smell of unpleasant burnt suddenly spread.
That's not all. The ghost messengers pinched the young man's chin, pulled out his tongue, cut it off with a knife, and threw it into the oil pan.
Zhu Jie was so scared that he was out of his mind.
At this time, Yan Jun looked at the female ghosts and children and asked, "What the hell are you?"
"Master Yan Jun, we are the relatives of Li Gengqin, the doctor of the Ministry of Revenue in the Tang Dynasty in the world. We were killed for no reason by this evil man and set fire to the body. Please make the decision for us."
Yan Jun asked, "Is this happening?"
The bookkeeper said: "At 4:00 p.m. on the tenth day of the 4th month of the living calendar, this man named Zhu Jie left the back door of the Wei Palace, and then..."
Yan Jun said, "I didn't ask you, let him tell me."
"Oh my god, these ghosts know everything." Zhu Jie was frightened. He really left the back door of the Wei Palace at 4:00 that afternoon.
At this moment, he heard Yan Jun’s question, and did not dare to hide it. He honestly explained how he killed the family that day, and then set fire to leave. He begged: "Master Yan Jun, killing people and setting fires is not voluntarily. The villain is just a guard of the Wei Palace. The villain dare not disobey the master's words. Please beg the master to be kind."
The clerk took Zhu Jie's confession and asked him to sign and seal it.
Seeing Zhu Jie signing and plagiarizing, a burst of laughter suddenly came from the hall, and then the lights were bright. Zhu Jie then saw that behind the table was the inspector Wei Zheng, the censor, and the clerk beside him was Tian Min, the chief of the Qi Palace. The female ghosts and children were Xiao Wanyu and other princesses of Qi and Di Renjie. The ghost crew were all pretended to by the special forces members.
What's going on?
It turned out that when Li You saw that Zhu Jie refused to confess and he would be handed over to the Yeting Palace tomorrow, he had no chance to continue interrogating him. He thought for a long time and decided to take advantage of the superstitious characteristics of the ancients to come to the King of Hell to investigate the case.
First, Sun Simiao arranged anesthetics to make Zhu Jie fall asleep first, and his limbs were paralyzed and unable to move. Then he was transferred to the room next to the Hall of Hell that they arranged. The windows of the room were blocked with thick blankets, so naturally they could not see their fingers.
The cold and cold wind was when they brought a large basin of ice from the ice factory and used a hand-crank blower to blow the cold wind into the room where Zhu Jie was.
Then Xiao Wanyu, Murong Ling, Di Renjie and others pretend to be the ghost of the woman and child he killed, and then a special forces member pretended to be the young man being interrogated. His arms and tongue were all fake. Anyway, the light in the hall was dim and Zhu Jie couldn't see clearly.
With this prelude, Zhu Jie was already very scared. Then Tian Min said that at 4:00 p.m. on the tenth day of April, Zhu Jie left the back door of the Wei Palace. This matter was investigated by Yin Guanghao. In fact, he only knew this. As for where Zhu Jie went after leaving the Wei Palace, he didn't know.
However, Zhu Jie was extremely panicked at this time. After telling his whereabouts, he did not dare to hide it, so he honestly explained.
Zhu Jie knew that he had been trapped, but it was too late, so he suddenly collapsed on the ground. The next interrogation was much simpler. Since Zhu Jie had already explained this part, in order to reduce the suffering, he simply poured beans into bamboo tubes and confessed all the things Li Tai had to do.
Wei Zheng made a quick decision and ordered to go straight to Furong Garden overnight and seized the 1.24 million yuan of stolen money embezzled by Li Tai in a secret room.
Not long after, it was bright and Li You and others went back to rest. Wei Zheng went straight to the emperor's bedroom, and he wanted to meet Li Shimin before the morning court.
Chapter completed!