Soul echo

Chapter 689 Erosion

Zhong Ye sat on the chair without moving, and smashed Shi Wenchang's head with a single slap. This scene was extremely shocking.

The onlookers outside the lobby were stunned for a moment, and only after a policeman dispatched from Jingzhou dragged the crying Zhuo Qing out, they realized that there was an immediate uproar.

Shi Wenchang's headless body was still lying on the case table, and the next suspect was brought up.

After the man saw the corpse, his legs softened and he knelt down on the ground with a plop.

"Li Tao, the master of Zhijiang." Zhong Ye glanced down, and then sighed, "I was born in a poor family, and was raised by the Li family. When I grew up, I was a scholar. I returned to my hometown to become an official in Zhijiang, and then joined the Li family. .

"You and your wife and children live in the Li family compound. If I guessed correctly, your wife and children should be dead. When I fought with the ancestor of the Li family, he couldn't beat me, so he sent the Li family up and down. Everyone's souls have been eaten, and your wife and children should be among them—from my perception at the time, there were no living people in the Li family compound."

Zhong Ye exposed Li Tao's wound mercilessly, which made him tremble, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.

But Zhong Ye didn't have any sympathy for his tears, and continued: "To be honest, I have malicious intentions towards you, otherwise I wouldn't say such words to provoke you, Li Tao, I'll give you a chance to beat you Tell me all the crimes you have committed, and I can let you die happily."

Li Tao knelt on the ground, looking up at Zhong Ye who was sitting behind the desk with a solemn face like a god, his lips trembling.

"...My lord, I can't do anything about it!" After a while, he cried out, "My family was poor when I was young, and I didn't know that the Li family would do such an outrageous thing. If you can read, you will be able to stand out. If you don’t read, you will have to work hard every day like your parents. At that time, the villain just wants to be famous so that your parents can live a good life. You have a good face, my lord! "

Zhong Ye noticed that there was an old couple among the crowd. They looked at Li Tao who was kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help crying.

"Don't make yourself so innocent!" Zhong Ye slapped the gavel, awakening the people from their sadness and sympathy.

Afterwards, Zhong Ye pointed at Li Tao and shouted: "Li Tao, you have distributed seals indiscriminately to help the Li family's business, so that the Li family can squeeze many businessmen out of the game and occupy the Zhijiang market. Occupying all the food market in Zhijiang, more than half of the medicinal material market, and three-fifths of the bookstores and private schools, it almost substantially controls Zhijiang's education and people's livelihood industries.

"As a result, the Li family can buy low and sell high, arbitrarily control grain prices in Zhijiang, and use grain prices to force farmers, forcing many farmers to sell their land at low prices to the Li family, and forcing many businessmen to die. But there is no way to report to officials, and you even turned black and white, resulting in dozens of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases?
"You think you are innocent, but why are those people guilty? Why should you be bullied like this!
"Li Tao, what should you do?"

Li Tao's body trembled, and he froze in place for an instant.

It's over, this time it's really over...

At this moment, an old woman ran out from the crowd, and the yamen servants wanted to stop them, but they hesitated when they saw that it was an old man.

"My son, my son!"

The old woman threw herself on Li Tao, holding his head and weeping bitterly: "How could you do such a stupid thing? You will be beheaded for doing this!"

Li Tao's eyes became clear all of a sudden, and he turned his head to look in panic, "Mother, why are you here?"

Also at this time, another old man came out from the crowd and beat Li Tao with a cane in his hand, "Beast! Beast!"

Cursing in his mouth, but the old man's face was also full of tears.

After the beating, the old man raised his head to look at Zhong Ye who was sitting behind the case table, knelt down and kowtowed his head to the ground, "My lord, please be kind enough to let the old man die for Li Tao. The old man knows that this is to For the matter of losing his head, it is the old man's fault that the son did not teach his father, so please show mercy and let the old man die in his place!"

Hearing this sentence, the old woman who was holding Li Tao and crying bitterly also reacted, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "My lord, please be merciful, the old man alone can't cover my son's crimes, and the old woman together, let our husband and wife forgive the crime and replace Li Tao Die!"

"Father! Mother!" Li Tao cried sadly, tears rolling down his face.

Immediately, he looked up at Zhong Ye, knocked his head to the ground in a hurry, and kowtowed again and again, "My lord, I am guilty! I confess all the crimes! Kill me, kill me!"

The yamen servants standing on both sides felt uncomfortable in their hearts and turned their heads away, not daring to look any further, while the people gathered outside the lobby were also silent, many of them covered their faces with their sleeves and couldn't bear to look directly.

"grown ups……"

Snapped!
Just now someone outside the hall spoke, wanting to persuade Zhong Ye, Zhong Ye patted the gavel to suppress all voices.

"The phrase 'the son does not teach the father' is too general. Parents can only affect the child's behavior style in dealing with others. The living environment when growing up, the people he comes into contact with, and the knowledge he learns are all important factors that affect a person's personality. , "Yanzi Chunqiu" has a saying: "Oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and those born in Huaibei are oranges." Although you are Li Tao's parents, you are by no means the only ones who educated him, so the reason for death cannot be established.

"Father's kindness and son's filial piety are indeed touching, but you have only seen your son's filial piety, cherishing your son, but you have never seen him make other children want to support them, but you have never seen him force others to leave their homes and have to sell their sons and daughters. Your emotions move people only because you show them so that people can see them, while other people's deeds can only be heard from my mouth, which is not true.

"The main culprit, the Li family, has perished, but without Li Tao's help, the Li family wouldn't be able to do so many things, commit so many crimes, and Li Tao will surely die!"

After saying that, Zhong Ye took a deep breath, looked at Li Tao, and asked, "Li Tao, are you convicted?"

Li Tao choked with sobs, his face full of gratitude, and he nodded vigorously, "Li Tao is guilty!"

Hearing this sentence, the old couple realized what was going to happen. The old man turned his head aside, closed his eyes, and wept silently, while the old woman turned around and hugged her son tightly, crying loudly.

Zhong Ye nodded, "Come here! Separate Li Tao from his mother, then take him out, and behead him in the street, to comfort the souls of the innocent Zaitian who were persecuted to death by him!"

"Yes!"

Although the policemen who were transferred from Jingzhou by Zhong Ye were also very moved, they obeyed Zhong Ye's order even more, and went directly to pull Li Tao and his mother away. At the same time, another policeman stepped forward and stood beside Li Tao Father's side, lest he do anything wrong.

Li Tao's mother was crying and screaming, and was arrested by the policeman, so she kept patting the policeman's body, trying to hold her son. She knew very well that after Li Tao walked out of this yamen, it was life and death.

The policeman remained motionless, allowing Li Tao's mother to slap his body, even though it was painful, he just bared his teeth without making a sound.

The crowd parted and watched Li Tao being led out of the yamen.

There was already a corpse lying on the street outside the yamen, it was Shi Wenchang's brother-in-law Zhuo Qing.

Looking at the familiar street outside the door, Li Tao didn't know what it was like.

When he got to the street, he suddenly turned around and kowtowed three times in the direction of the yamen, causing his head to bleed.

Li Tao gritted his teeth tightly and did not cry out, because he knew that if he said something at this time, his parents would be even more sad.

"Is there anything else you want to say?" the policeman pulled out his waist knife, looked at Li Tao sympathetically, and asked in a low voice.

"If there is a chance..." Li Tao took a breath and raised his head in confusion, "Please ask Mr. Zhong for me, he has great wisdom, and he will definitely know-why I became like this? The world is like me helping the evildoers How many people are there? Why did they become like that?"

The policeman was silent for a moment, nodded, and then raised his knife.

"and many more!"

Li Tao had already closed his eyes and prepared to die, when he suddenly shouted again: "My lord, everyone in the prison has been bewitched by the Lord of Pleasure! Be careful!"

Hearing these words, Zhong Ye's eyes became dark all of a sudden, he stood up abruptly, looked over the heads of the people, just in time to see the scene of Li Tao who was kneeling on the street being beheaded.

"This is the end of the trial!" Zhong Ye picked up the censor's order on the table, "Hurry up, the yamen servants will come with me, there is no need to interrogate, as long as they accept the bewitching of the Lord of Joy, kill them all. Use it as an example to others!"

(End of this chapter)