I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

After Cui Tao took a shower and changed her clothes, she felt refreshed, and it was unlikely that she would rest first, after all, the case had not yet finished trial, which was always worrying.

As soon as Cui Tao left the courtyard, someone from the court came looking for her, and there was iron evidence in front of her if she said yes, but Yun Dan also kept silent and refused to confess.And because he despised the court, laughed at officials, and tortured her a little bit, but for some reason, those instruments of torture were used on her body like scratching an itch. It should be very painful, but she didn't seem to hurt at all, and she could still laugh. come out.

"Everyone has never seen this kind of prisoner, and judge Han has never seen him since he took office, so he ordered the villain to ask Mrs. Cui to go over and have a look. Is this person really crazy or fake?"

When Cui Tao came to the court, he saw Yundan's hair in a messy bun and blood on his clothes.Her state at the moment is just like what the yamen servant said, laughing madly, but her eyes are staring straight at the ground in front of her. With a bit of contemptuous sarcasm, it is obvious that people are not really crazy.

Han Zong was worrying about how to proceed with the trial. He had exhausted all the usual tricks, but to no avail.If she withdraws now and waits for a retrial in the future, and then gives Yun Dan a chance to rest and relax overnight, she is afraid that she will play new tricks in court tomorrow.

Han Zong found that being an official in Kaifeng Mansion was not as comfortable as Erlang at home.Here, everything must be done according to the law, follow the rules, and you will not be given the opportunity to perform without authorization.It's not that Han Zong doesn't know how to deal with people, but none of them are upright, so now he has nothing to do, and he really feels the helplessness of his new official position time and time again.

The arrival of Cui Tao brightened the eyes of everyone in the courtroom.Because with Cui Tao's consistent ability, everyone knows that if there is a solution to this matter, it must be her.

"I heard you don't confess?" Cui Tao asked Yun Dan.

Yun Dan's eyeballs remained motionless, staring at the ground.

"The transaction really doesn't count?" Cui Tao asked again.

Yun Dan's eyes still didn't move, but the corner of his left mouth curled up, letting out a sneer.

"Since the transaction is void," Cui Tao spoke slowly at first, but then changed the subject, "Why should judge Han be kind, so he tortured Zhang Le, pinching sticks, branding, etc. in turn, he is young, skinny and tender, he must be punished If he can't stop, he will continue to torture him until he is willing to confess the crime he committed together with Yun Dan."

Han Zong suddenly realized how ingenious this move is. When a snake hits seven inches, it should hit its vitals directly when dealing with people. Yun Dan's vitals are on Zhang Le.Han Zong couldn't help feeling that he was a novice after all, because he felt unfamiliar in the first class, he thought a lot and forgot the most important points.

"Extremely!" Han Zong was about to kill immediately.

"No - it can't be voided, don't let him come! I'll recruit!" Yun Dan'er's eyes finally moved, she shook her head, then raised her head, and looked at Cui Tao with red eyes and resentment.

Cui Tao didn't come alone, there was someone outside watching the 'lively'.

When she was in Plum Blossom Temple before, Cui Tao asked Yun Dan if Zhang Le had seen her crazy face, but Yun Dan changed the subject and didn't answer directly.Cui Tao felt that she was deliberately avoiding her, and that Yun Dan must have been pretending in front of Zhang Le, otherwise Zhang Le, who is pure and kind, would be so stupid that he would be willing to take the blame for a lunatic like her.

Cui Tao asked Yun Dan to explain where the victims killed by her were buried, such as the Qi family and Nan Gong family.

Yun Dan was stunned for a moment, looked at Cui Tao in surprise, snorted and pulled the corners of his mouth: "I didn't expect you to guess. After I agreed to the deal, I was going to tell you immediately that it was your people who provoked me." What I hate the most in my life are people who talk nonsense!

Hmph, I don't know why there are always such people in the world, who are cheap-mouthed, blind, and unable to see the whole picture of things, so they spout nonsense and spread rumors according to their own thoughts.There are also many people who don't have a good brain, don't ask the truth, no matter whether it is true or not, just follow what others say, and force the person involved to death! "

"Location." Cui Tao didn't want her nonsense, and only emphasized the key points.

Yun Dan said with a displeased face: "After watching the woods, I often meditate."

The yamen servant immediately took the order to go to Plum Blossom Temple and inform the yamen servant who stayed there to dig.

"How many people did you kill in total?" Cui Tao asked.

"Do you really think I'm crazy? It's just the two you mentioned, plus the one from the ghost house." Yun Dan spoke casually, as if it wasn't a serious matter that she had killed four people in total.

Cui Tao didn't interrupt her and asked her to continue explaining the motive for the murder.

The Qi family was the No.1 victim killed by Yun Dan.

At that time, among the people who lived with the Qi family in the temple, there was a woman named Sun Xiang, who was twenty-eight years old and had a very good appearance. .Sun Xiang originally came to Beijing with her mother to join relatives, but her mother died of illness when her relatives were not found.In order to treat her mother, Sun Xiang spent all her money, and then pawned clothes and jewelry to buy a coffin to bury her mother.So she ran out of money, so she came to Plum Blossom Temple for help.

Because of her good looks and likable temperament, Sun Xiang is very popular in Plum Blossom Temple.When it was time to get work, everyone gave her way, and only let her do light work.But Qi couldn't understand it. After making things difficult for Sun Wuguo a few times, she spread rumors that Sun Xiang was not the daughter of a decent family, had been with seven or eight men, had a disease of the willow, and that her mother was a bawd.

The rumors were spread in secret, there are indeed many women who, like Qi, are jealous of Sun Xiang's beauty.Later, the rumor was passed around, as if it was true, gradually some people alienated Sun Xiang.When one person takes the lead, more and more people follow.Some people even said that whoever is close to Sun Xiang and loves Sun Xiang must be as sexually obscene as Sun Xiang.

At first Sun Xiang found that more and more people were ignoring him, and he didn't understand why, but later he finally knew the reason, and he was anxious to explain but no one believed him.Sun Xiang ran to the forest behind Guanhou and cried secretly, and was discovered by Yun Dan.

The same surname is Sun, and she was also bullied because of rumors. The crying made Yundan think of the misery of her aunt, grandson and widow. That night, she had a nightmare, and the dream was full of the voice of the widow Sun committing suicide that night. The scene of crying and crying for injustice.

At this point, we have to go back to the past between Yun Dan and Widow Sun.

Yun Dan is the third in the family, with the eldest and second sisters in front of her.When her mother gave birth to her, she had difficulty in childbirth. She finally survived the hell, but she couldn't bear another child.Therefore, Yun Dan's parents all regard Yun Dan as a bastard, thinking that because of her bad luck, the couple lost their chances of having a son and a future successor.

Because of this, Yun Dan was never seen by her parents since she was a child. She could only eat leftover meals from the whole family, wear the most worn-out clothes, grow a little older, and do more work than her two elder sisters. Bad temper was beaten.When she was growing up, she never had enough to eat.

Widow Sun has been secretly taking care of Yun Dan because she sees Yun Dan as pitiful.Seeing that she was hurt, I bought ointment to apply to her; seeing that she was hungry, I made her sesame seed cakes with meat dregs for her to eat.Widow Sun herself is not willing to eat sesame seed cakes with meat, so she has to hold on to Yun Dan to grow her body first.

The year Widow Sun was wronged and committed suicide, Yun Dan was 14 years old, and his parents were anxious to marry him off casually.The family I was looking for had a silly son, so they didn't need to pay much dowry.It was the widow Sun who came forward to intercede, and offered money to add a dowry to Yun Dan, so that Yun Dan's parents found a hard-working son from a normal family to marry.

For Yu Yundan, Widow Sun is closer than her mother, the person who has treated her best in her whole life.

On the night when the incident happened, Yun Dan wanted to go to see Widow Sun when she heard Widow Sun's cries of injustice, but because of her parents' previous warning, she was afraid of being beaten, so she didn't dare to go.At that time, she was leaning against the window, listening to Widow Sun crying, and finally fell asleep unconsciously.She originally thought that she would go to see her aunt again after dawn, and tell her that she would always believe in her.But when she ran to run the next day, she saw the aunt who had been the best to her in the past, dangling from the beam.

"Since then, I have had nightmares every day. I regret that I didn't tell my aunt in time that night. I believe she is innocent, and I will try to secretly rescue her. My aunt must think that everyone does not believe her, and everyone If you don't help her, even I, who has been taken care of by her, don't trust her, she is so desperate that she chooses to commit suicide."

When Yun Dan said this, she burst into tears, like an ordinary sad woman, not as crazy and hostile as before.

"Zhang Le is the only bone and blood left by my aunt. I must take care of him like my aunt took care of me. At that time, my parents forced me to marry, so I took the dowry my aunt gave me and ran away secretly. Meihuaguan became a monk. Every year I would leave a bag of money and throw it at his uncle’s house, and when he was older and able to come out to play, I would visit him every two or three days.”

Yun Dan grew up watching Zhang Le, and has always taken good care of Zhang Le, and secretly brought Zhang Le everything he wanted.It is also because of Yun Dan's care that Zhang Le wants to be a monk who can benefit all living beings like Yun Dan, so he insists on becoming a monk.Apparently, Zhang Le's understanding of Yun Dan's benefit to all living beings is understood from his own point of view.

"He never knew you killed someone?"

"I don't know. He knew that I suspected that Wuyou's bastard might be the culprit of what happened to my aunt back then, and he repeatedly persuaded me not to wrong a good person. He told me that maybe Wuyou was just because their fellow villagers were all surnamed Zhang, and they were more or less concerned about their relatives. Because of his poor background, I took good care of him."

When it comes to Taoist Master Wuyou, Yun Dan is full of hatred, and he will still grit his teeth when he speaks.

Yun Dan's motive for killing Qi's family was that Sun Xiang's injustice reminded her of her grief back then. She couldn't bear it anymore, so she chose an opportunity to lure Qi's family into the forest behind Guanhou, intending to strangle her to death.Unexpectedly, Qi Shi resisted, and during the fight between the two, Yun Dan threw Qi Shi on the tree trunk, causing Qi Shi to break his neck and suffocate to death.

At that time, Yun Dan suddenly had a sense of pleasure in revenge for Widow Sun, and then thought of gouging his eyes and cutting his tongue...

Yun Dan took the carving knife of the woodcarver, dug out Qi's eyes, cut off his tongue, and buried Qi's body.Afterwards, he performed ritual rituals to ensure that Qi's soul would be scattered and that he would not seek revenge on her.

Killing Nangong's family was also for the same reason as Qi's, and also used the same killing method as killing Qi's.Before encountering Nangong's matter, Yun Dan originally thought that she was just impulsive and would not want to kill again, but when she happened to hear Nangong's gossip behind her back, she guessed that Daoist Yunfeng was making pills indiscriminately Maybe when she was cheating money, she couldn't control herself more and more.

If this person is not removed, her mind will be filled with the screams of her aunt before she died, and she will feel uncomfortable no matter what she does.The sense of guilt will hang heavily in the heart until it kills the person, then it will be gradually relieved and dissipated.

Next, it was Yin and Shao who were involved in the eye-digging case in the haunted house.These two people completely annoyed Yun Dan.

Since Zhang Le became Taoist, Yun Dan still meets Zhang Le occasionally, greets and takes care of Zhang Le, brings him his favorite wooden figurines, buys his favorite snacks and so on.

Unfortunately, one day when she and Zhang Le met in Guanhoushulin, Yin Shi and Shao Shi took a good look at her.The two were greedy for money, so they used this to blackmail Yun Dan, asking her to steal thirty incense sticks from the Taoist temple and give her money.Yun Dan is in charge of the accounts of Plum Blossom Temple, and the incense of Plum Blossom Temple has always been good. She has also made a lot of money doing things outside, and it is really easy for Yun Dan to spend the money.

But Shaw wanted to threaten Yun Dan by saying, "If you don't give it, I will make the world know about your affair with the little Taoist priest".

"Tell me, aren't they looking for death!"

How can Yun Dan let them down, she first pretended to accept Shao, and then asked Shao and Yin to meet in Guanhou Forest, she killed Shao first, and then knocked Yin unconscious.

The reason why Yun Dan didn't kill two people at the same time was because it was impossible for her to transport two corpses to Bianjing at the same time, so she left Yin Shi in the accounting room first.She is the only one who can enter the account room, and there is only one key. She will pour a bowl of drowsiness soup for Yin Shi every day, so that Yin Shi does not have to make trouble.Because Guannei was busy celebrating Christmas for the gods in the past few days, Yun Dan couldn't get away as an elder, so he didn't deal with Yin Shi until four days later.

The reason why she didn't execute Yin Shi immediately was because if she died early, her body would be rancid and inconvenient to store and transport, so it would be convenient to kill her immediately.

"It's convenient to kill now? You said it so lightly, it's human life!"

The yamen servants couldn't understand that Yun Dan, as a monk, suddenly slaughtered so fiercely, without mercy.

Cui Tao: "I remember Zhang Le said when he admitted to the murder that storing the corpse in ice storage would affect the autopsy's judgment on the time of death."

Yun Dan's confession is basically in line with the investigation situation.Although there is almost no suspicion on Zhang Le's side, some problems still need to be explained clearly.

Yun Dan hurriedly told Cui Tao that Uncle Zhang Le had a good friend who was a magistrate of the county government, and the two of them often met to drink and gossip, and Zhang Le was often there to make fun of it.

Of course, someone will be sent to check this situation.

Not long afterward, Li Cai sent someone to report that they had indeed dug up two dead bodies in the place where Yun Dan usually meditated, and they had turned into bones.

As for why the body was buried in the meditation place, Yun Dan also gave an honest explanation.

When she killed someone for the first time, it happened to be the season of mushrooms growing in the forest. Almost every morning, the young disciples in Guannei would come to the forest to find a circle of mushrooms. If there is newly dug up soil somewhere, it will definitely attract attention. .The corpse was hidden in the place where she was meditating, covered by straw mats, and the disciples in the temple knew that it was the place where she was meditating, so they didn't pay special attention.After that, one was buried anyway, and the second one was almost buried.And every time Yun Dan meditates, when he thinks that he is practicing sitting on the bones of the rumor-monger, he feels a sense of refreshment that he can improve faster in this way.

"Why did you bury the first two corpses, but the corpses of Pian Yin and Shao, you have to spend a lot of time transporting them to the ghost house in Bianjing?" Han Zong asked.

"Of course it's because of that bastard Wuyou!"

Ever since Taoist Wuyou began to take special care of Zhang Le, Yun Dan felt that he was strange and suspected that he had something to do with the death of Widow Sun.Because she 'knew what it's like to be nice to someone because of guilt' all too well.

But Zhang Le kept blocking and explaining that Taoist Wuyou might be innocent, and he was just taking care of him out of kindness, and advised her to be troubled by the past.

But Daoist Wuyou is so suspicious, how could she not be troubled?

Before killing Yin and Shao, Yun Dan made a decision to use their bodies to try Wuyou's reaction.Haunted haunted house plus eye-gouging and tongue-cutting to see if he will be afraid of guilt and how he will react.Of course, the body of Shao's who was the first to throw the body has never been found, which was beyond Yun Dan's expectation.However, she also expected that when the corpse stinks, it will definitely be discovered. After all, it is in Bianjing, which is a densely populated place.

Sure enough, two times, Taoist Master Wuyou didn't try to save others when they died unjustly, but he insisted on saving the eyes of the corpses in the haunted house.

Yun Dan was completely sure that Taoist Wuyou must be the culprit back then.

"It's a pity that I was discovered by you before I had a chance to do it." Yun Dan's face was full of reconciliation, his eyes were red, and then he shed tears, "It's for me that he didn't hesitate to kill himself in front of you." become a perpetrator."

Yun Dan immediately looked at Cui Tao: "If Mrs. Cui is as insightful as rumored, she is a master at solving crimes, then she should know that my cousin has no intention of murdering Wuyou. He is too stupid and stupid, and he only wants to take the blame for me , I don’t know how stupid his approach is. If someone checks it out, he will see through it, and he made a sacrifice for nothing. He is just too pure-hearted and kind-hearted, just like his aunt. It’s a pity that the world is cruel, and good people are bullied by others. A kind person will never be rewarded well, it would be better to live a bad life!"

"Bring him up," Cui Tao said.

The yamen servant escorted Zhang Le to the court.

As soon as Yun Dan saw Zhang Le, he became excited and reached out to grab him, but Zhang Le took a few steps back to avoid Yun Dan.

Yun Dan froze for a moment, looked at Zhang Le as if lost in spirit, and asked him what's wrong.

"Why do you look like this!" Zhang Le has been watching Yun Dan's interrogation through the window at the side of the hall. From her previous madness to her ruthless and cruel explanation of the entire crime process, he felt that the sky was falling. Usually, I can't believe what I see in front of my eyes at all, and I can't imagine what Yun Dan's true face will look like.

"I did all this to avenge my aunt!" Yun Dan couldn't accept Zhang Le's accusation, and argued sharply.

Zhang Le opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond to Yun Dan, his brows tightened, and he hesitated in pain for a moment.

Cui Tao looked at Zhang Le's situation, and then said: "You are not avenging Sun at all, these victimized women have nothing to do with Sun, your behavior is just to vent your selfish desire. In order to make myself feel better, I will transfer my feelings when I encounter similar situations, and I want to use this to alleviate my guilt.

If you do evil yourself, it is considered magnanimous to admit it.But please don't put the name of your cruel murder and devastation on Mrs. Sun. She can't afford this dirty name. She committed suicide in the past just for the name of innocence. "

Zhang Le's tearful eyes suddenly became clear, and he looked at Yun Dan with pain and disbelief, shook his head constantly, and stepped back.

After being exposed by Cui Tao's words, Yun Dan hastily crawled over to explain to Zhang Le, but she climbed closer, and Zhang Le won further.Immediately the yamen servant grabbed Yun Dan, not allowing her to move around.

"No, I'm not what she said, no..."

"If not, why have you been afraid to show your true colors in front of Zhang Le these years? Why did you pretend to be honest and generous in front of so many people in Plum Blossom Temple? Actually, you know that you are not normal, right? You It's actually crazy!"

"No—no! You rascal! I'm going to cut off your tongue!"

Snapped!

When the yamen servant heard that Mrs. Cui, who Yun Dan dared to say, did not hesitate to slap her on the mouth, Yun Dan immediately vomited blood.

"How dare you speak disrespectfully to the officials in court, and pull them out to give you another [-] blows!" Han Zong ordered without hesitation.

Yun Dan looked at Zhang Le unwillingly, and suddenly screamed.After the interrogation was over, the yamen servant couldn't allow her to go crazy anymore, so he just gagged her and dragged her down.

Zhang Le had already burst into tears at this time, his body trembling, knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty.

Han Zong was surprised by Zhang Le's change of attitude, "At Sanqingguan, no matter how we asked you, you refused to say anything, and even made up your mind to take the blame on Yun Dan. Why are you still surprised now?"

Zhang Le has been with Yun Dan for so long, so he can naturally feel that Yun Dan is extremely guilty of his mother's death, and seems to want to avenge her mother.

"At that time, Mrs. Cui speculated that the eye-gouging and tongue-cutting case was related to the Plum Blossom Temple. I had a bad feeling, and I knew that it must be related to her. I thought she must have gone astray because of my mother. I subconsciously Wanting to take the blame for her, I thought she must have been unable to think about it for a while. If I save her with my life, she should understand the reason and stop in time."

"Unexpectedly, I was stupid, deceiving myself and others, and deceiving myself." Because Zhang Le had never seen Yun Dan's true face, he avoided himself and tried to find reasons to excuse Yun Dan, because Yun Dan in his heart had always been a good person. Couldn't be nicer people.

"I was playful back then, so she insisted on taking me to climb the Mangui Slope near my home. The reason why the place is called Mangui Slope is because there is a kind of dwarf tree with poisonous thorns growing on the bottom of the slope. Ghosts who rolled in would be stabbed and unable to get out. I fell down the hillside because of picking wild fruits, but she immediately jumped down to protect me, protected me from being stabbed by poisonous thorns, and walked out with my back. At that time, she was There are thorns all over the body, especially the legs, after the thorns are picked out, because of the poisonous residue, the wound does not heal well, and the pus oozes and smells.

Zhang Le told Cui Tao and others that the doctor who saw her at the time said that Yun Dan had a severe fever, and it was a miracle that she could save her life, but her legs would be potholed for the rest of her life, and the scars were difficult to heal. It must be miserable for a young woman.But Yun Dan didn't complain, the first thing he said when he woke up was to care about his safety.After that, she still doted on him and spoiled him. No matter what he wanted or what he did, Yun Dan always tried her best to support him and satisfy him.

For the sake of cloudiness, Zhang Le is willing to give up his life.He always thought that Yun Dan was the kind-hearted person he saw, and felt that even if she killed someone, she must have great difficulties, out of helplessness, not just killing to vent.She could clearly clarify the identity relationship between her and him, leaving Yin and Shao speechless.She obviously could choose to rectify Sun Xiang's name, drive away the Qi family, or send Nangong family away...but she chose to kill them all.

"People are not sages and sages can do nothing wrong. People in the world are easy to make bad karma, but the crime will not lead to death!" Zhang Le kowtowed and fell on the ground, grinning in pain and crying bitterly.

How many people in this generation have never talked about people behind their backs, occasionally misunderstood people, or spoken ill of others?There may be some people who behave too much and really drive people to death, but this kind of thing is a minority after all, and most of them can be properly handled and resolved.It would be terrible to punish a person with his life just because of his faults in moral conduct.

Afterwards, Kaifeng House imprisoned Zhang Le. Later, because Taoist Wuyou woke up, he came here to intercede, expressing that he did not want to pursue Zhang Le's green snake wounding behavior.And Cui Tao also asked people to do experiments with the little green snake and pigs, which proved that the toxin of the little green snake will indeed allow the organism to metabolize the toxin by itself and restore a healthy state after a period of onset.Therefore, the treatment of Zhang Le was taken lightly.

As for Yun Dan, it is naturally an unforgivable crime, and he will be executed according to the law.

After the case was closed, Zhao Zongqing specially came to invite everyone in the Kaifeng Mansion to gather in his other garden on the day of rest, and order whatever food he wanted, because he wanted to thank everyone on behalf of his best friend, Daoist Wuyou.

When Zhao Zongqing came to invite him, he specially brought a small gift for Han Qi.

Han Qi looked at a plate of sesame seed cakes brought out from the food box, and asked Zhao Zongqing what he meant.

"Suanzao biscuits are so delicious. I just discovered them recently, so I want to share them with Zhigui." When Zhao Zongqing said this, he stared at Han Qi with a somewhat ambiguous look.

Han Qi thanked him, but ordered Zhang Chang to accept the biscuits, without further ado.

"I think Zhigui is not young anymore, but is there an engagement? If not, it just so happens that I have a cousin who can be described as unparalleled in talent and appearance—"

"There are already candidates for family selection, and they are being negotiated." Han Qi said immediately.

Zhao Zongqing raised his eyebrows, smiled and asked, "I don't know if I can ask, which little lady is so lucky?"

Han Qi looked back at Zhao Zongqing.

"But the one who is far away in the sky and right in front of you?" Zhao Zongqing was naturally referring to Cui Tao.

Han Qi still didn't say anything.

Zhao Zongqing laughed, "Then I will take back what I said earlier."

Han Qi stared at Zhao Zongqing.

"It's Zhigui's good fortune."

The implication is that if another woman discusses marriage with Han Qi, it is the other woman's luck.But if Cui Tao and Han Qi discussed marriage, it would be Han Qi's luck.

"Indeed." Han Qi agreed.

There is no need to deny it anymore, it can be seen that Zhao Zongqing is very convinced.

"Then you have to hurry up, don't be caught by others, such as me." Zhao Zongqing's words made Han Qi look at him with vigilance again, Zhao Zongqing hurriedly explained with a smile, "I have a serious heart and never marry a wife I mean, but I see that the queen mother is not right, so you have to act first."

After Zhao Zongqing finished speaking, he waved to Han Qi and said goodbye to him.

Han Qi silently stared at Zhao Zongqing's back, then turned around with a frown and wandered for a few steps.

After a stick of incense, when Cui Tao came to look for him, Han Qi said to her: "Zhao Zongqing has a problem."

"Then?" Cui Tao asked.

"You and I get engaged first."