Lei Yue Longmen

Li Jingchen stood angrily at the door of the burnt cell, no one, no one could tell her what happened.

All she knew was that one wave of people silenced another wave of people that night, and another wave of people silenced another wave of people. Everyone was blinded by murder, and the entire capital city became a slaughterhouse where demons danced wildly.This is not only the case with the Ministry of Punishment, but also with the six yamen.

Her Cen Zhu was involved in this chaos of monsters and lost.

Live without people, dead without corpses.

Those who guarded her died, those who protected her died, and those who killed her died.

It was as if her existence had been erased out of thin air, leaving only this broken cell.

All the corpses that have been moved out have been inspected, and none of them match Cen Zheng's body and appearance. This is why she can still rummage here.

Yun Zhong also accompanied her in the search, his heart was empty, looking at the crumbling woman, it seemed that even a speck of dust could crush her.

All the officials of the Ministry of Punishment stood outside tremblingly, and after that, the officials of the other six departments also arrived.

After the Queen returned to Beijing, she went to the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice immediately. No one knew what she was looking for in the pile of rotten wood, and no one knew when she would stop.

Gong Shujian, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment, walked quietly to Yunzhong and whispered a few words in his ear. Yunzhong looked at Li Jingchen, walked out of the cell quietly, and saw Yunzai at the corner.She was holding a wooden box the size of a palm in her hand, her eyes were swollen like walnuts, and the small one was standing by the corner, wiping her tears with her head down, with a look of desolation and helplessness that he had never seen before. help.

When she saw Cloud Seed, she never showed such joyful eyes as when she usually saw the savior.With trembling lips, he called out "Brother", and fell into his arms, his whole body twitching and crying bitterly.

"What's wrong with Yunzai?" Yunzai panicked, Yunzai in his memory was always optimistic, never like today, it seemed that something extremely rare happened to her, which made her lose her longing for a bright future.

"Tell me, what happened?"

Yun Zai just cried.Yun Zhong saw the wooden box in her hand, "This? What's in the box?"

"Yes...it's sister Huaqing's eyes. Brother, sister Huaqing may...maybe gone."

"What?" Yun Zhong looked at her in disbelief as if struck by lightning, and took her out of his arms, "How is it possible? Tell me clearly, what is going on? How could..."

Yun Zai caressed the box, his voice was severely distorted due to trembling, and he choked up and said: "It's true, when the second princess rushed to the cell, she saw torture instruments and two meat balls on the ground, and she found out after asking, so those Someone tortured Sister Hua Qing and gouged out her eyes. I dare not tell His Majesty, what should I do? Brother... His Majesty will collapse if he finds out."

Yun Zhong opened the box with trembling hands and took a look, then quickly closed it with a "snap", his fists clenched slowly, making a sound like a bone cracking.Not to mention Li Jingchen, he is about to collapse now.

He forced himself to calm down, "Where is the second princess?"

"The second princess went to find Sister Hua Qing, and the group explained that after they tortured Sister Hua Qing, Sister Hua Qing was rescued by a man who looked like a toad. Aunt Mei and Liang Yue also I went to look for it. I haven't come back yet. I guess it's... more ominous."

Yun Zhong's throat choked when he heard the words, and he raised his face, but he couldn't stop the tears from overflowing.

After a long time, he lowered his head and said, "You're right. Your Majesty must never know about this matter. She will definitely collapse. Give me the box, tell me, and tell me everything you know."

When Yun Zhong returned to the scene, he deliberately slapped his face and tried his best to pretend that nothing happened.He asked Yun Zai to return to the palace first, lest she show any flaws.When Li Jingchen was found, she was sitting alone on the ruins, holding a brick-like black object in her hand, and she didn't know what she was thinking.There was still half a copper candlestick base at her feet, and the candle and lampshade must have been burnt out, revealing the sharp needles.There is also a palm-sized funnel that looks like a trumpet bowl.

Yun Zhong's attention was focused on her hand? Slowly, he saw that it was a square inkstone. The ink on the inkstone had been baked dry, and its color was blurred.Li Jingchen held the inkstone in his hands, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes that was incompatible with this gray and decayed scene. He said in a daze, "Yun Zhong, this? There was ink in the inkstone. Look, it was dried up." You said, will she leave any handwriting for me?"

Yun Zhong was stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the bare black wall, thinking that if there was one, it would probably have been burned up by the fire.But he couldn't bear to destroy her hope, and nodded in agreement, "Very likely. Your Majesty, I just got some news that the son-in-law may have been rescued."

At that moment, the gleam in the man's eyes was so intense that it seemed to melt the cloud seed on the spot.

"where is she?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, let me finish my sentence." Yun Zhong felt very guilty, and felt that it was cruel to lie to her like this, but if he told her the truth, it might be even more cruel.So, it's a very easy choice to make.

"According to the second princess, the son-in-law should have been rescued by Zhang Hama in the opposite cell. Your Majesty, come and see."

Li Jingchen hastily followed him to the opposite cell. Yun Zhong pointed to the arm-wide hole in the corner, "There used to be a bed here, and this hole led to the outside. It's probably Zhang Ha who picked it up secretly." It was opened. When the second princess came, both Zhang Hama’s cell and the cell of the son-in-law were opened, and many people died on the ground, and the son-in-law was probably rescued by Zhang Hama.”

This news is tantamount to a shot in the arm.Li Jingxuan immediately mobilized everyone to search, from the city to the outside of the city, from Cen Zhuo's former residence to find a friend's other courtyard, wherever she might go, and whoever she might ask for help, she went door to door to inquire.The portraits of Cen Zheng and Zhang Hama that she personally painted were posted all over the capital, and they were sent to neighboring counties and even the whole country as quickly as possible.The announcement of a heavy reward for witnesses attracted a large crowd of people to watch. Officers and soldiers also launched a blanket search in the capital, but three days passed and there was still no news.

Li Jingchen didn't believe that the two living beings would disappear out of thin air in the world, there must be other clues, but she hadn't thought of it yet.

At this time, Rumei and Liangyue came back.They brought back the body of Zhang Hama, who was found dead in a reed marsh by the river thirty miles away from the capital.It has been dead for a long time, the cause of death is a fatal wound on the abdomen, and the intestines flowed out. When it was found, the corpse had been decomposed, and flies and mosquitoes were circling around the corpse. The stench.According to Wu's test, the deceased should have experienced fierce fighting during his lifetime. In addition to abdominal wounds, he also suffered multiple injuries to his limbs and back.But he is short and stocky, his neck is as thick as his head, and he wears heavy shackles on his hands and feet, which fits all the signs of Zhang Hama.What is even more eye-catching is that the trumpet on his chest is the one that has followed him since he was imprisoned.

When Liangyue found Zhang Hama, at the same time, she found a cloth shoe stuck in the mud next to him, which was smaller than his foot, so it was definitely not Zhang Hama's own.There was a series of left footprints beside the shoes. Following these footprints, he came to the river embankment two miles away. He searched all the way west along the river embankment, and finally found another under a steep embankment with a sharp turn. A cloth shoe just got stuck between two rocks.And there are signs of slippage on the slope.So far, the answer is ready to come out.In fact, Liangyue had a bad feeling in her heart when she saw the corner like Yuedi in front of her, because the river embankment has always been straight and smooth all the way he came here, and this corner is like hell. The opening of the wheel eye suddenly cut off the road out of thin air. The slope below is very steep. Once a person falls, there is no way back.

They didn't dare to tell Li Jingchen about this, but they couldn't bear to tell her to search day and night.So together with Rumeiyi, they fabricated a lie that the son-in-law might be rescued by other masters, and temporarily comforted Li Jingchen.But lies always come to light. A petty official patrolling the river saw the portrait sent by the court and felt that the woman in the painting was very similar to the person he saw that night. So he reported the case to the government and was taken to Li Jing in front of Ash.

According to what he said, that night, he was patrolling the embankment. Suddenly, there was a creepy trumpet sound from nowhere. It was very miserable and frightening, like a ghost whimpering. goosebumps.He was so frightened that he ran home in a hurry, but after listening to it, he felt that the sound of the trumpet was not too scary, and the melody was very similar to a tune he had heard in the north many years ago.He himself is a northerner who fled the famine and settled down in the south. He is very familiar with this piece of music, but he can't name it.He couldn't help but stop and listen quietly. After listening to it, he felt very uncomfortable. He had never felt so uncomfortable. He suspected that he was bewitched, as if he had seen his parents and brothers who were starved to death on the way to escape.After the horn stopped, he regained his strength and realized that he had been slumped on the ground and crying for a long time.When he said this, he seemed to have returned to the state that he was about to suffocate that night, as if he had been possessed by a demon, and cried with snot and tears.The county magistrate who brought him was worried? He was making a fool of himself in front of the queen, urging him to stop talking nonsense and get to the point.But the queen choked up and told him not to worry.

The little official continued to talk.Strange to say, after listening to the trumpet music, he felt much better in his heart. He was no longer so afraid, so he wiped his nose and went back to the embankment.After about two quarters of an hour, he was walking on the embankment when he saw a man slowly approaching in front of him, groping with his hands.He subconsciously shouted: "Who is there?" Then the man stopped, saying that he was looking for a way, and when he heard that it was a woman who spoke, he boldly went over.When I approached, I held a torch to take a picture, and found that it was a very young woman, wrapped in a thick cloak in the summer, just like the one in the portrait, and her face was also very similar to the one in the portrait, except that she was covered in a mask at the time. His eyes are closed, and from the way he walks, he looks blind...

Before he finished the word "blind", Yun Zhong suddenly snapped: "Shut up!"

He thought he had said something wrong, and was so frightened that he grabbed the ground with his head again and again, "Damn the villain! Damn the villain!"

"What did you scare him for?"

After Yun Zhong finished reprimanding, he also felt that something was wrong, and he knelt down hastily under the empress' ferocious stare.

Li Jingchen turned his head back, gritted his teeth and stared at the man: "You don't have to be afraid of him, just keep talking, what does he look like?"

The little official was so frightened that he trembled all over, swallowed and said: "Little man, seeing her walking posture at that time, she looks like... blind."

Sweat mixed with salty tears rolled down Yun Zhong's forehead, he didn't dare to look up into the empress' eyes.

But she asked in an almost humble tone: "What happened next?"

"Later, the villain asked her why she came to the river embankment in the middle of the night? She said that she was separated from her family and couldn't tell the way. When she heard the sound of the river, she wanted to go home along the bank of the river. The villain thought she was pitiful, I originally wanted to lead her way, but who knew that when she stretched out her hand from the cloak, there was blood all over her hands? The girl disappeared. At that time, the villain thought he had encountered a ghost. When he came back, he asked the witch in the village to show him. I didn't dare to mention it to anyone, but I had doubts in my heart. The tone of the girl's speech was really not like a ghost but like a person. It wasn't until that day when I saw the portrait of Fuya that I felt a little bit like that girl. I didn't think about it. Come and try your luck..."

A sharp buzzing sounded in Li Jing's ears, and he could not hear anything, nor could he see anything.

She shouted loudly: "Liangyue! Liangyue!" Rumei and Liangyue came in hurriedly, seeing her pale face, helped her to lie down slowly, Liangyue asked someone to bring a medicine box, and in her On the acupuncture points on the base of the ears and the top of the head? One needle was pricked respectively.After a long time, she finally calmed down, grabbing Liangyue's skirt, her nails almost digging into his flesh, "You are all deceiving me!"

Rumei cried, and Yun Zhong also cried, "Your Majesty, please take care?"

The author has something to say:

After thinking for a long time, I put Shen Xi and Gu Qing back a little bit.