Yangyue

Everyone in the palace was afraid, but without Henry Zhang's order, no one dared to say a word.

Needle dropping could be heard in the hall, only the horrible maggots in Concubine Jing's mouth were wriggling and making chilling rustling noises.

Sure enough, Concubine Jing's tongue and teeth were eaten by living creatures, what kind of poison is it that can hatch so many maggots in a few breaths?

Henry Zhangyue ordered people to catch the bugs in Concubine Jing's mouth and on the ground, and all the officers and men in the Duckweed Pavilion carried out his order without changing their expressions, and put all the bugs in several wooden boxes.The rest of the people in the hall just watched in fear, not daring to breathe.

Henry Zhang turned his head, stared at the bowl of tremella soup on the table, and slowly stretched out his hand towards the soup. Just when his fingers were about to touch the soup, a transparent maggot that was only half a finger thick suddenly jumped out of the soup , Wrapped around Henry Zhang's fingers suddenly.

The white fungus soup is already light in color, and these bugs are hidden in it, and the naked eye can't tell them apart at all.

Although the body of the worm is small, there are densely packed hair-like fangs on the top. It opened its mouth and bit towards Henry Zhangyue's finger. Henry Zhang quickly pressed his hand on the table, picked up a silver fork, and coldly moved The worm nailed hard to the fork.

Even though it was nailed through its body, the maggots still writhed non-stop, without the slightest sign of death.

Henry Zhang was silent for a while, and said: "Bai Yu."

Bai Yu: "Yes."

"Go and bring Master Hou."

Bai Yu looked up in surprise: "Now?"

"Go quickly."

"Yes!"

Just as Bai Yu walked out of the palace gate, he saw Lord Hou's carriage coming this way, he immediately went forward and reported the matter to Qi Zhu, and Qi Zhu understood it.

At this time, another team of three to five people also rode to the Jingpin Palace, which seemed to be guards patrolling the palace.

Qi Zhu took a closer look, and found that the leader was Zuo Tongzhi, Duan Rufeng, who was the guard.

"The next official sees Lord Hou." Duan Rufeng took the reins slightly, his eyes paused on Qi Zhu for a moment, "The emperor has ordered the palace to be closed, I wonder why Lord Hou entered the palace so late?"

Bai Yu replied: "See Mr. Zuo Tongzhi, Mr. Pavilion Master has an order to invite Lord Hou to enter the palace."

Duan Rufeng looked at Qi Zhu slightly for a moment: "In that case, Lord Hou please."

Qi Zhu nodded slightly towards the other party, and together with Bai Yu came to the palace where Concubine Jing lived.

Qi Zhu walked into the palace and saw Henry Zhang standing by the table in the main hall. There were several dishes on the table, among which a large cluster of colorless maggots were entangled and twisted in the white fungus soup.

Qi Zhu bent down to observe the maggots in the bowl for a while, and then sniffed the smell, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

After a while, he straightened up and said, "The poison is actually a living thing... It's really unheard of."

Qi Zhu looked back at Henry Zhang and asked, "Where is Concubine Jing's body?"

Henry Zhang: "In the side hall."

Qi Zhu came to the side hall, where several duckweed pavilion guards and trembling eunuchs were guarding the side hall. Concubine Jing's body was placed on the couch, and her face was covered with a layer of tulle.

Qi Zhu lifted the tulle on Concubine Jing's face, Concubine Jing's face was very peaceful, but if she opened her jaw, one could see the tragedy. Her teeth and tongue had been eaten away by maggots, but her lips and other parts were not. is intact.

Qi Zhu looked at the wound in Concubine Jing's mouth for a while, and the guards at the side brought the wooden box containing the worms, Qi Zhu opened the box to a gap, and the maggots in the wooden box suddenly crawled towards the gap, as if they wanted to get out escaped from the wooden box.

Qi Zhu quickly closed the wooden box, his eyes were a bit thoughtful, the emperor was assassinated and poisoned one after another, there was the Hongyue Society before, but now he doesn't know which power came up with such a sinister way to kill the emperor.

Qi Zhu returned to the main hall and asked Henry Zhangyue: "How does the emperor want to deal with the current situation?"

"The imperial dining room and the upper and lower palaces have been taken to the Criminal Division and must be interrogated overnight." Henry Zhangyue said, "Master Hou is the young minister of Dali Temple, so he should go with me."

Few of those imprisoned in the Criminal Division can come out completely.

When Qi Zhu and Xiao Yangyue came to the Criminal Division, the palace servants in the Imperial Dining Room and Jingpin Palace had already tasted the severe punishment, and the torture room was full of wailing, full of blood and cold, as cold as entering the underworld.

The officials in charge of the Criminal Division stepped forward to salute Henry Zhang and Qi Zhu, and Henry Zhang asked: "Anyone explain?"

"Returning to Lord Pavilion Master, these slaves are very tight-lipped and haven't explained it yet, but don't worry, my lord, after a few torture instruments, even tight mouths can be pried open."

In the criminal department, there is a man wearing a general's official robe standing with a knife, monitoring the torture in the criminal department. This person is Duan Rufeng, Zuo Tongzhi, the dry gate guard.

Qi Zhu and Duan Rufeng didn't have much in common. He only heard that Duan Rufeng was born in a family of military generals. The ancestors of the Duan family made great achievements on the battlefield. In order to protect the family forever, the parents asked themselves to cut off their titles and important military positions.Although there is no title now, the Duan family still has a lot of prestige in the court, and the heirs of the Duan family are also highly regarded by the emperor.

When Duan Rufeng saw Qi Zhu and Xiao Yangyue coming, he also saluted them. Although he came from a family of generals, his appearance was not as rough as ordinary generals, and he was very handsome and handsome.

However, Henry Zhang is also a general, and he is also not rough. Thinking of this, Qi Zhu doesn't think it is a rare thing for a general to be handsome.

The cruel officials in the criminal department took out a lot of torture tools, and only treated people as livestock on the chopping block. All the victims were bruised and painful.Henry Zhang has seen such scenes a lot, he has always stared at all this indifferently, but this time, he glanced at Qi Zhu.

Qi Zhu didn't seem to like this kind of torture scene. He stood aside with his hands behind his back, and didn't look at the bruised prisoners, but just looked down at the ground.

Henry Zhang's heart moved slightly, he was silent for a moment, and said: "If Master Hou doesn't want to watch it, go out."

Qi Zhu gave him a slightly surprised look, as if he never expected Henry Zhang to say such a thing, and smiled slowly: "Okay."

Qi Zhu turned around and was about to walk out of the execution room when a prisoner who was chained to the wall not far away suddenly struggled, causing two criminals to hold him down angrily, the latter was full of blood and his bloodshot eyes Full of pain, he cried out weakly, "Master Hou...Master Hou! Help me! Master Hou!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

Qi Zhu looked at the prisoner in surprise, with a puzzled look on his face.Henry Zhang was slightly startled at first, then his eyes revealed dark light, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Come on."

The officials of the criminal department were also shocked, and only after being shouted by Henry Zhang did they come back to their senses, and quickly ordered someone to buckle up the slave and knock him down.

The prisoner was put on the ground, dripping with tears, sobbing and unable to speak clearly, but asked Qi Zhu to save his life.

Qi Zhu stared at him, frowned and said, "I don't recognize you at all, why do you ask me to save you?"

Unexpectedly, when the prisoner heard this, his whole body trembled, and his eyes showed great grief and helplessness. He wept bitterly, and his eyes gradually became filled with hatred: "You...you turned your face and refused to recognize anyone! You said it will happen! You will keep me safe in the future, but now you are breaking your promise! I have also suffered such a severe punishment of disembowelling and disembowelling for you!"

The prisoner's eyes were tearing and he yelled, "I want to confess! I want to confess! I put the poison in the emperor's food, but I was forced, and I was ordered by Lord Hou! He won't protect me, I will Let him be confessed!"

A shining blade slashed straight down, and stopped directly in front of the prisoner's nose. The sharp point of the knife had cut the prisoner's nose into a thin bloodstain without a wound.

Henry Zhang's voice was a little lower than usual, and it seemed that he was really angry: "If you dare to say a lie, I will chop off your tongue first!"

I never thought that the prisoner didn't show any timidity at all, but instead faced Henry Zhang's blade, as if hating Qi Zhu, he raised his head and shouted: "I have been framed by him so far, should I still protect him?! I want to Confession, I want to tell all the things he did! The poison in the bowl of white fungus soup is called 'shell bug'. The body shell can be broken when exposed to heat, and can hatch a large number of cryptosclerites in an instant. This insect loves light and heat, and it lives by gnawing on human tongues and teeth. The teeth contain highly poisonous, and it will kill you if you touch it!"

After hearing this, Henry Zhang just frowned slightly, unmoved, and said coldly: "You said Lord Hou ordered you, how did Lord Hou order you?"

The prisoner was full of grief and anger, his expression did not seem to be fake, and he cried and hated in his words: "He knew that I was working in the imperial dining room and had access to the emperor's food, so he kidnapped my wife and children and forced me to poison him! He intends to poison the emperor!"

"Wait a minute."

Qi Zhu interrupted him in a deep voice, he walked slowly to the prisoner, knelt down, and said, "Let him go, let me ask him a few words."

The executioner looked at each other, and finally obeyed Qi Zhu's wishes and let go of the cook in the imperial dining room. Qi Zhu quietly looked at his face for a while, a face that was extremely mediocre, and he had no memory of it.

Qi Zhu: "Since you said that I ordered you, and your wife and children are in my hands, but you confessed me so easily, are you not afraid that I will kill them?"

"If you don't protect me, if I fall into the criminal justice department, I will end up beheaded all over the house, so I can only meet my wife and children on Huangquan Road!" Reluctance and hatred, "I was deceived by lard. I believed you promised to secretly bail me out of the palace, so our family still has a way out. I am stupid! I was deceived by you, a beast!"

"The mouth is very clever." Qi Zhu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Then why do I want to murder the emperor?"

The cook gasped for a moment, raised his head abruptly, and shouted hissingly: "You hate the emperor, you are a member of the martial arts rebellion! I saw with my own eyes that you colluded with the thieves of the martial arts sect! You know martial arts!"

The cook's voice was so loud that it could be clearly heard throughout the prison.

Duan Rufeng was shocked, knowing that this matter was of great importance, he slowly clenched the sword in his hand, held his breath and stared at Qi Zhu, and pushed the sword out of the sheath a little.

There seemed to be a heavy cloud in Qi Zhu's eyes, he hadn't shown such an expression for a long time, it was as chilling as a biting cold wind.

He said coldly: "I saw it with my own eyes... is it?"

The cook's lower body had been beaten by the stick until it was peeling and his flesh was bright red. He could only stretch out his arms tremblingly, grabbing the collar of Qi Zhu who was squatting in front of him, and said, "Half of what I said was wrong." Xu, if you do evil like this, you will surely die..."

At this moment, Qi Zhu suddenly noticed that a cold internal force suddenly burst out from the cook's palm, and that force rushed into his heart, like a vine piercing into his blood vessels.

In an instant, Qi Zhu could no longer suppress his internal strength, he slapped out his arm uncontrollably, accompanied by the sound of bones and flesh being torn apart, his arm came out from the cook's back chest , in the middle of the bloody palm, he was still holding the cook's heart.

The cook died instantly, and his whole body was strung on Qi Zhu's arm, his body still twitching.

The surrounding criminals were so frightened that they all ran away screaming, Qi Zhu's palm was slightly loose, and the heart fell to the ground, splashing out a pool of blood.

The officials of the criminal department were already pale with fright, and fell to the ground. It took a while to react, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Come on, come on! Go and report to the emperor! It must be suspicious to kill someone while the suspect is confessing! "

The guard at the door turned pale with fright. Hearing the words, he quickly agreed, and ran to the gate of the Criminal Division, but was hit on the back knee by a wooden hammer used for torture, and fell forward immediately. on the ground.

"Shut me all up!"

Henry Zhang stood quietly in the dark prison, with an extremely cold expression, as if anyone present dared to disobey his will, he would not hesitate to add another breath of blood to the execution room.

"How to deal with it is up to me."

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On the surface, I will deal with it, but in fact, he is not allowed to touch him

Brother Duan joins the team~