Good luck and marriage: marrying the governor of Dongchang

Chapter 259

Shen Qingli's eyes suddenly turned cold, Cao Qiuwan wanted to force himself to sit down on the torture chair full of hidden needles.

The two yamen servants behind her immediately understood Cao Qiuwan's meaning, and immediately stepped forward and held Shen Qingli's body from behind, pushing her down towards the chair.

Shen Qingli, a weak woman who was pregnant, was no match for their two powerful men, so she struggled twice before being pushed onto the chair by them.

As soon as he sat on it, the needles hidden in the blanket pierced into Shen Qingli's flesh, and suddenly a piercing pain swept through Shen Qingli's whole body.

In just one cup of tea, she was already drenched in cold sweat, and her body was still trembling slightly.

Seeing the happy smile on his face, Cao Qiuwan leaned back in his chair, picked up a cup of tea on the table, strained the tea leaves aside with the lid of the cup, and took a sip.

And those two yamen servants tied Shen Qingli heavily with the iron chains on the chair, not giving her a chance to move.

After finishing these, they retreated to the side.Cao Qiuwan put down the teacup, and said with a smile, "Since the madam has already sat down, we can start to talk about the evidence of Lu Huai's corruption and breaking the law."

After hearing these words, Shen Qingli's eyes turned cold.

This Cao Qiuwan must have been ordered by the little emperor to interrogate her, hoping to get evidence from her that can completely wipe out Lu Huaiqi as a felon of the country.

The coldness in her heart spread, but the corners of her lips were slightly raised, showing a calm smile, "My lord, what you said is really strange, I don't quite understand it. What my husband said in the Xiliang court In the past year, I have been sharing worries for the emperor all the time, and when I have done something corrupt and perverted, this is really a great injustice."

When Cao Qiuwan heard her say this, his eyebrows were lowered, and his face became more serious, "Mrs. Lu, you didn't want to tell the truth from the beginning, did you? You are Lu Huaiqi's wife. I can understand that you want to do something for yourself. Husband wants to justify his guilt, but you have to understand that this is the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. This officer is interrogating you now, and Lu Huai committed a heinous crime. This is what the current sage Jinkou said, and everyone in Xiliang will soon know about it. Lu Huaiqi's heinous crimes cannot be washed away by you with just a few words, so I still advise you not to say these useless words, and quickly explain Lu Huaiqi's criminal evidence. You take it easy."

Shen Qingli endured the pain in her body, raised her head and her lips were pale, she smiled, with some sarcasm in her eyes, "'Sentence lightly', Lord Cao, I have already been sentenced to death by the Holy Majesty, how can you do it as a minister? For the Lord, let the Holy Father give me a lighter sentence. Besides, even if it is a lighter sentence, it is nothing more than changing the sentence of Ling Chi to leaving a whole body. What's the difference. Besides, I don't care if I slander my husband against my conscience in order to get a lighter punishment."

After she finished speaking, she looked at Cao Qiuwan with irony and determination in her eyes.

Cao Qiuwan was a little annoyed by what she said. This woman, a prisoner, dared to be so presumptuous. She really had the same virtue as that Lu Huai.In the past, he had received a lot of idleness from Lu Huaiqi, but now that Lu Huaiqi is dead, he still wants to hear his wife humiliate him like this, saying that he is just a small minister, that contemptuous look really annoys him to the extreme.

He slapped the table hard, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Mr. Chen, pay attention to your words, are you contemptuous of this official!?"

Shen Qingli looked at his distraught appearance, she didn't feel relieved or hated, she didn't care how Cao Qiuwan treated her, she just couldn't allow others to slander Lu Huaiqi's reputation, she smiled, and said lightly, "My lord, I will It’s all true, and it doesn’t mean anything against you.”

Cao Qiuwan said in his heart, he is so eloquent, it seems that he must teach her a lesson today, so that she can know whose territory this Ministry of Punishment really belongs to.

"Come on, get on the stick!"

Shen Qingli knew about the punishment of pinching sticks. This kind of punishment was extremely tormenting.

She quietly watched the two yamen servants take down a pair of clamp sticks from the wall, and secretly thought in her heart that it was still coming.

Two yamen servants put the stick between her fingers, and after Cao Qiuwan said "execution", they pulled towards both sides fiercely, and the stick tightly strangled her fingers, violently The pain made her grit her teeth.

Cao Qiuwan looked at Shen Qingli sweating profusely from being tortured with a stick, he sneered, admiring this delightful scene.

When blood oozes from every finger of Shen Qingli, Cao Qiuwan said slowly, "Okay, let's withdraw."

Removing the stick was another kind of torture. The stick scratched the broken flesh, and the pain caused Shen Qingli's nerves to tremble.

Cao Qiuwan smiled happily, "How about it, Mrs. Chen, isn't this kind of punishment uncomfortable?"

Shen Qingli forced a pale face and smiled, "It is indeed torture."

Cao Qiuwan sighed, and shook his head pretentiously, "Madam Lu, if possible, I don't want to do this, how about it, now you can think clearly, do you want to say that Lu Huaiqi hid the evidence of his relationship with his confidants in the where?"

Shen Qingli's lips were trembling, and she breathed out, "Actually, why bother your lord, anyway, the Holy Majesty wants to convict my husband, so what evidence is there to find, as the saying goes, 'There is no excuse for the crime', isn't it? ?”

Cao Qiuwan scolded angrily, "Bold! Do you know what you are talking about? How can the Holy One allow you to slander!?"

Looking at the two yamen servants, he said coldly, "Give me a slap, when the officer says stop!"

After the two yamen servants heard this, they immediately fetched two one-foot-long thin wooden boards, which were used to slap the mouth. This kind of board hurts the most when hit on the face, and the prisoner's mouth will be pulled out in a short while. Blood comes.

Cao Qiuwan snorted coldly, "Mrs. Shen, you are so bold and reckless, you dare to say anything nonsense, the Holy One is a sinful woman like you who can privately discuss it?"

Shen Qingli said with a smile, "Lord Cao is really loyal to the emperor, but I don't know if the emperor will remember you well?"

Cao Qiuwan heard the sarcasm in her words, a burst of anger in his heart, he said impatiently, "Execute quickly! What are you waiting for!"

The two yamen servants didn't dare to say anything, and after hearing Cao Qiuwan's angry reprimand, they hurriedly took the board to slap Shen Qingli's mouth.

At this moment, the door of the secret room was knocked, and a yamen servant outside said in a low voice, "My lord, someone has come to see you."

Cao Qiuwan raised his eyebrows. How could anyone come to this prison at this time? He looked at Shen Qingli and said impatiently, "See you, let him go! I still have important things to do."

The yamen servant outside hesitated for a moment, but still said cautiously, "My lord, that man said that you will never regret it after seeing him. He only delayed you for a cup of tea."

Cao Qiuwan frowned, thought for a while, looked at Shen Qingli and said, "Let's go slowly here, and we'll talk about it when I come back."

This is the suspension of execution. After the two yamen servants took the order, they put down the board and retreated to one side.

After Cao Qiuwan left the secret room, he looked at the servant waiting outside the door, and said coldly, "Where is he?"

The yamen servant hurriedly said, "The adults follow the children."

Cao Qiuwan glanced at him coldly, and said coldly, "I can tell you, if that person has nothing important to do and delays my time, then I will not spare you!"

The yamen servant shrank his neck in fright, and hurriedly said, "The young ones dare not lie to the adults, the young ones dare not..."

Cao Qiuwan snorted coldly, "I'm sorry you don't have the guts."

When he reached a dark corner, the yamen servant stepped aside and said in a low voice, "This is it, my lord."

Cao Qiuwan stopped and saw a man in a black cloak standing with his back to him in the corner.

He looked at this man and felt that he was playing tricks, "You want to see me?"

The man in black suppressed his voice, presumably trying to hide his original voice, "My lord, it's not that I want to see you, but I have something here that I want to see my lord."

Cao Qiuwan listened to the man suppressing his voice, and felt that it sounded very uncomfortable, but he was also curious about what he said, "What is it, show it to me."

The man turned around, with his head lowered and the brim of a big cloak covering his face, he took out a dozen papers from his sleeve and handed them to Cao Qiuwan.

As soon as the thing came into Cao Qiuwan's hands, he felt keenly that it was not some ordinary paper, but a stack of bank notes.

He looked down and found that it was 1 taels of silver.

With so many bank notes, his salary for decades could not reach so much.

His eyelids twitched violently. He looked up at the man in black searchingly, but he couldn't see his face. He smiled sinisterly, "Are you bribing me?"

The man also seemed to laugh, and asked him back, "Is Mr. Cao satisfied with this bribe?"

Cao Qiuwan sneered, but silently put the wad of banknotes into his sleeves. After putting them away, he looked calm, as if nothing had happened. Looking at the man in black, he asked Said, "You should not just want to give this to the civil servants, tell me, what is your purpose, or who are you here for?"

Cao Qiuwan has been an official for so many years, many people have bribed him, but no one has ever been as generous as this person this time.He was really curious about who was worth the 1 taels of silver.

The man in black's voice was low as if it came from the ground, and he slowly replied, "I'm here for the one who is in the Lord's secret room at this moment."

Cao Qiuwan was startled suddenly, his eyes sharpened immediately, "Who are you?"

The man in black whispered, "My lord, why do you need to ask me who I am? Since you have accepted the item, please promise to treat that one well. The 1 taels of silver note is for your little effort. This deal is for you. It's a good deal. Don't you think so?"

(End of this chapter)