Wang Zhixin smiled faintly: "How do you know I don't have His Majesty's order?"

Xue Lian was stunned for a moment. He quickly went over the previous events in his mind and found that nothing was missing.

"Since you have His Majesty's order, I plead guilty."

"Confess?" Wang Zhixin didn't expect Xue Lian to be so straightforward, and the torture he had prepared in advance was useless.

He laughed and said, "I thought Lord Xue had a tough body, but I didn't expect him to be softer than a face. Since you are going to plead guilty, then tell me."

Wang Zhixin ordered someone to take out paper and pen and take notes.

A quarter of an hour later, Xue Lian finished confessing his crimes.

Seize people's land and bribe eunuchs.

Apart from these two pieces of evidence, he denied all other charges.

"Xue Lian, you have the guts to do it but not the guts to admit it, right?" Wang Zhixin held the confession in his hand, frowning, "When you bribed me before, you said clearly that I should let those people go home, and you would send troops to kill and eliminate the witnesses while they were on their way home."

"Why don't you dare admit it?"

"I admit what I did, but why should I admit what I didn't do?"

"Torture!" Wang Zhixin was too lazy to talk nonsense and used the torture instruments directly.

Xue Lian, Marquis of Yangwu, was also a man of character. He managed to survive three kinds of torture and refused to confess.

Wang Zhixin was afraid that Xue Lian would not be able to bear it and die, so he stopped torturing him and instead used various words to provoke him.

Xue Lian still refused to admit it!

One day later.

The nobles in the capital fell into panic.

Because two people died in the mansions of Duke Dingguo and Marquis Yangwu, and the way they died was the same as that of the eunuch who served Queen Zhou, both of them died by hanging.

So weird!

In an inconspicuous mansion in the capital, a roar suddenly sounded.

"Who did it?" Duke Dingguo stared at Marquis Yongkang and asked.

"It's not me, I don't have that ability!" replied Xu Xideng, Marquis of Yongkang.

"It's not me either!" Dingxi Marquis Jiang Bingzhong answered seriously.

Wu'an Hou Zheng Zhijun, Linhuai Hou Li Hongji, Anxiang Bo Zhang Guangcan and others looked at each other, at a loss.

"If it's not you or me, then the murderer can only be him..."

"who?"

"Xue Lian!" Xu Yunzhen wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Xue Lian is not trying to drag us down, he has already dragged us down!"