"Kneel down."
The bailiff kicked the three men on the calves, and they immediately knelt down.
"Who instructed you to have the Black Dragon Society kidnap Miss Jun?"
"If you don't tell the truth, don't blame me for torturing you again."
Several people gritted their teeth and said nothing, letting the sweat and blood flow down.
Before Jun Wansheng arrived, Zhang Yunqi had already tortured several people, but no matter how he threatened or tempted them, they refused to speak.
After interrogating for a while, the people kneeling on the ground were already shaky and could not kneel steadily, and were about to fall down.
Seeing that the three men still looked like dead pigs, Jun Wansheng remembered the Ten Cruel Tortures of the Qing Dynasty that his daughter taught him. Since Dayu's criminal law didn't work, he would try the torture instruments from his daughter's original world. Was he afraid that you wouldn't confess?
Soon, ten sets of torture instruments, all made by the Ministry of Justice, came out in full.
"If they still refuse to change, use all the torture instruments."
"yes."
The bailiffs brought the torture instruments. Although the kneeling people were tortured beyond recognition, they were still conscious. When they saw the torture instruments they had never seen before, they finally felt fear in their hearts.
After a cup of tea, the secret room of the Ministry of Justice began to utter the cries of a pig being slaughtered. After a series of screams, the door of the Ministry of Justice opened.
Zhang Yunqi escorted three sealed cages and walked towards the palace.
In the palace hall, Emperor Shunde looked at His Highness's three cages with some confusion.
"Why does this cage look like this?"
"Your Majesty, the cage is built this way to prevent the thief's accomplices from killing and silencing the witness."
"Oh, did they recruit?"
"While at the Ministry of Justice, several people had already written confessions, saying they wanted to meet His Majesty and inform him personally."
"Someone, open the cage."
Not only Emperor Shunde, but other ministers also looked inside.
The cage was quickly opened, and three prisoners were seen kneeling on the ground with their heads lowered. Their original appearance could no longer be seen, and one could only tell from their body shapes that they were men.
"Look up."
The three men turned a deaf ear to Emperor Shunde's orders and kept their heads down.
"Who ordered the three of you to kidnap the young master and young lady of the Jun family?"
"Your Majesty is asking a question, speak quickly." The guard reminded sternly.
The three kneeling people remained motionless. Jun Wansheng felt something was wrong and hurriedly grabbed the head of one of them and made him look up. However, the man was bleeding from all seven orifices and his face was ashen. When he checked his breath, it was clear that he was already dead.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Zhang Yunqi quickly pulled up the heads of the other two people, and they died in the same way.
Seeing the three people die as expected, Fujiwara no Haoji and Fujiwara no Kounu both breathed a sigh of relief and were secretly happy in their hearts that their years of careful training were worth it. At this critical moment, his Fujiwara family won the game again.
According to Dayu's law, the dead cannot be confronted. A written confession alone is not enough; the person must confess in person. In the absence of witnesses, Fujiwara Xiaoquan glanced at Jun Wansheng with contempt, and the meaning was obvious, "This time, you lose."
Zhang Yunqi and Jun Wansheng exchanged a glance and said, "We were careless. We didn't expect that after cutting off their limbs and gagging them, they would still commit suicide."
Jun Wansheng looked at the people who had just died, his eyes full of anger and unwillingness.
But his mind was still on the verge of collapse, and he knelt down hurriedly and said:
"Your Majesty, several people have committed suicide. However, I have three confessions here. Please review them. I hope Your Majesty will uphold justice for my children."
Jun Wansheng handed over the confessions of several people. Emperor Shunde took the confessions, read through them quickly, and looked at Fujiwara Xiaoquan in disbelief.
"Master Fujiwara, this confession states that you ordered them to kidnap Miss Jun and that they must obtain the three-tailed red fox from the Jun family. How do you explain this?"
Fujiwara no Koin hurriedly knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this is a complete slander. Why would a humble servant kidnap someone from your family? As for that three-tailed red fox, I know nothing about it."
"Whether the confessions written by these individuals were actually their own actions is still unknown. The individuals are no longer alive, yet Your Excellency wants to pin the crime on me. What's the logic behind this?"
"Although I have had some minor grievances with the Jun family, I would not go so far as to kidnap a member of the Jun family. I beg Your Majesty to investigate and give me justice."
Fujiwara no Kou knelt on the ground angrily, looking as if he had been wronged.
Emperor Shunde looked at Jun Wansheng and said in embarrassment, "My dear Lord Jun, this man is dead. I cannot convict him based on this confession. Do you think we can look for other clues?"
Jun Wansheng gritted his teeth and said unwillingly, "Since Your Majesty has said so, then I will go and look for other clues."
"My son and daughter are frightened and need comfort. I will take my leave now."
Emperor Shunde waved his hands helplessly: "Since the girl and her brother are fine, you can relax. We will send more guards to follow them in the future. Okay, you can go back!"
After Jun Wansheng left, Emperor Shunde stared at the kneeling Fujiwara dog and said:
"Master Fujiwara, the feud between you and the Jun family is long-standing. It is a private matter between your two families, and I should not interfere. But if you make trouble in the palace again next time, don't blame me for punishing both of you together."
"I dare not, I will keep it in mind."
Looking at Emperor Shunde's leaving back, Fujiwara no Koin cursed him in his heart as an idiot, and then left the palace under the complicated gazes of the ministers.
Duke's Palace.
Jun Shutong looked at the ten guards in front of him helplessly, feeling a headache.
The old man and the old lady gave a strict order that from now on, no matter where the young lady went, they had to follow her, and even if she went to the toilet, they had to guard the door.
The young lady must listen to the two elders' words. As their bodyguards, how could she disobey them? She could only follow them.
"If you follow me like this, who will check what's going on outside?"
Jun Yi looked at the young lady, who was not truly angry, and said, "The general has sent another fifty men for you to command. It would be better for the ten of us to stay with you."
"But they don't know the progress of the previous events. There are some things I don't want more people to know. Do you understand?"
"I understand, but the young lady's safety is more important than anything else."
Jun Yi believed that the reason why the Black Dragon Society members succeeded was entirely because the ten of them were not with the young lady. It was all his fault why he did not follow them out, but listened to the young lady and stayed in the space as a supervisor.
No matter what the ten people think, Jun Shutong has her own ideas. She is touched by her family's concern for her safety, but since the Fujiwara family knows about the awakening of the little fox, they will not let it go and will definitely find ways to make a comeback.
Perhaps, by this time many people already knew about the three-tailed red fox. Given the nature of the Fujiwara family, if he couldn't get it himself, he would have to make it known to the world.
In a dense forest on the outskirts of the royal capital, several people from the martial arts world were gathered together to talk.
"Did the Jun family really get an awakened spirit beast?"
"Guaranteed authenticity! This is news released by the Fujiwara family themselves. It's absolutely true."
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