In the study of the Su Mansion.
The setting sun shone through the window, illuminating only a small area of the ground, while the rest of the area was dim because of the dark sky.
Master Su stared angrily at Su Jingming, who lowered his head respectfully.
"Pa!" he slammed his palm onto the huanghuali wood table, making the teacups jingle. "Tell me! Where's your sister?!"
Su Jingming calmly replied, "My son doesn't know."
"Don't know?" Master Su sneered and said, "The guards in the mansion saw with their own eyes that the night Mu Yan left, someone was sneaking around the back door to meet her. How dare you say you don't know?"
After hearing this, Su Jingming raised his eyes slightly and looked at Su Cheng, who was looking angry. His face was calm and resolute. "Father, please understand. I really don't know where Mu Yan is. I have been looking for her everywhere these days."
Master Su's furious face curled into a cold smile: "Good! Very good!"
He shouted towards the door, "Bring the man in!"
Two servants staggered in, carrying the blood-covered Lin Qi.
When Lin Qi saw Su Jingming, his eyes suddenly turned red: "Young Master..."
"Did you see that?" Master Su grabbed Lin Qi's hair and said, "Your good servant has confessed everything! Tell me! Where is Mu Yan?"
Lin Qi's lips were covered in blood. He was forced to raise his head and cried miserably, "No! Young Master! Lin Qi's loyalty to you is known to all, and I didn't say anything!"
Su Jingming's pupils shrank slightly. He took a deep breath and forced himself to look away and not look at Lin Qi.
His tone remained firm and calm: "I really don't know where Mu Yan is now. If you want to punish me, then punish me. Why make things difficult for a servant?"
Su Cheng suddenly let go of his hand.
Lin Qi's body hit the ground with a "bang", making a dull sound.
Su Jingming clenched his hands into fists in his long sleeves and lowered his head to hide his strong emotions.
The next moment.
A slap hit him hard in the face.
"Pa!" A crisp slap sounded.
Five bloodstains suddenly appeared on Su Jingming's pale face.
Su Cheng's voice was cold: "Do you think I dare not punish you?"
His cold tone did not contain a trace of the warmth between family members.
He shouted sternly, "Come here! Take this rebellious son to the torture chamber! Today I want to see whether your words are more stubborn or the Su family's rules are more powerful!"
Two burly servants stepped forward to arrest the man. Su Jingming's gloomy expression was exactly the same as Su Cheng's at this moment.
He said coldly, "My father sold his own daughter to curry favor with the rich and powerful. Now he's torturing his son. He's truly a kind father!"
"How dare you!" Su Cheng heard him and kicked him furiously, "Drag him away! Give him a hundred lashes!"
In the torture chamber of the Su Mansion.
Su Jingming looked at the ancestral tablet on the table at the head of the table with an expressionless face, feeling extremely ironic.
He is the eldest son of the Su family. He has only been back home for half a year, but he has come here more times than any other child in the Su family has come here in their entire lives, right?
The old servant in charge of the execution continued to do his job with an expressionless face.
"Snap! Snap! Snap! Snap!"
The long whip soaked in salt water hit Su Jingming's back again and again, and his skin and flesh were immediately torn.
Even though I have long been accustomed to enduring such punishment from time to time, the pain is still real every time.
He groaned and clenched his teeth tightly.
I know that as long as I can get through this, things will probably be over.
This was the case every time before, whenever his father became suspicious of him, or whenever he did things poorly or not to his liking.
As long as he is punished once in the torture room, he will be free from the punishment.
"Young Master, why are you doing this?" the steward who had followed him said sarcastically, "The master said that if you tell me the whereabouts of the young lady, the execution will be stopped immediately."
This man belonged to the second son of the Su family. When Su Jingming first came to the Su family, he suffered a lot from him.
Su Jingming gritted his teeth and supported himself, sneering, "An old dog...you are worthy...to ask me questions..."
The steward's face turned blue with rage. He flicked his sleeves and shouted viciously, "Keep beating him! Beat him to death!"
The whip shadows were like rain, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.
Veins bulged on Su Jingming's forehead, and bright red blood soaked through his clothes, but he remained silent.
"Ninety-seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred!"
After the last whip fell, Su Jingming finally collapsed to the ground, unable to hold on.
He had been whipped so badly that there was hardly any good flesh left on his body.
The steward squatted down, his words seeming to show concern, but his tone was full of sarcasm: "Young Master, why are you doing this? The master said that if you don't tell the truth, you will be locked up in the dungeon and deprived of food and water until you are willing to tell the truth."
Su Jingming had no strength to resist, and he used all his strength to squeeze out a word from between his teeth.
"roll!"
The steward's face changed, and he said, "You don't know how to appreciate my kindness!"
He shouted angrily, "Come here! Throw him into the dungeon!"
Two servants roughly lifted Su Jingming up and dragged him to the dungeon.
Several maids and servants who were waiting to clean the room at the door of the torture chamber saw him being dragged out in such a miserable state by several servants, and they huddled together with their heads down and muttered mockingly.
"Serves you right! You act so noble and arrogant all the time, and you really think you're great just because you're the eldest son? And yet you've been beaten so miserably by the master!"
"I heard he disobeyed the master, let the eldest daughter go, and ruined his marriage with the Zhao family. I think he's really crazy..."
"What the Su family's eldest son? Bah! I think he's worse than a dog!"
Su Jingming closed his eyes. He had no time to pay attention to the unscrupulous gossip of these people.
Although my father had punished me in the past, it was never as severe as this time.
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