Chapter 264 Torture
After Feng Qingsui finished speaking, Wuhua stepped forward, grabbed Luo Yiwan by the belt, lifted her up, and carried her to the small room on the right side of the torture chamber.
There is an observation hole in the wall between this small room and the torture chamber, so that the scene in the torture chamber can be seen without attracting the attention of the interrogator.
Luo Yiwan was placed on a chair, her sight facing the observation hole.
Die'er, the maid who was responsible for keeping watch for her tonight, was taken into the torture room by two prison wardens and tied to a pillar.
Die'er's face was pale and her eyes were full of fear.
A jailer asked, "Why did you try to kill your master?"
Dier flatly denied it: "I didn't harm Madam. I just heard Madam's nasal voice while she was sleeping. I thought she might be a little cold, so I added charcoal to the fire and closed the window. I planned to open the window after she warmed up."
The warden shouted, "You know burning charcoal with the windows closed can kill people, and yet you still say you didn't kill your master intentionally?"
Dier was suddenly speechless.
Another warden threw a branding iron into the burning charcoal basin, and when it was red hot, he held it in front of Dier and said expressionlessly, "If you don't tell the truth, this piece of iron will be burned on your face."
Facing the red-hot iron right in front of her, Dier's pupils suddenly shrank.
"I, I said, I did it on purpose."
She said in a trembling voice.
"Before she got married, Madam promised us to serve our son-in-law, but when she was pregnant, she gave the maids in the Duke's Mansion a face but refused to give me one, and even said she would marry me off to a servant."
"I don't want to be a slave my whole life, and I don't want my children to be slaves either, so I had evil thoughts and wanted to take revenge on my wife."
"Ju'er and I have the same idea. We have agreed that she will let the eldest lady out to cause trouble during the banquet at the mansion today. I will close the door and burn charcoal at night so that people will think that the lady committed suicide out of fear of punishment."
Luo Yiwan almost believed her first few words, but when she heard Juer, she realized she was lying.
Ju'er clearly followed her instructions and went to the Shen family courtyard, so why did Die'er say it was her own idea?
And it was exactly the same as the excuse she had prepared. Did Dier come up with it herself, or did someone teach her to say that?
If someone teaches, who would that person be?
A gentle face suddenly flashed through her mind, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
No, that wouldn't happen. How could Aunt Zhuang want to take her life?
There must be someone else.
Despite this, Aunt Zhuang's face still lingered in her mind.
Outside, the warden sneered after hearing Die'er's words, "The Ju'er you're talking about has already confessed. She was ordered by your wife to seduce those servants so that your eldest wife could escape from the hospital. How dare you talk nonsense? You really won't cry until you see the coffin."
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and a "sizzling" sound was heard.
The aroma of roasting meat filled the air.
Luo Yiwan closed her eyes at that moment, and the hairs on her body stood on end.
It's so scary.
This place is simply hell on earth.
Dier, the person involved, was even more frightened than her. When the branding iron hit her, her mind was broken and she almost fainted.
But the pain never came.
She turned her head in horror and found that the iron was branding a piece of meat from some unknown animal beside her.
The warden looked at her stiff eyes and said, "You are worried about your parents, don't worry, they are in the Dali Temple now, they are very safe."
After saying that, he threw down the soldering iron and clapped his hands.
The door to the torture chamber opened, and a middle-aged couple with hunched backs and honest faces walked in and called out, "Xiao Die."
Dier was stunned.
"Dad, Mom, why are you here?"
Die's father replied, "Someone suddenly came to our house last night, knocked us unconscious, took the silver bracelet you bought for your mother, gagged us and tied us up. Then the police from the government came to our house, untied us, and brought us here."
Mother Die's eyes were filled with tears: "Xiao Die, is someone threatening you with your father and mother's lives, asking you to do something bad?"
Dier didn't shed a tear when she was hit by the branding iron just now, but when she heard her mother's words, tears suddenly burst out.
"It was Aunt Zhuang who asked me to do this."
She choked.
"She said my parents are in her hands, and if I don't do as she says, she will kill them."
"I thought the Madam wasn't a good person anyway, and I couldn't let my parents' lives be harmed for her, so I agreed."
Luo Yiwan: “?!”
Why isn't she a good person?
Other masters would beat and scold their servants, but she never touched anyone around her. She always gave them her leftover food and unwanted clothes, allowing them to live more comfortably than ordinary ladies.
In the end, just because Aunt Zhuang threatened her, Die'er didn't hesitate to harm her?
It's really a case of "a little bit of kindness, a peck of rice will lead to grudge."
She treated them so well that she turned them into a bunch of ungrateful people!
As she gnashed her teeth, Die'er said to the warden, "The eldest son of our mansion was killed by Madam herself. I saw with my own eyes that she took advantage of the moment and inserted a needle into his fontanelle."
Luo Yiwan: “!!!”
There was clearly no one around when she was giving Shang Chen acupuncture! How did this slave see that?
He stepped forward and was about to stand up and rush out to confront Dier.
Her shoulders suddenly felt heavy, as if a mountain had suddenly fallen down, leaving her unable to move.
She turned her head and saw Feng Qingsui's fat maid putting her hand on her shoulder.
"Madam, please listen to what she has to say before you start arguing with her."
Feng Qingsui smiled slightly.
"When she said that, you jumped up and down. If you didn't know, you'd think she had hit a sore spot."
Luo Yiwan: “…”
The warden asked Die'er, "What was the situation at that time?"
Die'er replied, "When the mansion was holding a funeral for the eldest master, the former prince of our Duke's Mansion, I happened to see my son-in-law and Mi'er from the eldest lady's courtyard cuddling each other, so I told the lady about it."
"The lady was shocked and angry, and immediately went to settle the score with my uncle. I don't know what he said, but when she came back, she warned me not to reveal the matter between my uncle and Mi'er."
"A few days later, I was bitten by an insect and developed measles. The court doctor examined me and said I should use the first bucket of well water in the morning to make medicine. Since the well we usually use in the court had been used up early in the morning, I went to an unused courtyard with a well."
"I didn't expect to hear teasing as I approached the courtyard. I slowed down, walked to the wall, and took a look through the gap."
"I saw the lady standing in the yard, holding a child in her left hand and three needles in her right hand. She gritted her teeth and inserted the needles into the child's fontanelle."
"The child immediately burst into tears."
"The lady threw the child onto the stone table and quickly walked out of the courtyard. As soon as she left, two people came out of the room. They were the son-in-law and Mi'er."
"Mi Er was tidying her clothes while asking her son-in-law, 'When are you going to take me over? I'm getting tired of taking care of this mourning ghost every day.'"
"My son-in-law told her to be patient and wait until the master is a hundred days old, and he will definitely welcome her into the courtyard. He also said that the lady has agreed."
"I didn't dare to fetch water and left quietly. Not long after, the eldest son died young and the eldest lady went mad. Then, someone found Mi'er drowned in the well in that courtyard."
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