Cao Canjun ignored him and instead looked around with a serious and vigilant expression.
This guy has too many tricks up his sleeve; we can't afford to let anything go wrong.
Footsteps came from behind the door, and a guard led a physician in.
"Physician, please take another look."
Cao Canjun was worried that Tan Biao would faint before the Emperor could interrogate him.
Then, the Prefect of the Capital will be in a difficult position to explain himself.
The doctor approached Tan Biao shakily, examined him carefully, then clicked his tongue, frowned, and said regretfully, "Oh dear, the injury is too severe; I'm afraid it won't heal."
Tan Biao immediately flew into a rage. He bared his teeth and his eyes turned bloodshot. "You fucking show me! I, the dignified Marquis of Chi Nan, cannot be without an heir!"
He killed all the women who had shared his bed in the past and threw them into a well, so he has no children to this day.
"If you can't do a good job, believe me, I'll kill you!"
"I'm going to slaughter your whole family!"
[A madman will surely face divine retribution!]
Cao Canjun looked at Tan Biao and tugged at the corner of his lips.
"It's shattered into such a state that I'm truly powerless to do anything about it."
The doctor looked troubled, his forehead covered in sweat, and he spread his hands, revealing an embarrassed and helpless expression.
"Damn it!" Tan Biao shouted, waving his fists despite the excruciating pain in his lower body.
In his rage, his face turned deathly pale, devoid of any color, and he looked utterly vicious.
"Damn it, I'm going to file a complaint with the emperor!"
"That depends on whether Marquis Chi Nan still has this opportunity," Cao the Military Advisor sneered.
What is that?!
His mouth should be ripped off!
Tan Biao waved his fists wildly, and Military Advisor Cao quickly pulled the kind-looking doctor away.
"Give him some hemostatic medicine, don't let him die."
"Yes, sir."
Tan Biao kept cursing and refusing to cooperate, so the doctor had no choice but to use some hemostatic drugs and some sedatives.
Tan Biao gradually calmed down, and then fainted.
...
Yun Duoduo and Jin Jinzhi came out of the basement and saw a soldier leading a pale-faced Guan Guan towards them.
"Guan Guan!"
Yun Duoduo ran forward, looked at Guan Guan, and carefully examined her body for any injuries.
"Princess……"
Guan Guan's tense nerves relaxed the moment she saw Yun Duoduo. Her legs went weak, she hugged Yun Duoduo, and silently shed tears.
"Alright, alright, it's alright now. Tan Biao didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have let you get involved in these things, and I even caused you to get arrested."
“These were all done voluntarily by Guan Guan and his father, so it’s not the princess’s fault.”
“By the way, Princess, my maternal grandfather…” Guan Guan looked at Yun Duoduo with concern.
"Don't worry, Grand Secretary Guan doesn't know you've been kidnapped; he just thinks you're staying in the palace."
Guan Guan breathed a sigh of relief. "That's good. If my maternal grandfather knew, he would definitely be worried."
“He’s getting old, and I’m worried his health won’t be able to handle it.”
"Duoduo, let's take you back to the inn first, so you can get some rest," Jin Jinzhi said from the side.
The night was getting deeper and the weather was getting colder. Standing outside like this, it was easy to catch a cold.
“Okay.” Yun Duoduo helped Guan Guan stand up and walked behind Jin Jinzhi.
"Tan Biao, he didn't do anything to you, did he?" Yun Duoduo asked hesitantly in the carriage.
"No……"
"After they arrested me, they kept me locked up in a very small, dark room with no light at all."
As he spoke, Guan Guan's body began to tremble.
Looking at her, Yun Duoduo squeezed her hand.
It's all my fault. I should have thought about the consequences before doing things.
From now on, I must protect the people around me.
"Although today was dangerous, thankfully none of you were injured."
"Princess, you mustn't do that again next time, it's too dangerous," Jin Jin said, still shaken.
"Okay, Jinzhi-gege."
"We'll take you back to the inn to rest first, and then send you back to the palace early tomorrow morning."
"Oh, right."
“There is a secret room in the Marquis of Chi Nan’s mansion, near the torture chamber, where his records of embezzlement, bribery, and bribery are kept.”
"And a list of the girls who died at his hands."
Guan Guan said that when she was locked up, she heard some fragmented words, and pieced them together to get this information.
Jin Jin nodded.
"Yes, Tan Biao himself said it himself, about the dry well and all that."
Jin Jinzhi looked slightly surprised.
“He thought I wouldn’t survive the night, so he told me all his secrets. He said he was feeling pent up.”
At this point, Yun Duoduo couldn't help but find it amusing.
As the old saying goes, villains die from talking too much.
Jin Jinzhi twitched the corner of her mouth.
"Also, in the corner of the torture chamber, next to the witch statue, is a memorial tablet written by Tan Biao himself. It is his mother's memorial tablet, a sacrifice made with the soul of a young girl."
This is utterly depraved!
"I'll leave the rest to my brother Sumire."
Jin Jinzhi nodded.
...
The sky gradually turned a pale white.
Inside the Marquis of Chi Nan's residence, Jin Jinzhi sent his men to search the entire mansion.
"General Jin, you've been busy all night, don't you want to rest?"
"Time is too tight."
"First, search the rooms next to the torture chamber; there should be ledgers or something similar."
Jin Jinzhi glanced around; the Marquis of Chi Nan's residence was indeed very large.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Military Advisor Cao and his men had found many things.
"General Jin, the ledgers you mentioned!" Military Advisor Cao emerged from the basement, holding a stack of blue and green ledgers.
"So many!" Jin Jinzhi couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He took the ledgers and flipped through them one by one.
This is no longer just embezzlement; this is draining the entire imperial court dry!
This involves officials of all ranks in the imperial court, from vice ministers and ministers to prefects and governors. If this list were to leak, the court might be in for a major upheaval!
Tan Biao not only associated with the Prince of Jin's faction, but also with some bandits and mountain brigands.
"General Jin, we've dug up bones!"
After the guards cleared away the weeds from the dry well next to the outhouse in the southern garden of the Marquis of Chi Nan's mansion, they dug up a pile of white bones.
"A total of thirty-two skulls were unearthed," Cao Canjun said with a heavy heart.
"General Jin, should we take out the ancestral tablets and witch statues from the torture chamber?" a soldier asked from the side.
"What about the embers?"
"Jin Zhi, I'm here!" Xiao Jinyu had already arrived with the Imperial Guards. Hearing Jin Jin calling him, he hurried over to check.
“Jin Yu, take a look at the things in the basement.” Jin Jinzhi nodded to him.
"Someone, go down and check it out!"
"Watch your step! Everything in the basement is evidence, so keep it safe!" Xiao Jinyu led a team down into the basement.
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