Chapter 64 Dali Temple Prison
People detained by the Dali Temple were usually locked up in the prison. Shi Yu's identity was unknown, so he could only serve as a witness.
The lighting in the Dali Temple prison was dim, with all kinds of blood-stained torture instruments hanging on the walls. Those with weaker willpower would often have their defenses broken down psychologically before the trial began.
"You said Shen Zhongan sent three urgent reports to Shengjing. Where is the evidence?"
Chen Yu said calmly: "There must be records of messengers delivering newspapers to the capital at the post stations along the way. We can find out where the source is cut off by checking."
The clerk wrote quickly on the file.
Zuo Zong said: "How can you, a soldier without any official position, know about the urgent news?"
"Your Excellency doesn't know," Shen Yu said in detail, "Of course we didn't know before the battle of Yanliang Pass, but Liang Jianfang closed the door and intended to trap the army to death. When General Shen sent the third letter, he was already at the end of his rope. Many people in the army knew about it. The urgent report at the critical moment of life and death was no longer a secret, but the soldiers' hope of survival."
Zuo Zong looked at him warily. The young man in front of him looked no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. There was a hint of distraction and sharpness in his eyes, but his thinking was clear and he was unusually calm from beginning to end. He was definitely someone who should not be underestimated.
Since Xie Yun thinks so highly of him that he is willing to come and pick him up personally, this man must have some extraordinary qualities.
The interrogation lasted from the afternoon until late at night.
The Dali Temple did not have a special room for witnesses, so Zuo Zong had no choice but to place her in the Dali Temple prison.
The Dali Temple is in charge of important and serious cases. Those who are sent here are either extremely vicious criminals or high-ranking officials who have been dismissed. The conditions of the cells are also divided into high and low levels. For example, the cells for officials awaiting trial who have a chance to turn things around are naturally different.
Yanliangguan was an important case, and Chen Yu was a witness. Although Zuo Zong was very angry with Xie Tingzhou, he could not take revenge on her and put her in the worst cell.
In the dead of night, the clappers sounded for the fourth time, and the warden on patrol finished his final inspection of the cells. After that, he would switch to a round every hour.
The warden took a look at Shi Yu's cell and saw him lying on his side on the bed with his back to the cell door, snoring softly and seemed to be sleeping soundly.
The sound of the prison warden's footsteps faded away, and after another stick of incense, Chen Yu suddenly opened her eyes.
The cell on the left was empty, but the person in the cell on the right was snoring loudly.
Shen Yu tiptoed to the cell door and observed for a moment, then pulled out a thin wire from her boots and began to unlock it.
She half-crouched down and fiddled with the wire in the keyhole for a few times. With a very slight click, the lock opened.
There was an iron chain wrapped around the door, which made a noise when it was moved slightly.
She took off her coat and wrapped it around the chain, slowly opened the door, looked around on both sides of the aisle, and walked deeper into the Dali Temple Prison.
Liang Jianfang is sleeping.
On his way back from Yanliang Pass, he was imprisoned in the Dali Temple Prison, but he was not afraid and still ate and drank as usual.
Chen Yu stood in front of the wooden bed, looking down at the sleeping Liang Jianfang.
It was this person who, behind closed doors, killed a hundred thousand soldiers and his father and brother.
The enemy is right in front of me, and my heart is constantly clamoring to skin him alive and cut him into pieces, but I can only suppress the hatred that is about to explode in my heart.
Reason told her that this was not enough.
How could his life alone be worth the lives of one hundred thousand soldiers? The mastermind behind him has not yet surfaced.
Shen Yu raised her foot and kicked Liang Jianfang who was lying on the wooden bed.
Liang Jianfang had long been accustomed to being woken up by the jailers in the middle of the night, who would interrogate him when he was extremely sleepy and his willpower was at its weakest.
Thinking it was another jailer, Liang Jianfang slowly got up. When he saw that the man in front of him was not dressed as a jailer, he was so scared that he wanted to shout.
When he opened his mouth, Shen Yu stuffed a piece of rag into his mouth and whispered, "If you make a sound, you will die. Who do you think is faster, the jailer running faster or me taking your life faster?"
Liang Jianfang opened his eyes wide. Even though his hands were not tied, he did not dare to take the cloth off his mouth.
Chen Yu stared at him coldly, "Let me ask you, who instructed you in the Yanliangguan case?"
The person in front of him was facing away from the light, so Liang Jianfang couldn't see him clearly.
Chen Yu took out the dagger and turned it in her hand a few times, "I'll count to three. If you haven't figured out how to answer, I don't mind reminding you, one..."
Liang Jianfang was a coward, so he took the handkerchief out of his mouth before the second sound came out. "I'll tell you, I'll tell you."
Chen Yu raised her chin.
"Yes..." Liang Jianfang swallowed his saliva, "It's the Prime Minister, Lord Jiang."
Chen Yu frowned, "Prime Minister? Jiang Yuanqing?"
Liang Jianfang nodded solemnly, "Don't kill me. I am just an employee. The ideas are all from the seniors."
Shen Yuxiang
I thought: "Did you say the same thing when you recruited?"
"yes."
Chen Yu sneered, "Then tell me, what is Jiang Yuanqing's purpose in instructing you to do this?"
Liang Jianfang said tremblingly: "Lord Jiang and General Shen have a feud, but I don't know what the feud is about."
"You don't know, then let me tell you," Shen Yu picked up the dagger and put it against Liang Jianfang's neck, leaning closer and slowly saying: "That is... there is no festival."
As they got closer, Liang Jianfang suddenly saw his face clearly. He had seen this man in Shen Zhongan's army, and he was following Shen Zhao!
Shen Yu did not miss the moment when Liang Jianfang's eyes flashed when he was exposed. That was when he subconsciously looked for a way out when his lie was exposed.
Shen Yu raised her dagger slightly, and Liang Jianfang was forced to raise his chin.
"I'll give you another chance to answer again. I want to hear the truth."
Liang Jianfang didn't dare to move, "Really, I didn't lie."
"Wrong answer." Shen Yu smiled.
Liang Jianfang read the danger in his smile, his pupils shrank, and before he could react he was tapped in the xue, and the cloth was stuffed back into his mouth.
Then there was a sudden pain in my leg.
Liang Jianfang's eyes widened instantly and he let out a low growl.
Chen Yu said: "Is it worth it? The people behind you want you dead, but you blocked it for them and even tried to bite others for them."
Liang Jianfang started to criticize Jiang Yuanqing. If Chen Yu had not married Jiang Lianzhi in her previous life and knew Jiang Yuanqing, she might have actually believed it.
Jiang Yuanqing is one of the few good people in the Jiang family.
When his father and brother were wronged in the previous life, Jiang Yuanqing was the first to stand up and defend Shen Zhongan, saying that he was definitely not the kind of person who was greedy for fame and fortune and was reckless.
It can be said that Emperor Tongxu did not ultimately issue an edict to punish the Shen family, and Jiang Yuanqing was a big part of the reason for this.
Later, when she married into the Shen family, Jiang Yuanqing had a talk with her, asking her to feel at ease living in the Shen family, and that the Jiang family would not let the descendants of loyal ministers feel disappointed.
It’s a pity that she was eventually disappointed by Jiang Lianzhi.
Chen Yu said coldly: "Do you know why we escorted you back to Shengjing instead of taking the shortcut and taking such a long detour?"
Liang Jianfang felt dizzy from the pain, but he concentrated on listening to him.
"Because the person you want to protect is always thinking about killing you and silencing you!"
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