In the palace, Zhu Changfang was restlessly waiting for the news that he would let Bai Yan go, otherwise he would not be so anxious if he heard her sing a few songs. If he succeeded, he would just take the newly promoted Qinhuai Flower Court Red Pill as a celebration.

Finally, a hurried footsteps came, and an old man in his fifties and a little slim figure stepped in. This person was the housekeeper of the Lu Wang Mansion, more than 20 years older than Lu Wang. It was equivalent to watching him grow up and being loyal to him. He was the person Zhu Changfang absolutely trusted. That's why Zhu Changfang sent him out to inquire about the situation.

As soon as he saw this person, Zhu Changfang immediately asked nervously: "How is it?"

The old man shook his head, and Zhu Changfang's face immediately collapsed: "No success."

"Prince, I'm not sure about this matter at all. Fortunately, the prince doesn't have much help. I'll wait a few years to find another opportunity."

Hearing the word "handle", Chang Fang was clever and asked quickly: "Xia Xiyan hasn't come back?"

The hometown replied: "Go back to the prince, no."

After saying this, the housekeeper's face turned pale. He naturally knew that it didn't matter how many casualties or injuries of the assassins were or how many were arrested. If Xia Xiyan was arrested, the one who waited for the Lu Wang Mansion would be a catastrophe.

"Hurry up, send someone to search. If you find it..." A look of hatred flashed in Lu Wang's eyes and he made a killing gesture.

"Yes." The old man responded and hurried out. When Guan's figure disappeared, Wang fell on the chair, sweat flowed out from his forehead. He had been blinded by the throne before, but he felt scared at this time.

The people who went home naturally had nothing to gain. Xia Xiyan took the silver from the middle-aged man. He knew that King Lu was not a good landlord. Of course, he would not be so stupid as to come back. With the few people in the royal palace, he could not even see the city gate. How could he find someone?

The news of the emperor's encounter with the siege spread to the ministers at the speed of the enclave. Many people were shocked and rushed to the palace in an anxious manner to investigate the situation of the emperor's land. Although it is said that it only damaged dozens of guards. The emperor himself was not harmed at all. However, at this time, he naturally did not care whether the emperor was injured. It was not wrong to rush to the palace.

As soon as Wang Fu returned to the palace, he asked to see the emperor and defecate in a constant stream. Seeing that the emperor was fine, some exaggerated ministers couldn't help but cry loudly as to how much of the true meaning there was. I'm afraid no one could tell except himself. Wang Fu had to comfort him with kind words.

After finally sending the minister away, the two noble concubines came over with their children. When they saw the emperor, they also had tears in their eyes. Wang Fu comforted him again, which made him tired when he was usually in court.

Although the three yamen of Jinyiwei, Bingmasi, and government offices did not close the city gates and searched the city. The soldiers and yamen runners came and went on the streets to make the atmosphere in the entire capital tense. The spies of Jinyiwei did not let a pedestrian go. The people and the scholars who came from other places were asking what was going on. When they learned that someone was slaughtering the Emperor, many people were stunned. After coming to their senses, they cursed at the assassins.

After experiencing the feeling of the collapse of the sky and the earth and the earth 17 years ago, most people cherish their current stable life. Although the Ming Dynasty seems as stable as Mount Tai, it is brought by the emperor. With the emperor, the Ming Dynasty will naturally be worry-free. Once the emperor makes a mistake, the prince is young. Who knows if he can suppress so many arrogant soldiers and some ambitious princes will fall into war again. Hearing that since someone is in the imperial examination, he is naturally full of righteous indignation. Those local scholars who come to the capital to take the exam scold the assassins even more fiercely. Fortunately, the emperor is fine. They don’t want to take the exam now.

Therefore, although the search of the capital by the three ministries affected the lives of many people, few people complained that the few were very enthusiastic about providing clues, and reported the suspicious personnel to the Jinyiwei, the Military Commander and the soldiers of Yingtian Prefecture to such an all-in-one search, it took only three days for the assassins to appear and were discovered by the Jinyiwei. After a roundup of the first batch of assassins, seven were arrested.

But another wave of assassinations seemed to have disappeared and became without a trace. However, many thieves, thieves and robbers were arrested without any escape. The public security in the capital suddenly became unprecedentedly good, almost reaching the point where they could not pick up the leftovers.

The gloomy Jinyiwei Prison should have been illuminated by the red fire. The entire cell passage was full of soldiers. Feng Kezong, Guo Weijing, and Ren Minyu were wearing official robes and sat side by side in the center of the prison. In front of them was a middle-aged man covered in scars with whipped bodies. On both sides of the middle-aged man, the charcoal fire in a brazier was burning, and several flat soldering irons were placed inside. The soldering irons were burning red, as if they could melt into juice at any time.

In addition to these, there are also various torture instruments around, and everything you want can be found here. Feng Kezong first patted the table and said, "Tell me, who are you? Why do you want Emperor Xingla?"

The middle-aged man was the prisoner captured by Yang Lin, and he also went to the emperor in the restaurant that day

Among the three prisoners captured by the guards, the other two were killed and could not be asked. The seven assassins caught behind were also Xiaoxiami. They were just thugs hired by someone to pay for money. They didn't even know that the emperor was going to attack, so they naturally had no value for asking.

Only the middle-aged man in front of him was intact and the main leader. When the other assassins were not found, Feng, Guo and Ren could only place their hopes on the person in front of him. Unfortunately, although the middle-aged man looked weak, his bones were not soft. In the past few days, although the Jinyiwei kept torturing him, he refused to reveal a word. Feng, Guo and Ren were not upset, so he had to come over to interrogate him in person.

A trace of resentment flashed in the middle-aged man's eyes, but his lips were still closed. Guo Weijing said coldly: "Mr. Feng, it seems that this thief has not suffered enough, so he should be tortured."

As the Glossal Uniform Guard, Feng Kezong certainly did not be kind and nodded: "Use torture."

"Yes." A Jinyiwei responded, took out the soldering iron from the brazier, with a grim smile on his face, slowly approaching the chest of the middle-aged man, and stopped at a few inches away from the middle-aged man: "Tell me, no matter how many iron-killed men are, they will eventually surrender. Among the eighteen torture instruments of the Jinyiwei, fire is just the initial torture. The punishment will become more and more painful in the future, and you will collapse. Anyway, sooner or later, why bother suffering more?"

This Jinyiwei was a master of torture. He was not in a hurry to brand it first, but slowly approached, allowing middle-aged people to fully feel the temperature of the soldering iron, and then induced it step by step with words. In fact, the biggest fear of prisoners is often that if they really use torture before they use torture, they will eliminate most of the fear. Jinyiwei naturally knows the truth.

As the soldering iron approached him, the high temperature on it had already made his skin hot, and the middle-aged man's face twisted. Although he had survived a few days ago, it was because the Jinyiwei had not put his mind on him for the time being. He heard the Jinyiwei in front of him give him the names of various torture instruments one by one, and the feeling of the soldering iron was less than a single finger away from his body. The middle-aged man's fear was extremely high.

"Hurry, take it away, say." The middle-aged man screamed, and the beads of sweat on his face rolled down like soybeans.

"That's right. Although I don't have any seeds, it's better than suffering from skin pain." The Jinyiwei smiled and moved the soldering iron a little. "Tell me, sir, ask you what your name is, why do you need Emperor Xingla?"

"I'm called Qichang, a son of a Shanxi family. The dog emperor has no faith. He clearly promised that we could get a free gift by offering Taiyuan City. However, after offering the city, one of our eight families was confiscated. The male family was beheaded. The female was demoted to an official prostitute. My enemies with the dog emperor were as deep as the sea, and I wish I could eat his flesh.

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"Bold, don't insult the emperor," Feng Kezong shouted.

"Ba, bha." This time, the Jinyiwei next to him did not hesitate at all, and slapped Jin Qichang on the face with two heavy slaps. A trace of blood immediately appeared on the corner of Jin Qichang's mouth.

"This is just a small lesson for you. If you dare to humiliate the emperor again in your words, you will inevitably suffer from flesh and blood. From your tone, you are a descendant of the eight great merchants of the Qing Dynasty?" Feng Kezong said, looking at Guo Weijing and Ren Minyu, a hint of joy flashed.

"Yes, I will never change my name or change my surname. It is the family's children. The emperor thought that he had killed the male members of our eight families, so we escaped three of them. The other two were from the Huang family and the Liang family. However, they were already dead. This time the eight families were really out of their roots." Qi Chang felt a little sad when he said this. If he had known this, it would be better to find a place to hide his name, marry and have children, and pass on the family.

"You eight imperial merchants are full of conscience. The emperor is not unfair to destroy you. After all, except for you three, what are the identities of the others? Let me tell you in detail about the details of your planning this time."

"Well, I don't want to live anyway. Although I want to take revenge, I can't take revenge with the strength of the three of us. If it weren't for a middle-aged scholar looking at us, we wouldn't have come to the capital..." Qi Chang said in detail what happened.

The king and the housekeeper had been in a state of silence for several days. Even when they heard the sound of horse hooves and footsteps outside the mansion, Lu Wang would be frightened and tremble. After a few days, when he saw that there was no Jinyiwei coming to get people, Lu Wang felt relieved. On that day, he was about to instruct the servants to prepare a car and go around the Qinhuai River to find a Qing Gong to deflower and avoid the foul air. A servant came over and said in a panting, "Oh no, prince, there are many people coming outside, surrounding our mansion."

"Ah." Wang screamed in pain, and he suddenly collapsed onto the chair.

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Chapter completed!