Chapter 121 Returning to Beijing, the storm rises again
Zhao Prison.
Ouyang Lun regained his composure and looked at Li Qing with disdain in his eyes, "Just wait for bad luck!"
"It's you who should be unlucky."
Li Qing took out his confession and said, "In the spring of the 14th year of Hongwu, you were selling smuggled tea in thirty-five carriages. When you passed the checkpoint, your slaves beat up the tax collector, causing the tax collector Zhang Erdan and Liu Tiezhu to die. Can you plead guilty?"
Ouyang Lun's nostrils turned upward and he sneered again and again, "Li Qing, you don't really think you can kill me, do you?
Even if I smuggle tea and beat officials, I, Ouyang Lun, am still the Prince Consort!
The princess is here, and I am here!
The most the emperor can do is remove me from office, but it's different for you."
He said bitterly, "My brothers-in-law are all powerful. When you get out of here, you are waiting to be retaliated by us!"
"Those brothers-in-law of yours?" Li Qing smiled, "You really think highly of yourself and don't care about your own worth. Why should they help you?"
Ouyang Lun said calmly: "Yes, I don't have that ability, but Anqing does!
And don’t forget, Anqing is the youngest daughter of the emperor and the queen, and the emperor and the prince will definitely keep me safe."
"Obsessed!"
Li Qing shook his head slightly and said to the jury Liu Qiang outside the cell door, "Remember, Prince Consort Ouyang Lun admitted to selling smuggled tea and beating officials to death."
He turned his head and asked: "Let me ask you again, you bought tea from tea farmers at extremely low prices, and the tea farmers reported it to the officials, but you instigated local officials to violently suppress it, making it difficult for the tea farmers to make a living and indirectly causing unnecessary harm to their lives. Can you plead guilty?"
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Ouyang Lun snorted coldly: "I won't say another word until the princess comes."
Even now, Ouyang Lun is still so arrogant and confident, which shows how domineering he is in Bashu.
Li Qing's anger surged and he shouted in a deep voice:
"answer!"
A good drink.
Ouyang Lun, who had been infinitely arrogant just a moment ago, suddenly turned pale, his heart seemed to have been hit by a sledgehammer, and even his soul was throbbing.
He couldn't help but take two steps back. He lost his footing and fell to the ground. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Qing as if he had seen a ghost.
The ghost said: "I...I confess my sins."
"Li Qing!" A voice shouted from afar. Princess Anqing's pretty face was frosty, and she walked quickly with her skirt in hand, "Li Qianhu!"
Li Qing stood up and held his hands, "I have met Her Highness the Princess."
Seeing that he had maintained his etiquette, An Qing softened his expression slightly and said, "The trial is over for now. You can go back!"
"May I ask, Your Highness the Princess, is this the Emperor's will?"
"You..." An Qing narrowed his eyes and glared at Li Qing fiercely.
Li Qing was not used to her either, "If it were not the emperor's order, I would not be able to obey the order. The official is interrogating the imperial prisoner, so please avoid the princess."
"Li Qing..." An Qing was angry and said sadly: "This princess has misjudged you."
"..." Don't say that, it's like you and I are having an affair, Li Qing said expressionlessly, "Princess, please stay away."
"Queen, the Crown Prince has a decree." An Qing said, "The interrogation is suspended and the Prince Consort is transferred to the Prince Consort's Mansion until Bashu finds out the truth and then tries again."
Li Qing cupped his hands and said, "I'm sorry, but I obey."
"You dare to disobey?"
"The Imperial Guard only obeys the orders of the Emperor." Li Qing said indifferently, "The Emperor ordered me to interrogate the consort Ouyang Lun. How can I give up halfway?"
"you……"
Even though Su Qin was talented in Anqing, there was nothing he could do against Li Qing, who was unable to make a living.
I had no choice but to say to Liu Qiang and others, "You guys should step aside first. This princess has something to say to you, Li Qianhu."
Liu Qiang and the others looked at each other, then looked at Li Qing.
"Don't listen to her, just stay here."
Li Qing said to An Qing, "If the princess has anything to say, you might as well wait until the official has finished hearing the case."
An Qing was very sad and angry. She had never been contradicted like this before. Seeing that she couldn't talk to Li Qing and couldn't care about the princess's manners, she just started throwing tantrums.
Li Qingdon felt a headache. She was a princess after all, and he really couldn't do anything to An Qing. The other party was acting recklessly and making trouble. The case could not be tried today.
"Huh~"
Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the adjudicated charges and sent them to Ouyang Lun, "Paint them!"
"No painting!"
When Ouyang Lun saw his wife coming, he became arrogant again.
Damn it, I can’t cure you yet.
Li Qing was furious and said in a cold voice: "According to the Ming Dynasty law, criminals are not required to make a confession and stick them with a stick of eighty!
Someone, call me!"
Ouyang Lun's voice trembled slightly: "Princess, save me."
"Li Qing, how dare you!?"
"beat!"
Several guards in royal robes hesitated for a moment, picked up their imperial staffs and rushed into the prison.
Ouyang Lun was really scared and shouted: "Princess, please save me."
Princess Anqing was also panicked. She didn't expect that Li Qing would dare to torture the consort, and rushed to the prison with his neck strangled.
"Hold her off."
A dozen or so guards in uniform immediately formed a human wall and blocked the cell door tightly.
"Ah..." Princess Anqing's lungs almost exploded with anger, "Li Qing, I won't let you go."
Li Qing remained unmoved, "Execution!"
"Pah, pah, pah..."
Ouyang Lun was pushed to the ground by two Jinyi guards with their killing sticks. The other two Jinyi guards raised their boards and hit him on the buttocks.
Ouyang Lun was in agony, and the little tsundere quickly broke into pieces, "I draw, I draw."
"You can't draw." An Qing shouted, "Stop it first, I'll go find the emperor brother and the queen mother."
"I...I can't help it!"
An Qing looked at this unsatisfactory prince-in-law, with a look of hatred on his face, "It hurts you so much. Wait, I will bring someone here in a minute."
After saying that, he glared at Li Qing hatefully, picked up his skirt and rushed out.
Ouyang Lun screamed in pain, but he did hold it back. He also knew that once the matter was settled, there would be no room for turning around. Now he could only place his hope on his wife.
Lao Taishan is unreliable, but his uncle and mother-in-law are still reliable. With them around, Ouyang Lun feels that nothing will happen to him.
Eighty boards down, Ouyang Lun lost half his life.
This was still a simple 'fight'. If he had 'really fought', it wouldn't take more than eighty strokes to kill him.
If it's a 'beat with heart', it only takes twenty boards to make him meet the King of Hell.
Li Qing walked up to Ouyang Lun and asked, "Do you want to draw or not?"
"No!" Ouyang Lun also said, "I don't believe you dare to beat me to death."
"I really don't dare." Li Qing chuckled, "But I can continue to torture him."
"Torture!"
zan (zan) torture, commonly known as clamping torture, involves inserting a zan into fingers or toes and then tightening them with force, which is very tolerable for most people.
However, among the torture methods in Jinyiwei, this can only be regarded as average. It is much crueler than this, especially the 'rinsing', which involves pouring boiling water on the person first, and then rinsing with an iron brush until only the bones are left.
After a while, Ouyang Lun's fingers were pinched and then tightened. Ouyang Lun's already weak bones succumbed in a moment.
"Stop... stop it quickly, I'm painting, can't I finish it?"
Looking at the confession in front of him, Ouyang Lun was filled with grief and indignation, but he did not dare to be arrogant anymore and signed the pledge honestly.
Li Qing put away his confession, smiled with satisfaction, and said to Liu Qiang and others: "The trial will end here today, you can go out!"
Liu Qiang and others knew that the boss was protecting them in disguise, so they nodded gratefully and backed away.
These people all have families, and their wives, children, and mothers rely on them to support them, and Li Qing doesn't want them to be angered.
Half an hour later, Zhu Biao hurried over, but An Qing did not follow.
Ouyang Lun, who was half-dead, immediately cheered up, crawled to the cell door and cried, "Brother Emperor, Li Qing abused lynching and beat him to death, so I ask Brother Emperor to make the decision for me."
"Don't call me Brother Guhuang, there is no one like you...brother-in-law."
Zhu Biao almost made a mouthful and followed in his father's footsteps, but luckily he changed his tune in time.
Without even looking at Ouyang Lun, he said to Li Qing, "Mr. Li, follow me into the palace."
Li Qing's heart sank, "Your Highness, but the empress..."
"Yes." Zhu Biao's face was not very good, "Hurry up and enter the palace with me."
"good."
On the way, Zhu Biao explained what happened.
It turned out that when Princess Anqing went to the Qianqing Palace to cry, Zhu Yuanzhang was also there. Seeing that his daughter kept excusing Ouyang Lun, he became even more angry and wanted to punish Anqing for her crime. He directly ordered the eunuch to lock her up, as if he wanted to kill her relatives. Posture.
Empress Ma was already worried about her daughter's future, but when she saw that Lao Zhu didn't even spare his own daughter, she became so furious that she fainted.
"Mr. Li, will his mother be okay?" Zhu Biao asked nervously.
Li Qing quickened his pace, "Your Majesty has recovered a lot from her illness, so it shouldn't be a problem."
Having said that, he didn't know for sure. The reason why he asked Queen Ma to stay away from the Qianqing Palace was to prevent her from getting emotional.
Unexpectedly, the most undesirable situation happened.