manynovel Chapter 814 The building is empty
Chapter 814 The building is empty
"He must have been in cahoots with those people a long time ago. He knows my habits and reports my whereabouts to them every day. He is their lackey."
Lu Shengyuan said as he looked at Jiang Youzhen, "Even if Liao Tongzhi has been killed, he still has family members at home. We still have to rescue them immediately."
Jiang Youzhen glanced at Li Dongsheng, and when he saw Li Dongsheng nod, he was sure that the person had been rescued.
"Please don't worry about this, sir. Lord Liao's daughter has been rescued, but Mrs. Liao has died at the hands of those thieves, which is a pity. And Lord Liao's son is still in the hands of those people."
Lu Shengyuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said, "We'll save as many as we can, but we still have to find a way to save Liao Tongzhi's son."
"Lord Lu, do you know who their leader is?" Jiang Youzhen asked.
Lu Shengyuan shook his head again. “The leader always had his face covered when he met me. I only met him once. Normally, it was his special envoys who contacted me.”
Jiang Youzhen turned to look at the follower, "What's your name? Who is your leader? Where are the sons of Lord Liao and Lord Lu?"
After hearing this, the follower looked at Jiang Youzhen coldly, sneered, and closed his eyes.
"Come here, punish him." Jiang Youzhen had no mercy at all when facing such people. Some people are just despicable.
He ordered Tao Chendong to be released. Everyone looked calm as they listened to the sound of whips hitting flesh and screams in the interrogation room.
After an unknown number of whippings, a jailer came running over.
"My Lord, he has fainted."
Lu Shengyuan shouted, “Do you even need to ask? Throw water on him to wake him up and continue beating him.”
After being scolded, the jailer ran back happily.
The flogging continued for a while. As the moans from inside gradually faded, the jailer came running over again.
"Sir! Stop beating him. If you continue beating him, he will die."
Lu Shengyuan snorted coldly: "You are still a tough guy."
"What should we do? How can we rescue the hostages if he doesn't confess?" Tao Chendong frowned.
Liao Zhengping was dead, but he had to save his son.
"Then use the tiger bench!" Jiang Youzhen said coldly.
"Tiger bench? What is a tiger bench?" the jailer asked in confusion.
Jiang Youzhen forgot that only the Dali Temple knew about this punishment, so he explained it to them and asked them to prepare.
"What if it still doesn't work?" Tao Chendong asked.
"Then we can only arrest Judge Bian Chunlin." Jiang Youzhen replied.
"Let's interrogate him first! You stay here and watch, we'll go catch Bian Chunlin." Jiang Youzhen winked at Li Dongsheng, and Li Dongsheng immediately understood.
"Then I will send someone to go with you." Lu Shengyuan said as he ordered several jailers to go with him, and gave his official token to Jiang Youzhen.
Now that Jiang Youzhen has lost her gold medal, no one will buy her story.
Jiang Youzhen pulled Tao Chendong out of the prison. Tao Chendong glanced at the jailer behind him and said with a worried tone, "I didn't expect that this place has been occupied by those people. Even Lord Lu can only mobilize so few jailers."
Jiang Youzhen and he walked quickly in front, and Tao Chendong approached Jiang Youzhen and asked, "Do you think what Lord Lu said is true or false?"
Jiang Youzhen glanced at him with an inexplicable look in his eyes, "True and false."
"What do you mean? Are you saying it's a mixture of true and false?"
"Maybe!" Jiang Youzhen came out of the Salt Transport Office and unexpectedly found that it was getting dark.
"You go for a step, I need to go to the toilet." Jiang Youzhen said and walked back.
"This?" Tao Chendong sighed. Why was he either sleeping or peeing? Was he here to investigate a case?
Tao Chendong rode forward with his men, fearing that Bian Chunlin would run away. It was too late to go find the prefect of Jiangling, so he led his men directly to the judge's residence!
Fortunately, the jailers knew the way to the judge's house, and they hurried along. In fact, Tao Chendong was unsure, so he hoped that Jiang Youzhen would catch up quickly. After all, Jiang Youzhen was a martial arts expert, so his safety was guaranteed.
When we arrived at the Bian Mansion, we found that the entire mansion was dark and there was no candlelight.
"What's going on? Could he have run away?" Tao Chendong thought to himself that something was wrong.
"Go up and knock on the door." Tao Chendong ordered.
I banged on the door, but no one responded from inside.
He immediately turned around and pointed at one of the jailers and said, "Go to the prefectural government office and get someone."
He handed Lu Shengyuan's official token to the jailer, who took it and left.
"Open the door, open the door! I am here on the orders of Lord Lu to invite Lord Bian to come to our house for a chat."
But they knocked for a long time and there was still no movement from inside.
"Try to knock it open." Tao Chendong ordered.
"Then let's go for the corner gate! The corner gate looks better than this one."
The group moved to the west corner gate, and several jailers took turns kicking the door. After a while, the door finally fell to the ground.
"Wait, be careful!"
Tao Chendong led his men in and went to the gatehouse to check, only to find that there was no one inside.
They picked up the lanterns in the corridor and lit them, then walked in carefully.
When Jiang Youzhen arrived on horseback, he found that there were no lights on in the entire Bian Mansion, and he couldn't help but frown.
The gate was closed, and only Tao Chendong and his men's horses were in front of the gate. When they went around to the west corner gate, they found that the corner gate had been kicked open.
Just as he was about to go in, he found a jailer standing at the door, so he immediately asked, "What's going on? Where's Lord Tao?"
"Reporting to Lord Jiang, Lord Tao has entered the palace with other colleagues. They have been inside for a while, but no one has come to report the news until now."
He was also panicking! As soon as these people entered, there was no sound, and the whole mansion felt like a hell that swallowed people. It was quiet all around, without any sound at all.
Jiang Youzhen was about to go in to check when she heard hurried footsteps. She looked up and saw that it was a jailer.
"Master Jiang!"
"Where is Lord Tao?"
"Master Tao and the others are still inside. He asked me to come and report. We spread out and searched the entire mansion, but found that it was empty."
"No one? What about the gold and silver? Did they take it away?"
"All of these are gone. We even searched the dresser and other things, but they were empty. But some large and valuable items were not taken away."
"So he ran away?" Jiang Youzhen muttered to himself.
"Take me to have a look."
Jiang Youzhen followed them to the study. Nothing had changed there, even the ink in the inkstone still had some ink left.
However, the secret compartment on the bookshelf was opened and it was empty.
They went around to the backyard and found that the boxes in the room had been turned upside down and the clothes inside were scattered all over the floor. As the jailer said, there was nothing left in the dressing table.
Jiang Youzhen walked around the house and seemed to step on something. He found it was a hard object covered by clothes. He picked it up and saw that it was a gold earring with kingfisher feathers.
After observing it carefully, she wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it in her arms.