Chapter 42 Interrogation of the Shangyuan County Magistrate

Chapter 42: Interrogation of the Shangyuan County Magistrate
Seeing the prisoner being brought in, Ye Xuan sat up straight, picked up the gavel and slammed it hard: "Niu Er, you are exposed!"

Niu Er had just gotten drunk with his friends the night before, and when Song Zhenshan pulled him out of bed, he was still in a daze and had no idea what had happened.

It was not until he was brought to court that he came to his senses a little.

He was just a street scoundrel who had never even been to Yingtian Prefecture many times. How could he recognize that the official uniforms worn by Ye Xuan and others were those of the famous and notorious Jinyiwei?
Thinking that he was just an ordinary official, he stiffened his neck and grinned, shouting, "Sir, please don't look at me as a commoner and slander my innocence! What happened? I don't understand!"

"Since you can't understand it by listening, you can at least understand it by reading it!" Ye Xuan sneered and threw the file of Li Yanran's case in front of Niu Er.

Niu Er flipped it casually and immediately looked around in panic.

It was not until he saw Shangyuan County Magistrate Lin Zhiqi in the corner of the court that he calmed down a little.

Seeing Niu Er's gaze, Lin Zhiqi immediately broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and he blinked at Niu Er desperately.

At this moment, Niu Er was stunned when he saw that the county magistrate, who used to be so powerful and arrogant, not only did not sit at the desk, but was standing in the corner of the courtroom and winking at him obscenely.

But before Niu Er could figure out the reason, Ye Xuan on the desk smiled at Lin Zhiqi and said, "Master Lin, what's wrong with your eyes?"

Lin Zhiqi's body trembled, and he said in an extremely absurd way: "I don't know where a strange wind blew, and the sand and wind blinded my eyes."

Ye Xuan raised his lips slightly, and said meaningfully: "If you say so, it's really a demonic wind. You dare to stir up trouble under the emperor's feet and confuse the eyes of my court officials."

"It's not a big deal if you're blinded by the wind and sand, but if you're blinded by money, your bright future will be ruined!"

Lin Zhiqi's eyes twitched slightly, but he still had to bow to Ye Xuan and agree: "What Lord Ye said is really a wise saying!"

After all, Lin Zhiqi was an old hand who had been in the officialdom for several years. How could he not hear the sarcasm in Ye Xuan's words?
But he felt guilty at the moment, and even if he had more courage, he would not dare to attack Ye Xuan, the Jinyiwei who had received the imperial edict.

At that moment, I felt anxious, angry and regretful!
The one who was anxious was the Jinyiwei named Ye Xuan. It was obvious from his words that he had colluded with Niu Er, and he didn't know how to clear himself.

The one who was angry was this Jinyiwei named Ye Xuan, who had seized his case, brought him to court, and ridiculed him in front of all the elders of the county;
What he regretted was that he was annoyed that he had made a mistake somewhere, which led to the emperor hearing the news and the Jinyiwei coming to his door!

But no matter how interesting Lin Zhiqi's psychological activities were, Niu Er was too stupid to understand the situation. He thought that with Lin Zhiqi present, these officials in front of him were just going through the motions and would not do anything to him.

He actually regained a bit of his arrogance, holding his head high and trying to show his street manners, "I'm afraid this lord doesn't know that I am also a good friend of the county magistrate!"

These words made Lin Zhiqi so angry that his eyelids twitched. He was about to speak out to stop him but was dissuaded by Ye Xuan's half-smile and half-smile look.

Seeing Ye Xuan listening attentively, Niu Er became bolder and grinned, "I know that the best thing for you officials is to make friends. Why don't we leave the court first and let me set up a table in the largest brothel in the county and talk slowly!"

Before Ye Xuan could say anything, Wang Feihu on the side laughed angrily.

He went up and kicked Niu Er on the shoulder, sending him flying two or three meters away, cursing, "You ignorant bastard, you are worthy of being friends with my Lord Ye!"

Niu Er rolled on the ground with his hands on his shoulder in pain. A Jinyiwei came forward to check and found that one of Niu Er's left arms had been broken by Wang Feihu's kick. The people in the hall saw this and burst into cheers of delight. There was even an old lady who flirted with the muscular Wang Feihu, which gave Wang Feihu goose bumps.

Ye Xuan lost his patience at this moment, and asked coldly: "Niu Er, did you commit the crime of Li Yanran? Tell the truth and you can avoid physical pain!"

Immediately, the Jinyiwei came forward and lifted Niu Er up.

Niu Er crossed his arms and still insisted, "It's unfair! What Li Yanran? This commoner really didn't do it. If you don't believe it... If you don't believe it, you can ask the county magistrate. He knows about this!"

Ye Xuan sneered and glanced at Lin Zhiqi who was constantly wiping his sweat, and said: "I don't think Lord Lin knows it!"

As he spoke, Ye Xuan looked at the people outside the hall and suddenly asked loudly: "Fellow elders of Shangyuan County, tell me if Niu Er is innocent!"

The people looked at each other in bewilderment after hearing this. After a moment, a middle-aged man said angrily, "If Niu Er is innocent, then there will be no bad people in this world!"

Other people immediately chimed in, "This bastard injured my son's leg last month!"

"What a sin! This scoundrel even wants to steal the old woman's eggs. It's better to say that the crow is white than to say that he is innocent!"

"Mr. Jinyiwei, you must uphold justice for the people of Shangyuan County!"

Ye Xuan sneered and said to Niu Er: "Did Niu Er hear that? How dare you say you are innocent when you have committed so many bad deeds?"

Niu Er's lips were trembling and he couldn't speak.

Seeing this, Ye Xuan didn't bother to argue with him. He casually pulled out a command arrow and threw it into the court, saying, "I want to see how long you can keep your mouth shut against the tactics of my Jinyiwei!"

"Jin...Jinyiwei!" Niu Er suddenly realized and his eyes began to tremble with fear!
During the Hongwu period, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty, from the first-rank officials to the common people, was not afraid of the Jinyiwei.

Wang Feihu had long disliked Niu Er. When Ye Xuan gave him an order, he immediately approached Niu Er with a strange laugh.

"Guys, get on with the stuff!"

Following Wang Feihu's order, more than a dozen Jinyiwei took out their favorite torture instruments from their arms.

There were more than ten kinds of torture instruments, including splints, skinning knives, tongue-pulling hooks, brain hoops, and finger nails, all of which were stained with black blood.

Smelling the bloody smell, Niu Er's crotch was already wet before he even started to torture him!
"No, no, no, don't torture me. I confess everything!"

Ye Xuan sneered and sneered: "It's too late to think about it now!"

Thus, a unique punishment exposition was launched in front of the people of Shangyuan County for a full half hour.

Niu Er, who was no longer in human form, held on to his spirit and confessed everything, including how he was tempted by the beauty, how he killed people to silence them, and how he bribed Lin Zhiqi. Then he happily fainted.

(End of this chapter)