Late at night, the wind was blowing and it was very cold, and every household in the county closed the door early and went to bed.

In the west of the city, there is a courtyard with a fire on it.

This courtyard used to be unremarkable, but now it is very famous.

Because, in this courtyard, a widow hanged herself during the day.

Today, the widow's body still sits in the house.

After an autopsy, it must have been a suicide.

According to the rules, the dead bodies were either collected by their families or sent to Yizhuang by the county for resettlement.

After seeing the injured eldest brother, Liangchen came to this courtyard and asked the county not to touch the widow's body for the time being.

He spoke, and the county did not dare to disobey.

As a result, the body of Widow Xu was always placed on the ground.

Liangchen specially hired two bold mothers-in-law to wipe the filth on Widow Xu's body, put on new clothes, and looked as neat as before her death.

It's just that there is no temperature on the body anymore, and from the face to the limbs, it is so stiff.

When he was alone in front of Widow Xu's corpse, Liangchen thought a lot, and he could understand his eldest brother's love for Widow Xu.

In this world, not all love is so wonderful, so white, so innocent, and blessed by everyone.

The love of little people is full of helplessness and sorrow.

Their love is looked at with the eyes of the world, disdainful, despised, and even disgusted.

However, their love is the purest and purest love, more innocent than the love of the prince and the princess.

It's a pity that the world can't accommodate them.

Liangchen has never looked at people with worldly eyes, so he understands this love.

Widow Xu is very pitiful, in essence she is a prostitute. But the eldest brother Liangqing fell in love with her and was willing to marry her, I have to say that Liangqing is really a real person.

Before the second uncle made a career in history, Liangqing was an ordinary farmer, a cropper who shaved in the field all day and night, and he had no money to marry a wife. But after becoming the prince of the country, he still did not marry a wife, from this point of view alone, either the eldest brother was incompetent, or he was emotionally injured.

Obviously, the reason may be the latter.

Perhaps, his younger brother who should have died bumped into the sad incident of his eldest brother.

Liangchen was a little regretful, he was a step late, he knew it late, even if he knew it half a day earlier, Widow Xu would not die. The eldest brother will not have a lifetime of pain in his heart.

Now, his younger brother has to do something for his eldest brother.

After clapping his hands, a thin man was brought into the room.

Liangchen glanced at the thin man, did not speak, and only asked Xiao Tian to throw him in front of him, next to the body of Widow Xu.

The thin man was a little frightened, not the people who had captured him, nor the eunuch in front of him, but the widow Xu lying on the wooden board on the ground.

He clearly remembered that he had held this woman three days ago, and gave the other party seven eldest sons afterwards.

And now, the poor woman was no longer breathing, and was lying cold beside her.

He shuddered.

Liangchen just looked at the thin man and looked at him, his eyes were very peaceful.

The thin man's scalp was numb when he was seen by the good minister, and he subconsciously lowered his head, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pile of torture instruments in the corner of the wall.

Sticks, nails, whips...

All kinds of shocking torture instruments were placed on the ground, and I don't know if it was the reflection of the fire or the original color, these torture instruments looked like they were all red.

As the minutes ticked by, the candles in the house were blown on and off by the wind.

The thin man was tormented in his heart, but he didn't dare to move, let alone speak.

Finally, he felt the man in front of him move.

Liangchen got up, walked straight to Zhao Ming, who was tied hand and foot, and said in a harmonious voice, "Can you tell our family the whereabouts of your friend?" ”

Zhao Ming is Tan Qianniu's best friend, he played together when he was a child, and he mixed up in Xicheng together when he grew up. After visiting the torture room, it was learned that Tan Qianniu went out of the city with Zhao Ming, and then Zhao Ming returned to his residence, but Tan Qianniu did not know his whereabouts. After Liangchen learned about this, he directly sent someone to arrest Zhao Ming, and he wanted to know Tan Qianniu's whereabouts from the other party.

From the outside, this Zhao Ming is a scoundrel in the market, this kind of person bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard, and belongs to the type of recruits who will be recruited as soon as they are hit. But to Liangchen's surprise, this Zhao Ming refused to say that he was a righteous scoundrel.

"Father-in-law, I have never been able to betray my friends." Zhao Ming was certainly afraid in his heart, but he didn't betray his friends because he was afraid, because that would make him feel that he was not worthy of being a man.

"Yes, it is indeed shameful to betray a friend, but do you think Tan Qianniu is worthy of being your friend?" Liangchen smiled and shook his head, "If Tan Qianniu really treats you as a friend, he won't let you accompany him out of the city." ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ming didn't speak, only twitched his cheeks.

"You still say it, there's no need to lose your life for Tan Qianniu." After speaking, Liangchen took out a sleeve and wiped his nose, because he was in a hurry to return to the county seat, he was cold again.

Hearing this, Zhao Ming was taken aback, and said in a lost voice: "I didn't kill the person, the government is a big deal to sue me for not reporting the information, and I will be imprisoned for a few years, how can I die?" ”

"Well, the government won't want your life, but our family will want your life." Liangchen snorted, folded the veil slowly, and then looked at Zhao Ming with a weird smile on his face.

Zhao Ming was shocked by the other party's smile, but after a while, he turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth and said, "My father-in-law just killed me, and I won't say it." "He doesn't believe that this eunuch dares to kill himself, but the county government knows that he was brought here, this eunuch really dares to kill people indiscriminately, but he can't pass the yamen.

"Really? If you don't say it, we always have a way for you to say it. ”

Liangchen doesn't like others to question him, because he has always been empty talk. After finishing speaking, he slapped his palms lightly, and Xiao Tian and Sanada immediately took the clamp stick and sentenced Zhao Ming.

Because of the pain, Zhao Ming bit his lip tightly, his forehead was also wrinkled tightly, and beads of sweat the size of rice grains dripped from his forehead.

"Ten fingers to the heart, you must be in pain now, right? If you can't stand the pain, you can call it out, and we won't laugh at you. But why do you have to do this, you must know that no matter how much you suffer, your good friend will not know. ”

At the moment when Liangchen spoke, the second nail of Zhao Ming's left hand was once again forcibly peeled off by a bamboo stick, and like his thumb, blood suddenly gushed out, red and red.

"What else can you do but torture me?"

Zhao Ming tried his best not to scream, although he could clearly feel the muscles and veins in his left hand beating vigorously because of the great pain, he still gritted his teeth and held on. Yes, he is a scoundrel, but a scoundrel also talks about morality and brotherhood.

No matter what Tan Qianniu did, as long as the other party treated him as a friend one day, he Zhao Ming would never do anything to be sorry for his friend. Therefore, don't say that the other party tortured him, even if he beat him to death, he would never betray his friends.

"We don't know, so let's take our time."

After pinching Zhao Ming's two newly peeled nails in his hand and taking a closer look, he found that this kid was still hard, Liangchen shook his head, shook it slightly, and suddenly, two bloodstained nails fell to the ground.

"If you just beat me to death, I won't say it." Zhao Ming gritted his teeth and said.

Liangchen sighed and tempted: "Say it, our family will give you five hundred taels, you can take this money, whether you stay in Suning, go to Fucheng, wherever you go, you will never worry in this life." ”

Listening to Liangchen's words, Zhao Ming laughed "haha": "Do you think I will betray my friends for money?" You are wrong, although I, Zhao Ming, have not done many good things in my life, at least, I have never betrayed my friends. ”

The laughter suddenly stopped, and he said categorically: "You better kill me, because it is impossible for me to betray my brother!" ”

"You can't be resurrected when you die."

Liangchen admired Zhao Minglai a little, he didn't expect this guy to be so tough, but this was not what he wanted.

"If you want to kill, you will kill, and it is useless to talk too much."

After saying these eight words, Zhao Ming's mouth no longer opened, his eyes were closed, a look of begging for death, and the resoluteness of his will made Xiao Tian who was tortured a little admired.

"You know, my brother wanted to die with Widow Xu after he knew that she had committed suicide. Our family persuaded him and told him that Widow Xu would not be alone on the Huangquan Road, and there would always be someone to accompany her. At that time, to be honest, our family just wanted Tan Qianniu to accompany his sister-in-law on the road, and now it seems that you are not a bad person. Liangchen said quietly, Zhao Ming's hardness angered him, and he coldly ordered: "Bring things in." ”

The door was opened with a bang, and Zhao Ming was stunned, it was actually a coffin carried in by several big men.

With a "bang", the coffin fell to the ground heavily, just looking at the weight, it was obviously a first-class coffin, worth a lot of money.

Liangchen ignored the surprised Zhao Ming, looked around the coffin, nodded with satisfaction, and ordered Widow Xu's body to be carried into the coffin.

After the widow Xu entered the coffin, he said to the extremely calm widow Xu: "My eldest brother asked me to bury you, this coffin is already the best coffin in the city, in addition, I let this person bury you with you, I hope you don't dislike it." ”

"What are you going to do?"

In fright, Zhao Ming was lifted up and thrown into the coffin. Immediately, the lid of the coffin was pressed up, and it was suddenly pitch black, and nothing could be seen, and only the muffled sound of hammers and nails was heard in my ears.

After the twelve long nails were hammered in, Liangchen looked at the coffin motionlessly, and he was very patient.

In the coffin, there was no movement.

"It's a man."

Liangchen felt that the world was really strange, like Zhao Ming, a scoundrel in the market could treat death as home, but what did he have to do with this courage not to be rich and noble, why did he have to be idle and be a gangster.

Perhaps, this is the difference between people.

Sometimes, not being afraid of death is not a prerequisite for doing great things.

It's a pity.

Liangchen was a little regretful that he couldn't pry open the mouth of this scoundrel, and if he wanted to find Tan Qianniu, he was afraid that he would have to start with his family, but at this time, there was a sound from the coffin, which was the sound of slapping the coffin lid, vaguely accompanied by the shout of "I said".

Not...

Liangchen laughed, it was probably less than a minute before and after, and he really didn't go into the coffin and didn't cry.