readsfreenovel Chapter 345 Eat Their Flesh and Drink Their Blood
Chapter 345 Eat Their Flesh and Drink Their Blood
Bai Wei adjusted her direction again and went to the dungeon.
In the dungeon, Lieutenant General Zhao was responsible for supervising Zhu Youfu and Zhang Wang.
At this moment, the two men were lying in a pile of weeds in the dungeon, with many scars on their bodies, which were obviously the marks left by torture. Their clothes were tattered, with faint blood on them, and their heads were stained with the hay that the prisoners used to sleep on in the dungeon. They looked shabby and miserable, and no longer looked as glorious as before.
The jailer brought the meal, but there was only one portion for the two of them.
The two of them rushed over to grab the food.
How could the thin Zhu Youfu possibly win over the strong and sturdy Zhang Wang?
Zhang Wang knocked him away and took the food for himself.
Zhu Youfu shouted, "Zhang Wang, leave some for me, leave some, I'm hungry too!"
Zhang Wang ignored him and continued chewing.
Zhu Youfu immediately stepped forward to pick up the food and stopped him from eating: "I am the county magistrate, I order you not to eat any more."
Zhang Wang stretched out his hand and pushed him to the ground. "It's already this late. Why are you still showing off your power as a county magistrate? You don't even know if you'll get your next meal after this one. Why should I let you do that?"
What's more, this little bit of food wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth.
Zhu Youfu was very angry, but there was nothing he could do. He could only watch as the rice porridge, steamed buns and vegetables all went into Zhang Wang's mouth, without leaving any.
He couldn't beat Zhang Wang, so he looked at the jailer who was walking away with the plate, and shouted, "How can you be a jailer? Why is there only one serving? There are two of us!"
In the entire dungeon, there were only a few jailers left who had not colluded with Zhu Youfu to commit crimes, or who had entered through the back door and only took money without doing any work.
And the one in front of you is one of the few.
"Oh, one portion for two people is not enough for you? Do you know what the prisoners in this dungeon ate when you were the county magistrate?"
Zhu Youfu was slightly stunned: "What?"
The jailer smiled coldly, with a hint of resentment in his smile: "In order to squeeze money, you only give the prisoners in this dungeon one meal of porridge every day, and there is not even pickled vegetables. And those people under you also imitate you, want to squeeze money from the prisoners, so they simply don't give the prisoners food, and let people outside bring food in. For each meal, they deduct three or five cents to make a profit.
Many of the prisoners who were wrongly imprisoned, whether they had family members to help them or not, starved to death before they could even see the judge. If they could eat what you eat now, they wouldn’t have to suffer this. There are also those whose families sent money to come in, and the jailers, seeing that they were in good conditions, fabricated false evidence, hoping that they would be locked up in the dungeon for a few more years, so as to make a profit.”
I even saw someone chewing on someone else in the same cell in order to survive. At first, the flesh on that person's arm was bitten off, then the legs, ears, nose... After half a month, only a pile of bones and smelly internal organs were left. "
The dungeon at that time was hell on earth.
Zhu Youfu's eyes widened when he heard these horrifying words, but what really frightened him was the obvious hatred in the man's eyes: "You can't blame me for this, can you? I didn't ask them to do this! They were just greedy!"
After these words came out, the jailer's expression did not improve at all, but became even more dangerous and terrifying: "The superiors set an example for the subordinates. You are corrupt, and you have raised a bunch of subordinates who are exactly like you. How can this have nothing to do with you?"
Seeing that he couldn't refute it, Zhu Youfu finally got angry: "What kind of good thing are you? If you are so great and kind, you didn't save those people in prison at that time!"
When the jailer heard this, he felt sad.
Painful memories were brought back to mind.
In fact, I was feeling very uncomfortable at the time and wanted to save people, so I secretly gave them some light charges and had not yet been brought to trial. I asked some of their family members to bring them food.
What he remembers most vividly is a little boy who was about five or six years old.
His father died shortly after he was born, and his mother raised him by selling noodles on the street with great difficulty.
But because the taxes in Yicheng were very heavy, they had always lived a hard life. Last winter, my mother became ill from overwork and died on a snowy night.
The child became an orphan, helpless and homeless.
Because he was extremely hungry one day, he stole a steamed bun and was caught and put in the dungeon.
Sentenced to three months in prison.
He felt pity for him and hoped that he could survive these three months. He even thought about adopting him after these three months when he got out.
So, I secretly sent him some food.
The child was grateful to him and felt very close to him.
But all this was discovered by the prison boss.
The prison boss not only insulted him, but also beat him and the child.
Because in the minds of those who only care about money and benefits, if he secretly feeds the prisoners, their families who are not well-off to begin with will feel that no matter how bad the dungeon is, the prisoners will not starve to death.
If they don't deliver food anymore, how can they make any profit from it?
He was beaten so badly that he couldn't even get up for three days. But the first thing he did when he woke up was to tell his wife that he wanted to take the poor child out.
The wife was understanding, kind-hearted, and she took out some of the family savings and took her two brothers-in-law to the dungeon to pay the insurance premium and exchange the child out.
He lay on the bed, looking forward to it.
But instead of the child, she got bad news.
It turned out that when he was beaten and sent back, the child felt that it was he who caused him to be beaten, and was so sad and blamed himself that he chose to hit himself to death in the prison.
At that time, he was disheartened and fell seriously ill.
After waking up, I began to feel numb and thought that maybe this is the way the world is.
Until General Bai and others arrived and sent the two culprits to the dungeon and into his hands!
"Zhu Youfu, you have to thank General Bai, otherwise I will make you see with your own eyes the hell you created."
If General Bai had not instructed that these two men need to be executed by lingchi at the execution ground in front of all the victims' families, he really wanted to starve them of food and drink here and then see who would eat who first!
Zhu Youfu was so scared that he fell to the ground. If he hadn't gotten much food and drink in the past two days, he would have wet his pants out of fear again.
Just at this time, Deputy General Zhao arrived.
When the jailer saw Vice General Zhao coming, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Vice General Zhao, General Bai asked for the imperial edict."
Deputy General Zhao smiled and said, "That's right. Please, the jailer, take him to the execution ground."
The jailer asked tentatively, "But Lingchi?"
Deputy General Zhao nodded with satisfaction: "That's right!"
As soon as these words were spoken, Zhu Youfu and Zhang Wang looked at each other, both of them rolled their eyes in fright and fainted.
On the execution ground, Bai Wei sat on the high platform and read out Ouyang Ming's imperial decree: "The Emperor, in compliance with the Will of Heaven, proclaims: Zhu Youfu, the Lord of Yicheng, is an official appointed by the imperial court but he oppresses the people, forcibly robs women, and acts as an accomplice to the evil... He is sentenced to death by slicing! All the people in the city, if they are willing, can participate to vent their resentment. You can also eat his flesh alive, drink his blood, pull out his tendons, grind his bones and scatter his ashes!"
After reading the imperial edict, he said to Deputy General Zhao: "Bring the people up!"
Deputy General Zhao clasped his hands together and replied solemnly, "Yes!"