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"No matter if His Majesty asks this old servant a thousand times or ten thousand times, this old servant will always answer you the same way, this old servant did not kill anyone!"

Lu Yi's eyes lit up. She stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, Wyon is treacherous. He won't confess until the punishment is passed down."

After staring down at Huai En from above for a while, Dong Fang Qian brushed his sleeves and returned to the case. He then said coldly: "Pass down the order for the Hall of Punishment to undergo the punishment of whipping!"

Wynn was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground and forgot to beg for mercy. Only when the Hall of Punishment's steward came in with the whip in his hand did he wake up from his daze and kowtow.

Unfortunately, his actions did not change Dong Fang Kun's mind. With a slight smile, he spat out two words that shocked Huai En to death, "Execute!"

"Ah!" After the head of the Hall of Punishment gave his consent, a servant brought a basin full of water. This was concentrated salt water, and once soaked, the whip would lick someone's body, causing the person's pain to double. This was a trick commonly used by the Hall of Punishment.

"Sorry." After a barely audible whisper, the supervisor pulled the whip towards Wyon. The latter did not dare to dodge and clenched his teeth as he received the whip. Suddenly, a bloody wound appeared on his back. He cried out in pain and almost fainted.

And this, was just the beginning …

The salt-soaked whip lashed at Wynn again and again, and when he reached the back, the overseer could not remember how many times he had lashed the whip, but only flailed it mechanically.

Wayne, whose body was covered in bloody scars, was curled up on the ground. Every time the whip landed, his aged body would twitch with a wail. His clothes were in tatters from the whip, making him look really pitiful, but no one dared to plead for him.

Dongfang Wenyi was almost done. He signaled for the steward to stop and coldly said, "How is it? Are you willing to speak the truth?"

Wyon tried to prop himself up: "I said..." It's always the truth. "

Lu Yi coldly said, "If you continue to be stubborn, you will only suffer more physical pain."

Wynn forced a smile, raised his cloudy eyes and said, "I want to admit it too, but how do you expect me to admit it?"

A look of disgust flashed past her eyes as she said coldly, "I won't cry until I see the coffin!"

Wynn didn't say anything else to her. His gaze swept across Jiang Fu and the two guards one by one as he said in a cold voice, "If you hurt me like this, after I die, I will turn into a ghost and take your lives!"

Jiang Fu snorted disdainfully at his words. Not to mention that there weren't that many evil spirits in the world, even if there were, there would still be monks and Taoists who would destroy it into ashes.

Soon, the sound of the long whip was heard again in the hall. This time, Wyon's screams were much quieter than before. His eyes kept rolling up, and the situation didn't look good.

Jiang Fu didn't feel sorry for the injured Huaien at all. Instead, he was overjoyed. Today, he had truly avenged all of his grudges. How wonderful!

Wynne, oh Wynne, you never dreamed that you would have this day, did you?

Jiang Fu greedily looked at the fourth rank eunuch uniform that Wynn was wearing. He had been looking forward to this outfit for a long time, and now he was finally looking forward to it!

Just as Jiang Fu was immersed in his own fantasy, the two guards suddenly bent over Wyon, holding onto their whips and lamenting, "Don't hit them anymore, I beg you, don't hit them anymore!"

Jiang Fu came back to his senses and looked at the two guards in shock, "You..." What is this? "

One of the guards raised his head and glared at him. "Even if Eunuch Huai is at fault, it is your master after all. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning when you treat him like this?"

Jiang Fu was completely confused by his words. "What did I do to him?"

The guard ignored him, kowtowed towards the east, and spoke while choking: "The two of us are under the influence of an evil spirit to help the king. We are willing to listen to His Majesty's orders, and hope that Your Majesty will not mistakenly kill the innocent!"

No matter if it was Dongfang Zexuan or Lu Yi, they hadn't thought that the situation would change like this. The latter asked in astonishment, "What are you guys talking about?"

The guard clenched his teeth and spat out a shocking sentence while trembling, "Actually, the one who took away Wang Hu was not Eunuch Huai, but... "Jiang Fu!"

Jiang Fu's expression changed. He almost jumped up from the ground to question the two, "Nonsense! Since when did I bring Wang Hu away? Have you two lost your minds?"

"We're wide awake!" After saying this, the guard took out a stack of banknotes from his sleeves and placed both of his hands on top of his head. "Your Majesty, this is Jiang Fu's money for bribing his subordinates to help him wrongly accuse Manager Huai!"

A year's salary for an Imperial Guard was no more than a hundred taels of silver, one thousand taels of silver. Even if two people divided the money evenly, it would still be at least five hundred taels of silver, which was more than enough to make them work hard for five years. No wonder their hearts were moved.

Dong Fang Qian flung away the stack of silver notes, and said coldly: "Since you've accepted the money, why did you change your words now? You should be well aware of the crime of deceiving the Emperor."

The guard swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty and said with a trembling voice, "This subordinate knows, but seeing that Manager Huai is still going to suffer such torture at such an age and can't pass the test of conscience, even if His Majesty blames him for it, this subordinate can't continue to be heartless."

Jiang Fu was dumbfounded. Were these two possessed by ghosts? Bullsh * t, when did he ever pay them silver? When had they ever wrongly accused Wyon?

Jiang Fu only realized the impact of these words on him after Dong Tianleng's bone-piercing gaze turned to him. He quickly kneeled down and said, "Your Majesty, don't listen to their nonsense. This silver was not given to them by this servant. It has nothing to do with this servant!" With that, he pointed at the two guards, his shrill voice causing pain in the eardrums, "Quickly tell His Majesty that what you have said is all false!"

"We won't help you harm anyone else!" Coldly throwing down these words, the guard picked up the dying Huai En and spoke to Dongfang Shao, "Your Majesty, Jiang Fu only had his subordinates falsely claim that Eunuch Huai had taken away Wang Hu. Your subordinate didn't know that he would actually kill someone; otherwise, even if he gave us more money, your subordinate wouldn't have dared to lie like this!"

"No!" "No!" Jiang Fu shouted in panic. Things had already completely gotten out of his control, but he … He didn't even know why he had become like this!

He crawled over to the table and anxiously said: "Your Majesty, do you believe in this servant? This servant speaks the truth. Wang Hu was truly killed by Huai En. He wanted to …" "To..." Jiang Fu wanted to put a motive on Wayne's head and prove that he was guilty of murder, but he couldn't come up with anything, so he was sweating profusely.

Lu Yi lowered her eyes and stared at Jiang Fu, who was drenched in cold sweat, "Did you really kill Wang Hu?"

Jiang Fu waved his hands and said anxiously, "It has nothing to do with me. When I saw him, he was already a dead man. I didn't do anything."