The darkness in front of my eyes suddenly faded away, and the light of the torch was extremely dazzling.

Du Wei looked up and saw a prison guard with a ferocious face holding a torch into the execution room and tearing off the rag from her mouth.

"Unjustly accused!" Du Wei shouted: "The Du family is unjustly accused!"

"Madam Du, please stop shouting." Someone outside the execution room suddenly said leisurely: "This is Jingzhao Mansion. If you are a smart person, you should know that no matter how you shout, it will be in vain."

There were attendants holding lanterns beside this man, illuminating his blue official robe, slightly upturned beard, and the mocking look at the corners of his mouth.

It was Cao Jiwen, the Dharma minister of Jingzhao Prefecture.

When Du Wei saw it, she yelled: "A lackey! A lackey who wants a cockfight!"

"It's okay to scold me." Ji Wen shook his head and said, "It's not okay to scold the right prime minister."

"Snapped!"

The prison guard in the cell immediately stepped forward and slapped Du Wei hard.

Ji Wen then continued: "Today, I have gained a nickname, no, half of it. It is called 'Luo Cong Ji Net', and 'Ji Net' is my French net."

"Bah, you are a cruel official. If you are not ashamed, you are proud of him."

"You are a great beauty. I advise you not to try my French methods." Ji Wen touched the blood on the doorpost, rubbed it gently with his fingers, and said to himself, and then asked: "The prince sent someone

Burn the evidence that Liu Ji made friends with the ministers for him?"

Du Wei gritted her teeth and said, "Don't you want me to recruit..."

The prison guard grabbed Du Wei's hair and asked, "Did the prince send someone to destroy the evidence?!"

"Slow down, slow down." Ji Wen scolded: "I don't know how to cherish a beauty. Madam Du has to be kept as a witness. How can I torture her?"

Then, he changed the topic and shouted: "Someone, bring them in!"

The door of the torture chamber was opened, and there was a lot of yelling and crying outside.

The prison guards dragged in a naked and bloody woman.

Du Wei took a closer look and saw that her liver and gallbladder were split.

"Liu Shang!"

"Beasts! You beasts! Let her go!"

"..."

Liu Shang was obviously in great pain, his voice was exhausted from crying, and even his moans were hoarse.

The blood continued to flow down, gradually covering the ground.

Ji Wen gave a distressed "tsk" twice and said: "Ms. Du, you don't have to cry for this bitch, it's not worth it. She has confessed, and I already know who burned the evidence, but there is only one witness missing to prove that this is the case."

Instructed by the East Palace."

After that, he asked Liu Shang: "Tell me, is the person who set the fire, Xue Bai, the person sent by the prince?"

Liu Shan made two "gurgles" in his throat and cried hoarsely: "Yes...yes..."

"It's useless to say that. You are just a cheap servant. I want your wife to tell you."

Ji Wen smiled, turned around, looked at Du Wei, and asked, "Really?"

Du Wei kept crying and shook her head: "Don't do this!"

Ji Wen stepped forward, stroked her hair, and said softly: "Your useless husband Liu Ji has confessed to enough crimes."

A foul stench came from his mouth, and Du Bei almost felt sick and cried: "No."

"The entire Du family has been imprisoned and is being tortured. A person who commits the crime of beheading the entire family cannot escape."

"No."

"It's pitiful, a great beauty is not kind to others. You are the only one who can save the Du family now." Ji Wen said: "Let me ask again, did the prince send Xue Bai to destroy the evidence?"

"Please...please..."

"Do you still want to protect the prince?"

Jiwen pretended to be surprised.

"Strengthening? It's useless." He walked up to Liu Shan, stepped on her head, and said with a smile: "In my eyes, the prince has nothing to fear, so you fight with me? With this step, you will know that you are an ant.

Just ants."

"No!"

Amidst Du Wei's cries, Ji Wen had already raised his foot, and then stepped down hard.

It's like trampling an ant to death...

~~

A few ants were hibernating in the ground, but their homes were dug up innocently. They had to crawl around in a panic on a newly dug piece of land and burrowed into the soil again.

Snowflakes were still flying, and gradually, this small piece of new soil was covered with a thin layer of snow.

There is a large vat buried underground.

It was completely dark inside the vat.

Qing Lan's tears had already wet Xue Bai's front.

"Stop crying, you will consume too much oxygen and kill us."

"We... are going to die..." Qing Lan was so panicked that she kept sobbing and cried again: "I don't want to die..."

"Then don't cry, don't talk." Xue Bai said in a stern tone, "save your breathing."

"We're already……"

"Cry again?" Xue Bai said fiercely: "If I kill you, I can save half of the oxygen, and I can also use you to tiptoe."

Qinglan was so frightened that she burped.

Immediately afterwards, she felt Xue Bai's hand touch her shoulder, go up her neck, and touch her face.

"Don't...I'm really scared..."

She wanted to refuse, but she froze in fear, and her fingers and toes were numb.

Until Xue Bai touched her bun and pulled out her wooden hairpin.

With her hair falling down, Qing Lan was at a loss and said in a trembling voice: "What...are you doing?"

"Pull off the hemp rope."

Xue Bai spoke urgently, tried his best to adjust his breathing, and stuffed the wooden hairpin into the gap between the cover plate and the mouth of the cylinder.

A boot was wedged in the gap.

He just took it off Qinglan's feet and stuffed it in before the soil was fully filled.

Use hemp rope to tie the large round cylinder and the wooden cover. The hemp rope is prone to slipping at the arc. With the hemp rope pushed loose just now, he might be able to pry the cover open a little.

After working on it for a while, Qinglan suddenly said: "I... I can put my little finger in..."

"You pull the rope." Xue Bai said.

He began to scrape the soil outside the gap with a wooden hairpin.

Compared with the coffin, the vat is much higher. If it is buried in a pit of the same depth, the soil layer above the vat will be much thinner than the coffin.

Xue Bai was very glad that those people didn't work too hard to put the vat upside down.

He scraped the soil around the cover into the tank bit by bit, hoping to give the cover a little room to shake.

The wooden hairpin moved with difficulty in the gap, and a few grains of soil fell on Xue Bai's face. Compared with the entire soil layer above, these small grains were really a drop in the bucket.

After scraping for a long time, Xue Bai's fingers were so sore that he tried to push the cover hard.

There were a few rustling sounds, and more soil fell down.

"It seems a little looser?" Qinglan said in surprise, "I touched the hemp rope."

With this little hope of survival, both of them cheered up and looked for a more comfortable way to apply force, not caring about sticking close to each other.

"Cough cough cough..."

More and more dirt fell into Xue Bai's mouth and nose.

"Cover your face." Qinglan said.

In the darkness, she pushed Xue Bai away with her hands, took off the belt and handed it to him, then tore off Caijian's skirt and tied it around her face.

After a while, Xue Bai stepped up his actions and stuck a wooden hairpin between the cover plate and the cylinder mouth to see if he could pry the cover plate open.

Apply force carefully.

The cover shook unexpectedly.

"Pull the hemp rope again and I'll pry it off."

"good."
To be continued...