Chapter 268: Killing is against the law

Early in the morning, reporting for duty, most of the prison guards were yawning. It looked like they had fought a fierce battle all night and stayed up all night at the gambling table.

Running into Lu Datou at the door, he asked casually, "How much did you lose?"

"Hehe, I won." Lu Datou was very smug, showing off.

Chen Guanlou raised his eyebrows. "The gambling house lets you win money?" Are you kidding me?

Lu Datou pulled him to the corner of the wall and whispered, "I helped Old Chaofeng with a small favor, and Old Chaofeng specifically instructed the dealer to be gentle with me. So, I won ten or twenty taels last night. I'll treat you to dinner tonight."

"What favor can you help Old Chaofeng with?"

"Look at what you're saying. Have you forgotten what kind of people are imprisoned in the Bing-type prison? Old Chaofeng is also mixing in the Jianghu, and there are always a few useless nephews and juniors who need to be taken care of. This matter is just a small effort."

"With Old Chaofeng's ability, is there anyone he can't fish out?"

"I don't know about that. Forget about me; what about you? No difficult big shots lately?"

"Ever since the Grand Tutor was kidnapped, the Jia-type prison has been quiet."

"No news of the Grand Tutor yet? And no one is pursuing your responsibility?"

"Even if they want to pursue it, they are pursuing the responsibility of the Eastern Palace guards. It was they who didn't protect well, causing the Grand Tutor to be kidnapped. In broad daylight, running to the Heavenly Prison to kidnap someone, and even the Embroidered Uniform Guard couldn't find a clue afterward, tsk..."

Chen Guanlou sighed endlessly; this setup was too rough. Anyone with a discerning eye could see the trickery inside at a glance. It's just that everyone is pretending to be confused and not saying a word.

There were sticks in the court willing to stand out, but their brains weren't that smart and they didn't see through the mystery inside. Just as they jumped out, they were pressed down by people with hearts.

The whereabouts of the Grand Tutor have always been under investigation.

Besides the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the Court of Judicial Review also intervened.

Only the Ministry of Justice stayed out of it, refusing to touch this big trouble.

As a Heavenly Prison guard, just do your duty well.

Parting ways with Lu Datou, he went down to the Jia-type prison, met up with Shi Hong, and bragged a few words. Then he summoned the prison guards for a morning meeting, inquiring about the situation of the prisoners in the jurisdiction. Afterward, the meeting was dismissed, and he went to work properly.

Chen Guanlou patrolled the cells alone and came to the cell door of the Meng brothers.

"The letters you wrote have been forwarded to the Meng family; I believe there will be a reply soon. Do you have any other requests? If you have any thoughts, just put them forward; miss this village and there won't be this shop. Once you recover and return to Zhao Prison, these treatments will be gone."

The eldest Meng brother opened his mouth, "yiya yiya." With his tongue cut off, he couldn't speak at all.

The second Meng brother simply bit his finger, dipped it in fresh blood, and wrote a "kill" character on the wall.

"Kill? Who do you want to kill?"

Zhao Si!

Zhao Si!

Kill Zhao Si!

Although both couldn't speak, Chen Guanlou still saw from the mouth shapes of the two that it was "kill Zhao Si."

Chen Guanlou said solemnly, "Killing is against the law!"

The two Meng brothers wailed, their hollow mouths looking very terrifying.

"But, there are always people outside who aren't afraid of death. If you give enough silver, I think someone is willing to take your order."

This turn of the corner...

The two Meng brothers looked at Chen Guanlou foolishly.

Chen Guanlou couldn't stand this look, so he avoided it.

The thugs have the thugs' rules, and one of the bottom lines is not to kill officials. No matter how much money, they won't take it.

Chen Guanlou's so-called "people outside who aren't afraid of death" was a bit of a bluff.

But, wanting to make a person die, there are many ways; it doesn't necessarily have to be with a knife.

"Come, write down all your encounters. People outside taking orders, especially this kind of order, must definitely investigate the situation clearly."

Pen and ink served.

The Meng brothers wrote furiously, explaining the cause and effect of the matter. Although there was exaggeration and concealment, generally it was about the same as the situation he understood.

Hua Niang's son couldn't enter the genealogy—this definitely couldn't be handled by Meng Shi alone. It was clearly the fourth son of Zhao's father, who wanted to hold him, kept dragging it out and refusing to let Hua Niang's son enter the genealogy, wanting to use this to force the fourth son of Zhao to submit.

The fourth son of Zhao was a stubborn donkey and refused to follow.

Hua Niang didn't dare to hate the father-in-law, so she counted all this on Meng Shi. Therefore, she wanted Meng Shi to die. Meng Shi dying alone wasn't enough; she also wanted to completely destroy the Meng family and destroy the male members of the Meng family. It was a proper life-and-death situation, with no possibility of reconciliation at all. The road was walked to a dead end.

The fourth son of Zhao was also a crazy man; Hua Niang was a woman who didn't understand reason, but didn't he understand? In the final analysis, his nature was a scoundrel; he hated his legitimate mother, hated his wife, and hated everyone in the Meng family. Hua Niang gave the idea, and he hit it off immediately.

This pair of crazy man and crazy woman, a perfect match!

Don't break them up; they must be locked together.

Chen Guanlou collected the Meng brothers' manuscript and tucked it into his pocket.

By night, in the middle of the night, Seeing Qi Wuxiu climbed over the wall and entered, and he took out the manuscript for the other party to see.

Seeing Qi Wuxiu was confused. "You sent a message to call me here, just to show me this?"

"Isn't this good to look at? Isn't it more comfortable than you catching Seventh-Rank 'dragons crossing the river' outside every day? By the way, how is your 'dragon crossing the river' catching going?"

"Not a single clue, as if this person never existed. If it weren't for the Ninth-Rank warrior personally pointing him out, I would suspect it was a fabricated character."

"Don't you care about the whereabouts of the Grand Tutor? It seems that the Seventh-Rank 'dragon crossing the river' is more important than the Grand Tutor."

"The Embroidered Uniform Guard is divided into work; there are other teams investigating the whereabouts of the Grand Tutor. Don't talk about me; you show me this—what do you want me to do?"

Chen Guanlou chuckled. "Cutting tongues and cutting roots of life—this is something your Zhao Prison did. Just for a few stinking coins, humiliating people like this—is it worth it? And transferring people to the Heavenly Prison to recuperate, tsk, anyone can see it's not kind."

"It is indeed a bit excessive." Seeing Qi Wuxiu didn't defend Zhao Prison.

Zhao Prison has many methods to clean up prisoners internally, but unless it's a last resort and there's no order from the superior, they generally won't move the prisoner's root of life, nor will they move the tongue.

Compared to tongues and roots of life, other methods, although more cruel, at least retain the last bit of decency.

Men, after all, two taels of meat are more important than life. Moving the root of life is equivalent to taking away the foundation of a man's standing in the world, and from then on, he is no longer worthy of being called a man.

A man, yet not worthy of being a man—this damage is huge.

"Do you want me to clean up those bastards in Zhao Prison?"

"Not at all! You don't have the ability to clean up the people in Zhao Prison, and I won't make things difficult for you. This Zhao Si, how do you see him?"

"He's just not a thing. However, he climbed onto Jiang Tu, and the matter is not easy to handle."

Chen Guanlou sneered. "You are still an Embroidered Uniform Guard."

"Are you trying to make me use public office for private revenge? Do you have a relative relationship with the Meng family, and is it worth it for you to stand out for the Meng family? Since when did you, Chen Guanlou, have such a sense of justice?" Seeing Qi Wuxiu couldn't figure it out and teased.

Chen Guanlou held his teacup, looking at the stars in the sky. This was a night without a moon.

"Being a person, after all, there must be things one does and things one doesn't do. I'm not letting you help for nothing; the Meng brothers are willing to pay so much silver—are you doing it or not?" ===== CHAPTER 269 =====