What to do if you have too many golden fingers? Walk sideways!

Chapter 150: Interrogation of Bi Pengwei

Chu Zhao opened a bottle of Erguotou and handed it to the yamen runner:

"Smell it."

When the yamen runner smelled it, his eyes lit up: "This wine is quite strong! This bottle is also good, it's made of colored glaze, it looks valuable at first glance."

Chu Zhao said: "This bottle of wine is for you. Please say a few good words for me."

The yamen runner's face suddenly lit up with joy. He snatched the bottle cap from Chu Zhao's hand, closed the bottle, and stuffed it into his arms, as if he was afraid that he would go back on his word.

"Okay, okay, just follow me."

Chu Zhao carried the food box and followed the yamen runners to the front yamen of the Dali Temple.

Gu Xi flashed out of the space and followed. It was not easy to track in broad daylight, so she had to flash into the space from time to time.

It was noon and the yamen runners were eating, but what they ate was all sent from the main kitchen. Only the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple could use the small kitchen.

Bi Pengwei was staying in his public housing, sitting with his feet up, waiting for his meal.

After the bailiff brought Chu Zhao away, he went to the canteen to eat, and Chu Zhao went in alone.

Bi Pengwei frowned and asked, "Why are you so late today?"

Chu Zhao hurried forward and explained while arranging the dishes:

"Please calm down, my lord. Today I got a bottle of good wine and wanted to present it to you. This wine is very strong, so I prepared two more side dishes for you to drink with it."

As he spoke, he brought out a plate of braised chicken feet and a dish of drunkard peanuts in addition to the chef's original four dishes and one soup. These were the ones that Gu Xi had just added.

"Sir, how about you try this wine? I'll fill it up for you." Chu Zhao was tall and could only bend over to pass the wine to Bi Pengwei.

He originally wanted to knock Bi Pengwei unconscious and take him away, but Gu Xi said that the reason Shen Kun was able to succeed was that he had been punished in prison and his mental state was on the verge of collapse.

The job of the Dali Temple Chief is to try criminals, so his determination must be stronger than Shen Kun's.

What if he wakes up, has a clear mind and doesn’t believe he’s dead?

He will only believe it if his death seems real.

"You are sensible!" Bi Pengwei put one foot on the stool, took the wine handed to him by Chu Zhao, and drank it in one gulp.

"Hmm - good wine! It's really strong!" Bi Pengwei praised while hurriedly picking up a drunken peanut and putting it into his mouth.

This wine is mellow, but also strong.

"These peanuts are not bad!" Bi Pengwei praised again.

Chu Zhao handed over another glass of wine and said, "As long as you like it, sir!"

Bi Pengwei drank it all again, smacked his lips and boasted:

"Okay! Another one!"

Chu Zhao thought to himself, drink it, Ah Xi said that people speak the truth when they are drunk.

Bi Pengwei's alcohol tolerance is quite good, but how could the alcohol he usually drinks be as strong as Erguotou?

After drinking half a pound, I felt drunk.

"Good, good wine! Drink, drink——"

Gu Xi finally found his way over and jumped into the room through the window.

Chu Zhao knocked the drunk Bi Pengwei unconscious with a knife, threw Gu Xi into the space, and the two of them quietly left the Dali Temple.

Zhou Qing looked at Bi Pengwei who was snoring loudly on the ground, and gave a thumbs up to Gu Xi and Chu Zhao.

He suddenly remembered that when he was in Chengyang County, it was this kid Chu Zhao who, by some unknown means, stole the gold and silver in Zhen Wude's storehouse and a large warehouse of grain.

"You are really young and you are to be feared! It's only been less than half an hour and you have brought someone here without anyone noticing."

Several people used the same trick again, first pouring a basin of cold water on Bi Pengwei.

Bi Pengwei woke up with a start.

He looked around with drunken eyes, but instead of being scared, he started laughing:

"What kind of place is this? Wow! There are more torture instruments here than in my Dali Temple."

Everyone looked at each other. Was this guy naturally brave, or was he just drunk and emboldened?

"Bi Pengwei!" Zhou Qing slammed the gavel and shouted.

Bi Pengwei looked at Zhou Qing.

"Who are you? Where are you?"

Gu Xi stood by and shouted:

"Bi Pengwei, don't be rude! This is Yama Palace, this is Lord Yama, you are already dead!"

Bi Pengwei pointed at his nose and said, "I'm dead? I'm dead, dead!!"

His eyes suddenly widened, and he was half sobered up by the fright.

He thought he had arrived at the torture chamber of some government office, but he didn't expect that this was the Palace of Yama.

He looked around in panic, "No, no, I can't die."

Then he turned around and wanted to run out.

But it was pitch black everywhere, he couldn't find the door, and he banged his head against the wall, grimacing in pain.

"Bi Pengwei! Don't be rash! Do you want to get into the frying pan?"

Gu Xi grabbed Bi Pengwei by the collar and dragged him to the oil pan.

Looking at the bubbling and steaming oil, Bi Pengwei collapsed on the ground in fear and burst into tears:

"Why did I die? How could I die? I don't want to die..."

He was not afraid of Gu Xi's pale judge's face. He grabbed the corner of her clothes and asked:

"How did I die?"

Gu Xi said: "You drank too much and you are dead drunk!"

Bi Pengwei looked incredulous.

"I died of drunkenness? That damned cook has ruined me! I still have a bright future ahead of me, and I have a beautiful concubine I just married, how could I die! Lord Yan, please let me go back! I will give you whatever silver you want..."

Bi Pengwei sat on the ground, slapping his thigh and crying like a drunk, tears and snot streaming down his face.

Zhou Qing was so angry that he laughed. He even dared to bribe the King of Hell, which showed how he got to be such an official.

Lin Xiaoxuan was busy again. He walked up to Bi Pengwei and said:

"Bi Pengwei, you have come to this day! Look who I am."

Bi Pengwei looked up and saw the man in front of him taking off his head with his own hands, and blood was dripping from the head.

“Ahhhh! Gu Zhengde, you are Gu Zhengde!”

Bi Pengwei screamed and rolled back, bumping into another person. He looked up and saw

"You, you are Gu Yunqing?"

With the appearance of these two dead ghosts, Bi Pengwei became even more certain that he was dead.

"That's right, you have murdered loyal people, and today is the time to settle accounts!"

Chu Zhao said, picked up Bi Pengwei, and said to Zhou Qing who was sitting above him:

"Lord Yan Jun, it was him who harmed my entire Gu family. Such a treacherous and evil person should be fried in a frying pan to get rid of all the evil in his heart!"

Bi Pengwei was dragged to the oil pan again, and was so frightened that his soul flew out of his body. He struggled and said:

"No! No! Spare my life! General Gu, I have no choice!"

"Why do you have to do this?" Chu Zhao shouted.

Seeing that Bi Pengwei was almost suffocating, Chu Zhao threw him to the ground.

Bi Pengwei kowtowed repeatedly to Chu Zhao and Lin Xiaoxuan.

"General Gu, General Gu, please let me go. I am only following orders. My brother-in-law said that you know something you shouldn't know. If you don't get rid of it, it will block the Ninth Prince from ascending the throne.

But in the final analysis, it was the Gu family army that won battles one after another, and their achievements were so great that the emperor was shocked. People in the north only knew about the Gu family army, not the emperor.

The emperor was afraid of the Gu family, so he believed my brother-in-law's words! This is none of my business!"