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Chapter 415 Interrogation

Zhou Chang sat down in the front hall.

Gao Yuan was startled: "My Lord, are you okay?"

Zhou Chang had just been at the fire scene, his face was covered with a layer of black smoke, and then he burst into tears, his face was covered with mud and looked a mess, but now he didn't care about anything.

A fire left me with lingering fear and anger.

Zhou Chang's eyes widened as he stared at Ma Feihu: "Is he willing to tell you?"

Ma Feihu's face was bruised and bloody, and there seemed to be invisible injuries. It was visibly visible that he was not as energetic as before he left.

Gao Yuan went up and kicked him: "Say..."

Ma Feihu was a brave man who would not suffer a loss in front of him, but he lost his momentum as soon as he opened his mouth: "I got in through the back window, but my feet always landed on the roof beams. Who would have thought that there was an ambush on the roof beams, and I didn't land when I was about to, so..."

Zhou Chang took the tea that had already cooled down beside him and drank it first.

If it were before, she might have laughed out loud, but now she was in no mood.

The remaining half bowl of cold tea was poured on Ma Feihu's face: "Humph, who wants to listen to you? Tell me... why did you come to my mansion? What did you want to steal? And why did you set the fire?"

He vented all his anger towards Ma Feihu.

Ma Feihu was dumbfounded, angry, and aggrieved, and then he kept silent to show his unyielding spirit.

Gao Yuan produced a burning incense stick from somewhere and waved it in front of Ma Feihu: "Ma Feihu, we have already agreed on this. If you don't tell me, don't blame me..."

"I confess..." Ma Feihu's eyes had not even touched the fragrance, he had already surrendered, "We heard that there was a treasure house in Prince Yi's mansion, so we came to steal it, but we didn't expect to be discovered, so we had to set it on fire to escape."

"Bang..." Zhou Chang threw the tea bowl onto the table, not believing it at all. "I'll give you another chance. Tell the truth."

"It's true, it's true..." Ma Feihu hid from the burning incense and assured again and again, "The treasure house in Prince Yi's mansion is well known to everyone. It's in the main courtyard of the back hall. We have heard about it a long time ago. We are here to steal the treasure."

"Oh? Then what did you steal from the treasure house?" Zhou Chang was burning with anger, and the corners of his mouth curled up again.

Ma Feihu said frankly: "There is nothing there. I, Ma Feihu, have never returned empty-handed, but this time I really didn't get anything."

"Really?" Zhou Chang's tone was colder than ever before. "How come there is nothing? Isn't it known to everyone that Prince Yi's treasure house contains treasures accumulated over the years?"

Ma Feihu smacked his lips. He didn't know what Prince Yi meant, but he was a straightforward person after all. "There's nothing else in there... paper-made gold ingots. It's a waste of my trip."

His nickname "Ma Feihu" is not undeserved. He can climb walls and fly over roofs, and sneak into the sky and the ground. Before he was caught, he had done a lot of big business and had never encountered a situation like this.

Tonight, the four of them sneaked into the main courtyard of the back hall. It was as if they were in an empty place, and it was easy for them to find the location of the treasure house. But when they lit the fire inside the treasury, they were so scared that their hair stood on end.

The four people almost thought they had entered a tomb or fell into a trap.

The so-called treasure house, at first glance, seems to be filled with gold bricks and gold ingots on all four walls, but in fact they are all made of paper, but they are more realistic than ordinary paper-made ones.

Their tracks were revealed only after they left the treasure house.

The purpose of setting the fire was indeed to divert attention, and those gold and silver paper objects became fuel for combustion.

Zhou Chang knew very well that Ma Feihu was not lying.

But this was not the answer she wanted. She calmed down and asked another question: "Why didn't you die?"

"I don't know. I thought I was going to die." Seeing Zhou Chang's attitude soften, Ma Feihu regained some of his spirit and called himself "Laozi" again. "But the day before the execution, I was drugged and transported to a place, where I was locked up for a long time."

"Who rescued you from the prison?" Zhou Chang calmed down a lot and poured himself a glass of cold water.

Ma Feihu shook his head: "I don't know, I really don't know."

Zhou Chang didn't say anything more and signaled Gao Yuan with his eyes.

The people who rescued Ma Feihu from the prison and instructed him to steal are most likely the same group of people.

What Zhou Chang really wanted to know was who instructed Ma Feihu and what was the purpose?

Without saying a word, Gao Yuan stepped on Ma Feihu's head to the ground and poked the burning incense into Ma Feihu's nostrils with one hand.

“Ah, ah, ah…” Ma Feihu screamed immediately, “I don’t know, I don’t know, I’m telling the truth.”

The incense was directly broken.

Gao Yuan turned around and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Catch him and bring another handful of incense."

Ma Feihu was picked up by two palace soldiers.

Gao Yuan took another handful of incense.

Ma Feihu's hair was pulled, and he had to raise his head with his nose pointed upwards, howling like a slaughtered pig: "I really don't know, I really don't know..."

He has a face like Zhang Fei, but lacks Zhang Fei's spirit.

Ma Feihu really seemed to be afraid of torture.

Zhou Chang was sneering in his heart when he noticed that the area around Ma Feihu's nostrils was red and swollen, his nose was swollen and flapping constantly, and he was panting like a cow.

It seems that Gao Yuan has used this punishment just now.

"What kind of weird method is this?" Ma Feihu's fear didn't seem fake, so Zhou Chang became curious.

Since Ma Feihu had been in the Ministry of Justice's Sky Prison, he must have been tortured. I still remember that when we first met, Ma Feihu was not afraid of the Minister of Justice Pei Li at all, which showed that ordinary torture instruments could not scare him.

Gao Yuan still had no expression on his face, but he stopped what he was doing: "Your Highness, please forgive me for laughing at you. This is just a little trick used by the army to play a prank on people. It won't kill anyone, but it will make people feel worse than death."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly poked a handful of burning incense into Ma Feihu's two nostrils.

"Ah..." This cry was so cruel.

Zhou Chang was trembling: "Stop, stop it."

Gao Yuan stopped.

Ma Feihu's head was still shaking like a rattle, and he shouted at the top of his lungs: "I don't know, I really don't know..."

Zhou Chang couldn't even bear to look at it. Ma Feihu's nose must be burning.

That feeling is not easy to imagine.

After Ma Feihu took a breath, Zhou Chang slowed down his tone and said, "I believe you don't know, but the person who rescued you from the prison and sent you to my palace should be the same person, right?"

"Yes." Ma Feihu bent over and breathed heavily, but he answered the question more readily.

"Does this mean you admit that you were instructed by someone else and that it wasn't just a simple theft?" Zhou Chang drank another half bowl of cold water.

Ma Feihu paused for a moment before realizing that he had been discovered.

Zhou Chang then asked: "What is the purpose of the person who ordered you to come here?"

Ma Feihu's expression changed, but he didn't answer.

"It seems that you haven't tasted enough of this incense." Zhou Chang felt sorry for him, but he was not as kind as Song Xiang.