allendalepharm Chapter 697 How can you bear to do this to a child?
Chapter 697 How can you bear to do this to a child?
Jiang Youzhen walked up to the child, squatted down and looked at him.
The child was a chubby boy, and he was well-fed. Although his face was a little dirty at the moment, he still looked delicate and tender.
"What's your name?" Jiang Youzhen asked in what he thought was a pleasant tone.
Although the child is less than six years old, he seems very alert because he has been wandering around with adults for the past few days.
He didn't say a word, just sobbed.
"Let my mother go."
Jiang Youzhen pointed at the woman and asked, "Is this your mother?"
The child nodded, "Why did you arrest her? My mother said that you arrested my father, mother, grandfather and others, and I can only live with my mother from now on. But now you have arrested my mother, what should I do in the future?"
His eyes were full of fear. He had not lived well in the past few days. He had poor food, poor clothes, and a terrible place to sleep.
When he thought of this, he started crying in grievance.
"I don't have my father, mother and grandfather anymore..." He cried and wiped his tears, sobbing.
It is so sad that anyone who hears it will cry.
But it must be said that everyone present had a heart of stone. Although Jiang Youzhen felt sorry for the child, his identity meant that he would not have a good ending.
The fate of the remnants of the previous dynasty is obvious.
Only Li Yue, with a rag stuffed in her mouth, was in tears, but she was tied up at the moment and couldn't speak at all.
Jiang Youzhen had Li Yue tied to a chair, and then ordered someone to take the child aside. He also asked his men to buy roast chicken and other food for the child.
"Hmph! Too soft-hearted!" Qin Yandong snorted coldly. Is it necessary to treat the traitor's bloodline so well?
Without letting the child out of Li Yue's sight, Jiang Youzhen asked someone to remove the cloth from Li Yue's mouth.
"Tell me! If you want to save the child from suffering."
Li Yue was shocked, her lips trembling, "I, I don't know what you are talking about."
"It has come to this. What's the point of hiding it? Can you bear to watch your child suffer?"
Jiang Youzhen pointed at the child and said, "Look at him. He has lived a life of luxury for five years, but now he is hiding from you like a rat. Don't you feel bad for him? He lives in fear every day with simple food in the temple. Can you bear it?"
Li Yue looked at the child drooling as he looked at the roast chicken and burst into tears. But she didn't dare to say anything, for she was afraid that if she did, the child would die.
"Your accomplice Zhishen has already confessed. What's the point of you holding on? Let the child suffer less! Do you think he can withstand those cruel punishments?"
The child had already eaten the roast chicken, and smiled for the first time in so many days. He was about to touch the roast chicken, but suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Li Yue.
He walked towards Li Yue holding a roasted chicken leg, "Mother, eat it!"
Li Yue burst into tears. Seeing her child being so sensible, how could she bear it?
"Brother, can you please let my mother go? She is tied up and can't eat."
Seeing that Jiang Youzhen was friendly to him, the child thought that Jiang Youzhen was easy to talk to, so he begged.
However, when Li Yue saw Jiang Youzhen's cold eyes, she quickly said, "Xiao Yun, eat by yourself. Mother is not hungry."
"Look how sensible the child is. Can you bear to see him sticking his fingers into needles?" Jiang Youzhen's tone was a little gentle, but it made people feel creepy.
"Oh! Maybe you don't know what "ten fingers inserted with needles" means? It means inserting ten thin and long iron needles into his ten fingernails. The ten fingers are connected to his heart, and the pain is so severe that he wants to live but cannot die. Even an adult man can't bear it, let alone a child."
Li Yue was so frightened that she started shaking with fear. Xiao Yun, who was standing next to her, perhaps sensed the tense atmosphere and retracted her hand, not knowing what to do.
"He knows nothing. Maybe he wants to try something else. Or he can be made into a human pig, with his hands and feet cut off, leaving only his head and torso, and put in a jar. He can't die, and will stay in this jar for the rest of his life, being fed food every day, in darkness..."
When Li Yue heard this, she suddenly screamed, "Shut up, don't say anything. You cold-blooded executioner, how can you bear to kill a child? Are you still a human being?"
She was horrified. How beautiful the boy in front of her looked? But the words coming out of his mouth were so vicious.
"He's still a child, you can't treat him like this..." Li Yue couldn't bear the thought of Xiao Yun being tortured like this.
"I say, I say, let Xiaoyun go out first and give him something to eat and drink."
Li Yue collapsed. At this moment, she even felt that as long as she died with Xiao Yun, she would be willing to drink a glass of poisoned wine with Xiao Yun.
They were going to die anyway, so why should they not die a good death? She no longer hoped that Jiang Youzhen would release them, and she didn't expect those people to come and rescue them. She should have thought of this earlier. If she didn't rescue them out of the city, they would become abandoned.
Qin Yandong and Zhu Zhimin on the side understood Jiang Youzhen's intention. This is called a psychological strategy.
There is no need to use torture, just catch the weakness and Li Yue will have to confess. The more well-behaved the child is, the more intimate he is with Li Yue. Looking at such a child, Li Yue must be heartbroken and can't let go.
This trick was used very well. The two of them couldn't help but admire that Jiang Youzhen was still capable!
"Take Xiaoyun away." Jiang Youzhen ordered.
Xiaoyun was taken to the next room, and Jiang Youzhen began to interrogate her.
"Go ahead! Tell me everything you know."
Li Yue then began to recall, "Xiao Yun is my own flesh and blood."
Jiang Youzhen was not surprised by this. Only a mother would love her child so much.
"Who is the father of the child?"
Li Yue shook her head in confusion, "I don't know!"
Jiang Youzhen frowned. He was so confused that he didn’t even know who the father of his child was?
"You still refuse to confess? You don't want to see your child being tortured, do you?" Zhu Zhimin was a little impatient. At this point, he still had to hide the truth.
Li Yue shook her head repeatedly, "I didn't hide anything, I really don't know who he is."
She then talked about how she met the father of the child. "My family is well-off. Although we are from a small family, my father is a peddler who travels from village to village. We live a relatively affluent life. It was not until I reached the age of 15 that my family started to arrange marriages for me."
She was lost in her memories. It turned out that Li Yue's real name was Lin Yue, and she was from Suzhou. Her family had no worries about food and drink, but they were not as rich as the rich.
At that time, the family was looking for a matchmaker, who came to the door and said that there was a matchmaker. The man was not yet twenty years old, had a handsome appearance, and was also a scholar. Although his parents died early, they left a lot of property, so he didn't have to worry about money to live.
When he was old enough to get married, he wanted to marry a gentle and virtuous wife. The Lin family saw the man and thought that he had a good temper and good looks, and his conversation was also good.
The most important thing was that the girl was dressed in luxurious clothes and had a house in the county town. She would definitely have a good life if she married there. She would not have any pressure from her parents-in-law and it would be convenient for her to go back to her parents' home in the future. So she agreed to the marriage.