Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's powerful aura, the three country bumpkins in the prison were so scared that they peed their pants.
One by one, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
"You want to live!"
"You want to live!"
"You can ask whatever you want. We won't dare to lie to you!”
Zhu Yuanzhang took a deep breath, trying to calm his nerves.
However, the air in the dungeon was too bad. There was also the stench of the three country bumpkins 'urine, which almost made him vomit.
Old Master Zhu endured the discomfort and spoke in a low voice.
"What's your name?"
"I am Hu Jiu, and the other two are my sons. One is called Hu Chu San, and the other is called Hu Jiu Jiu!”
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but frown when he heard this. He didn't expect that the other party was actually a family member.
In fact, tomb raiding in ancient times was basically committed by family groups. It was rare to conspire with outsiders.
The most common organizational structure was that the father would dig a hole while the son would go down to the hole and the father would keep watch.
The reason for this division of labor was mainly because money moved people's hearts.
When faced with real money, the son might not care about the father, but the father might not be willing to part with the son.
"Have you ever robbed a tomb?"
"Robbed, robbed!"
"May I know which one you are asking about?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned. He didn't expect him to be a repeat offender.
"Ten years ago, was a tomb on Mount Zhong robbed by you?”
"Yes, yes, we have indeed stolen it!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the other party's affirmative answer, he was so nervous that his heart almost jumped to his throat.
"Quick, tell us about what happened that day!”
Hu Jiu did not speak immediately this time. Instead, he remained silent for a moment.
He was a grave robber, but that didn't mean he was brainless.
The entire prison cell had been emptied, and only their family of three was locked up. It must be that some important person was here to investigate the case.
And this person in front of him was a big shot, the kind that could break through the heavens!
Therefore, Hu Jiu had a thought.
"Reporting to this noble master!"
"I can tell you anything you want to ask, but I have a request. I can only tell you if you agree!”
"I know that I have committed a grave sin and dare not plead for mercy for myself. I only beg the noble master to give my son a chance to live!”
"I was the one who robbed the tomb. It has nothing to do with my two sons. Sob…"
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little sympathetic.
"Good!"
"I promise you!"
"As long as you tell me everything that happened that day, no matter how big or small, I'll let your son live!”
Hu Jiu was dumbfounded.
"Noble Lord, can only one of our sons live?”
Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly.
"Of course!"
"The crime you have committed is a great crime of exterminating your family. It's already considered leniency for us to leave you with a root!”
When Hu Jiu heard this, the doubts in his heart disappeared.
If the other party completely agreed to his request, he would feel that the other party was bluffing him.
Now that the other party had made their bottom line clear, they could only let one of their sons live. This was the most normal situation.
"Good!"
"We believe in the noble master!"
"That day, I heard that a noble from the palace was buried, so I dug a hole when there was no one around and sneaked into the tomb to steal the burial items.”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he couldn't help but ask.
"How was the weather that day?"
"It's raining!"
"It's raining!"
"It's because of the rain that the soldiers guarding the tomb went to hide from the rain. That's why I dared to rob the tomb!”
"When I went down to the tomb and saw the gold on the ground, my eyes were dazzled.”
" I packed all the gold and went out of the thief's cave. I melted the stolen gold and sold it for money…"
"No more?"
Hu Jiu lowered his head guiltily.
"No, that's all…"
Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him.
"Where's the coffin?"
"What did you do to the coffin?"
When Hu Jiu heard the word "coffin", he was so scared that his face turned ashen.
"Noble Lord, you even know about this?”
"I did touch the coffin. When I opened the coffin, I saw that it was a child who died inside.”
"Speaking of which, it's strange. This child is lifelike and extremely handsome.”
"At that time, my second son was about the same size as that child, so I was greedy and took off the child's clothes.”
"Just as I was about to put the child in his underpants, I suddenly realized that the child actually moved!”
"He even said something about suffocating me to death…"
"This old man has been robbing tombs for so many years, but he has never encountered a corpse that has come back to life.”
"I didn't dare to stay in the tomb anymore. I carried the stolen things and ran away!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, his breathing quickened and he excitedly hammered the bars of the prison.
"Continue!"
"What did you do to that child?”
Hu Jiu said bitterly.
"How would I dare to do anything to him?"
"I was afraid that he would jump up and eat me, snatching back the treasure that I had stolen with great difficulty!”
" So, I ran away in the middle of the night and ran dozens of miles back home…"
"He ran away?"
"Yes, I am!"
"This is a zombie, how can I not run!”
"Humph!"
"At least you know what's good for you!"
Zhu Yuanzhang got the answer he wanted and turned around to leave in satisfaction.
He had just taken two steps when Hu Jiu called out to him from the prison.
"Noble Lord, you promised me that you would give my son a way out!”
"Humph!"
"Don't worry, we'll keep our word!"
"I'm in a good mood today, so I can let your two sons go.”
"But you've done so many evil things. We can't let you live!”
When Hu Jiu heard this, he kowtowed gratefully in prison.
"Thank you, noble master. Even if I'm in the netherworld, I'm still grateful to you…"
Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the ground and felt the warm sunlight. He felt like he was ten years younger and was in a great mood.
"It's our eldest grandson!"
"This is our eldest grandson, hahaha!”
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw Jiang Meng kneeling on the ground, he excitedly went forward to help him up.
"Aiya!"
"Why is Minister Jiang still kneeling on the ground? Get up quickly!”
"Since you've done a great job in solving this case, you can make one of your sons a hundred household of the Embroidered Uniform Guards!”
Jiang Meng had already written her will, washed her neck, and waited for her death.
He did not expect that after the Emperor personally went to the dungeon, not only did he not blame him, he even rewarded him.
"Thank you for your reward, Imperial Lord!"
Zhu Yuanzhang patted Jiang Meng's shoulder encouragingly.
"Do your job well and I won't mistreat you.”
"Oh right, let the old man have a quick death. Let his two sons go. This is what we promised him.”
"Ah?"
Jiang Meng was stunned, but he quickly thought of the three prisoners in the cell.
He had thought that if the Emperor personally interrogated them, even if the entire family was not executed, the main culprit would at least be executed by a thousand cuts.
After all, this group of people had stolen the tomb of the emperor's eldest grandson!
However, the Emperor was merciful enough to give the main criminal a quick death and even spared his two sons.
What was going on?
What did this group of people say to the Emperor that made him so happy?
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