Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

"Take them down and find painters to draw portraits of their acquaintances. After the portraits are drawn, we can compare them. If there is any mistake, we will not let them off easily."

As soon as Qin Yunhe's words came out, several people were obviously a little flustered, especially the two named Daji Yuanbao.

The two looked at each other, obviously eager to communicate but unable to do so.

Naturally, Team Leader Xu didn't care about their reactions and immediately ordered his men to take the people away.

Qin Yunhe and Li Chang naturally saw Daji Yuanbao's reaction.

The two men looked at each other, and Li Chang said to Zhang San and Li Si, "You two go keep an eye on Daji Yuanbao. These two look flustered, so we can make a good move."

Zhang San and Li Si followed the order.

Several robbers had been taken to separate cells and settled in, and soon the painter was also put in place.

Zhang San gave Li Si a look and walked into Yuanbao's cell.

Li Si went to keep an eye on Daji.

As soon as he entered the room, Zhang San politely said to the painter: "Thank you, sir."

The painter said, "Brother Zhang, you are too polite."

"I heard that you paint lifelike portraits. Is there anyone I can't find based on your portraits?"

"I can't say how similar it is, but as long as the person describing it isn't lying, it shouldn't be a problem to find him."

"Okay," Zhang San raised his hand and drew towards Yuan Bao: "Let's start, let's draw Ah Song first."

"Yes Yes……"

Yuanbao responded like this, but waited for a while before saying: "A Song is... round-faced..."

On the other side, Daji also began to describe.

".....A Song, he has a narrow face...his eyes are a bit like this official..."

Li Si smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if the eyes look like me, just don't draw me as the official."

Daji shrank back, and remained tongue-tied for a long while before continuing: "… His eyes are a little smaller than yours. His nose… is quite ordinary, and his mouth is also… quite ordinary…"

"As ordinary as me. No special features on your face? Birthmarks? Moles?"

"Features... no features..."

Li Si ordered an officer to go and see how the painting of the big ingot is going. Is there any progress?

The officer answered yes and left.

The artist began to ask about the thickness of eyebrows, the height of cheekbones, the shape of mouth and even the ears.

Daji's description became slower and slower, and he became more and more confused...

"…The face seems to be wider, and the eyebrows…"

Li Si was a little bored so he changed from sitting to standing, and then he wandered to a corner of the cell out of boredom.

I don't know who put up the board there.

Li Si raised his foot and kicked the board lightly. The board hit the board next to it with a slight sound, and then slid down with a squeak.

Daji, who was already a little nervous, was frightened and choked up at the sound of a word.

Li Si smiled and said, "What are you afraid of? If you don't draw well, you will get a few beatings at most, but you won't die. Although adults don't have much patience, they have a lot of time. Draw until both of you are consistent. It depends on whose side is drawn first, you or Da Yuanbao."

After a while, the officer came back and said, "Brother Li Si, Brother San has finished painting a picture. It looks familiar to us. Please come over and take a look."

As he spoke, the officer glanced at Daji intentionally or unintentionally.

"Look familiar? It could be someone from our government office. I'll go take a look, you pick up the board."

The officer went over, picked up the board and put it together with the other boards. Then he gathered them together, pinched them with both hands, moved them to one side and poked them, and the boards fell to the ground in unison with a thud.

"Fourth brother, the adults said that if they are really not honest, they will be beaten with a few sticks. Don't always be soft-hearted."

"Hey, it's just the beginning, why are you in such a hurry? I'll go over first."

With that, Li Si left and went to Zhang San.

In fact, there has been no progress on Zhang San's side.

The one called Yuanbao also had a round face sometimes, a square face sometimes, and he kept talking about this and that for a long time.

Li Si came in and took a look at the portraits and said, "Alright, stop drawing. If this guy is not honest, just beat him up. They have already explained that Asong and Bo are not their acquaintances. They are just them."

Then he turned to Zhang San and said, "Let's go. I'm still interrogating him. Let's go and listen together."

Zhang San stood up and winked at the officer, who then went to grab Yuanbao to beat him with a stick.

Yuan Bao was still thinking about how to fool around, but when he heard that they would not ask any questions but just hit him with a stick, he panicked: "Don't hit me, sir, I will confess, I will confess. I am Asong, I am Asong, please show mercy."

Li Si deliberately said, "It's too late. They explained it first."

The officer pushed Yuanbao down and started fighting.

Yuan Bao was already injured, and the beating made him even more miserable: "Master, please spare my life, please spare my life, I have something to say."

Zhang San raised his hand and the officer stopped.

"Go ahead and tell me what's useful, and I'll let you go. If you continue to fool around, don't even think about stopping me."

Yuanbao stopped crying and fell to the ground, wiping his tears and trembling, as if he was trying to catch his breath.

Zhang San frowned when he saw him like this, feeling that this man was up to something again.

After a long while, Yuan Bao finally said, "That... that bearded man is Awu, the boss of Luo's Butcher Shop."

Zhang San and Li Si waited for a long time, but Yuanbao didn't speak again.

"Gone?"

“No, no more…”

"Keep fighting."

"Don't, don't fight, sir, they are really gone. The remaining Wasp and Ertiao are their real names..."

When the officers saw that Zhang San and Li Si didn't say anything, they just continued to fight.

This time Yuanbao cried and begged for mercy again, but he didn't say anything else.

Zhang San didn't stop until he had hit twenty points.

Li Si said to Zhang San, "You continue asking questions here. I have to go back over there to continue asking questions and then compare the statements."

Zhang San waited for Li Si to leave and then sat back in his seat.

"Tell me, you are servants of the Ma family in Mo County, how do you know Hu Zi from Ta County?"

Yuanbao's eyes began to evade again, and he said, "Abai and I were originally from Ta County, and were sold to the Ma family in Mo County. Later, when the old lady of the Ma family was celebrating her birthday, the whole family ate vegetarian noodles and got poisoned. Abai and I didn't stay there for long anyway, so we packed up some gold and silver and ran away secretly. As a result, we were robbed by bandits on the way.

Originally, those bandits wanted to kill me and Abo, but fortunately Hu Zi, Luo Awu, was also on the mountain. He pleaded for us and spared our lives, but the bandit leader told us to stay on the mountain...

But, but we have never hurt anyone. We are just ordinary people, how could we rob? We are just small followers in the mountain stronghold, usually we just follow them to show our strength and never fight. We have no status in the mountains, we just mix around. "

Zhang San thought, it was a clean exoneration. Even if these people had done something, where could they find someone to prove it?

"Then why did you come to Xu Ning's house?"

"Not long after we arrived, our village started fighting with the neighboring village. We had fewer people than them, so we were eventually dispersed. We had no choice but to beg and do odd jobs until we ended up here. ..."

Zhang San sneered, "You are a bunch of bandits who are quite law-abiding. You killed people and robbed people in the mountain stronghold, but you are begging for alms without committing any crime during your escape? I think you are still dishonest."

"It's unfair, sir. We were forced to stay in the mountain village. We don't know how to rob and we don't dare to do it. We just wanted to do something because we couldn't survive here anymore, but we got caught..."

"How many of you are there?"

"Just the five of us."

"Aren't there three Luo Awu brothers? Why are there only five of you?"

"Just because one person is a bandit doesn't mean all of his brothers have to be bandits..."

Li Si returned to Daji's place and said as soon as he entered: "Sir, there is no need to draw. The man over there has already confessed that this man is A-Bo."

Then he turned to Daji and said, "I said you were dishonest, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, sometimes big, sometimes small, and you are trying to fool me. Come on, beat me up!"

The painter stepped out and Daji was immediately pressed down.

"Please spare me, spare me! I'll tell you what I want to tell you. I'll tell you everything you ask."

"Then we'll talk about it after we finish fighting."

The officer beat him more than ten times, and Li Si called for a stop. He said, "Tell me, how did you and Asong get here from Ma's house in Mo County?"