The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family-Chapter 632: Severe Torture to Extract a Confession (2)_1

The co-investigator turned his head and exchanged a glance with Mo Dun, berating Pei Qin to respond properly, "Confess truthfully, or prepare yourself for severe punishment!"

"As soon as the threat of severe punishment arises, this commoner’s hairs stand on end! Please, not that! I am confessing!" Pei Qin shouted with her hands outstretched.

"If you don’t want to suffer physical torment, then confess truthfully without delay!" Mo Dun reminded in a cold and authoritative voice.

"Confessing! Confessing!" Pei Qin kept nodding her head, "My lord! You seek evidence when handling cases, right? I wonder if all the evidence has been gathered?"

"The physical evidence is conclusive," Mo Dun replied to her.

Pei Qin nodded again, "So, you are only prepared to consider the evidence, and not whether the whole affair is reasonable?"

"What do you mean by that?" asked Mo Dun.

Pei Qin sneered, "My lord! Even if I am but a lowly commoner, I also know that thunder and rain are marks of imperial favor. To say that this commoner was so dissatisfied with the Imperial Court that I poisoned the soy sauce sent to the Palace, and in doing so, poisoned the Emperor and everyone in the Palace, setting aside whether I even have the audacity, for starters, wouldn’t I need to have access to poison? And after adding it, it would have to pass through several checkpoints, are the capable people of the Department of Internal Affairs such fools that they couldn’t detect poison in soy sauce? Are the Imperial Physicians from the Imperial Hospital so incompetent that, in nearly a year, not one has detected a poisoning within the Palace? And what of the Imperial Chefs from the Imperial Kitchen, and the eunuchs and palace maids who taste the food, implicated so widely! Such power I command, orchestrating such an elaborate scheme, that it led everyone in the Palace to be poisoned by my soy sauce! When I reach Hell, even Yama Raja will admire me and appoint me as an Official Registrar! In life, I can’t achieve an official title for my contributions, but in death I can; wouldn’t that be dying for a good cause?"

The Official Registrar recording the session couldn’t keep up and looked up at Pei Qin. The abrupt nature of her statement was indeed shocking. But upon detailed analysis, the alleged poisoning by Pei Qin did seem quite peculiar, didn’t it?

Pei Qin suddenly exclaimed, "You mustn’t have found out where I got the poison from, did you? If you didn’t find it, then it must be that I created the poison myself, ah! It turns out I have such a skill, I didn’t even know I was this formidable!" She turned to ask Mo Heng, "Hearing that I’ve become a master poisoner, creating a toxin that could fool the top people inside the Palace, are you even more in awe of me now?"

Mo Heng smiled and nodded, "The whole world will admire you." Not just the world; with the advent of the bomb, history itself would be rewritten due to her.

"I quite admire myself too!" Pei Qin said with self-satisfaction, then added, "Speaking of which, I admire the Imperial Physicians of the Imperial Hospital even more! At first, they simply couldn’t detect any poisoning, but once one case was discovered, suddenly everyone was found to be poisoned! Even the poison in the soy sauce, which the Department of Internal Affairs had failed to detect, was identified by them! Truly, they are the top of the Chu Nation medical field! Lively indeed!"

Everyone present, from the higher seating areas to the lower, realized that Pei Qin’s remarks were not confessions, but rather scathing ridicule of the Department of Internal Affairs, the Imperial Hospital, and the Imperial Kitchen, no, even including all who were responsible for the case.

Pei Qin looked at Mo Dun, her mouth agape as she asked, "My lord! You’re saying I’m so powerful, that from thousands of miles away, while farming and making soy sauce, I can also control the Palace—would I also have the power to stage a rebellion on the side?"

Both Mo Dun and the co-investigator’s expressions changed at this.

"Furthermore! With such great power, you dare make me kneel here? Aren’t you afraid I’ll simply wiggle my little finger, and your whole family would be poisoned and drop dead?" Pei Qin inquired with a chuckle.

Seeing her mocking smile, her eyes deep yet resolute, emanating an air of condescension towards all, it was evident from the start that she was utterly fearless and had been in control of the entire interrogation process. As Mo Dun sized her up, his expression subtly changed, and his gaze once again fell on Mo Heng. Indeed, if he were alive, he would never be content with mediocrity; how could he have married an ordinary and incompetent country girl!