Chapter 135 Confession
At this time Yin Ruchen asked to take a look at the man's right shoulder, so Meng Lian sent guards to open his clothes and expose his right shoulder.
"This man is the assassin who stabbed me that day! The wound on his right shoulder is exactly the one I stabbed! Ding Dadi is not the assassin that day, I just recognized the wrong person before." Yin Ruchen suddenly realized. She felt very guilty and immediately turned around to apologize to Ding Dadi: "I'm sorry, I recognized the wrong person..."
Unexpectedly, before Yin Ruchen finished her apology, Ding Dadi excitedly shouted, "Ms. Yin, you didn't recognize the wrong person! You really didn't recognize the wrong person! I am the assassin, look carefully, I am!"
Meng Lian asked several imperial doctors to examine Ding Datian's wound. The doctors all said: Yin Ruchen said that the wound was caused by her stabbing with a sword when she tried to assassinate her that night. Judging from the condition of the wound, this is completely reasonable.
The person who tested the poison of the flying needles also reported that the poison on the flying needles was the same as the poison on the flying needles shot at Yin Ruchen. In other words, the poison on the dart that hit Feng Jinlei, the flying needle stuck in the wall of Yin Ruchen's residence, the dart that hit King Jingyin, and the flying needle shot at Yan Moying were all the same.
"Were you the one who used the poison dart to assassinate His Majesty?" Meng Lian asked Ding Datian sternly.
Before Ding Datian could answer, Ding Dadi said anxiously, "None of it was done by him! None of it has anything to do with him. It was done by me! It was all done by me! The wound on my right shoulder..."
Before Ding Dadi could finish his words, Meng Lian interrupted him: "Ding Dadi, I am asking him now, not you."
"The murder of Imperial Physician Feng, the assassination of Yin Ruchen, and the plot against Your Majesty with poison darts were all done by me alone. I confessed to everything! Everyone has his own actions and responsibilities. This has nothing to do with Ding Datian. I beg you to let him go!" Ding Datian said sincerely.
"No!" Ding Dadi cried to Ding Datian with tears in his eyes, "Brother!"
Ding Datian turned his head to look at Ding Dadi and said in a deep voice: "Dadi, why are you doing this? Why do you take on something that has nothing to do with you? Big brother will not let you take the blame!" "This is a capital crime!" Ding Dadi said in despair.
"Haha!" Ding Datian raised his head and smiled, then turned his head to look at Ding Datian and said, "Brother, from the day I started working as a killer, my life was no longer my own. I never thought I could live to this day!"
"Were the murder of Imperial Physician Feng, the assassination of Yin Ruchen, and the plot against His Majesty with poison darts instigated by the same person? Who ordered you to do it?" Meng Lian asked Ding Datian.
"If you want to kill me, just kill me! I also have principles as a killer: even if I am captured, I will not give out the mastermind behind the mission, unless the mastermind betrays me first or sells out his country for personal gain!" Ding Datian said in a firm tone.
Meng Lian looked at Ding Datian and felt that even if he continued to interrogate him, it would be difficult to get the details of who the instigator was, so he asked other questions: "What did you want to do by entering the abandoned garden from the passage under the dry well?"
"I heard that Ding Dadi was mistaken for an assassin, so I came in to find a way to save him. No matter what you ask now, as long as it does not violate my principles, I will answer truthfully, but I beg you to let Ding Dadi go!" Ding Datian said.
"Did you dig that passage?" Meng Lian continued to ask.
"No." Ding Datian shook his head.
"Then how did you know?"
(End of this chapter)
