Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Eighth
?Bazhou Yagong Hall, Bazhou Governor Yuwen Wen sat upright, and Chief Shi Ren Chong sat in the side seat. Two yamen runners were lined up in the hall, and there were crowds of people outside the hall, all of whom were watching. Of course, those vendors who were selling melon seeds, tea, and snacks were not allowed to appear on the scene.
First, the official shouted Sujing loudly. When the scene became quiet, he loudly explained the case today. Seeing that the time had arrived, Yuwen Wen slapped the auspicious wood and ordered someone to bring the plaintiff to the court.
"Who is in the hall!"
"Minister woman Zhang Li."
"Who is told what you are telling me!"
"The civilian woman sued Tian Yilong in the Tian family fortress at Longtou Mountain outside Xiyang City. He took me into the villa and was humiliated for several days before he released me back. Please make the decision for the civilian woman!"
Yuwen Wen ordered people to bring the defendant Tian Yilong to the court. When the people outside the court saw a man tied up and begged to the court, they all whispered: "It's really Tian Yilong, the son of Zongchang Tian!"
Some people who didn't know the truth asked this morning that Yuwen envoy took the army to Tianshi Fort to get people. The gate in the fort was closed and it was said that they wanted to resist stubbornly. I thought that Yuwen envoy wanted to "draw his sword and chop it up and make blood flow into a river" why did he catch people again?
Some people also said that when Tian Zongchang wanted his father to become an official on his behalf, why did the old man go to the hall now? But the young man went to the hall without seeing each other. Some people also said that Tian Yilong was evil and led a man to the other side of the river to run to the other side of the river to move Chen Jun across the river to rescue the siege.
For a moment, the buzzing sound was buzzing. Seeing that the scene was noisy, Yuwen Wen slapped the agglomeration and then the officials shouted and ordered Sujing. Tian Yilong was taken to the stairs and heard the officials asking him to kneel down and refused to kneel down to see the officials. After a stalemate, the yamen runner behind him kicked his knees and knelt down involuntarily.
"Who is in the hall!"
Tian Yilong was extremely upset when he heard Yuwen's "Will" above his official voice, and turned his head to the side without saying a word. Yuwen Wen asked again and saw that he was so arrogant that he wanted to let someone step forward and say a word.
Unhappy, but the person was unhappy, had to bow his head under the eaves. Tian Yilong saw a malicious yamen runner coming forward without wanting to suffer a loss, so he answered, "Tian Yilong, the grass man." The onlookers were so excited when they saw the legendary rebellious young leader of the Tian family, so difficult to deal with.
You are amazing, you are amazing, you are amazing, right? Now we have to see how the envoy of Yuwen, who is like a god, brought you to justice!
Yuwen Wen suppressed the urge to find fault in his heart and drag Tian Yilong down and beat him with a hundred sticks. He started to investigate the case. First, he asked Zhang Li to state the case. After she finished speaking, she asked Tian Yilong to have such a problem.
Tian Yilong naturally denied that it was not only that, but also stared at Zhang Li fiercely and stared at him in fear. Seeing this guy being so arrogant, Yuwen slapped the auspicious wood and told him to intimidate the plaintiff again, then eat a hundred sticks before continuing.
Yuwen Wen asked Zhang Li Shiling if the thief who insulted you was the one in front of him. Zhang Li Shi shook her head and said that because her eyes were blindfolded, she could not recognize her. This was a fact known before, so Yuwen Wen immediately went to the next step.
First, he took out a schematic diagram and marked the location of the villa where Zhang Li was detained. Yuwen Wen first asked Tian Yilong if the villa was his property. The other party immediately denied it and said that he had never been there.
As soon as the words were finished, the yamen ran a roll of paper. The official unveiled the roll of paper to show the public that there were several lines of words written on it and there were dense finger marks. The official saw that the people in the hall were confused and explained loudly: "This is a picture of a total of 68 people in the village near the villa. They identified the owner of the villa's surname Tian!"
"Nonsense! It's not my farm!" Tian Yilong shouted, "Even if the owner of the villa's surname is Tian, it has anything to do with me. There are many people in this area who have surnamed Tian!"
What Tian Yilong said is true. There are so many people with surnames from Tian in Jiangbei. Just because the owner of the villa’s surname is Tian, it is too far-fetched to say that Tian’s family business is too far-fetched, and the onlookers also nodded silently.
Yuwen Wen had no intention of just relying on this evidence to question the crime, so he asked the yamen runner to bring a witness to the court. The first one brought him was Zhao Xing, the coachman of the carriage and horse shop in Xiyang City. The shopkeeper of the carriage and horse shop together, and he confirmed that Zhao Xing was the coachman in the city.
Zhao Xing was knelt on the ground and cried and told him how he had been in contact with Zhang Xiaowu, a servant of the Zhang family, in April, and found a cheaper coachman. When Zhang family man Zhang An took Zhang Li to travel far away in the carriage he had arranged, he tossed and turned after the accident.
"Eunuch, the little lard is so funny that it is for those people to take the lead and ask Zhang Xiaowu to hire a carriage, but he doesn't want to harm people's lives!" Zhao Xing kept kowtowing, "Those people have local accents and think about it, no problem. Who has ever thought, who has ever thought..."
The official whispered loudly as Zhao Xing confessed the appearance of several coachmen who asked him to help him as an intermediary that day. The others were killed on the same day as Zhang An, but the whereabouts of the remaining one were unknown. This person was arrested by the government in a village in Yiyang County the day before yesterday.
After a man was brought up, he first asked Zhao Xing to confirm that he was one of the coachmen and then asked the plaintiff Zhang Li to identify him.
"It's him, he drove the carriage to trick me into the villa!" Zhang Li recognized for a moment and pointed at the man and cried. The onlookers were excited when they saw that they really caught the evil man. Yuwen Wen slapped the awkward and asked the coachman:
"May I have your name!"
"Little Chen Ershi..."
"From the real call, who is the one who led you to do evil!"
"It's Tian Yilong!" Chen Ershi replied without hesitation.
"You're talking nonsense, I don't know you at all! Who asked you to bite me?" Tian Yilong suddenly started to rush toward Chen Ershi and was pressed tightly by the yamen runners beside him. Yuwen Wen glanced at the "Xiyang Angry Man" and then asked again.
He asked Chen Ershi whether Tian Yilong was instructing him directly in person or to send him a message. The coachman said that on weekdays, the villa manager dealt with them and ordered all matters. They were originally servants of the villa but only pretended to be coachman and took care of their work in the city when they needed it.
Some people have to hire a car if they want to travel far. They ask in the car dealership how the family of the car hire is so they plan to do things halfway. If the female family with them looks good, they have to find a way to abduct people halfway.
"In other words, you have never seen Tian Yilong?" Yuwen Wen asked. Chen Ershi said that he had seen few people on weekdays but had seen a few times. Tian Yilong denied seeing the other party when he heard this.
Yuwen Wen ordered Chen Ershi to re-tell the incident of participating in the abduction of Zhang Li. Chen Ershi told the whole story: In April, he found that Zhang Langjun, the Zhang Mansion, wanted to hire a carriage from Zhao Xing, the carriage driver, and found that Zhang Langjun's bride, Zhang Li, was in good looks, so the villa manager arranged for them to commit the crime.
First, he promised Zhao Xing that he and his old acquaintance Zhang Xiaowu would hire them. The next day when he got on the road, Zhang Li was riding Chen Ershi's carriage. He designed to make the wheels damaged and the slower it went.
Later, he made an excuse to send the servant who was with the car to leave Zhang Li, and then he quietly turned the front of the car and drove eastward into the villa. Zhang Li's wife said that the person was not sure of the direction and later found that something was wrong, and he was confused by his sweet words and finally took him to the villa.
As for whom he pretended to meet and talked to Zhang An on the same day, he didn't know who attracted attention. According to the arrangement, who would be responsible for the abducting of Zhang Li's car. Others could then put the blame on the thief afterwards, and Zhao Xing, who was promised the benefit, could also frame him.
"A few days later, the manager asked me to pull the unconscious Zhang Li to the side of the official road and throw it away. It seemed that I heard that Zhang Langjun from the Zhang family was killed and released to prevent the government from coming to the door." Chen Ershi finished slowly. After a while, he added: "The partner who was hired by Zhang An with me that day disappeared later. After the incident, the manager did not ask me to do this again, but stayed in the villa for fear of being recognized by the government."
He also said that afterwards, the manager of the villa ordered people to paint the gate of the villa and the exterior wall again to prevent the guard. Zhang Li went back to sue the official and asked the government to follow the clues to find him. Later, he heard that there were indeed yamen runners coming to investigate. First, the appearance and color were different from the original. Second, the manager also responded properly, so it was not found that the village was detained by Zhang Li.
During the entire statement, Tian Yilong stared at Chen Ershi fiercely. Yuwen Wen asked Tian Yilong whether he pleaded guilty or not, he still denied that he recognized Chen Ershi. Seeing this, Yuwen Wen signaled the yamen runners to bring another person.
The man was Tian Ji, who had previously reported to the boss. Yuwen Wen asked him to identify Zhao Xing, Chen Ershi, and Tian Yilong who were present, Tian Yilong, and Tian Yilong, who were Tian Ji and Chen Ershi, who said that they had never seen Tian Yilong before. Then they asked Tian Ji and Chen Ershi to recognize each other and both said that they recognized the other as the servants of the villa.
Tian Ji said that he was a servant in the villa who was responsible for purchasing and managing the warehouse. In April, he also knew that a woman was captured by the villa. Tian Yilong said that there was no servant like Tian Ji and there was no farm in his family at the address marked on the sketch. The owner of the villa's surname was Tian, and it was not clear that this was a frame-up unless there was a land deed proof.
"These two people are just colluding together and of course they recognize each other. Who knows who they are instructed to frame me to deal with the Tian family!" Tian Yilong stared at Yuwen Wen and said one word from his mouth.
What he implies is that these people are the actors you, Yuwen's "Wen", who came to act and frame him. Anyway, it is not easy to confess to your state yamen.
"Collective?" Yuwen Wen asked with a smile and then asked the yamen runners to present two pieces of paper, with handwriting written on it and dense handprints. "This is the picture of the residents around the market near the villa. A total of thirteen people identified the celestial fish as the one who came to the market to buy things and transported them back to the villa."
"Tian Ji has been buying things in the market since several years ago. There are five people on this paper that confirm that Tian Ji has said he was buying in the villa five years ago."
The two pieces of paper in Yuwen Wen's hand were strong evidence that Tian Ji was doing business for the villa. Seeing Tian Yilong still sneering, he signaled the yamen runners to present two things, the first one was a golden hairpin. Zhang Li saw it on the spot and said that it was one of the jewelry she brought when she was captured into the villa that day.
Because she was humiliated by the thief, all the jewelry on her body was taken off and she was not put on again. A few days later, she was knocked out of the villa and threw it to the edge of the official road and woke up without jewelry on her body.
The second one is a jade belt, with one of the twelve green jade pieces embedded in it, which has been damaged. According to Tian Ji, the jade belt was taken out from the owner's room of the villa. Yuwen Wen asked the yamen runners to put the jade belt in a pallet to Tian Yilong and asked, "Tian Yilong, who do you recognize this jade belt?"
"This...where did you get it..." Tian Yilong was dumbfounded at the jade belt, completely losing the momentum just now.
"Tian Yilong! Do you recognize who this jade belt is!" Yuwen Wen no longer spoke in an inquiring tone, but scolded him. Seeing that Tian Yilong opened his mouth and couldn't speak, he asked the yamen runners to take another person.
The man was Manager Lin from the grocery store. Yuwen Wen asked him to see the jade belt and asked him if he could recognize it. Manager Lin looked carefully several times and said he recognized it. This was the jade belt he sold to Tian Yilong, the son of the eldest son of the Tian clan, at the beginning of the year.
"In September, Tian Langjun took this jade belt and asked me to tell me that a piece of jade was accidentally broken and asked if it could be replaced. Cao Min said that the jade belt was bought from Jiankang. The jade quality was of great quality and could not find the same one. Tian Langjun paid the deposit and asked Cao Min to find a way to find the same jade sheet before notifying him to replace it."
"In other words, this jade belt is Tian Yilong's right?" Yuwen Wen asked. Tian Yilong opened his eyes wide and looked at the jade belt. He looked at Manager Lin, wanting to say something but couldn't say it.
"That's true." Manager Lin replied.
"Where is Tian Yilong?" Yuwen Wen asked again.
"This...this is it!" Manager Lin pointed to Tian Yilong who was kneeling beside him and said.
Chapter completed!