Chapter 49
Mingzhi is thin and weak.
She looked at her eyes without squinting, her eyes always fell a few inches under her feet, her pale face tensely, and she knelt on the ground to pay homage to Emperor Wenxuan.
"Minister Mingzhi, pay homage to the Emperor."
Emperor Wenxuan wore a dragon robe and was quite majestic as a superior.
He looked down at Mingzhi and invisible pressure rushed away, causing Mingzhi to pinch her sleeves, her scalp tightly, and she dared not look up.
"Can you prove that the corpse and blood clothes are Yu Qingshan, what is your relationship with him?"
Emperor Wenxuan spoke slowly, and every word hit Mingzhi's heart like a drumstick.
Her eyelashes trembled, bit her lower lip, and said with a thorny head: "The young lady is recruiting soldiers to fight in the border. Her hometown is famine. She went to the border to join her husband and opened a teahouse there to make a living. God never favored the young lady, but in just a few months, the young lady died in the battlefield. During his lifetime, he was close friends with Brother Yu, and often took him and Brother Zhao to the teahouse for wine. He met him in one go. He and Brother Zhao were pitying the young lady and lost her husband and took good care of him on weekdays.
Wars continued, and he was seriously injured on the battlefield and was in danger of his life. Other comrades mistakenly thought he was dead and put him and other soldiers who died in the morgue. The young woman found him inside and found a glimmer of hope, so she pulled him out, so she looked for medical treatment and medicine, rescued him, and recovered for several years. But at that time, he had been 'dead' and had no household registration and could not return to the battlefield to serve the emperor. I lived with him and regarded the other party as a relative. After living together for several years, the young woman knew him very well, and his clothes were all sewn by the young woman."
Her tears burst out from her eyes, and she looked at the bag on the ground sadly, "The girl has confirmed that the bloody clothes inside are from Brother Yu. After he returned to Lihua Village, one of his legs was discounted by General Su, and there were cracks in the legs inside."
"Have you been a couple halfway?" Gu Yunniang suddenly asked.
Mingzhi heard Gu Yunniang's voice and her nails almost pinched into her flesh.
"A lonely man and widow have lived together for several years. You wash and cook for him, sew and mend him, and earn money to cure him with illness and injury. It's just a kindness for those days of care?" Gu Yunniang's tone was ridiculous.
Mingzhi felt nervous.
"I wonder if anyone here believes it?" Gu Yunniang asked the others, but she didn't believe it. "Mr. Qi can find Madam Ming, and he should know her very well. Do you believe that she and Yu Qingshan are innocent?"
Mr. Qi frowned and said, "Miss Ming is a person who values love and righteousness, and has always regarded Yu Qingshan as his brother."
"Is that true?" Gu Yunniang looked at Ming Zhi's dress and suddenly smiled, "Miss Ming has been keeping a ritual for her husband for three years, why should she wear such a simple dress? Or, who are you keeping a ritual for?"
Mingzhi's face became paler, and a strange redness appeared, and her blood surged all over her body, her slender body trembled with anger, "Madam Gu, not everyone is as shameless as you. Now I'm asking for justice for Brother Yu, why should Miss Gu hold me tightly?"
Shameless?
When Gu Yunniang heard this, she couldn't help but smiled. She took a bag from her shoulder, and everyone realized that she had brought something in.
"My Lady Ming, I didn't expose you. It's because you are diligent in writing letters to me every day and leaving you some face. But you don't think so, and I don't need to take care of that little bit of affection." Gu Yunniang took out a few letters and presented them to Eunuch Deng. "When the wife met Mingzhi in the town, she was seven months pregnant, and her handwritten letter could prove it. In the last letter, she told me that she was very happy when her husband came home. In Mingzhi's words just now, she was single and had not remarried, and Lord Qi also confirmed it. If this child was not Yu Qingshan's, why would you lie?"
Mingzhi didn't expect Gu Yunniang to carry her letter with her!
When I met in the town for the last time, Mingzhi wanted to dispel Gu Yunniang's suspicion. Unexpectedly, she had never felt at ease with her, and obviously she had known about her relationship with Yu Qingshan for a long time!
Thinking of this possibility, the blood on Mingzhi's face faded away. It turned out that she and Yu Qingshan were like jumping clowns, and had been played with by Gu Yunniang!
She didn't order clothes, just waiting for this day.
Mr. Qi did not expect that Gu Yunniang had known about Mingzhi and Yu Qingshan for a long time, and even kept collecting evidence, just waiting for the opportunity to fight back in the end?
"Ming Zhiruo is a person who values love and friendship. Will he marry someone else without having to keep his husband's ritual for three years? If you have nothing to do with Yu Qingshan, would you be willing to wash your hands and make soup for him?" Gu Yunniang curled her lips and smiled: "In the past few years, you have been in the overseas Chinese hometown. It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. You can ask someone to go to the overseas Chinese hometown to investigate and you will know what your identity is with Yu Qingshan."
If he could still argue before, when Gu Yunniang said the word "Abroad Hometown", the panic in Mingzhi's eyes broke into tears and fell down, and she collapsed on the ground.
Mr. Qi looked ugly, "The man had three wives and four concubines. Yu Qingshan took over Mingzhi and could not find any mistakes. And these are not the reason why you and General Su killed him!"
Su Jingnian sneered, raised his hand, and Yun Mu, who was waiting outside the door, brought a person in.
Seeing the person who fell to the ground clearly, Mr. Qi and Ming Zhi's faces changed drastically.
"How...how is it possible?" Mr. Qi looked at Yu Qingshan in surprise. His people came to report. Gu Yunniang stabbed Yu Qingshan, and Su Jingnian silenced the person and chopped them up and fed them to the dog.
Who knew that he was not dead!
Su Jingnian said: "Mrs. I have been keeping the rituals for Yu Qingshan for three years. I fell in love with her at first sight and forced her to marry her regardless of her wishes, convinced her husband's family to agree to this marriage. After the marriage date, Yu Qingshan suddenly returned. I felt something was strange and asked someone to investigate. The news I got was indeed as Mingzhi said. He was seriously injured and was rescued. He has been recuperating in recent years. Later, I found out that he had a close relationship with Mingzhi and followed the clues. They have settled in overseas Chinese hometowns in recent years. The people of the overseas Chinese hometowns proved that Yu Qingshan had to go to the overseas Chinese hometowns three years ago, and had already married Mingzhi."
"Emperor, I am suspicious of this. Someone deliberately opposes me. Just before I married my wife, I arranged for Yu Qingshan to come back and use my power to deal with him and erase the charge of Yu Qingshan's deserter! In order to attract the person behind me, I used methods to deliberately let Yu Qingshan pretend to die."
Su Jingnian's words were until Mr. Qi was the mastermind and deliberately provoked trouble.
And he was detained for one crime!
To shelter deserters, the crime is unforgivable!
Mr. Qi was so scared that he was no one looked so cold that he knelt on the ground, "The emperor clearly understands that the empress is wronged! Even if General Su did not kill people and seize his wife, forcibly occupy the land of the people, and kill innocent people indiscriminately, he must not tolerate it!"
"Mr. Qi, why do you slander him so much? Your brother was at the border and did not obey the commander's orders and made arbitrary decisions, resulting in a crushing defeat in the war and the death of tens of thousands of soldiers. The Qi family has been a military general for generations, and should know that the military orders are as good as a mountain. If anyone violates them, he will be executed immediately! Your father-in-law is doing his business, but you secretly hate him and look for opportunities to take revenge and fabricate facts." Gu Yunniang was full of anger and disagree with what he did.
Mr. Qi sneered, "I listened to and believed Su Jingnian's murder and seized his wife, so I fell into the trap of others. All the crimes afterwards are true. If there is a lie, I am willing to retire and return home!"
"Can you offset the charges by protecting the deserter and returning home?" Gu Yunniang said with a smile: "Forced land? What land did my husband occupy? What evidence do you have? I bought the land at the foot of Wenquan Mountain for thirty taels of silver. The land deed contains the signatures of the people of the whole village..."
Mr. Qi interrupted Gu Yunniang, "You use your power to suppress others and forcefully buy this land."
Gu Yunniang couldn't help laughing, "Mr. Qi, that piece of land has been abandoned for decades and no one has cultivated it. It's only worth fifteen taels. I spent thirty taels to buy it in the end. I used power to suppress people? Anyone with a brain will know that I was forced to do so and I had half the extra silver!"
Mr. Qi's expression changed drastically. The news he received was that Gu Yunniang snatched the fertile land in the village and a hot spring mountain. Why did Gu Yunniang say that it was a wasteland?
He saw clearly the contract book that Gu Yunniang unfolded, and his eyes turned black. He finally understood that it was a trap and he was trapped in!
"Hot Spring Mountain..."
"If you really prove it is as strong as a mountain, you should know that Wenquan Mountain is not mine at all." Gu Yunniang sneered: "Mr. Qi, if you want to harm someone, I will send reliable people to investigate and not be deceived by appearances. If the people in Lihua Village want to blackmail me, they will inevitably have rumors and slander my reputation. If your people believe in rumors, they will mislead you."
Mr. Qi's face turned blue. He realized Su Jingnian's words and said in a deep voice: "He cut Ding into pieces and Yu Xiulan's bones. This matter did not falsely accuse him!"
Yu Qingshan then reacted. He was imprisoned by Su Jingnian. His life was very difficult. He had never had a full meal. He was so hungry that he was skinny and weak, saying: "Your Majesty, please make the decision for the grass people. Su Jingnian killed his mother and younger sister, blamed my elder brother for dozens of big boards, and collapsed on the bed."
At the end of his speech, his eyes were red and he stared at Su Jingnian resentfully.
Gu Yunniang's eyes were red and tears rolled down. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed, "Master, they only know that their husband blamed Yu Qinglin, but they don't know why they blamed him! Yu Qinglin is simply a beast. He clicked on his widowed sister-in-law, who was widowed at home, peeked at her bath, and was sent to meet the official. In order to protect the reputation of the village, the clan leader came to stop him. It happened that his husband came to Lihua Village to recuperate. We blocked his way. Yun Mu asked clearly about the ins and outs and dealt with him impartially, and ordered the clan leader to beat him forty boards. Even if this matter was in the county government, the county magistrate would deal with it like this! In the eyes of Lord Qi, is the uncle's approach right?"
Mr. Qi was choked but could not argue.
I thought I was sure to win, but I didn't expect that the defeat was like a mountain.
He thought he had designed to frame Su Jingnian, but he did not expect that he would be designed by Su Jingnian. He had been waiting for him here for a long time to pull him out of the root!
Thinking of this, Mr. Qi was shocked and suddenly thought of Cao.
His face changed drastically, and he begged in his heart that Cao would fall into his hands and become his trump card for turning over!
But when Gu Yunniang spoke, her heart sank into the abyss, "If the emperor doesn't believe it, you can ask Yu Qinglin's wife Cao to come in and ask."
Mr. Qi suddenly looked at the door and saw a woman coming in.
Cao knelt on the ground.
Emperor Wenxuan asked, "You tell me truthfully that Su Jingnian killed Ding and Yu? Is Gu Yunniang true?"
Cao was a village woman with no big horizon. The biggest official in her life was Li Zheng, and then Su Jingnian. This was the first time she saw so many ministers and the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
Her nervous teeth were trembling. As soon as Emperor Wenxuan said, she became confused and wanted to pour out all the things she knew.
I was afraid that she would cooperate with Gu Yunniang to lie, and Emperor Wenxuan would be punished for deceiving the emperor and chopped her head!
But when Mr. Qi thought that he wanted to silence her halfway, she told the truth that she would definitely have no life to go back!
Cao regretted so much that he shouldn't have agreed to make a deal for the piece of meat in his belly!
"Reply... Go back to the emperor's words, Gu Yunniang's words are true, without a lie. My husband... peeked at her taking a bath, and all the villagers saw it. You can tell when you investigate. The younger sister poisoned Gu Yunniang, and in order to protect her, she hit her to death. The younger sister was defiled and innocent, and she was pregnant with a wild breed. She had no shame to see anyone. She was hanged by a hemp rope, which had nothing to do with the noble."
Cao gritted his teeth and trembled to say this sentence.
"You are lying! If it has nothing to do with Su Jingnian and they are dead, why did you hide the words?" Mr. Qi's eyes were red, and he wanted to eat Cao!
Cao was so scared that he shivered.
Su Jingnian said with a blank expression: "I can't wait to marry Yunniang, but I just kept the news of Ding and Yu Xiulan's death."
"Yes... it's the noble man who didn't want to delay, so he hid the news of his death. Later, when his brother-in-law came back, he and Gu Yunniang divorced, and the news of his mother-in-law and sister-in-law's death was leaked." Cao chose to testify for Gu Yunniang. She had no choice but to turn around, so she could only keep her head down and grit her teeth and walk down!
Master Qi knew that Cao was bribed by Gu Yunniang, and he said with a grudge: "You have already colluded with Su Jingnian, and he was bribed by him to perform perjury!" He turned his head and knelt on the ground and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, Cao is Yu Qinglin's wife. Su Jingnian should feel hatred for her husband like this, and she should not come forward to testify for them! He must have been bribed! Please investigate thoroughly!"
"You fart!" Cao wanted to spit on Master Qi's thick phlegm, "I hate her! But I hate the smelly man who can't control the lower body even more! If he hadn't controlled the two taels of meat in his crotch, how could he get beaten? He deserved it! Gu Yunniang was the one who caused our family to be destroyed, and I shouldn't have testified to her! But she was wronged and died, so there was no way out in our village! The villagers all knew that she was wronged, so they sent me to Beijing to testify for her and clear her grievances!
She was kind-hearted and was asked by the clan leader Lion to buy the mountain land for 100 taels and give her a farm to the neighbors. She bullied her, and she swallowed her anger! If she used power to suppress people, she would not even take out a copper coin, and finally she would give her a double price, and each household would be given a silver. She also promised that in the future, the farm would buy vegetables grown by neighbors and hire neighbors to work, and the wages would be higher than the town’s gift! You officials, just sit in the mansion and eat delicious food, and eat spicy food, how should we care about the lives and death of the people? When you touch your mouth, you will spit out a look of shit and pee! You are all forced to death by you!"
Gu Yunniang's mouth twitched, but she didn't expect that Cao could still be so tough here.
However, her words did confirm that she was innocent.
Mr. Qi's face was mixed with whiteness, and Cao's face was sprayed with saliva.
He also wanted to make a quibble, and Cao said with a red face: "You old dog, I'm afraid I will testify to Gu Yunniang and expose your conspiracy, and I will send someone to assassinate me halfway! Fortunately, Gu Yunniang had known about your conspiracy for a long time, and she brought me into the capital two days ago, so she didn't let you succeed!"
"Your Majesty, I am wronged!" Master Qi kowtowed and wanted to say something. The Imperial Guard came in from outside, tied up several guards, and knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, I am lucky to have fulfilled my orders and arrested the assassins at the moat pier." Then he showed evidence to prove that they were indeed from the Qi Mansion.
Gu Yunniang smiled and said, "Your Majesty, my wife has not lie to you. I will make a sound. Cao will go ashore at the pier today and take a mule cart to Beijing to testify. Lord Qi will send someone to silence him. Your person will personally catch the assassin. Now we believe that we have not wronged Lord Qi!"
Mr. Qi saw that the man was caught by the Imperial Guard, and he collapsed on the ground like a pool of mud.
If the Su family caught him, he could still make a fuss, but it was Emperor Wenxuan who took action himself!
At this moment, he could see clearly that Emperor Wenxuan clearly protected Su Jingnian!
If not, how could the Imperial Guards be sent to arrest people?
Su Jingnian clearly killed Ding and Yu Xiulan. They refused to admit their guilt when they died. Cao also testified. Emperor Wenxuan turned a blind eye and had to let it go.
Mr. Qi hated him in his heart, hating that he could not find evidence!
Pei Shoufu knew that the case was true and false, and Su Jingnian was well prepared, so he escaped. However, Master Qi could not provide evidence, but instead left the handle and was caught by Su Jingnian.
The deaths of Ding and Yu Xiulan are not innocent, but Su Jingnian should not have been sentenced privately.
Emperor Wenxuan narrowed his eyes and asked several ministers, "What do you think?"
Pei Shoufu discussed with several adults: "Emperor, Lord Qi covers up the fugitives, frames the court's loyalty and kindness, and kills innocent people indiscriminately. The crime is unforgivable! Please sue you for your crime!"
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Chapter completed!