Chapter 85
Xiao Xie confessed that she had perjured the truth in Kaifeng Mansion.

She didn't hear Mrs. Zhang and Butcher Wang talking about poisoning at Mu'an, and she didn't know what poison "nuxies" were before entering the prison in Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhang Yaozhuo's confession on the day he was promoted to the court was induced by Guan Chang, the head arrester in Kaifeng Prefecture.
This point was corroborated in Dong Dahai's confession.

As the head arrester of Kaifeng Mansion, Guan Chang lured Xiao Xie to confess, tortured Dong Dahai, intending to frame Xin Yi. He committed suicide in fear of crime at home.

And Xin Yi's doubts were also answered during the interrogation of Xiao Xie by the Imperial City Division.

The reason Xiao Xie hates Xin Yi is very simple. After she married into the Zhang family, she didn't like the cowardly and incompetent Zhang Erlang. She secretly admired the young, promising, tall and handsome uncle Zhang Xun. After hearing the news of Zhang Xun's death, she became even more insane. She believed that Zhang Xun was killed by Mrs. Zhang, and she wanted revenge.

In the prison in the imperial city, Xiao Xie confessed that it was she who threw Miss Zhang into the river...

It was she who pushed Miss Zhang down the Bian River with her own hands.

But there is one thing, Xiao Xie did not lie, and the Imperial City Secretary also testified about it.

Miss Zhang really knew the butcher Wang.

That day when Zhang was on tour for the funeral, Butcher Wang came to Zhangjiacun to deliver meat. He once said hello to Mrs. Zhang, and the two looked very familiar.Therefore, at the beginning, Mrs. Xie pointed out that the confession that she and Mrs. Liu suspected that Mrs. Zhang was stealing someone and followed her to Tianshui Lane was not completely false...

But what she didn't know was that Miss Zhang didn't go to see Butcher Wang at that time, but went directly to Princess Chang's Mansion from Tianshui Lane. The person she tried to seduce was not Butcher Wang, but King Guangling.

Of course, even so, the most she can say is that she is not a woman, and has nothing to do with this case.

What is really unfavorable to Xin Yi in the dossier is that Xiao Xie confessed that after Xin Yi returned from Bianjing that day, because of being scolded by Liu Shi, he quickly left home in anger and did not return overnight.The next day, that is, at dusk on the eighth day of the winter month, I sneaked back from the outside, and the uppers of my shoes were soaked.

Xiao Xie just came back from the city at that time, and the two met by the Bian River at the entrance of the village. Xiao Xie believed that she was not a woman, and stepped forward to yell at her. During the dispute, Xiao Xie pushed her into the Bian River in anger. , watching her struggling and gradually sinking into the water...

About a quarter of an hour later, she yelled for help, saying that her third sibling had thrown herself into the river.

When the villagers heard the sound, they rushed over and searched along the river bank but failed, so they gave up.

No one would jump into the water to save an unpleasant woman.

Everyone believed that Mrs. Zhang drowned, and so did Mrs. Xie.Although she was a little confused in her heart, out of hatred for her, she insisted that she deserved to die—including when the confession was recorded in the Imperial City Secretary, she still did not change her original intention.What I regret the most is not killing someone, but not choking her to death before pushing her into the Bian River, so that she surfaced after a day, and she was still alive...

Why did Miss Zhang disappear for a day and a night?
According to calculations, after coming out of the princess mansion.

Following the clues provided by Mrs. Xie, the Secretary of the Imperial City searched and turned pale with shock.

She had appeared at Chen Chusheng that day, which was the residence of Cui Langzhong on the north bank of Hongqiao at that time.

In this paragraph, there are several confessions of charcoal employees.

Next to Chen Chusheng's residence, there is a charcoal store. Winter is the time when the charcoal store's business is booming. This charcoal store sells nearly [-] scales of charcoal a day. The clerks are almost round the clock, contacting the merchants...

The folks confirmed that Miss Zhang once appeared on the north bank of Hongqiao in a daze, passed by the door of Tanxing, knocked on the door empty-handed, and entered Cui Langzhong's house. Hey, he looks different.

The Imperial City Division re-examined Xiao Xie, and she confirmed that when she saw Miss Zhang at the entrance of the village, she was indeed carrying a green cloth purse in her hand.

In order to prove it, the soldiers of the Imperial City Division dug into the water in the winter, groped the place where Mrs. Zhang fell into the water, and fished out the purse. Unexpectedly, the things in the purse turned out to be the biggest physical evidence of the water ghost case - nuxony.

There was silence all around, and the smell of white glue from the incense burner became more pungent and bitter.

Fu Jiuqu stared at Xin Yi, as if he didn't know her, his eyes were cold.

"In the Pagoda of the Medicine King, you played a whole show for this king, are you treating this king as a fool?"

Xin Yi looked up from the file, "The king of the county has seen it with his own eyes, how can I act?"

Fu Jiuqu's face was expressionless, and there seemed to be a shadow in his eyes.

"You and Chen Chusheng have been hooking up for a long time, but you pretend to be unfamiliar and confuse the public. The west wing of the Zhang family caught fire, and he came forward to testify for you, coaxing me that you are pregnant with Xingyuan's posthumous child. However, I give you the treasured "Remnants of the Medicine King" and "Chen's Materia Medica"..."

After a pause, Fu Jiuqu sneered.

"Don't tell this king, this is a friend who has forgotten the age, do you cherish each other?"

Xin Yi looked at him without blinking, "Why did he speak for me, why did he give me books, I don't know the inside story, I told the county king that day..."

"It's not that you are ignorant, you are convinced that this matter... There is no proof of death."

Fu Jiuqu looked at her coldly, his tone full of doubts, but after angrily reprimanding her, he thought of something, and then slowed down a little.

"If you plead guilty now and tell the whole story about it, this king may give you a lighter sentence. If you must resist to the end, then don't blame me for being ruthless."

Xin Yi frowned, "What does the king want me to explain?"

Fu Jiuqu: "What did you do at Chen Chusheng's house on the eighth day of the winter month?"

Xin Yi couldn't figure this out either, and she didn't know what Miss Zhang had done before.

Facing Fu Jiuqu's gaze, Xin Yi felt uncomfortable. Perhaps it was because the room was too hot, and she was sweating faintly on her back, which made her feel uncomfortable against her underwear.

"Chen Chusheng is a doctor, I will go to him... what else can I do besides see a doctor?"

She said to herself, and seeing Fu Jiuqu's cold eyes, she raised her eyebrows again, "To be honest, I suffered a brain injury after falling into the water, and I don't remember clearly what happened before, but according to my analysis, it was the eighth day of the winter month. , I went to the county king's mansion...according to the county king, I tried to seduce..."

Fu Jiuqu's face sank.

Xin Yi curled his lips, "Facing my beauty, the king of the county will definitely refuse. I don't remember exactly what happened between us, but the king of the county must be very clear... what I said, and what the king said again ? The king of the county recalls, have you ever humiliated my appearance?"

Fu Jiuqu raised his handsome eyes slightly and smiled angrily.

"Xiao Zhang, am I interrogating you, or are you interrogating me?"

Xin Yi coughed lightly, and continued: "In other words, the county king must have shown his hatred for me. Then, when I left your mansion, returned home, and was humiliated by my mother-in-law again, what was the first thing that came to mind?"

She touched her face and sighed.

"I must be anxious and ashamed because of my appearance, and think that the county king looks down on me because of this face... In order to cure the dark rash on my face, I may go to Cui Langzhong's house to seek medical treatment after leaving home... "

Fu Jiuqu laughed coldly, "How can I seek medical treatment for a day and a night? A woman stays in a single man's house overnight. You said it is for medical treatment?"

Xin Yi: ...

Seeking a doctor can not only live for a day and a night, but also for a year and a half?

Are patients not allowed to be "hospitalized"?
Xin Yi looked at Fu Jiuqu's questioning gaze, and couldn't help but sarcastically, "Instead of asking me about my absence at night, the king of the county should ask why I took out a bag of nux from Cui Langzhong's house? After all, that is the crux of the case." exhibit."

Fu Jiuqu breathed a sigh of relief, staring at her as if there was a mountain fire accumulating in her eyes, which was about to erupt.
That look was unprecedentedly cold and stern.

Sun Huai stepped forward silently and handed him a cup of herbal tea.

Fu Jiuqu waved his hand and didn't touch the teacup, but his expression became much calmer.

"Very well, then tell me, why do you have Nuxies?"

Xin Yi thought for a while, "Your Majesty, Ma Qianzi can not only kill, but also save people. It is especially effective in treating the sores on my face."

As she said that, she turned her face slightly to one side, smiled at Fu Jiuqu, and stretched out her hand to touch it again, "Look, has the acne on my face healed up a lot? To tell you the truth, the medicine I used Inside, there are nux..."

"Well said." Fu Jiuqu slowly turned his face away, with an inscrutable sneer in his eyes.

"Since you know everything, and your medical skills are as good as Cui Langzhong, why did you go to him for treatment? How can you justify yourself?"

"..."

Xin Yi was stunned by his stare, and he responded reflexively, "Use your mouth."

Snapped!Fu Jiuqu patted it heavily on the table, the teacup on the table jumped up, and the splashed water dripped down the table. Sun Huai wanted to come over to wipe it several times, but was shocked by Fu Jiuqu's face. Not daring to move.

"Smart words! What are you hiding? You haven't done it!"

(End of this chapter)

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