Song Dynasty female artist

Chapter 188 The Scholar Qu Zhisheng

"Okay, I want to ask you, when you were in the Qiu Mansion 16 years ago, did you see Madam Qiu pregnant?"

"Return to my lord, never."

Zhao Jin asked again: "Are you sure, what were you doing in the Qiu Mansion at that time?"

"When the women were in the Qiu Mansion, they were the second-class sweeping maids in the lady's courtyard. Later, the lady saw that I was smart, so she asked me to serve her closely."

"So, you have close contact with Mrs. Qiu almost every day?"

"Yes, my lord. The women can be sure that the lady was not pregnant back then. But..."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Guo glanced at Qiu Hong, and continued: "However, in July of the second year of Tiansheng, Mr. Qiu brought back a baby girl from outside and asked his wife to raise him. He said to the outside world that she was born to her."

Qiu Hong's eyes almost popped out.

But now in the courtroom, sitting on it is the grandson of the Duke of the founding state, and he must be accompanied by a master. It is impossible for him to kill this Guo family in front of so many people, and he has no chance.

"Okay, as Guo said, Sister Rong is not my wife's own child, and she is also fostered under her name. She is the head mother of the Qiu family. As long as it is my Qiu Hong's child, it is her child. Is it not possible?"

Bi Xinyu looked at Qiu Hong sarcastically.

He opened his mouth again and said, "My lord, I just said this to let everyone know what kind of person Qiu Hong is. He is a complete hypocrite. He values ​​reputation more than anything else. He is cruel and merciless. To elope with a scholar and then come back pregnant, to Qiu Hong, that would be a great humiliation, he is a man who can even fight with married couples, let alone a daughter of no value?"

"These are all your one-sided remarks. Even if I'm a villain, it doesn't mean that I killed Sister Rong. You have to figure it out. They are two different things."

"Master Zhao, if that's the case, please allow my third witness to come and correct me."

Sanqi went out again, this time it was a limping man with an ugly appearance, but Qiu Hong could hardly stand up when the man appeared.

Enduring his grief, the man calmly bowed to Zhao Jin and said, "Student Qu Zhisheng, I have met you."

"You don't need to be too polite, tell me what you know in detail."

"Yes."

Qu Zhisheng took a deep breath, and began to calmly describe what happened two months ago.

Qu Zhisheng set off from Jing County to take the exam in Kyoto, passing through the outskirts of Mingguang County on June [-], passed out by the side of the road, and was rescued by Qiu Birong.Take him back to the county inn, and invite a doctor to see him.

After he woke up, he started chatting with Qiu Birong, but he didn't expect that the two had the same interests, but in just seven days, they fell in love with each other.

It's just that after knowing Qiu Birong's identity, he felt that he was not worthy of her, so he promised Qiu Birong that he would marry her after he was in high school.But when Qiu Birong visited him in the inn for the last time, Qiu Hong knew about it.

So, he went back to the county government with Qiu Hong, and told Qiu Hong about his mutual love with Qiu Birong, hoping that he would agree.

Unexpectedly, being ridiculed by Qiu Hong's words, Qu Zhi was so angry that he left the county office alone.

I plan to leave Mingguang County the next day.

Unexpectedly, Miss Qiu found the inn at night and told him that she ran out secretly. She said she would go to Kyoto with Qu Zhisheng, and then return to Mingguang County in a good time, so that Qiu Hong would agree to their marriage.

In order to avoid Qiu Hong's arrest, the two deliberately took a small path.

I lost my way in the mountains within two days of walking.

A man and a woman, in that case, have a skin-to-skin relationship.The next day, they were rescued by Orion passing by. After a few days of recuperation, the two headed towards Kyoto again.

They thought that after six or seven days, those people had already left, so they happily walked slowly along the official road to the direction of Kyoto.

Time flies to August [-]th, they have already arrived in Ju County, and they are very close to the Fengfu. Unexpectedly, those who captured them were waiting there and wanted to take Qiu Birong away immediately.

Qiu Birong threatened to die, but those people did not dare to do it.

But he still knocked them out and brought them back to Mingguang County while they were fast asleep.

Those people didn't dare to hurt Qiu Birong, so the rope that tied her was loose, but Qiu Birong untied her and fled with Qu Zhisheng.

However, they still knew about Qiu Birong's pregnancy.

And passed the letter to Qiu Hong.

"How do you know that the person who kidnapped you told Qiu Hong about Miss Qiu's pregnancy?"

"Because, this person!"

Qu Zhisheng pointed to Foxit.

"He was the one who chased and killed Rong'er and me. Rong'er asked this man why he wanted to kill us. He said that he was ordered by Master Qiu. This man's weapon was a soft sword, which not only killed Rong'er, but also The person who was in charge of arresting us pushed me off the cliff."

"It's a bunch of nonsense, it's just a bunch of nonsense, Mr. Zhao's words can't be trusted."

Qu Zhisheng heheed twice, and took out a black token from his bosom: "Magistrate Qiu, this token is familiar to you, it is the token specially assigned to the yamen servants in the yamen. The yamen servant who was killed by this man five days ago, now If they are still lying there, Mr. Zhao can send someone to check their wounds to see if they were killed by this man's weapon."

At this moment, Gu Qingjue said: "It doesn't need to be so troublesome. I have already asked Sanqi to bring back the bodies of those people. But because it is in the wilderness, some of them have been eaten and incomplete. Only the remaining two are complete. of."

Fortunately, at the beginning of September, the temperature dropped sharply.

The body that had been dead for five days was not seriously decomposed, and it did not affect the autopsy.

Zhao Jin immediately called Ding Wu to do the autopsy, and set up a simple autopsy table at the side, and asked Ding Wu to do the autopsy in front of all the people present.

Two yamen servants pulled a piece of white cloth to block the other yamen servant taking notes with a pen and paper.

It doesn't take too long to check whether the knife on the dead man's neck is the same as Foxit's weapon.

About a quarter of an hour later.

Ding Wuzuo gave the result, the knife on the neck of the deceased was consistent with Foxit's weapon.

As soon as the autopsy results come out.

Bi Xinyu said: "Qiu Hong, what else do you have to say?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as Bi Xinyu finished speaking, Foxit, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "I kill people, it's none of your business."

"Foxin, you are a slave and a master. Without his order, you dare to kill the serious master of the Qiu family. How dare you have such courage? You can't fool us all for fools!"

"Madam didn't believe it, and there was nothing I could do. When the adults received the letter and found out that the girl was pregnant, they were very worried. The subordinates couldn't see that the master was in such a difficult situation, so they decided to kill them both."

"The old man's sincerity is commendable and admirable. It's true that you killed the man, but Mr. Qiu, he can't get rid of this letter no matter what."

(End of this chapter)