The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 204 Night Trial ([-]-character chapter)
Chang Feng is about to start investigating the case overnight again.

Fatty Xu asked: "Master Chang, tell me, how do you check?"

Chang Feng said: "Investigating a case is like untangling a mess. First of all, we need to find out the thread."

"Fatty, you have been working with me for more than ten years. Let me test you, what is the thread of this case?"

After careful consideration, Fatty Xu said: "That big man who is full of lies must be an imposter. At this moment, he will either be silenced or fly away."

"He's not a lint."

"Now the only thread that can be traced is the forged troop transfer order!"

Chang Feng gave a thumbs up: "Your Majesty is brilliant! We can start with the military dispatch warrant."

Qian Ning said: "The warrant for dispatching troops should still be in Li Guang's hands. We don't care if he wants it, but he won't give it."

Chang Feng said: "Tomorrow I will request an order for the emperor to order Li Guang to hand over the key evidence of the troop dispatch warrant to us."

Fatty Xu asked: "Then let's rest for tonight?"

Chang Feng waved his hand: "No. It's urgent. We have to investigate overnight. It won't save Li Guang from killing people."

"Although the troop dispatch order is not in our hands, we can be sure of one thing. After the inspection of Ma Wensheng's old department hall, the small seal of King Xing on the troop dispatch order is true."

"Now we need to find out which court ladies and eunuchs around King Xing have access to the small seal. And who stole the small seal of King Xing."

"If you find the person who stole the small seal, you can follow the clues."

Fatty Xu was a little confused: "How to check? King Xing is now under house arrest in the palace. Let's ask King Xing?"

Chang Feng waved his hand: "Don't go to meet King Xing lightly. Otherwise people with ulterior motives will say that I have colluded with King Xing."

"Don't forget, Princess Xing is from our Jinyiwei! Let's go to Xingwangfu!"

Before the princes and county kings of the Ming Dynasty left Beijing to take up the feudal domain, they all had palaces in Beijing.

After becoming a vassal, he lived in the old palace during the period of paying tribute to Beijing.

Chang Feng summoned a hundred Tujia men who were most loyal to him in Weizhong, and they came to Xingwang's mansion with Fatty Xu, Qian Ning, and Shi Wenyi.

King Xing had an accident during the day, and Concubine Jiang naturally couldn't sleep.

Hearing that Chang Feng was coming, Concubine Jiang seemed to have received a life-saving straw.Hastily came to the living room to see Chang Feng and others.

Concubine Jiang said: "Chang Tongzhi, what's going on. His Highness was fine when he left in the morning. Why did he suddenly say that he had mutinied and rebelled? He was directly detained in the palace and not allowed to return to the palace!"

Chang Feng told the story one by one.

After hearing this, Concubine Jiang was furious: "Which one has the guts to frame the emperor's own younger brother?!"

Chang Feng said: "Princess, don't worry. I must find out who is behind the scenes and let him get the punishment he deserves."

"The key to the matter now is to find out who stole His Highness's small seal."

"Please trouble the princess to make a list of the maids and eunuchs who can get in touch with his small seal after His Royal Highness returned to Beijing the day before yesterday."

"We'll ask them one by one."

The emperor's jade seal is more than one.For example, there were eight jade seals in the Tang Dynasty, known as the Eight Treasures. After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were nine treasures, and after the Song dynasty went south, there were eleven treasures.

The jade seal of the Ming emperor has seventeen treasures.Later Emperor Jiajing increased it to 24 treasures.

The prince also has more than one golden seal.There are nine treasures in total, each with different uses.

One of the smallest portable seals is similar to the Qin and Han seals, not much bigger than a fingernail.Carry it in the ribbon pouch at the waist.

Concubine Jiang nodded: "Success! Let Lu Song come over too. Think with me."

Concubine Jiang and Lu Song are worthy of being the children of Jinyiwei, who are rooted in Hongmiaozheng, and they are thoughtful.

They wrote a list.After King Xing returned to Beijing, there were a total of eight people who had access to his small seal.

The three were young eunuchs who served King Xing to change his clothes in the morning, named De'an, Dekui, and Debing respectively.

One is King Xing's housemaid, 36 years old, named Cuiniang.

One is Feng Lao, the palace seal supervisor responsible for wiping the small seal.

One is King Xing's personal favor, Huang Youlu.

The other two are Concubine Jiang and Lu Song.

Chang Feng brought the six of them to the front of the palace hall.Prepare to ask questions one by one.At the same time let Concubine Jiang and Lu Song avoid.

The first person to come in was Cuiniang, the housemaid.

In ancient times, the status of maids was low, and anyone with the words "through the room" and "warm the bed" was a tool for the master to vent.

The 36-year-old Cui Niang is.

King Xing was ill, and it was not easy to stand tall.It takes a woman to supplement it with crimson lips to make things happen.

Concubine Jiang's family education is very strict. To put it bluntly, she is conservative.I always feel that doing that is too salty.

At this time, the help of the housemaid is needed.Let the concubine and King Xing succeed in their affairs smoothly, spread branches and leaves for Xiaozong, and give birth to the eldest son.

This kind of secret is recorded in Jin Yiwei's first-class secret file.

The last time Fatty Xu saw the hidden story of King Xing in the secret file, he even joked with Chang Feng.

Cuiniang came to Chang Feng and the others.

Chang Feng thought to himself: What a charming mature woman!It's ditched and lost, so beautiful that it's bubbling.No wonder she was able to take on the heavy responsibility of housemaid.

Chang Feng asked Cuiniang: "Your name is Cuiniang?"

Cuiniang's voice was like cotton, "Return to your lord. Yes."

Chang Feng asked again: "Have you ever been married?"

Cuiniang smiled wryly: "How can a person like me get married?"

Cui Niang's identity is very embarrassing.To say that she is King Xing's woman is definitely not the case.Just a servant girl.

Say she is not King Xing's woman.Her errand is to assist Wang Heli again.

Chang Feng asked: "Did you enter the bedroom of His Highness and Princess Wang the night before yesterday?"

Cuiniang replied: "Yes. His Highness traveled a long distance by boat. The boat was bumpy, His Highness felt dizzy, and lived alone in the cabin. I was useless for a month and a half."

"Your Highness can have sex with the princess only when you come ashore and come to the palace."

Concubine Jiang said when she summoned the six people, let them know everything about Master Chang of Jinyiwei, and talk endlessly.

Cuiniang is more honest, and even tells the secrets of King Xing.

Chang Feng has handled cases for many years, and his interrogation skills have reached perfection.

He asked Cui Niang: "You are still unmarried, do you hate this palace like a bird cage?"

Cui Niang didn't speak.There was resentment in his eyes.

Chang Feng said: "If I were you, I would definitely grit my teeth with hatred."

Cuiniang sighed: "Oh, what's the use of hating? This is life!"

Chang Feng told Baisha of the Tujia family: "Call in that captain named Xilang. It's the one who looks good."

Not long after, a handsome Tujia boy walked in.This man's name is Xilang, he is 20 years old, and he is recognized as the tallest and most handsome among the [-] Tujia people in Jinyiwei.

It's a pity that he is not Han Chinese.Otherwise, those ladies who come to propose marriage will step through the threshold.

Chang Feng pointed to Xilang, and asked Cuiniang, "How do you think it will grow after this?"

Cuiniang took a look at Xilang, her eyes seemed to burst into flames, she was in a state where she couldn't move her legs after just one glance.

Chang Feng coughed awkwardly: "Tell me, what do you think he looks like?"

Cuiniang replied: "He looks so good that any woman will look at him a few more times when she sees him."

Chang Feng said: "I'll say hello to the princess and let you go out of the house. I'll be a matchmaker for you and let you marry him, how about it?"

Xi Lang was taken aback: "Master Chang."

Baihu Basha scolded Xilang: "Stop talking nonsense!"

Two blushes appeared on Cuiniang's face: "It's all up to the adults to decide."

Chang Feng said again: "Not only will I give you a matchmaker! I will also give you a courtyard with a single door and a single family in Beicheng. I will also give you 1000 taels of silver as a dowry, how about it?"

Cuiniang fell to her knees directly: "My lord, you are my great benefactor! I will offer you a longevity tablet and burn incense for you every day!"

Chang Feng laughed and said: "There is no pie in the sky. Sister Cuiniang, I helped you, so you have to help me too."

Cuiniang wondered: Could it be that Mr. Chang also has a difficult disease?

Cuiniang asked, "How can my lord ask me to help?"

Chang Feng replied: "It's very simple. I know that someone instructed you to steal the small seal of His Highness King Xing."

"Last night, after you helped Your Highness have sex with the princess, you left the bed and closed the curtain. You secretly took the small seal from the coat rack next to it."

"You just need to tell me who ordered you! I just need a name!"

"If you say this name, you can become the wife of a handsome young man. Live a prosperous life in the capital."

Chang Feng is a typical combination of induced confession and fraudulent confession.

This is one of the interrogation techniques.The interrogator will say to the interrogated: I know you committed a crime and did such and such.As long as you confess, I will give you as many benefits as possible.

In fact, the interrogator cannot determine whether the person under trial has actually committed a crime.

Cuiniang was dumbfounded after hearing Chang Feng's words.

She stared at Chang Feng intently: "My lord, I am wronged! I have never stolen His Highness's things. Where can I tell you the name!"

When Cuiniang said this, Chang Feng kept looking into Cuiniang's eyes, paying attention to her body movements.

This is also the interrogation technique accumulated by Jin Yiwei in the past dynasties.When a person is telling a lie, they will subconsciously blink and roll their eyes.

There will also be redundant movement cover on the hands.

Cuiniang's reaction was the normal reaction of an innocent person who was wronged.

Chang Feng sneered: "Then there's nothing you can do! You don't tell the truth. I can only execute you on the spot!"

"The handsome young man is gone! The courtyard house with a single family is gone! Even his life will be lost!"

Fatty Xu and Chang Feng have been working together on cases for more than ten years, and they cooperate tacitly.He immediately drew out the Xiuchun knife and laid it across Cuiniang's neck.

Fatty Xu asked: "Master Chang, with such a beautiful face, it would be a pity to wipe blood on his neck."

Cui Niang trembled all over.Chang Feng smelled a smell of shame, and she was so frightened that she drowned.

Cuiniang cried bitterly: "My lord, don't wrong a good man! I wish I had done something wrong to His Highness, and I would be recruited to receive your reward and marry this handsome young man."

Chang Feng winked at Fatty Xu.

Fatty Xu put away the Xiuchun knife.

Chang Feng said: "Forget it. It seems that you have been wronged. It's none of your business here. Go down."

Cuiniang wiped her tears: "Master, the mirror hangs high! That and that"

Chang Feng asked: "Is there anything else?"

Cuiniang said: "Is what you said still true? My marriage with this little brother?"

Chang Feng smiled awkwardly: "Ah, this matter needs to be discussed in a long-term way. Go down and wait for the letter first."

Cuiniang immediately changed her face, as if the spring breeze was blowing on her face: "The little girl is all up to the adults! If you can marry this handsome young man, you will definitely."

Qian Ning pushed him away impatiently: "Master Chang told you to go down and wait for the letter first. Don't dawdle here."

Cuiniang even claimed yes, and withdrew.

For such a desperate woman, a word from a great man may be her hope for the future.

After Cui Niang left.Fatty Xu asked: "The suspicion of this woman has been ruled out?"

Chang Feng nodded slightly: "It can't be her. She is miserable! It's like a drowning person. I hand her a bamboo pole, and she will do everything possible to catch it."

"Beauty tricks, courtyard houses, dowry lures, and threats with swords. Her reaction doesn't look like she's cheating on me."

Fatty Xu sighed: "It's a pity for this wonderful person."

Chang Feng joked: "Why, you've taken a fancy to it? Shall I tell the princess?"

Fatty Xu waved his hands again and again: "How dare I. That's the woman who serves the prince."

Chang Feng said again: "Let Feng Lao, the Prime Minister of the Prince's Mansion, come in."

Feng Lao, in his thirties, walked in.

Seeing Chang Feng, Feng Lao fell to his knees: "Grandfather!"

Chang Feng was surprised: "Eunuch Feng, don't recognize your relatives indiscriminately. When did I become your godfather?"

Feng Lao said with a smile: "I have a low seniority in the palace. When the old inner minister Wynn was there, I was his drooping grandson. You are the grandson of the old inner minister. Naturally, I should call you grandpa. "

Chang Feng said: "To put it this way, our relationship is very close."

Feng Lao nodded: "It's not just close! When I went to Anlu Prefecture with His Royal Highness, it was Liu Jin and Eunuch Liu who recommended me in front of the Queen."

"You are Eunuch Liu's benefactor. Eunuch Liu is my benefactor again!"

Chang Feng said sternly: "Since you are my grandson, I have to speak directly. Why did you steal His Highness King Xing's seal?"

Feng Lao was dumbfounded: "Stealing His Highness's small seal? That is a crime of beheading! How dare I?"

Chang Feng straightened his face: "Don't think I don't know!"

Feng Lao was surprised: "Grandpa, do you know that I wash the gold seal with urine?"

Chang Feng frowned: "Wash gold with urine? What the hell!"

Feng Lao recruited it truthfully.

His official position is the palace seal supervisor.He was responsible for cleaning the nine gold seals of King Xing.

To clean the gold seal, generally use rice washing water.

However, when the Xingwang Golden Seal was cast, Emperor Hongzhi had just ascended the throne, and the funding for the Manufacturing Office of the Ministry of Industry was greatly reduced.

Therefore, the fineness of the nine gold seals of King Xing was insufficient, and they were often "pasted".Using later science to explain, the surface of gold products containing impurities is prone to oxidation.

The patina can't be washed with rice washing water alone.

Feng Lao learned from an old goldsmith in Anlu Prefecture that the best way to deal with patina is to add urine to the rice washing water.

So Feng Lao did so.King Xing's golden seals are all golden and shining brightly maintained by him.

But to wash the gold seal with urine, if it spreads, it is treasonous.

Feng Lao thought that Chang Feng knew about it, so he said, "Don't think I don't know".

After listening to Feng Lao's confession, Chang Feng couldn't laugh or cry.

Chang Feng said: "I'm not interested in peeing or not! All I know is that you stole His Highness's small seal."

"Tell me who ordered you to do this. For the sake of the old Neixiang Zaitian spirit, I will keep you safe."

Feng Lao's brows were wrinkled into characters: "Grandpa, you can't just defile people's innocence!"

"I work hard in the palace, and I am quite appreciated by His Highness. His Highness also said that after the tribute is over, he will promote me to be the deputy steward of the palace!"

"I'm only two months away from becoming a eunuch!"

"I haven't been fooled by the fat of muddleheadedness. Why did I do something to offend His Highness at the critical moment when I was promoted to eunuch?"

Every eunuch has a dream of becoming a eunuch.

It is the lifelong pursuit of eunuchs to become one of the "eunuchs".

Feng Lao has always fulfilled his duties in the palace.The only bad thing I have done is to wash the gold seal with urine and rice washing water.

Chang Feng stared at Feng Lao.In Feng Lao's eyes, he did not see deceit, only sincerity.

Chang Feng said: "That's all. You go down first."

Feng Lao showed an embarrassing look on his face: "That... about the grandson washing the gold seal with urine?"

Chang Feng said: "I've never heard of this. Oh yes, there is a Chicheng Gold Shop in the north of the city. There are two goldsmiths there who are old men from the Baoquan Bureau of the Ministry of Industry."

"You can ask them for advice on how to deal with gold seal patina. Don't use that pickle again in the future."

Feng Lao cupped his hands: "Yes!"

After Feng Lao left, Fatty Xu said, "I don't think your godson seems to be lying."

Chang Feng nodded: "Yes. An eunuch who is about to be promoted to eunuch, there is no need to make extra troubles and help outsiders frame King Xing."

"Call the three little eunuchs in charge of dressing King Xing."

Dean, Dekui, and Debing walked in.All three were around twelve or thirteen years old.

As soon as the three of them entered, Chang Feng said to Fatty Xu: "Pull the three of them down and chop them up!"

When the three of them heard this, they were stupefied with fright.After a while, I started to cry bitterly.

De'an said: "My lord, I shouldn't have peeked at Sister Cuiniang taking a bath. After I let her catch me, I was called into the room by her, and I acted like a little husband for her all night!"

"Forgive me, my lord!"

De Kui said: "My lord, I only stole it once! My mother wrote to say that my father was ill and the family was in urgent need of money. I just stole a brocade purse from His Highness, and went out of the palace to change it for 30 taels of silver. "

"My lord wants to kill me, I admit it. Don't hold my parents accountable!"

De Bing said: "I shouldn't have mixed my nose into the tea Concubine Lin drank. I deserve to die! Concubine Lin is the master, and I was slapped by her as a reward! I shouldn't take revenge!"

Fatty Xu couldn't help laughing after listening to the three guys' crying: "I can't see it. The three of you have done something wrong!"

"Pretend to be a little husband? You don't have that thing, how can you pretend?"

De'an stuck out his tongue: "Use this."

Chang Feng said: "I don't care about your trivial matters. Let me ask you, who ordered you to steal His Highness's small seal?"

The three denied repeatedly: "We don't have one, my lord!"

"If we do this, there will be a thunderbolt!"

Chang Feng said: "It seems that the three of you won't tell the truth if you don't beat them! Come on, take it down, and spank their asses with the scabbard!"

The five big and three thick warriors swarmed up, knocked down the three young eunuchs, picked up the scabbard and beat them on the buttocks.

They themselves have committed a crime.Chang Feng belongs to execute the government regulations for Xing Wangfu.

Each of them beat more than [-] times, and all three of them were bruised and passed out from the pain.

Chang Feng waved his hand: "Stop the sentence, and wake them up with cold water!"

"Oh, oh, oh".Three basins of cold water were poured over his head.The three woke up.

Chang Feng said: "I should hit each of you with a hundred scabbards. Now I only hit twenty. Whether the remaining eighty or not depends on whether you tell the truth!"

"Tell me, who ordered you to steal His Highness's small seal?"

(End of this chapter)