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Chapter 289 The Subsequent Murder Case Caused by a Jade Comb

Although there are quite a few people who come here to learn from their teachers, but this time Mu Jiaojiao deliberately selected a few people with basic skills, so that it would be convenient for them to get started quickly.

In the end, after some selection by the imperial physician, three gentlemen and a young lady with solid basic skills in acupuncture and moxibustion were selected.Together with Physician Chang, the five of them will be the inheritors of the famous Mu school of acupuncture and moxibustion in the future.Of course, these are things for later.

Now that Mu Jiaojiao has selected these five people, he will bring them to him, and seize every opportunity to teach them various acupuncture and moxibustion secrets.Although these five people are not the smartest among those who study medicine, they must all have a steady and realistic heart to be able to practice such a solid basic skill.Mu Jiaojiao taught with heart, and they learned with heart.In just one month's time, they were already able to get needles for Guo Cishi and his party.

Of course, the situation of King Hejian is more special, and it is more difficult to use the seven-inch needle, so Mu Jiaojiao specially prescribed a lot of small things for Physician Chang.Imperial Physician Chang couldn't help being overjoyed to learn something good, and he has respected Mu Jiaojiao much since then.As for the last time he was called to lose his temper...he didn't remember it anymore!

Here in Hailing County, there is a lot of turmoil, welcoming the nobles for retirement, opening restaurants, and accepting disciples by Mu Jiaojiao. The limelight soon swept back, causing quite a storm in the entire Yangzhou Prefecture.

But Cui Pu and Mu Jiaojiao, who are in the center of this storm, are as peaceful and content as ever.

Until now, Mu Jiaojiao has been pregnant for more than eight months.In more than a month, the children will be born, and they will officially become parents!

Cui Pu is now counting the days on his fingers every day, and whenever he is free, he will be by Mu Jiaojiao's side. The small clothes and toys prepared for the child have long been piled up like a mountain, and they will be enjoyed after she is born.

At this time, Mu Jiaojiao was also excited by him.Especially the little guy in the belly is getting more and more active now. She kicked her awake many times when she fell asleep at night, and then she kicked Cui Pu awake again.

On a midsummer night, the husband and wife laughed and made noises around an unborn baby, and the beautiful memories were always deeply engraved in their minds.

Maybe it's the end of prosperity!On this day, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly came from the government office in Yangzhou, and the coldness of their bodies killed the beautiful atmosphere.

"Master Cui, Mr. Wan, a squire from Xiali Town in Guixian County, went to the gate of the government office early this morning to submit a complaint, accusing your wife of ordering someone to beat his son Wan Wulang to death in order to snatch a jade comb from his son! Now the magistrate has accepted the case, and ordered me to come and invite the magistrate of the county to go to the court for interrogation." The catcher standing in the front was all smiles, and his words were extremely soft, but his hands were tightly clasped around his waist swords, as if if they resisted arrest, he would immediately take coercive action.

Cui Pu's expression darkened.

In the end, what they were worried about happened.

"You wait here, I'll invite my wife right away." He said coldly.

"Cui Xianzun, let me wait and go in with you! The magistrate just asked his wife to go to the court for questioning, and there is no need to prepare anything specially. As long as the wife can prove that she is innocent, she can come back the next day at the latest .” The head catcher was still cheerful, but his mouth was half unwilling to give in.

Cui Pu was furious: "We didn't intend to sneak away!"

"Since you don't intend to, then Cui Xianzun, you should not be afraid of being followed by us!"

"you!"

Cui Pu was furious and almost had an attack.

"Lang Jun!" Fortunately, at this time, Xiao Si'er ran over, "The lady is here!"

Cui Pu hurriedly turned his head, and saw Mu Jiaojiao walking slowly towards this side with Hongdou's support.

Because of her big stomach, she walks extremely hard now, and she takes every step very carefully.Now Cui Pu only allows her to move on the ground every day when he is around.Without his protection by the side, he just doesn't feel at ease.But now, she actually went to the ground by herself...

The worry in his heart immediately overcame his anger, and he quickly walked up to him: "What are you doing here?"

"I heard that I killed someone, and the magistrate wants to arrest me for questioning, so I will cooperate with the magistrate's arrest!" Mu Jiaojiao smiled lightly.

Cui Pu's face darkened again. "Nonsense! You have saved so many lives, why have you ever killed someone?"

"Cui Xianzun said so, so he must be convinced that Madam is innocent. Then please follow me boldly to Yangzhou City! The magistrate is the most sensible, as long as you have not done such things, he I will definitely return your innocence!" The head catcher hurriedly said again.

"Shut up! You don't have a place to talk here!" Cui Pu shouted immediately.

Mu Jiaojiao pulled his hand. "He is also obedient to others' orders and loyal to others. What's the use of losing your temper with him?"

Cui Pu turned his head away, still furious.

Mu Jiaojiao then smiled: "Okay, it's useless to waste time here now. Since Zhou Zhifu has accepted the case, I'd better go to Yangzhou City! Let me see how they sue me. "

"I'll go with you!" Cui Pu said immediately.

"Is Cui Xianzun planning to leave this huge Hailing County alone?" the head catcher asked again.

Cui Pu stared, almost getting angry again, but Mu Jiaojiao held his hand.She turned her head and smiled slightly at the catcher: "Just now someone sued me for killing his son, you should know how cruel my methods are. But now, you still dare to show your power in front of me like this, don't be afraid I’m in a bad mood, so let’s kill you too? Anyway, killing one life is a waste, and killing two is the same, it’s not bad for me, after all, I’ve earned it!”

Catching the head immediately felt a chill rushing from the soles of his feet to his heart, which made his whole body icy cold, and even his heartbeat almost stopped.

He hurriedly took two steps back: "Mrs. Xianzun was joking, and I just reminded Cui Xianzun kindly."

"You are a member of the magistrate's mansion, although your status is higher than our county's. But now that we are in our place, there is no room for you to dictate the affairs of our Hailing county government!" Cui Pu shouted immediately.

Catcher's heart was agitated again - this couple is really as frighteningly ferocious as others have said.Especially when the two stood together, the degree of fright was doubled.Such a vicious person like him was actually frightened.

Then he lowered his head: "What Cui Xianzun said is that someone has overstepped."

"Since you know how to overstep, you're done with just one sentence?" Cui Pu snorted coldly.

Catcher was startled, then gritted his teeth, raised his hand and slapped his face hard.After the slap was over, seeing that Cui Pu didn't express anything, he had no choice but to raise his hand again, and slapped his face several more times.

Then Cui Pucai said: "Since you can recognize your mistakes in time and know how to correct them, then the county will not bother with you. Now, you lead the way, we will go to Yangzhou City!"

The catcher came proudly, but he didn't want to be slapped a few times in a short time, and shame in front of his subordinates.He was angry in his heart, but now he couldn't vent it, so he could only turn around with his head down.

Cui Pu shook Mu Jiaojiao's hand. "Be careful and walk slowly."

Mu Jiaojiao nodded, the two of them remained silent all the way.

After getting on the carriage to Yangzhou City, Cui Pu still kept his face cold and did not speak.Mu Jiaojiao leaned on his shoulder and said with a light smile, "I never thought that the target of this attack would be directed at me. They really took the trouble!"

"It's aimed at you on the surface, but in fact it's aimed at me?" Cui Pu said coldly, "Although I have expected this scene, it's just... I originally thought that the person they would sue would be me."

But after all, he still underestimated the danger of the human heart.In Chang'an and Tianchang County before, those people all came for him, but they all ended in disastrous defeat.Now, they knew that he was not easy to deal with, so they changed direction and rushed towards Mu Jiaojiao!
Who doesn't know that Mu Jiaojiao is his heart and soul now, especially Mu Jiaojiao is still eight months pregnant!

Starting to torment her at this moment would simply kill her, as well as his!In particular, Physician Chang once said that seven lives and eight do not live.

In other words, seven-month-old fetuses are more likely to survive than eight-month-old fetuses.

Those people chose to make trouble at this time, because they wanted to put Mu Jiaojiao's mother and son to death, and also wanted to drive him crazy!

Holding her shoulder with one hand, he stroked her belly with the other.The child seemed to feel his father's presence, and immediately moved happily again.

Cui Pu felt excited and sour in his heart, and his eye sockets couldn't help but get wet.

"I'm useless. I thought that the experience of the previous three years has made me grow a lot, and I can protect you safe and sound. But now I realize that I'm still so useless!"

"In the face of power, everyone will feel this kind of powerlessness. Even today's saints, can you do whatever you want?" Mu Jiaojiao smiled lightly and patted his arm, "This is because someone wants to pull you and me off the horse." , so naturally there will be countless means, and you can't resist. However, we are sitting upright and not afraid of any gossip. He said that we killed Wan Wu, and it was just their one-sided words, but what is the truth? , we have to go to court to talk about it."

Having said that.But what he is most worried about now is that this matter is caused by Zuo Zhifu and Wu Lixin again.If this is the case, then they are colluding with Master Wan, and the courtroom will become a hall for them to speak. It is useless for them to sit upright no matter how straight they behave!

I don't know how many loyal ministers and good generals from ancient times to the present, they also walked upright and sat upright, but in the end they were killed by those treacherous officials and thieves?
When the two arrived in Yangzhou City, they were led directly to the side room next to the government office.

Before seeing them, Zhou Zhifu replaced the government and directly ordered the opening of the hall!

It was naturally inconvenient for Mu Jiaojiao to defend such a matter in court, so it was Hongdou who spoke on her behalf.Mu Jiaojiao and Cui Pu sat in the side room next to the court hall, listening to the movement there.

But this time Master Wan went out in person.Because he was suing the matriarch of the county, which is an appeal, he rolled the nail board first, and now his body is still bloody, his face is pale and ugly.Even so, he still insisted on kneeling down, straightening his back.

Zhou Zhifu saw it in his eyes, and secretly sighed in his heart that Cui Pu and Mu Jiaojiao really kicked the iron plate this time.This Master Wan is determined to sue them this time!

He hastily took a deep breath, and solemnly patted the gavel: "Who is under the hall, tell me your name!"

"I would like to report to the magistrate, a squire from Xiali Township under the jurisdiction of Hailing County, surnamed Wan Mingbao, this time he sued Mrs. Mu of Hailing County for a jade comb, and beat my son until he was breathless. Later, she was afraid that my son's death on the spot would damage her reputation, so she actually used tiger and wolf medicine on my son, so that my son was tortured so much that he could not survive, and it was tragic that he wailed in the house for three full months Die. My son died unjustly, and I couldn't swallow this breath, so I came here to ask the magistrate to give my son justice!"

This is the jade comb case that once caused great shock in the entire New Tang Dynasty and was recorded in the annals of history.

(End of this chapter)