delicious little cook

Chapter 517
In the Yamen of Yingtian Mansion, Lord Fu Yin came back immediately, changed his clothes and was promoted. Zhou Hongshou and his family were all present, and the children stayed at home to be looked after by servants. Apart from that, they did not bring any witnesses.

On the other side, the witnesses brought by the plaintiff were numerous, forming a thick human wall from the gate to Yimen, and the avenue outside the yamen was also blocked by the people who watched the excitement. The crowd became so crowded that it turned into a narrow alley, and many government servants stood on the street to maintain order.

Fu Yin first verified the identity of the plaintiff, and his name, household registration and address were verified correctly. Only then did the Zhou family know that Bai Rui had already quietly moved out, so it was completely reasonable to sue them for bribery and robbery of the women.

Then the master stood up and read the complaint. Five members of Zhou Hongshou's family of six were recalled by the content of the complaint. Everyone's expressions were different, but they looked calm. , Fu Yin watched silently, knowing that she was the breakthrough point.

After reading the indictment, Zhou Hongshou naturally complained, denied all the allegations, and accused Bai Rui of buying witnesses last night.

Uncle Li immediately retorted, claiming that travel expenses, food expenses, and lost work expenses were necessary expenses for inviting witnesses to testify in court, and were not bribery.

Fu Yin accepted Li Bo's statement, dismissed Zhou Hongshou's accusation against the plaintiff for buying witnesses, held up the gavel and patted it to get back to the topic. According to the order, the plaintiff spoke first.

Li Bo bowed his hands and saluted, and on behalf of Bai Rui, he began to present all the evidence of the Zhou family's bullying of women and children.

There were indeed no witnesses or evidence for Zhou's family's bullying of Bai Rui at home, but after sweeping her mother and daughter out, the neighbors in the neighborhood of Zhou's family were all witnesses. Facts are facts, the second son of the Zhou family who passed away was only buried, and the mother and daughter Bairui in the hot filial piety were kicked out of the house, penniless, holding the infant child and begging for mercy from the parents-in-law It doesn't help to keep the baby and just cry until his voice is hoarse.

But the people in the market have always stepped on the highs and lows. No one accused the Zhou family of being ruthless and unjust. Instead, they said that Bai Rui deserved it. On the road, I ran into a friend of the deceased husband. Because of pity for her mother and daughter, he took her to work as a washerwoman in an inn in Chunhefang.

The testimony of the neighbors near Zhou Hongshou's house ended here, and Bai Rui's former innkeeper and creditors came to testify in court. They all testified that because Hong'er was born prematurely, congenitally deficient, and the living environment was bad, it led to acquired disorders, and her income as a laundry woman was meager. I had to keep borrowing money to survive, and the interest rate rolled until the end that Bai Rui couldn't even pay the interest. Fortunately, Bai Kou became famous at this time, and Bai Rui was forced by the creditor to have no choice but to assign Bai Kou as her sister's. Things have been said.

So when the creditors went to Bai Kou to collect their debts, they were beaten up and sent to the yamen. This matter was also evidenced by the files filed by the government, and it was also because Bai Rui stayed in the women's prison overnight that the yamen verified it. Her identity proved her kinship with Bai Kou, and Bai Rui and her daughter finally got rid of the cruel life that lasted for several years.

The testimonies of the innkeepers and creditors ended here, and then the witnesses from Tianshuifang came to the court, including the doctor of Songnantang, Wuhou, and the shopkeeper under Gu Yun. In chronological order, from the Zhou family to the shop to make troubles to force Bai Rui's whereabouts From asking her to remarry, when their family came to Tianshuifang for the second time, they had an argument with Bai Rui on the street, told lies in person, accused Bai Rui of being a runaway daughter-in-law who did not obey her husband's filial piety, and ruined her reputation in public. In the end, he was driven out of Tianshuifang by Marquis Wu.

As the key witness, Pai Huazi finally went to court, proving that Zhou Hongshou paid ten taels of silver to Tianshuifang to abduct Bairui and her daughter. Down, the mission was terminated and turned to plaintiff's witnesses.

All the witnesses of the plaintiff came down once, and it was past noon. The governor called out and gave them half an hour to eat and rest. When they went up again, it was the defendant's turn to present witnesses and material evidence to refute the plaintiff.

Even if Fu Yin gave this half-hour rest time, Zhou Hongshou's family of six could not discuss any countermeasures. After eating in silence, they just told each other not to interrupt in the classroom, and the young daughter-in-law of Zhou family nodded in disgust. She looked like she hadn't fully recovered her mental and physical strength, but her mother-in-law and sister-in-law also had the same appearance, so the men didn't care, and only regarded the women as exhausted.

But after all, they also knew in their hearts that once Bai Rui's evidence was presented, they would lose the lawsuit, and what Zhou Hong was waiting for was the court's law.

If a seventh-rank official did such a vile thing, the imperial court would not spare him, and the imperial court had the imperial court's face to protect.

After being promoted to court for the second time, Fu Yin asked Zhou's family to provide evidence. Seeing that they could not refute all the evidence presented by the plaintiff, he asked the most critical question. Who were they going to force Bai Rui to marry after all the painstaking efforts?

The faces of the Zhou family suddenly showed hesitation. The governor slapped the gavel and warned Zhou Hongshou. As a judge of Dali Temple, he knew the consequences of not reporting or even lying in court.

Suddenly there was a howl from the hall, which startled everyone, and they followed the sound. It turned out that the young daughter-in-law of the Zhou family finally broke down and cried.

"I said it! I said it, I said it all! It was Wang Chen'an who ordered us to do it, and it was all his idea!" The young daughter-in-law of the Zhou family screamed like crazy.

"Who is Wang Chen'an? Tell me in detail!" Fu Yin immediately asked, he had to let them say it themselves.

"It's Wang Chen'an, the minister of meritorious service in the Ministry of Officials!" The Zhou family's daughter-in-law, who was emotionally broken, yelled out the name.

"Since he wants to marry Bai Rui, why doesn't he come to propose marriage himself? Instead, he wants you to come forward?"

"My father-in-law made a mistake in his official affairs before, and Wang Chen'an took advantage of it. As long as we remarry Bai Rui to him, he will keep it a secret!"

"But you have lost contact with Bai Rui for many years, how do you know her exact whereabouts?"

"Wang Chen'an said it all. He told the father-in-law that Bai Rui had reunited with Sister Bai Kou and moved to Tianshuifang to live. As long as you find Gu Shizi's shop, you can find her."

"So your family made a big fuss in Gu Shizi's shop? And you want to slander the reputation of a good woman?"

"We have no choice. Wang Chen'an said that Bai Rui must be sent to his house before the results of the test are reported, so we went to Tianshuifang to find someone. The second time we went, we were kicked out by Marquis Wu, so we had to find Pai Huazi. Get people out. But I didn't expect... I didn't expect... Wuwuwuwuwu..."

The youngest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family told all the truth she knew while crying, kneeling on the ground and crying so hard that she couldn't stop.

Fu Yin threw down a green lottery.

"Come here, go to the Ministry of Officials to pass on Wang Chen'an, and ask him to come to the hall for questioning tomorrow morning."

The governor of Yingtian Prefecture in Beijing, who is the third rank, can naturally summon the official doctor of the fifth rank. Only officials with equivalent official positions have a different set of rules.

Two soap slaves came in from the outside, picked up the sign and took the order to set off.

(End of this chapter)