Dirty color

Chapter 176 File
In February, the weather was still very cold. Therefore, when Wenzhu left the mansion, he was wrapped up tightly and wore a cloak with a hat, only half of his face was exposed. Seeing this, the woman who guarded the door laughed and joked a few times. Wenzhu was a little nervous, and after only two or three sentences, he quickly said that it was cold, and he had to go out and come back quickly. The mother-in-law watched Wenzhu go away with a smiling face.

After going out, Wenzhu let out a sigh of relief. As usual, maids are searched when they go out of the house, so as not to carry the things of the master's house with them. Only these big maids with face can avoid this. In particular, she served in the old lady's Rong'an Hall, so it is more convenient to come and go.

After leaving the house, Wenzhu really didn't know what to do with things - he usually accompanied the lady to go shopping, or was sent out of the house alone to buy things for the lady. This was the first time he had done such a thing. .

Wenzhu decided to go back and ask his parents. After all, his parents would know something.

After Wen Zhu's mother heard Wen Zhu's words, she immediately turned pale with fright, and asked, "You stole Miss San's things as pawns?"

"Mother, what are you talking about, how dare I do such a thing." Wenzhu was quick to think, and said: "Isn't this a servant girl in the mansion who is engaged, and then has to invite someone to drink, but money is not available, so You just asked me, I thought you should know, so you came to ask."

Wenzhu's mother felt relieved after hearing the words, and said, "Damn girl, I scared your old lady to death!"

After murmuring a few more words that Asparagus is not small anymore, why the master’s family still doesn’t give marriage, if you don’t get married again, you will have to see someone else, etc., then Wenzhu’s mother pointed out a few words about Asparagus, which one is easy to talk to , Which one is ruthless, which one has a lot of redemption, after all, when they had a hard time before, they used summer clothes in winter and cotton clothes in summer. her, lest she worry."

After eating lunch at home, Wenzhu made an excuse that he was going to buy some silk thread, and wanted to embroider some flowers on his spring shirts, so Wenzhu Niang let her go out, and Wenzhu chose a family that Wenzhu Niang recommended and said that it would be fine. Not bad, I found it.

Things went very smoothly. After all, they were just two pieces of old jewelry, and they were worth a few dollars, but they were not very valuable. Asparagus came out with 14 taels of silver. Silver, and then continue to change.

After four or five times, Asparagus stopped, and it was more than 60 taels of silver, which was enough-the lady's monthly silver was only five taels before, but it was only raised to eight taels after she got engaged.

Asparagus went to buy some silk thread to make up the money, and then went home to sleep. The next morning, he went back to the Marquis of Shun'an, quietly told Gu Minghe about the account, and showed Gu Minghe the money, so Gu Minghe asked him to collect it. Put down the money and let people send those people away.

After two days, Gu Minghe breathed a sigh of relief when he knew that the first and last parts had been dealt with. That would be good. Gu Mingxuan would be unlucky, but at this time, he would not be involved. It's not that Gu Minghe doesn't care, but after weighing the pros and cons, she feels that for herself, it's really good to please Concubine Pei De and the Fifth Prince.

She waited for Gu Mingxuan's bad luck.

At this time, Gu Mingxuan was talking to a shopkeeper.

During the New Year's Eve, shopkeepers have to pay dividends and rest. Most of the shops are closed until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the sixteenth day does not open until the [-]th day.

At the beginning, Gu Mingxuan was very busy. Even though the shop had already opened, she didn't have time to meet the shopkeepers. Knowing that she was free now, Gu Mingxuan finally invited the shopkeepers in. If it's not important, just meet five or six people. See you one by one.

At this moment, a shopkeeper was talking to Gu Mingxuan about one thing: "The thing is indeed a bit strange. During this time, Luo Liu has not contacted the villain again. The villain still thinks it may be Chinese New Year. He is busy, so he didn't take care of it." Here, but yesterday when the villain went to visit Luo Liu, he was told that Luo Liu had moved three days ago. Six, after that Luo Liu left."

Gu Mingxuan sat behind the screen and listened carefully to what the shopkeeper said - the shopkeeper told Gu Mingxuan the first time someone came into contact with him and wanted to bribe him, and three other shopkeepers also encountered this However, among the three shopkeepers, two were relatively honest, and they scolded the person who bought them back on the spot, and there was another one who was as clever as this shopkeeper, and they all came to discuss Gu Mingxuan's idea first.

Gu Mingxuan ordered them to pretend to be tempted but they felt that the other party did not have enough bargaining chips, so they tried to delay and find out who was behind her mother's dowry shop.

Unexpectedly, Gu Minghe was finally found.

Gu Mingxuan was a little surprised at the time, what is Gu Minghe planning to do?So she stood still and saw what Gu Minghe was going to do, but unexpectedly, Gu Minghe never asked these two shopkeepers to do anything. Up to now, both shopkeepers said that the people who had contacted them had already moved away!

Is Gu Minghe the kind of person who will let it go?Gu Mingxuan really didn't see it, this only proves that she may have thought of other ways, and she must pull herself together.

Then when this matter was no longer on Gu Minghe's body, but started to be taken over by the fifth prince, the person Gu Mingxuan used to monitor Gu Minghe, except for the fact that asparagus came out of the house frequently, did not find anything else—the current Shen Xiangxie , it's not like He's Baihetang, which is easy to deploy people.

And although Feng Qingli has been sending people to monitor the Fifth Prince's Mansion, it is impossible to monitor every servant in the Fifth Prince's Mansion. Therefore, it was not until ten days later that a major event happened in the dowry shop of Princess Huaqing that Gu Mingxuan felt a little bit. Wake up.

The matter is very simple. There is a couple with a beautiful daughter. The mistress of that family is ill, and the treatment will cost a lot of money. As a last resort, she borrowed a usury loan. However, the male owner broke his leg when he came back from working outside. Now the usury must not be repaid, so the creditor robbed the 14-year-old daughter of the family to be his concubine. In the end, the girl cut herself off with scissors, and the couple , because his only daughter died, he also committed suicide by drinking arsenic.

The matter became violent, and that day the shopkeeper was turned over to Jingzhao Mansion Yin. The foreman told the results of the autopsy, saying that it was the wound on the girl's neck, which was not the cause of death at all. She should be Suffocated, not suicidal.

And the couple did not commit suicide by drinking arsenic.

As for who killed the family of three, further investigation is needed.

Therefore, the shopkeeper was released on the same day without conviction.

But there were rumors in the capital that it was because the shopkeeper spent money that he bribed the courier and was acquitted!
Under the instigation of someone with a heart, the shopkeeper was beaten violently on the second day when he went out. Later, he took his servants out. Although he was not beaten, someone secretly went to his house and threw bricks and smashed rotten eggs to take out the garbage. After that, it was only a short time In three days, the rumors in the capital became that the Marquis of Shun'an was protecting the shopkeeper, and this was originally the news of the dowry shop of the Princess Huaqing. The news about the backing of the criminal spread quickly.

Gu Wenqian, Marquis of Shun'an, was impeached by the censor, and then called by the emperor to scold him, telling him to investigate the case quickly.

Gu Mingxuan's news is not blocked. After she knew the news for the first time, she asked Feng Qingli to find someone, and asked Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to send out many assistants to go to the autopsy together with the assistants from Jingzhao Mansion. By the way, They also found evidence in favor of the shopkeeper.

Moreover, she has already asked people who are acquainted with this shopkeeper. She knows that this shopkeeper is rather mean, easy to be praised by others, and a little greedy for money. Not really.

Gu Mingxuan also asked about the real story of the incident - in fact, it was the husband and wife of that family who looked at the shopkeeper's wife kindly and wanted to send their daughter in to be a maid. This way, it could also reduce the burden on the family, but who knows, But something like this happened.

The shopkeeper was very innocent and terrified. Seeing Gu Mingxuan, she just asked him to stay at home and not go to the shop for the time being. Moreover, no matter what happened afterwards, he couldn't be beaten into a trick. She also taught him a few words As soon as the shopkeeper heard this, he knew that the matter hadn't passed yet. He was panicked for a while, so Gu Mingxuan laughed lightly and said, "Don't worry, this matter is aimed at His Royal Highness Yong and the Marquis of Shun'an. , Their goal is not you, His Royal Highness King Yong and our Shun'an Hou Mansion are out of their own face, and they will definitely keep you, as long as you don't plead guilty, it's easy to talk about."

When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately felt relieved—how should I put it, now he is the face of the Marquis of Shun'an, and others use him to attack the Marquis of Shun'an and His Royal Highness Yong. His Royal Highness King Yong and the Marquis of Shun'an were beaten in the face.

In this way, his own life should be very safe.

After Gu Mingxuan comforted the shopkeeper, she smiled lightly. Once some things spread too quickly, something is wrong there. Besides, the truth is not what others said at all.

Gu Mingxuan herself had done such a thing, how could she not know that she was being tricked.

However, she didn't act immediately. Sometimes, if she wanted to fight back, she had to endure a period of grievances first.

After her father, Gu Wenqian, was also implicated, Gu Mingxuan's eyes flashed with anger. It seemed that the other party not only wanted to attack her, but also the Marquis of Shun'an.

Du Ying often helped Gu Mingxuan inquire about news and received information from Commander Tao, so she was filled with righteous indignation and said angrily: "Miss is so good, how could she do such a thing, those people are too hateful, full of nonsense , if you let me know who did it, I will kill him."

Gu Mingxuan's eyes were full of smiles, why is this girl so excited.

Just let them be proud for a few more days.

Then things took a new turn—the coroner of the autopsy said that he was bought by money and threatened by others, so he made a false statement. The little girl couldn't bear to cry for injustice, so she wanted to reverse the case.

The shopkeeper was arrested again.

This time, Jingzhao Fu Yin was not as easy to talk as last time. He stepped forward and gave the shopkeeper a stick. After the spanking, he dragged the shopkeeper with bloody buttocks to the court, and asked sharply: "The criminal, Yan Nan, how did you use loan sharks to force a woman from a good family to become a concubine, causing her to commit suicide in anger? Why don't you tell the truth?"

Yan Nan began to cry out for injustice, he kept Gu Mingxuan's words in mind, and knew that he must not plead guilty.

The governor of the Jingzhao government wanted to use torture again, so Yannan yelled and asked, "Your Excellency, the grassroots are not guilty, are you trying to beat them into a trick? Did you use the same way to get people to confess in the past when you judged the case?"

He screamed with all his strength, Jingzhao Mansion Yin felt that his dignity had been provoked, but it was not easy for someone to drag Yannan down and beat him, otherwise, wouldn't it be true that his past judgments were all the same? The fact of "beating into tricks"?

Annoyed, he shouted sharply: "The criminal, Yan Nan, if you yell at the court again, don't blame me for being rude to you."

Yan Nan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the idea that the eldest lady said really worked, he began to give in, and said to the governor of Jingzhao: "The grass people dare to be so presumptuous just because they know that the adults love the people like their own children, and that they are the master of Qingtian. My lord, Caomin would like to ask this guy, is the judgment recorded in the case file during his autopsy, is it true?"

"This..." The retorted assistant always felt that something was wrong. However, during the autopsy, he was not the only one present, and some of them were from the Ministry of Punishment and Dali Temple—this author thought that the arrival of those colleagues was to The person who wanted to frame the shopkeeper invited him to back him up, so he did an autopsy and recorded the case files together, but now, it became the reason why he dared not speak.

Who knows what those peers will say.

After pondering for a moment, he could only say: "The officials from Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment were all present that day, and everyone signed and signed it, so it is naturally true."

Yan Nan was overjoyed and said, "Since that's the case, why didn't those writers ever say that your lord's verdict was wrong after they first decided the case? Your lord has judged countless cases. Don't you know how to read the autopsy records?"

Wu Zuo is an old fritter, and he immediately took the blame on himself: "I am usually reliable and honest, so my lord trusts me, but I didn't expect that I am ashamed of my lord's trust, please punish my lord."

Yannan's eyes narrowed slightly. He played freely outside the framework of the idea given by Gu Mingxuan. He planned to run on this author, but he didn't expect this author to be very good. Therefore, he said: "My family originally Life was difficult. At that time, if I wanted to eat meat, I could only eat some pig meat. Moreover, I was saving my life, and I was most willing to buy the meat from the neck of the pig, commonly known as blood neck meat. Ordinary people would not eat it, so it was cheap. Because I have seen a lot, Zhuo Jing has learned to distinguish whether the pig dies first and then kills or kills first and then dies."

"If the pig is dead and then killed, the meat on the knife edge will be smooth, but if it is killed while it is alive, the meat on the knife edge will not be so smooth. Let's think about it. If you usually cut your finger with a kitchen knife, does the meat turn to the other side? Turn over on both sides? Think about when you cut the meat at home, did the meat hang down? "

That Zuo Zuo's face turned blue all of a sudden.

It's not because what Yan Nan said is right or wrong, but because what he said is actually a bit specious, but this will draw others' attention to the wound - because the matter is too big, so the Jingzhao prefect judges the case At the time, the common people were allowed to watch, and there were also officials from the Ministry of Punishment sitting in the hall.

On the file, it was clearly written: the wound was smooth, stabbed with scissors.

Once he doubted this point, his words would be untenable.

Sure enough, the officials of the Ministry of Punishment began to read the file more carefully, and even sent someone out.

On February day, the sweat on Wu Zuo's forehead began to flow down.

(End of this chapter)