from widow to dame

Chapter 49

The county magistrate asked a few people one after another, but they were all trivial matters, and his face showed impatience.At this moment, a person came to the hall. Su Huiniang took a closer look, but it was Wang Erlang who was wrapped in embroidered clothes and holding a folding fan. .Seeing him coming, Napi and Wang Wuniang showed relieved expressions on their faces.I saw him walking straight to the county magistrate, and whispering something in his ear.After the county magistrate finished listening, a pair of sparse eyebrows raised, his eyes looked down, and he asked, "Who is Su Huiniang?"

"The daughter of the people, Su Huiniang, has met the magistrate!" Su Huiniang's heart tightened, but she saluted with a normal expression.Seeing that her polite manner was different from the other village women around her, the county magistrate couldn't help but take a second look, and then said: "Well, I came to ask you, where were you on the tenth day of October?"

"Returning to my lord, that day happened to be the birthday of Mr. Zheng in the village. The daughter of the people went to the birthday banquet with her mother during the day, and went to the village square to watch a play together in the evening."

"But when you are halfway through the play, go away!" Without waiting for the magistrate to speak, Wang Erlang choked with a sneer: "My lord, this girl has always been tyrannical, and she used to hurt people with a stick. And my sixth brother There is a deep grudge, she must be harboring a grudge, taking advantage of Sixth Brother's negligence, and murdering him."

"Wang Erlang, you don't want to spitting blood." Su Huiniang's mouth curled up in a mocking arc, and she retorted categorically: "I did leave early that day, but it was because I was unwell, so I just went home to rest. Why? Assassinated your brother? Do you have any evidence or material evidence? If you have nothing to accuse me of harming others here, it would be too slanderous and make people laugh." Then Wang Erlang has no evidence, but Wang Liulang has discussed it with him Su Huiniang got his hands on it, so doubts arose in his heart.He and Su Huiniang had been feuding for a long time, and now it could be said that new and old hatred came together, so he sneered and said to the county magistrate: "My lord, this girl is very cunning, she will definitely not tell the truth, in my opinion, It's better to use torture!" While talking behind his back, he shook three fingers at the county magistrate.

300 taels of silver?
The county magistrate suddenly felt hot in his heart.

"Well, Wang Zhubo's words are polite, come here, put on a stick, and see if this criminal woman is going to trick her."

Seeing the bamboo-like splint slowly unfolding in front of her eyes, Su Huiniang's expression became uglier than ever. Although she had heard that the county magistrate was unreliable, she never expected it to be so unreliable, so she quickly raised her head to look Glancing at Wang Qilang who was not far away, the child was about to get up, and was about to rush towards this side with an anxious expression. Su Huiniang gave him a hard look, signaling him not to be impulsive.And at this critical moment, a clear and clear male voice suddenly sounded, and the man said: "Master An, don't you want to beat yourself up?"

After the county magistrate heard this, his face darkened, and he was about to go into a fit, but when he saw the person coming, he shrank and said tremblingly: "It turned out to be Mr. Chen, why are you free today, and ran to my court up?"

The corners of Chen Yu's mouth twitched slightly. He was obviously only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, but he had an awe-inspiring power: "Chen has long heard that Mr. Liu is a master at solving cases, and today he came to watch the excitement. Who would have thought—" He Leaving half of the words, he smiled pointedly, showing a disdainful attitude.The magistrate of this county is also cowardly, although he was angry at Chen Yu's words, but he was also afraid of the family background behind him, so he could only suppress his anger and said in a hoarse voice: "Why, among these people are people who are familiar with Mr. Chen? "

After hearing this, Chen Yu didn't answer. Instead, he said, "The student has heard about today's case, but I have a few questions to ask you." County Magistrate An Sanjiao rolled his eyes twice, feeling dissatisfied in his heart. Good hunch: "Mr. Chen, please tell me."

"The lord Bo kept saying that the Su family murdered his younger brother. The student wanted to ask, where is the victim's body at this time?" Without a body, there would be no murder case, so how can we talk about catching any murderer. "Also, this Su family is just a weak girl, but how can you tell my brother, she will be a man, right? Is it so easy to be killed?" Chen Yu sneered, and suddenly raised his voice like whipping: "You have no It is ridiculous to accuse someone of being a murderer without a certificate, and now he is still trying to torture him, I must report this matter to the elders in the family, so that they know that there are such injustices in my Darui dynasty."

The magistrate of the county turned pale when he heard this, but he knew that the Chen family now has an adult in the court who is on duty in the Ministry of Officials, who is in charge of evaluating the achievements of officials.My term of office here seems to be coming to an end, and I'm thinking about leaving the human relationship and making connections in order to change to someone who is more fertile, so I can't let something happen at this juncture.

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" A drop of cold sweat ran across the forehead of County Magistrate An, shaking his head and saying again and again: "Quickly, remove the torture tools, Master Chen, I was just trying to scare these tricky, oh no, villagers. There is no idea of ​​torture, so please don't get me wrong."

"That's right!" Chen Yu nodded as before, and said with a half-smile: "It turns out that Mr. Chen made a mistake."

"Master!" Wang Wuniang, who had a big belly, didn't want to, she moved her hips to the side of County Magistrate An, and said relentlessly, "My brother can't die in vain, master, you have to be the master of the slave family!"

"Die, die, die!" County Magistrate Liu pointed at her nose and cursed: "Your brother may be in the flower street and Liu Lane where the wind is blowing, sir, I really shouldn't have listened to your pillow talk, and made a fool of yourself." It's really unlucky to be like this."

Wang Wuniang burst into tears immediately when she heard the words, and made a gesture to twist the magistrate's ears, but was slapped back by the other party, and fell to the ground in an instant.He held his belly and hummed miserably: "It hurts, it hurts, master, son, our son..." Seeing the magistrate of An, his face showed regret. He still cared about the child in Wang Wuniang's stomach. They were carried into the back hall.

"Well, let's stop here today, back out!"

"Lord An, since there is no murder, should these innocent villagers be released?"

County Magistrate

"Let it go, let it go, let it go, I will let it go right now." He smiled flatteringly, thinking in his heart, you think I am willing to lock up these unscrupulous people.After saying these words, regardless of Wang Erlang and Pi's sudden bruising complexions, they hurriedly walked to the back.The folks below, never thought that things would turn around in such a way, until the two classes of yamen servants started to drive them out, they all rejoiced and felt relieved.Facing the crowd who kept thanking him, Chen Yu greeted them gently one by one, without any hint of impatience.

"Sister! Hui Niang!" At this moment, two anxious and worried cries sounded, Su Wen and Lin Shi squeezed into the noisy crowd, stumbled over, and asked in unison: "Are you okay! "

Su Huiniang smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I'm fine."

At this time, Wang Qilang also ran over.Mrs. Lin was obviously frightened, and seeing Su Huiniang haggard a lot, she cried out of fear: "My daughter is suffering, woo woo... what is this called? The Wang family actually said you are a murderer!" , This is to want your life, it is too hateful, bastard, I will die badly."

Su Huiniang hurriedly followed up with a few words of comfort. When she was young, the people in the yamen had almost left, so Su Huiniang tidied up her clothes, walked up to Chen Yu, and said sincerely and respectfully: "Mr. Chen, thank you very much this time. If it wasn't for you to help, Hui Niang might not be able to escape this disaster, so please accept my worship."

"Miss Su, please get up quickly." Chen Yu raised her hand and said with a smile: "Brother Wen and I hit it off right away and became close friends. Naturally, I won't watch her sister being wronged." Su Huiniang heard this, but A little guilty, thinking, this time it really wasn't a grievance, but he couldn't say it out loud, so he saluted Chen Yu, and Su Huiniang and his party walked slowly towards the gate of the yamen.A few days ago, when the yamen guards came to the village to arrest people, Su Huiniang told Lin that she had gone to the library to find Su Wen, so Su Huiniang was not surprised by their appearance today.Of course, this is also because no one can prove that Wang Liulang was really killed.

Chen Yu invited a group of people to visit Chen's mansion, but Su Huiniang declined politely, saying that she had just come out of prison, and she was inevitably tainted with bad luck, so it was inconvenient to visit your mansion, but she would definitely come to thank you someday.Chen Yu didn't force her, said something to Su Wen, and then sent a carriage to take them home, and then left in a graceful manner.

Along the way, Su Huiniang leaned against the wall of the car and closed her eyes to rest. Lin and the others only thought that she was frightened, and did not dare to disturb her.Not long after, everyone arrived at the door of the house. Su Wen strongly asked her to go to rest. Su Huiniang readily agreed, and after closing the door, Su Huiniang cleaned herself up with a hot towel and changed into a set of clean clothes. So she got into the bed, she didn't mean to enter the space, and she didn't want to go in again until Wang Liulang's body was dealt with.The exhaustion of the days soon made her fall asleep. Like the last few days, there were no nightmares, but Su Huiniang slept very sweetly.

The next day, Su Huiniang got two pieces of news.

The first one is that Wang Wuniang gave birth to a girl, and I heard that the county magistrate was very angry.

The second is that the whole village jointly signed a letter requesting that Lizheng open the ancestral hall and drive the Wang family out of the village.

(End of this chapter)