Enter the Room

  Chapter 348

"the same!"

   "I tasted the same!"

   "Although it is a bit bitter, the taste of the two powders is indeed the same."

   After several cooks tasted it, they all agreed with one voice.

   "Impossible!" Song Tao said, "You don't know the glaze, how can you taste it?"

Before the officials of the Third Division could speak, all the invited chefs shouted unhappily: "What are you talking about? We are all the best cooks in the city. I dare not say anything else. It is impossible to be wrong if you distinguish it.”

  Some people swear: "If I taste it wrong, I am willing to hold a three-day banquet in our restaurant to make it up to you."

  He stood aside and said, "Who wants to come forward and taste it? Everyone will know if we have lied or not!"

The crowd was not afraid of the height of the stage when they were watching a play, and they shouted in the crowd: "Let me taste it! There is no apricot in Lixi Street on East Street that I can't taste, and my tongue is not inferior to you cooks." .”

  Some people yelled: "Let him try it, let him go up and try it."

  The officials of the third department ignored these people, but began to whisper in twos and threes.

  Song Tao suddenly raised his head, looked at Yuan Yunzhong and said in horror: "Yes, it's you! It's you... who hurt me!"

  How Yuan Yunzhong harmed her, but she mumbled for a while and couldn't tell why.

Yuan Yunzhong sneered, and said, "Didn't Miss Song San say that Boss Song's 'jade porcelain' was made with cow ashes added? When officials from the third department came to see you, didn't you swear that you didn't 'wrong' Song?" Boss, did you say that you are 'not afraid of crooked shadows'? Why, Boss Song's porcelain without ox bone ashes is like ivory and warm jade, why is your jade porcelain with "ox bone ash" not broken? A complete one. Miss Song San, shouldn't you explain what's going on?"

   "Someone moved my clay pot." So far, Song Tao can only insist on it, but his heart is very empty, his hands are unconsciously twisted like twists, and he still can't help looking at King Ning.

  Ning Wang opened a gilt-painted Sichuan fan with a "shua", and shook it slowly, as if staying out of the matter.

   Song Tao bit her lip.

  The chief interrogator of the Criminal Department patted the gavel heavily.

  Everyone knew that this was about to be sentenced, so they couldn't help but hold their breath.

   There was a scene of complete silence in front of Liulichang again.

The presiding officer of the Ministry of Criminal Justice said: "The case of Da Song's suing Xiao Song's dirty sacrifices is not established. According to the law, Boss Song is not guilty and released in court. Da Song falsely accused Xiao Song and punished the twenty boards. A fine of two hundred taels of silver."

  The silver fine is small, and the stick... If you don't buy the servants of the Yamen in advance, twenty big boards can kill a person.

  Song Tao's legs went limp, and she almost sat on the ground.

  She shouted injustice: "I did not falsely accuse Song Jiyun, someone really touched the glaze in my clay pot. If you don't believe me, I can fire another kiln."

  It's a pity that no one pays attention to her.

  After discussing in a low voice for a while, the third division nodded in "yes" one by one.

  The presiding officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate also asked King Ning: "Do you think it is appropriate?"

  Ning Wang yin and yang said strangely: "The vassal king is not allowed to make friends with courtiers, let alone the three divisions adjudicating the case? I just came to watch the fun, and you adults can judge as you want. There is no room for me to comment!"

  The presiding officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate pretended not to understand, and said with a smile: "My lord, you are being polite. You are in charge of one side, and the laws of the court are the clearest. We have a lot to learn from you!"

  But he never mentioned what opinion he had, but directly ordered the clerk who was waiting at the side: "Go and draw up the announcement and show it to us."

  The document promised, bowed his head and wrote vigorously.

  Song Tao's eyes were red, and she shouted anxiously: "My lords, I was wronged! You have to make decisions for me, you have to make decisions for me!"

  Although there were officials at the scene who stopped her in time, the chief interrogator of the Ministry of Criminal Justice still looked worried, and reprimanded the officials at the scene: "Do you usually handle cases like this?"

The few yamen servants didn't dare to sway left and right anymore, and they lit their mighty sticks and drank "Quiet" as they usually do with complainants, and the two yamen servants who stopped Song Tao even said in a low voice: "If you continue to do this, you can stick again according to the law." twenty."

   "But me, I was wronged!" Song Tao's legs went limp, and she sat on the ground, but her mouth was still chattering.

  She didn't want to be in such a mess, but she was really scared and couldn't stand up.

  She wanted to ask King Ning for help, but she knew that King Ning was ruthless, and she was afraid of him from the bottom of her heart.

  She looked around in a daze, not knowing what to do.

   On the contrary, the people watching the excitement have already started discussing it.

   "I think this Miss Song San is inferior to others, and she is jealous of her cousin. The people who bully us in Beijing don't understand porcelain, and want to get away with it. I didn't expect Mrs. Yuan to have a keen eye and see through it, so she acted foolishly!"

   "However, this girl is also a bit stupid. She made such a big battle. She didn't expect that if the fire fails, what will happen to her!"

   "You mean, there are still some tricks in it!"

   "It's hard to say, it's hard to say."

   "I think she is relying on King Ning to support her. I didn't expect that the devil is one foot tall, and the Tao is one foot tall. Then Boss Song also has someone to help speak."

  I can say anything for a while.

  Song Jiyun had only vaguely guessed before, but now he is almost certain of what happened.

  She couldn't help but glance at Yuan Yunzhong, thinking, he has worked so hard for her, how could she sit back and enjoy the benefits!

  Song Jiyun took a few steps forward, bowed to several presiding officials, and said in a clear voice: "My lord, according to the law, can I sue Third Miss Song for the crime of framing?"

   There was silence in front of Liulichang.

Song Jiyun said solemnly: "I know, my lords have judged that I won. But this is not a simple matter of winning or losing. I was thinking just now that if everyone has a grievance in their hearts, they can go to the Yamen to sue for nothing. For one thing, there is no room for falsehood like burning porcelain, and things that can be proved by themselves are fine. If it is such a rumor that cannot be proved by itself, what will happen to those who have been framed?"

   "Yes! Yes! What Boss Song said makes sense!" The spectators immediately echoed excitedly.

   "Isn't there someone who was driven to death by that gossip before!"

   "My lords!" Song Jiyun said loudly over the noisy voices, "This case cannot be opened, otherwise it will endanger a hundred years."

  Some officials of the third division also started talking in low voices.

   Several presiding judges still nodded.

  Yuan Yunzhong cast a smiling look at Song Cuyun.

  There is only Song Jiyun among the women who can understand him.

   King Ning looked dull.

  Only Song Tao rushed towards Song Jiyun in a sharp voice: "Song Jiyun, you hurt me!"

  Yuan Yunzhong's expression tightened.

  There was a yamen servant who quickly stopped her: "Bold! Roaring to the court, do you still have the law!"

  Zheng Quan and others also stopped in front of Song Jiyun.

  Song Jiyun pushed away the human wall in front of her, looked down at Song Tao coldly: "You have done so many bad things, why should you feel that others want to let you, tolerate you, and forgive you?"

  (end of this chapter)