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The first to cross the door was the silver-haired old man Zhao Xiangli, then a cook, who held a young woman with her head bowed and emaciated, then a scribe, followed by two porters, and finally a young servant with good looks and spirits. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Zhongbo pointed to the cook and the young woman and said: "This is Xiuying and her mother Wu, one of them is the embroidery girl of the Zhao Mansion, and the other is a maid in the kitchen. ”

Wu pulled Xiuying and hurriedly blessed her: "The folk girl has seen the adult." ”

Zhaoran glanced back and forth at Wu and Xiuying, and knew in her heart that probably this timid emaciated woman was the victim, probably because she was bullied/humiliated three years ago, and she still can't hold her head up.

Zhao Zhongbo pointed to the scribe behind her and said, "This is Zhao Yingwen, the accountant on our dock, he sometimes comes up to check the accounts with the patriarch, and it just so happens that he is also there today." ”

The scribe was dressed in a cyan straight embellished, and his appearance was polite, and when he heard Zhao Zhongbo mention him, he stepped forward and said, "Xiaomin has seen adults." ”

Zhao Zhongbo pointed to the young servant again: "His name is Ah Kuan, and he is the little steward of the lower courtyard. ”

Na Ah Kuan stepped forward with a smile on his face and said, "I've seen the adult, I've seen the old lady." ”

"The remaining two are the gatekeepers of our house, Ah Da on the left, and Ah Gui on the right. Zhao Zhongbo waved his hand after the introduction, "This Lord Yang is here to investigate Zhao Jing's affairs, have you told everything you know?"

Xiuying's body shook, as if she couldn't even stand on her feet, covering her face and sobbing in a low voice, Wu Shi hurriedly hugged her and whispered comfort: "Xiuying, it's all over, it's all over."

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As soon as he finished speaking, he heard another noise outside the hall, and Zhao Tianci asked a few maids to help him in.

Zhao Zhongbo said: "Godci, how did you come out? This must be known to your father, and you will be punished." When he said the last sentence, his voice was obviously lowered.

Zhao Tianci sat down in the chair and said nonchalantly: "I was so bored in the room, I heard that there was going to be a case in front of me, so I came to see the excitement." ”

Zhaoran waved his hand and said with a smile: "The eldest young master loves to see the excitement, so let him stay." ”

Zhao Zhongbo was helpless, Yang Xueshi glanced at Zhao Ran and said, "Which of you saw Zhao Jing commit the crime first." ”

"It's me. Zhao Yingwen responded, "That day I entered the house to check the accounts with the patriarch, and I stayed in the east wing room when it was late, I still remember that the weather was a little hot that day, so I took a walk in the garden, and then suddenly heard a short woman's scream coming from the partition wall, I climbed the wall and looked, and found that Zhao Jingzheng was ...... in the inverted house opposite" He said and looked at Xiuying and did not say any more, and paused before saying, "At that time, I was so frightened that I twisted my foot in a hurry to climb the wall, and then I could only shout loudly. Zhao Jing rushed out of the house and ran out the door. ”

Zhao Ran asked: "Is the east wing room behind the shadow wall?"

"Old lady, exactly. Zhao Yingwen said politely, "There is a small garden across the sedan courtyard." ”

"And then?" Yang Xueshi asked.

Wu squatted down and said: "That night, I sent supper to the young master, and I happened to see Xiuying walking outside, because Xiuying looked a little wrong for a few days, so I sent the young master a supper, so I was in a hurry to follow, and I walked to the weeping flower gate to find Xiuying along the road, and suddenly heard Xiuying's voice screaming, I felt that something was wrong, and then I heard Zhao Ledger shouting, I hurriedly walked towards the sedan courtyard, and before I reached the full moon gate, Zhao Jing rushed out of it in rags. “

Wu seemed to grit his teeth when he said this, took two deep breaths and said: "Xiuying has told me many times that Zhao Jing is entangled with her, and I am in the same village as everyone, and the incident is also damaged by the girl's reputation, so I have been persuading her to be patient and patient, but I know that it will hurt Xiuying......"

Xiuying couldn't help crying loudly, Zhao Tianci knocked on the table and said impatiently: "Shut up, didn't you see the adults asking about the case!"

Wu hurriedly pulled Xiuying and whispered, "Don't cry." ”

Yang Xueshi looked at Zhao Xiangli and said, "What about you?"

Zhao Xiangli stepped forward and said: "The farmer is the autumn harvest, we are fishermen here, from the valley rain to the summer solstice are the peak of the fishing flood, and the summer harvest is exquisite, so there are congratulatory gifts from the squires and officials in the days. I heard the shouting and walked out of the house, and I happened to see Zhao Jing rushing out in disheveled clothes, and Yu Wu scuffled together. ”

The two porters also nodded again and again, and Agui said: "On Ah Da's birthday that day, I closed the door with him and drank a few cups, and suddenly heard a noise outside, and the two of us rushed out of the inverted house, and saw Zhao Jing push Wu to the ground and fled out of the door, so the two of us stepped forward to arrest him, but Zhao Jing was very fierce and almost told him to escape, and then it happened that Ah Kuan was outside the door, and the three of us caught him. ”

Ah Kuan continued: "My family is in the village, because every night after doing things at the patriarch's place, I go home to rest. Coincidentally that night, on the way back, I suddenly found that my money bag was missing, so I bent down to look around, and happened to see Zhao Jing walking from the steps towards the house. Later, because I couldn't find the money bag, I decided to go back to the house to look for it, and I knew that as soon as I walked to the door, I saw Ah Da and Ah Gui chasing Zhao Jing out, so I stepped forward to help twist him

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Zhao Ran asked, "Did you find your money bag in the end?"

Ah Kuan said neatly: "Of course I found it, it turned out that I left it at the door, and finally asked Ah Gui to pick it up." ”

Zhao Zhongbo smiled lightly: "Although our Yudang Village is a village, the road is not forgotten, the people are simple, and there is nothing that cannot be found if something is lost." ”

Yang Xueshi glanced at Zhao Ran again: "Is there anything else?"

Wu Shi said with red eyes: "I shouldn't have said it, but I'm afraid that adults will mistakenly believe Zhao Min'er's words." That Zhao Jing pushed me to the ground, because I was worried about Xiuying, so I didn't chase him, and hurriedly ran into the sedan courtyard, and saw Xiuying fainting in the cover room, her clothes were torn off, and she was already ...... He has made a man adulterous. ”

Zhao Tianci interjected impatiently: "Is there anything new to say, haven't you heard all of this before, think about it again, where did her clothes go at that time, and what was her posture?"

Yang Xueshi glanced at him, and only felt that this person was handsome, but he didn't have the slightest sympathy, which was really hateful.

Wu hurriedly lowered his head and answered with tears in his eyes, "Yes", and said in a panic: "I'll think about it again, think about it again." ”

Yang Xueshi looked at Xiuying and said, "Xiuying, why did you go to that room that day?"

Xiuying slowly put down her hand, and it was clear that they found that she looked quite delicate, and now her tears rippled, like pear blossoms with rain, she said: "Zhao Jing's sister Zhao Min'er is also the embroidery girl in the house, and she told me that day that her brother had bought a dowry and wanted to propose marriage to my mother." Min'er and I are friends with handkerchiefs, and we are very close on weekdays, but I don't want to marry Zhao Jing as my wife, but it is inconvenient to say this in front of Min'er, so I told her that her brother would come to the sedan courtyard at night, and I had something to say to him. Originally, I wanted to reject Zhao Jing in person, which not only made my intentions clear, but also took care of my sisterhood with Min'er. That night I opened the side door of the sedan courtyard and let Zhao Jing in, he was very happy at first, but after I explained the meaning, he did something to me, and when I refused him, he suddenly became angry and grabbed my neck, and then I didn't know anything......"

Zhao Tianci originally listened to it with relish, but when he heard her last sentence, he seemed to be a little disappointed, and said: "Then he is not wronged, why is the house haunted?"

Someone below hurriedly ran up and whispered a few words in Zhao Zhongbo's ear, Zhao Zhongbo's brows immediately furrowed, and when he heard Zhao Min'er's three words, he hurriedly said: "Is Zhao Jing's sister here, let her in, let her in." ”

After a while, two men walked in with a petite woman in their hands.

Zhao Min'er shook off the two people behind her, her eyes turned around among them, and she knelt down in front of Yang Xueshi: "My lord, please avenge my brother." ”

Zhaoran gnawed his teeth and sighed in his heart, thinking that he could kneel accurately.

She pointed at Zhao Tianci next to her with red eyes and angrily: "My brother was tortured to death by this human-faced beast!"

Zhao Tianci "sneered" and spit out four words: "Nonsense!"

Yang Xueshi made a move to stop Zhao Min'er from rioting, and said: "It's okay if you come, we just have something to ask you, this Xiuying girl said, you told her that day that your brother was ready to propose to this girl as a dowry, and then Xiuying girl asked you to call your brother, but is there such a thing?"

Zhao Min'er seemed to be about to crush the silver teeth in her mouth before she said, "Not bad." ”

Xiuying looked at Zhao Min'er and muttered, "Min'er."

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Zhao Min'er said angrily: "Don't call me, you don't want to marry my eldest brother at all, but you deliberately pretend to like my eldest brother, in fact, everything you do is a trap, for the sake of this beast, you tricked my brother into the Zhao Mansion!"

Xiuying cried: "Min'er, it's about my reputation, how can I talk about it, not to mention that everyone knows my injuries vividly at that time, how can I fake?"

Zhao Zhongbo opened his mouth and said: "Enough, what kind of person the patriarch is, you must all know. Min'er, as I said, as long as you can prove your brother's innocence, if it is really the people of the Zhao Mansion who commit the murder, the people of the Zhao Mansion will cut down and cut them off, and they will never break their promise! But before that, no one can make false accusations without evidence!"

When he mentioned the patriarch Zhao Yongbo, it seemed that even Zhao Min'er had nothing to refute.

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Zhaoran dropped the bones in his hand and asked, "After the adult asks, is it my wife's turn?" ”

Yang Xueshi saw that he had finally moved after eating a large plate of pork knuckles, and couldn't help but say, "What, what does Lingpo want to ask?"

Zhaoran wiped his mouth and said, "My wife wants to do it for a while." ”

Yang Xueshi couldn't help but be speechless, only to see Zhaoran pointing to the opposite side and saying, "The place where the rape occurred is in the sedan courtyard, right?"

"Exactly. Zhao Zhongbo said.

Zhaoran said: "Then you have to go there to do it." ”

As he spoke, he walked towards the opposite side, and everyone hurriedly followed, passing through the door of the full moon cave, Ji Niang and a few palanquin men were sitting on the steps of the lower courtyard, and when they saw them coming in, they hurriedly got up.

Zhao Ran stretched out his hand and said, "Go pick a wicker and prepare some clean water." ”

Zhao Zhongbo asked, "The old lady wants to prepare the incense table, the incense burner and other magic utensils?"

Zhao Ran waved his hand: "I worship the master of Guanshiyin, and I don't need such vulgar things." ”

Zhao Zhongbo hurriedly turned around and said, "Go and prepare." ”

Zhao Ran took advantage of this time and walked up to Ji Niang: "I have something for you to do, if you do, I will pay enough money to let you leave here and cure the child's illness, but I don't know if you have the courage?"

Ji Niang grabbed her dress with both hands and said, "I don't know what the old lady wants the villain to do?"

Zhaoran smiled: "Don't be nervous, it's not a matter of killing people and setting fires." ”

He leaned into Ji Niang's ear and whispered a few words, Ji Niang's face showed surprise, but he hesitated and said, "I'll do it." ”

Zhaoran smiled slightly: "Then I'll wait for you." ”

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Soon the people below prepared the willow sticks and brought clean water.

Zhaoran took the willow, dipped some water and pumped it around, the water droplets splashed, and everyone couldn't help but take a few steps back and make way for him.

He said "Mimi numb" in his mouth, and then picked the summer flowers from his forehead, and while turning the flowers, he smoked the willow and danced for a while, Yang Xueshi couldn't help but take a deep breath, turned his head to the side, but Zhaoran stopped and opened his eyes and said, "No......"

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zhongbo couldn't help asking

Zhaoran's eyes were half-closed and half-opened: "Although my wife can't see the situation at that time, she feels that something is wrong. ”

Agui said: "This old lady, you didn't see anything and said that we were not telling the truth, which is also ......."

Zhao Ran said in annoyance: "I've been tired all the way, and my mana is a little insufficient, so I can't see clearly, so let's go back to the position you were at and repeat this process, maybe I can see it more clearly." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and Zhao Zhongbo said: "It depends on the old lady's meaning." ”

Zhaoran said: "It's still the old rule, you hear the screams before acting." ”

Xiuying glanced at the room behind him and whispered, "Then I'...... Do you want to stay in this room?"

Zhao Ran glanced at her with pity and said, "You and Miss Min'er should rest in the side hall with Uncle Zhao for a while, you are not needed here for the time being." ”

Xiuying nodded, turned around and left with small steps, Min'er stiffened her neck and said, "I'm not leaving!"

Zhao Ran frowned and said: "You have a close relationship with Zhao Jing, if you mess up my practice here, then your brother will patronize you, but he won't be able to tell me." ”

Zhao Min'er's eyes were suddenly filled with tears, and then she turned around and walked away.

Everyone also left, but after a while, Zhao Zhongbo saw that Zhaoran was still closing his eyes and recuperating, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Old lady, can you start?"

Zhaoran opened his eyes and said, "We still have to wait for someone." As soon as he finished speaking, someone knocked on the door a few times, and Zhao Ran walked over and opened the door, looking at Ji Niang outside, and smiled, "It's here." ”

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Wu stood by the weeping flower gate and waited until his neck was about to grow, and Agui on the opposite side also poked his head out and asked, "Why is it not well?"

"But no, I don't know what to do?" Wu sighed.

Suddenly, they heard a scream coming from the sedan courtyard, and Ah Gui didn't hear anything clearly, so Wu rushed into the door of the full moon cave.

I saw that Zhao Ran was holding a one-year-old child in one hand in the sedan courtyard, and pumping his little ass with a willow stick in the other.

Wu's face changed greatly, and he ran up and snatched Xiao'er from Zhaoran's hand, hugged him in his arms and said angrily: "You, why did you beat my grandson?!"

Zhao Ran held the willow stick in his hand and said, "Are you distressed?" You don't have to wait for him to call grandma, presumably when he calls for the first time, you will feel something, that feeling of flesh and blood is not wrong, flesh and blood are calling, he is in danger, even the iceberg and fire in front of me may not be able to stop your footsteps. ”

He glanced at Zhao Yingwen's struggling face that was only revealed on the wall and asked, "But back then, it was the same flesh and blood screaming, and why were you so slow? If you run casually, it is impossible to arrive later than Zhao's accountant, right?"

Wu hugged the child in his arms tightly, and Zhao Ran smiled and handed him the willow in his hand: "That's a good name, grandmother, I keep my promise and give you this wicker, and whoever doesn't beat him in the future." ”

The little boy immediately wept with joy and pulled the wicker over and played with it in his hand.

Zhao Zhongbo's face darkened and said, "Wu Clan, what's going on?"

Wu was so frightened that he knelt down: "Second master, second master, the villain didn't hear clearly at the beginning, he really didn't hear clearly."

。 That's my daughter, if I heard clearly, how could I not save her?!" she said and sat on the ground with her grandson in her arms and cried.

Zhaoran turned his head and saw that Zhao Yingwen's head had slid down over there, so he stood under the wall and beckoned to Yang Xueshi, Yang Xueshi came over and said, "What do you want?"

"Carry me up!"

"I'll hold you?"

Zhaoran said: "Then if you bend down, I will step on your back." Hurry up, this matter is urgent!"

Yang Xueshi had to half-squat and hugged Zhaoran's two legs and hugged him hard.

Zhao Ran asked him to hug him like this, and suddenly felt that the bones in his body were like getting into ants, and his limbs were so itchy that his limbs were weak, and he looked at the top of Yang Xueshi's black hair below, and there were seventeen or eighteen thoughts in his heart, and none of them were good thoughts.

Yang Xueshi's face was flushed, and he said with difficulty: "Hurry up!"

Zhao Ran glanced under the wall next door, only to see a moss-stained stone below, Zhao Yingwen rubbed his ankle and was about to step on it again to climb up, he suddenly looked up and saw Zhao Ran's face startled: "Old lady!"

"Isn't your foot down?" asked Mingran in a friendly concern.

"Thank you, old lady, it's all right, I'm about to climb up again. ”

Zhao Ran leaned on the wall and said, "So you weren't on the wall all the time that night, did you?"

Zhao Yingwen's breath stagnated slightly, and he still said: "Although this is the case, I did see Zhao Jing." ”

"Oh. Zhao Ran replied lightly.

Yang Xueshi below said with difficulty: "You, what do you have to say, come down and ask?"

He said that as soon as his hand was out of strength, he fell to the ground together with Zhaoran.

Zhao Ran pressed Yang Xueshi's body, looked at Yang Xuejun's elegant and delicate face from top to bottom, and suddenly figured out what he had been wanting in his heart.

That's right, that's it! Jiuru is so powerful, he can't get close, but this Jiuru can't even hold a skinny old lady, and he can't hold the chicken, so can't he do whatever he wants?

What does it matter, it's just a dream anyway.

Zhao Ran thought in his heart, and Zhao Zhongbo over there had already hurriedly come over to support them: "My lord, are you okay with the old lady?"

Yang Xueshi obviously hurt his waist, but he gritted his teeth and said stiffly: "It's okay." ”

He had just taken two steps forward, but he didn't know that Zhao Ran said again: "There is one more thing." ”

"What else do you have to do?" Yang Xueshi said with a sigh of relief.

"Go to the room and say. Zhaoran pointed to the inverted house in the sedan courtyard.

Yang Xueshi had no choice but to follow him into the inverted house, and lowered his voice and said, "What's the matter?"

Zhaoran pointed to the clothes on his body: "Take it off." ”