Chapter 545: Confronting in court
The content of the chapter begins - > Yingtian Mansion Inside, Lord Yin of the Mansion came back as soon as he came, changed his clothes and ascended to the court, Zhou Hongshou's family was all there, and the children were left at home to be taken care of by their subordinates, and they did not bring witnesses other than that.
On the plaintiff's side, the witnesses brought by him were black, and the road between the gate and the Yimen was turned into a thick human wall, and the avenue outside the yamen was also crowded by the lively people and turned into a sheep's intestine road, and many officials stood on the street to maintain order.
Fu Yin first verified the identity of the original defendant, and the name, household registration and address were all verified, and the Zhou family knew that Bai Rui had already quietly moved to the household, so it was completely reasonable to sue them for bribing others to rob the people's women.
Then the master stood up and read the complaint again, five of the six members of Zhou Hongshou's family were recalled by the content of the complaint, everyone's face was different, but they looked quite calm, only the little daughter-in-law had seven feelings on the face, and the love changed the most, Fu Yin silently looked in his eyes, knowing that she was the breakthrough.
After reading the complaint, Zhou Hongshou naturally cried out for injustice, denied the accusation, and accused Bai Rui of bribing witnesses last night.
Li Bo immediately refuted, claiming that the expenses for carriage and horses, food, and lost work were necessary expenses for inviting witnesses to testify in court, and were not acts of bribery, otherwise why would the witnesses give up their daily livelihood to go to the yamen.
Fu Yin recognized Li Bo's statement, rejected Zhou Hongshou's accusation that the plaintiff had bribed witnesses, and took a look at the shocked wood to pull back to the topic, and in order, the plaintiff spoke first.
Li Bo bowed his hand, and on behalf of Bai Rui, he began to present various evidences of Zhou's family's bullying of women and children one by one.
The Zhou family did not have witnesses and evidence for Bai Rui's bullying at home, but after sweeping her mother and daughter out of the house, the neighbors near Zhou's house were all witnesses, although they made the court into a vegetable market, but the facts are the facts, the second son of the Zhou family died before he was buried, and Bai Rui's mother and daughter in the hot filial piety were driven out of the house, penniless, holding the infant child and banging on the closed street door, begging the in-laws to be kind and leave the child, just crying until the voice was hoarse to no avail.
And the people in the market have always stepped on the highs and lows, no one accused the Zhou family of being ruthless and unrighteous, but said that Bai Rui deserved it, cast the wrong baby, and the accident of her mother's family affected herself, and she also killed her husband, until Wuhou came forward to take her away, and met her deceased husband's friend on the way, because of pity for her mother and daughter, so he took her to an inn in Chunhefang to be a washerwoman.
This is the end of the testimony of the neighbors near Zhou Hongshou's house, and Bai Rui's former innkeeper and creditor testified in court, they all testified that because Hong'er was born prematurely, congenital insufficiency, and the living environment was bad, the guide was out of balance, and the income of being a washerwoman was meager, so she had to keep borrowing to get by.
So when the creditors went to Bai Ko to collect debts, they were beaten and sent to the yamen, and there were case files filed by the government as evidence, and Bai Rui was also because she stayed in the women's prison all night, so that the yamen verified her identity and proved her kinship with Bai Ko, and Bai Rui and her daughter finally got rid of the cruel life that lasted for several years.
This is the end of the testimony of the innkeeper and the creditors, and then the witnesses of Tianshuifang went to court, including the doctor of Songnantang, Wuhou, and the shopkeeper under Gu Yun, according to the chronological order, from the Zhou family to the shop to make trouble and ask Bai Rui's whereabouts to ask her to remarry, to the second time their family came to Tianshuifang, they had an argument with Bai Rui on the street, and told lies to their faces, accusing Bai Rui of being a fugitive daughter-in-law who did not keep her husband's filial piety, and ruining her reputation in public, and was finally driven out of Tianshuifang by Wuhou.
As a key witness, Pai Huazi finally went to court and proved that Zhou Hongshou paid ten taels of silver to ask him to go to Tianshuifang to abduct Bai Rui's mother and daughter, and he first took a deposit of three taels, but before he entered Tianshuifang, he was found and stopped, and the task was forced to be terminated, and he became a witness for the plaintiff.
All the plaintiff's witnesses walked down, and noon had passed, and Fu Yin shouted to retreat, gave each of them half an hour to eat and rest, and when he was promoted again, it was the defendant's turn to show human and physical evidence to refute the plaintiff.
Even if Fu Yin gave this half an hour of rest, Zhou Hongshou's family of six couldn't discuss any countermeasures, and after eating silently, they just told each other not to intervene in the hall, and the little daughter-in-law of the Zhou family nodded in disgust, as if her spirit and body were not fully recovered, but her mother-in-law and concubine also had the same appearance, so the men didn't care, and they only thought that the women were tired.
But after all, they themselves also knew in their hearts that as soon as Bai Rui's evidence came out, they would lose the lawsuit, and what was waiting for Zhou Hongshou was the law of the imperial court.
If the Qipin official does such a thing, the court will not spare him, and the court has the face of the court to maintain.
After the second promotion, Fu Yin asked the Zhou family to present evidence, and when they saw that they could not refute all the evidence presented by the plaintiff, they asked the most critical question, who they were going to take so much painstaking effort to marry Bai Rui.
The Zhou family's face suddenly showed a hesitant look, and Fu Yin was shocked and warned Zhou Hongshou that as a judge of Dali Temple, he knew what the consequences would be if he didn't report or even lie in court.
There was a sudden cry from the hall, which startled everyone, and together they followed the reputation, and it turned out that it was the little daughter-in-law of the Zhou family who finally cried with a nervous breakdown.
"I say! I say, I say both! It was Wang Chenan who instructed us to do it, and it was all his idea! The little daughter-in-law of the Zhou family screamed like crazy.
"Who is Wang Chenan? Let's go into details! Fu Yin immediately asked, he had to let them say it themselves.
"It's Wang Chen'an, the official department!" The little daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, who was in a state of collapse, shouted and said the name.
"Since he wants to marry Bai Rui, why doesn't he come to the door to ask for marriage himself? And you want to come forward? ”
"My father-in-law has made mistakes in official affairs before, and Wang Chen'an has taken the handle, as long as we remarry Bai Rui to him, he will keep it secret!"
"But you've lost contact with Bai Rui for many years, how do you know her exact whereabouts?"
"It's all Wang Chen'an said, it was he who told his father-in-law Bai Rui that he had reunited with the Bai Ko sisters and moved to Tianshuifang to live, as long as he found Gu Shizi's shop, he could find her."
"So your family made a big fuss in Gu Shizi's shop? And casually slander the reputation of a woman from a good family? ”
"We also have no choice, Wang Chenan said that Bai Rui must be sent to his house before the results of the examination are reported, so we went to Tianshuifang to look for people, and the second time we went, we were bombed out by Wuhou, so we had to find a flower to get people out. But I didn't expect it...... I didn't expect ...... Woowoowoooooooo......oo
The little daughter-in-law of the Zhou family finished telling all the truth she knew while crying, kneeling on the ground and crying so much that she couldn't stop.
Fu Yin threw down a green stick.
"Someone, go to the ministry to pass on Wang Chen'an, and ask him to come to the hall tomorrow morning to ask questions."
Yin, the capital of Yingtianfu, who is the third grade, can naturally summon the officials of the fifth grade, and only the officials who are equivalent to his official position have another set of procedures.
Two soap officers came in from outside, picked up the signing card and set off. End of chapter - >