Chapter 246: The Yamen Confrontation (2)
Fu Yunzhang turned his head to look at Li Ziyu and said, "Defendant Li Ziyu, do you agree with the accusations made against you by the plaintiff?" ”
Li Ziyu had no choice but to kneel on the bluestone on the right, with a straight waist and a round voice: "My lord, the grass people are not convinced!" The grass people do not recognize the plaintiff's unreasonable accusations! The plaintiff was completely framed, and the grass people did not instruct their subordinates to hit the old lady.
However, the grass people did see an old lady who had been damaged. Because of his critical condition, I was sent by carriage to Yongfu Hall for treatment. Your lordship may send a credible person to the Eternal Blessing Hall to verify it. Now I have a few words I would like to ask the plaintiff, and I would like your pardon. ”
"Accurate!"
"May I ask this aunt, where does your family usually buy food?" Li Ziyu asked in a calm voice.
Zhang Cuihua's big eyes purred a few times, and she felt that there was nothing difficult to answer this question, so she said, "Naturally, it's a grain store." ”
"Then where is your family used to buying grain?"
"Naturally, my family buys it at the people's grain store, and the grain there is much cheaper."
"Then where did you see with your own eyes that the coachman I commanded me to knock down your mother and try to kill someone?"
"At the door of the grain store, of course! I saw it with my own eyes" Zhang Cuihua didn't know that there was a huge loophole in her answer, so she didn't feel it back.
"My lord, I don't have anything more to ask." Li Ziyu felt that there was no need to ask anymore when she asked this, and Zhang Cuihua gave the answer herself.
Fu Yunzhang slapped the stunned wood and shouted: "Bold Zhang Cuihua!" He innocently framed good people, and despised the law. His heart can be punished! Come on, give me a heavy 20 board! ”
After speaking, he casually threw down an arrow. The official was required to carry it out immediately.
The two officials in the two classes immediately rushed out of the two officials, dragged Zhang Cuihua and walked out.
Zhang Cuihua was shocked, struggled vigorously, and couldn't help crying: "My lord, the grass people are wronged!" If you don't make decisions for the grass people, why do you still beat people? The grass people are not convinced! Even if the grass people die, they have to find out! ”
Fu Yunzhang motioned for the official to put Zhang Cuihua back, and asked lightly: "Do you feel very wronged for beating you on the 20th board?" ”
Zhang Cuihua wiped a handful of tears. trembling all over his body and said: "The grass people are wronged, the grass people are obviously complaining, why are you beating me?" The grass people are not convinced! ”
She was really scared this time. I knew that I would have to be beaten by the board, but she wouldn't come no matter how much money she gave.
Fu Yunzhang looked at Zhang Cuihua in the hall with disgust, thinking in his heart that this was the person arranged by Dong Yicheng? How could there be such a flawed confession? It seems that Dong Yicheng also wants to climb Ge Qiushi out by the way. Fortunately, he made himself shameless in public.
It's a pity. Things don't change according to the will of some people, and the outcome will always be unexpected.
At that moment, Fu Yunzhang looked at Zhang Cuihua and asked, "This official asked you, where is the people's grain store?" ”
Zhang Cuihua raised her head inexplicably and replied truthfully: "In the West Lane of Huating Street." ”
"So, where is the place where Li Ziyu's carriage hit people?"
"In, in" Zhang Cuihua is not a stupid person, and when she heard it, she knew that her previous answer was wrong. So, I don't dare to talk casually anymore. I secretly complained in my heart. That person didn't tell himself where he hit someone, and made a fool of himself in the lobby.
"This official is asking you, answer truthfully!"
"In, oh, I see, at the corner of West Lane! Yes, there it is! Zhang Cuihua didn't dare to say that it was the door of the grain store, so she made a fool of one, anyway, it should not be far from the grain store.
At this time, there were already a lot of people outside the hall to watch the excitement, and some couldn't help laughing after listening to Zhang Cuihua's answer. There was a lot of talk outside.
"Silence!"
Fu Yunzhang slapped the startled wood and shouted, and the discussion outside immediately stopped.
Zhang Cuihua knelt down in shock, feeling remorseful. I don't know if what I said this time is right, but I hope I am right, and the province will play the board. How did you know that the man said something very simple, but it was so troublesome.
Fu Yunzhang looked at Zhang Cuihua in the hall and said in a deep voice: "This official tells you what you are doing wrong." Li Ziyu's carriage is on Xingtan Road in East Lane, and it is completely different from the intersection of West Lane Street you said, how could it hit your mother?
Besides, your mother has come to the town to buy food. On Xingtan Road in East Lane, the shops along the street are not only shops selling pen, ink, paper and inkstones, but also silk and satin shops and shoe shops.
Your mouth is full of gibberish, full of loopholes, and you keep saying that you are wronged? How can you be so despised by the law that you do not punish you enough to deter villains like you, and how can you be strict with the seriousness of the law without punishing you? Come on, give me a heavy 20 board! Drag it out! ”
Zhang Cuihua was dragged out by the ghost crying wolf, and after a while, there was a heavy sound of hitting the board and Zhang Cuihua's miserable scream.
At this time, there was silence inside and outside the hall.
No one in the crowd was silent, and they were all frightened by this scene. Some of the cowards have already secretly run home.
Li Ziyu had already stood up from the bluestone slab when Zhang Cuihua was beaten on the board. She wasn't used to kneeling at every turn, and today she had to kneel out of helplessness.
When Zhang Cuihua, who was beaten by the board, was dragged to the hall, although there was no blood on her body through cotton clothes. But her face was pale, and her lips were bitten bloodied.
She fell limply on the plaintiff's bluestone, lying on the ground with her hair scattered, crying profusely.
Zhang Cuihua already hated the person who made her sue to death, and she also hated that she had hit her mother-in-law for ten taels of silver, and she was also hit by 20 boards for this.
I don't know what will happen to my husband when he finds out, don't look at the weekdays who are silent, but he is very filial to his mother-in-law.
At this time, a servant walked in from outside the hall and said, "My lord, the little one has gone to Yongfu Hall to check, and there is indeed an old lady sent by Li Ziyu who is being treated." Qian Kaicheng testified that the old lady's life was in danger at that time, and if it hadn't been delivered in time, maybe the old lady's life would have been in danger. This is Qian Kaicheng's testimony! ”
The official said and handed over a confession, and the clerk behind the bookcase took the confession and handed it to Fu Yunzhang.
Fu Yunzhang took Qian Kaicheng's confession and looked at it carefully, and then slapped the shocked wood with a "snap", his eyes scanned the audience majestically, and said loudly:
"Now I pronounce my sentence! Zhang Cuihua wrongfully framed the good people for no reason, and the circumstances were vile, and now she has been beaten on the 20th board as a punishment! Li Ziyu was innocently framed, but she repaid her grievances with virtue and treated the old lady in time, which should be praised loudly! The yamen will reward Li Ziyu with ten taels of silver in the name of the county ya. Zhang Cuihua! Li Ziyu! Can you two be convinced of such a verdict? ”
"Your Excellency is wise! Li Ziyu, a grass citizen, has no objections and obeys the adult's verdict! Li Ziyu stood at the foot of the hall, saluted Fu Yunzhang, and replied.
Zhang Cuihua struggled to stand up, just about to open her mouth. But I heard a laughing voice coming from the back hall.
"Slow, slow, sir, Zhang Cuihua seems to have something to say."
With the words, a middle-aged man with a square face and a short and fat figure turned out from the inner hall. He always had a smile on his face, and a kind eyebrow. If it weren't for the inexplicable glint of fox eyes under the eyebrows of the lying silkworm, I am afraid that I would have thought that this was a kind elder.
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