Chapter 202: Guilt Deserves
Xue Rui said that he was going to inquire about the trial of the Taiheng Chamber of Commerce, and that night, a messenger from Ya'a came to inform her that she was going to go to court tomorrow to pass the trial, and Yu Shu agreed.
Yu Xiaoxiu and Jing Chen are very concerned about this case, the former is afraid that Bi Qing and Qiu Biao will be released again, and the latter wants to accompany Yu Shu to the court to hear the trial.
"I'll just go, listen to Xue Shao, Bi Qing Qiu Biao and they pushed the case of the hijacking of the ship to the person who rescued the boat halfway, isn't that what you are talking about, more is better than less, you had better not show up before this case is over."
Yu Shu dispelled the idea of being accompanied by Jing Chen, and sighed with Yu Xiaoxiu to recall the situation when he was forced to jump into the river to protect himself on the boat, and hated the two of them because of their itchy teeth, and only thought that they would be executed tomorrow to relieve their hatred.
After dinner, they went back to their rooms to rest, Yu Shu couldn't sleep because he was excited to go to court tomorrow, so he simply got up and did the math after lying down for a while.
In the past few days of preparing for the exam, the algorithm for finding Huang Shuangshi was put aside by her as soon as she had an eyebrow, and she picked it up tonight to continue researching, and even found a very strange phenomenon:
"It's strange, how can it be counted like this, that stone should be next to me, the one that was obviously lost."
Yu Shu touched his chin and thought about it, but he could only say that he had miscalculated the steps again, this method would not work, and he had to find another way out.
Secretly said that it was a pity, and put aside most of the results, Yu Shu drew the paper again, listed all the rational numbers about the Yellow Frost Stone again, and then applied the eight life and death magic formulas one by one, looking for a suitable formula to reverse it.
Yu Shu slept in the middle of the night last night, and woke up the next day without the rooster crowing, he was purely too excited to sleep, so he packed up and waited for the yamen to call someone.
It didn't take long for an official messenger to come to the door, and the public court for the trial of the case was set up in the yamen in the south of the city, but it was not far away, and it took less than half an hour to reach the place.
"Lord Qiyu, Yiyang people card, Yu Shu bring it!"
Yu Shu was still thinking about whether Xue Rui would come today, and as soon as he walked to the door of the lobby, he looked inside, only to see that in the background of Haisheng Mingyue behind the public case, there was a Beijing official wearing a black veil sitting under it, and there was a wooden case on the side, and Xue Rui was wearing a vermilion official uniform sitting behind him.
It wasn't the first time Yu Shu had seen him dressed in official clothes, but when he looked back, he felt that when he was wearing this clothes, he was like a different person, meticulous and serious, quite majestic.
Seeing him present, Yu Shu felt a little more at ease, presumably there was no accident in this case, it was decided.
Xue Rui saw Yu Shu being brought up, nodded slightly to her without a trace, turned his face and said to the officials behind the public case:
"Lord Xu, it is this person who escaped by luck when the merchant ship of the Taiheng Chamber of Commerce entered Beijing in July was robbed, and witnessed the murder of Bi Qiu and the others in conspiring with the water bandits."
Only then did Yu Shu turn his gaze on the few people who were kneeling on the ground in prison clothes and wearing a cloak, and these people were also turning their heads to look at her, it was not difficult to recognize the bearded Qiu Biao, and the other long-faced man who was staring at her was undoubtedly Bi Qing.
They had obviously been tortured in prison, all of them had wounds on their faces, and the shackles on their hands and feet were bloody, but they were starved and yellow and thin after being locked up for a few days.
After many days, seeing this old feud in such a shape, Yu Shu was only happy, not afraid of Bi Qing Qiu Biao's evil eyes, sneering:
"Boss Bi, I didn't expect it, I jumped into the river from the boat that night to escape, ate and drank in the woods, ate and drank dew, and ate sparrow meat for half a month, but I still survived."
Bi Qing thought that he still had a slight desire to live, but he did not sneer at him under Yu Shu's anger, and bit his mouth and endured it.
"Smack!"
"Leaning down, it's Yiyang Yushu?"
Hearing the startling sound, Yu Shu stepped forward and bowed down, making a small gesture: "Lord Hui, it is below." โ
"Do you recognize the kneeling people?"
"I recognize them when they turn to ashes," Yu Shu put on a classic line, stretched out his hand to point at Bi Qing Qiu Biao, and raised his head to make a look of indignation:
"It's these two people who secretly hurt the money, in order to embezzle commercial goods, colluded with bandits to kill the lives of the travelers on the entire ship! They were afraid that I would break into their evil deeds, so they not only led people to sneak into my house at night in an attempt to harm me, but also bought murder to kill me! โ
Yu Shu's face flushed, and he arched his hand at Xue Rui, and said gratefully:
"Thanks to Lord Xue's discernment, he arrested these wicked people on the spot, otherwise I would have died sooner or later, and they would have been at large."
Xue Rui watched Yu Shu perform there, almost couldn't help laughing, suppressed the corners of his mouth, nodded, and said to Master Xu:
"The Taiheng Chamber of Commerce has thoroughly investigated Bi Qing, and the accounts have just been seen by Lord Xu, and the accomplices have all confessed, proving that the case of the robbery of the ship in July, and the other business robbery case that occurred in the southwest three years ago, were all led by Bi Qiu and the others, and now the human and material evidence are there, please convict Lord Xu."
Before Yu Shulai, the trial of this case was almost the same, and the confessions had been collected before the opening of the court, and she came to go through the motions, in addition to her, there were also two stewards of the Taehyung Chamber of Commerce who were sent by the owner to provide physical evidence and wait for interrogation. The reason why Xue Rui will listen to the hall here is because there is a clear article in the law that if the crime should be sentenced to death, it must have the approval of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, and the officials of the two ministries must be present, so in this case, Xue Rui has made a lot of efforts to apply for the approval of the above before the trial.
"Smack!"
"Bi Qing, Qiu Biao, Xu Liu, Friday and others in Yiyang County, Tangxia, because they robbed merchant ships in the Shangjiang section of the gorge in Kaifeng County in July, guarded and stole themselves, killed people, took profits and sought wealth, killed 26 lives, and accounted for tens of thousands of wealth, and it was found that they were extremely evil crimes, so this official ordered that you and other family property be stripped of their property, and sentenced Bi Qing, Qiu Biao, Xu Liu, and Friday to death to death, and on the third day of the lunar month, beheaded the public, and executed at noon!"
"Smack!"
"Come on, drag it down and put it on death row!"
Master Xu, who was sitting in the hall, threw the fire sign loudly, Bi Qiu and a few people knew that the catastrophe was inevitable, and some of them immediately cried wolf and howled, begging for mercy loudly, Qiu Biao was face like ashes and looked at Bi Qing, seeing that the general trend had gone, Fang Lu was crazy, panting and turning to face Yu Shu unprepared, thinking that half of his life savings, and his hard work was planted in the hands of such a nobody, he regretted and hated, his eyes were red, and the heavy shackles in his hands were raised and smashed on top of her head-
"I'm going to pull you to count when I die!"
The officials on both sides were not in a hurry, but they were shocked when they saw him pounce on Yu Shu Xue Rui, and before he had time to think about it, he grabbed the jade paperweight on the case and was about to throw it towards Bi Qing's hand, trying to stop it, but someone moved faster than him-
"Huh!"
Yu Shu went out this morning to calculate a hexagram, he had already been on guard, he kept staring at Qiu Biao Bi Qing, and when he saw Bi Qing's attack, his eyes showed ruthlessness, and when he raised his hand to knock it, he raised a thick-soled hard boot and kicked it hard at the other party's chest and abdomen, leaving no spare strength!
"Poof!"
Bi Qing endured hardships in prison for a few days, how could she work every day and eat so much, she kicked her, snorted, fell backwards to the ground, her head slammed down, a mouthful of blood gushed out of her mouth, rolled her eyes, and fainted.
Everyone present was dumbfounded when they saw this scene, including Xue Rui, who would have thought that a witness would kick the prisoner in the public hall hanging high in the mirror and vomit blood, after a while, Xue Rui came back to his senses first and said sharply:
"Don't drag the prisoner down yet!"
Yu Shu lightly stomped on her numb legs and lowered her head, Qiu Biao, who was looking at her dumbfounded a few steps away, sneered slightly, and immediately made the latter shudder, looking at Bi Qing, who was dragged down by his arm, his legs were weak and he was pulled down by the officials, without any struggle at all.
Xue Rui happened to see Yu Shu's face, his eyes flashed, Fang Zhilu said that she had been prepared for a long time, and she was afraid that the hard work just now was that she had been accumulating momentum for a long time, so she didn't hide and fight back when she saw the danger, he was angry and happy for her thief, he didn't make an expression on his face, he gently put the paperweight in his hand back on the table, smoothed his cuffs, and said to Lord Xu:
"Lord Xu has made a clear decision, this official will go back to Dali Temple to record the case, please send someone to Kaifeng Mansion to inform you."
"Lord Xue, don't worry, the lower officials will handle it properly."
Xue Rui took a confession copied by his master, left with two official errands, and when he passed by Yu Shu, he paused and said in a low voice:
"I'll settle accounts with you afterwards."
Yu Shu was immersed in the pleasure of venting his anger, this sentence came from the tip of his ear, he trembled his eyebrows, turned his head inexplicably, looked at Xue Rui who strode away with people, and wondered:
What kind of account?
Among the sparse spectators outside the yamen, there was a small man who saw that the case was settled, turned around and trotted away, stopped at the corner of the street, climbed a carriage, and whispered by the window:
"Second master, the case is over, and the person has been sentenced to death."
The man in the carriage seemed to let out a long breath:
ฬWell, let's go."
In any case, the robbery case was over that day, Bi Qing Qiu Biao deserved it, Yu Shu went home happily, and told Jingchen the good news as soon as he opened the door.
"Beheaded on the third day of the lunar month, it's just the day, I don't need an exam that day to watch." Yu Shu pulled Jingchen's sleeve into his room, and just as there was a ready-made pen and ink on the table, he picked up the pen and wrote "the third day of the lunar month" on the paper, and drew it again.
Jingchen looked at the circle, thought for a while, and asked, "Can I go?" โ
Yu Shu tilted his head: "You also want to see murder, aren't you afraid of seeing blood lose your head?" โ
Jingchen asked rhetorically: "Then aren't you afraid?" โ
Yu Shu put away his smile and said in a deep voice: "Of course I'm afraid, but no matter how terrible it is, it's no more terrible than the bloody scene we saw when we escaped at that time, but I want to see with my own eyes how they died." โ
So that she can firmly remember the painful lesson of that ship's distress, and not be gullible to people's hearts.
She turned her head and asked Jingchen, "Do you also want to see how these two wicked people repay each other?" โ
Jingchen shook his head and said honestly, "I just want to be a companion with you." "If she's scared, there's at least someone around.
Yu Shu blinked his eyes and smiled knowingly: "Okay, then let's go together, when the time comes, let's find a high place to watch the execution, I heard that there are many people who watch the head killing." โ
"Hmm." Clear