Three days later, in the lobby of the Songjiang Prefect's Yamen, the Shen family's case officially opened.

In the court, it was the Qin Cha from the capital who was the main judge, and the Jiangsu Xuezheng and Songjiang Acting Governors were the jury trials. Because Zhao Xianzhong, the former prefect of Songjiang, "framed" the Shen family's "Tongwai" people and physical evidence, the Shen family was less suspected of "Tongwei", but became the bitter master, and the three incumbent officials Shen Yuan, Shen Li, and Shen Jin did not need to evade, so they were able to get a seat in the hall to listen to the case.

Even if it is Jiangsu Xuezheng, there is no objection to the Shen family's uncle and nephew observing. Although he has an in-law with the He family, he also has an old relationship with the Shen family, and he still has a friendship with Shen Li in the same year. In the case of the He family's wrongdoing, he was willing to help the He family, but he had no intention of fighting with the Shen family.

Because it was a public trial, there were people in the hall watching. It's good to say that it is "common people", but it is not ordinary people. In addition to the fact that there are people in all the houses of the Shen family, the rest are the heads of all ethnic groups and surnames in Songjiang. With such a major event that affects the future pattern of Songjiang, how many people can wait for news at home?

You know, in today's case, in addition to the grievances between the Shen He family, there is also a Zhang family? To say that when the He family calculated the Shen family before, there was no shortage of other families who watched and fell into the well and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity. The previous greedy heart was aimed at the Shen family, but now it is aimed at the Shen family and the Zhang family. As for the Lu family, which is of the same origin as the Zhang family, let alone protecting the Zhang family, if you can't say that you have to accept the revenge of the Shen family, then don't blame others for drinking soup with you.

He Wuye helped Mrs. He to stand in the crowd, looking at the "San Shen" sitting in the hall, his eyes couldn't help but be desperate, and he couldn't stand steadily. Mrs. He was an old man, holding a rosary in her hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Calm, what are you afraid of?" ”

I'm not afraid of losing, I'm afraid of what will happen after losing, if the Shen family can take care of the in-laws and family affection, she has nothing to say; If the Shen family wants to use this to destroy the He family, then she can't let her descendants be trampled on. The relationship between Qin Cha and the Shen family is in the past, and the incumbent officials of the Shen family have come back one after another to support the Shen family, and this lawsuit is unfair to the He family.

Master Lu was relieved not to go down to the Zhang family, and he was also in the crowd. Seeing the reaction of Mrs. He's mother and son, Master Lu couldn't help but think about it more. You must know that the crime of Second Master He, in addition to "framing", there is also the crime of killing people and killing people, the murderer dies, Mrs. He is not worried? Didn't He Jiamo have anything else to rely on?

Old Man Lu was quite knowledgeable, and saw that Mrs. He's eyes were mostly on the chief judge Wang Shouren, so he thought about it a little and found the key. This lawsuit is fought, no matter what the result is, if the He family is willing to admit it, they will admit it, if they refuse to admit it, the relationship between Qin Cha and the Shen family will become the key to the He family's overturning of the case.

However, when he saw the "Three Shens" sitting in the hall, Master Lu's heart was put back again. Where Mrs. He can think of it, the Shen family can't think of? The teacher-student relationship between Wang Shouren and Shen Rui is not a secret, will the Shen family let this become a handle? Maybe the Shen family's energy in the capital is even greater than imagined, otherwise how could they have chosen such a Qin messenger?

Although Master Lu was worried about the Zhang family, he was looking forward to the Shen family winning. The eldest husband has no regrets, since he stood in the Shen family's team before, Master Lu has no intention of repeating.

Shen Rui and Shen Quan were also in the hall, and Shen Quan whispered to Shen Rui, "What does the patriarch think?" If you pretend to be sick and pretend to be the end, if you come, why do you want to die or not? ”

Shen Rui followed Shen Quan's hope, not far away Shen Hai was on crutches, his body was shaky, looking extremely weak, but his face was cold and cold, faintly with a little shame.

Yes, what if you are the patriarch on weekdays? Above the public court, there is the seat of the clan brother and nephew, but there is no position of Shen Hai, the patriarch. Even if he is famous, has a false title, and does not kneel when he sees officials on weekdays, it is only here, and he is no different from other squires.

Three days before the trial began, Shen Hai sent people to invite Shen Yuan and Shen Li several times, but both of them made excuses to push and did not come to the door. Although he didn't tear his face directly, now all the heads of the house know that the sect wants to reconcile with the He family, and the third room has no reaction, but the Guo family in the fifth room has spoken out, and would rather be expelled than agree to reconcile with the He family.

Even if there is a patriarch in the clan, can you force the fifth room to bow down? They can remove Shen Ling from the clan, but can they try to remove the five rooms? There is a promising Shen Ying in the fifth room, which the sect is unwilling to offend, even if the sect is ruthless and wants to offend, the second room, the fourth room and Shen Li, who are good friends with the fifth room, will not let the sect decide.

There are five rooms in front of him, and the second master of the third room Yong finally spoke, and he wants to reclassify his son Shen Ling into the family tree, but because the lawsuit is in front of him, there is no follow-up to what the result is.

Shen Hai knew that his patriarch had become a big joke, but he still came. He didn't know where Shen Li and the others were going to go, so he really didn't worry about waiting for the result of the trial at home.

Above the public court, Wang Shouren took a picture of the shocking wood, and the two classes of officials shouted "majesty" together.

The whispering under the court immediately went out, and the atmosphere became tense.

The knife and pencil officer of the torture room has already taken the pen and is observing the record.

Even if everyone now knows that the third son of the Shen family was framed, the case still started from the "case of the third son of the Shen family". The three defendants went to court, Shen Jun and Shen Qi were helped up to the court wearing pickaxes, and Shen Ling's body was carried up.

The plaintiff was the Songjiang prefect's yamen, and the former prefect Zhao Xianzhong then went to court.

However, in the tenth month, Zhao Xianzhong was more than ten years old, and he was no longer in the past high-spirited, and his originally slightly rich body shape had also lost weight, and he looked very down.

The evidence of Shen Jun's "communication with the Japanese" is a copy of the confession of the first scholar to wash ink, the evidence of Shen Qi's "communication with the Japanese" is a confession of the first in-law Zheng Liu, and the evidence of Shen Ling's "communication with the Japanese" is a copy of Shen Ling's confession. Other than that, there is no circumstantial evidence. The first two witnesses "died accidentally" after the first

Not to mention how the people in the hall reacted, even the scholars in the hall also felt that this case was ridiculous. On the basis of two such confessions, Zhao Xianzhong tortured the three sons of the Shen family, obviously in order to shirk the responsibility for the robbery of Songjiang Mansion and to carry out the charges of the three sons of the Shen family.

As a scholar and a juror, he is qualified and obliged to speak up for the scholars. After Wang Shouren asked someone to give a preliminary introduction to the case, the Xuezheng University proposed to examine the injuries of the three sons of the Shen family and investigate the torture of Zhao Xianzhong. The Ming Dynasty was ruled by literati, and **** scholars were a big crime. If the crime of the three sons of the Shen family is implemented, they can be tortured if they are deprived of their fame, otherwise it will be a violation of the law.

Wang Shouren passed on the prestige old doctor of Songjiang Mansion and the servant to go to court, Shen Jun and Shen Qi's injuries were in the open, one broke his leg and the other broke his hand, and he inspected it in court; As for Shen Ling, the deceased was the greatest, and there was no need to be naked in public, so she was taken to the back hall for inspection.

After examining these two in the hall, the broken leg is still good, and there is still a good chance to raise it for three or five months; But the severed hand is broken by the veins and veins, and there is no hope of healing. By the time the old doctor said the diagnosis, many people in the hall had already known about it, but there were few surprises. Only Master Xuezheng glanced at the mother and son of the fifth master in the hall, and his face was a little ugly.

Although before coming to Songjiang, Master Xuezheng met with He Wuye, and originally intended to protect the now weak He family in the Shen He dispute, but it was without violating conscience and morality. Shen Jun and Shen Qi are both lifters, and further they are Jinshi, even if they are generally educated, Chun Qi is hopeless and qualified to be an official directly, provided that he is fully healthy. Broken hands and feet, and disabled bodies, not only the road to the imperial examination is broken, but the future of the donor is also ruined.

Regardless of whether this result was presided over by Zhao Xianzhong or by the second master of He, both of them committed the taboo of Shilin.

Just as the scholar was pondering, the work in the back hall was also completed, and he returned to the hall, looking at the hall and the hall, with a hesitation on his face.

Shen Rui stood in the crowd and sighed. Shen Quan's face flushed, and he looked at Zhao Xianzhong in the hall with more anger in his eyes.

Zhao Xianzhong looked at the appearance of the pretend, and looked at the "three shens" who were listening in the hall with a little panic. Whether it was the older Shen Yuan, Shen Li, or the young Shen Jin, they all had gloomy faces, but they were silent, and they didn't mean to stop them from replying.

Zhao Xianzhong closed his eyes, with a little regret and despair.

Wang Shouren said to him: "What is the result of the inspection, come quickly?" ”

Although there were rumors before, it was only rumors, but now that I personally checked the results, I couldn't help but worry that the Shen family would be angry, and said with a little caution: "The deceased has thirty-six wounds on his body, eighteen on his back, five on his legs, four ribs, four arms, one on his neck, one under his abdomen, and two places on his hands....... ”

Many people in the hall have not yet reacted to what the so-called "corrupt punishment" is all about. After all, there was no corrupt punishment in the common torture methods of the Ming Dynasty.

The scholar was already angry, and couldn't help but shoot the case, and shouted angrily at Zhao Xianzhong: "The vertical son is rampant, and he is not worthy of being a disciple of a saint!" ”

The people in the hall finally reacted, what kind of punishment is "rotten punishment", and they can't help but be in an uproar.

Shen Hai stood in the crowd, closed his eyes and shook his head, only to feel that the face of the Shen clan inside and outside was gone. Zhao Xianzhong's abuse of scholars will certainly leave a bad reputation, can the Shen family have a good reputation? Lose both.

Zhao Xianzhong knew that he couldn't avoid this crime, but he didn't dare to admit it. In this way, not only will he offend the entire Shilin, but I am afraid that his descendants will be implicated. He hurriedly knelt down and said: "The sinner is wronged, the sinner is indeed lucky, and he allows people to falsely accuse the third son of the Shen family, wanting to reduce the responsibility of the robbery of the easy river, but if it is said that the sinner deliberately tortures the third son of the **** Shen family, the sinner does not dare to admit it." The sinner was deceived by Yan Baowen, and in order to obtain the confession of the third son of the Shen family, he agreed to the torture, but the sinner did not know how to torture him. It wasn't until Shen Ling hanged herself that the sinner knew the inside story and wanted to investigate the matter, but he was fooled by Yan Baowen, and he only thought it was the enemy of the Shen family seeking revenge. It was also when the sinner felt that it was inappropriate that he asked someone to preserve Shen Ling's remains to prevent the deceased from being wronged. ”

In the hall, the eyes of the scholars turned to Mrs. He's mother and son, and there was almost fire in their eyes. Killing people is not enough, cutting off people's limbs and bad people's future is not counted, and even the "rotten punishment" has come out? If it is really the He family acting behind the scenes, it is not worthy of being a scholar.

In the hall, the hearts of Mrs. He and Fifth Master He sank.

(End of chapter)