Yamen.

The eldest son sentenced by Hangcheng disappeared, and the case reported by Lord Qian himself, the prefect Ma Li took over the case.

"The person in the hall is Wang Laohu?" Although Ma Lishang was familiar with Wang Laohu, he still asked according to the procedure.

"Master Ma, it is my Wang Laohu, I just rushed back from the field yesterday, and I never thought that such a thing would happen."

Lord Qian sat in a seat under the prefect's hall, even if he didn't hear it, but he didn't avoid it, this was his son-in-law, and he was going to be there.

The outside of the hall is also full of people, and today's trial is the case of the disappearance of the son of the general judge in Hangzhou, and the plaintiffs and defendants in the case are all well-known figures in Hangzhou.

In addition to ordinary people, Qian Liangyu's wife and concubine of Qian Mansion and Wang Laohu's wife and concubine are also outside the hall.

"Wang Laohu, Qian Liangyu, the son of Hangcheng Tongju, disappeared for no reason the night before yesterday, and someone saw that it was your people who took him away in the end, do you have anything to say?" Ma Lishang asked.

"It does." Wang Laohu did not hide it.

Qian Kebai knew that he couldn't deny it, so many people watched, how could he deny it.

"Wang Laohu, you tell this matter one by one." Ma Da is humane.

"Master Ma, Mr. Qian's style of acting, I think you also know that when he meets a slightly beautiful woman on weekdays, he has to go and sniff a few times. On the day of the accident, I had just returned from the field and brought back a young girl, and I was afraid that my ladies would misunderstand, so I placed her in the inn first. Unexpectedly, that night, Mr. Qian actually led someone to rob him. I was not at the scene at the time, and my subordinates probably didn't know Qian Gongzi, so they hit him by mistake. Wang Laohu said.

"Mistakenly beaten, this is called a mistakenly beaten, you also let my Yu'er's hand be cut off, how do you say this?" Qian Kebai looked a little excited.

Master Ma hurriedly got up and said, "Lord Qian, Lord Qian, don't be impatient, you sit down first." ”

Qian Kebai had to sit down again.

"Witnesses." Ma Da is humane.

I saw a man come to the hall, and this man was the shopkeeper of the inn.

"Who's coming down from the hall?" Master Ma asked.

"I'm the shopkeeper of the Yue Lei Inn."

"You know the people in the church." Master Ma asked him.

"Acquaintance." The shopkeeper said, "The shopkeeper of Hangzhou City Bian Yifang, known as the king of the golden sage, the king of the tiger king." ”

"The woman who was new to your store the night before yesterday, was it brought by Wang Laohu?"

"I don't know about this, it was a man who brought him to the store that day, and he claimed to be Wang Laohu's entourage."

"That person is my confidant, named Wang Biao, and I ordered him to enter the shop for that girl." Wang Laohu said.

"Tell me about that night." Master Ma said to the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper recounted the events of that night.

Master Ma listened, nodded, and said, "What you said is basically the same as what Wang Laohu said.

Wang Laohu was not at the scene. ”

Master Ma asked the shopkeeper again, "What happened later?" ”

"Later, Wang Laohu's people and Qian Gongzi went out of the inn together." The shopkeeper replied.

"Later, my people saved the girl, Mr. Qian should go back to the house, what's the matter, hasn't he returned to the house yet?" Wang Laohu also said.

"Knowingly asked." Qian Ke glanced at Wang Laohu in vain.

The shopkeeper withdrew.

"Mr. Qian didn't come back overnight, and I didn't know that Mr. Qian had an accident until someone sent a box at noon the next day." Ma Da is humane.

"No wonder Lord Qian is in such a hurry and leads someone to search my house, I don't blame him." Wang Laohu said.

"Bring the box to the court." This box serves as an important piece of evidence.

"It's this box that sent the news of Mr. Qian. Wang Laohu, do you recognize this? ”

"Master Ma, I've never seen this box before."

"There's a letter in it, and the contents of the letter are signed." Master Ma held up a bloodstained letter.

"Get a pen." Wang Laohu said.

Although Master Ma didn't know why Wang Laohu asked people to take pens, he still asked people to take pens and paper. Wang Laohu wrote a few big characters on the paper and presented them to Master Ma.

Master Ma looked at the note and the blood book, as if he had an understanding.

It would be too hasty to say that he did it based on the signature of a letter. Master Ma, don't you say? ”

"The handwriting in the note written by Wang Laohu just now is obviously different from the one in the blood book." Ma Da is humane.

"What does this mean?" Qian Kebai said, "This blood book can be done by someone else, and he doesn't need to write it himself." ”

Indeed, as he said, this letter can be written by someone else, and it is completely unrealistic to find out whether the person who wrote the letter wants to bring all the people in the king's tiger mansion to the yali.

"In this case, the last person who saw Qian Gongzi was with Wang Laohu, and Wang Laohu was completely inseparable. The class will be temporarily closed and will be reconvened at a later date. ”

Wang Laohu's Mansion.

Cheng Cheng and Qingqing were in the hall, discussing this matter.

"Sister, did you say that this matter was done by the father-in-law?"

Cheng Cheng paced over in the hall and asked Wang Biao beside him: "Wang Biao, you tell the truth, did this matter be done by the son?" ”

Wang Biao said: "Second lady, Mr. Qian was arrested by order of Mr. Qian. ”

Wang Qingqing was stunned: "What, it was really done by Xianggong, sister, how should this matter be handled?" ”

"I didn't expect what Xianggong said that day to be true." Cheng Chengdao.

"Second lady, fifth lady, Childe asked me to tell Mrs., don't worry about him, please do your own thing with peace of mind." Wang Biao said.

"I also believe in Xianggong, but this time it is Mingli and Qian Kebai, he is an official of the court, once he loses, ......." Cheng Cheng said worriedly.

Once you lose,

The chance of a comeback is gone. Maybe there is also the danger of imprisonment, the danger of life.

Qingqing said: "On weekdays, Master Ma has a good relationship with the Prime Minister, why don't we go and meet Master Ma and ask him to intercede." ”

"We women won't understand this matter." Cheng Cheng said that although the relationship between Master Ma and Wang Laohu is a brother-in-law relationship, it is difficult to say whether he will come to help when he is really in trouble, "Wang Biao, prepare a sedan chair." ”

Wang Biao said: "Second lady, are you going to see Master Ma?" ”

Cheng Cheng had never seen Wang Biao so verbose, so he said, "Wang Biao, when did you become so good at asking questions?" ”

"If the second lady is going to see Madame, I won't prepare it for Madame."

"This is what your son-in-law ordered?"

"Yes, Second Madame."

It turned out that Wang Laohu had already arranged some things before leaving. Cheng Cheng said: "I don't want to see Master Ma, it's okay, you have to tell me honestly the ins and outs of this matter." ”

"That's all I know." Wang Biao said.

"Why haven't I seen the Chang brothers in the past few days?" Cheng Cheng asked.

Although Chang Yuchun and others are officials in the court and are often in the house, but when they returned to Hangzhou City this time, they did not come to the house again, which inevitably made Bian Chengcheng strange.

"After coming back this time, I heard that the three Chang Yuchun brothers have all been promoted." Wang Biao said.

Could it be that after being promoted, he is busier than usual, and he is no longer a person in Wang Laohu's mansion? Cheng Cheng thought about something different. "What about Feng Sheng? What's he doing? "Although Feng Sheng is also a member of the Chang brothers, he is not a general, he should also be in the mansion, since I saw him yesterday, I haven't met him today.

"Childe has something for him to do."

"What's the matter?" Cheng Cheng asked.

"I really don't know."

"Wang Biao, what did my sister ask you? You always say you don't know, is there anything you can't tell us. Wang Qingqing said hurriedly.

"Sister, Wang Biao, he really doesn't know." Cheng Cheng thought that when Feng Sheng came back, he would ask him well, maybe he knew something that others didn't know.

"Wang Biao, who is the woman you arranged in the inn? Who is she from Childe? Cheng Cheng suddenly asked Wang Biao about it.

"I don't know. Second lady, wouldn't it be better for you to ask Gongzi in person. From Wang Biao's answer, she knew that he knew and that he was deliberately concealing something.

Her sensitive nerves told her that this woman was Wang Laohu's woman.

"You take me to this woman." Cheng Chengdao.

"Second lady, this matter, I can't take you without the consent of the son."

"Is this also what your son-in-law confessed?"

"Yes. Childe said that he would make this matter clear to you. ”

Cheng Cheng seems to have a bottom in his heart.