Shen Xi has never admitted her identity in front of Miss Li Er, so even if Miss Li Er has known from the outside world, she still has to pretend not to know, but she is very respectful to Shen Xi and his wife, which is very different from her previous attitude towards "Zhao Painter", and even Xie Yun'er feels that this Miss Li family treats Shen Xi as an official, not a painter.

"The grace of dripping water does not forget to repay the spring, the little woman sent a thin gift, I hope that Zhao painter will not dislike it, and the matter of Zhao painter will be our Li family's business in the future."

Miss Li Er's tone was very polite, and she looked like she regarded Shen Xi as "her own person".

Shen Xi shook his head with a smile and said, "Miss Li sent a generous gift, and I thanked her in advance, but I may not live in the ......capital in the future."

Miss Li Er asked in surprise, "Painter Zhao is going to travel far away?" ”

Shen Xi is now working in the Hanlin Academy, and he has no plans to travel far for the time being, but he still nodded when he heard the words, but he actually didn't want to have too much contact with the Li family.

Seeing Shen Xi nodding, Miss Li Er somewhat understood what people meant, this was obviously because she didn't want to get too close to Shangjia's family, and if she said more, she would use her hot face to stick to other people's cold butts, she was very sensible, and no longer mentioned how familiar she was with Shen Xi.

After a while, Miss Li Er got up to say goodbye and left with her servants. Xie Yun'er had a smile on her face: "Xianggong does this, it doesn't seem to be a way of hospitality." ”

Shen Xi shook his head and said, "Lady, we are now a family of eunuchs, and if we get too close to the Li family, it will inevitably attract gossip." In the past, when you visited those official eunuchs for the sake of the Xie family, you probably received a lot of cold reception, right? ”

Xie Yun'er glanced at Shen Xi, but when she turned her head sideways, she pursed her lips and smiled: "At that time, the concubine hated the official who put the score so much, but now I am married to such a father-in-law." ”

Xie Yun'er was in a much better mood, at this time she was immersed in ****, her brain was a little bad, and she couldn't tolerate anything else except her husband.

Back in the small courtyard, Lin Dai asked Shen Xi and Xie Yun'er where they went to no avail, sullen, and Shen Xi began to worry about the noon gate two days later, not that he was worried that the matter would eventually implicate him, but that he would witness a famous unjust case in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but with his identity and status, he could not influence the outcome of the case.

Two days passed in a flash, and before dawn this day, Shen Xi packed up, put on his court clothes and went to the palace at noon.

Among the new science and technology scholars, the only people who were ordered to go were Shen Xi, Lun Wenxu and Sun Xu, among which Shen Xi and Lun Wenxu worked in the Hanlin Academy, and they didn't look up on weekdays, but Shen Xi just nodded and smiled when they met this time, looking like they didn't care about themselves.

If you want to say that Shen Xi can see it, Lun Wenxu can see it even more openly, because Lun Wenxu himself is a famous Confucian, even if he has had a relationship with Cheng Minzheng before, he doesn't have to worry about others dragging him into troubled waters.

Only Sun Xu's face was heavy, he was wild and uninhibited, he had offended many people before, and others had poured dirty water on him not once or twice, if he was so slanderous before, he couldn't take it seriously, but this time it involved his life, so he couldn't help but tremble.

“…… I don't think there should be anything to do with the three of me. In the end, it was Sun Xu, who was the most bottomless in his heart, "I don't believe it, can the three of me be involved in the three of them if the surname bites again?" If it was really involved, the Zhenfu Division would have already come to the door to get people, so why wait until noon today to call the three of me to come? Alas! Is it to blame or why did you make that policy in the first place......"

Shen Xi smiled and asked, "Listening to Brother Sun's meaning, if I had known that there was today, even if I knew the answer to that question, I would have avoided answering it, right?" ”

Sun Xu was silent for a moment, not committal, but it seemed that he really had such a plan.

Shen Xi expected, or people in these years have the idea of moderation, and would rather be plain than cause trouble, and let Shen Xi choose, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains and biasing towards the tigers, even if he knows that it will cause endless trouble, he still has to answer the question of that policy, because this is related to the future of the imperial examination...... Where did you come from without risking the winner?

Reincarnated as a human being, Shen Xi actually has an obsession with his career, which is not something that can be understood by a sour Confucian student who is full of feudal thoughts.

Before Shen Xi and the three arrived at the noon gate, they had already learned some news...... Emperor Hongzhi will not come to Wumen in person today, but he has ordered Zuodu Yushi Mingui to preside over the trial, and Bai Ang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Wang Shi, the secretary of Dali Temple, will cooperate to try the case.

The place of trial of the case was set up at the noon gate, which was called "Tingjiao" according to the old practice, and it was the "three-hall trial" of the three divisions and yamen. At the same time, there will be six departments to participate in the trial, because it is an important case handled by Qin, Min Gui belongs to the trial on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and the result of the matter must be transmitted to the palace as soon as possible.

Although the public court is located outside the noon gate of the palace, the case itself will not be heard in public, and no court officials and ordinary people will come to watch on this day.

When the three of them arrived at the noon gate, it was just dawn, and there were not many people coming, the chief judge Min Gui had not arrived, several subordinate officials were talking together, and there were people from the three divisions and yamen who moved tables, chairs and torture instruments in front of the noon gate.

The court trial of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be quite dark, and torture is almost commonplace, and the prisoners tried this time are all out of the edict prison, and they may only have half a life left under torture.

Shen Xi did not know much about Tang Yin's torture, Xu Jing "confessed according to the truth" after being tortured, and Cheng Minzheng died violently four days after being released from prison, which shows the severity of the torture they were subjected to.

This is still in the Hongzhi Dynasty, where the rule of the court officials was relatively clear, and if they were replaced by the previous and subsequent generations of emperors, their fate may be even worse.

After all, Shen Xi did not come to participate in the trial, speaking of which, he is a suspect like Lun Wenxu and Sun Xu, if this case involves the three of them, it may be possible to go up and be punished.

Seeing that no one cared about them, the three of them consciously stood under the red wall on the left, when an official in his fifties came over, saluted the three of them, and asked, "How many are they?" ”

"The historian of the Hanlin Academy revised Shen Xi."

"Hanlin Edits Lun Wenshu."

"The Ministry of Officials Watching the Government and Advancing Sun Xu."

When the man heard this, he nodded and saluted respectfully: "Lin Tingyu will be given to the next engineering department." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the six branches were not subordinate to any yamen, and they were engaged in admonishment and supervision. Its own official position is not high, and the six departments are only seven grades in the matter, and the official quality is not even as good as Shen Xi's Hanlin revision, but it is directly responsible to the emperor, and has the power to refute, copy, participate, and cancel, which is similar to the authority and responsibility of the province under the door, and belongs to the typical low and high power of the official.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" volume 74 "Career Officials III" has a record: "Six sections, in charge of attendants, regulations, supplements, relics, and inspection of six hundred divisions." Where the edict is proclaimed, the major events are repeated, and the small matters are issued; If there is a loss, the seal will be played. Where the internal and external chapters are sparse, classified and copied, and signed by the Ministry of Payment, and their violations are refuted. ”

This time, Hua Yu, who reported that the Ministry of Rites would try to solve the problem, was in the middle of the matter.

Hearing the other party's self-exposure, Lun Wenxu and Sun Xu both had a touch of caution and precaution on their faces, for fear that a disagreement would arouse the suspicion of the engineering capital, and thus involve the problem.

But Shen Xi knew that Lin Tingyu belonged to "his own people" in this case, and Lin Tingyu had always advocated that the case be withdrawn and the people involved in the case should be returned, and it was also because of his proposition that after the case was over, he was demoted and assigned, and he belonged to all the ministers of the DPRK and China, except for the people involved in the case, who were the only ones implicated in this case.

Shen Xi belonged to Lin Tingyu's "Shangguan" in terms of official qualities, but at this time, he did not have the consciousness of a superior at all, so he saluted again and asked, "When will the trial start?" ”

Lin Tingyu's face was solemn: "I have to wait for another hour...... If the three of them feel tired, they can ask them to move the chairs. ”

Shen Xi hurriedly waved his hand: "No, today I am suspicious and have no qualifications to sit down." ”

Lin Tingyu nodded, did not force it any longer, and returned to the main desk after saluting, as today's supervisor and judge, he still has a lot to do.

It was said that the trial would start after one hour, but after waiting for two hours, the sun was almost overhead, and only then came from the direction of the palace gate a group of officials dressed in court clothes, among which the first one was one of the seven kings, Zuodu Yushi Mingui, and behind him was Bai Ang, the secretary of the criminal department, Wang Shi, the secretary of the Dali Temple, and the subordinate officials of the three divisions of the yamen.

As soon as these people came, they all saluted, along with Shen Xi, Lun Wenxu and others, and they did a kneeling salute, because these people tried the case on behalf of the Son of Heaven.

Shen Xi and the three of them stood behind the officials and officials of the Criminal Department, which neither belonged to the trial nor to the observer, but was more similar to a witness or a prisoner, and if necessary, they would be pulled to the noon gate at any time to beat the board.

Min Gui held all the files of the Ministry of Rites Examination in his hand, and after he carefully checked it first, after making sure that there were no mistakes or omissions, he shouted: "Mention the hall!" ”

In the "mighty" sound of the official of the Criminal Department, the two parties to the incident, the whistleblower Hua Yu and the reported Cheng Minzheng, were carried by several people to the front of the noon gate, and the escort let go, neither of them could stand or kneel, and could only lie on the ground to answer.

Although the two of them have changed into clean clothes, they can vaguely distinguish the scars on Cheng Minzheng's face and hands, as for Hua Yu's side, the situation is relatively better, he is a whistleblower after all, and someone in the DPRK has "supported" him, and he was basically not tortured in prison.

But even if Hua Yu received some preferential treatment in the cell, he still couldn't kneel, so he could only lie on the ground like Cheng Minzheng and reply.

"Who is the proposer?" Min Gyu drank with a majestic face.

Hua Yu saluted and replied, his attitude was so disrespectful, but Cheng Minzheng looked arrogant and replied: "I am Cheng Minzheng, a bachelor of Hanlin and the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites!" ”

Even if he was severely tortured, he still had the character of a literati in the end, and he was still indomitable at this time, but he was only a little lacking in qi.

Min Gui, Bai Ang and Wang Shi glanced at each other, since they were courtiers, if they had no deep hatred and grudges on weekdays, they would never end up in such a field as they are today.

Min Gui picked up a copy of the imperial pen edict in his hand, stood up and said, "Listen to Xuan." ”

Together with Bai Ang, Wang Shi and others, they all got up, and then knelt down respectfully to listen to the order, but it was the edict of Emperor Hongzhi that ordered the three divisions and yamen to hear the case together.

After the reading was finished, everyone just stood up, and before they could sit down, they heard Cheng Minzheng lying on the ground shouting: "I am not guilty, my generation of the Son of Heaven chooses the world's scholars, what is the crime?" ”

"No noise!"

Min Gui drank a sentence, it is useful for others, but it has no effect on Cheng Minzheng at all.

You must know that since Cheng Minzheng was imprisoned in Xiabei Town, he has faced the unreasonable Jinyi Wei every day, and today he finally ran into his former colleagues, and he was sent by the emperor to try the case.

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