Chapter 124: Frame-up
Ma Wei heard Zhang Qiang say that there was a token in the cell, and that there was a mole in the yamen, and his eyes couldn't help but show joy.
This was done on purpose, in order to draw attention to the torture chamber, and he could dissociate himself from it.
Check it, it's better for you to go to the torture chamber and find out the mole, and then I can leave it alone. Ma Wei said secretly in his heart.
Zhang Qiang took out the token from his arms, walked up and gently placed the token on the desk in front of Li Rujun.
Li Rujun took the token and looked at it, and his face couldn't help showing anger. "The token of the barracks, Ma Wei, it turns out that the traitor is you."
"What?" Ma Wei couldn't believe his ears, he obviously gave the thief a token to the torture room, why did Li Rujun say that it was a token for the barracks?
"Sir, are you mistaken? That's not our barracks token, it's a torture room token. Ma Wei thought that Li Rujun had misread the words on the token.
Song Wenjian heard Ma Wei say this, his face showed surprise, Ma Wei was too stupid, he said this to cause problems.
Song Wenjian said in a gloomy voice: "Judge Ma Wei, we are so far away from the county commander, how do you know that the token in the hand of the county commander is the token of the torture room?" Looks like there's a problem here. ”
"Ma Wei, what do you have to say?" Li Rujun thought that he was almost killed last night, so he was so angry that he picked up the shocking wood and slapped it heavily.
"Lord County Commander, I was wronged." Ma Wei ran down in fear and shouted.
Ma Wei knew that if he was convicted of colluding with the bandits last night, he would be killed.
Early this morning, Zheng Sike came over to report to Song Wenjian, saying that Zhang Qiang quickly found the token of the torture room in the cell, and this matter may be related to the torture room.
Now that Song Hua is in power, many officials in the yamen are moving closer to Song Hua's side.
In order to get news from various departments of the yamen, Zheng Sike often invited some people out to eat and drink with the activity funds given by Song Wenjian, and this Zhang Qiang was one of the people who was wooed.
Now the warden in charge of the torture room is also courting Song Hua, how can Song Wenjian let the other party have an accident.
And this kind of thing, if Ma Wei can be framed, of course he has to do it.
Song Wenjian asked Wu Guanhai to steal the token in the barracks, and then handed it to Zhang Qiang to replace the token in the torture room.
The other arresters only saw Zhang Qiang searching for the Yamen token in the cell, and did not know which department's token it was.
For Zhang Qiang to put away the token at once, all the other catchers understand.
This is the reason for inviting merit, if other people can find other clues, they will not tell others, lest others go to the county magistrate to ask for merit first.
Song Wenjian sneered: "Are you wronged? If there were no people like you who were traitors in the yamen, how could the bandits have saved more than 50 of their comrades? If it weren't for the help of those more than 50 comrades, would those bandits dare to attack our Song family and Chen family? ”
Chen Huatao heard Song Wenjian insist that the Chen family was attacked by bandits, and he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood.
"Ma Wei, let's say, is there anyone behind you to instruct you? Say it, and your crime will be lighter. "Song Wenjian is now like a strange uncle who seduces the little girl with a lollipop.
Someone instigated? The crowd gasped.
Ma Wei has always been Chen Huatao's person, if someone instructed Ma Wei, it was Chen Huatao.
Thinking of this, everyone looked at Chen Huatao again.
Chen Huatao's face changed, if Ma Wei confessed to him, he would be finished.
"Lord County Commander, there must be evidence in the matter, it is imprudent to convict Ma Weidian just by virtue of a token." Chen Huatao hurriedly defended Ma Wei.
Ma Wei hurriedly continued to kowtow to Li Rujun: "Lord County Commander, I was wronged. ”
"Master, how do you say this?" Li Rujun called Jia Daoming to his side in embarrassment and asked in a low voice.
It's a bit difficult to deal with Ma Wei's situation, as Chen Huatao said, he can't be convicted of a traitor colluding with a thief.
Jia Daoming said: "My lord, there is no objection to the token being in the barracks, it is better to remove Ma Wei's position as a warden first, let Wu Guanhai replace him, and then investigate whether Ma Wei is a traitor in the future." ”
"Well, the master is reasonable." Li Rujun bowed slightly.
Just when Li Rujun was about to announce it in the hall, the yacha outside the door ran in to report. "Lord County Order, dozens of scholars outside have come to complain, saying that they want to sue Chen Huatao for instructing Ma Wei, Chen Zhichong and others to bully men and women in the county for a long time, and do all kinds of evil."
"What? Dozens of scholars came to sue? "Li Rujun feels that things are not ordinary." Pass them in. ”
After a while, dozens of well-mannered and weak scholars walked in, and Mo Dazhi saw these people, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
As soon as Song Wenjian heard that a scholar came to complain, he paid attention to the movement on Mo Dazhi's side.
When he saw Mo Dazhi's smug face, he knew that this was his father-in-law's counterattack.
Mo Dazhi has been coerced by Chen Huatao for so long, and now that he has confirmed that he has no handle under Chen Huatao, he must take the opportunity to fight back.
"My lord, Xiaosheng's surname is Lin Zhenghao, and he is a talent in the middle of last year." A showman saluted Li Rujun.
Xiucai didn't have to kneel to the county order, so the next few Xiucai also bowed to Li Rujun.
The ones in the back were children, they didn't have such good treatment, and they all knelt down to Li Rujun.
"Why did you come to the yamen?" Li Rujun asked.
"Lord Prefectural, you have to be the master for us." Lin Zhenghao shouted bitterly: "At the beginning of this year, Chen Zhichong fell in love with my concubine who had just married, and actually instructed his minions to snatch it from my house, and the next day my concubine was released by them. ”
Li Rujun said: "Then it is rumored that your concubine will testify in court." ”
"My lord, my concubine is a fierce woman, and she hanged herself the night she came back, she said that she was no longer innocent, and she had no face to enter our Lin family's ancestral shrine." Lin Zhenghao, who was in his thirties, lay on the ground and cried bitterly.
"My lord, I have a grievance too." Another Xiucai shouted: "Three months ago, Ma Wei took his men to my restaurant to eat, and after getting drunk, he didn't give money, and beat my father to a serious injury, and he is still sick in bed." ”
"My lord, I also have grievances."
"Adults ......" other readers have reported the evil things that Ma Wei and Chen Zhichong have done before.
Over the years, the Chen family, Ma Wei and others have done all the evil things, and no one dared to sue them when they were in power before.
These scholars went to their mentor Mo Dazhi and wanted Mo Dazhi to come forward to help.
But Mo Dazhi has a handle in Chen Huatao's hands, how dare he help these scholars?
And at that time, Chen Huatao's power was so big, and his hands and eyes covered the sky, and it was not something they could afford to provoke.
The clever Mo Dazhi wrote down the names of these scholars, hoping that one day they would be able to use them.
No, early this morning, Mo Dazhi called his subordinates to find these scholars in the county seat.
These scholars heard that Chen Huatao and others were about to fall, and Mo Xundao and Song Hua wanted to join forces to deal with Chen Huatao, so of course they came to the yamen to complain and seek justice for their families.