Chapter 159: Confusing Truth with Falsehood
"Red-sleeved girl, it's only been more than a month, you won't forget it, right?" Li Hongyu saw that Red Sleeves looked at him in surprise, so he said coldly.
"The adult is serious, of course the folk girl remembers this case." Red Sleeves couldn't help but come back to his senses when he heard this, and glanced at the slightly immature man in civilian clothes in front of him, and felt vaguely familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while, so he asked tentatively, "My lord, forgive the people for being clumsy, I don't know which yamen the lord is in." β
"This is Xie Yuan of the current Kexiang test!" Lu Chongde didn't expect that Red Sleeves didn't know Li Hongyu, and he was quite surprised, so he pointed out Li Hongyu's identity in a deep voice.
As the largest green building in Wuchang City, Mingyue Pavilion is naturally a place where the students who come to take the township examination linger, and it is the favorite guest of the girls of Mingyue Pavilion, but a young talent like Li Hongyu has never been to Mingyue Pavilion after the township examination, which really surprised Lu Chongde.
In fact, not only Li Hongyu, but also Fang Yun had never been to Mingyue Pavilion, he was busy preparing for the exam at the inn where he stayed before the township exam, and after the township exam, because of Xu Tao's death, he deliberately avoided Mingyue Pavilion when he was partying with friends.
"You...... You are Li Jieyuan? β
After listening to Lu Chongde's words, Red Sleeves was stunned, and looked at Li Hongyu with a look of surprise, no wonder she felt that Li Hongyu was a little familiar, it turned out that when the top six people in the township test were paraded in the street yesterday, she and the sisters of Mingyue Pavilion also went to the roadside to watch the excitement.
It's just that at that time, the girls in Mingyue Pavilion, including Red Sleeves, were attracted by Zhao Xin, who was extremely handsome behind Li Hongyu, plus the distance was a little far away and the situation on the scene was chaotic, so Red Sleeves didn't have a deep impression of Li Hongyu, and just now he just felt familiar.
At this moment, Red Sleeves suddenly understood why the government would suddenly re-mention the Mingyue Pavilion case, since the Mingyue Pavilion case happened, she knew Li Hongyi's identity, knew that Li Hongyi was from a local clan in Xiangyang Mansion, and her cousin Li Hongyu was admitted to the head of the Xiangyang Mansion Children's Test, ranking third in the odds of the Wuchang City Casino Jieyuan Handicap.
After the township test was announced, although Red Sleeves was surprised that Li Hongyu defeated Fang Yun and Shen Bocheng, the two big favorites, and won the exam, he didn't expect that Li Hongyu would overturn the case for Li Hongyi so quickly, isn't he afraid of delaying the test?
What made Red Sleeves even more incomprehensible was that Li Yu would agree to retry Mingyue Pavilion's case, wasn't he afraid of triggering protests from the students and people of Changsha Mansion? After all, Li Hongyu's identity will make the outside world think that he overturned Li Hongyi's case out of selfishness.
"Red-sleeved girl, you should know that I am Li Hongyi's cousin, so I am in charge of Mingyue Pavilion's case."
Li Hongyu could naturally guess the state of mind of Red Sleeves at this time, so he looked at her expressionlessly and said, "Do you know that it is a felony to kill candidates before the township exam, unless you have a reputation like my cousin, otherwise just wait for Ling Chi to raid his home!" β
It is worth mentioning that the reason why Li Renhe was not implicated by Li Hongyi was due to Li Hongyu's fame, and civilians killing people were like killing officials, and they wanted to implicate their families.
However, for the killing of students, the yamen usually commuted the punishment, and in cases like Li Hongyi, where people killed people out of control due to drunken conflicts, the yamen will give a lighter punishment, and the most serious punishment is murder.
Now, Red Sleeves is not the wife of the imperial court, and at the same time, he murdered Xu Tao with Han Tai, there is no doubt that he will be punished, and he himself will definitely be Ling Chi, you must know that the scholar is the ruling class of the country, and it will naturally severely punish those civilians who dare to offend their interests.
"Lord Zhentai, the people are wronged, I hope the adults will see it."
Red Sleeves naturally knew the seriousness of the Mingyue Pavilion case, and when he saw Li Hongyu's aggressive attitude, he suddenly felt inexplicably frightened, and in a hurry, he kowtowed to Lu Chongde, pretended to look at Lu Chongde unevenly and said, "My lord, Li Xie Yuan is Li Hongyi's close relative, and the government actually retried the case of Mingyue Pavilion because of him, how can it be convincing the public?" β
"Red-sleeved girl, I want to correct your statement in the future, this retrial of the Mingyue Pavilion murder case is not Li Jieyuan's claim alone, but the wish of all the new people in Jinke."
At this time, Fang Yun, who was sitting opposite Li Hongyu, spoke at the right time, and said to Red Sleeves in a deep voice, "Because the trial of the Mingyue Pavilion murder case was too hasty, there are too many doubts that have not yet been clarified during the period, so it should be re-investigated to find out the truth. β
"What...... What the? Red sleeves was stunned when she heard this, her face showed an unbelievable look, she finally understood why Li Yu wanted to retry the case, but she didn't expect Li Hongyu to persuade Huguang's new recruits to support him.
"Red-sleeved girl, I know that your life experience is quite tortuous, although you were sold into Mingyue Pavilion by your father, you still take care of your family, which has made your family's life have changed dramatically."
Li Hongyu knew that Red Sleeves must be in a very complicated state of mind after learning the reason for the retrial, so he looked at her quietly and said, "Their fate depends on whether the Red Sleeve girl is obsessed!" β
"Li Jieyuan, do you want to bend into a move?"
Red Sleeves couldn't help biting her lip when she heard this, she didn't think that Li Hongyu had found any evidence to prove that Xu Tao's death was related to her, and now it was just a bluff, so she stabilized her somewhat flustered mind, looked at Li Hongyu and asked in a coquettish voice.
"Red-sleeved girl, do you recognize this?" Li Hongyu knew what Red Sleeves was thinking now, so he beckoned a hand, and an errand came over with a tray, he lifted the cloth covered by the tray and stared at Red Sleeves and asked.
Red Sleeves' face changed after noticing the items on the tray, there were several pieces of gold and silver jewelry on the tray, if she was not mistaken, these pieces of jewelry belonged to her, to be exact, they once belonged to her, and were later blackmailed away by Chen Aniu.
"These are my jewelry, but someone stole them in a few days, why are they here?" The expression on his face changed a few times and became thicker, and the red sleeves pretended to be puzzled and asked Li Hongyu, anyway, Chen Aniu was missing, so she could put the blame on Chen Aniu.
Chen Aniu's disappearance can be described as a small matter in Mingyue Pavilion recently, although Chen Aniu is only a subordinate of Mingyue Pavilion, but he is a person from Mingyue Pavilion after all, so Mingyue Pavilion has been reported to the official.
The people of the Jiangxia County County Government have posted notices looking for Chen Aniu in the whole city and surrounding towns, but unfortunately there is not the slightest news about Chen Aniu these days, and the people of the Jiangxia County County Government still do not know that Chen Aniu has been arrested and taken to prison by the Yamen of the Inspectorate Division.
Therefore, Red Sleeves does not think that Chen Aniu is in the hands of Li Hongyu and others, according to the investigation of the people she sent to the casino in private, Chen Aniu seems to have owed a large amount of loan sharks before his disappearance, and then thinks that he took away all the valuable items in the family, so she thinks that Chen Aniu must have run away to avoid debts, which is a great thing for her.
However, Red Sleeves didn't know that Chen Aniu owed a huge amount of loan sharks that Li Hongyu deliberately released, and his purpose was naturally to confuse her.
"These jewels were obtained from the casino by the Yamen people in the afternoon, and Chen Aniu, the cook of Mingyue Pavilion, lost them in the casino, and you don't seem to have revealed your 'lost' jewelry, do you think anyone will believe your ridiculous excuses?"
Li Hongyu had already guessed that Red Sleeves wanted to shift the responsibility to Chen Aniu, so he said quietly, "If you look at the following thing, you may remember something." β
As he spoke, Li Hongyu waved his hand again, and another messenger came over with a tray, came to the front of the red sleeves and asked her to look at a piece of paper on the tray, on which something was written.
Redsleeves was taken aback when he saw the piece of paper, and subconsciously reached out to snatch it, but was held down by the jailer beside him, who had already prepared, and the errand with the tray immediately walked away.
"You...... How did you get this thing? The jailer holding down the red sleeves then let go of her, she first looked at Li Hongyu in surprise, then thought of something, and asked with a stunned face, "Chen Aniu has been arrested?" β
"Those jewelry can condemn you, this piece of paper proves that Xu Tao was lured out, and the 'Han Tai' written on it is undoubtedly the person who asked him to meet, but what Xu Tao didn't expect was that Han Tai didn't want to see him talk about Liu's affairs, but wanted Chen Aniu to kill him!"
Li Hongyu didn't answer the question of the red sleeves, but looked at her with a cold expression and said, "As for whether this piece of paper was written by Han Tae, you just need to compare the handwriting at that time." β
Red Sleeves wanted to argue but the corners of her mouth squirmed a few times and she couldn't speak, because she didn't know how to defend for a while, if Chen Aniu was arrested by the people from the Yamen of the Inspectorate, it would mean that the person who delivered the news to Chen Aniu at that time was also exposed, plus she couldn't get out of those jewelry, and any defense seemed pale and powerless.
This made Red Sleeves's face a little pale, she knew that Chen Aniu would be arrested, she reported to the official at the time and said that the jewelry had been stolen, so that she would not fall into the current predicament, after all, fools know that she must have another hidden reason if she does not report to the official.
Most importantly, the content of that piece of paper has exposed Han Tae's identity, and it has also pointed out the grievances between Han Taok and Xu Tao, which makes the Mingyue Pavilion case no longer secret.
Li Hongyu saw that Red Sleeves was speechless for a while, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but flash a smile, at this moment, Red Sleeves never imagined that the content on the piece of paper that appeared in front of her was copied by Fang Yun according to Han Tai's handwriting, and used Xu Tao's handwriting to write Han Tai's name on the back, and then broke Red Sleeves' psychological defense in one fell swoop.
On the real paper, Xu Tao did not write Hankook's name on it, in fact, Xu Tao drank a lot of wine at that time, and it was difficult to tell whose font it was.
As for the content on the paper, it is actually very simple, it is written the address of Hankook's fiancΓ©e Liu, and the incident of Liu's **** by Xu Tao, so that Xu Tao had to meet as agreed in Linchen, and died unexpectedly.
After witnessing the scene in front of him, Lu Chongde's eyes were full of approval when he looked at Li Hongyu, Li Hongyu was really witty, and he only made Red Sleeves lose the will to resist with just one move.
He couldn't help but look forward to tomorrow's court trial, if the current situation continued, the case of Mingyue Pavilion would definitely be concluded within one day.