Chapter 40: The Adulterer and the Taoist

Chen Siwei did not ask for a fanfare, but brought Zhang Liu to the Houya Flower Hall. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Zhang Liu followed the official all the way in small steps.

Chen Siwei drank tea quietly with a cup of Sancai, and when he put down the teacup, he raised his eyelids and glanced at Zhang Liu, and saw that she was quite beautiful, although she was middle-aged, she still had a bit of charm.

"The folk woman Zhang Liu knocked to see the old man of the blue sky." Zhang Laoshi knelt on his knees with his skirt, bowed down and bowed, and knocked his head to the ground without raising his head.

"Zhang Liu, your son Zhang Zongwen has been sentenced to death, and he will be escorted to the court the day after tomorrow, do you know?" Chen Siwei's tone was calm, and he couldn't hear any emotion. Color.

"The women know."

"You were angry and sued your son to the government, and now he is about to go on the road, you are widowed and childless, after all, you have no support, I don't know if you regret it?"

As soon as Zhang Liu heard this, he immediately gritted his teeth and said: "The unfilial disobedient son beats and scolds me at every turn, where do you still feel sorry for him?" I wish he was going to die right away. ”

The county commander of Hening smiled slightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea slowly, and the corner of his eyes swept over Chen Siwei with a sarcastic smile.

He thought to himself, 'How's it going?' It's not like I'm cheating, am I? His own mother is determined to put him to death, what kind of good thing can he be? ’。

Chen Siwei asked with a little surprise: "You actually hate him so far, could it be that he is not your biological son?" ”

"He was born of old man."

"Since he is your own son, how can there be a great enmity between mother and son? Now I will give you a chance, if you are willing to forgive him, and let him go home to support you in old age, how about it? ”

"No, never." When Zhang Liu heard that her son was going to go home, she not only did not have the slightest surprise, but was very panicked. "An obstacle like Zhang Zongwen who deserves to be struck by thunder and slashed by thousands of knives, adults must not spare him, if he is let go home, the old body will have no way to live."

Zhang Liu covered his face and cried as he spoke, Chen Siwei asked her a few words and gave her several opportunities, she insisted on pushing her son to the court.

Chen Siwei said lightly: "Since you don't regret it, we don't want to trouble." You go back and buy a coffin and send it to the yamen, and you must deliver it before the time of application, we have counted the number, and we will register and make a register tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow we will be executed in the court. ”

Zhang Liu didn't prepare a coffin for Zhang Zongwen, she didn't even have the heart to go to the court to see him off, she thought it would be over with a knife, what does it have to do with her?

I didn't expect to have to send the coffin to the yamen, this Zhang Zongwen is really a burden to even die. Zhang Liu has never heard of such a rule, so who has how many relatives go to the Dharma field a year? I don't know, it's too normal.

"Good" Zhang Liu is very reluctant to buy a coffin, firstly, the coffin costs a lot of money, and secondly, he has to find someone to carry the coffin. So she asked, "My lord, is it okay to use straw mats?" ”

Chen Siwei pursed his lips, who said that there is no ruthless father and mother in the world? People are going to die, and she can't even bear to put a coffin. Chen Siwei replied coldly: "No." ”

"Yes." Zhang Liu didn't dare to say anything more, Chen Siwei waved his hand, and the official pulled Zhang Liu and took her out.

Chen Siwei asked two officials to quietly follow Zhang Liu's family, and then brought all the neighbors of the Zhang family over and questioned them one by one.

"How is Zhang Zongwen to his mother?" Chen Siwei asked calmly.

"He. . . Mom is an old widow. woman, he was to him. Mom, that's good. The answer to the question was a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in a short shirt and dressed neatly.

"Have you ever heard him beat his mother?"

"How can that be? He is a well-known filial son in our village. ”

……

Chen Siwei asked nearly 20 people, and the final conclusion was that all of them said that Zhang Zongwen was honest, loving husband and wife, and very filial to his mother.

The Hening County Commander was a little dumbfounded, these witnesses were invited by their officials, and it was impossible for Chen Siwei to collude in advance.

This can basically explain that this case is unfair, and if it sounds good, it is called negligence, and if it is serious, he is the life of the grass (pronounced jiān).

The trickiest thing is that now he knows that he is wrong, and there is no way to correct it. The day after tomorrow, he will be escorted to the court to test the magic knife, and now he wants to overturn the case with enough evidence.

These witnesses had no choice but to make noise here, and there was no way to send them to the Criminal Department based on their confessions. Their confessions were called confessions during the trial, and now that the person is about to go to the court, you suddenly put forward that someone said that Zhang Zongwen was a good person, so he asked for a retrial?

If this can be established, the death penalty can be abolished. As soon as the execution came, a few people jumped out and shouted, 'Keep people under the knife!' He's a great guy! And then let's retry it.

Regardless of the outcome of the retrial, a few months have passed just after the review and reporting, and the official document has been sent down after the approval from above.

But the very real problem is that the words of these people can be conveyed to Gao Xiangye, and then with Chen Siwei to testify, it can be proved that he is not an official, which is definitely not a trivial matter.

Even if he doesn't talk about this matter, if he doesn't deal with him because of this matter, at least because this matter makes the emperor have a bad impression of him, can he afford to send someone down to check on him?

When the Lingzheng of Hening County was in a cold sweat, the two officials who followed Zhang Liu's family came back to report the incident. said that Zhang Liu had already bought the coffin and sent it to the door of the county office.

"Where did she go when she left the house? Who have you met? Chen Siwei stared at the two officials calmly.

"She went out and turned two corners to meet a Taoist priest in a small alley, and she talked a lot to the Taoist priest, and finally the Taoist priest bought the coffin for her."

"Well, where is the Taoist priest?"

"Now outside the door."

"Prepare for the ascension."

"Yes." The official responded with his mouth, but his eyes glanced at the county commander, the county official is not as good as the current management, and now the county official is now in charge, who cares whether Chen Siwei is sent by the Heavenly King Laozi or the Jade Emperor.

The Hening County Commander gave a look to the officer, and the officer hurriedly went down to prepare, and after a while, he began to ask the case.

The Taoist priest was tied and taken to the court. He knows that it is an old incident, even if he is hard-mouthed, he can't deny it, the hearts of the people are like iron, who doesn't know that the official law is like a furnace?

He confessed without using torture, it turned out that he had been illicit with Zhang Liu's for a long time, and even Zhang Zongwen's father was poisoned by Zhang Liu's.

Zhang Zongwen grew older and older, the more and more he delayed the private meeting between the two of them, thinking that if he married his daughter-in-law, he would be able to move out with his daughter-in-law and live alone, but he didn't expect that he always refused to separate the family on the grounds that he wanted to serve the elderly.

For this reason, Zhang Liu went to the official yamen to sue him, which was also the idea of the Taoist priest.