Chapter Seventy-Six: Innocence
(Sorry, sorry, that chapter was sent early...... )
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......The crowd erupted into a loud noise, and the crowd shook their heads. Not to mention, I really forgot that many people present had seen that scene. Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, the well-informed family of the old Su family would do such a depraved thing.
In the Song and Tang dynasties, the punishment for adultery was far less severe than before the Han Dynasty...... Before the Han Dynasty, it was basically a palace torture service, and the traitor was not guilty; But in the Tang and Song dynasties, the maximum sentence was two years in prison...... However, this is a repugnant and immoral thing to do.
What's more, the genealogical monument erected by Su Xun is already known all over the city, and if his daughter commits adultery, the scriptures engraved on the monument will be a slap in the face.
Is there such a thing? People's eyes turned to the man referred to by the teacher, a weak-crowned scholar with a delicate face.
The scholar looked stunned and seemed a little confused. A heroic young man beside him stood in front of him, and pointed at the lawyer and said, "No wonder people say, 'Anyone can kill any ghost lawyer'!" I'll bet with you that they are innocent, do you dare! ”
"Who is making a fuss in the court!" Zhou Daling made a shocking wooden road.
"The student is the younger brother of the person he slandered......" Chen Ke was about to enter the hall with pride, but was stopped by Erlang.
"Second brother......" Chen Ke turned back unhappily. I saw Chen Erlang, who was as gentle as water in the past, with a rare look of absoluteness. I only heard him say in a deep voice: "San Lang, you have done too much for me, let me do the rest by myself." ”
After speaking, he crossed Chen Ke, strode into the hall, and said deeply to Zhou Daling: "Student Qingshen County student Chen Chen, meet Daling." ”
"And speak flat." Zhou Daling said: "Can you admit the accusations against the Cheng family lawyer?" ”
"Nothing happens!" Chen Chen shook his head and said, "Students can also use Xiang Shang's head to fight with him!" ”
"Our family is not afraid of you," the lawyer smiled and said, "It's just that the criminal law stipulates that human life must not be ......."
'Slap ......' Zhou Daling said in a low voice: "The official has not called to speak, you must remain quiet!" Saying that, he looked at Chen Chen and said, "What is your relationship with the Su family's eight mothers?" ”
Chen Chen glanced at the pale and crumbling Banniang, took a deep breath and said, "Brother and sister relationship." ”
"You don't have the same last name."
"My two families are world friends," Chen Chen said calmly: "It is good to have a family." ”
"On the day of the Qingming Festival, you came out of the Cheng family with the Su family's eight mothers on your back?"
"Yes." Chen Ke nodded.
There was a murmur in the hall. In addition to catching adultery in bed, most of the accusations of adultery are supported by some circumstantial evidence. It's hard to be conclusive, but it's enough to convince people...... If you don't believe it, if you ask Ouyang Xiu, he must have said with tears in his eyes, the three of them have become tigers and accumulated and ruined bones, brother Tai.
This is also the wishful thinking of the Cheng family...... Even if I can't convict you, I will smear you so that you can't shake off the hat of an adulteress, and the effect will be the same.
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'Pop ......' Zhou Daling slapped the shocking wood again, and asked Erlang: "Since you are a scholar, why don't you know that men and women are not kissed, and etiquette is also?" ”
"The words of the sage, students naturally remember." Erlang smiled faintly and said, "It's just that why do adults only say half of the words?" ”
"Yes, the second half of the sentence is 'sister-in-law, the one who helps her, the right also'." The officials of the Song Dynasty, who also had the status of literati, liked to play this kind of sharp machine, so they were not offended at all: "But was Banniang drowning at that time?" ”
"Not drowning, but dying." This guy who stammered in front of Banniang and blushed at every turn, finally showed his other side: "At that time, the student was studying in Meishan and was called by Uncle Su to pick up people at Cheng's house. ”
"Pick up someone?"
"Banniang has been tortured and dying," Erlang said in a deep voice: "The Cheng family prevented Uncle Su from taking her back, and actually said something 'life is our people, death is our ghost', so we discussed, he attracted the Cheng family, and I took advantage of their inattention to carry Banniang out!" ”
"If that's the case?" Zhou Daling looked at the Cheng family.
"Nonsense!" Song naturally wouldn't admit it: "There were a lot of people present that day, so Da Ling might as well call them to ask." ”
Zhou Daling knew that it was a vain question to ask, so he said: "The two sides insist on their own words, and this article will be shelved for the time being, and it will not be too late to wait for clear evidence to be presented." After a pause, he looked at Chen Chen and said, "Chen Xiucai, it's just that in this way, you can't participate in this year's big competition." "In the Song Dynasty, as long as they participated in the township examination, whether they passed the examination or not, they were called Xiucai, and later they generally referred to all scholars.
The imperial examination is not only an ordinary examination, but also a selection examination for state officials, so there is a strict qualification examination...... A 'suspected adulterer' like Chen Chen, if he can't prove his innocence, he will definitely not be put in the examination room.
"......" Chen Chen was stunned for a moment, and Fang lowered his head and said, "The student knows ......"
"Da Ling ......" male and female voices sounded together, but it was Banniang and Chen Ke who spoke at the same time.
"What?" Zhou Daling looked at Chen Ke and looked at Banniang again.
"The student has evidence to prove my second brother's innocence......"
"The folk girl can prove her innocence...... the two spoke at the same time.
"Say one by one," Zhou Daling said: "Su Banniang, what evidence do you have to prove that you are innocent with this Xiucai?" ”
"My lord, the folk girl herself is the evidence." Banniang smiled miserably, and said a shocking sentence: "The folk girl has not broken her body so far!" ”
Inside and outside ......the lobby of 'Boom', everyone's eyes are about to fall. Even Zhou Daling opened his mouth wide regardless of his manners. After a while, he stared at Banniang and said, "You, aren't you joking?" ”
"Please ask the county's stable woman to take me to the back hall to check."
"Yes." Zhou Daling ordered the female servant in charge of inspecting the woman's body in the yamen to take Su Banniang to the back hall for a physical examination.
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After a while, Wen Po came back with Banniang and replied to Da Ling: "This little lady is indeed still a virgin." ”
There was an uproar in the hall again, with wonderful expressions, Sansu father and son looked incredible, Chen Erlang was unspeakably ecstatic, Cheng Zhicai's eyes were full of resentment, and Song stared at his son in disbelief.
'Bang ......' Zhou Daling slapped the table and said: "Well, what is the reason for this, don't you come from the speed?" ”
"Returning to the Great Order," Ba Niang's face burned like fire, and her voice was like a mosquito: "After two years of marriage, the Cheng family has never had a round house with the people's daughter. ”
'Hey......' Everyone looked at Cheng Zhicai with strange eyes, it was the age of strong blood and ** sheng, why did he treat his flowery wife as an ornament and never touch it?
"Cheng Xiucai, what do you have to say?" Zhou Daling turned to Cheng Zhicai.
Cheng Zhicai retracted his resentful gaze, took a deep breath, and saluted Zhou Daling: "Back to the Daling, students are freshly graduated, and my family strictly teaches me that I should focus on my studies and not be in the boudoir." Therefore, the student once vowed that he would never approach women until he was named on the gold list. ”
"Since you want to quit women, then why do you accept two concubines in a row?" Zhou Daling frowned and said: "He also sued the little lady of the Su family for 'no queen', what kind of intentions is this, isn't it slanderous?" ”
"This, the students concentrate on their studies and don't listen to what is going on outside the window, they are all made up by them." Cheng Zhicai hurriedly shirked his responsibility.
Song Shi was stunned when he heard that Banniang was still in perfect condition, and then he came back to his senses, regardless of the big bag and said: "Yes, he doesn't know anything, I asked the lawyer to write it like this." Including taking a concubine, it is also my opinion, who made my son shy since he was a child, and let me, a mother, still be in the dark! ”
"On this paper, but the name of Cheng Xiucai is signed...... Zhou Daling shook his head and said: "Even if you take the responsibility, he will also be punished." Saying that, he looked at Banniang with a sympathetic face, and said softly: "Su Banniang, what grievances have you suffered in the Cheng family, but you can say it together, and the official will call the shots for you!" ”
How can a parent be so easily fooled? Zhou Daling has already seen that Cheng Zhicai must have something unspeakable, and Su Banniang is an out-and-out victim. Now the victim is slandering the victim, thanks to the fact that the girl is still a virgin, otherwise she and the scholar will not be able to argue, and she will also become a confused official.
Recalling that the previous family was bullying and had bad deeds, and he didn't take himself as the head of a county in his eyes, Zhou Daling finally made up his mind to settle the old accounts together, so that this invincible Jiang Qing's family knew whose world the Great Song Dynasty was.
However, Banniang shook her head.
In fact, with her cultivation and reasonableness, Cheng Zhicai moved out of the saying of 'to concentrate on hard work', not to mention two years, she will wait for ten or eight years. will not be wronged to the point of dying by her mother-in-law's cold words......
She really saw a scene that she shouldn't have seen.
Until now, as soon as she closed her eyes, she had a scene in her mind that she had accidentally bumped into...... Study, tumbling **, Cheng Dalang and his scholar...... The lie was exposed in an instant, the whole world shattered, and her people collapsed. If it weren't for her father, if it weren't for her family, if there wasn't Chen Sanlang, if there wasn't Chen Erlang, she believed that she would have turned into loess and left this absurd world.
Banniang is kind after all, although Cheng Zhicai is a selfish, indifferent, and completely disregarding the life and death of others, she is not willing to force him to death. Now that she has proven her innocence, Chen Erlang will not be implicated, so she plans to bury this secret in her heart forever.
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When I was writing Goro, I had in my head, Kentrick Perkins. When I was writing about Cheng Zhicai, what came to my mind was...... The rotten girl's must-see "Frost Flower Shop".
In addition, I solemnly declare that I maintain respect and understanding for same-sex love, but in my work, I should write it according to the actual situation at that time.