"Lord Zhao is calm and don't be impatient, and listen to what he has to say." Seeing Zhao Fu scolding Liu Qing sharply, Xie Muen's brows suddenly frowned slightly, looking a little dissatisfied, and then said to Liu Qing quietly.

Xie Muen believed that if the chief judge sitting behind the desk today was Li Yuntian, then Zhao Fu would definitely not dare to interrupt the trial, in the end, he could not compare with Li Yuntian, so he had no choice but to ignore Zhao Fu's interjection.

"This official has been unruly just now, I hope Lord Xie will forgive me." Zhao Fu realized that he had lost his temper just now, although his official rank was much higher than Xie Muen, but Xie Muen was a messenger after all, and he couldn't embarrass him in public, otherwise he would mess up the dignity of officialdom, so he bowed to Xie Muen and said apologetically.

"Liu Qing, since you said that Wang Qi's death had nothing to do with you, why did you sign and confess your guilt in the previous court trial?" Seeing this, Xie Muen bowed slightly to Zhao Fu, and then asked Liu Qing quietly.

"My lord, why can't you ask for it under Miki?" Liu Qing smiled sadly when he heard this, and raised his head to look at Xie Muen.

"Miki" refers to the wooden torture instruments worn on the hands, necks and feet of prisoners, and is used here as a metaphor for the fact that any kind of criminal evidence can be obtained under torture, and is usually used to refer to prisoners who have been wronged under torture.

Liu Qing is a man, and unlike ordinary people, he naturally will not smash the court and bluntly say that he was tortured to extract a confession, so he adopted the statement of Wen Xuan.

Although the people outside the hall did not know the meaning of his words, the officials in the public court all went through ten years of hard study, and they were either born as Jinshi or as a person, so they naturally knew the meaning of his words.

"Liu Qing, you should know that the punishment of Miki is often used to deal with those tricky and slippery people in the lobby, the relationship between you and the Liu family is unclear, and the Liu family is accused of conspiring to kill Wang Qi, so this punishment is not unjust."

Xie Muen knew what Liu Qing meant, so he pondered for a while and said, "You have read the book of sages, you should have heard of the melon field and Li Xia, but why did you take the Liu family home even so, isn't this a vain?" ”

"My lord, the relationship between the student and the Liu family is innocent, and there is no transgression." Liu Qing's eyes flashed with a look of embarrassment when he heard this, and then he said solemnly to Xie Muen, "The lesson of the adults is that the students were not thoughtful at that time and suffered such a catastrophe, and now they are extremely remorseful. ”

Everyone has a love for beauty, and the reason why Liu Qing is so good to the Liu family must also have a love for him, although he can abide by the etiquette and teaching, it is still inevitable to provoke the criticism of others, and it also brought him this catastrophe.

Therefore, Xie Muen said that Liu Qing's punishment was not complaining, and if he didn't provoke the Liu family, he wouldn't give people the opportunity to frame him.

"This official asks you, since you did not conspire with the Liu family to poison Wang Qi, then why did the Liu family frame you, and why did you confess the origin of arsenic." Xie Muen glanced at Liu Qing, and then asked in a deep voice.

"My lord, the student doesn't know why the Liu family framed the student, but the student confessed to buying arsenic from a pharmacy in another county because he couldn't withstand torture."

Liu Qing's eyes showed a look of pain when he heard this, and after glancing at the Liu clan who was kneeling beside him, he replied to Xie Muen, "My lord knows that the student has never been to that pharmacy before, let alone bought a poison like arsenic. ”

"Oh? There are such things! Xie Muen's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, and then he looked at Bai Dezhang, who was standing near the door, "Bai Zhixian, is there such a thing?" ”

"Your Excellency, there is no such thing." Bai Dezhang hurriedly walked out of the queue, came to the front of the hall and bowed to Xie Muen, and said with an oath, "Although the lower official used a big punishment for him when he tried the case, he never induced a confession, and all the qiē were automatically confessed!" ”

"My lord, what the student said is true, the student has read the books of the sages since he was a child, and he will never do anything to harm the lives of others." Hearing this, Liu Qing hurriedly said to Xie Muen, "Those people in the torture room told the students that if the students didn't confess, they would kill the students, and the students had no choice but to do what they said. ”

"My lord, Zhang Gu, the chief secretary of Lin'an County, has always been at odds with the students, and the students suspect that he is making trouble behind the scenes and slandering the students!" Then, Liu Qing remembered something and said to Xie Muen angrily.

"Don't talk nonsense, do you know that framing the court officials is a serious crime!" Xie Muen snorted at Liu Qing when he heard this, stared at Liu Qing and asked, "This official asks you, do you have any evidence to prove that Zhang Gu is related to your case?" ”

"This ......" Liu Qing was speechless, where would he have the handle of Zhang Gu, otherwise he would not have fallen to this point today, all of them were just his speculation.

"Someone, the doctor with the pharmacy and the servant." Xie Muen saw that Liu Qing couldn't answer, and knew that he had no evidence in his hand, so he shouted to the errand standing in front of the hall in a deep voice.

"The grass people knock to see Lord Qincha and my lords." Soon, the doctor of the pharmacy who had treated Wang Qi and the servant who had given Wang Qi an autopsy were brought up, and they all knelt in front of the hall to salute Xie Muen and others.

Li Yuntian and Xie Muen were ordered to inspect Jiangnan this time, so they were sent by the imperial court, but because Xie Muen was the deputy envoy, and the envoy was usually the title of the envoy, because of the strict hierarchy in the officialdom, the officials usually did not call Xie Muen a messenger, otherwise it would be a mess of the respect and humility between him and Li Yuntian.

But the people don't pay so much attention to it, since Xie Muen is on an errand, then it is a messenger, and they don't know Xie Muen's position in the court, so the doctor of the pharmacy and the doctor call Xie Muen a messenger.

"Sue sù Benguan, was Wang Qi unwell before he died, and what was the cause of his death?" Xie Muen glanced at the doctor of the pharmacy and asked quietly.

"My lord, Wang Qi occasionally felt cold before he died, and after taking the traditional Chinese medicine that the grass people prepared for him, he has been getting better day by day, and his health is fine." Hearing this, the doctor couldn't help but flash a trace of panic in his expression, and then replied respectfully.

"My lord, after the examination of the grass people, the nails of Wang Qi's hands and feet are blue-black, the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and ears are bleeding, and the body of the silver needle is blue-black, which is completely consistent with the symptoms of poisoning." He then bowed to Xie Muen and said in a loud voice.

Hearing this, the people outside the hall suddenly had a commotion, and they all pointed at the Liu family who was kneeling there, and no one thought that the seemingly weak Liu family would do such an intolerable thing as poisoning her husband in order to stay with Liu Qing.

"Silence!" Seeing that there was some commotion outside the hall, Xie Muen's brows furrowed slightly, and then patted the startled wood vigorously, which made the people who were talking quietly suddenly quiet.

"Liu, this official asked you, what the two of them said is the truth?" Xie Muen's gaze then fell on Liu, who was kneeling there with his head bowed, and asked quietly.

"Hmm!" Liu's gaze was extremely numb, and he hesitated for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded heavily to Xie Muen.

Seeing this situation, Bai Dezhang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and the expressions of Zhao Fu and the others also became relaxed, as long as the Liu family did not retract their confessions, then Liu Qing would not be able to overturn the case.

"You sue the official, can you conspire with others to poison your husband Wang Qi? What was the poison used to poison Wang Qi and where did it come from? Xie Muen keenly noticed Liu's slight reaction, and then asked in a deep voice.

"My lord, in order to conspire with Liu Qing, a new imperial examination person, in private, and took advantage of the illness of the people's husband, Wang Qi, to put the arsenic that Liu Qing bought from the pharmacy in other counties into the medicine, and then poisoned Wang Qi, and lied to the public that Wang Qi died of a violent illness." Hearing this, Liu raised his head, looked at Xie Muen with a blank expression, and replied mechanically.

"Liu's family, I have no grievances with you, why do you want to frame you?" Hearing this, Liu Qing couldn't hold back any longer, and couldn't help but ask the Liu family with an angry expression.

Liu Shi did not answer Liu Qing but turned his head to the side, avoiding the angry Liu Qing, and a look of pain flashed in his dull eyes.

"Liu Qing, Hugh has to roar in court, next time you commit another offense, the official will severely punish you for thirty boards!" Seeing this, Xie Muen slapped the shocked wood and shouted at Liu Qing.

Liu Qing immediately fell silent when he heard this, and sighed after glancing at the Liu family, his expression looked extremely lost and helpless, he still knew more about the Liu family, if he was not coerced, he would definitely not slander him, presumably the Liu family also suffered a lot.

"Come on, bring Wang Jiu and his wife." Xie Muen looked at Liu Qing, who looked lonely, and gave an order to the messenger in front of the hall in a deep voice.

Wang Jiu is the cousin of Wang Butcher, and he was taken to the lobby with his wife, kneeling beside the pharmacy doctor and the servant, and the two were important witnesses to the violent death of Wang Butcher.

"Wang Jiu, this official asks you, how was Wang Qi's physical condition before he died, have you ever seen the Liu family take arsenic at home?" Xie Muen looked through the file on the desk in front of him, and asked Wang Jiu in a deep voice.

"My lord, my seventh brother is a butcher, he has a big shoulder, a round waist, and his body has always been very good, and he was accidentally cold in those days, and his condition was getting better day by day after taking the medicine prescribed by the doctor, who would have thought that he would suddenly die violently."

Wang Jiu's body couldn't help but tremble when he heard this, then swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looked up at Xie Muen and said, "My lord, the villain didn't see Liu's taking arsenic at home, it was the villain's mother-in-law who accidentally saw Liu's coming back from outside with a packet of medicine, and when asked, Liu's said that it was rat poison used to medicine mice, and later I learned that it was arsenic." ”

"My lord, the woman didn't know that it was arsenic, and when the big brother of the county government searched out the remaining half of the packet of medicine from Liu's room, the woman knew that it was not ordinary rat poison, but arsenic." Afterwards, Wang Jiu's wife hurriedly nodded in agreement.

"My lord, this is the half-packet of arsenic that was found from Liu's house at that time." At this time, an errand officer standing at the foot of the hall put a paper bag on the desk in front of Xie Muen and opened it, and it was arsenic wrapped in it.

Xie Muen's brows furrowed slightly, and after glancing at the arsenic, he asked the officer to take it away, he didn't believe that the Liu family was so stupid that he would hide the rest of the arsenic in his room, if he conspired with Liu Qing, Liu Qing would definitely not let her do this, obviously this is a big suspicion.

According to the situation mentioned in the case file, because Liu Shi panicked after the incident, he forgot to discard the remaining half of the packet of arsenic for a while, but if he couldn't use up so much arsenic, why did Liu Qing give Liu such a large amount.

Maybe the Liu family doesn't know the power of arsenic, but Liu Qingnai should know that it doesn't take so much arsenic to poison the king butcher, so he shouldn't give it to the Liu family.

Obviously, due to people's preconceived notions, they ignored this suspicion, believing that Liu's panic failed to abandon the bag of arsenic, and at the same time, it also reflected Liu's viciousness, and he wanted to kill the king butcher with so much arsenic.

Looking at the scene in front of him, the corners of Bai Dezhang's mouth in the crowd couldn't help but show a smile, now that the human and material evidence is complete, and the Liu family personally admitted to poisoning her husband, then this case can't be turned over no matter what.