Hibiscus Hall.

The white smoke in the red sandalwood blue and white porcelain three-legged tripod incense burner rises, and there is a fresh fragrance of osmanthus in the room.

Fang Hanniang pinched a small paper bag, sat at the small table with the incense burner, frowned slightly, and didn't know what she was thinking.

This is since Fang Hanniang sent Fang Zhiniang Fang Minghuai away, he has been sitting here with a thoughtful look.

Qiu Zhu saw Fang Hanniang contemplative like this, and she didn't dare to disturb, and she stood silently aside, waiting for Fang Hanniang to tell her to do things.

Qiu Zhu felt that when the master was thinking quietly like this, she better not disturb her.

However, Fang Hanniang did not "quiet" for long.

After a while, she shook her nose and sneezed a little.

Qiu Zhu lost her color: "Girl? But got a cold? ”

Fang Hanniang waved her hand, got up slightly embarrassed, stayed away from the table, pointed to the incense burner on the table and ordered: "Sister Qiuzhu, quick, help me extinguish this incense." ”

Qiu Zhu reacted at this time, and couldn't help laughing, with a smile, bending over.

Fang Hanniang couldn't help but open a small window.

The cold, pungent air rushed into the room at once.

Fang Hanniang felt suddenly light.

After extinguishing the incense, Qiu Zhu smiled, and casually helped Fang Hanniang close the window, and said angrily: "Girl, the wind and snow outside are still so big, and you are not afraid of catching a cold...... If you are so close to the incense burner all of a sudden, you will naturally choke. ”

Fang Hanniang coughed lightly.

This lit incense is a spice commonly used to smoke clothes in the Pingguo Mansion, and she just asked the maid in charge of the spices in the house for some.

She originally wanted to try what was the difference between this ordinary spice and the spice in the paper bag in her hand.

Yes, the spices in the small paper bag in Fang Hanniang's hand are the benzoin that she asked Lu Ying to help her get before.

But...... She's changed her mind now.

Fang Hanniang called "Sister Qiuzhu", pinched the small paper bag in her hand and turned around, looking a little cautious: "...... I need Sister Qiuzhu to help me go out of the city to Zhuangzi outside the city. ”

Qiu Zhu's expression was slightly dark: "What did the girl say?" ……”

Fang Hanniang nodded, looked left and right, and the little maid who had curtains and charcoal basins in the room retreated, and then said softly: "Sister Qiuzhu help me go to the Zhuangzi outside the city to find Bailing." She paused, and handed the small paper bag in her hand to Qiu Zhu very carefully, "This is the incense that I asked Sister Luying to help me get from the second room, you let Bailing smell it, is it the same kind of fragrance she smelled when she kept vigil that night...... Don't tell the lark about the other things. ”

It is convenient to talk to smart people, Qiu Zhu's face turned pale all of a sudden, but she still firmly held the small paper bag, and her voice trembled slightly: "Girl, the slave knows ......"

Qiu Zhu moved very quickly, carefully put the small paper bag into her arms, went back to the house and took some things neatly, put on a cloak, and came to talk back to Fang Hanniang: "Girl, if someone asks the slave maid, the slave maid will say, you let the slave and maid go to the Zhuangzi to see if there is anything wrong with the Zhuangzi in this winter......

Fang Hanniang was relieved: "Sister Qiuzhu is doing things, I am relieved. My sister is adaptable and acts carefully. She took out a small seal from a small box, with her name engraved on it, a private seal made for her by the old lady of Pingguo, "If the steward of Zhuangzi has any doubts about you, you can show him this." ”

Qiu Zhu nodded, and carefully put the seal into his arms.

Fang Hanniang instructed again: "...... Go to the carriage and let someone put a carriage for you, it is windy and snowy outside, so you must be careful on the road. ”

Qiu Zhu answered, pulled up the hood of the cloak, and walked out into the wind and snow.

Fang Hanniang stood under the porch and watched for a long time, sighed faintly, and then turned around and went back to the house.

In fact, she didn't know why she wanted to investigate this matter.

However, if she doesn't find out, then she will never know what the truth of this matter is.

……

Yamen lobby.

Jing Zhaoyin looked at the Kong clan kneeling in the hall and looked at it without a trace.

Kong is in his early twenties, although his expression is a little withered, but there is indeed a bit of beauty between his eyebrows and eyes.

Jing Zhaoyin couldn't help but nod in his heart, no wonder even the second master Ruan who came out of the Pingguo Mansion with strict family rules would risk violating the family rules and put this Kong family in the outer room.

"Who are you kneeling down into?" Jing Zhao Yin Guanwei opened his mouth and shouted.

Kong Shi subconsciously trembled slightly, and lowered his head again as if he was a little afraid: "Folk women...... Folk woman Kong. ”

Jing Zhaoyin looked at the well-fed beggars again and asked, "You see, the woman who went that day, but she?" ”

Those beggars had just had a hot and full meal, and it was when they were refreshed, they glanced at Kong Shi and shouted: "That's right, Lord Qingtian, it's her!" ”

"I know this wicked woman who has turned into a ghost! That's her! ”

"It's her, it's her!"

It's chattering, it's not noisy.

Jing Zhaoyin had to pat the shocked wood again: "Silence! ”

It's finally a little quieter.

Hearing these words, the withered Kong Shi turned his head to look at the beggars.

The beggars grimaced at her in all sorts of insults.

Kong Shi seemed to remember something, Mu Ran's expression disappeared little by little, replaced by anger on his face: "It's you!" ”

Her eyes fell on the skinny monkey-like beggar beside her.

The beggar had just eaten a full meal, and there was still a little steamed bun on the corner of his mouth, which looked quite funny.

However, Kong Shi still accurately recognized this thin monkey-like beggar, who was one of the two beggars who wanted to pick up her son's shroud before!

Now new and old hatreds are pouring up.

Kong screamed: "It's you!" ”

As soon as the thin monkey beggar showed a provocative look on his face, Jing Zhaoyin, who was sitting in the hall, slapped the shocked wood heavily: "Kong Clan! Don't roar in court! ”

Kong is a common person, although she has been an outer room with Second Master Ruan, but because her identity is not visible, she can't borrow much strength in the past few years. Kong clearly knew that a big official like Jing Zhaoyin could crush her to death if he raised his hand.

Kong shrank down.

The thin monkey-like beggar was quite good at looking at people's eyes, he immediately changed to a respectful look, knelt down and arched his hand to Jing Zhaoyin: "In the hall of the Qingtian Lord, the little ones naturally want to be quiet. That is, like the vicious woman next to her, she will not give face to the old man of Qingtian like this. ”

Extremely shoddy provocation.

Kong's face was red with anger and his neck was thick, but he didn't dare to speak loudly anymore.

Jing Zhaoyin nodded slightly with satisfaction, he looked at the errands who were kneeling beside him and asked, "You guys, can you see clearly, she is the woman who gave you money a few days ago to ask you to expel the beggars?" ”

"This ......" Where did a few poor people dare to say anything, they already knew that the other party was from the Pingguo Mansion, whether it was Jing Zhaoyin or the senior official of the military department, they were all big people who could kill them with a raise of their hands, and they would never dare to offend one of them.

Jing Zhaoyin's expression changed, and he knocked on the startled wood with a heavy blow: "Flickering words!" Have you forgotten what you drawn? Do you want to be imprisoned on the spot on charges of falsification and playing with testimony? ”

A few poor people were shocked.

These poor people are small people at the bottom of society, and they have naturally developed a smooth body.

Obedient and listening, they listened to the meaning of Jing Zhaoyin's words, and it seemed that they had a faint meaning to bite this matter.

A few poor people secretly exchanged a few glances with each other underneath.

Although it is difficult for the senior officials of the military department to deal with it, but now they are about to be locked up for offending Jing Zhaoyin, and they don't know what it is, and the disaster that may happen is naturally the priority of the disaster in front of them compared to the disaster that is about to happen in front of them.

A few poor people almost immediately opened their mouths and said, "That's right, my lord, it's this woman." She was the one who gave us a hundred taels of silver to expel the beggars! ”

Kong's eyelids jumped.

She heard that now, there are still some clouds, and she doesn't know what Jing Zhaoyin is going to do.

Could it be that she also broke the law by giving money to those poor people to let them take care of her son more?

Kong Shi was still pondering in his heart, so he listened to Jing Zhaoyin above and asked again: "Kong Shi, do you know that you once gave these poor people a hundred taels of silver that day, and asked them to expel all the beggars who were sheltering from the wind and snow in Yizhuang?!" ”

Kong Shi faintly felt that something was wrong, she couldn't help but raise her head, and defended: "My lord, it is really my son who died because of two beggars...... Where there are beggars after his death, I'm afraid it will disturb his sleep......"

Jing Zhaoyin slapped the shocked wood heavily: "What are you talking about!" Kong, no matter what your motives are, the official will ask you, did you give the messengers money to expel the beggars in the Yizhuang?! ”

Kong's lips trembled a few times, however, under Jing Zhaoyin's official authority, she still opened her mouth a little tremblingly: "Yes...... It's a ...... of people's women."

Jing Zhaoyin was very satisfied, and whispered a few words to the master who was waiting on the side, the master nodded, and went to the secretary to whisper something, and the secretary immediately wrote a confession in one go.

The master picked up the confession and gave Jing Zhaoyin a look.

Jing Zhaoyin took it and looked at it, and it was written in black and white on it:

The women, Kong Shi of the second room of the Pingguo Mansion, now admits that she bribed someone to tattoo 100 taels of silver on a certain day in a certain month, so that she drove away the beggars in Yizhuang, causing several beggars to freeze to death.

Although Jing Zhaoyin is still a little dissatisfied, he is in a hurry at the moment, so he can barely do it.

In fact, Jing Zhaoyin also knows that the point is not what is written on the confession, but that Kong recognized the confession.