Wu Meiniang was arrested, and Huang Weihai was angry because of Wu Meiniang's "exposure", and Wu Meiniang was convicted of attempted arson murder and kidnapping in court.

As soon as Wu Chun heard that Wu Meiniang had been arrested, he hurriedly sent a housekeeper to inform Zhou Huanjun in person.

Two days later, the housekeeper came back, wiped the sweat on his head and said in a panic: "Childe, it's not good, my uncle has an accident." ”

Wu Chun was startled, and hurriedly stood up:

"What's going on? Say it. ”

"That's right, the old slave was ordered to ask my uncle for help. I didn't dare to stop all the way to Ning Guofu. But as soon as I arrived at the mansion, I saw many people watching in front of the door. The old slave stepped forward to see that there were many officers and soldiers in front of the door, and his uncle was taken off his official uniform and was being escorted to the prisoner car. It was followed by dozens of subordinates of the Zhou family. ”

The old slave grabbed someone and inquired, but it was not good. It turned out that the court didn't know who participated in a book in front of the emperor, accusing the uncle of using his power to embezzle and accept bribes for private gain, and now the evidence is conclusive, and the emperor's holy decree has been issued to escort the uncle and the Zhou family back to Beijing for trial. ”

Wu Chun gasped when he heard the housekeeper's words.

Zhou Huanjun had an accident? How so? Without Zhou Huanjun's backer, what should my sister do? What about the Wu family?

Wu Chun ran out of ideas for a while.

At this time, the Yamen of Tiangu Town, the minister of the Qin Mission, and the guards had already entered.

Huang Weihai was taken down by the minister on suspicion of bribery and using his power for personal gain, and Tiangu Town was temporarily represented by the new county magistrate Tong.

Then the minister personally came to Wu's house to arrest Wu Meiniang, the wife of the corrupt official Zhou Huanjun.

When Father Wu, who was kneeling on the ground trembling, heard that he was here to take Wu Meiniang, he hurriedly reported to the minister:

"Adults don't know that the little girl was indeed Zhou Huanjun's steproom before. But just ten days ago, Zhou Huanjun was in our Wu family, and he gave the little girl a leave of absence. The little girl is now the wife of the deposed, and she has nothing to do with Zhou Huan. ”

"Hughed?" The minister glanced at him: "What about the resignation?" ”

Leave the book?

"Please wait, and I'll send someone to find it."

Wu's father hurriedly sent someone to Wu Meiniang's house to look for the letter of resignation.

After a while, someone came to report: "Master, no." ”

"How could it not be? Miss's house is overturned? ”

The next person replied: "Back to the master, I have turned it over, but I haven't found it." ”

Father Wu was so anxious that he was sweating: "My lord, the book of resignation is collected by the little girl herself, and I am afraid that the little girl will have to come back to find it." ”

"Where is Wu Meiniang?" The minister doesn't have time to waste time here.

Father Wu hurriedly bowed his head and knelt down: "The little girl made a mistake because she was confused for a while, and she was detained in the yamen by Lord Huang. ”

"Go, bring Wu Meiniang."

The minister ordered that someone should do it immediately.

In less than two quarters of an hour, Wu Meiniang, who was dressed in prison uniform, was escorted back.

The minister looked at Wu Meiniang, who was kneeling on the ground, and shouted:

"Zhou Huanjun has been stripped of his official position by the emperor for abusing his power for personal gain, if you can't show evidence to prove that you have nothing to do with Zhou Huanjun, then don't blame the official for escorting you back to Beijing."

Wu Meiniang was stunned, Zhou Huanjun was finished, and she only had two ways now. One was that as Zhou Huanjun's wife, she was escorted back to Beijing with Zhou Huanjun, and then died of humiliation and torture as an official slave. One is to completely disassociate himself with Zhou Huanjun and live in prison for a few years.

She didn't want to take either path, but the lesser of two evils. Of course, Wu Meiniang didn't want to lose her personal freedom to be an official slave and let others trample on it.

Wu Meiniang wanted to take out the letter of resignation to prove that she and Zhou Huan had nothing to do with each other, but what she regretted was that she had tore up the letter of resignation with her own hands that day.

Now, if she can't get the letter of resignation, she will have to be escorted away, Wu Meiniang's brain is spinning quickly......

"My lord, the letter of resignation is in the people's girl's room, and the woman will go and get it herself."

"You two follow." The minister ordered two people.

Wu Meiniang returned to her yard under the surveillance of two people.

"This is the boudoir of the people's daughter, please wait here for a while." When she arrived at the door, Wu Meiniang stopped, stared at the ground and did not go inside.

The two officers and soldiers looked at the high walls around her, forgave her that she couldn't run, and allowed her to go in and get it.

Wu Meiniang entered the house and did not come out for a long time.

The two officers and soldiers were waiting a little anxiously, and one of them shouted: "Did you find it?" If we don't come out again, we don't care about any men or women, we just go in. ”

"It's coming, it's coming."

Wu Meiniang held a piece of paper in her hand, and hurriedly walked out in response.

Wu Meiniang was taken back to the minister, and the officers and soldiers pulled the letter of resignation in her hand and handed it to the minister.

The minister looked at it for a long time, raised his head and sneered: "I don't know when this letter of resignation was written by Zhou Huanjun?" ”

Wu Meiniang lowered her head and replied timidly: "Ten days ago." ”

"Ten days? Benguan has lived for decades, and he has never seen an ink blot that has not dried for ten days. Wu Meiniang, are you a fool to be an official? ”

In a rage, the minister threw the letter of resignation to the ground.

"Someone is coming, Wu Meiniang is Zhou Huanjun's wife, and she will be brought back to the capital to obey the fate."

Wu Meiniang knew that the matter could not be hidden, so she shook off the officers and soldiers who were pulling her, and knelt on the ground with a "poof". Crying and begging:

"The adult is angry, the folk girl didn't mean to deceive the adult, but the folk girl was divorced at that time, and she tore up the divorce book in anger, so the folk girl couldn't take out the divorce letter. But many of my house slaves were present at the time, and when the adults asked, they knew whether what the maiden said was true. ”

"Okay, then I'll give you a chance, come, bring the house slave."

The officers and soldiers dispersed, and then all the slaves of the Wu family were brought over.

Dozens of domestic slaves knelt on the ground, and the minister pointed to one of them and asked: "If the official asks you, you have to invite you truthfully, if you lie, don't blame me for being unkind to you." ”

"Yes, the slave will answer honestly."

"Then the official asked you, was your young lady divorced by Zhou Huanjun?"

The house slave who was asked happened to see the whole process of Zhou Huanjun's divorce in the yard that day.

The time has come for meritorious service. I saw him bow his head and excitedly replied:

"Back to my lord, the eldest lady and my aunt came back that day, and my aunt left on the same day because of something, and the eldest lady stayed for a few more days because she was worried about the old lady's illness. Our eldest lady and aunt are in love with each other, how can they be divorced? The person who said this must be jealous of the eldest lady and the aunt's fairy couple, and deliberately spread rumors, adults can't be trusted! ”

This subordinate remembered Wu Chun's warning that day, and vowed not to say anything about Wu Meiniang's dismissal.

The Wu family heard the house slave say this. Angry hate, he couldn't step forward and kill him.

Wu Chun's injuries were not healed, and he knelt down in front of the minister with the support of the little servant:

"My lord, don't listen to this nonsense, Zhou Huanjun has long been dissatisfied with my eldest sister, he ...... He blamed my eldest sister for not being able to give birth to a boy and a girl, so he took the opportunity to leave his eldest sister that day because of a trivial matter. ”

"Childe, you ......"

The slave also knew why Wu Chun took the initiative to reveal this, and was puzzled to ask. was stopped by Wu Chun's eye knife.

The minister stroked his beard and looked at this, at that, and finally stood up.

Wu Meiniang ignored Wang Fa and pretended to write a letter of resignation, and the next person testified that the two of them were in love. It can be seen that Wu Meiniang's dismissal is fake. Come on, take away! ”

"Can't......"

"My lord, my eldest sister and Zhou Huan have nothing to do with each other......"

"My daughter......"

Hearing that Wu Meiniang was taken away, the Wu family cried. As soon as she got the news, the old lady who came out of the house heard this when she heard this, and she was frightened and did not fall down in a breath, and fainted.

Wu Meiniang was tied up and locked in a prison car with Huang Weihai and his family were escorted out of the city by the minister.

Almost all the people of the town came out to see this rare spectacle.

"I heard that the prefect was also arrested, so naturally this prefect's wife can't escape."

"Since the Wu family has climbed the high branch of the prefect's mansion, they have bullied the weak, and now the high branch has fallen, is his Wu family still angry?"

"Lord Huang also deserves it, in order to curry favor with the prefect and support the Wu family, how many shops in the town have been crushed by the Wu family."

"Yo. Why didn't you say that before? ”

"Said before? Where do you dare? Look for death! ”

…… Everyone talked about it, and watched Wu Meiniang and Huang Weihai's family leave.

Su Muling was sitting upstairs reading a book that day, and saw Chen Sheng hurriedly coming in through the open window, and talked to Wei Huai'an in the courtyard for a while. Wei Huai'an came upstairs.

"Is there news in the capital?" Su Muling put down the book and asked.

Wei Huai'an sat down on the chair next to her and nodded:

"News came from the capital that there was unrest in the prison in the west of the city, and the prisoners had escaped. The emperor ordered martial law in the whole city and arrested him. Eight or nine out of 10 have been recaptured, and more than a dozen people are still at large. ”

West? Su Muling suddenly remembered Song Mingjie and his two women, Su Wanqing and Wang, who were being detained in the west of the city.

"The prison in the west of the city is full of extremely vicious felons and traitors, and the guards are extremely strict, how can they escape?"

"Not only that, but since the prison break. Zhan Shi He Qing of Zhan Shifu, Zuo Shuochen, the right attendant of the household department, Qiu Xunliang, the right attendant of Dali Temple, and Qin Mingjing, the left attendant of the household department, were all attacked on the way to the court. The light ones hurt their muscles and bones, and the heavy ones almost lost their lives, which made people panic, and many people even found excuses to ask for leave and did not dare to go to court. ”

"What did a escaped felon?" Su Muling frowned slightly, if this is the case, the capital is afraid that it will be chaotic from now on.

"When a felon's prisoner is released from prison, the first thing he must do must be hidden. Blatantly hurtful ...... It's not like they did. ”

"Is it because of this time that the emperor has only attacked Zhou Huanjun today?" Su Muling asked again.

"It should be." Wei Huai'an stood up and paced a few steps around the room.

"Who did it?"

Xicheng Prison is strictly guarded, and it is extremely unlikely that you want to break through from inside. There must be an external response to do it. External should be ......

"Nangong Yi is on the run and hasn't been caught yet, he is good at disguise, I suspect that Nangong Yi did it."

Wei Huai'an stopped, his eyes sharp.

Nangong Yi? Su Muling also stood up. If all this was really done by Nangong Yi, then he would never stop there, and there would be a plan for the next step.

Now several adult princes and Xiao Wenxuan have been abolished titles, and they are closed, and they are distributed. Nangong Yi wants to start, who will be the next unlucky?