As soon as the woman heard that it was poisoned, the bag of rice she was carrying fell to the ground, and the person went limp.

Xiao Gao soon came over with an official messenger, and he pointed to the woman on the ground:

"It's this woman's husband."

"No, he's not my husband! I only met him today! I'm from Niuzhuang, no, you can ask, my husband died three years ago. This person...... He asked me to come in and testify to him......"

"Nonsense! From beginning to end, he said that he was your husband, and you also charged me fifty taels of silver, saying that it was a private compensation! ”

When the shopkeeper heard that it had nothing to do with him, his voice became louder.

Hua Qiao smiled: "You go and find out, where did they eat an hour ago?" It must have been mixed with poison in the food, this poison is not arsenic, and the silver needle can't detect it, don't let her be blinded. ”

"Framed! Since it can't be detected, why do you say that he is poisoned? What kind of poison is it? The woman cried out by the neck.

Hua Qiao didn't speak, and used her toes to pick open the outermost hem of the man's clothes on the ground, revealing the crotch of his pants, and everyone realized that his pants were already stained with blood.

"Still trying to quibble? Do you want to ask someone to find dozens of castor beans and let you eat them to see if you have the same symptoms! ”

The two officials who came were the catchers in the county government, and they smiled at Zhang Yue and Hua Qiao:

"Don't worry, adults, we have seen a lot of this kind of person, pull back a few sticks and go down, and recruit everything. It's just that I have to bother a few people to go with us, and we can go back after recording the painting. ”

The woman was pulled back to the yamen, and before the stick went down, she was already crying wolf:

"Don't hit me! I'm recruiting! I'm recruiting! ”

"Today I hired a donkey driver on the road, and I asked him if he had any women, and he said no, and I said that I had no men either, and we did that in the field.

When I came to the county seat, I coaxed him and told him that his clothes were not eye-catching at my house, and asked him to buy clothes, so I went to pick some castor seeds, peeled them and hammered them, and mixed them in rice, and when he bought clothes, I coaxed him to eat.

I burned two holes in the corners of my clothes with incense, and told him to go to the shopkeeper and lose money, and when the time came, he was white. And when the donkey driver believed me, he took me to the cloth village to make trouble.

At this time, he had a poisoning attack on his stomach, so I said that the shopkeeper and the monk beat him to death, and asked them to pay for it......"

Zhang Yue shook his head again and again:

"It's really the most poisonous woman's heart! People are just coaxed by you to take your body once, but you want to use other people's corpses to blackmail! If it weren't for your greed and even the monk didn't let go, I'm afraid you would have been riding a donkey and carrying fifty taels of silver bills home, right? ”

On the way back to the temple, Mingyuan couldn't help asking: "Castor is just an ordinary thing, it is so poisonous, can't it be detoxified?" ”

"I haven't seen a drug that specifically relieves castor poison, only that boiled castor seeds are not toxic."

Zhang Yue didn't speak with one hand behind his back, and Hua Qiao asked him curiously:

"What do you think? The most poisonous woman's heart? Who taught you this? ”

"I suddenly remembered that Hu Yanjin should also be investigating the cases of the twenty or so monks at this time, I don't know what the reason is?" Zhang Yue didn't say a word: Why did you get involved with the monk today?

Huyanjin in the capital was not as smooth as Hua Qiao, and the woman was stopped in three or two sentences.

Hua Qiao was right, there were only two people in the Sanglu Division, and this was a case of rebellion, so they quickly handed over the more than 20 monks to the Criminal Department.

Rebellion is the first evil among the heinous evils, and it has always been directly judged by the emperor, and the criminal department did not hand over the case to Dali Temple again, but directly submitted it to the emperor and asked the emperor to decide.

Fortunately, they notified Hu Yanjin in advance, and he discussed with Xu Zhijin to stop the case first.

"Your Majesty, can this case be remanded back to Dali Temple for retrial?" Xu Zhijin stepped forward and said.

"Oh? Rebellion cases are all beheadings, what is worth retrieving? ”

Hu Yanjin also came out and said: "The monks are monks, the six roots are pure, and they rebel, what benefits can they get?" In addition, they were wronged along the way, if they were really killed in vain, it would be a great disrespect to the Buddha, please think twice. ”

The emperor thought about it, this year has indeed been uneven, if he angers the Buddha, he doesn't know what will happen.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I will give you three days, and the case will be tried by the Dali Temple, the Inspectorate, the Criminal Department, and the three divisions." Three days later, if there is no sufficient evidence, these twenty-four monks will be beheaded outside the noon gate! ”

With only three days, it was impossible for them to go to Xianning, two thousand miles away, to collect evidence, and the only material was the file that had been sent with the prisoner, and this was the file they needed to overturn.

The two walked out of the main hall together, and now, they could only start with those monks.

From Xianning to the capital to carry out the execution, this is the rule set by Emperor Taizu. At that time, he was afraid that officials in various places would kill innocents indiscriminately, so Emperor Taizu stipulated that the death penalty must be reported to the Beijing Division, and the execution would be carried out after the trial of the three law divisions.

These twenty-four monks were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department.

Hu Yanjin and they discussed and decided that the three legal divisions would be arraigned separately.

After they tried two people each, they basically had the cause that was not written outside the case file:

Because becoming a monk can be exempted from paying taxes, some commoners who cannot afford to pay taxes choose to become monks. In addition to taxes, more importantly, the monks have no children, which will inevitably affect population growth.

In order to limit the number of monks, Emperor Taizu made some restrictions on monks in various places.

There are many temples in Xianning County, Chang'an, and the local government has not opened the new monks of the temples for a long time in order to collect taxes. In many temples, there are only old monks and no young monks.

The temple hosts of the Ming Dynasty were all appointed by the imperial court, which means that the temple was also under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

These presiding officers saw that Xianning County deliberately distorted the decrees of the imperial court for their own interests, so they wanted to go to the government office to protest.

Who knew that before he set off to go to the Chang'an Mansion, he was reported by a monk, and the twenty-four monks who met were served by the county government.

In the past two years, the dynasty has changed, and the emperor values the most is the officials who quell the rebellion, which is the first merit. Li Ying of the Shaanxi Xingdu Division is an example of counterinsurgency promotion.

The Xianning County Commander immediately condemned the monks to a protest and sentenced them to death. is waiting to be pulled to Beijing to be beheaded, and the emperor will add an official to himself.

"My lord, we have no intention of rebelling against the imperial court, what we want to resist is the local officials, who abuse their power and misinterpret the law, so that the monks in the temple are not accepted."

"My lord! We just want to defend the rights of the temple, is this a rebellion? ”

Wu Zhong Wu Shangshu and Hu Yanjin of the Criminal Department walked out together, and Wu Shangshu said:

"Even if they are just self-proved, we should let the emperor know the truth. If you condone this behavior in Xianning County, what is the difference between it and encouraging the killing of good people and taking credit? ”

Hu Yanjin nodded and said: "Yes, this is not a matter of cutting off twenty-four heads, the Inspectorate will also send someone to Chang'an Mansion to investigate and verify, but to persuade the emperor, give up the decision to execute first." ”

After Wu Shangshu left, Hu Yanjin stood outside the criminal department, waiting for Xu Zhijin to come out after sorting out the interrogation case.

Suddenly, he saw Teng Ding and Li Ying and walked towards him.