Chapter 314: Bureaus
Many unexpected things happened today, but this one is the most shocking.
Before the others could react, Wang Ziweng, who was beaten to the point of being torn apart, was the first to jump up, his legs trembling like chaff, pointing at Zhu Sheng and Chen Jingxi, and stammering: "You, you...... Aren't you two dead? ”
The two walked in and bowed to Chang Qianfo.
Chen Jingxi suddenly turned around, his eyes bulging, just like the appearance of hanging himself that day, glaring at Wang Ziweng, and said gloomily: "The grievances in the world are not settled, and the yin and the earth are not left." Wang Ziweng, you and I worked together, and made the blood-stained human life and wealth, and you could sleep peacefully at night? ”
Wang Ziweng suddenly collapsed, waved his hand and shouted, "It's not me! Not me! I didn't harm you, I was forced too! I was forced! ”
Chang Qianfo said: "Bring him here!" ”
An iron guard stepped forward, grabbed the prince by the collar, lifted it, and threw it into the center of the hall.
There was another "bang", and a young man in a silk robe was thrown in directly from the door. A purple bamboo folding fan flew out in response, "snapped" and fell to the ground, and the fan surface was directly torn in half under the force, and a picture of the flowing stream and rocks painted in ink was unfolded, which was quite a kung fu. It is the painting "Qingxi Rocky Map" by Qi Daoshan, a painter of the Liang Dynasty.
The young man was Wang Minghuan, the nephew of Wang Ziweng.
Li Zhe then strode in.
Chang Qianfo looked at Wang Ziweng coldly and said, "Wang Ziweng, you said that the man in black found you and asked you to mix the brown scale fern into Guan Zhong in the Western medicine storehouse, the day before the civil uprising, yes or no?"
The prince trembled on the ground, and thought to himself: "It's not me, it's not me." ”
Li Zhefei kicked Wang Ziweng over, and shouted: "Ask you, you don't pretend to be crazy and stupid!" ”
Wang Ziweng told him to kick him out of the way, hitting the wall, and his eyes were full of gold stars. Covered in blood, covered in ashes, extremely embarrassed, but the person is sober. His eyes wandered back and forth on Zhu Sheng and Chen Jingxi, and he also understood that the two of them were human beings and not ghosts, and their pale faces recovered a little blood.
Li Zhe repeated the words of Chang Qianfo again.
Wang Ziweng replied weakly: "Back to Gongzi, yes... It was the day before the civil uprising. ”
Chang Qianfo stared at Wang Ziweng and said lightly: "I'll give you another chance, you tell the truth." ”
Wang Ziweng had a trace of fear in his eyes, and he hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look at Chang Qianfo, struggling for a long time, gritting his teeth and saying: "What the old slave said is true. ”
Chang Qianfo was slightly disappointed, slowly withdrew his gaze, and said, "You don't remember, I'll tell you." On the seventeenth of last month, the Hongyun pawnshop in the north of the city received an agate plate with a diameter of eight inches, and the pawnbroker was Wang Minghuan, the nephew of Ling. This agate plate was brought back by Brother Li Tong from the Western Regions the year before last and given to Cheng Zhangshi, and then Cheng Zhangshi transferred it to you, am I right? ”
The prince's palms were sweaty, and he should: "Yes." ”
Chang Qianfo flipped the pawn ticket in his hand and continued: "From April 17 to April 23, in just six days, Ling nephew went to Hongyun Pawnshop, and Luo Shang pawn a total of 31 clothes and items, totaling 2,300 taels of silver. From April 23 to the end of the month, there were small things one after another.
On the second day of the first month of this month, Wang Minghuan suddenly brought money to two pawnshops to redeem 12 items for sale. The next day, Yu Deyuezhai raised the price with others, and bought a purple bamboo folding fan at a high price, the fan surface was the authentic work of Mr. Qi Daoshan of the Liang Dynasty - "Qingxi Chaotic Stone Map", which cost 1,000 silver dollars and 40 taels of silver, and the next day in Wangjiang Xuanzhong purchased a volume of handwritten books from Mr. Lu Qimian, who was a member of the Hongru of this dynasty, and consumed 400 taels of silver......
The prince fell to the ground limply.
The ensuing interrogation went unusually well. The confessions of the Wang family's uncles and nephews are almost inconsistent with those verified by Huo An.
The people behind the scenes started with Wang Minghuan first, and led him to the casino, first let him win for a few days, and after Wang Minghuan tasted the sweetness and increased the stakes, he joined forces to make a game, so that Wang Minghuan lost all his money, not only spit out all the money he won in the first few days, but also owed a large amount of gambling debts.
Wang Minghuan stole things from home and pawned them, and the number of times was too much, and Wang Ziweng was aware of it.
couldn't stand the widow's sister-in-law and nephew's pleading, and he was afraid that this matter would come out and mislead Wang Minghuan's reputation and future, Wang Ziweng didn't dare to mention it to the people in the hall, and scraped together money to pay off Wang Minghuan's debts. also caused dissatisfaction among his wife and daughter, and the family was restless, but he still couldn't fill the hole in the gambling debts owed by Wang Minghuan.
Seeing the money rolling day by day, the uncle and nephew were anxious. At this time, someone came to the door and placed a heavy order, asking Wang Minghuan to copy a batch of calligraphy and paintings.
At this time, Wang Minghuan was like a drowning man, and when he saw the straw, he just reached out to grab it, how could he still think about whether there was fraud in it. I don't think about it. The next day, he handed over the calligraphy and paintings, and used the money he got to pay off the gambling debts.
I thought this was the end of the matter.
I didn't think that on the third day, Wang Minghuan was walking on the street, and was suddenly arrested by the officers and soldiers, saying that Wang Minghuan and a group of antique dealers selling fakes made a batch of fake paintings and calligraphy, and the paintings were bought by the younger brother of the emperor's new favorite concubine Concubine Rong, that is, the emperor's brother-in-law, and entered the palace.
Wang Minghuan is a scholar, he was born to do his duty, he has been a good citizen for more than 20 years, and suddenly he became a felony who angered the Son of Heaven and asked for food, how not to be afraid of it, trembling and being locked up in prison for most of the day, and in the evening, a long history came, and he was respectfully invited out.
When a big man heard about this, he was quite aggrieved by Wang Minghuan, and after he came to see the painting he copied, he greatly appreciated his talent, and then asked for a pardon for him. Of course, Wang Minghuan is not completely exonerated from the crime, and it depends on the after-effects.
Since then, the uncle and nephew of the Wang family have been firmly grasped in the palm of his hand by the "big man".
Through the words of the long history, the "big man" knew the operation and personnel arrangements of the Western medicine depot well.
The day before the theft of the Western medicine storehouse, Chen Jingxi's youngest grandson Chen Xiang'an and Zhu Sheng's son Zhu Changting were kidnapped, and the gangsters took the lives of Chen Xiang'an and Zhu Changting as a threat, and asked Zhu Sheng and Chen Jingxi for a batch of tri-leaf green medicinal materials.
At this time, the plague was rampant, and the three-leaf green was a sought-after medicinal material, except for the east and west medicine depots of Huairentang, there was no way to find such a large number of three-leaf greens in Chuzhou City.
At the instigation of that Changshi, Prince Weng's uncle and nephew appeared at the right time to dissuade Zhu Sheng and Chen Jingxi from asking Jiang Yue for help.
Zhu Chen and the others did not dare to risk the lives of their descendants, so they could only take risks and use their positions to steal medicinal materials from the Western medicine storehouse.
The next day, the theft occurred, and after Chang Qianfo left, Prince Weng led the quarrelsome Zhu and Chen to the council hall and asked Chang Qianfo to adjudicate the matter.
After that, the day before the Chuzhou civil uprising, Na Changshi found Wang Ziweng again and asked him to mix the brown scale fern into the medicinal herbs that would be fried out of the warehouse the next day. Although Wang Ziweng did so, he was tortured by his conscience the next day, so that Guan Zhong, who was mixed with brown scale ferns, was intercepted...... The uncle and nephew were interrogated separately, their confessions were consistent, and the details were verified with everyone in the Western medicine store, and there were no loopholes, which should be true.
The trick is a trick, but the mysterious so-called "big man" went around in such a big circle, and let Wang Ziweng poison him, and let Zhu Chen and the others steal the medicine, what is the plan? But it's confusing.
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