Chapter XXXVII

The spring of the mansion, the empty shadow floats and the clouds sweep the screen, and the blue lake is like a mirror.

When the carriage of the Jiangfu came over, the people at the door were already boiling, and a few people with hot personalities scolded directly: "I didn't expect Lord Tan to be a negative man!" ”

The family who came after him roughly separated the crowd and told the prime minister to get out of the car and walk into the hall, and Jing Zhaoyin stood up and saluted him. The prime minister still gave face, gave Jing Zhaoyin a handful, and then stood beside the two women who were kneeling.

He glanced at Huanjiu, and his face was unwavering: "You are Miss Lu?" ”

"Yes, I'm here today to avenge my sister." Huanjiu knelt on the ground and glared at him hatefully, "What she said is true, but you let people beat her as a troublemaker, causing her to ...... at the age of a flower."

The sound of the wine was choked, and Yu Wen looked at her in the crowd, distressed. The emotions expressed by Huanjiu now must be real. Every time she said "my sister" and "her", it was extremely difficult, and she had to go back to the past and look at that poor self.

"This girl, I'm afraid you have the wrong person." The Prime Minister frowned, as if he was unhappy that a stranger had shown such strong emotions to him.

"Tan Yihuan! My sister died for you, and she was still chanting your name before she died, how can you be so ruthless? Huanjiu stood up excitedly.

"Bold! How can you call Lord Tan by his name? ”

Huanjiu's words are sad: "My lord, the little sister of the slave family was separated from me due to the war when she was young, and she only met me two years ago. But this first meeting turned out to be our last! ”

She glanced at the prime minister and continued: "The little sister told the slave family everything before she took her last breath, and she was picked up by a woman in the Qinglou after she was separated, and she has been growing up in the Qinglou since then, and later became a well-known kabuki in Xincheng.

Twelve years ago, not long after she became famous, a young man Tan Yihuan, who was about to catch the spring festival, fell in love with her at first sight, so he came to the Qinglou every day to listen to her sing and express his heart. The little sister is still young, and she immediately fell in love. The two made a private decision for life, made an oath, and gave jade as a letter, and their feelings were sincere.

"After the boy left, he took a good reputation, and since then he has been in the officialdom steadily, and he has been in the official position for 12 years. But he didn't know that Huan Yi was so cold in the Qinglou that he no longer accepted customers, and he couldn't stand it and wanted to find the Tan Yihuan in the capital.

"But the other party said he didn't know her."

Huanjiu staggered to the prime minister's side and looked directly at him: "But Tan Yihuan said that he doesn't know Lu Huanyi." ”

The prime minister took a step back: "The girl really misunderstood, there is no ...... below"

"Tan Yihuan ......"

"Don't call the Prime Minister by his name......"

These three sentences were said almost at the same time, and in the flash of light, Yu Wen only felt that the light bursting out of Huanjiu's tearful eyes could instantly kill Jing Zhaoyin, who had ruined the atmosphere.

Huan Jiu continued to ask in her trembling voice: "Tan Yihuan, are you worthy of your conscience?" ”

"This is upright and has a clear conscience."

Originally, the onlookers were pointing fingers at Lord Tan and saying that he was unfaithful; But after the prime minister came, he was very calm and not panicked at all, so the people were also wondering if it was really just a misunderstanding.

"What a clear conscience." Huanjiu took out half of the jade pendant that Fang Cai Jing Zhaoyin gave her, "Let me ask you, do you dare to say to this jade pendant with your name on it, do you have a clear conscience?" ”

The prime minister calmly stroked his beard: "Miss Lu, don't mess around, this appearance has been repeated many times and I don't know Lu Huanyi." ”

"Do you dare to swear?"

"Why did the prime minister swear casually because of a strange woman's slander?" The prime minister sneered, "Miss Lu also thinks too highly of herself. ”

Joyful and drunk: "Tan Yihuan, you ......" She said that she was going to pull the prime minister's sleeve, but Lord Tan couldn't dodge it, and pulled with her, stalemate.

Here, Jing Zhaoyin saw that the prime minister was threatened, and asked the officials on both sides to go up and pull away the wine, and the onlookers kept discussing, and the scene was chaotic.

"Mrs. Xiangfu has arrived!" A sedan chair came out from behind the crowd, and Mrs. Tan was dragged down by the maid and walked in belatedly.

She was not in a hurry, walked to the side of the wine that was pulling with the prime minister, and raised her hand to slap her.

Huanjiu was beaten so that he let go of Tan Yihuan's sleeves and fell to the ground, the corners of his mouth were bloody, and there was a bright red five-finger print on the left side of his face, which showed how heavy Mrs. Tan's hands were.

Mrs. Tan didn't look at the fall to the ground, and smiled at Jing Zhaoyin, who was frightened by her, and saluted: "My lord, it's about my family, and I can't complain that the concubine has rushed into the court." ”

She stood beside the prime minister and asked meekly, "Can the prime minister be injured by that shrew?" The prime minister still replied nonchalantly: "No, thank you for your kindness." ”

Lu Baiyi couldn't stand it anymore, and after carefully lifting Huanjiu up, he said to Jing Zhaoyin: "My lord, not to mention whether Tan Yihuan is guilty, just because he indulged the soldiers defending the city to kick and beat innocent women two years ago, causing her casualties, what crime should he be guilty of?" ”

Jing Zhaoyin replied: "The chief messenger will be fined ten taels of silver, and the rod will be punished twenty times; Accomplice offenders are fined five taels of silver, and ten strokes of the rod. ”

Zai replied: "I have never done it, why should I be punished?" ”

"The slave family saw it with their own eyes."

"Just based on the words of the Qinglou woman, it is not credible."

There was a commotion among the onlookers: "Why can't you be trusted? Don't you treat the Qinglou woman as a person? Yu Wen looked back and saw that it was Ling Xiao who played the piano that day. She continued to shout: "Then don't come to the Qinglou to hug left and right!" ”

"Ling Xiao!" A woman next to her covered her mouth and dragged her away from the crowd. But as soon as Ling Xiao shouted like this, the people also exploded.

"Ruqin Lady is beautiful, what the beauty says must be the truth......"

"I can't imagine that today's prime minister can't be fair to people, probably because he is weak and doesn't dare to accept the offer."

"If I stand up to help, will Ruqin be willing to have a night with me......

An old woman walked out: "My lord, the old man also witnessed the girl in Huanyi being beaten alive and fainted. ”

Another farmer exclaimed, "I remember, two years ago I seem to have seen a woman beaten by a group of soldiers. ”

There weren't many people who saw the events of that year, and even fewer remembered them, and only three people were willing to come out to testify, including Lu Baiyi.

The prime minister's face finally fluctuated: "The old man is unconscious, and the farmer may not be the girl in Huanyi." ”

"You're still going to quibble?" Huanjiu's tone was as cold as frost and snow, "Tan Yihuan, if you can swear in court today that you have never been negative, I will go back to Xincheng to guard my sister's coffin for the rest of my life, and never come to the capital again." ”

The smile on Mrs. Tan's face was gone: "The barbarian woman is blackmailed, thinking that as soon as she talks nonsense, the princess can swear by your life?" ”

Jing Zhaoyin patted the shocked wood, cleared his throat and said majestically: "The physical evidence and human evidence are complete, Lord Tan, please don't waste time for no reason." The official ......"

"Slow down, adult." Huan Jiu interrupted his sentence, "Tan Yihuan, I don't need you to take silver taels, and I don't want to see you blamed, as long as you swear an oath, you will never be entangled from now on." ”

The prime minister seemed to be secretly relieved, glanced at Mrs. Tan, and then stretched out his hand and swore: "I, Tan Yihuan, have never known Xincheng Lu Huanyi, and I have never been negative. ”

Huanjiu's face turned pale, and he knelt down and kowtowed to Jing Zhaoyin: "My lord, maybe it's really a mistake by the people's daughter, I'm very sorry." ”

She said to Tan Yihuan word by word: "Tan Yihuan, I underestimated you. From now on, the Xincheng Lu clan will never appear in front of you again. ”

Then the wine was like a piece of paper, quietly floating out of the court under the astonished eyes of everyone.

Lu Huanyi died.