The officials hurriedly stopped him, and Tong Shi shouted at him: "Zou Yi, if you make another mistake in the court, this official will officially designate you as a suspect now!" ”

Zou Yi stopped unwillingly, and cried out aggrievedly: "Lord Tong, the lower official is really wronged!" Please also ask the adults to check clearly, and give the officials a fair look! ”

Tong Shi said coldly: "Isn't this official investigating the case now?" ”

Zou Yi didn't dare to speak anymore for the time being, and quickly stood back in his original position.

Zou Yi is not aggrieved and annoyed at all now, he only hates himself for being cowardly at the beginning, otherwise if he is ruthless and directly sends someone to solve Yan Yongde's family, where will he capsize here?

Tong Shi continued to say to Xiang Yuanjie: "Xiang Yuanjie, although what you just said is reasonable, it does not come up with actual evidence. Can you come up with any actual evidence to prove that Lord Zou instructed you to hide Lord Yan's family? ”

Xiang Yuanjie replied confidently: "The grass people just analyzed the motive of Lord Zou just now, and the process of committing the crime is to let the adults know in their hearts. Now the grass people are going to come up with actual evidence! ”

Xiang Yuanjie's words made Tong Shi and the others very excited, but Zou Yi's face sank suddenly.

Zou didn't expect Xiang Yuanjie, an old fox, to come up with what kind of evidence, if this evidence could really prove his crime, then he didn't have to wait to return to the state capital, and he could be convicted by the two Qincha from the capital just in this small county.

Zou Yi couldn't sit still, and immediately thought about how to deal with it.

At this time, everyone's eyes were focused on Xiang Yuanjie, all waiting for him to say the key evidence that could prove Zou Yi's crime.

"Lord Qiqi, when Lord Zou was discussing this matter with the grass people, the grass people deliberately kept an eye on it, let the four people who transported the boxes sit down and rest, and added a little ancestral poison to their tea, this poison can remain in the human body for three to five days, and at most five days the person will bleed to death, and can only be removed by taking the antidote. And those four people are the four guards around Lord Zou, as long as they ask Lang Zhong to check their pulse, they can know whether the grass people's words are true or false! ”

The evidence that Xiang Yuanjie said didn't need to be confirmed at all, as soon as he heard that he had been poisoned, the four guards hurriedly came over with sad faces.

"Please, sir, help! The little ones are just an errand boy, and no one dares to disobey the orders of Lord Zhizhou! The little ones know it's wrong! ”

The four of them begged one after another for a while, and a guard hurriedly crawled to Xiang Yuanjie's side.

"Xiang Yuanwai, please give us the antidote quickly, if it's too late, I'm afraid it will be too late!"

Xiang Yuanjie said unhurriedly: "It's not difficult for you to want an antidote, as long as you confess your crimes, I will give you the antidote!" ”

Another guard suddenly said pessimistically: "But we have already committed the felony of kidnapping the imperial court officials, which is a capital crime, even if there is an antidote, what is the use?" ”

When Tong Shi heard this, he immediately said: "If you are willing to completely confess your crimes, this official can consider pardoning your capital crimes." A manly man, as long as there is a life left, there will always be a day to turn over in the future! ”

Tong Shi's words played a very encouraging role, and as soon as he finished speaking, Wan Lin also followed up and said: "Although you have committed a serious crime, you can make meritorious contributions to the crime, as long as the testimony you provide can confirm the guilt of the person who instructed you, you can reduce the crime accordingly." As public people, you should also know some laws, right? ”

Wan Lin's words made them even more moved, and one of the guards immediately kowtowed to Tong Shi and replied loudly: "The little one is willing to confess all his crimes!" ”

The other three all chimed in.

Zou Yi was completely dumbfounded this time, he never thought that Xiang Yuanjie would leave such a hand!

He now finally knows why Xiang Yuanjie became the richest man in the county, such a cunning and cautious person, if he does not become the richest man, it is intolerable.

"Wait!"

Zou Yi shouted.

"Zou Yi, do you want to take the initiative to confess?"

Tong Shi had already sentenced Zou Yi in his heart, and now he was not in a hurry to let him kneel down and convict him as a suspect, but he knew that he would definitely not be able to escape.

Zou Yi took a few steps forward and knelt down.

"Lord Qiqi, Xia Guan just wants to raise an objection. Xiang Yuanjie said that he poisoned the tea, did everyone really believe it? In fact, I don't hide it from my lord, Xia Guan has long known that these four people are eating inside and out! They have long been bought by Xiang Yuanjie, and they have joined forces to slander the lower officials! ”

Tong Shi forcibly listened to Zou Yi's words with disgust, and ignored him at all, but said to Wan Lin: "Lord Wan, those Lang Zhong with the best medical skills in the county haven't left yet, right?" ”

Wan Lin replied: "Yes, the lower officials asked them to guard Lord Yan's house for one night." ”

Tong Shi immediately ordered: "Let a few of them come over and check the pulse of these four guards to see if they have been poisoned?" ”

Wan Lin nodded, and Tan Su immediately went to invite Lang Zhong.

Zou was in charge, and he still had a trace of luck in his heart, but in order to save his life, he still said a word cheekily.

"Xia Guan has offended many people as the governor of Heling Prefecture over the years, and he has long thought of the day when he was slandered and framed. Xiaguan has already written a letter to the second uncle, Lian Xiangye, once the official is framed one day, he will ask him to help Xiaguan to prove Xiaguan's innocence. Xia Guan didn't want to defend anything now, and voluntarily followed the two adults back to Beijing to ask for guilt! At that time, whether the lower officials are guilty or not will be found out. ”

In the process of contacting Zou Yi in the past two days, he intentionally or unintentionally mentioned his relationship with Lian Jingwei, and said that he was Lian Jingwei's most important junior, and they often exchanged letters, and Lian Jingwei also said that he would be transferred back to Beijing after two years of local training.

Originally, Tong Shi was annoyed because he boasted about his relationship with Lian Jingwei, but at this time, he mentioned his relationship with Lian Jingwei more bluntly, and Tong Shi was even more annoyed.

"Bold Zou Yi! Your surname is Zou, and your surname is Lian, how did he become your second uncle? ”

Unexpectedly, Zou Yi explained unhurriedly: "Xiaguan married to the Lian family with his mother's second mother. Although Xia Guan is not surnamed Lian, he has grown up beside Lian Xiangye since he was a child, and he is as close to Lian Xiangye as father and son. Later, even Xiangye entered Beijing as an official, although we met rarely, we often exchanged letters, and the second uncle's concern for the lower officials did not decrease in the slightest. ”

"If you think that moving out of Lian Xiangye can scare the official, then you just didn't take Your Majesty seriously? Okay, you bold fanatic, it seems that the official can't be polite to you anymore! ”

Tong Shi was not only really angry by Zou Yi's arrogance, but he also wanted to take this opportunity to make meritorious contributions in front of the emperor, if Zou Yi's case could be thoroughly investigated, the emperor would definitely look down on him.

"Come on, first give him twenty boards as a punishment for contempt for the court and disobedience to His Majesty!"

Wan Lin thought that Zou Yi would be able to calm down, but he didn't expect that when his crime was about to be revealed, he would be flustered and messed up, and even moved Lian Jingwei out.

Lian Jingwei's name can at most scare and scare local officials, Tong Shi and Wan Lin are under the orders of Qincha, are they still afraid that a right minister will not succeed?

Zou Yi's twenty boards are sturdy and very solid, but they just made him suffer and didn't hurt his muscles and bones.

The dignified Zhizhou was slapped in front of everyone in the public court of the county government, and saying it would make people laugh out of their teeth.

Xiang Yuanjie watched him be tortured coldly, but the hatred in his heart had not decreased.

Xiang Yuanjie said to Tong Shi again: "My lord, this Zou Yi not only used such ruthless methods in order to retaliate against Lord Yan for reporting his crimes, but he also forcibly looted the silver of merchants who were slightly prosperous in business in all parts of the state capital, otherwise he would threaten us with extremely high taxes." Moreover, he also occupied the farmers' fields, displaced countless farmers, and how many villages and towns became deserted villages and deserted towns without people under his oppression! ”

After Xiang Yuanjie finished speaking, he couldn't help crying.

Everyone listened to Xiang Yuanjie's denunciation of Zou Yi's crimes, and they were all so angry that they gritted their teeth.

At this time, those Lang Zhong came, checked the pulse of the four guards, and then came to the same conclusion.

The four guards were indeed poisoned, and it was a rare poison.

One of the oldest Lang Zhong said: "The poison in their body is rumored to be called the Five-Day Soul Transformation Pill, which can make people die after three or five days, but people will not notice it at all before the poison. We originally thought that this poison only existed in rumors, but we didn't expect it to be there! Judging from their pulse, if there is no antidote, it will be almost tomorrow this time, when the four strong people are poisoned! ”

"It turns out that what Xiang Yuanjie said is true!" Wan Linxian said with emotion.

Tong Shi immediately said to Xiang Yuanjie: "Xiang Yuanjie, can you take out your antidote?" ”

Xiang Yuanjie nodded, "The grass people do what they say, as long as the four of them can confess their own and Zou Yi's crimes, the grass people will tell you where the antidote is." ”

As soon as Xiang Yuanjie's words fell, a guard hurriedly shouted: "The little one will confess!" ”

Then came the moment when the four of them scrambled to confess their crimes.

Ruan Xiang has also been a county magistrate for several years, and has tried thousands of cases, but I have never seen that suspect confess to a crime so actively!

In order to let the four guards confess their crimes clearly, Tong Shi later asked them to confess one by one, and the crimes they confessed were all consistent, not only confessing all the immoral things they had done for Zou Yi before, but also confessing all the things that Zou Yi planned to kidnap and murder Yan Yongde's family.

Their confession is the same as what Xiang Yuanjie said before, Zou Yi just wanted to let Yan Yongde's family disappear first, and then let them die after Tong Shi and Wan Lin left Shiliang County.

Everyone was shocked by Zou Yi's viciousness, and they accused him of being inferior to a beast.

Zou Yi was beaten to the point that his skin was broken, and he didn't have much strength to defend.

Tong Shi immediately said: "Zou Yi intended to murder the imperial court officials, accept bribes, and force businessmen to pay bribes, forcibly occupy peasant land, buy and sell officials, despise the imperial court, disobey Your Majesty, and create several unjust, false and wrongful cases for money!" His crimes are too numerous to mention! ”