Zhang Hehua shouted angrily: "My lord, wronged, the woman swears that the woman has never coveted his family's silver." ”

"Then you ran to my door to peep for no reason, what are your intentions?" Not to be outdone, Lin Mei retreated.

Sima Geqing saw that Zhang Lotus was hesitant, and he couldn't pour a word out of his mouth for a long time, and then he began to doubt Lin Mei's guess.

"Bold village woman, it's better to recruit truthfully."

Zhang Lotus was excited, and said: "The adults don't know, the uncle of the folk woman is near his house, and the folk woman also went to the concubine's house to visit the door, and I just happened to see it." ”

Lin Mei snorted and laughed.

Sima Geqing wondered why she was smiling.

"Adults don't know, the people's girl's family and Fang Laosan's family, not to mention fifty steps away, the two families just have a slope, the people's girl's family is above, and Fang's third family is below, this matter Ding Zhu can testify quickly, this lotus is full of nonsense, if she can see the situation in the people's courtyard from Fang Laosan's family, unless she has to be as tall as ten zhang, the people's girl is laughing at her and she can't even make up lies."

Sima Geqing saw Ding Jiuzhou nodding to him, and he was furious, "If you don't recruit it truthfully, you will slap your mouth twenty." ”

Zhang Hehua hurriedly said in fright: "The girl of the Lin family is indiscreet, she hooks up everywhere in the village, and the woman just wants to take a sneak peek to see if she can catch her handle." It's so public, who wants to see a strange man in his house. ”

"Hmph, joke, this is such a coincidence, no one else saw it, but you did." Lin Mei didn't give her a chance to plead.

This reminded Zhang Hehua, "Yes, my lord, I have witnesses." ”

Lin Mei and Daddy Lin glanced at each other, and Lin Mei shook her head to reassure Daddy Lin for a while.

"Oh, there are witnesses, why didn't you say it earlier?" Sima Geqing is now energetic.

"The woman also just remembered it, and the kid of the Gu family was able to testify, he was also in the Lin family at the time, and nodded hello to the man, and the adult asked him to ask." Zhang Lotus was like grasping a life-saving straw, looking at the Lin family's father and daughter, eager to make two holes in them.

When Luo Sicheng and King Qi arrived, they saw that Lin Mei had the upper hand, and Zhang Hehua, who was scared, was speechless, so King Qi stopped Luo Sicheng and asked him to calm down and watch the show.

More and more people watched at the gate of the yamen, and the masses who did not know the truth asked the reason, and the people who witnessed the whole case began to solve their doubts.

In an instant, there was a lot of discussion outside the door, and it happened that the witnesses did not arrive, and the quarrel gave Sima Geqing a headache, so he adjourned the court to change his clothes.

"Who is telling the truth between the defendant and the plaintiff?"

"Let me tell you, I know these people, and they are from the same village as me, if you want me to say, the Lin family was wronged, and the Zhang family was not a good person, a mouth was stinky and broken, and the rumors of the girls of the forester family were ruthlessly cleaned up by Li Zheng, and now they are starting to be demons everywhere."

"I can't see it, there is no wind and no waves, not to mention that there are people with witnesses."

Ding Jiuzhou quickly ran to Gu Muqing's house, explained the reason to Gu Muqing, pulled him on the horse, and went straight to the yamen.

In less than an hour, Ding Jiuzhou walked into the yamen with Gu Muqing.

"Mighty~!"

Sima Geqing walked out of the back hall, waited to sit down, and asked directly: "The witnesses in the hall, who are the surnames and names, are truthfully recruited." ”

Gu Muqing looked at the person in his heart kneeling on the ground, and felt very uncomfortable.

knelt directly next to Lin Mei and said, "Back to the adult's words, Xiaomin Gu Muqing." ”

"Do you know what you were called?" Sima Geqing tried the case for the first time, and after trying it for so long, he was already physically and mentally exhausted, and he wanted to try the case as soon as possible and go back to rest as soon as possible.

"Back to the adult's words, Xiaomin knows that yesterday in the Lin family, the kid didn't see a strange man." Gu Muqing said with a weak heart.

Zhang Hehua's brain was blindfolded at once, and she retorted: "You lie, you are because you like that slut, so you cover for her." ”

Sima Geqing frowned, not knowing how to interrogate.

Zhang Hehua was afraid that the adults would not believe her words, so she said aggressively to Gu Muqing: "Gu family boy, you dare to swear that you don't like that slut?" Then what are you doing at the Lin family? I've seen you nod and say hello to the man. ”

This stumped Gu Muqing, he was originally a sincere child, and in terms of eloquence, he was Zhang Hehua's opponent.

Suddenly his face was flushed, and he looked at a loss.

"Hmph, it's ridiculous, the eldest brother of the Gu family went to my house for his aunt to send me chickens, I told the Gu family before, buy two chickens for one hundred yuan to make up for my father's body, the Gu family happened to have something, so I asked Gu Muqing to send it to my family. In this way, you can also plant a false accusation indiscriminately, and put such a big hat on others, so that he usually calls you an aunt. Lin Mei is talking nonsense.

"Hmph, don't try to deceive everyone with clever words." Zhang Lotus was unwilling to confront each other. "You said he was going to deliver chickens, but what about chickens?"

Sima Geqing was confused by them, and also asked, "Well, what about the chickens?" Is that physical evidence? ”

Lin Mei saw that the county order was so absurd and interrogated, and she was even more confident in her heart.

"Lord Hui, this chicken is gone!"

"Look, I can't get any physical evidence, it's clear that he is fooling you with his rhetoric." Zhang Lotus seems to have seen the dawn of victory. As if a fighting had defeated its opponent, he straightened up triumphantly.

"Why is this chicken gone?" Sima Geqing was a little puzzled, could it be that he flew?

Lin Mei expressed sympathy for their ability to understand, looked at Zhang Lotus like a fool, and then looked at the county order, and said: "Lord Hui, it's gone, it means that the food is finished, my court decree does not prohibit the people from eating chicken, and it was killed and stewed at noon yesterday, and it has already reached the belly of the people's family, how can it be conjured up to testify." ”

When the crowd gathered at the door heard this, they burst into laughter.

Even the officials present were holding back their laughter.

Sima Geqing reacted at this time, his face was blue for a while, white for a while, as if he was playing a trick, feeling that he had been played.

"Smack~, Xiao Jing!"

The startle sounded again.

"Due to insufficient evidence in this case, this official now acquits the father and daughter of the Lin family!"

"Wait, sir!" Lin Mei didn't want to leave it at that.

hurriedly opened his mouth and kept the county order.

"Miss Lin, the case has been tried, you can go home." Sima Geqing said impatiently.

"My lord, Lin Mei, a folk girl, lives in Yangshu Village, and now I want to sue Zhang Lotus for framing my Lin family, spreading rumors, ruining the reputation of my Lin family, and plotting against my Lin family, and begging my lord to uphold justice for the people's daughter."

This sudden reversal made the melon-eating masses reluctant to leave, waiting to see how the newly appointed county magistrate would make a fool of himself again.

It's a pity that Sima Geqing didn't have such good patience, and directly pronounced the verdict: "The defendant Zhang Hehua, falsely accused others, convicted, beaten with a cane with 20 boards, fined 20 taels of silver, and detained after the cane." ”

The case was hastily closed, and he turned and left.

This is really cheap for her, Lin Mei glanced at the person who was sitting on the ground, and helped Father Lin to get up.

He saluted and thanked Gu Muqing, and then walked in front of Ding Jiuzhou and saluted: "Thanks to the eldest brother of the Ding family today, the great kindness has no intention of retribution." ”

Luo Sicheng and King Qi were relieved to see that the case was over like this.

Luo Sicheng also smiled and raised his eldest finger to Lin Mei: "Sister Meizi, you are awesome, we originally wanted to stand up and testify, but I didn't expect you to do it alone." ”