Chapter 361: People's Heart
"You're right, you Orientals have a saying, call the soldiers to block, and the water to cover the earth, I think it makes a lot of sense."
"In fact, all the conspiracies and tricks in this world are not a problem, the real problem is that in the face of soldiers and water, there is no general to stop, and there is no soil to hide." Ske immediately chimed in.
"Yes." Xiao Qiongzhi nodded heavily.
At the same time, the other court officials present and the ordinary people around them also began to talk about Wei Feng.
Without exception, they all expressed shock, disappointment, and anger at Wei Feng's behavior.
On the contrary, it was Xiao Xuanliang, Xiao Zhenjia, and Xiao Zhengzhen, because they had long known Wei Feng's personality, and they did not make a sound.
After a while, Shi Qian also returned.
He brought back the mother-in-law who Wen Yugui said and gave birth to Chen Lingfeng, as well as the housekeeper who was related to the midwife next to Mrs. Wen Fu.
Among them, the mother-in-law who delivered Chen Lingfeng at the beginning, when Xiao Xuanliang interrogated her, refused to say anything, just lowered her head and cried.
However, the housekeeper who was related to the midwife next to Mrs. Wen admitted everything.
Moreover, she didn't need anyone else to remind her, so after admitting everything, she took the initiative to turn her head and say to the mother-in-law who delivered Chen Lingfeng: "Eldest sister, when I came over, Mrs. Wen learned the reason why I came and said something to me, I think it's all right." ”
She said, you will definitely be punished for fear of affecting your family, and you will not dare to admit everything. But you were threatened by Wei Feng's people to use our Wang family's whole family, and you were forced to do that, although it was very undesirable, in fact, there are extenuating circumstances, Your Majesty may not be angry with our Wang family because of you. ”
"In addition, the paper can't contain the fire, the matter has already happened and has been found out, then, if you don't admit it, there is no point at all, only by taking the initiative to confess everything to Your Majesty, and making meritorious contributions, there is a way out."
"This ......" The mother-in-law who delivered Chen Lingfeng stopped crying, and looked up at Mrs. Wen's side, the housekeeper who was related to the midwife, and looked hesitant.
Xiao Qiongzhi looked anxious and was about to open her mouth to encourage her, but Chen Jingzhi spoke first.
He looked at the mother-in-law who Chen Lingfeng delivered with a serious look, and said solemnly: "Mother-in-law Zhou, you honestly explain everything to Your Majesty." ”
"If you are really forced to be helpless, so you have to do what Wei Feng instructs, the old man can intercede with His Majesty on your behalf, and prevent your family from being affected because of your crimes."
"Xiangye, is what you said true?" The mother-in-law who delivered Chen Lingfeng immediately lit up, turned her head, and asked seriously.
After she gave birth to Mrs. Chen, she began to win Mrs. Chen's trust.
Chen Minghua's nurse was selected by her with the help of Mrs. Chen.
For this reason, she took the opportunity to send her youngest son to the Chen Mansion as a guard, and learned from her youngest son's mouth that Chen Jingzhi, like Mrs. Chen, was a very amiable person.
In her heart, she has always had deep respect and trust for Chen Jingzhi.
However, Chen Jingzhi didn't answer her words, just nodded solemnly at her.
She was relieved and immediately explained everything truthfully.
It turned out that fifteen years ago, not long after Chen Lingfeng became pregnant with Xiao Qiongzhi, a young man suddenly appeared, taking advantage of the fact that Mrs. Zhou's eldest son was good at gambling, deliberately pretending to be a good person first, approaching Mrs. Zhou's eldest son, and then lending money to Mrs. Zhou's eldest son in the name of a friend to gamble.
In less than two months, Mrs. Zhou's eldest son owed the young man three thousand taels of silver.
At this time, the young man showed his true face, took the IOU written by Mrs. Zhou's eldest son, and went to Wang's house to ask for repayment.
This is an astronomical amount for the entire Wang family, and it can't be repaid at all.
But no matter how much the young man has, he threatens the head of the Wang family-Wang Laogen, either to let Wang Laogen's wife-midwife Zhou Pozi promise to help him do one thing to offset the three thousand taels of silver, or within three days, return him three thousand taels of silver, otherwise, kill all the men of the Wang family, and send all the women to prostitution.
Wang Laogen and Mrs. Zhou were very embarrassed, so they had to ask first, and they needed Mrs. Zhou to promise to help him do something.
The young man told Mrs. Zhou alone that this matter was how Chen Lingfeng died in childbirth without knowing or unknowingly, with one corpse and two lives.
The young man also warned Mrs. Zhou not to leak this matter, otherwise, no matter whether Mrs. Zhou helped him do this or not, the entire Wang family would die.
Mrs. Zhou carried the young man behind her back and quietly discussed this matter with Wang Laogen.
Both of them felt that they couldn't do anything that hurt nature and reason, so they still chose to repay the money, and quietly went to Mrs. Chen to borrow it first, if they could borrow it, everything would be fine, and if they couldn't borrow it, they would do it according to the young man's instructions.
As a result, Mrs. Chen was willing to borrow, but she said that the amount of 3,000 taels of silver was too huge, and she demanded that the entire Wang family, from Wang Laogen and Zhou Pozi, to their sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and grandchildren, must all sell themselves to the Chen family as slaves to pay off their debts.
Wang Laogen and Mrs. Zhou both felt that Mrs. Chen's request was completely understandable and acceptable, and they had no opinion, and the family all signed the deed of sale and got the three thousand taels of silver given by Mrs. Chen.
It's just that when they returned the three thousand taels of silver to the young man, the young man repented again, saying that Mrs. Zhou already knew what he asked Mrs. Zhou to do, and he couldn't trust Mrs. Zhou, and unless Mrs. Zhou did what he told him, he would still kill their whole family.
And, as a warning, he asked his subordinates to force everyone in the Wang family to take the poison, and they could not give the antidote until it was done.
Mrs. Zhou had no choice but to do as he was told.
At first, the young man just asked her to quietly add a lot of tonic medicine and a little medicine that is easy to make the fetus malformed in the soup that Chen Lingfeng drank during Chen Lingfeng's pregnancy, and every time she went to visit Chen Jingzhi and Mrs. Chen in Chen's mansion, so that the fetus not only grew very big and was easy to cause dystocia, but even if she was born, it was just a freak and was not tolerated by the world.
However, Mrs. Zhou is not a vicious person, although she was forced to do so, she still couldn't do it.
She just added a lot of tonic medicine to the soup that Chen Lingfeng drank, and did it truthfully; As for adding drugs that tend to cause fetal malformations, she did not do so.
Moreover, she couldn't trust the young people, even if she added tonic, it was not the tonic given by the young man, but the serious tonic that she used the three thousand taels of silver that Mrs. Chen lent her, and took a part of it out to buy the serious tonic.
In addition, her youngest son is clever, he only went to Chen's Mansion to be a nurse for more than a month, and was appreciated by Uncle Chen's Mansion.
This kid was unwilling to be at the mercy of that young man, five days before Chen Lingfeng gave birth, after the young man came to tell Mrs. Zhou to do things, he quietly followed and found that the young man had entered Beijing to serve a Zhuangzi.
And that Zhuangzi is Wei Feng's secret stronghold.
He waited outside for a long time, and later, he saw with his own eyes that Wei Feng and the young man came out talking and laughing together.
So, after they left, he quietly sneaked into the Zhuangzi, and inside, searched carefully, and found several handwritten letters from Wei Feng in collusion with Sidi.
He immediately found someone to imitate the handwriting and copy these letters, and spent a lot of money to invite a Jianghu man who traveled in Beijing, took the copied letters, and when the young man came to find Mrs. Zhou, he took them out and forced the young man to give the Wang family an antidote, otherwise, he would immediately take the original letter to denounce.
The young man didn't know the details of the Jianghu people, so he had to hand over the antidote.
Therefore, when Chen Lingfeng gave birth, Mrs. Zhou did not make it bad, and the main reason for Chen Lingfeng's dystocia was that the fetus was too big.
"Your Majesty, what Mrs. Zhou said should be true, after Lingfeng gave birth to dystocia, when Dr. Guan diagnosed, he also said that the fetus was too big." After Xiao Zhengzhen heard this, he immediately said to Xiao Xuanliang.