Chapter 43: Turning the Tables Against the Wind (3)

Outside the palace, an interrogation platform was built, where Taizu once tried an unjust case, and this unjust case was a woman named Jiang Di.

The Jiang family is a scholarly family in Jiangnan and a wealthy family in Jiangnan.

Jiang Di was originally the eldest daughter of the Jiang family, and when she became an adult, she would marry the scholarly Yu family, who was comparable to her family, but Yu Liwen, who was married to Jiang Di, fell in love with another girl, Xia Yanran, at that time.

Xia Yanran fell into the dust, this kind of family background can't marry in as a wife at all, and even concubines may not be qualified.

But the young master of the Yu family went crazy, he married Jiang Di in, and then ignored it, and spoiled the girl Xia Yanran who he rescued from the fireworks field.

The Jiang family was naturally dissatisfied, and after they found the elders of the Yu family to complain, Yu Liwen began to pretend to respect his wife.

Everyone thought that Yu Liwen had grown up and was persuaded to be normal, but a year later.

The Jiang family was slandered and rebelled, and the entire Jiang family was exterminated and exiled, and Jiang Di didn't understand how his family could be slandered and rebelled.

And after the Jiang family was destroyed, Jiang Di, the lady, no longer had status, and she was completely demoted to a concubine.

Yu Liwen insisted on helping his favorite concubine Xia Yanran to be his wife, and Jiang Di was left in the kitchen to do hard labor, and was beaten and bullied every day.

At that time, Jiang Di was resigned to her fate, her family background was ruined, no one was in charge of her anymore, everyone was snobbish, Jiang Di comforted himself like this.

Until one day, Jiang Di was drunk and raped by Yu Liwen's servant, and she heard the truth about the Jiang family's raid and extermination from her little maid at that time.

It was all because Yu Liwen put fake evidence of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country in Jiang's house, and after that, Yu Liwen and other officials slandered the Jiang family, which destroyed all Jiang Di's relatives.

Since then, Jiang Di has endured humiliation and secretly lived for a few years, all just to collect evidence.

Then, Jiang Di came to the capital to beat the drum and complain.

She walked through the stake and went to the execution, and then Taizu successfully washed away the grievances of the Jiang family.

This case is very famous in the entire Daqing Dynasty, but since Jiang Di beat the drum to voice grievances, no one has gone to the palace to beat the drums and voice grievances.

Shen Xianhe and the bell watched in the middle of the crowd like the people, waiting for the emperor to come out and call the shots for those who beat the drums and voiced grievances.

The person beating the drum was a forty-year-old woman, she was the Hou wife Zuo of the Hou family of Shouyang.

At this moment, she knelt upright outside the palace, waiting for the emperor to come out.

Chu Xi had already arrived at the gate of the palace at this time, and Gonggong Liang knelt outside the carriage.

"Do you know, who is kneeling outside?"

Chu Xi sat in the carriage and asked coldly.

"If you go back to the emperor, the one kneeling outside is Shouyang Hou's wife, Zuo."

Shouyang Hou is Chu Xi's confidant, and Chu Xi has never seen Zuo's family.

He opened the curtain of the carriage and commanded with a solemn face.

"Send someone to find Shouyang Hou immediately."

After saying this, Chu Xi looked at Liang Gonggong again.

"You go find someone to ask. What grievances does this Zuo have in the end? ”

Chu Xi had a faint premonition that this woman's grievances might be on Shouyang Hou.

The Marquis of Shouyang is now his confidant, the power of the court is complicated, Chu Xi has just become pro-government, and every family force has its own careful thoughts.

This court is not monolithic, but it is not in his control, Shouyang Hou is a force he has gathered, and Chu Xi doesn't want to ruin his henchmen because of a woman.

The people waiting outside were already anxious, and they started to talk about it, Chu Xi sent someone to go outside and tell the lively people, he would arrive immediately.

After a while, Shouyang Hou finally stumbled to Chu Xi and knelt down.

His whole face looked flustered, Chu Xi frowned and looked at Shou Yang Hou, if it weren't for the fact that he didn't have anyone else in his hands who could be of great use, he really didn't want to reuse Shou Yang Hou, a person who had more than enough success and more than one failure.

It's just that this time, the matter of dealing with the Shen family has always been controlled by Shouyanghou outside, and Chu Xi doesn't want anything to happen to Shouyanghou.

He asked coldly at Shouyang Hou.

"Do you know what your own wife is going to go outside to beat the drum and cry out?"

After Chu Xi asked this, Shou Yanghou knelt down directly with a pale face.

"It's useless to be a minister, the Zuo family found out that I was creating evidence of the Shen family's treason, and she is now suing the emperor for this matter."

As soon as Shouyang Hou said this, Chu Xi's face turned blue instantly, he looked at the man in front of him fiercely, Chu Xi couldn't help but step down from the carriage, and then kicked Shouyang Hou to the ground fiercely.

"You shit, how can you let your wife know about such an important matter? Also, isn't she your wife? What's the matter with her coming to sue the royal court? ”

In Chu Xi's eyes, the Zuo family and Shouyang Hou are a family.

Even if the Zuo family found out about this, shouldn't they hide it together? Could it be that there is some deep hatred between these two people?

Chu Xi's deep black eyes looked at Shouyang Hou coldly.

Shouyang Hou's face was discouraged.

"Your Majesty, this is a family matter twenty years ago, the minister is sorry for the Zuo family, the Zuo family now knows, she now wants to take the entire Shouyang Marquis Mansion to the end, and ask the emperor to save the minister's life."

Shouyang Hou knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, looking very embarrassed.

Chu Xi naturally didn't want to care about this kind of thing, but at the moment, the Shen family had not yet been resolved, Chen Han had not yet come to him to talk about the progress of the Shen family, and Shouyang Hou was involved in dealing with the Shen family.

"Stand up, you just wait here now, I have my own way."

After saying this, Chu Xi called several of his secret guards over, and he commanded a few words.

Immediately, several secret guards immediately quietly left the palace.

There are already some sons of the family who have come outside to watch the excitement. The people are even more whispering.

No one knows what Mrs. Shouyang Hou Zuo is asking for when she kneels here.

"County Lord, there are a few people with strong martial arts who have come to the crowd, and their target should be the Zuo clan."

Xiao Liu prayed this news next to Shen Xianhe, Shen Xianhe had long known that Chu Xi would definitely not come out easily, she smiled faintly.

"You get rid of those secret guards, don't let them do it, I'll go to the Zuo clan myself now, and I'll be in charge of this woman."

When Shen Xianhe first set up a plan with Meng Lansheng and Huo Biao, the Zuo clan came here to beat the drum and voice grievances, which was only the first step.

And the second step is naturally to ensure that Chu Xi can come out, and then try Zuo's unjust case in full view.

However, in order for this matter to happen smoothly, the first thing is to ensure that the Zuo family can wait until Chu Xi comes out, and there will be no problems with her life safety.

Therefore, Shen Xianhe knew that she had to escape no matter what, and she had to come forward to save Zuo's life in person.

After giving orders to his secret guard Xiao Liu, Shen Xianhe asked the bell to continue to wait in the crowd, while she walked forward in front of everyone, and then walked in front of Zuo step by step.

"Zuo, just now the eunuch told me that the emperor will come out soon, you wait patiently here, if you have grievances, the emperor will definitely wash away the grievances for you, so many people are watching, don't worry."

As soon as Shen Xianhe appeared like this, the surrounding people realized that the person in front of him in gorgeous clothes was the county lord.

Zuo continued to kneel in a proper manner, and she did not speak.

Originally, Chu Xi ordered the people who came over to deal with the Zuo clan, but at this moment, seeing Shen Xianhe stop in front of the Zuo clan, they didn't know what to do in an instant with the sneak attack they were ready.

There was a secret guard who had been ready to shoot arrows from a distance, but Xiao Liu directly discovered this secret guard, and then attacked this secret guard.

At this moment, there was only one secret guard left by Chu Xi, and seeing that the situation in front of him was not right, he returned to Chu Xi's face, and then told what happened outside.

"You said Shen Xianhe was outside?"

Chu Xi's face turned hideous.

Isn't Shen Xianhe already locked up in the palace by him today? How is she outside now? What the hell is going on?

Could it be that there was a traitor in the people below him, Chu Xi thought about it in his heart, and he immediately called someone to see the palace where the immortals were imprisoned.

On the other side, Chu Xi ordered someone to go to the Guogong Mansion to observe Chen Han's current progress.

At this moment, it has been an hour since Zuo's drumming and complaining, and the people outside are already impatient, and they have begun to whisper, can't the emperor come out to call the shots? This is the rule left by the emperor.

Everyone began to be dissatisfied with the emperor, and the people who had been observing the situation outside kept reporting the situation outside to Chu Xi.

Shen Xianhe spoke directly to the people.

"Don't worry, the emperor will come out soon, the people have grievances, the emperor, as a descendant of the Daqing Dynasty, he will definitely come out to make decisions for the people."

Shen Xianhe said righteously, and the other people nodded in agreement.

Chu Xi was already at the door, he heard Shen Xianhe's words completely, and his face was completely gloomy.

Shen Xianhe was clearly forcing him out.

Empress Dowager Sun also rushed over at this time, she knew what was happening outside, and the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, so she spoke to her son.

"Your Majesty, the matter has come to this, if you don't go out again, the people will become more and more dissatisfied with you, do you want other courtiers to laugh at you, and when the time comes, they will have a reason not to let you take the government."

"Queen Mother, if I didn't guess wrong, something must have happened to Chen Han's encirclement of the Shen family, Shen Xianhe has escaped now, this is Shen Xianhe's trap!"

Chu Xi didn't want to go out, he was still thinking of a way to solve the Zuo clan, but no matter how many secret guards he sent, these secret guards would all be solved.

Chu Xi knew that this must be Shen Xianhe's manpower

Empress Dowager Sun patiently taught her son.

"Your Majesty, before you became the crown prince, the mourning family had made many plans to want you to become the prince, and the mourning family failed no less than ten times, you want to deal with the Shen family, do you think you can succeed overnight? If you fail this time, you still have countless chances, don't lose the big one. ”

"Shen Xianhe!"

Chu Xi gritted his teeth and said these words, and then, he walked outside coldly with a bunch of waiters.

When the people watched Chu Xi come out, they all thought that the emperor was about to deal with the unjust case, and everyone became excited.

Shen Xianhe smiled and saluted the emperor.

"Your Majesty, you have finally come out to deal with the unjust case."

Chu Xi looked at the provocative smile in Shen Xianhe's eyes, he only felt that the woman in front of him was laughing at him.

Sitting on the dragon chair coldly, Chu Xi asked directly to the kneeling Zuo Shi in the audience.

"Who is in the audience, and what are the grievances?"

Zuo finally raised her head at this moment, her eyes were resolute, her voice was even clearer and more powerful, and all the people who watched the excitement heard Zuo's words clearly.

"Your Majesty, the concubine Zuo, married the Hou of Shouyang Wang family twenty years ago, and now the concubine wants to sue the Hou Mansion of Shouyang for collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and fabricating evidence to slander the Duke of Dingguo for treason!"

As soon as these words came out, the people who watched the excitement were in an uproar.

The object of this woman's sue is her husband.

Of course, recently, the capital has spread the news that the Shen family collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country.

Now it seems that it is the evidence forged by Shou Yanghou?

Everyone was discussing, Chu Xi's face was gloomy, and his eyes were full of anger.

It turned out that this woman really decided to drag the Shouyang Marquis Mansion to death.

"Since you have a grievance, according to the rules, you will pass these two punishments first, and then I will try this case."

Zuo smiled indifferently.

"Your Majesty, the concubine is already a dying person, as long as you can prove the wolf ambition of the Marquis of Shouyang, even if the concubine is dead, there will be no regrets."

Zuo's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, and the people who watched the excitement were moved by Zuo's.

Chu Xi couldn't wait to strangle the woman in front of him, and in front of everyone, he couldn't stop the trial of this case.

Chu Xi could only order the people below to start placing the torture tools.

After the guards were ready, Zuo fearlessly walked to the front of the torture instruments that were placed.

The charcoal fire was burning, and the charcoal fire was already red, ten meters long, and as long as you walked barefoot, the whole foot would be completely burned and would never recover.

But Zuo just smiled faintly, and then the whole person walked up.

The smell of burning instantly spread everywhere, and the surrounding people couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and the timid ones even covered their eyes.

Zuo didn't say a word, she walked ten meters lightly, as if she didn't feel pain at all, but the burning smell was so obvious, everyone saw Zuo's determination.

Chu Xi's heart is also becoming more and more solemn, this woman is not even afraid of death, what else can stop her?

The next torture instrument was immediately placed as well.

There was a blade stuck in the long wooden board, Zuo lay directly on the ground, and then rolled over fearlessly, the flesh and blood were inserted into it by the knife, and the sound of flesh and blood inserted into the knife sounded one by one, and Zuo's blood stained the torture instrument red.

By the time she was punished, Zuo's whole person was already dying, her clothes were in tatters, and there was bright red blood everywhere on the ground.

Zuo slowly got up from the ground, and she knelt respectfully in front of the emperor again.

"Your Majesty, the concubine has already been punished, please try the case of Shouyang Hou collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, fabricating evidence and slandering the Duke of Dingguo."