Chapter 44: Turning the Tables Against the Wind (4)

After Zuo's words were finished, Chu Xi looked coldly at the woman kneeling in front of him.

He didn't speak, and the people below were already talking loudly.

As if they were dissatisfied with the emperor's current silent performance, Chu Xi took a deep breath, he had already understood that he had come to this point, Shen Xianhe was also here, and this time, he was defeated in front of Shen Xianhe again.

"Zuo, since you have accused your Xianggong Shouyang Hou of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, and fabricated evidence to slander the Shen family of Dingguo, where is your evidence? With no evidence, I want to slander a court official, but I am not blind. ”

"Your Majesty, since the concubine is kneeling here, she has naturally prepared the evidence, can you let the concubine's body come in?"

"Let him in."

Chu Xi commanded coldly, Zuo Shi turned her head, and she looked at the crowd.

"Master Wu, come in."

Zuo finished saying this. A white-haired old man about 60 years old walked in hunched over.

As soon as everyone saw this old man, especially some of the children of the family who were watching the excitement, they all opened their mouths wide.

The person who came was Wu Guangyu, a famous calligrapher and painter of the Daqing Dynasty.

The Zuo clan actually called Wu Guangyu to testify, and everyone was stunned, and Shouyang Hou, who had been watching Zuo's words on the side, turned even paler at the moment.

As for Chu Xi, his expression was even more gloomy.

He knew Wu Guangyu, and he once summoned Wu Guangyu into the palace to write a picture.

Shouyang Hou's waste actually involved Wu Guangyu, and Chu Xi really wanted to kick Shouyang Hou's stomach now.

"Master Wu, Zuo asked you to testify, what do you know? Say it all. ”

Wu Guangyu knelt down.

"Your Majesty. The grass people are guilty. ”

"The grass people personally forged the letters written by Dingguo Gong to the Basha State to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country, and those letters were all forged by me, and I imitated the handwriting of Dingguo Gong, as well as the handwriting of Dingguo Gong's son."

When Wu Guangyu said this, the people who watched the excitement were in an uproar.

It was too noisy below, and Chu Xi slapped the table with a startled wood.

After waiting for the silence below, Chu Xi asked Wu Guangyu again.

"You are a famous calligrapher in the world, why do you want to be involved in this? Why do you want to make false evidence to slander the Shen family of Dingguo Gongfu. ”

Wu Guangyu's body trembled, and his eyes were dead.

"Your Majesty, this is all because of my unsuccessful son, he was obsessed with gambling outside, and completely emptied the family's money, not only that, but he also committed a murder outside, and the grass people were confused for a while, in order to save his son, the grass people did irreparable things...... At that time, the son of the grass man killed a common man, and the government was about to interrogate him, and the grass man was very flustered. ”

"However, Shouyang Hou quietly made an appointment to meet the grass people at this time, and he told me that as long as the grass people helped him make fake letters, he could let my son live, and the grass people were confused for a while, so they agreed to this matter, and the grass people now know how wrong they are."

"Your Majesty, Wu Guangyu is talking nonsense, I didn't see him at all, and I asked him to make fake letters."

Seeing that the situation in front of him was getting more and more wrong, Shouyang Hou rushed out and knelt on the ground, and then began to redress his grievances.

Chu Xi naturally didn't want Shouyang Hou to be accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason, if Shouyang Hou was completely proven to be a fraud and slandered the Shen family today, then the Shen family would have completely escaped this catastrophe.

He looked at Wu Guangyu, and then questioned coldly.

"Master Wu, you said that you were trying to save your son, and then you were bribed by Shouyang Hou to fake a letter to slander the Shen family, so why did you suddenly kneel down and admit your own mistake now? If you can be bribed by someone else, I can fully suspect that you are kneeling here now, and you have also been bribed with money to commit perjury. ”

Wu Guangyu suddenly didn't know how to speak.

He came out to testify now, naturally because he was guaranteed by Zuo.

Zuo promised to send his only grandson to a safe place to live, and completely leave the capital, which is a place of right and wrong.

The son is no longer saved, and if he continues to stay in the capital, he may always be threatened by Shouyanghou.

Wu Guangyu only hoped that the bloodline of the Wu family could be continued in a safe place.

It's just that he can't say it.

Zuo looked at the emperor like this, and she spoke to the emperor again.

"Your Majesty, Master Wu is only my first witness, and the concubine has another witness."

After Zuo's words were finished, Shouyang Hou rushed over.

"You slut, I just spoiled one more concubine at home, and you are now slandering me for collaborating with the enemy and treason? With such a femme fatale, you will be punished! ”

Zuo smiled faintly, and the people around him watched Shouyang Hou struggle and go crazy, but Shouyang Hou couldn't hurt Zuo.

Shen Xianhe has always been standing beside the Zuo clan, and Shen Xianhe has his own secret guard, and now no one dares to do anything to the Zuo clan.

Although Chu Xi had hoped countless times that someone would appear and kill the Zuo clan now, there was nothing he could do.

"Master Hou, whether I am a femme fatale or not, this matter is not important, I just want to tell the emperor that the concubine has other evidence in his hand, the emperor, do you need the concubine to present it now?"

Chu Xi closed his eyes, he took a deep breath, but he still felt that the turbid breath in his heart didn't come out.

After a long time, he spoke calmly.

"Call your second witness."

Zuo smiled, and she looked back at the crowd.

"Steward Wang, come out."

After saying this, a middle-aged man with a big belly walked out.

The moment Shouyang Hou saw this man come out, his eyes were full of surprise, and his face was full of betrayal.

Steward Wang is Shouyanghou's confidant, and now that Steward Wang has betrayed him, Shouyanghou is so angry that his head is dizzy.

Other people who watched the excitement knew a little bit about Shouyang Hou, and they all knew that this Wang Steward was always by Shouyang Hou's side, and he was a proud celebrity around Shouyang Hou.

Steward Wang didn't look at the eyes of the people around him, he knelt directly in front of the emperor.

"The grass people have seen the emperor."

"Zuo said that you are a witness, tell me everything you know."

Steward Wang knelt on the ground in a proper manner.

"Your Majesty, the grass people are the housekeepers of the Shouyang Hou Mansion, everyone calls me the Wang Steward, and this surname was once given to me by the old Shouyang Hou. From the time when Hou Ye was still the son, the grass people have been serving by Hou Ye's side, and now, it has been almost 20 years. ”

Steward Wang's words made Shouyang Hou's face hideous, his henchman for more than 20 years was now betraying him in front of everyone, and Shouyang Hou was so angry that his head was dizzy.

However, everyone looked at him, what could he do to Steward Wang now?

Chu Xi's face was unusually cold.

"Since you've been by his side for more than twenty years, tell me what the hell did he do to make you kneel here and sue him?"

"Your Majesty, Hou Ye wanted to make a contribution, but he took a crooked path, Hou Ye wanted to slander the Shen family for collaborating with the enemy and treason, so he ordered someone to forge a letter, and the process of forging a letter was personally ordered by the grass people."

After Steward Wang finished speaking, he told who he had met and how many people he had instructed to handle, and he made all this matter clear.

Even the person who bought the paper, the specific date, Steward Wang, confessed.

Shouyang Hou's whole person was already paralyzed on the ground, and he only now understood that at this moment he had reached the point where he was powerless to return to the sky.

Chu Xi had a judgment in his heart, at this moment, Shouyang Hou could no longer be saved, and he had to give up this person.

As if he had been cut off from the left and right wall, Chu Xi's heart was angry and painful.

The human and material evidence has arrived, but Chu Xi is still thinking about wanting to turn the tables.

He already knew the reason for the break between Shouyang Hou and Zuo Clan in the back, and Chu Xi spoke to Zuo.

"Zuo's family, Shouyang Hou is your father-in-law, you are now killing your relatives in righteousness, personally citing Shouyang Hou for collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, you are well prepared for human and material evidence, I want to ask you, are you really not taking revenge?"

"I have found out that you gave birth to a son fifteen years ago, but the concubine of the Marquis of Shouyang at that time bribed a monk, and the monk told your son's fortune, saying that he was a lone star who would kill everyone in the Hou Mansion and could not stay in this world. When you woke up, Shouyang Hou told you that you gave birth to a daughter, in fact, this daughter was the daughter of the concubine who had just given birth at that time, and Shouyang Hou told you that the child born to the concubine passed away, and you raised your daughter carefully. ”

"A while ago, you accidentally learned the truth from Shouyang Hou, and knew that your son was sunk into the pond and died because of this fortune telling, Zuo, you are now reporting that Shouyang Hou collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, and also prepared human and material evidence, I can also suspect that you used money to buy Wu Guangyu and Steward Wang, do you have any other evidence?"

Although many people in front of him had already believed Zuo's words, Chu Xi didn't want to clear the Shen family's charge of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country so quickly.

He wants to continue to mess up this matter, there is always a new way to forge the evidence that the Shen family collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, he can't fake the evidence that the Marquis of Shouyang really forged to slander the Shen family, otherwise, it will be difficult to rectify the Shen family in the future.

Zuo suddenly made a difficulty, and these plans were all completed with the help of others.

She hated the Shouyang Hou Mansion, hated the Shouyang Hou Fu, and thought of her son who died tragically, Zuo stood up to take revenge, which was originally a personal vendetta.

Zuo knew that she couldn't panic, she just knelt on the ground and spoke coldly again.

"Your Majesty, Steward Wang has already explained to everyone involved in this matter, you can bring these people for interrogation."

Chu Xi didn't know this truth, he just wanted to delay time.

"I know, I will immediately order someone to bring the person who was confessed by Steward Wang into the prison for interrogation, Zuo, I will let the people from Dali Temple review this case, and this is the end of today."

Chu Xi clearly thought that this matter was completely suppressed, and in the end, he found some inconclusive evidence, and then the Shen family still had a charge of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country.

Shen Xianhe looked at Meng Lansheng in the crowd at this time, and Meng Lansheng nodded at Shen Xianhe.

Immediately, a young master from a family who had been watching the excitement suddenly walked forward.

"Your Majesty, the minister can testify that what Wu Guangyu said is true, Shouyang Hou just said that he had not seen Wu Guangyu, but the minister had seen these two people meet and talk with his own eyes."