Chapter 145: Murder of Husband with Adulterer
Qingdi heard that the two people who kidnapped her last night were interrogated, so she hurriedly went over with Chu Yaocen to see, she didn't care much about how these two people dealt with her, what she really cared about was whether Ji Citang would be implicated, and whether the doctor in Ji Citang had misdiagnosed.
When the two arrived at the gate of the yamen in the carriage, the case had already begun to be heard, Qingdi and Chu Yaocen got out of the carriage, stood outside and saw that the man and the woman inside were kneeling, listening to the questions of the adults in the court.
"You two kidnapped women from good families and extorted finances, are you guilty?"
"Lord Liang, I didn't want to kidnap the young lady of the Chu family to extort money, but because we were really desperate," it was the woman who spoke first to defend herself, and she cried out: "Lord Liang, my husband died because of taking the medicine prescribed by Dr. Ji Citang, Ji Citang didn't give me an explanation for a long time, I am a lonely widow, I really have no choice, so I went to Brother Zhang to help kidnap the young lady of the Chu family, because the Chu family is the owner of Ji Citang, I think only in this way will Ji Citang give me a faster answer......"
Qingdi couldn't help but hook the corners of her mouth, knowing that this woman was not honest, and she really involved Ji Citang.
"Hmph, are you embarrassed to talk about the case of your husband's death?" That Lord Liang sneered and said, "Do you know why your husband's case has not been answered for a long time?" The results of your husband's autopsy have already come out, and I didn't give you an answer right away, because I was secretly investigating who killed your husband, but I didn't expect it to be you! ”
As soon as he said this, the people who were watching the excitement outside couldn't help but scold, and the sentences of "poisonous women", "sluts", and "beasts" all flew out.
Qingdi stood behind the woman, and she couldn't see the expression on her face, but she could see her trembling shoulders, and it seemed that she was about to lose her support.
"Is Lord Liang mistaken?" The man spoke: "Lord Liang, I am her neighbor, I know that she has always been very kind, how could she do such a thing as a trick to harm her husband?" And after her husband died, I thought she was really pitiful, so I helped her do such a thing as kidnapping, and I was too upright to see others bullying people. ”
"Lord Liang, you can't bully a woman just because she is a lonely widow, you have to have a basis for saying such things!" The woman was already crying, raised her head and cried at Lord Liang, "You are all colluding with officials and businessmen to bully us ordinary people, you are just because the Chu family has a big business, and you can't afford to provoke it, so you will slander me like this!" ”
Seeing her shouting in tears, I couldn't help but stop the abusive voice and discuss it softly, as if I had some doubts about this matter.
"This official has been an official for decades, and I have never heard of this official deciding an unjust case and wronging anyone. You say that the official slandered you, and the official will come up with evidence little by little, so that you will be convinced! Lord Liang said this to her, and the onlookers quieted down again. He said to the officials standing in the hall, "Spread the word." ”
After a while, he was brought up, and Lord Liang asked him, "Now tell me how the man who died a month ago said he had taken the wrong medicine died." ”
He replied and said, "The man was pierced with an inch-long iron nail behind his ears, under his eyelids, under his hair, and between his legs, and he died for this reason. The man suffered from asthma before his death, and the medicines prescribed by Dr. Ji Citang have been checked by the officials, and there is no mistake, they are all medicines that can treat asthma. ”
Lord Liang sneered and said to the woman, "What else do you have to defend?" ”
The woman was still buzzing and crying, then she looked up and said, "You say this is the reason, now no one can see my husband's body, even if you talk nonsense, who of us knows?" ”
When Qingdi heard this, she couldn't help frowning, this woman is really not easy to deal with, every word shows that she is a weak, and she wants to gain the sympathy of others in every word. And it's been more than a month, and now it's summer, so the corpse should have rotted a long time ago. Now look at what Lord Liang said.
"Why, do you think that the corpse has already rotted, so there is no proof?" This Lord Liang once again sneered and said, "Indeed, the corpse can't be preserved for a month in the current weather, and I expected that you would not admit it, so I deliberately let the medicine save a few places where you pierced the iron nails, so that these key places did not rot." Someone, bring the evidence. ”
"You...... You ......" The woman seemed to be a little panicked, and said "you" several times before she came up with a justifying reason, "How do I know that you didn't pierce the nails in my husband's body and slander me?" ”
"Why, before you see the corpse, are you starting to get anxious?" Lord Liang looked at her funny, as if he was looking at a clown who jumped off the beam, "Zuo, you come and tell her." ”
"Yes, sir." He replied, and continued: "When a person dies and pierces a nail in these places, there will be no bruising on the skin around the nail, because the blood is no longer flowing at that time, but there are purple corpse scars near the wounds of the corpses, and when they are pierced when they are just dead, there may be corpse scars." And you waited for your husband's body to be cold before sending it to the outside yamen, so there will definitely be no bruising near the wound. When I was preserving the corpse parts, these corpse scars were also preserved, and if you want to see it, you can also look at it. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the body was brought up and covered with a white cloth. The person carrying the body piece directly brought the body piece to the woman, untied the white cloth, and the head of the woman's dead husband appeared in front of the woman, his eyes were very wide, and the eyeballs seemed to burst out.
The woman was startled, screamed and fell to the ground, and immediately collapsed, and praised again and again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......"
Her reaction has already made everyone guess the truth. The man beside her also immediately made a distressed expression, and said, "I really didn't expect you to be this kind of person, and I helped you kidnap the young lady of the Chu family in vain, I really misbelieved you!" ”
"Why, are you thinking about breaking ties with her now?" Lord Liang laughed again and said, "Come on, bring witnesses." ”
As soon as the words fell, a faltering old woman was brought in by the servant, because she was old, Lord Liang specially allowed her not to kneel, but only asked: "Old man, you can say everything you said to me yesterday." ”
The old grandmother nodded and said: "These two people, they have always been dishonest, this woman is not a native of our capital, she was bought by her husband from the barbarian, I know that the women in the hands of the barbarian are all water-based Yanghua, not long after this woman came, she hooked up with this Xiao Zhang...... Xiao Zhang, you used to be a good boy, why have you become ...... now? Become so ...... Hey......"
The old woman sighed and looked at the man with pity.
The man's face was a little flustered, he couldn't be clearer about what he was doing, and hurriedly said, "Grandma Liu, what are you talking about, you are confused!" ”
"Am I confused? You go and ask the people at the mouth of Goldfish Alley, who doesn't know that my Grandma Liu is seventy-nine, deaf and blind, and can be counted as a cook, when you did something hurtful that day, I can hear it clearly at home, you two beasts, her husband was still alive at the time, and he was killed by you all at once, his screams, even if you covered his mouth, I still heard it! ”
"You're really old and confused, aren't you?" The man surnamed Zhang yelled again, and then said to Lord Liang: "Lord Liang, you must be aware of everything, I have always been honest and responsible, how could I do such a thing?" ”
"Honest? An honest person would do something to kidnap a woman from a good family? He asked rhetorically, and then asked the woman sharply: "Now that this man has thrown everything to you, are you willing to admit it yourself?" ”
The woman cried for a long time, probably because she was tired of crying, and gradually calmed down, turned her head to look at him and said, "You are so ruthless, I have slept with you so many times, and you abandoned me like this?" Don't you often say that you want to live and die with me? Don't you often say how much you love me? ”
"What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know you at all! Do you have a conscience, this woman is going to die, and you still plan to drag me into the water? The man was very flustered, and there were already beads of sweat the size of beans on his forehead.
"Doesn't know me well? I know how many moles you have on your back! If you hadn't said that my husband was old and ugly, if you hadn't come up with that way to blackmail Ji Citang, if you hadn't asked me to kidnap the second young lady of the Chu family, would I have fallen to such a point? The woman roared, then rushed over and grabbed him by the neck, and said fiercely: "You still want to break off relations with me, you will kill you now!" ”
The officials hurriedly stepped forward to pull the two away, and now the result is very clear, and no one will believe him anymore if the man wants to deny it. Lord Liang said, "Take them all down", and the onlookers dispersed.
Chu Yaocen also took Qingdi's hand and said: "It's really happy, these two scumbags are going to be beheaded, let them bully you!" Let's go home. ”
Qingdi nodded, and was about to go back with Chu Yaocen, when the woman was escorted out by the officials, she also suddenly saw Qingdi, and hurriedly shouted: "Young Mrs. Chu, you wait a minute." ”
Qingdi thought about it, anyway, this is also a dying person, so she stopped to listen to what she said, and the woman turned back to Lord Liang again: "Lord Liang, I felt very guilty for kidnapping Second Mrs. Chu last night, I want to apologize to Mrs. Chu, is it okay?" ”
Lord Liang thought for a while, and saw that Qingdi had no intention of objecting, so he nodded.
The woman walked up to Qingdi, who waited for her to speak.
The woman lowered her head and was silent for a while, and suddenly, without warning, she rushed up, grabbed Qingdi's right hand and bit it hard.