Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Bamboo Tube
Shen Mengzhi put the bamboo tube in the palm of his hand, presented it to everyone, and said, "This is not an ordinary bamboo tube, but the enlightened monks of Xuanguo have recited the scriptures for nine hundred and eighty-one days in front of it, and when they chant the scriptures every day, they will soak the bamboo tube with the dew collected that morning, so that it can remove the dust and dirt and contaminate the spirituality." The people of Xuanguo regard it as a holy relic......"
"Miss Shen......" Meng Henan walked up to Shen Mengzhi with a mocking smile on his face, stretched out two fingers and played the bamboo tube loudly, "Isn't it just a bamboo tube that can be seen everywhere, as for saying it so outrageously?" All of you present are people who have seen the world, is it possible that you will still be interested in such an inconspicuous thing? ”
Shen Mengzhi glanced at Meng Henan's hand that was still playing the bamboo tube, and did not bother with Meng Henan.
said with a face as usual, "This bamboo tube is human and can distinguish the real from the fake." When Xuanguo was in Xuanguo, Princess Yun lost a pair of earrings, and when asked about her subordinates, she said that she didn't take them. Yun Wang Ye took out the bamboo tube, ordered the people to put the index finger into the bamboo tube in turn, and asked each person if he had taken Princess Yun's earrings, and the others said no, all were fine, but only one person, Fang opened his mouth and said no, and howled in pain. ”
Shen Mengzhi's voice is crisp and pleasant, it is already good, and the emotions are well rendered, Rao is a common thing to say through her mouth, it is very interesting.
Especially, when she said this, she paused deliberately, and drew everyone's attention to it.
Everyone looked at her, waiting for her to continue, even Meng Henan, who sneered at this bamboo tube, had a little curiosity between his eyebrows.
"That's a big look!" Shen Mengzhi's tone and demeanor became exaggerated, and he approached Menghenan slightly and said, "It turns out that half of his fingers have been bitten off by the bamboo tube!" ”
Speaking of the fact that his fingers were bitten off by the bamboo tube, Shen Mengzhi's voice suddenly increased, startling Meng Henan, who was listening to her attentively.
Menghe Nan was extremely unhappy, but the first thing he did was to silently retract the hand resting on the bamboo tube.
Shen Mengzhi pulled the corners of his mouth with a smile, turned around, put the bamboo tube in front of Meng Jiangnan, and asked, "Will Lord Meng always love the people like a son, enforce the law impartially, and never show favoritism?" ”
This is also an attitude to Meng Jiangnan, to see if Meng Jiangnan is willing to accompany her to perform this play, and to ask Meng Jiangnan if he has put his actions fairly.
Meng Henan also looked at Meng Jiangnan, and it was also the same consideration as Shen Mengzhi.
If Meng Jiangnan doesn't stretch out his hand, it means that what Shen Mengzhi said is nonsense, fundamentally denying Shen Mengzhi's words and identifying Shen Mengzhi's crime, but if Meng Jiangnan stretches out his hand, it means not believing him, that is not giving him face!
Both of them looked at Meng Jiangnan, Meng Jiangnan didn't feel nervous at all, let alone entangled, almost without thinking, he put his index finger into the bamboo tube.
Shen Mengzhi praised, "Lord Meng is a good official and a blessing to the people. ”
"Perhaps."
Meng Jiangnan said such a sentence paradoxically, took out his hand, curled up his index finger and touched the tip of his nose, using this action to show everyone that his fingers were fine.
Immediately afterwards, Shen Mengzhi asked two or three more people in the same way, and all of them were fine.
The bamboo tube finally turned to the front of Menghenan.
Shen Mengzhi asked, "Has the eldest prince of the dream ever been to the Lushui Pavilion?" Were you present when I had an argument with Aunt Qiao? ”
Menghenan looked at the bamboo tube, thinking about what Shen Mengzhi said before, and was beating the drum in his heart.
Prince Yun and Princess Yun of Xuanguo have always been the talk of the world, no matter how big or small, they are all talked about.
What Shen Mengzhi said about using a bamboo tube to find out the real murderer has also been spread in the capital city.
He half believed, half didn't, and was in the middle of a dilemma.
If you stretch out your hand, I am afraid that as Shen Mengzhi said, half of my finger will be bitten off by the bamboo tube, and if you don't stretch out your hand, you are telling others that he is lying......
Shen Mengzhi saw Menghenan's struggle, and made a gesture to put the bamboo tube back into Mama Li's hand.
She knew that Meng Henan had always been greedy for life and afraid of death, and she never tried anything that involved herself.
deliberately said, "The eldest prince doesn't dare to forget it, after all, it's half a finger, if it's gone, won't I become a sinner?" ”
For Menghenan, nothing works more effectively than the method of agitation.
Sure enough, as soon as Shen Mengzhi's words fell, Menghenan snatched the bamboo tube, without hesitation for a moment, he directly put his finger into the bamboo tube, looked at Shen Mengzhi's eyes coldly, and said, "I'm not in the Lushui Pavilion, I don't know you are arguing." ”
After speaking, he took his finger out of the bamboo tube, raised it in front of everyone, and said in a loud voice, "Look, the finger is intact, it proves that what I said is true!" ”
After swearing to finish, he still felt puzzled, and asked Shen Mengzhi with a sneer, "Miss Shen, what else do you have to say?" ”
Shen Mengzhi pursed his lips, "This should be what I asked the eldest prince of Meng." ”
"Shen Mengzhi, what do you mean!" Menghenan furrowed his eyebrows, and subconsciously felt that this matter was not so simple.
Shen Mengzhi looked at Meng Jiangnan, "Lord Lao Meng stretched out his index finger. ”
Meng Jiangnan cooperated and stretched out his index finger, the index finger was intact, but the tip of the index finger was stained with ink.
The same was true for several others, their fingertips blackened with ink.
Meng Henan is the only one, his fingertips are clean, and there is nothing.
Shen Mengzhi took the bamboo tube and turned it upside down, and a stream of ink flowed out of it.
What else is not understood?
There is ink under the bamboo tube, as long as you stretch your fingers to the bottom of the bamboo tube, your fingers will definitely be stained with ink, and Menghenan's fingertips are clean, which can only show that Menghenan is a thief and has not put his fingers in.
Menghenan, lying!
"Shen Mengzhi!" Menghenan was anxious, pointed to Shen Mengzhi's nose and asked, "Are you calculating me?" ”
Shen Mengzhi threw away the bamboo tube, grabbed Menghenan's fingers, and forcefully broke them back.
Menghenan was in pain, raised his other hand and went to hit Shen Mengzhi.
Shen Mengzhi is always ready with the short knife in her sleeve, as long as Meng Henan is good at doing it, she will definitely let Meng Henan not be able to eat and walk around!
I hurt one of Menghenan's hands before, and now I hurt my other hand, and I hurt Menghenan's two hands in one day, which can be regarded as earning!
But this knife didn't hit Menghenan's hand in the end.
Meng Henan's hand was raised, and he was caught by Meng Jiangnan.
Meng Jiangnan said, "If your skills are not as good as others, you have to admit defeat." If you really have a clear conscience, knowing that it is just a bamboo tube, why don't you dare to reach out? ”
Meng Henan angrily shook off Meng Jiangnan's hand, pointed at Meng Jiangnan's nose and scolded, "Meng Jiangnan, your surname is Meng, you actually helped outsiders deal with your brother!" Do you think that if you put on an official uniform, you will have wings and be able to fly? What are you without me, without my mother?! ”
If it weren't for Meng Jiangnan deliberately blocking the ink on his fingertips, the people under Meng Jiangnan's hands would not have done the same, and he would not have fallen into Shen Mengzhi's trap!