Chapter 23: The Martyr Girl of Xianghe County (6)
"Lord Chincha, you have not seen a confession, you have no witnesses, and you have no evidence, how can you come to such a conclusion?"
Mai Xianling's eyes widened round and bright, and Zengshou wanted to help him smooth his hair.
Zengshou stretched his waist: "Anyway, I can't go out of the funeral tomorrow."
"Why?"
Mai County Ling was angry.
"I am a Qincha, appointed by the empress dowager of the two palaces and the emperor, and I am a third-level official, let alone a small county order like you. Aren't my words enough? ”
Zengshou got up, moved his neck, and shook his arm again: "I'm sleepy, hurry up for a day, send my lord to the post house, well, prepare the bath water, I want to bathe in fragrant soup, and soak well." ”
As he spoke, he strode out, and Junko followed.
"Mai County Order, no funeral, you remember it for me! If it's a funeral, hum. ”
Zengshou stood at the door, and turned around and said again.
Luo Fan walked over and asked in a low voice: "Mai County Order, can there be a record of the case, the testimony of the witnesses, I will take it back and study it, and return it to you tomorrow." Mai Xian Ling raised his head: "Do you want to see it?" ”
"Yes, I was originally a general of the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion, and I also participated in the torture in the capital, so I can still understand it."
Mai Xianling's eyes were full of expectation: "Okay, the next official will take it." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and ran to the study.
Master Bai shook his head and said, "My lord also seems to think that the cause of Guo Niangzi's death is strange?" ”
"I can't really judge without reading the testimony of the witnesses, but it's always good if I want to see more. Guo Niangzi's behavior is shocking, she can be called a strange woman, if there is really a grievance, help her redress her grievances, if there is no grievance, it is also within Luo's duty to report to the court for a table. ”
Master Bai smiled dumbly: "How to ask for a table, the court will not give one...... A woman who does that kind of thing is a good example. ”
"She is supporting her in-laws with her body, which is even greater than feeding a tiger with her body, why can't she ask for a seal?"
Master Bai shook his head again and again, he felt that these two Qincha were really interesting, one was cynical and mean-spirited, and the other was serious and humble. I heard that he was caught by the deputy envoy by running a robbery on the street? How fresh, maybe there will be some kind of ghost along the way.
Master Bai saw that Luo Fan was determined, and said, "I'll leave first." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and walked out.
Soon, Mai Xianling walked out with a few notebooks: "My lord, they are all here." ”
Luo Fan was just about to reach out to pick it up, but Mai County ordered: "I only know that Humble Jing is also in the post house, and the lower officials and adults will go together." ”
Luo Fan nodded, and the two walked out of the county office side by side, and the guards who had already eaten led the horses over. Luo Fan said: "Is the county order a horse or a ......?"
Mai Xianling shook his head: "Xiaguan can't ride a horse?" ”
"What about a sedan chair?"
"It's not for official business, it's just to go to the post house to pick up the clumsy Jing, so I use the official sedan chair, and the officials don't dare, so let's go on foot." As he spoke, he was holding something in his hands, and he was about to leave.
Luo Fan reached out and grabbed the county commander's belt, and the county commander's eyes were round and big, like a frightened hair.
Luo Fan smiled: "I can only be wronged by the county order to ride with me." ”
The county commander sat on the horse and trembled, holding Dingxi tightly with both hands, and couldn't help but tremble.
"Sit down."
It was already dark, and there was no one on the way to the station.
The guards were in front, and Luo Fan followed behind on horseback.
The county commander could only hear the whirring wind in his ears, and soon arrived at the door of the post station.
The postman came out to greet them, and saw that their prefectural order had been gently taken off his horse by a young general. Mai Xian Ling coughed lightly, straightened his clothes, and asked with the notebook in his hand, "Have you arranged a room for Lord Qincha?" Well, you have to boil water! ”
"It's all set,"
The county magistrate is not as good as the current management. Now it is the county official and the current manager who is here, and the post man is naturally very enthusiastic.
He carried the water to the door of the little white-faced Qincha, and was about to knock on the door when he heard a voice from inside.
"Speak, why don't you speak? How the hell did you die? ”
The post guard was stunned for a moment, and then listened to the inside and said: "You only know how to cry, but I heard the county order say that you were originally a resolute woman, why do you only know how to cry now?" Ah, is it...... You can't speak, you can't speak? ”
The postman was furious, hesitated for a moment, but ran a little farther and shouted, "My lord, the hot water is ready." ”
The room fell silent, and a voice said, "Send it in." ”
The post guard was just about to carry the wooden barrel in, when a young man suddenly rushed out of the side corridor and pushed him away: "My master is also a pickle like you can serve?" ”
After shouting to him, the young man immediately said flatteringly: "Master, hot water is here." ”
The postman said in his heart, I won't go in, you little white-faced master may be smoking crazy in there.
The postman turned to the front yard and watched the county magistrate and his wife come over, and the old mother and the maid followed behind, and listened to the wife say a word of rules that he didn't understand, and disrespected the master.
"It's hard to be a wife, what did the girl from the princess's mansion say?"
Seeing that there was no one around, the maid and the old mother followed with their heads bowed behind, secretly lowered their hands, and suddenly held his wife's hand by covering his sleeve.
Mrs. Mai struggled, and Mai Xianling whispered, "Don't move." ”
Mrs. Mai looked back behind her, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "There are no rules in the princess's mansion, that grandmother and maid are not respectful to this girl at all, I told the girl, I'm afraid she can't talk to the palace, the possibility of Mrs. Guo asking for a table...... Not too. ”
Mrs. Mai sighed: "In my opinion, this girl herself is a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and she can't help us." ”
"Hmph, that's ...... cha"
When Mai Xian Ling said this, he hurriedly looked at the front and back, left and right, and said in a low voice: "He is making things difficult everywhere, and he also asks that Guo Niangzi not be given a funeral tomorrow." ”
"Why is that?"
He didn't say that Guo Niangzi was killed, not hanged, but also to find out the murderer who killed her, since he wanted to investigate the real murderer, then study the testimony of the witnesses in the case. But this Qin Cha didn't look at these at all, but fortunately, the deputy envoy looked a little more secure, and he still came out of the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion, so he thought it could help. ”
"Since there is an adult who is safe, the prime minister doesn't have to worry about it."
Mrs. Mai said in a low voice: "As soon as Mrs. Guo's matter came out, your whole person was a lot older, and I really felt sorry for you." ”
Mai Xianling sighed, and Mrs. Mai sighed: "I know, you think of Sister Xianglian, and my sister will be happy if she knows about it." It's just that this Guo Niangzi is not Sister Xianglian after all, you don't have to offend Lord Qincha for Guo Niangzi, you also said that Qincha is a royal family of the clan, if you provoke him, I'm afraid there will be a big mess. ”
"I know that I can't tell you this, in order to provide me with education, Xianglian did not hesitate to sell herself to Baihualou, but after I won the Jinshi, she hanged herself, just for my innocent reputation, what reputation I care about, what innocent ......" Speaking of this, he hurriedly explained, "Madam, I didn't mean you, I didn't mean that." ”
Mrs. Mai grabbed his hand tightly: "I know, you don't have so many ideas in your heart, I just like a sincere gentleman like you, when Sister Xianglian talked to me about these things, I have always been full of emotion, I want to know who the person who can make her sell herself and never forget it, thank you for not disliking, I am happy all these years." ”
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