Chapter 50: Court Interrogation (II)
Lord Xu bowed his head slightly and said, "It seems that this deceased is Gongsun Changman." β
Aunt Gongsun suddenly lost her mind and went crazy, shook her head, and said in a trembling voice: "No, it's impossible!" There's no way he's coming back without coming to me! You lied to me! That's not him! He didn't die! β
Xing Zhutou was taken aback and said, "This sinner seems to be crazy. β
Xu Dadao: "Come on, tie her up, and gag her mouth!" β
Several messengers came forward and tied up the grandson and the aunt with their hands and feet.
Aunt Gongsun was lying on her side, her hands were upside down behind her back.
The ankles and knees are all tightly tied.
She wanted to say something more, but she couldn't speak with a cloth in her mouth, and just kept making a "woo, woo" sound.
Youwei couldn't bear it and wanted to speak, but Yu Yao stopped her and shook her head.
Wen Cang also persuaded: "Don't worry, we can save her no matter what." However, now there are many people with mixed eyes, and it is not appropriate to identify themselves. Or look again, look again. β
At this time, Yu Yao heard a loud noise not far behind him.
Yu Yao turned around and saw that it was a group of carriages and horses from the Longyuan Dart Bureau who were preparing to leave the city, and happened to pass by the yamen.
The second girl of Qin rode a horse, looked inside the mansion, and said, "Dad, why are so many people gathered at the door?" Could it be that there is some big case? β
Mr. Qin looked at the road ahead, his eyelids didn't blink, and he said in a tone that was neither light nor serious, not in a hurry: "Don't worry about those idle things, it's important to hurry." β
When everyone heard this, they no longer looked around, but only hurried away.
Only the three masters still look in the direction of the government.
A team of people from the Longyuan Dart Bureau came from far and near, and Yu Yao saw clearly that He Tianyi, the third master, was not looking at what was happening in the palace, but staring at him Yu Yao!
When the four eyes met, Yu Yao felt an unprecedented fear.
Wen Cang found that Yu Yao was looking out, and also followed his gaze.
I saw a smile flashing at the corner of He Tianyi's mouth, and then he retracted his eyes and no longer looked in the direction of the mansion.
Wen Cang asked, "What's wrong?" β
Yu Yao said: "There must be a demon when things go wrong, and it looked strange last night when it was too quiet." β
Youwei said: "You two be quiet! β
Yu Yao and Wen Cang had no choice but to turn their gazes back to the court.
Master Xu asked, "Gongsun Changman, do you know how your cousin and sister-in-law feel?" β
Gongsun Changman said: "It's not very harmonious. My cousin was so obsessed with fame that he wanted a good future, and he couldn't say a few words to this woman who only knew how to cook. β
Youwei said in a low voice: "He's clearly!" Although we have only eaten one meal made by Aunt Gongsun, she is elegant and affectionate, and every dish is a reflection of ingenuity! How can you not say a few words? β
Xu Dadao: "In this way, their husband and wife are not in harmony, so it is not impossible to murder their husbands." β
Youwei couldn't bear it anymore, and said loudly: "Whether the husband and wife are harmonious or not, how can outsiders know everything?" Adults should also listen to what Aunt Gongsun herself has to say. β
The crowd of onlookers also felt that Youwei was reasonable, and they all echoed it.
Lord Xu patted the shocked wood and said, "Hugh is noisy! Come on, untie her. β
The servants untied the rope from Aunt Gongsun with all their hands and feet.
Lord Xu said to Aunt Gongsun: "You don't want to talk nonsense anymore and disturb the court." β
Aunt Gongsun didn't have much strength, and said angrily: "The women don't dare. β
Lord Xu nodded and asked, "How about you and your husband and grandson growing up with affection?" β
Aunt Gongsun's tears fell like beads offline.
"We're not a match made in heaven, but we're on the same page. I didn't want to make my family ugly, but now I have to say it. β
Xu Dadao: "If you have any secrets, you can tell them." β
Aunt Gongsun said: "Since I founded the Spring Banquet, the business has been like a day, and now it has even become the first restaurant in Xiangzhou and the highest ranking in the country, and my husband's clan has started to think crookedly. They instigated my father-in-law and mother-in-law to force me to remarry my brother in the clan, but my husband did not see anyone alive or dead, so how could I remarry? If he comes back one day, what face will I see him? I swore to die, and they instigated my father-in-law and mother-in-law to force each other to die. I hid in the city of Xiangzhou and didn't return to my hometown, so they sent my cousin Gongsun Changxing to my spring banquet to force me. I'm a woman's family, and I'm almost cornered by them! β
Gongsun Changxing said: "You are the daughter-in-law of the Gongsun family, and your shop is naturally the property of the Gongsun family, do you want to wait until you marry an outsider one day and cheapen others?" β
Aunt Gongsun said: "You are obsessed with money, you don't talk about ordinary ethics at all, and you don't care about etiquette and education!" I have sworn to heaven that I will never marry another person in this life, but where are you worried about whether I marry or not, it is clear that you are here to steal property! β
Xu Dadao: "Although you have been married, but you are still young, and you are a little bit beautiful, if you say that you will not remarry in this life, don't say that your in-laws don't believe it, and the official won't believe it." β
Aunt Gongsun said: "Please be enlightened, the woman is just waiting for her husband to come back." If he dies, I will be a widow for him for the rest of my life, and I will never marry again. β
Xu Dadao: "In this case, the official asks you, you are Gongsun Changman's pillow man, and his left foot has six toes?" β
Aunt Gongsun said sadly: "Lord Hui, there are indeed six toes. β
Lord Xu glanced at Xing Zhutou and said, "Bring the murder weapon and let her recognize it." β
A few catchers quickly brought all the knives in the kitchen at the back of the spring banquet one by one.
Xu Dadao: "Do you recognize it, which is the murder knife you used to commit the crime?" β
Aunt Gongsun said: "The woman did not murder her husband, how can the woman admit it?" β
Xu Dadao: "If you don't admit it, the official will take these knives to the sun to dry, if they attract mosquitoes and flies, they must be stained with blood." β
Aunt Gongsun said: "Please be enlightened, these knives in the back kitchen of the women's restaurant kill chickens and ducks every day, how can there be no blood?" But if it's human blood, it's really nothing. β
Youwei thought to herself, Aunt Gongsun is so shrewd, and she almost cleared the suspicion in a few words, but this Lord Xu is afraid that he wants to catch the murderer as soon as possible, so he bites her so hard. In fact, people with six toes on their feet will not be the only one who is full of Gongsun Changman, since he has no motive and can't find the murder weapon, look at what skills this Lord Xu and Xing Zhutou have. If only it were in the 21st century, just go for a blood test and know if there is human blood on the knife. And the location of the crime and the location of the dismemberment are estimated that they have not been found, and after saying so much, they just saw that Aunt Gongsun was a woman, and maybe she confessed when she was afraid, or she still had the intention of bending into a confession. If it is suspected that it was made by Aunt Gongsun, in the same way, there are so many pigs, cattle, sheep, fish, shrimps, chickens, ducks and geese in the backyard and kitchen of the spring banquet every day, and all kinds of blood are mixed together, where can you tell who is who?
Lord Xu suddenly shouted: "Bold thief woman! Xu Er wronged you because of his greed for beauty and coveting money, and your father-in-law and mother-in-law and clansmen wronged you because they were afraid of the loss of the family property, but these witnesses and material evidence are piled up, and you can't get rid of them in a few words! Xu Er swore to heaven that he had seen you have a close relationship with a person dressed as a Confucian student, and you also admitted to him that it was your husband, which can prove that Gongsun Changman came back not long ago, and you have already met. This broken corpse has six toes on its left foot, and it is so coincidental that Gongsun Changchang also has six toes on his left foot. The person who kills and dismemberes the corpse must be an expert in the use of knives, you are the most famous chef in Xiangzhou City, is it all a coincidence? Are they all falsely accusing you? β
Aunt Gongsun was so frightened by this angry shout that she shrank aside, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and just kept saying that she was wronged.
Xu Dadao: "It seems that you won't be recruited if you don't punish you!" Come! β
"In!"
"Prepare for execution!"
One of the officers next to him asked, "My lord, what kind of punishment is used?" β
Lord Xu was expressionless and said, "A woman, there is something wrong with the court staff in public, so let's prepare to clamp it!" β
Five small wooden sticks are connected by two ropes, and the prisoner's fingers are put into the gap between the sticks, and the two servants next to them pull hard to both sides, and the sticks will be tightened more and more. Ten fingers are connected to the heart, and every time it makes the prisoner miserable.
Youwei tugged at Yu Yao's shirt and said hurriedly: "Hurry up and find a way!" β
Yu Yao said: "Don't worry, don't worry!" He said to Wen Cang again: "Brother Wen, come with me." β
The two of them squeezed out of the crowd, and while everyone's attention was on the hall, they jumped up and climbed onto the beam diagonally opposite the right side of the yamen.
Yu Yao said: "Brother Wen, I have a way to solve this dilemma, you just need to pass on the internal force to me." β
Wen Cang said: "Okay! β
Both were lucky at the same time. Wen Cang put his palms forward and directed Yu Yao's back to output all the internal force. Yu Yao silently recited the mantra of the heart method and waved his palm heavily!
What a trick "Poor Winter Gale"!
This trick belongs to the same clan as the "cloud drain moon" used by Yu Yao when he first met the assassin on his wedding night, and there are many changes according to the different internal forces, the gentle ones can be used to close the windows and turn off the lights when they have a tryst with their lover, and the violent ones can hit the water through the stones and cause landslides and tsunamis.
As the name suggests, the "Poor Winter Gale" is to win with the strength of the palm wind, as long as the internal force is deep, the palm wind can run thousands of miles away. Although this kind of realm is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, Yu Yao, with the assistance of Wen Cang, still tried his best, just hoping that the storm would rise and the sand and rocks would fly.
In the past, the Yu family's dream palm power shown in the willow forest of Linglong Mountain was actually created by Yu Yao's father, and the Yu family's family tradition is not limited to this, it is included in the eight words of "Four Dynasties, Ten Emperors, Two Drunkenness and Seven Sorrows", representing four internal skills, ten groups of palms, two sets of boxing, and seven swordsmanship, which can be described as unfathomable.
On the other side of the hall, the officers got the order, took out the clamping sticks and made a gesture to be executed. β¨Suddenly, the wind was blowing so hard that everyone couldn't open their eyes.
The crowd of onlookers began to hide their faces, hiding in Tibet, and scattered in all directions.
Fortunately, Youwei now has some internal skills, so she won't be squeezed down.
Lord Xu, who was sitting in the hall, was also blown into the sky by this gust of wind, and he couldn't recourse to it.
While busy protecting themselves, the officers had to protect Lord Xu and the case file, and they were already in a mess.
Xu Dadao: "Retire!" Retire! β
In the wind, the sound became faint and inaudible.
But everyone understood Lord Xu's gestures, and while escorting Lord Xu back to the inner hall, they took Aunt Gongsun down to continue to be imprisoned.
When only Youwei was left alone on the side inside and outside the yamen, Yu Yao restrained his palm.
Yu Yaoyuan is a few years older than Youwei and Wen Cang, and with the family history, it is reasonable for him to cultivate martial arts to be higher, but he is good at poetry and talent, and he is not particularly obsessed with martial arts, so even with Wen Cang's help, this palm has consumed seventy or eighty percent of his internal strength.
As he was mixing his breath, beads of sweat rolled down like a line.
Seeing this, Wen Cang hurriedly took out his close-fitting sweat towel and wiped it for him.
Yu Yao was in a trance when he was sad, looking at Wen Cang so anxious, he couldn't tell for a moment whether he was in a dream or outside a dream, and it was still back then.
"Brother Yu, are you better? Little Sister Youwei is still waiting for us to go over. β
Wake up with a word, the dream of sorghum.
Yu Yao let out a long breath and said, "Okay, let's go." β
The two flew out, and in the blink of an eye, they floated to Youwei.
Youwei hurriedly came up and smiled: "My good brother, it's really good kung fu!" β
Yu Yao was tired and half dead, but his brain had to continue to turn, so he said: "Her Royal Highness the princess is satisfied." Just don't get too happy, we still have things to do. β
Youwei said happily: "Yes, yes, everything is up to you." β
Wen Cang said: "Where are we going now?" β
Yu Yao paused and said, "Go to the inner hall and talk to Lord Xu." β