The voice of the master book fell, and he handed the list he had just written down to the desk of Beitang.

"Smack!" Then I heard the sound of the wake wood. Two columns of errand servants armed with sticks ran in from outside the door, standing in a column under the eight pillars on both sides of the hall, and a group of people around the case gathered around the hall.

"Where is Lu Zhongzhi, the Duke of Huaiguo?"

In the case of Dali Temple, the heirs failed to be present, so it stands to reason that they will be punished, but Lu Zhongzhi and Lu Zhi can be exonerated due to special circumstances. Liu Dewei had already heard that the little soldier had come to report Lu Zhongzhi's whereabouts, but he still had to go through the motions in the hall.

Lu Rongyuan took three steps forward, and after a salute, he said: "My father and nephew Lu Zhi were summoned away by someone from the Criminal Department last night, and they have not returned so far, so they have not been able to be present. ”

"Who's in the hall?"

"Xia Guan is Lu Rongyuan, the eldest son of Duke Huaiguo."

Liu Dewei nodded, Huai Guogong was not present, what he wanted to ask this morning, his eldest son was also the Lu family's master.

"Lu Rongyuan. In the public court, there can be no lie, this official asks you, on the 23rd of this month, the Lu family opened the ancestral hall, and the four Lu family mothers and sons under the concession have nothing to do with your Lu family. ”

"Lord Hui, the mother and son of the Lu family are relatives of the family father and uncle, before recognizing the relatives, according to the generation, the deceased husband of the Lu family should call the father as the uncle."

Listening to this answer, Fang Qiao was not surprised, Liu Dewei stared at Lu Rongyuan's expression, as the presiding judge, he can't handle this case with the slightest bias, but he must also have a spectrum in his heart about the direction of the case, and now through the facts that have been learned, in objective facts, no matter where you look at it, the Lu family is not the wife of the Fang family, but in terms of subjective mentality, he feels that they are more likely.

But when a case is adjudicated, it is a confession and evidence that are all determined by this, and it has nothing to do with his conjecture.

After listening to Lu Rongyuan's words, this somewhat thin middle-aged man asked the master bookkeeper to present the document on the birthplace of the Lu family's mother and son transferred from the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Rites, and read it in front of everyone. Then he looked up and swept the two family members on both sides of the separate hall, and said loudly:

"Where is Fang Qiao?"

Fang Qiao also took three steps forward, stood beside Lu Rongyuan, and said after a wave: "This official is here." "He is one level higher than Liu Dewei, so he doesn't need to call himself inferior.

Yi Yu is the first time to see the Dali Temple trial, before and after the hall looked around, from Liu Dewei sat on the Dali Temple officials, to a group of passers-by, from the stacks of books and papers on the desk of the main book, to the eight pillars in this spacious room, until Fang Qiao stepped forward to ask, then his eyes fell on him again.

"This official asks you, on the 23rd of this month, the Lu family opened the ancestral hall, and what is the relationship between the four Lu family mothers and sons and your Fang family?"

"Lord Hui," Fang Qiao said without hesitation, "They are Fang's wife and children who were separated thirteen years ago. ”

Yi Yu pursed her lips, when Lu Rongyuan said "lies" just now, she felt intimate, and told the "truth" to Qiao this time, why was she so awkward in her heart, as if something entrusted to him by others was lost by him who did not cherish it. After more than ten years of reporting the idea of not being able to find it, he suddenly saw that thing appear in the house that entrusted him at the beginning, and he still had the confidence to say loudly, "These are mine".

"Where is Fang Fu Liniang?"

Yingying, a woman with a good posture, stepped forward to bow, Liu Dewei looked up and down, and said: "Thirteen years ago, you entered the Fang family as a concubine, and you have seen the head of the house, and you were also present that night when the Lu family worshiped the ancestors, I heard that you called the Lu family the eldest lady, and the official asked you, you must not lie, the Lu family of the Huaiguo Mansion now, but your former housewife?" ”

Li Niang turned her head to look at the Lu family who was blocked behind Lu Ronghe, and could only see the Lu family on the side, suppressed the resentment in her heart, and said softly: "Exactly." ”

"Smack!" Wake up again, Liu Dewei straightened his face, and said with a straight face: "You two don't have to talk about it, judging from the household registration documents of the four mothers and sons, this Lu family should be the wife of the Lu family, she has a deceased husband and a died early, how did she become your wife?" ”

Fang Qiao learned about the Lu family's household registration being manipulated a while ago, and he also asked people to start verifying, but they couldn't find the slightest trace of powerful changes, even before they moved to the Lu family, the fake identity of Jiyi County was indeed such a widow. He knew something about his father-in-law's ability to show the dew, so he didn't bother with those things on paper, and insisted:

"It doesn't matter what is written on the paper. It is a fact that she is my wife, and I have letters and portraits from those days to confirm that she is the wife of someone in my room. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the person behind him who was holding it in his hand, hardcover in two boxes, one long and one flat, which were the portraits and two letters that he had selected yesterday that most resembled the current Lu family.

Yi Yu frowned, yes, he really took the portrait and the letter out, it seems that they are ready to cheat.

The old 2 Lu Ronghe was not called by name, but he stood up at this time and sneered: "Fang Qiao, there are many similar people in this world, and it is ridiculous to want to refer to a deer as a horse just based on a portrait." ”

Lu Jingshan has been angry since she entered the hall and saw Fang Qiao and Li Niang, she is also a woman, naturally she hates concubines and the like the most, seeing that Li Niang is noble, her eyebrows and eyes are full of pampered appearance, and the fur on her shoulder alone is worth seven or eight hundred taels, while she is not worth it for the Lu family, after her brother's voice fell, she had a pungent temperament, and then sneered at Fang Qiao:

"Lord Fang. If you say that you can distinguish people if you have a portrait, then I am not afraid of being ugly and say, my husband is a good man, there are a lot of portraits of prostitutes on the banks of the Qinhuai River in the house, I look at the woman next to you, it is like a picture I have seen, is it that I found the portrait, I can send this woman to the museum as a prostitute! ”

Where did Li Niang think that standing honestly on the side would be called and insulted, her face turned pale for a while, but she silently moved behind Fang Qiao. Fang Qiao frowned, and just said "you" to his mouth. Yu Guang saw the faint joke on Yi Yu's face, and suddenly remembered that day in the silk shop, he stood up for his wife and daughter, and this little daughter also looked at him like this, which made him feel a little depressed in his heart, and he couldn't continue.

Lu Jingshan was addicted to it, and was about to sneer again, but when she heard the sound of "popping", Liu Dewei said with some anger: "Above the court, how can you be so nonsense, if you don't hold back your mouth again, you will be blamed for ten sticks, and step down!" ”

Lu Shi stretched out his hand to pull Lu Jingshan back, shook his head at her, she also knew the truth of accepting it when she saw it, glared at Fang Qiao, and stopped talking.

Fang Qiao glanced at the Lu family, and then under Liu Dewei's signal, he continued: "In the past ten years, the appearance of the insider has not changed greatly, and the former 'Lou Gong' case was determined by the portrait, and I hope the adults will see it." ”

The 'Lou Gong' case is about a murder case that made a lot of trouble in Chang'an City last year, and there were two murderers 'Lou Gong', and in the end it was decided by the portrait, who knew that Fang Qiao actually took this matter as an example in order to increase the weight of the portrait, if the portrait is not used as evidence, doesn't it mean that the big case tried by the Criminal Department cannot be counted?

Several members of the Lu family frowned secretly, and their hearts were not good, and sure enough, Liu Dewei turned his head sideways to ask Shaoqing and several other witnesses on the side, and then nodded:

"This case is one of the evidences that can be used as evidence."

Yi Yu felt that Lu's hand holding her under her sleeve was tightened, originally planned to fool this portrait, Liu Dewei said this, the portrait can be used as a piece of evidence, although it can't completely rely on the portrait to determine Lu's identity, but a few more. Then Liu Dewei's trial will definitely start to deviate!

But Lu Jingshan was reprimanded just now, and if there are any more interjections, not only will they be hit by the board, but it will make people feel that they have ghosts in their hearts, so Lu Rongyuan and they can only be anxious in their hearts, watching Fang Qiao let people hand over the two boxes, and Yi Yu clenched his right fist, turning his brain quickly, thinking about how to deal with it later.

Liu Dewei opened the long box with his own hands, took out a scroll from it, from the feel, although this painting is properly collected, but it is still easy to identify the age, nodding secretly in his heart, he saw some clues from the attitude of the Lu family and the Fang family just now, knowing that the identity of the Lu family must be concealed, looking at this painting, he can make his judgment, and have more basis.

Lu Shi pulled Lu Jingshan, who wanted to speak, and a group of people in the hall stared at Liu Dewei in the hall to slowly unfold the picture scroll, and their eyes widened after just looking at it, and they looked up at Lu Shi, as if they didn't believe what they saw in front of them, so they looked down and looked down at the picture scroll in their hands.

Fang Qiao spoke, but looked at Lu Shi, with a little nostalgia on his face, and said: "My lord, this painting was painted by myself on her birthday when I was married to my wife for three years. ”

Liu Dewei didn't answer him, but reached out and took another box containing the letter and opened it, inside was a neatly folded letterhead and a deed.

Fang Qiao then explained: "The letter was written by an insider when I was on an errand abroad, and as for the deed, it was a transaction signed by my wife with Daxing Dried Fruit Bank at the beginning of the year, and the payment was written by her own handwriting, and the handwriting between the two was exactly the same." ”

What the! Lu Shi and Yi Yu's pupils shrank at the same time, and their eyelids jumped, this, this person must have thought that Lu Shi refused to leave a word on the spot, so he went to Daxing Dried Fruit Store and got that deed!

Oops, terrible, how could he forget this, how could Fang Qiao think of going to Daxing Dried Fruit Store to find evidence!

Suddenly, the faces of the Lu family showed an ugly look. In the eyes of Liniang, who had just been humiliated, she was a little relieved, in her opinion, if Fang Qiao wanted to do something, how could these people stop her.

(There is an update tonight) (!) )