Dong Qianmo shook his head and said disapprovingly: "This is not true, according to your claim, little brother, in order to tell you the testimony herself, that grandmother will be hanging and refuse to close her eyes. There is a saying that people are dying and their words are good, how can Grandma Gao be vague about this most crucial testimony? ”

The little beggar felt some truth in his heart, but he still felt that Dong Qianmo was the most suspicious, and now he was just making up words to excuse himself.

Dong Qianmo turned around and walked out of the courtroom, pulled out a woman who was hearing, and asked, "This aunt, if you went home and described the scene that happened in the market to your family, how would you describe the attacker and the attacked?" ”

The woman thought for a moment and said, "The attacker is a young man dressed as a beggar, and the attacker is a very handsome girl. ”

Dong Qianmo asked again: "Will you say that a man attacked a woman in blue in the market because of the feeling of joy and dislike in your heart?" ”

The woman shook her head: "Impossible, little girl, you are like this, at a glance, you can tell that you are a well-informed young lady, a girl who has not yet married." ”

Dong Qianmo smiled, turned to face Zhao County's order in the hall, and said loudly: "My lord Mingjian, the first suspicion is drawn from this, I am dressed in blue, but I am not the woman in blue in Grandma Gao's mouth." Besides, it's been a while since the case of wounding someone on horseback happened, didn't the murderer change his clothes and wait for someone to come to her? ”

Zhao Xianling nodded: "This girl is reasonable!" ”

Everyone who heard the trial also nodded, yes, the little beggar's accusation is not tenable at all.

Dong Qianmo asked the little beggar again: "What is your sister's name, how long has she been in the palace, and since she entered the palace, how often have you met with her?" ”

The little beggar replied: "My sister was originally called Gu Jinling, but after three years in the palace, she was renamed Yuejiao, and since then, I have only met her three times, all at a fixed time during the Double Ninth Festival every year, and a side palace door is opened for the palace maids and their families to meet." ”

Dong Qianmo asked, "Has your sister ever gone out of the palace to visit you and your mother?" ”

The little beggar shook her head: "Never, it's just that every time we meet through the palace gate, she gives me the money she has saved." ”

Dong Qianmo deduced: "From this, it can be seen that the palace is strictly forbidden, and it is impossible for your sister to get out of the palace wall." According to you, she still has two years to get out of that palace wall, but Grandma Gao said that it is not strange to see someone in the wilderness who has been violent to her? ”

The little beggar looked hesitant, and also had a hint of doubt about Grandma Gao's words.

Dong Qianmo said: "A palace maid Yuejiao who has not been home for more than three years, if she walked out of the palace wall of her free will, if I were her, I would definitely run home desperately to reunite with my relatives." But she didn't do this, and could only infer that she was kidnapped in a very reluctant situation, so she couldn't go home after leaving the palace. Little brother, do you think my guess is justified? ”

The little beggar nodded hesitantly: "Yes." ”

Dong Qianmo said: "I said it doesn't make sense, there is a Royal Forest Army in the palace of our Western Wei Dynasty, and there is a capital patrol camp outside the palace, Yuejiao lives in the palace, who can kidnap her out of the palace?" She is the palace maid who serves the Queen Mother, who dares to attack her? ”

The more Zhao County Ling listened, the more wrong it became, and he hurriedly coughed heavily and said, "Girl, this county has some ears behind it, and you are talking closer." ”

Dong Qianmo raised his eyebrows slightly, moved his skirt, and walked closer.

Zhao Xianling suppressed his throat and said in a low voice: "Girl, didn't you say that you would strictly abide by this matter?" Why did you peel off the cocoon yourself, and even the Queen Mother pulled it out? ”

Dong Qianmo said in a low voice: "The county magistrate doesn't know, I just found out that there seems to be an entourage of the Dali Temple patrol envoy in the crowd hearing the trial, he has heard the little beggar mention the 'queen mother's palace maid' Yunyun before, even if I don't analyze it, he will report it to the patrol envoy word for word." ”

Zhao County's face changed, and the Dali Temple patrol envoy? Isn't that Princess Zhaoyang's concubine, Song Fuxin? That's a famous prick!

Zhao Xianling suddenly had a bitter face, and asked in a low voice: "How is that good?" Song Xun pressed the sparse participation, which was commonplace. ”

Dong Qianmo said: "For today's plan, the only way to point the finger at Princess Yu is to point the finger at Princess Yu." ”

"Princess Yu?" Zhao County's order was staggered, and his heart was worried.

"Yes," Dong Qianmo whispered to him for analysis, "Princess Zhaoyang is the sister of King Yu, and she has a good relationship with Princess Yu." Song Xun press is a concubine, he knows the princess's intentions, once it is pulled to Princess Yu, without waiting for us to bother to hide it, Song Xun press will use means to suppress this matter. ”

Zhao Xianling was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and finally came back to his senses and said: "The girl's clever plan, it's all up to the girl." ”

So Dong Qianmo walked to the center of the public hall again and said to the little beggar: "Just now, I exchanged views with the county commander, and unanimously determined that Sister Ling was maliciously kidnapped and violently when she was on an errand in the palace, and then killed again-county commander, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Xianling nodded: "That's right." ”

Dong Qianmo looked at the little beggar with a sad face, and said sympathetically: "The only evidence now is the horseshoe print with the lotus mark on that side. Little brother, you followed the white horse to me, but I am not the owner of the horse, you see, I have never ridden a horse, because I do not know how to ride at all. ”

The little beggar asked indignantly, "Not your horse?" Whose horse is that? ”

After a pause, Dong Qianmo said: "The owner of the horse is a person I know, but before the county magistrate finds out whether this horse is the murderous horse, I can't tell you the identity of the owner of the horse, lest you do anything impulsive." ”

The little beggar hurriedly promised: "No, I won't be impulsive anymore!" ”

Dong Qianmo shook his head: "I'm sorry, I really can't tell you, because the owner of the horse is not an ordinary person." But I can tell you that the owner of the horse is a man, and there are hardly any women around him. ”

The little beggar looked disappointed.

Dong Qianmo said again: "The owner of the horse also has his master and mother, listening to your description, it reminds me of one thing." ”

The little beggar asked urgently, "What's the matter?" ”

Dong Qianmo recalled, and said slowly: "One winter, a stunning beauty who looked like a fairy went to the largest silk village in the capital to tailor, and the shopkeeper recommended a kind of red fox satin to her, and said that this is a rare silk from a private workshop in Jiangnan, and there are only two horses in the world. The beauty bought the two red fox satin horses with a lot of money, one into a gorgeous long skirt, and the other into ashes. ”

Burned the silk to ashes?

Hearing this, everyone in the hall couldn't help but whisper, and Zhao Xianling slapped the shocked wood and quieted everyone down.

In the silence, Dong Qianmo's voice was cold, like a sparkling deep well, with clear Lingling's water vapor and echoes from the well wall.

She said, "After the first winter snow that year, that beauty wore this unique long dress, like a red plum in the snow, and she really looked at the entire Western Wei Dynasty, and she couldn't find someone as beautiful as her." She wore a new dress and went to the mountains outside the city to make incense, which attracted the frequent attention of passers-by, and the cultivator forgot his plow, and the hoe forgot his hoe, which made her very proud. But when she arrived at the temple on the mountain, she found a young woman of eighteen or nineteen among the pilgrims, wearing the same red fox satin as her. Prefectural Commander, guess what's the reason for this? ”

Zhao Xianling was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Maybe the shopkeeper of the Silk Village lied and sold the cloth to others." ”

Dong Qianmo shook his head and said: "That stunning beauty has always been bold in her shots, if there are really more red fox satin, she will not hesitate to buy it with a lot of money." The shopkeeper is happy to make money, so how can he lie? ”

Zhao Xianling asked: "Then why other young women also wear red fox satin?" ”

Dong Qianmo said: "Actually, the young woman is the young lady of the Jiangnan workshop that makes this kind of silk, she has just been seen by the doctor to have a happy vein, her husband is happy, and he dyed the red fox satin for her. ”

As soon as the words changed, a gloomy voice said, "That was the first time she entered Beijing, and she only went up the mountain to enter the incense once, and on the second day, she was found lying at the foot of the mountain, and her whole body was covered with skin and flesh caused by long-term dragging, and dirty blood flowed everywhere." When she died, she was still wearing the same red fox satin jacket, but it was already tattered and no longer beautiful. ”

The little beggar's eyes widened and he said tightly, "That's right! She's in the same situation as my sister! ”

Dong Qianmo sighed and said, "And the shopkeeper of the silk village, a whole tongue was cut off at night." The chief on the street asked him if he had been sought revenge, and which enemy did it? The shopkeeper's hand was able to write, but he resolutely refused to write the man who cut his tongue out with his hand. The chief asked in a hurry, and the shopkeeper was ruthless, so he smashed the paperweight on the table, knocked off his fingers, and couldn't write anymore, and the chief would never be able to ask the answer. ”

At this time, there was silence in the public hall, obviously it was noon, but there was a cold wind passing through the hall, everyone felt that their clothes were thin, and those who were timid shivered.

Dong Qianmo said faintly: "Actually, that beauty is already a stunning person in the sky and no in the earth, even if others wear the same dress as her, they will be dwarfed under her cover, and they can't take away half of her richness." But she can't even tolerate a pregnant woman with a big belly, and even an honest shopkeeper has to take revenge. No matter how beautiful she is, when I see her, I am also scared from the bottom of my heart - Lord County Commander, what do you say? ”

Zhao Xianling broke out in a cold sweat, coughed, and said solemnly: "Okay!" Girl, the clue you provided is very useful, and this official will use this as a guide, and follow this clue to find out the woman in blue who dragged people to death and injury on horseback! ”

Dong Qianmo nodded and asked, "Has the little woman been involved in the little beggar's accusations?" ”

Zhao Xian ordered: "Of course, the girl was innocent and was murdered, and the official is very merciful for your experience, please use tea in the back hall to suppress the shock." Then he slapped the shocked wood again, and said, "The beggar Gu Xiaoshen, seeing that the matter is unknown, relied on his own wild speculation to commit murder on the street, and was escorted to await trial, and sentenced another day!" ”

Syllable! Shocked wood slapped the last time and withdrew.

The onlookers watched a somewhat strange court trial, and they dispersed unsatisfied. The case is a case within a case, although it is a rare novelty, the attitude of the county magistrate is also a little weird, how can he be so polite to the girl in blue?

Even ordinary people look a little strange, let alone Song Tong, the guard of the princess's mansion.

He thought about it in his heart, then turned around and left, and returned to the princess's mansion with all the things he had seen and heard in this public trial.

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At this time, in the back hall of Jingzhao Mansion, Zhao Xianling was very uneasy in his heart, and repeatedly asked: "Is this appropriate?" It's going to be okay, right? Isn't there really going to be any trouble? ”

Dong Qianmo smiled and used a cup of tea to persuade him: "For the way of officials, being decent is not necessarily fine, and there are times when typhoons pass through and are swept by the tail of the typhoon." Sailing against the current, against the scales, sometimes there are unexpected gains. Adults are forty and six, don't you want to sit in the seat of Jingzhao Mansion Yin before you are fifty years old? ”

Zhao County Ling Ne said: "Thank you girl for your guidance...... I don't know how to ask the girl for advice in the future? ”

Dong Qianmo knew that Zhao County Ling was afraid that she would be unofficial and light, so she would no longer care about this mess when she left, so he comforted him in a harmonious voice: "After today's incident, you are a friend of this girl, and this girl likes it very much, as if Lord Zhao, you are an official who knows the current affairs so well." There is a way to know the current affairs for Junjie, in fact, this is just a small case, as long as Lord Zhao you can make me happy, in the future behind the ups and downs of the court, you can also share a piece of the pie. ”

Zhao Xianling was overjoyed when he heard this, and he bowed his hand again and again, and thanked him with a smile: "Thank you, thank you!" Thank you for your kindness! ”

At this time, a very familiar woman's voice came from outside, muttering something. Dong Qianmo said: "It's so noisy, who's outside?" ”

Zhao Xianling replied: "Oh, that's the fifth lady of the Dong Mansion. ”

Dong Qianmo raised his eyebrows: "Fifth Miss Dong Mansion?" ”

Zhao Xianling nodded: "Yes, last night a grandmother of Dong Fu died on the street, and the fifth lady came to identify the body." ”