"Well, it doesn't hurt if Mrs. Hou refuses to admit it, and there are more than these thieves under the king's hands. Although this witness can't prove Mrs. Hou's guilt, it is more than enough to prove the Li family's crime" Qi Minzhi was not flustered, and smiled indifferently.

As he spoke, his eyes swept over a man kneeling with the bandit in the corner below: "The coachman, you come out to speak."

After Qi Minzhi spoke, everyone noticed that there was a plainly dressed man kneeling behind a group of robbers, because he was too inconspicuous, because everyone didn't take him seriously, and it wasn't until Qi Minzhi spoke at this moment that everyone saw him.

The coachman trembled and walked a few steps forward and kowtowed: "Lord, Xiaomin was also confused for a while before accepting Aunt Li's silver, and following Aunt Li's instructions to drive the car out of the city to drive Xiaomin is just a momentary ghost, not the mastermind, the mastermind is Aunt Li, please ask the prince to be gracious."

Qi Minzhi nodded: "In this way, even if the Li family is not the mastermind of the hired murderer, she must know the whole thing well."

Aunt Li's face turned pale, and she hurriedly turned her head to look at the coachman: "Wang Wu, when do I want you to harm Mrs. and Eldest Miss, you don't want to spew blood, I treat you well on weekdays, why do you treat me like this, yes, I scolded you a few days ago and drove you out, do you think you are holding a grudge against me, do you know, helping others to make false accusations is a crime, are you not afraid of Wang Fa?"

"It's funny, just with what you did in the Li family, are you worthy of talking about the word Wang Fa, hire a murderer, kill slaves and maids, and people like you dare to call Wang Fa, it's ridiculous" Qi Minzhi sneered and changed his posture.

"Li's you are too arrogant, this kind of lie can also be easy to come by, since you said that you drove the fifth king out of the house and he hated you, then I will ask you, you are an aunt who has not crossed the bright road, and she is not a master, what qualifications do you have to get rid of people Besides, you are an inner house woman living in the inner courtyard every day, when did you see this coachman Yihexuan is next to the second sister and the third sister live in Ruyi Xuan, you suddenly called a coachman to enter the door to train him, or you went out of the inner courtyard door, to the stable to find the coachman" Ye Tanghua listened to Aunt Li's words, and couldn't help but bend the corners of her lips, Aunt Li's excuse was too clumsy.

Wang Wu also glared at Aunt Li resentfully: "Aunt Li, I have been serving with the master since Jiangnan, and now it has been five or six years, I think I am loyal, but I don't say that you are abandoning the car to protect the handsome, in this case, I also don't care about my face, it was you who gave me ten taels of silver and told me to drive the car out of the city, and I taught King Yongan to catch it before I left the city, and I haven't had time to spend the silver."

Wang Wu said, took out a silver coin from his waist and smashed it at Aunt Li, Aunt Li dodged away, and shouted angrily: "Something evil, blind your dog's eyes, isn't it just a silver ingot, can I have someone else, you can find evidence for me from this silver?"

Aunt Li said, a hint of pride flashed in her eyes, on the third day of the lunar month, she was planted on a silver ingot made in Jiangnan Mansion, how could she make the same mistake this time, look at how the two cheap breeds of Ye Tanghua and Qi Minzhi are separated

Qi Minzhi frowned, and made a color towards Mofu, who walked over willingly, picked up the ingot of silver from the ground and looked at it for a while, and looked at Qi Minzhi with a frown: "Lord Wang, this silver is not official silver, it has been re-fried in the silver shop, and there is nothing to see on the surface." ”

Mrs. Xipinghou and Aunt Li are both happy in their hearts, now the witnesses are just a group of thieves and a Wang Wu, the thieves recognize Mrs. Xipinghou, Mrs. Xipinghou can shirk it, Wang Wu identified Aunt Li, and the evidence is just a piece of silver, but this ingot of silver does not have any mark, that is to say, Qi Minzhi and Ye Tanghua have no clear evidence to prove that Aunt Li once hired Wang Wu.

"However, it is not difficult to find out who sold this silver." Mo Fu saw that Mrs. Xiping Hou and Aunt Li had a relaxed look on their faces, and couldn't help but sneer, and continued to finish his words.

From the old banquet to today, a total of more than half a month, the prince of his family has already interrogated these people dozens of times inside and out, and the ideas everywhere have long been complete, not to mention that there is evidence, even if there is no evidence, the prince of his family can also create a evidence, not to mention that now the ready-made silver is placed in front of him

Compared with Mrs. Xipinghou and Aunt Li, Ye Tanghua and Qi Minzhi's biggest advantage is time

Qi Minzhi raised his eyebrows and looked at Mo Fu: "Oh, why is this?"

Mo Fu didn't say a word, just held the silver between the two fingers of his left hand, and made a scissor shape with the other hand, and clamped it in the middle of the silver ingot, and saw that the silver ingot was clamped into two pieces by his fingers like tofu, and Mo Fu collected it with his left hand, and the two pieces of silver entered his hand, he walked in front of Qi Minzhi and presented the two pieces of silver: "Please take a closer look at the center of this silver." ”

Qi Minzhi took half of the silver, handed the other half to Jing Zhaoyin, and said while looking at it: "What is in the middle of this silver?"

Mo Fu arched his hand and said: "Dafan silver shop, when frying silver will be marked with their own shop, such as the long years in the capital is a long life of a hundred years old, the gold of the gold is not only a signboard, but also for the convenience of the store bookkeeping, most people are accustomed to this, but there are a small number of people who are unwilling to ask for this mark, in order to use it as another way, for fear of leaking their identity, when facing this kind of people, the silver shop in Beijing will generally make a heart, the surface of the silver ingot cast smooth, But in the silver coin through his own craftsmanship to add a secret mark to determine whether this is the silver of his shop, now the subordinates cut the silver, I think His Royal Highness can see the secret mark inside."

Qi Minzhi lowered his eyes and looked at it for a while, and then touched the surface of the silver with his hand: "There seems to be a small copper ball in the middle of this silver, Master Li thinks it."

Jing Zhaoyin looked at it, nodded and said, "Yes, there is indeed a small copper ball in the middle of this silver." ”

"Is there anything special about this little copper ball?" Qi Minzhi looked up at Mo Fu.

"Back to the prince's words, this small copper ball is the secret mark of the silver shop in Beijing, because copper is not easy to fry than silver, so when the silver is fried, put such a copper ball in the silver, take the copper in the heart, now the silver has come from, as long as you find the shopkeeper of the Tongxin Ji to check the account, you can know who fried the silver" Mo Fu replied.

Aunt Li's face changed, and her fingertips trembled slightly, she had indeed sold a lot of silver in Tongxinji, because Tongxinji was close to Yefu. When she sold the silver, she specially asked Tongxinji not to leave a mark, but she didn't expect that the shopkeeper of Tongxinji was so insidious and left her a secret mark

"It's easy to do now, go and ask the shopkeeper of Tongxinji to come with the account, and carefully find out who is frying this silver, and you will know who is lying" Qi Minzhi's expression was light, and Yan Yan said with a smile.

Aunt Li bit her lower lip, and began to panic in her heart, this, how could this be like this, I didn't expect her to plant it on a copper ball and send it to Tongxin to remember that it was her maid Xi'er, which can't be relied on

Qi Minzhi glanced at Aunt Li: "Li, now the truth is in front of you, if you confess your guilt now, this king can still show mercy outside the law, if you are obsessed with it, your life and death will not be guaranteed by this king."

Wang Wu also looked at Aunt Li and sneered: "Auntie, I advise you not to deny it, wait for the shopkeeper of Tongxinji to come, it depends on how you end."

Aunt Li was helpless, so she could only kowtow: "Lord, the concubine knows that she is wrong, and the concubine is just a ghost for a while, and she wants to ask the coachman to drive the car out of the city, but there is no such thing as hiring a murderer, please let the prince know."

Now she can't hide the matter of hiring Wang Wu, for the sake of now, she can only keep herself from the matter of hiring the murderer far away

"Since you are willing to admit that this coachman is hired by you, then even if these thieves are not hired by you personally, you must have something to do with the person who hired the murderer, as long as you are willing to confess to the person who hired the murderer, this king will let you go, but this king must say it in advance, if you dare to tell lies to fool this king, this king can let you know how miserable the end of a girl who plots to kill the mistress and his daughter."

Aunt Li hesitated for a moment, ruthless, as the saying goes, husband and wife are birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes. The blessing of sharing a bed is still like this, not to mention the sister who was recognized halfway, as long as Mrs. Xipinghou is pushed out, then she will be fine

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but make up her mind, and kowtowed to Qi Minzhi: "If you go back to the prince, the person who hired the murderer is Mrs. Xipinghou"

"What nonsense are you talking about" Mrs. Xipinghou was shocked, how could her sister not be able to resist Qi Minzhi's intimidation in a few words, and immediately betrayed her

Aunt Li bit her lower lip and put on a crying expression: "Sister, my sister doesn't want to hurt you, but if my sister doesn't tell the truth, it will really hurt you Sister knows, you have always wanted your nephew to marry the county lord as a concubine, but the county lord is deeply blessed, and his identity is becoming more and more prominent, your wish is difficult to fulfill, so you have a crooked heart, and want to order someone to go to the county lord, and then the prince will help my sister I persuaded you at the beginning, but you insisted on going your own way, and now that the matter has happened, sister, you will admit it."

"Nonsense, fart" Mrs. Xipinghou let Aunt Li beat her back to her eyes, and it took a long time to come to her senses: "Didn't you say that our sisters worked together to break the gold and entrust me with their own interests, I just want Ye Yatou to be the concubine of Zhibo, and I don't have to make such a means I am prepared enough to go to Ye Mansion, and I am afraid that Ye Shangshu will not follow If it is not for you, why would I do such a thing?"

"The more Mrs. Hou said this, the more she couldn't speak, what a noble body my eldest lady is, don't say it's a concubine, it's a nephew who asks the eldest lady to be a wife, the eldest lady is only afraid that she is also disdainful, my sister is clear in her heart, otherwise why would she calculate the county lord several times Now that the matter has been released, my sister should quickly ask the prince for mercy, so that she can forgive her sins" Aunt Li secretly pinched her thigh, and her tears were in pain.

Ye Tanghua looked coldly at the two sisters and finally turned against each other, and a trace of happiness flashed across the corners of her lips.

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