Volume 2 A Light Walks in the Night Chapter 97 Confrontation (1)
Zhao Ning, the eldest son of the first clan of Jiangmen, dared to come to Jingzhao Mansion with great fanfare, and sued the son of the Liu family of the Shiren Sect for his life, and the entourage also held a son of the Liu family, if this matter is very simple, Pang Sheng will definitely not believe it.
If Zhao Ning didn't have some deep-seated schemes, with the relationship between the Duwei Mansion and the Jingzhao Mansion, the other party would not come to the Jingzhao Mansion to find it unhappy. And the purpose that Zhao Ning needs to achieve, no matter how big or small, is the object that Pang Sheng needs to destroy.
Whether it is from the perspective of personal grievances, or from the overall situation of the confrontation between the Duwei Mansion and the Jingzhao Mansion, or even from the level of civil and military conflict, Pang Sheng did not let Zhao Ning get his wish and have a good time.
"Liu Xincheng, the son of the Liu family, insulted the maid in the clan, and in the process of violence, beat the maid's son to death on the spot, and then beat the maid to a serious injury, and asked his subordinates to transport his mother and son away on a cart, ready to abandon the corpse in the wilderness. The maids involved in the incident, the servants who threw the corpses, and the bodies of the children who were beaten to death are all here. ”
Zhao Ning pointed to Liu Xincheng outside the hall, "Liu Xincheng's brother Liu Xincheng tried to intercept me on the street, but many people saw it at that time, and now they are also coming over." This case could not be clearer, and I hope that a large number of people will investigate and handle it in accordance with the law and bring the criminals to prison for punishment!"
Although the servants are subordinates, after all, they are not slaves or animals, and they are not the property of the lord's family in terms of law, and the lord's family cannot kill them at will. Otherwise, although the main family will not pay for murder, the punishment of exile is inevitable.
As soon as these words came out, the people watching outside the hall immediately discussed a lot, and some of them were agitated, and they had already begun to accuse Liu of being inhumane.
Pang Sheng was shocked, and the person who showed the surprise was quiet, he didn't want to question the witnesses at all, to find out the meaning of the case, and asked Zhao Ning lightly: "How could Zhao Gongzi know so clearly about what happened in Liu's mansion?" Take a step back and say, assuming that things are really as Zhao Gongzi said, why did you rush to the vicinity of Liu's mansion in time and so happened to run into the other party to throw the corpse?"
Speaking of this, he chuckled, and looked at Zhao Ning's eyes with contempt, as if he was looking at a stunned young man who didn't know how powerful he was, "Zhao Gongzi, this case doesn't need to be investigated, and he knows that there are many suspicions." Who in the world doesn't know that the Liu family is a scholarly family and a family of etiquette, and it is really ridiculous to want the Liu family to bear the charge of disregarding people's lives just based on your words! Behind these doubts, there are any unseemly deeds, I am afraid that this official needs to find out first!"
After saying this, Pang Sheng's face was serious, as if he really wanted to check Zhao Ning, and his eyes were full of jokes.
The onlookers who had just been quiet for a while heard this, and began to talk to each other again, but this time the focus of their discussion shifted to Zhao Ning.
"Yes, how did the Zhao family know about this?"
"It's not easy! Zhao Gongzi definitely has a secret that no one knows!"
"I thought that Zhao Gongzi was going to stand up for the hard-working people, but it turned out that he also had his own conspiracy!"
"These nobles are really a raccoon dog, and there is no good ......"
Most of the people were guided by Pang Sheng's thoughts and shifted the target of attention, and only a small number of people of insight became extremely indignant at this time.
"The dead body is in front of him, the bitter master is still kneeling in the hall, Jing Zhaoyin doesn't inquire about the murder case, but relies on his own imagination to criticize Zhao Gongzi, I really don't know what to say!"
"Above the public court, with a plaque hanging high on the mirror, he does not make decisions for the bitter master, but deliberately leads the people's emotions to a fork in the road, and his heart can be punished!"
"These onlookers are really stupid, they are easily led astray by their thinking, they have no opinions at all, just like pigs!"
Although everyone's discussion was chaotic, Zhao Ning was already a cultivator in the late stage of the Imperial Qi Realm, his ears and eyes were clear, and he listened to the opinions of the two factions in the blink of an eye, but the voices of people of insight were very scarce, and the number of people who thought was not large.
Zhao Ning didn't care about the discussion in front of him, he dared to stand here today, he had the confidence to control the emotions of the people, and looked at Pang Sheng unhurriedly and said: "The things that huge people pay attention to are really strange to Zhao, can't Zhao just happen to encounter a murder, can't he have a righteous heart, help the suffering, and seek justice for them?"
"Is it true that in the eyes of the huge man, there is no justice, no kindness, no courtesy, righteousness, and no shame in this world? If this is not the case, why does the huge man live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!"
A series of questions, one by one, more and more serious, one question more and more straight to the heart, listening to the crowd of onlookers stop talking, also made Pang Sheng's face pale.
"Zhao Ning! You are so clever! This is the lobby of this official, and what this official says has his own intentions, and he doesn't need you to teach him how to investigate the case! This official will ask you, how did you learn about what happened in Liu's mansion? If you can't answer this question, this official will have to doubt your intentions! You are no longer qualified to stand in the lobby of this official, let alone ask about this case again!"
Pang Sheng slapped the stunned wood heavily, his face was majestic, his voice was stern, and every move and word was full of Jing Zhaoyin's official authority that could not be provoked.
The meaning of his words is obvious, if Zhao Ning can't answer his question, then he has to leave the lobby of Jingzhao Mansion, how he wants to investigate this case, he has the final say! If Zhao Ning wants to answer his question-in Pang Sheng's opinion, Zhao Ning can't have a perfect answer at all.
Zhao Ning was as careful as a hair, how could he not understand Pang Sheng's intentions, and sneered, "It seems that the news of the huge people is not very well-informed, so Zhao will talk about the reason." Some time ago, the Governor's Mansion investigated the case of Pingkangfang Feixue Building, dug up the market gangs hidden underground, and rescued many persecuted women and children, including Yu Niang's mother and son. ”
As he spoke, he turned to face the people outside the hall, pointed at Yu Niang and said sadly: "This is a kind woman, and she is also a hard-working woman. She was sold to the gambling house by her ruthless husband, who was addicted to gambling, to pay off her debts, and she still had a fetus in her womb at that time! When the official took the Governor's Mansion to attack the gambling house, she had already had a miscarriage because of the suffering, and although the official saved her in time, he could not save the fetus in her womb!
But she also had an eight-year-old child, who was also sold into slavery by her husband at that time, and the officials tried their best to find him and save him in time!
"In order to thank the official of the Governor's Mansion who saved her, this woman with four walls of family sold her last piece of worthless jewelry, made us pastries, and borrowed a neighbor's food box to send it.
"When the official and Wei Dutou saw that she was miserable and kind, they wanted to help her and let her eight-year-old child come and make a scholar for us, so that she would not worry about food and clothing. However, when our people went to her house, they found out that she had been sold by her husband again, to the Liu family!"
Speaking of this, Zhao Ning's eyes were painful, he took a deep breath, and then looked directly at the onlookers, and was about to continue. When Pang Sheng heard this, he already felt bad, and he was about to shoot it again, interrupting Zhao Ning's words and asking him not to say any more.
"At this time, you say, what should the official and Wei Dutou do?!"
Zhao Ning's voice suddenly became heavier, and he grabbed ahead of Pang Sheng to take a picture of the shocking wood, "Shouldn't a person like Yu Niang have a good life and a bright future? Should she be a servant? I believe that you are the same as me, you all think that I should help people to the end! That's it, Wei Dutou and I hurriedly rushed to the Liu family's mansion!"
Speaking of this, Zhao Ning turned to stare at Pang Sheng, pointed to the servants of the Liu family outside the hall, and said word by word with red eyes: "Huge man! What did Zhao do wrong? Is Zhao's every move reasonable? The only mistake of Zhao is that he went late, because he didn't expect the Liu clan to be so mad!"
"Zhao never thought that when I saw Yu Niang again, her eight-year-old child, the only and all hope and sustenance of this woman who was betrayed by her gambler husband again and again, had become a corpse! She herself almost died! If I hadn't met them on the street and rescued her, she would have been a corpse by now! Huge people, at this time, you still have to ask Zhao why he understands the situation and why he helped them?!"
Pang Sheng was stunned, he didn't expect things to be like this.
Just when his mind was in a hurry and he was quickly thinking about how to turn the situation around, a terrible and tragic cry suddenly sounded in the hall, the sound was so loud that it pierced his ears and pierced his heart, and Pang Sheng's hands trembled a little, and when he looked at it, he saw Yu Niang lying on his son's corpse, crying so painfully that he was about to pass out.
She is just a civilian who has never seen any big scenes, and she lives a life of hard work, even if there are monstrous grievances and pain in her heart, when she arrives at the lobby of Jingzhao Mansion, in the face of the majestic officials standing on both sides, Jing Zhaoyin, who lives in the public court, is still afraid from the bottom of her heart.
Because of this, she kept her head down, trembling slightly, and did not dare to speak. It wasn't until Zhao Ning said that her child couldn't live anymore that she couldn't control herself.
Yu Niang's unbearable cry ignited the compassion of the onlookers, and also aroused the hatred of the powerful in their hearts, at this time, Zhao Ning turned around again, stared at the people outside the hall and asked: "You say, should Jing Zhaoyin find out what Yu Niang's mother and son suffered in the Liu family? Should you give Yu Niang's dead eight-year-old child an explanation, should they give them justice?!"
With Zhao Ning's repeated questions, the crowd outside the hall suddenly exploded.
"Find out the facts of the case and give their mother and son justice!"
"Severely punish the Liu thief!"
"My lord, as a parent official, do you have to sit back and ignore Yu Niang's grievances?!"
"Liu's people must pay the price!"
"We must do what Zhao Gongzi said, otherwise we won't agree!"
"If you don't make decisions for the people, it's better to come back and sell sweet potatoes!"
The sound is louder than the other.
Those who questioned Zhao Ning under the guidance of Pang Sheng's words before also shouted the loudest this time, many of them blushed and had thick necks, and while spitting and yelling, they pushed the officials in front of them, and they had a moving posture of beating Liu Xincheng.
At this moment, they are like heroes who uphold justice, fighting against crime endlessly, and they forget that they were still saying that Zhao Ning is not a good thing just now.
And those people of insight who had asked for clarification of the case before, although they were also shouting loudly now, they behaved with restraint and reason, and did not make radical remarks and behaviors.
The angry posture of the crowd made Pang Sheng's face like the bottom of a pot. He felt that things were a little tricky, but more than that, he was angry, angry at a group of mud-legged "Diao Min" who dared to shout in front of the court and command him what to do as a four-grade master!
This kind of disobedient behavior in front of him made him angry, and he couldn't wait to maintain his official authority, picked up the shocking wood, and slapped it on the desk, about to scold the people who were so forgetful that they were quiet.
It's just a group of people who think that if they gather some people and shout a few words together, they can make the official jealous and influence the words and deeds of the official? What a joke! Jing Zhaoyin is my Pang Sheng, who holds the authority, and it is me who prohibits orders and prohibitions, and what I say counts, but not you mud legs!
Before the two words of silence came out, the master who was doing the record of the ascension to the hall had already got up and left his seat, and bowed to him in the hall: "My lord, human life is at stake, and the people's feelings are boiling, please handle the case impartially and administer justice for Yu Niang's mother and son!"
Pang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then his face sank like water: "Master Zhou, do you know what you are doing?!" A seven-grade petty official dared to point fingers at himself in front of the court, he really didn't know what to say, if he turned against the sky, he didn't know the consequences?!
"Xia Guan knows. The lower officials are asking the adults to redress their grievances for the people!" Zhou Junchen bowed down, but his tone was even more firm.
Pang Sheng was furious.
"Please find out the facts of the case and administer justice to the deceased!" Outside the hall, Tang Xing also bowed.
Pang Sheng took a deep breath.
"Please find out the facts of the case!" Five or six officials of Jingzhao Mansion, regardless of the order and rules of the officialdom, and as if they did not care about the consequences of disobeying the officials, appeared outside the hall one after another, stood with Tang Xing, and threatened Pang Sheng by asking for his life.
Pang Sheng's heart sank to the bottom all of a sudden.
Those who came forward were all poor officials.
He sensed something was serious. The things involved behind this case are far bigger than he thought before.
The pool is bottomless and full of danger.
"Why haven't you tried the case yet? What are Jing Zhaoyin waiting for?"
"So many officials followed and asked for their lives, Jing Zhaoyin still didn't make a decision, didn't he accept the benefits of the Liu family and want to exonerate the Liu family?"
Where is the law, where is the reason, is there justice in the world?!"
The crowd quarreled again.
This time, the momentum is several times that of just now. Because on the street outside Jingzhao Mansion, there was also a huge discussion, and finally converged into a shout that Jingzhao Yin must handle the case impartially, the sound shook the sky, like rolling summer thunder, and it meant to tear off the roof!
Pang Sheng only felt cold behind him.
A fear rose in his heart, and as the people grew louder and louder, cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
As an official of the imperial court, the existence of power, and a dignified four-grade official, he didn't take the common people in his eyes at all. That's just the object of his rule, as a powerful figure in the ruling class, in front of these ruled people, he holds unquestionable power over life and death!
But now, there is a problem within Jingzhao Mansion, and Zhao Ning and Wei Wuxian, the two children of the family, have come forward, and at the same time, the voices of the people have been connected, and there is a tendency to overwhelm the mountains and seas, he feels that the position under his ass is unstable, and he is also on the cusp of the storm, and there is a risk of being overturned by the big waves.
"What's going on with the Liu family, why didn't you even talk to me about it when there was such a big situation? At the moment, I was not prepared at all, how could I suppress it in the face of such a huge situation?" Pang Sheng had a deep resentment towards the Liu family.
With a snap, the startled wood slapped on the desk, and the voice was much quieter than the previous times, because Pang Sheng was now weak in his heart, so he inevitably didn't dare to use force, but he still had a majestic face, cleared his throat, and said in a calm voice: "As a parent official, it is his duty to preside over justice, and the murder is currently in his heart, so he will naturally do his best to find out." The woman in the hall, report her identity, explain the reason for the matter, if there is a grievance, tell it carefully, and do not conceal it, and the official will definitely find out. ”