Chapter Twenty-Five: Good and Evil Will Be Rewarded in the End
"Two unjust souls, can you bring the people who hurt you?"
"Back to the judge, it has been brought, please judge us justice."
"Bring Wu Jian's soul up."
At this time, Wu Jian also slowly woke up, and saw a red-faced and bearded man sitting majestically in the gloomy hall around him, with black and white impermanence and bull-headed horses on both sides. Is it really to the underworld? Wasn't it still in the courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion just now?
snapped, and there was another shock, "The soul kneeling in the hall is Wu Jian?" ”
The soul of the kneeling? Could it be that he really arrived in the underworld? Wu Jian thought about it psychologically, and didn't dare to speak out, although he hadn't read any books, he had heard that the book had said that this had harmed people in the yang world, and he couldn't escape from the underworld. But that's all what the storyteller says, and no one can say whether he will really be punished in the underworld. When the people in the hall saw that Wu Jian didn't speak, they slapped the shocked wood again: "The soul kneeling below, but Wu Jian? ”
"Exactly, exactly." Wu Jian said tremblingly.
"Then the two souls kneeling beside you, do you know?" Wu Jian turned his head and saw that two men with black blood in their seven orifices, one was Yunfei and the other was Xiao Liuzi, who had drunk his foxglove powder and poisoned him.
"Know, know. One of them is my son-in-law, and the other is a porter's servant. ”
"It's good to know, now that the two of them have accused you of being framed first and poisoned later, can you confess?"
"I ...... I...... I didn't. No...... I didn't poison it. ”
"Wu Jian, do you know that what you have done in the Yang World is very clear in the merits and demerits of my underworld. Would it be nice to ask the official to tell you how you were poisoned? ”
Hearing this, Wu Jian was already sweating profusely, oh my God, he really arrived in the underworld. That's right, Ling Yunfei and Xiao Liuzi were both poisoned by him, and they had already sniffed, and they were indeed dead. Could it be that everything in the book is true?
"Bold ghost, if you don't recruit from the truth, then according to the criminal law of my underworld, you will be sentenced to tongue first, then cut in half, and finally put into the oil pot and then go to the eighteenth layer of hell. Someone came to put the torture instrument on it. After finishing speaking, a command sign was thrown out, and I saw two ghosts walking slowly towards Wu Jian, and their dry fingers broke open his mouth hard, and threw a pill into his mouth, and he fainted. When he woke up again, he seemed to be speechless, and looked up at the torture tools that had been prepared on the side, as well as the steaming oil pot. Wu Jian's last psychological defense line was breached, and he knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to the people in the hall.
"Give him a drink of water, make a record and let him draw it. Subsequently, the official asked Yan Jun to convict him again. An old woman brought a bowl of clear water to Wu Jian with her dry hand and gave it to Wu Jian to drink.
"My lord, I will recruit you and ask your lord to give me a light sentence." Wu Jian's chick kowtowed like a rice-pecking meal. Then he spoke: "The man who was killed in the alley was a gangster I found on the street seven days ago, and Aunt Xiao in the house was worried that she would not be able to get the family property in the future because she loved the eldest lady and the son too much, so she asked me to find a gangster and sneak into the eldest lady's room at night to ruin her innocence, so that the eldest lady could be driven out of the door." But who knew that the gangster went to the wrong room, went to the second lady's room, and was arrested by the son and the grandmother next to the eldest lady, Aunt Xiao was worried that the second lady's reputation would be damaged, so I asked me to kill him in the name of sending him out of the city. And then planted it on Childe. When the official of the Shuntian Mansion arrived at the mansion, the eldest lady debunked my words, and Aunt Xiao asked Lord Xiao to let the little sixth son of the concierge admit that he was the most murderous, and she also framed the son for hurting people first. When they are in prison, they can poison the water they drink, and buy the officials to say that they will die violently. ”
"Wu Jian, are you a fool to be an official? Shuntian Mansion Yin is a third-grade official, Xiao Tianlu is only a six-grade principal, why is Shuntianfu Yin so obedient to him. ”
"Adult, the little one doesn't dare, if you don't believe it, check if the merit is too thin. They are all Rui Wang's people, Lord Xiao is now a celebrity around Rui Wang, and although Hu Boyuan of Shuntianfu is a third grade, he is also afraid of Lord Xiao. ”
"Well, you're telling the truth. You draw a charge first, and the official will also let you go back to the yang world, and when Yan Jun has made a decision, if you deserve to die, there will naturally be black and white impermanence to come to you. Before going out, there was a bowl of water waiting for him at the door, Wu Jian drank it all without saying a word, and then fainted to the ground.
The candles in the lobby were lit, and Emperor Yuchen walked out of the side hall with an angry face and sat in the lobby. The people involved just now knelt on the ground and waited for the emperor's ruling.
"Xiao Tianlu, you are so bold, as the head of the Sixth Grade of the Criminal Department, you dare to instigate murder, you dare to act so nonsense because of King Rui's support for you, do you still have me in your eyes. Someone will dismiss him and investigate him. Xiao Tianlu was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and shouted, "King Rui, save me, I'm doing things for you." "This Xiao Tianlu really grew up eating brain fragments, and such a blatant shouting was caused by King Rui, isn't it death?
"Hu Boyuan, you can't even hear a case, but you are a third-grade person, but you are led by the nose by a sixth-grade principal, it is really disappointing to me, and someone will send him to the third law division for dismissal and investigation."
"Brother Rui Wang, why do you want to shield and connive at your subordinates. Miss Ling's divorce, can't you still let go? ”
"Brother Huang, my brother doesn't have it." King Rui said weakly.
"Lord Rui, the courtiers know that they lost face by remarrying you in front of the emperor, but Yunfei is innocent, he has never offended you."
"This king has said that the king does not know about the harm they have done to your brothers and sisters, and if this king knows, he will definitely stop it. You also listened to what Wu Jian said, it was your aunt who wanted to harm you, not this king. ”
"Then Xiao Tianlu is your subordinate?" Ling Ruohui suddenly asked, King Rui didn't know what he meant, just nodded mechanically.
The corners of Ling Ruoyi's mouth raised a wicked smile and looked at Emperor Yuchen and said: "Your Majesty, they are the ministers of Yunshang, and it is naturally your ruling if they violate the law of the country, but before you make a ruling, the courtiers will have to recover compensation for moral damages." ”
"Moral damages? What is it? Emperor Yuchen asked puzzled.
"In order to achieve their own goals, they do not hesitate to violate the law of the country, do not hesitate to destroy the reputation of others, the state has the law of the country, the family has family rules, and the violation of the law of the country should be dealt with by the law of the country, so what about the damage caused to the courtiers and their families? Therefore, the courtiers wanted to recover moral damages from them, and asked the emperor to agree. ”
"Well, that's right. I'll help you get it back. So how can Miss Ling ask for it? Emperor Yuchen looked flattering.
"Can the emperor bring them up first, discuss with the courtiers about compensation for moral damages, and then deal with them according to the laws of the country?"
"Of course you can, come and bring Hu Boyuan and Xiao Tianlu to me." The guards outside the door obeyed the order and carried the two to the court as if they were carrying a bag of noodles.
"Hu Boyuan, Xiao Tianlu, now Miss Ling wants to recover moral damages from you, if you have remorse, listen to it, and then do it. Otherwise, I will not spare you. When the ministers heard this, there was an uproar again, this emperor was so upright and biased towards Miss Ling, and he didn't know how to compensate Ling Ruoxian, so he let the two of them agree, it was just to make Ling Ruohui happy and abuse the imperial power.
"Chen understands, Miss Ling, please speak." The two lost their arrogance just now, and behaved like tamed beasts.
"Lord Hu, you are not clear in the trial and indiscriminately killed innocents, this is all against the law of the country, what crime should be sentenced according to my Yunshang law?" When Hu Boyuan heard this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt on the ground, "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life." ”
"Master Hu, you are the Yin of Sanpin Shuntianfu, why are you not even familiar with my Yunshang rules? If the trial is not clear, and innocent people are killed indiscriminately, they must be removed from their posts, investigated, and punished with 50 rods, and then used as a border plug for the army. Unless you are instructed to do so knowingly, then it is a crime to be cut off and to destroy the three tribes. ”
"Miss Ling, the lower officials know that they are wrong, please spare me Miss Ling." Hu Boyuan said with a crying voice.
"I have no right to convict you of your crimes, but I can claim moral damages from you."
"Reparations? How to compensate? Hu Boyuan asked in a trembling voice.
"Compensation, of course, is compensation." Hu Boyuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, it turned out that he was asking for money, as long as it wasn't fatal. Then he said yes to the question.
"Master Hu, don't agree so quickly, you still don't know the amount of compensation I demand." Ling Ruoxuan glanced at Hu Boyuan, who was kneeling on the ground.
"Then you name the number." Hu Boyuan didn't choose to say anything, and asked Ling Ruoyi to say the number, so what if he asked for too much and couldn't give it himself.
"Okay, since Lord Hu is so generous, then I'll see less of you in the emperor's face. You can compensate me 300,000 taels of silver. ”
"Three, three hundred thousand taels? How can I have so much silver? When Hu Boyuan heard it, this Ling Ruoyi was simply a lion's mouth.
"Don't you give? Then three hundred and fifty thousand taels. When everyone heard this, they were very depressed, this did not decrease but increased, Hu Boyuan heard it, and secretly scolded this Ling Ruoyi for being vicious, but there was no way to support the emperor, if he didn't agree, I was afraid that it would rise to 400,000 taels, so he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, "Okay, I agreed." ”
"Yes, that's right. Send someone to the Prime Minister's Mansion tomorrow. Ling Ruoyi looked at Hu Bo from afar with great satisfaction. Turning his head to look at Xiao Tianlu, he smiled evilly: "Lord Xiao, how much do you plan to compensate me?" ”
"See how much you want." Xiao Tianlu said with a look of disdain.
"Oh, then you can be like Master Hu, just give me 350,000 taels of silver."
"How can I have so much money, you might as well kill me." Xiao Tianlu roared angrily.
"Kill you? The only one who can kill you is the emperor, and that's because you violated the law of the country. I'm a little woman, how dare I kill someone, and if it weren't for the emperor's support, I wouldn't dare. Ling Ruoyi said aggrievedly.
"Don't you dare? You are simply a femme fatale, how many times has my sister eaten your secret loss, don't pretend to be pitiful, the emperor is lustful, and he is fascinated by your face, I don't eat you. As soon as Xiao Tianlu spoke, he regretted it very much, the emperor likes Ling Ruoyi, and all the officials can see it, you don't need to break it, this is not a capital crime, but also death.
Ling Ruoyi's eyes suddenly turned red, tears slid down his face to form a beautiful arc, and he looked at Emperor Yuchen and sobbed: "Your Majesty, the courtiers don't dare to pursue Lord Xiao, he will eat the courtiers like that." ”
Emperor Yuchen said softly with a distressed look: "Don't be afraid, there is me, he doesn't dare." When he turned his head to look at Xiao Tianlu, he had a murderous aura.
"Miss Ling, I'll send someone to send you 350,000 taels tomorrow, it's all right." Xiao Tianlu looked unwilling.
"Okay, but don't think about getting a copper plate with Aunt Xiao, if you borrow money from the Prime Minister's Mansion and give it to the Prime Minister's Mansion, it will be a crime of bullying the king."