Chapter 46: Reversal of the case
Lei Lichuan's name is known to everyone, even a child can sing a few children's songs praising the pillar of the empire, at this time, the young man who heard that today's officials and masters are interrogating is actually the younger generation of General Lei's family, whether it is the officials present or the people who are watching, they all look at him with a strange look.
When Wang Ling saw the young man's expression, he knew that he was deliberately exculpating himself, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Brother, why are you doing this?" ”
Fu Yang learned from him and whispered, "Can't you see it?" I'm here to help you right now. ”
"I know, but we don't know each other, and I don't know the general surnamed Lei." Wang Lingdao.
Fu Yang smiled mysteriously and said: "I really don't know, but someone does, anyway, I was ordered to come to you, but I can't see you being framed." ”
Anyone knows? Wang Ling immediately thought that person was the old grandson, and his heart suddenly warmed, but in fact, he would be wrong, Sun Qihao was far away in Chongzhou, even if he knew that Wang Ling would suffer this disaster, Yuanshui could not save the near fire, the reason why Fu Yang helped him was that he was appointed by Lei Lichuan himself, but he didn't say that he asked Fu Yang to help Wang Ling, but just asked him to follow Wang Ling, the purpose was to investigate Wang Ling's character, and Fu Yang watched Wang Ling being beaten by Li Zhong into an enemy spy today, so naturally he couldn't sit idly by, could it be difficult to watch him ask for beheading? In that case, if he still wanted to follow Wang Ling's side according to the marshal's wishes, he could only go to Jiuquan to find him.
Seeing these two yellow-haired boys eyebrows under his nose, a nameless fire rose in Li Zhong's heart, how could he not know that Fu Yang was lying, but there was no way to take this Fu Yang, what he was afraid of was not this stinky boy who didn't have all the hair, but the famous general with great military achievements, the old man was resolute and unreasonable, regardless of whether Wang Ling was really his distant relative, he rushed at Lei Lichuan and the one behind him, saying that he would take advantage of this matter to take the head on his neck, Slashing that person's face, Li Zhong took a few deep breaths, and then stabilized his emotions.
He said coldly to Fu Yang: "Since it is a distant relative of General Lei, it is impossible for it to be an enemy country, but the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people. ”
Fu Yang chuckled and said: "This lord, whether he is guilty or not, he has to wait until after the trial, if Wang Lingyou really committed a mistake and was sentenced to death, then he is also to blame, but if he is not guilty, the lord will kill him so hastily, wouldn't it make my marshal chill?" Fighting for the country for decades, old and old, but the younger generations in the family were framed and made the unjust soul who died in vain, presumably the adults are not easy to explain to the marshal, right? ”
As soon as he heard this, Li Zhong broke out in a cold sweat on his head, gritted his teeth and stared at Fu Yang, although this young man's words were polite, but Li Zhong heard a hint of threat, glanced at Cao Yong on the left, how could there be half a bit of panic on his face, he had already returned to a light and breezy appearance, which meant watching a play.
Li Zhong was so angry that he had nothing to say, Zhang Zhongli took Fu Yang's words and said: "That's natural, I came to Qingzhou from afar, just to find out the original story of this case, and it should be justified and well-founded by the regulations, Lord Li just wanted to deceive, not so hasty, Lord Li, do you think I am right?" Zhang Zhongli said at the end, and glanced at Li Zhong with deep meaning.
Seeing that the other party gave him a step, Li Zhong got off the donkey and said: "What Lord Zhang said is extremely true, both of us are the organizers of this time, how can I arbitrarily and sloppily close the case?" This official was trying to deceive the king's order first, and he actually deceived an old general Lei, which was really unexpected. In his words, he alluded to Lei Lichuan using power to suppress people and interfere with the mission's handling of the case, Fu Yang did pretend not to understand, only hugged his fists, and retreated into the crowd, and before leaving, he did not forget to pat Wang Ling's shoulder with his hand, signaling him to rest assured.
Wang Ling replied to him with a kind smile, in fact, according to the original plan, he would not have any mistakes this time, but he didn't expect this Li Zhong to play his cards according to common sense, who would have thought that a minister would be convicted if he didn't care about handling the case so much, and he would be convicted without trial, and even unwarranted charges of an enemy country, but fortunately, this accident was passed safely because of Fu Yang's appearance.
Du Mingtang, who had never spoken, said at this time: "Two adults, don't talk about it, let's try the case." "In terms of official rank, the commander of the local street division is from the fourth grade, the prefect is the fourth grade, and Zhang Zhongli, who is the inspector of the imperial history, and Li Zhong, who is the commander of the criminal department, are the seventh and sixth petty officials respectively, but at this time the identities of the two are different, they are the ministers who represent the emperor, Cao Yong is polite to the two of them in accordance with the law, but Du Mingtang is a lone martial artist, how can he have any good face to give.
Li Zhong and Zhang Zhongli were slightly embarrassed by his words, one stared back at Du Mingtang with cold eyes, and the other coughed dryly twice, and said loudly: "In this way, the plaintiff will come up, where is Lu Jialei, the son of Dongchuan Houshi?" ”
As soon as the words fell, a person walked out and stood beside Wang Ling, only to see that this person was tall and noble, wearing a robe made of gorgeous brocade, which was embroidered with beautiful and bright patterns, and at first glance he was a rich and noble person, but his face was wrapped with gauze, wrapped like a white zongzi, only to see people couldn't help laughing, the onlookers blushed one by one, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud, even Cao Yong's forehead was blue and jumping, but he immediately turned cold and pretended to be nothing.
Zhang Zhongli and Li Zhong glanced at each other, but they didn't expect that the dignified little marquis would be beaten like this, but it was Wang Ling, the initiator, who took the initiative to say hello: "Yo, isn't this Lu Shizi?" See you again, why hasn't your injury healed yet, can't it be that it's already healed, in order to pretend to be pitiful in front of the two adults, you deliberately use this appearance to show people, right? ”
Lu Jialei's eyes dodged, he was really called Wang Lingcai, in fact, his injury was already fine, but his nose has not been corrected so far, and there is no need to wrap his head, the reason why he still appears with this face today is to make a show, and was pierced by Wang Ling in front of him, so that his face was a little unbearable, his eyes rolled in his sockets, and he immediately sneered, and said viciously in a voice that only he and Wang Ling could hear: "I see how long you can be proud, do you think you can still threaten me?" Today, let you have death and no life! ”
Wang Ling also lowered his voice, and said with a smile: "Do you think that Mu Zhaoyi is dead, and you and your Laozi's bad debts can be written off?" ”
"How do you know?!" The pupils in Lu Jialei's eyes instantly dilated several times, this matter was originally unknown to their father and son, just as Wang Ling thought, arranging for someone to get rid of a Zhaoyi in the palace to kill people and kill people, it is better to put his mind on Wang Ling, the latter needs to spend much less capital.
Two days ago, a person came to Dongchuan Houfu, and the person who came didn't know what his identity was, but he seemed to know Lu Shu, and he was invited into the study by Lu Shu as soon as he came, and during the conversation, this person told Lu Shu that Mu Zhaoyi was dead, so that he could no longer have any worries, until the person left, Lu Shu's face was not only not happy, but he looked worried, Lu Jialei went up to ask, knowing that Mu Zhaoyi was dead, he didn't mention how happy he was, but he ate a slap from his old father, long before the woman surnamed Mu entered the palace, Lu Chu knew about the ugly things between his son and that woman, but he kept pretending not to know, and now he saw that this son was so unsuccessful, and he didn't know that he was forcibly pulled onto a thief ship, how could he not be angry?
As an ordinary person, he may have thought that his ugly things were exposed, but he was really not an ordinary person, he didn't think about it so much at all, and asked his father why he beat him, Lu Shu didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, sighed and went back to the house, locked himself in the room for several hours, until the next day, he called Lu Jialei, told him to rest assured and boldly testify against Wang Ling, Lu Jialei was ecstatic in his heart, in order to get out of this bad breath, he deliberately changed into his most satisfactory clothes, which was to show off in front of Wang Ling today.
But he didn't expect Wang Ling to know about Mu Zhaoyi's death, so he immediately gritted his teeth and said, "How are you doing?" Now that there is no proof of death, I see how you can still threaten me! ”
Wang Ling looked at him sarcastically, and no longer talked nonsense with him, just at this moment Zhang Zhongli's voice sounded: "Lu Shizi, this official asked you again, can you see clearly who beat you that day?" ”
Lu Jialei pointed at Wang Ling and said excitedly: "This is the person!" ”
Du Mingtang squinted, except for Zhao Hailong, the other general flags were all gloating.
Zhang Zhongli frowned slightly and said: "This official has a file from the Qingzhou Street Division here, which says that you have made it clear in the Street Division a few days ago that it was not the royal order that beat you, and you signed and drew a charge on it, why do you have to change your words again and again?" ”
Lu Jialei saw that Wang Ling looked panicked, and when he was afraid, the corners of his mouth hooked up a smug smile and said: "This lord, last time the son of this world was coerced by the royal order, he had to do it as a last resort. He spoke righteously and righteously.
Zhang Zhongli said: "Then I don't know how he threatened the prince?" ”
"Ahh This..."Lu Jialei was speechless, speechless for a while, he didn't dare to say that thing, now Mu Zhaoyi is dead, but if it comes out of his mouth, it is equivalent to admitting in disguise that he had had an affair with the emperor's woman, how could he be threatened if he didn't do it? How can I compromise immediately if I threaten you? It must be true, and it will be so.
Seeing that Lu Jialei was stumbling and speechless, Li Zhong hurriedly said: "There must be a hidden reason for inconvenience to tell people, how Wang Ling threatened, this has nothing to do with this case, now the plaintiff has confirmed that this person is the perpetrator of the murder, the facts of this case are all calm, Wang Ling plotted to kill the prince and nobles, killed seven people and absconded for many days, and afterwards in order to protect his own safety, threatened the prince, and made perjury for him to despise the court, the crime is unforgivable!" Be beheaded! ”
Wang Ling and Cao Yong glanced at each other, and Cao Yong nodded, knowing that it was time to make his own move.
"Wait!"