Chapter 104: The Truth
When Huang Zunsu walked into the court, there were already people standing inside and outside the Songjiang Mansion.
There were silkworm farmers who went to besiege Hanfu for half an hour, and there were also scholars and cloth clothes who ignored the night and came to see the excitement.
Many of the latter people, perhaps failed in scientific examinations, or worked hard, only "watching the excitement" This non-technical thing makes them suddenly feel uplifted, and they feel that they are not a waste and a salted fish.
At least to the scenes of the world drama, contributed to the crowds and discussions.
If the drama has no audience, how can it be done? Therefore, the errand who administers the curfew also turned a blind eye, allowing the revelers to pour out of the neighborhood and gather under the public court.
And tonight's public court of the Songjiang Mansion is even more exciting than when the Shanghai County government tried beautiful nuns before.
Because, more than one woman.
What's more, these women are proud of their families.
In such a strong, quiet, festival-like atmosphere, Huang Zunsu sat down on the Taishi chair behind the public with a calm face.
Ying Tianfu is new to the imperial history of Zuodu, Zhuang Governor and Tong Ju Ma Xi'er went to worship the mountain, Huang Zunsu as a pusher, from the third in command of Songjiang Mansion, temporarily promoted to any leader, and tonight he was promoted to listen to the eucalyptus alone.
"Miao has an order to move a chair for the old lady and watch the seat." Huang Zunsu ordered left and right first.
"Thank you, Master Huang, the old woman can just stand and report."
Mia said loudly.
There was a burst of whispers in the crowd, all sighing: Gu Fu, the old concubine, is full of energy.
Huang Zunsu looked at the other five women standing in the front row of the hall.
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Gu Mansion, Shen Shi, has a sloppy gaze, her posture has not yet fallen into momentum, and she still holds the dignified frame of the head of the gentry mansion.
The number one mistress of the Han Mansion, Qian Shi, frowned, lowered her eyes, and was shrouded in the exhaustion of being in distress and getting out of danger.
Han Xiying, the third lady of the Han Mansion, held her arms in her hands, trembling, and leaned towards Shen's side.
This movement seemed to be a subconscious command from her subconscious, so that she herself did not clearly understand it, as if it was moving very slowly.
Han Xiying, the eldest lady of the Han Mansion, and her female companion Zheng Haizhu have the same look, neither angry nor happy, neither happy nor unhappy, and there are no turbulent waves in their eyes, but they are not a backwater.
In Huang Zunsu's opinion, the appearance of these two people is like the same age he saw in the field before, calmly reading the test questions, and then began to concentrate on writing articles.
Huang Zun was not exaggerated, but it was enough to show the strength of the majesty of the Eucalyptus, he slapped a shocking palm, and then said: "Your Excellency Miao, tell me about it." ”
"The old body sued the Gu family's daughter-in-law, Shen, as a traitor, which is appalling."
With this earth-shattering first sentence, the people on the three floors inside and outside the hall all stared at each other and silently entered Miao's narrative.
It's a serial story.
After marrying into the Gu Mansion, she thought that her mother-in-law Miao would pass on the palace embroidery skills to her eldest daughter-in-law, but Miao said that she would pass on the art to her granddaughter-in-law on the grounds that Shen's hands were congenitally deficient.
After the Shen family got married, they only gave birth to a daughter and had no son, so they wanted to tell their niece to Gu Shouqian, the eldest son of the second room, to be his wife, but the Gu family took a fancy to Han Ximeng, the eldest lady of the Han family.
Shen was unwilling, so he paid to hire a "green turban" in Suzhou (referring to the brothel turtle gong), and then the green turban found an old and decrepit prostitute who was good at embroidery.
The history of this Ningbo embroidery, can be Shuo to the Warring States period, and the Yuan and Ming Dynasty reached the peak of the Suzhou embroidery is completely different, only to gold, silver two-color silk thread, but can show thousands of weather.
Shen found out Han Ximeng's temperament, let the green turban pretend to be a silk merchant, set up a bureau with an embroidered handkerchief, and made all kinds of pretentious plays, tempting Han Ximeng to go to Suzhou to learn art from the prostitute who pretended to be a senior in the world, and then the green turban came forward to find Qiu Wanliang, a water bandit in Qiandun Town, kidnapped Han Ximeng, insulted his innocence, and detained him in the bandit village. In this way, the marriage between the two Han Gu families will also be broken.
Unexpectedly, in the robbery of the bandit village last year, Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu not only did not suffer humiliation, but also fought side by side with Huang Zunsu and Ma Xianglin by mistake, and became celebrities who were rewarded by the government, and the marriage between Han Ximeng and Gu Shouqian was not damaged at all.
What's even more troublesome is that the green turban killed a prostitute who pretended to be a senior embroiderer in Suzhou, and kept blackmailing the Shen family with a secret attitude.
Shen's heart disease became deeper and deeper, and he hated Zheng Haizhu, a stinky girl, who was so prosperous.
Shen wants to kill her, but not just to understand hatred.
She took advantage of the opportunity of Gufu to supply a large number of mulberry leaves to silkworm farmers, and sent henchmen to poison mulberry leaves, resulting in dozens of silkworm households' silkworm babies not being able to spit out silk after being clustered. With this reason, she proposed to Mrs. Miao that Gu Fu take out the appearance of the village sages and host a ceremony to welcome the silkworm god "Ma Tou Niang", and proposed that Zheng Haizhu, who has a special status, be the main guide in the white horse.
According to Shen's plan, after Zheng Haizhu was burned to death, along with the anagram of the silkworm god's condemnation, Han Xiying, who was deceived and controlled as a little minion, would collude with Ah Zhen in the tailoring workshop to embroider the picture of the spring palace and the slaughter of the Japanese people on the silk bottom with the name of the Han government, and frame these embroidered by Han Ximeng and Zheng Haizhu, so that the silkworm god would take the life of Zheng Haizhu, a flattering evil girl.
And Han Ximeng will also be notorious in Songjiang Mansion, and it is impossible for Gu Mansion to allow her to marry into the door again.
I never thought that this girl surnamed Zheng didn't die this time.
happened to blackmail Shen's green turban, and because he couldn't pay off his gambling debts, he came to Songjiang to ask Shen for silver.
Shen immediately revised his plan, handed over the unsightly embroidery to the green turban, and asked him to bring it and wait in the restaurant, and someone would take him to the official mansion to sue the eldest lady of the Han family and Miss Zheng.
In fact, the restaurant hides Shen's biggest accomplice, repeating the trick of sudden fire and burning people, and once again left the bamboo foil of "two chickens, a line of geese array, the east capital and the west, and the silkworm god descends" at the scene.
After the accomplice of the restaurant murdered, he opened the box in public and announced that the guests who had been burned to death had bought the box of embroidery from Miss Han and Miss Zheng with a lot of money, and wanted to sell it to Dongying at a high price.
The peasants in the Ming world were already getting more and more difficult year by year, and the silkworm farmers, like the mulberry farmers and rice farmers, had to bear extremely heavy taxes to support the descendants of the Zhu family, who were like locusts and the bureaucrats and gentry of the empire.
Silkworms do not form cocoons, in the eyes of silkworm farmers, it means that they cannot pay taxes this year, which means that they may have to sell their sons and daughters.
The second "sky fire" of Xiuwa Building, exposed to the dirty embroidery in the public, finally ignited the anger in the hearts of the troubled people.
Under the fanning of the voices one after another, which could not see people, but could hear them, silkworm farmers flocked to Hanfu.
They believed that Zheng Haizhu, who was a descendant of a witch or a widow, must be burned to death, so that the silkworm god would be satisfied with the mortal warriors' understanding of her old man's will, so that the batch of ripe silkworms a month later could successfully form cocoons.
After the Ming Dynasty's characteristic witch hunt began, in the depths of the backyard of the Han Mansion, Han Xiying walked to the back door sealed by the maid and opened the latch.
The three sturdy men invited by the Shen family's heavy money, like wild boars with their fangs exposed, were led by Han Xiying and went straight to the stove where the female roll was hiding.
Miss Han San very much agrees with Shen Xianxian's method.
It doesn't matter if Zheng Haizhu will finally die this time or still be able to escape, the important thing is that there is a vulgar wild man who took advantage of the chaos to insult Han Ximeng, and afterwards said that it was the angry silkworm farmer, and the silkworm farmer fled again.
Then, it will be impossible for the eldest sister to become a subordinate with the second brother Gu.
Perhaps, pinning his hopes on Shen Xianxian's promise, one day, he can really become the person in the room of Second Brother Gu.
……
There was silence in the courtroom, and a pin drop could be heard.
Not only the people, but Huang Zunsu also seemed to fall silent.
Miao raised his head and caught Huang Zunsu's expression.
In the bright lights, Huang Zunsu's eyes flashed with irrepressible surprise and disgust.
Miao smiled secretly in his heart, Master Huang, although you have passed the age of establishment, after all, you are a scholar who has just entered the officialdom, and it is not surprising to have this reaction.
In fact, compared with all the intrigues and brutal killings above the court and in the deep palace, the tricks made by Shen, a woman in the back house, who pieced together from the script and added oil and vinegar, were really shallow.
is nothing more than the stupid and surging public opinion, which made this play also beat gongs and drums.
"Old lady, can anyone prove what you said?"
Finally, Huang Zunsu, who came back to his senses, broke the silence and followed the necessary process of the trial.
Miao Atai said: "Back to Master Huang, after the ceremony of welcoming the silkworm god, the Zheng family, who is immortal, reminded the old man to investigate the descendants of the Gu Mansion. The Zheng family and the old body, and Mr. Kong Ming, who is not an unpredictable prophet, can find clues in just ten days, and it is also Shen's own sin. Master Huang, the first person to witness, is Shen's personal maid, Cui Liu. ”
Huang Zunsu said: "Gu's maidservant Cui Liu, come forward to make a statement." ”
Cui Liu walked to Mrs. Miao's side, knelt down, and said, "Back to the master, the green turban not only asks for money, but also asks for someone with the grandmother." He said that if my grandmother married me to him, he would take me back to the countryside of Ningbo, and I would never come to pester my grandmother again......"
"You little bitch who eats inside and out, didn't I clean up that bastard!" Shen Shi said sharply, his mouth was dirty, and he no longer had the dignity of a noble lady.
Cui Liu's voice was higher than hers: "But what did you tell me before you got the way to burn that scoundrel?" You said, it's better to make an expedient measure, let me go with him first, and then you can find someone to kill him and bring me back. When he came to ask you for money last month, he did something to me, and you didn't see it. ”
"So what?" Shen Shi was furious, "You are the girl I bought out, if I hadn't bought you from your mother, you would have been in the kiln for several years!" Whatever kind of life I give you, you have to live. You heartless little slut! ”
"Shut up!" Huang Zunsu was shocked, "If the Shen clan roars at the filial piety court again, this official will be punished!" ”
Miao Ah Tai stared at Shen and said, "Eldest daughter-in-law, now I can tell you why I didn't teach you embroidery." Your hand is sick, no matter how difficult my technique is, there can be a way to promote your strengths and avoid your weaknesses. But you are an impure-hearted, impure-hearted person, and you can't comprehend the beauty and truth of the line into a painting. The Gu family chooses a daughter-in-law in the long house, and it is not my turn to speak as a concubine. But if I choose my own disciples, I will make my own decisions. You can't get into my eyes. ”
After speaking, she turned to Huang Zunsu again and said, "Master Huang, after the white horse float burned down, Miss Zheng reminded me that Sang Nong was in charge of the Shen family on weekdays, and I don't know if there was a problem with Shen's subordinates. I had the heart to call the little maid and the maid in that room, and talked about the sins of the silkworm god, but this cui pomegranate not only often made mistakes in her work, but also had a bad complexion, so I stared at it and asked, and she confessed to me after all. I sent my personal maid Zhuxiang, in the name of sending soup and medicine prescriptions, to the Han Mansion and the eldest lady and the Zheng family to inform the matter, and the Zheng family proposed that the grass should not startle the snake and let the Shen family blow up the evil deeds, so that she could be taken in. However, at that time, even Cui Liu, she only knew that the Shen family would fan the silkworm households to make trouble today, and take the opportunity to find a ruffian to insult people's innocence, and she didn't know that she would take advantage of the situation to kill the green turban. ”
In the hall and in the hall, everyone who has a brain knows that the old lady's last sentence is very crucial, if he knew that the Shen family was going to kill the second person that day, but Zheng Haizhu proposed not to report to the official, it would also be a violation of the law, even if the green turban itself is a wicked person.
Huang Zunsu nodded: "So, the two men in the hall were placed by you in advance?" ”
Mrs. Miao replied: "That's a friend that the Zheng family found from Nanhui, and was recommended to the Shen family by Cui Liu mixed with the real hooligans. Shen didn't suspect it, and told them that at that time, the third young lady of the Han Mansion would open the door for them, because these three young ladies wanted to see her sister robbed more than anyone else. ”
When the people hearing the lawsuit heard this, they could not help but start talking again.
"Tut-tut......"
"The third miss? I can't see it, I'm still a delicate little girl, so femme fatale. ”
In the noisy chatter, Liu Zhutou's singing suddenly sounded: "The prisoner Feng Abao is here." ”
It was Boss Feng of the Xiuwa Restaurant who was pushed into the hall by Liu Zhutou with his hands cut back.
Songjiang Shishu saw that he was the most amiable and kind-hearted Boss Feng, and they all thought that the next thing that sounded was a "grass people wronged".
Unexpectedly, after Boss Feng knelt down, he opened his mouth very calmly: "Master, the idea of killing people was given to Grandma Shen by the villain, and it was also done by the villain." The villain had received the great favor of her mother's family in the past, because she wanted to repay Grandma Shen, and because the villain could get sulfur charcoal-soaked phosphostone from the kiln mouth of her hometown, she pleaded with Grandma Shen to kill people with this method. ”
Huang Zun said solemnly: "The two fires before and after, one person was injured and one person died, is this the law?" ”
Boss Feng nodded: "It's all this method." The phosphorite dissolved in the sulfur carbon oil, after splashing out, must wait for the sulfur charcoal to disperse, and then it will burn up, so from the medicine to the sudden flame, it takes a small half of the incense. For the first time, our people poured mulberry branches on the horse's feet, but there was no chance to pour them on Zheng's dress, and the silk horse burned, and Zheng was still able to escape. The second time, I took it upon myself to pour the potion under the hem of the green turban robe while the food was served, and once the fire broke out, he decided that there would be no more life. ”
Zheng Haizhu, who was listening carefully, didn't care about the rules of the court, and asked: "This potion has a sulfur smell, the first time because of the firecrackers set off around it, it can still be covered, how to cover up the smell the second time?" ”
Boss Feng had obviously made up his mind to take the blame for the Shen family, and he didn't mean to be angry with Zheng Haizhu, so he said suddenly: "I learned from Grandma Shen that the green turban is from Ningbo, so I specially prepared Ningbo's double smell for him. ”
Double smell is a famous dish in Ningbo Mansion, stinky winter melon steamed stinky amaranth stem, the smell is more pungent than stinky tofu, covering the sulfur gas of the small bottle, it is indeed more than enough.
After Boss Feng finished talking about the murder process, he seemed to be afraid that Huang Zunsu would not believe it, and added loudly: "Master, Grandma Shen didn't let those bandits kill these two women last year, and when the Zheng family returned to Songjiang this year, she didn't find anyone to kill her." No matter how angry Grandma Shen is, she won't really kill anyone, because of my hard persuasion and Zhang Luo on her behalf, the two things were done. ”