Chapter 154: Ding Jinzhi begged Lu Wenzheng not to kill his son
Lu Wenzheng brought Mo Shuiling to see the emperor.
After the emperor learned of Ding Jiwu's perverse deeds in Zhongmu, he couldn't help but be furious and said: "If this Ding Jiwu is really like this, wouldn't he be innocent of death, and he would also live up to my expectations and trust in him!" Manager Feng, immediately brush up a holy decree, dismiss Ding Jiwu from his post for investigation, and escort him back to Beijing to be handed over to the Criminal Department for trial! ”
Feng Chaoying said: "Yes." ”
Mo Shuiling knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Thank you." As long as she can show her sister's grievances, the little woman will not be able to repay the kindness of the saint even if she is a slave and a maid......"
The emperor's deep eyes glanced at her meaningfully, and said with a smile: "The girl is serious." Why do I want you to be a slave and a maid, isn't this too abrupt and beautiful? Hurry up and get flat! ”
The emperor acted capably and decisively, and the people in the Criminal Department were also resolute and resolute.
Ling Yun, Xu Zhi and others received the holy decree and led the guards to rush to Zhongmu Mansion overnight to join Yang Zhen and others.
The next day, he arrived at Ding Jiwu's mansion and read out the holy decree in the hall.
Ding Jiwu thundered. The sudden bad luck that befell him made him lose sight for a moment. Yesterday he was still immersed in the gentle township, and he was happy; Today, he will be put in cold shackles and imprisoned! And what awaits him will be a road of no return!
When the wolf-like guards swarmed him up and chained him, a thought of resisting arrest flashed through his mind.
But he had just germinated this idea, and Liu Gang, the henchman next to him, had already taken action before him.
Liu Gang's style of "Baihong Jingtian", his agile figure is like a swift eagle falcon, rising from the ground, raising his long sword, cutting down the two guards who grabbed him, and a crane soars into the sky and flies straight to the door.
was so fast that the people on both sides were a little caught off guard for a while.
It's just that he just flew out of the lobby with this graceful movement, and suddenly made a 180-degree turn, and his body flew back upside down, and he fell to the ground with a "bang" in an embarrassed posture of "butt down, flat sand and goose style".
Then Ling Yun walked in from outside, his jaw slightly raised, his face full of disdain and disdain.
Liu Gang jumped up from the ground with a "carp fight", and said in a trembling voice: "Who are you?" ”
Yang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said, "Blind your dog eyes, you don't even know Commander Ling?" ”
"Commander Ling? ......" Liu Gang twitched unconsciously in his heart, "It turns out that you are Ling Yun?" …… I'm hit a bad day today! ”
He raised his long sword, put on a posture of fighting to the death, and said angrily: "The surname Ling, today is either you die or I die, make a move!" ”
Ling Yun glanced at him with a wink, and snorted, "You are also worthy?" ”
Liu Gang was furious, and with a style of "waves and clouds", the long sword attacked directly.
Ling Yun didn't even pull out his sword, his figure tossed and turned, like a glimpse of the light, bang, bang, a few seemingly chic and random movements, which had already beaten Liu Gang in a hurry, and he was overwhelmed.
Only then did Liu Gang realize what it means to "there are people outside the world, and there are heavens outside the sky"; In the past, he used to be proud of himself, but in front of a powerful opponent, he turned out to be so vulnerable!
Liu Gang's thinking relaxed slightly, and immediately gave Ling Yun a chance to take advantage of; His long sword was light and agile, and with a slight stirring, he swept Cheng Gang's long sword away and inserted it on the ceiling of the hall.
Liu Gang was panicked, and the long sword in Ling Yun's hand was handed over, and Leng Sensen's blade was already attached to his neck.
Liu Gang's face was like earth, his knees couldn't help but weaken, he collapsed to the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Commander Ling has mercy on his subordinates......"
A sneering smile appeared on Ling Yun's grim face; He shook his head in disappointment and said, "I originally thought that although you were aiding in the abuse and doing evil, you were still a tough guy, but I didn't expect you to be such a bear!" ”
Turning his face away from looking at him again, he only ordered him to take him down left and right.
The guards on both sides were about to step forward, and the sharp sword hanging high on the ceiling suddenly fell down for some reason, and it was inserted in Liu Gang's back impartially!
The huge force made the sword penetrate through his heart, and the dripping blood shot out like a gushing spring, splashing all over the ground, and also splashing Ding Jiwu beside him, his face.
Liu Gang screamed in pain, the muscles on his face twitched in pain, his body trembled like a messy dead leaf in the wind, and he fell to the ground softly.
At this time, Liu Gang fell to the ground and was still breathing. When he was dying, Mo Qiuling's almost collapsed, cursed words before committing suicide clearly lingered in his ears word by word:
"Liu Gang, you dog who aids in abuse, if you hadn't fanned the flames and stirred up trouble on the sidelines, I wouldn't have fallen to this! I only hate that I was born as a woman, and I can't kill you - hmph, if people don't repay heaven, one day you will be punished by heaven! ……”
Confused, he seemed to see Mo Qiuling covered in blood, staring at a pair of blood-draining eyes full of resentment, and forced him step by step......
Liu Gang was so shocked that his face was like ashes, and he shouted repeatedly: "It's not me, it's not me...... Don't come, don't come......"
He muttered in horror, and Thurso's body suddenly twitched in pain, and then stopped moving. The terrible look on his face before he died made everyone present feel uneasy.
Ling Yun glanced at him coldly, shook his head with some pity and said, "It's really 'people don't repay heaven for retribution'!" ”
At this time, Ding Jiwu's face was pale, his eyebrows were condensed, and his two empty eyes looked ahead blankly as if they had lost focus. Countless terrible expectations lingered in his heart, crawling slowly through his heart like a poisonous snake, which only made him feel creepy and desperate.
From the bloody scene of Liu Gang in front of him, he was reminded of another shocking bloody scene:
It was a night a few days ago, when he broke into the room where Mo Qiuling was imprisoned with a ghostly heart, he was greeted by a hideous, terrifying, bloody corpse!
For days and nights, he had the same nightmare. In the dream, he saw that Mo Qiuling was just looking at him with a dull gaze and an expressionless face, with an elusive and strange smile on the corner of his mouth, but he didn't say a word......
For the first time in his life, he felt fear that he had never felt before; Especially when he heard Ling Yun on the side coldly say the words "people don't repay heaven", he was even more palpitated.
His head was pounding, and his mind was blank......
Capital. Above the lobby of the Criminal Department. Ding Jiwu was dressed in prison clothes, his eyelids were lowered, and he knelt in front of the lobby with a decadent expression.
Kneeling beside him were Mo Shuiling, Wu Er's family, including Wu Er's brother and his parents, as well as several victims and witnesses of Ding Jiwu's suspected corruption and bribery and seizure of land, as well as several family guards in Ding Jiwu's mansion who participated in the persecution of Mo Qiuling.
Lu Wenzheng asked Ding Jiwu to show Ding Jiwu the blood letter left by Mo Qiuling before he died, and asked other witnesses to confront one by one; Then he was shocked, "Ding Jiwu, now that the human and material evidence is complete, what else do you have to say?" ”
Ding Jiwu knew that the general trend was gone, and it was useless to deny it, so he couldn't help but be discouraged, and said dejectedly: "The criminal has nothing to say." Before he died, the criminal minister had a request, and he hoped that Lord Lu would fulfill it. ”
"You say."
Ding Jiwu said silently: "I just want to see my father again......"
When a man is about to die, his words are good. The bird is dying, and its song is mourning. Lu Wenzheng was quite moved, pondered for a while, and finally nodded.
Before the words fell, Ding Jinzhi staggered up, hugged his son and cried.
He had just learned the news that his son was interrogated by the Criminal Department from the mouth of the housekeeper Ding Yurong, and he couldn't help but panic, hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair, and rushed to the lobby of the Criminal Department.
said that when Ding Jinzhi cried for a long time, he stopped crying; He turned his face to Lu Wenzheng again, and said in an almost pleading tone: "Lord Lu, children are young and ignorant, and it is inevitable that they will occasionally make some mistakes; What's more, the woman surnamed Mo committed suicide and died, not by the child, even if the child is wrong, he will not die for the sake of you and me who have been in the same dynasty for many years, just leave him alive! ”
Although Ding Jinzhi and Lu Wenzheng have been officials in the same dynasty for many years, they have always been on the same page, how could they have given each other a good look? If it weren't for his son's life today, he himself was flustered and lost his mind, how could he plead with Lu Wenzheng in a low voice?
Lu Wenzheng said: "Lord Ding, Ding Jiwu is not only guilty of occupying people's daughters and forcing people to die; There are also crimes of perverting the law for bribes and seizing people's land, and all of them are conclusive evidence. Mr. Xu, show the testimony to Master Ding. ”
Ding Jinzhi took the testimony with trembling hands, and reluctantly read it, only to feel a chill from the top of his head to the soles of his feet; His eyes were blackened for a while, and he almost fainted.
He slowed down for a long time before he could collect his messy thoughts a little bit, and said forcefully: "Lord Lu, does the child have to die?" - No...... No, I want to see the emperor, I want to see the emperor......"
Lu Wenzheng sneered: "Lord Ding, this mansion's investigation of the case this time is in accordance with the will of the Holy Lord. If this government bends the law and forgives Ding Jiwu, it will not only be a saint, but also sorry for those unjustly dead souls and living bitter masters.
"What's more, since Ding Jiwu took office in the Zhongmu prefect, not only did he not think about serving the imperial court, but he was corrupt and bent the law, and the people in the flesh and blood township were extremely angry; Now they are usurping people's daughters and causing people's lives - these crimes are really heinous, and they are innocent! This time, the government sentenced him to beheading, which is already a light sentence! ”
After saying that, his face sank, and he ordered left and right, "Come on, push Ding Jiwu out and behead him!" ”
The wolf-like guards on both sides hugged each other in an uproar, and it was impossible to say that they set up Ding Jiwu and pushed and shoved and walked out.
Ding Jinzhi cried out: "Jiwu! Jiwu! ...... "staggered forward as if he had gone mad, trying to stop the execution guards.
Seeing this, Ling Yun on the side made a chic "flying clouds", and his light and elegant figure tossed and turned in the air a few times, and he had intercepted in front of Ding Jinzhi, and a layer of cold color appeared on his clear face, "Lord Ding, please don't hinder the execution of official duties!" ”
It's not about you, and if you care, it's messy. Ding Jinzhi was completely out of order at this time; At that moment, he wanted to go over to the emperor to intercede, and he also wanted to go over to his brother-in-law He Yuting for help, but it was too late.
He suddenly felt helpless and frustrated like he had never felt in his life. His eyes were full of scarlet, and he said incoherently, "Don't, don't...... Please, don't kill my son, don't kill my son! ……”