The man kneeling on the ground was in his thirties, wearing a burlap shirt, he first kowtowed a few times, and then took out a piece of blood-stained cloth from his sleeve pocket and held it in both hands.

The man's voice was hoarse, and he tried his best to restrain his tears from flowing out, and choked up: "This piece of cloth is a relic of the twin brothers of the grass people, my family is poor, and only my two brothers are struggling to study, and he has not left anything after his death. If it weren't for my obsessive mind, how would he have died! ”

Cheng Huaibing's face changed a lot at this time, no matter how he calculated, he didn't expect that this person actually had a twin brother.

"Three months ago, that is, on June 19, after the grass people came out of Langya Academy, they met a person, he claimed to be the butler of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and showed me a sign engraved with the word 'Cheng', he asked me to write some poems, and I saw that it was all obscene and glamorous, so I let down my guard. My twin brother went back to his hometown in Jingzhou a few months ago to worship his ancestors, and he just came back on the seventh day of the first month of last month, but I didn't expect it...... Didn't expect ......"

There was no shortage of high-ranking officials with Tingwei in the banquet, and before Cheng Huaibing could react, Tingwei Yan Yang stood up, this person was upright and rigid, and he immediately asked: "What happened after that, explain it in detail." ”

The man wiped away a handful of tears and continued: "On the day my brother returned, I happened to be outside the city, but when I got home, I saw ...... See ......"

"A man was sticking a knife into my brother's chest, muttering 'instructions from the Prime Minister's Office' and looking for something in my brother's arms, and his home had been turned over. Only then did the grass people understand that it was those poems that brought great disasters, and I beg you to make decisions for the grass people! ”

He kowtowed heavily, and there was a "bang" sound in the impact, and after a while, blood came out of his forehead.

Yan Yang was cautious, and the fox asked, "Then why didn't you report to the official immediately?" It will be delayed until today, and do you know what the consequences of slandering the court officials are? ”

"My lord, forgive me, where do the grass people dare to report to the official when they see the scene of that day! I hid in several ruined temples for more than a month, and I didn't even collect my brother's corpse. My lord, every word of the grass people is true, if there is a lie, you will enter the eighteenth layer of hell after death! ”

As he spoke, he took out a bunch of things and a copper coin from his arms and handed them to Yan Yang: "My lord Mingjian, the things that the killer wanted to find that day are these two things, one is a note, and the other is a bounty. ”

The currency of the Southern Jin Dynasty was chaotic, and the private minting of various ethnic groups was rampant, and in order to improve circulation and authority, the government seal would be engraved on the currency.

Yan Yang took the things and looked at them carefully, he put the things away with a look on his face and asked, "I can still find the reason why you dare to come today, so how did you get here!" He deliberately intimidated, his voice was low and majestic, and his face was like that of Shura.

The man was really frightened and trembled, his eyes were rolling around, his lips moved a few times, and the moment he spoke, he was interrupted by Huan Xin: "I found it." ”

Huan Xin didn't see a trace of shame on his face, it was simply a declaration of his arbitrariness to the world. What else do you don't understand, there is a copy of the Prime Minister's Mansion about this fornication letter, Huan Xin is angry for Wei Shuyao, and he designed everything today.

For a while, the banquet hall was extremely empty, but everyone's eyes secretly glanced at Cheng Huaibing.

Although the old fox frowned, his face was calm and not panicked, he let out a long sigh and said to Yan Yang: "Let the old man see, do you remember who found you?" ”

The man replied, "About fifty or sixty years old, of medium stature, with small and long eyes, and the other grass people can't remember clearly." ”

Cheng Huaibing said lightly after reading the thing: "This thing is indeed made in my house, I am afraid that Diao Nu is making an unauthorized claim and causing trouble, so the old man called the slave over, and you can look at it one by one and identify it." ”

After half a burnt incense, a row of servants stood outside the hall, and Wei Shuyao suddenly saw the director of the Cheng Mansion with a swollen face like a pig's head, and he lowered his head to minimize his sense of existence.

The men who complained looked over one by one, and they didn't look like it, until Huan Xin reminded behind him: "Why bother, there is also a suspicion of framing for identification, there are fingerprints on that note, so I will teach people to compare them one by one." ”

As soon as this method came out, everyone was convinced, and the fingerprint comparison stopped at the director of Cheng Mansion, and the man excitedly stretched his neck to look at the swollen face of the man, and then he slapped his head and shouted: "It's him!" That's him! ”

Seeing this, Cheng Huaibing quickly stepped forward, and slapped the man's face with a "snap", and the man immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to admit his mistake: "It's all the slave's fault, the slave wants to share the worries of the Lord and makes a big mistake, and everything is punished by the Lord!" ”

Cheng Huaibing raised his foot and threw it towards the swollen man, the man fell down in response, and three or two big men dragged him away in an instant. Cheng Huaibing made a gesture of hating iron and not steel, and sighed: "The old man who committed the crime of Diao Nu will be severely punished, and the people in the house are so scattered that the old man feels ashamed." ”

The big family of slaves are all the private slaves of the master in the house, and the government cannot interfere with how to deal with it, so the punishment of this person can only be like this. Yan Yang listened and said: "In this way, it will be decided by the prime minister, the evidence of the murder that this man said is insufficient, Yan will bring the person back to Tingwei to investigate strictly, and give everyone the truth, and I hope that Lord Huan will not interfere again." ”

His tone was contemptuous, obviously dissatisfied with Huan Xin, who disagreed and hummed lightly.

After Yan Yang took people away, Cheng Huaibing made a look of great guilt, and apologized to Huan Xin: "Although the heinous crime is a private act, the old man cannot escape the blame, and it has brought a lot of trouble to Mrs. Ling, and the old man is guilty!" ”

Huan Xin was unmoved, just looked sideways at where Wei Shuyao was: "The object of Lord Cheng's apology is Huan's fiancée, Wei Shuyao, not Huan." ”

As soon as these words came out, Wei Shuyao was also shocked.

She looked at Cheng Huaibing's face and twisted, and finally came to Wei Shuyao with staggering steps. He bowed and said apologetically: "Madame has suffered, and the old man will send Yu Lang and Xin Niang to apologize in person." ”

The old fox's tone of voice seemed to be very sincere, but his eyes were locked on Wei Shuyao's reaction.

Wei Shuyao snorted, tears could not fall, and the urn replied: "Your Excellency is serious, it was done by the traitors of the two mansions, what is wrong with your lordship." After speaking, she looked at Huan Xin with her hazy beautiful eyes.

Huan Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, and said to Cheng Huaibing: "The lady is not too harsh to be reasonable, but Huan doesn't want to let it go." The house slave is at the disposal of the adult, but how have you ever asked the victim's opinion, how have you ever asked Wei Niangzi's thoughts? ”

These words are really shocking, criminal and civil disorder, involving private slaves, who would ask the woman's opinion.

Wei Shuyao's eyelashes trembled, a tear finally fell, she sobbed quietly and was extremely aggrieved, and after crying enough, she opened her mouth softly: "How can the slave family have no complaints, Diao slave has harmed me so far, if it weren't for today, I would have been splashed with dirty water for a lifetime, that person, the slave family wants to ......"

Saying that, she looked at Huan Xin with her eyes, and waited until the man nodded before she spoke again: "I want to let him taste the taste of gossip as well, but I, but I ......" Wei Shuyao looked flustered, obviously unable to think of any ideas.

Huan Xin continued: "Let this criminal slave eat the spine and then report his crime in Jianye with a flail for three days, and then it will all be dealt with by Lord Cheng, what does Lord Cheng think?" This is not a difficult requirement. ”

Cheng Huaibing's heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, neither up nor down, killing two birds with one stone is really a good means, which not only cleared the stigma of Wei Shuyao but also spread the scandal of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Huan Xin's sharp eyes seemed to grab Cheng Huaibing with a sharp hook, and the next second would tear people apart and pull Cheng Fu out. Cheng Huaibing smashed the humiliation and swallowed it in his mouth, and said indifferently on his face: "Don't be embarrassed, don't be embarrassed." ”

In the secret room of Cheng's Mansion after the farce, Cheng Yu knelt on the mat and offered incense, and he needed to inform his ancestors and ancestors about today's wedding. The stone door opened, and Cheng Huaibing came in.

"You know everything?"

"Which one? Is my father talking about being used by Huan Xin and causing the whole city to know? I told my father a long time ago that Shu Niang was smart and unmatched, and he should not touch her. ”

Cheng Huaibing smiled contemptuously: "Huangkou's little insect carving skills, it's just that Huan Xin took the initiative to interfere, and he was afraid that his father would find something." ”

Cheng Yu stood up and said coldly: "Father's unclean hands and feet gave people a handle. If you listen to my advice and don't touch Shu Niang, or do it solemnly, you will not allow the fools of the Wei State Mansion to devise clumsy methods full of loopholes, and you will not let the greedy and stupid slaves find unscrupulous killers to leave a handle, and even kill the wrong person. ”

His face was like frost, his eyebrows and eyes were full of anger, and he still had a warm appearance.

Cheng Huaibing laughed heartily when he saw this: "What Yu'er said is that my father is very relieved that he didn't raise you crookedly. ”

The incense burned out, and Cheng Yu stared at the broken incense tail pillar with a puzzled expression.