Chapter 41: The Spectator Clears
If Wen Chuming simply wanted to rescue his brother and sister-in-law before, it would have more meaning to compete with Gu Yuanyun.
He spent a few years in the sage book, quite lonely and self-promising, before repeated attempts, but also felt that others did not have the ability to know people, and never doubted his talent and career.
For Wen Chuming, who was born in a lonely family, a son of a family like Gu Yuanyu is just relying on the shadow of his ancestors in their eyes, and he has no merit in himself.
If he had such a background, he would have already been a very popular minister, how could he be like Gu Yuanyu, who had no prospects, and went to a remote county to be a county official.
"Master Gu comes from a famous family, and he must know that if one party is dissatisfied with the verdict in a case, he has the right to ask the presiding judge to retry the case, am I right?"
"What Lord Wen said is that the case is suspicious, but ......," Gu Yuanyu looked embarrassed, "That's it, since Lord Wen has said this, there is nothing to hide from Lord Wen." ”
Gu Yuanyu instructed his subordinates to find out the case file of Wen Chuzhang and Zhou Niangzi, "This is the case file of Brother and Sister Ling, I am a colleague with Lord Wen, and there is nothing to hide from Lord Wen, Lord Wen can read it casually." ”
At this time, Wen Chuming couldn't care about being polite to Gu Yuanyu, so he took the case file over and read it carefully, but the more he saw the back, the more frowning he became.
"I told you a long time ago, Master Wen, the offenses committed by my brother and sister-in-law are all certified without certificates, your sister-in-law Zhou Niangzi almost harmed the dean's wife of Shangshan Academy in order to frame Yu Qingzhi, what kind of place is Shangshan Academy? Don't say that it is in Luming County, even many sons of families in the capital have also come to study, and now I am afraid that the nobles in the capital have long known about these ugly things that your brother and sister-in-law have done. ”
As if he was afraid that Wen Chuming would not believe it, Gu Yuanyu specially ordered someone to bring Zhou Niangzi out of prison, but after a few days, Wen Chuming's gentle and delicate sister-in-law in his impression was almost invisible.
Zhou Niangzi has never suffered such grievances since she was born, the meals sent to her these days are all rancid, and there are mice running around her when she sleeps at night, she is not good at eating and sleeping, and the whole person is thin and old.
At this time, where could she take revenge on Yu Qingzhi, even if Wen Chuming was present, she also saluted obediently when she saw Gu Yuanyu.
"Wen Zhou, now in front of Lord Wen, you have to answer truthfully whatever the official asks you, do you understand?"
"The folk girl understands."
"In order to frame the He Yu clan, you almost harmed the dean's wife of the Shangshan Academy, can you admit this?"
The folk girl admitted.
"Bribed the previous county magistrate, escaped from prison with his help, hired murderers, but what did you do?"
"It's the ...... of the people's daughters"
Every time Zhou Niangzi answered, Gu Yuanyu's face became more colorful, and Wen Chuming's face next to him darkened.
Until Zhou Niangzi was taken down and imprisoned by the officials, Wen Chuming never opened his mouth to say half a word.
"Master Wen, you have also seen it with your own eyes, not only is the record in the case file clearly understood, but your sister-in-law Zhou Niangzi has confessed to her crimes, why is there any need to overturn the case and retry it?"
"Master Gu's words are wrong, in just a few days, my sister-in-law has lost weight, and her expression is even more uneasy, do you know if she was tortured in prison to extract a confession?"
"What's more, this time I returned to my hometown, it was also because my father-in-law Qian heard that my family had changed, and specially arranged for me to come back to deal with it......
"Master Wen is really a big mouth, the facts are clear, the human and material evidence is there, and Father-in-law Qian is always paying attention to it, can he reverse right and wrong?"
Yu Qingzhi and He Lianjun eavesdropped outside for a long time, and there was an evil fire in their stomachs, and it was easy to get He Lianjun's permission, and she pushed the door directly.
"Presumably, a noble person like Lord Wen doesn't know the folk girl yet, the folk girl will introduce herself first, I am the He Yu clan who was almost killed by your sister-in-law."
"Your sister-in-law, Mrs. Zhou, has failed to harm me several times, and then even if she went to the court, she still did not repent, according to what the adults said, is it fair to have to overturn the case and confuse right and wrong for such a person?"
"Well said!" The tattered system popped up to praise Wen Chuming passionately, although Yu Qingzhi never responded to it.
"You! You don't want to slander your own officials! ”
"Slander?" He Lianjun took a step forward and protected Yu Qingzhi behind him, "Just now I and my wife heard it clearly outside the door, Lord Wen didn't have a plan and had a plan, and his donkey skills were so poor that he even brought out his father-in-law, it turned out that Lord Wen's way of being an official was to ignore the facts and help his relatives without helping." ”
"Wow wow, wow, it's really the male lead, and he can say such a nice thing about swearing."
Although Yu Qingzhi couldn't see the appearance of this dilapidated system, he knew from his imagination that he must be a star-eyed.
"Lord Wen don't waste his tongue here, he can worship under Grandpa Qian, I think Lord Wen has also made extraordinary efforts, Lord Wen should return to Beijing earlier and stay by Grandpa Qian's side to serve, the affairs of Luming County are handled by the parent official, and Lord Wen is not bothered."
Gu Yuanyu ruthlessly ordered the eviction of customers, and Wen Chuming, who was angry, brushed his sleeves away.
"This Wen Chuming is a smart person, but he only saw you once, so he thought that you had a connection with the Wei State Mansion, but I don't know where he saw the appearance of the old Guo Gong."
"When he entered Beijing, the He family had already fallen, and I was afraid that he had seen his father's portrait in someone with a heart."
"If that's the case, then you have to be more careful, he has seen you now, and he hasn't bargained for you, I'm afraid he won't give up."
Yu Qingzhi listened to Gu Yuanyu's words and hurriedly asked the tattered system, "How will the plot develop later, can you reveal it?" ”
“……”
She was answered only by endless silence.
Yu Qingzhi had long been accustomed to the elusiveness of this broken system, and when he saw that it did not respond, he went with it.
Wen Chuming came out of the county office, and returned to the Wen family angrily, Wen Chuzhang and Zhou were in prison, and the Wen family had no one except for a few subordinates, and it became more and more cold.
Wen Chuming's anger was even more in his heart, "Go and prepare a fast horse for me," he instructed the old housekeeper of the Wen family, "Tell a few subordinates to keep an eye on the family that just moved in, what is the movement of their family, and tell me in time." ”
Just a He Lianjun who looked like the old Duke of Wei was enough to make him suspicious that this small Luming County had even attracted the son of the former military department Shangshu to come here to be a small seven-rank official.
A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and a bold guess was formed in an instant, and he hurriedly put down his pen and told in detail about the things he saw He Lianjun and Gu Yuanyu today, not forgetting to write that He Lianjun and the former Duke of Wei were seventy percent similar in appearance.
Although he didn't know what happened between the Wei Mansion and Father-in-law Qian, he only looked at Father-in-law's reaction when he mentioned the portrait of the people, and knew that if his conjecture came true, He Lianjun's death would not be far away.
At the same time, He Lianjun in the county government was only worried about He Wanyue's body, and did not take the Wen family to heart.
"I have memorized what you said, I have been looking for my subordinates for a long time in the past few days to investigate, although the Divine Doctor Sect is a sect on the rivers and lakes, but after all, it is famous, and it should not be difficult to find them."
"Now that I am an identity, there are many inconveniences in acting, and it is inconvenient to meet with Tianci frequently, you remember to inform him of this matter, Wanyue's body is now delayed at all."
"Don't worry, Wanyue is like my own sister-in-law, even if you don't say it, I will do my best to find someone to find a miracle doctor for her."
Gu Yuanyu and He Lianjun grew up together since childhood, and saw that He Lianjun became silent overnight after experiencing the changes of the He family, and everyone said that he was ruthless and unkind, but Gu Yuanyu and Zhu Tianci had also seen the appearance of the He family's happiness since childhood, if Wei Laoguo and the Duchess were still there, how could He Lianjun become like this.
He still remembered that because of a holy decree of the faint king, the entire He family was destroyed, and only He Lianjun escaped with Helan City and He Wanyue with his martial arts, and the He family had hundreds of people, and only the three of them were left overnight.
His father was in charge of the military department at that time, and in order to save the He family, he knelt down in front of the palace gate, and was directly dismissed and exiled by the faint king.
Thinking of the past, even if he usually jumps away like Gu Yuanyun, he can't help but feel a little sad.
He Lianjun didn't show it on his face, only coughed lightly, and asked with a smile, "My lady and I traveled thousands of miles to your county magistrate's house as a guest, is it possible that the county magistrate is not even willing to have a dinner?" ”
"When did you learn to be so poor?"
Gu Yuanyu's eyes widened in shock, "Hurry up and let me see, have you been replaced?" Mrs. Sister-in-law, take a look, is this still the He Lianjun I know? ”
As he spoke, he made a gesture to pull He Lianjun's face, looking like he wanted to see if He Lianjun was faked, but He Lianjun dodged it dexterously.
"There is Lancheng, and you, and now there is my wife, which of the three of you is not sharp and eloquent, I get along with you day and night, if it is still the same as before, don't you feel very defeated?"
"I don't get along with you day and night, and neither does Lancheng, only my sister-in-law gets along with you day and night."
Yu Qingzhi knew that Gu Yuanyu was a poor mouth, but he never thought that he would dare to make such a joke in front of He Lianjun, his face flushed unconsciously, and he went to the kitchen to hide under the pretext of going to the kitchen.
As soon as she left, Gu Yuanyu behind her smiled with a narrow face, and came to He Lianjun and asked, "I see that this girl is very good to Wanyue and Lancheng, you are not at home and she is in charge of it alone, Wanyue is sick now, Lancheng is childish again, everyone in this family relies on others to take care of them, you haven't thought about pretending to play with her?" ”
Is the fake show really done?
He Lianjun glanced at him, "I saved her, but it's a pity for a human life, I can't bear to see her lose her life, the couple of the Yu family, I'm afraid I didn't treat her as a human being, I didn't even want to give her a broken straw mat when I bought her, obviously I still have a breath, but I have long regarded her as a dead person, I can't bear it." ”
Gu Yuanyu was full of disbelief, as a bystander, he saw the way He Lianjun and Yu Qingzhi got along these days more clearly than the two parties, but at the moment he didn't want to expose it.
For many things, it is better for the parties themselves to feel it.
Because of Gu Yuanyu's words, He Lianjun had mixed feelings in his heart, what he didn't say was that now that he was like this, he might die under the sword at any time, how could he dare to easily promise Yu Qingzhi a lifetime.