The opening of the urn that the big man took was very small, and after pouring it over, starting from the front of the steel knife, a thin stream of water poured on the shiny steel knife like a cow's hair.

The moment the clear water touched the steel knife, the steel knife with a cold light instantly turned blood red.

There was an uproar inside and outside the lobby.

Lu Wei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and looked at Zhang Yuqing for the first time, compared to everyone's shocked appearance, her sly smile hidden under the fan was extraordinarily different, as if everything was expected by her.

Subconsciously, he understood that this matter must have been planned by Zhang Yuqing.

"It's red! It's turned red! ”

"Really! It's true! ”

"It's really Lord Yama who gave him divine water to help him avenge his grievances!"

However, as the water in the urn traveled along the blade to the hilt, more than half a foot away from the hilt, the blade no longer turned red, and remained the same color.

The water flowed over the handle of the knife without changing in the slightest.

Originally, a steel knife with nothing peculiar had turned into blood red in the lower part and bright in the upper part in full view of everyone, with clear boundaries.

The breath that Fang Mo had been carrying from the Dharma field was now finally relieved, and tears fell with it, and he cried bitterly, "My lord, my senior brother has been wronged!" Wronged! ”

Zhang Yuqing let out a long breath and won the bet!

As early as when the blade of the knife turned red, he had already fallen to the ground in fright, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up, as if the real Lord Yama came out of the ground and asked for his life.

Senior Brother Fang Mo also had red circles in his eyes, and shouted outside, "Return his innocence!" Return his innocence! ”

"Officials can't ignore people's lives!"

"Isn't the life of the common people fate?"

The presiding judge kept patting the shocking wood, but still could not calm the earth-shattering shouts of the people outside, and the officials of Jingzhao Mansion held wooden sticks at the door, and if they relaxed a little, the angry people would rush into the court.

"Take him down!" The presiding judge pointed to the prescribing and shouted, "And the witnesses of this case, bring them from home!" ”

Kou Leguo said: "My lord, several witnesses in this case have already run out of the capital when they knew that they were going to be remanded for retrial!" ”

The presiding judge was furious, "Is this the case? ”

"It's true!"

The others ran away, leaving only one person, and the presiding judge threw down a signed order and shouted at him: "Do you want to recruit?" If you don't move, you will eat twenty kills first! ”

At this point, he sat down on the ground, knowing that the general trend had gone, and shouted in a cold sweat: "My lord, I, I only received ten taels of silver!" It was Master Liu who asked me to do this! If I don't do what he says, he'll drive me away from the yamen!" ”

He Qi's blind old lady couldn't cry silently.

Tens of thousands of excited and angry people shouted for the government to give them justice.

When Zhang Yuqing heard this, he knew that the matter had been settled.

"Let's go." Zhang Yuqing said.

When Luo Danxia saw the excitement, she said reluctantly: "Let's go now?" I haven't seen the results yet! ”

"The results won't change." Zhang Yuqing smiled slightly.

Luo Danyang nodded and said, "Let's go." ”

When the verdict is handed down, maybe the people will be even more excited, and when the time comes, it will inevitably be crowded, and something will inevitably go wrong.

A few people quietly left.

When Lu Wei went to see Zhang Yuqing again, he only saw Luo Danyang's back protecting her from the crowd. The vacated position after Zhang Yuqing and the others left was immediately occupied by the excited people.

The matter of falsely accusing He Qi of false testimony has been revealed and is a certainty. In order to calm the anger of the public, the presiding judge was also afraid that the people would gather to make trouble and storm the court, so he first sentenced He Qi and Fang Mo not guilty, and ordered the officials to take off the wooden shackles of the two.

Fang Qin didn't know how to describe his excitement at this time, but he finally breathed a sigh of relief for Fang Mo, and said with a smile: "Fang Mo, this kid, really impresses me, I didn't expect to have such a smart brain!" When you look back, be sure to ask him how he got the blood on the knife! ”

At this time, the Luo family's ox cart had already walked to another street.

The people of the capital probably went to the yamen to see the excitement, and the streets were sparsely populated, and there were few people.

Luo Danxia also asked Zhang Yuqing excitedly, "Tell me quickly, how did you make the blood stains on the knife?" God! It's amazing! Is it really Lord Yama who has appeared? ”

"That's right, it's Lord Yama who has appeared!" Zhang Yuqing said with a smile.

Luo Danxia pulled Zhang Yuqing's arm and coquettishly, "Good sister, just tell me!" I'm so curious! ”

"This is actually very simple, I asked people to go to the yamen treasury in advance, and apply a layer of turmeric on the lower body of the steel knife, and the water in the urn seems to be clear water, but it is actually alkaline water soaked in plant ash, turmeric encounters alkaline water, it will turn bright red, and it looks like blood stains have reappeared." Zhang Yuqing explained.

The turmeric was coated with the fruit that he secretly ran into the storeroom, and the alkaline water was the ashes of the plants and trees that the Fang Mo brothers had burned for an afternoon, soaked overnight, and then filtered out with a muslin cloth.

Luo Danyang suddenly realized, "It's a lie to them!" ”

"In fact, it's a dangerous battle, and there is no way to do it." Zhang Yuqing said with a smile, pinning a strand of hair from her sideburns behind her ear, "Fortunately, everything went well." ”

Luo Danyang exclaimed: "It was your idea to publicize He Qi's unjust case to the whole capital, and to add the theory of ghosts and gods, which attracted the people of the whole city to watch, right?" ”

"With the help of strength, let the yamen pay attention to this case, and let the people who tried the case favor He Qi, and dare not judge the gourd case again. The officials are not afraid of reckless human life, nor are they afraid of creating unjust cases, what they are afraid of is that the people will twist into a rope, question them, and resist them! Zhang Yuqing said, and then thought that his cousin was already a lifter, and he was destined to be an official in the future, and it was too frustrating for him to say this.

Zhang Yuqing said embarrassedly: "Cousin, I lost my word, you and your uncle-in-law must not be such people." ”

Luo Danyang laughed, looked at Zhang Yuqing, who was slightly blushing, and felt that she was very cute. When he helped Senior Brother He Qi before, he was calm and wise, designed one ring after another, thoughtful, and comprehensive, and blushed at this time, so he had a little bit of innocence and coquettishness of a girl of this age.

"Thanks to Yuqing's trust, if I become an official in the future, I will not be a gourd monk who judges the gourd case!" Luo Danyang clenched his fists and said solemnly.

Luo Danxia said seriously: "Brother, I only know now that some people have lived so hard, you will be an official in the future, you must be kind to the people!" When I return to Wu Yue, I will also say this to my father! ”

"It's time to be kind to the people." Luo Danyang sighed, the energetic young man's eyes were worried, "We must fill the appetite of those corrupt officials internally, and we must pay tribute to the Hu clan outside, and the people are struggling on the verge of starvation every year, how can they not suffer?" ”

It's not early, Zhang Yuqing watched the trial in the morning, her spirit was highly nervous and vigilant, she was also tired at this time, and Wang Chunniang took care of the old lady of the He family for too many days, and she also needed to go back to take a rest, so she refused the proposal of the Luo family brothers and sisters to take her to the Luo family as a guest.

After sending Zhang Yuqing back to Zhang's house, Luo Danyang took his sister to his house.

Without her cousin present, Luo Danxia completely let go, and her eyes were full of appreciation for Zhang Yuqing, "Why is Cousin Yuqing so smart!" I'm going to try turmeric when I go back! Custody scared my mother! ”

Luo Danyang was also very impressed, "Saving a life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter." ”

Yuqing's cousin is not only smart and kind, but also does not ask for anything in return, if she wants to hear He Qi thank Dade, she will wait there for a while, and wait for He Qi to come out, but after she knew that He Qi would be acquitted, she immediately turned around and left.

Such a golden quality makes him admirable.

Luo Danxia looked at Luo Danyang's eyes that lit up as soon as she mentioned Zhang Yuqing, covered her mouth and smiled secretly.

When Luo Danyang returned home and passed by Mrs. Luo's room, Mrs. Luo was talking to the housekeeper's daughter-in-law beside her, and her tone was very worried.

“…… This child is smart and understands that those two Zhuangzi have been in the hands of Mrs. Zhang's family for many years, and they pay rent to the Zhang family every year, and with Mrs. Zhang's virtue, it is impossible to return Zhuangzi to her easily! Mrs. Luo sighed, "Although I sincerely want to help her, I don't know what to do about it!" My mother is gone, I'm just her mother's aunt and cousin, my surname is Huang, my husband's surname is Luo, but as long as my surname is An, I can go to Zhang's house for her to make this head and ask for what should be her! ”

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law also sighed, the catastrophe in the capital thirteen years ago, the people of the An family died cleanly, if one was left, it would not be to this point.

Luo Danyang listened outside the window, remembering the bright and lovely smile, and couldn't help but clench his palms.

"She said that she wanted to go to Qingzhou to find friends, and I felt uncomfortable when I heard it, it was really pitiful!" Mrs. Luo said again, "If it weren't for the fact that the Zhang family really couldn't stay any longer, how could she, a delicate little girl, want to go to Qingzhou, which is thousands of miles away, and is a bandit and a homeless person, to join a childhood friend!" ”

Mrs. Luo couldn't help wiping away her tears, "My cousin was also a good girl back then, gentle and kind, if she knew that her only bone and blood had reached the point where she is today, how would she rest in peace!" ”

The housekeeper's daughter-in-law next to her said: "I look at Zhuangzi is a trivial matter, Miss Yuqing is not young, right?" The Zhang family doesn't care about her, so they may send her to marry casually. ”

"Yes, yes!" Mrs. Luo's heart became anxious, "This is the most fatal!" I heard Miss Wang say that Mrs. Zhang still wants to give her to the servant of the ministry as a concubine, and the servant of the ministry I know that she is almost sixty years old, isn't this a sin! ”

Hearing this, Luo Danyang's heart was shocked, and his anger rushed to the top of his head at once, and he couldn't wait to go to Zhang's house immediately to ask, why they were so vicious, why such a good girl as Yuqing should be trampled by them like this!

Thinking that such a smart and kind Zhang Yuqing was going to be sent by the Zhang family to be a concubine for an old man who was about to enter the earth, no one appreciated her intelligence, and even her life might be quietly buried in the back house of an old man, Luo Danyang couldn't bear it anymore.

Rodin Young took a deep breath, lifted the curtain and entered the house, shouting, "Mother! ”

Mrs. Luo looked at Luo Danyang and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Luo Danyang said to the housekeeper's daughter-in-law, "You go out first, I have something to say to my mother." ”