After a while, Luo Youde was brought up, and when he happened to see Zheng Luo's being taken down, he couldn't help kowtowing and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, my daughter is weak and can't withstand torture. Then he turned to Zheng Ping and shouted: "Zheng Daguan, this daughter of my family is treating you with all her heart, why did you let her enter the yamen and be beaten like this." ”

Guo Langzhong drank: "Roaring court, according to the law, you should be beaten with ten sticks, and if you are old, you will be beaten with five sticks first." ”

Luo Youde cried and grabbed the ground, although he was nearly sixty years old, his strength was amazing, and he actually threw off two officials, and the last four officials pressed it before he was successfully tortured. Seeing that this old man was so hard, the five sticks of the official were also really beaten, which made Na Luo Youde stop.

"Luo Youde, there are some things to ask you, answer honestly." Guo Langzhong slapped the shocked wood, which frightened Luo Youde and nodded again and again.

"Just now, Zheng Luo's family has confessed, saying that eighteen years ago, the Zheng family took away the Luo family's twelve tea trees, causing your family to make ends meet, and then your father was seriously ill and had no money for treatment, so he sold her own sister. Zheng Luo held a grudge because of this, so he poisoned the Zheng family's tea cake mold. DID YOU KNOW THIS? ”

"My lord Mingjian, the Zheng family did collude with He County Ling and took away the twelve tea trees of my family. My family has lost their livelihood. My father was so angry that he fell ill. In order to cure my father's illness, I had to sell my poor little daughter. But these things have passed, and then the family life is better, and we haven't mentioned it, Zheng Daguan took a fancy to my eldest daughter and came to my house to propose, my eldest daughter was also happy at the time, and didn't say that she wanted revenge. My lord, we really don't know anything about this revenge. Luo Youde cried and said: "This matter doesn't depend on our Luo family, they have all married into the Zheng family, and they are already members of the Zheng family." ”

Guo Langzhong sneered and said, "You have a good heart. According to what you said, this Zheng family almost killed your father, which can be regarded as the revenge of killing your father. Are you glad to marry your daughter? What is the reasoning behind this? Do you still want to eat five more sticks before you can be honest? ”

"I said, I said. I'm too old to stand the beatings. My father's serious illness has nothing to do with the Zheng family. Saying this, Luo Youde glanced at Zheng Ping quite humbly, Zheng Ping looked disdainful and sneered at him a few times. Luo Youde immediately straightened up again and said, "But that tea tree was indeed snatched from us by the Zheng family. The Zheng family is wealthy, but our family has to think about what to do with the next meal after eating the last meal, and I still remember He Xianling saying that the tea tree was not originally our family, and the wild tea tree is also the official family. The tea tree returned to the official camp, and a few days later, the people of the Zheng family said that the tea tree belonged to his family. It just so happened that my father was sick, so we said that the Zheng family's affairs were angry. In fact, my father has always been in poor health, and his family is poor, so in order to save money, he makes his own medicine and eats it. Later, I was really sick, so I invited the doctor in the town to come and see it, and I caught the medicine in the Shen family's pharmacy, which was very expensive. There's no way to sell the eldest child in the family. My eldest daughter refused to die, so I locked her in the firewood room, and then I sold her mother. Later, the family had a better life, and Zheng Daguan took good care of our family's tofu shop, so we got married. Besides, Zheng Daguan was still young at that time, and it was all a matter of the previous generation. Luo Youde wiped his sweat as he spoke, and peeked at Su Huangzhe, who was listening to the trial in the hall.

Zheng Ping's eyes widened angrily, full of bloodshots, but he still saluted, gritted his teeth and said: "Guo Langzhong, please check the matter of this tea tree, the person in the credential is there." Oh, Lord Taishan, I really didn't know that you were so measured, such a big thing, I have never heard your family say the slightest. Back then, you specially arranged for me to go to your tofu shop, didn't you just let me meet Qiao Niang? Your family is so deliberate and arranged, I thought it was to catch up with our Zheng family, but now it seems that the whole family is for revenge. ”

Luo Youde hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no." Guo Langzhong, that Zheng official, don't say that, we really didn't think about revenge, this Qiao Niang's brain is broken, this good day is just for Wan Niang to poke out such a big basket. Luo Youde turned around and kowtowed to Guo Langzhong in the hall, and cried: "Master Qingtian, this Qiao Niang is a married girl, and it has nothing to do with our Luo family for a long time." When she got married, she was also happy, not unhappy at all. Who knows if the rest of the day was not going well, so there are these messy ideas. ”

Guo Langzhong nodded to Su Huangzhe and Dai Chang next to him, and asked Luo Youde and Zheng Ping to be brought down, and Luo Youcai to be brought up.

Guo Langzhong asked while flipping through the case file: "Just now, your eldest brother Luo Youde and you Zheng Ping have explained clearly, you can add some more." Mainly about the twelve wild tea trees, and what is the relationship between you and the Zheng family? ”

Luo Youcai is ten years younger than Luo Youde, and unlike Luo Youde's sturdy crop man, Luo Youcai has a big belly, weak legs, and wears a dark red silk robe, which is quite rich and rich in the countryside. Luo Youcai was drenched in sweat when he came in, and said while wiping his sweat: "What twelve wild tea trees?" This, I really don't know. The relationship between the Zheng family, this Zheng family is our in-laws, what is there to say. Master Zheng is the son-in-law of our Luo family, and he comes to our house every New Year's Day, and he walks around normally on weekdays. Master Zheng was attracted by my Qiao Niang, my brother and they thought that he arranged for the two to meet, in fact, I know that Master Zheng has been hanging around my house for a long time, just to see Qiao Niang, he really likes our Qiao Niang. ”

Luo Youcai's speech is not very clear, and he always seems to have saliva in his mouth when he speaks, and he turns over and over that the Luo family and the Zheng family are in-laws, and he does not know about the twelve tea trees.

Several people returned to the back hall and were interrogated for a whole day, all exhausted. Guo Langzhong picked up the tea bowl on the side and drank it in a big gulp, although his eyes were bloodshot, his expression was very relaxed. After drinking enough tea, he hummed a little tune out of tune, and Erlang's legs were still shaking.

"Alas, I said that you, Master Su, have been tried for eight or nine years, and you are still holding your case file and not turning your eyes." Guo Langzhong said and looked down at his tattered black cloth shoes, and couldn't help but say: "Remember to count my shoes in this official subsidy, it's really expensive to go back and forth." By the way, should the girl of the An family be written in this closing case file? However, this Zheng Luo's pretending to be really similar, it's not that this An family girl saw the flaws early, and I really can't judge this Zheng Luo's. ”

"This case can't be closed yet." Su Huangzhe closed the case file, threw it aside, took a sip of the tea bowl, turned back to Xiao Yi and said, "You go and invite Miss An Jia, just say that there is progress in the case on my side, and she will definitely come." ”

After Xiao Yi left, Guo Langzhong took off his official hat, touched his head and said, "I said Brother Su, are you looking at someone else's girl or what's wrong, why do you still have to call this An girl in this case." Isn't it all clear? Dai Chang frowned and said, "Master Su, it's not that I'm in a hurry, this case has been registered in front of the saint, if this time drags on for a long time, I can't afford it." Now that the person and the poison have been identified, and the confession is complete, why do you want to make extraneous branches? ”

Su Huangzhe said: "It is this case that is important, and it must be done carefully. Now this confession is full of evidence, but the details do not stand up to scrutiny. This case has to be dug deeper. Dai Chang, I know your concerns, and now it's important to finish the case with peace of mind. ”

Dai Chang sighed and stopped talking.