Chapter 222: A Fatal Blow from Uncle Xiao Wei

The north side of the martial arts arena is divided into three directions, north and west, and there are officials from Dali Temple, Yushitai and the Criminal Department respectively, which are arranged to become the highest court of the Song Dynasty.

Cai Jing and Empress Zheng sat in the auditoriums on the east and west sides, and their respective groups of relatives and friends stood behind them to cheer.

In the middle of the field is Zheng Su's "corpse". Bai Sheng stood in the focus of the tripartite trial, and Zhao Kai personally led two third-generation disciples to take care of the custody.

Empress Zheng drank An Daoquan, and An Daoquan didn't dare to move again. Bai Sheng turned his head and said, "Queen Mother, I don't know if the purpose of your coming here is to let me Bai Sheng die?" Or do you want your brother to live, can you give me a clear word?"

Empress Zheng hated to bite Bai Sheng to death on the spot, and didn't give Bai Sheng a chance to talk at all, so she said hatefully: "What qualifications do you have to talk to this palace?

Seeing this, Dali Siqing was shocked, glared at Bai Sheng and shouted: "Bold Bai Sheng, you can only defend to this official, and you can't talk to others, otherwise you will blame this official for torturing you!"

After saying that, he winked at Bai Sheng, and then gave Cai Jing a look.

Of course, Bai Sheng knew this Dali Siqing, because this person was Li Qingzhao's father, Li Gefei. When Bai Sheng first came to Bianjing, he followed Li Qingzhao to stay at Li Gefei's house for one night.

Li Gefei was originally a waiter in the Ministry of Rites, but after being brought down by Cai Jing, he reappeared through Bai Sheng's coordination and was transferred to Dali Siqing, which is equivalent to the president of the Supreme Court in later generations. Although the grade has not changed, they are all positive and second-grade, but the real power is heavier.

His own people, with his own people trying the case, what are you afraid of? But he understood what Li Gefei meant, and no matter what he said to Empress Zheng, it was useless.

Cai Jing understood better than Bai Sheng, so after Li Gefei signaled, he said to Empress Zheng: "Niangniang Chitose Xiu is worried, this Anshen doctor is the first divine doctor in the world, and he has the ability to bring the dead back to life, let him diagnose it, maybe he can save his uncle's life, why not give it a try?"

Cai Jing's words make a lot of sense, in fact, a dead horse is used as a live horse doctor, and the worst result is nothing more than not being able to save it, but what if it is saved?

Empress Zheng was suspicious, so she no longer stopped An Daoquan, and only snorted at Cai Jing and said: "The mourning family believes you, but if you can't save it, the mourning family will have to reason with the Taishi!"

So An Daoquan began to acupuncture on the "corpse", here Li Gefei presided over Bai Sheng, during the trial, first Zhao Kai explained the matter in detail, then Bai Sheng defended himself, finally witnesses testified, and finally three halls collegiate.

Based on the confessions of many parties, the facts of the case are generally like this, today, Uncle Zheng suddenly went to the courtyard where the four generations of disciples lived, and named Bai Sheng to come out, when the four generations of disciples were all awakened, but no one heard Bai Sheng go out.

A total of ninety-seven disciples of four generations lived in eight houses in the courtyard, and the twelve disciples who shared the same room with Bai Sheng all confessed that Bai Sheng did not return to sleep here last night.

At the beginning of the Mao period, when the four generations of disciples got up to practice, they found that Zheng Su fell in the middle of the courtyard, with a feather arrow stuck in his back, according to the specifications of the feather arrow, it can be determined that this arrow came from the west front yard, that is, in the courtyard where the four generations of disciples practiced archery.

The four generations of disciples made a big uproar, attracting three more generations of disciples into the courtyard, and then Cao Zheng rushed to the scene with Xun Si and Bai Sheng, Bai Sheng fed Zheng Su a pill on the spot, and stayed by Zheng Su's side to prevent anyone from approaching.

In this case, people have already decided that Bai Sheng must be a murderer and will be punished by national law, but no one stepped forward to argue with Bai Sheng, even the three generations of disciples who have always targeted Bai Sheng have chosen to wait and see what happens.

Later, Zhao Kai rushed to hear the news and made a preliminary investigation and evidence collection on the case.

If it is analyzed according to the above facts, then the murderer of Zheng Su should be someone else, but the only thing that cannot be determined is whether Cao Zheng and Xun Si committed perjury.

Therefore, the leaders of the three halls also could not unify their opinions, and the party represented by Li Gefei believed that the scene should be carefully investigated to find the real culprit, while the other party believed that Bai Sheng, Cao Zheng and Xun Si should be punished to see if they were colluding and lying.

The debate gradually expanded to include Cai Jing and Empress Zheng. Cai Jing believes that the punishment will definitely turn this case into an unjust, false and wrongful case, and Empress Zheng of course thinks that it is not too much to kill Bai Sheng.

Neither side can convince anyone, the shortcoming of Cai Jing and Li Gefei's faction is that you said that you surveyed the scene to find the real culprit, and this scene has already been destroyed by nearly 200 disciples of the third and fourth generations.

Besides, on the other hand, you say that there is another real murderer, then what is the motive of the real murderer to murder Uncle Zheng? If the real murderer has the motive to murder Uncle Zheng, why did he hold back for a long time before that, until Bai Sheng entered the Royal Boxing Gym before choosing to do it?

Although Cai Jing, Li Gefei and others were quite wise, and they also interrogated the three generations of disciples one by one, only asking if Zheng Su went out alone this morning, but because of Zheng Su's special status, he lived in a single room in the courtyard of the three generations of disciples, so no one could answer this question.

But Cai Jing and Li Gefei did not give up. They immediately focused their defense of Bai Sheng on Bai Sheng's martial arts. Bai Sheng's martial arts are the key clues to solve the case.

It is said that Bai Sheng does not know martial arts, so how can Bai Sheng, as a fourth-generation disciple who has just entered the Imperial Boxing Gym, be able to beat Zheng Su in the third-generation disciples? If the two fight against each other, wouldn't it be only Bai Sheng who was killed?

You said that he used a bow and arrow to attack Zheng Su from a distance, well, how can an apprentice who has just entered the Royal Boxing Gym be able to master such accurate archery skills?

can accurately shoot Zheng Su's heart in the dark night, and there are no other arrows left at the scene, obviously an arrow hits, does Bai Sheng have this ability?

Not to mention that Bai Sheng doesn't have this ability, even the other disciples of the Imperial Boxing Gym may not have this ability. Li Gefei asked Zhao Kai on the spot: "His Royal Highness King Yun, I wonder if any of your three generations of disciples can do it?"

Of course, Zhao Kai shook his head, this kind of archery technique is something he can't do himself.

When Bai Sheng heard this, he was secretly complaining, and said in his heart I really have this ability, but how can I admit it in this case? I can only bite myself to death, I don't know martial arts, and I don't know how to shoot arrows.

Since he doesn't know martial arts and doesn't know how to shoot arrows, then the person who killed Zheng Su must be someone else, at most, he can only accuse Bai Sheng of hiring murderers, but he can't convict Bai Sheng of killing people with his own hands.

At this point in the debate between the two sides, Cai Jing's faction had a slight upper hand, but among the three generations of disciples, one person stood up, "I can prove that Bai Sheng understands martial arts, and his archery skills are outstanding!"

The person who stood up was Uncle Xiao Wei, whose name was Wei Xianda.

Empress Zheng and her faction were immediately overjoyed, so she asked Wei Xianda to tell the details, Wei Xianda claimed that he and Gao Yu's son Gao Baoen were young, Gao Baoen had come to him a few days ago, and told him about Bai Sheng eating the overlord meal in Fan Lou and beating people.

Wei Xianda said that Wang Wenbin, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, could testify that Bai Sheng's archery skills were excellent and that he was good at shooting at night.

Uncle Wei's confession was like a shock, and the head of the three halls immediately sent someone to find Wang Wenbin. It didn't take long for Wang Wenbin to be summoned here and tell the truth what he had seen and heard.

In this kind of high-level court trial, Wang Wenbin did not dare to lie, he could only state truthfully, he said that Bai Sheng may not know martial arts, because he has never seen Bai Sheng do it with people, but Bai Sheng's archery skills are indeed extremely powerful, and he also described to everyone the process of Bai Sheng shooting green lanterns with arrows in Mangdang Mountain.

As soon as Wang Wenbin said this, Cai Jing and Li Gefei, including Bai Sheng himself, even with Li Biyun and other people on Bai Sheng's side, their hearts were already cold, and it didn't matter if they would do martial arts, as long as it turned out that Bai Sheng could shoot arrows, then his previous defense would become his own face.

Not only was Bai Sheng speechless, but even Cao Zheng and Xun Si were also implicated.

"Great punishment is waiting!" Empress Zheng gritted her silver teeth, and Yue Yan announced the order on her behalf.

Cai Jing and the others couldn't think of a way for a while, and watched as the official pressed Xun Si to the ground, and the punishment started on Xun Si, as long as Xun Si confessed that he was committing perjury, then the next one was Cao Zheng, and finally Bai Sheng.

This order is to give Cai Jing face.

Of course, if you want to not be punished, you can just confess immediately, and then pay one life for three lives, and the case can be closed.

Bai Sheng looked at Xun Si's face that wanted to cry without tears when he was pressed to the ground, and suddenly felt that he was very stupid. Why did they have to accompany themselves to suffer this crime?