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Chapter 219 Witness Appears in Court Tao Zhili Confesses

witness!

Tao Zhili's heart skipped a beat, what witness?What to prove?
Hearing the footsteps behind him, the bad premonition in Tao Zhili's heart became more and more obvious. He looked back with a sullen face, but found that it was a student he often chatted with on weekdays. In addition, there was The shopkeeper and buddy of Pleasure Inn.

Immediately, Tao Zhili felt that he knew the truth, and he said angrily: "Deng Shaoting, I said why you always talk to me on weekdays, but it turns out that it is to frame me! How did I offend you, you actually want to harm me so much This level!"

A dignified scholar, under the watchful eyes of the public, was arrested by the yamen servants and brought to the county yamen, and forced to kneel down as an official. He was treated as a suspect, which is a shameful humiliation.

Deng Shaoting was the one who talked to Tao Zhili in the lobby before. After hearing Tao Zhili's words, he ignored Tao Zhili, but respectfully saluted Zhao Zhifu: "Student Deng Shaoting has met you."

The shopkeeper and staff of Yuelai Inn hurriedly knelt down and saluted: "The villain has met the adults."

"En." Zhao Zhifu hummed, and then said to Deng Shaoting: "Deng Shaoting, please tell me what you heard."

"Yes." Deng Shaoting nodded hastily, and told Tao Zhili in the hall to speak nonsense, proudly showing off that he knew about the third exam questions, and finally said: "My lord, student What you say is true.”

"Okay, you step aside." Zhao Zhifu then asked the shopkeeper and staff of the Yuelai Inn: "Do you two have anything to add, or any objections?"

The shopkeeper and the waiter hurriedly said: "My lord, what Deng Xuezi said is true, and Tao Xuezi did say that in the lobby. At that time, the villain was in the lobby, not far from the table where Tao Xuezi and Deng Xuezi were sitting. , I can hear you clearly."

"En." Zhao Zhifu gave a majestic hum, and then slapped the gavel: "Tao Zhili, what else do you have to say?"

"My lord, the student was wronged. The student never said this." Tao Zhili had no impression of what Deng Shaoting and the shopkeeper said, so he was even more convinced that these people were ordered to frame him: "My lord, The students are really wronged, they must have been bribed, so they framed the students, the students are wronged!"

Deng Shaoting was very dissatisfied when Tao Zhili said that he had wronged him: "Tao Zhili, I have no grievances with you, why should I wrong you? When you said these words in the lobby, not only the three of us heard them. There are at least two or thirty people in the lobby."

impossible!
Tao Zhili's first reaction was that Deng Shaoting was lying: "I didn't say, you framed me."

Zhao Zhifu said angrily: "Tao Zhili, there are 30 people at the scene, do you want me to call these 30 people to the government office, so that you will admit it?"

How could Tao Zhili remember what happened in the lobby? He was filled with resentment. Tao Hechen's family had bribed so many people to frame him.

"My lord, the student was really wronged!" Tao Zhili touched his head to the ground, and said sadly, "The student was murdered by a traitor. I beg you to make decisions for the student and avenge the student. The one who harmed the student was the student's nephew Tao. He Chen, it's absolutely true."

Zhao Zhifu laughed angrily: "You said what you said clearly, who said it according to your head? Do you admit it or not? Do you really want to let the official serve you? If you are still so obsessed, don't You should blame me for disregarding your status as a scholar."

Prefect Zhao didn't believe a word of Tao Hechen that Tao Zhili said, so how could Tao Hechen hold his mouth open and let him say those words?

Immediately, the prefect Zhao's impression of Tao Zhili became even worse, and naturally he became even more impolite.

"Ah!" Tao Zhili didn't expect that he would be sentenced to death. He hurriedly kowtowed and said, "My lord, the student was really wronged. The student definitely didn't say anything like that, and he didn't buy the test questions. Someone wronged the student."

No matter how this matter happened, Tao Zhili didn't buy the test questions if he killed him. He knew that once this matter was admitted, what awaited him would be eternal. The Great Qin Dynasty has always been strict with fraud. That is punitive.

Zhao Zhifu was so angry that his chest hurt, he could see that Tao Zhili's ability to reverse black and white was also very good, so many witnesses, yet he still refused to admit it: "Since you refuse to admit it, then you can see it in this government office." instruments of torture."

Zhifu Zhao's patience is almost exhausted, he is now in a hurry to find the culprit who sold the test questions, and find out those people behind, otherwise he will be the one to take the blame.

Just when Zhao Zhifu was about to order someone to execute Tao Zhili, Tao Zhili felt dizzy for a moment, and then he hurriedly said, "My lord, students are recruited, all students are recruited."

"Hmph, it really doesn't make you cry when you don't see the coffin." Zhifu Zhao snorted coldly: "In that case, let's tell the truth, where did you buy these test questions from, and who is the name of the person who sold you the test questions? , How many people are there in total, who is behind it, and how long have they been doing this."

Tao Zhili just felt a little dizzy. He heard what he said that he wanted to confess, but he didn't mean it. He didn't want to confess, but he couldn't control himself, so he could only helplessly listen to what he said. At this moment, Tao Zhili was extremely desperate. He knew that his future and his official career were completely over!
I heard Tao Zhili say clearly: "My lord, the students did buy the test papers for this township examination. The person who bought the test papers for the students is called Liu Dawei. He is 42 years old this year, and his family lives in Shili Lane, Nancheng, Fucheng. The eighth house on the left side of the alley is there. There are quite a few of them, about seven or eight people. I don’t know the others. As for the people behind them, I don't know, but Liu Dawei must know, as long as Liu Dawei is caught."

After hearing Tao Zhili's words, Zhifu Zhao was so angry that he patted the gavel again. Well, it seems that the matter of buying and selling test questions has been going on for a long time. The previous magistrates knew nothing about it.

In fact, Zhao Zhifu is still a little jealous of the people behind Liu Dawei. After all, if he doesn't have some energy, it is impossible to hide it so well for so many years. He can be suppressed by a small magistrate.

Besides, if he doesn't find out the people behind the scenes, then he will be the one who is unlucky.

Thinking of this, Zhifu Zhao ruthlessly threw a token down the hall: "Come here, go to Shili Lane and arrest Liu Dawei."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)