After being bound to the learning system in my mother's womb, I became the empress

Chapter 159 The emblem of the Cheng family
The painting desks, pens, inks, paper and inkstones were moved to the Tai Chi Hall one after another, and the three prisoners were put back on cloth covers and taken aside.

Jiang Hai took off the cloth from the eyes of the Taoist Priest Qisheng.

Taoist priest Qisheng blinked to adjust to the light entering his eyes again.

Walking behind the desk, he rolled up his broad sleeves and said, "Disciple, let me polish you."

Ali Jiansheng responded: "Yes, Master."

Painting is a very time-consuming task. Even if the Qi Sheng Taoist Master only had to draw the heads of the three people, it still took him half an hour.

However, no one in the hall felt impatient. They craned their necks and looked up, their curiosity reaching its peak.

Being watched by so many people - especially the identities of these people are not simple, they are either emperors or important ministers, they are all big bosses who can shock the world with just one stamp of their feet - but the demeanor of the Taoist Master Qisheng has always been there. Very indifferent.

Unmoved by the outside world at all.

If nothing else, just this determination is very admirable.

Finally, the Taoist priest Qisheng put down his pen, and three portraits appeared on the paper.

"Your Majesty, Pindao has finished painting."

The emperor raised his hand, and Jiang Hai picked up the three portraits and presented them to them.

After reading it, the emperor circulated it to the ministers below, and at the same time ordered: "Clean up the heads and faces of those three people before bringing them up."

The three death row prisoners were brought down, and when they were brought back up, almost all the ministers in front had already seen the portraits.

As for the ones at the back, they are just the backdrop for this court meeting and are not important.

Background board members: No, although we are little shrimps, we also want to know the truth of the matter.

Too bad no one cares about them.

When the faces of the three condemned prisoners were revealed to the public again, the ministers who had seen the portraits were so shocked that they lost their voices.

Otherwise, these three people look exactly like the ones in the portraits!
At this moment, everyone had to believe that Master Qi Sheng was indeed proficient in the art of fortune telling!
Emperor: "Do you have any questions about the appearance of the 23 deceased people?"

Mr. Cheng argued hard: "Your Majesty, the skill of the Taoist priest is really amazing, but what the mute said is worthy of discussion. Who knows whether what he said is true? If he was Bribed, deliberately lied——"

He didn't finish what he said, but everyone present understood what he meant.

If the mute uncle lied and said that the portraits of the deceased were of the women brought back by Cheng Haoran, then Cheng Haoran's guilt would be basically confirmed.

But what if those portraits of the deceased are not the women brought back by Cheng Haoran?

Old Man Xun was so anxious that he kept gesticulating with his hands, but he was speechless and unable to defend himself.

What Master Cheng didn't know was that Zhang San was waiting for his words.

"Sir, ordinary people naturally know that to handle a case, you must not only have witnesses, but also physical evidence, and that physical evidence can prove that the dead women did indeed die at the hands of Cheng Haoran!"

Zhang San's words were as loud as a thunder exploding in the court hall.

The explosion made Mr. Cheng and the officials from the aristocratic factions look bad.

The emperor leaned forward and asked, "Where is the physical evidence?"

Zhang San: "Back to the emperor, the physical evidence is in the hands of a deceased person. The grassroots also brought the corpse of the deceased and placed it in a charity village on the outskirts of Beijing."

Master Cheng stared at him angrily. This Zhang San was really crazy. He even brought the corpse to Beijing as evidence!
In view of the particularity of the physical evidence, the emperor could not bring Zhang San to the palace. He could only send someone to transport the body placed in Yizhuang to the morgue of the Ministry of Punishment, and then went there with a group of ministers.

Cui Xiang tried to stop him: "Your Majesty, you are a rich man, how can you go to a dirty place like the morgue? Just leave this matter to the ministers." The Emperor: "Cui Xiang, I am on horseback. I have conquered the world, fought it out from the pile of dead people, how can a mere morgue defeat me?

"Okay, stop talking nonsense, let's go, I want to see for myself what the evidence is that the deceased refused to let go of."

The deceased holding the evidence was ordered by the Minister of Punishment to be placed in an open and spacious room so that the emperor and his ministers could view it easily.

Zhang San, Old Man Xun and Taoist Qi Sheng were also watching. After all, the three of them were important witnesses.

Zhang San stepped forward and removed the white cloth from the deceased's body, and the face of the deceased was exposed in front of everyone.

The appearance of the deceased was obviously not that good, and many people present looked away uncomfortably.

The emperor also changed his expression slightly.

Not scared, but angry.

He had seen many dead people, and he could tell from the scars on the female body what kind of abuse she had suffered during her lifetime.

This was still a place not covered by the clothes, and there were still many shocking scars hidden under the clothes.

The murderer is really crazy!
After calming down, the emperor looked at the female corpse's right hand clenched into a fist.

She was obviously holding something in her hand, because there was a knot hanging from her hand.

Zhang San stepped forward and said: "This woman's surname was Fan and her name was Liniang. She was only 13 years old when she died. After inspection, she died about two months ago. Among the 23 deceased, she was the closest to now." One of them, coupled with the cold weather, the body was relatively well preserved.

"After death, the body becomes rigid. If something were put into her hand after she died, her hand would not be as tightly held as it is now and difficult to open, so this thing was held in her hand before she was alive. of.

"And the thing she grabbed before she died most likely came from the murderer."

The Minister of Punishment nodded repeatedly, "Yes, your analysis is correct."

Master Cheng glanced at him with an accusatory look in his eyes. If you agree with him at this time, aren't you turning your elbows outward?

The Minister of Justice also looked back at him - I was just telling the truth.

The emperor didn't pay attention to the quarrel between the two people and ordered: "Open her hand and take out the contents."

Zhang San stepped forward, but unexpectedly the Minister of Punishment also came out, so the two of them worked together to open Fan Liniang's hand and took out something.

It was an open-carved unicorn jade pendant. The jade was smooth, translucent, white and flawless. It was obviously carved from fine mutton-fat jade.

There is a concentric knot under the jade pendant.

The Minister of the Ministry of Punishment held the jade pendant across his hands with a handkerchief and looked at it carefully: "There is a magnolia emblem on this jade pendant. Isn't this the emblem of the Cheng family? I remember correctly, Master Cheng?"

——Every aristocratic family has a family emblem, which is a prop they use to show off their uniqueness.

Members of the aristocratic family always rely on their family emblem to reveal their identity inadvertently when they are out and about.

Some overbearing families do not even allow local people to use the same mark as their own.

This is the case with the Cheng family.

Mr. Cheng's face was quite ugly, and he couldn't deny it in front of so many people.

"Master Pei has a very good memory. The emblem of our Cheng family is indeed the magnolia flower, but this does not prove that this jade pendant is from my Cheng family, right?"

(End of this chapter)