Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 202 The Truth Comes Out
The elder brother of the deceased also became agitated, and shouted loudly: "That's right! A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated! Miss Ye, no matter how high your status is, we will never teach you to touch my brother's corpse!"

"If you dare to burn his body, we will all crash to death in this court!" The other family members of the deceased also shouted, their attitude was very firm.

For a while, the county magistrate was in a dilemma.

"Are you guilty?" Ye Qiongdan didn't show any panic on his face, but the expression of questioning seemed extremely frank.

On the contrary, the look of the deceased’s father, in order to hide his guilty conscience, he said very excitedly: “You are talking nonsense! You are aggressive! You are humiliating us! Miss Ye, shouldn’t a person be blamed for his own fault? Are you responsible? We have done our best to you!"

"Why do we ask you to pay 1000 taels of silver instead of asking the county magistrate to behead you for public display? It's because we pity you for being a young girl in your twenties! We know you are ignorant, and we want to give you a chance to reform yourself." ! As long as you are willing to repent sincerely, and this poison has not had time to harm others in the future, everyone will forgive your mistakes!"

"But why are you so obsessed with your obsession? A person with a vicious heart will not end well! I know what you want to do. You are dissatisfied with us asking you for 1000 taels of silver, right? But, with you, 1000 taels of silver is just a sum of money. It’s just a small amount of silver! What we are thinking of is nothing more than a small punishment and a big commandment. Why are you unwilling to even take out 1000 taels of silver? Besides, human life is priceless. Can my son’s life be measured by 1000 taels of silver? "

"Miss Ye, don't be too ruthless. This is my old man's advice to you. I know what you are planning. You don't care what truth you can get after my son's body is burned. You just want to Burning my son's body, let us suffer this great humiliation, and let our whole family feel heartbroken! Miss Ye, you are an extraordinary person, but you can't do whatever you want! What's more, you are not afraid that your adoptive father will find out what you said and did. , do you no longer recognize you as a righteous daughter?"

The words of the deceased's father sounded "sincere", which caused applause from outside the hall.

"Okay! Well said!" Ye Qiongdan nodded, "I almost believed what you said."

"What do you mean?" demanded the deceased's father.

"You don't want me to burn your son's body because you are afraid that the cause of death will be revealed to the world." Ye Qiongdan smiled slightly.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." The deceased's father turned his head away, and the family members of the deceased also had strange expressions.

"No, you can understand what I'm talking about," Ye Qiongdan continued calmly, "Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills, your desire to survive is really strong! But, you have overlooked one point, if you are really If you love him, then, will you be unwilling to find out the cause of his death? From the beginning to the end, all I saw was your family begging for money!"

"The dead are gone. We living people want to continue to live well. Is there anything wrong? Besides, it is only right and proper to kill people for their lives or lose money!"

"That's right! It's a matter of course to kill someone to pay for their life or to lose money, but after killing someone, trying to cover up the truth and frame others is not a matter of course, but an illegal thing!"

"Miss Ye, don't spout blood!" Veins popped out on the forehead of the deceased's father.

"Whether I spitting blood or not, you know it in your heart." Ye Qiongdan looked at the family members of the deceased present, "You should all know it in your heart! Your magistrate, as long as the body of the deceased is burned, the cause of death will be revealed to the world! If not, I Ye Qiongdan I swear by the sky, I will crash and die in this court, otherwise, I will be struck by lightning immediately!"

People in this era value oaths very much. When everyone heard that Ye Qiongdan dared to make such a poisonous oath, they all believed her words for a while.

"Also, didn't you say that whoever wants to burn the body of the dead, you will smash it to death in this court?" Ye Qiongdan raised his eyebrows, "Okay! You hit it! I want to see, you guys Do you have the guts! If you kill one of them, I will pay you 1000 taels of silver, so go for it!"

When the family members of the deceased heard this, they were frightened.

"No one bumped into it, right? Then please order the magistrate to burn the corpse in public outside this court!" Ye Qiongdan respectfully bowed to the magistrate.

"Okay," the county magistrate nodded, "pass down the order to build firewood and burn the corpse."

After a while, a tall firewood pile was built, and buckets of tung oil were poured on it.

The county magistrate walked down from the courtroom and ordered the master next to him to throw the torch into the pyre.

The pyre immediately ignited, and soon wrapped the corpse in the pyre.

The people gathered around from a distance, watching intently.

I don't know how long it took before the body was burned to ashes.

"Look! What is that? It looks like a steel needle! There is a steel needle in the ashes!"

"So that's the case! It turns out that the deceased was pierced to death by a steel needle, no wonder Wu Zuo couldn't find out!"

"It's really terrible! This family is full of benevolence and morality, so they are out-and-out hypocrites! It's too much to dare to slander our famous talented woman in Qinghe County! , that Ye girl has read poetry and books, so how can she be such a vicious and low-spirited person?"

"That's right! I don't know who is talking nonsense and inciting people! It's the stick!"

……

After the truth came out, people seemed to have forgotten how they scolded Ye Qiongdan before, and they all wished to exhaust their praises to praise her.

"Come here, take out the steel needle and present it to my lord!" The county magistrate hurriedly said.

The yamen servant standing beside the pyre quickly took out the steel needle, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and presented it to the county magistrate.

After seeing the steel needle, the county magistrate said, "Bring Wu Zuo up, and ask Wu Zuo, this steel needle pierces the skull, will it cause death!"

"Yes!" Immediately, a yamen servant cupped his hands and retreated.

After a while, Wu Zuo was called to court again.

The county magistrate said: "Liu Yuzuo, come up and have a look at this steel needle, and then tell my lord, whether this steel needle piercing the skull will make people die unexpectedly!"

"Yes!" Liu Wuzuo took a few steps forward, picked up the steel needle on the table, looked at it cautiously, and said cautiously to the county magistrate, "My lord, the villain has been autopsyed for many years, but I haven't seen it." Such a vile method of killing people, but I have heard about it from the teacher. If someone is pierced by this steel needle, it is really hopeless."

"Then, can you confirm the cause of death of the deceased?" the county magistrate asked solemnly.

"There is no trauma, and it is not poisoning. Then, the villain can be sure that this person died of a steel needle piercing the skull, but..." At this point, Liu Yu paused.

"You can just speak up!" The county magistrate raised his hand.

"I don't know if the county magistrate noticed anything after the corpse was opened," Liu Yuzuo said after deliberation, "the deceased showed no signs of struggling before he died. It seems that the person who killed him must be extremely People who are close to you, otherwise, why would you be defenseless?"

After hearing the words "persons close to him", the faces of the deceased's family members all changed.

"I understand," the county magistrate has been adjudicating the case for many years, and he has already noticed something strange just by seeing the faces of the deceased's family members change drastically. "Everyone in the Zheng family, are you guilty?"

Several people knelt and sat on the ground on the spot. Only the father of the deceased had a fairly good mental quality: "Dare to ask my lord, what is the crime of grassroots?"

"Hmph! What's the crime? The evidence is solid, and you still dare to quibble!" The county magistrate lowered his face.

"My child likes to make friends on weekdays, but there are quite a few people who are close to sworn brothers." The father of the deceased swallowed and tried his best to maintain his composure.

When the county magistrate heard this, it was not unreasonable, so he just changed the topic: "Okay, then we will discuss this case later! Doctor Yuan, this medicine is obviously not poisonous, why do you want to confuse right and wrong? Break dirty water on innocent people? Do you know that your behavior is really heinous!"

"My lord, the grass-roots are guilty," Doctor Yuan said hastily, "It's just that the grass-roots are only taking money to do things. They want to extort money from the Jihetang, so they pay the grass-people to do this!"

"Bold! In broad daylight, the world is clear, in the eyes of you gangsters, is there any law in the end!" The county magistrate was furious.

"My lord, calm down, don't listen to Dr. Yuan's slander." The father of the deceased immediately kowtowed three times to the county magistrate, "The Zheng family is poor, so where can I find enough money to invite the well-known Dr. Yuan in Qinghe County to give false testimony?"

"Then what's going on?" The county magistrate frowned.

"Caomin is from Luoshan Town, and Dr. Yuan is also from Luoshan Town. It was Dr. Yuan who saw the death of Caomin's son, and also knew that Caomin's son had bought medicine for plague at Jihetang in Qili Town, so That's why he came up with this bad plan and gave the Zheng family a sum of money to kill the Zheng family because there was a problem with the medicine in Jihetang, which made Caomin's son die! Dr. Yuan said that he had been coveting Jihetang for a long time, as long as Once the most respected old doctor of Jihetang dies, the reputation of Jihetang will plummet. In the end, the owner of Jihetang will sell Jihetang at a low price as a last resort. If that happens, the whole Qinghe County will know that Jihetang The new owner of the hall is Doctor Yuan, who is highly respected in the county, do you still worry about patients not coming?"

"You spitting blood!" Dr. Yuan yelled angrily.

"Cao Min didn't spit out blood, the bank note that Cao Min got from Dr. Yuan is still hot," the father of the deceased took out a contract and a bank note, "This is a bank note with a face value of 50 taels, which you and I signed at the beginning. The contract signed, with your signature and fingerprints on it!"

(End of this chapter)