Volume 1 Covering the Sky with One Hand Chapter 18 The Cunning Rabbit
An old woman in the crowd immediately cried.
The officers and soldiers killed him mercilessly, but they kept turning their eyes towards Chen Qiusheng who was sitting in the seat, because when working under the living Yama, there is no mercy at all, and what he wants is the truth!
"Send... a letter! Send a letter!" Luo Chuan's blood-red eyes widened and he shouted hoarsely, holding back the heartbreaking pain, "Daizhou... Mu, he asked me to send it!!!"
He almost roared with this last sound, and the wooden staff was raised high and was about to fall——
Chen Qiusheng suddenly raised his hand, causing the two officers and soldiers to stop moving.
Everyone in the audience looked at Chen Qiusheng, who waved his sleeves and robe slightly: "It is said that the acting governor of the state, Feng Chengyue."
"Sir, I'm afraid this person won't be able to come." Chen Jinqiu smiled awkwardly, "Daizhou Mu is far away in Daizhou. This case has never involved him, so there is no rumor-"
"I am the next generation state pastor." A middle-aged man suddenly walked out from the side corridor. He leaned over and saluted, "Feng Chengyue, I have met these two adults."
Chen Jinqiu's pink and white face suddenly turned the color of pig liver. He asked in disbelief: "Why is Fengzhou Mu here?"
Feng Chengyue also had a puzzled look on his face and asked, "Didn't Master Chen ask me to come here to assist in the trial?"
Chen Qiusheng stared at Feng Chengyue with a confident look on his face, not surprised by the other person's presence.
Because people are summoned secretly by him!
"I was the one who compiled a letter for Fengzhou Mu." Chen Qiusheng calmly solved Chen Jinqiu's doubts, and then looked at the audience, "Luo Chuan, raise your head."
Luo Chuan raised his head weakly, his eyes opened and closed, and he was about to faint.
"Tell me everything you know." Chen Qiusheng glanced at Chen Jinqiu, his eyes full of warning, "Listen and think."
Chen Jinqiu understood the meaning of these words, which was to tell him not to interrupt randomly, but at this time he felt that the case seemed to have changed and that there were more things involved.
Cold sweat poured down his back and slid down his throat. Chen Jinqiu nervously swallowed his saliva and secretly glanced at Chen Qiusheng.
What on earth is this big brother like me doing?
"In the seventh year of Zhongyong...the villain, under the instruction of Ma Fu, the steward of the Daizhou Mufu, sent the letter intercepted from Jiang Linna to Manhong Pass and presented it in person to Jiao Pengxing, the great scholar and historian."
Luo Chuan swallowed the salty blood and spoke with difficulty.
"Then I returned to Daizhou. At that time, the Zhen family had just passed through Daizhou. In the next few days, it was reported that Zhen Yi's descendant Zhen Xixia had escaped. Ma Fu asked me to pretend to be Jiang Lin and go to Chongdu to surrender. At the same time, he sued Mu Jiangzi of Yanzhou.
Mo wrote private letters, saying that if I didn’t go, Ma Fu would kill my whole family! I was forced by lust and was the only son in the family for three generations, so I agreed without fulfilling my filial piety. Sir, sir, I am not... Jiang... Lin
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Thick beads of sweat dripped down his brows and eyes. After Luo Chuan gasped and said the last sentence, his eyes turned white and he fainted.
"Come here, drag me down and ask the doctor to take care of you." Chen Qiusheng paused and said, "Pass, Ma Fu."
The doctor had been waiting aside for a long time. As soon as Luo Chuan was dragged off, he took off the medicine box and sprinkled white powder on the bloody wounds.
This scene fell into Yuan Ji's eyes and he couldn't help but tighten his lips.
His chess pieces were gone, and the situation did not develop in the direction he expected. Instead, due to Chen Qiusheng's extremely weird trial, it moved into an astonishing situation!
Ma Fu was fat, and he was already sweating after listening to Luo Chuan's words just now. When he heard the summons, he rushed into the lobby with extremely agile steps, and knelt down with his knees.
He shouted in panic: "It's unfair! It's unfair, sir!!!"
"Where does the injustice come from?" Chen Qiusheng said without blinking, "Tell me."
"I never let this boy go to Chongdu, I, I..." Ma Fu glanced at Feng Chengyue in panic, and then shouted sharply, "I don't know him!"
"Sir, the messenger first claimed to be Jiang Lin, and then sued Jiang Zimo for his private correspondence at the Chancellery, and now he claims that he is not Jiang Lin." Chen Jinqiu wiped the sweat from his forehead, "You can't believe anyone who talks nonsense.
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"Biography." Chen Qiusheng said calmly, "Captain of Manhongguan, Fenghou of Liang."
Feng Chengyue's face stiffened when he heard this, and the hands hidden in his sleeves could no longer bear it any longer: "Master Chen, what does this case have to do with Lieutenant Liang?"
"Don't be impatient. I've come to see you and invite you for tea." Chen Qiusheng waved his sleeves and said, "Master Feng, please sit down. Later, I have something to ask Master Zhoumu."
The officials brought a stool, but Feng Chengyue stared at Chen Qiusheng with cold eyes, and sat down after a long while as if walking on thin ice.
He straightened his body, as if sitting on the edge of an abyss.
The Marquis of Liang came here covered in dust. He was dressed in old armor. He lifted up his helmet and immediately saluted: "I, the Marquis of Liang, the Commander-in-Chief of Manhongguan, would like to pay my respects to all your lords, the State Shepherd."
This courtesy turned to Jiang Zimo. Jiang Zimo raised his head slightly. The two looked at each other. Liang Fenghou turned his eyes and looked straight ahead.
"Captain Liang, we are so busy with military affairs at the frontier that I bother you to come here to coordinate the trial. It has been a hard journey." Chen Qiusheng spoke in an easy-going manner, "Please elaborate on what you said in your letter."
"Here." Liang Fenghou turned to Ma Fu, "I have been living in the frontier fortress all year round. I serve as a scout. I have more than a thousand scouts under my command. I travel to Daizhou, Hongshan Horse Road, outside the fortress and other places all year round to find out information. In the seventh year of Zhongyong, my subordinate
The scouts found out that Jiang Lin, the messenger from Yanzhou, entered Daizhou with a secret message. I was waiting for the exile team to escort them in Daizhou at that time. However, the team did not enter the city. Instead, they took a small path and entered the Hongshan Horse Road. Therefore, I was delayed for a day.
But I also met Jiang Lin and obtained the secret message."
"Come here, present the secret letter to Captain Liang." Chen Qiusheng waved his hand, "Let's see if the secret letter is the same as the one you read back then."
Liang Fenghou took the letter, raised his finger, glanced at it and said, "It's exactly the same."
"Jiang Lin is here." Chen Qiusheng pointed at the unconscious Luo Chuan, "Commander, let's take a look, is it him?"
Liang Fenghou took a closer look, then turned around and said, "No, I recognize this person. He is Ma He, a junior official of Daizhou Mufu."
"I'm afraid you may have misjudged the wrong person because you were tired from traveling all the way." Ma Fu stood up in a panic, "Ma He is my adopted son. I have been with him for many years, how could I not recognize him? This person must not—"
"Biography." Chen Qiusheng interrupted in an understatement, "Ma Fu's family."
Ma Fu's straight body suddenly went limp, and he almost fell to the ground. He squeezed his fat and sad face and said sadly: "What do you mean by this, sir? This old slave's family has nothing to do with these things."
A woman with heavy makeup walked out of the side corridor. She took small steps, then knelt down and said softly: "See you, sir."
Ma Fu stared, this was clearly his fourth concubine.
"Madam in the hall." Chen Qiusheng leaned back on the chair, revealing dense bloodshot eyes in the blink of an eye, "Do you know Ma He?"
"I understand, sir." The woman smiled and nodded, "Ma He's real name is Luo Chuan, and he was born in Daizhou. In order to arrange a future for Luo Chuan, his parents gave Ma Fu a filial piety note."
The people outside the venue were in an uproar, and Feng Chengyue immediately tensed up the veins on his forehead.
There was silence in the venue, and everyone noticed in the silence that Chen Qiusheng's eyes became more serious!
The tiredness in Chen Qiusheng's eyes was mixed with deep-seated anger, and he said in a strong voice: "The people are rich and the people are anointed. I, the whole country of Zheng, have never heard of people over seventy years old giving filial piety to the steward of a state pastoral office. Mafu, this matter
But it's not just Luochuan. I have found out that there are many people from Daizhou Mufu who have given you filial piety silver. May I ask, what is your position? What kind of errands do you do?"
Chen Qiusheng kept his voice low, and the pressure that appeared in his words for the first time made Ma Fu tremble all over.
"Bitch, you, you are such a mouthful!" Ma Fu stammered in anger, "This old slave has never accepted any filial piety silver. Your Excellency is aware of it!"
"Sir, I know a thing or two at this time." Liang Fenghou raised his red phoenix eyes with murderous intent, "There are several scouts under my command who disguise themselves as merchants in order to detect the foreign invaders sneaking into the border fortress. In order not to reveal their identities, they also give the horse
The housekeeper has offered filial piety silver. Could it be that housekeeper Ma has forgotten that nowadays, if any merchants enter the city in Daizhou, they will give a few money to the city defense guards, and you are the guarantor of these people!"
After hearing this, Feng Chengyue closed his eyes and took a deep breath to relieve the mountain of pressure.
"Oh, my lord, this old slave has been wronged. This guard belongs directly to the Daizhou Mufu. If you want to confess, it's like——" Ma Fu was wailing when he suddenly noticed a suddenly opened eyes staring at him. He saw that it was Feng Chengyue.
Immediately changed his words in fear, "It's unjust. This old slave never received any filial piety money. It's unjust! It's unjust!!!"
"Sir, I once saw Ma Fu hiding soft baht money in the farmland in the backyard. In order to prevent the money from rusting, he soaked it in oil." The woman said as if asking for credit, "My lord, please go and search!"
"You, you!" Ma Fu's face gradually became ferocious, and he screamed angrily, "If I fall, what good will I do to you?!!!"
This questioning revealed endless resentment, but when everyone looked at this woman, they suddenly saw a trace of deep sadness mixed with revenge in her face.
"A few days ago, the eldest lady said that you wanted to sell me to a red mansion. I know that you hate me. I also know that you are trying to please the eldest lady in order to marry the ninth concubine. Ma Fu, I have followed you since I was fifteen.
Ah, do you think I don’t know what’s going on in your colorful heart?! You’re afraid that the eldest lady will get into trouble and reveal all your dirty deeds, aren’t you? Ah? As the saying goes, one night of marriage can bring a hundred nights of kindness!”
The woman suddenly burst into tears, and then she burst into tears with a smile.
"The eldest lady's mother-in-law comes from a scholarly family and has support, but my mother-in-law comes from a farmer's family, so you have never looked at me. Now that you are tired of playing, you have taken me out like a dog and sold me, hahahaha! I was born in an ordinary family.
It’s just a humble life. She was born into a scholarly family and had a life of wealth and honor that can’t be bought with money? Bah! It is said that women’s hearts are the most poisonous since ancient times, but what about you? No poison, no husband? Well, my good husband! Now I have done it
This poisonous woman will drag your poisonous husband along with her even to death!!!"
The woman suddenly rushed towards her like crazy. Ma Fu tried his best to cover his face and shouted: "Bitch, bitch!!!"
The two of them were fighting each other. When Chen Jinqiu saw this, he hurriedly said: "How outrageous! How can you behave in court? Pull it down!"
He wanted to take the opportunity to move the person away first so that he could change the subject and point the conflict at Jiang Zimo.
"Slow down!" Chen Qiusheng decided to be decisive, "Ma Fu, tell me the truth. I know you have six sons and two daughters in your family. If you are lying, then you are not the only one to blame."
Chapter completed!