"Wang ...... Lord Wang, little ...... The villain only ...... It's just that I was drunk and drunk...... It's just a drunken talk, when ...... Seriously! Facing Li Yuntian's questioning, Xue Laohan was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he stammered to explain.

"Drunk?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, "There is a saying called 'spit out the truth when you are drunk', if you say that kind of big thing in front of your own in-laws, do you want to prevaricate with drunken gaffes?" Aren't you afraid that your in-laws will deal with you? ”

"The prince forgives his sins, it's all villains who are confused for a while, confused for a while." Xue Laohan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and replied curtly.

"Someone, a witness." Li Yuntian glanced at Xue Laohan and shouted outside the hall.

Everyone at the scene didn't expect Li Yuntian to summon witnesses at this time, so they couldn't help but look out of the hall curiously, only to see a middle-aged man with a slender face in bright clothes being brought in with a nervous expression.

After seeing the middle-aged man with a slender face, Xue Laohan's body couldn't help but freeze there, and his body shook like chaff.

Hu Ying, Wang Zhen and the others all fell on the middle-aged man with a slender face, wondering who he was, there didn't seem to be this person in the case file provided by Jin Yiwei before.

"Villain Chen Youcai, knock on the prince and adults." The middle-aged man with a thin face walked quickly to the front of the hall and knelt down, saluting Li Yuntian and the others.

"Chen Youcai, do you know this person?" Li Yuntian stretched out his hand and pointed at Xue Laohan and asked quietly.

"Back to the prince, the villain knows this person, he is a servant of Lord Xue's family." Chen Youcai looked at Old Man Xue and replied loudly.

"Tell everyone what you do?" Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, and said in a deep voice.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the villains poured some cloth from Gangnam to Gyeonggi to sell." Chen Youcai didn't dare to hesitate, and bowed down to show his identity, it turned out to be a cloth merchant.

"Have you seen Xue Laohan recently?" Li Yuntian stared at Chen Youcai and asked expressionlessly.

"Back to the prince, the villain has seen him, and he invited the villain to drink a meal a year ago." Chen Youcai nodded affirmatively when he heard this.

"Why are you drinking?" The corners of Li Yuntian's eyebrows raised slightly, and he asked quietly.

"Lord Wang, the villain has been doing business in Jiangnan all the year round, so he wants to know the selling price of Jiangnan fields and shops from the villain." Chen Youcai naturally didn't dare to hide anything, and answered honestly.

"Is that so?" Hearing this, Li Yuntian turned to Xue Laohan and asked with a cold expression.

"Lord Wang, this ...... How is this possible? The villain was shy enough to be interested in the fields and shops, and the reason why the villain invited him to drink was purely to catch up with the past. Xue Laohan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and tried to squeeze out a smile that was more ugly than crying.

"Boldly Diao Min, this king has already checked, there are only a few sides between you and Chen Youcai, where did the 'reminiscence' come from?" Li Yuntian's face sank when he heard this, and he slapped the shocked wood hard and shouted, "Do you really think that this king can't do anything about people like you?" ”

"Come, bring a stick, and serve the king's punishment." As he spoke, Li Yuntian took out a slip from the lottery holder on the table and threw it on the ground, giving an order to the errand standing in the lobby with an expressionless face.

Although Li Yuntian does not like to use punishment in court trials, he will not let those who are stubborn and unrepentant in the lobby mess around, and now there is enough evidence that Xue Laohan, who speaks inconsistently, is lying, so he doesn't mind using punishment to make Xue Laohan honest.

Hu Ying, Wang Zhen and the others looked at the scene in front of them quietly, and now everyone knows what is going on, it is obvious that Xue Laohan wants to buy property for his son and daughter-in-law in Jiangnan, so the money required is undoubtedly the five hundred taels of gold buried in the tavern in the town outside the city.

In other words, the greedy Xue Laohan accepted the Zhao family's five hundred taels of bribes behind Xue Xuan's back, and this matter had nothing to do with Xue Xuan.

Xue Xuan's face was cloudy, and he looked at Xue Laohan coldly, he really couldn't believe that Xue Laohan was so bold that he actually received a bribe of five hundred taels of gold, was this the truth or a bitter trick planned by Li Yuntian?

Facing the bits and pieces of things that happened in the lobby, Xue Xuan felt a little dazed for a while, although he didn't believe that Xue Laohan would betray him, but the evidence in the hall all pointed the finger at Xue Laohan.

The servants in the lobby quickly brought the clamping sticks, and after pulling them Xue Laohan's ten fingers, Xue Laohan let out a painful scream, the so-called ten fingers connected to the heart, and the pain on the fingers was the most unbearable.

"Pull!" Looking at the old man Xue who was wailing there, Li Yuntian's brows furrowed, and he said coldly to the executioner, "Until he confesses." ”

No one would have thought that although Li Yuntian had a menacing posture on the surface, he did not have the slightest hatred for Xue Laohan in his heart, because everything Xue Laohan did in the court was at his behest.

Xue Xuan's case is now so big, Li Yuntian can only find someone to carry the black pot of five hundred taels of gold to settle the case, otherwise the people in the inner court and the civil official group will definitely not let go of this case, and Xue Laohan, who has been in direct contact with those unwarranted bribes, is undoubtedly the best person to take the blame.

Xue Laohan also knew that he had made a big mistake this time, and he was extremely annoyed in his heart, so after learning that his family was safe and sound, he resolutely decided to do what Yun Na instructed, and naturally had to suffer some hardships in order to make this play more realistic.

Under the vigorous pull of the executioner, the rope on the clamp stick was tightly tightened, so that the blades made of poplar on it rattled and rattled, and it sounded like a pain in the flesh.

"Ahh Finally, in the sound of the gaba gaba of the stick, Xue Laohan couldn't hold it anymore, and passed out after screaming.

Li Yuntian waved his hand, and an errand brought a basin of cold water and splashed it on Xue Laohan's head.

"Wang ...... Lord Wang, little ...... The villain wishes...... Willing to move, don't ...... No more torture. Xue Laohan woke up leisurely, and when he saw this situation, the servants on both sides of the torture suddenly sharded, and the clamping stick clamped Xue Laohan's fingers again, and Xue Laohan's face immediately showed a painful look, he seemed to be unable to bear this pain anymore, so he shouted at Li Yuntian in a loud voice.

Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, and the executioner let go of the rope he was holding in his hand, and Xue Laohan's face became soothed, and he gasped for breath there.

"Old man Xue, tell this king what you know." Li Yuntian glanced at Old Man Xue, who was bloodied with ten fingers on his hands, and looked at him expressionlessly and asked.

"Lord Wang, the villain is over half a hundred years old, and there is nothing else to ask for in this life, the only thing that can't be relieved is the villain's young son."

Xue Laohan stabilized his mind for a moment, and then a sad smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "The young son has been spoiled by the villain since he was a child, he doesn't learn and has no skills, the villain can take care of him when he is alive, but if he dies, there is no way, so the villain wants to take advantage of his marriage to find him a stable livelihood." ”

"The villain originally wanted to open a shop for him in the capital to make a living, but the shops in the capital are too expensive, and the villain doesn't have so much money in his hands."

Saying that, Xue Laohan couldn't help but smile bitterly, "At this time, the villain heard that my lord talked about He's case, and knew that He's case was full of suspicions, so he secretly found the Zhao family's housekeeper, and asked for five hundred taels of gold from him to prepare to put a share of property for his young son in Jiangnan. ”

"You've been following Xue Shaoqing for more than ten years, haven't you saved some money?" Li Yuntian frowned when he heard this, Xue Xuan successively served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, this is the key yamen of the imperial court, how can Xue Laohan also follow and make a fortune from it, he can't take such a big risk.

"The prince doesn't know, my lord is an honest official, and the villain usually has no other inputs, and there is a big family to raise, where can I save money." Xue Laohan shook his head gloomily, and then touched his head to the ground and said, "The villain was lucky and wanted to arrange the livelihood of his young son, so he made a big mistake, and the prince spared his life." ”

"What do you think, gentlemen?" Seeing that Xue Laohan "truthfully confessed" his crime, Li Yuntian pondered for a while and then looked at the people present in the hall to ask for their opinions on the case.

"Lord Wang, this official is really shocked, I didn't expect the facts of this case to be so tortuous, Lord Wang is proficient in criminal law, how this case should be sentenced is Lord Lao." Hearing this, Hu Ying put down the teacup in his hand and said to Li Yuntian quietly, his qualifications are the highest among the six officials, so naturally he is the first to take the lead.

Hearing this, the court officials present nodded their heads in agreement, no matter what, Xue Xuan was cleared of the suspicion of taking bribes, which is very important to the civilian group, no matter what, they must protect Xue Xuan.

"Deputy Chief Wang, what do you mean?" Seeing that the civil officials present had no objection to the case just now, Li Yuntian turned his head to look at Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen came to the jury on behalf of the inner court, and his attitude towards this case was very important, you must know that Xue Xuan was arrested by Jinyiwei's people in prison at the beginning.

"The miscellaneous family believes that the prince will deal with it impartially." Wang Zhen groaned for a moment and bowed to Li Yuntian, he had already reached an agreement with Li Yuntian, so he would naturally not look for trouble.

"The truth of this case has been revealed, Xue Laohan, a servant of the Xue family, accepted five hundred taels of gold from the Zhao family under the banner of Xue Shaoqing for his own selfish interests, and after the incident, he was afraid of being implicated and denied it in every possible way, so that Xue Shaoqing was implicated and alarmed the emperor, causing the government and the opposition to be shocked.

Li Yuntian bowed slightly when he heard this, since everyone at the scene had no objections, then he was about to close this case that shocked the capital, and after glancing around at the high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the hall, he said in a deep voice, "The rest of the people involved in this case will be convicted according to the law." ”

"Xue Shaoqing, although you are innocently involved in this case, but this case started by you after all, if it weren't for your lax discipline and negligence, the matter would not have come to this point, so this king feels that you are to blame and should be punished." As he spoke, Li Yuntian looked at Xue Xuan and said word by word, "You are the official of Dali Temple, and you are a Jinshi, this king will present the case to the emperor, and the emperor will decide your guilt." ”

"Xiaguan...... The lower official is guilty! The corners of Xue Xuan's mouth squirmed when he heard this, he was now not sure whether Xue Laohan had secretly accepted bribes, and after listening to Li Yuntian's verdict, he bowed to Li Yuntian with a wry smile.

Seeing this, Li Yuntian suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, today's affairs are developing very smoothly, and after the Orthodox Emperor finishes Xue Xuan's matter, he can concentrate on dealing with the chaos in the Korean Kingdom.