At the forefront of the witnesses who entered the court was a young couple, nervously pulling a boy of six or seven years old.

"Knock on your lords." After standing in front of the hall, the witnesses knelt down in a hula, they were all flat-headed ordinary people with no merit and fame, so they naturally inevitably knelt down and saluted.

"He's Li Shan?" Wang Lu walked up to the young couple kneeling at the front, glanced at the little boy, and asked quietly.

"My lord, Xiao'er's name is Li Shan." The man in the young couple nodded hurriedly when he heard this, "Yesterday, the villain entrusted the child to a friend to take care of, but I didn't expect the child to be lured out by the gangster when he was naughty in the restaurant, and he was almost killed by the gangster." ”

"Li Shan, you tell this official, did any strangers want to take you away yesterday?" Wang Lu groaned for a moment when he heard this, leaned over and asked the little boy.

Seeing this, the little boy hurriedly hid behind the woman in the young couple, and looked at Wang Lu timidly, with a frightened look on his face.

"Tell your lordship, did someone try to snatch you away yesterday?" Seeing this, the emaciated man in the young couple hurriedly said to the little boy.

The little boy glanced at the emaciated man, and then nodded vigorously.

"Adult, the child is young and timid, I hope the adult will forgive me." The emaciated man's face showed a hint of relief, and he bowed to Wang Lu and said.

"Did any of you see this boy kidnapped in front of the restaurant?" Wang Lu bowed slightly when he heard this, and did not ask any further questions, but asked the witnesses kneeling in the hall.

"My lord, the villain has seen it." Immediately, nearly ten men kneeling on the ground answered that they were the witnesses who had given their testimony.

"You can see clearly, isn't this kid?" Wang Lu frowned slightly when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "This official reminds you that perjury will be reversed!" ”

Those men couldn't help but look at each other, and seemed a little hesitant for a while, it was the first time they had seen the Imperial History, so they were naturally afraid of the words of the Imperial History.

"Answer honestly, do you want to let the adults punish you?" Seeing this situation, Zhang Xiancheng felt anxious about the case in his heart, and after a roll of his eyes, he shouted to those hesitant witnesses with a gloomy face.

"Your Excellency, it's this kid." Hearing this, those hesitant witnesses hurriedly spoke, and at the same time lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Zhang Xiancheng.

"Has anyone seen this kid?" Wang Lu's brows furrowed slightly, and he glanced at Zhang Xiancheng with some dissatisfaction, then looked at the other people in the lobby and asked in a deep voice.

The men looked at each other, then remained silent, and neither of them had ever seen the child.

"Liu Feng is here?" Seeing this, Wang Lu glanced around at the kneeling people in the hall and asked in a loud voice.

Liu Feng is the stout man who arrested Li Shan yesterday, he is an important person involved in Li Shan's case, and Wang Lu naturally wants to see her.

"My lord, Liu Feng is not at home, and he has sent people to look for him in the city." An errand officer standing on the side bowed to Wang Lu when he heard this, and said in a deep voice.

"Zhang Xiancheng, you were with Liu Feng last night, do you know where he went?" Wang Lu pondered for a moment and looked at Zhang Xiancheng, the two of them were drinking together in the Qinglou yesterday.

"My lord, although Xiaguan met Liu Feng last night, he left and didn't spend the night in the Qinglou, and Xiaguan doesn't know where he went." Zhang Xiancheng shook his head and bowed to Wang Lu in reply.

Not only Wang Lu, but Liu Feng's followers yesterday are also gone, and it seems that they should be with Liu Feng.

To the surprise of Fang Yu and Zhang Xiancheng, the two originally thought that Wang Lu would hold on to Liu Feng's matter, but they didn't think that Wang Lu didn't dwell on Liu Feng's matter at all, but let the young couple and the witness who testified that Li Yuntian wanted to forcibly kidnap Li Shan kneel on the east side of the hall, and the rest of the people knelt on the west side of the hall.

"I ask you, did you see this child in the restaurant yesterday?" Under the puzzled gazes of Fang Yu and Zhang Xiancheng, Wang Lu asked in a deep voice to the person kneeling on the west side of the hall.

Those people shook their heads when they heard this, they were diners who ate in the lobby at noon yesterday, and witnessed the whole process of the crime.

Fang Yu and Zhang Xiancheng finally understood the identities of those people at this time, Zhang Xiancheng's face suddenly turned pale, he never expected Wang Lu to find so many witnesses.

"Are you sure you haven't seen it?" Wang Lu ignored Zhang Xiancheng, whose face was pale, and looked at the people on the west side of the lobby with a serious expression.

"My lord, the villain was relatively close to the door at that time, so he could see the appearance of the child yesterday more clearly, and his appearance was completely different from the child in the lobby."

Seeing Wang Lu's question, a middle-aged man kneeling there raised his head and said in a deep voice, "Moreover, that little boy has an accent from Shandong, but the parents of the little boy in the hall are our Yangzhou locals." ”

Hearing this, the faces of the young couple kneeling in the east were bloodless for a moment, the two never thought that Li Shan actually had a Shandong accent, and the two were natives of Yangzhou, of course, the sons of the two naturally had Yangzhou accents.

"Have you ever heard clearly, did yesterday's child have a Shandong accent?" A smile appeared on the corner of Wang Lu's mouth, and he looked at the person in the west quietly and asked.

At this moment, Wang Lu couldn't help but thank Li Yuntian in his heart, Li Shan had a Shandong accent that Li Yuntian told him, which made the case much simpler.

It was not easy for Liu Feng to find Xiao Tong to replace Li Shan so quickly, he thought that he had the chance to win, so he didn't think too much about the replacement at all.

Then again, even if Liu Feng was aware of Li Shan's accent, it was not so easy to find a child with a Shandong accent for a while, because judging from the traffic conditions in ancient times, there was not much movement of people between places, and there were even fewer things to travel long distances with children.

"My lord, it is indeed a Shandong accent, and the little boy once spoke at the door of the restaurant, and the little ones could hear it clearly." The people kneeling to the west nodded their heads one after another, affirming Li Shan's Shandong accent.

"It's over!" Seeing this, Zhang Xiancheng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Li Shan's accent alone made Liu Feng's plan to steal the beam and change the pillar be exposed, so Liu Feng's trouble is big now, and he now has to think about how to get out of this matter.

"Are you guilty?" After receiving an affirmative answer from those kneeling in the west, Wang Lu's face sank, and he looked coldly at the people kneeling in the east, it was obvious that these people had lied.

"The adult spares his life, it was Liu Ye who asked the villain to say so."

"My lord, if the villain doesn't do what Liu Ye said, he will retaliate."

"My lord, Liu Ye gave the villain ten taels of silver and asked the villain to testify in the lobby, and the villain was forced."

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Seeing that Wang Lu's voice was full of expression, including the young couple, the people on the east side of the hall hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy with panicked expressions, patrolling the imperial history was not something they could deal with, and compared with Liu Feng, it was obvious that the imperial history patrolling had a greater deterrent to them.

"Patrol your lordship, the lower official was deceived for a while, and put the person in prison by mistake, and I hope the lord will punish him." Zhang Xiancheng knew that the general trend had gone, and the only trace of luck in his heart disappeared, and he hurriedly knelt in front of Wang Lu to plead guilty.

"Reprimand?" Wang Lu sneered when he heard this, and said expressionlessly, "You can solve the things you do by yourself." ”

"Come, put him in a chamber, and no one shall see him without the order of the officer." As he spoke, Wang Lu stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhang Xiancheng, and said loudly to the servants on the side, Zhang Xiancheng's fate is now in Li Yuntian's hands, even if he can't interfere.

Because Liu Feng did not appear in the case, Wang Lu could not convict Zhang Xiancheng, and Zhang Xiancheng was only derelict in his duty now, so he was put in a wing room, otherwise he would have been sent to prison.

The corners of Zhang Xiancheng's mouth squirmed and wanted to open his mouth to defend something, but in the end he didn't say anything, and left with his head drooped and followed the officer.

"Master Fang, follow this official to the prison." After Zhang Xiancheng was taken away, Wang Lu turned to look at Fang Yu, ready to report the progress of the case to Li Yuntian, and because he came prepared, the case was quickly investigated.

"Patrol Lord, please!" Fang Yu also wanted to find out the origin of Li Yuntian and the others in the prison, and when he heard this, he bowed down and made a gesture of invitation to Wang Lu.

Wang Lu naturally wouldn't let Fang Yu go, and rushed to the prison in a big stride, Fang Yu followed quickly, feeling uneasy in his heart, secretly praying that Zhang Xiancheng's matter would not be too big, otherwise he would definitely be implicated.

When Wang Lu and Fang Yu felt the cell, Li Yuntian was chatting with Wen Du in Western Dialect, anyway, the prisoners and servants in the prison didn't understand Western Regions, so naturally they didn't know what the two were talking about.

"Lord Wang, the lower official has found out that the reason why the prince was imprisoned was framed, and the lower official has asked people to find Liu Feng."

The door of Li Yuntian's cell was not locked, but it was just hidden, Wang Lu did not let the messenger guarding the door push open the cell door, but personally pushed the door and walked in, and bowed down in front of Li Yuntian to report.

"Wang ...... Rajah! Fang Yu was secretly guessing the identities of Li Yuntian and Wen Du, and suddenly heard Wang Lu call Li Yuntianwei "Lord Wang", and the whole person suddenly froze there as if he had been electrocuted, looking at Li Yuntian in disbelief.

Although there are many princes in the Ming Dynasty, there is only one that can make Wang Lu so respectful, that is, Li Yuntian, who was made a prince by the orthodox emperor, and the rest of the princes are all children of the royal family.

"Where's Li Shan?" Li Yuntian glanced at Wang Luhe behind him, and seeing that Li Shan did not follow, his brows suddenly frowned slightly, and he asked quietly.

"Lord Wang, the child involved in the case was dropped by Liu Feng, and his whereabouts are now unknown." Wang Lu was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect that Li Yuntian's first sentence was to ask Li Shan instead of caring about Liu Feng's whereabouts, and then said in a deep voice, "Once Liu Feng has his whereabouts, you can find that little boy." ”

"Damn!" When Li Yuntian heard this, he suddenly slammed his fist on the table on the side, and two words burst out of his mouth coldly, he didn't expect Liu Feng to be so bold that he would leave with Li Shan.

"The crime of the subordinate officials deserves ten thousand deaths, and the crimes deserve ten thousand deaths!" Fang Yu saw that Li Yuntian was angry, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Li Yuntian again and again, his face was pale, and his whole body trembled, he had never heard of Li Yuntian getting angry before, so he was scared half to death.

Wang Lu's face also changed, he didn't expect Li Yuntian, who was invisible, to be angry, which really surprised him, as far as he knew, Li Yuntian and Li Shan just met in Pingshui.