Among the three law officials in the lobby, Gu Zuo was undoubtedly the most dissatisfied with the thin and tall guy's evaluation of Niu Fei, his brows furrowed slightly, he wanted to open his mouth to scold the tall and thin guy but finally held back, after all, it was Li Yuntian who was trying the case now, he should not intervene too much, I believe that Li Yuntian will give Niu Fei justice.

"You're telling the truth?" Li Yuntian pretended to groan for a while, and then looked at the tall and thin guy with an expressionless face, "If this official finds out that you are lying, then he will be severely punished!" ”

"Sir, the villain is telling the truth, this adult was not only in a hurry at that time, but also went to the best private room in the teahouse, so the villain remembers it clearly."

The thin and tall guy's face changed suddenly when he heard this, he thought that Li Yuntian didn't believe him, so he hurriedly swore a curse, "If the villain has half a lie, he won't die well, and there will be five thunders in the sky!" ”

Li Yuntian didn't speak, but stared at the tall and thin guy with a stern expression, as if judging whether he was telling the truth, and the tall and thin guy panicked in his heart.

Everyone at the scene exchanged glances in private, and secretly judged the words of the thin and tall guy, which made the atmosphere in the lobby seem a little depressing.

"Someone, let him sign the pledge." A moment later, Li Yuntian waved his hand at the document that was making a transcript on the side, and the trial of the thin and tall guy came to an end.

"Niu Yushi, this official asks you, are you sure that you haven't been to Xiangyun Teahouse on March 16?" Taking advantage of the thin and tall guy signing the pledge, Li Yuntian turned to Niu Fei and asked quietly.

"My lord, Xiaguan has been on duty in the south of the city, and has never been to Dongcheng, please let Xiaguan call the shots!" Niu Fei arched his hand at Li Yuntian and replied solemnly.

"Okay, as long as the situation is true, this official will call the shots for you!" Li Yuntian nodded, and then asked Niu Fei to sign the confession.

"Master Hou, the commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division sent Wang Tai and his party to bring it." After Niu Fei and the tall and thin man signed the confession, Li Yuntian took the two confessions and looked at them, handed them to Qin Yue and Fan Min beside him and asked the two of them to look at them, just when Qin Yue and Fan Min checked the confessions, a small flag of a brocade guard hurriedly walked into the lobby and said in a deep voice to Li Yuntian.

"Pass him in." Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, and said in a deep voice.

"Xiaguan Wang Tai has seen all the adults." The imperial history gathered outside the hall immediately dodged a way, and Wang Tai, the commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, led several of his subordinates through the crowd and entered the hall under the guidance of the two Jinyi Guard captains, and bowed to Li Yuntian and the others in a loud voice.

Wang Tai and Li Yuntian are also old acquaintances, Zhao Hu, the secretary of the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Association, and Liu Guang, the deputy commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division, were under the instruction of Qin Dingbang, the eldest son of Qin Yongxiang, the left attendant of the original Criminal Department, to find trouble with mercy, but they were repaired by Li Yuntian.

Although Wang Tai did not intervene in the case, he personally reported the follow-up progress of the case to Li Yuntian afterwards, and the two dealt with each other because of this.

Seeing Li Yuntian again, Wang Tai couldn't help but have a feeling of right and wrong, who would have thought that Li Yuntian would be promoted from supervising the imperial history to the imperial history of Zuo Du in just a few years, and he was also a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a famous Zhenwu Hou, which was a height that many people in the Ming officialdom could not reach in their lifetime.

"Lord Yu, Zhao Da in the Huguang Qing Officials of the Criminal Department, and Su Zhonghe and others in the Huguang Qing Officials." As soon as Wang Tai stood firm in front of the hall, another Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi quickly stepped into the lobby and shouted loudly.

"Let them wait first." Li Yuntian commanded in a deep voice when he heard this, and the brocade-clothed guard Xiaoqi bowed down and hurriedly walked out.

Seeing this situation, the imperial historians outside the hall whispered in private, Wang Tai came later than the people from Mingyue Pavilion and Xiangyun Teahouse, after all, the distance between the Nancheng Terracotta Division and the Metropolitan Procuratorate is a little far, plus Wang Tai, as the commander of the Terracotta Division, wants to inspect the place, it is not so easy to find.

But Zhao Da and Su Zhonghe shouldn't have come so late, the Criminal Department is a stone's throw away from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the two of them are running errands in the Yamen of the Criminal Department, so they should have arrived a long time ago.

"Commander Wang, this official asks you, on March 16 this year, are you patrolling the streets in the south of the city with Niu Yushi?" However, the imperial historians did not have time to dwell on the reason why Zhao Da and Su Zhonghe were late, because Li Yuntian had already begun to ask Wang Tai.

"Your Excellency, Xia Guan was indeed patrolling the street with Niu Yushi that day." Wang Tai had already heard about the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he bowed to Li Yuntian and replied in a deep voice.

"You've been together all day?" Li Yuntian asked quietly when he heard this.

"After the lower official was on duty that day, he patrolled the streets with Niu Yushi until the evening." Wang Tai thought about it and nodded affirmatively to Li Yuntian.

"Have you ever been separated?" Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and looked at Wang Tai with a stern expression.

"Niu Yushi drank a few more glasses at noon, and rested in an inn in the afternoon in order to sober up." Seeing that Li Yuntian asked so carefully, Wang Tai was slightly stunned at first, then thought of something, hesitated for a moment and said.

"My lord, the lower official drank and made a mistake, please punish him." When Niu Fei heard this, he hurriedly bowed to Li Yuntian and pleaded guilty, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the court officials were forbidden to drink alcohol when they were on duty, so as not to make mistakes.

Of course, it doesn't hurt to have a few drinks at noon, but if Niu Fei delays his official business like this, he will be held responsible, and Wang Tai, who participated in the wine party, will naturally be implicated.

Normally, Wang Tai would resist in order to avoid the defeat of drinking, but Niu Fei never thought that Li Yuntian would just ask two words, and he would pour beans into a bamboo tube to tell the truth in one go, and he would inevitably be punished by the Criminal Department.

"I'll put this matter aside for now." Li Yuntian waved his hand to Niu Fei, Niu Fei's drunken accident has nothing to do with today's case, so now is not the time to investigate Niu Fei's drunkenness.

"Commander Wang, do you mean that you weren't with Niu Yushi when he was sobering up at the inn?" Subsequently, Li Yuntian asked Wang Tai with a stern expression.

Niu Fei suddenly showed a smug look on the corner of his mouth when he heard this, he was not afraid of Li Yuntian pursuing the matter, because no one could prove that he had left the room.

"My lord, although Xia Guan did not stay with Niu Yushi, there were two people at the door to take care of him, and they could testify that Niu Yushi never left the room." Sure enough, Wang Tai hurriedly stretched out his hand and pointed to the two sergeants kneeling behind him, and opened his mouth to explain to Li Yuntian.

"Adults, the little ones can prove that when Niu Yushi entered the room to rest, he asked the little ones to wake him up an hour later, and the little ones stayed outside the door during the period." The two sergeants raised their heads and looked at Li Yuntian nervously to answer.

"None of you have left the door?" Li Yuntian glanced at the two sergeants and asked in a deep voice.

"Adults, the little ones are worried that Niu Yushi needs someone to take care of them, so they don't dare to leave without permission." Without the slightest hesitation, the two sergeants replied in unison.

Li Yuntian nodded when he heard this, he did not question the two sergeants but asked about some of the details, such as when Niu Fei entered the room to sleep, when he was woken up by them and the location of the room, etc., the two sergeants did not hide the slightest thing, and answered Li Yuntian one by one.

According to the explanation of the two, Niu Fei probably entered the inn at the beginning of the time, and Shen Shi was woken up and left at the first moment, after all, he was still on duty in the afternoon and did not dare to snooze.

Niu Fei is a dignified imperial history, and Wang Tai is the head of the Nancheng Terracotta Division, so how dare the innkeeper offend the two, so he cleaned up a quiet room in the backyard for Niu Fei to rest, and behind the room is a secluded alley.

It is worth mentioning that the time period when Niu Fei slept was the time when the tall thin guy in Xiangyun Tea House testified that he appeared in the private room of Xiangyun Tea House.

In this way, Niu Fei will clear his suspicion of appearing in the Xiangyun Teahouse because of the testimony of the two Nancheng Soldiers and Horses, and then make the testimony of the thin and tall guy "self-defeating".

With the testimony of the two Nancheng Terracotta Division, the mood of the imperial historians outside the hall couldn't help but change, the imperial history of the cabinet camp Gu Zuobu was beaming with joy one by one, while the look on the face of the imperial history of the six camp became difficult to see, there is no doubt that the testimony of these two sergeants is very important and directly affects the direction of the case.

And what's worse is that, according to the two sergeants, the guys at the inn can also prove that Niu Fei has been in the inn, which makes Niu Fei calmly get out of the Xiangyun Teahouse case.

Niu Fei stood there quietly, his head bowed, looking very low-key, but Li Yuntian was still keenly aware of the uncontrollable smugness in his eyes, and a sneer suddenly appeared in his heart.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, Niu Fei's sobering up in the inn is indeed an out-and-out failure, how could Niu Fei's prudence get drunk when he is out of tolerance?

Moreover, as the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Niu Fei has his own interpersonal circle in the officialdom, and it is obvious that Wang Tai, the commander of the Nancheng Soldiers and Horses Division, is not a person in his interpersonal circle, so how can he have a good time with Wang Tai?

But Niu Fei did this, not only violating the law, but also having to sober up because he drank too much, which is already very abnormal in itself.

However, if it is connected with the matter of Xiangyun Teahouse, then Niu Fei's purpose is obvious, he did this to "repair the plank road in the open, and Chen Cang in the dark", and give him to go to Xiangyun Teahouse to find an alibi, and the depth of his scheming can be seen.

In the lobby, Gu Zuo, who had been frowning slightly, could finally breathe a sigh of relief, judging from the current evidence, Niu Fei was wronged for accepting bribes in Xiangyun Teahouse.

Gu Zuo has already decided that as long as the two things of Mingyue Pavilion and Xiangyun Teahouse prove that they have nothing to do with Gu Zuo, then he will come forward to end Han Liang's report on Niu Fei, is it impossible to verify the evidence reported by Han Liang one by one? In this case, the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not have to do anything else.

"Someone is coming, bring the Huguang Qing Officials of the Criminal Department, and others." After interrogating Wang Tai and the others, Li Yuntian asked them to step back and let the Jinyi guards guarding the door go to take the people from the Criminal Department.

As reported by Han Liang, the prisoner of Nanzhili who was sentenced to be sentenced to death was found to have insufficient evidence when the Huguang Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department reviewed the file at the end of March, so the file was sent back to Nanzhili for retrial.

Therefore, the Huguang Qing Officials Division of the Criminal Department was involved in the case of Xiangyun Teahouse, and then was passed on by Li Yuntian.