Chapter 76: The Bitter Mandarin Duck
Two days later, in the morning, Lijiazhuang Square. The update is the fastest, the most stable, the fastest update, and the fastest eye-to-eye
The square was crowded with people, and the sergeants of the county inspection department were specially transferred to maintain order, and a pergola was erected due north, in which a desk for trial was placed, and a sign holder was placed on the desk.
Today, Qian Cheng is going to try the case of Li Qingtouhe's suicide in Lijiazhuang in order to put an end to this mysterious case that caused a stir in Pengze County.
Because Zhao Yan and the boatman were suddenly caught and raped, it caused a lot of sensation in Pengze County, so that the public trial of Li Qing's case not only attracted the attention of the people of Pengze County, but also attracted the attention of the Jiujiang Prefecture Government.
"I really didn't expect that a young lady from a big family could do such an immoral thing."
"Listening to my relatives in Zhaojiabao, it seems that the two have hooked up a long time ago."
"Could it be that the young master of the Li family knew about the private relationship between the two and couldn't stand the blow before he went crazy?"
"Maybe it was the pair of adulterers **** who secretly found a wizard to cast a curse."
"It's strange, it's been more than half a year since this case, how did the county government find out the adulterer?"
"You don't know yet, it seems that the magistrate of Hukou County has come to our county, and someone has seen him in Lijiazhuang and Zhaojiabao."
"So that's the case, no wonder the adulterer was found!"
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The common people gathered in groups of three or five, talking about the case that was about to be tried publicly, and all kinds of rumors were flying in the sky, and the news of Li Yuntian's visit to Pengze County was inevitably leaked out, and everyone privately believed that his arrival was related to Li Qing's case.
A moment later, surrounded by people, Qian Cheng, Li Yuntian, Zhou Yuting and others came to the square, Qian Cheng was wearing official robes, while Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting were dressed in civilian clothes, among which Zhou Yuting was still dressed as a man.
After all, this is in Pengze County, and Li Qing's case is Qian Cheng's case, how can Li Yuntian dominate the scene, so it is not suitable to appear in official uniforms.
However, Qian Cheng did not want to deny the fact that Li Yuntian intervened in Li Qing's case, Li Yuntian had been in Pengze County for several days, and Li Qing's case had only made a major breakthrough after Li Yuntian came.
Therefore, Qian Cheng placed two chairs in the pergola for Li Yuntian and Zhou Yuting, and asked the two to listen to show that their identities were different.
Facing the pergola are the people of the Li family and the Zhao family, because the truth about Li Qingtouhe's suicide is related to the case, and the case is tried in Lijiazhuang, so almost everyone from the Li family came to watch the trial.
The situation of the Zhao family is different, because Zhao Yan was caught and raped on the spot by the officials of the county government, and lost the face of the Zhao family, so this time only a dozen people came, led by Zhao Yan's eldest brother Zhao Fu and second brother Zhao Rui, as for Zhao Yan's father, Master Zhao, who had no face to come to Lijiazhuang.
"Someone may have recognized it, this is Li Zhixian from Hukou County, Li Zhixian came to our Pengze business trip a few days ago, and saw that the county was troubled by Li Qing's case, so he discussed the case with the official, and today the county specially invited him to hear the trial." After taking a seat in the pergola, Qian Cheng stretched out his hand and pointed to Li Yuntian, who was sitting on the side of the desk, and said loudly to everyone at the scene.
Hearing this, the people in the square suddenly became in a commotion, they had already noticed Li Yuntian just now, because many people had not seen Li Yuntian, so they were guessing his origin, but Qian Cheng took the initiative to point out his identity.
As for Zhou Yuting's identity, Qian Cheng did not mention it, after all, her identity is very special and should not be disclosed here.
"Silence!" Qian Cheng saw the people whispering there, so he immediately patted the shocked wood and said loudly, "Take someone to commit a crime!" ”
The people at the scene suddenly quieted down, and a frightened Yahuan was brought up by two officials and knelt in front of the hall, she was Zhao Yan's personal maid Mei'er, and Zhao Yan and the boatman naturally couldn't hide it from her.
"Mei'er, this official asks you, when did Zhao Yan and Zhang Kun start to **, you have to confess honestly, otherwise this official will be punished!" Qian Cheng looked at Mei'er coldly and shouted.
Mei'er shuddered with fright, her face turned pale in an instant, she didn't dare to hide it at this point, and told the experience of the interaction between Zhao Yan and Zhang Kun in 1510.
Two years ago, Zhao Yan traveled with her family and took a ferry at the ferry, Zhang Kun, that is, the boatman, fell in love with the pure and beautiful Zhao Yan at first sight.
In order to attract Zhao Yan's attention, Zhang Kun often wrote some poems on paper and threw them into the courtyard at night, which were picked up by Mei'er and handed to Zhao Yan.
For a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, it is the age full of longing, and Zhao Yan is not deeply involved in the world, so she was quickly attracted by Zhang Kun's move.
Although Zhang Kun is now a boatman, the Zhang family used to run a grocery store, and his family background was not bad, and he also studied in a private school, preparing to take the exam to become famous.
But it's a pity that five years ago, Zhang Kun's father gambled in the **, not only gambled on the grocery store, but even lost the deed and title deed of the Zhang family, and later found a tree to hang himself.
** people took the Zhang family's house and drove the Zhang family out, if it wasn't for an old guy from the grocery store to take them in, their orphans and widows would have been living on the streets.
Due to his poor family, Zhang Kun did not study anymore, but became a boatman at the ferry and began to make money to support his family, so his literary foundation is very good.
After coming and going, Zhao Yan was very interested in Zhang Kun, so one night Zhang Kun came over the wall, met Zhao Yan in the small building, and the relationship gradually warmed up.
Originally, Zhao Yan was going to have a showdown with her father after she became pregnant, marry Zhang Kun, and force her father to agree to the marriage of the two.
But she didn't think that before she became pregnant, Li Qing fell in love with her and asked her family to propose, and by the time she knew about it, it was too late, and the family had already accepted the Li family's letter of appointment and gift, just waiting for her to come over.
If she poked out the matter with Zhang Kun at this time, the Zhao family would definitely not agree to the matter between the two, otherwise what would be the face of the Zhao family? will definitely anger Zhang Kun, and Zhang Kun will inevitably die at that time.
Originally, the relationship between the two was about to be broken with Zhao Yan's marriage, and Zhang Kun couldn't chase him to Lijiazhuang to have a private meeting with Zhao Yan, but Mei'er didn't expect that Li Qing would suddenly go crazy on the night of marriage, so that the Li family took Zhao Yan off.
This time, Zhao Yan has gone from a high-ranking lady to an abandoned woman who killed her newlywed husband, and a white tiger star who is breathtakingly discolored.
However, Zhang Kun didn't mind, and after Li Qing's case was settled, he was ready to propose to the Zhao family and marry Zhao Yan. And because Zhao Yan was retired by the Li family, naturally there was no need to be widowed by Li Qing.
After Mei'er confessed, Qian Cheng couldn't help but look at Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian bowed slightly to him, saying that Mei'er should be telling the truth, so Qian Cheng asked Mei'er to sign the painting and take it down, and brought Zhang Kun up.
Zhang Kun's nose was blue and his face was swollen, and on the night of the arrest of the traitor, the Zhao family was excited, and they beat him up in groups, if it wasn't for the officials of the county government who desperately blocked him, and said that he was involved in the Li Qing case, I am afraid that he would have been killed on the spot.
With Zhang Kun's appearance, the scene suddenly resounded with insults, if it weren't for the prohibition of throwing sundries during the trial, I am afraid that rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs would have rained down on him.
In this era, people's attitude towards adulterers **** is that everyone gets and punishes them, and they hate them very much, otherwise there would be no riding a wooden donkey or dipping a pig cage.
Zhang Kun was also honest, knowing that he and Zhao Yan could no longer hide it, so he happily told the experience between the two, which was consistent with Mei'er's explanation.
Subsequently, Qian Cheng asked Zhao Yan to come up again, and knelt in front of the hall with Zhang Kun left and right, Li Yuntian couldn't help but shake his head secretly when he saw this.
After not seeing her for a few days, Zhao Yan was much haggard again, her face was bloodless, there were a few bruises on her face, and it seemed that she was beaten by the Zhao family when she was caught raping, and she confessed her affair with Zhang Kun with an indifferent expression.
"Zhang Kun, Zhao Yan, you two have already been sorry for Li Qing for adultery, why do you want to murder him?" After getting the confession of Zhao Yan and Zhang Kun's adultery, Qian Cheng's face sank, and he slapped the shocked wood and shouted loudly.
Hearing this, the people at the scene rioted with a bang, talking to each other, whispering, is it really the adulterer **** who murdered his husband? If that's really the case, those two are simply not as good as **.
Zhao Yan's godless eyes suddenly revealed a look of pain, while Zhang Kun looked a little panicked, the two obviously didn't expect Qian Cheng to suspect that they had murdered Li Qing.
"My lord, although the little one has a personal affair with Miss Zhao, he has never murdered Li Qing, please be aware of it." Zhang Kun quickly reacted, kowtowed to Qian Cheng, and shouted injustice.
"What do you see what this is?" Qian Cheng sneered and asked him to take out a few pieces of paper to show Zhang Kun, which read the articles from the Analects and the Book of Songs.
"The little one has never seen any of this." Seeing this, Zhang Kun couldn't help but ooze a trace of cold sweat on his forehead, and shook his head at Qian Cheng pretending to be calm.
"Bring a witness." Qian Cheng had long expected that Zhang Kun would deny it, and said loudly to the officials under the hall.
Two young men who looked like scholars were then brought up by the officials and knelt in front of the hall, Zhang Kun saw that the faces of the two became a little ugly, these two people were Zhang Kun's classmates and friends in the private school.
"I ask you, where did this article come from?" After confirming the identities of the two young men, Qian Cheng asked quietly.
"Lord Yuxian Zun, several articles were written by Zhang Kun with his left hand when he was in private school, and the students found it interesting, so they have been kept until now." A young man raised his head, glanced at Zhang Kun and replied.
"Zhang Kun, this official admits that you are very smart, and wrote those pieces of paper with your left hand and posted them in Zhaojiabao, making it difficult for people to recognize your handwriting." Qian Cheng asked people to bring a few pieces of paper that slandered Zhao Yan as a white tiger star that were posted on the streets and alleys of Zhaojiabao at that time, and showed them in front of Zhang Kun, and said with a sneer, "It's a pity that Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, this little cleverness of yours has still been seen through by this official!" ”
Hearing this, the corners of Zhou Yuting's eyebrows couldn't help but pick up, and the idea of going to the private school to check whether Zhang Kun could write with his left hand was given to Qian Cheng by Li Yuntian, but Qian Cheng was ashamed to take it in front of everyone. One