Because Feng Xian'er insisted that Liu Zixu had a personal relationship with herself to commit the crime, Liu Zixu, who was the secretary of the provincial teacher at the time, was taken away on the spot to ask about the case, and the Liuguo Mansion immediately got the news, and the old Guogong personally rushed to Chang'an County to wait for the Lu County Order to judge the case.

Liu Guogong was originally awarded the title for his military exploits, although he was already in his prime, he was still old and strong, I saw him wearing a slick sable sable fur cloak, crossed his waist and roared in a loud voice like thunder: "Hurry up and judge the case, I must not let my good grandson be unjustly imprisoned, not overnight!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes, good." Lu Xian Ling couldn't straighten his waist at all in front of Liu Guogong, wiped the cold sweat on his forehead in the winter, and had no choice but to give up going home to rest, and drink Ling Shengtang at sunset.

Wen Yuan stood on the left side of the hall as the plaintiff, Feng Xian'er knelt on the right side, and Liu Zixu, who was blue-faced, should have stood next to her, but she was really standing in the middle of her heart, and she could only be smooth by relying on her friends to get closer.

"Ahem, hmm, Feng Clan," Lu Xian Ling pointed at Feng Xian'er and instructed, "Tell me in detail about the two of you committing the crime." ”

Before she could speak, Liu Guogong, who was sitting on the side, immediately raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "What you two! Do you even speak?! Feng Clan, please tell the truth about your crime and wronging my good grandson! ”

"Liu Guogong, please don't roar at the court." Lu Xian Ling was yelled at and lost his temper, so he only persuaded him in a soft tone, and then motioned to Feng Xian'er to state the crime.

She looked at Liu Guogong's fierce appearance and his neck shrank slightly, and she regretted choosing Liu Zixu as the object of climbing, in the past, she only knew that this was Liu Zixu's husband's classmate, and she felt that he was restrained and simple, and there was some boyish shyness when talking, I thought he was an honest civilian, who would have thought that it was Lang Jun of the Guogong family!

However, at this moment, he could only repeat the confession again and said: "That night, the slave and the husband went to the Rong Mansion to eat and drink, and the slave took the first step because he was not strong enough to drink, and the husband said that he was going to wait for the listening room and would not come back, so the slave quietly called Xu Lang to come to the house to play, who expected that the husband suddenly returned home when he was in the son, and just bumped into it." ”

"You-" Liu Zixu immediately wanted to jump to his feet and refute when he heard Feng Xian'er say this, he was drinking at the same table with Lin Kai that night until he got drunk, how could he have the kung fu to find this woman to "play"?! also shouted "Xulang" in public, his cheekiness is really thick!

"Shh Wen Yuan immediately made a look at him and told him to shut up, and listened to Feng Xian'er continue to state.

"My husband was furious and wanted to teach us a lesson, but because of his drunkenness, his hands and feet were weak, and in the middle of the argument, Asahiko and I accidentally inserted a jasper hairpin into his ear hole...... The two of us were frightened and at a loss, and after discussing for a long time, we acted in a play and pretended to be my husband and cried at home, and then quietly went out and threw him into the Qingming Canal," Feng Xian'er said here and paused for a moment, and then continued, "Xu Lang said that he was going back to the Rong family and pretended to have nothing to do with this matter, so we parted ways, and the next morning he came to pretend to be his husband and jumped into the river. ”

"County Lieutenant Guo, can her confession be the same as before?" Lu Xianling turned his head to look at Guo Rugang, who was sitting in his own hands, and after seeing him nodding, he asked, "When did your lover hand over the wedding dress?" What is he wearing on himself? When will your husband's shirt be taken off? Have you ever seen a peony hairpin? ”

"When he left the river, Xu Lang went to his husband's shirt and put it on himself, and when he came again, he wore the wedding dress, and then took off and changed into his husband's shirt for me and pretended to jump into the river," Feng Xian'er replied to this string of words almost without thinking, and then showed hesitation, shook her head and said, "I haven't seen Jin Hai." ”

After listening to her, Lu Xianling asked about the details again, and then asked Liu Zixu to defend himself.

Wen Yuan suddenly interjected, hoping to say a few words for Liu Langjun from the position of the host of the banquet. He really didn't dare to wait for Liu Zixu to speak his own argument, because this person was really verbose, and it was likely that he would not be able to get to the point after delaying his efforts.

When Wen Yuan went out just now, he only said to Yan Bing to go to the yamen to take a look and go back, and let her keep food for herself, who knew that she would be promoted to the court on the spot to ask about the case.

He was afraid that his wife would starve himself in order to wait for the door, so he couldn't wait to quickly refute Feng Xian'er and fish out Liu Zixu's innocence so that they could go back to their respective homes.

After getting the permission of Lu County's order, Wen Yuan immediately looked at Feng Xian'er with contempt and shouted: "Be bold and make a woman!" dared to open his mouth in the court. ”

Feng Shi was frightened by Wen Yuan's angry eyes and menacing appearance, and listened to him ask: "Liu Langjun was drunk and sleepy that night, and he was still sleeping soundly at my family's banquet at three o'clock, and there were many people as evidence. Later, I went to the guest room to make up for sleep, and I didn't go directly to the secretary province on an errand until I had a morning meal. When will he be able to commit crimes with you? ”

After hearing this, Feng Xian'er was stunned for a moment, and then quickly changed her words: "The slave remembered wrong, it was not Yinshi, yes, it was ugly!" When he is ugly, he will kill his husband first and then go back to your house to pretend to sleep. ”

"When the curfew is closed, and there are soldiers patrolling the night," Wen Yuan first looked at her and snorted coldly, and then coerced and seduced, "Diao woman, you still refuse to recruit from the truth when you are dying?" Only by confessing to the first offender can the sentence be commuted, and if you actually conspire to kill your husband, it is enough to sentence you to a verdict! ”

Hearing this, Feng Xian'er immediately showed a look of horror on her face, and tears fell like broken threads, but after she pondered for a while, she still stretched out her finger at Liu Zixu and said: "It's him, the slave family just can't remember the time, in short, the lover is him." ”

Looking at the unrepentant Feng Xian'er, Wen Yuan's patience was exhausted, so he looked up at Lu Xianling, who was sitting upright in the hall like an ornament, and politely said: "Lu Mingfu, it's better to put your fingers up." ”

Fingers? Isn't it going to be tortured?! Feng Xian'er was terrified when she saw the county magistrate nodding, and then the five big and three thick officials slowly walked towards her with a row of small wooden sticks strung on a rope.

She was suddenly frightened, and retreated on her knees, then held her lower abdomen and said, "The slave family is pregnant, you can't use torture!" ”

"......" Everyone was speechless when they heard it, according to the law, she really can't be tortured, she can't be beaten, scolded or listened, can't she just let her talk nonsense?

Wen Yuan was baptized by the Shu family's father-in-law, and after hearing Feng Xian'er say this, his first reaction was: Does the child in the womb belong to Lin Kai or her lover.

Thinking of this, he got another point, his mind suddenly brightened, and he looked at Feng Xian'er again and asked, "Since you said that you have a personal affair with Liu Zixu, where are the moles, birthmarks, and scars on his body?" ”

"This, where can you see this black light? The slave family doesn't know. Feng Xian'er hurriedly shook her head and explained.

"Then I'll ask you one more thing," Wen Yuan immediately snorted coldly, pointed at Liu Zixu and said, "Since he is your lover, then, you should always know whether that place is long or short, thick or thin, right?" ”

You don't need to light the lamp to figure it out, and see how you can quibble!

Feng Xian'er was asked stupidly on the spot, and wanted to guess the answer based on Liu Zixu's body shape, but she was afraid that this was a trap deliberately set by Wen Yuan, so she couldn't say a complete sentence anymore.

"Hahaha," Liu Guogong couldn't help laughing when he heard this, got up and walked in front of Liu Zixu, and said to Lu County: "So my grandson can be released and go home in court?" ”

"Nature, nature!" Lu Xianling finally saw at this moment that Feng Xian'er was just slandering casually, and wanted to find someone she knew at random to blame.

Fortunately, the mistakes were found in the first trial, and the wronged Liu Zixu could be released, which was enough to reduce the risk of being held accountable after he made a mistake with the real culprit, and also avoided the anger of resisting Liu Guogong head-on.

After Lu County's order announced that he needed to be retried at a later date due to insufficient evidence, Wen Yuan finally had to hurry home to have dinner with Yan Bing.

"How did you go for so long? What's going on again? Yan Bing smiled and gave her husband a chopstick dish, and asked him very curiously what happened in the yamen.

Wen Yuan talked about Liu Zixu being wronged and Feng Xian'er being pregnant, and Yan Bing couldn't help but think of the question of being a father.

"If it weren't for these things, this child would be Lin Kai's widow, and we would all have to lend a hand to help raise him to become an adult, but now ......" Yan Bing frowned and sighed helplessly, "What should I do now?" God knows who this kid really is. ”

"This is the next step, and it's a big deal to be born to see who it looks like. But this case can't drag on for too long, I think the key has to fall on the peony golden hairpin, but unfortunately this physical evidence is too difficult to find. Wen Yuan also frowned and sighed.

There were a lot of people in the hall just now, and he was afraid that the real murderer would get the news and destroy the physical evidence, so he hid the matter and did not confront Feng Xian'er.

That is, there are scratches on the left and right sides of Lin Kai's ear canal, and they are symmetrically distributed, and the broken ear holes must be wider than those made out of a thin jasper hairpin.

It can be seen that the murder weapon should not be a single-strand hairpin, but a double-strand hairpin, and it is by no means the jasper hairpin that Feng Xian'er said.

"I guess that when Lin Kai went home and broke Feng Xian'er and Zheng Gongxu to steal joy, he was knocked down by the two of them and did not die for the time being." Wen Yuan pondered for a moment, then looked at Yan Bing's other peony golden hairpin, and gently took it off and played with it in the palm of his hand.

"Say it, don't hang my appetite." Yan Bing glanced at him and urged again and again.

"I said don't be disgusting," Wen Yuan shook his head helplessly, explaining, "That night, Zheng Gongxu should have taken the peony hairpin and returned to the Lin family, because he failed to steal the incense and was kicked and injured by me, he killed people in anger and vented his anger...... Your peony hairpin should be the real murder weapon, if you can find it out and pry open Feng Xian'er's mouth, then you can solve the case and severely punish the real murderer. ”

Hearing that, Yan Bing was really guilty, regretful and disgusting, fortunately she had already eaten dinner, otherwise she would have ruined her appetite.

Although she guessed that the murder weapon was a hairpin, she was very different from her heart after it was confirmed. She turned her head and hurriedly asked Wen Yuan to help her wrap the golden hairpin in a flannel cloth at the bottom of the hiding box, out of sight and out of mind, she really didn't want to touch it again.

Then he asked to himself: "Then how to find it, you can't hire someone to go to Dingyue County Mansion to steal, right?" ”

"Why don't you start with the princess?" Wen Yuan mentioned yì so.

He felt that since this person had made an excuse to go to the Li family to mention them today, no matter what his internal purpose was, he always made a sincere apology for Yan Bing's good, so it might be a good idea to ask her for help.

"Nineteen Niang?" Yan Bing was also a little tempted when she heard her husband say this, but she didn't know if Lu Jiuniang would be willing to help, after all, she was going to send her uncle to her own life.