In the flower hall, Yan Bing sat next to Wen Yuan and heard the news together, and in the blink of an eye, she saw that her husband, who was invisible, smashed the teacup in anger.

"I sit upright, and I am not afraid of this slander." Yan Bing breathed a sigh of relief to her husband, as if she did not show a sad look on her face, but her interlocked hands were clenched tightly, and her long pink nails almost pinched into her palms.

Wen Yuan turned his head, looked at his wife who pretended not to care, sighed, and didn't say anything.

After ordering someone to send the messenger away, he walked up to Yan Bing and gently took her hand, looked at the pinch marks on the white pink palm and shook his head silently, and then, he used his slightly rough thumb to rub the nail pinch marks carefully, scratching Yan Bing and laughing.

Seeing his slender fingers slowly moving up, holding down the cinnabar mole on his wrist, Yan Bing was about to withdraw his hand, only to hear Wen Yuan slowly speak: "If you have anything to say in the future, just say it, don't hold it back, what else do you need to hide with me?" The reason why I want to marry you back is that I hope you will never be wronged. ”

"......" Yan Bing first felt warm in her heart, and then looked at his actions and suddenly felt a little apprehensive in her heart, and wondered, "Did you say this to your wife, or to your sister?" ”

"Is there a difference?" Wen Yuan was stunned for a moment, then raised his head and asked, seeing that Yan Bing was silent, he replied as if he was talking to himself, "You are both a sister and a wife, and you are the most beloved person I want to protect for life." ”

But at first, you only thought of me as a stand-in for my sister...... Yan Bing recalled Wen Yuan's good brother in the past, and remembered that he was not rude for many days after marriage, and the two of them were just holding hands and touching their faces, and they were a little flustered for a while.

However, it was himself who said that he would continue to keep filial piety, and it was impossible to suddenly stop keeping it, knowing that he was guilty of hypocrisy, Yan Bing couldn't help but sigh.

Wen Yuan didn't know what she wanted at all, so he just began to worry about Zheng Gongxu again.

He hurriedly held Yan Bing's hand tightly and said in a deep voice: "You and I know that Zheng Gongxu is talking nonsense, what I am angry about is not that he slandered you, but that if he retracts his confession, you must go through the court to argue with him." ”

Going to class? Public trial?! Yan Bing was stunned for a moment, and immediately forgot about her brother, sister, and Yuanfang.

After the court, she didn't realize this stubble before, and it was really chilling to imagine the situation when Xingsheng was tried.

Even if she is not an ancient, she can't stand being pointed at and talking about the details of the boudoir in public!

Yan Bing's heart panicked, and suddenly showed a nervous look, pulled Wen Yuan's sleeve and looked up and said, "Do you have to go?" So what to do? ”

Seeing his wife's pale face, Wen Yuan couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, secretly hating his own person for being weak and making her frightened, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay, it won't get to that point." Leave it to me, and I'll try to shut him up. ”

Speaking of this, Wen Yuan's eyes were already fierce. If it is a last resort, he doesn't care whether he will kill people and have bloody hands, the key is just not to be caught and implicate his family.

"Well, there are at least four days left, and he has to wait for the conviction to retract his confession, and he can't go to Shangshu Province to appeal." Yan Bing gently patted the back of her husband's bruised hand to make him relax.

"Okay, I'll figure it out tomorrow. It's getting colder and colder, let's go, go back to the house and have a fire. Wen Yuan struggled to squeeze out a smile and nodded, then pulled Yan Bing to get up, took her hand and walked to the hand-copying verandah leading to the backyard.

At this moment, it was the middle of winter, and there were faint snowflakes floating in the orange-red sunset, and Yan Bing was trembling when she came out of the flower hall.

Nuan Xiang hurriedly shook off the red fox fur cloak she was holding in her hand, handed it over and put it on Yan Bing's shoulder.

Before she reached out to tie the belt for the fifth lady, she saw that the male master naturally picked up the ribbon and quickly tied a knot on Yan Bing's chin.

After getting dressed, the couple walked hand in hand, went back to the house to play the piano and flute, chatted for a while, and then turned off the lights and rested.

The next morning, before dawn, Wen Yuan went to the yamen on an errand. Yan Bing sat at home for a while and couldn't stop thinking about it, in order to keep herself busy and find something to do, she simply asked people to set up a car and prepare to go to various dim sum shops in the West Market to have a look and further investigate the market.

After going out, the carriage had not traveled for a quarter of an hour, and suddenly stopped, Yan Bing was puzzled, so she heard the warm fragrance that was walking with her on the side of the curtain and said crisply: "Someone's carriage broke down and stopped on the side of the road - it is the car of the Dingyue County Palace." ”

Now that the two families are on the right side, Nuan Xiang is actually asking whether to take a detour or move on.

Yan Bing opened the curtain and looked through the gap, and suddenly her eyebrows were slightly upturned, and she actually saw an acquaintance - Pang Zi, the nurse of the king of Dingyue County. She was getting out of the carriage to check because it had broken down, and she was shivering and jumping to her feet without a cloak.

"Nuan Xiang, go and invite Aunt Pang over, let's take her for a ride." Yan Bing felt that this was an opportunity, maybe she could gain something.

Xindao: Pang Zi is already close to Lu Jiuniang, and if he doesn't deal with Jia Changshi, he probably won't have a good impression of Zheng Gongxu, and his own carriage doesn't have any signs, so it doesn't hurt for her to come and sit, she should agree.

Sure enough, Ponzi was gladly invited. Even, she was already happy to talk, she didn't stop talking when she got in the car, and kept talking.

Yan Bing opened with a simple sentence: "It's been a long time, where are you going?" The rest of the words were like pouring beans.

"Go to the Jingzhao Mansion Prison to see your goddaughter, alas, Wu Niangzi, you must know that she is the slave who beats the drum and sues the master. It's so pitiful, I heard that Cardamom is a bad wound and she can't eat enough and don't have enough clothes to wear, so the old body plans to send her something. As he spoke, Pang raised the food box and cotton robe in his hand.

"The chivalrous woman?" Yan Bing answered as if she was teasing, showed a look of pity, and sighed, "She is really a good person." ”

"Poor people, too. Fifth lady, don't you know, Cardamom is a good family, and she shouldn't have been punished for 'slave suing the master', but it's a pity that this child is strong, and he didn't listen to the old body to get rid of the slave first and then report it. ”

Yan Bing was really surprised at this time, and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Pang Zi sighed and said: "Cardamom is a wealthy father and mother, and he has learned poetry, calligraphy and painting when he was at home, so he is jealous and hateful. It's a pity, when she was eleven or twelve years old, she went out to play and was unfortunately abducted, and she changed hands into the county king's mansion several times, saying that Xu Gongzi loved the concubine but was often abused and beaten, and she didn't live a good life! ”

This abducted □□ made Yan Bing so surprised, and hurriedly asked: "Since you can run to Jingzhao Mansion, why don't you report that you have been abducted first?" ”

"She said that there are priorities, and it is best to report the murder first." Pang Zi sighed again and again, and then babbled about a big phone call, but Yan Bing couldn't listen carefully, all she could think about was the cardamom girl's life experience.

After sending Pang Zi to prison, she turned her head and ordered someone to drive to the Chang'an County Ya, and picked up her husband, who was about to eat, to find a private room in a restaurant not far away to talk, and told all the things Pang Zi had told her.

After finishing speaking, Yan Bing looked at her husband expectantly and said worriedly, "Is this news useful?" ”

"Very important!" Wen Yuan nodded immediately, and even happily kissed his wife on the cheek as if he was dripping water.

He didn't return home until the end of the evening at dusk, and he didn't even have time to rest after eating, so Wen Yuan was ready to go out again.

"Where are you going?" Yan Bing couldn't help but be worried when she saw him change into a fine soap-colored shirt and pants, like a night dress. Isn't this going over the wall somewhere again?

"Go to the prison of the Criminal Department and meet Zheng Gongxu." Wen Yuan replied without thinking, and immediately scared Yan Bing so much that her hair almost stood on end.

Trembling asked: "Rob, rob the prison?!" ”

"Who's going to rob him?" Wen Yuan shook his head disdainfully, and reassured Yan Bing, "Don't worry, an acquaintance will lead me in, and I won't climb over the wall." I just want to hurry up and do what I need to do, so as not to have too many dreams at night. ”

Yan Bing knew that the opposition was invalid, so she could only be concerned: "Then you pay attention to safety, go and come back quickly." After saying that, he sent him out worriedly.

Wen Yuan immediately hurried out, bribed the guards everywhere, and arrived at the prison before the curfew, endured the stench of the cell, and glared at the villain who had bullied his wife under the reflection of the dim candles.

At this moment, Zheng Gongxu was sitting on the straw and leaning against the corner of the wall to close his eyes and recuperate, thinking when he was drowsy and half-asleep, he suddenly heard a gloomy greeting: "Young Master Xu, don't come to harm?" ”

Zheng Gongxu listened to this ironic question, opened his half-squinted red and swollen sleepy eyes, and heard another sentence before he could see who it was.

"I heard that you plan to retract your confession at the retrial? said that he had a personal affair with Wu Niang? Pure slander! Wen Yuan blurted out a menacing sentence.

Zheng Gongxu sneered when he heard this, and said with a hippie smile: "It turned out to be you, why were you scared?" Hahaha, I'm going to say this, what can you do? ”

"If you say it, someone will believe it?" Wen Yuan's brows were tightly knit and he asked rhetorically.

"How could anyone not believe it?" Zheng Gongxu shrank in the corner, unable to see him clearly at all, but his tone was smug, and even chuckled as if he was teasing, "Back then, my eldest brother had proposed marriage to the Shu family for me, and it was because of that period of in-service that I got cheap to you." She and I have been in love for a long time, why can't we have a personal relationship?

Wen Yuan looked down at him, his face as calm as water: "What about the evidence?" ”

"We slept, on your marriage bed. She had a red mole on her wrist, tiny. Zheng Gongxu raised his hand as he spoke, gestured at his wrist, and then giggled.

He heard from his brother's servant about the red mole, who had helped find the young Shu Wu Niangzi in the tea shop many years ago. At this moment, it happened to be used to make up a story, and Wen Yuan was suddenly angry, and kicked the wooden fence fiercely......

"You can break it without evidence, what can you do to me?" Seeing this, Zheng Gongxu opened his hands like a scoundrel and looked at Rong Wenyuan.

"Hahaha," he laughed angrily, glared at Zheng Gongxu and gritted his teeth, "Then do you know that my wife is determined to keep her father's filial piety for three years, not twenty-seven but thirty-six months, and the filial piety period has not passed until now." Have you figured out whether you really want to retract your confession. slander, slander, and accusation of untruthfulness shall be punished as false accusation and retort according to the law, and shall be punished with three years' imprisonment. Besides, three years is indeed much lighter than three thousand miles, so it's no wonder you want to find another way. ”

"......" Zheng Gongxu was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he really never expected that this Rong Wenyuan could endure to continue to be a boy chicken after marriage, an unheard of rarity!

After that, he said fiercely: "You can have a personal affair before you finish the last step, I am going to say this, what can you do?" ”

"Yes, my mouth is on your face, I really can't take you," Wen Yuan's tone slowed down, as if his momentum had weakened, and in an instant, he raised his eyebrows and said, "In the same way, you are helpless if I let Cardamom sue you again." ”

"Huh?" Zheng Gongxu looked at Wen Yuan in confusion, not knowing what else Cardamom could tell.

But seeing that he was confident, Xu Gongzi, who was very optimistic after listening to Jia Changshi's words, faintly began to panic at this moment.

"According to the law, I mistakenly recognize my lover as a slave and maid, and I will be in prison for two years," Wen Yuan said a sentence that made Zheng Gongxu's heart tighten, "Cardamom, she is a good family, right?" ”

Without waiting for Zheng Gongxu to answer, he said cruelly: "If you retract your confession, I can also let her retract her confession, knowing that she is a good person and still thinks that she is a slave, hang!" Crime on offense is enough to sentence you to beheading. Heh, it's not bad to die without a corpse? ”