Chang’an’s First Beauty

Moreover, Zheng Jingzhao took a leave of absence after a sudden heart attack, and Sun Xu refused to try the case of Baixiangge maliciously wounding people on the grounds of "avoidance of suspicion", and the case fell into Lu Yan's hands.

The day of the inquisition is set for the seventh day of June.

The news that the case was going to be heard on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month shocked many people in Chang'an. In order to hear the case, the people rushed to the office before dawn.

After all, the current daughter of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu sued the former daughter of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu. This kind of case is much more interesting than the painting books sold on the street.

Lu Yan picked up the cup in the signing room, sipped his mouth, and said lightly: "Are everyone here?"

Yang Zong whispered: "The little husband, Miss Shen, Mr. Chu and the witnesses have arrived, and the second girl from the Sun family is still on her way."

"Wen Zhilu, Wang Shuli, and the judiciary have all arrived?"

"Already waiting."

Lu Yan let out a low "um", then picked up the black yarn on the table and went to the hall.

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Sun Mi has already set off here, and the carriage is heading towards Guangdefang.

Her heart sank unconsciously after the sound of the horns. She stretched out her hand to lift the curtain, looked at the dazzling sunlight outside, and muttered: "Synopsis, today's case, Shen Zhen can't turn around."

Wang Yu said: "Mi, you are too worried, Mr. Song is dealing with Yamen every day, it is very slippery, you invited him all, what else is there to be afraid of? Besides, isn't I still testifying to you?"

Sun Mi took Wang Yu's hand and said, "Don't worry, I will ask my father to find a chance to promote your third brother."

Wang Yu smiled awkwardly, "Mi, you don't have to have such a relationship between you and me, I will help you, and it has nothing to do with my third brother."

After a long while, Sun Mi's eyes moved not far away, and the three words "Jingzhao Mansion" were in sight.

"Girl, here it is."

After the carriage stopped, the servant girl helped Sun Mi down.

Seeing her pale, Song Jingwen couldn't help but comforted her in a low voice: "I have been defending the voice for many years, and I have never lost it. Besides, we have all the evidence and evidence, and the two girls don't have to worry at all."

Sun Mi took a deep breath and said, "If you can convict her today, your reward will be doubled for you."

Song Jingwen complied, "Then I thanked the second girl first."

They passed the people blocking the door and entered Jingzhao Mansion.

Awe-inspiring voices came from both sides. Sun Mi and Shen Zhen stood one on the left and the other stood on the right, with their respective litigators standing beside them.

Sun Mi looked at Shen Zhen's advocacy and the extraordinary appearance, and frowned for a moment.

Song Jingwen whispered: "Second girl, don't worry, the litigator whom the Shen family invited, I haven't seen it before. I think it's just an unknown person."

Sun Mi nodded thoughtfully.

According to the laws of the Jin dynasty, before the opening of the church, the identity must be declared.

Song Jingwen stepped forward and said, "My dear Song Jingwen." After all, he glanced at the right side.

The man beside Shen Zhen stepped forward and said, "My dear Chu Xun."

As soon as the voice fell, many people began to whisper.

"Chu Xun? Haven't heard of it."

"Chu Xun, Chu Xun, this name is really familiar, look at my memory, I can't speak it!"

"Could it be Yangzhou Chu's family?" l

Hearing this, Song Jingwen couldn't help frowning, Yangzhou Chu? impossible……

However, when he thought of Shen Zhen's status as the guilty family member, he finally relieved his heart. How could everyone in Yangzhou defend the daughter of a guilty minister?

Presumably not the same person.

Lu Yan yelled to present evidence, and the guard brought up the bottles and cans.

Sun Mi said with red eyes: "My lord, my sister Shen's and I were also very good friends. I never expected that she would hate me for that old thing!"

After the words were finished, Sun Mi's tears flowed down the ground in one stroke.

Lu Yan asked as usual: "What is that old thing?"

Sun Mi bit her lip and deliberately said: "Last October, the Shen family was convicted and ransacked, and then owed a huge debt. Sister Shen's sister once came to me and hoped that I could help, but I never came out of the cabinet. The woman of, how can she come up with eight thousand guan, and she was still suffering from the wind and cold at the time, so she did not see her, but she said that our Sun family stepped on the shoulders of the Shen family."

Slowly and then said: "I really didn't think she would hate me so much!"

Sun Mi's purpose in saying this is to use the exchange of identities to highlight the contradiction between the two of them, so that everyone can immediately recognize that Shen Zhen has resentment, hatred, and jealousy towards her.

And this is Shen Zhen's motive for poisoning.

Shen Zhen's eyes widened when she heard this. Now she has learned the highest state of shamelessness. Last October, let alone go to Sun's Mansion. After the Hou's Mansion, she never said anything to Sun Mi words!

At this time, the surrounding people seemed to have recovered their memories in an instant, and they shouted out the Shen family one after another. The rough words of the market were unpleasant at first, and Shen Zhen had to bear it again and again, after all, his eyes were still red.

The father was clearly imprisoned for injustice, but she could not justify a word.

Lu Yan's heart suddenly tightened, and he couldn't help but frowned and looked at Shen Zhen.

Seeing her eyes were red, the gavel slapped, and the noise came to an abrupt end before the silence was uttered.

The man's serious and thin eyes fell on Sun Mi, "October last year? What day in October? Have you ever found evidence that Shen Zhen had gone to you?"

Sun Mi paused and whispered: "It's a long time..."

Lu Yan interrupted directly: "If there is no evidence or evidence, you dare to put it in the courtroom to talk about it?"

Song Jingwen shook his head against Sun Mi.

Sun Mi shut up.

"Doctor Yang, check the physical evidence." Lu Yan said.

Doctor Yang explained the toxicity on the spot after examining the physical evidence. Song Jingwen shouted from the side: "What a vicious mind is to use rouge and gouache to ruin a person's appearance! His heart is damned, and his heart is damned!"

Lu Yan sneered: "Mr. Song, in this case today, is it you or your own court?"

Song Jingwen blushed and hurriedly bowed and said, "I don't dare."

Seeing this, Sun Xu and Lu joined the army quietly outside the door: "Lord Lu, are we so angry now in the trial of the case?"

Lu Canjun shook his head, "Master Lu has always been happy and angry, don't have a festival with that Mr. Song..."

Sun Xu raised his chin and shook his head and said, "Come on, I'll go. If the torture is really executed at this moment, you say I can't stop it?"

Lu Canjun looked at him, "Master Sun can really stay out of the matter?"

"Pleasing for this kind of thing, there will be two times. You will talk to Master Lu later, and you will say that I also have a heart disease and need to go home and rest first."

Sun Xu can’t tell the whole story of this case, but he can guess a general idea based on his years of experience in solving the case.

He talked helplessly, and said in his heart: If this matter can teach grandchildren a lesson, it would be good.

After a long while, I began to ask for witnesses.

Wang Wei walked up slowly, and after explaining one by one, Lu Yan said: "Perjury is a crime of committing stolen goods. According to Jin's law, it can range from fifty boards to one year's imprisonment. Do you know that?"

These Wang Yu had been prepared for a long time, and nodded without hesitation.

Lu Yan asked people to interrogate Wang Yu on the spot.

Officials generally use the five-listening method to distinguish the authenticity of a confession. The so-called five listenings are speech listening, **** listening, air listening, ear listening, and eye listening. Judicial participation in the military will observe the words, the colors, and the breath. Watch him listen, watch his eyes to judge whether this confession can be used.

However, Song Jingwen was very clear about these routines, so Wang Rui passed the interrogation very smoothly.

Judicial joining the army turned around and said: "There is no suspicion of perjury for the time being."

Sun Mi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the case is a false accusation, the evidence is present and the inspection has been passed. Coupled with Song Jingwen's ability to reverse black and white, she is already in sight.

At the same time, Song Jingwen looked at Chu Xun's expression with a hint of disdain.

Lu Yan knocked on the table with his index finger, and whispered to Shen Zhen, "Can you confess?"

Shen Zhen raised his eyes and said: "Return to your lord, I have never done these things. What Miss Sun said just now is not true."

Many people sneered in a low voice behind, and others called Shen Zhen a wicked woman.

At this moment, Chu Xun said to Song Jingwen: "Chu has a few questions to ask, please be careful, Mr. Song."

Song Jingwen said: "Mr. Chu said bluntly."

"There is still a younger brother in Ms. Shen's family who is ill and is waiting to ask for money to see a doctor. Why would he smash the sign of his long-term business and good reputation in order to ruin the face of the second girl? With all due respect, this is not the case at all. It's reasonable."

"Common sense?"

"Maybe Ms. Shen did the opposite?" Song Jingwen smiled: "Mr. Chu, look at the material evidence in front of him! If it wasn't for Miss Sun's fate that day, she would be the one who disfigured her face today! This is common sense. ?"

Chu Xun curled the corner of his mouth, "Speaking of good fate, Chu is even more puzzled. Baixiangge is also one of the best fragrant powder shops in the capital. There are a lot of rouge gouaches, and since the fate is good, how can Miss Sun choose this at a glance? Where is the poisonous gouache?"

Song Jingwen narrowed his eyes, and retorted: "A bunch of nonsense! This gouache, obviously Ms. Shen handed it over to Ms. Sun!"

Chu Xun chuckles, "Mr. Song knows that I am heading to severely punish the act of false accusation on behalf of others. If it is a false accusation, I will be punished by the false accusation. There is a second-class penalty."

Song Jingwen sneered, "Mr. Chu still worry about himself."

Immediately afterwards, Chu Xun also called two witnesses. These two women were all guests who appeared in Baixiang Pavilion.

They also passed the trial in court.

And the caliber is the same - Sun Mi personally selected the gouache, and Shen Zhen never touched the bottle.

Song Jingwen was an old fried dough stick. Seeing that they wanted to get rid of their crimes, he calmly called another person up.

The woman surnamed Jia knelt when she came up, clutching her swollen and rotten face and said: "My lord, two days ago, the slave also went to Baixiangge. The slave worked as a maid in Pingkangfang. She had a low status and expensive gouache. Sorry, the ghost got lost for a while, so I secretly took one, but I didn’t use it twice, and it was disfigured.”

"I also ask you to take a lighter punishment for the sake of the slave's complaint from the prime minister."

"Two days ago? You mean, there is still poisonous powder in her passion pavilion?"

"Yes, the NPC can send someone to investigate."

Shen Zhen looked down at another disfigured woman, feeling a little bit sorrowful in her heart. Sun Mi really did everything to harm her.

The West Market and Jingzhao Mansion were very close, and the Yali sent by Lu Yan soon returned.

They brought back two boxes of incense powder. Upon inspection, one of them was indeed highly toxic.

Shen Zhen suddenly understood why the person would tell her that Baixiangge's ledger should not be taken out in advance, because once it is taken out in advance, the dummy card in front of him will not appear here.

Shen Zhen said slowly: "I wonder if you can let me take a look at the bottle in this box?"

Lu Yan nodded, and sent someone to pass a bunch of short mouth bottles to Shen Zhen.

Shen Zhen took it, looked up and down, left and right, carefully read it again, and whispered: "My lord, what this girl holds in her hand, and the box in this box, are not Baixiangge gouache at all."

"Do you still want to deny it?" said the woman surnamed Jia.

Shen Zhen took out a ledger, turned it over three days ago, and said one by one: "Every bottle of Baixiangge's gouache has a mark on the bottom of the bottle, which corresponds to the one on the ledger. Every time one is sold, one is crossed out. , And sign the name of the guest. These accounts are all recorded. Please check this with the adults."

When Song Jingwen heard it, he "cocked" in his heart, and said something bad in his heart.

I couldn't help but stepped forward and said: "According to the Dajin Law, the exhibits must be reported to the government the day before. Miss Shen takes it out now. Who knows if it was a fake account made overnight!"

Lu Yan whispered: "Whether it is a false account, the official has his own decision, how can you allow you to be presumptuous here?"

Song Jingwen choked. If the ledger was genuine, the yamen would immediately identify it as iron proof as long as they went door to door to investigate.

After all, physical evidence has always been more important than human evidence.

In the next instant, Lu Yan bowed his head and picked up his pen, transcripted a list, and ordered Yali to summon from house to house immediately.

An hour later, Ya Li brought several noble ladies in Jingzhong into Jingzhao's Mansion, and after inquiring one by one, they all confirmed what Shen Zhen said was true.

Sun Mi panicked and said angrily at Song Jingwen: "You speak up! What are you waiting for!"

Song Jingwen was very familiar with the Dajin law. In the face of such hard evidence, he had already guessed what Fu Yin would judge.

Once he has been convicted of false accusation, he can still say whether he can leave Jingzhao Mansion today.

After a while, Lu Yan closed the account book and directly decided the case: "Today's case is as iron proof as a mountain, but it is a false accusation. Whether the official sent someone to execute the sentence, or you yourself accounted for it."

Sun Mi's hands trembled slightly, and in a voice that could only be heard by two people: "Mr. Song, I am the daughter of Shangshu. I shouldn't say it. If you dare to say it, I promise you will never get out of the capital."

Song Jingwen was embarrassed. He had made enough money over the years. At this time, if he was not the daughter of the current Ministry of Industry, he would definitely find a way to reduce his sentence and stay away from the capital.

But as she said... The Sun family does have the ability to prevent herself from getting out of the capital.

Sun Mi did not say a word and forced herself to calm down. The laws of the Jin Dynasty were lenient to the noble family. Even if the case really convicted her of false accusation, she would provoke another person to commit the crime, or pay some money. Silver cloth...

Never bow your head to plead guilty.

Seeing that these people were dying one by one, Lu Yan said: "If this is the case, let's get on the stick."

As soon as Yali walked over, Sun Mi said: "I am the daughter of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, who of you dare to touch me!"

See that Yali is not moving. He turned his head and said to the outside: "Hurry up and call me Aniang!"

If someone else is trying today, there might be room for it, but it happened to be Lu Yan. He didn't dare to dare.

So what if the Ministry of Industry's Shangshu is here? Can he be angry with your majesty's nephew?

Moreover, Jingzhao's judgment in accordance with the law is not wrong.

Lu Yan said coldly.

The servants of Jingzhao Mansion dragged Song Jingwen's legs out, tore off his shoes and socks, and put on hemp rope. Without a chance to react, he tightened the rope. With a "squeak" sound, blood flowed, Song Jingwendeng Screamed when.

Shen Zhen couldn't help closing his eyes when he had seen this scene.

After repeatedly taking the rope twice, Sun Mi and Wang Yu also used torture, the board fell down with a sound, and only for the third time, the two girls fainted with fright.

After a while, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Wang rushed to Jingzhao Mansion one after another. They not only insisted on the matter as a treacherous instigation, but also handed in a lot of money.

Of course, Lu Yan would not embarrass the two families too much.

In the eyes of aristocratic families, money is far less important than face. In the court, Shaoyin of the Jingzhao Mansion had tortured the daughters of the Sun family and the Wang family. Regardless of the seriousness, this was not enough.

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Xu Siniang couldn't help laughing coldly when she heard about this, "I thought Sun Mi was a clever man, but I didn't expect to handle this matter like a joke! It's so fresh to cry for father and mother in court! What a shame!"

Xu Yiqing said: "Four sisters don't have to be angry, Xu Jiading hasn't touched this matter."

Xu Siniang said, "Do you know who Shen Zhen's litigator was on that day?"

"This is not known."

"It's the Chu family of Yangzhou, Chu Xun. I can hear that Chu Xun has a very close relationship with the Lu family."

"Is there such a thing?"

"Since the Queen Mother intends to let you be the clan wife of the Lu Family, it is better for you to inquire more about Lu Yan's affairs."