Queen Flower

Jiang Lan asked Chu Qingcheng to Lan Sheng, and left the prison with Xia Henqiu.

The mirror was hanging high, Xia Henqiu was sitting on the court, Jiang Lan was standing beside him, the county magistrate Zhou was sitting next to him, and Shen Qun temporarily avoided. Not a single people.

The yamen on both sides stood still, gave the gavel a shot, and the trial began. Xia Henqiu and other lawyers finished presenting the case and began to upload witnesses one by one.

The first to be brought was Mrs. Shen Chu Huaiyu.

She glanced at Xia Henqiu in the hall, but her eyes stayed on Jiang Lan next to her. She looked at it for a long time, her eyes were puzzled, and even made Jiang Lan delusional. Could she recognize her? Probably.

Xia Henqiu reconciled, "Madam, don't panic, just ask you to answer some questions, because it is about Miss Shen, please answer truthfully." Fortunately, Chu Huaiyu is a lady who has no appointment, otherwise it would not be easy to invite her. This world is also different from the real feudal dynasty, married women can still go out and meet people.

Chu Huaiyu retracted her gaze, sat down on the stool on the side, and nodded. She was slightly nervous, and she clenched the handkerchief in her hand into a ball.

"Jiang Feng, Jinzhi, Hongling, and Caihuan are all your dowry girls?" Xia Henqiu asked.

Chu Huaiyu nodded, "That's right, but Caihuan has always been by my side, and the other three were sent to Shen's residence from Chu residence only recently."

"What is the relationship between Jiang Feng and Shen Lian?" Xia Henqiu asked.

"It has never been in harmony." Chu Huaiyu's face showed an angry look, "Jiang Feng, this person has a bad mind, a lot of tricks, and is good at deceiving people. As the mistress of Shen's house, I am not clear about the real person, which has caused my family to suffer. Unfortunate." She wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief. Jiang Lan was so angry when she heard it, she would really throw dirty water on her head, and even if she died, she would never miss the opportunity to slander. Her relationship with Shen Lian is not very discordant. Shen Lian has always been like this. Isn't this attitude towards all maids?

"So Jiang Feng has the motive to kill Shen Lian." Xia Henqiu continued.

"She is the murderer, I can conclude." Chu Huaiyu's eyes flashed with flames, "Everyone saw it at the time, except for her, there was no one else in the room."

"How can you conclude that there is no one else." Xia Henqiu tempted.

Chu Huaiyu wiped away her tears and said, "The first person who broke into the door was Lord Hou, so it can be concluded naturally. Lord Hou said that the doors and windows were closed at that time, and there was no third person except the two of them. Can't it disappear? Then I arrived immediately, and there are many people who can testify, but I didn't see anyone coming out at all."

"Okay." Xia Henqiu smiled, "So the first person who came to the scene was Lord Hou himself, and he would not have read it wrong." He suddenly changed the subject, "Jiang Feng is Chu Qingcheng's fiancee, and it is said that they have a very good relationship. ."

"Humph." Chu Huaiyu looked disdainful, "Jiang Feng has the means."

"So Shen Lian insulted Jiang Feng face to face, and also offended Chu Qingcheng. Chu Qingcheng was angry with the crown and colluded with Jiang Feng to murder Shen Lian?" Xia Henqiu said slowly.

"It's impossible." Chu Huaiyu blushed and hurriedly argued, "My brother has always loved Shen Lian, watching her grow up and treating her like a sister, how could he kill her, and who is the brother, how could he kill her. It must be Jiang Feng who is afraid that Shen Lian's marriage into the Chu family will affect her status, and she will kill if she wants to dominate her brother."

"How can you conclude that Jiang Feng wants to dominate Chu Qingcheng alone, why isn't Chu Qingcheng unwilling to marry someone else?" Xia Henqiu asked.

Chu Huaiyu gritted his teeth and said, "To be honest, when Jiang Feng showed his loyalty to me, he drank the sterilization soup in person. She will never have children in her life, and her brother naturally cannot marry her alone, so it must be She was the one who took precautions before it happened and killed the killer."

"So Chu Qingcheng must have nothing to do with this matter?" Xia Henqiu asked.

Chu Huaiyu stood up from the stool and knelt in front of the hall with tears streaming down her face, "Although the waiter is saddened by Shen Lian's death, my brother must have been wronged. I am willing to ask the adults to look into the situation and give justice to my brother."

Chu Huaiyu was taken down.

The second to be brought is the golden branch.

"What do you want to say?" Xia Henqiu said solemnly.

Jin Zhi knelt on the ground and shivered, she looked up and immediately lowered her head. Jiang Lan could see it very clearly. Her complexion was sallow, her cheeks were sunken, her eyes were cloudy, and her body was very thin, as if it would dissipate when the wind blew.

She suddenly threw herself on the ground and cried, "I lied, I was afraid, I didn't know it would happen."

She said intermittently, "I asked Hong Ling to go there... It was indeed the eldest lady who ordered me to call her. The Lord Hou was in the mansion very early that day, and the wife... I just thought... so I called Hong Ling. Ling went..."

"Why did she go for you, it is said that your relationship has never been on good terms." Xia Henqiu asked.

Jin Zhi lowered her head, her face full of shame: "We entered the Chu Mansion at the same time. Although we entered the Shen Mansion in the end, I know that Hong Ling has always been in love with Young Master Chu, so she is willing to go. But I don't know what Hong Ling will do later. Falling into the well, I don't know that Jiang Feng will kill people, I don't know anything..." She couldn't stop crying.

Jiang Lan nodded, if it was Jin Zhi who called her that day, then she would not be able to live now. Jin Zhi was a timid and cowardly girl, so when things came to an end, her first reaction was to choose to protect herself, but she couldn't stand her conscience. The torment of her, coupled with the fear of the unknown, made her physically and mentally emaciated and seriously ill. Probably because she was dying or because she couldn't die too many people at once, she was still alive. Who would have guessed that Jiang Feng was not dead? Who would have known she was bent on overturning the case? Now Jinzhi's statement is completely consistent with their guess. It's just that she never knew that Hong Ling liked Chu Qingcheng, so she hated her so much at that time, and even wanted to strangle her in the middle of the night.

After Jin Zhi stepped down, the third one was Caihuan. What role did she play in this matter? This was the strangest part of the whole case, which made Jiang Lan puzzled.

Caihuan knelt under the hall, expressionless, calm and silent.

"From the truth, if you deceive the court, I will not forgive you." Xia Henqiu said.

Caihuan kowtowed and lowered her eyes, "Everything the servant said is true, and I did not see Jiang Feng that night." Anyway, Jiang Feng is dead, this is dead without proof.

Jiang Lan couldn't help but speak, "As far as I know, you are a child of the Chu family, so do you also think that it was Chu Qingcheng's design that Jiang Feng killed Shen Lian?" She put special emphasis on Chu Qingcheng. body.

Caihuan trembled a bit, raised her head abruptly, and looked at Jiang Lan. She looked at Jiang Lan's eyes, her eyes trembled a little, it seemed to be clear, but she couldn't speak.

"Bring Chu Qingcheng up." Xia Henqiu gestured.

Caihuan's body was stiff, kneeling on the ground, his head lowered and motionless.

Chu Qingcheng was carried up by someone, he sat on the ground with difficulty, his face was pale and haggard, and then he saw Jiang Lan in the hall and smiled lightly. He was dressed in a tattered prison uniform, his hair was messy, and his body was bloodstained. At a glance, he knew what torture he had suffered for so many days, so that he couldn't even kneel in court. But even so, Chu Qingcheng is still Chu Qingcheng, but when the phoenix eye is picked, it is charming, but now it is blood-stained, which makes people sad. A generation of noble sons was tortured like this.

Jiang Lan resisted the urge to go on, turned her head away, and asked sharply, "Caihuan, answer the question just now, is Chu Qingcheng the mastermind?"

Caihuan raised her head and saw Chu Qingcheng's appearance, tears welling up in her eyes and rushing down. She kowtowed to Chu Qingcheng, then raised her head and said, "I told Jiang Feng to go there that night, but I just sent it there and left. I really don't know what happened next."

"Who instructed you to call Jiang Feng." Jiang Lan made persistent efforts.

Caihuan struggled, gritted her teeth, looked at Jiang Lan, then looked at Chu Qingcheng, suddenly stood up, and slammed her head against the pillar with all her strength.

With the sound of "Peng", Jiang Lan quickly swept out, Caihuan's head was bleeding, and her skull was deeply sunken. Her heart for death was so resolute that she fell into Jiang Lan's arms dripping with blood, her eyes were scattered. Blood and tears mixed, dripping down like a small river.

She grabbed Jiang Lan's hand, held it tightly, pinched it so tightly that her nails were sinking into her flesh, as if she had exhausted her life's strength, "I'm sorry." She said softly, her eyes were gray, Faint and hopeless, guilty and sad, then she managed to glance in the direction of Chu Qingcheng and slowly closed her eyes.

Jiang Lan sighed, angry and uncomfortable, Caihuan would rather kill herself than tell the people behind her, why? Who else could make you do this?

If Caihuan can identify Shen Qun, then there will be witnesses. Even if she involves others, she can still follow the clues, and she will always pull out the last person. Once she dies, she will not be able to continue the trial for a while. What does it look like? It's all like the matter of the back house, and it can't be related to Shen Qun.

When someone died, the scene was a little chaotic for a while, and Xia Henqiu could only announce his retirement.

Xia Henqiu left Shen Qun to meet alone to discuss the case, and people invited Shen Qun into the room. This is Jiang Lan's idea. For a second-rank official like Shen Qun, either the evidence is conclusive, or the emperor has ordered a conviction, or he wants him to confess his guilt. Decided to give it a try.