Chapter 48 Sixty Strokes
Xu Zhiyi saw that the police were about to leave! She hurried into the room, looked at Shen Changan, who had been sweating anxiously, and comforted him: "Changan, I will go to the yamen with you, don't worry, Wuyou will be fine"
Upon hearing this, Shen Changan reached out and grabbed Xu Zhiyi's arm, and quickly explained: "My wife, after you catch up with Wuyou, ask him to come to the court and answer truthfully. The attitude of the constable who came to arrest him can be seen that he has been checked. The more you hide something at this time, the more suspicious you will be."
Xu Zhiyi nodded: "Okay, I understand, don't worry, maybe we can still make it home for dinner later."
Shen Changan: "Well, my mother and I will wait for you to come home for dinner."
After Xu Zhiyi came out of Xu's house, he saw the person walking away and quickly chased after him.
After catching up with Shen Wuyou, he walked side by side with him, and then whispered to him about what Shen Changan was worried about.
The leading constable on the side looked at the two people whispering to each other, just coughed and said nothing.
After walking for an hour, several people were taken directly to the court.
Xu Zhiyi watched Shen Wuyou go into the court. She could only stand outside the court and watch, with a few villagers following to watch the excitement.
After Shen Wuyou entered, he glanced at Master Wu San who was kneeling beside him. Judging from his appearance, he had probably been tortured. Now he knew exactly what was going on! It was really Master Su who took action!
Shen Ercheng and Mu also saw Wu Sanye standing aside. Seeing Wu Sanye also appear in the court, the couple suddenly collapsed in their hearts! They were so scared that they were shaking even when they stood.
Could it be that they were reported to the government because they wanted to sell their nephew? However, they hadn't succeeded in selling him yet! It was at most an attempted crime.
The county magistrate in the court saw that the person had arrived! He immediately slammed the gavel with a stern face.
"Who is in the hall?"
"The humble man Shen Wuyou comes to see you, sir."
Seeing this, Shen Ercheng and Mu Shi on the side quickly knelt down together.
"The common people sink into two"
"The common woman Mu Ruhua"
County Magistrate: "You three, do you know the people next to you?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Ercheng and Mu nodded: “I know him, his name is San Ye.”
Shen Wuyou bowed and said, "Sir, I have met Shen Ercheng before. Shen Ercheng is my uncle. He forced me to sell myself to the Chen Mansion many times. The third master next to him is the one who contacted my uncle Shen Ercheng."
Upon hearing this, the county magistrate took a look at the files he had investigated, and seeing that they were the same as what he had investigated, he still knocked on the gavel and asked, “You three, is what Shen Wuyou said the truth?”
Shen Ercheng was about to quibble.
"If I find out who lied, I will punish him with heavy punishment."
Now, the three of them didn't dare to lie anymore and had to nod in agreement.
When the villagers who followed over heard that Shen Ercheng was actually going to sell his nephew, they all started to murmur.
"What Shen Erlang said at home was all true, but Shen Ercheng actually betrayed his nephew."
"Bah, we just spoke up for him, but it turns out he has such evil intentions"
"No, let's go back to the village and tell everyone who Shen Ercheng is. Otherwise, the villagers won't even know if they've been deceived by him."
When the county magistrate saw the three people nod, he asked again: "Chen Ercheng, I want to ask you, are you familiar with Master Wu San?"
Shen Ercheng was undecided when he heard this and glanced at Master Wu San who was standing beside him.
The county magistrate knocked the gavel again and shouted coldly: "Chen Ercheng, I asked you to answer my question, where are you going?"
Shen Ercheng was so frightened that he trembled and stammered in response: "Sir, let's count it as cooked!"
"That is to say, you know what Master Wu San did?"
Shen Ercheng was really confused at this time! What's the matter? Is it about the third master selling innocent people? After thinking about it, he had to answer it.
"Sir, I know."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Ercheng finished speaking, the county magistrate knocked on the gavel and said loudly:
"Come here, bring the file to record. Chen Shou of the Chen Mansion, formerly known as Xiao Shouzi, in the 45th year of Fenglin, killed the third prince of the cold palace, then secretly fled the palace and changed his name to Chen Shou. In the 53rd year of Fenglin, he teamed up with the Third Master Wu to secretly mine gold. His crime is unforgivable, so he is escorted back to the capital and will be executed in the autumn."
"Liuhe Village Chen Ercheng and Mu Ruhua were sentenced to exile to Lingzhou for knowing the truth but not reporting it."
Mu and Shen Ercheng, who were kneeling in the hall, were so frightened that they almost fainted!
Shen Ercheng reacted and burst into tears: "My Lord, it's unfair! I am innocent. I just discussed with Master Wu San about selling my nephew. As for the private mining of gold, I had no idea about it at all!"
Mu: "Sir, my husband and I are truly wronged. Please investigate this matter thoroughly and clear my husband and I's name!"
Upon hearing this, the county magistrate flew into a rage: "Disturbing the court is a heavier crime. I just asked you, and you said you knew. How did I wrongly accuse you?"
Shen Ercheng cried with tears and snot, begging for mercy: "Sir, I thought you were talking about Wu Sanye selling innocent people. I am innocent!"
County Magistrate: "Come here, interrogate Mr. Wu Sanye's men again."
"Yes, sir."
Half an hour later, the official presented the evidence again. The county magistrate flipped through it a few times, coughed, and knocked the gavel:
"Chen Ercheng, although you really didn't know about it, you can be exempted from exile, but you just hindered the progress of my investigation. Come, take him away and give him 60 lashes. As for Mu Ruhua, give her 20 lashes."
Mu was so frightened that she was about to plead: "Sir..."
"If you continue to talk, you will be punished with twenty more strokes of the cane."
Shen Ercheng and Mu were quickly pulled down, and then two miserable screams were heard, from the loud screams at the beginning to completely unable to scream!
"Adjourn the court!" After the county magistrate said these two words, he left quickly!
He had to quickly deliver the case file to the prefect. He had solved such a huge case, so he should at least be promoted to a higher rank, right?
Mu endured the pain and crawled over to look at the weak Shen Ercheng, breaking down and crying: "Wuwu, head of the family, you have to hold on! If anything happens to you, how will my son and I live!"
Xu Zhiyi took Shen Wuyou's hand and said sarcastically, "Wuyou! It turns out that people can't do immoral things. Look, retribution has come!"
Shen Wuyou glanced at her hand being held by Xu Zhiyi, feeling a little shy, and nodded in response: “Well, my lady is right.”
Xu Zhiyi pulled Shen Wuyou out and said, “Let’s go back quickly. It’s too late to go back! I’m afraid that my mother and Chang’an will have wild thoughts at home.”
"good"
When Mu saw Shen Wuyou was about to leave, she immediately shouted angrily: "Shen Wuyou, why are you so cold-blooded? Don't you see that your uncle is like this! Why don't you come and help? He is your only uncle!"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi snorted coldly: "It's so funny. When you were about to sell Wuyou, why didn't you realize this? Now he's your uncle? Where's your face? Pah, the city wall is not as thick as your face."
Mu: “You…you, Shen Wuyou, you let an outsider humiliate your uncle and aunt like this!”
Shen Wuyou: "My wife, you are wrong! How can you say that about your uncle and aunt? He is still my uncle. If he can't make it today, he will go down and reunite with his father! We have to show our appreciation. We have to bring more paper money to burn for this so-called uncle."
"When he was alive, he sacrificed his life for money. After his death, we should treat it as the last farewell of a relative. We should not care too much about it and burn more paper money for him!"
When Mu heard Shen Wuyou openly cursed her own uncle to death, she was so angry that her head hurt and she roared: "Shen Wuyou, your uncle is still alive, and you cursed him to death?"
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi shrugged and said, "Wuyou, he's still breathing. I guess he can hold on until tonight, right?"
Shen Wuyou: "Madam, let's go home first. Anyway, my aunt is going to hold a funeral. If she doesn't inform me, we can save the copper coins for buying paper money."
When Mu heard that the two of them were talking about funerals, she almost vomited blood in anger.
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