"This, this..." Prefect Zhang hesitated. "It was my negligence. Someone told me that the prisoner had confessed. There were her signature and fingerprints on the document, and I believed it. I was negligent. I didn't know someone would do such a thing. When I return, I will find the person who committed the fraud and punish them severely."
Zhou Gongjin waved his hand, "Let's put this aside for now. Bring up the witness, Wang Tiezhu."
Wang Tiezhu knelt tremblingly in the hall, with his head lowered and not daring to look up.
"Wang Tiezhu, I want to ask you, did you clearly see that person that night? Was it the person in the hall?"
Wang Tiezhu nodded without hesitation, "Yes, it's her. The person I saw that night was her."
Zhou Gongjin said, "Call the witnesses."
Everyone thought it was Qian and Sun, but unexpectedly a new face appeared, and the man limped into the court.
"I, Hong Ling, greet you all, my Lords."
"Tell me in detail what you know."
"Yes." Hong Ling said softly, repeating in front of everyone what she had said in the Prime Minister's study that day.
Everyone, whether in the hall or outside, was shocked and could not believe that such a thing could happen.
"That's all I know."
Wang Tiezhu yelled, "Impossible! I absolutely couldn't have been wrong. How could I have been wrong about a man and a woman?"
Bei Yutang said, "I have a way to prove that what you saw is not what you thought. Sometimes, seeing is not always believing. I wonder if Your Excellency would allow me to conduct an experiment?"
Minister Yang refused directly, "You are a prisoner, it is not appropriate for you to conduct experiments."
Censor Zhou said, "I think it's possible. It's reasonable for me to prove my innocence. What do you think, sir?"
When Prime Minister Zhou saw him kick the ball back to him, he smiled and said, "Okay."
Seeing that both of them agreed, Minister Yang knew that it was useless for him to disagree, so he simply kept his mouth shut.
Bei Yutang and Hong Ling both stepped back. She gave a few instructions to the yamen runners. They didn't understand what she wanted to do, but they still did what she told them to do.
Bei Yutang looked at the women in front of him. They were very similar in shape and height.
She used the cosmetics that Anye brought and began to put makeup on the five people. She also made them wear the same clothes and the same hairpins.
No one outside the hall knew anything about what happened behind the scenes. Everyone was waiting to see how she would prove it.
At this time, the yamen runner was holding a piece of gauze, ready to pull it up at the entrance of the hall.
Minister Yang frowned, "What are you doing? Why are you pulling gauze in the court?"
The yamen runner bowed and replied, "Sir, this is what Mu Zhitao ordered us to do. She said that it was night, dark and windy, and the light was dim. Now it is daytime, and they can't wait until night, so they used a piece of gauze to block it out a little. Although it's not as dark as night, it can still complete the experiment."
Everyone was waiting, curious about what she would do and how she would prove that seeing is not necessarily believing.
After a cup of tea, the yamen runner asked Wang Tiezhu to close his eyes, and he watched from the side to prevent him from opening them.
After Wang Tiezhu closed his eyes, five people walked out from the back hall, four of them were women, and the other one was Hong Ling. Bei Yutang was not among them.
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