It was easy for Zhao Lan to see a prisoner.
Su Yanli didn't want his daughter to be involved, "Ajin, if you have anything to ask, I will go with Zijin."
"Dad, this case is closed with you. It's not appropriate for you to intervene."
"and you……"
"It may be another case."
Su Yanli was shocked.
"Dad, even if it's another case, the Dali Temple will try it first, and then the Ministry of Justice."
"Ajin, do you think the old woman's death was strange?"
"Just check and you'll know."
Su Yanli was still worried about his daughter. "Ajin, you're getting married soon. Let the Dali Temple investigate this."
"Dad, of course we have to go to the Dali Temple to investigate."
"So you're still going to jail?"
Su Ruojin stood up and said, "Dad, don't worry. I am pretending to be Brother Jin's servant and I am just going to ask Li Si. The rest is the Dali Temple's business."
Su Yanli believed his daughter was not a willful person, and he believed even more in Zhao Lan, the commander of the Imperial City Division.
"Then you must be careful."
"I know, Dad, don't worry."
On a dark and windy night, Zhao Lan took Su Ruojin, who was dressed as a servant, to the Ministry of Justice prison and quietly brought Li Si for interrogation.
Before the interrogation, his life trajectory was thoroughly investigated by Santai.
Su Ruojin walked up to the convicted Li Si and said, "According to my investigation, you have always loved eating and gambling since you were a child, and you are not interested in women. Why did you suddenly want to seduce your neighbor Zhang San's wife after so many years?"
Eating, drinking, gambling, whoring and stealing are common habits that ordinary lower-class men have one or two of. These bad habits can lead to poverty at best and the destruction of the family at worst. Those who want to live a good life will always control one or two of them.
Because the charges had already been made, he was waiting to be exiled to the north. Li Si, who had already calmed down, was suddenly brought back for trial. He was so scared that his legs were shaking, and he thought, no way, am I going to be sentenced to beheaded like Zhang San?
"Your Excellency, I have confessed all the crimes that should be confessed. Although I agreed to Zhang San's wife swap, I did not let him kill my wife. It's not that I am shameless, but that he is too cruel."
What a scumbag.
If she didn't want to investigate the case, Su Ruojin really wanted to beat him to a pulp.
Su Ruojin frowned and warned sternly: "Don't answer irrelevant questions."
Santai and Shuangrui also glanced at each other and put pressure on.
Li Si's legs shook even more, and he kept trembling, but he refused to say anything.
Su Ruojin took a few steps back.
Santai turned around and waved his hand. Two torturers came up immediately with caltrops in their hands. Li Si was so scared that he blurted out, "The criminal... made a bet that if I succeed in seducing someone, I will get twenty taels."
"What about twenty taels?"
"I lost the bet."
"But why didn't you say anything about this matter, whether it was the Dali Temple's trial or the Ministry of Justice's review?"
"Sin... sinners..."
Li Si's eyes rolled around and he avoided answering.
Su Ruojin sneered, "Let me tell you, living next door to you, Zhang San's family lives a better life than you. Although you are always jealous, you just keep it in mind. Unexpectedly, one day, someone made a bet with you, which not only earned you money, but also caused trouble for the Zhang family. So you, who were not lustful to begin with, seduced Wang San's wife. Wang San has a straightforward personality, and you have a lot of dealings with people, are slick, and with deliberate sweet talk, you quickly seduced Zhang San's wife, right?"
Li Si was shocked. He didn't expect that something would go wrong with the case that had already been decided. Was God trying to kill him?
He was so scared that his face turned pale and he knelt down. "I was blinded by jealousy, but I really didn't want to do these bad things in the beginning. It's all because of my poor choice of friends. One wrong step leads to all the wrong steps. Please have mercy on me, I don't want to die..."
"If you don't want to die, then tell me who instigated you?"
When the time came to kill him, Li Si finally gave his friend away. Until this moment, he regretted his decision. He was obviously not a lustful person, but he had an affair with someone else's wife and even harmed his own wife. It was all retribution!
After interrogating for nearly half an hour, Zhao Lan finally brought Su Ruojin out of the prison.
At the end of August, in the dark night, only a small crescent moon appeared and disappeared in the clouds.
The two of them got on the carriage back home. Zhao Lan pondered for a moment, "Ajin suspected that someone was setting up a scheme to destroy the Zhang family for the sake of their shop?"
Su Ruojin nodded: "Such a covert method is like silkworms eating mulberry leaves, gradually taking over."
The world seemed bright and peaceful, and the entire city of Bianjing was prosperous. However, in the dark corners, countless intrigues, broken families and deaths occurred every day.
Zhao Lan glanced at the young lady. In the past, no matter it was a small stall or a shop, someone had tried to take over the Su family, so it was normal for her to think of this.
"San Tai, in addition to keeping an eye on the Wang and Li families, find out who are Li Si's cronies as soon as possible and find out who is behind the shop."
"Yes, Master."
It was late at night, and the night watchman was knocking on the clapper: "It's dry, be careful with fire."
In a courtyard somewhere in the capital, a figure flashed into the yard. After a while, there was a gentle knock on the door. "Master, Zhao Xiaoliu went to the Dali Temple late at night to interrogate Li Si for his father-in-law."
"Not Zhang San?"
"Yes, Master."
The light suddenly came on in the dark room. A young man sat up from behind the curtains and looked out the dark window. "Come in."
The servant hurried to open the door.
Someone immediately flashed in, "Master."
"Since you know that the person being interrogated is Li Si, you know what to do, right?"
The figure raised his eyes to look at the man sitting on the bed, then retracted his gaze and said with a bow, "I understand."
"Make sure to wipe it clean, understand?"
"I understand."
"Um."
Hearing the response, the figure left the room.
The servant saw the man leave and said, "Master..."
"What time is it?"
"My Lord, it's almost four o'clock in the morning."
It was getting light. The young man looked out the window again and lay down again. "Wake me up soon."
"Yes, Master."
Two days later, the Dali Temple caught the eldest son of the Wang family trading a shop with someone else. The shop deed was exactly for the two shops rented out by Wang San. Both the seller and the buyer were taken to the Dali Temple.
This time, the case was personally tried by Dali Temple Minister Lu Youbai. There was another case in the case of murdering the neighbor's wife, and an additional property crime was added to the crime of adultery.
In order to seize Wang San's shop, the son of the head of the Wang family found his cronies and made friends with Li Si. He instigated Li Si to hook up with Wang San's wife and deliberately let Wang San know about their affair. After being discovered, Li Si, in order to avoid jail, stabilized Wang San by offering money and exchanging his wife.
But later, after being instigated, he did not do any ideological work on his wife, and his wife was not even aware of the matter. Instead, he deliberately said that the security was not good recently, and asked his wife to be careful at home and to keep a pair of scissors with her. When Wang San arrived at Li Si's house, he found that his wife had no idea about this and even threatened him with a pair of scissors. In a rage, he snatched the scissors and killed someone.
After the Ministry of Justice closed the case, the son of the head of the Wang family was impatient to take action and was caught red-handed.
When the case was brought to the Ministry of Justice for trial, the Ministry opened its doors to allow ordinary people to sit in.
Wang Jucai, the son of the head of the Wang family, said, "It was my wife who went to my aunt to stir up trouble, which caused my aunt to hang herself at the entrance of the Ministry of Justice. If there hadn't been someone on duty at the Ministry of Justice, my aunt would have wanted to die at the entrance of the Ministry of Justice."
The onlookers gasped and said, "For the sake of money, they are worse than pigs and dogs."
"You have such a dark heart, you are such a beast."
“So dark-hearted.”
…
Finally, justice was done to the common people, and the new minister was cleared of the blame for his mistakes. (End of this chapter)
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