When the black sack was taken off the first person's head, Lu Sui was shocked when he saw the man's face clearly. Why did this person look so unfamiliar?
The man had a square face and as soon as he opened his mouth he looked like he was going to confess his crime honestly.
"I forged this account book of Marquis Zhaoping."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone was shocked!
Lu Sui was on high alert, but he never expected that the troublemaker would come from the Dali Temple!
He wanted to stop it, but he didn't know how to stop it in public. The man had already spoken. If he asked the General of Cavalry's men to shoot this man in public, wouldn't it further prove that there was something fishy about the case?
"My name is Mi Ya. I used to be the shopkeeper at Haiyun Bank. I think many people know me."
"I accepted money from a centurion from the military camp. He brought the original account book of the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion and asked me to forge it to make it look old, but only added the expenditure of 300,000 taels of silver."
"Those of you who are knowledgeable can take a look. Although this newly added account book has traces of age, it cannot be exactly the same as the original account book of the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion."
"The red seal on the original account book of the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion has irregular jagged edges. Even with my best craftsmanship, I can't imitate it."
Then another woman in her forties limped out of the Dali Temple, holding in her hand an account book that looked almost identical to the one on the evidence table.
"I used to work in the mansion of Marquis Zhaoping as a cook in the small kitchen. Marquis Zhaoping was kind-hearted. When he learned that I was going to be exiled, he dismissed the servants and gave each of us a resettlement fee."
"But as soon as we servants left the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion, we were hunted down. I managed to escape with the original account books, but I only managed to break a leg."
Everyone was surprised after hearing the woman's statement.
"This is murder to silence the witnesses!"
"Wan Niang, you are the Wan Niang of Zhao Ping Hou Mansion. Before Zhao Ping Hou Mansion betrayed and was exiled, you and your husband often came to me to buy fresh side dishes!"
"I remember you! You often shared leftovers from the kitchen with beggars on the outskirts of the city!"
The woman nodded with tears in her eyes: "My husband was not as lucky as me. He has been killed."
The people sighed and were outraged: "What kind of world is this? Good people really don't get rewarded!"
"Everyone in Zhaoping Marquis's mansion is almost dead! God is so cruel!"
Wanniang took out the account book in her hand and handed it to Zhang Yuan.
"Anyone who knows the business can carefully look for the difference between the two account books."
"I started working as a servant at the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion at the age of thirteen. I watched the Marquis rise to higher ranks, and watched the Crown Prince, the Second Young Master, and the Third Young Lady grow up. If the Marquis of Zhaoping's mansion had harbored any rebellious intentions, even if they had been on guard, it wouldn't have ended up in the situation it was in back then, where it was so easily slandered and slaughtered!"
——"I'm a woodcarver. I can tell the difference between these and seals by observing them carefully!"
Someone immediately went forward to look at the account book.
Zhang Yuan pulled out a magnifying glass from his sleeve, which his master had given him. "I have a rare item here called a magnifying glass. If you just put one eye on the opening of the glass, you can see the seal after it's magnified!"
The magnifying glass was passed around to the people. The first person who got it compared the two account book seals and exclaimed, "They're really different!"
"The serrations around the seal on this fake account book used to embezzle military funds are very neat, as if they were deliberately made to imitate the serrations on the real account book!"
At this moment, a man in black suddenly stepped forward from the crowd and rushed towards the account book!
The general's men, who were mixed in the crowd, immediately stepped forward and pinned the man in black to the ground, "Who is he?"
"Catch him! He's trying to destroy the account books! Destroy the evidence!"
Lu Sui was dumbfounded when he saw his undercover being held down by the General of Cavalry's men. He quickly walked into the Dali Temple and found the General of Cavalry who was acting as his advisor.
Lu Sui angrily questioned: "General Bai, your people don't maintain order in the venue, why are you arresting people at random?"
Hou Xiaoxiao's grandfather, General Bai, was drinking the latest jasmine tea from Xiaoran Teahouse. Upon hearing this, he put down his cup in surprise and said, "What's going on? What happened to my men? Who did they arrest?"
Lu Sui recounted what had just happened.
General Bai was completely confused. "Why are they arresting people randomly? You clearly ordered my men to maintain order in the venue, and to pay special attention to those who suddenly jumped out."
"Isn't that person who jumped out to grab the account book disrupting order in the venue?"
--"this!"
Lu Sui really couldn't explain it clearly. Is this old General Bai really confused or is he pretending to be confused?
Can't you see that the people he wants him to arrest are the powerful witnesses who came forward to redress the injustice for the Marquis Zhaoping's Mansion?
However, this General of the Cavalry and the ancestors of the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion had been enemies for generations because of a lot of things like fighting for military merits and disagreements. The grudges had not been resolved from generation to generation, so it was impossible for him to help the Marquis of Zhaoping's Mansion!
There is no point in dwelling on this issue at this point, because the window paper has been broken in full view of everyone, and nothing you do will help.
Lu Sui was like a dumb person eating coptis chinensis, unable to express his pain.
At this moment, he wanted to bang his head against the stone pier in front of the Dali Temple and die!
What should I do next? If Zhang Yuan continues to judge like this, the verdict will be overturned!
When you pull out a radish, you bring out the mud. Even I, who handled the case back then, was not spared.
I was sent here to support Zhang Yuan. Now I am publicly accusing Zhang Yuan of making a wrong judgment. Isn't it even more strange?
General Bai looked at Lu Sui who was running around in a hurry, and took a sip of jasmine and pear tea. Not bad, not bad, the tea made by his granddaughter's tea shop is fragrant.
Although he was not on good terms with the Marquis Zhaoping's Mansion, his granddaughter's words came first!
Ever since Hou Xiaoxiao helped him pick up the pieces and saved the emperor's life during the palace coup, he has listened to his little girl in everything, and there's nothing wrong with that!
Outside the Dali Temple.
Magnifying glasses were passed to the people one after another, and after looking at the account book on the evidence table, everyone exclaimed that it was a fake account book.
The black cloth on the second witness's head was also removed. He was found to be blind in one right eye and missing the index finger of his left hand.
The first witness, Mi Ya, was surprised: "It's you!"
He quickly said to everyone, "Everyone, this is the man who asked me to forge the account books! I don't know whose general he is, but judging by his aura and gait, he looks very similar to the Xin family army!"
"He must be the traitor who betrayed the Marquis!"
The second witness was silent for a moment, then said to the crowd, "I am a member of the Xin family army and a close confidant of Tiger General Yao Chengping."
"Five years ago, Yao Chengping, unwilling to be subordinate to Marquis Zhaoping, took a group of men he had trained and went out on his own, heading to Haiyan City in the east of Dasheng to clean up the rampant pirates at sea."
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