Others knew the nature of Sister Rui, but the prefect's eyes were shocked by the boxes of jewelry that were brought up.
He pointed to the boxes of jewelry that were brought up and asked, "What is this?"
The leader of the Yamen came out of the queue, bowed his head and said, "Sir Bing! This is the jewelry box in Sister Rui's house. The subordinates thought that the Lord might want to check this place again, so they also brought it here."
After saying that, the yamen officer just opened the boxes one by one, and in an instant, the entire county yamen hall was filled with pearlescent light.
Looking at this room full of treasures, the onlookers all marveled at the fact that they had worked hard all their lives but only earned a few taels of silver. Occasionally, if you give a string of inferior pearls to your wife, you will feel distressed for several days.
But now that this gleaming jewelry is placed in front of them, how can this not make people jealous? This is wealth that they will never see in several lifetimes.
When the prefect saw this situation, his face darkened. He was a fourth-grade Jingcheng County Sheriff, in charge of the security and taxation of the sixteen cities in Yunzhou, and he had never seen so much property at one time.
What's more, this is just a brothel beauty, how can she collect so much property.
He only ordered people to close these adu things first, and then took only the jade Buddha, the gold comb and the white jade pearl string mentioned by the bandit leader and asked the flower girl in the hall, "You got these things from them." Coming?"
Sister Rui turned her head and saw the people she had traded with last night. She was still feeling lucky at the moment, so naturally she refused to be honest, so she just shook her head and said, "These things are all given by the guests, how can I have anything to do with them?" What does it have to do with it?"
After hearing Sister Rui's words, Magistrate Naluo dared to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
The prefect only continued to ask, "Guest? Which of your guests?"
"How can I remember this slave's family clearly? Besides, there are too many merchants traveling from north to south. I'm afraid the people who sent these things have gone somewhere long ago." Sister Rui was just taking a chance and acting carelessly.
The prefect asked again, "Do you know these people?"
Sister Rui naturally couldn't admit to knowing these people. She shook her head and said, "I have never met them in the Nu family. How can I know them?"
The prefect said no more. He just turned to look at the bandit leader and said, "She said this was given to her by her guests! She also said she didn't know you. What do you have to say about this?"
The bandit leader sneered, without looking at the two people in the hall. He clearly said with a confident look, "She doesn't know me, but I know her. I gave these things to her last night! But the villain gave these things to They only paid special attention to it."
Then he just continued in a low voice, "I put a mark on these three things."
After hearing this, the prefect asked "What mark?"
"I carved a triangle on the bottom of the Jade Buddha, I drew a horizontal line on the forty-third tooth of the gold comb from the left, and I carved a herringbone on the string of white jade pearls." The bandit leader said one by one that he had done it hands and feet.
The prefect followed these things and looked at them, and he quickly got confirmation. Not to mention whether these things belonged to the bandit leader, the fact that the bandit leader knew these things was enough to show that the bandit leader had handled these things.
But Sister Rui said she didn't know the bandit leader at all.
Isn't it immediately obvious who is lying?
The eunuch just slapped him hard again. He looked at Magistrate Luo and said, "Now, what else do you have to say."
Magistrate Luo said aggrievedly, "I don't know why things turned out like this. Besides, I didn't find this thing from Beizi! Sir, don't ask me, you should ask her!"
After the words fell, Magistrate Luo pointed his hand at Sister Rui.
Sister Rui was not surprised at all that Magistrate Luo would point his finger at her.
Her relationship with Magistrate Luo is not a pure sexual relationship.
After all, there are many beauties in this world, and it is absolutely impossible for her to let Mr. Luo be entangled with her for so long just by relying on her beauty.
Therefore, when Sister Rui saw that the target of the attack was turned against her, she just patted her head and said, "Damn, my memory is not very good. There are so many guests coming from north to south. I may not remember them all. Maybe this man has been here before." In my room, I forgot about it. As for the handwriting on it, how could I know clearly? After all, they gave me too many things, and I couldn't possibly know everything.
Everyone go check it out! "
"I never spent the night in your house. You are obviously talking nonsense!" the bandit leader said angrily.
"Why did the guest say that? Do you resent Sister Rui for not recognizing you at first sight?"
After hearing Sister Rui's words, everyone knew that she was denying it, but so what if they knew? At the moment, everyone still has nothing to do with her.
The prefect's mind was obviously not on this. After listening to the two people's arguments, he changed the subject.
His eyes fell on the boxes of jewelry again.
He just said with a cold face, "Is this all your stuff?"
Sister Rui nodded, "The slave family is fortunate to have become the oiran of Yecheng. Over the years, thanks to the merchants traveling from north to south, we have indeed accumulated some wealth."
"Isn't all of this wealth given to you by merchants from outside?" the prefect asked with deep meaning.
Sister Rui's thoughts turned around and she could only nod her head, but she had to add, "But there are not many local businessmen."
The prefect didn't say much. He just took out an account book and said, "This is the account book I got from Ye Chenglin's family before. It records some accounts of their family's business transactions. There are about ten items worth more than ten The expenditure of 10,000 yuan is the expenditure in Xichun Tower. And every time you spend a little, the Ye family will get a benefit. It would be unreasonable to say that Master Luo's handwriting was not included in this."
After hearing this, Sister Rui's eyes were so anxious that she didn't have to admit whether there was any transfer of benefits. As long as she couldn't explain the connection, she would be beaten to death by the prefect. The pinboard is up.
And the prefect only continued, "I have some other things in my hand. You can explain it to me, but if you can't explain it clearly, I will have to list you as the same crime. Seducing the imperial official, accept it." Bribery is punishable by death."
The prefect's words seemed to be a reminder and a warning.
Sister Rui couldn't even answer what she said at the moment, but the man said that he had other reasons for Mr. Luo.
After all, not everyone is a stupid pig like Magistrate Luo. Anyone with a discerning eye can tell what is going on at a glance. How dare she hide it anymore.
"Your Excellency, you are right. These things were not given to me. I was just the middleman for their financial transactions. Nominally, they said that the money was for prostitution for me. In fact, all the money ended up in the hands of the Luo County Magistrate. inside."
Hearing that Sister Rui started to betray her, this was tantamount to killing Magistrate Luo for accepting bribes.
Magistrate Luo seemed to be unable to bear such stimulation. He immediately rolled his eyes and fainted.
And Sister Rui just excused herself by saying, "Sir, I am just the handler of their transaction. Although I know that this is not good, I am a weak woman who has no one to rely on. Master Luo is our Yecheng My parents, what can I do? Naturally, I can only obey now."
I have to say that this Sister Rui was a miserable seller. However, when she colluded with Naluo County Magistrate to collect money, her identity as a weak woman has been completely abandoned.
After hearing her speech, another voice suddenly sounded in the hall: "Whether it was my ex-brother-in-law who framed you, or whether you took the initiative to send her to the door, I'm afraid it still needs to be discussed."
When they heard the voice, everyone just followed the sound and saw that the person coming was none other than the former brother-in-law Hu Xu who had made a big fuss in court this morning and forced Magistrate Luo to sign a letter of release from his wife.
Hu Xu only held up a bag of white powder and presented it to the prefect. "Sir, this powder fell from her body. I felt strange at the time, so I asked the doctor from Huichun Hall to check it for me. The doctor said that this powder should be Powder was banned before.”
"And my ex-brother-in-law suddenly fainted during today's court hearing because of the divorce! Madam Rui, you said that my brother-in-law forced you to do what you did, but you didn't know that the divorce was also the result of my brother-in-law's instruction?"
Seeing the package, Mrs. Rui's face turned pale.
She wanted to snatch the packet of powder, but Hu Xu easily ducked out of the way, and Sister Rui missed it.
But Hu Xu only presented the things directly to the prefect.
Seeing that the forbidden medicine in her hand was in the hands of the prefect, Mrs. Rui's face turned completely pale.
Stealing is a capital crime. If they start from the loose side now, they will be caught in a trap. Pull out the real power
Something that kills oneself.
The prefect took the paper bag and sniffed it for a moment, then found out that the stuff was indeed gone.
As a person who was a child of an aristocratic family in his previous dynasty, he had been very wild when he was young. This kind of thing happened to be popular in the world at that time, so he had also played with it.
The prefect just put down the paper bag, and then said to Sister Rui, "Is this yours?"
Sister Rui didn't answer. She bit her lip. When someone in the hall realized that the situation was not good, Sister Rui had already committed suicide by taking poison.
She straightened her waist and fell down, even grabbing her own throat involuntarily. At the same time, she only made some hooting sounds from her mouth from time to time.
The prefect above just shouted for the doctor to come over.
However, when the doctor came over, Sister Rui's body was completely cold, and Wu Zuo only took out half of a pill from her mouth that had not completely melted.
Sister Rui couldn't have expected that she would be here today.
It seems that there are some cases within the case involved behind this.
The prefect's face darkened slightly. He only asked the guards to carry down the stolen goods first, and then ordered people to escort Magistrate Luo and the bandits to the prison.
After doing this, today's court hearing can only come to an end temporarily.
As soon as the case was over, in the inner room of Huichun Hall, a waiter was applying medicine and bandaging the wound of Chen Jinghuai who had taken off his shirt.
The room was quite warm, and the candles in the incense burner were faintly lit.
Just when the guy was about to put a bandage on Chen Jinghuai.
Unexpectedly, a voice suddenly came from outside the door, "I'll do it."
