When the prefect speaks, how can the government officials below dare to be disrespectful?
Immediately, two government officials stepped forward and held Liu Shancheng down. Without saying a word, they lifted up the board and cracked it and beat him.
Liu Shancheng was well-dressed and well-fed, how had he ever experienced this? He was beaten so much that he cried for his father and mother, and after the beating was over, he lay on the ground and couldn't get up.
"Businessman Liu Shancheng!"
"Little... little one is here..." A beating immediately trampled Liu Shancheng's pride under his feet. Listening to the prefect Yu Zhida's inquiry, Liu Shancheng endured the severe pain in his buttocks and gasped. He replied weakly.
"I want to ask you, is there a maid named Xiaohuan in your house?"
"Hui... Huifu Zun's words, I... I don't remember..." Liu Shancheng pretended to be confused.
"Haha, don't remember? Even the maids in your own house don't remember?" Yu Zhida asked with a sneer.
"Going back to the mansion, sir, there are hundreds of people in my mansion, and there are even more maids. I am busy with business and don't care about these things. It is normal to forget about them. But my housekeeper Lin Zhenzong is outside the hall, and my servants are there. Lin Zhenzong is responsible for taking care of everything. The Lord of the Palace can ask Lin Zhenzong to go to court and ask, maybe he knows something." Liu Shancheng is not stupid, he had already planned how to answer before he came, and just now Yu Zhida gave him another direct warning, This beating almost cost him half his life.
So Liu Shancheng killed the maid Xiaohuan Dahuan whom he didn't know, and directly passed the matter to the housekeeper Lin Zhenzong.
Yu Zhida didn't say anything after hearing this, and asked the yamen servant to bring in Lin Zhenzong who was outside with a cold face.
Lin Zhenzong walked into the lobby and saw his master lying on the ground with blood on his butt. He was shocked. When he saw the majestic prefect sitting in the hall, Lin Zhenzong's legs suddenly went weak and he knelt down.
"Who is there? Report it yourself!"
"Little...little Lin Zhenzong is Liu...Liu Shancheng, the housekeeper of Mr. Liu's family." Lin Zhenzong's face turned pale and his body trembled slightly as he replied.
"I want to ask you, did the Liu family have a maid named Xiaohuan before?"
"Huifu Zun, yes... yes..." Lin Zhenzong replied according to Liu Shancheng's previous instructions.
"Where is the person? Where is he now?"
"Back...back to the mansion, maid Xiaohuan died of a sudden illness a month ago. The Liu mansion has already buried her..."
"Master Qingtian! My child died so miserably! My Xiaohuan was not seriously ill at all, but was beaten to death by the Liu family's people! Please ask Master Qingtian to make the decision for the villain!" Lin Zhenzong As soon as the words fell, a sharp and sad cry suddenly sounded. The woman in the kneeling couple just raised her head and shouted, her face full of tears, and she looked at Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong with incomparable hatred in her eyes.
The same goes for Xiao Huan's father, who stretched out his hand to grab his wife, but his eyes were piercing towards Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong like knives. His eyes were filled with tears, and his face was full of grief and anger.
Subconsciously avoiding their eyes, Lin Zhenzong denied it flatly: "Hui Fu Zun, Xiao Huan did die of a sudden illness. Many people in the Liu Family know about this. If the Fu Zun doesn't believe it, he can ask the servants of the Liu Family to ask. , I can guarantee that every sentence is true!"
Lin Zhenzong can be Liu Shancheng's big housekeeper, and he is also called the Second Master in the Liu Mansion. He is not a useless guy who only knows how to flatter. He is not only the brother of Liu Shancheng's favorite concubine, Xiangyu, but also a very clever person. Although he had just gone to court to see Liu Shancheng's miserable state, and the majesty in the hall had made him tremble with fear, but after a few words, Lin Zhenzong's heart gradually returned to his stomach.
Lin Zhenzong knew how Xiaohuan died, but as long as he died of illness after one bite, there was nothing they could do to Yu Zhida. Anyway, people have long been thrown into mass graves after death. It is still unclear whether the body can be found.
As for what he said about someone in the Liu family who can testify, this is not a problem at all for the Liu family. Liu Shancheng is the head of the Liu family, and he is the chief steward of the Liu family. Naturally, the people below him will not talk casually.
"Lin Zhenzong!" Yu Zhida's unhurried voice continued: "Have you tried carefully to make sure that maid Xiaohuan died of illness? Wasn't she beaten to death?"
"Go back to the mansion and tell me, I'm sure!" Lin Zhenzong said firmly.
With a snap, Yu Zhida was shocked and said with a sneer: "In that case, someone is here! It is said that Yang Er is coming to the court!"
With an order, an old man in his fifties entered the hall. He first saluted Yu Zhi in the hall, and then reported his identity according to the rules.
This Yang Er is the most experienced widower in Pingyang Mansion. His Yang family has been eating this bowl of rice for generations. The last time the Kang family ate a dead person, he was the one who invited the body to be examined. This saved the Kang family from a difficult situation.
After Yang Er came to the court, Yu Zhida directly asked about the autopsy results. Yang Er immediately replied and said that he had taken people to the mass grave to dig out the body of the maid Xiaohuan. Because it was cold now, although the body had been buried for more than a month. Months old, but it was well preserved, so the autopsy process went very smoothly.
Judging from the autopsy results, Yang Er spoke a lot of professional terminology, many of which ordinary people could not understand at all, but Yu Zhida listened attentively. After all, he was different from ordinary local officials. He was born in Dali Temple, so he was considered an expert in this regard. The technical officer's face turned gloomy after hearing this.
Finally, Yang Er summarized the results and reported that it was absolutely impossible for the maid Xiaohuan to die of a sudden illness. She was clearly beaten to death and died of organ failure. There is absolutely no way this conclusion is wrong, and a formal autopsy report was submitted to Yu Zhida!
As soon as these words came out, the whole room was shocked, and the couple even burst into tears.
Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong were stunned. They never thought how the other party found the place where the maid Xiaohuan's body was buried. You must know that even Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong only knew that it was buried in a mass grave outside the city and did not know the specific location.
But now the body has been found, and Yang Er's autopsy report proves that Xiaohuan's death was caused by lynching and not due to sudden illness as they just said. For a moment, Liu Shancheng's mind was buzzing, and he knew that this matter was in serious trouble. Once it was proved that Xiaohuan's death was caused by his own instructions, it would not be easy to escape.
"Master of the Palace! I... I don't know this. The death of Xiao Huan or the actions of my servant Diao Nu have nothing to do with me!" Liu Shancheng quickly defended himself and at the same time turned his head slightly towards the back. Lin Zhenzong looked at it, his eyes indicating that he should take responsibility first, and no matter what, he would never be burned by this fire.
Lin Zhenzong was also dumbfounded. He was still swearing a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye, he was directly exposed. The facts were in front of him, and it was useless to quibble. Now Liu Shancheng kept giving him looks, clearly asking him to take on this matter.
But Lin Zhenzong is not stupid, this is not an ordinary thing, a human life! If it were Liu Shancheng, he might be fine with his connections, but he was just a housekeeper, and the so-called second master was just a title within the Liu family. To put it bluntly, he was just Liu Shancheng's dog.
Once this life is on his head, he may be finished. How can Lin Zhenzong admit it? But he didn't dare to blame this matter on Liu Shancheng, so he could only change his mind and say that he also heard the report from the people below, and he was deceived by the people below. Specifically, who killed Xiaohuan? Yes, he doesn’t know either.
"What a naughty slave, come here! Beat me! Beat me hard!" At this time, Lin Zhenzong still refused to admit it, and Yu Zhida suddenly became angry.
After giving the order, the two government officials who had just beaten Liu Shancheng immediately stepped forward, held Lin Zhenzong down and slapped the board on him.
This beating made Lin Zhenzong cry for his father. After the beating, Yu Zhida asked Lin Zhenzong again. Unexpectedly, Lin Zhenzong still denied it, saying that the death of maid Xiaohuan had nothing to do with him, and that he had also been deceived by his servants. , I was really wronged.
Lin Zhenzong's reaction surprised Yu Zhida. He originally thought that Lin Zhenzong would be able to recruit him truthfully with a slap in the face, but he didn't expect that Lin Zhenzong would be so stubborn and still refused to admit it.
Frowning slightly, Yu Zhida began to think about it. According to his experience, this case must be closely related to Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong.
But now Liu Shancheng pushed 256 and insisted that he didn't know about this. As for Lin Zhenzong, he was also extremely cunning. He flatly denied that he had killed Xiao Huan, and the case was suddenly frozen.
Looking aside subconsciously, the man who had been sitting in the hall without speaking nodded to Yu Zhida, and Yu Zhida suddenly felt reassured.
As soon as he was shocked, Yu Zhida announced that Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong would be temporarily imprisoned, and the case would be retried at a later date. Then, despite Liu Shancheng and Lin Zhenzong's cries of injustice, several government officials came forward, put torture instruments on the two men, took them away from the hall, and put them in the government prison.
After being taken away, he announced his withdrawal.
Yu Zhida stood up and turned to the back. The man who had been sitting there also stood up, walked to the couple and leaned over to comfort them for a few words, and then followed the direction in which Yu Zhida left.
A moment later, in the back hall of the government office, Yu Zhida and the man were sitting. There were two cups of steaming tea on the table. The two of them did not move, but talked softly.
