"Kneel down!"
After giving the order, Lu Huan, the steward of the Su Mansion who had just been escorted, was seen kneeling on the ground with a somewhat frightened face.
"What's your name?" asked Liu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple.
"Back to the official, the younger one's name is Lu Huan."
After listening, Liu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, asked:
"I heard that you personally killed a hundred people a few years ago."
"But is it true? He hasn't been punished yet."
Upon hearing this, Lu Huan was confused: "Which one?"
"Which one?" Liu Siqing asked doubtfully.
Looking at Liu Siqing's face, the housekeeper Lu Huan hurriedly explained:
"What I mean is that I don't know who the official said I killed."
"My little hands have never been stained with the blood of an enemy."
Su Yunqi, who was kneeling on the ground with chains on his hands and feet, didn't know what to say to him for a moment. Even if he could, he couldn't say anything. After all, the case was still under trial.
It seems that sometimes the housekeeper Lu Huan is not very smart.
"It's up to you."
"Are there any other lives among your men?"
After listening to Liu Siqing's words, Lu Huan's face became a little more nervous and he hurriedly explained:
"No no."
"The younger one is a housekeeper. He is usually in charge of his servants, and he often gets beaten and scolded. It is inevitable that there will be some blood on his hands after beating him."
"I don't know. The official asked me what I was doing."
Liu Siqing glanced at the woman in front of him, and then moved to the housekeeper Lu Huan.
"Someone said you killed an innocent person a few years ago."
"The man wanted to find an excuse, so he ran to the door of the Su Mansion and was beaten to death by you."
Upon hearing this, the face of the housekeeper Lu Huan became a little more nervous. I don't know if he remembered that he had really done this, or if he had forgotten about it for a while and was afraid of being sued.
Seeing this, the housekeeper Lu Huan hurriedly explained for himself: "Nonsense! I have never done this before, and no one has ever asked our master to reason with me. Even if there is, I will tell the master in a hurry."
Listening to these words, the master Su Yunqi on the side felt a little comforted in his heart, and suddenly he didn't feel that the housekeeper Lu Huan was stupid.
As for the three high officials on the stage, they were sitting on this chair without saying a word.
After a while, Liu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, came.
"Niu Fang, what do you think?" Liu Siqing looked at the woman Niu Fang.
After listening, Niu Fang hurriedly said: "Officials, make the decision for the women. That year, the son of the women was beaten to death by him."
"Then did you see him beating your son to death with your own eyes? Liu Siqing asked.
The woman Niu Fang shook her head: "I didn't see it. However, the civilian women heard what the people in the capital said."
Before Liu Siqing could say anything, the butler Lu Huan, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but want to excuse himself.
Niu Fang, a woman on the side, asked:
"Since you
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You didn't see it with your own eyes, you just heard it from hearsay, so how can you be sure that it was me who did it? "
"Don't even think about denying someone without evidence!"
"You!" Niu Fang, a woman, was at a loss for words to argue.
The common people standing outside Dali Temple were all talking a lot. From the discussions, it could be heard that many people knew the truth behind it.
There are also some people who stand on the side of the woman Niu Fang.
At this time, Liu Siqing looked towards the housekeeper Lu Huan who was kneeling on the ground:
"You said you didn't kill his son?"
"What evidence do you have that it wasn't you who beat him to death?"
Upon hearing this, the housekeeper Lu Huan looked anxious. He looked at the master kneeling beside him and wanted to ask him to excuse himself. But after thinking about it, the master himself didn't excuse himself. How could he help him excuse himself? .
The housekeeper Lu Huan was speechless for a moment.
Looking at his face, it was full of nervousness and anxiety.
"Since we have all the evidence, it's hard for me to judge." After saying this, Liu Siqing looked at the next citizen.
"it's your turn."
Hearing his name being called, this common man took a few steps forward:
"Official, Cao Min's name is Zhou She, and he is from the capital city. There are five people in the family, starting from Cao Min's grandfather's generation. Because there are more people in the family, the land in the capital is more."
“The grassroots families have no other income and rely on this kind of land for their livelihood.”
"Last year, everything was fine. Landlord Liu said that someone wanted to pay a high price for the pieces of land my family owned. Once these high prices are paid, the grassroots family will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives."
"Listening to this, at first, our family didn't believe it. Later, Landlord Liu directly wrote the witnesses and the deed, and was waiting to have his fingerprints pressed."
"After seeing the deed written, our whole family agreed and signed the deed."
"But as for the money, they said they would give it to us two days later. Probably because they don't have that much cash yet, they gave us two taels of silver first."
"We didn't think much and agreed. It wasn't until two days later that when we wanted to go to Landlord Liu with the deed, he turned his back on us."
"The deed is not a deed at all."
"The grassroots were still confused at the time, but when they took a look, they realized that all the words on the deed were gone. It was just a blank piece of paper."
"No matter what happens later, the words on the deed will never come back. All the land in this family will be gone."
Listening to his words, Liu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, could hear his pain.
"You are talking about landlord Liu. Is this related to Su Yunqi's family?" Liu Zhen, the minister of Dali Temple, asked.
Zhou She continued:
"have."
"Although his eldest son Su Runchen is an official, he is actually greedy for money. Then Landlord Liu knows Su Runchen."
"Su Runchen, before he became an official, everyone in this capital didn't know that he spent a lot of money. He spent all day visiting flower houses and playing everywhere."
"This plan must have been conspired by the two of them!"
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Seeing Zhou She, a common man, looking so confident, looking at the kneeling officials, and seeing that the two high officials on the side had no objections, Liu Siqing said:
"Somebody come!"
"Bring Su Runchen up!"
Listening to these words, Su Yunqi seemed to feel a little regretful. He didn't expect that his son Su Runchen would suffer because of him.
Later, he saw Su Runchen being escorted to the front of the hall by the Yamen servants.
"Su Runchen."
"I'm asking you!"
"Have you ever met Landlord Liu?"
Su Runchen shook his head and looked at Liu Siqing on the stage with a somewhat nervous expression.
Thinking about what they had told him before, and looking at his father Su Yunqi beside him, he didn't know whether to say it or not.
After thinking about it, I immediately felt a little angry in my heart, thinking about the things my father had done in the past to force me to win the imperial examination with family laws.
Finally, Su Runchen admitted:
"yes."
"I know Landlord Liu."
"My eldest sister, the Empress, spent more money on the palace than on every project of the court at that time, but my father was afraid of my eldest sister and would make her unhappy, so he told the then emperor that his official position was not guaranteed."
"That's why I took most of my family's money to bribe Eunuch Li and asked him to do what he should say and what he shouldn't say."
"That's it, the money at home is not enough for us to spend. My monthly salary is not much. Besides, I have always had a bad habit that I can't get rid of. That's why I conspired with Landlord Liu to occupy his land. , sell it at a not-too-high price and make some money."
Hearing these words, the three senior officials sitting on the stage were not surprised, but Su Yunqi, who was kneeling on the ground, was very surprised.
No matter what, I couldn't believe that my son would say this.
It was just a matter of words, and he told everything he had done.
This made Su Yunqi feel so passionate about business that he wished he could invite that family member out again to teach him a lesson.
Su Yunqi glanced sideways at Su Runchen, then looked back and lowered his head.
Seeing the look in his father's eyes, Su Runchen had already guessed it and chose to ignore it and just follow the plan.
Seeing that Su Runchen was able to go according to plan, several senior officials felt a little happy.
"Su Yunqi."
"Your son said personally that you used money to bribe Eunuch Li, who was the emperor at the time. Can you admit it?"
After listening to these words and looking at the discussions of the people outside, Su Yunqi's attitude remained firm: "I don't admit it!"
"Okay!" Liu Siqing looked at Governor Du Antong in front of the stage: "Captain Du, since he doesn't want to admit it, do you know that he has done this?"
After Du An heard this, he thought about the oath he had made and said according to the plan:
"I don't know."
"But I am sure that it is true that Su Yunqi and those ministers of the court conspired with the King of Han and made a plan together to frame the prince and make the King of Han the successor to the throne."
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