"Master Liu, aren't you the court's courtier? Logically speaking, you should be extremely intelligent. Shouldn't you be unable to even try this case?"
Wang Zhipeng seized the opportunity and acted strangely.
Liu Xinnan looked calm and asked the two women first: "I want to ask you, you all said that the child is your own, so is there any birthmark on this child?"
"There is a scar on my butt!" Mrs. Zhang, who was holding the child, said first.
Mrs. Liu gritted her teeth and said, "That scar was caused by accidentally burning it with a poker when I was lighting a fire on the stove three months ago. It's not a birthmark!"
Mrs. Zhang added: "My son has it since he was born. If you don't believe it, look at it. It's on the left side of his buttocks, like a little crescent moon."
After that, he pushed aside the swaddling clothes to reveal the baby's little buttocks. As expected, there was a small crescent-like scar on the left half, but the scar had healed, leaving only a shallow mark. It was difficult to tell whether it was congenital or not. Caused the day after tomorrow.
And since there is a possibility for the trafficker to change the baby, it means that she may also be aware of the birthmark. It is not applicable to use birthmarks to distinguish true from false.
Liu Xinnan was in trouble again and couldn't help but shift her gaze to Song Che.
Song Che said calmly: "Although the birthmark still cannot prove your identity, since you all know the location of the birthmark on the child, it means that one of you must be real and the other is fake."
He glanced at the two young women with sharp eyes and said word by word: "Those who abduct women and children will be punished with death... One of you two is going to be in bad luck."
After such a threat, you can tell who is real and who is fake at a glance. No matter how good her acting skills are, her eyes will still show her heart.
Song Che already knew this. He got off his horse, walked up to the woman named Zhang, and looked at her with cold eyes for a moment.
Zhang's eyes dodge and doubts arise.
"Since there is a dispute about who owns this child, let it be handed over to the government for safekeeping first. You two will follow us into the Yamen. When you get to the court, who is right and who is wrong, who is right and who is wrong, who lives and who dies, Mr. Liu will have his own conclusions. .”
Song Che took the child from Zhang's hand, held it in his arms and shook it. The crying baby instantly calmed down. He returned to the horse with the child in his arms, and the honor guard continued walking towards the Yamen.
The common people were curious about how the new prefect would solve the case, and they spontaneously followed him to the Yamen to watch the excitement.
"Brother Song, do you think my son is like this little guy?" Jiang Yuntian stretched out his finger and wanted to touch it but didn't dare to.
Song Che smiled and handed the child over, "Would you like a hug?"
"I am a military general with hands stained with blood. I am afraid that I will scare him into tears if I hug him." Jiang Yuntian said, glanced sideways at the two women following the team, and said coldly: "Even the little baby No one will be spared, all human traffickers in the world should be put to death."
"My two good eldest brothers, you still have the heart to amuse the children..." Liu Xinnan was so anxious, "Now the people in the entire Ning Palace are looking forward to me to solve the case. I have no clue at all. What should I do? ?”
Song Che didn't feel embarrassed at all. Since the children couldn't provide clues, he could just look for the answer from the two women.
"Put your ears closer." He hooked his fingers.
Liu Xinnan put her ear close to it and listened to Song Che whispering a few words in her ear. She showed doubts and thought for a moment, then her eyes lit up and she suddenly realized.
"Brother Song is so smart!"
"Shh... don't make any noise for now. When we get to the court, we will have the final say."
…
Ningguo Mansion Court.
Liu Xinnan looked at the four characters "Gao Xuan Ming Jing" on her eyebrows and couldn't help but burst into tears: "Dad, my daughter did it..."
She shed tears, took her seat in the hall, and slapped the gavel hard:
"Ascending to the Hall!"
The yamen servants who were supposed to be calling Tang Wei were almost indifferent as if they had not woken up.
"Promote the hall!" Liu Xinnan raised her voice.
The yamen servant only symbolically moved the killing stick twice, and had no intention of buying his stick.
"Mr. Liu, you are so dignified!" Wang Zhipeng, who was standing outside the courtroom and among the crowd, shouted proudly at the top of his lungs.
Liu Xinnan blushed with anger and yelled at Dutou: "Chen Dutou, why are you so listless?"
Chen You yawned, looking like he had smashed a broken jar, and said feebly: "You don't know something, sir. Yesterday I learned that you were coming. We got up at the fourth watch to get ready. We didn't even eat a bite of breakfast. Now, How can I have the strength to ascend to the throne?"
"You!" Liu Xinnan shouted: "Brother Jiang!"
For physical work, go to Brother Jiang, and for mental work, go to Brother Song. She learned the lesson.
Jiang Yuntian smiled and said: "Little brother Liu, you are the most powerful official in Ningguo Mansion now. These government servants have to rely on you for food. They are not rigorous in their work style and desecrate the court. You have to learn to give orders. For example, Zhang Ji Thirty or something like that..."
"Then... let's kill Chen You for thirty years first! Follow the rules of the court!" Liu Xinnan issued the order.
"Hey, this looks like an official!" Jiang Yuntian jumped down from the courtroom, grabbed the killing stick of a government official, and strode towards Chen You.
When he set up a stool for Liu Xinnan before, Chen You had seen Jiang Yuntian's strength. When he saw this evil star approaching, his knees went weak in fright, and he quickly kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Sir, it's only your first day in office, how can you fight?" My family?"
"Snapped!"
Jiang Yuntian hammered him to the ground with a sap, then stepped on his back, beating him while cursing: "Things with no eyes, I have to make you remember!"
"Ouch! Ouch..."
Chen You, a strong man, was trampled to the ground and couldn't get up. His screams echoed in the courtroom.
Every time he shouted, the other officials stood up straighter.
After thirty spankings, Chen You's buttocks were dripping with blood and he almost lost his sense of humor.
"Tsk... That's all it takes... If I hit you with the same force as in the army, I'm afraid you'll die with ten sticks. It's really useless." Jiang Yuntian threw the killing stick and clapped his hands, " Drag him down!"
Two government officials dragged Chen You out of the courtroom.
"Snapped!"
The gavel rings again:
"Ascending to the Hall!"
"mighty……"
"Take Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Liu!"
Two young women were taken to court.
"Ms. Zhang, Mrs. Liu, you two said that the child is yours, and it's not easy for me to make a judgment at the moment. How about this-" Liu Xinnan winked at Song Che.
Song Che held the child in his arms, walked between the two young women, and said to them: "Now the child will be placed among you. Whoever snatches it will be the biological mother, and whoever cannot snatch it will be the trafficker and will be punished in court!"
As soon as these words came out, there was an explosion outside the courtroom.
"What kind of trial is this? Whoever robs him belongs to him, so I will come in and rob him too. If I rob the child, it will be mine?" Wang Zhipeng shouted at the top of his voice to incite the people's emotions.
"Yes, for such a young child, what should I do if something happens to me?"
"How could anyone be so considerate of parents and officials..."
"Snapped!"
"Silence, silence!" Liu Xinnan said loudly: "My order has been made, no more repentance, Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Liu, start robbing."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang took the lead in attacking. If Song Che hadn't protected the child, he might have been taken out.
Mrs. Liu realized it later, but she still held on to the swaddling clothes and did not know how to touch the child.
The two women began to fight in the court.
The little baby cried loudly.
The more they looted, the more straightforward their humanity became. Mrs. Zhang's expression was almost ferocious, and Mrs. Liu was so distressed that she burst into tears.
Finally, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but let go of her hand. She collapsed to the ground, "Xiaobao, Mom, I'm sorry for you..."
"Sir, the child is mine!" Mrs. Zhang held the crying baby in her arms, showing off her power like a trophy.
"Snapped!"
"Come here! Capture this vicious woman Zhang!" Liu Xinnan was so angry that she burst into rage.
With quick eyes and quick hands, Song Che snatched the baby from Zhang's hands, then kicked her to the ground and cursed: "You vicious woman, how can any biological mother be willing to tear her own child apart? You are not like this at all. The child’s mother! You don’t deserve to be anyone’s mother!”
The yamen servant used a killing stick to knock Zhang to the ground.
"Sir! Sir, I was wronged. I...I couldn't bear to have my child snatched away by this human trafficker, so that's why——"
"Shut up!"
Liu Xinnan walked down the court and asked angrily: "This is just a little baby waiting to be fed. If you have the ability, feed him in front of the court and see if you can squeeze out a drop of milk!"
"And!" Song Che glared at Mrs. Zhang and said, "As a dad with three children, I can tell you that any mother who has ever taken care of a child knows that six-month-old children need to be held upright, but you never You hugged him sideways from beginning to end, you are not a mother at all, you have never had a child at all!"
Mrs. Zhang hurriedly defended: "Well...that's because I was so eager to protect my son that I forgot how to hold her. Also...I come from a wealthy family and was born with a defect of insufficient milk. Of course I couldn't express milk. I couldn't express it." He gave his son to the wet nurse to feed!"
"You still dare to quibble now! I will send people to your house to search. If you can't find the wet nurse or a piece of children's clothes, I will kill you in the market with a stick!"
Faced with all the accusations, Ms. Zhang was so frightened that she sweated profusely. She finally lost control and kowtowed to beg for mercy: "Sir, please have mercy. The women of the common people have not had children for many years, so they were deceived for a moment. I really didn't mean to steal the child." !”
She didn't know she was wrong, but she was afraid.
"Vicious woman! Mrs. Liu is a widowed person. She has to bring her children with her when buying tofu. How can you bear to do it to her? What you did today is outrageous to everyone. Even if I spare you, the people of Ningguo Mansion will not I will spare you!"
"Yes! Beat this vicious woman to death!"
"Human traffickers should be cut to pieces!"
The people outside the courtroom hated the traffickers and shouted loudly that they should be sentenced to death.
Liu Xinnan obeyed the public opinion, lifted up the hem of his official uniform, took a square step and sat back in the high hall, knocked on the gavel, and loudly announced the verdict:
"Ms. Zhang, the convict, stole children on the street. The villain complained first. This is a heinous crime. In accordance with the laws of Daliang, I will execute her on the street to rectify the law!"
"good!"
"Ningguo Mansion finally has a good official!"
Very happy!
