"Okay, I want to ask you, sixteen years ago, when you were in Qiu Mansion, did you see Mrs. Qiu pregnant?"
"Sir, no."
Zhao Jin asked again: "Are you sure what you were doing in Qiu Mansion at that time?"
"Back then, when I was in Qiu Mansion, I worked as a second-class sweeping maid in Madam's courtyard. Later, Madam saw that I was alert and asked me to serve her closely."
"So, you have close contact with Mrs. Qiu almost every day?"
"Yes, sir. A common woman can be sure that my wife was not pregnant at that time. But..."
Speaking of this, Mrs. Guo glanced at Qiu Hong and continued: "But in July of the second year of Tiansheng, Mr. Qiu brought back a baby girl from outside and asked his wife to raise her. He claimed to the outside world that she was born to her."
Qiu Hong's eyes almost popped out.
But now we are in the court, and the person sitting there is the eldest grandson of the founding Duke. He must be surrounded by experts. He cannot kill this Guo family in front of so many people, and he has no chance.
"Okay, as Mrs. Guo said, Sister Rong is not my wife's biological child, but she is fostered in her name. She is the head mother of the Qiu family. As long as it is my Qiu Hong's child, it is her child. This Isn’t it possible?”
Bi Xinyu looked at Qiu Hong sarcastically.
He spoke again: "Sir, I just want everyone to know what kind of person Qiu Hong is. He is a complete hypocrite. His reputation is more important than anything else. He is cruel and ruthless. Sister Rong To Qiu Hong, eloping with a scholar and then coming back pregnant is a great shame and humiliation. He can do anything to a married couple, let alone a daughter who has no value at all."
"These are all your one-sided words. Even if I am a villain, it does not mean that I killed Sister Rong. You have to understand that these are two different things."
"Master Zhao, if that's the case, please allow my third witness to come to court to correct me."
Sanqi went out again, and this time a limping man came out. He looked ugly, but Qiu Hong could hardly stand up when the man appeared.
The man endured his grief, calmly saluted Zhao Jin, and said, "Student Qu Zhisheng, I have met you, sir."
"No need to be polite, tell me what you know in detail."
"yes."
Qu Zhisheng took a deep breath and began to calmly describe what happened two months ago.
Qu Zhisheng set out from Jing County to Kyoto to take the exam. On June 18, he passed through the outskirts of Mingguang County and fainted on the side of the road. He was rescued by Qiu Birong. He took him back to the county inn and asked a doctor to see him.
After he woke up, he started chatting with Qiu Birong. Unexpectedly, the two of them had similar interests, but within just seven days, they fell in love with each other.
After learning about Qiu Birong's identity, she felt that she was not worthy of her, so she promised Qiu Birong that he would marry her after he reaches high school. But when Qiu Birong went to the inn to visit him for the last time, Qiu Hong found out.
So, he and Qiu Hong returned to the county government office and told Qiu Hong about his mutual affection with Qiu Birong, hoping that he would agree.
Unexpectedly, he was ridiculed by Qiu Hong. Qu Zhi was so angry that he left the county government alone.
Plan to leave Mingguang County the next day.
Unexpectedly, Miss Qiu found the inn at night and told him that she ran out secretly. She said she would go to Kyoto with Qu Zhisheng and then return to Mingguang County in glory, so that Qiu Hong would agree to their marriage.
In order to avoid Qiu Hong's search, the two of them deliberately took a small path.
I got lost in the mountains after walking for only two days.
A man and a woman, in that case, had a physical relationship. The next day, they were rescued by a passing hunter. After a few days of recovery, the two headed towards Kyoto again.
They thought that after six or seven days, those people had left, so they happily walked slowly and slowly from the official road to Kyoto.
Time flies to August 20th. They have arrived in Ju County and are very close to leaving Feng Mansion. Unexpectedly, those who captured them are waiting there and want to take Qiu Birong away immediately.
Qiu Birong threatened to die, but those people did not dare to take action.
But they still knocked them unconscious and took them back to Mingguang County while they were sleeping.
Those people did not dare to hurt Qiu Birong, so the rope they tied her was very loose. Qiu Birong untied her and fled again with Qu Zhisheng.
However, they still knew about Qiu Birong's pregnancy.
He also sent a letter about this matter to Qiu Hong.
"How do you know that the person who kidnapped you told Qiu Hong about Miss Qiu's pregnancy?"
"Because, this person!"
Qu Zhisheng pointed at Fu Xin.
"He is the person who chased me and Ronger. Ronger asked this man why he wanted to kill us. He said, on Master Qiu's order. This man's weapon was a soft sword. He not only killed Ronger, but also The person responsible for arresting us pushed me off the cliff."
"It's a bunch of nonsense, it's a bunch of nonsense. Mr. Zhao, his words are not credible."
Qu Zhisheng chuckled twice and took out a black token from his arms: "You may be familiar with this token from Magistrate Qiu. It is the token specially assigned to the yamen servants in the yamen. The yamen servant who was killed by this man five days ago is now If they are still lying there, Mr. Zhao can send someone to check their wounds to see if they were killed by this person’s weapons.”
Gu Qingjue said at this time: "This doesn't have to be so troublesome. I have asked Sanqi to bring those bodies back. But because they were in the wilderness, some of them had been eaten and were incomplete. Only the remaining two were complete. of."
Fortunately, the temperature dropped sharply at the beginning of September.
The corpse, which had been dead for five days, was not seriously decomposed and did not affect the autopsy.
Zhao Jin immediately called Ding Wuzuo, set up a simple autopsy table nearby, and asked Ding Wuzuo to perform an autopsy in front of all the people present.
The two yamen servants pulled a piece of white cloth to block the other yamen servant, who was taking notes with a pen and paper.
It doesn't take long just to check whether the knife edge on the dead man's neck is consistent with the Foxin weapon.
About a quarter of an hour later.
Ding Wuzuo gave the result. The knife edge on the deceased's neck was consistent with Fu Xin's weapon.
Once the autopsy results are out.
Bi Xinyu said: "Qiu Hong, what else do you have to say?"
Unexpectedly, as soon as Bi Xinyu finished speaking, Fuxin, who had been silent until now, suddenly said: "I killed everyone, it's none of your business."
"Fuxin, you are a slave and he is the master. Without his order, you dare to kill the Qiu family's serious master. Where do you have such courage? You can't fool us all into thinking we are fools!"
"There is nothing you can do if you don't believe it, madam. At that time, my lord received a letter and found out that the girl was pregnant, and he was very sad. My subordinates could not see the lord in such a difficult situation, so he decided to kill them both."
"The old gentleman's sincerity is commendable and admirable. It is true that you killed the man, but Mr. Qiu cannot get rid of this letter."
