Liang Guangyi almost fainted.
Why can't he spare these people?
He had nothing to do with this matter, so why couldn't he spare these people? What does it have to do with him whether these people are dead or alive? !
Cao Dejiang frowned: "Master Liang, I already told you that the case in Nandi is being tried at the moment. What do you mean by interrupting me again and again?"
"you you……"
Liang Guangyi was so angry that he was shaking all over.
Cao Dejiang's eyebrows tightened: "Do you really have selfish motives?"
"I don't have it!"
"That means Grand Master Liang thinks I am not worthy of asking about this case? That's right. You are the Grand Master and I am just a censor. How can I ask questions?"
Liang Guangyi: "!!"
He didn't say that! !
"You're talking nonsense..."
He opened his mouth to scold Cao Dejiang and wanted to accuse him, but Xiao Yan, who was standing quietly, frowned and said, "Master Liang, you scared the witness."
Liang Guangyi: "..."
The words in his mouth stopped suddenly, and his whole face seemed to be dyed, with turns red and white.
Xiao Yan: "Master Liang has exceeded the rules in front of Your Majesty."
puff--
"Cough cough cough cough!"
Fu Laiqing had a mouthful of saliva stuck in his throat, choking and his face turned red. Faced with the death gaze of his uncle and grandfather, he quickly shrank his neck and hid behind the pillar beside him.
He really didn't mean it. It was really a great loss to his uncle and Xiao Yan.
Tang Ning couldn't help but curl her lips. Qian Qiyue, who had been being held tightly by Mrs. Qian, also hung her head and moved strangely on her shoulders.
Let this old guy from the Liang family want to add insult to injury.
Should!
The atmosphere in the hall was strange for a moment. Liang Guangyi glared at Fu Laiqing who was hiding behind the pillar, unable to express his accumulated anger.
Xiao Yan lowered his eyes and glanced at the woman kneeling on the ground: "Didn't you hear what Mr. Cao asked you?"
The woman quickly became excited.
"I didn't lie!"
"Although my husband is dead, my brother-in-law is still alive, and he was not the only bandit leader who entered the officialdom at that time. Now there are many more who are in Shezhou, and by the way, there are also some in Langzhou and Raozhou."
As she spoke, she turned and pointed at an old woman next to her who was much older than her:
"Mrs. Xiong, tell me. Isn't the uncle of the aunt your nephew married the same person who took the lead in causing trouble with Zhou Jungui and the others?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The old woman was startled.
But the woman said: "I'm not talking nonsense. I remember that man's name seems to be Lai Chuan. Yes, it's Lai Chuan. He lives in Raozhou now. He was accidentally cut off his arm and failed to become an official. Son, but I also got a lot of money."
"I heard my husband say that in order to appease them, Zhou Jungui and Mr. Xiong worked together to get him a plaque of a charity house in the name of providing food for disaster relief and hang it in the house. My brother-in-law even laughed at him when he was drunk. He passed him and said that countless people died in his hands. If he was a good person, there would be no evil people in the world..."
Mrs. Xiong's face trembled as she spoke, and when she saw everyone's eyes falling on her, she almost fainted.
The woman before was reluctant: "Speak, isn't that Lai Chuan very close to your family? When your nephew visited his aunt, you even held a banquet and invited us over to the banquet. I even gave him a gift. And Lord Xiong also has several people like Lai Chuan under his command.”
"Those people still pay tribute to Lord Xiong every year, and you receive money every year!"
Cao Dejiang looked at the old woman: "Is what she said true?"
"me……"
"If it's true, just say yes, if it's not, just say no, whatever you want!" A general was furious.
Wenxin Hou said in a cold voice: "Since you are here today, you should understand why. If you dare to tell a lie, you will never survive!"
The old woman's face trembled with fright, and she said in a low voice with a pale face: "Yes, there is such a thing, but I don't know, it was all done by my nephews, I... I just accepted him I don't know anything about filial piety, and I don't know anything about officialdom..."
She started crying as she spoke, but no one present sympathized.
Mrs. Fu endured it for a long time and finally couldn't hold it back: "You didn't know? You didn't know that you could accept so much filial piety, and you didn't know that you could take the wealth your nephew gave you for granted? You don't know what kind of thing your nephew is, then. The aunt who was sent to the house can throw a big banquet, it’s just..."
"Uncle!"
Fu Jinrou was startled and hurriedly held Mrs. Fu's hand.
Mrs. Fu endured it again and again before spitting out the last curse words in her mouth.
The old woman was so pale that she didn't dare to say anything.
Xiao Yan looked at the equally indignant courtiers in the palace, and said calmly to the women kneeling on the ground, "Do you know about Rong Jiang's affairs?"
Those people all shook their heads.
Someone whispered: "The men in the government rarely tell us about officialdom matters, but I have heard about the plague in Shezhou at that time. We in Langzhou also closed the city for a period of time. , and they are very strict about checking people coming from outside.”
"People were panicked at the time. My husband even told me that I was not allowed to leave the house with my children, and no one from outside the house was allowed to come in. But when he came back a few days later, he said it was fine."
"Yes, I remember this too."
The woman who spoke first also said: "There was also a big commotion in Shezhou at that time. My husband went out for a trip because he said he was going to investigate the plague, but he came back soon and told me that there were rumors outside that there were people in the city. No one knows how to live their lives."
The young imperial doctor from before said in a deep voice: "It's impossible. If there hadn't been a plague in the south, why would the imperial hospital have sent my father and the others south? Moreover, when my father and the others left, they also took away a large amount of medicinal materials for treating the plague from the imperial hospital. It’s all recorded.”
Qian Baokun also said: "Prince Ru's reputation was damaged at that time, and he had already failed in disaster relief. Another epidemic will only worsen his reputation. There is no way he would lie about such a thing."
There was silence in Zichen Palace for a moment, and King Ji, who had been hiding among the crowd, suddenly spoke:
"If Prince Ru is not lying, there is indeed a plague in the Southland, and He Wenzhuo is left in the Southland to guard the people infected with the epidemic in Rongjiang, and sends an imperial doctor to treat the epidemic, then the incident in Rongjiang is probably true."
"Your Majesty..."
Princess Ji suddenly lost her voice, and even Xie Yuyan's eyes widened.
Why did the father help Xiao Yan? !
King Ji did not look at his wife and daughter, nor did he look at the disapproving looks of the people in the surrounding clan. He just said in a deep voice:
"The plague can be big or small. Even people in Raozhou and Langzhou have heard about it. How could Shezhou, as the government office of the prefecture above Rongjiang, not know about it, but they concluded based on rumors."
"If Prince Ru is not lying, then how can these people be sure that the plague has subsided and there will be no spread of the epidemic. This cannot be achieved if the Rongjiang River is simply flooded."
