Besides, Zheng Jingzhao took leave after a sudden heart attack, and Sun Xu refused to try Baixiangge's malicious wounding case on the grounds of "avoiding suspicion", and the case fell into Lu Yan's hands.
The day of the court hearing is set for the seventh day of the sixth month.
As soon as the news that the case was going to be heard publicly on the seventh day of the first lunar month came out, many people in Chang'an were alarmed. In order to hear the trial, before dawn, everyone rushed to the front of the court.
After all, the case of the daughter of the current minister of the Ministry of Industry suing the daughter of the former minister of the Ministry of Industry is much more interesting than the picture books sold on the street.
Lu Yan picked up the cup in the signing room, took a sip, and said lightly, "Is everyone here?"
Yang Zong whispered: "Xiaofu, Miss Shen, Mr. Chu and the witnesses have arrived, and the second lady of the Sun family is still on the way."
"Have Wen Zhilu, Wang Shuli and Judicial Enlisted in the army?"
"It's waiting."
Lu Yan gave a low "um", then picked up the black yarn on the table and went to the hall.
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Sun Mi had already left, and the carriage drove towards Guangdefang.
Her heart sank and sank again and again, following the sound of Chu Ru for no reason. She reached out to raise the curtain, looked at the dazzling sunlight outside, and murmured, "Ru Rui, today's case, Shen Zhen can't turn over."
Wang Rui said: "Ami, you are worrying too much. Mr. Song is dealing with the yamen every day. He is very slick. You invited him here. What are you afraid of? Besides, don't you have me to testify for you?"
Sun Mi took Wang Rui's hand, "Don't worry, I will definitely ask my father to find a chance to promote your third brother."
Wang Rui smiled awkwardly, "Ami, you and I don't have to be so divided, I'll help you, and it has nothing to do with my third brother."
After a long while, Sun Mi's eyes moved not far away, and the words "Jingzhao Mansion" were clearly in his eyes.
"Girl, here we are."
After the carriage stopped, the maid helped Sun Mi down.
Seeing her pale face, Song Jingwen couldn't help but comforted her in a low voice: "I have defended human voices for many years, and I have never lost. Besides, we have all the evidence and material evidence, so the second girl doesn't have to worry at all."
Sun Mi took a deep breath and said, "If you can convict her today, you will double your remuneration."
Song Jingwen wrote, "Then I thanked the second girl first."
They passed the people blocking the door and entered Jingzhao Mansion.
The solemn and majestic voices came from both sides. Sun Mi and Shen Zhen stood one on the left and the other on the right, with their respective lawyers standing beside them.
Sun Mi looked at the arrogant lawyer beside Shen Zhen, with an extraordinary appearance, and couldn't help frowning for a while.
Song Jingwen said in a low voice: "Second girl, rest assured, the lawyer hired by the Shen family has never been seen before, so he must be an unknown person."
Sun Mi nodded thoughtfully.
According to the laws of the Jin Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, before opening the hall, everyone must declare their identity.
Song Jingwen stepped forward and said, "My dear Song Jingwen." After saying that, he glanced to the right.
The man beside Shen Zhen stepped forward and said, "My dear Chu Xun."
As soon as the voice fell, many people began to whisper.
"Chu Xun? Never heard of it."
"Chu Xun, Chu Xun, this name is really familiar, looking at my memory, I just can't say it!"
"Could it be the Chu family in Yangzhou?" l
Hearing this, Song Jingwen couldn't help frowning, Yangzhou Chu? impossible…
However, when he thought of the identity of Shen Zhen's criminal family, he finally felt relieved. How could everyone in Yangzhou defend the daughter of a criminal minister
Probably not the same person.
Lu Yan shouted for evidence, and the officer brought up the bottles and jars.
Sun Mi said with red eyes: "Sir, my sister Shen and I used to be very good friends. I never thought that she would hate me so much because of that old incident!"
After finishing speaking, Sun Mi's tears flowed down "swipe".
Lu Yan asked as usual, "What's that old thing about?"
Sun Mi bit her lip and said deliberately, "In October last year, the Shen family was convicted and their house was raided, and then they owed a huge debt. The sister of the Shen family came to me and hoped that I could help, but I never left the cabinet. How could you come up with 8,000 guans, and she was still suffering from the cold at the time, so she didn’t see her, but she actually said that our Sun family stepped on the shoulders of the Shen family.”
Slowly said again: "I really can't imagine that she would hate me so much!"
The purpose of Sun Mi's remarks is to use the exchange of identities to highlight the contradiction between the two of them, so that everyone can immediately identify that Shen Zhen has resentment, hatred and jealousy towards her.
And this is Shen Zhen's motive for poisoning.
Shen Zhen's eyes widened when she heard this. Now she has experienced the highest level of brazenness. Last October, let alone the Sun Mansion, she never said a word to Sun Mi after the incident at Hou Mansion. talk!
At this time, the people around seemed to regain their memory in an instant, and they cursed the Shen family one after another.
Her father was obviously imprisoned for injustice, but she couldn't justify a word.
Lu Yan's heart tightened, and she couldn't help frowning at Shen Zhen.
Seeing that her eyes were flushed, the gavel slapped with a "smack", and the roaring noise stopped abruptly before she shouted for silence.
The man's serious and cold eyes fell on Sun Mi, "October last year? What day in October? Do you have any evidence that Shen Zhen went to you?"
Sun Mi paused and whispered, "It's been a long time..."
Lu Yan interrupted directly: "You dare to put it in the courtroom to talk about something without evidence?"
Song Jingwen shook his head at Sun Mi.
Sun Mi closed her mouth.
"Doctor Yang, verify the physical evidence." Lu Yan said.
After examining the physical evidence, Dr. Yang explained the toxicity on the spot. Song Jingwen shouted from the side, "Using rouge gouache to destroy a person's face, what a vicious thought! His heart can be punished, his heart can be punished!"
Lu Yan sneered coldly: "Mr. Song, in this case today, is it you who sentenced it, or this palace?"
Song Jingwen blushed and hurriedly bowed: "I dare not."
Seeing this, Sun Xu and Lu joined the army outside the door and whispered: "Our Lord Lu is trying the case now, are you so angry?"
Lu Canjun shook his head, "Master Lu has always been happy and angry, so don't have a holiday with that Mr. Song..."
Sun Xu raised his chin, shook his head and said, "Okay, I'd better go. If the execution is really going to be executed, do you think I can stop it?"
Lu Canjun looked at him, "Can Master Sun really stay out of the matter?"
"There are two times when you ask for mercy. You can talk to Lord Lu later and say that I also have a heart attack and need to go home and rest. I'll go first."
It's hard for Sun Xu to tell the story of this case, but with years of experience in solving cases, he can guess a general idea.
He reluctantly took a breath and said to himself: If this matter can teach the grandparents a lesson, it will be good.
After a while, they started asking for witnesses.
Wang Rui walked up slowly, and after explaining them one by one, Lu Yan said, "Perjury is a crime of taking stolen goods. According to Jin's law, ranging from fifty boards to one year in prison, do you know?"
These Wang Rui were well prepared and nodded without hesitation.
Lu Yan asked someone to interrogate Wang Rui on the spot.
To distinguish the authenticity of an oral confession, the government generally uses the method of five listening. The so-called five listening are speech listening, color listening, anger listening, ear listening, and eye listening. Judicial members of the military will observe their words, their colors, and their breaths. Watch it listen, watch it look with eyes, and judge whether this confession can be used.
However, Song Jingwen knew these routines very well, so Wang Rui passed the interrogation very smoothly.
The judicial soldier turned his head and said, "There is no suspicion of perjury at the moment."
Sun Mi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although this case is a false accusation, but the witnesses and evidence are in place, and the inquest has passed. Coupled with Song Jingwen's ability to confuse black and white, she is already victorious.
At the same time, Song Jingwen couldn't help but feel a little more disdain when he saw Chu Xun's expression.
Lu Yan tapped the table with his index finger, and whispered to Shen Zhen, "Can you plead guilty?"
Shen Zhen raised her eyes and said, "Reporting to my lord, I have never done these things. What Miss Sun just said is not true."
There were many people in the back sneering in a low voice, and some people scolded Shen Zhen as a bad woman.
At this moment, Chu Xun said to Song Jingwen, "Chu has a few questions to ask, please be more careful with Mr. Song."
Song Jingwen said: "Mr. Chu said it bluntly."
"Miss Shen's family still has a younger brother who is ill and waiting for money to see a doctor. Why did he smash his long-running and well-received signboard in order to ruin the face of the second girl? With all due respect, this matter is not at all. Common sense."
"Common sense?"
"Maybe Miss Shen did the opposite?" Song Jingwen smiled and said, "Mr. Chu, look at the physical evidence in front of you! If it wasn't for Miss Sun that day, it would be her who was disfigured today! This is common sense. ?"
Chu Xun raised the corners of his mouth, "Speaking of a good life, Chu is even more puzzled, Baixiang Pavilion is one of the best incense powder shops in the capital, rouge and gouache, there are so many dazzling arrays, since the fate is good, how can Miss Sun choose this place at a glance. What about the poisonous gouache?"
Song Jingwen narrowed his eyes and retorted: "What nonsense! This gouache was handed over to Miss Sun by Miss Shen herself!"
Chu Xun chuckled, "Mr. Song knows that I will severely punish the agent for falsely accusing others. If the false accusation is false, I will be punished according to the false accusation. There is a second-class penalty."
Song Jingwen sneered, "Mr. Chu should worry about himself."
Immediately afterwards, Chu Xun also called two witnesses. These two women were both guests who appeared in Baixiang Pavilion.
They also passed the trial in court.
And the caliber is the same - it was Sun Mi who personally chose the gouache, and Shen Zhen never touched the bottle.
Song Jingwen was an old fritter in the end. Seeing that they wanted to get away with this, he calmly called another person up.
The woman surnamed Jia knelt down when she came up, covered her red, swollen and rotten face and said, "Sir, two days ago, this slave also went to Baixiang Pavilion once. I was a servant girl in Pingkangfang, with a low status and expensive gouache. I bought it. I can't afford it, but I got lost in my mind for a while, so I stole one, who would have ruined my appearance if I used it twice."
"I also ask the adults to give a lighter punishment for the sake of the Prime Minister's complaint."
"Two days ago? You mean, there are poisonous powders in her Baixiang Pavilion?"
"Yes, you can send someone to investigate."
Shen Zhen looked down at another disfigured woman, feeling a little embarrassed, Sun Mi really did everything she could to harm her.
The West City and Jingzhao Mansion are very close, and the yali sent by Lu Yan returned soon.
They brought back two boxes of incense powder, and upon inspection, one of the boxes was indeed highly poisonous.
Shen Zhen suddenly understood why that person told her that Baixiang Pavilion's ledger should not be taken out in advance, because once it was taken out in advance, the dummy certificate in front of her would not appear here.
Shen Zhen said slowly: "I wonder if your lord can let me take a look at the bottles in this box?"
Lu Yan nodded and sent someone to pass a bunch of short-mouthed bottles to Shen Zhen.
Shen Zhen took it, looked up and down, left and right, carefully read it, and said softly: "Sir, what this girl is holding in her hand, and what is in this box, are not gouache from Baixiang Pavilion at all."
"You still want to deny it?" said the woman surnamed Jia.
Shen Zhen took out a ledger, turned to three days ago, and said word by word: "Each bottle of water powder in Baixiang Pavilion has a mark on the bottom of the bottle, which corresponds to the ledger one by one, and each time one is sold, one is crossed out. , and sign the name of the guest, there are records on these accounts, please read them."
When Song Jingwen heard this, he felt a "squeak" in his heart, and said something bad in his heart.
He couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "According to the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty, the evidence is to be reported to the government the day before. Miss Shen takes it out now, who knows if it is a fake account made overnight!"
Lu Yan sneered in a low voice: "Whether it is a fake account, this official has his own decision, how can you be allowed to be presumptuous here?"
Song Jingwen choked. If the ledger was true, the yamen would immediately recognize it as irrefutable evidence as long as the yamen went door-to-door to investigate.
After all, physical evidence has always been more important than human evidence.
In the next instant, Lu Yan lowered his head and picked up the pen, wrote down a list, and ordered the yali to go from house to house to summon him immediately.
An hour later, Yali brought several noble ladies from Beijing into Jingzhao Mansion. After inquiring one by one, they all confirmed that what Shen Zhen said was true.
Sun Mi panicked and said angrily to Song Jingwen: "Speak quickly! What are you waiting for!"
Song Jingwen was very familiar with the laws of the Great Jin Dynasty. In the face of such iron-clad evidence, he had already guessed how the governor would judge.
Once he is convicted of false accusation, he can leave Jingzhao Mansion today.
After a while, Lu Yan closed the ledger and directly concluded the case: "Today's case, the iron evidence is like a mountain, it is a false accusation, whether the official sent someone to execute it, or you explain it yourself."
Sun Mi's hands trembled slightly, and said in a voice that could only be heard by two people: "Mr. Song, I am the daughter of Shangshu. I shouldn't say anything. If you dare to say it, I guarantee that you will never leave the capital for half a step."
Song Jingwen looked embarrassed. He had made enough money over the years. If he was not with the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Industry at this time, he would definitely find a way to reduce his sentence and stay away from the capital after that.
But as she said... The Sun family does have the ability to keep themselves from leaving the capital.
Sun Mi didn't say a word, and forced herself to calm down. The laws of the Jin Dynasty were already lenient to the aristocratic family. Even if the case was really convicted of false accusation, she would bring out another person to take the blame, or pay some money. silver cloth...
Don't bow your head and plead guilty.
Seeing that these people were dying one by one, Lu Yan said, "If that's the case, let's put a stick."
As soon as the Yali came over, Sun Mi said: "I am the daughter of the Minister of Industry, who dares to touch me!"
See Ya Li not moving. He turned back and said to the outside: "Go and call my A-Niang!"
If it was someone else who tried the case today, maybe there would be room for him, but it was Lu Yan, so he didn't dare.
Even if the Minister of Industry is here, what can we do? Can he get mad at His Majesty's nephew
Moreover, the Jingzhao government judged the case in accordance with the law, and there was nothing wrong with it.
Lu Yan said coldly and started.
The guards from Jingzhao Mansion dragged Song Jingwen's legs out, tore off his shoes and socks, and put on hemp ropes. He didn't even give a chance to react, so he tightened the ropes. There was a sound of "squeaky", blood flowed, and Song Jingwenden shouted when.
Shen Zhen, who had seen this scene, couldn't help but close her eyes.
After repeatedly retracting the rope twice, Sun Mi and Wang Rui also used punishment here, the board fell with a bang, and only after the third stroke, the two girls fainted from fright.
After a while, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Wang rushed to Jingzhao Mansion one after another. They not only claimed this matter as a traitor and instigated the crime, but also handed over a lot of money.
Of course, Lu Yan would not be too embarrassed by the two. He let him go before ten boards were finished.
In the eyes of aristocratic families, money is far less important than face. The Shaoyin of Jingzhao House punished the daughter of the Sun family and the Wang family in court. No matter the severity, it was a disgrace at all.
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When Xu Siniang heard this, she couldn't help laughing coldly, "I thought Sun Mi was a smart one, but I didn't expect to handle this like a joke! It's so fresh to cry out in court!
Xu Yiqing said, "Fourth elder sister doesn't need to be angry. The Xu family has nothing to do with this matter."
Xu Siniang said, "Do you know who Shen Zhen's lawyer was that day?"
"It was never known."
"It's the Chu family in Yangzhou, Chu Xun. I can hear that Chu Xun has a close relationship with the Lu family."
"Is there such a thing?"
"Since the Empress intends to make you the clan wife of the Lu family, it would be better for you to inquire more about Lu Yan's affairs."