"Yes! Your Highness is right! We want to hear what Miss Lian has to say about the case!"
"Let Miss Lian continue speaking!"
"Go on!"
Duanmu Qingchen flicked his sleeves and shouted, "Kneel down for me, Your Highness!"
Ma Guanqun stared at Duanmu Qingchen in shock. Fu Mingrui stepped forward and kicked him on the back of the knee. Ma Guanqun fell to his knees in the hall with a thud. After Wanqing!
He stared blankly at Wanqing's quiet back. Today, he was here to try his son's murder case, but why was he kneeling in the hall like a criminal? !
Duanmu Qingchen smiled and looked at Lian Youyou: "Miss Lian, please continue."
Lian Youyou also pursed her lips and smiled, then spoke again: "At that time, the county magistrate Zhou Youfa of Lijia Village wanted to embezzle the disaster relief money. You know Zhou Youfa, right?" Lian Youyou walked to Ma Guanqun and looked down with a smile.
Ma Guanqun's body began to tremble under Lian Youyou's white skirt. How could anyone know about that? It's been ten years! How could it be dug up again
Lian Youyou smiled, her eyes were cold, she looked up at the officials around her: "So, Zhou Youfa and Ma Guanqun conspired to distribute the moldy rice to Lijia Village, because Lijia Village is located in the mountains, very remote, close to southern Xinjiang, even if the villagers want to appeal, there is no way. Moreover, the village chief is self-governing, so as long as the village chief is bribed, the villagers will be controlled by the village chief no matter how much they complain. After the village chief of Lijia Village colluded with Zhou Youfa and Ma Guanqun, he distributed the moldy rice to his own village. The 134 villagers of Lijia Village ate moldy rice in that isolated mountain village. The rice was moldy and black, and it had produced toxins. The affected villagers were already weak, so large numbers of villagers... the elderly... pregnant women... children... died of poisoning..." When Lian Youyou finished speaking, the atmosphere in the entire hall was extremely heavy.
Among the people outside the door, many women and children were wiping away tears silently.
"It's such a sin..."
“Inhumane!”
"Beast! What a beast!"
"How could you do such a thing!"
"Beat him to death!"
"Yes! Kill him!"
“Beast!”
The people outside the door were very excited. The auntie who was buying vegetables threw out the vegetable leaves, and the villagers who had nothing took off their shoes.
"Everyone calm down!" The constables at the door tried to stop them immediately, but they could not stop the angry people.
All the officials sitting in the hall were dumbfounded. They had come here to hear about a murder case and to have their daughter show her face in front of the Crown Prince, but how come the situation became increasingly complicated? The angry people at the door made them even more nervous. What if they really rushed in
Among the officials sitting in the hall, there were quite a few who were close friends with Ma Shangshu, some of whom were even planning to marry him, and at this moment, they all sat in their seats in a daze. They knew that if this case was proven true, Ma Guanqun would not only lose his official hat, but also his head!
The situation at the scene made them extremely nervous, and they all looked at Fu Kun, the left prime minister, to see whether he would protect Ma Guanqun.
"Everyone please be quiet." Lian Youyou gestured to the people outside to calm down, "I haven't finished yet."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lian Youyou spoke, the people outside the door really quieted down and looked at Lian Youyou indignantly.
"Miss Lian, please continue! What happened to the villagers of Lijia Village later?" The crowd outside the door was excited and just wanted to know the fate of the villagers of Lijia Village.
Lian Youyou let out a long sigh in the hall: "They are all dead..."
"Ah—?!" The people suddenly started to make noise.
"Ma Guanqun deserves death!"
"Yes! Ma Guanqun deserves to die!"
“So many lives!”
"The people of Lijia Village died and no one sought justice for them. We are here to seek justice for them!"
"That's right! Let's redress them!"
"Your Highness! You must seek revenge for the villagers of Li Village!"
"Please ask His Royal Highness to avenge the villagers of Lijia Village—"
Suddenly, the people outside the door knelt down together!
Immediately, the constables at the door, the officials in the hall, and Left Prime Minister Fu Kun all looked surprised.
No one had expected that the lowly, foolish and ignorant people in their eyes would, at this moment, speak out for justice and uphold justice!
No one expected that the person whom they looked down upon the most would become the hero in front of the palace today.
Wanqing, who had been quiet all the time, was also stunned by the sudden silence.
"You should turn around and look." Lian Youyou said softly beside her, with a rare gentleness and calmness in her eyes.
She turned around slowly and saw the people of the capital kneeling outside the door under the scorching sun!
She had never met them.
She has no relatives or friends with them.
But today, at this moment, they were all speaking up for her relatives and her clansmen. Tears instantly burst out, and Wanqing burst into tears in the court.
Her calmness is to restrain her anger.
Her calmness is to suppress her own pain.
She was deeply afraid that if she lost control, she would control insects to kill people in the empty hall, become a demon, and lose the opportunity to seek justice for her own people.
"Did they all die because of the poisoned rice?" Duanmu Qingchen looked at Wanqing's back heavily and asked Xiang Lianyouyou.
Wanqing turned around, unable to control her emotions, and was speechless.
Lian Youyou looked at Duanmu Qingchen: "No."
"Then why are they all dead?" Duanmu Qingchen looked puzzled.
Lian Youyou blinked and looked at him solemnly: "A large number of elderly people, pregnant women, and children died. The young people in the village naturally wanted to find the village chief and report the case to the state government. The village chief, the county magistrate Zhou Youfa and Ma Guanqun were afraid that their evil deeds would be exposed, so they asked the village chief to appease the villagers first. Zhou Youfa went to the state government overnight and reported to the then Wuzhou governor that a plague had broken out in Lijia Village. The villagers were all infected with the plague. If it was not controlled, it would infect the county government. If the county government was infected, the state government would be in danger. Therefore, the governor mobilized the troops overnight and went to Lijia Village. Rockets were fired all night, and the village temple was stained with blood. In the end, the villagers of Lijia Village were killed by our Qian Dynasty soldiers!"
"Bang!" Duanmu Qingchen angrily slammed the gavel, his face gloomy to the extreme.
Instantly, all the officials in the hall knelt down and shouted: "Prince, calm down—"
"What anger do you want to calm down?!" Duanmu Qingchen stood up angrily, holding a gavel in his hand, "How can you ask me to calm down? Our Qian Dynasty soldiers are used to protect the people! When did you point arrows at our people?! Asshole! It's really an asshole! Where is the governor at that time? Who is he?! It's been ten years, he should have been transferred to the capital! Come out for me! Come out!"
Duanmu Qingchen looked around the hall, and no one stood up. Among these officials, how many were Ma Guanqun? Zhou Youfa? How many of them rose to power by stepping on the blood and tears of the people
No matter how wise the emperor is, he can't catch those vicious local tyrants! And behind those local tyrants, there are layers of umbrellas to cover them up and blind the emperor's eyes. (To be continued)