The night is dreary and people are sad.
The love and hatred of the past are revealed today, and good and evil will be rewarded in the end.
After the Huang family spent a night in fear in the Sky Prison of Eight Gates, they were quietly transferred the next morning.
The Eight Gates used several horse-drawn carriages to transfer them, and they deliberately sent all of them to the Huang family's old house in a low-key manner before the morning market.
Among the thirty people, most were weak or women and children.
Because Lu was the oldest, she was not locked up in the prison last night. Instead, a room was vacated for her to live in, and a personal nanny was arranged to take care of her.
Even so, Mrs. Lu was still anxious all night and became listless and weak this morning.
This old man can't stand the most trouble.
People say that every old person in the family is a treasure, and the older they are, the more precious they are, and they are always cared for and cherished.
Huang Zong sat in the carriage and angrily scolded the officials outside: "How can you treat my mother like this! She is almost ninety years old! Do you officials still have any humanity? Yesterday you locked us up in the prison, and today you are sending us somewhere else! You better tell me clearly! Otherwise, I will file a complaint with the emperor! Even if I have to sacrifice my life, I will fight you, the Eight Gates, to the end!"
Wang Quan opened a wooden window and said, "What are you arguing about? My master took into consideration that you are the descendants of Taoist Huangshan and need some dignity, so he decided to try you in another place. If you want to be watched by the people at the Eight Gates, we can send you back now!"
Huang Zong stopped talking. Wang Quan was right about one thing. The Huang family wanted to save face. They were descendants of the famous painter Huangshan Taoist. If they lost face, it would even affect the price of their grandfather's paintings.
The ancestor Long Lu was opposite him, looking at him listlessly: "Zong'er, stop arguing. The innocent will be innocent. I believe that the adults of the Eight Gates will give us an explanation."
Huang Zong pursed his lips, his beard was tangled from the night.
Throughout the carriage, Huang Zong's brothers frowned and sighed.
Holding the invitation in hand, Zhang Zhihe hurried around the eight gates in the morning mist and came to the door of the ninth gate and knocked on it.
“Knock, knock, knock.”
The door opened, revealing a hunched-over coffin-bearing figure.
"Isn't this Captain Zhang from the Eight Gates? What's the matter?" Mr. Coffin opened the gate of the Nine Gates. The courtyard was empty, with only thick morning fog.
Zhang Zhihe took a look and felt that the morning fog in the Nine Gates was thicker than outside. He hurriedly handed over the invitation: "My Lord, please ask Miss Lian to go to Yi Mansion to watch the trial."
The coffin master took the invitation and squinted his eyes and said: "What are you watching..."
Zhang Zhihe also told the truth: "The imperial banquet in the capital is coming soon. The Lord wants to keep a low profile in trying the murder case at the Taoist's old house in Huangshan, so he set up the court in their old house. Oh, and the Lord also asked me to ask Miss Lian what happened to the painting."
The coffin master slightly opened his narrowed eyes, with a sharp light flashing in them: "Got it."
Zhang Zhihe took another look at Coffin Master, turned around and left immediately. He always felt that the Nine Gates was eerie and it was strange that his family members liked to climb walls.
In the Yi family's living room, the maids and servants put away the table and placed two rows of chairs on both sides.
The runners from the eight gates also moved the supplies from the lobby. In the blink of an eye, the hall of the Yi Mansion had turned into a lobby.
Fu Mingrui washed and dressed, sat down in the main seat in the hall early, and began to look through some information he had compiled about Huang Ye.
The runners began to place the skeleton and the evidence collected yesterday in the center of the hall.
Yi Jixuan also had a good night's sleep and was full of energy today. He sat aside watching the feast. The maid brought him morning tea. The faint fragrance of tea awakened every inch of air in the hall.
"Second brother!" After a crisp exchange of words, Fu Mingrui raised his hand from the case file, and a familiar figure appeared in his bright black eyes. Immediately, he stood up happily and greeted him: "Third brother!"
Yi Jixuan also went to greet him happily. The third son of the Fu family had arrived. In his impression, the third son of the Fu family was thin and small, a little frail. But now he was tall and handsome, full of heroic spirit. It was true that a young man could not be compared with the past.
Fu Mingsui also came in the morning light. After a good sleep, he felt more energetic.
The three brothers of the Fu family hugged each other. They hadn’t seen each other for three years. When they met today, they naturally didn’t want to let go.
"Brother-in-law." Fu Minghui bowed to Yi Jixuan, "Thank you for the jade pendant, brother-in-law. I like it very much."
Yi Jixuan smiled and said, "As long as you like it."
The three brothers stood together again, feeling that there were many things to say that were difficult to finish at the moment.
Zhao Cheng hurried forward: "Sir, the prisoner is here."
Fu Mingrui nodded and looked at his third brother Fu Minghui: "Third brother, I will try the case first, and then the three of us brothers will have a good drink!"
"Okay!" Fu Minghui looked at Fu Mingrui with full admiration. Fu Mingsu couldn't help but tease him: "Second brother, look at the way the third brother looks at you, do you look like those little girls out there?"
"Brother!" Fu Mingrui and Fu Minghui said in unison.
Fu Mingsui laughed out loud, and today he regained some of the childhood feeling he had when the three of them were together.
Fu Mingsui, Fu Minghui and Yi Jixuan sat back at the table, and the maid also served tea to the Fu brothers.
When Fu Mingrui sat back at the desk, his face immediately sank. His handsome face immediately became less gentle and more heroic. In Fu Minghui's eyes, he admired him even more. He whispered to Fu Mingsu, "Second brother was like a different person when he tried the case for the first time."
Fu Mingsui smiled slightly: "Your second brother, if the case was a woman, your second brother would marry the case. Now, except for the prince asking him to play, he has no way to refuse, and the rest of the time he is devoted to the case. Alas." Fu Mingsui sighed softly, expressing the bitterness of Fu Kun who could not see Fu Mingrui for many years.
At noon, Fu Mingrui no longer wasted time and glanced at the empty chair beside him without any hurry. That was the chair prepared for Lian Youyou, but he knew that Lian Youyou usually didn't arrive on time, so he could interrogate her first.
"Bring up the Huang family members!" He shouted loudly and dropped the gavel!
After a while, more than 30 people from the Huang family were brought to the courtyard outside the hall, and it was filled with people all at once.
"Prepare a seat for the Huang family's ancestor, Mrs. Lu." Fu Mingrui looked at the octogenarian woman standing in the middle of the courtyard.
The yamen runner brought a chair and asked Lu to enter the hall and sit on it.
Mrs. Lu bowed to Mingrui and said, "Thank you for the seat, sir. Please tell me why the Eight Gates brought my family here?"
Huang Zong and others outside the pavilion also looked around in confusion. As far as they could remember, this old house had been sold, so they did not grow up in this old house. The hall was filled with a pile of broken things, which also confused them. However, a few old slaves over fifty years old saw it, their eyes were full of panic, their hands trembled slightly, their necks shrank, and they hid behind the crowd.
Fu Mingrui looked at her for a moment and nodded to Zhao Cheng. Zhao Cheng immediately stepped forward and lifted two pieces of white cloth in the middle of the hall. Immediately, two human skeletons came into everyone's sight, and the women and children screamed in fear. (To be continued)