Jiang Li walked out of the tavern.
Ye Mingyu squatted on the street for a long time, when Jiang Li came over, he spit out the grass roots he was chewing on, and asked, "How about? That's it?" He didn't ask Jiang Li who he saw or what he did. If it was Ye Jiaer, he would ask the last question, but if it was Jiang Li, sometimes he felt that Jiang Li, as a junior, had better ideas than his peers, so don't worry. More importantly, Ye Mingyu believed that even if he asked Jiang Li, Jiang Li would not say anything.
Why waste kung fu in vain? Then don't ask.
Jiang Li nodded: "That's it, uncle, let's go back."
The meeting with Ji Heng, or even the meeting with Ji Heng, didn't make Jiang Li too concerned. Although Ji Heng was rumored to be a moody person, Jiang Li thought that it was just his performance. He has his own ideas in everything he does. But after several confrontations, coupled with her serious thoughts, the possibility that Ji Heng would break her plan was really small. Even if he really missed Ji Heng's matter, it was a trivial matter for Ji Heng. He can't make the shot himself. The reason why he came from Xiangyang to Tongxiang was because he was acting too strange and he wanted to be a theaterman.
Forget it, just watch the show. She has never been afraid of becoming an actor, but she has to grasp the beginnings and turns of this play.
Ji Heng is not important. After seven days, his father will be executed for important things. She couldn't find evidence to reverse the case for her father, so she had to prepare for the worst and rob the law court. However, whether the robbery field can succeed or not, even if it succeeds, whether it will have a lot of implications in the future, it is a matter of serious consideration. Therefore, the most comprehensive approach is to start with evidence.
When Ye Mingyu saw Jiang Li say back, he readily agreed. The homestay they stayed in is also in Qingshi Alley, not far from the sealed Xue's house. Those who want to come to Feng Yutang will pay attention to where they are staying. Choosing Qingshi Alley is too eye-catching. But Jiang Li wanted to make a big fanfare, just to let Feng Yutang know that she came to settle accounts after the autumn.
When he returned to the bed and breakfast, Ye Mingyu asked to get some food. By the way, he asked about the terrain of the area. Jiang Li stayed in the room by himself. Ye Mingyu gave the Xue family's dossier to Jiang Li. He didn't dare to disturb her, only let Tong Er and Baixue waited at the door, if Jiang Li wanted to drink tea or something, they could help.
Jiang Li is reading the dossier seriously.
If possible, she must find out the doubts and loopholes in the Xue family's case in the file, seize the doubts and loopholes, and keep track of them step by step. Even if it doesn't work, it can be deliberately magnified to confuse the audience and buy time for Xue Huaiyuan.
The dossier should have been made by Feng Yutang, perhaps because of the princess Yongning’s account, Feng Yutang’s Xue family dossier also concealed a perfect fit. It described Xue Huaiyuan as a greedy official who did not do anything evil. Jiang Li looked at it, and gradually wanted to sneer in her heart.
Xue Huaiyuan has never done any of the above things, but now Cheng Feng Yutang in Tongxiang County is pretty much the same. However, Xue Huaiyuan had pleaded guilty. Jiang Li could think of what they did to make Xue Huaiyuan confess the crime. Perhaps it was for this that Xue Huaiyuan was tortured and lost his mind.
This dossier, in a way, is really seamless. Feng Yutang should have spent a lot of effort here before arranging these crimes on Xue Huaiyuan. But because of who Xue Huaiyuan is, the people in Tongxiang know that these things are particularly ridiculous.
Jiang Li read the ten lines at a glance.
Some small loopholes can be found in the dossier. For example, Xue Huaiyuan's embezzled disaster relief bank was dug out in Xue's backyard. However, the relief money of the year was indeed clearly distributed to the hands of every citizen. The new "silver" was probably made by Yongning himself.
Feng Yutang can add unnecessary crimes to Xue Huaiyuan, but it cannot erase Xue Huaiyuan's kindness and political achievements. At this point alone, Jiang Li held onto it, and he would be able to win a first-line opportunity for Xue Huaiyuan.
"Not enough." Jiang Li murmured, it was far from enough. This little opportunity given to Xue Huaiyuan is really not worth mentioning. Once Yongning and the others find out that they use Feng Yutang's current identity to cheat and add oil and jealousy, this piece of evidence will become useless evidence.
Feng Yutang must not be able to play a role, even if he is the county prince of Tongxiang, he can no longer intervene in the Xue family case. How to do this... Jiang Li thought hard.
Tong'er came to pour Jiang Li tea gently, Jiang Li was thinking about throwing in, didn't see Tong'er pouring tea at hand, stretched out his hand to hold it disgusting, the tea cup "cangdang" fell to the ground, hot tea poured all over. Jiang Li on his arm.
"Oh my God!" Tong'er exclaimed, and hurriedly took the veil to wipe Jiang Li, and said while wiping: "Girl, is the girl okay? Bai Xue, come over with a scald cream!"
Bai Xue hurried away. Ye Mingyu heard the movement and hurried over to take a look, and said, "What's the matter? What happened?"
Tonger's tears of self-blame were about to fall out, and said: "It's the servant girl who is not good. The servant girl pours the tea, and the tea scalds the girl. Don't leave any traces. What can I do."
"Ali, are you okay? Does it hurt?" Ye Mingyu turned his head to look at Jiang Li, but saw Jiang Li sitting blankly, looking at the broken tea cup on the ground.
Ye Mingyu thought that Jiang Li was stupefied by the pain, so he hurried forward a few steps, stretched out his five fingers and shook in front of Jiang Li, "Ali? Ali?"
Jiang Li stared at him blankly, as if only then had a reaction, but immediately stood up and said excitedly: "I know, I know!"
"Know what?" Ye Mingyu couldn't figure it out, and Tong'er was also at a loss.
"According to the Beiyan Law, the evidence is conclusive. If you sue the local officials, you can sue the higher-level government office. But the higher-level government office is Tong Zhiyang, and may not be willing to help. The case was taken to Yanjing City and handed over to Dali Temple for further investigation, but what I want to try is not the Xue family's case, but Feng Yutang. As long as Feng Yutang himself is in this case, he can no longer intervene in it. It was through Feng Yutang's hands. The evidence is uncountable!"
This is to avoid suspicion. Feng Yutang can naturally "fabricate" the evidence, and Jiang Li can also do it by himself. Anyway, when he arrives at Dali Temple, Feng Yutang's evidence is all uncountable. On the contrary, she has nothing to do with the Xue family, but a real outsider.
Ye Mingyu is not a member of the officialdom, and he doesn't know much about Beiyan's official system. He just said: "But why does Dali Temple take the case of Tongxiang?"
A case in Tongxiang, as for
"So it has to be a big trouble." Jiang Li said.
Tong'er's act of knocking over the teacup reminded her that it is not enough to just throw a splash of water in Tongxiang to make everyone notice this cup of hot tea. The movement has to be bigger, bigger, and bigger, if it involves a certain nobleman in Yanjing City, it would be even better. In this way, all eyes were gathered. The Xue family case is no longer just a case of corrupt officials. It may be framed, it may involve the old case, or it may even be treason.
She is not afraid at all, she will make this case more and more troublesome, if Dali Temple is afraid to take it, she will go to the imperial court. Regardless of how Emperor Hong Xiao and Cheng Wang Heping Princess, but the honest official is framed by others, people in the world will doubt whether the emperor is the destiny of the emperor. What's more, King Cheng and Emperor Hong Xiao are natural enemies.
Emperor Hong Xiao would not let go of any chance that might make Cheng Wang suffer.
Ye Mingyu thought for a while, but still didn't understand, so he asked, "How are you going to make a big mess?" In fact, for Ye Mingyu, the Xue family has nothing to do with him. But because Jiang Li was so caring, and Ye Mingyu felt that Feng Yutang was too disgusting, if Xue Huaiyuan was really wronged, it would be really pitiful. It is the nature of their quack people to jealous like hatred and justice. If this is the case, how about drawing a knife to help once the road is injustice
"It's far from enough to just check the evidence on the dossier. The weight is not heavy enough to get Dali Temple." Jiang Li said: "We still need witnesses."
"Personal testimony?" Ye Mingyu asked: "You mean the people of Tongxiang came forward to vindicate their original county prime minister? How could this be possible? You didn't see that these people met the officers and soldiers like rats and cats, avoiding them. , This is all'road to the eye', and I don't even dare to tell the truth, why dare to stand up? And you know, today the guards heard that someone had spoken for Xue Huaiyuan before, and the government asked them to tell this People’s sons are arrested and threatened by their parents and children. People who really have a righteous heart will not dare to speak the truth. It will not bring harm to wives and children!"
Jiang Li said: "That's because Feng Yutang did too much, and Feng Yutang gives people the feeling that he can sit down in this county's position for a long time. The people dare not say anything. I think that Feng Yutang may be down, and he will have the courage to correct Feng Yutang's crimes."
"So? Are the people you're looking for a witness?" Ye Mingyu asked.
"No." Jiang Li shook his head: "What the people can say is Feng Yutang's evil deeds, Xue Xiancheng's Qingming. These words can only be used as the last straw to crush the camel, not appearing now. At another time, the results will be much better."
Ye Mingyu was even more puzzled: "Then Ali, who is the witness you are looking for."
"It's a bureaucrat." Jiang Li has a deep gaze. "It is Xue Huaiyuan's former subordinates. Now all the bureaucrats in the county government have been replaced by Feng Yutang. Those bureaucrats are all people of firm temperament. Feng Yutang replaced him with his own. People don’t know whether they are dead or alive. If you live to see people die, you must see corpses. If they are alive, they are evidence. If they die, those corpses are also evidence. Pile, right?"
Ye Mingyu was dumbfounded.
Jiang Li's eyes were calm, but when he said these words, a chill flew from his eyes. Just think about the scenes in Jiang Li's words, Ye Mingyu couldn't help but feel his back tingling. There are very few people on the rivers and lakes, and they are all deep hatred. Of course, there is also a saying of the emperor and the courtier, but Feng Yutang is only a small county prince. Is it possible that a county prince has to pay so much life
"Ali, how did you know that these officials were replaced by Feng Yutang? You haven't seen it again." Ye Mingyu suddenly remembered something and said.
Jiang Li smiled and said, "I can tell at a glance, how can a serious official behave that kind of virtue, words and deeds do not even know the basic official rites, I don't know where Feng Yutang found such a mob. It was probably a rogue in the past. Hooligans, when Xue Xiancheng was there, how could there be such a subordinate, unless he wanted to destroy himself."
Seeing that she was right, Ye Mingyu nodded and said, "It is true. I think those officials are not serious people."
"Ali, are you asking our guards to look for people in Tongxiang?"
"This is not true. Although Tongxiang is small, but the terrain is complicated, I can look for a map. But the problem is that once Feng Yutang finds that we are looking for these officials, it is very likely that they will be hidden."
"Then grab someone!" Ye Mingyu said without thinking.
"I want to snatch people, but not now." Jiang Li thought about it, and said: "Uncle, there is a mute woman in the county office, can you let your people think about picking up the mute woman and tell me See the previous one, but don't disturb anyone, nor be discovered by Feng Yutang's people."
"Anyone?" Ye Mingyu patted his chest, "No problem, I'm comfortable with the kidnapping." Seeing Tong'er and Baixue staring at him, they scratched their heads, "Last time Tong Zhiyang's outer room and son, weren't they Did I take it personally? Until now, Tong Zhiyang hasn't found out that it was my hands and feet." He said with a sense of pride.
"It's not a kidnapping, this dumb woman, it's very possible to know where the officials are now." Jiang Li said, "So, you must be careful."
Ye Mingyu stood up and said, "Don't worry, uncle is doing errands. When did you mess up?" He walked a few steps, then suddenly turned his head and asked, "But this dumb woman is called dumb woman. Isn't she dumb? If she is dumb, how do you ask? Is she literate?"
"She is not dumb." Jiang Li said behind him: "She can talk."
…
Ye Mingyu left.
After Ye Mingyu left, Jiang Li found someone to send in paper, pen and ink, and began to draw a map for Ye Mingyu in detail. No one knows Tongxiang better than her, she knows every place in Tongxiang. If there is anyone who doesn't know, it is the new county government office now. Feng Yutang turned the county government office into "his" county government office. Jiang Li didn't know how much it had changed.
But she knew everything in Tongxiang and other places. Ye Mingyu is going to act in Tongxiang. With this map, no one can do more detailed than her.
After finishing the map, she began to look at the file again, recording the loopholes in the file, and see if she could use this to uncover some more evidence in the future.
Unknowingly, time flies quickly, Bai Xue and Tong Er call Jiang Li to eat, but Jiang Li can't take care of it either. The sky was getting dark and the oil lamp was lit in the room, and Jiang Li was shocked to realize that it was night. She looked out the window, frowned and asked, "Uncle hasn't come back yet?"
Bai Xue shook his head.
"Why have been there for so long..." Jiang Li murmured, and as he was talking, A Shun next to Ye Mingyu reported: "Miss Biao, the third master is back, and the dumb woman is back. Would you like to see you now?"
Jiang Li was overjoyed and said, "I'll come."
When I went to the room to see the mute woman, the mute woman was devouring food, as if she hadn't eaten good things for a long time. Ye Mingyu sat aside, with his legs folded, gnawing on a steamed bun. Seeing Jiang Li's arrival, he said inviting credit: "Ali, how is it? I brought people, but no one found it." Then he said, "Bah, Feng Yutang is really unlucky and finds someone to follow me. If I don’t let someone pretend to be me to lead him away, I don’t know when I can get rid of this trouble. The place where the mute woman lives is not monitored, but just as a precaution One, I still wait until it gets dark before bringing her over."
Jiang Li looked at the dumb woman.
The gray-haired old lady swallowed her last mouthful of porridge before she looked at Jiang Li.
The mute woman's face was crisscrossed with old ravines, her eyelids were raised, her back was humped, and her body was thin. She was an old lady who was dying. Probably because he was doing the job of pouring Yexiang, there was an unpleasant smell all over his body. Everyone should avoid it.
Jiang Li didn't show a look of disgust, but calmly said, "Dumb woman."
The mute woman looked at Jiang Li for a while, then suddenly said, "Who are you?"
Ye Mingyu was startled. Along the way, from the time he took the old lady away, the old lady didn't say a word, even the surprise when he was taken away was only a short moment. I heard that when people are old, they are not surprised in this way, Ye Mingyu is dull as this old lady. Jiang Li said that the mute woman could talk at first, but Ye Mingyu thought it was a joke. Who knows that the mute woman really started to speak now. Although his voice is hoarse, it is still clear. He mumbled: "I really can talk." ."
"My name is Jiang Li." Jiang Li looked at her and said with a smile: "Mute woman, I am looking for you to find out where Xue Xiancheng's former subordinates are now."
The mute woman said: "I don't know."
Jiang Li smiled: "Why don't you know? Feng Yutang replaced all the people who originally belonged to Xue Huaiyuan, but didn't replace you. I probably think you will not be a bad thing, but I know, you know, right? "
The mute woman said: "I know, but I can't say it. If you say it, you will die."
"Don't you want to avenge Xue Xiancheng?" Jiang Li smiled, "Xue Xiancheng is a good man." She didn't say another sentence. Xue Huaiyuan once helped a mute woman.
The dumb woman was originally a widow. Her husband died at a young age. She had no children and did not remarry. Because of his ugly appearance and being alone, he is often bullied. When Xue Huaiyuan took them to office, the mute woman was already an ugly old woman who was bullied.
She often went to pick up other people’s leftovers to eat, and she was unwilling to be a beggar and begs on the street. She often hungered and fed. Xue Huaiyuan saw that she was really pitiful when she was old, so she asked her to pour Yexiang in the county office. It’s not a problem to eat and wear warmth if you can take it a few months ago.
If it weren't for Xue Huaiyuan, the dumb woman would have frozen to death on a certain winter day. The dumb woman's dumbness is precisely because she has been bullied by others all the year round, and gradually reluctant to speak, others think she can't speak anymore. But Jiang Li knew that the mute woman could talk, because once when Xue Zhao took the wild fruit she picked to the mute woman, she heard the mute say "thank you" to Xue Zhao.
Feng Yutang changed everyone in the county office, but did not change the mute woman, probably because he felt that the mute woman was just a scent of the night, and it was useless. In addition, the mute woman was still a mute, so he really saw it and heard it. , Can't tell.
But the moment Jiang Li saw the mute woman in the county office today, she knew that her chance was here.
The dumb woman looked at Jiang Li stupidly, which made her look like a fake accident. She vaguely said, "Why do I believe you?"
"This is not to believe in me." Jiang Li whispered: "This is to believe in fairness and justice."
"Is it fair for Xue Xiancheng to go to jail? Can someone like Feng Yutang sit on the ground and be just as justice? Don’t say anything else, when Xue Xiancheng was here, dumb woman, you should be better off Isn’t it better now? At least I’m full and dressed warmly?” Jiang Li smiled, and glanced to one side of the table. There, the food on the table had been swept away by the dumb woman, and the dumb woman was wearing winter clothes. , Many holes have been broken.
The dumb woman lowered her head.
The rich lady in front of me was right. When Xue Huaiyuan was there, she was fed and dressed warmly. Xue Huaiyuan's son Xue Zhao and daughter Xue Fangfei often gave her things to help. Even though she is still in the county office, let alone a month ago, she ate the leftovers of officials.
Life is difficult, Feng Yutang took office, just like those days when she was bullied when she was young. But in this world, why always good people do not live long and do harm for thousands of years
The mute woman raised her head again and looked at Jiang Li. She asked, "Why are you helping the Xue family?"
"I have an old friendship with the Xue family," Jiang Li said, "I am also entrusted by others to vindicate the Xue family. Don't worry, I will not tell others. You told us these things, and Feng Yutang couldn't find you. I can guarantee your safety."
The mute woman laughed hoarsely, she smiled, her folds squeezed into a ball, but she looked more kind than she was gloomy. She said, "What's so scary about me? I have lived so old, and I have lived enough. I still stayed at the county office just to see how long Feng Yutang, the county prime minister, can do it. I hope I can avenge the Xue family, but I can't do it, I waited and waited, I finally waited for you."
Ye Mingyu opened his mouth wide, and it was really surprising to suddenly say such a big thing from this bad-spoken old woman's mouth. But what she said was memorable.
Jiang Li looked at her quietly, and for a while, stretched out her hand to hold the hand of the mute woman: "Thank you."
The young, full hands and the old, dry hands are stacked together, but they seem to breathe new life into the old man. The mute woman's eyes became very bright. She spoke slowly, but she was very clear every word.
"Feng Yutang and the others, replaced everyone in the county office. Master Xue was sent to jail, and his subordinates were dissatisfied and locked up. There was a struggling Xiao Hei who was killed by them. The remaining Feng Yutang was afraid of killing. If they got too much trouble, they were sent to the mines of Dongshan to mine for others."
"Dongshan Mine Road?" Jiang Li was surprised, "Isn't that an abandoned mine?"
The dumb woman glanced at her: "It's rare for you to know."
Ye Mingyu interrupted, "What is the mine? There are mines in Tongxiang?"
The dumb woman sighed: "Few people know about mines. When the younger generation, let alone outsiders, are locals in Tongxiang, they don’t know that there is still a mine in Tongxiang. Decades ago, some people were in Dongshan, Tongxiang. Gold was dug in the mine, and others said it was a gold mine, so they reported it to the court. The court sent people down to explore and let people mine in the mine, but after digging for a whole year, no gold mine was dug except a little bit on the surface. The officials responsible for mining were all deposed, and this mine was also an abandoned mine."
Jiang Li listened to what the mute woman said, her expression was not as surprised as Ye Mingyu's. The younger generations in Tongxiang, even some of the older ones didn't know about it, but she knew. Before Xue Huaiyuan took office, he had to understand Tongxiang's past, and he had personally read about the Dongshan Mine.
Jiang Lidao asked, "Since it is an abandoned mine, why did Feng Yutang send them there?"
The dumb woman sneered, "Because Feng Yutang is going to torture these people. He sent those people to the mine again and let them work in the mine from morning to night until they dig gold. Everyone knows that Dongshan can't dig gold. Those people If you can’t dig gold for a lifetime, don’t even think of it for the rest of your life."
"He is abusing his power. The mining of mines has to be reported to the court. He actually mines gold privately. It is an abandoned mine, and it is enough to be his charge!" Jiang Li said angrily.
"Miss, you have to know that none of the people working in the mine are comfortable. Moreover, Feng Yutang planned to torture them, but will only get worse. I heard Feng Yutang’s men say that those officials were stripped of their clothes and limbs. Tie shackles and work all day long. Not doing well, punching and kicking at every turn, death and injury are common. A 7-foot man is worse than a dog. If this continues, I don’t know how many others can survive. , I don’t know how many people are still alive."
"This is too much!" After listening to the mute woman's words, Ye Mingyu patted the table, "It's crazy!"
Jiang Li tightened his lips and did not speak, making the people who were former officials slaves, and confessing to drive them, Jiang Li imagined the miserable situation of those people. Such torture is not only physical torture, but also a great torture to their self-esteem.
Feng Yutang is really lawless in Tongxiang.
"I know, that's it." The mute woman said: "This lady, if you are looking for the disappeared officials, go to Dongshan. But don't let people find out, there are Feng Yutang's subordinates watching... Do you know where Dongshan is?"
"I know." Jiang Li said, "I know how to find those people."
The mute woman looked at her and said slowly: "Miss, I don’t know what your origins are, but since you have started investigating the Xue family’s case, I hope you will investigate to the end. My old bones will come in when you look at them. The coffin is over. As long as I can reverse the case for the Xue family, let me see that God still has fairness and justice, and it is worthless to take my life."
"Don't worry." Jiang Li looked at her and said with an oath: "I swear that I will trace it to the end and will not give up halfway. No matter what trouble I encounter, I will never give up. If I violate my oath, the sky will thunder and strike."
The mute woman relaxed.