Qian Shiyun's calm words were full of murderous intent. A careless answer would implicate a large group of people.
Prince Zheng stared at Dong Da quietly, his eyes remaining calm.
Dong Da felt that his knees had lost all feeling, and cold sweat rolled down his forehead. He lay on the ground and tried his best to calm down. Suddenly, he pointed at Master Peng Da and Master Peng Er and shouted sharply: "It's all them, they did it!"
Qian Shiyun frowned.
Censor Chen also exchanged glances with the Dali Temple Secretary and scolded Dong Da, "Speak slowly! Explain clearly!"
Peng De was almost frightened to death by his shout. He barely suppressed the nausea rising in his throat and said in panic, "I don't know what you are talking about!"
Dong Da was filled with indignation and snorted coldly: "You don't know? 1 It's you, a sinister villain!"
After he finished speaking, he turned away from looking at Peng De, kowtowed to the people sitting in the hall, and spoke fluently: "Sir, this is what happened... The Peng family had long been colluding with the Japanese pirates and the Yi family, secretly selling good weapons to the Japanese pirates and sea pirates at high prices, and then cutting corners and using defective products to perfunctorily serve the soldiers along the coast... It was because of this that Lord Guo capsized in the ditch and was defeated in the battle with the Japanese pirates, losing three thousand good men..."
Guo Zixing looked at Peng De and Peng Huai with bloodshot eyes, his hands hanging at his sides were clenched so tightly that they made a creaking sound.
Dong Da said coldly: "After this incident, the court was furious, and the people of Zhejiang were also resentful, so the court was determined to investigate. Peng De and Peng Huai came up with a countermeasure and simply framed Lord Guo for collaborating with the enemy in an attempt to cover up the matter."
"But who knew that later on, the Peng family wanted to marry Princess Shouning, the daughter of Marquis Dingbei, but failed. Then, scandals like the one about the Tao family were leaked, and they were overwhelmed and had great resentment towards the Wei family. At that time, Lord Guo wrote a blood oath in prison to prove his innocence... The emperor was furious, and the three courts re-tried the case. The Peng family was afraid that the matter would be exposed, and they hated the Wei family. Marquis Dingbei was also the Minister of War, so they wanted to put the blame on Marquis Dingbei..."
"They are trying to misidentify the facts and call a deer a horse, so that Marquis Dingbei can take the blame for them."
Master Peng didn't know how to respond and was stunned for a moment.
Everything Dong Da said is true!
Master Peng reacted quickly, pointing at Dong Da and cursing, "You are talking nonsense! You are talking nonsense! You are just making all this up!"
He cupped his hands, looked at Qian Shiyun and Chen Yushi sincerely, and tried his best to ignore King Zheng: "Your Excellency, all this is fabricated, he just made it up! How could I do such a thing?"
"I have no grudges against the Wei family, how can you say that I hate the Wei family?" Master Peng didn't care about much anymore and said quickly: "My son did not ask to marry Princess Cheng Shouning, but in the final analysis, it is because our Peng family is not worthy of it. My son is uneducated and has no ambition... I am even more ashamed to face the Wei family. I feel extremely guilty towards them. It's nonsense to say that I hate Weijia to the core! "
Dong Da retorted, "You are lying with your eyes open! When the marriage failed, everyone knows that you went to the Wei family to provoke them. What are you talking about feeling guilty about? Besides, I have evidence for all this!"
He finally got to the point.
Although Master Peng felt guilty, he still remembered that he and his brother had been cautious in their planning, so he sneered, "Since you have evidence, why not just say that someone framed you? Show me your so-called evidence!"
Qian Shiyun raised his eyebrows, ignoring the tense atmosphere between them, took the stack of letters that Censor Chen had taken out earlier, shook it downwards, and asked, "Is this the evidence you are talking about?"
Dong Da loudly responded, "Yes," he said, "This is a secret letter with Peng Huai's personal seal. It is written to Yi Rong, the envoy of Fujian Transportation Bureau. There are two copies of this letter, both with his personal seal."
Dong Da paused, looking at the disbelief on Peng Huai and Peng De's faces, and said coldly: "One of them is Peng Huai's handwritten letter, and the other is a copy by my sister, the former Mrs. Peng Er, and she stole the private seal of Master Peng Er and printed it and sent it out, and it came into Yi Rong's hands. Now I am presenting to you, Your Excellency, it is Peng Huai's handwritten letter. There are subtle differences between the copy and the handwritten one. Your Excellency can carefully check it and you will know whether what I said is true or false."
Second Madam!
It’s the second wife!
Master Peng glared at the elder master and wanted to curse in his heart.
There really is a traitor.
This traitor is actually the second brother’s bedmate!
He had previously suspected that the second son had done something and was known by Dong Da. Now it seems that his guess was not wrong - wasn't it the second wife who knew about it
The Second Master was also extremely shocked and found it hard to accept for a moment. What he couldn't accept was that the Second Madam would actually report him!
After all, they have been married for so many years.
He also sincerely treated the second wife as his wife. Even if he asked the second wife to take the blame for the eldest sister-in-law, was this a big mistake? !
It is indeed not easy for his elder brother and sister-in-law. They have to walk on thin ice in order to maintain the family. Without the elder sister-in-law, the family would be in chaos, and their reputation would be no different than when the second wife committed a crime.
He felt that he had done nothing wrong.
But the second wife was so womanly that she did such a thing because of this matter.
The two brothers agreed that the second wife's revenge and anger were unreasonable and unbelievable.
The second master sneered indignantly: "So that's it!"
He looked at Dong Dadao indignantly: "You actually believed such words! Youqing treated me like this because she had a quarrel with me. She must have been so angry that she did such an inappropriate thing."
The implication is that the second wife is a crazy woman who framed her husband because of a disagreement between the couple.
Dong Da was dumbfounded by the scolding. In his heart, he had a new understanding of the Second Master, his former brother-in-law. He couldn't hide his contemptuous smile: "What you said is really... Second Master also said that she is your wife. If it was just a quarrel, what kind of quarrel would make a wife make up a story to kill her husband? Besides, she is just a woman in the back house. Do you think she can make up such a story? Aren't you overestimating her and underestimating all the adults present here?!"
Censor Chen coughed.
Qian Shiyun narrowed his eyes and tapped his fingers on the table to ask King Zheng for his opinion.
King Zheng looked at the angry Peng De and the frightened Peng Huai and smiled softly: "Just ask them. Everything will be clear after asking them."