Everyone was staring at Xie Linlang, wanting to see what she had to say!
As soon as she appeared, Muru Shi, who was kneeling on the ground, showed a malicious expression. She hated Xie Linlang. Even if she knew that Xie Linlang was with her now, she still hated her!
In particular, Xie Linlang also betrayed the emperor. The emperor valued her so much, how could she, how dare she betray him? !
This is an extremely complicated emotion. While she wanted to see the disheartened appearance of the emperor after being betrayed by the person she liked, she hated Xie Linlang's greed and shamelessness at the same time.
Because a petty profit would turn his back on someone so good to her, the emperor was really blind to like her!
When the emperor saw Xie Linlang coming, he was instantly refreshed!
On the other hand, Shi Lang threw a memorial to Xie Linlang and asked with a yin smile.
"Master Xie, did you write this memorial?"
Xie Linlang knelt in front of the emperor and said something hoarse.
"Yes."
With her answer, the common people were completely disappointed!
Xie Linlang is the child prodigy they watched grow up, the hope of the common people, and the official who truly thinks of the common people! They couldn't believe that she actually looked like this in private, how could she be such a person? !
Some people couldn't stand the blow, so they cried out on the spot, and the sorrowful voice spread everywhere, driving more despair.
After Xie Linlang heard it, she didn't move at all, and still knelt there with her back straight.
When Zhong Shilang heard the words, his smile became even more complacent. He glanced at the ugly-looking emperor and continued to ask.
"Then what you said in the memorial is true?"
Following his question, many people held their breath and listened, waiting for a decisive answer from her.
Xie Linlang did not speak immediately, but knelt there silently, which made many people have a little hope in their hearts.
Muru Shi, who was beside her, was in a hurry and couldn't help screaming, "You talk! You dare to do such a bad thing, but you dare not admit it?!"
The emperor clenched the dragon chair nervously, and all the civil and military officials looked at her intently. Concubine Liu Hui raised her heart, covered half of her face with a fan, and stared at Xie Linlang with a pair of slender eyes.
At this tense and silent moment, the clouds in the sky swarmed, and suddenly there was a loud thunder!
This thunder shocked many people! The next second, Xie Linlang stood up slowly, she raised her head, looked at the emperor and said.
"Before pleading guilty, Wei Chen still has something to say."
The emperor's eyes were heavy, and he nodded, "You said."
Xie Linlang turned around, looking back at the common people under the altar in the eyes of everyone who was surprised, nervous, or hated, and said in a deep voice.
"Everything in the memorial is true, and I admit all my sins."
After she finished speaking, Concubine Liu Hui couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, she almost thought Xie Linlang was going to go against the water!
But Mrs. Liu was sensitively aware that something was wrong, but it didn't matter, as long as Xie Linlang pleaded guilty.
Sure enough, as soon as Xie Linlang said these words, the extremely disappointed voices of the common people came from the crowd.
"How can you be such a person?!"
"The number one talent in Daqin, a good official for the country and the people, are they all fake?!"
"Born as a man, but even the master who raised him seduces him, are you a beast?!"
Such condemnation and swearing came from all directions, and Xie Linlang became the target of public criticism!
The emperor saw that she was facing all the wind and rain alone, and couldn't help but want to stand up, but when he thought of something, he sat down stiffly again, but just clenched a few cracks in the teacup in his hand, and he didn't even know that the tea was poured out. .
Xie Linlang calmly let the people scold her. At this time, besides anger, most of the people who scold her are sad. Her status as the champion of the common people is very inspiring in a sense, but now, everything about her may be She sold her body in exchange, and what she brought to the people was only anger and despair.
Xie Linlang continued to speak when the surrounding voices gradually became quieter and the atmosphere of compassion became stronger.
"I did everything, but I'm not the most guilty person. I think the emperor's sin is even heavier!"
Her words made many people's minds tense, and then they saw Xie Linlang speaking to Zhong Shilang.
"When I followed General Bai to Chalong for disaster relief for the first time, all the way, I saw starving people all over the place. The food for disaster relief had already been distributed, but in the porridge shed there was only porridge that could be seen. Rice with green mold.
Many ordinary people ate this kind of porridge and immediately died of illness, and Mr. Zhong was the county magistrate of Chalong at that time.
Later, Lord Zhong donated a large sum of money to the Zhong family to repair the ancestral hall.
Xie Linlang's words made Zhong Shilang's face pale, but she herself shook her head.
"I can't stand this kind of thing. It was clearly Lord Zhong who caused so many people to starve to death, but why is he okay, and he is still taking the money he has stolen to help himself get promoted and make a fat job.
I told the emperor all this, but the emperor was in a high position, but he didn't do anything and couldn't do anything.
He told me that if I go to report, Lord Zhong may be dismissed, but in a few years, he will be able to become an official again, because the patriarch of the Zhong family is the Minister of the Household, and Lord Zhong's uncle is the chief of internal affairs. If I was severely punished, it was me. I would die without a place to be buried because I offended the gentry.
This is the imperial court of the Shiqing Shilu system, and this is the court of the nobility! "
"You... you spit out blood!!"
After Zhong Shilang regained his senses, he quickly defended himself. As a result, among the common people below, a few old men in ragged clothes suddenly walked out. They were crawling under the high platform, and one of them shouted loudly!
"Please, Your Majesty, be the master for us! The drought caused 30,000 corpses to be buried! Those who survived did not depend on the government's disaster relief food, but ate tree bark and chewed grass roots to save their lives!
Many people have died, but this dog official surnamed Zhong has been promoted! All of us in Chalong couldn't take this breath, so we wrote the Book of Ten Thousand Peoples three times with blood, but we never presented it to the imperial court once. As long as His Majesty can severely punish this beast, this dog official! Even if we die, we will be smiling at Jiuquan! "
After they shouted, they kowtowed again and again, and the sound of "bang bang" seemed to be kowtowing in people's hearts!
The emperor's eyes suddenly turned red. Every time he did disaster relief, he emptied the treasury to save him.
His eyes were like electricity, and he stared at Zhong Shilang, "Zhong Shu! What else do you have to say!"