Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Miss Zhang took two steps to the side, avoiding his grasping hand, and said calmly, "Whether I care about my father or my mother is a family matter, and has nothing to do with my uncle. If my uncle really cares about my mother, he should not keep telling her that only my cousin can take care of her in her old age."

"Is there anything wrong with what I said?" Yang Yi gnashed his teeth in hatred. "Your father and mother don't agree with you marrying this worthless poor scholar, but you threatened to die to force him to marry you. You are still eating the family's food, but you are so ungrateful and don't care about their lives at all. When you really marry him, will you not help him empty the family's pockets?"

Miss Zhang asked calmly, "Even if I helped him drain the family, that's our family's business. My father isn't anxious, so why is my uncle so impatient?"

"You!" Yang Yi raised his hand, quickly glanced at Chen Shao and the others, then put it down again and said angrily, "Why am I so eager? Of course, I am here to discipline you for your mother! For such a poor scholar who can't even pass the provincial examination, you pissed off your mother so much that she fell ill and refused to eat or drink. You even embarrassed yourself in front of all the adults. You still think you are right!"

Miss Zhang asked back: "If uncle thinks I have brought shame to you all, why don't you explain my faults to you all and let you make the decision for me, instead of speaking ill of me?"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Yang Yi said a few good words and threatened angrily, "Since you are so shameless, don't blame me, your uncle, for not giving you face!"

Miss Zhang calmly reminded him, "If you want to tell me, uncle, then remember to tell me that you instigated my mother to pretend to be sick by not eating or drinking, and you also instigated my mother to give me drugs, so that my cousin..."

"Shut up!" Yang Yi's face changed drastically, and he raised his hand to hit her in the face.

His movements were too fast and too sudden. Miss Zhang wanted to dodge, but her body seemed to be frozen. She could only watch his hand hit her.

At the critical moment, Chan Yi picked up the wine glass on the table and hit his hand.

At the same time, Lu Mingyuan also ran over quickly, pulled Miss Zhang away, and stood in front of her.

The wine glass hit Yang Yi's wrist, and then spun back into Chan Yi's hand.

Lu Mingyuan also panted and said, "If you have anything to say, come to me. A woman's reputation is more important than anything else. Since you are Miss Zhang's uncle, how dare you hit her in front of outsiders like this?"

Yang Yi was both scared and angry.

What he was afraid of was that he was so angry with Miss Zhang that he forgot about Chen Shao and the others. What made him angry was that Lu Mingyuan was a nobody who dared to yell at him!

She looked at Chen Shao and the others fearfully, and saw that everyone except Chan Yi was indifferent. She felt relieved, but then she said with anger in her heart, "Well, why is it that the marriage has been cancelled, but she is still making a fuss all day long? It turns out that you are behind this!"

With a cold snort, Yang Yi bowed to Magistrate Wang and said, "When this kid promised to cancel the engagement in court a few days ago, he was so sincere and sincere. Now he has gone back on his word. He is unworthy of being a scholar! I hope you can handle this impartially as you did before!"

"I also want to do the same as before," Magistrate Wang said solemnly after he bowed to Chen Shao, Gu Feiyan and Zhou Lao, who were standing in front of him, "but you can see that Nephew Lu obviously disagrees with my verdict. If you want to ask for an explanation now, I'm afraid you have to repeat it again in front of all the gentlemen."

No matter how stupid Yang Yi was, he could tell from the words "good nephew" that he was shirking responsibility.

Thinking of the fact that he had been biased towards Lu Mingyuan in the previous lawsuit, Yang Yi could not help but threaten him angrily: "Sir, I put a lot of effort into that lawsuit!"

Magistrate Wang said confidently, "You did put in a lot of effort at that time, but didn't I also rule that you won? What? You want to put in another effort, and I will guarantee that you will never lose in your life?"

Yang Yi took two steps forward: "That's one hundred taels!"

"What's wrong with a hundred taels?" Magistrate Wang said disapprovingly, "One is willing to fight, and the other is willing to be beaten. It's not like I forced you to take the silver!"

Hearing him talk about accepting bribes so openly, Yang Yi quickly looked at Chen Shao and the others, and seeing that they were all indifferent, he thought they didn't know the truth, so he lifted his robe and knelt down angrily, and told them at a very fast speed how Magistrate Wang accepted a bribe of 100 taels of silver from him, as well as how he tricked him into paying off the debt to Lu Mingyuan, adding fuel to the fire.

Done.

Yang Yi looked up at Chen Shao and Gu Feiyan hopefully. Seeing that they hadn't spoken for a long time, he couldn't help but call out in panic, "My Lord?"

Chen Shao put down the teacup, glanced at Miss Zhang who looked nervous, and curled the corners of his mouth calmly.

When she refuted Magistrate Wang earlier, she was bold and fearless; when she questioned Lu Mingyuan, she was clear and calm; when she fought back against her uncle, she was sharp and hit the pain point. Throughout the whole process, she was not only calm and composed, but also always took the initiative. She thought that she was really not afraid of anything.

"What you mean is," Chen Shao looked at Yang Yi, "you took a hundred taels of silver to bribe Magistrate Wang to let him join you in persecuting Lu Mingyuan?"

"I didn't persecute Lu Mingyuan," Yang Yi quickly denied, "My niece and my son have been engaged since they were young. A few years ago, my brother-in-law believed the rumors and had no choice but to get my niece engaged to Lu Mingyuan. Earlier this month, when I came to discuss the marriage of the two children with my brother-in-law, I learned about this situation and reported it to the government in anger."

"In other words, the engagement between Lu Mingyuan and Miss Zhang is an objective fact?" Chen Shao asked back.

"That's right," Yang Yi argued, "but their marriage was only a verbal agreement, and it was my brother-in-law who was deceived by the rumors and rushed into it..."

"My marriage with Miss Zhang is not a verbal agreement." Lu Mingyuan stepped forward, "I have the marriage certificate and token as proof!"

Miss Zhang looked at him in surprise: Didn't he return the marriage certificate and the token to her father? How...

Yang Yi also stood up in shock: "How come you still have the marriage certificate!"

Lu Mingyuan did not answer him. After watching Chan Yi come over and take away the marriage certificate, he could not help but feel admiration in his heart: Last night, when Chen Shao asked Fu Jiu to give him the marriage certificate and the token and asked him to keep them close to him, he was a little confused. It turned out that she had already expected Miss Zhang or Yang Yi to come to the county government today.

"Please understand clearly, sir," Yang Yi took out the marriage certificate in his arms in a hurry when he saw Chen Shao had already opened it. "His marriage certificate is fake, and this one of mine is the real one!"

Chen Shao motioned to Chan Yi to take the marriage certificate from his hand.

After opening the two marriage certificates at the same time and putting them together, Chen Shao asked, "Since Lu Mingyuan's marriage certificate is fake, why is it signed with the name of Miss Zhang's father, and the signature is exactly the same as the signature on your marriage certificate?"

Yang Yi blurted out: "He forged it!"

Chen Shao raised his eyes, his gaze cold: "Are you saying that he also forged the seal and handprint on it?"

Seal, handprint... Yang Yi suddenly looked at Lu Mingyuan: "What you returned to your brother-in-law was a fake marriage certificate and token of love!"

Although returning the fake marriage certificate and tokens was out of self-protection, Lu Mingyuan still explained with a guilty blushing face: "It's not that I want to return the fake marriage certificate and tokens, it's that you guys are pushing me too hard, I have no choice but to..."

Yang Yi was already furious, so he didn't wait for him to finish. He knelt down and told him the story of breaking off the engagement again. After he finished, he still felt resentful and said, "You said you wanted to break off the engagement, but you used a fake marriage certificate and fake tokens to get away with it. Even if such a person passes the imperial examination in the future, it must be because of fraud!"

"You just said that his marriage with Miss Zhang was a verbal agreement, and now you say that he has returned the marriage certificate and the token," Chen Shao questioned, "You said he was lying, so which of your words is true and which is false?"

Yang Yi hesitated for a long time before saying, "Everything has a first and a last. Huai Jin got engaged to my son first, and then to Lu Mingyuan. Besides, the engagement to Lu Mingyuan was a last resort under the circumstances, so how can it be counted?"

Chen Shao first asked Magistrate Wang to arrange for someone to invite Zhang Wanjin and his wife to the county government office, and then asked: "Why didn't Zhang Wanjin come to you first when he was in a desperate situation and had no other choice?"

Yang Yi brought out the words from the previous lawsuit: "My brother-in-law and his family moved to Qingdao County to do business, which is very far away from our hometown. The situation was urgent at the time, and distant water could not quench a nearby fire, so he resorted to this desperate measure."

Chen Shao asked unmoved: "Where is your brother-in-law's hometown?"

Yang Yi hesitated for a moment before answering, "In Yaocheng County."

Chen Shao suddenly looked up at him.

The location of Mengshe Smelting Bureau is Yaocheng County!