Waking up with a baby

"My lord."

Lu Tingwei frowned, he wanted to take advantage of Xue Bai's absence to give the young master a good look, but he didn't want to delay so much, so he rushed over.Lu Tingwei immediately denied it and said: "Your Majesty Mingjian, this young man is talking nonsense in the courtroom. The [-] big punishments are just for small punishments and big punishments."

Xue Bai closed his eyes and asked, "Lord Liu, what did my father-in-law say just now that made Lord Lu so furious?"

"he……"

Lu Tingwei spoke out first, not wanting the young master to say again that the fifteen pieces of cloth were no longer real silk, but Xue Bai glanced over, and the coldness in his eyes made Lu Tingwei startled.

Xue Bai said slowly: "This king is asking Mr. Liu, not Mr. Lu."

Lu Tingwei forced a smile, restrained his mind, lowered his head and gave Zhang Yuanwai a nonchalant glance.

waste!

Mr. Liu replied respectfully: "You Youwei twisted the fifteen bolts of silk from Zhang Yuanwai, saying that the fifteen bolts of silk did not come from their cloth shop, and these fifteen bolts...in fact, they were not even silk, but Master Lu came to touch it himself, but said that the fifteen bolts were silk, and even asked the people in the hall."

Xue Bai nodded and said, "I see."

The young master saw that his expression was neither salty nor dull, and he looked unpredictable, so he quickly added: "My son-in-law, I have been in this fabric business for decades, how can I not be able to tell whether it is silk or not?"

Xue Bai didn't respond immediately.

The young master said again: "My son-in-law, or you can feel it to see if it is silk."

"Let the lord judge that the fabric is silk. According to the officials, I'm afraid there is something wrong with it." Although Lu Tingwei didn't want to provoke Xue Bai, he had to stop him when he saw this. After all, he was the one who took the initiative.Lu Tingwei smiled, "The prince is a young and promising son-in-law. After all, it is a family, so we should avoid suspicion."

The young master said angrily: "Avoid me! Blind people can come to the court to settle the case, why can't my son-in-law do it?"

"you!"

"My lord, you saw it." Lu Tingwei was scolded by the young master in public, his face was naturally not very good-looking, he sneered, and said to Xue Bai: "You are here, you are a father-in-law who is confident and thinks that someone will support him. He acted recklessly. What exactly does he think of this court?"

Mr. Liu rubbed his nose, stepped aside, he didn't want to be the mortal who suffered when the gods fought.

"Yue Zhang, the presiding judge today is Lord Liu."

Xue Bai's tone was not fluctuating, it seemed that he just mentioned it casually, "You may not be convicted, and what crime you are convicted of is all decided by Mr. Liu himself. Mr. Lu came here to assist you."

Having said that, he paused, and asked Lu Tingwei calmly: "Lord Lu, is this king right?"

Lu Tingwei naturally understood that Xue Bai was warning him not to stretch his hand too far. His expression changed, but he couldn't argue with it, so he could only bitterly say: "My lord is right."

Xue Bai asked again: "Master Yilu, these fifteen bolts are indeed silk?"

"……Yes."

"My lord heard an anecdote about cloth village from my mother-in-law two days ago." Xue Bai's expression remained unchanged, "The business of Jiangnan cloth village has always been better than that of other cloth villages. , hired someone to buy a large amount of cloth in Jiangnan Cloth Village, and then smuggled it out, and then came to the door to demand compensation.”

"Yue Zhang, is there such a thing?"

The young master didn't know what Xue Bai was doing to bring this up, but he nodded cooperatively, "That's right."

Zhang Yuanwai couldn't help but cast aside himself, "My lord, the petty business done by the villain has nothing to do with this cloth shop. It is absolutely impossible to ask for compensation."

Xue Bai did not comment on this, but said: "My mother-in-law told me that from now on, the cloth produced by Jiangnan Cloth will be ground with ink made of a special preparation, and the word "You" will be written on the end three inches. , usually does not appear, it will only appear when exposed to water, and it cannot be washed."

"My father-in-law was only arguing about whether the fifteen pieces of cloth were silk, but he forgot that he could directly use this method to verify whether the fifteen pieces of cloth came from Jiangnan cloth shop."

The young master slapped his head and suddenly realized: "It's all about letting them mess around!"

Neither Zhang Yuanwai nor Lu Tingwei knew that the cloth made by Jiangnan cloth village had such a mark.Zhang Yuanwai quietly looked at Lu Tingwei's expression for a few times, and he couldn't help the cold sweat on his forehead. He asked in disbelief, "You guys still secretly do such tricks on the fabric?"

The young master gave him a squinting look, "To save someone from harboring evil intentions."

On that day, Zhang Yuanwai specifically asked the apprentices of Jiangnan Cloth Factory, and the apprentices only said that the fabrics of Jiangnan Cloth Factory were better than other cloth factories in terms of color and quality, so he didn't ask any more questions, and sent them away with some rewards. I couldn't sleep at night, so I told Mrs. Zhang all about it. Mrs. Zhang is bold and bold, and she only wanted to get more money out of it. Now these fifteen bolts of shoddy fabrics are all out of Her handwriting.

Zhang Yuanwai regretted it at the beginning, if he hadn't coveted this little silver, the young master would not easily find out what was wrong.

Thinking in this way, he looked at Lu Tingwei timidly.

As long as it is proved that the fifteen bolts of silk with salt in them are not from Jiangnan cloth village, the young master's suspicion can be cleared. Of course, Lu Tingwei will not sit idly by. Then send someone to Jiangnan Cloth Village to get some cloth and check it out."

Lu Tingwei has already made a plan, since the fabrics of the Jiangnan cloth shop have this imprint, then he will order his men to fetch cloth from other cloth houses, and then order them to buy off a few of the Jiangnan cloth shop's buddies privately, if Xue Bai refuses to Letting go of it, let these guys come forward and show that the cloths were indeed bought from Jiangnan cloth shop, so they can hide the truth.

"Don't bother Mr. Lu."

Xue Bai said indifferently: "My king passed by Chunxi Street when I came here, and I brought a few bolts of fabric from Jiangnan Cloth Factory along the way."

After finishing speaking, he clapped his hands a few times, and the shopkeeper of Jiangnan Cloth Village pushed away the crowd with the cloth in his arms, and walked into the courtroom.

Xue Bai looked at Lu Tingwei meaningfully, "Master Lu is right. After all, Youyouwei is my king's father-in-law, and I should avoid suspicion to some extent, so I specially invited the shopkeeper of Jiangnan cloth village to come and let him come to the house." I would like to confirm to you that these pieces of cloth are from Jiangnan Cloth Factory, and that Jiangnan Cloth Factory will indeed write the word "You" on the same position of each piece of cloth."

Xue Bai's words were so impeccable that he almost blocked Lu Tingwei and made him have nowhere to play, so he could only frown bitterly.

Mr. Liu hurriedly said: "In that case, come——Shang Shui!"

The catcher quickly brought a bucket of water, and after the shopkeeper unfolded each piece of cloth, he stood aside, Master Liu gave his subordinate a wink, and the catcher quickly raised his hand to shower, not long after, all the cloth was completely soaked. Wet, the cloth brought by the shopkeeper showed a "young" character on the lower right, while the fifteen pieces of cloth brought by Zhang Yuanwai were only wet.

The young master was not surprised at all, "The silk in our cloth shop is even better than the second-class silk."

As he said that, he grabbed a piece of cloth with no writing on it, and deliberately tried to squeeze Lu Tingwei, "Master Lu, these pieces of cloth fade after being soaked in water, how could they be silk?"

"Could it be that the silk used by the female relatives in your mansion will also fade?"

"I think Mr. Lu rarely buys silk himself, so we can't identify it clearly." Xue Bai said slowly: "Yue Zhang, why don't you give Mr. Lu a few pieces of high-quality silk from Jiangnan cloth village some other day, so that Mr. Lu can get acquainted with the real silk?" silk."

The young master grinned, "It's easy to talk about."

After agreeing, the young master thought for a while, and then said: "Lord Lu, try the silk from our cloth shop. If you like it, don't think the price is too high. You can buy some shoddy goods elsewhere. You just need to report it." Your own name, our Jiangnan cloth village, can be given away for free."

Lu Tingwei felt so embarrassed, he had to swallow this breath again, and bit his back molars hard.

The young master still thinks it's not enough, "Master Lu, please don't be polite."

Lu Tingwei responded sinisterly: "Of course you won't be polite."

"What a Zhang Zhi, who cheated and cheated!"

In an instant, the situation took a turn for the worse. Mr. Liu no longer cared about Lu Tingwei. He sat back to his original position, patted the ruler vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Why don't you frame He Youyou?"

"My lord, grass people, grass people..."

Member Zhang muttered a few times, not daring to look at Lu Tingwei's face anymore, he just kowtowed and stammered to Master Liu: "The grass people don't know what's going on."

He regained his composure for a while, and insisted: "These fifteen bolts of cloth are the fifteen bolts that my apprentice gave me that day. The grassroots would never dare to steal the beam and change the pole, and cross the sea."

"Is it."

Xue Bai's voice was deep and low, "Mr. Zhang, I'm asking you, are you really not cheating?"

Zhang Yuanwai lowered his head, still refused to confess, "No, no!"

Xue Bai said again: "Lord Liu, I have a question."

Lord Liu said, "My lord, please tell me."

"Zhang Yuanwai and Mrs. Zhang have three sons and one daughter in total. Since they are preparing for the marriage of Ling Qianjin, it should be the only daughter under their knees, Zhang Jinlian." Xue Bai glanced at Zhang Yuanwai, who dared not raise his head, slightly. After a pause, she continued: "It's just that this golden lotus was born with a weak disease. Zhang Yuanwai and Mrs. Zhang sent her to the Hanshan Temple to practice cultivation when she was five years old."

"By chance, Zhang Jinlian got advice from Layman Suyun and vowed not to marry in this life,"

Xue Bai asked with a half-smile: "Mr. Zhang, I'm quite curious. How did you persuade Mrs. Zhang to marry a local ruffian?"

"You, you are talking nonsense!"

Zhang Yuanwai's body suddenly shook.

He and Mrs. Zhang have never announced that they sent Zhang Jinlian to the Taoist temple on the mountain. After all, they still have the intention of marrying off their daughter. The fortune teller said that he can only be sent to his cousin's family to be raised, otherwise he is doomed to die young.

Zhang Yuanwai managed to calm down, comforted himself that Xue Bai had no proof, nothing to prove, and said, "Zhang Jinlian is my daughter, why would I promise her to a local ruffian? What did I do to her?"

Xue Bai's thin lips parted lightly and said, "Murdering for money."

Zhang Yuanwai looked at Lu Tingwei as if asking for help, "Lord Lu, tell the prince quickly, I don't, I don't..."

Lu Tingwei secretly thought of the idiot, and said displeasedly: "How do I know if you have one?"

Zhang Yuanwai still has some brains after all, knowing that he can't just panic completely like this, and shake Lu Tingwei out of his head, otherwise, he doesn't know if Lu Tingwei will suffer, but he will definitely suffer and end in a miserable end.

He kowtowed again, and said to Master Liu: "My lord, the prince tried every means to exonerate his father-in-law. The grass people can understand, but the grass people have never been like this, like this... Let the lard cover my heart, even my own. Your own daughter is being pushed into the fire pit, adults must learn from it!"

"Mr. Zhang's remarks are very high-sounding." Xue Bai said in a low voice, "It rained in the mountains last night, and the mountain roads were not easy, which made Layman Suyun go through many twists and turns when he went down the mountain. In this way, it would be better if Zhang Yuanwai confronted Mrs. Zhang, Layman Suyun, and Miss Zhang face to face."

Master Liu heard the words and immediately clapped the table and said: "Come here, Xuan—Mrs. Zhang, Layman Suyun, and Miss Zhang are in court!"

Mrs. Zhang was sent here, followed by Zhang Jinlian with tears in her eyes and layman Suyun in Taoist robes.Mrs. Zhang cursed at Zhang Jinlian: "What did I work so hard to give birth to you? Sure enough, you are a loser. You should have been strangled to death in your baby back then. After raising you for so many years, you actually ganged up with outsiders to deal with me!"

Speaking of this, she ruthlessly tugged at the rope tied to her body, but failed to pull it off. She turned her head and shouted at Zhang Yuanwai who was stunned, "Why are you so stupefied? Why don't you come and untie it for me?"

Only then did Zhang Yuanwai come back to his senses, and hurriedly untied the rope for her.

"The daughter of the people has met your lords."

Zhang Jinlian had a good appearance, with willow eyebrows and phoenix eyes, even if she was dressed in a coarse cloth dress, she couldn't hide her charm.She tapped lightly, and said softly: "The girl of the people is Zhang Jinlian, her Taoist name is Shichen."

Although she has never studied, she was personally taught by Layman Suyun, so the narration was orderly and unhurried, "A few days ago, my father wrote a letter, saying that my mother was ill, and asked the daughter of the people to go down the mountain to serve around."

"Minnv has been practicing Taoism since she was five years old, and she has never done filial piety to her father and mother. Although she is devoted to Taoism, she still thinks about it and bid farewell to her master. She went down the mountain with her family servants."

When Zhang Jinlian said this, she was already crying, "I didn't want to be locked in the boudoir as soon as I entered the house. My mother who was supposed to be sick in bed sat by the bed and told the girl that I had married me .”

Mrs. Zhang was out of breath, she slapped Zhang Jinlian, raised her brows and scolded, "Do you know what you're talking about, you loser?"

Layman Suyun frowned, stopped and said: "Mrs. Zhang, in public."

"This is my daughter. I can beat him whether he is in public or not." Mrs. Zhang sneered, "I entrusted my daughter to you, but you disciplined her well. You won't marry anyone if you talk nonsense, and you will return to the Taoist temple wholeheartedly." To serve you, am I her mother, or you are her mother?"

Zhang Jinlian covered her face and cried bitterly: "Mother, how could you be so obsessed with it!"

"I'm obsessed? You say I'm obsessed?" Mrs. Zhang laughed angrily, "I think it's because you are stubborn, stubborn, and stubborn! Mother told you to return to vulgarity. Could it be that you are still hurting you?"

Zhang Jinlian said in a low voice: "The lord has already told me that the Jiangtian you and your father picked has been idle and hanging out in gambling shops all day long."

She cried and asked: "Father, mother, since you didn't harm me, why did you trick me down from the mountain, and why did you force me to marry this rascal?"

Mrs. Zhang replied stiffly: "You are my daughter, I will not harm you!"

Layman Suyun patted Zhang Jinlian on the shoulder a few times, sighed, "I should have stopped you that day."

Zhang Jinlian wiped away her tears with her sleeves, shook her head, and turned to Master Liu, "My lord, the daughters of the people don't know much about this case, but one day, their parents came to force the marriage, and they seemed to have slipped their mouths unintentionally. Claiming that this marriage is just an expedient measure, after a few days of grievances, after all the dust settles, you can take the adult's ten thousand taels of silver, go to another place to change your face, start a new life, and promise a good family for the daughter of the people."

Mrs. Zhang wanted to curse again when she heard the words, but Mr. Liu shouted angrily first: "Zhang Zhi, there is such a thing!"

Mrs. Zhang flinched, Madam Zhang naturally knew that her husband was useless, and immediately replied fiercely: "No! This girl is talking nonsense, but she hates us for tricking her down the mountain."

Master Liu slapped the ruler heavily, "Presumptuous! I'm asking Zhang Zhi!"

Zhang Yuanwai's words flickered: "No, no."

"really?"

Xue Bai's expression was calm, "It seems that Zhang Yuanwai is not willing to die until he reaches the Yellow River. In this case, I can only ask someone to bring Jiang Tian up, and ask him to tell all the adults in public what benefits Zhang Yuanwai promised him."

He came late today, not because he was waiting for Layman Suyun, but because Jiang Tian disappeared unexpectedly.No one was found in the gambling shop he frequented, and even his old mother said that he hadn't seen him for two or three days.

Xue Bai's remark was nothing more than a temptation.

"he……"

Zhang Yuanwai's figure flickered, gamblers like Jiang Tian were willing to do anything as long as they were given a few dollars, and naturally they couldn't hide anything, and he chose Jiang Tian in the first place just for convenience.

"Big, big man."

Zhang Yuanwai staggered, thinking that he couldn't hide it. He stared at his slightly trembling fingers, and suddenly remembered that Lu Tingwei was still there. Ting Wei remained motionless, and didn't even give him a look.

Member Zhang looked pale on the outside.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Mrs. Zhang lay down in the courtroom, Sapo cried and said, "I have lived a long life! What crime did I do? I gave birth to a daughter, and my elbows were all turned out. The head of the family was dragged to the court again, and others sold her. Private salt, the big master is blaming him, the person who reported the case? What is the reason for it?"

"What's so great about the lord? The old man of the lord can commit crimes?"

Mrs. Zhang shouted loudly: "Master, if someone dares to touch you today, I will fight them. We didn't break the law, and we didn't harm anyone. Why should we blame the person who reported us?"

Zhang Yuanwai wanted to stop her, but someone broke into the courtroom and whispered something into Lu Tingwei's ear. After a long time, Lu Tingwei's frown relaxed.

He cleared his throat, "My lord."

Lu Tingwei's face sank like water, and he concealed his color very well, "Someone found a corpse in the moat just now, and after identification, it was Jiang Tian."

"...Wu Zuo also found a few gold leaves in Jiang Tian's purse, and the word "young" was engraved on the bottom of the leaves."

The young master secretly thought it was bad.

Mrs. Zhang took the opportunity to cry again: "In this capital, there is someone whose surname is young and can't get along with our Zhang family. Who else is there? Why are our lives so miserable? You say this silk is not yours. , there is no word "young", your surnames are engraved on this gold leaf, if you harm us, you will harm us, Jiang Tian, ​​this... good-looking young man, how can you say that you will be gone if you don't have one?"

"Young and promising, what a cruel heart!"

First he was slandered and sold private salt, but now he has lost his life again, the young master was furious, "You..."

Lu Tingwei let Xue Bai suppress it for a long time, and finally smiled sincerely at this moment, "My lord, this case is becoming more and more complicated and confusing. According to my opinion, I don't want to retry it at another time."

Xue Bai's face turned slightly cold, "Master Lu is confused, Master Liu is the presiding judge."

Lu Tingwei asked suddenly: "Master Liu, what do you think?"

Xue Bai gave Mr. Liu a look, and Mr. Liu nodded indiscernibly, "We will try again at another day."

Master Liu is well aware of Xue Bai's intentions, even if there are side effects, he must be punished.He cast a disgusted look at Mrs. Zhang, who was rolling around in the courtroom, and then angrily said: "You shrew, how can the courthouse allow you to act wildly? Come on, drag down the stick and beat twenty big boards!"

Mrs. Zhang was stunned, "My lord..."

She desperately winked at Zhang Yuanwai, and Zhang Yuanwai hurriedly begged for mercy: "My lord, be merciful, my lord, be merciful!"

Mrs. Zhang is used to being sloppy, thinking that everyone will follow her own way and despise Zhang Yuanwai's style. She pushed Zhang Yuanwai away and threatened herself: "If you want to fight, it's not as good as our husband and wife. Fight to death together, beat us to death in this court of yours!"

Lord Liu sneered, and threw down the warrant sign at hand, "In that case, I will drag the two of them out and beat them with forty sticks, so as to make an example to others!"

Zhang Yuanwai hurriedly called out: "My lord, my lord, the grassroots are wronged!"

Mr. Liu ignored it, and the police came forward and dragged Zhang Yuanwai and Mrs. Zhang out one after another. Mrs. Zhang didn't expect that her usual tricks would no longer work, and said, "My lord, I just said it casually."

Mrs. Zhang was dragged out of the courtroom and forced to press on the board. Finally, she panicked and begged for mercy: "My lord, my lord, why do you bother with me?"

"grown ups--"

The wooden plank was hit hard, again and again, on the flesh, and Madam Zhang's voice changed in pain immediately, and stars stared in her eyes.She cursed Zhang Jinlian and Zhang Yuanwai, and Zhang Yuanwai, who was involved for no reason, couldn't help but fight back: "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have to be beaten with this rod!"

"You blame me? Are you blaming me?"

Mrs. Zhang was even more angry, she wanted to break free from the shackles of the policeman, and rushed to fight with Zhang Yuanwai, but as soon as she made a move, the policeman held her tightly, and the staff beat her harder.

"You... ah!"

Mrs. Zhang was lying on the wooden board, her buttocks were covered with blood and flesh, but the police did not hit her around, but just hit this wound as usual, so the bloodstains accumulated more and more, Mrs. Zhang cursed loudly from the beginning , In the end, he screamed in pain with a trembling voice, and in the end he had to cry and beg for mercy indiscriminately.

"My lord, my lord, spare me!"

"grown ups!"

……

Xue Bai confessed a few words to the young master, and glanced at Lu Tingwei who was beaming with joy from the corner of his eye. After all, he didn't count the incidental matter of Jiang Tian.He walked to Lu Tingwei's side, paused, and then said casually: "Mr. Zhuang and Mr. Lu are really out of tricks."

Xue Bai's expression suddenly turned cold, and there was a chill in his deep black eyes, "Next time, this king will make it impossible for you to escape, and catch you all at once."

Lu Tingwei couldn't hide his color, "Whether this life lawsuit should be attributed to Youyouwei, Princess Congjia, or both of them are innocent, it's all up to the prince."

"My lord must think carefully and make a decision!"

Xue Bai smiled faintly, "There is no need to decide."

"This king will count it all on you."

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