Loyal heart travels a long way

In Song Zhiyao's eyes, Qin Yong's cousin Zhu Chengdong's image of a dandy cannot be removed. He has unknowingly many neatly coiled walnuts in his sleeves, and he has to crush a few to coax the children every now and then.

Zhu Chengdong didn't know that in the eyes of this new cousin, his image was already the same as those young masters who were incapable of writing and martial arts. He only thought that Song Zhiyao admired his elder brother Kong Wuli so much that he couldn't speak, and touched the fan with one hand. Fanning it again, the broken hair that couldn't be tied at the corner of the blown forehead flew up briskly.

Qin Yong knew the two of them quite well, and he could see what they were thinking at a glance, and felt very sorry for Zhu Chengdong, a fool who was despised by others and didn't know it.

Being stared at by Zhu Chengdong for a while, Song Zhiyao had no choice but to pick out a piece of walnut meat from the walnut residue, but unexpectedly it was fried walnut, her eyes wandered: who would put the fried walnut in his hand and put it in a bag Pulp, crush it again and eat it?

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Feng Jinian was worthy of being admired by the new emperor, and he was very efficient in handling affairs. It only took him a day and a half to investigate the case after arriving in Xiapi, and he had to beat the drum at the gate of the yamen at noon the next day.

Zhu Chengdong also persuaded him to wait a little longer, so as not to disturb the officials and lords who were wearing small shoes during their lunch break. Feng Jinian hated Zhu Chengdong's sloppy attitude the most, so he only glanced at him, and said indifferently: "Wait a little longer, Mrs. Chen His corpse is about to rot, does Mr. Zhu want to do the autopsy instead of him?"

Zhu Chengdong grew up, apart from his own mother, who did not go along with him?It was the first time I met someone with Feng Jinian's temperament, and he was turned into a sieve, and he wanted to scratch the wall angrily.

This was Song Zhiyao's second time standing in the courtroom. Unlike the last time, this time he was just an insignificant observer.

The county magistrate was still the same magistrate, the magistrate was so majestic last time, but this time the magistrate nodded and bowed.

Anyone with some connections in the officialdom knew that the emperor intended to promote Feng Jinian, and that the eldest son of the prefect of Qizhou had a general's mansion behind him. These people and county officials would not dare to offend.

Qin Yong was not favored in the Qin family. Although his mother was also the daughter of an old general, it was rumored that the Qin family had no contact with the Chu family for many years, and the county magistrate naturally did not think much of him, and Feng Ji Nian and Zhu Chengdong are different...

From this point of view, the emperor also attaches great importance to this pearl return envoy, and cannot be too negligent.

Feng Jinian seems to be quite good at solving cases, and in a few words, he presented evidence to investigate the cause and effect of Chen's death:

The Chen family was not killed by others, but died by suicide as Qin Yong guessed.

Some of the dilapidated wooden benches next to the rockery in the backyard of the embroidery workshop were put on by herself, and then stood on the wooden benches and jumped backwards, hitting the back of the head on the rockery, and almost lost her life in two breaths.

The county magistrate was puzzled: "But the writing on the ground and the physical evidence in Mrs. Chen's hands..."

Feng Jinian looked directly at the county magistrate, and only looked at the county magistrate with horror: "My lord, please send Zheng Qingfeng, the second son of the Zheng family, to come to the hall for inquiry."

When the county magistrate heard his nephew's name, he was stunned for a moment, and asked in puzzlement, "This matter has something to do with Qingfeng?"

Feng Jinian nodded: "When someone comes, just ask a few questions, sir."

Seeing Feng Jinian's reckless appearance, the county magistrate had no choice but to summon Zheng Qingfeng to the court.

Song Zhiyao originally thought Qingfeng, even if he wasn't a handsome young man like Yujia, at least had to be as gentle as a pebble, so he didn't live up to his name.

Not to mention Zheng Qingfeng's mediocre appearance, there are two black moles the size of flies on his nose.

Zheng Qingfeng had a ghost in his heart, so he looked around when he entered the hall, his eyes dodged, and he almost wrote the word "guilty" on his face, which added a wretched aura.

Song Zhiyao thought about it again, the name is really inaccurate, her brother is called Qin Yong but he is not mediocre, no matter in appearance or talent, he is first-class.

As soon as Zhu Chengdong saw Zheng Qingfeng, he looked like he couldn't swallow a fly stuck in his throat, and the veins on his forehead thumped.

Seeing this, Song Zhiyao was puzzled, secretly tugged at the corner of Qin Yong's clothes, mouthed and asked, "What's wrong with my cousin?" Qin Yong leaned into Song Zhiyao's ear and whispered, "His younger brother is also named Qingfeng, who looks just like him. Like dough."

Song Zhiyao immediately took Zhu Chengdong's bitter face seriously. Seeing that he was full of childish things, he knew how much this younger brother doted on the family. Suddenly seeing such a "outstanding temperament" person and My younger brother has the same name, so I can't help feeling angry.

"Mr. Zheng, may I ask where you were at the end of the ninth day?"

Zheng Qingfeng wiped off his sweat: "On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Caomin was a guest at the Song Mansion."

Feng Jinian glanced at Zheng Qingfeng, and then asked, "Song Xiu's residence? Where is it at the moment of Mao on the tenth day of the lunar new year?"

"Yes, sleep at home."

"Sleeping at home," Feng Jinian squinted at Zheng Qingfeng with a half-smile, "but I checked the food records of your house, and there was no food passed in your room on the morning of the tenth day. Taorui is the housekeeper in your room Girl, right? She didn't help you get up and get dressed on the tenth day of the lunar new year."

Zheng Qingfeng wiped off his sweat: "Grassmen on the tenth day of the lunar new year..."

"Of course Tao Rui can't wait for you to get up and get dressed, because you sneaked out of the house when you were ugly."

Feng Jinian didn't give Zheng Qingfeng a chance to defend himself: "You and Miss Song's family are about to make an appointment, and that lady will never forget Miss Qin. It just so happened that you learned that Mrs. Chen had no interest in life, so you sneaked into the embroidery workshop in the middle of the night. Wait for Ms. Chen Once you die, you will forge evidence to frame Master Qin, right?"

Zheng Qingfeng felt chills all over his body, and the weather was getting hotter day by day, but now he seemed to have been poured a bucket of cold water in the coldest winter, sweating from head to toe, and his face turned pale: "The grass people dare not, The grassroots never blamed Lord Qin!"

The county magistrate patted the gavel and stared at the two people below with serious expressions: "How can you be presumptuous in the courtroom! Qingfeng, if you have any grievances, just tell them directly. Mr. Feng, everything must be based on evidence."

Feng Jinian looked up at the county magistrate, his expression remained the same, without any panic: "Mr. Zheng went to buy a live chicken on the ninth day of the lunar new year. The kitchen of Zheng's mansion didn't cook chicken in those two days. I don't know where the live chicken went. What’s more, there is a piece of fluff caught in the crevice of the rockery in the backyard of the embroidery workshop. At first glance, it looks like a thin thread scraped from Kesi, but unfortunately, one of the people in charge of the official recognized it as a chicken wing Down below."

After Feng Jinian finished speaking, he spread out his hands. There was a thin white fluff on the palm of his hand, and a little dried dirt was still on it.

Zhu Chengdong took a look at the fluff and said: "It's from the chicken. Our little walnut likes to raise some chickens and rabbits. I recognize this."

Small walnut?Cousin's younger brother?How can a boy be called such a name?Song Zhiyao was a little speechless, and didn't think about the fact that she was a boy still wearing a skirt.

Feng Jinian said again: "Chicken blood is lighter in color than human blood. The blood on the ground cannot be written in human blood. That's because the human blood on the ground was left by a murdered woman. You dare not go there." Use human blood to leave words. As for why he bought live chickens, Mr. Zheng was afraid that the chicken blood would clot, so he had to save it until the tenth day of the lunar new year before slaughtering it. It’s a pity that no matter how clean you cleaned it, it still left traces. And that jade pendant... ..."

Feng Jinian put the fluff on the county magistrate's table, and said: "The jade pendant is indeed Mr. Qin's, but last time Master Song also personally confirmed that Mr. Qin's jade pendant was lost for many days, and he helped to find it together I went to the Song Mansion to visit the servants, and the old housekeeper of the Song Mansion also confirmed this, and the jade pendant might have been lost in the Song Mansion at that time."

Feng Jinian clapped his hands again, and an officer in uniform brought up a flower pot and put it on the courtroom, "Among the flowers and plants in this pot, there is a spot of soil that is darker than the surrounding area. It must have been opened and covered. Filling it in haste, I turned it out again, and there was a white jade bead in the soil, the jade material was exactly the same as Mr. Qin's jade pendant."

Qin Yong nodded: "It's on the top of the jade plaque."

Feng Jinian nodded: "The jade pendant was lost in the Song Mansion, maybe it was hidden in a flower pot by someone, or it may have fallen into an empty pot, and the person who took care of the flowers accidentally buried it, but I don't know if Mr. How did you get the jade pendant?"

Zheng Qingfeng saw all the evidence and could not deny it, so he collapsed in the courtroom, and the county magistrate was furious: "Did you really do something to blame the imperial court?"

Zheng Qingfeng hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed a few times: "I, Cao Min, have been wronged. Song Ruyan instructed Cao Min to do these things. My lord, see clearly!"

The county magistrate closed his eyes and told Song Ruyan to go to the hall.

When Song Ruyan heard that Zheng Qingfeng was sent to the court for interrogation, he was panicked. The embroidery became more and more unsightly, and he even pricked his finger.Until the Yamen sent someone to invite her to the court, she jumped up and yelled like a madman: "What are you telling me to do? I don't know anything!"

When the rest of the Song family saw her appearance, they knew that she had really done something shameful, and they were in a mess for a while.

When Song Ruyan was brought to the court, her hair was messed up, the powder on her face was also smeared, and she knelt on the ground shaking like chaff.The county magistrate still wanted to scare her, but Song Ruyan couldn't hold back and said everything.

That day, after being teased by Song Zhiyao, she held a grudge, and when she returned home, she spoiled the two pots of garlic seedlings Song Zhiyao planted to vent her anger. She pulled out the garlic seedlings one by one, but brought out a jade pendant when she didn't want to. , it is the white jade pendant that Qin Yong lost.

Originally, Song Ruyan wanted to put this pendant in her dowry. After staying for a while, she happened to have an excuse to be a guest at the Qin Mansion.

I never thought Mrs. Song would let her see the second son of the Zheng family, and then learned that Song Ruyue had brought Mrs. Sun to the Qin residence. Only then did she realize that Mrs. Song had given up on herself, and even Qin Yong hated her for a while. .

It so happened that she went to the embroidery shop to buy handkerchiefs on the ninth day of the lunar new year, and heard Chen and her daughter Ah Man talking in the corner. Knowing that Chen wanted to die, she came up with a way to blame Qin Yong.

If Qin Yong was convicted, all the things in the Qin Mansion belonged to Song Zhiyao, and Song Zhiyao was only nine years old, so he was easy to bully, so he could get all those things back to the Song Mansion without using any means.

When Song Zhiyao heard Song Ruyan's confession of these things, she was so angry that she wanted to rush forward to beat her up: "Are you crazy? Putting these stigmas on my husband's head, just because you are jealous?"

Song Ruyan listened to Song Zhiyao questioning her, and looked up at Song Zhiyao with resentment: "Little bitch, it's not your turn to blame me. In order to climb this tall branch, hide someone's pendant, and pretend to be sick. Back then you tricked me into doing two things. Dao Dish also said he wanted to help me, who is crazy?"

Song Zhiyao was taken aback by what she said, he didn't know about the jade pendant at all, and looked up at Qin Yong: "I, I didn't hide the pendant, and I didn't pretend to be sick."

Qin Yong squatted down and patted Song Zhiyao's back, comforting him once and for all, then looked up at Song Ruyan: "If I don't like it, I will blame my younger sister. Miss Song is a disease brought from the womb."

Song Ruyan wanted to scold again, but the county magistrate had a headache from the quarrel, knocked on the gavel twice, and scolded: "Quiet, quiet! Song Ruyan, I ask you, why did Mrs. Chen commit suicide?"

Qin Yong didn't wait for Song Ruyan to answer, he took a step forward, tall and erect, and blocked Song Zhiyao behind him: "My lord, I have already found out the reason why Mrs. Chen committed suicide, but please disperse the idlers first... There is something wrong with this." Don't share important matters with outsiders."

The county magistrate nodded, glared at Song Ruyan and Zheng Qingfeng below, and ordered the officials to take them into custody first, and then ordered the idlers to retreat.

Qin Yong looked around, and then slowly said: "Because the embroidered woman in the embroidery workshop is fake, the golden branches and jade leaves are the real ones. The Chen family is actually Princess Jingming."