Crossing the Ming Dynasty to be the magistrate

Master Wu led Wen Yu and the others into the hall of the inner courtyard. At this time, a huge screen had already been erected in the hall.But you can still faintly see the two women sitting behind the screen.

After they were seated, the maids of the Wu Mansion brought them a few cups of tea.

Wen Yu didn't speak in a hurry, but drank tea slowly.After a while, he turned to look at the gatekeeper who had seen the murderer, and the gatekeeper nodded at him.

Wen Yu knew it well, at this time Master Wu had already coughed several times, obviously he also noticed that something was wrong with the current atmosphere.

Wen Yu put down the teacup and asked Wu Zhen, "I wonder if Ms. Wu has seen Wei Lin recently?"

A soft girl came from behind the screen: "Returning to the adults, the little girl has indeed met Wei Lin a few days ago."

"What!" Before Wen Yu could speak, Master Wu exclaimed first, "How could you have seen Wei Lin! You stay at home all day long!" Then he looked at Wen Yu in embarrassment Several people glanced at it, as if they were afraid that this kind of news would spread and ruin their daughter's reputation.

Wen Yu smiled at him reassuringly: "Master Wu, don't worry, I assure you that I will never let out a single word of what I said in the Wu Mansion today."

Master Wu didn't reply, and Wu Zhen said later: "I have a marriage contract with Mr. Wei Er, even if we meet, it's not a big deal. A few days ago, when I went to burn incense in the temple with my mother, I met Wei Lin by chance. , and said a few words."

Wen Yu feels very strange, Wu Zhen is almost on a self-stigmatization festival now, and she is determined to associate herself with Wei Lin.

He couldn't figure it out, so he stopped being entangled in this point, and asked again: "Then I don't know what Miss Wu thinks about Wei Lin's death."

Wu Zhen was still very calm: "My little girl feels very sorry. The two sons of the Wei family both had marriage contracts with my little girl, and both died young. Maybe it's my fate. Just before that, I decided to become a monk in a Taoist temple. The two sons pray for blessings."

Everyone was stunned, what is this unfolding?Although Wei Dalang is Wu Zhen's fiancé, the matter of Wei Lin is completely wishful thinking of the Wei family!There was no agreement between the two families at all. Some time ago, Master Wu and Zhou Wan were planning to get married, so Wu Zhen couldn't be blamed for this.

Master Wu was also furious at this time: "Ridiculous! Nonsense! Why should my Wu Manjiang's daughter guard his family's festivals! Who allows you to think so! Don't go out these days! Copy "Nvjie" and "Female Ring" and "Book of Filial Piety"!"

Wen Yu saw that Mr. Wu's eyes were red with anger, and he probably could have used family law if there were no outsiders at this time, so he was silent for a while, and waited until he felt that Mr. Wu's anger had subsided.Leng Buding asked loudly: "Miss Wu, can you explain why someone saw you going out of the city gate to the murder scene on the day of the crime?"

"Pa..." The girl sitting next to Wu Zhen was obviously startled by Wen Yu, and accidentally dropped the cup in her hand on the ground.

Wu Zhen squeezed her hand lightly, her tone was still calm: "Could it be that my lord suspects that I killed Wei Lin? On the day of the incident, my little girl spent the whole day studying with her cousin in her room, and everyone in the family can testify."

At this time, no matter how dull Master Wu was, he could feel that Wen Yu was not being kind, and he said displeasedly, "What is your intention, sir? Instead of catching the real murderer, my Zhen'er is being interrogated instead. My daughter doesn't come out on weekdays." , how could it be possible to kill someone!"

Deng Wu sneered at the side: "How do you know that your daughter is not going out? Didn't you also keep it in the dark when she said that she met Wei Lin just now?"

"You..." Master Wu was annoyed and wanted to refute.

Wen Yu interrupted him: "Captain Deng must not be rude, since Miss Wu is not clear, then we will go back."

Wen Yu got up with his men, and then muttered to himself as if remembering something: "I don't know if the murderer has hidden the murder weapon. After all, blood-stained clothes are easy to burn, and swords can't be destroyed."

Master Wu asked the housekeeper to see the guests off with a dark face, then turned around and asked people to take good care of Wu Zhen, not allowing her to leave the house, and he would settle the score with Wu Zhen again in a few days.

In Wu Zhen's room, Zhao Yingshu, the cousin of the Wu family, walked back and forth nervously: "What to do, that Wen must know what we did! Maybe he still has evidence! Otherwise, how could he say such things! Now But what to do... Otherwise, you and I will go back to my hometown in Mianzhou. Although my parents are gone, there are still a few relatives there, let's hide for a while..."

Wu Zhen looked at her amusedly as she turned around like a small animal: "Shu'er, don't panic, if County Magistrate Wen really has any conclusive evidence, then he will come here today to arrest someone instead of Make an excuse to ask like this. And you said a wrong sentence..."

"What? What did I say wrong?"

Wu Zhen looked at her tenderly: "It's not 'what we did', I was the one who killed, and I planned everything alone, even if the government really came to arrest people, all of this has nothing to do with you. "

Hearing what she said, Zhao Yingshu's pretty face flushed with anger, tears rolled in her eyes, and she said coquettishly: "Good you black-hearted dead man! It's still talking like this even now, when you tricked me Why don't you say that! Get out of here now! I don't want to see you bastard!"

Wu Zhen hurriedly coaxed and persuaded, and finally managed to stabilize the person. She gently put her arms around Zhao Yingshu's shoulders: "It's my fault. I know that you and I are both women, and it is impossible to be together, but I still stalk you." .After Wei Da died, I thought I could finally stay together this time. As a result, Wei Lin and the Zhou family came to intervene again."

A trace of ruthlessness flashed across Wu Zhen's face: "I figured it out, even if there is no Mr. Wei, there will be Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li. God won't make it easier for us, so I will find a way by myself! Anyway, in this life, I am not It will make you feel wronged."

Zhao Yingshu felt uneasy in her heart. Seeing Wu Zhen like this, she couldn't say anything: "What are you going to do about the dagger?"

Wu Zhen didn't say a word. After she killed someone that day, she fled back to the Wu Mansion in a panic. Worried that the matter would be exposed, she gave the murder weapon and her blood-stained clothes to her confidant maid, and asked her to bury them nearby. too safe.So I called the servant girl and told her to find a time when no one was around these few days, dig out those things and throw them away.

I have to say that no matter how smart and resolute Wu Zhen is, she is still a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boudoir girl. , then she will definitely not be in such a hurry.

During this period of time, Wen Yu had already sent people to monitor inside and outside the Wu residence.

The maid just dug out the buried things from the soil, and was immediately caught and seized.But the servant girl was loyal, no matter how much Wen Yu interrogated her, she still gritted her teeth and refused to speak. She only said that she was digging and playing in the dirt and accidentally dug things out.

Wen Yu had a big head and she didn't speak. As a modern person, Wen Yu really couldn't bear to torture a thirteen-four-year-old girl, so he could only temporarily take her into custody and wait for her punishment.

Wen Yu felt that if he was Wu Zhen, and the servant he sent to destroy the evidence was caught, he would not be able to sit still.Simply sit on the sidelines and wait to see what Wu Zhen will do next.

Unexpectedly, at noon the next day, someone came to beat the drums.

In the Ming Dynasty, a drum was usually erected on the east side of the gate. If there was no life or serious injustice, the complainant could not just beat the drum and call for injustice.But when the plaintiff beats the drum, the county magistrate must be promoted to a council member.

So Wen Yu didn't even eat, and went up to the court to settle the case.

At this time, the trial still has to follow the procedure. The court servants beat the hall drum three times first, and the three classes of government servants stand on both sides, shouting "Shengtang" in unison.After that, Wen Yu came in from the east gate of the warm pavilion in official uniform, sat in the lobby, and had the drummer brought up.

When I arrived at the court, I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl in green clothes kneeling on the ground, with curly eyebrows and plump cheeks, red lips and bright teeth, standing gracefully like a willow facing the wind.

Wen Yu patted the gavel and asked, "Who is here, and why are you beating the drums?"

The woman said: "Master Hui County Magistrate, Zhao Yingshu, a civilian daughter, from Mianzhou, is currently staying at the house of my cousin Wu Manjiang. This time, I came here to surrender myself because of Wei Lin's murder."

"What? You said you killed Wei Lin?" Wen Yu was taken aback.Immediately afterwards, he recalled the two women who were behind the screen in the Wu Mansion before.The other seems to be this Zhao Yingshu.

Wen Yu first asked some small questions to Zhao Yingshu, and at the same time called the yamen servant to call someone from the Wei family.

After a while, Wei Song and Wei Ping rushed over.

When Wei Song saw Zhao Yingshu, he gritted his teeth in hatred, "You killed Lin'er? My son has no grievances with you. Why did you, a femme fatale, kill my son!"

Zhao Yingshu sneered in the audience: "Your Wei family is full of evil in Mengyang, I think Wei Lin is not pleasing to the eye, can't you take his life for the sake of heaven?"

"You fart!" Wei Song said viciously, "My Wei family has done all kinds of bad things, so you Wu family are some kind of good people!"

Zhao Yingshu glanced at him contemptuously: "It has nothing to do with me what happened to the Wu family. My surname is Zhao. Wei Lin is greedy for money and lust. He used to be disrespectful to me in words in the temple outside the city. I took advantage of him by stabbing him." .”

Hearing what she said, Wei Lin and Wei Ping made a gesture to go up and beat her.The yamen servant next to him hurriedly stopped him, "Silence!" Wen Yu slapped the gavel hard again.

He always felt that something was wrong. At that time, it was Wu Zhen that the city guards saw, so why did Zhao Yingshu take the blame for Wu Zhen?

So Wen Yu decided to take Zhao Yingshu into custody first, and deal with it after the results of the interrogation.

Who knew Zhao Yingshu didn't want to go with the yamen guards who came to escort her: "What are you, you deserve to touch me! Today, Mrs. Wen caught my maid, and I have no choice but to confess, but I never regret it. And I don’t want to be humiliated in prison.”

She straightened her dress, and suddenly yelled, "Father and mother! My daughter is here to accompany you!" Then she bumped her head against the pillars in the lobby, and died immediately.

Everyone didn't expect that she would commit suicide, and they couldn't regain their senses for a long time. In the end, they could only ask people to carry her body back to the Wu Mansion, and ask the people of the Wu Mansion to bury her properly.

Wen Yu originally felt that there were still many doubts in this case, and planned to continue the investigation.

As a result, in the early morning of the next day, people heard that Miss Wu Zhen, Miss Wu's family, was found lying next to Zhao Yingshu's body, and committed suicide by taking poison.