Chapter 431 Killing Chickens to Make an Example to Monkeys (3)

Yuan Ying returned home with a livid face.

Seeing his expression, Xiao knew that something was wrong: "Is there something wrong with the military camp? If you want me to say, you should pay attention to your body and don't work so hard." It was also thanks to the medicine sent by Yunqing. Otherwise, Yuan Ying couldn't have recovered so quickly.

Yuan Ying said with a cold face: "Just got the news, the lord said that the Zhang family's murder case will be re-examined. Generals of the fourth rank and above in the army must go to listen." In fact, when Xiao Yongchang was demoted, he Warn Xiao Yongchang to stay in the army honestly and not to cause trouble. At that time, he promised well, but within two days, he uttered nonsense in the restaurant again. He knew it was going to be bad when he knew about it. Sure enough, today I heard the prince said that the Zhang family case would be reopened.

Xiao Shi asked: "Why retrial the Zhang family case?" Xiao Shi also knew about her brother's slander of Yuxi. It's just that Xiao Yongchang was demoted by one level, and she thought the matter was over. Now that the case is being retried, it is not quite right.

Yuan Ying unbuttoned his belt and said, "Didn't your brother say that Han Jianming abused the law for selfishness and disregarded human life? He also said that the princess is protecting Han Jianming, and the prince is going to rectify the name of the princess and try the case himself. We have already obtained an order, and we will go to listen in the next day." At that time He originally refused on the grounds that he was busy with business, but Yunqing was very firm and said that no one should be absent.

Xiao Shi didn't know much about the outside world, but she also knew that Yun Qing personally tried the case, which was unusual. Xiao couldn't help feeling uneasy: "My lord retried this case, why do you still have to listen in?"

Yuan Ying shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but the retrial of this case must have been suggested by the princess. I warned him at that time not to cause trouble again, and if he does, no one can protect him. Fortunately, he drank two glasses Ma Niu uttered nonsense in the restaurant, causing a disturbance all over the city."

Xiao Shi said anxiously: "The child's father, what should we do now?"

After several years of husband and wife, Yuan Ying said: "Don't go to the princess to intercede. He doesn't know about the Zhang family's case. At most, he will be demoted to another level or suffer some flesh and blood." With Yunqing's temperament, he treats those who make mistakes Subordinates are either demoted or beaten with military sticks.

On the day when the case was re-tried, not only several generals came to observe, but also several local elders with high morals and high esteem were invited, as well as ordinary people watching. And Xiao Yongchang was also forced to listen to the case this day.

The first one to come up was Zhang Dalang, the son of the head of the Zhang family. Zhang Dalang knelt on the ground and said the matter with a sad face, and then said: "My father has no other hobbies, but he likes to play dominoes with the old people on the street corner, and occasionally bet a few money. The surname Kong will make a game of it, the following Using chess as bait, it caused my father to owe a huge debt and forced my father to press the contract of selling the house."

Kong Yang said beside him: "Old man Zhang obviously owed his debts from gambling, and it's only natural to pay back the debts. You don't have the money to mortgage the house. He can't figure out what he has to do with me."

Zhang Dalang wiped his tears and said: "My father only lost three hundred taels at the time, and usually my father would pay a lot of money for a game of poker. But you insisted that one tael was ten taels of silver, that my father owed you three thousand taels silver."

Kong Yang still stuck his neck and shouted: "At that time, no one who played cards knew that it was ten taels of silver. Everyone who played cards knew about it. He knew that he wanted to play. What does it have to do with me to owe so much debt?" ?”

Zhang Dalang was very sad, and cried and said: "If you hadn't bought Dong Da and forced Uncle Geng, my father would not have been fooled." This domino is for four people to play, except for one who is a stranger, the other two It's all old friends Zhang has known for more than 20 years, and it is precisely because they are old acquaintances for many years that he was fooled.

Yunqing slapped the gavel, and ordered people to take Dong Da and Uncle Geng that Zhang Dalang was talking about. This case was tried by Han Jianming before, and both confessed. At this moment, the two of them just repeated what they said last time.

After the case of the Zhang family was tried, Kong Yangqiang's case of buying the pharmaceutical formula passed down from his family was tried again. After a dozen cases were tried, not to mention Xiao Yongchang, even Yuan Ying was a little unsteady.

Yunqing patted the gavel and shouted loudly: "Bring the victim, Dou Ying, here."

Yuan Ying's heart tightened. According to the information he had found before, there was no victim surnamed Dou in the case committed by Kong Yang.

Soon, the guards brought a boy. The boy looked about eleven or twelve years old, wearing coarse clothes, and his figure was thin. When the boy went to the court and saw Kong Yang, he rushed forward, grabbed Kong Yang's neck and said, "I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you."

The guards hurriedly separated the two, otherwise, just looking at the young man's posture would really strangle Kong Yang to death.

Kong Yang came back to his senses and saw Dou Ying with a horrified expression on his face.

Yun Qing patted the gavel, and said: "What grievances do you have, you can tell this king, and this king will make the decision for you."

Dou Ying's father was the one who went to the Yamen to sue after being framed by Kong Yang, but the government didn't give him justice, and in the end his family was ruined.

The case of the Dou family is actually not complicated. Dou Yingtang's great-grandfather used to be an official. He lived in the third rank and saved a lot of good things. Later, the family fell into ruin, and most of the good things were sold off, leaving only a set of blue and white wine glasses with December seasonal flowers. March peach, April peony, May pomegranate, June lotus, July orchid, August osmanthus, September chrysanthemum, October hibiscus, November rose, December wintersweet. This set of wine glasses is not only painted with seasonal flowers of various seasons, but also contains poems, and the poems above are in Xiaozhuan script.

It is no secret that the Dou family has such a set of treasures, and many people know it. But no matter how much money others pay, Dou Ying's father will not sell it. At that time, Dou Ying's uncle was the magistrate of Haocheng, and Dou Ying's father did not dare to rob everyone if he did not sell him. Later, Yunqing broke the pickaxe city, and Dou Ying's uncle ran away with his family, and the Dou family lost their asylum. At this time, Kong Yang wanted to get this set of treasures and use them as a stepping stone to find a backer.

Kong Yang is also a very thoughtful person, not to mention that Dou Ying's father is not willing to sell this set of wine glasses, even if he is willing to sell, he has no money to buy it. So he deliberately did what he liked and became friends with Dou Ying's father. Then set up a game, swapping Dou Ying's set of green plum wine glasses.

As soon as Dou Ying's father found out that the things had been stolen, he immediately went to Kong Yang, and when he saw that Kong Yang refused to accept the account, he sued the Yamen. As a result, the lawsuit lasted for more than a month, spent more than half of the family property, and failed to punish Kong Yang's crime. The beloved blue and white wine cup was even gone. Furious, Dou Ying's father immediately fell ill. A few days later, Dou Ying's mother ran into a villain when she went out, and Dou Yingniang couldn't bear the humiliation and hit the wall to death on the spot. When Dou Ying's father heard the bad news, he didn't come up in one breath, and died of exhaustion. During the funeral, Dou Yingcai's seven-year-old sister, Dou Xiaolei, and her three-year-old brother, Dou Xiong, were missing.

There are six members of Dou's family, and only Dou Ying and his elderly grandfather are left after these changes. Mr. Dou knew that his family was being retaliated against, so he asked his old servant to take Dou Ying away from Pick City that night, while he stayed to deal with the funeral of his son and daughter-in-law. As a result, Mr. Dou died before Dou Ying's parents were buried. In the end, it was Mr. Dou's nephew who helped arrange the funeral. As for where Dou Ying went, no one knew at the time. But Kong Yang dealt with the Dou family with such vicious methods, and the others dared not do it to him anymore, even if they suffered a big loss, they all endured it.

Kong Yang was arrogant for a period of time after the Dou Ying case. At that time, the people around him wanted to go around when they saw him. It was also later that after Han Jianming took over the procuratorate, because of his stern and selfless style, Kong Yang restrained himself, and he didn't dare to kill anyone again. What happened to the Zhang family was purely accidental.

Kong Yang cried out for injustice, saying that there was no such thing, and it was Dou Ying who framed him. These words made Dou Ying wish she could tear him alive.

With a livid face, Yun Qing immediately asked the guards to bring the villain who wanted to kill Dou Yingniang that day. The vicious man immediately admitted that it was Kong Yang's personal attendant who gave him twenty taels of silver to let him do this. In fact, Dou Yingniang was humiliated at that time, and there was no one around. But in Pickaxe City, as long as Yuxi thinks about it, there is nothing that can be hidden from her.

After Kong Yang's personal entourage was brought up, he readily confessed. Confessing voluntarily can save you the pain of flesh and blood.

Yun Qing asked: "Where is that set of wine glasses now?"

Kong Yang's entourage shook his head and said: "This little one doesn't know." At this point, he didn't dare to lie to Yun Qing anymore.

Yun Qing's eyes fell on Kong Yang, and he said, "Where is that set of wine glasses now?" Seeing that Kong Yang gritted his teeth and refused to speak, Yun Qing directly asked the guards to torture him.

Kong Yang couldn't bear it anymore, so he could only confess: "After my seventh sister knew about this, she asked me for this set of blue and white wine glasses. I couldn't resist, so I had to give it to her." The seventh sister Kong Yang was talking about was Xiao Yongchang Concubine Kong Shi.

Yun Qing looked at Xiao Yongchang and asked, "Have you seen this set of blue and white wine glasses?"

When Xiao Yongchang heard Dou Ying talk about the blue and white wine glasses, he felt guilty. When he knew that the Dou family was ruined because of this set of blue and white wine glasses, his whole body broke into a cold sweat. He has used this set of wine glasses to drink at Kong's place. At that time, he also said that the wine glass was so beautifully made, like a painting.

At this time, Yuan Ying's face was already dark. Seeing that Xiao Yongchang hadn't moved for a long time, he asked coldly: "My lord asked you something, why are you so dazed?" Seeing Xiao Yongchang came back to his senses, Yuan Ying added another sentence: "Say it straight when you see it." Yes, if you still dare to hide and pinch, even the gods will not be able to save you.

How could Xiao Yongchang dare to hide it at this time, he nodded immediately and said: "Yes. But Kong said it was her dowry, so I didn't think much about it."

Dou Ying looked at Xiao Yongchang, and said bitterly: "This set of wine glasses in our family is worth seven or eight thousand taels of silver. All the belongings of the Kong family can't afford a single cup. My father went to the yamen to file a complaint that day, and the yamen had already Kong Yang took you into prison. It was you, you were the one who cleared up the relationship and released Kong Yang. It was all you, if you hadn’t helped the evil, our Dou family wouldn’t have been ruined.”

As soon as these words fell, not to mention Xiao Yongchang, even Yuan Ying's expression changed. (to be continued)