Chapter 5 The Assassin Appears (I)

Today, the usually deserted Dali Temple yamen suddenly became lively. There was a large group of people around the door, and they all looked into the gate of Dali Temple like giraffes, hoping to know the result of the interrogation inside as soon as possible.

He Tengjiao came to Dali Temple early today, issued a summons, and ordered the yamen runners to pass on all the people to the yamen. Today's trial is not made public, so it is impossible for the people gathered outside Dali Temple to see the trial process.

Everything was ready, and He Tengjiao ordered to go to the hall.

There are many people who care about this case. Xu Yunzhen, the governor of the City Defense Forces, had to attend and listen. Zhou Wenyuan, the censor of the Five Cities, is an official of the Censorate, and Chen Yangmei, the left Censor, naturally cannot be absent. The ranks of these two are far higher than that of He Tengjiao, the Dali Temple Minister, but He Tengjiao is the chief judge of the imperial decree. These two are just accompanying them and come with their ears.

"Ba" The auspicious wood slapped, and Lord He was promoted to the hall!

"Wei-Wu-" the two yamen runners shouted in unison, and the sound of the soap sticks in their hands hitting the ground in an orderly manner, and it was vaguely heard three miles away.

"Take Li Heng!" He Tengjiao shouted loudly, and everything was caused by Li Hengqiang robbing the good women of his family. He was naturally the first person to be tried.

After a while, Li Heng wrapped the gauze all over his body and was fixed on a stretcher for four yamen runners to carry into the lobby. He saw his lips were blue and purple, his eyes were dull, and his mouth was still drooling, and he kept moaning, no different from a dying mangy dog.

He Tengjiao couldn't help but mutter, "Are you still able to judge people like this?"

"Is it Li Heng in the hall?" He Tengjiao slapped the agglomeration and asked.

Suddenly, I heard a loud shout: "Mr. He, wait!" The Ruofeng City Hou rushed into the lobby in anger.

He Tengjiao and the two judges stood up, and Xu Yunzhen's face suddenly turned dark. Li Yongzuo was his subordinate. He was in the court the day before yesterday and in the court again today. He completely lost his face and scolded him sternly: "Li Yongzuo, you are also a court official. Don't you know that no one should trespass into the court during the trial?"

Xu Yunzhen had accumulated power for a long time, and Li Yongzuo was really afraid of him. He immediately bowed and said, "Report to the Governor, my subordinates did not intend to trespass the court. It was just that Lord He's judgment of the law was not in line with the court's rules, so his subordinates dared to stop!"

Although He Tengjiao looked down on his face and dealt with these nobles and nobles, he also heard and witnessed many unpleasant things that made him unhappy, especially the one in front of him, who was arrogant and unreasonable, and indulged in protecting his shortcomings. He asked calmly and in a deep voice: "I don't know which one of the officials' cases is incompatible with the rules of the court?"

"According to my Ming Dynasty law, the trial of the case should start from the defendant's trial. My son is the plaintiff, so how can I find a reason to trial the plaintiff first?" Li Yongzuo sneered.

"Is that so? Mr. Li, where is the plaintiff's lawsuit?" He Tengjiao has been trying cases for many years, and he can write down a set of rules for trials with his eyes closed.

Li Yongzuo reached out and took out a piece of paper from his arms. He said, "My son was seriously injured. His paper was presented by my father. Isn't this a bad rule?"

He Tengjiao knew that it was not so easy to deal with today. Li Yongzuo wanted to disrupt the court as soon as he came up so that his prestige would be ruined. However, he was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He had never seen any big scenes. When he was like a shishui, he said: "Come on!"

Master Xing Mingzhi hurriedly walked out of the court and took Li Yongzuo's paper in front of He Tengjiao. He glanced briefly, and it was indeed a black and white statement. He closed the paper in a deep voice and said, "Even if Li Heng is the plaintiff, I must carefully ask the matter clearly. Master Li Hou, I will sit in the court for questions, please avoid it for the time being!"

"He Tengjiao, you!" Li Yongzuo changed his color and pointed at He Tengjiao and said.

"Here's here!" The sky is vast and the earth is the biggest in the court. Even if the emperor comes, he has to invite him out. He Tengjiao slapped the wooden wooden door and said, "Please invite Mr. Li to me to come out of the court!"

In an instant, four strong yamen runners rushed up and surrounded Li Yongzuo. If Li Yongzuo did not leave automatically, these four yamen runners would invite him out.

"He Tengjiao, please wait for me!" Li Yongzuo gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, pushed away the two yamen runners and returned angrily.

"Li Heng, I ask you, what did you do on January 15 this year, that is, on the night of the Lantern Festival?"

After a while, Li Heng heard intermittently answering: "I'm drinking tea at Dexin Teahouse in Dong'anmen. I'm guessing riddles."

"You said on the paper that you found a maid who fled from your house and was about to catch her back when a man named Wu and two servants suddenly inserted his hand and injured you?" He Tengjiao continued to ask.

"No," Li Heng replied with difficulty lying on a fixed stretcher.

He Tengjiao nodded and said, "Okay, then I will ask you again, what is the surname, name, where is the origin of the maid who escaped from the Hou Mansion? When did he sell himself into the Hou Mansion?"

"She's surname is Ma, she is from the south. She fled to the capital. My father kindly took her in. She was grateful to my father, so she sold her to the Hou Mansion as a maid. During the Chinese New Year, my father planned to join her as a concubine for me. Maybe she secretly fled from the Hou Mansion with a girl in a man's clothing because she was unwilling to do so." Li Heng said.

The one who made it up was actually clear. He Tengjiao sneered in his heart and continued to ask: "Since this girl has sold her body and entered your waiting mansion, can she have a contract to sell her body?"

"No, my father pity her, so he let her move into the Hou Mansion as a maid. He did not sign any contract to sell his body."

"Since there is no contract to sell one's body, Miss Ma is also a free person, so how can she escape from the Hou Mansion? What reason do you have to catch her back?"

"It's because she stole a batch of priceless jewelry from the Hou Mansion when she ran away!" Li Heng said exactly as his father had thought long ago, and his answer was seamless.

"Why didn't the Hou Mansion report the official to the official?"

"The Hou Mansion is strictly guarded. If someone knows that the Hou Mansion has been stolen, will my father be completely disgraced?"

"Okay, I've finished asking questions. Come and carry Li Heng down!" He Tengjiao waved.

"Miss Ma!"

Ma Gu, dressed in plain clothes, was taken to the court, and her beauty immediately shocked the men in the hall for three minutes. Of course, such a peerless beauty would not marry a playboy like Li Heng to be a nameless concubine. Especially Ma Gu's appearance is weak and delicate, and her pitiful and charming look. Who would believe that such a beautiful girl like a god would do such dirty things as stealing?

"Mimei Magu kowtows to the Lord!"

"Miss Ma is not a gift, get up and reply!" How could he let such a girl who even God dare not desecrate her?

"I ask you, who are you and why you came to the capital?"

"The young lady is the daughter of Matusi, the chief of Wuzhai, Miaojiang, western Hunan. She came to the capital for a private matter. Please forgive the young lady for inconvenience!" Magu turned his eyes slowly, and his voice was a little hoarse.

"What, are you the daughter of Miaojiang's rebellious destiny?" Xu Yunzhenteng stood up and asked, forgetting about his incident.

"This general, Magu was not sentenced to anyone, nor was he a rebellious daughter. Please respect yourself!" Magu replied with a cold face. She never thought that there was anything wrong with the Miao people's rebellion.

"Why are you still standing there? You haven't taken this traitor with me!" Xu Yunzhen was furious. A rebel actually humiliated the first-rank governor of the Heavenly Dynasty so humiliated in the court. How could he swallow this tone?

No one will listen to him. This is the Dali Temple Yamen. Even if he has a high position and is in power, it is not his turn to command. He Tengjiao did not expect such a thing to happen suddenly. He immediately slapped the auspicious tree and shouted to Xu Yunzhen: "Governor Xu, Miss Ma's family has surrendered to the court. Now she is a commoner of the Ming Dynasty. How can there be a rebellion?"

Xu Yunzhen was immediately calmed down after being yelled like this, and remembered that one day before the New Year, the Military Machinery Pavilion sent him a military newspaper. At that time, he thought it was a secret. When he opened it, he said that a chieftain in Miaojiang had surrendered to the court. He didn't pay attention to what the chieftain was called. When he was excited just now, he had no impression of it, and he forgot about this. His old face turned red. If it weren't for the two colleagues and so many people present, he really wanted to slap himself in the ears, so why would he never change his impulse habit!

"Mr. He, how did you know?" Zuodu Censor Chen Yangmei asked in confusion.

"I have read the identity of Miss Ma. It was issued by Mr. Hong Chenggong, the Minister of Pingmiao. Is this fake?" He Tengjiao said.

"So, what Li Heng and his son said are all fake?" Chen Yangmei said.

"It's too early to make a conclusion now. What Li Hou and his son said is not any contradiction with the identity of this Ma girl!" In order to regain their face, Xu Yunzhen naturally supported his subordinates.

"Governor Xu, Lord Chen, I haven't finished asking yet!" He Tengjiao quickly stopped him, and Chen Yangmei and Xu Yunzhen both sat down again.

"Miss Ma, I ask you, when did you enter Beijing?"

"The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the morning of the Lantern Festival."

"Who can prove it?"

"This..." Magu was a little hesitant, but since she had disclosed her identity, she didn't have so much concern. She said, "Dr. Li Qing from the Imperial Hospital can prove that because I came to the capital after her, it was the first time I entered the capital and didn't know the road, so I followed behind. She also returned to the capital that day."

The awkward wood that He Tengjiao held in his hand almost fell from his hand in shock. Li Qing was also known to everyone in the capital. She rescued the emperor's serious injury. Therefore, she became the female imperial physician in the history of the Ming Dynasty. She was also transcendent and unrestricted. She was also the god sister of the imperial concubine. The rumors were so agitated with the emperor. It was a crime, a crime. The Weichen had some random thoughts, so why did she get in? This case was originally simple and clear, but now it is more and more complicated.
Chapter completed!