allendalepharm Chapter 486 Missed
Chapter 486 Missed
Not long after Yan Shu left, Yuan An's carriage stopped outside the gate of Jiang Mansion.
The doorman on duty saw a Taoist priest getting out of the carriage, and the two of them suddenly became wary.
Han Yu got off his horse and walked straight forward: "Is this the residence of Young Master Jiang Ci?"
"You are?"
Han Yu said in a deep voice: "My master heard that Mr. Jiang is the head of the Nanwei Mansion and admires him very much, so he came here to visit!"
"It's an unlucky time for you to come. My young master is not at home."
Yuan An stepped forward: "Where has your young master gone? When will he be back?"
The doorman shook his head: "We are just doormen, how can we know about the master?"
Yuan An glanced at Jiang Mansion with deep eyes. How could a poor scholar who grew up in the countryside live in such a magnificent house?
This Jiang Ci is really suspicious, but it's a pity that he is missing now, and he doesn't know when he will come back.
After leaving Jiang Mansion, Yuan An said to Han Yu: "Send some people to keep an eye on Jiang Mansion secretly. If you find Jiang Ci coming back, notify me in time."
"Yes!"
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When Yan Shu rushed to the government office with Lady Wei and Sister-in-law Li, the magistrate Min Chunyi had already opened the court to hear the case. A young man wearing coarse linen clothes was kneeling in the hall. The fierce spirit.
There was a group of people watching outside the lobby. When Yan Shu, Mrs. Wei, and Sister-in-law Li arrived, two figures, one tall and one short, immediately ran out of the crowd.
"Mom, woo woo woo... you're finally here, please save my brother."
The person who cried to Lady Wei was a girl of twelve or thirteen years old. The girl looked very thin and looked somewhat similar to Lady Wei.
At this time, the little girl's buns on both sides of her head looked messy, her face was covered with tears and dust, and she looked very embarrassed. Standing next to the little girl was a six or seven-year-old boy. The child's body and face were also covered in dust, and his big eyes were swollen into two walnuts from crying all the time.
Madam Wei glanced at the young man kneeling in the lobby: "Mei'er, what's going on? Why did your elder brother start a fight with Lai Ruihai?"
The little girl was still crying, sobbing and saying, "Yes... it was Uncle Rui who pushed me down on the bed and wanted to take off my pants. My elder brother hit him with an ax to save me."
After hearing this, Madam Wei's eyes turned blood red and her whole body started to tremble with anger.
"Lai Ruihai, you son of a bitch, I'm going to kill you!"
Seeing that Mrs. Wei was out of control, Yan Shu hurriedly asked Sister-in-law Li to stop her.
"Ms. Wei, calm down. This is the government office lobby. If you go in and cause trouble, it will be detrimental to you and your son."
"But...but what should I do with my Guang'er? How should I save him?"
Yan Shu sighed in his heart. Although there was a reason for the incident, the sentences for obscenity crimes in this era were very light, and for the sake of their reputation, most women did not dare to speak out even if they were bullied by bad people. I am afraid that Mrs. Wei's eldest son would not say it. To tell the truth, he understood how important a woman's chastity was. Once he revealed in the lobby that his sister was almost raped by Lai Ruihai, even if he finally reduced the sentence, his sister's reputation would be completely ruined. "
Now if you want to rescue Madam Wei's eldest son, you have to find another way.
At this moment, Min Chunyi in the hall clapped the gavel.
"Yue Heguang, were you the one who injured Lai Ruihai's leg?"
The young man slowly raised his head and looked at the prefect sitting in the high hall, his eyes burning brightly without any hint of timidity.
"It was my hand that moved it."
"Why did you treat him so cruelly?"
"Because he deserves to die!" If the neighbors hadn't heard the noise and came to stop him, he would have chopped the beast to death.
Lai Ruihai was sitting on a stretcher, his face and body covered with blood, and he kept groaning in pain.
"Mr. Prefect, you... you have heard that it was this little beast who made the move first. He wanted to kill the villain. He wasted so many years of caring for their orphans and widows. This kid is just a piece of shit. ...an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf, the villain...the villain almost died in his hands, the adults must make the decision for the villain!"
Min Chunyi looked at the young man again with a cold and solemn gaze: "Yue Heguang, I will ask you again, and you must answer truthfully. Why did you have a conflict at that time? Which led you to be so cruel to him?"
The young man didn't know whether he was too ignorant of his behavior or had already prepared for the worst. He only saw a look of indifference on his face, without any trace of the nervousness and panic that should be expected at this age.
Yue Heguang gave Lai Ruihai a cold look: "Reporting to your lord, Lai Ruihai is my father's friend. When my father passed away, he entrusted Lai Ruihai to take care of my mother and our three brothers and sisters. However, Lai Ruihai has hit and scolded us all these years, and my mother has He also robbed people of all the money they earned from doing embroidery work, and today he came to my house again to rummage through boxes and cabinets looking for money, and I attacked him out of anger."
Min Chunyi pondered in silence for a while. The young man's words were reasonable, but at such a young age, he could be so calm and calm when facing the interrogation of the court officials. This boy did not seem to be an impulsive person.
"Lai Ruihai, is this what he said?"
Lai Ruihai endured the severe pain in his legs and glanced at Chao Yue Heguang with hatred on his face, a sneer of a villain flashing in his eyes.
He knew that this boy didn't dare to tell the truth. Well, once the truth was told, the reputations of his mother and sister would be completely ruined, especially his sister. Who would dare to marry her again after they get married?
"Replying to your lord, this boy deliberately lied! If you don't believe it, you can send someone to ask around the Yue family's neighbors. Who knows that the Yue family is so poor that they can't open the pot? Not only has the villain never taken a copper plate from the Yue family, but he has often taken silver in these years. To supplement their orphans and widowed mothers. The villain can no longer hide the matter. In fact, his mother couldn't bear the loneliness and tried to seduce the villain. But the villain was thinking about the brotherhood with his father, so how could he say sorry? Regarding the matter between brothers, his mother, Mrs. Wei, was accidentally caught by him when she was seducing the villain, and then she became murderous towards the villain, please ask Mr. Qingtian to look into it!"
Yue Heguang suddenly jumped up from the ground and rushed toward Lai Ruihai fiercely.
"You're talking nonsense. You beast, you dare to slander my mother. I'm going to kill you!"
"Stop it quickly!"
"Guang'er!" Mrs. Wei pushed away Sister-in-law Li and stumbled in.
The government officials in the lobby rushed forward and pushed Yue Heguang to the ground. Yue Heguang was still struggling desperately, staring at Lai Ruihai with a pair of red bloodshot eyes, wishing to cut him into pieces with a thousand knives.
Magistrate Min sounded the gavel again.
"Yue Heguang, how can we allow you to be so presumptuous in the lobby? If you dare to mess around again, I will be severely punished!"
Mrs. Wei rushed in front of Yue Heguang and stretched out her arms to protect her son tightly. She cried and begged for mercy from Magistrate Min: "It's all the fault of the common woman. My son just wanted to vent his anger on the common woman. You want to beat me." If you want to be punished, let the civilian women do it.”
At this time, a tall, dark-skinned young man walked out of the lobby. The young man looked quite similar to Lai Ruihai.
Yan Shu's eyes fell on the man and watched him strode to the lobby.
Sister-in-law Li on the side whispered: "This is Lai Ruihai's eldest son Lai Jianxiong. Now he works as a porter on the pier, and all the money he earns is spent on treating his mother. He is a real and filial son. It's a pity that his father is unreliable." Damn it, the burden of the whole family falls on him alone, and he is already twenty-four or five years old and has not yet married a mother-in-law."
After listening to Sister-in-law Li's words, a thought quickly flashed through Yan Shu's mind.
It is really unfair to let the beast go unpunished and let the good brother who protects his sister bear the reputation of murdering.
At this time, Lai Jianxiong walked up to Lai Ruihai, glanced at Lai Ruihai with an extremely cold look, and then knelt down to salute Magistrate Min.
"The villain Lai Jianxiong has met the great master Qingtian."
"Are you Lai Ruihai's son?"
"That's right, I heard that my father was injured and was sent to the Yamen, so I hurried over."
Min Chunyi's eyes glanced at the faces of Yue Heguang and Madam Wei. There might be something hidden about today's matter, and Lai Ruihai was seriously injured and his legs were bleeding, so he could not continue the interrogation.
"You came just in time. Your father's injury is serious. The first priority is to send him to see a doctor. As for the evidence that Yue Heguang injured someone, there is conclusive evidence. He will be imprisoned first and will be tried later."
Lai Ruihai was dissatisfied and said: "Sir, since the evidence is conclusive, we should be convicted. Why do we need to retry it another day?"
Min Chunyi glared at Lai Ruihai coldly: "The evidence that he injured someone is conclusive, but whether there is any hidden secret behind it still needs to be found out. I am free to make my own judgment. You can go back and wait for the news."
"Bang! Quit!"