Rebirth: From being expelled from the imperial court to becoming a high-ranking official

"Sir, when can I go back? There are several patients waiting for my regular follow-up visits."

He said he was only here to testify, but ended up being kept in the city. This made Doctor Chen a little anxious.

"Didn't I tell you? Someone has accused you of killing someone. I'll let you go after the trial and the result."

"So when will the trial begin?"

The yamen runners who were sitting in the Jin family's gatehouse drinking tea still calmly responded to his words that he had said countless times.

"The cases have to be handled one by one. Your Excellency will make his own arrangements. Why are you in such a hurry? Your Excellency is so considerate and is afraid that the doctor will be wronged. The doctor should also be considerate of your Excellency."

In fact, Doctor Chen was not worried about the accusation of killing people. After all, he knew the cases he had seen and there was probably no one who had died from his treatment.

What worried him was why the judge wanted to keep him.

These days he was living in the Jin family's house in Xu Ningfu.

Normally, the Jin family was the plaintiff, and they were free to go wherever they wanted when they were not in court. However, the prosecutor actually sent several yamen runners to guard the door.

How can we look at the plaintiff?

The reason given by the yamen runners was that someone accused Doctor Chen of killing someone.

The adults were compassionate and did not restrict him before the trial, allowing him to live in the Jin family's house. But they still had to pretend, so they sent a few people to watch outside.

Naturally, Doctor Chen did not believe such reasons at all.

What he was actually worried about was that the prosecutor would not really find out the Jin family's mistakes.

But he said that if he told even a single lie, he would be willing to bear the consequences.

At this moment he was regretting terribly.

Why did you agree to give false testimony?

Hall

Qin Yunhe had just finished dealing with a case file at hand and was about to take a closer look at Yan Guixiang's adultery case when a bailiff came in from outside to report.

"Sir, Li Si is back, and he brought back Miao Wang's wife and children."

Qin Yun had been waiting for news anxiously these days, and when he heard that Miao Wang's wife and children had been found, he was immediately delighted.

"Great, let him bring Miao Wang's wife to see me."

"Yes."

Soon, Li Si came to the back hall with a woman, exhausted.

"Sir, I have accomplished my mission and brought back Miao Wang's wife."

Along the way, Li Si told Miao Wang's wife how Miao Wang was wrongly accused of committing adultery with Yan Guixiang and how he was beaten to death.

When Miao Wang's wife saw Qin Yunhe, she immediately knelt down and cried: "Please, sir, make a decision for me. My husband died unjustly. He would never commit adultery with Yan Guixiang."

"Please stand up quickly. No need to be polite. As long as Miao Wang is innocent, I will definitely make the decision for him."

Qin Yunhe saw that only Miao Wang's wife had no children, so he asked Li Si: "Have you settled Miao Wang's children?"

"Your Excellency, Miao Wang's children are asleep. I have arranged for them to stay in the side hall of the front yamen. I will send them to the inn after you have finished your questioning."

"Okay, you've had a hard time along the way. Go back and rest first."

Li Si took the order and went down to have a rest. Qin Yunhe then ordered his servants to bring up some tea and snacks.

"Don't worry, have some tea first and then tell me in detail what happened before and after Yan Guixiang escaped."

However, Miao Wang's wife couldn't eat anything at this moment. She just drank two sips of tea and began to tell what happened.

"Last year, one day Awang came back and said he was going to stay in the county town for a few days. After his sister married Mr. Jin from the county, he would go there several times a year, sometimes staying there for a few days, so I didn't take it seriously at the time.

He was away for about ten days that time, and when he came back he asked me to pack up my belongings because we were moving.

Where to move all the belongings here? How to live if you go somewhere else? I thought he was crazy at the time. Then he took out dozens of taels of silver and said that the house was so shabby, so he could just come back and sell it after a while? This money was enough to buy a small courtyard and a few acres of land somewhere else.

I asked him in more detail, and he told me that Yan Guixiang had stolen the Jin family's property and ran away, and he was afraid that the Jin family would come looking for him.

I told him not to get involved in his sister's affairs, but he refused to listen. Yan Guixiang had been making a fuss with her ex-husband, and even ended up breaking up the marriage. Now that she was at the Jin family and eating and drinking well, she was still making trouble.

These things wouldn't happen if she didn't make trouble.

But it's no use saying these things now, so I had no choice but to pack up all the valuable things in the house with him and move overnight.

We walked along the way and finally settled in a village. I later learned that the place was already Pingle County.

We bought a small courtyard in that village, a few acres of land and settled down there. A few months ago he said he was going to ask his sister for some more money.

Although I don't want to have anything to do with Yan Guixiang anymore, after all, it was she who caused us to leave our hometown, so I just let it go.

As a result, who knew that he would never come back after he left this time.

He told me that Yan Guixiang was now living in Pingle County, but he didn't tell me where exactly, so I could only wait at home. Later, when I couldn't wait for him, I went to Pingle County, but I couldn't find him at all.

I thought about it a few days ago, but I couldn't figure out where he could go. I thought maybe he could go back to his hometown to take a look, maybe he would come back to sell the yard after getting the money? Or maybe he could come back to visit his friends here.

I didn’t expect that he was gone, wuwuwu…”

When Miao Wang’s wife said this, she couldn’t help crying anymore.

Qin Yunhe waited until she calmed down a little before asking, "Miao Wang is helping his sister so much, are you sure there is nothing wrong between them?"

"Sir, don't listen to what others say. I am sure there is nothing wrong between them. Awang just feels that as the eldest brother, he must support his sister in everything he does.

Even so, Awang often told me that his sister was a bit overbearing and a headache. How could a man feel sorry for her?

But he couldn't bear to see his sister being bullied, so as soon as Yan Guixiang told him how men were worthless, he would stand up for his sister.

Moreover, after he ran away with Yan Guixiang, he came back soon to pick me and the child up, and we lived together ever since. They hadn’t seen each other for a long time until he went to ask for money.”

Qin Yunhe nodded and asked, "Did he tell you why Yan Guixiang wanted to run away with the money?"

Miao Wang's wife's expression suddenly showed some disdain: "He said that Jin Yuanwai wanted to kill Yan Guixiang, and he had no choice but to help his sister escape. She was living a good life with others, why would anyone want to kill her?"

Judging from the expression on Miao Wang’s wife’s face, it was obvious that she not only did not believe Yan Guixiang’s words, but also thought that Yan Guixiang was causing trouble.

But no matter what, with Miao Wang's wife's testimony, at least Yan Guixiang can be cleared of the charge of adultery.

Qin Yunhe asked some more details and then had her taken away.

Qin Yunhe was still hesitating about when to go to court again. In the afternoon, Zhao Da and Liu Er brought back new news: the servants of the Jin family asked for leave on September 18th, which meant that Yan Guixiang escaped on September 18th.

Qin Yunhexin put it down and ordered: "Tell the Jin family that the court will be held tomorrow."