After rebirth, I became a national teacher

After what happened at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion just now, she already understood that the more condescending their attitude was, the louder the scolding from those untouchables would be.

She couldn't bring any more criticism to the Marquis' Mansion.

No matter how humiliating it is today, she has to endure it.

Zhang gritted her teeth and took off the veil that covered her face and half of her body.

The onlookers outside the hall made another commotion, commenting on Zhang's appearance in various ways.

They said her nose was flat, that she put on too much makeup, that she didn't dress modestly, etc.

Some people also scolded her, saying that even though she had a good appearance, she had a vicious heart underneath.

Zhang had never suffered such a great humiliation, and her palms were almost pinched to bleed.

On the surface, she tried hard to stand upright and not to bring disgrace upon herself as the mistress of the Marquis's Mansion.

Yan Tongzhi knew very well that these noble ladies cared a lot about their own reputation.

He deliberately let Zhang be pointed at and criticized for a long time before he slammed the gavel and began the trial.

Zhang tried hard to calm herself down and respond to Yan Tongzhi's questioning.

When asked whether she had instructed her servant He Wang to go to Cihang Temple to kill people and burn people, Zhang firmly denied it.

He also said that he had always been kind to others and would never order anyone to kill or burn something just because of such a small matter.

"That Cihang Temple is rude and arrogant. I don't know why they hold a grudge against me. Maybe they tortured the servants into confessing, so they deliberately framed me with this bad reputation!"

Yan Tongzhi still looked dignified and fair.

"In that case, bring the prisoner He Wang to court for confrontation!"

At this moment, Zhang was still confident that she would win, thinking that even if He Wang, that spineless man, gave her away under torture in Cihang Temple, he would still change his statement when he saw her in the court.

In this way, she can clear herself of all blame.

Who could have thought that He Wang would hold on to her as soon as he entered the classroom.

He rolled and crawled to the ground at Zhang's feet, crying:

"Madam! Help! I led people to set fire to Cihang Temple only under your orders. You can't abandon me!"

He kowtowed to Yan Tongzhi in the hall:

"Your Excellency, please understand! Without Madam's order, even if I had ten thousand guts, I would not dare to commit such a capital crime!"

The people outside the hall immediately started talking.

"See, she is indeed the mastermind! Even her servants admitted it!"

"Just now you were still quibbling about how you confessed under torture! Pah! You are such a sweet-talking, vicious woman!"

Zhang was shocked and angry.

He Wang, this damn dog slave, is he crazy?

How could she know what He Wang had encountered in the mountains.

When the people from the yamen arrived, he thought he had met a savior, and quickly told them how he was forced to set fire and how he was tortured.

However, the coroner who went to investigate said that outside the wall of the house where the fire broke out, there were only footprints of the arsonists, and no one else.

The claim that they were forced to set the fire is simply not true.

He Wang added that someone with a bow and arrow remotely drove them to set the fire.

However, he had no evidence and his words could not be believed in court.

After seeing the losses at Cihang Temple, He Wang became even more desperate.

Because the leading officer told him:

The laws of the time followed the Tang laws, and arson was a serious crime.

Any arson is punishable by a minimum of three years in prison.

If the damage caused by arson was more than five pieces of silk, the offender would be exiled 2,000 miles away; if the damage caused by arson was more than ten pieces of silk, the offender would be hanged.

More than a dozen rolls of high-quality silk and five boxes of premium tea offered by pilgrims were burned in Cihang Temple. In addition to the damage to the house, the market value of these goods was at least over five hundred taels.

That's much more than ten pieces of silk.

Moreover, He Wang and others were carrying knives, and it was obvious that they intended to kill people, which was extremely bad in nature.

Forget about hanging with an intact body, and even execution after the autumn is impossible.

As the main culprit, he will be sentenced to immediate execution!

Immediate execution means that there is no room for movement and the person will be dragged away and beheaded soon.