Kick out the general as soon as you are reborn

When Liu Yanyan saw Bu Mingzhen's expression, she could clearly feel the despair and helplessness in her eyes. She just stared coldly at the gate of the yamen without saying a word, as if she was holding back endless anger in her heart.

Half an hour later, several yamen runners brought the cursing Zhang Qiong to the hall and pushed him down. "Kneel down! Who gave you the courage to not kneel before an official? You are so bold!"

Zhang Qiong then reluctantly bowed his head and said, "I pay my respects to the two gentlemen."

The two children following behind also fell to their knees and said, "Greetings, sir."

Lord Zhang was so angry that he trembled when he saw Zhang Qiong. He coughed coldly and said, "Zhang Qiong has contempt for the court. Slap him 10 times."

The yamen runner nearby stepped forward, grabbed Zhang Qiong by the collar, and hit him on the face with a hardwood board. Half of Zhang Qiong's face was swollen.

Zhang Qiong covered his beaten face and looked at Master Zhang pitifully and said, "Please have mercy on me, Master! Please have mercy on me, Master!"

Seeing this, Lord Zhang spoke slowly, "Mr. Bu sued you for kidnapping and imprisoning an official of the imperial court for 13 years, and forcing her to have sex with you. Do you admit it?"

Zhang Qiong shook his head fiercely and begged, "Sir, sir, we are husband and wife! She was sick when I met her, I just took her in! Besides, we have a marriage certificate, and her handprint is on it. We are husband and wife, and it is her right to give birth to children for me in my home."

Liu Yanyan looked at Bu Mingzhen and asked, "Mr. Bu, what do you say?"

Bu Mingzhen couldn't help but let the tears fall from her eyes. "Sir, he knocked me unconscious and dragged me back to his house. I never wrote a marriage certificate. Even if there are my fingerprints, they were placed without my knowledge. I will not acknowledge this marriage certificate."

Zhang Qiong was furious. "Bu, do you have any conscience? Your heart has been eaten by a dog! When I found you, you were a lunatic! You couldn't recognize anything. I took you in out of kindness. If I hadn't given you a home, how could you be alive? Look at you, aren't you alive and well now?"

Bu Mingzhen said coldly, "I remember it clearly. You knocked me unconscious and dragged me back. I begged you to let me go, but you refused. You tied me up with chains and had sex with me, which gave birth to this little beast. Do you have the guts to tell me how old he is? He's already 12 years old?"

Zhang Qiong's son, Zhang Fugui, pleaded, "Mom, please stop making trouble. Daddy has taken you in, and all the good things in the family are for you. What else are you dissatisfied about? What do you have to complain about?"

Bu Mingzhen said without any emotion, "You locked me up in the room day after day, tied me up with iron chains, and only fed me one bowl of food a day. Do you think you are treating me well? You are just like your father, with dirty blood in your veins! I ran away secretly and you saw me, but you had someone catch me and bring me back. Do you think you are treating me well?"

Zhang Qiong said coldly, "But you didn't starve to death, did you? What do you have to complain about?"

Bu Mingzhen turned away and didn't want to talk to the two. She felt sick when she saw them. "Master Zhang, it was this Zhang Qiong who kidnapped me, imprisoned me, forced me to give birth to six children, drowned two, sold two daughters, and only gave birth to the first son and daughter. I demand that he be severely punished and let him die."

Zhang Qiong said unwillingly, "How dare you? A man should regard his husband as his God. How dare you sue me? How dare you let me die?"

Then he prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed to Master Zhang, "Master Zhang, Master Zhang, we are also relatives! Don't listen to this woman's nonsense, she is just crazy! She keeps talking nonsense every day, saying that she is a Jinshi, I am tired of hearing this! How can she be, she is just a lunatic."

Mr. Zhang said coldly, "She passed the imperial examination in the same year as me."

Zhang Qiong was not afraid at all. He even said happily, "I was wondering why my son and daughter are so smart. It turns out their mother is a Jinshi! This is really great news for our ancestors. God loves me."

Lord Zhang said coldly, "Kidnapping and imprisoning an imperial official is a serious crime."

Zhang Qiong was still immersed in the joy of his wife being a Jinshi, and did not pay attention to what Master Zhang said, and replied casually, "This is my wife. She and I have a marriage certificate, so she is my wife."

Liu Yanyan looked at Mr. Bu and said, "Do you remember how far his home is from the capital?"

Bu Zhenzhu said, "It is about 320 miles away, in a large mountain range, on the mountain behind Qingcheng Town, Heshun County."

Liu Yanyan looked at Mr. Zhang and whispered, "Is the current evidence enough for a direct sentence?"

Mr. Zhang shook his head obscurely. "

Liu Yanyan looked at Zhang Qiong who was kneeling below and said coldly, "Take Zhang Qiong and the two children into custody."

Zhang Qiong raised his head, looked at Liu Yanyan and shouted, "Who do you think you are? You want to lock me up, do you really want to die?"

After saying that, he was about to rush forward, but was held to the ground by several yamen runners, who kicked him several times. "You really don't want to live. This is Lord Liu, the princess of the Regent Palace. How dare you disrespect the Lord? You don't want to live anymore."

Zhang Qiong's face turned pale. "Lord Liu, please spare my life! I am blind and don't know a great man. Please just treat me like a fart and let me go!"

Liu Yanyan said coldly, "Zhang Qiong disturbed the court, and he will be punished with twenty strokes of the cane as a warning to others."

Zhang Qiong was so frightened that his pants got wet. "Sir, sir, please spare me!"

Liu Yanyan watched Zhang Qiong being dragged away for execution, and then she said, "Take two teams to Zhang Qiong's house to find the evidence and the original copy of their marriage certificate."

A yamen runner said, "Sir, we have never been there before and we are afraid of delaying things."

Liu Yanyan looked at the yamen runners and said, "No! Just go to the Ministry of Justice and take two people with you. When you get there, go directly to the county yamen. It's not a big case. How dare they stop you?"

"Yes, sir. I understand. I will take people to the Ministry of Justice and then to Qingcheng Town, Heshun County."

When Liu Yanyan saw the yamen runners leave, she said, "Take Zhang Qiong and the child into custody today. Mr. Bu, you can take your family home first. When the evidence arrives in a few days, the yamen runners will come to fetch you."

Mr. Bu bowed respectfully and said, "Thank you two gentlemen for helping me. I will take my parents home first and wait for the government to summon me."

Zhang Fugui, who was kneeling on the ground, held his sister Zhang Huaer, looked at his mother who had left without mercy, and said coldly, "Mom, how could you be so cruel! My sister and I are your children! How could you be so cruel to abandon us?"

Mr. Bu helped his mother out and said coldly, "You have his dirty blood in you. You are as dirty and despicable as him. You are not worthy of being my children."

"Mom, how can you be so cruel?"

"Mom, I don't want to go to jail! Mom, please save me!"

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Mr. Bu turned a deaf ear to all this and left resolutely.

Outside the court, when he saw Zhang Qiong being executed, he was so angry that he spat at him.