Your Majesty, she doesn't want to flip the brand

"Manman, don't blame the second uncle for talking too much. In fact, the elder brother wants you to get married as soon as possible." After picking a relatively suitable time, the second uncle Lu said without fear of death, "Since Mr. Qi has an accident, then The marriage contract between you and the Qi family was abandoned earlier. Anyway, you have already found a new husband-in-law, why don't you get married recently, which can be regarded as making the elder brother happy."

Uncle Lu's words were beautiful, he put himself in the position of an elder, and named Lu Man's ex-fiancé as unlucky in an accident, implying that Lu Man ran away when his ex-fiancé had an accident and found a new fiance.

Zhou Xingzhi raised his eyebrows and glanced at Uncle Lu. He didn't need her to speak. Wei Zhong, who was on the side, turned cold, "Come on, drag Lu Tongsheng down. Your Majesty is talking with Miss Lu. How can he interrupt?" .”

"Your Majesty, forgive me. The grassroots don't know this rule, so I hope Your Majesty will forgive me." Lu Tongsheng turned pale and immediately kowtowed.

"Forget it, those who don't know are innocent. I am not a tyrant who cuts off people's heads casually." Zhou Xingzhi said with a smile, "Lu Tongsheng, for the sake of Miss Lu, I will give you a chance, as long as you find ten years I will not hold you accountable for the evidence of your innocence, otherwise..."

Zhou Xingzhi didn't finish his sentence, but just gave Lu Tongsheng a meaningful look.She has no way to find evidence of Lu Tongsheng's crime ten years ago, so she can just push back. If Lu Tongsheng can't find evidence that he is not a criminal, then he will become a suspect.

She is already an emperor, so it's okay to be a little bit willful, right?

"This..." Lu Tongsheng was stunned for a moment. If it wasn't for Zhou Xingzhi's identity, he would really have been cursing. How could he find evidence that he was not a criminal?

"Lu Tongsheng, do you have something to say?" Zhou Xingzhi asked.

"Grass, no grass people." Lu Tongsheng didn't dare to choke with Zhou Xingzhi.After all, Zhou Xingzhi is the king and Lu Tongsheng is the people. Even if she asks Lu Tongsheng to drink the poisoned wine, he can only thank him and die.

"I will leave when the seven-day time for redress of grievances is up, so I will give you three days." Zhou Xingzhi said, "Xu Zhi will pay with his life for me to redress my grievances. If you can't find any evidence after three days, I will give you three days." to punish you."

"Your Majesty, Caomin has something to say." Second Uncle Lu knelt on the ground, relying on the large number of people here, he mustered up the courage to speak, "Could it be that Xu Zhi can make false accusations at will if he sacrifices his life? If Caomin sacrifices his life now, Ask Xu Zhi to produce evidence, if Xu Zhi fails to do so, will His Majesty punish Xu Zhi as well?"

How can I find the evidence within three days, Your Majesty is trying to force him to death in a different way!

"Of course, I will punish Xu Zhi's crime." As for what crime to punish, of course it is up to her to decide.

Uncle Lu was at a loss for words, and Zhou Xingzhi's answer blocked his subsequent remarks. He could only kowtow, and then said that he was going to find evidence.Of course, on the way to find evidence, two personal guards followed her all the time to prevent Second Uncle Lu from taking the opportunity to pack his bags and run away.

After Second Uncle Lu left, Tong Juan said cautiously, "Your Majesty, if Lu Tongsheng can't find evidence, what crime are you going to punish him for?"

Zhou Xingzhi smiled, and the general judge had some brains, "Of course it's the crime of sabotage. What's the matter, does the general judge think that I will make trouble for no reason and chop off his head?"

After hearing Zhou Xingzhi's answer, Tong Juan finally breathed a sigh of relief. His Majesty really wanted to scare Lu Tongsheng. With two personal guards following him, he must not make any foolish tricks. As long as these three days Don't do something wrong, this time it's over.

"Your Majesty, the daughter of the people heard that the magistrate is soliciting money from rich households, saying that he will use this sum of money to help those pregnant women, children and widows in the local area." When she was implicated by him, she began to express her sincerity.

"It's true, the magistrate plans to raise 1 taels of silver." Zhou Xingzhi said.

"Minnv has no ability to be shared by His Majesty. What she has is some shallow family wealth. If Your Majesty does not dislike her, Minnv is willing to donate 1 taels of silver to respond to the prefect's fundraising activities." Lu Man said.

Lu Man's family property can add up to one million. In order to make up 10 taels of cash, Lu Man had already spent almost all of Lu's cash, but in order to make a good impression in front of Zhou Xingzhi, she forced herself to leave the house. I squeezed 1 taels out of my private money.

"I appreciate Miss Lu's kindness, so there is no need for money. Miss Lu has already given it once, so there is no need to give it a second time." Zhou Xingzhi is not a bad guy who catches a sheep. 10 taels of silver is enough for her to protect Lu Man.She hoped that Lu Man could use money to make money instead of giving her all the money in one go.

"Miss Lu has a very good character. In my opinion, she can be said to be the best among the merchants in Hangzhou." Zhou Xingzhi said with a sigh, "I also asked the magistrate about the progress of the fundraising, and the wealth of each of those merchants is more than ten thousand. , but when it came time to pay, they searched one by one, and the most they gave was only 500 taels of silver. Compared with Miss Lu, it's really..."

Zhou Xingzhi didn't continue to talk about the following words.Of course she knew why those merchants didn't dare to donate money, it was just because they were afraid of being the first bird, and then they would be caught and plucked by themselves.But things are not that simple. If she wants to get rid of her wool, she can't just avoid it without leaking money.

You must know that when Zhou Xingzhi first came, he had asked the magistrate to fiddle with the list.The Lu family ranks at the middle level among them, and they can grit their teeth and spend [-] yuan, so those rich households above him probably have more money.

Of course, Zhou Xingzhi is not the kind of person who just grabs rich people when she sees them. She only grabs rich businessmen who break the law.

Under Lu Man's persuasion, Zhou Xingzhi and his party had dinner at Lu Mansion.During this period, the accompanying imperial physician also came over to check on Master Lu's condition.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Master Lu's internal organs are already showing a tendency to fail. If you continue to take medication for recuperation, there are still three to five years left." The imperial physician quickly gave a diagnosis report, "I will write a prescription in a while, Drink one dose for two days."

Not only was Lu Man not sad when she heard the imperial physician's words, but she was also relieved.The reason is very simple. The doctors that Lu Man invited before all shook their heads and sighed after reading it, saying that even if Master Lu takes a good rest, he only has one year to rest.In comparison, the three to five years that the imperial physician said was much better.

After respectfully sending Zhou Xingzhi and his party away, a girl in a blue dress appeared at the back door of Lu Mansion. After greeting the guard at the back door, she walked into Lu Man's room from behind. .

The conversation between Zhou Xingzhi and Lu Man spread quickly with Zhou Xingzhi's acquiescence, and those well-informed wealthy households were a little hesitant and worried after hearing it.Most of them want to spend money to eliminate disasters, but there are also a small number of people who have committed major crimes in their hands and dare not act rashly. After all, their money is not clean, and it will be a bad thing if they give too much money and cause unnecessary suspicion.

The wealthy households had trouble sleeping and eating, but Zhou Xingzhi and the others ate and drank well, and experienced the feeling of trying a case.Although they are all relatively trivial matters, they are much better than boring reviewing memorials.

The three-day period was neither too long nor too short. When the magistrate hadn't finished interrogating Wang Tongzhi, three days had passed, and it was time for Lu Tongsheng and Xu Zhi to confront each other.

"Crack!" Zhou Xingzhi patted the gavel. Because Xu Zhi's matter was a big mess, Zhou Xingzhi opened the courtroom to the public and allowed some selected people to watch from the sidelines.

"Xu Zhi, Lu Tongsheng, which one of you will speak first?" Zhou Xingzhi was sitting in the courtroom, besides the original yamen servants, there was a line of fully armed personal guards standing on both sides.

"Your Majesty, Caomin has gone through untold hardships and found Caomin's confidant ten years ago. She can testify for Caomin. Caomin was with her on the day Xu Zhi's sister had an accident." Lu Tongsheng couldn't help but speak first.

"Come here with a witness." Zhou Xingzhi leaned his back on the chair. For the past three days, Lu Tongsheng has been operating under the supervision of his personal guards, so there should be no chance to collude with others.

"Minister Xu Xiang sees Your Majesty." A woman with a lady's hair style was brought in, hesitated before she spoke, "Minister was from Hongchen Building ten years ago... Second Master Lu is a Mindaughter regulars."

"How do you remember what happened ten years ago so clearly?" Zhou Xingzhi asked.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the [-]th day of June in the eighth year of Chenyuan happened to be Minnv's birthday, so Minnv has an impression. On that day, Second Master Lu sent someone to give Minnv a gift early in the morning, and at night..." Xu Xiang didn't continue to say the following words, she was worried that it would spoil His Majesty's ears.

Zhou Xingzhi raised his eyebrows. Does this really allow Lu Tongsheng to find an alibi?

"Your Majesty, Caomin has something to ask Mrs. Xu..." Xu Zhi bowed and saluted.

Zhou Xingzhi nodded, "Just ask."

"Madam Xu, when did you and Lu Tongsheng meet? Was it at night?" Xu Zhi asked.He didn't have any evidence in hand, but Lu Tongsheng found this person, and he had a way to turn this person's confession into evidence.

"I don't remember clearly, but we had dinner together." Xu Xiang said, and then added, "Second Master Lu didn't leave until the next day."

"Then Mrs. Xu, how did you make sure that Lu Tongsheng stayed with you all night?" Xu Zhi asked.

"What's there to be sure about? No one in the building saw Second Master Lu leave." Xu Xiang said, somewhat puzzled why Xu Zhi asked this.

"Your Majesty, Cao Min's sister was taken away by Lu Tongsheng's men on the night of the [-]th, and the body was only found on the morning of the [-]th." Xu Zhishou couldn't help but clenched his fists, "Even if there is this Mrs. Xu testified, but Lu Tongsheng still couldn't prove his innocence."

"Your Majesty, Caomin has never sent anyone to kidnap Xu Zhi's sister. Caomin should have stayed at home on the night of the [-]th, and should have gone home directly after leaving the Red Dust Building on the [-]th." Lu Tongsheng added , "This is the habit of grass people. If you are not in Hongchen Building at night, you must stay at home."

Zhou Xingzhi was noncommittal, waiting for Xu Zhi's reaction.Since Xu Zhi dared to use his body as a bait to defraud Wang Tongzhi, he must have made sufficient preparations for this case. In ten years, Zhou Xingzhi didn't believe he found anything.

"Your Majesty, Caomin's parents had an accident in May of the eighth year of Chenyuan. Before Caomin's funeral was held, the Wan family suddenly launched an attack and began to embezzle the Xu family's property." Xu Zhi said, "Caomin asked many people for help at that time. , including the Lu family. The master of the Lu family is a good man, he once helped me and gave me 1000 taels of silver in private."

"After my little sister was kidnapped, the grass people also asked Master Lu for help, and Master Lu sent people to search for it that night, but there was no result after searching all night." Xu Zhi said, "The villain didn't react at that time, It was only after seeing the little sister’s corpse that I realized that Master Lu’s people searched many places, but they only missed the Lu family!”

"Nonsense, how could the Lu family have your little sister? At that time, my elder brother was in charge of the Lu family. I was not even allowed by my elder brother to bring those people back. It is impossible to hide people!" Lu Tongsheng retorted loudly.

"If it's not in the Lu family, then it must be hidden in the property under your name!" Xu Zhi's voice became louder, and his anger couldn't stop rushing up. Sheng, in the past ten years, I have never given up on investigating what happened back then. If you didn't take people away, why did you sell a house a month after the accident, and gave those nursing homes a large amount of money? A sum of money, let them leave Hangzhou Mansion!"

"What nonsense are you talking about? At that time, I just didn't have enough money, so I sold the yard." Lu Tongsheng was flustered, but there was no flaw in what he said, "Those are old people who have been with me for many years. Is it wrong for me to give them a sum of money to fulfill this master-servant relationship?"

"How can there be such a coincidence in the world!" Xu Zhi gritted his teeth, "My sister was holding a piece of rag in her hand. If I guessed correctly, it must have been torn from you."

"What evidence do you have to prove that the piece of cloth is mine? Ten years is enough for you to forge a lot of evidence!" Lu Tongsheng also gritted his teeth and refused to let go.

When the atmosphere was at a stalemate, a personal guard came in from outside, lowered his head and whispered something in Zhou Xingzhi's ear.

Zhou Xingzhi patted the gavel, and began to say, "Let's say, Lu Man and Qi Xiuyuan are going to court together."

The author has something to say: rub your hands, this pair of cp names are easy to remember!