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Li Fengshou: "My lord, the grassroots really hate Li Ping'er very much."

"My lord, did you hear, he did it!" Zeng Qing suddenly stood up and said anxiously.

"I didn't ask you to speak, Zeng Qing. If you dare to intervene again, I will think that you deliberately disturbed the court!" Zhen Qingming said expressionlessly, "Li Fengshou, go on and talk about the enmity between you and Li Ping'er!" blame."

"Yes, my lord." Li Fengshou said, "Everyone knows that the relationship between Cao Min and Zhao Yipeng is not good, but Aunt Zhao and Aunt Zhao are very kind to Cao Min. Seeing that Li Pinger is not like a person who lives a life, Cao Min told Aunt Zhao that she should take care of her. Li Ping'er divorced, and when Li Ping'er found out, she got into trouble with the grassroots, scolded the grassroots, and scolded them very badly."

"How do you know she's not a person who lives a life? Li Ping'er doesn't do housework, but at least she is good at embroidery and can earn enough money for herself." Zhen Qingming thought about it, "Although I have never met Li Ping'er, I don't know her. How beautiful, but everyone in the east part of the city said she was good-looking, and Li Pinger's figure was not bad. If it was just like this, it would be impossible for Zhao Yipeng to divorce his wife. You clearly knew that it was impossible for him, so why did you say that? Is there something to hide?"

Li Fengshou was suffocated, and said instead, "No."

"Since there is no one, judging from the current situation, you are the most suspicious of Li Ping'er's disappearance. Come and put Li Fengshou in prison. When will Li Ping'er be found and will be interrogated again!"

"My lord! My lord is wronged!" Li Fengshou exclaimed, his face was so frightened that there was no trace of blood on his face, and he didn't even think about what was wrong.

"I gave you a chance to prove your innocence, but you prevaricate me with a well-known fact. You treat me like a three-year-old child!" Zhen Qingming picked up the gavel and snapped! "Li Fengshou, I will give you one last chance! Say it!"

"Cao Min said, Cao Min said, yes, it is Li Pinger who does not obey women's ways!"

"What!"

The onlookers exclaimed at the same time, and Zhen Qingming couldn't help leaning forward, "Did you see it with your own eyes? Is there any evidence? Who was she with?" One question after another.

Li Fengshou's answer was simple, pointing at him, "He!"

"Zeng Qing?"

"Yes, my lord, it is Zeng Qing."

"You're talking nonsense!" Zeng Qing was furious, "My lord, he's slandering me!"

"Whether you have been falsely accused, I will find out by myself. I will not wrong any innocent person. Li Fengshou, continue."

"Yes, sir. One day about three months ago, Zeng Qing's wife asked me to help her make two bookshelves. She wanted to fix the bookshelves on the wall, so I went to Zeng's house that afternoon.

"Caomin remembers it very clearly. Because the ground was uneven, I went to the backyard of her house to find a head and planned to fix it. Caomin didn't care when he saw Zeng Qing go out from the corner door of his house. After I fixed the bookshelf, I passed by Mrs. Zhao's house when I came back. , casually glanced into her shop, and saw Zeng Qing flirting with a woman.

"It was getting dark, and I was in a hurry to go back, so I didn't mind my own business. Who knows, I went back to the store to put down my tools, and I didn't finish a bowl of water when I saw Li Pinger go to the Zhao's shop to find Zhao Yipeng to go home. Seeing the exact same clothes and backs of the two, Caomin knew that the woman was Li Pinger. My lord, Caomin's words are true, if you don't believe me, you can ask Mrs. Zhao."

"Since you know, why didn't you tell the Zhao family earlier?" Zhen Qingming asked his doubts.

"Caomin has no evidence, and I don't know where the two of them have gone."

Zhen Qingming saw his eyes flickering, so he was sure that there was something he didn't know, "Tell Mrs. Zhao!" Throwing down the command arrow, seeing that Zeng Qing was eager to speak, Master Zhen, who was very hungry, had a bad temper, "Shut up! I don't want to hear from you right now!"

Seeing Zeng Qing being taken away, Mrs. Zhao had a bad intuition, so she closed the shop and went to pack her clothes, planning to hide at her son's house in Qingzhou for a while.Carrying the package and walking out of the main room, the yamen servant who broke into the door caught her straight away. This appearance of absconding in fear of crime does not require interrogation. After Zhen Qingming listened to the yamen servant's narration, Mrs. Zhao said it herself.

"My lord, it has nothing to do with the grass people." Mrs. Zhao said anxiously, "After Zeng Qing got married, he never forgot about Li Ping'er. He threatened me that if he and Li Ping'er were told, he wouldn't play tricks on me. My lord is clearly aware. , Caomin had no choice.

"Where did they go?"

"My lord, I did everything I could do, and I did what I couldn't." Mrs. Zhao never planned to hide it for him.

Zhen Qingming looked at the frightened man, with a sarcastic smile on his lips, "Zeng Qing, the evidence of your adultery with Li Ping'er is solid, I can kill you like a court stick now, so hurry up and tell the truth! ?”

"My lord, it's all that slut Li Ping'er, she seduced me." Zeng Qing suddenly lost the backbone of a literati, knelt on the ground and shouted, "It's not that he lacks concentration, it's that the enemy's methods are too high." !"

Those who ate biscuits stopped eating biscuits, and those who were hungry after smelling biscuits forgot to smell them, and stared at him dumbfounded.Instead, Li Fengshou, who caught the two of them out, was the first to react, "My lord, the afternoon Li Ping'er disappeared, Cao Min saw Zeng Qing with her."

"Then why didn't you say it just now?" Zhen Qingming said loudly, "If something happens to her, you are an accomplice!"

"No, they went out of the city talking and laughing, Li Ping'er couldn't have been killed, she must have been hidden by Zeng Qing." Li Fengshou was sure.

"In that case, why didn't you tell the Zhao family when Li Ping'er disappeared?" Zhen Qingming asked again.

Li Fengshou: "I don't want her to harm the Zhao family."

This reason is barely plausible. Zhen Qingming breathed out and smelled a smell of sesame seed cakes again. Looking at the three people with their heads down, thinking about the past, he had a flash of inspiration, "Li Fengshou, you are not secretly fond of Zhao Yipeng, are you? ?”

As soon as these words came out, the huge main hall fell silent, and now there was no sound of breathing.

Zhen Qingming was very surprised when he saw Li Fengshou's expression suddenly changed, he really didn't expect him to guess right.Thinking that this was his private matter, he continued to chase after him without facing everyone, "Zeng Qing, where did you hide Li Ping'er?"

"I didn't hide it." Zeng Qing said, "Li Ping'er went there by herself, in Qingzhou."

"That being the case, go to Qingzhou with me, find Li Ping'er and hand over you two to the magistrate. It is up to the magistrate to decide whether to kill you in court or to sentence you to life imprisonment." Mu, "Back——"

"Wait a minute! My lord, the women have something to say." Suddenly, a woman rushed in from the gate.

"Who are you?" Zhen Qingming saw her young age, and knelt beside Zeng Qing, "Madam of the Zeng family? Aren't you in confinement?"

"Yes, my lord!" The visitor was very calm, as if he wasn't surprised by Zeng Qing's accident, "I've heard about my husband and Li Ping'er. It's not his fault, it's me! If I stop He, don't allow him to draw tricks on this old godly woman, he will be fine!"

"What's the reason?" Master Zhen's patience was almost worn out.

The wife of the Zeng family pointed at Mrs. Zhao, "This old man has a heart smaller than a needle. Just because I said something to her, she opened a corner door on the wall opposite the corner door of my house, and then tricked my husband and Li Ping'er together. If I knew She has such vicious thoughts, no matter what she says, she will not let Xianggong go to the next door!"

"So, you know about Zeng Qing and Li Ping'er?" One after another, Mr. Zhen felt that his brain was not enough.

"I just found out the night before yesterday. My mother-in-law said that Li Ping'er disappeared suddenly, and my aunt's family was very anxious. I thought that my husband and Li Ping'er had a good relationship since childhood. I was afraid that he would be sad, so I went to the study to look for him." After a while, "Because I haven't confinement yet, my husband has been sleeping in the study, and I thought he was asleep when I saw the light in the study was off.

Standing by the window and thinking about it, I planned to go back. At this moment, I heard my husband say, "Ping'er, Ping'er, I don't blame my cousin for luring you to Qingzhou. In fact, you want me to reconcile with my wife, and the baby will return." It's not a full moon, how can I reconcile, my cousin is only sorry for you' I don't know what to do when I hear this, and I don't know how to go back to the room. "After I came back to my senses, I thought that my husband was timid and wouldn't do anything to Li Ping'er. When the official asked me, I didn't tell him the truth. All this is because of me, please have mercy on my son. It's not yet full moon, spare Xianggong's life, please forgive me!"

Zhen Qingming sighed, "Put Mrs. Zhao and Zeng Qing in prison, and go to Qingzhou with me later. As for Li Fengshou and Mrs. Zeng's family, I acquitted them. Neighbors, do you have any objections?"

"No! This has nothing to do with Li Fengshou in the first place, and the lady of the Zeng family is also a poor person." Someone said, and someone nodded. Seeing this, Zhen Qingming withdrew, and hurried to Sanlang. The neighbors who knew their relationship all shouted. With a kind smile, "My lord, when will you marry Saburo?"

"When my father sends my geng post, I will go to Sanlang's house to propose marriage." Zhen Qingming said.

"Then you have to treat Saburo well, don't learn from that Zeng Qing."

Zhen Qingming smiled kindly, his mouth was full of cakes, and he said vaguely, "No, no, if I treat Saburo badly, I will be fined not to eat sesame seeds for the rest of my life."

"Don't just eat, drink some soup." He knew that Zhen Qingming would be very hungry, so he asked the soapman at the door to bring a bowl of mung bean soup next door.

The mung bean soup that had been left for nearly half an hour was still ice-cold, Master Zhen was very satisfied, and all the unhappiness disappeared in an instant.

Li Fengshou saw Master Zhen's satisfied face and was full of envy. When he thought of Zhao Yipeng, his complexion suddenly became gloomy.

"He is also a poor man." Saburo said looking at his back.

Zhen Qingming: "I like Zhao Yipeng and dare not confess to him, but let the Zhao family divorce Li Pinger. I don't need to think about it. That morning he must have threatened her to make peace with Zhao Yipeng with the matter of Li Pinger and Zeng Qing. If it wasn't for seeing him pitiful, the yamen servants had to beat him twenty slaps, and he deserved to be pitiful."

Saburo didn't answer, seeing that he had finished eating, "Shall we go now?"

"I'm done with this case, and my heart is at peace. It's really not suitable for work in such a hot day." Zhen Qingming looked at the scorching sun on the tree, and a group of people in plain clothes came to Qingzhou Mansion staring at the scorching sun.

With Zeng Qing leading the way, Zhen Qingming easily found the courtyard where Li Pinger was hiding.Looking at the large courtyard not far away, Zhen Qingming frowned, "Whose house is this?"

"My lord, there is a businessman surnamed Wang. The criminal met him at the Brush and Ink Workshop. He spent a lot of money. He bought an inkstone for 50 taels without blinking. The criminal suspects that he is from the capital?"

"He's from the capital? His surname is Wang?" Zhen Qingming thought about it, and turned his horse's head just in case.