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And you keep saying that Fan Xian did it, but you can't produce any evidence.Is it possible to convict people of guilt based on Guo Baokun's one-sided words? "

Li Yi didn't seem to care about what He Zongwei said, but still asked Xiangmei Zhili.

Mei Zhili's face was cloudy and uncertain, he was silent for two seconds, then turned to look at He Zongwei, the meaning was very obvious, if they couldn't produce more evidence, the case would be closed.

"There is evidence!" He Zongwei shouted quickly, and at the same time took out a piece of paper from his arms without haste, "Your Excellency, you can see that the evidence is here. Wanli is often a guest in sad autumn, and he is alone on the stage with a hundred years of illness."

As He Zongwei said, he handed the paper to Mei Zhili, "This poem was written by Fan Xian at the poetry meeting yesterday, and the murderer kept chanting this poem when he committed the crime yesterday."

Li Yi glanced at it, and immediately retorted, "So many people at yesterday's poetry meeting knew about this poem, just because of this, it cannot prove that Fan Xian did it.

And I suspect that it was Guo Baokun, Mr. Guo, who was angry yesterday. Fan Xian made such a good poem, so he had no choice but to beat himself up.

In order to tarnish Fan Xian's reputation, Mr. Guo even went so far as to do it himself, which is truly amazing. "

Li Yi looked at Guo Baokun as if he admired him very much, and he was able to beat his own determination.

Guo Baokun was speechless at this moment, and with difficulty stretched out his hands and waved his hands to express his anger.

He Zongwei hurriedly comforted him for a while, and then let Guo Baokun put his hand back on the stretcher.

"Joke, why did Mr. Guo beat himself? Don't talk nonsense in the courtroom." He Zongwei smiled disdainfully, with contempt in his eyes.

"Then how can you prove that it was Fan Xian who beat Guo Baokun? It's impossible to decide based on the current evidence, but we have evidence to prove that Fan Xian himself was not there."

Li Yi was confident now, and looked at He Zongwei provocatively. He really didn't like this He Zongwei.

"Then ask witnesses." After Mei Zhili finished speaking, he looked at the poem on the table.

He had to admire in his heart, this is really a good poem.

Li Yi's witness is Li Hongcheng, Prince Jing's son, and asked the servants of the Kyoto Prefecture to notify him.

Li Hongcheng's movements were also quite fast, maybe he had prepared in advance, but he had already arrived at the court in three to five minutes.

Mei Zhili and He Zongwei saluted immediately, and Li Hongcheng glanced at Mei Zhili indifferently.

"Fan Xian and Xiao Wang spent the night on the flower boat yesterday and did not go out." Li Hongcheng is now talking nonsense with his eyes open. Fan Xian did go out last night, but he didn't know what he did until now.

Didn't he just beat Guo Baokun up, don't worry about small things.

After Li Hongcheng finished speaking, Mei Zhili immediately lost his temper, and the other party, as a child of the royal family, took the initiative to stand up and support Fan Xian on the platform.

And there was really no real evidence to prove that Fan Xian had indeed hit Guo Baokun, He Zongwei also looked helpless at this time.

Fan Xian was very meticulous in his work, and no one saw him that night.

"Since there are witnesses, then Fan Xian is cleared of suspicion. This is the end of your case." Mei Zhili's face was full of joy, and he was about to give up when he said that.

"My lord!" A shout came from the outside of the courtroom.

"What's the matter?" Mei Zhili hesitated for a moment, and asked without dropping the gavel directly.

"His Royal Highness is here."

As soon as the officer's words fell, dozens of well-trained sergeants in armor and waist knives walked in through the gate of Kyoto Prefecture, and stood on both sides.

After the hearing, He Zongwei glanced at him from afar, then turned his head to look at Guo Baokun, "Mr. Guo, Fan Xian is done for today."

Guo Baokun hummed twice to express that he knew it, but anyone could tell that he was very happy at this moment.

A carriage came to the gate of the capital, Prince Li Chengqian slowly stepped out of the carriage, and the servants beside him immediately put on the canopy.

Li Chengqian was wearing azure blue clothes, and walked towards Fan Xian slowly with his hands raised.

It's just that the canopy following behind him couldn't get in for a while because the gate of the capital was too short.

Li Chengqian looked at it helplessly, stood on the spot and directed, "You are in the front, and you take it in sideways from the back."

After seeing Hua Gai coming in, Li Chengqian smiled calmly and walked into the courtroom freely.

All of a sudden, except for Li Yi and Fan Xian, everyone else knelt down and chanted, "Meet Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Even Guo Baokun groaned a few times while lying on the stretcher, and it was probably barely audible that he said he was paying his respects to His Highness the Crown Prince.

Li Chengqian walked up to Li Hongcheng and said, "They are all relatives of my family, get up quickly."

At the same time, he looked at Mei Zhili behind him, "Master Mei, please get up quickly."

Mei Zhili was helped up by the prince in fear, "His Royal Highness, why are you here?"

Li Chengqian immediately said, "I'll come to see your trial!"

"This..." Mei Zhili was silent for a moment, then pointed to the seat he had taken before in the courtroom, "His Royal Highness, please take your seat."

Li Chengqian turned his head to look at Li Yi at this time. He knew who the person in front of him was, although he didn't know what Li Yi and the second prince talked about that day.

But Li Chengqian knew exactly what Li Yi and Fan Xian said that day.

Li Chengqian could immediately tell that this person was definitely a genius, a rare genius.

It took only a few days to enter Kyoto, and there was almost no information.

He was able to judge very clearly the specific relationship between his eldest princess and the second prince.

It is even possible to roughly estimate the real thing they are going to do next, and the calculation is close to ten.

And he can also help Fan Xian analyze the pros and cons, such a person is rare.

It's a pity that he can't use it for himself, Li Chengqian thought so, picked up a small stool and placed it on the left side of Mei Zhili's seat, "This prince will sit here."

Mei Zhili kept bowing his head to Li Chengqian.

"Sit!" Li Chengqian said after taking the order, glanced at Mei Zhili in front of him.

"Don't dare." Mei Zhili lowered his head by three points, how dare he sit down beside the prince.

"Mei Zhili, you are Yi of Kyoto Prefecture, don't mess up your identity. Sit down." Li Chengqian's tone was obviously much more serious than before.

After listening to Li Chengqian's words, Mei Zhili walked around tremblingly holding the table, and then slowly sat down on the chair. When he sat on the chair, he seemed to be under tremendous pressure, even the sweat on his forehead was covered with a layer of sweat. Layer by layer to take off.

He didn't seem to know where to put his hands, took the pleadings, looked at the gavel, but he didn't know what to do for a long time.

"His Royal Highness, the trial of the case is over, and Fan Xian is not guilty." Li Yi looked at Li Chengqian and Mei Zhili and said.

Chapter 138 Whose food and money will you eat?

"The trial is over?" Li Chengqian seemed very surprised, he really did not expect that this case would be resolved so quickly.

Guo Baokun and He Zongwei were really useless, they couldn't even drag him over, and the case was over.

"There are witnesses." Mei Zhili smiled awkwardly.

"Who is the witness?"

"Your Highness, he can prove that Fan Xian did not get out of the flower boat last night." Mei Zhili looked at Li Hongcheng who was on the side and said.

"Hongcheng is my royal son, so I naturally believe what he said, but Hongcheng, did you stay with Fan Xian all night last night? Do you know if Fan Xian went out without telling you?"

Li Chengqian smiled, as if he was just asking casually, but the question hit the nail on the head.

"It's true that I wasn't with Fan Xian all the time yesterday." Li Hongcheng couldn't refute. How could he explain it? Could it be that he slept with Fan Xian last night?

"That's it. What if Fan Xian goes out and beats Guo Baokun and then sneaks back? I think it's better to find another witness." Li Chengqian's tone seemed to be confident.

He had already bribed the oiran who was with Fan Xian last night in advance, and the other party would stand up and identify him later.

Even if Fan Xian didn't fight Guo Baokun, he still did.

Li Chengqian didn't care if Fan Xian hit Guo Baokun, what he wanted was to put Fan Xian in prison.

It would be best to take advantage of this opportunity to annul Fan Xian's marriage, then the internal treasury will not fall into his hands, and he will not help the second prince.

Poor Li Chengqian didn't know that the eldest princess and the second prince were in the same group, he was just because the eldest princess didn't get the love of Emperor Qing.

And Li Chengqian looked very similar to Emperor Qing back then, and became a substitute for the eldest princess for Emperor Qing.

The eldest princess is very, very ambitious, she is not going to help the prince, nor is she going to help the second prince.

If Li Yi's guess is correct, it is very likely that the eldest princess will take over by herself and become the empress of the Qing Kingdom, or she may follow the example of Ye Qingmei's reforms back then.

After all, the eldest princess's idol was Ye Qingmei back then, but unfortunately later, because she couldn't get the love of Emperor Qing, and Emperor Qing liked Ye Qingmei, so she gradually hated Ye Qingmei.

The death of Ye Qingmei back then also caused a great shock to the eldest princess at that time, and made her see some things clearly, and also had some other thoughts.

For example, to do things that Ye Qingmei couldn't do back then.

"Your Highness" Mei Zhili looked at Li Chengqian, he didn't finish his sentence, but the meaning was obvious, that is, what witnesses will be passed next?

"Which oiran Fan Xian was with that day sent her over." Li Chengqian said in an extremely calm tone.

Li Yi could clearly sense that Li Chengqian had definitely been manipulated by the oiran.

Having said all of this, the other party definitely bought the oiran who slept with Fan Xian ahead of time.

"Prince trial, do you want to call all the people in the capital?" Li Chengze walked into the capital slowly while clapping his hands.

Li Yi looked back, and Li Chengze smiled when he saw him.

"See Your Highness the Second Highness." Gui knelt down again.

But this time no one kneeled down, besides Li Yi and Fan Xian, there was also Li Chengqian.

"Get up, the prince has no reason to kneel to me here." Li Chengze walked slowly in front of Li Chengze while talking.

Then he just knelt down and made a big salute, "Meet His Royal Highness the Prince."

Seeing this, Li Chengqian quickly pulled him up, "Second brother, how many times have I told you that there is no need for such a big gift between you and me."

Li Yi stood aside and watched them show the hypocrisy between brothers here.

Although the two may wish to hack each other to death, on the surface they are brothers and sisters.

"You are the crown prince, and the etiquette cannot be dismissed." Li Chengze had a gentle smile on his face. If he didn't know it, he would think that the relationship between the two brothers is so good.

"What are you doing here?" Li Chengqian also smiled back.

"Since your crown prince sits like this, the Yi trial case in Kyoto Prefecture will have to listen to you." Li Chengze also had a gentle smile. Those who don't know him well may think that he is quite easy to get along with.

"Mr. Mei is in charge of the case. I'll just take a look."

"Yes." Mei Zhili nodded quickly.

"Then the case was a foregone conclusion just now, so why are witnesses called all of a sudden." Li Chengze's face suddenly changed, and he just stared at Mei Zhili.

"This, this, this..." Mei Zhili was speechless at the end of being there for a long time, so he could only quickly walk to one side, picked up a stool and put it on the other side, "Second Highness, please."

Only then did Li Chengze nodded in satisfaction and sat aside.

Now Mei Zhili only felt that his legs were unstoppably weak, and finally sat down on the chair, his whole body seemed to be relieved.

Li Yi looked down for a long time, and finally couldn't hold back his laughter.

Both Li Chengze and Li Chengqian looked at him in surprise.

"Master Mei, as the saying goes, it is a matter of loyalty to the emperor. Don't forget whose money you are eating."

Li Yi didn't care that this was the so-called court, he took a sudden step forward, walked up to Mei Zhili and raised his voice.

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"Ah!" Mei Zhili was taken aback for a moment, and then his heart was shocked. He had to admit that Li Yi was right.

Those who watched the game were fascinated, but those who watched were clear. Mei Zhili wanted to understand in an instant when Li Yi made such a move.

It doesn't matter whether the prince or the second prince is here today, he, Mei Zhili, is from Kyoto Prefecture, and he eats His Majesty's food and money.

Even if the case is not successfully tried today, if someone remembers wanting to take revenge, at most, it is the inappropriate official of Kyoto Prefecture Yi.

Change to another place and take an idle position to provide for the elderly.

But today, if he meddles in the affairs between the crown prince and the second prince, and keeps vacillating.

Then what is waiting for me is likely to be His Majesty's anger, then I really can't bear to walk around.

Even if His Majesty didn't care about him, the person I helped today would ascend to the throne in the future, and that would have nothing to do with him, Mei Zhili.

His Majesty is still at the peak of his age, whether he waits until the crown prince or the second prince ascends the throne, he, Mei Zhili, will be dead long ago.

Even if he is retaliated against today, no matter if it is the crown prince or the second prince, at most he will not be able to continue working as a man in Kyoto Prefecture.

If he has been vacillating, he may even be biased towards a certain side, no longer caring about the real justice of this case, but helping someone.

If His Majesty knew about this matter, I am afraid that he would not be able to do Kyoto Fuyi. If he was lucky, he would retire and return to his hometown. If he was unlucky, he might not even die.

After Mei Zhili figured this out, his whole body gradually settled down, and he was no longer as frightened as before, worrying about offending a certain party.