[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

At the banquet, Qi sang around the fan, Zhao Wu brought it back, the cups were boiling, and it goes without saying that there was a lot of chatting and laughing.Seeing that the golden leak was gradually shifting and the night was getting dark, the imperial concubine first persuaded the emperor to return, and then returned to personally send her father and brother out of the palace.Grand Master Pang rode alone in an ox cart and left the palace gate first. Pang Yan intentionally left Pang Yu at the end.

The shadows of the trees in the palace are slack, moving with the wind, mottled and shattered by the moonlight, spreading on the vermilion palace wall.Pang Yan told the palace servants not to follow too closely, so she leaned against Pang Yu's four-wheeler in the shadow, and moved slowly with lotus steps.The four-wheeled cart rolled and knocked on the long road paved with bluestone bricks, making a muffled sound.

Pang Yu said: "The imperial concubine is worried about elder brother, I know it well."

"Second elder brother, don't call me 'Imperial Concubine', just listen to the birth." Pang Yan sighed, "The Holy Father enshrined the eldest brother as the Marquis of An Le, but because he can only enjoy the happiness in the world. If something happens at home, it is up to the second elder brother to find a way to move around." The mediation is hard work, second brother."

Pang Yu sighed and said, "My sister has become a brother. It's my job to support and help my family, let alone a murder case."

Pang Yan said: "If you can save the elder brother this time, the younger sister will definitely thank the second elder brother."

Pang Yu hurriedly said, "It's just my family, what do you expect in return?"

Pang Yan stopped pushing the quadricycle, walked quickly to Pang Yu, bent her knees and squatted down, her brows were wringing tears from her eyes.She leaned her head full of golden hairpins and jade rings on her elder brother's lap, and said in a sad voice: "Second brother, you know that I have been close to you and elder brother since childhood. The two elder brothers also love the younger sister very much. Which one is lost now?" The younger sister is heartbroken, and she hopes that the second elder brother will ignore the past and rescue the elder brother and get him out of prison."

After saying that, she raised her Koudan-coated hand again, caressed Pang Yu's crippled leg through the cloth, and said, "I will take care of my second brother, visit famous doctors all over the world, and cure my second brother's leg disease." .”

Pang Yu only felt bitter and unspeakable. He lifted his hand slightly, but stopped an inch away from his sister's bun, and slowly put it back to his side.He said: "Since my brother has promised, I will definitely do it." Turning his face, he saw the plum crane waiting under the palace lantern from a distance, the shadows were sparse and the fragrance was dark, and the moon was at dusk. Finally, there was a smile on his face Concerned, he said to Pang Yan: "My little sister needs to pay attention to everything in the palace, and I have to say goodbye to my brother."

Pang Yan stood up and pushed Pang Yu's four-wheeled cart to Mei He who was waiting.

Mei He stepped forward and took the backrest from Pang Yan's hand.Pang Yan looked deeply at Pang Yu, sighing at the corners of her eyes and brows, then raised her eyes again to see Mei He, and said softly: "I know my sister-in-law is kind-hearted and gentle, and I am very happy to see that my sister-in-law and the second elder brother have the same heart."

Mei He greeted Pang Yancha with his hands, and slowly turned the four-wheeled cart, looking at the chariots and horses resting outside the palace gate.

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Only one day passed between the retrial of the Biliu case and the last one. Wang Chao Mahan brought Bitao to the lobby of the Kaifeng government office. Bitao raised her eyes and saw the gold-pink and blue plaque on the lintel of the Kaifeng government office. Looking around, the person sitting in the hall is not Bao Zheng, but another student with a fish bag and purple clothes, majestic and majestic.And there was a man dressed as an eunuch sitting in the spectator's sill, surrounded by guards, and he was drinking tea leisurely from a teacup.

Bi Tao hurriedly asked Wang Chao: "Master, why isn't Master Bao sitting in the hall?"

Wang Chao sighed and said, "I didn't receive the news until this morning. The presiding judge has been changed in the hall. I think the Holy Majesty wants to be safe and happy. But Miss Bi Tao, don't worry, everything is still under Master Bao's control."

Bi Tao was still panicked, and asked, "Is sister Chun in the yamen?"

Ma Han said: "She and Young Master Bai are already in the classroom, please rest assured, Miss Bi Tao."

At this time, the two gentlemen held Anlehou Pang Jiong to the left and right, and they also came to the hall.Seeing Pang Jiong knelt down on the defendant's stone dejectedly, Bi Tao hurriedly knelt down on the plaintiff's stone too.Those two rows of gentlemen held their killing sticks and shouted "mighty".The official in the hall slapped the gavel, and there was a sudden silence inside and outside the hall.The officer looked down there and asked, "Are you the plaintiff, Bitao?"

Bi Tao was timid and didn't dare to raise her head, she said "yes" like a mosquito.

The official asked again: "You are suing Pang Jiong, Marquis of Anle?"

Out of the corner of Bi Tao's eyes, she saw Lu Caichun standing in the side rail, and remembered what she had told her last night, so she gained some confidence, and then raised her voice and asked, "Minister, I don't want to sue An Lehou anymore, I want to sue another person. I wonder if the adults will allow it?"

Hearing her words, Pang Jiong glanced at her rather strangely.

"Who are you going to sue?" asked the officer.

Bi Tao took a deep breath before saying loudly, "Qian An, the servant of Pang's family."

Hearing this, the officials in the hall and the eunuch looked at each other, thinking that these words caught them unexpectedly.The official turned his gaze back and asked, "Why did you change your mind and sue Qian An?"

Bi Tao said: "Reporting to my lord, it turned out that Qian An deliberately lied during the first trial, and Minnv felt that he was suspicious, so she wanted to ask my lord to find out for Minnv. Minnv didn't want to miss the person who killed my sister by mistake. I don’t want to wrong an innocent person.”

The officer ordered: "Summon Qian An."

From time to time, Qian An was pushed into the front hall by Wang Chao Mahan, Wang Chao only watched him kick in the knee, Qian An let out an "Ouch" and fell to his knees in the hall.The officer asked him how he was doing that day, and Qian An told the officer in the hall exactly what he had told Bao Zheng last time.After finishing speaking, Pang Jiong was so angry that he beat the ground several times.After hearing this, Bi Tao said again: "There is also a witness on Minnv's side, can you let her come up to the lobby and confront this Qian An?"

According to what she said, the officer said: "Witnesses."

Lu Caichun stepped out from the sill at the side, the officer in the Wangtang cupped his hands, and asked Qian An, "You said that Bi Liu was strangled to death in Master Hou's room, but is it true?"

Qian An asked rhetorically, "This is not the truth, what is the truth?"

Lu Caichun looked at the officer and cupped his hands and said: "After investigation, Bi Liu died in the woodshed of Pang's mansion, not in the Hou Ye's wing."

Qian An hurriedly said: "You are talking nonsense!"

The officer ignored Qian An and only asked Lu Caichun, "Do you have evidence?"

Lu Caichun said: "There is only one woodshed in Pang's mansion. After inspection, I found a piece of silk in this woodshed. I can testify that it was torn from Miss Bi Liu's skirt." After speaking, he pulled it out of his sleeve. The silk was presented to Hou's tolerance.

The officer said: "This doesn't prove that Bi Liu died in the firewood house, does the girl still have his proof?"

Lu Caichun said: "The floor of the firewood house is covered with yellow mud, and on the yellow mud floor, there are two not so shallow marks, which seem to be caused by the kicking of the heels. If Bi Liu had been strangled to death in Anle Hou's house, and Qian An Dragging it to the firewood house, there should not be traces left by her heels kicking the ground. I think that after the green willow entered the firewood house, there was still breath. But someone strangled her neck in the firewood house, which caused her to step on the ground. If your lord doesn't believe Minnv's words, you can send someone to follow Minnv's brother-in-law to check in the woodshed of Pang Mansion."

Hearing this, the official ordered Mahan Dynasty, who was standing beside him, to go.Bai Yutang led the two to Pang's mansion.As soon as he entered the door, he saw Grand Master Pang coming forward and said, "The three of you come with me."

It turned out that the night before yesterday, Bai Yutang and Lu Caichun inquired about Qian An's truth but found nothing, so they sneaked into the Pang Mansion at night and found something strange in the woodshed.In order to prevent people with ulterior motives from erasing the evidence, they wrote a note, telling Pang Jiong's biological mother that if she wanted to rescue Pang Jiong from prison, she must send someone to guard the firewood room secretly, and the matter should not be disclosed to others unless Officials came to visit.Pang's mother was worried about her children, she treated a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and she did what she said. Now that Bi Liu's case was being re-tried, she informed Grand Master Pang about it.

Grand Master Pang led three people to the firewood room. There were already many people gathered at the door, including guards and concubines.Taishi Pang drove away the idlers, and then pushed open the door of the firewood room, and led Chao Mahan to check the traces on the ground.

Bai Yutang pointed to the woodpile and said, "There's also a waistband buried underneath, you two can dig it out and check."

Hearing this, Ma Han and Wang Chao set out to clear the pile of firewood, pulled out a foot-long trouser belt, and immediately showed it to Taishi Pang.When Grand Master Pang saw it, he stamped his feet and said, "This is the hakama belt used by the servants in Jiong'er Courtyard!"

Wang Chao and Ma Han looked at each other, Wang Chao asked: "Could it be that Qian An strangled Bi Liu to death privately, but planted it on An Lehou?"

Grand Master Pang clapped his hands and said loudly: "Isn't that exactly the case?"

But Bai Yutang shook his head and said, "I can't say for sure yet, we have to interrogate Qian An again."

The three of them returned to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion, and told the adjudicator what they saw in the firewood room in one breath.The official looked at Qian An and asked, "Why did you frame An Lehou?"

Only now did Qian An start to falter: "Small...Small..."

Seeing that the case was overturned, Pang Jiong hurriedly got up, and was about to kick Qian An, cursing: "You are a fool! Hurry up and recruit!" The gentleman who was standing beside Hou hurriedly pulled him away.Seeing this, the official threw down a red-headed lottery, and said sharply, "Give Qian'an torture!"

Qian An was too late to beg for mercy, and was pulled by the public on both sides, and fell face down to the ground.The stick was raised behind him, and there was a sound of begging for mercy and crying and the stick falling in the hall.The official asked: "Qian An, the evidence is overwhelming, so why don't you call it quickly, who killed Bi Liu!"

After the punishment with the cane was completed, Qian An didn't even have the strength to cry, and just lay on the ground.The official asked again: "Now are you willing to recruit?"

Qian An cried: "The villain is here." After saying that, he told how Bi Liu offended Pang Jiong and was punished by him, and how he dragged Bi Liu to the firewood room, and was attracted to her. , trying to force her to submit, but when she was pushing and pulling, the evil grew out of her courage, took off the hakama belt, and strangled her to death.Bi Tao, who was on the side, was already in tears after listening to it, wishing to pounce on him and eat his flesh raw.Even Pang Jiong yelled at him when he heard it.

After hearing this, the officer said: "In this case, push it out, and beheaded at noon."

Two gentlemen came up and dragged Qian An out who was so frightened that his whole body went limp.When Pang Jiong saw it, he stood up immediately, patted the dust off his body, and shouted to the people watching outside the hall: "See! This Marquis is innocent! You don't know, even the food for the victims was given by Ben Hou. It was handed out!"

The people outside the hall booed.

Pang Jiong squinted at Lu Caichun, he didn't go forward to thank her, he just called two gentlemen and ordered them to help him out of the Yamen - Grand Master Pang had ordered his servants to set up an ox cart outside the gate to pick up Pang Jiong.At this moment, the eunuch who was sitting in the sill suddenly stood up, Shi Shi ran out and said, "Wait a minute."

Pang Jiong raised his hand to stop the gentleman, wanting to hear what the old Huangmen had to say.The eunuch said: "I have an imperial decree here, and Marquis Anle will not kneel down to receive the decree."

Pang Jiong felt strange and wondered why the emperor would issue an imperial decree at this juncture. Could it be that he wanted to add an official to himself after hearing his reputation for helping the victims?But since the imperial decree arrived, everyone inside and outside the hall knelt together, and even the officials sitting high in the hall came down and knelt respectfully, and Pang Jiong quickly knelt down too.

The eunuch read the imperial decree aloud.Pang Jiong's heart gradually turned cold.The imperial decree said that he indulged in wine, sex, and murder, and wanted to deprive him of his position as Marquis.

After reading the imperial decree for a while, Pang Jiong still couldn't get up to receive the decree.The eunuch said: "Pang Dalang, who will accept the edict! How long do you need this old slave to get it for you?" Pang Jiong was forced to hold up his hands and took the edict from the eunuch.

When the official said "retreat", Pang Jiong held the imperial decree and was helped out of the Kaifeng mansion with a look of indignation on his face, and got into the bullock cart prepared for him by Grand Master Pang.The official and the eunuch walked side by side, and went to the back of the hall.When the people outside the hall dispersed, some people were talking about it, saying that someone must be trying to excuse Pang Jiong.

Bitao, who collected Biliu's ashes and walked out side by side with Lu Caishu, heard this, and said, "They don't care who really killed my sister, they only hope to drag a high-ranking official to jail, but I care about making peace for my sister. Injustice cleared."

Lu Caichun held Bi Tao by the arm, and said with a long breath, "I am also very happy to be able to avenge Miss Bi Liu."

But Bi Tao suddenly asked: "The second lady who used to burn incense last time, did she really have no intentions?"

Lu Caichun and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and Bai Yutang said: "That night, your sister and I also followed the vine and asked the maid who delivered the incense. The incense was originally packed in the wrong sachet and mixed with other sachets. Smell There was no difference, so it was a wrong delivery. That night, the young master only invited Bi Liu to sleep alone, and no one else found out that she had brought Feng Xingxiang, which was why he offended him. It had nothing to do with the Mei family. "

Bi Tao nodded and said, "It turns out that my sister's luck is bad."

Lu Caichun stroked Bi Tao's hair, and comforted her: "Now that the grievance has been avenged, I can also comfort Miss Bi Liu's spirit in heaven."

After the preliminary trial, Bitao lived in Zhan Zhao's home with Lu Caishu.Sending Bitao back to Zhanzhao's house, Bai Yutang said to Lu Caichun, "Don't you think it went really well this time?"

Lu Caichun nodded and said: "Indeed. After Qian An strangled Bi Liu, if he said he was jealous, he didn't burn the hakama belt, but hid it under the firewood. The traces on the ground were because he was in a panic and in a hurry. It hasn't been erased, but the person who came to dispose of Bi Liu's body didn't know how to clean it up?"

Bai Yutang said: "And who is that ghost-masked man? Did he capture Qian An and order something for Qian An to slander Pang Jiong for killing Bi Liu? There are really many doubts about this. He is the most lustful, shameless and ungrateful person, but he would rather die for keeping this secret than tell the truth, I don’t know what is hidden behind it.”

While the two of them were contemplating in the courtyard, Ding Meng walked out with his hands on his waist. When he saw Bai Yutang, he hurriedly said, "We should congratulate you for solving such a big case. Why don't the fifth younger brother stay in the humble house tonight?" , Let’s have a drink with Brother Zhan.”