After the Gu of the Red Chamber

Dengwengu can't be done if you want to. Dengwengu goes directly to the sky. No matter how big or small the case is, it must be tried by the Holy Majesty. Similarly, the price of asking for Dengwengu is not low.

In order to prevent ordinary people from abusing Dengwen drums, anyone who has Dengwen drums must be beaten with [-] big boards first, and he will not die before he can be punished.

These [-] big boards are not easy to bear. After playing the boards, most of the people are useless.

Generally speaking, one would not take the risk of going to Dengwengu unless it is a strange injustice through the ages. Never would have thought that this time, nearly a hundred young girls would go to Dengwengu, not to mention that among these young girls, There is actually Prince Yu's own daughter!

Everyone knows that Prince Yu's daughter disappeared when she was young. Prince Yu has been looking for her daughter like crazy all these years, but he never thought that Prince Yu had already found his daughter, let alone that Prince Yu's daughter I will go to Dengwengu to sue the Zhen family!

Hearing that the girls sued the Zhen family for abducting and selling children and forcing them into prostitution...So, immediately, everyone looked at Prince Yu with sympathy.

No wonder Prince Yu didn't say a word after finding his daughter. Everyone didn't know that the little princess had returned to Beijing. Such a terrible thing happened to her daughter, and she was willing to bring the child back. It seems that Prince Yu and his wife really loved her. daughter's.

But since he is the one who loves his daughter, how could he let his own daughter go to Deng Wengu, and use this reason to sue the Zhen family! ?Could it be that the Holy Majesty finally made up his mind to take over the Zhen family?For this reason, he did not hesitate to sacrifice the reputation of his own niece?

In the court, there is absolutely no shortage of people with great brains. Everyone has to think about it once or twice even if they say a word on weekdays, let alone such a big case. One is bigger than the other.

Emperor Pingkang's brains were not as big as those of his ministers. When he heard that Tu Li had gone to Lao Dengwen Drum, he was stunned.

Prince Yu's face was pale, and he didn't care that he was at the court meeting. He kowtowed repeatedly and begged: "Brother Huang, please save your niece and daughter! Li'er is not in good health, and she will definitely not be able to withstand the twenty boards! "

Emperor Pingkang's face turned pale, and he immediately thought of the twenty large boards in front of the Dengwen Drum in Naos. As the emperor, he naturally knew how much water was in those twenty big boards, or rather, how much water was contained in them. human life!

Even though the Lao Dengwen Drum is a rule handed down since ancient times, but the rules are nothing more than human feelings. Ordinary people would offend aristocratic families for the sake of ordinary people, so this Lao Dengwen Drum came about like this.

After all, after a person dies, everything is settled, even the person who complained is dead, so naturally the case is also closed.

"Nonsense! How can she bear the [-] boards!" Emperor Pingkang ordered without thinking, "Come here, let the censor of Dengwengu stop the execution immediately!"

Although it is already a rule to beat [-] big boards in front of the Dengwen Drum, the punishment is not applicable to scholar-bureaucrats, and those with official status can be exempted.

Human life is at stake, and Emperor Pingkang didn't care about other things, and quickly ordered Xia Dequan to deliver an order to stop the execution.

"Yes!" The situation was urgent, Xia Dequan didn't care about other things, and rushed to Dengwengu to deliver the decree.

Prince Yu heaved a sigh of relief, "Thank you, Brother Huang!" He kowtowed several times again, and said in a deep voice, "I beg Brother Huang to try this case himself, for Li'er, for those women who lost their families because of the Zhen family Seek justice."

He and Shi Ding had confirmed this point again and again, and it was really Lin Ruhai's request, so he had the courage to ask Emperor Pingkang to try the case himself.

You must know that although Deng Wengu is called the Holy Majesty's personal trial, in fact, the Holy Majesty handles a lot of things every day, so if he has this leisure time, he just appoints the third division to conduct a joint trial. Generally, the case falls into the hands of the third division. I will personally ask questions, and it is difficult to figure out the truth.

But this case is different!

Lin Ruhai said that the case of the adopted daughter of the Zhen family was far more involved than they had imagined, and countless families were involved.Just one Zhen Li came from the princess of the royal family, so how do you know that among the other adopted daughters of the Zhen family, there are no children of other official families?

Not every parent can be like Prince Yu and his wife. No matter what happens to their daughter, they can bring their daughter back regardless of past suspicions. Many people will do more cruel things than the Zhen family for the sake of reputation.

Furthermore, if it was someone else, they might let go of the Zhen family because of the honor of the sage and the status of the Zhen family, but the sage would not. Although the sage cherishes and respects the elderly, it is better to save face.For the sake of face, it is absolutely impossible for the Holy One to let himself lose the reputation of loving the country more than the beauties, and disregarding justice for personal affection.

Therefore, once this matter is brought to light, the Holy Majesty will not only judge the case according to the law, but will even give a heavy sentence!

Just because of this, they insisted on spreading the matter, not to mention pushing Emperor Pingkang to the position of presiding judge.

Emperor Pingkang was stunned, his eyes narrowed slightly, "You want me to preside over this case!"

"Yes!" Prince Yu said tragically: "Only His Majesty dares to try this case!"

He kowtowed again, "I beseech His Majesty to judge this case personally, and seek justice for my little girl, for those women who have lost their families, and for countless parents who have lost their children!"

As soon as Prince Yu said this, many courtiers also knelt down and begged Emperor Pingkang to avenge the girls. Even the new crown prince, who used to install wood in the court hall, knelt down and begged Emperor Pingkang to give these girls justice.

Everyone knew that the new crown prince was a respondent in front of Emperor Pingkang. As soon as the new crown prince knelt down, he wondered if the Holy Majesty deliberately used Prince Yu's daughter as a raft to deal with the Zhen family.

The holy will was what everyone wanted, and what the Zhen family had done was really bad, and suddenly a bunch of people knelt down on the ground.

Emperor Pingkang narrowed his eyes slightly, and gave Prince Yu a hard look. At this moment, it would be strange if he didn't know that Prince Yu did it on purpose. He never thought that Prince Yu would be willing to sacrifice his own daughter.

Although it is annoyed, but the case is serious, thinking of hundreds of young girls, and Tu Li...

Emperor Pingkang sighed helplessly, "Come here! Put on the Dengwen drum!"

As soon as he arrived at Dengwen Drum, Emperor Pingkang's face suddenly changed. He saw girls kneeling on the floor in front of Dengwen Drum, and many girls with blood on their bodies, laying on the ground crying for pain, and even... Emperor Pingkang also I saw two bloody girls who were beaten with sticks on their backs, like blood men.

Seeing the two blood-like girls, Prince Yu's face changed drastically. He didn't care about the difference between men and women, and hurried forward to investigate, "Li'er! Is it Li'er!"

Even if he was his own father, he still couldn't tell if it was his daughter from the blood-stained back.

Fortunately, those two girls are not Tuli. Those two girls are not very old, and they look younger than Tuli. Most of the adopted daughters of the Zhen family are born very well. 14. At the age of [-], but with a beautiful appearance, it can be seen that she must be a beauty embryo when she grows up.

Unfortunately, these two children did not have time to grow up.

With a pale face, Xia Dequan repeatedly asked the imperial physician to treat the two children, but the imperial physician shook his head helplessly.

It's too late, but they are only two children, so they can bear such a heavy rod!

One child died, while the other only had time to say the last words of his life, "I want to go home..."

She wants to go home, but she can never go back!

Two fresh lives passed away in front of my eyes, and many of them were injured in front of my eyes, weeping in pain, or moaning in pain, or even unable to move. Among nearly a hundred girls, only half of them were Intact.

Seeing the situation in front of him, Emperor Pingkang couldn't help being angry, "Didn't you ask Yushi to stop the execution?"

Xia Dequan said with a bitter face: "The little one has arrived as soon as possible, but..."

He also looked at the two young girls who couldn't make it through the twenties with some pity, and said in a low voice: "When the old slave came, many girls had already been tortured."

He was also afraid that the yamen servants would beat and kill these children severely, so he rushed over in person, but he never expected... It was still a step too late.

Prince Yu managed to find his daughter among hundreds of girls. Tu Li was not injured, but her face was pale from fright, and she seemed to be stupid. Prince Yu was so anxious that he hurriedly pulled the imperial physician over Show Tuli.

Damn Shi Ding, he also said that Li'er would never be hurt, just a little bit, maybe Li'er would die in front of Dengwen's drum like those two children.

"Li'er!" Prince Yu called out, "Prince doctor! Why don't you come over and show the little princess."

The old imperial doctor Wei Dian hurriedly took Tu Li's pulse, but just as his hand touched Tu Li's wrist, Tu Li trembled all over, and said anxiously: "Leave me alone, go see someone else first."

"Li'er!" Prince Yu frowned disapprovingly.

"Father, I'm not hurt, I'm really fine, everyone is protecting my daughter, those people didn't hit her, but the other sisters..." Tu Li bit her lower lip, she didn't dare to say any more, her whole body was weak Trembling slightly, at this moment, she just woke up, those people just now...

I really want to kill them!

Tu Li's face was still pale and bloodless, she whispered: "We are still too simple..."

At first, she thought it was really the rule of Lao Dengwen Drum, that [-] boards should be played first, until she saw the two younger sisters died, she didn't know that those people wanted their lives!

They are still too simple... They thought that there were so many people, and the Zhen family would not dare to mess around. They never expected that when a person jumped the wall in a hurry, he would dare to do anything.

Emperor Pingkang closed his eyes in pain, the hundreds of young girls, when the guards came to report, they were just a light sentence, but now seeing with his own eyes, he realized how many of these hundreds of young girls are.

Seeing the two breathless young girls again, thinking about the girl's dying words, Emperor Pingkang's heart sank, "Come here, open the hall!"

He paused and added, "I will interrogate myself!"

Nearly a hundred girls begged in blood, coupled with the countless broken families behind them, and those two children who were too late to grow up, no matter who they were, they could no longer take it lightly.

Emperor Pingkang closed his eyes in pain, "This case... I accept it!"

Although Mrs. Fengsheng and him have the gift of nurturing, they can't compare with this world after all.

The censors and yamen servants who had been guarding the Dengwen drum were ordered to be dragged down to await trial.

Although it is said that after Lao Dengwen drums, he had to beat [-] boards hard to show that the law is strict and no one can abuse it, but how to beat the boards and how to beat them is also learned.

A mere [-] boards can beat a person to death, or to a half-mutilation, or just a flesh wound.

Beyond the law, it is nothing more than human feelings. Hundreds of girls complained about their grievances, and there must be grievances. Well done by the Zhen family.

Even if they didn't make much publicity about the recovery of Tu Li, the Zhen family had noticed something, and when hundreds of girls acted, they inevitably showed some traces.

The Zhen family secretly bribed the censors and yamen servants in Dengwen's drum early on, and asked them to do some tricks to 'beat' back those girls who complained. As long as these girls are beaten away, the Zhen family will end by itself.

Although the Zhen family is the king of the south of the Yangtze River, they still have some prestige in the capital, and they are the favorite ministers of the emperor, so the government servants dare not obey.

It is also because of the guarantee of the Zhen family that the servants dared to kill the killer. Originally, they wanted to fight hard for a while, and suppress these complainants, so that they would retreat in spite of the difficulty, so they knew that these girls were very frightened. , but still refused to leave, and would rather suffer a punishment than sue the Zhen family, they had no choice but to kill these girls.

It's just that they didn't say anything, they didn't expect that just after they killed the two, they were alarmed that the Holy Spirit ordered a suspension of the sentence, and they didn't expect that the Holy Spirit would actually interrogate them because of the girl's death.

As for Chen Yushi, who guarded Deng Wengu, he also took advantage of the Zhen family, so he turned a blind eye, and let the yamen servants mess around.Anyway, this is also the rule of Lao Dengwen Drum. It is their fate that these girls can't survive the torture, and they can't blame others.

Emperor Pingkang's face was livid with anger, he never expected that the Zhen family's hand would be so long that even Deng Wengu dared to reach out.

Although he dotes on the Zhen family, he does so with discretion. The Zhen family's move has really stepped on his bottom line.

Dengwengu is still a place where ordinary people cry for grievances. If there is injustice even in Dengwengu, then there is still justice in the world!

Emperor Pingkang's face darkened, and he ordered: "Come here! Remove Zhen Yingjia's position and detain him in Beijing pending trial. Chen Yushi and Yamen servants will be dismissed for investigation!"

Although it is hateful, the Zhen family's move also proves that these girls really have strange grievances!

During the interrogation by the Holy Majesty, Zhen Li presented the case on behalf of the girls.

Although she is the third master Zhen's overt and secret roommate, but also because of this, she knows the inside story of the Zhen family's abduction and trafficking of children. After all, when a man is in bed, he can say anything.

Zhen Li articulated clearly, and she spoke carefully. When it comes to difficulties, even a big man like Xia Dequan, who is used to being troubled by his thoughts, will turn red-eyed, let alone the girls who have experienced it personally. There was sobs all over the room, and several times Zhen Li couldn't even cry, she was so choked up that she couldn't speak.

Most of these girls were abducted and trafficked by the Zhen family from various places. The Zhen family raised them, but they had no good intentions. The good ones were used as adopted daughters and given to officials in various places to gain connections; What's more, many girls were sold to the brothel book apartment, and some disappeared without a trace.

What I saw in front of me was only nearly a hundred adopted daughters, but in fact, the number of children abducted and sold by the Zhen family was no less than five times that.

Even Tu Li remembered that among the seven or eight girls who trained with her back then, only she and Zhen Li made it to the end, and the other girls all died.

Hearing this, Emperor Pingkang was shocked, "Dead!? How did he die?"

There are two out of eight, if you zoom in, there are hundreds of girls in front of you, there are probably nearly [-] girls who died behind you, a total of [-] lives, this is not a small number, not to mention that these are still in Zhen's house Adopted daughters, and think of the adopted daughters who have been given away or sold...

Emperor Pingkang was trembling with anger, he never expected that the Zhen family could do such a big thing!How dare they take so many lives!

Tu Li thought for a while, "A few of my episodes died of illness, some died of starvation, or were sold off, and some were played to death by others." She bit her lower lip. , replied embarrassingly: "Some men just like girls who haven't grown up."

Although Tu Li didn't say the whole thing, but everyone is men, so they don't understand what she means, Prince Yu's face changed drastically, and regardless of whether he was in the courtroom, he asked nervously: "Li'er, didn't you meet?" That kind of person?"

Tu Li shook her head, "When I was in Zhen's house, the Zhen family always took special care of me. Apart from the routine training, I didn't suffer any crimes, and I seldom even went hungry."

Speaking of this, Tu Li showed a slight look of doubt on her face. Speaking of which, she is definitely the best treated among the adopted daughters of the Zhen family. I thought it was because of her good temper that she offended her. The nuns prefer, now that I think about it...

I'm afraid that the nuns know something, so no one has ever ruined her.

Emperor Pingkang snorted coldly, "What a Zhen family!"

Tu Lidu found out one or two things, would he not be able to see it?I thought it was just a coincidence that the Zhen family bought Tu Li, but now it seems that the Zhen family already knew Li'er's identity, and if the princess did not report it, what was the Zhen family thinking! ?

Zhen Li knew a little about this. The Zhen family abducted and sold most of the children from rich families. On the one hand, it was because most of the children from rich families had good births.

After all, most people at the time valued reputation. If people knew that their children had fallen into prostitution, the family's reputation would be lost. For the sake of reputation, they had to take a step back from the Zhen family.

It is also because of this that the Zhen family has control of the Jiangnan area. According to what Sanye Zhen said, they can know what they want the Holy One to know, and if they don't want the Holy One to know, the Holy Majesty will never know. They were sealed off, and this Jiangnan was the world of the Zhen family.

They also had nowhere to ask for help in the south of the Yangtze River, so they went to Dengwengu, Beijing.

Upon hearing this, Emperor Pingkang's face sank, "What do you mean by closing my eyes and ears?"

How bold!How can the emperor's eyes and ears be closed so easily, even if these children have enmity with the Zhen family, they shouldn't talk about the big court affairs.

Zhen Li said softly: "This servant also learned a thing or two from Third Master Zhen that the Zhen family...seems to have controlled some secrets!"

Emperor Pingkang's expression turned pale, and there was a hint of murderous look in his eyes.

The corner of Prince Yu's mouth slightly raised, he knew that this time the Zhen family was completely ruined!

Imperial power is inviolable, but this time the Zhen family stepped on the line.