I want to be a faint king [Rebirth]

At this moment in the hall of the Ministry of Punishment, Yuan Yin lightly shook his folding fan, never taking his eyes off Zheng Rusong's body for a moment, seeing that Zheng Rusong was sitting on pins and needles, and his hand holding the gavel was sweating.

He has been an official for many years and has never seen such a person, but at this moment he feels uneasy because of the gaze of a young man. He is clearly smiling, but under that smile, he can see through everything.

Zheng Rusong thought that he was impeccable in everything he did, but now, he suddenly became a little scared.

The young man in front of him looked innocent and harmless, and he was better at doing both kindness and power than him. He always felt that this young man knew something, but he didn't mention a word so that he couldn't do anything. Instead, he fell into the trap. The more Zheng Rusong thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt.

He shouldn't have come to the capital.

After Zheng Rusong thought about it, Xiao Rong and the guards escorted Gu Nianxia to the court.

She was wearing shackles and handcuffs, and a prison uniform full of stains. Even her hair was a little messed up, and her expression was a little dazed. She was taken to court by the guards. Before Zheng Rusong could take a picture of the gavel, Gu Nianxia knelt down by herself In the courtroom, the voice is like a mosquito:

"Kowtow to see the adults."

"The person kneeling in the hall... is the murderer who killed Mr. Zhao's widow He Shi!" Zheng Rusong looked at the appearance of the woman in the hall, after all, a trace of reluctance flashed in his eyes, and even the tone of the question became a little weak .

Yuan Yin on the side smiled and said: "It turns out that Zheng Zhifu is also a person who cherishes beauty and beauty. Seeing this girl suffer in prison, he can't bear to be cruel."

Although Yuan Yin's tone was light, it sounded like a knife pierced into Zheng Rusong's heart fiercely.

"No, I'm not... I'm not a murderer, I didn't kill people." Gu Nianxia hurriedly waved her head to deny, but when she raised her head, she found out who was sitting in the courtroom, and her originally aggrieved gaze At this moment, he was even more surprised, looking at the people in the courtroom in disbelief.

"Why don't you come here from the truth!" Zheng Rusong slapped the gavel, finally resolute, and asked sharply.

"I want to take care of my sick wife because I am grateful for the imperial envoy's relief work in Chongzhou, not because I want to kill her." Gu Nianxia's words were a little excited, and she kept shaking her head with red eyes.

"Since you are not the murderer, why was someone looking for you last night, and the dagger found from him has the same totem as the dagger that killed He Shi? Let me ask you, did that person come to kill you last night, or to rob the prison?" Yes." Yuan Yin's voice was not loud, but it was enough to shock people's hearts. While speaking, he took out the dagger from his sleeve and put it on the table.

As soon as Yuan Yin's words came out, Zheng Rusong was in a cold sweat, and Gu Nianxia was stunned, he opened his mouth and didn't know what to do.

"You don't invite it from the truth, otherwise don't blame me for serving you with torture!" Zheng Rusong looked at Gu Nianxia's appearance, after all, couldn't take it anymore, slapped the gavel, pointed at her and shouted.

"I don't know... I don't know if he came to rob the prison or to kill me. I am innocent." Tears rolled down Gu Nianxia's eyes, but she still insisted that she was innocent and had nothing to do with this matter.

"Come here, use torture!" Zheng Rusong looked at Gu Nianxia's appearance, although he couldn't bear it, he finally grabbed the warrant and was about to throw him down, but Yuan Yin called him:

"Don't resort to torture and beating, Prefect Zheng, I still have something I want to ask this girl." After Yuan Yin finished speaking, he looked at Xiao Rong, and then said:

"Gu Nianxia, ​​you said at the town government that night that because the imperial envoys were distributing relief food in your village, the government killed your brother and the people in the village on the grounds of being infected with the plague. You are right."

"Yes, that's what I said, Mr. Xiao can testify." Gu Nianxia said with sobs.

Xiao Rong also saluted and said: "Both the subject and the subject's parents can testify."

"Okay, since that's the case, just now the prefect of Zheng also admitted that there was a plague in Chongzhou, so I want to ask the prefect of Zheng, have you asked a doctor to go to the village where the plague occurred? Or is it like this girl said, you He directly slaughtered the village, and he never went to investigate." Yuan Yin's tone turned sharply severe, and Zheng Rusong's face turned pale in shock, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the gavel in his hand fell on the table.

Gu Nianxia looked at the people in the hall, hesitated to speak several times, and finally nodded in silence and stopped speaking.

"Your...you are guilty." Zheng Rusong hurriedly got up and went down to kneel with Gu Nianxia to plead guilty to Yuan Yin.

Only then did Yuan Yin get up, walked to the desk and stood behind the table, looked down at the people kneeling in the hall, and then sat down, slapped the gavel, and reprimanded loudly: "Zheng Rusong, prefect of Chongzhou, you are guilty!"

"My...I am guilty." Zheng Rusong kowtowed, with a little remorse in his tone, but this was not what Yuan Yin wanted, what he wanted was not Zheng Rusong's remorse, what he wanted was the truth, for The truth about Zhao He's injustice.

"Convicted, since you are convicted, why don't you report the cause of the imperial envoy Zhao He's death to me!" Yuan Yin said angrily, and then slapped the gavel, and Zheng Rusong, who was shocked, lowered his body even lower.

"The imperial envoy... The imperial envoy was indeed infected with the plague and died." Zheng Rusong still refused to let go, and Yuan Yin sneered:

"It is indeed infected with the plague, so tell me that you have indeed sent a doctor to verify it? Are all the people in that village infected with the plague?"

Zheng Rusong leaned over and pondered for a long time before he said firmly: "Yes, I sent people to the village to check, and the whole village was infected with the plague, and there was no cure, so I ordered people to massacre the village. I am guilty, but I am sorry. But you can’t make fun of the lives of the people in a city, kill them, and the people in Chongzhou City can live.”

"Oh, is that so? You are still quibbling even now. The girl next to you escaped from that village. If she had been plagued by the plague, wouldn't she have died long ago? The way she came to the capital, Wouldn't everyone be infected? Zheng Rusong!" Yuan Yin's eyes widened, and he squeezed the gavel tightly in his hands, his eyes seemed to burst into flames:

"I'm here to ask you, that's how you treat other people's lives like nothing!"

Zheng Rusong fell silent, as if he was determined to die, so he didn't speak anymore.

Yuan Yin also saw his intentions, and then he turned his attention to Gu Nianxia, ​​and said, "Gu Nianxia, ​​you understand, your brother who desperately protected you from fleeing, and everyone in the village It was ordered to be killed by the prefect of Chongzhou next to you."

Gu Nianxia looked sideways at the man with gray temples kneeling beside him, there was no trace of hatred in her eyes, but more of resentment and regret, she looked at the young man sitting in the courtroom with tears in her eyes, and then Glancing at the prefect of Chongzhou next to him, his heart sank, and he immediately got up and ran towards the pillar of the court.

Fortunately, Xiao Rong had quick eyesight and quick hands, so he protected Gu Nianxia, ​​and the guards also came forward to arrest her, making her unable to move at all.

The sneer on Yuan Yin's face became more and more chilling. He looked straight at Gu Nianxia and said, "What? The enemy is right in front of you. If you can take revenge but commit suicide, I want to ask you why."

"There's no reason...it's a minnv...Since the minnv knew that the murderer wanted to punish her, she went with her brother." Gu Nianxia held back her crying and said every word sincerely.

"Really? Your brother tried his best to save you, but you want to die now?" Yuan Yin looked directly at her, seeing that Gu Nianxia immediately avoided his sight, Yuan Yin was not in a hurry, and said slowly: "Gu Nianxia, What is your relationship with the Marquis of Jin? Why did he send someone to save you or kill you?"

Upon hearing the title of Marquis of Jin, even Zheng Rusong's body trembled slightly, and Gu Nianxia was even more astonished.

Looking at the two quiet people in the hall, Xiao Rong said at this moment: "Your Majesty, this Marquis of Jin is related by marriage to Zheng Rusong, the prefect of Chongzhou."

"Oh? Is that so? Gu Nianxia, ​​you can hear clearly, the Marquis of Jin and the person next to you are related by marriage. The person who killed the He family used the totem of the Marquis of Jin's mansion. The person who went to the prison to find you last night You also used the totem of the Marquis Mansion of the State of Jin, and you keep saying that you didn’t kill the He family, then someone from the Marquis Mansion of the Jin State killed it. If that person didn’t come to rescue you last night, he would have killed you too. , Gu Nianxia, ​​you really don't want to take revenge, but want to seek death, is it just arousing suspicion?" Yuan Yin gently put the gavel away in his hand, and raised his eyes to stare at the kneeling people in the hall.

Gu Nianxia nodded and wept, trembling all over, Zheng Rusong lay on the ground and sobbed faintly, all of a sudden, in the criminal courtroom, only Gu Nianxia's sobbing could be heard.

"Gu Nianxia, ​​you keep saying that you are innocent, but the things you do don't seem to be innocent. Let me ask you again, is Gu Zhiqiu really your brother?" Yuan Yin stared at Gu Nianxia, ​​his tone softened. few.

Gu Nianxia shuddered, but she still refused to look up at Yuan Yin.

"Zheng Rusong, do you really think I'm easy to deceive?" Yuan Yin opened his mouth again, and threw the order of the Ministry of Criminal Justice's second autopsy in front of Zheng Rusong, saying: "Zhao He's bones are black, and after inspection, they were not caused by fire. Zhao He's remains were put into boiling water, and after cooking, the water was fed to the rats, and within a moment the rats died, and the water turned black when probed with a silver needle, so Zhao He died of poisoning, not a plague."

Yuan Yin recited the records on the autopsy sheet to Zheng Rusong word by word, until his spine felt numb, and finally raised himself up to look at Gu Nianxia beside him, with regret on his face:

"Nian Nian, father should never, never should have let you get involved in this case."

Hearing Zheng Rusong calling her aloud, Gu Nianxia finally couldn't bear it anymore, hugged Zheng Rusong, and cried bitterly.

And Yuan Yin, Xiao Rong and Song Xian in the hall were also frightened by Zheng Rusong's father, and looked straight at the father and daughter crying in the courtroom. Yuan Yin quickly took a picture of the gavel, and Zheng Rusong took Gu Nianxia let go, knelt down and said:

"Your Majesty, the imperial envoy Zhao He's death was caused by the minister alone. No matter what happened to Nian Nian, His Majesty wants to punish the minister and accept the crime. I just ask Your Majesty to be merciful and spare Nian Nian's life."