Marriage of the Di Daughter

Jiang Li walked out of the pub.

Ye Mingyu squatted in the street for a long time. Seeing Jiang Li coming, he spit out the grass roots he was chewing in his mouth and asked, "how's it going? Finished?" He didn't ask Jiang Li who she saw or what she did. If it was Ye Jiaer, he would ask, but if it was Jiang Li, sometimes he felt that Jiang Li, as a younger generation, had more ideas than his peers, so there was no need to worry. More importantly, ye Mingyu thought that even if he asked Jiang Li, Jiang Li would not say.

Why waste Kung Fu? Then don't ask.

Jiang Li nodded, "finished, uncle, let's go back."

Jiang Li didn't take Jiang Li too seriously about meeting Ji Chen or even talking to Ji Chen. Although it is said that Ji Heng is a moody person, Jiang Li thought that it was just his performance. He acts with his own ideas. And several exchanges, coupled with her serious thinking, Ji Heng will break her plan, it is really very small. Even if he really missed Ji Heng's business, it was a trivial matter for Ji Heng. He didn't have to do it himself. The reason why he came to Tongxiang from Xiangyang was that he acted so strangely that he wanted to be a theatre goer.

Just go to the theatre. She has never been afraid to become an actor, but she has to control the ups and downs of this play.

Ji Heng is not important. The important thing is that his father will be sentenced in seven days. She couldn't find evidence to overturn her father's case, so she had to prepare for the worst and rob the court. However, whether the robbery can be successful or not, even if it is successful, whether it will involve a wide range in the future, also needs to be seriously considered. So the most comprehensive way is to start with the evidence.

Ye Mingyu readily agreed when Jiang Li said to go back. Their temporary home stay is also in Qingshi lane, not far from the closed Xue family. People who want to come to Feng Yutang will pay attention to their place of residence. Choosing Qingshi lane is really eye-catching. But Jiang Li wants to make a big splash, that is, to let Feng Yutang know that she has come to settle accounts after autumn.

When she returned to the B & B, ye Mingyu asked someone to get something to eat. By the way, she asked the guards about the terrain in this area. Jiang Li stayed in the room by herself. Ye Mingyu gave Jiang Li the files of the Xue family. He didn't dare to disturb her, but let tong'er and Bai Xue wait at the door. If Jiang Li wanted to drink tea and eat something, he could also help.

Jiang Li is looking at the file carefully.

If she can, she has to find out the doubtful points and loopholes in the Xue family case in the file, seize this doubtful point and loophole and pursue it step by step. Even if you can't, you can deliberately enlarge this to confuse the public and buy time for Xue Huaiyuan.

The dossier should be made by Feng Yutang. Maybe it's because Princess Yongning explained. Feng Yutang's Xue family dossier also conceals that it is flawless. It describes Xue Huaiyuan as a corrupt official who does all kinds of evil, which is countless. Jiang Li looked at it and gradually wanted to sneer.

Xue Huaiyuan hasn't done any of the above things. Instead, it's Feng Yutang, the current Cheng of Tongxiang county. Every pile is the same. It happened that Xue Huaiyuan also pleaded guilty. Jiang Li could think of what they had done to make Xue Huaiyuan admit his crime. Maybe it was for this reason that Xue Huaiyuan would be tortured and lose his sanity.

This file, in a way, is really flawless. Feng Yutang should have spent a lot of effort here to arrange these crimes on Xue Huaiyuan. But because of who Xue Huaiyuan is, Tongxiang people all know that these things are particularly ridiculous.

Jiang Li finished reading at a glance.

Some small loopholes can be found in the file. For example, the disaster relief silver embezzled by Xue Huaiyuan was dug up in the backyard of the Xue family. But the disaster relief silver of that year was clearly distributed to every people. The new "silver" was probably added by Yongning himself.

Feng Yutang can add unnecessary crimes to Xue Huaiyuan, but he can't erase Xue Huaiyuan's kindness and political achievements. On this point alone, Jiang Li can seize a chance for Xue Huaiyuan.

"Not enough." Jiang Li murmured, this is far from enough. This opportunity added to Xue Huaiyuan is really not worth mentioning. Once Yongning and his colleagues find that they use Feng Yutang's current identity to cheat and embellish, this evidence will become useless evidence.

Feng Yutang must be allowed to play no role. Even if he is the county magistrate of Tongxiang, he can no longer intervene in the Xue family case. How to do this... Jiang Li thought hard.

Tong'er came to pour tea for Jiang Li with light hands and feet. Jiang Li was thinking about it. She didn't see the tea poured by tong'er at hand. She stretched out her hand and pressed it down. The tea cup "banged" fell to the ground, and all the hot tea poured on Jiang Li's arm.

"My God!" Tong'er exclaimed, hurriedly took the veil to wipe Jiang Li, and said, "girl, is the girl okay? Snow white, bring a scald plaster!"

Bai Xue hurried away. When ye Mingyu heard the news, he hurried over to have a look, and said, "what's going on? What happened?"

Tong'er's tears of self reproach were about to fall out, and he said, "it's the maid's fault. The maid poured tea and let the tea scald the girl. Don't leave traces. What can I do?"

"Ah Li, are you all right? Does it hurt?" Ye Mingyu turned to look at Jiang Li, but saw Jiang Li sitting in a daze, looking at the broken teacup on the ground.

Ye Mingyu thought Jiang Li was stupid because of pain, so he hurried forward a few steps, stretched out his five fingers and shook in front of Jiang Li: "a li? A li?"

Jiang Li stared at him, as if he had just reacted, but immediately stood up and said excitedly, "I know, I know!"

"Know what?" Ye Mingyu was confused, and tong'er was also confused.

"According to the law of Beiyan, the witness and material evidence are conclusive. If you sue the local official, you can sue with the superior government. But the superior government is Tong Zhiyang, and may not be willing to help. I can only calculate that the situation in Yanjing city is complex. Take the case to Yanjing city and hand it over to the Dali temple for further investigation, but what I want to try is not the Xue family's case, but Feng Yutang. As long as Feng Yutang himself is in this case, he can no longer intervene in it. Through the evidence in Feng Yutang's hands, You can't count! "

This is to avoid suspicion. Feng Yutang can naturally "fabricate" evidence without scruple. Jiang Li can also do it by himself. Anyway, when he comes to Dali temple, Feng Yutang can't do all the evidence. On the contrary, she has nothing to do with the Xue family, but she is a real outsider.

Ye Mingyu was not a member of the officialdom, and he didn't know much about the official system of Beiyan. He just said, "but why did Dali Temple accept the case of Tongxiang?"

A case in Tongxiang, as for it?

"So make a big deal." Jiang Li Dao.

Tong'er's action of overturning the tea cup reminded her that it was not enough to make everyone pay attention to this cup of hot tea just to make water splashes in Tongxiang. It has to be bigger, bigger, bigger. It would be better if it involved a noble man in Yanjing city. In this way, all eyes are gathered. The Xue family case is no longer a simple case of corrupt officials. It may be a frame up, may be involved in the old case, or even a conspiracy.

She is not afraid at all. She will make the case bigger and bigger. If Dali Temple dare not answer it, she will sue the imperial court. No matter how much emperor Hong Xiaodi did with King Cheng and Princess peace, but honest officials were framed, people all over the world would doubt whether the son of heaven was destined to return. Even for the sake of stabilizing the people's hearts, Emperor Hong Xiaodi would not let nature take its course. Moreover, King Cheng and Emperor Hong Xiaodi are natural enemies.

Emperor Hong Xiaodi will not miss any opportunity that may make king Cheng suffer losses.

Ye Mingyu thought for a while, but still didn't understand, so he asked, "how are you going to make it big?" In fact, for ye Mingyu, the Xue family has nothing to do with him. But because Jiang Li is so obsessed with it, and ye Mingyu also thinks Feng Yutang is too disgusting, if Xue Huaiyuan is really wronged, it's really pathetic. It is the nature of their Jianghu people to hate evil and uphold justice. In that case, what if they help each other once they see injustice?

"It's not enough to inquire about the evidence on the file. The weight is not heavy enough, and it doesn't make sense to get it to Dali temple." Jiang Li said, "I still need a witness."

"Witness?" Ye Mingyu asked: "Do you mean that the people of Tongxiang stood up for the rehabilitation of their original county magistrate? How is this possible? You didn't see that these people saw the officers and soldiers as if they were mice and cats, and they couldn't avoid it. It's all 'the way to the eyes', and they didn't even dare to say the truth. How dare they stand up? And do you know that today, the guards heard that someone had spoken for Xue Huaiyuan before, and the government asked someone to arrest this man's son and take his parents If children threaten, even those who really have a righteous heart dare not tell the truth, and the disaster is less than that of their wife and children! "

Jiang Li said, "that's because Feng Yutang went too far, and Feng Yutang gave people the feeling that he could sit down in the position of county magistrate for a long time. The people dared to be angry. Once the people thought that Feng Yutang might fall, they would have the courage to correct Feng Yutang's crime."

"So? Is the people you are looking for a witness?" Ye Mingyu asked.

"No." Jiang Li shook her head: "what the people can say is Feng Yutang's evil deeds and Xue Xiancheng's Tomb Sweeping Day. These words can only be used as the last straw to crush the camel. They do not appear now. At another time, the effect will be much better."

Ye Mingyu was even more puzzled: "ah Li, who is the witness you are looking for."

"It's an official." Jiang Li's eyes are deep, "It's Xue Huaiyuan's former subordinates. Now all the officers in the county yamen have been replaced by Feng Yutang. Those officers are all resolute people. Feng Yutang replaced them with his own people. The original people don't know whether they are dead or alive. To live is to see people, to die is to see corpses. If they are still alive, they are evidence. If they are dead, those corpses are also evidence. All the officers in the county yamen have died violently, which is also a miracle of Beiyan, right?"

Ye Mingyu was stunned.

Jiang Li's eyes were calm, but when she said these words, a chill flew out of her eyes. But when you think about the scene in Jiang Li's words, ye Mingyu can't help but feel numb in his back. There are very few people who destroy people in the Jianghu, and they are all deep hatred. Of course, there is also a saying that once the son of heaven and a courtier, but Feng Yutang is only a small county magistrate. Does it take so many lives for a county magistrate to replace him?

"Ah Li, how do you know that these officers are replaced by Feng Yutang? You haven't seen them." Ye Mingyu suddenly remembered something, said.

Jiang Li smiled: "you can see at a glance how serious officials can be that kind of virtue. They don't even know the basic official etiquette in their words and deeds. They don't know where Feng Yutang found such a mob. Maybe they used to be local ruffians and hooligans. How could they have such subordinates when Xue Xiancheng was in the past, unless he wanted to destroy his reputation."

Seeing that she was reasonable, ye Mingyu nodded and said, "it's true. I don't think those officials are serious people."

"Ah Li, do you want our guards to look for people in Tongxiang everywhere?"

"That's not true. Although Tongxiang is small, the terrain is complex. I'd better find a map. But the problem is that once Feng Yutang finds out that we are looking for these officers, he is likely to hide them."

"Then rob someone!" Ye Mingyu didn't want to go.

"To rob people, but not now." Jiang Li thought for a moment and said, "uncle, there is a mute woman pouring Yexiang in the county yamen. Can you let your people find a way to pick up the mute woman and meet me, but don't disturb anyone and can't be found by Feng Yutang's people."

"Alone?" Ye Mingyu patted his chest, "no problem, I'm comfortable with the abduction." Seeing tong'er and Bai Xue staring at him, he scratched his head. "Last time, I kidnapped Tong Zhiyang's outer room and son personally? Until now, Tong Zhiyang hasn't found that it was me." What he said was a little proud.

"It's not abduction. The dumb woman is likely to know the whereabouts of the officers." Jiang Li said, "so be careful."

Ye Mingyu stood up and said, "don't worry, uncle, which time did you fail?" He took a few steps, suddenly turned around and asked, "but this dumb woman is called a dumb woman, isn't she dumb? If she's dumb, how do you ask? Can she read?"

"She's not dumb." Jiang Li said behind him, "she can talk."

……

Ye Mingyu left.

After ye Mingyu left, Jiang Li asked someone to send paper, pen and ink in and began to draw a map for ye Mingyu carefully. No one knows Tongxiang better than her. She knows every place in Tongxiang. If there is anything you don't know, it is the county yamen that is now completely new. Feng Yutang turned the county yamen into his county yamen. Jiang Li didn't know how much it had changed.

But she knows Tongxiang as well as other places. Ye Mingyu wants to act in Tongxiang. With this map, no one can do more detailed than her.

After finishing the map, she began to look at the file again, recording the loopholes in the file to see if she could use this to uncover some more evidence in the future.

Unconsciously, time passed quickly. Bai Xue and tong'er called Jiang Li to eat, and Jiang Li didn't care. It was getting dark, and the oil lamp was lit in the room. Jiang Li was surprised that it was night. She looked out the window, frowned and asked, "Uncle hasn't come back yet?"

Bai Xue shook her head.

"Why have you been there for so long..." Jiang Li murmured, and as he was saying, a Shun next to Ye Mingyu came to report: "Miss Biao, the third master is back, and the dumb woman has also brought it back. Do you want to see him now?"

Jiang Li was overjoyed and said, "come on."

When I went to the room and saw the dumb woman, the dumb woman was wolfing down a meal, as if she hadn't eaten anything good for a long time. Ye Mingyu sat on one side, cocked his legs and chewed a steamed bun. When he saw Jiang Li coming, he said like a tribute: "ah Li, how about I brought someone, and I didn't find anyone." He added, "bah, Feng Yutang is really unlucky. I'm looking for someone to follow me. If I hadn't let someone disguise myself to distract him, I don't know when I would get rid of this trouble. The place where the dumb woman lives is not monitored, but in case, I'd wait until dark to bring her."

Jiang Li looks at the dumb woman.

The gray haired old lady swallowed her last mouthful of porridge and looked at Jiang Li.

Dumb woman's face because of the old ravines, eyelids down, hunchbacked, thin, is a frail old lady. Probably because I did the work of pouring Yexiang, I smelled bad all over. Everyone else should avoid it.

Jiang Li did not show disgust, but said calmly, "dumb woman."

The dumb woman looked at Jiang Li for a while and suddenly said, "who are you?"

Ye Mingyu was startled. Along the way, the old lady didn't say a word since he took the old lady away. Even when she was taken away, her surprise was only a moment. It is said that people are so calm when they get old. Ye Mingyu thinks that the old lady is slow. At first, Jiang Li said that the dumb woman could talk, but ye Mingyu thought it was a joke. Who knew that the dumb woman really spoke now. Although her voice was hoarse, it was still clear. He murmured, "it's true that she can talk."

"My name is Jiang Li." Jiang Li looked at her and said with a smile, "dumb woman, I came to you to inquire where Xue Xiancheng's former subordinates are now."

The dumb woman said, "I don't know."

Jiang Li smiled, "why don't you know? Feng Yutang replaced all the people who used to be Xue Huaiyuan, but didn't replace you. I probably think you won't be bad, but I know, you know, right?"

The dumb woman said, "I know, but I can't say it. If I say it, I'll die."

"Don't you want to avenge Xue Xiancheng?" Jiang Li smiled, "Xue Xiancheng is a good man." There was another word she didn't say. Xue Huaiyuan once helped the dumb woman.

The mute woman was originally a widow. Her husband died at a young age. She had no children and did not remarry. Because of his ugly appearance and being alone, he is often bullied by others. When Xue Huaiyuan took them to office, the dumb woman was already an ugly and bullied old woman.

She often went to pick up what others left to eat, and was unwilling to be a beggar begging on the street. She often ate a meal. Xue Huaiyuan saw that she was really poor when she was old, so he asked her to pour incense in the county government. She could get it in January. Months ago, it was no problem to have enough to eat and wear warm clothes.

Had it not been for Xue Huaiyuan, the dumb woman would have frozen to death on a winter day. The dumb woman's dumb, it is because she has been bullied by others all year round, and gradually unwilling to speak, others think she can't speak. But Jiang Li knew that the dumb woman could talk, because once when Xue Zhao picked wild fruits for the dumb woman, she heard the dumb woman say "thank you" to Xue Zhao.

Feng Yutang replaced all the people in the county yamen, but he didn't replace the dumb woman, probably because he thought that the dumb woman was just a pour Yexiang, which was useless. In addition, the dumb woman was still a mute, even if he really saw it, heard it, and couldn't say it.

But the moment Jiang Li saw the dumb woman in the county yamen today, she knew that her chance had come.

The dumb woman looked at Jiang Li stupidly, which made her look like a fake accident. She said vaguely, "why do I believe you?"

"This is not to believe me." Jiang Li whispered, "this is believing in fairness and justice."

"Is it fair for Xue Xiancheng to go to prison? Is it just for people like Feng Yutang to sit on the magistrate? Besides, when Xue Xiancheng was there, dumb woman, you should have a better life than now, at least eat enough and wear warm, shouldn't you?" Jiang Li smiled and glanced at one side of the table. There, the food on the table had been swept away by the dumb woman, and the winter clothes on the dumb woman's body had broken many holes.

The dumb woman lowered her head.

The rich lady in front of her was right. In the past, when Xue Huaiyuan was there, she ate and dressed warmly. Xue Huaiyuan's son Xue Zhao and daughter Xue Fangfei often sent her things to help. Although she is still in the county yamen now, let alone a month ago, she usually eats leftovers from the officers.

Life was hard. Feng Yutang's days in office were like those when she was bullied when she was young. But in this world, why is it that good people don't live long and disasters last for thousands of years?

The dumb woman looked up at Jiang Li again. She asked, "why do you want to help the Xue family?"

"I have an old friend with the Xue family," Jiang Li said. "I was also entrusted to rehabilitate the Xue family. Please rest assured that I won't tell others. Feng Yutang can't find out about you after you told us these things. I can guarantee your safety."

The dumb woman laughed hoarsely. As soon as she smiled, the wrinkles on her face crowded into a ball, but it was more gloomy than just now, and she looked much kinder. She said, "what am I afraid of? I've lived long enough after I've lived so old. I stayed in the County Yamen to see how long Feng Yutang, the county magistrate, can do it. I hope to avenge the Xue family, but I can't do it. I wait and wait, and finally wait for you."

Ye Mingyu opened his mouth wide and suddenly said such a big paragraph from the mouth of this unspeakable old woman, which was really surprising. What she said, however, was touching.

Jiang Li looked at her quietly. For a long time, she reached out and held the hand of the dumb woman: "thank you."

The young and full hands and the old and dry hands are folded together, but it seems to reinvigorate the old man. The dumb woman's eyes became very bright. She spoke slowly, but she was very clear every word.

"Feng Yutang and others replaced everyone in the county yamen. Lord Xue was sent to prison, and his men refused to accept it and were locked up. A struggling little black was killed by them. Feng Yutang, the rest of them, was afraid of killing too many people and causing trouble, so he sent them to the mining tunnel in Dongshan to dig for people."

"Dongshan mine road?" Jiang Li was surprised, "isn't that an abandoned mine?"

The dumb woman glanced at her: "it's rare for you to know."

Ye Mingyu interrupted, "what is the mine? There are mines in Tongxiang?"

The dumb woman sighed: "Few people know about the mine. The younger generation, let alone outsiders, even the locals in Tongxiang, did not know that there was a mine in Tongxiang. Decades ago, someone dug gold in the east mountain of Tongxiang, and others said it was gold, so they reported it to the imperial court. The Imperial court sent people down to explore and let people mine in the tunnel, but after digging for a whole year, no gold was found except for a little on the surface. At that time, the officials in charge of mining were all arrested Deposed, this mine is also an abandoned mine. "

Jiang Li listened to what the dumb woman said, and her expression was not as surprised as ye Mingyu. Tongxiang young people, even some older people don't know about it, but she knows. Before taking office, Xue Huaiyuan had to understand the past of Tongxiang and had seen the Dongshan mine in person.

Jiang Li asked, "since it is an abandoned mine, why did Feng Yutang send them there?"

The dumb woman sneered, "because Feng Yutang wanted to torture these people. He sent those people to the mine and asked them to work in the tunnel from morning to night until they dug out gold. Everyone knows that Dongshan can't dig out gold. Those people can't dig gold for a lifetime, and they can't think of it for a lifetime."

"He is abusing his power. The mining of the mine has to be reported by the imperial court. He even mined gold privately. Even if it is an abandoned mine, it is enough to become his crime!" Jiang Li angrily said.

"Miss, you know, none of the people who work in the mine are comfortable. Besides, Feng Yutang intended to torture them and will only intensify it. I heard from Feng Yutang's men that those officers were stripped of their clothes and their limbs were shackled. They worked all day long, but they didn't do well. They were prone to punching and kicking, and death and injury were common. A good seven foot man was worse than a dog. If this goes on, I don't know how many can survive I don't know how many people are still alive. "

"This is too much!" After listening to the mute woman, ye Mingyu slapped the table, "it's crazy!"

Jiang Li pursed her lips and didn't speak, making the people who were originally officers become slaves. Driven by confession, Jiang Li imagined the miserable situation of those people. Such torture is not only physical torture, but also a great devastation to their self-esteem.

Feng Yutang is really lawless in Tongxiang.

"That's all I know." The dumb woman said, "Miss, if you want to find those missing officers, go to Dongshan to have a look. But don't let anyone find it. There are also Feng Yutang's men watching there... Do you know where Dongshan is?"

"I know." Jiang Li said, "I know how to find those people."

The dumb woman looked at her and slowly said, "Miss, I don't know what you are, but since you have begun to investigate the Xue family's case, I hope you will investigate to the end. As long as I can overturn the Xue family's case and let me see that God still has fairness and justice, it's not worth taking my life."

"Don't worry." Jiang Li looked at her and swore, "I swear, I will trace it to the end, and I will not give up halfway. No matter what trouble I encounter, I will never give up. If I break the oath, the sky will break."

The dumb woman was relieved.