Chapter 35 Another mastermind

"You little woman are very courageous. Why, the Xu family really has no one. Let you, a wife from the back house, show up. Xu Junze is really good at running the family!" Zhai Yao glanced sideways at Lin Shuran, even if her father

Even if he is Taifu, he is not afraid either.

Facing the arrogant Zhai Yao, Lin Shuran never showed any signs of retreating. Instead, she straightened her body even more, as if she was slightly more powerful than Zhai Yao.

"My husband is not as good at running the family as you, Lord Marquis. Who in the capital doesn't know that the Guangping Marquis Mansion has a far-reaching reputation for 'producing good wives and raising filial sons'!" As soon as Lin Shuran said this, everyone present who knew the inside story started to panic.

I was dumbfounded, General Xu’s wife was really brave enough to say this.

As we all know, Zhai Yao, the Marquis of Guangping, lost his wife early and left behind a son, who is now the eldest son Zhai Zilu. Later, Zhai Yao married a young and beautiful new wife. Who would have thought that this new wife would have an affair with the housekeeper of the mansion?

The affair between the two became public knowledge, and it was his biological son Zhai Zilu who broke the news.

Besides, this prince of the Marquis Mansion was not good at anything in the civil and military arts, but he was an expert in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. He was a well-known dandy, but he always pretended to be filial and well-behaved in front of his father. Zhai Yao doted on him very much.

"You - hum, you are so sharp-tongued!" As if someone had torn away his fig leaf, Zhai Yao was extremely angry and was about to have another attack. Governor Zhang Min quickly stepped forward to persuade him, "Master Hou, Master Hou, let's talk about the case first.

Bar!"

Zhai Yao sat down on the chair next to him angrily. Zhang Min also asked Lin Shuran to sit down opposite him. Then Luo Bao came up and whispered in his ear. Zhang Min nodded, and then the Yamen pulled him out.

A boy of about ten years old, with a sallow complexion and shivering from the cold, was asked to identify which of the people in the hall was the seventh young master of the Xu family.

The young man first shook his body in fear, then raised his eyes and saw a row of boys who looked almost exactly the same. His face was full of confusion and confusion. The yamen asked him to identify them, but he shook his head and could not recognize any of them.

"Tell me, who is that boy from the Xu family?" Zhai Yao yelled angrily. In fact, he didn't know who was Xu Minghao. Today he came here to shock the governor Zhang Min. It was confirmed that the person who stole things was the Xu family.

Then he made Xu Junze look bad, and also gave him a large sum of money to compensate him.

The boy was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, shook his head vigorously and said, "I - I forgot!"

"You are Welcome!"

"Bold and cunning people, you said in the hall that the person who asked you to go to the Treasure Pavilion to steal things was the seventh young master of the General's Mansion. Now you can't recognize him and say, why do you want to frame the court officials and their families?!" Zhang Min ruthlessly

The slap on the wall made all the little prisoners tremble with fright, and some of them even cried.

"This is the young master Zhai Zifei from the Guangping Marquis Mansion!" Xu Minghao also saw the portrait, and he immediately recognized this person, "I had a fight with him on the street, and it turned out that he framed me!"

When the portrait was shown to Guangping Houfu and Zhang Min in the hall, Guangping Hou Zhai Yao jumped up from his chair and looked at the portrait with wide eyes. Zhang Min was a little confused.

Marquis Guangping’s reaction may have been too great.

Zhang Min originally wanted to call a painter to come and ask the young man to reveal the appearance of the person in charge, but then Lin Shuran said that she could do it for him.

Then, the officials brought the remaining ones to the court one by one to identify the person, but they either recognized the wrong person, or they shook their heads vigorously and had no idea what to say.

Afterwards, Zhang Min asked people to prepare tables, chairs, pens, ink, paper and inkstones for Lin Shuran, and then warned the young prisoners to carefully recall the appearance of the criminal. Lin Shuran drew every stroke carefully, and soon a lifelike portrait was drawn.

alright.

"Back to the eldest master, the man said that he is the seventh young master of General Xu's mansion. He also said that his family had a grudge against Zhenbao Pavilion, so he asked us to steal things. You guys really don't know who he is!"

The older boy said with a cry.

"Master Zhang, although there is someone else behind this matter who has nothing to do with my Xu family, that person deliberately framed my family's seventh child. I also want to catch him early and find out the truth. My painting skills are really not bad, so let me

Let me do it!" Lin Shuran volunteered. Zhang Min looked at the Marquis of Guangping again and saw that he was feeling depressed alone, as if he was dissatisfied that the prisoners did not recognize the seventh young master of the Xu family.

"That's right, it's him, it's him!" Once Lin Shuran finished the painting, he showed the young prisoners a look, and they all exclaimed that it was this person.

"Do you remember what that person looked like?" Zhang Min continued to ask.

"Remember, remember!" The young man nodded quickly.

"Say it quickly, or else I will beat you hard and send you to the border area as a severe punishment!" Zhang Min's eyes were cold and stern, and his official authority was fully displayed.

Then, the Yamen officer brought in another boy who was older than the boy just now. He looked around at the boys standing side by side and shook his head blankly. There was no one he recognized among them.

"This -" Zhang Min hesitated. Seeing Lin Shuran's firm attitude, he did not dare to refuse anymore for fear of offending her. When the wind blows on his pillow, if he is "concerned" by General Xu, he, the governor, will

The position was not secure, so he humbly said, "Then there is Mrs. Rausch!"

How could Zhang Min dare to agree? Now that it was found out that the matter had nothing to do with the Xu family, he was worried that Xu Junze and Lin Shuran would blame the government for failing to do things well. At this time, how could he bother Lin Shuran, a "noble lady", to help with the portrait?

Will General Xu skin him alive?

The young man's answer gave Lin Shuran some confidence, and made Governor Zhang Min fall into deep thought. He looked at Zhai Yao, who was a little irritable, and then at Lin Shuran, who was calm, and asked the Yamen to fetch another one.

Zhang Min never expected that things would turn around like this. The person who instigated these thieves to steal things turned out to be the youngest son of Guangping Hou Zhai Yao.

"Master Hou, it seems that we have to invite the young master to ask questions!" Zhang Min turned to Guangping Hou Zhai Rao and said.

Unexpectedly, Zhai Yao became irritable when he heard this, and shouted angrily: "What are you asking? These are just a bunch of shady thieves. They just lost a gold hairpin. I don't want it anymore, so let's let this matter go!"

After saying that, Zhai Yao stood up and was about to leave. At this time, Lin Shuran said loudly: "That's not possible. Since you already know who the main culprit is, you Guangping Marquis Mansion can not pursue the case, but I, the General Mansion, will never give up and suffer injustice.

If you are aggrieved, where is the law of the country and where is the justice?"

Then, she glanced at Zhai Yao and Zhang Min again, then walked up to Xu Minghao, took his hand and stood in the middle of the court, and said in a clear and powerful voice: "I, the son of the Xu family, are clean and clean, and I can sit upright."

Straight, I dare to take responsibility. I was framed today. You Guangping Marquis Mansion and Jingcheng Mansion must give my old seventh an explanation. Otherwise, I will submit a complaint to the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple, and the Imperial Palace to ask for an explanation for my old seventh.

justice!"
Chapter completed!