Chapter 12(1/2)
The Wu'an Marquis Mansion has been filled with sorrow recently.
The eldest son Zheng Cheng is the real eldest son of the Marquis of Wu'an. Although he has not been granted a title for the court because of his bad reputation, this is actually a method of controlling the court. Although you may not be able to give you a title in the end, if you have such a thing, you can control the ministers and make Marquis of Wu'an be careful and dare not make mistakes.
Not only did the family of heroes, but the court also had this attitude towards the people of the old Zhu family. After the founding of the country, the surname Zhu had spread all over the country, so the royal family was not worth it. For the emperor and the court, they were all a group of borers who only waste the imperial food but did nothing. They could not be abolished due to the rules of the ancestors.
But that was the attitude of the court. For Zheng Ying, even if Zheng Cheng always gave him a headache, he was still his eldest son. No one could be happy after death. Zheng Cheng's biological mother, Mrs. Wu'an, even cried into tears, was overly sad and bedridden.
When Suizhou and Tang Fan arrived at the Wu'an Marquis Mansion, their eyes were pale. Although Zheng Cheng's body was still detained in the Beizhen Fushi, the people were dead. The mansion was covered with white cloth, and even the people were wearing mourning clothes.
Seeing them, Marquis of Wu'an, Zheng Ying, naturally had no good expression. However, due to the reputation of the Jinyiwei, he had to force himself to deal with it: "I wonder how many of you are here to give up, what's the point?"
Suizhou didn't greet him, and said directly: "Mr. Marquis, we want to see Hui Niang."
Wu Anhou was stunned and quickly realized: "She is related to the death of my son?"
Suizhou: "It is only necessary to handle the case, and this conclusion has not been drawn yet."
Wu'an Hou didn't say much nonsense, and immediately asked someone to bring Hui Niang over.
On the night of the incident, when Tang Fan followed Pan Bin to Wu'an Marquis' Mansion, he had already seen Zheng Cheng's wife and three concubines.
Zheng Sun is virtuous, but because of his average appearance, he is not liked by Zheng Cheng, and the couple rarely have sex.
The eldest concubine Wan Niang came in early, she was honest, but she was not as beautiful as she was. She rarely stepped into her yard before her death.
Yu Niang is a newly-acquisitioned concubine. She is beautiful and beautiful at the age of being charming. She is the most loved by Zheng Cheng in the mansion. However, the flowers in the family are not as fragrant as wild flowers. Zheng Cheng has to develop it from time to time. Although she is favored, she is not the only one.
Only Hui Niang was once more favored than Yu Niang. I heard that Zheng Cheng gave her a lot of jewelry for her to please her, but as the newcomer entered the door, Hui Niang's status gradually became unsafe. Tang Fan remembered the different reactions of the four women to Zheng Cheng's death that night. Hui Niang cried the loudest, which was the saddest at first glance, but now when I think about it carefully, it is because of the excessive reaction that it is a bit real.
Hui Niang was brought over soon.
As the saying goes, Hui Niang, who wants to be pretty, is filial and wears plain white filial piety clothes, is really charming, but unfortunately, neither Tang Fan nor Sui Zhou have the intention to appreciate it.
Suizhou directly asked Xue Ling to display the portrait: "Do you recognize this person?"
Hui Niang looked at it: "I recognize that he is the little woman's cousin."
Xue Ling: "Where are people?"
Hui Niang was filled with tears and looked sad: "Sir, my cousin was accidentally hit by a carriage when he went out three days ago. He was no longer able to do so at that time. Now he has been buried!"
Xue Ling sneered: "How could it be that coincidental? We came to find someone here, and something happened to happen to you?"
Hui Niang: "It's true that my distant cousin is a servant in the mansion and dare not disturb the marquis, but the housekeeper knows about this. If the lord doesn't believe it, he can confront him!"
Xue Ling: "It's okay, what we are looking for now is not your cousin, but you. The shopkeepers of Sanyuantang and Renxintang have already identified that your cousin once bought a large amount of Bupleurum in their pharmacy, right?"
Hui Niang: "The lord asked this question for no reason. My cousin went to buy medicine, so how could he inform me in advance? What did he do with me?"
Xue Ling: "Fuyangchun comes from the ancient prescription. Although it is not good for the body, it will not kill people in just a few months. It was you who instructed your cousin to add the medicine Bupleurum to the pills, which caused Zheng Cheng to die from a sudden illness, which is like a yang detoxification disease!"
Hui Niang: "The little woman is wronged..."
After she was still shouting for her injustice, she was interrupted by the screams beside her. It turned out that Mrs. Wu'an could not help but rush up and slapped Hui Niang hard!
"You bitch, you dare to argue. Your cousin and Cheng'er have no grudges and no grudges, and you have no chance to approach him at all. How could you go about murdering him? The evidence is conclusive. Who else would you be? I've long seen that you are uneasy in the room. I didn't expect you to dare to murder Cheng'er, a bitch!"
Wu'an Hou's wife Liu came from a scholarly family. When Tang Fan saw her last time, although she was heartbroken by her son's death, she at least maintained restraint and calmness. However, when she saw that the possible murderer was close, she naturally could no longer bear it.
Hui Niang yelled, covered her cheek and hid to the side: "Hello, Marquis, help, I'm wronged!"
Seeing that she dared to dodge, Liu became more angry and wanted to fight. The scene suddenly became chaotic.
Suizhou looked at the chaos and said coldly: "Does the Marquis want us to watch monkey drama?"
Although Hui Niang is the most suspicious, she is a female relative of the Marquis’s house after all, and the Marquis’s wife is there, so there is a difference between men and women, so the Jinyiwei is not easy to interfere.
Wu'an Hou took a deep breath and yelled: "You can't stop! Are you all dead? Help your wife aside and hold Hui Niang!"
When he said this, the maids and nannies rushed forward and finally pulled the two away.
Mrs. Wu'an Hou was gasping for breath. Although she was helped away, her eyes staring at Hui Niang were still full of resentment and resentment, which made Hui Niang shiver and even cried less.
Suizhou looked at Hui Niang crying and her pear blossoms were filled with rain, and there was no trace of emotion on her face: "Do you want to ask yourself, or do you want to go to the Beizhen Fushi?"
Before Hui Niang could react, Tang Fan said: "You are a woman from a deep house and cannot read. Not to mention whether you are proficient in medical principles, you can't get the courage to murder Zheng Cheng. Someone must be instigated by you behind your back. If you are willing to take action, you may be able to be punished by death. If you blindly conceal the people behind you, then he will be fine, but you will suffer. The Ming Dynasty law has already stated that the murderer will be killed. If you refuse to admit your guilt, you will inevitably go to the Beizhen Fushi. Water, fire, swords, guns, whip and chop your fingers. Everything will make you unable to survive or die. At that time, you want to die, but you are afraid that it will not be that cheap."
His words were light and without any breath of fireworks, but Hui Niang could hear her teeth trembling. No one had ever heard of the Jinyiwei's methods. Hui Niang seemed to be able to see her covered in blood in the imperial prison.
In fact, the Zhao Prison was not something she could enter if she wanted to. Those who could enter Zhao Prison were all criminals. If they died in it, they might even be able to keep their names forever. At best, the identity of Hui Niang was to go to the Shuntian Prefecture Prison. Zhao Prison was not interested in taking him in it.
Suizhou glanced at Tang Fan and refused to comment on the latter's use of imperial prison to scare Hui Niang.
Tang Fan: "Sui General Banner, I heard that there is a punishment in the North Town Fushi Division, called rain watering plum blossoms. It is to hold the prisoner's hands and feet, and then cover his face with thin paper dipped in water, layer by layer, layer by layer. The prisoner didn't feel anything at first, but he would slowly feel it was difficult to breathe. The paper that had been sucked in water tightly pressed on his face, covering his mouth and nose so that he could not breathe. The prisoner would slowly suffocate and die of death in this torment, right?"
Sui Zhou nodded slowly, "Yes, right."
Xue Ling, who was standing beside him, sucked:... When did our Beizhen Fushishi have such a sissy punishment? Isn't that the invention of the dead eunuchs in the East Factory?
Hui Niang empathized with it. As Tang Fan vividly described it, she felt that her face was covered with invisible wet paper layer by layer, and even her breathing became difficult. What rain watered the plum blossoms was clearly torture to death!
"I'll help! I'll help! People are not killed! It's Zheng Zhi! It's Zheng Zhi who asked me to do this!" She finally shouted in a collapse.
Wu'an Hou shouted: "Stop it! You bitch, you know what you are talking about!"
Hui Niang: "I don't! I don't! Zheng Cheng was not killed by me, and my cousin was not killed by me. They were all Zheng Zhi! He asked me to give the prescription to Zheng Cheng, and then asked my cousin to bribe the pharmacy shop staff and add Chaihu in it! By the way, there is also the pharmacy shop staff! That was also what Zheng Zhi asked to silence him. If it wasn't me, I didn't know anything!"
Wu'an Hou: "Shut up!"
Liu said coldly: "Shut up and let her continue talking!"
Wu'an Hou said angrily: "What else is there to say? This bitch is biting and tying randomly. Will she be willing to drag everyone in the mansion into the water?"
Liu sneered: "It's clear that you are afraid that she will call someone she shouldn't say, so you yell at the urge to shut up?"
Wu'an Hou was furious: "Have I ever had such a thought? Do you think it's not messy enough?"
Seeing the couple quarrel, Suizhou ignored it and said to Marquis Wu'an: "Please invite Mr. Zheng to come over."
Marquis Wu'an had to stop the argument with Liu. He glared at Hui Niang viciously, his lips opened and closed, and finally a few words burst out: "Isn't you going to bring Zheng Zhi here yet!"
The servant quickly took the order and left.
Zheng Zhi came over soon, and there was also a middle-aged beautiful woman who came with him.
Tang Fan had seen her. On the night of the incident, all the female relatives of the Marquis of Wu'an were there. He vaguely remembered that this woman was Wu'an's concubine.
Zheng Zhi bowed and said, "The child has met his father and mother, I wonder if these two are…?"
His eyes fell on Suizhou and Tang Fan. On the night of the incident, he did not appear at the scene, so naturally he did not recognize Tang Fan and the others.
Zheng Zhi's appearance is sixty or seventy percent similar to the middle-aged beauty beside him, adding a bit of femininity, but his words and deeds are gentle. From this point alone, Zheng Cheng can't compare with him.
The prince has not yet been enthroned and his status has not been determined, but his second son is better than the eldest son. Marquis Wu'an will definitely struggle.
This struggle will inevitably lead to a tilt in my heart, and it will be difficult to get a bowl of water.
Disputes arise from this.
Wu Anhou had a tense face: "These two are Lord Tang from Shuntian Prefecture and Lord Sui from Beizhenfusi. I'm asking you if your brother's death is related to you?"
Zheng Zhi was shocked: "My father said this to kill the child unjustly. How could the child fight against each other and plot against his elder brother?!"
Although he had done a lot of play, Tang Fan did not miss the look he had subconsciously looked at Hui Niang.
Suizhou: "Second Master Zheng, Hui Niang is now accusing you of instigating her to drug her to murder Zheng Cheng, and to silence her cousin, is there any such incident?"
Zheng Zhi said decisively: "This is absolutely true!"
Hui Niang cried bitterly: "You killer Qiandao, you obviously asked me to do it, but you said that when the dead ghost dies, you will want me to go there!"
Zheng Zhi said angrily: "You woman are crazy? You are my eldest brother's concubine. How could I have a connection with you!"
The middle-aged beautiful woman screamed: "I'll let you little bite by snatching and biting it!"
He rushed over and wanted to slap Hui Niang in the face.
Just now, Mrs. Wu'an Hou, Liu, did the same thing, and Xue Ling was not easy to interfere. At the moment, a concubine, Xue Ling stepped forward and pushed her away: "The Jinyiwei is here, how dare you be arrogant!"
The middle-aged beautiful woman was pushed to the ground, her face was pale and she wanted to get angry but didn't dare. She simply twisted her waist and rushed towards Wu'an Hou, hugged his thigh and cried, "Mr. Marquis, you have to make the decision for us mother and son!"
Wu'an Hou was one big and two big, and quickly grabbed her: "Get up, get up, what kind of decent thing!"
Having said that, the tone was much gentler than speaking to Liu just now.
Liu watched coldly and said nothing.
Faced with such a chaotic scene, Tang Fan and Sui Zhou were still able to look as usual.
Tang Fan said: "Hui Niang, do you identify Zheng Zhi, can you have evidence?"
Hui Niang was dumbfounded and speechless.
The middle-aged beautiful woman pointed at the mulberry and scolded her: "Okay, you can't tell me, right? Ah Zhi is obviously innocent, how could he murder his brother? Is it because someone was dissatisfied with Ah Zhi becoming the prince, so he instructed you to frame Ah Zhi and say!"
During this series of shouts and scolds, Hui Niang suddenly shouted: "I have evidence! I have evidence!"
She was really scared by Tang Fan’s description just now. She didn’t want to try it either, whether it was the imperial prison of the Beizhen Fushishi’s “rain watering plum blossoms”.
Suizhou: "Say."
Hui Niang gritted her teeth: "There is a red birthmark on Mr. Zheng's buttocks, as big as a half-sized palm, and it is in the shape of a plum blossom!"
As soon as this statement came out, the middle-aged beautiful woman's screams and scolding came to an abrupt end.
To be continued...