"Su Shangshu, who did it pass to?" Guo Xingwen asked.

The two officials on the side looked at Su Yunqi together.

"Go back to Shangshu Guo. We are already outside this door. Send word to Shen Meiniang and Xia Rong." Su Yunqi looked at Guo Xingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment, with a smile.

"pass!"

Then, the messenger walked in cautiously, and the woman was holding a child of several years old.

"Public woman Shen Meiniang pays homage to the officials!" Shen Meiniang, dressed in simple clothes, kowtowed.

"Are you Shen Meiniang?" Guo Xingwen asked.

Shen Meiniang nodded: "That's exactly what a civilian woman is."

"Then he is Xia Rong, right? Who is he to you?"

"Hui Guanren, he is the son of Xia Rong, a commoner woman." Shen Meiniang replied.

After understanding the situation, the Minister of Punishment looked at Su Yunqi: "Su Shangshu, you know a lot about this case. You can handle it as you please."

Prime Minister Zuo Huang Zhiyuan carefully turned his head and looked at the civilian woman beside him.

Unexpectedly, this person was the wife of the deceased Xia Jinhuai, a co-president of Kaihuai Mansion, and the person she was holding in her arms was his frail and sick son.

Su Yunqi responded with a smile and began to ask.

"Xia Jinhuai is your husband?" Su Yunqi asked.

"Hui Guan, that's right."

"Do you know why your husband coveted this disaster relief food to save your son?"

"Back to the official, this child has been weak and sick since he was a child. Now he is nine years old, but he can only call two words: father, mother. He can't shout other words. Also, my child will catch wind and cold every few days and have a high fever. Every time it goes down, I take antipyretics before it goes down.”

"I searched many famous doctors but could not find the cause. The doctor said that this disease is extremely rare, and it can be said to be the first case in the Mo Dynasty. Once the attack is severe, if you do not take antipyretic medicine in time, your life will be in danger. Then, my husband Greedy for this disaster relief food." As she spoke, Shen Meiniang's tears fell.

Su Yunqi glanced at Prime Minister Zuo, then looked at Shen Meiniang and asked, "Do you know, did your husband do this alone or was someone tempted to do it?"

"I am an official. I don't know the civilian woman. However, my husband has always been timid in doing things. The civilian woman dares to say: Someone must be bewitching my husband!"

"Okay!" Su Yunqi shouted and looked at Prime Minister Zuo: "Huang Zhiyuan, you might as well recruit him!"

Huang Zhiyuan was seen looking arrogant, ignoring Su Yunqi and saying nothing.

"Shen Meiniang, I want to ask you this. After your husband dies, who will take care of you mother and son?" Su Yunqi asked in interrogation.

"It's true that someone from the government has found a new place for us, mother and son, and stocked up on a lot of antipyretics. But who it is, I really don't know who it is," Shen Meiniang replied.

Seeing that the two prime ministers were still silent, it seemed that they had to find enough evidence to pry open his mouth. However, Su Yunqi had been collecting evidence after Xia Jinhuai was beheaded.

"Guo Shangshu, I wonder if you can tell me about Su's housekeeper Lu Huan?"

"pass!"

After speaking, he saw Lu Huan, the housekeeper of the Su Mansion, walking over, with someone tied up beside him.

"The common people pay their respects to all the officials!" the steward said with a salute.

Looking at the tied unfamiliar faces, Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, asked: "Please get up. Who is the tied person?"

"The officer is a servant of the Huang Mansion who was caught by the common people." Butler Lu Huan replied.

"Su Shangshu, please continue." Guo Xingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice, looked at Su Yunqi with a smile on his face.

"Lu Huan! Tell me where you caught this person?" Su Yunqi asked.

"Back to my lord, after Xia Jinhuai was beheaded, you had many suspicions about the case. So you sent your subordinates to pay attention to every official in the capital. One day, your subordinates heard a conversation between the two prime ministers. The left minister said that he was going to kill Xia Jinhuai. Once your wife and children are settled, this matter will be over."

"That night, the young men laid an ambush near the Huang Mansion and the Li Mansion, and saw the steward of the Huang Mansion hurriedly driving his horse out of the city. So, the young men secretly followed him all the way to Xingyang. In In the mountains, I saw the housekeeper of the Huang Mansion chatting with this wife."

"After seeing this, the boys wanted to arrest the housekeeper of the Huang Mansion. But he used too much force and failed to catch him. Instead, he caught the housekeeper's people." Lu Huan recounted the whole process while recalling.

"Shen Meiniang, take a good look, is this person's face familiar to you?" Su Yunqi said.

Shen Meiniang looked over, and after a moment, she said firmly: "Guan Guan, that's right!"

"Okay! Can you see clearly?"

"See clearly." Shen Meiniang said firmly again.

"Prime Minister Huang, you have the greatest credit for this matter, right? Take a closer look and see if he is yours?" Su Yunqi said proudly.

"Hmph! If you just find someone and want to frame the truth, who knows if you are colluding?" Huang Zhiyuan was very dissatisfied.

After hearing this, Su Yunqi looked at Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment: "It is said that Ding Jie, the steward of the Huang Mansion."

"pass!"

After waiting for a long time, Ding Jie, the housekeeper of the Huang Mansion, came over.

Ding Jie cautiously walked forward and glanced at his master Huang Zhiyuan in panic.

Huang Zhiyuan looked at Ding Jie with angry eyes and said nothing, but in his heart he really didn't want him to say anything.

When Guo Xingwen, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, saw this, he raised the gavel and patted it, which made the housekeeper Ding Jie tremble with fear.

"Why don't you kneel down when you see an official!" Guo Xingwen shouted.

After hearing this, Ding Jie hurriedly knelt down and said, "Common people pay their respects to all the officials!"

At this time, Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, wanted Su Yunqi to interrogate him. Unexpectedly, Su Yunqi smiled and said: "Since Guo Shangshu already knows the general situation, Guo Shangshu will continue the interrogation."

"Ding Jie, take a closer look. Do you recognize the people on the side?" Guo Xingwen asked interrogatively.

Just as the housekeeper Ding Jie turned around to look, he was so frightened that he trembled all over and quickly replied: "I don't know, I don't know."

"Why don't we actually recruit him! Come here and torture him!"

I saw Ding Jie being held up by the officer's fingers using this instrument of torture and pulled up.

Likewise, I don’t know whether it was because the torture device didn’t work, or because Ding Jie was so tolerant that he didn’t say anything.

"Exchange punishment! Get fifty big shots!"

As soon as Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, said this, the two officials on the side hurriedly tried to persuade him.

"These fifty big boards can kill people." Guo Kang, the censor of Zuodu, said.

"Is this... too much?" Xu Yongning, the minister of Dali Temple, asked.

After hearing this, Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, whispered in the ears of the two of them. Immediately, the two agreed without saying anything.

"Exchange punishment!"

Before the execution, Ding Jie was shaking even more violently.

After the execution, there were blood marks on Ding Jie's buttocks, which stained the cloth red. He was so painful that he clutched the wooden chair tightly with both hands.

When he hit twenty boards, blood flowed from the corner of Ding Jie's mouth, and the strength of his struggle seemed to be draining away.

Seeing that Ding Jie still refused to say a word, Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, almost wanted to stop the punishment.

Unexpectedly, just when he reached the 30th mark, Ding Jie raised his weak hand, as if he was ready to speak.

"Go and listen to what he said." Guo Xingwen looked at a yamen servant and said.

"yes."

After listening closely, the yamen servant reported: "Return to the minister. He admitted that it was Huang Zhiyuan who sent him to do it. As for Xia Jinhuai's death, it was all Huang Zhiyuan's fault. It was he who threatened Xia Jinhuai's wife and children, so that Xia Jinhuai did not reveal the two prime ministers."

Seeing that the case was coming to an end very quickly, Guo Xingwen looked at the officials standing aside with a smile on his face.

Huang Zhiyuan, who originally wanted not to admit it, felt sad when he saw the housekeeper Ding Jie pressing his fingerprints. He looked at him lying on the bench beside him angrily and said, "You are in the Huang Mansion. I have no shortage of food for you." Wear and silver, right? At the critical moment, you actually admitted it and treated your kindness like a donkey’s liver and lungs!”

After hearing this, Ding Jie, who was lying on the bench, shed tears, and blood was still dripping from the corners of his mouth: "Master, I still have my parents, wife and children, and the whole family is waiting for me. I can't die." .”

"What are you afraid of? A real man! Dare to take action!" Huang Zhiyuan said angrily.

The right prime minister Li Huixuan, who was not questioned at all, burst into tears and was at a loss.

After learning that her husband died because of two prime ministers, Shen Meiniang actually put down the child in her hands, walked to Prime Minister Zuo, grabbed Prime Minister Zuo's collar with both hands, and cried: "Give me back my husband! Give me back my husband." !How can I live without my husband?"

"Shen Meiniang, you must not be rude in court." Guo Xingwen, the Minister of Punishment, said.

After speaking, Guo Xingwen looked at the officials on the side: "Should this case be settled?"

"Guo Shangshu, does this matter need to be reported to the Holy Emperor before he can make a decision?" Guo Kang, the censor of Zuodu, said.

"No need," Su Yunqi said: "The emperor entrusted the case to Su, and he must have handed over the final decision to Su. No need."

"Yes." Xu Yongning, the minister of Dali Temple, said.

"According to Su Shangshu's opinion, how should it be handled more appropriately?" Guo Xingwen, Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishments, said.

This case is a major one. Although the emperor asked Su to decide, in Su's opinion, it is better to consult with the emperor before making a decision.

"Okay." After responding, he looked at the audience: "Here comes someone! Take the prisoner down!"

"yes."

Behind the hall, Su Yun did not dare to be idle for a moment, and hurried towards the Yongshou Hall.

"Please spread the word to Eunuch Li. I have something important to discuss with you," Su Yun said.
To be continued...