Mrs. Han wiped away her tears with her handkerchief and was about to take the tea cup from Chu Nanzhi's hand with tears of gratitude when she accidentally saw several Gelsemium flowers on the table next to her and was stunned.
Chu Nanzhi pretended to be nothing and smiled at her: "Drink, you're welcome."
"No, no, no, I'm not thirsty."
Han shied away and immediately dodged back.
"How can you not be thirsty after traveling such a long way?"
Chu Nanzhi was about to hand her the tea again. Shen Erlang gritted his teeth and snatched the tea cup from her hand. He glared and said, "What's wrong with you, a crazy woman? Why did you force my aunt to do something if she doesn't want to drink tea?" , I’ll help her drink.”
After Shen Erlang finished speaking, he was about to drink tea. Han was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he rushed over and knocked the tea bowl to the ground: "Erlang, you can't drink."
Everyone in the Shen family was shocked when they heard this.
The three eldest princesses looked a little impatient and were about to interrupt Chu Nanzhi when they were stopped by Lin Jinshu's cold eyes.
Chu Nanzhi saw that the three eldest princesses were not acquainted with the Han family, and couldn't help feeling secretly happy. It seemed that it would not be difficult for this woman to confess to Taoist Tan Hua.
She went to pick up another bowl of tea and handed it to Shen Yang, and said with a smile: "Miss Yang, it seems that your mistress doesn't sincerely want me to file a case for you. She refuses to drink even a bowl of tea. How about you?" Drink."
"Ms. Chu, please don't blame me. My sister has worked so hard for the slave family. She just came from home. I'm afraid she's a little tired. Let her rest for a while."
Shen Yang took the tea and prepared to drink it without hesitation, but Han made no attempt to stop her. Chu Nanzhi's face tightened in fright, and she quickly pushed the tea bowl to the ground and said urgently: "You really Drink?"
Shen Yang raised his eyes and looked at her, confused: "What does Mrs. Chu mean?"
Chu Nanzhi silently took some unblistered Gelsemium flowers from the table and handed them to her, indicating: "What is this?"
Shen Yang looked at it carefully: "This is the scented tea that the slave family went to Nanhua with my sister to pick."
Chu Nanzhi shook her head helplessly, as if she was a fool. She walked up to Mrs. Han again, looked at her frightened expression and immediately asked, "Does Madam Han recognize this flower?"
Mr. Han looked at the Gelsemium flower in her hand with a gloomy expression, and hesitated several times.
"Mother of the Shen family, just do it and stop acting."
The eldest princess Lin Luotong did not care about the oppressive gaze cast by Lin Jinshu, and directly pressed to the Han family: "I am the eldest princess who practices in Nanhua Temple. You are a very bold woman, and you dare to enter the temple to steal these things." The extremely poisonous thing is harmful to people's lives, and it has tarnished the reputation of my palace. You can't keep it, so why don't you kill it yourself so that you don't embarrass your family."
He spoke urgently and quickly, for fear of being interrupted.
"The eldest princess?"
Mr. Han was stunned when he heard this, and felt a mixture of sadness and joy in his heart. The happy thing was that he had always wanted to make friends with the eldest princesses of Nanhua Temple. The sad thing was that they had just met, and the eldest princess wanted her to plead guilty and be punished.
What kind of fate is this?
She gritted her teeth angrily and denied: "The slave family doesn't understand what the eldest princess is talking about."
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When the eldest princesses were about to say something else, Lin Jinshu stretched out his hand to hold the hilt of the sword and scolded expressionlessly: "If you aunts wantonly disrupt the court again and dare to say even a single word, don't blame my niece for being merciless."
When the three of them saw the cold sword light beside her, they were so frightened that they immediately shut up and only dared to glare at Han with resentful eyes.
Chu Nanzhi clenched his fists and sighed secretly. With the three eldest princesses here, it seemed that it would be difficult for him to figure out the entire case and prevent Taoist Tan Hua from escaping.
Now that the evidence is conclusive, Han cannot escape her guilt, so she can only plead guilty first.
Holding the Gelsemium flower, she bent down, looked straight at Mr. Han, and said in a stern voice: "This Gelsemium flower is a rare and highly poisonous thing in the world, and it is quite similar to the honeysuckle flower. You are above." During the Summer Solstice Festival, I invited Miss Yang to stay at Nanhua Temple for a short stay. When I was picking tea in the back garden of the Golden Palace, I deliberately picked a bunch of flowers and stuffed them into her tea basket because she didn’t know the flowers. Is that right?”
Mrs. Han gritted her teeth and gazed sadly at the Gelsemium flower in her hand. She no longer spoke easily and only resisted with silence.
Seeing this, Chu Nanzhi had no choice but to look at the astonished Shen Yang, and continued: "Miss Yang, do you still remember the details?"
Shen Yang's mood at this time was like a sudden thunderbolt from the blue. She was so shocked that she froze in place for a long time and was speechless.
Hu Maoxi knocked the gavel in his hand impatiently and urged: "Ms. Shen Yang, what do you want to ask me?"
Hearing the shouting, Shen Yang finally came to his senses and nodded with lingering fear: "Sir, it is indeed true. The slave family remembers it very clearly."
Later, Hu Maoxi summoned witness Xiaofen to describe the events of that day in detail.
When Mrs. Han saw Xiaofen appearing in the courtroom safe and sound, she was surprised and angry. She pointed at the little maid and cursed: "You bastard, don't talk nonsense."
Shen Erlang was so angry that he rushed forward, raised his foot towards Xiaofen, and said angrily: "The labor and management know that you, a cheap servant, are also an ungrateful person. My aunt gave you money to let you go home. It’s okay if you’re not grateful, but you still dare to be instigated by Mrs. Chu to frame my eldest aunt, let’s see if labor and management don’t beat you to death today.”
Chu Nanzhi seemed to have reached the limit of her patience with this bastard, and that was all in his home. Now she dared to be so arrogant in this court, and kicked him to the ground before he could kick Xiaofen, shouting loudly scolded:
"Shen Erlang, this is the county government, not your Shen family. You are not allowed to do whatever you want."
The woman next to Shen Erlang finally couldn't remain silent at this time. She rushed over to help her in a panic, and kept cursing:
"You evil woman, you dare to beat my son. Don't think that with the support of the county magistrate, you can act arbitrarily and accuse good people at will. Let me tell you, our Shen family has a lot of money. If you want to force people to submit, there is no way. It's a big deal. Let’s go to Jingling City to file a petition.”
"Yes, mother, let's go to the capital to file a complaint. This dog magistrate and Mrs. Chu must have taken advantage of Yang Xiaoniang and the Wei family. No wonder they don't want the money given by the eldest aunt. They have already colluded to harm the eldest aunt. .”
Shen Erlang showed no fear at all and pulled his mother to get up.
Everyone in the hall could see clearly what was right and wrong. Even the three eldest princesses couldn't help but sigh secretly at what the mother and son had done.
Hu Maoxi had heard Guan Erbai talk about the second son of the Shen family yesterday. Now that the mother and son were confusing right and wrong, his face turned pale with anger. He no longer cared about the second elder and several princesses. He was shocked several times. He knocked on the desk and said angrily:
"This official is determined today. You, mother and son, are really cunning. They just despise the court and are domineering. Now that the evidence is conclusive, you dare to confuse right and wrong for the Han family. Someone, come here.
This officer dragged out the second son of the Shen family and slapped him for a hundred times. Qian did not teach his son well and instigated the young son to disturb the court, so he dragged him out and slapped him with thirty boards."
Qian's mother and son were forcibly dragged out for execution by the government officials. They cried and screamed for a while, which made Han shiver in her heart.
While being tortured, Chu Nanzhi ordered Hu Maoxi to bring up the two men in black who were escorted back today.
Looking at the two familiar faces, Han's entire face turned pale.