"Yesterday in the back alley of Ling Mansion, I saw a dark figure climbing into the back wall of Ling's house. I was very frightened at the time. I was about to run away when I heard a scream coming from inside Ling Mansion. Shaoqing
, then I saw the black figure climb over the wall, go deep into the box, and disappear into the night."
"Okay, I'll ask you again, have you followed me?"
"To tell you what my lord, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to follow him, so I ran away quickly."
"Then you can see clearly what the black shadow looks like?"
"Yesterday's Lantern Festival, the lights were brightly lit everywhere, and the little man could see clearly that he was a masked man wearing a black cloak, and he was a little tall."
"It's a bit high, are you sure?"
Looking at Feng Hongluan, she is not tall, but if the bun on her head is included, she is really a bit tall.
The prefect glanced at Feng Hongluan and looked at Jiawu seriously.
Jiawu hurriedly kowtowed: "Sir, how dare you lie?"
"Okay, just wait a minute. Someone will bring you a black cloak and put it on Ms. Feng's hood."
Feng Hongluan was startled. This person's words didn't sound like she was lying. She probably really saw her yesterday. However, if she was frightened but not panic, she was sure of victory, because no one would believe her either emotionally or rationally.
She hurt Ling's mother.
Putting on his cloak and hat, Master Liu, the prefect, asked Jiawu to identify him again. Jiawu looked at it for a while and said: "My lord, it's about, about, it's about this high, but I was panicked at the time. After all, I'm only a small person."
Measuring it, how high it is, I can't give you an accurate estimate."
With these words, he was probably leaving a way out for himself. He was afraid that if it weren't for Feng Hongluan, he would correct him in court, and he would be retaliated by Feng Mansion later.
The prefect should have asked clearly whether it was yes or no, but now it was best to deal with it without hesitation. After all, this is the young lady of Feng Mansion.
"Feng Hongluan, can you plead guilty?"
One witness came up and down, but Feng Hongluan's tone became more firm: "I do not plead guilty."
"Well, bring the witness Ling Tianci."
Ling Tianci, surnamed Ling?
Feng Hongluan was slightly startled. Shaoqing saw what looked like a child. The child, who was at most fourteen years old, was brought up. He knelt down and announced his family name: "The villain Ling Tianci is a servant of the Ling family."
"Okay, I want to ask you, what did you see last night?"
Ling Tianci crawled to the ground and replied: "Last night, our wife was attacked by thugs. The Ling family has shown me the favor of rebirth. I will go through fire and water to catch the thief, so I chased him out of the back door and saw a dark figure.
, after chasing her for a long time, I saw her go to the river, discarded a hundred daggers, took off her cloak and mask, and put on a mask. I described the mask to our young master. Later, the young master inquired and learned that yesterday
At night, Miss Fengfu wore this mask, and the red wiring on the dagger, sir, has not sent someone to investigate, only Ruyi Fabric Store in the capital has it, and Fengfu just bought it."
Feng Hongluan looked at the young man calmly and sideways. He said that he followed her to the river, but this young man didn't have any martial arts skills at first glance. With just this sentence, Feng Hongluan knew that he was lying.
If the witness was originally by the river and happened to see Feng Hongluan, Feng Hongluan would be even more panicked.
But if we say that this witness is the child in front of us, that he followed her out of the back door of Ling Mansion and followed her all the way to the river, it’s funny, it’s really funny, Ling Che sent him here, and her Qinggong attainments, although not top-notch,
She's tall, but if a child like this wants to keep up with her, it's just a fool's errand.
For ordinary people to walk from the backyard of the Ling family to the river where the cloak and dagger were discarded, it would take at least a cup of tea, but yesterday Feng Hongluan had already finished everything in a cup of tea.
Why didn't the child say anything and followed her from beginning to end?
Knowing that the other party was lying, Feng Hongluan felt even more relieved. She raised her head, looked at the prefect, and said, "Sir, please allow me to write a note to you. I will ask him what I wrote, okay?"
"That's...ok!" He didn't agree with the rules, but he still said the same thing, this is Miss Fengfu.
Feng Hongluan stood up, took the banknote from the master's hand, simply wrote five lines of words on it, and sent it back to the master.
Then, he walked back and knelt down. Ling Tianci didn't know what he would ask next. He seemed a little nervous. He kept holding his clothes tightly with his right hand, and his knuckles were slightly pale.
"I'm here to ask you a question."
"Yes, sir."
"You said that you followed us and found that the man in black went to a river and abandoned his dagger and clothes. The officer asked you why you didn't report the crime at that time. On the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival, the Yamen stayed open all night long to be careful to prevent anything from happening. Why didn't you report the crime?
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"I...I just want to wait until the young master comes back to make a decision."
"Okay, then I want to ask you the second question. The dagger and the clothes were found by the Yamen after receiving the report today and went to search nearby. Why didn't you salvage the evidence last night and give it to your young master?"
"This, this!"
There was sweat on Ling Tianci's forehead: "The river is fast and cold, and I'm afraid something will happen."
"Well, I want to ask you the third question. Since you clearly saw the pattern on the mask, you should have faced the bad guy head-on. Since you were facing the bad guy head-on, where were you hiding so that the man wouldn't find you?"
"At that time...at that time..." Ling Tianci swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his fist tightened. He was forced into a blind corner. He did not answer. He perjured himself and answered Feng Hongluan's fourth question.
I was already ready to expose him.
"Answer quickly." Mr. Liu gave an official look, and Ling Tianci hurriedly said, "There is a bush over there, I will hide there."
"Okay, I will tell you now, it is winter now, we are in the north, the grass and trees have long withered, where is there a bush for you to hide in?"
Wonderful, wonderful. Mr. Liu was very cooperative, and every question he asked was more aggressive. Ling Tianci, after all, was a child, and he was already so frightened that he couldn't help himself, and started to tremble.
"Answer me!"
In Ling Tianci's panic, his mind was already in chaos. He could only find a way for himself randomly and quickly: "Sir, I remembered wrongly. There is a tree next to it, a big tree. I will
Hiding behind a tree trunk, I hid behind a tree trunk.”
"You are outrageous. There are no trees or weeds by the river. It is a river pier, specially used for washing clothes and washing rice. Ling Tianci, do you know what will happen if you give false testimony in court?"