Chapter 91: The Difference Between Modern and Ancient Times
After listening to Yu Luo's words, Mr. Bao asked again: "How dare you deny it? If the two of you weren't deliberately planning to kill people, then why did you appear in Pang Danrong's other courtyard?"
Yu Luo and Jiang Shangyu were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they quickly cried out for injustice. Yu Luo said, "Your Majesty, you are aware that we have never thought of killing anyone!"
"Why don't you tell us what happened that day quickly?" Mr. Bao said sternly as he knocked on the wooden wall.
Yu Luo quickly told the story of what happened that day. It turned out that the two of them came to the capital for the first time that day and were hungry. Since they had no money and did not dare to eat in a restaurant, they could only wander around the street. When they came to a house
In front of the noodle stall, the proprietress, probably because she saw the embarrassment of the two of them, generously treated them to a bowl of noodles. The two of them thanked them profusely. When they were leaving, they found Pang Danrong coming to the noodle stall.
He ordered someone to go into the room behind the stall and drag out the boss's daughter, Shi Cheng. Of course, the boss's wife stepped forward to stop her, but Pang Danrong said that Shi Cheng's father had lost money and used his daughter to pay off the debt, so he beat the boss's wife without explanation.
Drag Shi Cheng onto the sedan. The two of them received a favor from the landlady and naturally stepped forward to help. However, Pang Danrong was a man who knew some boxing and kicking skills, so he beat them both on the spot and walked away.
The two followed them to a courtyard. When they saw that Pang Danrong ordered people to drag Shi Cheng into the house, they ordered his followers to leave so as not to hinder his good deeds. The two did not dare to conflict with the followers head-on, so they only waited for the two of them to leave.
After the entourage left, he turned to the back door and climbed the wall. After entering, he saw that Pang Danrong was trying to rape Shi Cheng. Shi Cheng resisted and broke the porcelain bowl. He wanted to commit suicide, but Pang Danrong snatched the broken bowl.
Throwing it to the ground, the broken bowl broke into three pieces. Shi Cheng was just a weak woman, how could she be Pang Danrong's opponent? She was stripped of her clothes in two or three strokes. When Pang Danrong was about to act, the two of them came, and naturally there was a fight
They were entangled. However, neither of them was Pang Danrong's opponent. They were punched several times. Jiang Shangyu became fierce and headbutted Pang Danrong with all his strength. Pang Danrong lost his center of gravity, staggered a few steps, and fell to the ground with his forehead
He happened to knock on the broken bowl, and blood started to flow profusely. Because Pang Danrong fell on his face and hit the broken bowl with his forehead, neither of them knew that something had happened to him until they saw him struggling for a few times and stopped moving.
There was a pool of blood on the ground, so Fang dared to step forward to help him, but found that he had already expired.
Master Bao heard what happened and ordered Xuan Shicheng to come out of the hall. After a while, a woman in plain clothes was brought to the front of the hall. She was frail and slender, beautiful and delicate, and Lihua brought her
, with a somewhat frightened look on his face, which makes people look at him and feel pity.
Shi Cheng knelt in front of the hall and said in a trembling voice: "People's daughter Shi Cheng comes to see Mr. Bao!"
Master Bao nodded slightly and asked kindly: "Shi Cheng, look at the two people in front of the hall, do you know them?"
Shi Cheng turned around and looked at Yu Luo and Jiang Shangyu. He shook his head first, then nodded, and said softly: "I don't know them very well!"
"If you know me, you don't know me. If you don't know me, I don't know you. Why do you nod and shake your head and say you know me but you don't really know me?" Master Bao frowned.
Shi Cheng timidly said: "I said I don't know them, but I have seen them before. It was these two people who saved Min Nu. But before that day, Min Nu had never seen these two people."
"Please tell me what happened that day in advance." Mr. Bao's tone was not as harsh as that of Yu Luo and Jiang Shangyu. Xu felt that she was also a victim, and she was a delicate woman.
I was afraid that asking harsh questions would scare her into fainting.
Seeing that Lord Bao was not as fierce and majestic as the legend, Shi Cheng felt a little relieved and replied: "That day, the girl was embroidering at home, and suddenly several people came in, saying that the girl's father had lost money and wanted to use the girl to pay off the debt.
, The folk girl refused to obey, but she couldn't resist the strong man, so she dragged her out. The folk girl's mother opened a noodle stall in front of her house. When she passed the noodle stall, the folk girl's mother came up to argue, but she was
The gangster slapped him several times and fell to the ground. Later, the two benefactors came forward to help, but they were no match for the gangster. After a few slaps, they were knocked to the ground. The girl was pushed onto the sedan chair and came.
When he arrived at a house, the gangster ordered someone to drag the girl in, intending to torture the girl. The girl threw the bowl and committed suicide, but he took the broken bowl and threw it on the ground, and..."
When Shi Cheng said this, he began to cry and his body was shaking. When people saw it, they couldn't help but feel pity.
Seeing this, Mr. Bao said kindly: "Don't be afraid, you are safe now."
Shi Cheng wiped away his tears, kowtowed Yingying, and continued: "Just when the girl thought that she was going to be insulted by the gangster, the two benefactors appeared again and started fighting with the gangster. The gangster was very cruel, and the people
The woman watched in horror. The two benefactors were no match for him. They were beaten to the point where they were unable to fight back. Later, they were probably beaten so hard that they actually hit the bad guy with his head, and he knocked him to the ground.
, and he died soon after..."
After hearing the two people's confessions, Lin Lefeng and Jing'er could basically understand the nature of the case, which was actually self-defense. However, this self-defense was probably not established here. Because, first of all, the crime occurred somewhere else than the victim.
First of all, it was illegal for the two of them to sneak into someone else's other courtyard. Secondly, in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was common for parents to sell their children. There was no express prohibition against selling their daughters. Therefore, the two of them acted bravely.
This is untenable. When I listened to the conversations between the guests in the inn yesterday, I knew that everyone thought Yu Luo and Jiang Shangyu were ridiculous, because their father sold their daughter for real money, so Shi Cheng is Pang Danrong's man. Of course
, these situations are not normal in the view of Lin Lefeng and Jing'er, because no matter who they are, they have the right to control their own lives. People are not a commodity, how can they be sold and bought?
Then, Shi Cheng's father, Shi Sheng, was called for questioning. Shi Sheng looked like Zhou Zheng, but his words were vague. At one moment, he said that he was being set up, and at the next, he said that he was willing to sell his daughter, and was severely criticized by Lord Bao.
He didn't dare to make up the sentence randomly, so he had to tell the story about how he lost all his money and was forced to sell his daughter, and secretly speculated that Pang Danrong opened the gambling house, because he borrowed the money from the gambling house, but it was Pang Danrong who came forward
Let him sell his daughter.
Mr. Bao has already investigated the inside story clearly. Now the court hearing is just a preliminary hearing. After the matter is clarified, evidence will be collected again. Therefore, today's court hearing will be over soon, and Yu Luo and Jiang Shangyu will be remanded to prison.
Jing'er and Lin Lefeng had to leave temporarily, but both of them knew that if this matter were in modern times, the nature of the case could be considered as self-defense. Although there are some twists and turns, Jing'er would have to fight for manslaughter.
It is also untenable. Because if in modern times, Pang Danrong broke the law first, and the two of them followed him after calling the police, even though they killed Pang Danrong, it was still self-defense. But here, it is not true.