This voice is gentle but has the clearness of a young man. It sounds like a breeze in the dark and depressing cell, which makes people feel refreshed.
Old Mrs. Fang was not only shaken, her whole body trembled, and her lips trembled as she couldn't say what she wanted to say.
"Little brother!" Fang Yuxiu had already shouted, looking at the young man who came over and stood behind them at some point.
The cell was dark, and although she had adapted to the light, she still couldn't see the young man's face clearly.
This boy is both familiar and strange.
What is familiar is the sound, what is unfamiliar is the appearance.
She had never seen her little brother standing.
I couldn't see clearly what his clothes looked like in the dark cell, but when I saw him standing quietly like this, I immediately had four words to describe him.
Charming and charming.
Her younger brother is so charming, the best and most beautiful in the world.
Fang Yuxiu only called out the word "little brother", tears flowed out and she choked with sobs.
Fortunately, Fang Yuxiu called him "little brother", otherwise the two women from the Fang family, the old and the young, would not speak, and the officials on the side would not know who the visitor was.
This is the young master of the Fang family.
The officials and entourage present looked at him.
Sure enough, he is cured, but his skinny little body looks thinner than other children of the same age. After all, he has been ill for ten years.
"Second sister." Fang Chengyu looked at Fang Yuxiu and shouted, "Help grandma sit down."
Fang Yuxiu raised her hand to wipe her tears and nodded to support Mrs. Fang.
Old Mrs. Fang was like a child who couldn't walk. She had never been so obedient in her whole life. She sat down obediently when being helped to sit down.
"Chengyu." She finally said hoarsely, "You're back."
Fang Chengyu answered yes with a smile.
"After the things over there are taken care of, I'll rush back right away." He said, "Grandma, second sister, take a rest and leave it to me."
The tears that Fang Yuxiu had just stopped blurred her eyes again.
Mrs. Fang also felt her throat was burning.
After all these years, I never thought I would hear this sentence again.
You guys rest and leave it to me.
This Fang family can only be held and supported by her, and when she dies of old age, she will leave it to her daughter-in-law and granddaughters to continue doing what she has done.
No matter how hard or tired I am, I dare not even think about taking a break.
She thought she would never hear this sentence again in her life.
I didn't expect to hear it so soon.
"Yeah." She said, "You go ahead."
Fang Chengyu responded and did not go directly to the prison. Instead, he first bowed respectfully to several officials sitting beside him.
The officials did not speak, and Fang Chengyu did not say any polite words of gratitude. After the ceremony, he turned around and walked towards the cell.
The railings in the cell were removed, making the originally narrow space slightly more spacious.
At this time, there were two people tied to the torture rack here, it was County Magistrate Li and Song Yunping.
The two of them had been pretending to be dead with half-closed eyes. After Fang Chengyu came in, they opened their eyes. Because they already knew that Fang Chengyu had been cured, they didn't look shocked. Instead, they sneered a few times and closed their eyes again.
Fang Chengyu stopped in front of Magistrate Li.
"You don't have to plan to say nothing and wait for someone to speak for you," he said.
Magistrate Li just smiled without raising his eyelids.
"I don't know where I have offended you. Your Fang family has harmed me so much." He said, "Whatever you say is what it is. I have nothing to say."
Fang Chengyu looked at him and nodded.
"Yes, what we say is what we say, so we intend to convict you of treason." He said.
Magistrate Li's eyes widened slightly.
Fang Chengyu didn't give him a chance to speak.
"Master Li, you are a Jinshi in the 20th grade and have been an official for more than 20 years." He said warmly, "You must know what it means to rebel."
He said and pointed in a direction.
"You will be beheaded in public at Dongjiekou in Yangcheng. There will be no need to be escorted to Beijing and there will be no need for a retrial."
He said and smiled again.
"That means we won't give you a chance to see others or talk to others."
A sneer flashed in Magistrate Li's eyes.
"When did Yangcheng gain a Shanxi king?" he said lightly.
These words made the officials sitting around look a little worried. In fact, their expressions were not very good originally, but just as the officials waiting outside said, three generations of the suffering master were almost broken in the hands of this person. People asked
It is clear and understandable.
But I asked, why did Yue Zuo become a substitute?
They were also convicted and sentenced to death.
Everyone's eyes wandered towards a man sitting among them. This man was about fifty, lean and had a solemn look on his face, showing no signs of happiness or anger.
This is Ma Shengzhi, the prefect of Taiyuan.
He took the lead in this incident, but he has not spoken since entering the cell.
It's the same now, without a slight cough or a word of caution.
He didn't speak, and the other officials also looked away and stayed still.
Fang Chengyu's expression remained the same, and he didn't seem to feel that what he said was inappropriate at all.
"You don't have to think whether this is appropriate or not." He looked at County Magistrate Li and smiled, "You just need to know whether we can do this or not. Until now, we have done so many things, sir.
I have a certain score in my mind."
After that, take a few steps back.
"Without further ado, Mr. Li, do you think you have been eyeing our Fang family and started planning more than 20 years ago?"
Hearing what Fang Chengyu said, Mrs. Fang sat upright in her chair.
"Whatever you say." Magistrate Li said calmly.
Fang Chengyu didn't care about his pretending to be dead.
"I got your resume." He said, seeming to be thinking and describing, "You won the Jinshi at the age of twenty, and successively served as the registrar of Luting, joined the army in Taizhou, magistrate of Qingyang, magistrate of Anyang, magistrate of Dengxian, and Wei.
Hui Jie Judgment.”
He spoke smoothly, while reaching out and tapping gently in front of him, and finally paused.
"Now we are the magistrate of Yangcheng County."
An official term lasts for three to five years, and these positions are rotated for more than 20 years.
"And if you look closely, all your previous positions have been in Henan and Shanxi."
Fang Chengyu gestured with his hands.
"It was also through this that you met the Henan military general Wang Caijun, who is also Wang Jiang's uncle."
County Magistrate Li laughed when he heard this.
"You have studied my resume thoroughly, but so what? I only got acquainted with your family after coming to Yangcheng. As you said, I have served in so many places and met so many people.
There is a mixture of civil and military forces, and there are many ruffians and scoundrels. What's the problem with this? Ask the officials here, who doesn't know some military generals?" he said.
Fang Chengyu shook his head at him.
"No, no, there's nothing wrong with any of this. If there's a problem, it's that everyone else is trying to get promoted, but you've been trying to stay in this place for so many years..."
He stretched out his hand and drew a circle again.
"The official position near our Fang family has never changed in more than 20 years."
Li Zhixian smiled and wanted to speak, but Fang Chengyu waved his hand to stop him.
"I know, all of this is fine." He said, then looked at Li Zhixian, "In the past twenty years, you have never had any involvement with our Fang family, except for one year."
One year?
Everyone present looked at Fang Chengyu.
"You have a cousin-in-law who served as the magistrate of Dongping County from the third year to the sixth year of Yongxian. At that time, you joined the army in Taizhou, which happened to be Ding You."
He looked at County Magistrate Li,
"That's when you set your sights on my great-grandfather."
Fang Chengyu's great-grandfather was from Dongping County. He left his hometown and came to Shanxi when he was thirty.
Magistrate Li laughed.
"What does this have to do with me? Does it mean that my cousin-in-law has been the county magistrate of your Fang family's ancestral home, so I should have a deep hatred for you?" He said, "Your Fang family is suffering from delusions of persecution, right? Everyone is hurting you.
People, please ask, do any of the officials here or any of their relatives and friends have anything to do with Dongping County?"
This was indeed ridiculous, and the officials present murmured in low voices.
Mrs. Fang looked worried and uneasy when she saw Fang Chengyu.
Fang Chengyu's face remained gentle, looking at Magistrate Li who was laughing.
"In the fifth year of Yongxian's reign, you visited Dongping County," he said.
"What a joke, can't I go?" Magistrate Li sneered.
"On September 18th, you were in Funiu Mountain." Fang Chengyu said, "You saw it, right?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Mrs. Fang stood up suddenly, and County Magistrate Li finally changed his expression. (To be continued)