Vol 2 Chapter 58: Guilty
"Yes! His Royal Highness said well! We want to hear the case from Miss Lian!"
"Let Miss Lian go on!"
"Go on!"
Duanmu Qingchen flicked the sleeve of his robe, and immediately shouted: "Kneel down for my Highness!"
Ma Guanqun stared at Duanmu Qingchen in surprise, Fu Mingrui stepped forward and kicked him on the back knee, Ma Guanqun plopped and knelt on the lobby, after Wanqing!
He stared blankly at Wan Qing's quiet back. Today, he was clearly here to try the case of his son's murder, but why now, he is kneeling on the lobby like a prisoner? !
Duanmu Qingchen looked at Lian Youyou with a smile: "Miss Lian, please continue."
Lian Youyou also pursed her lips and smiled, and said again: "At that time, Zhou Youfa, the magistrate of Lijia Village, wanted to embezzle the disaster money for himself. You know Zhou Youfa." Lian Youyou went to Ma Guanqun, leaned over and smiled.
Ma Guanqun's body began to tremble under Lian Youyou's white dress. How could anyone know about that? Ten years have passed! How could it be turned over!
Lian Youyou smiled, her eyes were already chilled, she raised her eyes to look at the surrounding officials: "So, Zhou Youfa conspired with Ma Guanqun to distribute the moldy rice to Lijia Village, because Lijia Village is located in the deep mountains, it is very difficult It is remote and close to southern Xinjiang. Even if the villagers want to appeal, there is no way to go. The village head is self-governing. Therefore, as long as the village head is bribed, the villagers will be controlled by the village head. After cooperating with Ma Guanqun, they distributed moldy rice to their own village. One hundred and thirty-four villagers in Lijia Village ate moldy rice grains in that isolated mountain village. The rice grains had become moldy and black, and had produced toxins The villagers who were affected by the disaster were already weak, so a large number of villagers... old people... pregnant women... children... died of poisoning..." Lian Youyou said at the end, the atmosphere in the whole hall was extremely heavy.
Among the people outside the door, many women and children wiped their tears silently.
"Too sinful..."
"Inhumane!"
"Bastard! It's a beast!"
"How do you do such a thing!"
"kill him!"
"Yes! Kill him!"
"Beast!"
The people outside the door were excited, the aunt who bought vegetables threw out the leaves, and the villagers who had nothing took off their shoes.
"Everyone, calm down!" The policemen at the door immediately stopped them, but they couldn't stop the angry people.
All the officials sitting in the hall were stunned. They had come to listen to a murder case, and by the way let their daughter show their faces in front of the prince, so the situation became more and more complicated. And the angry people at the door made them even more flustered. What if they really rushed in?
Among the officials sitting in the hall, there were not less than Ma Shangshu who had good friends and contacts, and some even planned to get married, but at this moment, they were all sitting in their seats in a daze. Of course they knew that if this case was confirmed, what Ma Guanqun would face would not only lose his official title, but even his head!
The situation at the scene made them extremely nervous, and they all looked at Fu Kun's left prime minister, just to see if he would protect Ma Guanqun.
"Everyone, please be quiet." Lian Youyou signaled the people outside the door to calm down, "I haven't finished yet."
Unexpectedly, as soon as Lian Youyou spoke, the people outside the door quieted down and looked at Lian Youyou angrily.
"Miss Lian, keep talking! What happened to those villagers in Lijia Village?" The crowd outside the door was excited, and they only wanted to know the ending of the villagers in Lijia Village.
Lian Youyou let out a long sigh in the hall: "They are all dead..."
"Ah—?!" The people immediately clamored.
"Damn Ma Guanqun!"
"Yes! Damn Ma Guanqun!"
"So many lives!"
"The people in Lijia Village are dead, and no one will avenge them. Let's avenge them!"
"That's right! Let's avenge them!"
"His Royal Highness! You must avenge the villagers of Lijia Village!"
"I beg His Royal Highness to avenge the villagers of the Li Family Village—"
Suddenly, the people outside the door all knelt down!
Immediately, the arresters at the gate, all the officials in the hall, and Fu Kun's left minister all showed surprise.
No one expected that the lowly, ignorant, and ignorant people in their eyes would declare righteousness and support justice at this moment!
No one expected that the person they looked down on the most on weekdays would become a hero in front of the palace today.
Wanqing, who had been quiet all this time, was also stunned by the sudden silence.
"You should turn around and take a look." Lian Youyou said softly beside her, with a rare softness and calmness in her eyes.
She turned around slowly, and saw the people of the capital kneeling outside the door under the scorching sun!
She never met them.
She has no relationship with them.
But today, at this very moment, they are all complaining for her relatives and her clansmen. Tears burst out of the embankment in an instant, and Wan Qing burst into sobs in the courtroom in an instant.
Her calm is to restrain her anger.
Her calm is to restrain her pain.
She was deeply afraid that if she lost control, she would control insects and kill people in the empty hall, become a monster, and lose the opportunity to complain to her people.
"Did they all die because of poisonous rice?" Duanmu Qingchen looked at Wanqing's back heavily, and asked Lian Youyou.
Wanqing turned around, unable to restrain her emotions, she couldn't say anything.
Lian Youyou looked at Duanmu Qingchen: "No."
"Then why are they all dead?" Duanmu Qingchen looked puzzled.
Lian Youyou blinked and looked at him deeply: "The elderly, pregnant women, and children died in large numbers. The young people in the village naturally want to find the village head and report to the state government. The village head, county magistrate Zhou Youfa and Ma Guanqun are afraid that their evil deeds will be exposed. , So first asked the village chief to appease the villagers, Zhou Youfa went to the state capital overnight, and reported that the plague broke out in Lijia Village, the governor of Wuzhou at that time, and the villagers were all infected with the plague. If the plague was not controlled, it would infect the county government. It will be difficult to protect. Therefore, the state officials mobilized troops overnight, went to Lijia Village, fired a volley of rockets overnight, blood stained the village temple, the villagers of Lijia Village, and in the end, it was our soldiers who went to court! Killed!"
"Crack!" Immediately, Duanmu Qingchen slapped the gavel angrily, his face was extremely gloomy.
In an instant, all the officials in the hall knelt down and shouted: "Prince, calm down—"
"What anger?!" Duanmu Qingchen stood up angrily, holding a gavel in his hand, "How can you make His Highness calm down! The soldiers of our Qian Dynasty are used to protect the people! When will the arrow be aimed at us? Common people?! You bastard! You’re such an asshole! Where’s the state official at that time! Who is it?! It’s been ten years, and he should have been transferred to the capital too! Come out to His Highness! Come out!”
Duanmu Qingchen looked around the entire hall, but no one stepped forward. Among these officials, how many Ma Guanqun are there? Zhou Youfa? Stepping on the blood and tears of the common people?
No matter how wise the emperor is, he can't catch those vicious local snakes! And behind those ground snakes, there are layers of umbrellas, covering them from the sky and the sun, and blinding the eyes of the emperor.