Vol 3 Chapter 40: stories in public opinion
Next door to Nine Gates, Fu Mingrui's study room was already brightly lit.
Duanmu Qingchen followed Fu Mingrui, but did not return to the palace.
Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan hurriedly delivered the simple meal from Eight Doors, their faces were a little embarrassed, and they were more worried, because it was a bit outrageous for His Royal Highness to eat their simple meal. Fearing that the prince will blame him, ordinary people dare not neglect the royal family.
They put down the lunch box, seeing that Duanmu Qingchen didn't say anything, they left quickly.
Fu Mingrui was sitting on the desk, and had already started to look through the transcripts of Zhao Cheng and Wang Quan.
Duanmu Qingchen was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore, he hurriedly opened the lunch box, he was taken aback, there were two bowls of white rice and three stacks of side dishes, not even a soup. One meat and two vegetables, no other dishes. He wanted to know that the simple meal at Eight Doors was so simple, so he ate outside.
"Don't you eight doors have any money? Just order this?" Duanmu Qingchen brought out a plate of sweet and sour pork, a plate of scrambled eggs with shallots, and a plate of mushrooms and green vegetables.
"You can go back to the palace to eat." Fu Mingrui said lightly, and in his hand was the record of Yu Pingting from the villagers of Baijia Village.
Duanmu Qingchen pouted, he was a bit aggrieved as a prince. The dignified prince took the food by himself, and was disgusted by Fu Mingrui. Although Fu Mingrui detested him, he felt sorry for Fu Mingrui, and Fu Mingrui didn't eat for a day.
He brought the food in front of Fu Mingrui: "Here, master of the door, don't work too hard, your body is important" He moved a chair to Fu Mingrui's side, sat down to eat together, and picked up a few notes Looking at it, she was a little dazed, "Why is it that Yu Pingting is a vicious woman here, and her life is said to be miserable there? Why is it completely different? What kind of woman is this Yu Pingting?" Duanmu Qingchen was asked by the two people in front of him. I was a little confused.
"Don't mess it up." Fu Mingrui took the transcript back and looked at Duanmu Qingchen seriously, "Prince, these two folk tales are very common when we handle cases. We have to read and believe both of them. And look at it with a skeptical attitude, and in the end, you can find out the truth." After Fu Mingrui finished speaking, he turned his face down and continued to read the transcript while eating.
Duanmu Qingchen looked at Fu Mingrui's focused expression for a moment, nodded, and began to read the transcripts seriously.
The transcript in Fu Mingrui's hands seemed to be the three aunts and six wives of Baijia Village standing beside him, and began to talk about Yu Pingting...
"Oh, our poor family just can't marry someone else's eldest lady, and the eldest lady Jingui will come She can't do any housework, and she needs Jinhua to serve her. I don't know how many times Jinhua has said it"
"Later, I finally learned how to do housework, but I always winked at Jin Hua The young lady is not easy to serve, she is not good to her mother-in-law at all."
"This young lady has a delicate body, and she can't even work after giving birth. It's Jinhua who cooks for her, and Jinhua is so angry. Which of the women in our village doesn't go to work in the field after giving birth. ? Let's see, she is doing it on purpose"
"Jin Hua is a mother-in-law who has a good temper, because she is the eldest lady, otherwise she would have beaten us like us. It is really unlucky for Jin Hua to meet such a lazy and contrived daughter-in-law."
"This woman's belly is not up to par. The first one is still a loser. What's the use of a daughter? Can a boy be like their father, study and become an official? A daughter can't do anything. Jinhua was angry, but fortunately she was able to live up to expectations later, and gave birth to two sons."
"That girl in their family, she is really a virtuous person with her mother, she has come here she cries all day long, and the quarrel is so noisy"
"Oh, that's right, that woman is old and dishonest, and the little girls in their town are open to coming. Jinhua's son, Zhankui, wants to study, so he neglected his wife. As a result, you know How about her, she seduced her father-in-law! She is really going to die! Fortunately, Jin Hua found out."
"That woman is too pretentious..."
"That woman seduced the father-in-law..."
"That woman is not good to mother-in-law..."
"That woman's belly is unbearable..."
"That woman thinks it's great to study for a few years..."
"Bitch..."
"Poisonous woman..."
"The vixen..."
Fu Mingrui discovered that most of the recorders were about the same age as Chen Jinhua, and they usually stayed with Chen Jinhua, so they all heard these words from Chen Jinhua's mouth.
From these descriptions, it can be seen that Chen Jinhua's usual description of Yu Pingting is that she is too lazy to do work, too active, and does not live up to her expectations alone. .
Seeing the end, Fu Mingrui was already bored. As a case handler, he should not be emotionally partial to anyone in the case, he must be fair and strict.
But just from Chen Jinhua saying that Yu Pingting is a vixen and seducing her husband Bai Youcai, Chen Jinhua's usual behavior can be seen. The so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, if Yu Pingting really seduced Bai Youcai, which wife would go around talking about it?
"This is too nonsense!" Duanmu Qingchen pointed directly at the transcript saying that Yu Pingting seduced Bai Youcai, "Would a lady in the town, a scholarly family, seduce a country old man like Bai Youcai? The other way around is possible!" Even though Duanmu Qingchen only lives in the palace, he has read a lot of books of all kinds. In many books, there are rural father-in-laws who love to touch their own daughter-in-law, and some even **** their own daughter-in-law excessively, which is called picking ashes among the people.
What's even more ironic is that if the father-in-law raped his wife, the whole family would keep silent, and it would be their own daughter-in-law who suffered.
Therefore, Chen Jinhua said everywhere that Yu Pingting seduced her husband, but that might be an unfounded fact, it was just her conjecture, or Bai Youcai's intention was discovered by her. But a woman like Chen Jinhua would never say that her man is an old pervert, but put the pot on Yu Pingting's head, saying that she is a vixen and intends to seduce her husband.
Some facts have gradually emerged from these transcripts, sporadic and bit by bit, which cannot yet become a complete story, but it has already made people foresee Yu Pingting's final suicide.
With a sullen face, Fu Mingrui put down the stack of transcripts of Yu Pingting from Chen Jinhua's point of view. Chen Jinhua spread bad words about Yu Pingting everywhere. Even if she wasn't a villain, she was still a gossip.
"Hey What a confidante" Duanmu Qingchen looked at the transcripts and shook his head repeatedly, "Hey, in the books I've read, as long as a man flirts with a woman, it's all saying that the woman is a vixen. It's just that men are lustful, and it's because women are beautiful, so you're saying it's unreasonable?" Duanmu Qingchen showed pity for the beautiful woman.