Just in time for rain [恰逢雨连天] - Chapter 233

[233. Chapter two thirty two]

This is the day and night of the anti-theft seal, and the defense of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has been replaced inside and outside.

The doctor from the Taiyuan Hospital came to test it. The bowl of medicine that was given to Su Jin during the day was indeed poisonous. There was aconitine in it.

The maid who delivered the medicine was also found. The man was in the pond. When he was brought up, his body was already swollen.

Su Jin didn’t know who was going to attack her. Before she fell asleep, she thought about carefully sorting out the clues at hand. Who knew that as soon as her head touched the porcelain pillow, she fell into a deep sleep.

She was so tired that she fell asleep with a lot of emotions, and she almost had no dreams all night.

In the blink of an eye, only the sound of boundless rain could be heard, which echoed Liu Chaoming’s sentence, “Su Shiyu, you may wish to come to the Metropolitan Court, and from now on, follow this official to be a censor who will set things right and keep his heart as he is.”

She didn’t answer.

Not unwilling.

It was only from the moment when she decided to embark on a career, that the vast road ahead was no longer a tune. When Liu Chaoming asked this question, it was as if someone suddenly took a piece of bamboo to tune the tune for her, plucked the sine, and said that this song should be played. .

Su Jin didn’t know whether he would go further and further away in the long run, or would he be able to find a new way in the uninhabited place.

The next morning, Zhao Yan came to the duty room to ask Liu Chaoming to discuss the twelfth censor’s plan (note), knocked on the door of the compartment, but it was Su Jin who came out.

Zhao Yan was stunned, and subconsciously glanced at the compartment.

Su Jin bowed to him: “Did Master Zhao come to find Master Liu? He has already gone to court.”

Zhao Yan nodded, although he felt that his mind was full of filth, he couldn’t help but ask: “Did you meet Liu last night? Are you resting in one place?”

Su Jin was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said: “Master Zhao misunderstood, last night Master Liu said that there is an urgent case to be handled, and he did not rest in the duty room, and Xiaguan also got up this morning and bumped into him to come back to get the file, only to know that he has gone. Court.”

Zhao Yan looked serious and said, “Oh, that’s not what I meant, it’s just that I’m a little worried about the letter from the Chief Secretary early in the morning.”

He said this, and he was actually relieved.

He presided over the affairs of the Metropolitan Court last night, and he planned to arrange a residence for Su Jin here, but who knew that there were so many things at the time, he didn’t care about her for a while, and when he turned to look for her again, the person was gone.

Liu Chaoming cares about Su Jin, Zhao Yan sees it, Zhu Nanxian cares about Su Jin, Zhao Yan also sees it.

Zhao Yan thought, fortunately, the heart is not the heart.

Otherwise, if Lord Zuodu Censor loses his reputation because he didn’t arrange a good place to live, he would be guilty of a big crime.

Zhao Yan breathed out slowly, stepped out of the duty room, and saw Liu Chaoming walking over with a cup of tea, he couldn’t help asking, “What urgent case did you handle last night, why did you let Su Jin stay with you all night? Didn’t the letter from the General Secretary arrived this morning?”

Liu Chaoming took a sip of tea: “It’s nothing urgent, I’m trying to deceive him.” Seeing Zhao Yan’s surprise, he added, “Otherwise, why would he rest here in peace? It ‘s over.”

Zhao Yan was stunned: “Then where did you sleep last night?”

Liu Chaoming glanced at the duty room: “I didn’t sleep much, I was tired from looking at the file, so I took a nap on the desk, and woke up at the fourth watch. It’s over.”

Zhao Yan felt that the breath he had just exhaled was lifted from his chest again.

While the two were talking, three people came to the corridor of the Metropolitan Court. The first one was wearing a flying fish suit with a spring knife embroidered on his belt. It was actually Wei Jiang, the commander of Jin Yiwei.

When Wei Jiang saw Liu Chaoming, he bowed his hands first: “Master Liu, dare to ask Governor Su of the Capital Yamen to be tried in the Supreme Court? Can I borrow it to the Zhenfu Division for half a day?”

The felons in the North-South case, Qiu Gelao, Yan Ziyan and others, were imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, and five days ago, Nanfang Shizi, who was accused of fraud, was sent to the Zhenfu Si Zhao prison.

Liu Chaoming was noncommittal, and only asked: “Is there a problem with the official’s confession?”

Wei Jiang shook his head: “No, there is an official there who said that he must meet Governor Su before he would be willing to detain, but the case is about to be concluded. The people under my command are not serious, just—”

“What’s the matter?”

Liu Chaoming turned around, Su Jin did not know when he had come out of the duty room.

She came over and bowed: “Dare to ask Mr. Liu, can this official be called Xu Ying and Xu Yuanzhe, who was originally a top-ranking student in this department?”

Wei Jiang said, “Exactly.” Looking at Liu Chaoming again, “Yes. I have no control, so I made my subordinates think that they can be severely punished, but I don’t know that Xu Ying is already injured, and he can’t bear the severe punishment. It can also have good results.”

Since the establishment of Jin Yiwei, there are countless cases that have been passed, although not to mention that they can handle each and every one of them properly, it is also a common thing for the subordinate commander to make mistakes during torture and commit crimes.

Grabbing the dead man’s hand and pressing it on the case, the case will be closed even if it is not closed.

This time, he came to ask Su Jin to “persuade him with good words”, probably because the one on the Dragon Throne had instructions to confess alive.

Su Jin thought of this, his eyes darkened.

After living to confess? Pulled to the execution ground again?

It’s already a lot of work, but he still doesn’t want to lose his character. Emperor Jing Yuan is really old.

Liu Chaoming glanced at Su Jin and said to Wei Jiang, “Master Wei, lead the way, and this official will also go with him.”

Xu Yuanzhe had been carried out of the prison and placed in an ear room of the office of the Zhenfu Division. Rao is that Su Jin is more prepared, and he is stunned for a moment when he sees Xu Yuanzhe.

It’s only been ten days since Shizi’s trouble, and his whole body is too thin to be human-shaped, there is no intact skin on his body, his legs are folded at an incredible angle, and broken bones can be seen between the blood and flesh.

Su Jin almost didn’t recognize him.

Wei Jiang whispered from the side: “I have been fed Xingshen soup, people are awake, Governor Su go over.”

Su Jin called out: “Yuan Zhe.”

Xu Yuanzhe turned his face, recognized Su Jin, empty There was a little light in his dull eyes, but it was sad. He opened his mouth, but he couldn’t say anything except “Mr. Su”.

Su Jin’s chest seemed to be blocked by a big stone. She squatted down in front of the couch and said, “Yuanzhe, I know that you have not cheated.”

Xu Yuanzhe heard this and tears flowed down.

He turned his face back, stared at Wu Liang and said, “They don’t believe me.”

Su Jin could only hold his hand tightly.

Xu Yuanzhe paused for a while, as if talking to Su Jin, or talking to himself, “I am a concubine, born with long and short legs, my father doesn’t like it, my mother passed away early, most of my brothers and sisters look down on me, only my grandma It was good to me. At that time, I thought, I must live up to my expectations and study well. In the future, I will not talk about becoming a jinshi. Even if I can win a scholar, I will take my grandmother away from that house

. It was my happiest time, Guibang, Xingbang, and Chuanlu. I still remember that, on the day of the birth, the singer sang my name three times, saying that I was a jinshi and a first-ranked scholar. I am really happy. I think I have been in a cold window for ten years, and all my efforts have finally come to an end. It didn’t go to waste. But now, I found that I was wrong.

He turned his face and his eyes were full of despair: “Mr. Su, all I want now is innocence . But the word innocence is so difficult, I have endured all the pain, all the unwillingness and grief, but they bullied me, falsely accused me, and made me suffer from injustice, why? Su Jin felt a dull pain in her heart ,

and she couldn’t face Xu Yuanzhe’s gaze for a while, as if anything she said was pale and powerless.

She pursed her lips, lowered her eyes and said, “Yuan Zhe, many of us are like this. When we were young, we chose a path for ourselves, thinking that the future was boundless and bright, but when we walked down, we found that there was no light in the fog. You will ask yourself if you are not. It’s wrong, but the way to come is long, and the way to go is narrow, and there is no way to find the way back.”

Xu Yuanzhe laughed from his chest: “So you hit your head and bleed and walked close to the lamp?”

He looked into her eyes and asked, “Mr. Su What about you? You have been studying hard for ten years, and why? You are full of talents, but you have wasted several years because of a trivial matter. Have you ever felt unwilling? Seeing it like an ant, have you ever felt resentful? Have you ever felt that all the things you have gained by walking through trials and tribulations are just a joke in the end, just like me——”

Xu Yuanzhe tried hard to hold up his body, very sad: “The hope I’ve poured my whole life into has turned into an empty dream, and in the end I can’t even keep the name of innocence. I’m just a chess piece in the hands of the man above. He kills me to please the world, and he kills me to stabilize his Jiangshan, he killed me in order to regain the hearts and minds of the people in the northern land that he killed in the early years. The most ridiculous thing is that he still holds many chess pieces just like me. He really needs to kill them properly. Anyway, I am dead. , no one remembers that after a hundred generations, all the people will only worship his splendid rivers and mountains.”

Xu Yuanzhe slammed his head back on the bamboo pillow, as if he had exhausted the last bit of strength: “Mr. Su, you know about me God, have you been thinking about something over and over again?”

He turned his head and smiled suddenly at Su Jin: “I won’t be a scholar in the next life.”

Then he closed his eyes, bit down on the base of his tongue, and said with all his strength. He said the last sentence of his life and this life –

not to be a scholar in the next life.

A large amount of blood gushed out from Xu Yuanzhe’s mouth. His dry eyes were dead and never closed. Su Jin didn’t even have time to tell him that his innocence, at least she would remember it for a lifetime.

Liu Chaoming sighed and said to Wei Jiang, “I’m sorry, Lord Wei, can I change him into clean clothes and find a place to bury him.”

Wei Jiang’s eyes were also gloomy, he hesitated for a moment, but said: “This… the lower official can’t be the master, so I have to ask the sage.”

What did the sage do?

There is only one corpse left in front of you, do you still need to peel the skin and grass and hang it at the city gate?

Su Jin said: “Then can you ask Mr. Wei to give Yuan Zhe’s clothes to Xiaguan, who wants to build a tomb for him outside the city.”

Wei Jiang was silent for a while, then said: “Okay, when this matter is over, Su. The governor can go to the Zhenfu Secretary to pick it up.”

Su Jin couldn’t remember how he left the Zhenfu Secretary with Liu Chaoming.

She didn’t even know what the point of her visit was.

Xu Yuanzhe was still dead, and in such a decisive way, maybe he just wanted to talk to someone when he said that he wanted to see Su Jin.

When a person is dying, he always wants to tell his whole life.

Su Jin remembered that at the end, it was Captain Jinyi who held the written paper and held Xu Yuanzhe’s hand drawing to detain it.

[End of This Chapter]