After the rebirth, the queen took the Meiqiang tragedy script

Chapter 122 True and False
There was an eerie silence among the crowd.

Then Du Jing knelt down in front of the threshold, bowed his head in the tunnel, and said: "My humble minister bows to His Majesty, long live my emperor, long live long live!"

When Qian Shi behind him heard this, he also knelt down in panic.

"Your Majesty, what I said just now was to deceive my wife. Even if I borrow a hundred courageous officials, I would not dare to exchange the death row prisoner!" Du Jing fell on the ground and cried out for injustice.

He spoke so sincerely that even Qian Shi behind him looked at him suspiciously.

Ye Qinghuai looked at Du Jing's figure with a heavy expression, as if she was a little regretful.

"You get up first." Ye Qinghuai said.

Du Jing raised her head and looked at Ye Qinghuai with vigilance in her eyes, the bean-sized beads of sweat on her temples were clearly visible, but her eyes were extremely firm.

"You're still on the execution ground. Let's ask together and you'll know the truth." After speaking, Ye Qinghuai turned around and left.

Behind her, Du Jing and Gu Shihai briefly looked at each other.

When Ye Qinghuai and his party returned to the execution ground, there were even more crowds watching, blocking the surrounding roads from inside to outside.

The time has passed three quarters in the noon, and it is not possible to behead today.

Du Zhengen in the middle of the execution ground was brought to the execution stage.

Ye Qinghuai sat at the head of the supervisory stage, Gu Shihai sat on her left hand side, and Du Jing stood aside, talking to the two of them.

"I remember that according to the regulations of our court, the body must be verified before the execution. Where is the person who inspected the body?"

A small official in a blue official uniform stood out from the crowd, bowed in front of Ye Qinghuai, and said, "Return to Your Majesty, it is the villain."

Ye Qinghuai looked at Du Zhengen and said, "Go and check that he is Du Zhengen."

The little official took the order, walked up to the silent death row prisoner, and began to examine carefully, from the nose and mouth to the limbs, there was no mistake or omission.

Du Zhengen's eyes were lax and he let him manipulate him.Du Jing lowered his head and did not look back at his son.

After half a quarter of an hour, the little official walked up to Ye Qinghuai, knelt down and said, "Return to Your Majesty, this person is indeed the prisoner Du Zhengen."

No one on the stage was surprised by his answer.Even Ye Qinghuai just asked with a normal face: "You can see clearly, there will be no mistakes?"

The little official replied decisively: "The villain has been in this business for eight years, and he will never make mistakes. This person is Du Zhengen."

Ye Qinghuai paused, looked at Qin Yang, and said, "Go and bring him up."

Qin Yang, who had been standing behind her all this time, accepted the order and quickly walked down the prison platform.

Not long after, he led two guards back, and between them was a short man, wearing a cloth robe of a palace attendant, with a timid look on his face.

After he was brought to the center of the execution stage, a pair of small round eyes rolled around, quickly looked around the people around him, then immediately knelt down, and said: "Your Majesty, long live my emperor!" Long live long live."

"Liu Chunming, Mr. Gu Ge and Du Shangshu may not know you yet, so you should report your family first." Ye Qinghuai said to him.

Liu Chunming straightened up on his knees, and said, "My servant Liu Chunming from the Punishment Department, I pay my respects to Elder Gu Ge and Master Du."

Ye Qinghuai asked again: "Do you know why you are summoned here?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I know. I was originally in charge of the Punishment Department. On the day that Concubine Lan died in the Department of Punishment, I was on duty. I once witnessed Du Zhengen taking Concubine Lan to prison for torture."

"It's nonsense!" Du Jing who was standing at the side couldn't listen any longer, and interrupted him sharply, saying, "The seven people who were on duty at the Punishment Division all died at the hands of Chu Dingguo, and all the corpses are in the Ministry of Punishment. Who are you? How dare you use your dead body to revive your soul and pretend to deceive the king?"

Ye Qinghuai looked up at him calmly, feeling that his annoyed appearance was not pretended, and his words were also confident and confident, as if he was really sure that those people had been silenced.

Liu Chunming took off an official ribbon from his waist, raised his hands high and said, "This is the nameplate of the official ribbon, there is absolutely no possibility of counterfeiting. If Mr. Du doesn't believe it, there are documents and badges in the official's house, so you can prove your identity. "

The official ribbons and badges were all made by the imperial court, and it was impossible to forge them. Du Jing was blocked by Liu Chunming for a while, and could only look at him in disbelief, as if he had seen the devil.

Ye Qinghuai looked at his appearance, and said leisurely: "Du Qing is so sure that there are no survivors in the Punishment Department. Your subordinates reported it, right? But who are those seven corpses? Du Qing must be sure." Didn't check it out."

Du Jing frowned slightly, as if thinking of something, subconsciously cast doubtful eyes on the head of the criminal department standing on the other side of the execution stage.

Ye Qinghuai glanced at the panic-stricken chief from the corner of his eye, and said: "The officials in my big scene are all educated, and it is the fastest to learn from others. If you see a lot of people at the top stealing posts, the people below may follow suit. It's a few minutes."

After speaking, she gave Du Jing a meaningful look.

At this time, Du Jing's face was no longer as firm as before, he lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was planning in his heart.

Ye Qinghuai withdrew her gaze and said to Liu Chunming, "Liu Chunming, go and see if this person is the Du Zhengen who brought Concubine Lan to the Punishment Department that day."

Liu Chunming stood up after receiving his orders.He walked up to the prisoner and began to examine him with his hands and feet.

After a while, he turned back to Ye Qinghuai and said, "Return to Your Majesty, although this person is seven or eight points similar to Du Zhengen, but I don't think this person is Du Zhengen."

"Why?" Ye Qinghuai asked.

"There are two suspicious points about this person. First, this person's tongue was cut off by a knife, so he can't make a sound, and he can't judge the authenticity by his voice. However, Du Zhengen, whom I saw that day, spoke as usual, and his tongue was not severed. The strange thing is that since that day, Du Zhengen has been detained and interrogated successively by the Secretary of the Right Government Office and the Ministry of Punishment, and since he is awaiting trial as a suspect, the lower officials can't think of anyone who would cut off his tongue to prevent him from speaking."

Ye Qinghuai cast doubtful eyes on Du Jing, and asked: "Du Jing, I have read the case files submitted by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and it seems that there is no mention of Du Zhengen's severed tongue."

Du Jing lowered his head, thought for a while, and replied: "That's because the person had already cut off his tongue when he arrived at the Ministry of Punishment. It must have happened in the Youya Mansion Division, so there is no record in the case files of the Ministry of Punishment."

Ye Qinghuai glanced at him, without asking any further questions, turned to Liu Chunming and asked, "Is there another doubt?"

"There is another point on his right ear. On the day Du Zhengen was in the Punishment Department, he was bitten off by Concubine Lan's half of his ear. The lower official once picked up that half of his ear when he was cleaning the execution room."

As he spoke, Liu Chunming walked up to the prisoner, and lifted the hair that had fallen by his ears, revealing half of his right ear.

"But the cut on his right ear was neat, obviously cut off with a knife, not bitten off."

(End of this chapter)