Crazy criticizes the regent for reading my mind and his character collapses

Chapter 43 Aren’t you afraid of what you are hiding from?
Mrs. Zhang ran out crying, covering her forehead, and almost bumped into Tang Jingjing.

Lan Jue raised his hand to block Tang Jingjing's attack, "Sir, be careful."

Zhang was startled and quickly knelt down, "See you, sir."

The cursing in the room finally stopped, and the Shi family's parents-in-law came out, knelt down and kowtowed: "I have met you, sir."

Tang Jingjing narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Where is your eldest son?"

Mrs. Mi's mother-in-law said: "I went out to buy some goods."

Obviously lying.

Nan Xi directly exposed her: "Such a big thing happened in your family. Xiaodong's body is still in the government office and has not been brought back, but he went to purchase goods at this time?"

The Shi family's mother-in-law argued: "Well, we have to do business. What can we sell if we don't have goods? The whole family has to live."

Tang Jingjing asked: "On the day Mi escaped from prison, what day did you close? Did you hear any sounds?"

"I don't remember." Mrs. Shi's wife winked at Old Man Shi.

Old Man Shi also echoed in a muffled voice: "Well, I don't remember."

Mrs. Zhang was kneeling aside and crying with her head down, making it difficult for people to see her expression clearly.

Nan Xi's sudden movement of squatting down startled her. She looked up suddenly, and the panic flashing in her eyes was the most real reaction.

"Are you afraid?" Nan Xi asked, "What are you afraid of?"

The blood on Zhang's forehead was still flowing, and the bright red color slid across the corners of her eyes, dyeing her cheeks red, and finally dripped on her clothes, forming a circle of blush.

Nan Xi glanced at it and suddenly said: "The color is really similar to Mi Yingping's appearance when she died."

Mrs. Zhang trembled and rubbed her knees back, "I, I'm not afraid! Why should I be afraid?"

"Aren't you afraid of what you are hiding from?" Nan Xi stood up and looked at Mrs. Zhang with cold eyes.

At this time, a government official returned.

"Your Excellency, on the day of Mi's accident, someone saw Mrs. Zhang, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Shi family, sneaking around in the back yard."

Tang Jingjing asked the government servant to bring in the witness. Unexpectedly, it was Jiang Wan.

Nan Xi was a little surprised: "Why is it you?"

Jiang Wan saluted Tang Qingzong, and then looked at Nan Xi: "You girl, you climbed up a high branch and didn't even call me mother when we met."

Lan Jue stood in front of Nan Xi, blocking Jiang Wan's probing gaze: "My lord is asking you something."

Jiang Wan looked in front of her and pointed at Mrs. Zhang: "My lord, that's her. I saw her sneaking around in the back yard that day. I even called her to come, but she ignored me."

Mrs. Zhang was completely panicked, "You're talking nonsense!"

Jiang Wan curled her lips, "Am I talking nonsense? I am the most honest person. I never tell lies. If you don't believe me, ask my daughter."

She pointed at Nan Xi and snorted in a dignified manner.

Tang Jingjin asked people to escort Zhang away. Many people gathered around the jewelry shop, and everyone was talking about it.

"Why was Mrs. Zhang taken away? Did she kill Mrs. Mi?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, could it be that she also recommended Xiaodong?"

"You're really not a human being, you can do this to such a small child."

Jiang Wan became a favorite, and her three aunts and six wives gathered around her to ask about the situation. Even the business of Mipu suddenly improved.

She bent over and imitated the way Zhang was wandering around outside the yard that day, her facial features flying around and her expression very exaggerated.

"That's how Zhang is. She's sneaky and she definitely didn't do anything good. She killed her sister-in-law and her nephew. This woman is really cruel."

Someone said "tsk", "That's not right. Why did I hear that Mi was raped first and then killed? How could a woman like Zhang be raped first and then killed?"

Jiang Wan rolled her eyes at this person, "How do you know she has no accomplices? I saw her murder with my own eyes."

As he said that, he couldn't help but reenacted what happened that day with added details.The story spread from person to person, and an hour later, several government officials came to Mipu and took Jiang Wan away.

The crowd of spectators had not dispersed yet, and now they were even more interested.

"How come she was arrested too?"

"Hmph! Something happened to the Shi family, and she was brought to the fore. Seeing that Zhang did not stop the murderer, maybe she was also one of the murderers."

"Yes, Xiaodong threw stones into her rice bag before and was scolded by her. Maybe she was the one who pushed Xiaodong into the well."

"Tsk! Let me tell you, outsiders like this can't come and go casually. On the surface, they are friendly, but behind their backs, they even dare to kill other people's children."

Nan Mingkun happened to hear this when he came back from drinking. He got drunk and opened his mouth to curse: "Get out of here! If you dare to make up my family's affairs again, don't tell me that I will report it to the regent. You will reap the consequences!" "

Everyone suddenly remembered that the rice shop was given to the Nan family by the regent. Suddenly they felt a little scared and hurriedly dispersed.

In the lobby of the government office, Jiang Wan was kneeling on the ground.

Snapped!
Tang Jingjing slapped the crowd angrily: "Jiang! Did you see Zhang kill someone with your own eyes?"

Jiang Wan glanced at Nan Xi standing next to her and wanted her to speak for her.

Nan Xi looked forward, completely ignoring Jiang Wan.

Snapped!
"Jiang! Answer my question!"

Jiang Wan quickly waved her hand and denied it: "Sir, it's all nonsense. I didn't see anything."

Nan Xi frowned, "Then the courtyard you said you saw Zhang going in and out of before was also Hu Zou's?"

"That's true. I really saw it with my own eyes. She ran out of the yard in a panic. While running, she looked back into the yard, as if a ghost was chasing her."

She once again imitated Zhang's appearance at that time.

Tang Qingqing patted the gavel again: "Take Mrs. Zhang."

Mrs. Zhang came in and knelt down next to Jiang Wan, "See you, sir."

Snapped!
"Ms. Zhang, you are not allowed to lie in court. I am asking you again, were you at home that day? Have you been to your backyard? Have you seen your sister-in-law Mi and nephew Xiaodong?"

Nan Xi added: "If you don't tell the truth, then the crime of murder will fall on you, and you will be beheaded."

People are afraid of death.

Mrs. Zhang thought for a while, then gritted her teeth and said, "Your Majesty, it is true that the peasant woman has never seen Mi and Xiaodong. I went to the backyard just because I heard the noise and took a look, but I didn't see anything, so I left."

No matter what Nan Xi and Tang Jingjing asked next, Zhang insisted on this statement.

Tang Jingkong asked the yamen servant to be temporarily imprisoned by her, and then went to the Regent's Palace with Nan Xi.

Unity time.

Nan Xi came back on time.

"Your Highness." She trotted straight into the study. Such a familiar gesture shocked Tang Qingxing who followed closely behind.

"Guard Lan, Miss Nan and the prince?" Tang Jingjing asked in a low voice.

Lan Jue chuckled: "Master Tang, some things can only be understood. If you spoil it too early and ruin the prince's affairs, you and I can't bear it, don't you think so?"

"Yes, yes, yes." Tang Jingjing already had the answer in his heart.

He waited five steps outside the study, waiting for Lan Jue to pass the message.

In the study, Li Qingmo was reading Miscellaneous Notes on the Art of War when Nan Xi suddenly walked in.

"Your Majesty, why did my parents suddenly open a rice shop? They probably don't have money to do business in the capital."

[In the original work, the Nan family has always lived in Zhuangyuan Hutong and gradually became prosperous after the autumn examination. Why is it so far ahead of schedule now? 】

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