Wangfu little dumb wife

Chapter 223 Dengwen’s Drum Sounds, The Emperor Accepts the Case (1 more)
Lu Yan was only sixteen in Qing Dynasty. In the final analysis, he was just a young man who didn't know much about the world. Not to mention dealing with the world, he couldn't even deal with his own emotions well.

Hearing someone bring up the events of the past, he only knew to be afraid, but he didn't know how to hide it.

Song Wei had a thorough look at the fear that came out of his bones.

"Are you afraid of Ningzhou?"

Song Wei was just trying to test it casually, but he didn't expect that these five words seemed to stab Lu Yanqing's tailbone. His eyes were so red that he jumped up and wanted to hit someone.

Two of the people Lu Yanqing brought with him were his accomplices who followed him to Ningzhou to open a coal mine. One was Cheng Fei, who came from the government of Anguo, and was the son of the new champion last year.

The other is Su Yaojun, the young master of the third bedroom of the Su family.

The scheming grievances between the adults don't seem to affect the little ones. In the Imperial College, this group of dudes can always easily get together regardless of the family grievances behind them.

But Lu Yanqing is a little overlord, he will ignore it when he messes up, and he will not give up until he achieves his goal. Compared with him, Cheng Fei and Su Yao are much more rational.

Seeing that Xiaobawang was about to make a move, the two hurried forward to pull him away.

Cheng Fei was obviously terrified, and wiped off his sweat, "My little ancestor, this is the Hanlin Academy. If you want to clean up people, you don't even look around."

Su Yaojun also persuaded: "It's just two broken antiques, if it's less than that, forget it!"

Lu Yanqing glared at the two with a sullen face, "It's not about antiques at all."

As he spoke, he pointed at Wen Wan, "This woman said she met me in Ningzhou, should she be damned?"

Hearing this, Cheng and Su's expressions changed simultaneously.

Although it has been four years since the Dahuanshan Coal Mine case in Ningzhou, everyone tacitly chose not to mention it, but it was dozens of lives after all.

Adults can't take responsibility for such a catastrophe, let alone those who were still ignorant back then.

In the past four years, Ningzhou has been a forbidden place where several people swore they would never set foot again. The word "Ningzhou" is a forbidden word that several people tacitly never mention.

Originally thought that this matter had already been buried underground along with the group of miners, who would have imagined that a woman suddenly came out and claimed to have seen them in Ningzhou.

Both Cheng Fei and Su Yao looked at each other, and when they looked at Wen Wan again, the eyes were indescribably cold and terrifying.

There is a great meaning of not giving up until the other party is killed.

Song Wei's gaze fell directly on Lu Yanqing's gray face, and he remained silent for a long time.

As soon as Wanwan reminded him, he remembered the rainy day four years ago. After they went back, they were told by Wen's father that the Dahuanshan coal mine had collapsed. Most of the miners inside were buried alive because they had no time to escape.

Among the hundreds of miners at that time, there were his father and father-in-law.

That coal mine obviously had no official approval, but it was easy for the magistrate and county magistrate of Ningzhou to help conceal it and even recruit workers. After the distribution, only a compensation of ten taels of silver was allocated to each family of the relatives of the mine disaster.

Back in Ningzhou, Song Wei had vague suspicions that someone was behind the coal mine, but because the other party had too much power to cover the sky with his hands, even if dozens of people died, they could cover it up lightly.

Now I heard from Wanwan that she met Lu Yanqing in their small town in Ningzhou four years ago.

Some things seem to be connected automatically without thinking about it.

Even though Lu Yanqing was only a 12-year-old child four years ago, with the Queen Mother doting on him with no bottom line, killing someone and setting fire to him became an extremely common "trivial matter".

Sure enough, the truth is cruel.

Song Wei only touched one corner, and his heart was already complicated and unspeakable, like a huge boulder was blocked.

At this moment, there was a thunderous sound of beating drums from the direction of the imperial city.

With a little bit of knowledge, I quickly heard that it was the Dengwen drum that hadn't been played for many years.

In the Great Chu Dynasty, the Dengwen Drum was the only way for the common people to express their grievances to heaven.

Because of the rule of "the emperor accepts the case when the Dengwen drum is sounded", only the most serious and unjust cases can be invited to the emperor's hands by beating the Dengwen drum, otherwise ordinary small cases will be beaten The board was locked in a prison.

A few senior officials recalled that the last time Dengwen drums sounded was five years ago, when it was because of the case of ink embezzlement for Jiangsu and Zhejiang flood relief funds.

Today, five years later, the Dengwen Drum was sounded without warning. Not to mention the ministers who had just left the office had to rush back one after another, even the Emperor Guangxi who had just returned to the Emperor’s Palace after a busy day was preparing to rest for a while. Startled, he looked at Eunuch Cui, "Did I hear it wrong, or was the Dengwen drum really beaten?"

Eunuch Cui hurriedly went out to inquire about the news, and after two quarters of an hour, he came back with a pale face, knelt down and said in a trembling voice: "Back to the emperor, someone outside the hall beat the Dengwen drum, saying that they wanted to sue Young Lord Lu for his crime in Ningxia four years ago. The state opened a coal mine without telling the court, and because the mine violated regulations, more than [-] miners were buried alive after the mine collapsed."

Emperor Guangxi's eyes went dark, and then he slapped his palm on the table again, "Say it again!"

Eunuch Cui was already trembling with fright, "Slave, I'm sure, the person who knocked on Dengwen Drum really wants to sue Lord Lu Xiaohou of Changping Changping Princess's mansion for privately opening a coal mine to kill people, so, let the emperor return a bereaved family member in Ningzhou justice."

"Nonsense!" Emperor Guangxi was furious, "How old was Lu Yanqing four years ago, how could he have the ability to commit such a big crime without telling the court?"

Eunuch Cui didn't dare to answer, but his kneeling body trembled even more.

Dengwengu has strict rules, if there is no full evidence, who would dare to play tricks on the emperor?

Emperor Guangxi obviously thought of this too, his complexion became darker and uglier, and he had no choice but to order people to summon all the officials to enter the Golden Palace, and then asked people to change their clothes and put on the dragon robe that had just been taken off.

Since he succeeded to the throne, it was the first time he encountered such a big case.

The person who beat the Dengwen drum stated his grievances while beating, but within a quarter of an hour, the outside world was already buzzing.

The nearby yamen became noisy.

No one would have imagined that four years ago, Lu Yanqing was only a 12-year-old child, and he had more than 80 lives in his hands. It would be fine if he was a slave and a pariah. All the deaths he killed were all caused by the Ningzhou border. The common people who eat are good people.

Such a big case is rare in a hundred years.

At the same time, the stalemate outside the Imperial Academy continued.

Lu Yanqing has always been used to being the boss and the second child, completely ignoring the sound of Dengwen's drum, and only one thing in his mind: kill this woman in front of him!
Just when he was about to start, he heard the person who came to the Hanlin Academy not far away sigh and say: "My mother, who has lived for most of her life, today is an eye-opener. A 12-year-old child can live in After killing more than 80 people, I lived for another four years without incident. Is it because the laws of our Great Chu are not strict enough, or is there any regulation that can trample on people's lives regardless of their superior status?"

These words directly satirized the Tian Family for pampering the little Marquis so lawlessly that they ignored the lives of the common people.

Both Cheng Fei and Su Yao were completely frightened, they left Lu Yanqing behind and ran away without even thinking about it.

Lu Yanqing was so enraged by the man's words just now, he stepped over and grabbed the other man's collar, without saying a word, smashed his fist on the bridge of the nose, and cursed, "Fart your mother! How dare you!" Nonsense, the young master told you to go see Hades!"

The man was beaten until his eyes were bleeding, and when he realized that the person who attacked him was the defendant, Lu Yanqing, he sneered, his eyes were full of sarcasm, "The tutor of the eldest princess's mansion is nothing more than that."

Lu Yanqing couldn't hear others calling his mother the most. He raised his fist and wanted to smash it, but his wrist was grabbed by a big and powerful palm.

Lu Yanqing turned his head and saw that it was Song Wei, and immediately yelled, "Let me go!"

Song Wei listened to the thundering sound of the drum, and felt chills in his heart. He looked at Lu Yanqing with cold eyes, "The Dengwen drum has been sounded, and now all the officials are rushing to the Jinluan Palace. If there is no accident, they will be here soon." Jin Yiwei will come to arrest people, how long do you want to make trouble?"

After all, he was strong on the outside and doing things on the inside, and he was so arrogant that he couldn't suppress the fear in his heart. Lu Yanqing let go of the man, and moved the wrist that was restrained by Song Wei, only to find that the man's hand was too strong to break free. He gritted his teeth angrily, and wanted to explode again. thick.

"Follow me and surrender." Song Wei dragged him towards the imperial city.

Lu Yanqing couldn't move, couldn't struggle, so he opened his mouth to bite Song Wei's arm.

Song Wei felt the pain and let go of him reflexively.

Lu Yanqing got the chance and didn't get entangled with anyone anymore. After getting away, she ran forward with a pale face and desperately.

Wen Wan looked at Song Wei's arm that was bitten and bled, and couldn't help frowning, "Why does my husband care about him? Look, I'm hurt."

While talking, she blew on his wound and urged him to go home and apply medicine.

Song Wei pursed his thin lips slightly.

Why bother?
Because he is the biological son of the eldest princess and the younger brother of Wanwan's compatriots.

If it weren't for this status, whether Lu Yanqing was tall or not, it would have nothing to do with him.

"Lu Yanqing may be the culprit who almost killed my father back then."

To the little girl, Song Wei can only say so.

Wen Wan was still furious, "Anyway, the Dengwen drum has already sounded, and the emperor will personally try the case to give justice to those people back then, so why don't you intervene?"

She was really worried about Xianggong's unlucky fate. Once he intervened, it was related to the princess's mansion. In such deep water, how could he retreat unscathed?

Song Wei looked into his little wife's pure eyes, couldn't bear to refuse after all, and hummed lightly, "Okay, I won't interfere."

A smile spread across Wen Wan's face, "Then let's go home!"

(End of this chapter)