Chapter 151 Shang Wenbin
Li Rizhi did not believe Aunt Shang's words immediately. Moreover, although he had suffered a lot of crimes when Shang Wenbin looked, he was accompanied by a doctor and a servant in prison. With such an attitude, he must have been a pampered young master. Is he really wronged? Is he really unable to listen to Aunt Shang's words?
Of course, Li Rizhi understood it, but he would not say it in person, but remained silent. He just nodded slightly and said, "Brother Shang has suffered a lot and needs to be well maintained."
But everyone behind Li Rizhi looked at it, but they became angry. Fu Guibao shouted: "It's really cut. The wound is smooth. This must be cut by a knife. It's impossible for it to be bitten off!"
Quan Shufang also said: "It's so terrible. In order to frame a person, he actually wanted to cut off his tongue so that he could not survive or die. Although I have read a lot of books, I have never seen such a cruel thing!"
Chen Yingying simply didn't go to see it. She felt that her tongue was too terrible and didn't dare to look at it!
Only Cheng Zizai looked at Shang Wenbin's broken tongue and looked at Li Rizhi. Seeing that Li Rizhi did not show sympathy and was not filled with righteous indignation, he said nothing, and did not show any expressions of this or that.
Shang Wenbin closed his mouth and said a few words to Aunt Shang, but he couldn't hear clearly what he was saying. Moreover, it seemed that his tongue would hurt, so after just saying these words, he stopped talking, sat behind the fence, looking at Aunt Shang.
The doctor in the prison next door said: "Young Master Shang's tongue injury has gradually improved. Just take medicine on time. I feel that I have been spending almost the same time in this prison, so I plan to go out of prison tomorrow after today. I still have business to take care of at home!"
When Aunt Shang heard the doctor was leaving, she hurriedly said, "Don't do it, Wang Langzhong, you should spend more time with my Wenbin. Lao Shi has bought the shop next to your house. As long as you wait for my Wenbin's injuries to heal, that shop is my reward for Wang Langzhong."
Wang's eyes lit up. Of course, he knew about the shop next to his house. He used the shop as a medical fee, which was a huge reward. Then it was nothing wrong for him to continue to accompany Shang Wenbin in prison. When he went out, his family would be able to open another shop.
After leaving the doctor, Mrs. Shang said to Shang Wenbin again: "Wenbin, my son, if you have any grievances, just tell this Mr. Li. Mr. Li is proficient in the law and may be able to overturn the verdict for you, wash away your grievances, and prevent you from being beheaded!"
After hearing this, Shang Wenbin became excited and rushed to the fence again, whimpering at Li Rizhi constantly, with his expression very excited, as if he was really wronged and urgently needed someone like Li Rizhi to sue him.
Although Aunt Shang described Li Rizhi as a litigant, Li Rizhi was not angry either. You should know that litigants were not favored by the government in this era, and scholars like Li Rizhi who went to Beijing to take the exam cannot be involved with litigants, otherwise they will be disgusted by people in the officialdom, especially those in the Ministry of Justice.
Li Ri knew: "If you want paper and pen, then it's better to let Mr. Shang write it out, so I can analyze it for him."
Shang Wenbin didn't react much, but Wang Langzhong next door said: "There are paper and pens here, so I'll take it for Mr. Shang!" He took paper and pens in his prison and stuffed it into Shang Wenbin's cell.
Shang Wenbin took the paper and pen, sat at the table, wrote a few lines of words on the ground, and then handed them to Li Rizhi. These lines made Li Rizhi frown!
I saw a few lines of words written on the paper, which was nothing more than that he did not kill anyone. I asked Li Rizhi to call for justice for him and told the county magistrate that he did not kill anyone. He went back and forth, just a few words.
Fu Guibao stretched his neck and saw it on the side. He couldn't even see it anymore. Shang Wenbin's handwriting was too ugly, and he was very erratic, and his level was not much worse than that of the newly enlightened school children!
Fu Guibao said: "Brother Shang, you didn't bite back when your tongue was bitten off? Ah, by the way, it wasn't bitten off! Then when your tongue was cut off, did you see who cut your tongue clearly? You should at least write this clearly!"
Li Rizhi nodded and said, "Yes, if you don't write these clearly, but just shout for justice, I guess the county magistrate won't believe you!"
Shang Wenbin whined twice, and then picked up the pen and wrote a few words. Without him handing over the paper, Li Rizhi could see clearly. The words on it were that he didn't see clearly. The two of them were covered with faces!
Li Rizhi asked: "Are they all men?"
Shang Wenbin was slightly stunned, and then nodded immediately. Although the two people who cut his tongue were covered with their faces and could not see clearly, he could still distinguish whether the man was a woman.
Li Rizhi said again: "Where did you get your tongue cut?"
Shang Wenbin hesitated now, but obviously he was asked this question, which should have been asked by the Huayin County Magistrate when he asked the case. He picked up the pen and wrote a few lines, meaning that he was knocked out in an alley, then caught in another place, had his tongue cut, and then was knocked out again. When he woke up, he found himself in an alley again, and then he ran home!
What he wrote is very simple, obviously because of his poor literary talent. This conclusion can be drawn from the ugly words he wrote, but now he can't speak, so he naturally can't explain the matter clearly.
Li Rizhi frowned. This was difficult. If someone deliberately framed Shang Wenbin and wanted him to be a scapegoat, but Shang Wenbin did not recognize who was, then it would not be easy to figure out. Of course, even if he could recognize it, it would be of no use. If it was a murderer hired from another place, where would he go to investigate!
Shang Wenbin also knew that he was writing vaguely, but after just a few lines of words, there were several typos. He was very ashamed and seemed to be reluctant to write it again. Looking at Aunt Shang, his eyes turned red and tears fell down again.
It doesn't matter if he cried, and Aunt Shang also started crying, grabbed Shang Wenbin's hand and comforted her, saying that she would try her best to overturn the case for Shang Wenbin, so that Shang Wenbin would relax and would be out of prison without waiting for long.
Li Rizhi looked back and saw that Fu Guibao and Cheng Zizai were expressionless, while Quan Shufang was filled with righteous indignation. As for Chen Yingying, she began to feel sympathy again. Seeing the Shang family’s mother crying, her eyes turned red!
When Quan Shufang saw Li Rizhi looking over, he felt that he should say something. He stomped his feet and said, "When encountering such an injustice, I really want to smash the door of this prison cell and rescue Brother Shang!"
Suddenly, the prison head who had been watching coldly not far away said, "Do you want to smash the prison door? Think about it carefully, do you really want to smash it? Have you thought about it?"
As he said that, the prison head came over, and he waved impatiently, as if he was driving a flies, and said, "Okay, the time is up, you guys go out. If you want to see, come again tomorrow!"
Every time Aunt Shang sees his son, the prison head will have to collect money, but it cannot be too long each time. After all, the county magistrate dislikes Shang Wenbin, and by the way, the prison head's attitude towards Shang Wenbin cannot be very good.
The prison chief drove everyone out of the prison, and Aunt Shang had to explain that he would come to see Shang Wenbin again tomorrow. After everyone left the prison, Li Ri knew: "If I go and ask for the county magistrate, how many chances will I get from him?"
When he met the county magistrate of Huayin, he met Cui Dongsheng in Zhengzhou and Guancheng County Magistrate. At that time, he brought his uncle Zheng Gangling's letters, so it was natural for him to meet. However, the county magistrate of Huayin did not recognize who Zheng Gangling was. Zheng Gangling had never written a letter to him. It was normal for others not to see Li Rizhi. If everyone wanted to meet the county magistrate, there would be no need to do anything else that day.
After hearing his words, the prison head smiled and said, "My county magistrate is upright, but he doesn't like people who commit crimes. He hates people like lawyers, not to mention that he goes out of the city to check the people's conditions. No matter how much you ask for it, you will never see it!"
He impatiently pushed Li Rizhi and the others out of the side door and the county government office, and then went back. He did not give him any benefits every day. He was short of people, so he had to be more polite, but he felt that these people were very troublesome.
When he was pushed out of the county government, everyone was speechless, and Li Rizhi was also a little embarrassed. He had always been smooth sailing in the government, but he was driven out when he arrived in Huayin County.
It happened that there was a small restaurant not far away. Li Ri knew: "I was a little hungry, so why not eat something first and then discuss the countermeasures!"
After he said this, everyone felt that they were indeed a little hungry, so they went into the small restaurant together. As soon as Fu Guibao sat down, he shouted: "My man, give me a bowl of yam soup, add more garlic, add more green onions, and add more sauce. By the way, add more soup and have more cakes!"
The guy in the small restaurant was amused and said, "Customer, just say two bowls are enough!" Isn't it just two bowls of it?
Fu Guibao was also happy, pointed at everyone and said, "Then let's have two bowls for each!"
"Okay, wait!" The guy went into the kitchen, and in a moment, he brought out several large bowls of yam soup and put them on the table.
Yam soup is the original mutton soup bun. Users are one of the favorite foods of the northern people in the Tang Dynasty. They can be eaten as staple food and as vegetables!
Everyone started eating yam soup, and even Aunt Shang ate a bowl, and it was almost done. Li Rizhi said: "Why did he have to sue Brother Shang's husband of the victim? Didn't he know that if Brother Shang was wronged, then he was sentenced to death, wouldn't the real murderer have been at large? Although this is not considered a pain for the relatives, it is the enemy who is fast!"
Mrs. Shang said, "That Chu Qiang is far from saying that it was my wife who was killed by Wenbin, but he doesn't care about who is the real murderer. In fact, he is the county magistrate in Zheng County and leaves his wife alone at home. He rarely comes back normally. It can be imagined that he is not very good to his wife, but when his wife dies, he insists on catching Wenbin and not letting go. I really don't know why!"
Li Rizhi said with a voice and said, "If you think it is Chu Qiangyuan's problem, then you might as well go to him to ask clearly. It's okay to go to his house to see it. His family should be the scene of the case. His wife was killed at home?"
Aunt Shang nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it was killed in her own home, but my son did not go to her house. What does her murder have to do with my son?"
Li Rizhi laughed and said nothing, but just stood up and thought about going to Chu Qiangyuan's house to see the situation. Even if Chu Qiangyuan was not at home, then he was asking the servants to open the door. They might be able to go in, or they could sneak in.
Fu Guibao suddenly asked, "Auntie Shang, do you say your son has never been to the Chu family. Is it your son said, or is it someone else said that he has been to the Chu family?"
Aunt Shang's face turned dark and said, "It was my son's words, but others said that he had been to the Chu family. This is obviously a false accusation. Don't believe the rumors. Wenbin, you have also seen it. How could a child like him do bad things?"
Chapter completed!