vrcanaries Chapter 580 Seeking the Truth
Chapter 580 Seeking the Truth
The blind old lady knelt at the gate of Jingzhao government office.
The people around her looked at her with sympathy.
"How pitiful! She was widowed at a young age, relying on her only son for everything. Now she is sending her son away."
The blind old lady trembled and said, "Sir, my son died unjustly. Please help him."
Qin Huiyin stood in the crowd and watched the officials from the Jingzhao government office lead the blind old lady in.
Not long after, the Jingzhao government court opened the trial of the case.
"Old lady, the coroner has confirmed that your son was indeed beaten to death. However, there is a doubt: he was beaten by two people. We collected evidence from the scene, and according to the testimony of those present, only Tang Dafu beat him at the time. He did not argue with anyone else. Old lady, if you want us to seek justice from the government, then you need to give us time to investigate this matter. We need to find out who the second person was who beat him, and how strong their strength was."
"Sir, do you mean that there was a second person who beat my son?" asked the blind old lady.
"That's right," the Jingzhao prefect said. "Judging from your son's body, Tang Dafu's strength was indeed great, but it was disorganized and haphazard, a mere venting of power. The other man was different. He knew exactly where to hit someone to kill, and he used just enough force to kill them without anyone noticing."
"Please find the real murderer and bring him to justice."
"Think carefully about what happened. Who carried your son back? Was he already dead when he was carried back?"
"It was our neighbor Wang Dali who carried him back. He was still alive when Wang Dali carried him back and could still talk to me. He said he would soon have money to buy medicine for me. My old bones are always a burden. If I had known it would kill him, I would rather die myself and put an end to it all."
The blind old lady cried so pitifully.
The people who were listening to the trial outside were deeply moved.
"Mr. Tang, relying on his son and son-in-law being high-ranking officials, treats human life as worthless. Such a person should be punished. If he doesn't punish them, it means that officials are protecting each other. There must be something fishy going on."
"Yes, she must be punished. That old lady is so pitiful!"
After this instigation, the people who originally only felt a little sympathetic towards the old lady immediately developed resentment towards Tang Dafu.
Qin Huiyin called out, "Song Yi."
Song Yi came out and saw Qin Huiyin pointing at the two people who were instigating the conflict, and immediately understood what she meant.
The two men still wanted to incite the people, but were quickly controlled by Song Yi and Song Er.
At this time, the prefect of Jingzhao had already asked the blind old lady the second question, so he announced that the court would be adjourned for another trial.
The prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture got the secret of "delay" from Song Ruize, and originally did not want to try the case too quickly.
Seeing no follow-up, Qin Huiyin left the Jingzhao government office. She took a carriage directly to the Censorate and entered the Censorate's important area.
"Meet Madam."
"Hello, madam."
Qin Huiyin nodded to everyone.
When she found Song Ruize, he was in a meeting with his subordinates. She waited in the adjacent room for a while until the noises from next door stopped, and then she came to Song Ruize.
Song Ruize was pressing his eyebrows, but when he saw her appear, he immediately perked up.
He looked listless just now, but the moment he saw her, there was light in his eyes and he became energetic.
But Qin Huiyin understood that these were all his disguises. He must have been very distressed, but he always kept himself together in front of her to prevent her from seeing his vulnerability.
Qin Huiyin walked behind him and pressed his eyebrows.
"Yinyin, I'm fine." Song Ruize grabbed her fingers and pulled her over.
He just couldn't bear to let her do these rough jobs.
"I just came from the Jingzhao government office." Qin Huiyin sat beside him, poured him a glass of water, watched him drink it, and then continued, "The Jingzhao prefect is a good official. He has obviously found out the truth, but he doesn't dare to offend the Mingfasi, so now he can only listen to you and delay the trial. But this way, it's impossible to drag it out until the deceased's body is rotten."
"Not many people care about the truth now. Everyone wants to know whether the family members of officials who commit crimes are subject to the same punishment as ordinary people. This is intended to incite public discontent with us."
"What should we do next?"
"I discussed it with my mother-in-law. Since the other party wants to incite public opinion, let's use the same method to break this situation."
"How to solve it?"
"The story of the blind old woman and her only son, who depended on each other for survival, is fascinating. However, the whole thing happened because the old woman's son said something that angered Uncle Tang. Uncle Tang, feeling sorry for his wife, wanted to teach the man who humiliated her a lesson. From this perspective, Uncle Tang is a good man who cherishes his wife, and women all over the world must admire his behavior. Let's tell the story of Uncle Tang and his mother-in-law's difficulties over the years. The more exciting the story, the better. What do you think of this story of a woman supporting a family with a broken husband, huge debts, and several children to raise?"
"They want to incite the people, and we're using the same method to break the deadlock, which is not wrong in itself. Ultimately, we still have to return to the truth of the case. Also, there's the Mingfa Division. If we exaggerate the feud between the Mingfa Division and our two families, and based on what the Mingfa Division has done these days, even if the people won't help us, they won't help him spread rumors."
"The truth of the case is easy to find out. As long as you do it, there will be evidence everywhere. There is the truth and evidence in front, and public opinion behind. If the Mingfasi wants to target Uncle Tang again, unless they find more clear evidence to prove themselves, they will not be able to wrongly accuse others."
Jiang Qibin came in from outside and said, "Boss, there are a lot of rumors about Madam Tang."
"Is it about those old stories about the deep relationship between Uncle Tang and my mother-in-law?" Song Ruize said.
"Not only that, but there's also all the old stories about Madam Tang and the Anping Marquis's family from her early years. Everything about Madam Tang seems to have been exposed. Didn't someone say before that Madam Tang was Jiang Yunzhou's biological mother? Now, the grievances between Madam Tang and the Anping Marquis' family, as well as the grievances between Madam Tang and Jiang Yunzhou when he was a child, are being spread out in great detail, as if someone had witnessed them firsthand. I feel that there is only one person who could be so familiar with these things..."
That is Li Taohua.
Only Li Taohua knew what she had been through.
Qin Huiyin understood.
"My mother wanted to die with Jiang Yunzhou," Qin Huiyin said. "Jiang Yunzhou wanted to ruin my mother's reputation. My mother directly publicized the feud between her and the Anping Marquis' Mansion. Now everyone will only say that Jiang Yunzhou has been an ungrateful person since childhood. My mother suffered so much before, and Uncle Tang knew everything my mother had been through and still loved her like a treasure. He is indeed a good man worth entrusting your life to."