"The Criminal Department is handling the case. All the people from Wanjuan Study Room are being escorted to the Criminal Department!" The leading officer of the Criminal Department held a search warrant.
The officers and soldiers rushed in like wolves and tigers.
Old scholar Zhou turned pale with fright.
Qiuniang immediately ordered her maid, "Quick, go through the back door and go to the North Prince's Mansion to find the Crown Princess!"
"Yes!" The maid hurriedly ran out of the back door.
Qiuniang, Song Heng and Zhou Laoxiucai were arrested and sent to the Ministry of Punishment.
……
Bei Wangfu, Jinyuyuan.
Jiang Rong received news of the accident in Wanjuan Study Hall...
He immediately looked at Jade and asked:
"How is the progress of Chu Jue's case?"
The Beiwang Mansion sent people to secretly monitor the progress of Chu Jue's case...
"We found a victim. The other people were unwilling to admit that the cloth was poisonous, so they all denied it..." Jade wondered:
"Master Chu is still looking for witnesses..."
"Inform Chu Jue of the news. Let's go to the Ministry of Punishment." Jiang Rong said.
……
Ministry of punishment, court.
Zhou Shangshu sat on the throne.
Zhou Yanghong was sitting on the stretcher, his face full of gloating.
After he broke his leg last time, he was recuperating in his mansion. Now the leg has not healed well, but when he heard that Wanjuan Study Hall was going to be in trouble, he specially ordered his servants to carry a stretcher for him to watch the show.
"Lord Zhou, please make the decision for us. Wanjuan Shuzhai wrote an article that slandered our Jinxiu Cloth Shop and it was widely circulated. It caused a great impact on the reputation of our Cloth Shop and caused countless losses!" Shang Yan Wen looked sad and angry:
"Please also ask Mr. Zhou to make decisions for the people!"
Standing next to Shang Yanwen was his third uncle, who was responsible for taking care of the Shang family's business.
"Mr. Zhou, our cloth shop is clean, you can go check it out. There is nothing wrong with the fabrics in our cloth shop!" Shang Laosan looked like he was speaking righteously.
From the first day of publication of "Qianqiu·Volume Three".
The Shang family responded quickly.
All toxic fabrics were destroyed from the warehouse. And the people who bought the cloth went to settle it one by one.
The common people did not dare to offend the Shang family.
They all choose to swallow their anger.
Except for one "stubborn" person, it can't cause any trouble.
"Come here, check out the fabrics at Jinxiu Cloth Store." Zhou Shangshu said.
The official was ordered to do it.
After a while, I brought back some fabrics from the cloth shop and made sure there were no problems.
At this time, Song Heng and others were also brought into the Criminal Department.
"Who among you wrote the article that slandered Jinxiu Buzhuang?" Zhou Shangshu stared at the people in Wanjuan Study Room and said sternly:
"If you dare to hide it, you will be severely punished!"
When the old scholar Zhou entered the Ministry of Justice, he was so frightened that he could not even speak a complete sentence.
Song Heng stood up and said, "I wrote the article. But it is not a slander!"
"I have already inspected it and found that there is nothing wrong with the fabrics in Jinxiu Cloth Village. You are slandering me! According to my Daxia Law, any scholar who makes a speech will be deprived of his honor and will be punished by fifty rods!" Zhou Shangshu slapped the alarm, The first person announced the verdict:
"The lax review of Wanjuan Study has led to the circulation of this ridiculous article, which is a crime of negligence. The shopkeeper has thirty sticks! The Wanjuan Study has been sealed and ordered to be closed for rectification."
"Delay it and execute it!"
His son's leg was broken by Xie Lingxi, and he secretly resented it. Now that I get the chance, I will deal with Wanjuan Study Hall ruthlessly.
Zhou Yanghong laughed happily, "Good judgment!"
"One person does the work and one person is responsible. The article was written by me and has nothing to do with others." Song Heng looked at Zhou Shangshu and said unfazed:
"Mr. Zhou took over the case before he could conduct a thorough investigation. This is a matter of disregarding human life and judging the case indiscriminately!"
If you handle the wrong case, the crime will be serious.
But the Zhou family and the Shang family had long been angry in private, and the Shang family had already settled this matter with the people.
Zhou Shangshu only deals with judgment.
"How do I handle this case and I still need your guidance? Come here, drag them down and beat them!" Zhou Shangshu said sternly.
At this moment, an official came in hurriedly and reported: "Sir, the Crown Princess of the North is here, we can't stop her..."
The words just fell...
The guards of the Northern Palace cleared the way, and several officials who were blocking him were pushed aside.
A woman in a crimson dress walked in surrounded by followers.
Exactly, Jiang Rong.
"The fabrics from Jinxiu Cloth Village are harmful to people, and the Mingxin Division has already found the perpetrator. You, the Criminal Department, can't figure out the case, so you can learn more from the Mingxin Division." Jiang Rong looked at Zhou Shangshu coldly.
"Bold, you broke into the Criminal Department without permission..." Zhou Shangshu said angrily.
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of captains from the Mingxin Division also broke in.
"Zhou Shangshu, your Ministry of Punishment can't handle cases, so don't take them." Chu Jue came all the way and said in a hurry:
"Jinxiu Buzhuang deserves it! You still listened to their stupid words and arrested innocent people. How did you get the position of Minister of the Ministry of Punishment?"
He was busy chasing down leads.
Suddenly I heard that the Ministry of Punishment had made a move, and I immediately rushed over to seek justice.
"You... are bold!" Zhou Shangshu's face turned pale. Your father talks to me politely, but you are so lawless.
"In fear that you might decide the wrong case and wrongfully accuse a good person, Lieutenant Chu came here to clarify the truth. Zhou Shangshu, you should thank him." Jiang Rong said calmly.
Chu Jue was convinced, "That's right! That's it! I have found out that a victim, the fabric from Jinxiu Cloth Village, killed her daughter! You should release everyone in Wanjuan Study now, you should release Shang Arrest the family members."
Zhou Shangshu was confident and said calmly, "What kind of suffering master?"
"Come here, please invite Mr. Wu to come to the court." Chu Jue immediately called the witness.
A woman in her twenties, with a haggard face, knelt down and saluted:
"My lords, please make a decision for the peasant woman. The peasant woman bought the brocade fabric and made the child's clothes... Unexpectedly, the child... the child developed malignant sores... and could not be saved..."
She began to cry as she spoke.
Then he stretched out his hands and said, "Please tell me clearly, it is this kind of malignant sore... that harmed my child..."
The materials at Jinxiu Cloth Store are on the expensive side.
But thinking of using the softest silk for her child, she gritted her teeth and bought one. I laid some in the cradle and made a few small clothes...
Although she didn't wear any clothes herself, her hands were covered with sores because of the contact with the fabric while making the clothes...
Chu Jue found many victims.
Only Wu was willing to testify because her child was killed. Other victims also had poisonous sores on their bodies...
However, they denied that they had gone to Jinxiu Cloth Store to buy fabrics, saying that they did so accidentally.
The child is weak and the sores are fatal. The adult is a little better and has not yet died.
"It looks very pitiful, but why do you say that it was the fabric from Jinxiu Cloth Village that caused you and your child to have sores? Maybe it was because you touched some wild flowers and weeds?" The old god Zhou Shangshu was there and said calmly:
"You are the only one who said there is something wrong with the fabrics from Jinxiu Cloth Store. How come nothing happened to the other people who bought the fabrics?"
"Isolated evidence does not prove it. Colonel Chu must understand this truth that stupid people don't understand."
Zhou Shangshu looked at Chu Jue, his tone filled with condescending mockery.
