Chapter 23
Everyone was stunned by Ye Chang's voice, including the person he accused of.
But he was only stunned for a moment, and then the person he accused screamed: "No, nonsense, the Bodhisattva did not blame me, I did not steal, I did not steal!"
"That's right, I haven't seen the Bodhisattva surrender to his sins..."
"Ah, I understand. It must be that you, a little beast, saw that the opportunity was not good, and he was randomly accusing him. No matter who it is, as long as the little beast catches him, he will accuse him of the other party!" Ye Lian stepped forward and pointed at Ye Chang and cursed: "Little beast, now the master of the Shaofu is very careful. You still want to accuse the good of being a thief!"
Liu roared and cried like a female beast, but she didn't believe what Ye Chang pointed to: "Mr. County lieutenant, you are the master of slaves. Chuntao is the slave's caring maid, and it is absolutely impossible for him to be a thief. At this time, this little beast still wants to backfire. It's really a snake and scorpion heart, County lieutenant..."
Chuntao also cried and bowed: "Mr., my wife, I really have never stole the box!"
Someone around him also said, "Chuntao has always been honest and loyal to Liu. How could she be a thief... Shiyilang was anxious and pointed at him. Alas, it's a pity, it's a pity that Shiyilang was enlightened by an immortal. Now it seems... Could it be that he is blessed and has become crazy about gains and losses?"
"Where is the crazy person who is not enlightened, it is not an immortal, but a monster. He also teaches his magic to capture money!"
"It's really pitiful, the Eleven Lang people have always been pretty good..."
This discussion came into Yuan Highway's ears, causing his forehead to rush veins. When he looked at Ye Chang again, his expression was a little unkind. Brother Qian, who had been watching the fun, scratched his head at this time, as if he thought it was difficult.
Ye Chang was still calm, and he suddenly shouted "其"!
With this shout, everyone's discussion stopped. Ye Chang held up the folding fan in his hand and sneered coldly: "Chuntao, are you a thief? Did the Bodhisattva blame you? What I said does not count, what you said does not count, what you said does not count, what the Bodhisattva said does not count!"
"You little beast, let the Bodhisattva speak!" Ye Lian shouted: "There are gods in clay sculptures, so how can you help you, an unfilial and unrighteous beast!"
"Haha... Uncle Changzhi seemed to be happy at this time. If the Bodhisattva didn't speak, he wouldn't be able to catch the real thief... But who said that the Bodhisattva didn't speak?" Ye Chang knew that things could not be too much. If it weren't for his previous performance, he would have left a good impression in front of the Yuan Highway, I'm afraid that the Yuan Highway would have an attack at this time and he would have taken him down.
"you……"
"There are eleven of you twelve people who have the mark left by the Bodhisattva on your twelve people. Only one person has not left his mark. He is a real thief. That person is Chuntao you!" Ye Chang ignored Ye Lian and turned around and shouted at Chuntao.
"No...it's impossible, it's not me!"
"You eleven people, all stretch out your hands!" Ye Chang said loudly.
The eleven people were calm and stretched out their hands one by one. They saw that there was a ball of vermilion on the palms of the people, which were the marks left by cinnabar. Ye Chang turned to Chuntao again: "You extend your hand too!"
Chuntao was completely panicked at this time. She clenched her fists tightly, her body trembled constantly, but she refused to reach out. Ye Chang saluted Yuan Highway: "Master Shaofu, just look at her hands and you will know that there is no mark in her hands!"
Chuntao took a few steps backwards, but was immediately stopped. Then, two officers stepped forward and forced her to extend her hand.
Sure enough, her palm was clean and without any trace!
Among the twelve people who walked around the Bodhisattva in the curtain, the other eleven people had cinnabar marks in their palms, but she did not!
"This is the evidence. Chuntao and Bodhisattva left cinnabar marks in other people's palms, but you don't have one. Do you know why?"
"No, no, this is impossible. The Bodhisattva did not reduce thunder and lightning, nor did the heavenly fire. This must have been a mistake. It must be because they had become ghosts in their hands earlier..."
"Do you think that the Bodhisattva's sins are just thunder and lightning? The Bodhisattva has great supernatural powers and compassion, and the thunder and lightning are directly killed!" Ye Chang sneered: "It's just that I won't give you a mark, but the Bodhisattva leaves you with a way of life. As long as you tell the truth and repent, there's still a way of life. But if you don't say it, you're looking for death, not only will you seek death, but you will still suffer the pain of pulling the tongue soup in your life after life!"
At this time, Chuntao was completely in a mess. She was just a maid who had always followed Liu. How could she distinguish the mystery in Ye Chang's words? She was almost instinctively guided by Ye Chang's words and couldn't help saying: "If I tell the truth, I can have a way out?"
As soon as this sentence came out, Yuan Highway clenched his fist gently, while Brother Qian slapped his palms, Liu's howling sounded and Ye Lian shouted sternly: "What do you have to say?"
"Of course, if you tell the truth, you will have a way of life. The master of the young mansion is here. Who else dares to make things difficult for you here? What's more, the statue of the Bodhisattva is right now. Since the Bodhisattva gives you the path of repentance, how can you let the evil people stop it?"
Chuntao looked at Ye Chang, and from Ye Chang's eyes, she seemed to have gained strength.
Ye Chang's magic, she has seen it with her own eyes from beginning to end, and now she has experienced it with her own eyes. She knelt in front of Ye Chang, crying and said, "It was the husband who asked the slave to do it. The husband ruined the slave's body and said that he would take the slave away from other places and wait until his wife dies or remarries before coming back, so that the slave can also be the serious wife of the family..."
Having said that, Ye Lian next to her rushed over and kicked her over: "You slut, how dare you swear off!"
He was still waiting to rush up and kick, but Ye Chang, who reacted, grabbed one hand and then pulled it, causing his center of gravity to become unstable, and he fell out and chewed his shit.
Chuntao, who was kicked over and got up, was not too much at this time. She cried and told the story. It turned out that Ye Lian was already fifty years old, but her lust was still strong. However, Liu's liver fire was too strong and Tiangui was gone. Although she still had two concubines, Ye Lian hooked up with Liu's personal servant Chuntao, who was not as good as a concubine. Chuntao was also unwilling to be inferior to a concubine. Although she was not as good as a concubine, she showed that she was very arrogant. She often cried and asked Ye Lian to take him into her as a concubine. Ye Lian was helpless for him, so she made such an idea and asked her to find an opportunity to steal Liu's small box.
She took advantage of the chaos when Liu went to find Ye Chang's trouble that day, but the body contract in the box was not very useful to her, so she only hid the land deed and gold and silver, and then joined in the fun with her. As a result, Ye Chang asked Liu to run back to check the box with one sentence, and she and Ye Lian wanted to put the matter on Ye Chang's head.
After saying this, Chuntao burst into tears and pointed at Ye Lian and cursed: "You unconscientious old slave, you almost kicked the slave to death. If you hadn't deceived me with sweet words, how could I do this injustice, and how could I be judged by the Bodhisattva! Eleven Lang is the star constellation and the immortals enlightened it. What a blessing it would be. But you asked me to remove the defilement of the slave and flatter him, and I just wanted to kill me and silence me!"
"You slut, you are talking nonsense and slandering!" Ye Lian's face was pale and trembled all over, but he was still tough: "You did theft by yourself. If it was not done to Nephew Chang, it would fall on me again? Shiyilang, Shiyilang, I am your uncle, I am the leader of our three rooms! You can't watch me..."
"Pooh!"
Before Ye Lian could finish his words, Liu, who was next to him, rushed over and pushed him to the ground, grabbed his beard and cried and scolded, and fought. Ye Lian was afraid to fight back under her power, but only protected her face with her hands. Chuntao next to him saw it, thinking about the hatred that the unfaithful man had just tried to kick him, so he went over to kick him a few times. However, Liu, who beat Ye Lian himself up, but he did not allow others to do it, especially Chuntao, immediately abandoned Ye Lian to scratch Chuntao's face. But at this time, Ye Lian thought that he had been bullied for half a lifetime, and could no longer help him, so he jumped up and slapped Liu.
The three of them got into a group, and there was no place to talk about the atmosphere. They rolled in a mess, making everyone present watch a very lively.
Yuan Highway didn't know what to do at this time. He was a people-friendly official and was in charge of criminal investigation and arrest. He had not tried any cases at all, but like today's incident, Bodhisattvas tried cases and miserables in civil strife, as if they were singing a big show, which also made him at a loss. Brother Qian frowned, and kept thinking hard, and did not remind him.
However, Liu Fengyin, who was stunned by the sudden change, was used to being a good person and first reacted. In any case, his daughter was the victim, and she could not be beaten by others in front of him. Therefore, Liu Fengyin shouted, and the Liu family's children who came with him immediately went up. He first slapped Chuntao and pulled Ye Lian to fill his old fist.
Seeing that the quarrel was no longer there, Yuan Gaolu knew that he would not say anything, so he coughed a few times. The worker who was watching the fun and relished the fun came back to his senses. He slapped the Liu family's children away. After everyone separated, Ye Lian sat on the ground like a thrust on the back, half crying and half laughing on his face, and kept gasping.
"Okay, okay, since today is a broken face, then let's break up!" He said sternly: "The Master of the Young Mansion clearly understands that this Liu family is fierce, and he is really a jealousy. I have endured it for half a lifetime and can't bear it anymore. Now I report to Master, please judge his wife according to my "Tang Law"!"
"A little slave, I saw you reading some books and only thought that you would have a future. I married my daughter like a flower and jade to you!" Liu Fengyin next to me was furious: "I never expected that you are a dissatisfied person. You cannot treat your child's family and start a business outside. Apart from marrying a concubine and stealing a bastard and giving birth to a bastard, you have no ability! You dare to give up your wife today? You will give up your wife and return the dowry that you have for your marriage first!"
When he mentioned the dowry, Ye Lian suddenly withered. Liu was fierce and controlled the family of the third house. He was lustful and had not saved much private house in his hand. How could he pay for it? Seeing that he was angry, Liu Fengyin went up and slapped a few more times, and he rang out loud.
Yuan Gaolu really felt helpless, so he looked at Brother Qian, but Brother Qian was still frowning and thinking hard, so he looked at Ye Chang again.
Ye Chang understood the meaning of the young master and stepped forward and said, "Duke Yuan, such a common thing has been defiled by Yuan Gong for no reason. It is said that it is difficult for a clean official to make a decision on family affairs. He took the stolen money and goods, and then he was beaten out and asked them to discuss how to deal with it."
"But they accused you of being a demon, would you not care about it?" Yuan Gaolu suddenly felt reasonable. Ye Chang didn't say anything about how to deal with the stolen money and goods he had issued, but Yuan Gaolu felt that he had to repay him.
"I only want to be innocent when I go down, not the rest." Ye Chang laughed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yuan!"
At this time, he changed the name of Yuan Highway from "Shaofu Master" to "Yuan Gong", showing his closeness. Yuan Highway never refused, so he treated him like a junior.
"Okay, okay, Ye Chang, you are noble in your ambitions... By the way, Ye Chang, you have ever had a word for prose this year?"
“No words yet.”
Yuan Highway heard that he had no word for quotation and was about to ask for one for him, when Brother Qian suddenly shouted: "I have it, I understand!"
Brother Qian said as he quickly drilled into the curtain. After a while, he turned out again. When he came out, he opened his palms and said with a smile: "Ye Chang, this is the mark left by the Bodhisattva you invited!"
Everyone looked at him with their palms and saw that his palms were red and also looked like cinnabar. Everyone was stunned for a moment, and the clever mind had a guess, and the foolish also vaguely realized that there were other mysteries behind Ye Chang's invitation to the Bodhisattva this time.
Yuan Highway was a smart man. After hearing the words, he even forgot about getting the word "天天" for Ye Chang. He also penetrated into the curtain, stroked the Bodhisattva statue with his hands in the darkness, and then came out, stretched out his palms and looked at it. Sure enough, there was also a bright red in his palm.
"So...so...so!" he murmured to himself, not only did his opinion of Ye Chang not lowered, but he had a higher opinion.
If Ye Chang really invited the Bodhisattva to show his spirit, then he was just a disciple of the monk and Taoist monks. But this time he clearly used a plan, not only linked, but more importantly, he calculated the human mind very thoroughly, and it was not as if it was done by a boy of sixteen or seventeen years old!
He felt mixed emotions in his heart, and he slowly walked over and looked at Ye Chang with a strange look.
He originally thought that if there were such young men in the county, they would succeed if they were allowed to enter school. Give him a font size to bring the relationship between the two closer, and to show his own wisdom in knowing people. In the long run, it would be a beautiful story.
But after he figured out what the "Bodhisattva's case trial" was going on, his idea changed.
Such people have many wisdoms and changes in their intelligence and are too close to him, which may not be a blessing.
"Ye Chang, since you don't ask for money, as long as you have a clear name, I will return your name to be innocent." He calmed down and restored the authority of the official: "The case of Ye Lian's family theft in Wuzepi in Xiuwu County has been decided, and the head of the family, Ye Lian, was robbed by his wife, and he had nothing to do with Ye Chang. However, Ye Chang, although you are talented, you are careful of the disaster of verbal troubles!"
The key factor when Ye Chang was falsely accused of being a demon was that he was trying to show off his verbal advantage and asked Liu to be careful of her box, but the result was a prophecy. Yuan Highway realized this, which was considered to be a reminder of Ye Chang, and then patted Brother Qian on the shoulder: "Qian Dalang, we should leave!"
Qian Dalang was like Ye Chang, and he was stunned.
Chapter completed!