The three Meng’s got down from the carriage and Xu Yan came forward and banged the big drum of the capital.
The magistrate came out from inside and was just about to scold, when he saw Mr. Big carrying Huo, whose face was covered in blood, get off the carriage and was so shocked that he immediately turned around and ran in to report.
The capital’s governor hurriedly came over from the back of the courthouse and looked clearly at the few people brought in by the magistrates and froze slightly.
“My lord.”
Meng said, “The people’s wife is suing Xu Wen Huo for harming my daughter, causing her to disappear for over ten years, and also suing Xu Wen for harbouring and deceiving her.”
The governor of the capital could not believe his ears, Xu Qingwan’s disappearance was actually the work of Mr. Da’s ordinary wife, and Mr. Da knew about it?
He looked to Mr. Big.
Mr. Big had changed his usual refined and gentle appearance and was surrounded by anger, “I want to sue Meng, she forced my wife to die.”
The governor of the capital was startled, “The person, the person is dead?”
Then he realised that he had been redundant in asking, if she hadn’t died, she wouldn’t have let Mr. Big hold her in full view of the public.
He picked up the alarming wood with a headache and wanted to slap it, but when he thought of their status, he gently put it down again, “Both of you, can you tell us the whole story?”
Xu stepped forward slightly and told what had happened back then.
The capital’s governor listened in awe.
Even a man from a poor family would love his first son and daughter, right, and yet Mr. Big put his first daughter out of his mind for the sake of a woman?
“Great, great sir, is what Miss Xu said the truth?”
“Not so, back then Lian’er did not want her life, he only thought of sending her far away, it was she herself who jumped off the carriage and fell and lost her memory.”
Once again, the Governor of the capital was dumbfounded, and it was a long time before he stammered out a sentence, “You, you mean the disappearance of those, those years was caused by Miss Xu, by Miss Xu herself?”
“Yes.”
The Governor of the capital had his eyes opened, it turned out that the literati were so shameless that they had no limits.
His voice sank, “Does Mr. Da’s words also mean that Huo and her children did move against Miss Xu back then?”
“It was Lian’er’s own doing, and that is why they were forced to die alive.”
“My lord ……”
Song Wangyue stood in the doorway and raised her voice.
The capital magistrate narrowed his eyes and saw that it was just an eight or nine-year-old girl, and was just about to get angry when Song Wan Yue already lifted her feet and walked into the lobby, kneeling down, “Huo saw that things were falling apart, and in order to save her children, she deliberately ran herself over and died, not because our family members forced her to, if you don’t believe me, you can have the coroner come over to examine her injuries.”
“You are ……”
“My daughter, Song Wan Yue, is Xu Qing Wan’s daughter and knows a little about medicine.”
“Call the coroner.”
“No need.”
The great gentleman did not want any man to touch Huo, “If they had not forced her, how could Lian’er have hit the wall and killed herself? Your Excellency, I still ask you to do justice.”
Once again, the capital magistrate had refreshed his view of the world, he was simply breathless. In all the years he had been in the position of Governor of the Capital, he had handled countless major cases, but he had never come across a case like this before. Is he trying to ruin the entire Xu family?
“Mr. Big, what evidence do you have to say that the person was forced to die?”
“If they didn’t force it, would Lian’er have crashed to death on her own?”
“She would.”
Song Wan Yue raised her voice, “Today, when my mother thought about everything, Huo saw that the crime back then couldn’t be wrapped up, so in order to save her children, she would naturally crash into the wall and kill herself.”
She said, kowtowing to the capital’s governor, “Your Excellency, please arrest the other two people who hurt my mother back then, and give my mother justice.”
“The girl who is full of nonsense ……”
The elder gentleman was furious.
“Silence!”
The Governor of the capital gave a heavy slap on the alarming wood, suppressing the words that followed from the Great Mister.
“Someone, go get Wen Zhong.”
A magistrate answered and rode a fast horse to the Ministry of the Household and found Wen Zhong, “Squire Wen, Miss Xu is suing you for hurting her back then, causing her to be injured and lose her memory, and unable to return home for more than ten years, please come with us!”
As the magistrate’s words fell, the Ministry of the Household exploded into a frenzy.
Wen Zhong only felt a buzz in his head and reached out to hold the table. Xu Qingwan had remembered, why hadn’t Mother sent someone to tell him?
But his face was calm, “Wait a moment, let me pack up these official documents.”
He said, giving a wink to his subordinate, who understood and ran out.
Before Wen Zhong could finish packing, the Minister of Household arrived in a hurry, “What’s wrong?”
The two magistrates said what they had just said again.
After listening to them, the Minister of Household Affairs had a hunch that Wen Zhong could not have done something like that.
“Is there some kind of misunderstanding?”
“I don’t think so, Huo has ……”
Another magistrate coughed, and the magistrate who spoke noticed that he had said too much and hurriedly stopped and changed his mouth, “Lord Shang Shu, please forgive me, and please ask Squire Wen to come with us quickly.”
The Minister of Household nodded his head.
The two courtiers led Wen Zhong out of the Household Department.
The Minister of Household then followed them out and got into the carriage.
The words that the magistrates had not finished just now gave him a very bad feeling.
When he arrived at the entrance of the Capital Mansion, he got off the carriage. The crowd of onlookers saw the official robes on him and moved aside. The Minister of Household walked up to the threshold and caught a glimpse of Huo lying on the ground and was shocked.
He then turned around and got out onto the carriage, signalling for the boy to pry.
In a moment, however, the boy came back from his inquiry, and when he heard that Huo had killed herself by hitting the wall, the Household Minister’s brow jumped.
He immediately ordered the coachman to go to the Xu residence, but when he was halfway there, he thought that the old man might be angry, so he ordered the coachman to change his route and go to the Ding Guo Gong residence.
As soon as he saw the Duke of Ding, he bent down and bowed, “Your Excellency, you must help me this time.”
“What has happened?”
The Minister of Household told him what he had heard, “I know that Miss Xu has suffered a lot over the years, but now that Huo is dead, she has also taken the blame, so you can help me go before the old man and ask him to let Wen Zhong off the hook, I will remember him as a favour for the rest of my life.”
“I’m afraid that’s difficult.”
The Duke of Ding was shocked, but his face did not show, “Xu Qingwan has suffered for so many years in the countryside, the First Lady will certainly not be so kind, and the old gentleman will not let them go, I advise you to ask Wen Zhong to confess his crime, otherwise you will also be implicated.”
Hearing him out, the Minister of Household broke out in a cold sweat, “No, it can’t be.”
“Once word of this spreads, it will certainly cause a stir, and the Emperor will naturally ask questions then. Once Wen Zhong denies it and angers the Emperor, do you think the Emperor will forgive him? And you’ve promoted him for so many years, and even promised your daughter to him, will the emperor think that you’ve failed to know people well enough to take away your official position?”
The Minister of the Treasury’s hands and feet went limp.