freenovelworld Chapter 66 Brother-in-law, You Are Confused
Chapter 66 Brother-in-law, You Are Confused
"Silence!" Lord An said sternly, "There are still doubts in this case, so we cannot make a hasty judgment. When..."
"What did you say?!"
An exclamation interrupted what Lord An was about to say. He looked over with a dark face and saw Fang Bao staring at Old Doctor Sun in shock, his eyes almost popping out.
Fang Cailian looked dazed and her face was as pale as a dead person.
Lord An asked unhappily, "What's the commotion?"
Doctor Sun crossed his arms and bowed, "Your Excellency, this girl has been pregnant for a month."
Everyone:? ? ?
Wasn't she bullied today? How come she's pregnant?
Shopkeeper Ge said anxiously, "Impossible, he must have taken the wrong pulse!"
"I have been practicing medicine for forty years, and I can still accurately diagnose a happy pulse." Doctor Sun was unhappy when someone questioned his medical skills in person, "If you don't believe me, you can ask other doctors to diagnose together."
Shopkeeper Ge didn't want to offend Doctor Sun, so he smiled and said, "I spoke too quickly, please forgive me. I believe in your excellent medical skills."
He glanced secretly at the thin Fang Cailian, and a mixture of joy and sorrow flashed in his eyes.
Mr. Sun snorted coldly, "I don't deserve your trust. Please ask a few more doctors to come back and check the pulse together, so as to avoid delaying the case due to my mistakes."
Lord An has already sent someone to invite him, and he wants to see what other surprises are waiting for him in today's case.
Three doctors with good reputations in the city were invited back by the yamen runners. The three of them took turns to feel Fang Cailian's pulse. The conclusion they finally came to was consistent with that of Doctor Sun, that it was undoubtedly a happy pulse.
If Fang Bao hadn't helped her up quickly, Fang Cailian would have fallen to the ground.
She raised her hand and gently stroked her still flat abdomen, biting her lower lip tightly, her heart filled with panic.
This child shouldn't be here.
"She's pregnant out of wedlock, who's the adulterer?"
"It is immoral and shameless!"
"What a virgin girl! It turns out she is already a pair of old shoes! This scholar Lu picked up someone else's old shoes. I feel so sorry for him."
"Perhaps the adulterer is Mr. Lu?"
"Oh, the two of them got involved so early? That scholar's wife is so unlucky."
The people were whispering and speculating about the identity of the adulterer.
Lord An was also curious.
Ahem, he wasn't gossiping, he was simply investigating the case.
"Fang Cailian, let me ask you, who is the father of the child in your belly?"
The people fell silent instantly. Whether inside or outside the court, everyone looked at Fang Cailian, waiting to hear the answer.
Fang Cailian clutched the hem of her skirt with her hands hanging by her sides, struggling and hesitating internally.
Shopkeeper Ge looked at her with concern and advised: "Don't be afraid, Cailian, you were just fooled by someone. Just tell me who that person is, and the adults will definitely take care of it for you."
Fang Cailian raised her eyes to look at him, tears filled her eyes and slid down her cheeks. Her voice was as light as catkins, "Do you really want me to tell you?"
"Of course." Shopkeeper Ge's eyes flickered, he looked away slightly, and said righteously, "We can't let the villain who deceived you get away with it."
Fang Bao looked at the expressions of the two men and always felt that something was wrong.
Fang Cailian wiped away her tears, raised her head and took a deep breath, "Okay, I'll tell you."
"It's him!" She raised her hand and pointed at Lu Chengjing, "He is the father of the child."
Lu Chengjing: “…”
With so many people present, is it difficult to change someone to take the blame?
You just want to pick on him alone, right?
Shang Wan whistled and said jokingly, "Not bad, there's a successor."
"I already have one." Lu Chengjing pinched his round and chubby cheeks, not caring at all about Fang Cailian's identification.
He didn't care, but others couldn't help but care, especially Fang Bao, the older brother, who hated him so much that he wanted to pounce on him and bite Lu Chengjing to death.
Shopkeeper Ge took the opportunity to flatter Lu Chengjing in front of Lord An, denouncing Lu Chengjing as worse than a beast and saying how pitiful Fang Cailian was.
The people no longer dared to take sides easily, and they stretched their necks to watch silently.
After Shopkeeper Ge finished his dry-mouthed complaint, Lu Chengjing said, "Sir, I have a question that I would like Miss Fang to answer."
Lord An was annoyed and waved his hand to tell him to hurry up.
"Miss Fang, you said that the baby in your belly is my flesh and blood. May I ask when and where I met you?"
Fang Cailian lowered her eyes and said, "On the ninth day of last month, at Qingfeng Pavilion."
Hearing the three words "Qingfeng Pavilion", Shopkeeper Ge was startled and immediately had a bad premonition in his heart.
Lu Chengjing's eyes dimmed and he looked at Fang Cailian deeply.
Shitou's eyelids jumped. His brother-in-law really went to Qingfeng Pavilion that day, but he did not go with him because he was going to the study to deliver a painting.
It’s over, it’s over, can’t this be true?
Xiaohuan noticed that he looked strange and looked at him suspiciously.
Shi Tou quickly adjusted his expression and didn't dare to look at Shang Wan. The scene of Lu Chengjing being beaten half to death by Shang Wan and thrown to feed the wolves automatically emerged in his mind.
Oh, brother-in-law, you are so confused!
"I did go to Qingfeng Pavilion on the ninth day of last month." Lu Chengjing said slowly, "However, I was dragged away by my friends before I even entered the gate of Qingfeng Pavilion and went to Yunshuizhai to taste tea."
Lord An: "Who can prove it?"
"In addition to my friend, the shopkeeper and the staff of Yunshuizhai can all testify for me." Lu Chengjing said, "In addition, when we were drinking tea and discussing poetry, my friend wrote the title of our collaborative poem on the screen wall with the date and year. Your Excellency can send someone to Yunshuizhai to check and find out."
Lord An immediately sent someone to summon Qiao Yu'an, and also sent Shan Dajun and Shen Qi to Yunshuizhai and Qingfeng Pavilion respectively to investigate further.
Xiao Fei was worried and turned to look at his own shopkeeper for comfort, only to find that Shopkeeper Ge was sweating.
Qiao Yu'an came very quickly.
He heard that Lu Chengjing had committed adultery and was being tried in the county government office, so he rushed over like a madman, and just in time he ran into the bailiff who came to summon him at the door.
"Sir, I can testify for Lu Chengjing." Qiao Yu'an said in a loud voice, "On the ninth day of the lunar month, the two of us stayed in Yunshuizhai for most of the day. After lunch, we went to Lu's house. I didn't leave Lu's house until dusk."
"Lu Chengjing never left the house during the trip, so it's impossible for him to go to Qingfeng Pavilion to meet this girl. There were also many students from the county school who saw the two of us that day, and they can also testify for Lu Chengjing."
He said a lot of things, fearing that Lu Chengjing was wrongly accused.
After saying that, he glared at Shang Wan. Shang Wan had clearly come to the study to look for Lu Chengjing that day, so why did he just watch and not help or say a word?
Shang Wan was confused by his stare and rolled his eyes at him.
Qiao Yu'an: Humph! This woman is useless. It's up to him to save Cheng Jing.
Shan Dajun came back not long after he left, holding a pile of date paste cakes in his hands.
A bailiff reached out to take it.
Shan Dajun dodged and said, "Go away, this is not for you to eat."
Lord An thought that Shan Dajun had deserted his duty and even brought cakes into the court. When he was about to scold him, he saw that many of the date paste cakes were covered with mud. Feeling strange, he calmed down and said nothing.
"Sir, when I came back, I encountered a group of wild cats. They surrounded me and insisted that I take these jujube paste cakes back to the government office before leaving." Shan Dajun handed them over to Lord Fang An for a closer look. "This is strange. Please make your decision, sir."