Chapter 82 Public Trial of Ayun Case

This night, Yang Jian almost woke up from his dream with a smile. He dreamed that the father and son next to the king, Lv He, Sima Guang and others in the hall. You punched me with each other,

It's not yet time for the court session. There are already a lot of people outside Kaifeng Mansion. Today, the public trial of the Ayun case in Kaifeng Mansion has caused a sensation in the capital. What kind of case is it? The imperial court's Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice have not made a final ruling. In this position, there is no public trial in the lobby, so there are people. Use the stone steps, lean your toes and look at the public hall,

"Here, here." Some people shouted,

"Who's here?"

"JURY, someone is coming."

"Cut."

It was lively and noisy outside. It was not that the jury present squeezed the crowd over and over again, holding a letter in their hands. The bodyguard checked the result. It was a letter to participate in the court session, which was equivalent to an admission card, and then it was released.

"Isn't that the one just now, Mr. Zheng?"

"Yes, he is a gentry. Who knows the Zheng family in the hundreds of yuan?"

"Look, the shopkeeper Sun of Sun Diancheng Pharmacy..."

"See, they are all people with heads and faces."

The people outside Kaifeng Mansion looked at the people who were released one by one, and immediately talked about it.

"Oh, why do you still have a wife? Who knows this woman?"

"I don't know this. This is the woman of Zeng Bu, a bachelor of Hanlin, and Mrs. Wei, a famous female poet."

"But write that: the flowers are falling outside the sunset building, and the clear sky is blue. Go to the sail and look back at the end of the world, the female lyricist."

"You are quite knowledgeable, and this word is also a sign of a good person."

"Look at you, wipe your saliva."

The people laughed,

"Whose son is this?"

"I don't know, but the boy around him is very handsome."

Zhao Yu wears a plain square scarf and a brocade robe. The two children behind him are wearing satin clothes and soft-winged head. One is driving the road for Zhao Yu, and the other is hiding behind Zhao Yu for fear of being squeezed by others. There are still a few big men behind them. There is no need to see that this young man is rich or noble,

At the turn of these big men, people unconsciously dodged a road,

Zhao Yu didn't expect that there were so many people coming to the public trial today. He didn't dare to stay longer and took two children into the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion.

In the lobby, the front is a hardwood public desk. Today, the lobby is different from usual. There are a few seats on the left and right sides of the lobby for the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Officials and other officials who come to hear today.

Under the lobby, the isolation area was separated by a railing, in which there were more than 20 chairs. Now there are several people sitting on the chairs, looking at the story of the case with a copy in their hands.

A depressed man walked to Zhao Yu and asked politely, "May I ask if he is a member of the jury."

Zhao Yu finally got a place in the jury. He is not a joke. After all, he is the emperor. If he sits in the position of hearing in the lobby, the public trial will still be bound. He is dressed in plain clothes and sits among the jury members. He can not only look at this matter like a bystander, but also Listen to what the people say,

Yang Jian hurriedly said with his sleeve to block Zhao Yu's hand: "This one, Mr. Zhao."

The ya service didn't think much about it. I heard that the young man's surname was Zhao. It must be the royal relatives, but there are too many people who come here to watch the public trial today: "Please come here" and pointed to the more than 20 seats,

Yang Jian and Defei were about to follow, but the government official stretched out his hand to stop the two people: "You two stay."

"But we came with Mr. Zhao." Yang Jian looked at Concubine De. Anyway, he had to find a seat for Concubine De,

"Stand and wait outside the hall." The gior is not polite. Everyone who came today has a head and face. Everyone has an attendant. There are already more than a dozen people standing outside the hall,

"This official, others can stand, and so can I, but this is my son's child..." Yang Jian is still dealing with it,

"No one can do it. The people brought by the emperor have to stand."

The yamen are stunned enough to speak. For the past half a day, many people want to follow them. The yamen are tired of asking two questions.

Concubine De was depressed. She was familiar with dressing up in the morning, but the emperor insisted on washing off the rouge powder and changing himself with such a servant's clothes. Forget it, just stand and stand. Let's see what the king's idea is like. What today's public trial is like?

Zhao Yu looked back and couldn't help smiling. The people at the jury couldn't help looking back and curiously. Most of them didn't know Zhao Yu, but it didn't prevent someone from knowing them here.

Ouyang Xiu put the complaint in his hand on the stool and greeted him in a few steps: "Holy..."

Zhao Yu waved his hand to him: "There's not much time left. It's good that I'm not late. Mr. Ouyang has always been good."

Ouyang Xiu hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, please take a seat."

He made Zhao Yu so, and the people around him were surprised. Who made Ouyang Xiu so respectful?

Zhao Yu sat down beside Ouyang Xiu. The people of the jury arrived one after another. Looking at them with Yu Guang, they were all gentry and scholars, as well as some women. Among them, there were also three or five people in cloth clothes, but most of them were a little knowledge among the people. They looked more literary, unlike those who sold meat and vegetables on the street. These people On the contrary, they are particularly conspicuous, and they dare not come out of the atmosphere,

There was a noise in the lobby, and officials from all departments came out from the back of the lobby,

These people don't have to enter through the gate of Kaifeng Mansion, and after they came, they first went to the council hall behind the hall and waited until the opening time to come up together. Zhao Yu saw that the Yin Li Shen of Kaifeng Mansion sat after the public case. Several officials of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Officials arrived, and they were newly transferred to Xu Zun, the former Dengzhou magistrate of Dali Temple. It's also here. It's Wang Anshi beside him.

Then the government officials on both sides stood up. Li Shen announced that A Yun's public trial would begin now, and the lobby was immediately quiet.

"Your emperor, who are you looking for?" Ouyang Xiu's extremely small voice asked in Zhao Yu's ear,

Zhao Yu shook his head, and Ouyang Xiu also shook his head, because they didn't see the king,

Li Shen announced that A Yun had been taken prisoner. A Yun had been brought out of prison for a long time, which would come in from the west of the lobby. She was handcuffed and shackles on her body. Listening to the chowd sound, everyone looked at her coincidentally.

Seeing A Yun, Zhao Yu couldn't help frowning, and even the officials of Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice in the hall were a little surprised.

This woman looks petite, her hair is fluffy and messy, and her face looks frightened. The rough iron shackles look really incompatible with her thin figure, as if her whole body is about to be dragged down by it.

Although the case is so famous, many officials in the lobby have only seen the complaint and have never seen A Yun himself. Many people are surprised. How can such a weak woman kill people?

This kind of question spreads in everyone's heart. Looking at A Yun's eyes on the jury, there is curiosity, sympathy and puzzlement,

The ward in the lobby knocked on the water and fire ruthless stick and drank the power of the hall. Although A Yun had seen this situation several times, so many people came this time, and she knew that it was related to her life and death. Her whole body shivered unconsciously, and her knees were soft. A Yun knelt under the hall, and she didn't say that tears fell down. Because she saw Xu Zun coming, and the Xu Zhifu had been fighting for himself from beginning to end,

Xu Zun is a Qing official, and the people of Dengzhou know it; Xu Zun can think of the people, and the people of Dengzhou know that this magistrate came out of rice when he encountered a flood; Yixing water conservancy irrigated a lot of good fields, and Dengzhou people set up a stone monument for him,

Maybe this case has fallen into the hands of others, and A Yun has been landing for a long time. Only Xu Zun has been helping A Yun fight for a chance to survive. Thinking of this, how can A Yun not cry?

"Who is kneeling under the hall?"

"Dengzhou girl, A Yun."

"What's the crime?"

"The criminal murdered his own husband."

"When A Yun, a woman from Dengzhou, was not in mourning after her mother's death, she was preceded by her master and engaged a man surnamed Yi Wei. However, A Yun thought that he was ugly, so he took a knife to kill him when he was sleeping alone in the Tianshe at night. Because A Yun was weak, he failed to cut him to death with more than ten knives, and only broke one finger."

After A Yun finished a series of crimes, Li Shen was shocked: "A Yun, what do you have to say?"

A Yun remembered that a prince saw her yesterday and told her what to do. She suppressed her grievances, was afraid, and sobbed in a low voice, "I have nothing to say."

"Ah." There was an uproar in the jury. The prisoners they had seen in the past were crying and calling for injustice. The little girl didn't defend herself even a word and admitted the fact of her murder. Isn't she waiting to die?

Zhao Yu knew in his heart that this matter was not in fact, but in how to judge. Someone must give A Yun what to do today. If A Yun begins to defend himself, then there is no way to proceed with the subsequent final decision.

But when the little girl cried, she was aggrieved and did not explain, but gave her a little more sympathy,

When Li Shen saw that the case was going to this point, he was now waiting for a sentence. He announced: "Dengzhou Ayun case, the facts of the case are clear, and Dali Temple and the Ministry of iliary and the Ministry of officials sentenced Ayun to death..."

"It's too cruel." Someone muttered in the jury. Zhao Yu looked at it. It was the cloth,

Li Shen continued: "The magistrate of Dengzhou believes that A Yun is surrendered and should be exempted from the crime of death. Now, in the ruling of this case, please ask Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice to express their views, and ask Li Jun, the magistrate of Dengzhou, to explain the light point of view."

Dali Temple and officials of the Ministry of Officials looked at each other. Li Zun got up and said, "I am the former governor of Dengzhou, but I am now in charge of Dali Temple. I can't describe this case for the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and I can also be the governor of Dengzhou. I request to avoid this case."

A Yun was looking forward to Li Zun to speak for herself. Hearing Li Zun's words, she couldn't help crying.

"Silence."

Everyone looked at Sima Guang, the minister of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Sima Guang stood up and walked to the lobby: "Let me make a statement of the Ministry of Criminal Justice: According to the provisions of the Song Dynasty, when murdering a person, 'there is injury to the person, not the case of turning himself in', and A Yun's murder of his own husband, which is a heinous punishment and should be executed. "."

After Sima Guang finished speaking, there was silence in the lobby. What he said was right. Who can defend Ah Yu with "Song Xingtong"?