Chapter 99: A Worthy Prime Minister Wisdomly Breaks the Jade Corruption Case (Part 2)

Before Pei Rongbai could speak, Li Furen below immediately called out:

"I'm wronged, Mr. Prime Minister! This Luo Da is slandering good people with blood and white teeth! Mr. Prime Minister, go and find out. He Luo Da is an oil seller, and he is often short of money. Does anyone in the neighborhood know?"

When he said this, the people watching outside nodded their heads one after another.

"Because he was dishonest in his business, his business was not good, and now he is full of losses, and his family is completely empty... What's more, we have never heard of any family heirlooms in his family. He must be unable to open the pot because he owes money.Just thinking of coming to me to extort some money, Master Qingtian, you must be the master for the little people!"

Pei Rongbai listened calmly, thought for a while, and reprimanded: "No matter what the truth of this case is, this Luo Da's business is dishonest. As for this point, he should be punished. Come and drag him down., Go to the side and hit the fifteen big boards!"

"yes!"

Luo Da cried and was dragged down, and Li Furen, who was kneeling aside, showed a look of joy on his face, and hurriedly said:

"Thank you, Lord Qingtian, for your insight! Thank you, Lord Qingtian, for your insight!"

"Li Furen, don't be in a hurry to thank me." Pei Rongbai said flatly, "Whether there is this jade or not, it's not yet determined."

"This...Of course not!" Li Furen said anxiously.

"Whether there is or not, and you are not the only one who has the final say." Pei Rongbai said, as if he had thought of some good idea, and said, "By the way, before the Prime Minister's Temple monk Ming Kong left, he stayed for a while.After stringing the beads, you all know Monk Mingkong, right?"

Li Furen and the surrounding audience looked bewildered.

"It's the monk who came with me last time." Pei Rongbai explained, "He studied under the eminent monk of Prime Minister's Temple. There was a case in the palace before. When the late emperor was still there, there was a noble concubineEmpress's Bu Yao is missing, that Bu Yao was given by His Majesty, it is very valuable, and the Imperial Concubine Niang Niang likes it very much, so she must find it, but she couldn't find it, it happened that at that time Ming Kong's master's palace opened a philanthropic altar, So I asked him to help find it. This great monk also has a string of very powerful beads. If a meritorious person touches it, it can prolong life. If a sinful person touches it, the beads will emit a burst of black air...At that time, all the palace people in the palace where the noble concubine was staying touched, but the steward in the palace did not touch it. He happened to show the Buddhist beads to the noble concubine at that time. Who knew that when he touched the Buddhist beads, black air would come out of them, The steward's hand was blackened! Later, I searched the steward's room, and it was indeed him... Oh, it can be seen that the Buddha's teachings are boundless, as long as someone commits a crime, he cannot escape the eyes of the Buddha."

When everyone heard this, they all became emotional, saying that this prayer bead is really powerful, with this prayer bead, they are not afraid that they will not be able to solve the case.

Qiao Songyu hid behind, listening to Pei Rongbai's nonsense, couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, bring Luo Da up too!" Pei Rongbai patted the gavel, "You two each touch it once, and it will be clear at a glance who is telling the truth and who is lying!"

The yamen servant also brought Luo Da up. He had just been hit by the board, and he was covering his buttocks with one hand and grinning with bitterness on his face.

"Both of you touch this Buddhist bead for me once, whoever dares to lie in front of the truth later, don't blame the truth for being ruthless when the Banzishan falls down!" Pei Rongbai sternly drank, and said to Jiang Shang who was standing beside him,"Jiangshang, hurry up and bring up the Buddhist beads that Master Ming Kong left for the truth!"

Jiang Shang was dazed, he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in his grandfather's gourd, he was walking into the back hall at a loss, and saw his wife was ordering people to go back to the house to pick up something, when he saw him, he turned back and said to him:

"Wait a minute, I will prepare it for you."

Jiang Shang is even more unable to make head or tail of it.

After a while, everyone saw Jiang Shang coming out holding a one-foot-high and wide box. The box was covered with a black cloth, and they didn't know what was inside.

Seeing this, Pei Rongbai slapped the gavel and said: "The Buddha beads are dazzling, so they have to be pressed with a black cloth, but it doesn't hinder the case. Come on, which one of you will touch first?"

"I, I'll touch first!" Li Furen stretched out his hand with a dignified look, "I'm not afraid of the shadow being crooked, so naturally I'll come first!"

"Okay, very good, then you touch it first." Pei Rongbai said with a meaningful smile.

Everyone saw that Li Furen rolled up his sleeves to expose his arms, and then slowly stretched his hands in. After a while, he took out his hands again. He looked down at his hands anxiously, and then exclaimed in surprise: "You guysSee if my hands are not smoky, I'm telling the truth! I'm telling the truth! This prayer bead is really good!"

When Na Luo Da heard this, he couldn't help becoming annoyed, and said: "You are telling the truth, so is it possible that I am telling lies?? I want to see if there is any Buddha Dharma in this Buddha bead!"He stretched his hand in, touched it a few times, and then stretched out his hand to have a look——

Hands of black dirt!

"Oh! It's him!"

"That's right, it really is Luo Da who lied!"

"Look at this Buddhist bead is really spiritual!" The surrounding people immediately started talking.

Li Furen even yelled: "I'm right, it's him, he's trying to extort my money! What I said was the truth, what he said was lies!"

Luo Da stood there blankly as if he had been hit by a bolt from the blue, and it took him a long time before he was fascinated. He knelt down towards Pei Rongbai with a plop, and cried, "Lord Prime Minister, Qingtian Master! The villain really didn't lieWords! That jade is indeed the heirloom of the villain! Master Qingtian, I beg you, please make the decision for the villain!"

"Luo Da, you bastard! The Buddhist beads are all broken and you're extorting my money. Why are you crying so hypocritically!" Li Furen cursed at the side, and then saluted Pei Rongbai, "Lord Prime Minister is wise, please Lord!"Prime Minister immediately ordered that Luo Da, who slandered others, be dragged down and hit dozens of boards!"

"Really?" Pei Rongbai smiled lightly, then turned his head to look at the back hall, and said, "Ben Xiang thinks Madam Benxiang has something to say! Madam, you come up first."

As soon as the words fell, everyone saw a young man who looked like a fairy, stepping out from the back hall.

Pei Rongbai asked: "Madam, these are the prayer beads you prepared, how did you prepare them?"

"Oh, I thought you made up some nonsense beads, and I had nowhere to find them for you, so I just took a string of jade beads, soaked them black in the inkstone, and put them in." Qiao Songyu deliberately disapprovedSaid.

Pei Rongbai couldn't help laughing, but because he was in the courtroom, he didn't laugh in public, he held back a smile and said: "Oh, you careless lady, how do you do things, if jade beads are soaked in ink, wouldn't everyone touch everyone's handsIt's all dark?"

"That's right." Qiao Songyu said, her beautiful eyes showed a little cunning, then she turned her head to look at Li Furen whose face had changed, and said, "This man's hands are not dirty, which means he has a guilty conscience and dare not touch him at all! SoHe is the one telling lies! He is the one who black-heartedly greedy for jade and even bit others to blackmail him!"

It was only at this moment that everyone realized that the prime minister and his wife were putting on a good show - they dared to set up a trick to deceive Li Furen!

"Li Furen, why don't you come here for real!" Pei Rongbai slapped the gavel and shouted sharply."If you don't recruit, the truth will be punished!"

Then Li Furen was already scared like a chicken who saw a dog, his face was dusty and trembling, how could there be any need for punishment?Then he hurriedly spit out the truth, and it turned out that he had a black heart after seeing Luo Da's family heirloom, hid it and said that Luo Da stole money.

In the end, Pei Rongbai sentenced Li Furen to hit him with twenty big boards, fined him ten taels of silver, and gave the ten taels of silver to Luo Da, saying:

"You are usually short of catties and taels in business, which is why people have the opportunity to cause this disaster. Since the jade is a family heirloom, it should be well hidden. You take the ten taels, since you will buy rice for your family, but also as the capital of doing business, in the future we can no longer be short of ambiguous conscience.”

Naturally, Na Luo was very grateful, took the heirloom and ten taels of silver, and went home happily.

When the onlookers saw it, they praised again, saying that the prime minister and his wife are really living gods, a pair of Bi people with both talents and looks!