Volume 1 Zhangqiao Iron Coffin Chapter 44: Seat
Originally, after shouting "court opening", the runners on both sides should shout "mighty" in unison and bang their sticks at the same time to intimidate the prisoners who were about to be tried.
However, the real yamen runners were all standing in the yard, and the court was filled with those amateur guards, so naturally no one came to agree.
However, Cai Kun did not stick to the formalities and still shouted "bring the prisoner".
Everyone present believed that after the shouting of "bring the prisoner", the people who would be brought to court must be Xu Zun and Shen Tiande.
But unexpectedly, after he finished shouting, four guards carried in two more corpses from the back hall!
Why?
Everyone was confused and had no idea what this meant.
The two bodies were not covered with white cloth, and one could clearly see that they were wearing black clothes for night use, and there was a faint smell of being burnt on their bodies.
"Don't put it down," Cai Kun ordered, "Go around the people in Xinye County and let them recognize it."
After receiving the order, four internal guards carried the two bodies and came to the county magistrate Qiu Yongnian and the county magistrate Luo Baiwan first.
The two looked carefully and shook their heads, indicating that they did not know the two dead people.
Then the inner guards carried the body to the yard for the yamen runners and constables to identify it.
As a result, as soon as he entered the courtyard, one of the yamen runners immediately recognized them and shouted, "I know these two people, one is the postman Liang San, and the other is Cheng Wen, the clerk of the post station!"
"Yes, yes..." Soon, several more people recognized the deceased.
"Oh..." At this time, Luo Baiwan recalled carefully and nodded, "I remember now, no wonder they look familiar, I should have seen these two people before.
"Sir," he asked Cai Kun, "what happened to these two people?"
"Humph," Cai Kun snorted coldly, "Last night at midnight, a group of thieves attacked the charity cemetery and wanted to set fire to the four bodies in the cemetery! Among them were these two people."
"Ah? Is there such a thing?" County Magistrate Luo was shocked. "So, these two people must be accomplices of Xu Zun and Shen Tiande?"
"Really?" Cai Kun expressed his confusion. "I can't understand why Xu Zun and Shen Tiande would destroy the body if they were already exposed?"
After saying that, he glanced at everyone, his eyes becoming more profound.
"Right?" Chen Taiji thought of something and analyzed, "If it was really Xu Zun and Shen Tiande who did it, how did they contact their accomplices?
"Could it be that there is a bigger mastermind behind them?"
"Master Chen is absolutely right. It's okay. Don't worry." Cai Kun smiled mysteriously. "I believe that we can get to the bottom of this complicated iron coffin case today!"
After he finished speaking, he raised his hand and signaled, and another group of people walked out from the inner hall.
Wow...
Although everyone was mentally prepared, it still caused an uproar at the scene.
But Shen Tiande, Xu Zun, Shen Qian, as well as the Shen family's family members and servants, were escorted out by the inner guards.
Among them, only Shen Tiande and Xu Zun wore handcuffs and shackles, while the others did not wear any torture instruments.
A group of prisoners were escorted to the court and all faced Cai Kun.
Just as Shen Tiande was about to bend down and kneel, Xu Zun beside him grabbed him.
Um?
Shen Tiande was stunned, wondering what Xu Zun wanted to do?
"Master Cai," Xu Zun spread out his handcuffed hands and said with a hint of anger, "Your people are even more scumbags than I thought!"
Wow...
Xu Zun's words caused the scene to explode again.
In everyone's eyes, Xu Zun's behavior was completely suicidal.
Cai Kun held the power of life and death, so he didn't need any reason to beat Xu Zun to death on the spot.
However, what was even more shocking was yet to come. Cai Kun leaned forward awkwardly and said two words to his men with an embarrassed expression:
"Please take a seat!"
What?
Everyone was stunned with astonishment, but the guards thought they had heard wrongly and did not move.
"Are you deaf?" Cai Kun cursed, "I said please take a seat, move the chair!"
"Yes, yes, yes," the guard quickly took the order and left. Then he turned around and asked, "How many?"
"Three!" Cai Kun replied.
"No!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zun shouted indignantly from below, "This is your fault. I have changed my mind. I want everyone to have a seat!"
"You!!?" Cai Kun glared angrily, "Xu Zun, don't go too far!"
"Okay," Xu Zun simply sat on the ground , "Then we don't need to sit down!"
"You!? How dare you!!"
Cai Kun raised his eyebrows, his cheeks trembling, and picked up the gavel and slammed it hard on the desk.
Bang!
The sound was so deafening that it frightened everyone present.
"Someone come here!" Cai Kun shouted, "Move all the chairs over here and make them all sit down!"
"ah?"
The guards almost fell down, but when they saw that Lord Cai was blushing, they quickly took people to move a chair.
As the guards were moving the chairs, the scene fell into complete silence and everyone was stunned!
I have never seen such a arrogant person, let alone a prisoner awaiting trial.
Those Xinye County bailiffs were still standing in the cold snow, while Xu Zun and other serious criminals of the imperial court not only did not have to kneel, but also had chairs to sit on. This was simply the most absurd thing in the world!
However, no matter how incredible it was, it still happened.
After a while, the guards brought chairs to all the prisoners and asked them to sit on them.
During this period, even Shen Tiande and Shen Qian were confused and felt it was a little unreal.
"Xu Zun," After sitting down, Cai Kun glared at Xu Zun fiercely and said, "Now we are even. What will happen to you and the Shen family depends on your performance next!"
"Okay!" Xu Zun leaned back in his chair for a while, then stood up and said to everyone, "Everyone, I will now explain the entire iron coffin case to you in detail.
"However, since this case is too complicated, too delicate and ingenious, and my eloquence is very limited, so..." He turned to the people in the yard and said as if he was opening a speech, "If there is anything that is not clear or inaccurate, I hope you will bear with me!"
Seeing Xu Zun clasping his fists, everyone stared in amazement.
It was clearly a closed court trial, so why did he speak like a confession speech? Moreover, since it was a trial, shouldn't Cai Kun ask questions first?
"Then I'm going to make a fool of myself! Ladies and Gentlemen, regarding the iron coffin case, we had actually started planning it since Mr. Shen's family returned to Xinye County!" Xu Zun finally began his speech, "But the designer was not us, but the real murderer.
"The murderer has only one goal, which is to use the iron coffin to frame Mr. Shen and make him fall into eternal damnation!"
Wow...
As soon as these words were spoken, the scene was once again uncontrollably in an uproar.
“What… is going on?”
Luo Baiwan was shocked. Only then did he understand that Xu Zun was trying to reverse his verdict.
He wanted to scold him, but when he took a peek, he found that Cai Kun seemed to have condoned Xu Zun's behavior and was listening with great interest!
"Before Mr. Shen bought the house for me, the murderer had already built the underground secret room in advance, waiting for us to take the bait." Xu Zun said, "Sure enough, under the murderer's careful arrangement, the house was finally sold to Mr. Shen for my wedding."
"Indeed..." At this time, Shen Tiande next to him echoed, "Someone did sell me that house. Not only is the location and size suitable, but the price is also very cheap. Now that I think about it, I was indeed careless!"
"And in the following year," Xu Zun continued, "the murderer began to prepare this huge and complicated frame-up plan.
"Finally, when everything was ready, the plan began to be implemented..."
