TSBFL Chapter 75
Chapter 75.2: 狡辩
[Make Excuses]
When Chen Xing saw his impenetrably stubborn appearance, the fire (anger) in his heart that had originally been suppressed, all of a sudden flared up again, as he looked at Zhou Qing and wanted to say something else, wanting to question him about why he was framing them, then he felt the person next to him, pull his arm. He then turned his head to look over, only to see Gu Lang beside him glancing at him, and then signaling him to look at the county magistrate in the hall.
Chen Xing followed Gu Lang’s line of sight and saw that the county magistrate was frowning at himself, with an expression of wanting to flare up, but not good to do so. He suddenly felt that he had overstepped his bounds, and silently shrank behind Gu Lang, wanting to reduce his sense of presence.
The county magistrate had originally felt that Chen Xing had talked a bit too much, and even overstepped his bounds a bit, but this time, looking at his actions, and then looking at Gu Lang next to him, thinking of his own speculations about Gu Lang’s identity, he temporarily suppressed his dissatisfaction with Chen Xing. He aimed the emotions in his heart towards the trembling and kneeling man below instead and questioned him in a deep voice:
“Good, since you said you don’t know this Ger, then this official will not make things difficult for you. Next, there are a few more people who want to meet you, you have to give this official a closer look and take a good look, whether or not you still recognize these people!”
Zhou Qing was shocked in his heart, his heart beating even twice as fast, but he still had to hang in there and force himself to nod slowly. He uncomfortably answered, ‘Okay, okay.”
The county magistrate coldly glanced at him, then raised his chin towards the officials next to him, and immediately behind him, a woman was brought in.
That woman whole body was dirty and in a trance, looking as if she had rolled around in the mud for a while, as if she sensed something, abruptly she take a look at Zhou Qing who was kneeling on the ground, and then as if she had gone crazy, she violently bumped into the officials beside her, and lunged over in Zhou Qing’s direction.
Zhou Qing was startled by the woman’s action, and subconsciously tried to dodge to the side, but as a result, he didn’t know whether it was because his speed was too slow, or the woman in madness was too difficult to break free, not only he could not get away from the woman’s lunge more than once, he was even scratched by the woman’s attempts to grab him, where she scratched his cheeks in one go.
The woman grabbed Zhou Qing, completely ignoring the blood marks on his face caused by her. She turned her head to look at the county magistrate above the high hall. She excitedly said: ”My Honour, it’s him, it’s him. He is the one who instructed me to do all those. This civil woman just confused for a moment, that’s why I did that poison and shifted the blame to others. I still hope that Your Honour will give me mercy and based on this civil married woman’ identify the main culprit, let this civil married woman live!”
Zhou Qing was originally still afraid of this crazy woman that he didn’t know where she suddenly popped up from. At this time, after hearing her words, he turned his head to look at her, and vaguely recognized who she was, and violently pushed her away. With a sudden turn of his eyes, he hurriedly said:
“She is talking nonsense right now, I admit that I did seduce her, so it’s not wrong for her to hold a grudge against me, not altogether blameless, but forgivable, I really haven’t done the things she said. My Honour, you can’t listen to this poisonous woman’s words ah! I really didn’t do those things!”
Hearing Zhou Qing’s reply, the woman immediately became anxious. During the time she waited for Zhou Qing to come, the woman had been locked up in the cell. She was already worried and scared yet after seeing those imprisoned women, she became even more panicked. She definitely didn’t want to end up in the same sorry state or fate as those women.
The woman pounced on Zhou Qing, scratching and biting the man indiscriminately, shouting until her voice hoarse, “It’s obviously you, it’s obviously you who made me do it. Why don’t you admit it? Why won’t you admit it?”
The woman’s voice continued to resonate in the hall, and those who heard it around them all got goosebumps.
Zhou Qing did not expect this woman to be this crazy, without paying attention, suffer a setback, his face also got a trail of blood on his face from this very moment. When he reacted and wanted to hit back, the woman happened to be pulled away by the official who was guarding next to her, letting his swung out fists pounce at empty space.
“Widow Xu, you are not allowed to act recklessly or be impudent above the Yamen’s court!”
Zhou Qing, with a bloodstained face, raised his eyes towards the woman who looked away when he happened to hear the official next to her sternly accusing her. This made Zhou Qing who just now had some doubts whether or not these officials were purposely waiting for him to hit back before pulling the person away. The doubts in his heart immediately dispelled in an instant.
“Zhou Qing, you still don’t admit what she said?” The county governor asked with an extraordinarily serious expression as he sat on top of the high courtroom and looked at Zhou Qing below.
Zhou Qing looked at the woman beside him who still wanted to lunge at him. The woman who wanted to keep shouting ‘it’s you, it’s you’, gritted her teeth, and still insisted, “Your Excellency, what she said is absolutely not true.Your Excellency, please make a judicious judgment ah!”
Chen Xing looked at the man who clearly had some evasive expressions and was still lying. He could not restrain his urge to hit him. Wanting to go over and expose his true colors, however just as he was restless, he suddenly felt a warm touch coming from the back of his hand, as if someone had gently patted him, he turned his head to look over, only to see Gu Lang looking gently at himself, his eyes full of a soothing look.
Chen Xing was soothed by Gu Lang and calmed down in a flash, then looked in Zhou Qing’s direction and hummed softly.
“Since you said that she was not instructed by you, then look at the next person, do you recognize her?”
As soon as the County Magistrate’s words fell, another man was escorted out from the back of the hall by the officials.
The moment he saw the man, Zhou Qing immediately rounded his eyes, as if he didn’t quite believe why the person in front of him had appeared here.
Chen Xing, who had been very angry after Zhou Qing’s arrival, was immediately happy again after seeing Zhou Qing’s expression at this moment, and he waited to see how Zhou Qing was going to make excuses after this!
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