Chapter 463 Testimony and Evidence
“I——?”
Song Yu was startled, and Ma Xu next to him also looked at him with a horrified expression.
But at this time, he seemed to understand that too much words lead to mistakes. He did not say anything immediately, but quickly recalled what he had said, but he could never remember what he had said.
So, he said coldly: "I don't remember what 'testimony' I said."
Shang Ruyi said: "It seems that Mr. Song has done too many things and said too many things, and he has forgotten them. But it doesn't matter. Fortunately, I have remembered them."
"..."
"Just last night, when the tung oil was released from the twenty-odd water trucks, what did you say?"
"..."
" You said - no wonder, you can't find tung oil."
Song Yu's expression suddenly changed.
When he was about to say something, Shang Ruyi smiled and said: "Master Song, please don't deny it easily. After all, there were many people standing around you at that time, and they all heard this sentence That's it."
Song Yu thought for a while and immediately sneered: "What's there to deny?"
"..."
"We can't find it. Tung oil, so what?”
"..."
"Who knew you used so much tung oil to do those things? Isn't it a sin to not be able to find tung oil?"
Shang Ruyi said: "Looking for it It’s not a sin to get tung oil.”
“…”
“But it’s a sin to ask for tung oil to set fires!”
Song Yu frowned and was about to say something when Shang Ruyi said coldly: "A few days ago, when the general just fell ill, I discussed with your lord on behalf of him that although the city must be fortified, the general's military order There are four words for digging deep ditches. Obviously, he doesn’t just want us to stick to Fufeng.”
“…”
“So, Mr. Dai and I made a decision for today. plan , and for this plan, we collected all the tung oil in the city."
"Yes,"
Dai Junliang on the side nodded, and continued: "It's just that this plan is used. Even if we are in danger, we must keep it secret. In order to prevent others from knowing, we have prepared the oil used in the government offices until the end of the month in advance so that no one will know that we have collected the tung oil in the city.”
"That is to say," Shang Ruyi continued: "If there is no other use, normally you don't need to - 'find' tung oil."
At this point, she looked at it coldly Song Yu and Ma Xu: "So, I would like to ask you two."
"..."
"What are you looking for tung oil for?"
Song Yu His eyes became increasingly panicked.
At this moment, Ma Xu suddenly turned pale and frowned, saying, "General's wife, do you have to control how many tung oil candles we use?"
"..."
"We, even if we set fire to it, as long as you don't have evidence, you can't testify against us!"
Hearing his words, almost everyone present frowned.
This man, obviously being forced to the point where he didn’t know what to do, had already begun to break the rules, and when he said such words, his sanity was almost on the verge of collapse.
Shang Ruyi sneered and said: "It doesn't matter if you burn it for fun."
"..."
"But if it reaches my husband's side, it will be an attempt to murder the imperial official, that is - Rebellion!”
Ma Xu’s face suddenly turned pale.
On the side, Song Yu gritted his teeth and glared at him. He seemed to be annoyed that what he just said was out of his mind. He thought about it again and immediately sneered: "General's wife, please don't talk alarmistly about murder. The imperial court ordered officials to rebel, and they wanted to be punished! ”
"..."
"I just ask you, since you have collected all the tung oil, and since what I just said is that we can't find the tung oil, then even if someone really set the fire, what's the point?" What does it have to do with us?”
As soon as he heard this, Ma Xu’s eyes lit up in confusion.
He hurriedly said: "Not bad!"
Shang Ruyi looked at them, but he was not panicked. He just nodded lightly and said: "Master Song, you are still awake as expected."
"Then -"
"However, as I just said, after collecting tung oil from all over the city, we also provided enough candle tung oil for people in the government office to last until the end of the month. In other words, As long as it is used normally, there should be enough tung oil in your room to last until the end of the month."
As soon as she finished speaking, there was another sound of footsteps outside the door.
Everyone looked back, but two of Mu Xian’s soldiers came over. They whispered a few words to him. After Mu Xian listened, he immediately said to everyone in the lobby. : “Madam, ladies and gentlemen, I’m We just asked them to search the rooms of Master Song and Master Ma. There is not a drop of tung oil left in their rooms."
After hearing this, everyone's eyes became more solemn, and they all looked at each other more solemnly. Look at Ma and Song.
Song Yu's face froze, and he immediately said angrily: "You, you are so brave, how dare you-"
As he spoke, he was about to rush forward to take action, but at this time, without waiting for someone else on the side, Several soldiers came forward. Dai Junliang and Yin Changyue had already opened fire. He said: "Master Song, please be patient."
"Please explain clearly, what did you and the tung oil in General Ma's room do?"
...
At this time, both of them were speechless.
Ma Xu's eyes, which were originally full of life, were completely frozen at this time, as if he could no longer move. He was just trembling and sweating profusely. At this time, Song Yu looked at him again, as if he had caught a straw in his panic eyes.
He suddenly sneered and said: "It's down."
"What?!"
Dai Junliang was stunned and opened his eyes She looked at him with big eyes, as if she couldn't believe her ears.
Song Yu smiled ferociously: "I said, those tung oil accidentally fell down."
"..."
"Why, Madam General, ladies and gentlemen, even us accidentally poured it down." "Tung oil, do you want to argue with us?"
Dai Junliang gritted his teeth hard, and even Yin Changyue, who had always been good-tempered, couldn't help but let out a heavy breath through his nose.
Just when everyone was furious because of his shameless deception, Shang Ruyi looked at him calmly, and his eyes were even a little more relaxed.
After all, if a person starts cheating, it proves that he does not have many cards left.
So, Shang Ruyi smiled lightly and said: "Indeed, I can't care about this."
"..."
"Since you said it's down, then it's down. Okay."
Dai Junliang was stunned and looked at her: "Madam?"
Shang Ruyi shook his head gently at him.
Song Yu probably also understood that his behavior just now was very dangerous. At this time, he could only end the "farce" in front of him as soon as possible, so he said: "So, Madam General, do you still have your so-called testimony? If not, then we will not accompany you.”
Shang Ruyi shook his head: "The testimony is gone."
"..."
"However, you two should still remember that I just said that if you want to give To make a decision, in addition to testimony, there are also evidence and witnesses.”
"..."
"Don't you two want to see the remaining two things?"
Song Yu didn't want to see the remaining two things at this time. After all, what he had just said At this point, he knows that it is difficult for him to gain a foothold here. If he talks too much, it will be wrong and people will get a handle on him. This will be difficult.
However, they had just returned to the official office in panic, and there were only two guards with them. Moreover, these two people were novices and ignorant. At this time, they were still standing aside. Instead, it was Shang Ruyi. Several of his men had already surrounded the lobby tightly, giving them no chance to leave.
Song Yu gritted his teeth and could only look back at Shang Ruyi.
He said coldly: "I don't know where the general's wife can find any evidence, and where the witnesses can come from. Didn't Mr. Yin just say that you didn't find anything?"
Shang Ruyi smiled lightly. .
Said: "But I just said that if there was really nothing, I would have taken revenge myself."
"..."
"Since, You people are still standing here alive——"
She was smiling when she said this, but the coldness and cruelty in it made everyone around her shudder. Yin Changyue looked at her for a while, and seemed to recognize the general's wife in front of him clearly for the first time.
He thought for a moment, stepped forward and said: "Madam, if you have any evidence or witnesses, please just bring them up."
"..."
"I am the official As a supervisor of the army, if there is really an attempt to murder an official of the imperial court during a confrontation between the two armies, I will not forgive him lightly."
"Okay,"
Shang Ruyi nodded, then looked at him and said: "Lord Yin, do you still remember that outside the fire scene that day, my maid once said that the medicinal materials we used for burning that day were added with Uncaria, which can cause coma. The person who set the fire wanted to stun us first, and then set the fire outside the house, so that we could die."
"This, I remember," Yin Changyue said, "But later. Didn’t we send people to look for them?”
“Yes”
“That——”
“It’s in the medicinal materials? In order not to leave any evidence, the perpetrators did burn the other medicines used for the fumigation, as well as the boxes where we kept the medicines, but they forgot one thing.”
"What did you forget?"
"It's the tissue tube that was half burned that day and we extinguished it."
"Half burned?"
"Not bad. , the tissue paper tube used for fumigation was only half burned, and we could smell the smell. Yes, it was put out immediately. But the people who removed the evidence obviously didn't expect this, so they only burned the box and forgot about the half of the tissue tube we dropped on the ground."
Hearing this, Song Yu and Ma Xu looked at each other, and their faces suddenly turned pale.
But Shang Ruyi had already raised his head: "Nie Chong, go and call Wuxue immediately -"
Before she could finish her words, she heard Wuxue's voice coming from outside the gate, saying softly: "Young Madam, The slave brought the evidence."
Shang Ruyi looked up and saw Wuxue walking in from outside.
She was holding a handkerchief in her hand. What was placed on the handkerchief was the one that Shang Ruyi asked her to return to the ruins of the fire scene at night and retrieve after she found that all the evidence had been destroyed. The half-burnt tissue tube was stamped out by them.
But as soon as he saw her, Shang Ruyi's eyebrows frowned.
She whispered: "Why are you here by yourself?"
Wuxue raised her head and said softly: "Young madam, it was the eldest son who asked the slave to come here."
"... What?”
(End of this chapter)