Farmer's wife: My husband came back and the house was in chaos

Chapter 563: Sue, again in court

Chen Shuhua stood there, unable to recover for a long time. Shen Wenting and her had actually set up such a big game just because he was dissatisfied with her. At this moment, she no longer wanted to tolerate it at all.

The next day, she filed a lawsuit and took Shen Wenting to court again. The lawsuit was more than ten pages long and was submitted together with the evidence.

Lord Lu of Jingzhao Prefecture was a little surprised when he saw so many pieces of evidence. This matter was of no trivial importance. After he went to the palace to report to the emperor, the emperor was furious and ordered the Dali Temple and Jingzhao Prefecture to jointly investigate the matter, dismiss Shen Wenting from his post and investigate him. They must make sure to find out everything Shen Wenting had done over the years and give an explanation to the Duke's Mansion and the victim.

When he was arrested, he was still a little confused and didn't know what happened. Shen Wenting cried out that he was wronged. He had just returned to the position of Shangshu and hadn't even warmed up yet, but he lost his job and was thrown into prison. Later, he learned that it was Chen Shuhua who did it, and the evidence had been handed over to the emperor. He thought to himself, how could this happen? Where did Chen Shuhua get the evidence of guilt? ! It's over!

On the day of the trial, the people gathered in three layers outside the gate of Jingzhao Prefecture. Shen Wenting was brought in, and Chen Shuhua and everyone else from the Duke's Mansion also came.

The trial officially began. This incident involved important officials of the court and the Duke's Mansion. In addition to the people from the Dali Temple, the emperor also specially sent the Chief Censor to attend the trial.

"Shen Wenting, Madam Chen of the Duke's Mansion, is suing you for using improper means to deceive her into marrying you, and for colluding with your mistress to secretly replace her daughter with yours. You brought the mistress's child back to the mansion, and abandoned your own child in the countryside..." Lord Qu, the official in charge of the trial at the Dali Temple, listed the charges one by one.

As soon as these words were spoken, the onlookers all widened their eyes and started talking.

"Oh my God! What happened? Lord Shen actually cheated on his wife!"

"How is this possible? Back then, Lady Shen was very talented and good-looking. Many girls in the capital were secretly attracted to her. How could she do such a thing?"

"Everyone in the capital knows what happened back then. The young lady of the Duke's Mansion encountered bandits and ruined her reputation. The family that was originally engaged to her called off the marriage. For a while, no one dared to marry her. It was Lord Shen who braved the rumors and the opposition of his family, and swore a poisonous oath that he would never take a concubine in his life, and finally won her over."

"Yes, even if it was wrong for Lord Shen to have a concubine, they have been loving each other for so many years. They are truly a model in the capital. Everyone has seen it. How can it be said that they are cheating on each other?"

That incident caused a sensation in the capital at the time and was known to almost everyone. Now that he was suddenly charged with the crime of marrying a relative, no one could believe it.

"Sir, it's unfair! Chen Shuhua and I were in love with each other back then, so how could there be any accusation of marriage fraud? Chen, even if we are divorced, you can't throw all the dirty water on me!" Shen Wenting said in front of everyone.

So many years had passed, so even if it was his plan, could they find any witnesses? Shen Wenting was sure that they had no witnesses, so he refused to admit it, but he was dumbfounded the next second.

"Sir, we have witnesses who can prove that Shen Wenting was the one who planned what happened back then." Chen Shuhua and the others knew that he would not admit it, so they had been investigating secretly and had arrested all the people who played the role of robbers back then.

"Come on, bring a witness!"

As soon as the adult finished speaking, the police came up with several people. After they arrived in the hall, they lowered their heads and did not dare to look around.

"Who are you? Tell me your names." Lord Qu asked the people kneeling in the hall.

"Grassroots Zhang Da."

"Commoner Li Er."

"Grassman..."

Several people gave their names one by one.

"Shen Wenting, do you know them?" asked Lord Qu.

"I don't know them! Sir, they just picked a few people and wanted to frame me. I don't know what their intention is."

"What about you? Do you know the person in front of you?"

"I know him. He is Lord Shen from the Shangshu Mansion. But when we first met him, he was just a new nobleman in the court who had just passed the imperial examination. At that time, his foundation in the capital was not stable, and he often asked us to run errands for him. As a result, we became familiar with each other."

"What did he ask you to do? Tell us the truth now."

"It was him, the lord. He gave us five taels of silver each and asked us to pretend to be robbers and scare a girl. We thought it was a good thing to scare someone and get some money. We were all so familiar with each other, so we agreed without thinking."

One of the thinner men said.

"Then take a look and see if the girl you scared back then is here." Lord Qu continued to ask.

Several people looked around, and after seeing Chen Shuhua, they all nodded at the same time and pointed at Chen Shuhua: "It's her. We didn't know she was the daughter of the Duke's Mansion back then. Later, when things got out of hand, we found out that Shen Wenting gave us a lot of benefits to shut us up. After he became the Minister, he used his official position to help us a lot. We were still in contact for the first few years. Later, Shen Wenting became busy and had no time to care about us brothers. Our lives became more and more difficult, so we planned to blackmail him again, but we didn't expect that he agreed to it on the surface, but secretly hired someone to kill us brothers to silence us. He relied on the Duke's Mansion to secure the position of Minister and was extremely powerful. As a last resort, we brothers could only hide with our families and hide our identities."

"You are slandering me! I don't even know you. When have I ever asked you to do such a thing? Words are not enough. Do you have any evidence?" After all, Shen Wenting has been in the court for many years. When he heard them say that, he did not panic, but calmly asked them to produce evidence.

Several people looked at each other, all speechless. It seemed that they really had no evidence. At that time, they just made a verbal agreement, took the money and got the job done.

"We have evidence!" Li Er, one of the men who had been silent, said.

"What evidence do you have? Bring it out quickly!"

"Although we verbally agreed to do the job for the money, in order to ensure that everything went well, Shen Wenting gave us a portrait of the girl so that we would not mistake her for someone else."

"Where is the portrait?" asked Lord Qu.