Just continue.
Zhu Pingan smiled faintly, fearlessly confronting Zhao Dajing, their gazes were like two arrows, narrowly meeting each other, colliding in mid-air with four shooting sparks, suddenly a murderous aura filled the public hall.
“Please ask someone from the public hall to fetch water, the amount of water should be able to completely submerge the head, so that my humble servant can verify the authenticity of the remaining head for all the lords.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand remotely towards the main judge’s seat and requested aloud for the cooperation of the public hall.
In full view of the public, even though Wang Xueyi refused a hundred times in his heart, he still ordered the Criminal Ministry’s servant to fetch water from the backyard.
Soon, the bronze water tank of the Yamen fire prevention was carried over by the police, two half a person high vat lined up in the public hall, which is full of water.
Water to verify whether the head is Tartar?
How can this be verified? Zhu Pingan is not joking. Is it possible that the heads of the Tatars will float on the water, or that the heads of my Ming people will float on the water? How else can it be verified ah.
Is it reliable?
Curious, the crowd stood up from the gallery, wanting to see how Zhu Pingan would verify the heads with water.
“Offence.”
Zhu Pingan arched his hand to the first degree on the wooden board and said sorry, then asked the coroner to sweep off the remaining first degree of raw stone powder before placing all of them into the water tank.
Plop.
Plop.
The pallbearers and the servants swept the remaining forty heads with brushes to remove the stone powder, and then put them all into the water tank according to Zhu Pingan’s instructions.
At this time, the bold officials curiously gathered around and looked into the water tank to see if the heads would float up with distinction as they thought.
However, to their disappointment, the heads all sank to the bottom of the water and none of them floated up.
If Zhu Pingan knew what they were thinking, he would definitely be speechless, this is a density problem, if it is a whole person, there will be air in the lungs, the human body will be slightly lighter than water, if you know how to swim, you will be able to adjust your breathing plus the movement of your hands and feet will be able to float; but if it is just a person’s head, it will definitely sink.
“Ta-Jen Zhu, these heads can all sink, how can we identify them like this?”
Quite a few officials raised questions, in their opinion putting a stream of heads in the water like Zhu Pingan did, there was no way to identify whether the heads were Tartar’s or Daming’s subjects. Because, these heads were all the same when they were put in the water, they all sank to the bottom, there was no difference.
Zhao Dajing and the others also watched with cold eyes, they simply did not believe that Zhu Pingan could identify whether the heads were Tartar or not by putting them in the water.
Of course, the most important thing is that they know very well the source of these heads, that is, the Tartar heads that were offered by the border troops.
They switched the Tartar heads offered by the border troops with those offered by Zhao Dajing.
It was a fake.
True gold is not afraid of fire, this is a heavenly principle since ancient times, Zhao Dajing they do not believe that Zhu Pingan can still turn black and white into black and white.
“Lords please wait for a moment.”
Zhu Pingan stood calmly in front of the water tank, looking at the heads in the tank, half-explaining and half-narrating.
“What’s the matter, Ta-Jen Zhu, wait a little longer and the first rank will be able to speak?”Zhao Da Ying hugged his arms and taunted with a cold smile.
The chief can speak?
Zhao Da Ying’s taunt caused a burst of laughter from the crowd.
However
To Zhao Da Ying’s surprise, after he finished taunting, he saw that Zhu Ping An shifted his gaze over and looked at him with a burning look, and after about two seconds, Zhu Ping An nodded his head earnestly and replied, “Yes.”
Crap.
Surprised eyeballs fell all over the place.
How could the chief speak, the crowd shook their heads and burst into laughter, especially Zhao Da Ying and the others who were extremely mocking.
At this moment, you are laughing so merrily, hopefully you will still be able to laugh in half an hour.
Zhu Pingan swept a glance at Zhao Dajing and slightly ticked the corner of his lips, he could guess Zhao Dajing’s self-confidence, and just now when Zhao Dajing whispered with his uncle, Zhu Pingan also read out some information from his lips.
What a confidence.
The Tartar head offered by the border army
Hehe.
Zhu Pingan hooked the corner of his lips and smiled slightly, then placed his eyes in the water tank, the head has been soaked in it for more than ten minutes, the remnants of the stone powder has been dissolved into the water, the face is also more clear to see, the hair is also gradually spread out, slowly as a clump of black watercress fainted in the water tank as well.
Hm.
According to this trend, it wouldn’t take half an hour.
During this half hour wait, the presiding judge Wang Xueyi had urged Zhu Pingan twice, Zhao Dajing and the others had sneered three times, and the officials in the gallery had long been impatient, with some complaining from time to time.
Half an hour passed when the patience of the crowd was about to be exhausted.
“Zhu Pingan, everyone has been playing along with you for half an hour, how long does this farce of yours still last?”Zhao Da Ying mocked once again.
“Alright, they’ve spoken.”
Zhu Pingan withdrew his gaze from the water tank and landed on Zhao Dajing, nodding slightly.
Is it better already?
The crowd’s spirits lifted at the words, and they resumed their curiosity and gathered around. They didn’t believe that the chief could speak, but curiosity was something that anyone would have.
“Hahaha, Zhu Pingan, are you not seeking our happiness. Where did this chief open his mouth? Why can’t I hear you talk to us about what this chief opened his mouth.”Zhao Da Ying laughed with a mocking face.
The chief opened his mouth?
Thinking with one’s arse, this was all impossible! Everyone was not a child anymore, so how would they believe such brain-dead claims from Zhu Pingan. Zhao Dajing mocked with an undercurrent.
“They’re saying that we’re not Tartar barbarians, we’re the people of Daming, the children of Yan Huang.”Zhu Pingan nodded and said in a serious manner.
Hahaha.
Zhao Dajing and the others laughed at the words. Ridiculous, Zhu Pingan you are really playing everyone like a child!
The crowd also shook their heads and laughed bitterly at the words.
“Lord Zhu, there is no child’s play in the public court.”The presiding judge, Wang Xueyi, laughed coldly.
“Ping An has never played childish games, please see, Lords, these chiefs have indeed opened their mouths.”Zhu Pingan hooked his lips and shook his head, reaching out to make a please gesture, pointing at the heads in the water tank and saying seriously, his other hand tugging at the edge of his sleeve to avoid it falling into the water.
Eh?
The crowd put their eyes into the water, mostly puzzled.
However, there were also people who could see the clues, Xu Shi nodded and gave Zhu Pingan an approving look, this Chen Fei should also end.
After Yan Shi Fan swept over the first rank, his face grimaced, then he glanced at Zhu Ping An again, a brilliant light flickered in his one eye.
“Lords please look at the hair of these heads, the traces on them are already clear, is it not familiar, these are the traces left behind by the net scarf that my Ming people used to bind their hair with all year round. The words they said are engraved on these net scarf traces.”
“Since the early years of Hongwu when the Great Ancestor issued the Holy Decree, the people of my Daming, regardless of their nobility, from the top to the noble officials, down to the students and officials, all of them wore net scarves under their crowns. Over the years, this hair has left traces of mesh scarf. But the Tatars are not, Tatars are barbarians, do not obey the education, from childhood shaved hair braided hair, never wear a net scarf, their hair will never leave traces of the net scarf.”
“Therefore, judging from the traces of the net scarf, these heads are definitely my people of the Great Ming, not Tartars as Zhao Dajing said.”
Deafening!
Every word of Zhu Pingan’s plucked at the heartstrings of the crowd, and like a thunderbolt, it boomed in the public hall, shaking the crowd awake.
