What is Zhu Pingan doing?
He’s asking the coroner if the head is from last year. Ask Zhao Dajing if the head was captured by you last year. I don’t need to think about this question to know that they will definitely answer in the affirmative.
The people did not understand the significance of these questions asked by Zhu Pingan, not only did they not help, but they were even more favourable to Zhao Dajing, directly proving that the heads were captured by Zhao Dajing last year.
Zhao Dajing and the others smiled disdainfully, in their view, Zhu Pingan was like a dying fish on the chopping board, unable to make any waves anymore.
You don’t understand, do you?
No hurry, you will soon understand.
Zhu Pingan swept a glance at Zhao Dajing and the others, slightly tickling his lips with a playful smile at the corner of his mouth.
“Someone said that this is a Tartar’s head?”
Zhu Pingan turned his gaze to the heads on display to the side, his voice soft and magnetic, carrying an inexplicable attraction that drew people’s attention over.
“Huh.”
“Wrong, very wrong.”
Zhu Pingan paused at this point, gave a mocking laugh, shook his head, and said decisively.
What?
Zhu Pingan meant that the coroner was wrong? Are you kidding me, you Zhu Pingan can be more professional than the coroner?
The crowd was stunned, the public hall was in an uproar, when the crowd calmed down they couldn’t help but shake their heads and were seriously sceptical of what Zhu Ping An said.
“Zhu Pingan, what are you babbling about.”Zhao Da Ying and the others attacked.
“These heads, not bad, the hairstyles, earrings, and other post-do’s are spot on, they look so much like Tartars that they almost all fooled me.”Zhu Pingan stood in front of the display of the heads, reaching out his hand to brush over one after another.
“But, a fake is always a fake, and no matter how well done it is, it is inevitable to make mistakes.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and laughed mockingly.
Slip-ups?
Zhao Dajing was stunned for a moment, then shook his head disdainfully and laughed coldly, these were Tartar heads offered from all over the border towns, how could there be mistakes.
“Zhu Pingan, everything is easy when you say it, you have no solid evidence or don’t waste our time. Dozens of adults put down their official duties to listen to your empty words, do you think this is interesting?”Zhao Qiuqiu in the gallery got up and looked at Zhu Pingan grimly, laughing coldly.
Zhao Da Ying and the others followed suit, mocking Zhu Pingan for his empty words, delaying everyone’s time, and placing Zhu Pingan on the opposite side of the crowd.
“With empty words, Ping’an wouldn’t dare to speak to all the lords.”Zhu Pingan hooked his lips and made a distant salute to the lords of the public hall.
“You still have solid evidence?”
Zhao Da Ying and the others were stunned, this was somewhat out of their expectation, but then they shook their heads and laughed, it was impossible for Zhu Pingan to have any more evidence. Zhu Pingan’s human evidence was already useless, of course, later on, Zhu Pingan would still be pursued for the charge of harbouring fugitives; Zhu Pingan’s physical evidence, huh, the chiefs had all been replaced, what physical evidence could he still have.
“Yes, it’s these heads.”Zhu Pingan pointed to the displayed heads and said indifferently.
Pfft ……
Zhao Dajing and the others couldn’t help but laugh, Zhu Pingan’s brain had been kicked by a donkey, to say that these headstones were evidence. What a joke, if the chiefs were still those from the Liu Family Village, Zhu Pingan saying so could still be justified, but the chiefs had already been replaced, and Zhu Pingan still said so, it was very funny.
The officials also couldn’t help but shake their heads, they were all witnesses to this trial of chancery. Judging from the reactions of Liu Dabao and the others, it was also confirmed that these chiefs were not villagers from the Liu Family Village. Therefore, it would be a bit of child’s play for Zhu Pingan to say that these heads were evidence again.
The crowd’s reaction was expected by Zhu Pingan.
“When I say that these heads are not Tartars, I certainly have evidence. Lords, please take a look at these heads.”
Zhu Pingan casually pointed out a few heads and said indifferently, a light wind blew, brushing up the sweat-soaked strands of hair at Zhu Pingan’s temples, sticking to his cheeks and brushing over his dark ink-like eyes, which shone with a confident brightness under the sunlight.
At this moment, Zhu Pingan’s voice, as if it was full of magnetism, drew the attention of the crowd.
“Please show it with the crowd.”
Zhu Pingan swept a meaningful glance at the two coroners and faintly commanded, his voice not to be questioned.
Zhu Pingan was a sixth grade official, the pallbearers were just the lowest grade petty officials of the Yamen, for Zhu Pingan’s command, how could they dare to go against it, seeing that Zhao Dajing and the other officials in the public hall did not make a sound, the two pallbearers had to put their heads together to put the heads of Zhu Pingan’s fingers on a wooden board to show it to the people.
“Lords, please look at these heads, it is not difficult to see that they are not more than eighteen or nineteen years old.”
Zhu Pingan pointed at the heads and said to the crowd, then asked the two coroners:
“You are the coroners, you have more insight on the age, you see these chiefs, roughly how old are they?”
Just the age of words, and there is no problem, two pallbearers a little thought also gave a professional judgement, “these chiefs are indeed as adults said, are in the age of ten ** years old, well, these two chiefs a little longer than two years old, should be the age of the crown, twenty-one two or so.”
If you judge the age, the crowd can also see it.
These first ranks on display looked relatively youthful, that is, around ten ** years old, with a margin of error exceeding no more than three or four years.
“Zhu Pingan said that you you know about the military and you are still not convinced. These several chiefs age seventeen or eighteen how, Tartar little wolf cubs fourteen or fifteen years old on the bow and horse skilful, disc bow shooting horse is not weaker than my Han family veterans. They sixteen or seventeen have already become adults, following their father and brother in war. At the age of ten, they are already veterans. Not to mention Tartary, even in my Ming, there are plenty of ten** year old soldiers.”
Zhao Dajing could not help but speak out in mockery, sarcastically saying that Zhu Pingan did not understand the military, do you, Zhu Pingan, think that a ten** cannot go to the battlefield? It’s really ridiculous.
“Hehe ……”
Zhu Pingan looked at Zhao Dajing as if he was an idiot and laughed.
“My lord please look at these first ranks, obviously, you can see the whiskers on their lips, which were deliberately stored.”Zhu Pingan no longer paid attention to Zhao Dajing and pointed at these chiefs to remind the crowd of the whiskers on the chiefs’ lips.
“Tsk, our Scholar Lang, you really are a loner. What’s wrong with the moustache, this is the typical moustache of the Tartars, the ends of the moustache are slightly raised upwards, which is called ‘tiger’s moustache’ in Tartar, signifying that they are as brave as tigers.”
Zhao Dajing was already irritated by Zhu Pingan’s heh heh taunt, and at this moment when he heard Zhu Pingan mentioning the beard, he couldn’t help but speak out and taunt again.
“Hehe, that is, to say about understanding the Tartars. Our Scholar Lang is like a milking child in front of General Zhao.”
“That’s right, has Zhu Pingan he ever seen a live Tartar? Oh, our General Zhao has been fighting Tartars for over a decade, and has killed not a thousand, but a few hundred. You, Zhu Pingan, are like playing with a big sword in front of Guan Gong.”
“This moustache is the moustache that Tartars wear, one look and we’ve seen a lot of them. You, Zhu Pingan, still want to make an issue out of it, it’s really ridiculously insouciant.”
The military officials under the public hall, as well as the officials of the Yan Party, could not help but burst out laughing, speaking out in solidarity with Zhao Dajing and mocking Zhu Pingan.
