Section 1: [Trial of Cases]

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Qi Long held a secret report with a heavy face, "Your Highness, is the information true?"

The crown prince nodded, "But there is a matter." ”

Gu Xia got instructions and replied to Qi Long:

"His Royal Highness and our family went to Shuofang a few days ago, and for fear of disturbing the officials in the disaster relief, they casually found an inn to stay, and happened to meet the servants of your mansion with two children to stay, so they chatted a few words and paid more attention. At dinner, I heard that the child's mother was sent from the hospital, and after talking for a while, I learned about it. ”

After a pause, he continued:

"The magistrate of Yu County took advantage of the flood to force this widow woman to do a good thing, and after being refused, he slandered the woman *** and sentenced him to soak in the pig cage. After soaking in the river for a while, he was rescued by the child and contracted tuberculosis. In the end, the mother and son who had their houses and fields confiscated were displaced, and they went all the way to Jinchuan with the victims to go to the Yamen to file a complaint, but the woman was seriously ill and delayed. ”

As he spoke, he took out another piece of densely written paper, "These are the things that the villain has verified in the past two days." The magistrate of Yuxian County is indeed corrupt and perverts the law, fishes and flesh the people, and conceals the disaster, just because no one has come to sue Yuxian County for the remote and bitter cold. ”

Qi Long was furious after reading the unspeakable accusations, he didn't expect that there would be such an official with a human face and a beast's heart under his jurisdiction!

It's just that after he saw that the people in his jurisdiction lived and worked in peace and contentment, because he didn't like to entangle with the civil officials, he handed over the power of governance to his two assistant judges, and he just went to the yamen every day to inquire and approve some of the affairs handed over, and spent most of his time in the military camp training.

Now that there is a mistake in his rule, Qi Long knows that he is not to blame, he is not afraid of being punished, but he regrets that he has hurt his neighbors in this county because of his personal negligence. This incident made Qi Long suspicious of the two sentences, and ordered Tong Zhi to call Shi Erlang to lead a team of cavalry to follow Gu Xia's father-in-law to arrest the magistrate of Yu County.

The crown prince asked Shi Erlang seemingly casually, and Qi Long answered truthfully.

Shi Xizai has been in Qi Mansion for four years, and Qi Long has watched this child go from being bent on revenge and eager for quick success to being down-to-earth, hard-working, and getting along with each other a little bit, so that Qi Long, who has no children, already regards Shi Xizai as his half son in his heart. At this time, seeing that the prince was paying attention to him, he naturally hoped that Shi Xizai could leave some impression on the prince, and he would have a bright future when he became an official in the future.

After Qi Long finished talking about Shi Xizai's life experience, he talked about the advantages of this child in detail.

The prince listened with a slight smile and nodded from time to time. What Qi Long said was the same as what Ying Wei found out, and he wondered why Mrs. Jiang sent someone to pay attention to the orphan of a businessman, just because Qi Long loved this child and wanted to take it for his own use? The prince thought about it and denied it, Qi Long was Shi Xizai's benefactor, and he treated him well, and he was also a righteous person after listening to the description, so he would not be ungrateful and betray Qi Mansion.

The prince laughed at himself, he used to kill his mother because he didn't know anything about the Jiang family's actions, but now he still can't see through it.

Before lunch, Qi Long and the prince went to the river embankment, and the right attendant of the household department and the Ministry of Industry then arrived, and the group inspected the progress of the embankment reinforcement, and then looked along the river to see the extent of the damage to the fields and villages downstream.

The once bustling Suihe ferry is now lonely with a few dilapidated wooden boats, the river has overflowed the water, and the rain has not abated, and it is expected to rise to at least five strokes in early September. After evacuating the residents on the riverbank half a month ago, the provincial government and the water supervisor and the river patrol officer of the prefecture ordered the victims to dredge the river and dig a ditch to divert the water from the fields.

The right waiter of the household department and the Ministry of Industry saw that Chen Zanshuo's flood control and disaster relief were doing a good job, Qi Long shook his head and did not speak, but the sorrow on his face saw that the two waiters were confused, and Qi Qi looked at the prince again.

The crown prince naturally knew that Qi Long had thought of the matter of Yuxian, and said with a smile: "The reason why the two of you will know tomorrow." ”

Hearing this, the two waiters were even more confused, but they had no choice but to wait.

At noon on the second day, a group of people rushed in at the Shuofang City Gate, and in the center of the team it was seen that there seemed to be a person in a prisoner cart, and before the people could see it clearly, the team disappeared into the gray rain.

Shuofang County pacified the embassy.

The magistrate of Yuxian County slightly raised his triangular eyes and glanced at Qi Long, who was in the right position in the hall, and several adults with side hands...... But he was frightened by the terrible bronze mask, could it be that the prince also came to judge him?

Qi Long looked at the obscene appearance of the guy below, slapped the shocked wood, and shouted, "Are you guilty?"

The magistrate of Yuxian County has seen Ji Tong's sentence a few times on weekdays, and the adults in this room made his scalp tingle, and his voice trembled, "Villain, ah, no, the lower officials don't know what the crime is." ”

"You, you, you still have the face to say I don't know?!"

Qi Long was furious, if this was in the army, he would have killed this bastard with a cane, how could he go through such a formality and fight with this guy! Grabbing the knuckles of the startled wood, Qi Long patiently asked again:

"Who did you pass the letters from your study, and where did the ink-greedy silver go!?"

As soon as the magistrate of Yuxian County opened his mouth, the shocking wood in Qi Long's hand was ready to smash people at any time.

To say that this Yuxian magistrate has really never seen anything in the world, he is a nephew and grandchild outside a certain member, but he has been raised in the countryside since he was born, but fortunately, there is a delicate heart who has taken a show, and he is valued by the old man who has withered his children and grandchildren, and he has passed to the door.

However, this person was born in sorrow and died in peace, and then spent all day drinking with his own grandson outside the old man. The old man was furious, and he felt that his life was not long in coming, lamenting that there was no one in the family who was angry, so he could only pick up the tall one among the short ones, and he had to pave the way for this famous grandson to get a county order. But the grandson who passed by the old man has always felt that the old man is selfish, disgusted and assigned to a bitter cold place, after the old man ascended to the immortal, the magistrate of Yuxian County also robbed the inheritance that was originally distributed to the grandson of the old man's grandson, and only left a rented house for others to live.

was already a bully who was afraid of the hard, and had little knowledge, but he was frightened by Qi Long at this time, and he was about to cry, "The villain should die, the villain is blinded by lard...... Woooooooo ”

Seeing the old men crying for the first time, several people in the hall were dumbfounded, the shocking wood in Qi Long's hand was thrown out, and the prince looked at the dumbfounded everyone, almost laughed, and coughed lightly twice to 'wake up' Qi Long and the others.

I didn't want to see the magistrate of Yuxian County, who was so clever and talkative, but now he made Qi Long even more disgusted by his appearance, and he intended to let the officials go out directly to fight, so that only the strength to speak was dragged back, and he was a demon again.

Gu Xia attached himself to Qi Long's ear and asked in a low voice: "General Qi, this Yu County magistrate is greedy for life and afraid of death, but it is also slippery, His Royal Highness wants to interrogate a few words for you, do you think it's okay?"

Qi Long thanked the prince for his respect, bowed to the prince, and nodded.

The magistrate of Yuxian County wiped his tears at this time, but his eyes were still observing every move in the hall through the gap between his fingers, and seeing the interaction between Qi Long and the crown prince, he said in his heart that these people must have come up with some kind of evil idea to inflict on themselves.

This intuitive panic is indeed correct, when the prince was governing the county capital, every time there was a cunning and difficult prisoner, he could always make the other party lose his armor with three or two sentences. At this time, he smiled slightly, which made people feel like a spring breeze, but the words he said plainly made the magistrate of Yuxian County cold,

"Do you know that the common people of fish and meat are a capital crime? This palace knows that you only had a son last year, and this child can be regarded as having a bloodline. ”

After a slight pause, if the words just now made the magistrate of Yuxian County feel cold, the next step would be like falling into a cold ice prison.

"But you have more than one crime, concealing the disaster, this is to show the saint, and the rest of your house will not survive. Although my Dayong Dynasty does not punish underage children, but such a young person is alone in Mobei, can he live?"

After the prince said this, he still smiled and looked at the magistrate of Yuxian who fell to his knees.

"The lower official is guilty and dares to ask His Royal Highness to give his young son a way to live. Compared with the fake cry just now, the magistrate of Yuxian County, who was paralyzed on the ground at this time, no longer had a trace of shrewdness and calculation in his eyes, and he lost his soul in the hollow.

"More than half of the lower officials were greedy for ink and silver, and they all paid tribute to Ji Tong's judgment, and Xia Tong's judgment was very jealous of Ji Tong's judgment for some reason, and they turned a blind eye to it. Because there is no one to inspect Yu County, after a long time, the officials gradually can't control their bad habits...... The lower officials should die, I just want to let my young son live in the countryside in foster care, and I beg you to open up. ”

Qi Long looked at the crown prince, but the prince looked back as if he had decided by Qi Long, Qi Long understood, and slowly said:

"Your sin is unforgivable, and even the Nine Clans are not pitied, but I remember that you have made meritorious reports and your son is still young, and this official agrees to your request. ”

After the magistrate of Yu County was dismissed and detained, Ji and Xia were summoned for general judgment. Ji Tong was sentenced to exile for taking bribes, and he was also dismissed and taken into custody, pending the death penalty of the crime and the death penalty of the Yu County magistrate. Xia Tong was sentenced to 30 reproaches for failing to report his knowledge and was removed from his post for investigation. Li Zheng and the party leader, subordinates of Yuxian County, were also demoted and dismissed according to the situation.

Section 2 [Parting]

This case caused a stir in Jinchuan, the capital of Shuofang, and the people all applauded. On the day of the execution, although the rain was still dripping, the high embankments and the canals dug along the river made the Sui River no longer so turbulent, like a beast that gradually lost its strength, and lay down.

Most of the victims have chosen to return to their homeland, while a few have stayed and integrated into the people of this side to make a living.

One of the onlookers watched the execution, a child who watched quietly, not in the slightest afraid of the bloody scene that was about to take place.

This is the child who stole steamed buns that day, named Yu'er, because his father ran into bandits along the Suihe River and never came back, leaving his three-year-old son and his mother who was pregnant.

During this time, Yu'er has settled in the capital Jinchuan with his mother and sister. After suffering for so many years, he finally waited until this day, regardless of his mother's obstruction to come to the execution ground, he had to see the head of the magistrate of Yuxian County fall to the ground before he felt at ease, although there were still more than 20 people who were implicated in the county order's family, he did not feel pity.

When the prison beheader ordered to behead, with the light of the knife, a pair of soft but slightly calloused hands covered his eyes,

"The child is not afraid of nightmares when he sees this scene of decapitation. Because of the struggle of the people under him, the female voice like a yellow bird giggled: "Don't expect your little body to escape from the master's hands." Don't make a fuss, your mother wants me to take you back. ”

"Okay, I'll go back with you, but don't call me a child, you can call me a leftover like everyone else. ”

Knowing that he couldn't resist Qi Caicai, Yu'er obediently turned around and went home, never looking back. From today onwards, the nightmare of the past will be over, mother, and sister are still waiting for him, aren't they?

Across the street, he rode on a horse with the prince whom Qi Caicai missed, looking at the direction of Qifu from afar, until Gu Xia made a tentative voice and returned to his senses.

"Your Highness, what else is the matter?"

The crown prince shook his head, "Let's go." "Will we see you again?

The right attendant of the household department and the Ministry of Industry followed the prince's horse, and the group set off to return to Beijing.

The people who recognized the bronze mask along the road all knelt down, and some children were afraid that the mask was terrifying, as if they were about to cry, and her mother patted her and whispered: "This is our Dayong's prince, a good person who catches bad guys, not afraid, not afraid." ”

The sky in Shuofang County was clear, and the poplar in the middle of the road bent down under the blowing of the north wind, and no one knew that the prince had formed an indissoluble relationship with Shuofang.