Chapter 36 State and County Inspections (3)

April has arrived, and the four of them stayed all the way to more than ten prefectures and counties Yamen to select cases for retrial. Small cases are tried quickly, and large cases are slower. Everywhere he went, he always had a big feast, but Su Yunkai refused and went directly to the yamen, which frightened some magistrates. It seems that the reputation spread, and the first few magistrates did not dare to come to the banquet again.

There are many Yamen in the Great Song Dynasty, but not everywhere there are old murder cases unsolved, and Mingyue feels not tired. There are about 200 large and small cases that have been retried, but only more than 20 cases require her to be retried. Bai Shui followed Su Yunkai inside and out, and she followed Qin Fang to eat, drink and play in the local area. So much so that sitting in the car today, after taking a few closer looks, Mingyue only felt that she and Qin Fang were going to be rounded into balls.

Su Yunkai was closing his eyes to recuperate, listening to the person on the other side sigh, opened his eyes and looked, before he asked, Qin Fang, who was fast-talking, asked, "What's wrong with you, haven't you eaten yet, it's okay, I heard that we can go to the next town before evening." ”

Mingyue pinched her stomach and looked sad, "Fat." ”

Qin Fang also looked at her and nodded vigorously, "It's indeed fat." ”

"You're fat too."

"I'm a man, and that's called Strong."

Hearing this, Bai Shui reached out and pinched his arm, so painful that Qin Fang almost jumped up. Bai Shui snorted, "The meat is as soft as cotton, this is called fatty meat." ”

Qin was angry and wanted to pinch her, but he couldn't help it when he thought that men and women would not kiss her. Su Yunkai saw that Mingyue was still pinching her little belly, like a sad apricot-colored dumpling, and said with a smile, "It's good to grow some meat, it's too thin and weak to blow and it will fall." ”

Mingyue raised her eyes, "Really? ”

"Hmm."

Mingyue stopped pinching, and her heart was so happy that she was like a sparrow flying.

The car traveled three miles, and before it entered the town, it heard someone arguing. The carriage stopped, and the coachman said outside, "Sir, there is an argument on the road ahead, and the road is blocked. ”

Su Yun opened the curtain of the car and looked out, there were more than ten people gathered in front of him, and the people who watched the excitement were basically rolling up their trousers and holding hoes, and then looking at the surrounding farmland, it must be people who were cultivating nearby. The arguing people scolded fiercely, but they didn't seem to be arguing about the same thing.

"Get out of the car and take a look."

The four of them got out of the car one after another, and when they got closer, they found that the ground was full of sugarcane leaves.

At this time, the sugar cane is almost out of season, and it will not be sweet any later. Listening to their noisy words, these canes are exceptional, and they are greasy sweet. The farmer was going to cut it down and sell it for money tomorrow morning, but when he thought that the sugar cane in the field was gone, he suspected that the man had stolen it, and they quarreled.

"Lu San, you cut my sugarcane, and yesterday you told someone that you were going to cut my sugarcane and sell it for a good price."

"Zhao Si, you will believe what others say, is it tomorrow that someone tells you that I want to steal your mother-in-law, and you believe it too?"

"I'm fighting with you!"

"Come on, smash me in the head."

Seeing that Zhao Si was really going to hurt people with a hoe, Su Yun cheered, shaking the noisy crowd to silence, and they all looked over there. The four men who came were handsome and beautiful, and although the person who spoke was not richly dressed, he had a handsome face and righteous facial features, and no one shouted at him for a while.

Bai Shui showed his waist card, and only flashed it in front of everyone for a moment before retracting it, so as not to see clearly that she was the head catcher of the Criminal Division, "Arrest and handle the case quickly." ”

Only then did everyone show awe, and they subconsciously pushed away one after another, for fear of causing trouble.

When Zhao Si heard this, he immediately stepped forward and said angrily, "Lord Catch quickly, I want to sue, I want to sue Na Lu San for cutting my sugarcane." ”

Lu San knelt on the ground and shouted wronged, and said, "I went up the mountain to chop wood early this morning, you see, the knife is still here, when did you cut your sugarcane, you should find witnesses, don't spew blood." ”

Zhao Si said angrily, "Don't think I don't know that you have a lot of debts for bad gambling, and your family is so poor that you have nothing, even this knife was stolen from Ah Gou's house the day before yesterday." I don't pursue other people's fields with less vegetables and fruits, but you have gone too far, and you actually cut down all the sugarcane in my field, you know that my mother is sick and wants money for treatment, do you have peace of mind to steal this money? ”

Lu San sneered, "You should come up with evidence, or you can ask the person who harvested sugar cane today, who has seen me." ”

"Since you said that, it must be in disguise."

"There's no evidence." Lu San became proud again, determined that he couldn't do anything about himself.

Zhao Si had nothing to say, so he could only ask Su Yunkai to call the shots. Su Yunkai looked at the sharp machete, squatted down to pick it up and looked at it, and asked, "This knife is what you used to chop wood in the morning?" ”

Lu San replied, "Yes." ”

"What about your firewood?"

"Sold."

Mingyue rolled her eyes and whispered two words in Su Yunkai's ear. Su Yunkai let out a "hmm" and said with a smile, "I just asked him that, I just wanted to do this." ”

Qin Fang frowned, "What do you two have in your heart?" ”

Mingyue smiled with her eyebrows, "Solve the case." ”

Su Yunkai's fingers slid across the knife surface, almost passing from the sharp blade, which was shocking to others. The next moment, he felt strange, only to see him taste his fingers. Then he smiled and said to Lu San, "Why don't you sue me, what is the name of the firewood you chopped, it is as sweet as cane juice?" ”

Everyone was slightly stunned, and suddenly realized that if it was chopping firewood, where would the juice have the sweet smell of sugar cane. Only when you cut sugar cane can you have this kind of sweetness.

When Zhao Si heard this, he immediately went to scratch and taste, this lick was furious, grabbed the road and said three times, "Go, follow me to the yamen." ”

Lu San wanted to escape, but he was not the opponent of the stout man Zhao Si at all. While shouting, he dragged him to the yamen, and finally scolded Su Yunkai for being nosy, and the scolding gradually faded away, Su Yunkai didn't care, and at this time another person stepped forward, "Official, please also call the shots for the villain." ”

He had been silent just now, and he didn't squeak when others were in an uproar, but his eyes never left him, and Su Yunkai knew that he had something to say.

"The villain's name is Wumu, because his surname is Lin Mingsen, and Wumu got this nickname. The villain is indeed good at planting trees, and the most special one should be planted in a cypress tree far from home. ”

Qin Fang said curiously, "Cypress? Isn't that a very common tree? ”

Goki continued, "Yes, but the average cypress seedling has a straight trunk and leaves that open into an oval shape, but it grows crookedly and does not form after a year and a half. But this one has grown for a year, and now it's only a little taller, and it still looks pleasing. A few days ago, an outsider wanted to buy my cypress tree at a high price, and I couldn't afford it, so I only came here today. Whoever thought that as soon as he arrived in the field, he found that the cypress tree was gone, but he saw it in his field, and insisted that it was his. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a man with a wide nose and a wide mouth next to him, and when the man saw him pointing at himself, he also knelt down, kowtowed and said, "My lord, I didn't, that tree originally belonged to the grass people's family, and he framed me." ”

Su Yunkai asked, "Where was the place where the trees were originally planted?" ”

Gogi immediately led him to see it, and pointed out the man's land to him.

Su Yunkai saw that a big hole had indeed been dug in the field, and some trees had been planted in the man's field, among which there was an oval cypress tree that grew very pleasantly, and he could see it at a glance. He squatted down and took a handful of the soil in the pit, dug a few inches with his bare hands, and then got up and went to the man's field to look at the cypress trees.

The cypress trees were verdant and covered with hay underground, and they shook and seemed firmly rooted in the ground. He reached out to remove the hay, grabbed another handful of dirt, then got up and said, "Dig to the roots." ”

The man was embarrassed, "This tree will die." ”

Gogi said, "Just see a little rhizome, where will you die." So saying, he took a hoe and dug up, and soon he found the roots.

Su Yunkai looked at the soil that was stuck to the roots of the tree, and asked him to dig another big tree to the roots. It took about a moment back and forth before he got up and said to the man, "Although stealing someone else's tree is not a big crime, stealing is a crime, and it seems that you have to go to the yamen with us." ”

The man was surprised, "Master Mingjian, I didn't steal his family's trees, I have planted so many trees here, and it is not uncommon to have cypress trees." ”

Su Yun laughed and said, "You are very smart, you know that the soil of the tree will definitely be very soft when it is just transplanted, so it took so much effort to press it hard every time you lay a layer of soil, so that I couldn't push the tree just now." But you were negligent, and although you were close to his land, it was still ten feet away, and the soil in his field was yellow, while the soil in your field was more red. Although you dug up the tree, perhaps because you were digging in the middle of the night, and the lights were unknown, you didn't notice it, so there was still a little yellow soil left in the cracks in the roots of the cypress. ”

When Wumu heard this, he breathed a long sigh of relief, "Master Mingjian." ”

The man was speechless for a moment, so he could only admit it.

The onlookers were already clapping their hands, but Mingyue and the three of them understood that this was just a condiment for Master Su to solve the case, a small case among small cases.

After solving the small things on the way, the four of them continued on the road and moved on to the next place.

In the blink of an eye, most of April has passed, and the states and counties that the original route to go to have already gone have already gone, and Su Yunkai also has to go back to the government before May, presumably there must be a lot to be busy when he returns to the government, so he ended the trip and went back to the Daimyofu Road.

The happiest thing on this road is Bai Shui, she knew that Su Yunkai was powerful, but she didn't expect it to be so powerful, so she praised Master Su on her lips when she had nothing to do, and Mingyue felt strange when she praised it. Even Qin Fang couldn't help but say when he heard it, "I think you're going to become my brother-in-law's little follower." ”

"Originally, he was also a little follower."

"Actually, I'm pretty good, why don't you praise me?"

"Boast that you hide behind me when you are in danger and want me to protect you? Boasting that you can eat and drink, and you can sleep? ”

Qin was so angry that he almost went up to fight with her, Mingyue hurriedly dodged away, and the two enemies became more and more noisy.

When she returned to the room, she passed by Su Yun before opening the room, and the room was still lit and waiting. The inns are generally small, the tables are close to the windows, and a long shadow of a scroll in his hand is reflected on the window paper.

"Sir, aren't you sleeping?"

The room was quiet for a moment, and then a blockbuster of people was reflected, the wooden door was opened, and Su Yunkai said, "Just sleep, Bai Shui and Qin Fang are still in the front hall?" ”

Mingyue smiled, "No, it's quarreling again." ”

Su Yun smiled, "It's really a wrongdoer." Bai Shui can't quarrel with Qin Fang, Qin Fang can't beat Bai Shui, and it's flat. ”

Mingyue also smiled happily, "No matter how you think about it, the little marquis suffers." ”

"If he was really afraid of catching his head in vain, he wouldn't dare to provoke her all the time. If Bai Zhutou thought he was annoying, he would have used a knife to block him as soon as he opened his mouth. ”

Only then did Mingyue understand, "It turned out that one was willing to fight and the other was willing to suffer." ”

As he spoke, thunder roared outside, and lightning struck the air, piercing the gloomy sky. Mingyue said, "Then I'll go back to my room." ”

"Hmm." Su Yunkai saw her trotting back to the room, and when she entered the room, she slammed the door shut, it seemed that she was afraid of thunder. He thought about it, went back to the room and brought the lamp to her, and the room would be brighter, and he would be bolder.

It rained heavily, lightning and thunder, and it was noisy all night, until dawn came. By the time the sun arrived, the sun was already shining.

After coming out of the post station, they walked another fifty miles, but they heard that the road ahead had collapsed for more than half a month, and it collapsed almost after they passed by. Originally, the mountain road was about to be dug up, but I didn't expect that last night's thunder and lightning split a huge rock on the mountain, coupled with heavy rain, the hillside mudslide blocked the road again, and I don't know when the mountain road will be able to break away.

The four of them wanted to turn back to the town, but when they heard that there was a large village not far ahead, they wanted to stay there for a night to see what the situation was tomorrow and then make plans.