Chapter 60: Master Zhou is arrested

As soon as he arrived in Puxian County, Zhou Jin saw that the people had already followed him at the entrance of the village, and when he saw the grain in the two carts, the villagers' eyes lit up.

Zhou Jin ordered people to set up stoves, set up a cauldron, and the villagers found firewood and began to boil porridge.

Zhou Jin said: "That's the case, I am an official of the imperial court, Xia Feiyan, the daughter of Xia Yunlong, the commander of Puxian County, thinks that her father was framed and asks for a retrial of the case, and has handed the case to the Criminal Department, and the emperor asked me to accept the case, and I came here mainly to collect some evidence." ”

When people heard that Xia Zhixian still had a daughter living in the world, they all cheered excitedly, "The sky has eyes!" Let the loyal ministers have successors! Zhou Jin asked people to take pen and paper and asked the people to write the Ten Thousand People Fold, and a few young and strong people said that they would go to Kyoto to testify for Xia Zhi County.

Finally waited until the porridge was ready, Zhou County ordered to put away the people's folds, rolled up his sleeves and took out the porridge for the people, and a cornmeal cake next to him, a bowl of porridge and a cornmeal cake per person, and the same was true for children.

As he was in the middle of it, he saw a group of officers and soldiers, and one of them shouted, 'Arrest that untouchable man who deceives the people.' Pointing at Zhou Jin, Zhou Jin took out the Wanmin fold from his arms and secretly stuffed it into the hand of Xiao Wu, and whispered: "Go and give this to Madame." Xiao Wu hurriedly squeezed into the crowd, Zhou Jin and the two coachmen and an entourage were all arrested, and several ordinary people and officers and soldiers of the government were also arrested. The group was imprisoned in the prefect's prison

Xiao Wu went back to Shangshu Mansion, told the people of Shangshu Mansion about the situation at that time, and took out the Wanmin fold, saying that Shangshu had handed it over to his wife for safekeeping.

As soon as Mrs. Zhou heard that her husband was imprisoned, she didn't dare to delay for a moment and went to the prime minister, who heard that the situation was strict, and hurriedly wrote to the emperor. When the emperor heard this, the little prefect actually arrested Shangshu, so he hurriedly summoned the prince to discuss the matter.

The crown prince reassured the emperor and said that since Zhou Shangshu was already in prison, let him stay in it for a few days, just so that he could collect some evidence, get through the relationship first, and learn that he was safe in prison.

When the prince came to Puxian County, he first asked his entourage to buy off the cell head, and the cell head said that he would sue them as soon as there was any trouble.

He learned that the people detained here are all people related to this case, and he found that there is a master from Xia Zhi County, and the master told Mr. Zhou that the old man of his family has been in Puxian County since he came to Pu County to love the people like a son, and his insignificant Yulu has been used to help the people, and his own family eats coarse tea and light rice, and sometimes he takes out all the money to help the people, and his family has no money to sell food, so he goes to pay off the rice on credit, and he will pay off the account next month. Mrs. and Miss are usually coarse cloth clothes, coarse tea and light rice. That's the case, Mrs. never said that the lord was bad, that is, when the drought was the most severe, the lord took all the money to buy rice porridge, and Mrs. didn't say anything, and helped the lord dig out the porridge for the villagers, and when he had no money to buy rice porridge, he persuaded the local landlord and squire to donate money to buy rice porridge.

Later, after learning that the prefect withheld the disaster relief funds, he went to the prefect to ask for it, and the prefect did not admit that the emperor had allocated the disaster relief funds, and he wrote to the imperial court in order to prove that the emperor had indeed allocated the disaster relief funds, but the person sent to deliver the letter never returned, and we all suspected that the prefect killed the person who delivered the letter. Finally, it is also said that I have a threatening letter from the prefect to Master Xia here, which was stuffed to me when Master Xia was arrested, and they have been looking for this letter, and I hid it in the mezzanine of my shoes. Saying that, he took it out and handed it to Zhou Shangshu, Zhou Shangshu was afraid of being seen, so he tore the shoes and hid them in the mezzanine of the shoes, and said to the master after hiding them: "Are you willing to get a certificate for Xia Zhixian?"

The master said: "Don't talk about testifying, as long as you can return Xia Zhixian's innocence, I am willing to let me die." ”

"With your words, I'm relieved."

Zhou Shangshu asked a few more prisoners, most of whom offended him and his son and were imprisoned, and a few robbed other people's wives and brought their husbands in. Some robbed other people's daughters, and they were afraid that their fathers would make trouble, so they locked up a large number of old people. This prefect's father and son have done all the bad things, and heaven does not tolerate it, Zhou Jin wants to have no lawsuit against Xia Feiyan, I really don't know how long such a wicked person will be in danger of the people.

Over there, the prince had already bought off a cell boss, saying that he was just visiting one of his uncles, and the prince had already dressed up when he came, and the cell boss told him: "The prince will come out after sending things quickly, don't talk too much," the prince nodded.

When the prince entered, he saw several prisoners locked together, and thought that he could just collect evidence, and that he must be locked up someone related to the case.

When he came to the door of the cell, he saw where Zhou Jin was closing his eyes and recuperating, and shouted: 'Okay, you Zhou Jin, take the national money, hide from this lazy here.' ”

Zhou Jin heard someone shouting, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was the prince, and he was busy saluting, but the prince waved his hand to signal that he didn't need to, thinking that the prince might not want to reveal his identity! "You think I want to be here, it's full of mosquitoes that have bitten me in several big bags, you think."

How can I get out? ”

The prince said: "It's okay to go out, you have to bribe me with something, and I will do my best to let you go out." ”

"Do you want a yam for you?" Governor Zhou said.

The prince said, "Anything is fine." As long as it works for me. ”

Zhou Jin said, "Here you go," he said, taking out the letter and stuffing it into the prince's hand.

The prince took the letter and put it in his arms, brought him the food he had brought him, and said, "When the time comes, I will let you out." ”

The corners of Zhou Jin's mouth twitched, and he watched the prince go out.

Then he called all the inmates to eat the food brought by the prince.

The group of inmates, seeing the food was like seeing their own father, unceremoniously picked up the roast chicken and divided it one by one, and finally Zhou Jin didn't have it. Zhou Jin looked at the steamed bun that was only left for himself, and hurriedly picked it up, but he didn't expect to be snatched by a fellow inmate, "How can you, a big official, eat these things." After speaking, stuff it into your mouth in three or two mouthfuls. Zhou Jin saw that the inmates were very satisfied with what they had eaten, and after eating and drinking, he closed his eyes and recuperated, touched his shriveled belly, and thought that after going out, he would let the prince go to Sanxian Building to invite him to a big meal.

After the prince went back, he handed the letter to the emperor, and the emperor was so angry that he couldn't imagine that there was such a dog official in the world. This is simply the scum of the world, and he also persecuted Zhongliang, and ordered the prince to bring a few internal guards, and wait for a team of people to rush to Puxian County immediately to arrest the dog official. Let's see how his heart is so vicious. Seeing that the emperor was so excited, the prince stopped bothering, took the token, and went down to gather people.

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