After the prince returned to the palace, he told the emperor what happened to Xia Feiyan, and the emperor ordered Lord Shangshu Zhou of the Criminal Department to try and investigate the matter.

The prince asked Yun Xi to tell her about this, and Yun Xi asked Mr. Xu to help Xia Feiyan write a complaint, suing the prefect of Puzhou, Qian Ren embezzled disaster relief funds, causing countless people in Pu County to starve to death, and the magistrate persuaded him to release disaster relief funds, but he accused him of corruption, resulting in the beheading of all the people and forming an unjust case. Lord Wang's retrial of the case will allow the spirits of the deceased in the sky to be appeased and the people of Dawn to give an explanation.

After writing, Yun Xi accompanied Xia Feiyan to the Criminal Department, due to the last reason Yun Xi still has a deep memory of the Criminal Department, the two of them arrived in a short time by carriage, after Xia Feiyan handed the form in, Zhou Shangshu ordered someone to call Yun Xi and Feiyan into the Criminal Department, the two went in and saluted first, and after saluting, Zhou Shangshu said to Xia Feiyan; "Are you the daughter of Xia Yunlong Xia Zhi County?"

Xia Feiyan nodded, "It's the folk girl." The folk girl hopes that the adults can handle the case impartially and return my father's innocence. ”

Lord Zhou said: "You can rest assured that those who are clear will be self-purifying, and those who are turbid will be self-turbid." Since the emperor is ordered by me, I will handle the case impartially. Put the case down and go back to hear the case when it's time to hear it. ”

Yun Xi nodded and said to Xia Feiyan: "Don't worry, Lord Zhou will definitely handle the case impartially, let's go back and listen to the letter first." ”

Yun Xi came back in order to make Xia Feiyan feel better, so he took him to Baozi Town, the magistrate of Baozi Town was trying the case of Yun Xi's kidnapping, and Xia Feiyan came to testify, and finally sentenced the owner of the bun shop to collude with the thieves to kidnap the imperial businessman, confiscate all the finances, and compensate Yun Xi with 1,000 taels of silver, Yun Xi took out 100 taels of the bun shop confiscated by the government and bought it.

After the case was closed, Yun Xi took Feiyan to Jingzhou, which produces tea, and prepared to change the steamed bun shop into a tea house.

After they left, Zhou Jin began to prepare, and due to the lack of evidence in the case, the witness Zhou Jin decided to go to Pu County to collect evidence.

Early the next morning, Zhou Jin took a carriage to Pu County, when Zhou Jin lifted the curtain to look out, he found that there was a long line of beggars along the way, and when he got off the carriage, he asked that it was from Pu County, saying that it was too dry, and the crops he planted were dying, and he said that he was going to Kyoto to beg for food.

Zhou Shangshu stopped a few beggars, bought them a few buns, pulled them aside and asked, "Didn't you hear that the emperor allocated disaster relief funds to your county?" ”

Several beggars said that they were looking for disaster relief funds at all, and Zhou Shangshu asked again: "Is it that the county order named Xia Yunlong is corrupt?" A few beggars became anxious when they heard this, and immediately threw the bun on Zhou Shangshu's face: "Speaking of the Xia County Order, you are not allowed to slander our Xia County Order, our Xia County Order is a good official, a clean official, but it's a pity...... Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the sound of another coughing. The beggar looked at the other and said, "Why don't you let me finish." ”

The other said: "You have forgotten what happened to Sanmao, you still talk too much, you have a 60-year-old mother and an 8-year-old child, you don't want to live, they still have to live." Let's go and beg for food for them! ”

As soon as Zhou Shangshu heard it, he knew that Xia Yunlong must have been framed, and in order to further obtain evidence, Zhou Shangshu decided to go to Puxian County to collect evidence

When he came to Pu County, Zhou Shangshu entered the village and felt that the village was very quiet, if he didn't know that the villagers had gone to beg for food. I thought I was entering a deserted village.

Pushed open the door of a villager and entered the house, and saw an old man and a three-year-old child lying on the kang, probably hungry, and when he saw Lord Zhou come in, he just opened his eyes and looked at Lord Zhou Jin, and then closed it. Zhou Jin knew that the old and the young were hungry, so he went to the only restaurant in the village to buy food, first fed to them, and when they had the strength to get up and eat by themselves, Zhou Jin asked some things about Xia Zhi County, and learned from the old man's mouth that this Xia Zhifu since he came to Pu County five years ago, he was dedicated to the sake of the people, before the fields in Pu County were in the hands of more than a dozen landlords, he stipulated that each landlord must hand over ten acres of land, he handed over the land handed over by the landlord to the people to cultivate, and the county was suitable for planting rice, He used his own money to buy rice seeds for the people to plant, he also farmed the fields, he never wore silk and satin, he wore coarse cloth clothes, so he took out his own money every year, bought seeds for the people, and even this year's drought he used his own money to buy rice porridge and open a porridge shop, in addition to these he also actively persuaded those who did business to pay for rice porridge. Such a magistrate can be a corrupt official, but he was framed by traitors and beheaded all over the house, even a nine-year-old girl was not spared. If you can really avenge Xia Zhixian, I just don't want my old bones to stand up and testify for him.

Mr. Zhou visited a few more houses, but only the elderly and children were left at home, and everyone else went to beg. Mr. Zhou bought food from the restaurant and distributed it to the elderly and children in various households. He also told them not to let his family beg tomorrow, and he went back to prepare porridge for tomorrow. Several elderly people thanked them and said that they must relay the good news to their families. In this way, the prime of life and women of the village will not have to go out to beg tomorrow.

After going back, Zhou Jin sorted out everything he knew about the day, and after sorting it out, he took people to the rice store to buy rice, he first bought ten bags of rice, and then bought five generations of cornmeal, and let people make cornmeal into cakes and steam them to prepare for the people of Pu County to eat, a busy meal.

The lady asked puzzledly, "Why do you still bring so much rice and noodles to the trial?" ”

"Madam, you don't know, the people there have gone to beg for food, and they can't find anyone if they want to understand the case, I tell those old people and children that tomorrow, don't let their families beg for my porridge."

Madame glared, "You have money?" You will be able to get the porridge and my account on credit, and when the time comes, I will catch the corrupt officials and get out of the confiscated money," Mrs. Chen nodded and agreed. repeatedly told to be careful, saying that those corrupt officials are ruthless. Mr. Zhou has repeatedly said that he will be careful to reassure his wife.

The next day, he had two wagons of rice and flour cakes loaded, and a large pot was bought, and loaded them into the wagon.

This time, there were really no refugees found along the way, Zhou Jin thought, it seems that the villagers are waiting for themselves to go to the porridge, and they finally arrived in Puxian County.

Tomorrow's Lord Zhou will be imprisoned in the prefect's prison, which is even more exciting, please continue to pay attention to it!

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