There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the Kunshan County Ya was broken by the dull drumming sound, which broke the usual tranquility.

"What's that sound?" The officials of the soap class were having breakfast, thanks to the blessing of the eldest master, the county government food was very good, and everyone gained a lot of weight.

"It seems to be a drum...... "Someone was unsure, after all, no one had ever knocked on that thing, and everyone wasn't sure what it was like.

"What do you call it like, it's simply that!" Or Wang Bantou is experienced, he dropped his job, grabbed his corrugated hat, and said rightly: "Hurry up, prepare to ascend!" ”

"Hey, it's a good ......" The subordinate servants hurriedly grabbed the meat-stuffed steamed buns, stuffed two into their mouths, and rushed out of the canteen like Kang Hui.

In the back office, Zhao Erye also just got up, with a pair of dark circles under his eyes, yawned and sat down in the right position, and he also heard the sound of drums.

"Hey, singing so early? Do you still have a little bit of morality? Zhao Shouzheng took the dried scallop cuttlefish porridge served by the maid, this thing is very replenishing.

"Father is sure it's not Dengwengu?" Zhao Gongzi had something in his heart, so he naturally didn't sleep lazy, got up early and sat in the flower hall to read the newspaper, and when he heard the drums, he knew that Zheng Ruozeng had come to complain as promised.

"What? Is it?! Zhao Erye came to his senses and immediately said excitedly: "Who is that, go to the front and see, is this the case!" ”

"Uh, father, that person didn't give you a book boy last year, and he did it with me a long time ago." Zhao Gongzi coughed lightly.

"Oh yes? Haha, no wonder I always feel like something is missing, but I can't remember it. Zhao Erye said embarrassedly: "It turns out that the kid is gone, really, he won't say hello to me when he leaves." ”

"I guess I said hello, right?" Zhao Gongzi scratched his head and said, "I don't remember it clearly." ”

"I'm not impressed at all." Zhao Shouzheng shook his head and said, "Forget it, it doesn't make a difference whether there is him or not anyway." ”

hurriedly asked Fan Datong, who was fat into a ball, to take a look. After a while, Fan Datong came back panting and said, "No, that's right, it's Mr. Kaiyang who beats the drum and complains, and Mr. Wu asks the master to hurry up." ”

"He's not doing it for you?" Zhao Shouzheng blinked and looked at Zhao Hao.

"The ancestral system of the national dynasty, if you beat the drum, you must immediately ascend to the court." Zhao Hao couldn't help but secretly reflect, did he and Mr. Wu manage too widely? Daddy is careful about what he does.

"Aha, that's great." Zhao Shouzheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and smiled with a smile: "Lao Tzu has been the county master for two years? I haven't tried the case yet, so it's my turn to show my face! ”

"Hurry up, quickly dress me up, master." Saying that he didn't eat anymore? Hurry up and ask the maids to get a new set of official robes to change into for themselves.

Is it the first time in your life? There has to be a bit of ritual.

Zhao Shouzheng is sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling dressing mirror? Two maids knelt down to put on his boots, and one recombed his hair so that he could put on a new, slightly tighter black gauze hat.

"I don't know if it's because the official's head is big? Or is this hat too small. Second Master Zhao complained casually.

"It must be that the hat is too small." Zhao Hao said with a smile.

"Good luck." Father and son look at each other? I couldn't help but laugh.

"This Lao Zheng is really outside, what can't be said in person, it has to be so grand." Zhao Shouzheng said again.

Zhao Hao not only avoided suspicion but also did not show up in the court? And to avoid too many traces of the performance? He didn't even talk to his dad in advance.

But this is by no means an improvisation without rehearsal? Zhao Hao yesterday afternoon? Have you already colluded with Wu Chengen? How should this case be handled? Master Wu's door is clear. He even went to visit Chu Liuxiang in the class room and told him what to say and what not to say today.

As for Second Master Zhao, why do you know so much? The boss is done...... It's not a marionette, serious face.

"Mr. Kaiyang has always acted steadily? Naturally, he has a point. Zhao Hao said.

"Huh? Quite right. "Zhao Shouzheng thinks so? Standing up in high spirits? Stretching out his hand and pointing to the front, he said: "Today, I am ordered to go out of the imperial capital to visit the bullies and the people." Regardless of the royal family and the relatives? The word Wang Fa is not merciful! ”

As he spoke, he was about to pace out.

"Sir, you haven't tied your belt yet." The maid hastened to remind him.

"Uh......" Second Master Zhao had to stand awkwardly, and asked with a nervous feeling: "Son, you won't stab Lou Zi for your father, right?" ”

After all, it's the first time in my life, so it's inevitable to be nervous.

"Come on, father." Zhao Hao smiled and raised his arms to cheer him up: "You are already a mature magistrate, you must be able to do it." ”

At least the appearance is excellent, exclusive to the royal family, and the eldest princess is carefully selected and certified.

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The rare sound of drumming also alarmed the pedestrians on Yaqian Street, and the people of Kunshan flocked to the county government to see the excitement.

It is not that Kunshan is a harmonious society, and there is no dispute, but it is difficult to adopt such a radical way as beating the drum. It's not that they don't want to, people always want to make as much trouble as possible when they file a complaint.

But it's like there is a special Dengwen Drum Courtyard outside the palace to prevent cats and dogs from beating drums indiscriminately. The county also has a gate in front of the eight-character wall, and the people can't get in at all, how can they beat the drum? So if they have any grievances, they can only honestly hand over the paper through the gate, and of course they can't hear a drum in the yamen for a few years.

Yu Bo had already been instructed to open the gate today and let the people in for trial. After a while, the platform in front of the lobby was already densely packed with people watching the excitement.

As soon as the cloud board in the back hall sounded, Fan Datong sang "The eldest master has arrived", wearing a black veil, wearing a six-grade official robe, and Zhao Erye, who put his hands on the black horn belt, was in Gongsun Ce...... Oh no, accompanied by Wu Chengen, he walked majestically onto the stage and sat at the back of the big case.

"Kowtow to my old parents!" Without waiting for the official to shout, the people knelt down in unison and greeted their beloved Second Master Zhao loudly.

"Okay, everybody, get up." Zhao Erye, who loves the people like a son, has a kind smile on his face, and habitually pulls up homely things. "Why are you free to come over today, have you eaten breakfast?"

"Ahem...... Wu Chengen, who was standing behind him, hurriedly coughed and reminded him in a low voice: "My lord, what about ascending to the hall." ”

"Oh, let's talk another day, and the official will get down to business first." Zhao Shouzheng retracted his gaze, looked for the shocking wood on the big case, twisted the cuffs with one hand, and patted them tentatively with the other.

"It's too light...... "Wu Chengen's sweat, his heart said that you have this little tofu."

'Bang' sounded, and Zhao Erye said loudly: "Ascension!" ”

The officials, who were lined up in two shifts, threw water and fire sticks on the ground together, "might...... Wu ......"

The sound of the raindrops of wooden sticks hitting the ground was very terrifying, and the needles fell quickly in the hall.

"Who's beating the drums in the hall?!" Zhao Erye finally shouted out this line, which he had practiced many times in his dreams.

"Master Hui, it is Zheng Ruozeng, an old gentleman in this county." The official hurriedly sang and reported.

"Oh, it's his old man, please." Zhao Shouzheng raised his hand.

"Please Zheng Xianggong to come to court." The official sang, and Zheng Ruozeng came to the hall on crutches and with the support of his son.

"When a student visits his parents, he is abrupt and innocent, and he deserves death!" Zheng Ruo once said that he was about to kneel on the ground.

"I can't help it, Yiluan, hold on to your father quickly." Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly excused himself from the seat.

Not to mention that Zheng Ruo had a reputation as a student, and he was exempted from kneeling when he saw the official, just said that he assisted Hu Zongxian in fighting against the Japanese, worked hard and made high achievements, and after returning to his hometown, he was enthusiastic about Sangzi, dragging his old body, and running for the disaster relief cause in the county, and Zhao Erye also had to give courtesy.

Zheng Ruo thanked his old parents and sat down on the moved stick.

Zhao Shouzheng asked, "I don't know what Mr. Kaiyang is doing drumming?" ”

"Go back to your old parents, avenge your grievances!" Zheng Ruozeng said angrily.

"What grievances do you have?" Zhao Shouzheng asked.

"It's not the grievances of the old man, the old man is the grievance of a strong man surnamed Chu!" Zheng Ruo once said that he took out the pleadings and asked his son to submit them on his behalf, and told the case again.

"Oh, that's it?" Zhao Shouzheng really didn't know, and looked back at his master in the hall.

"Master Hui, there is such a case." Wu Chengen hurriedly said: "But didn't you issue a notice saying that because the construction period of the river project is too tight, the lawsuit should be postponed and asked again next month?" So the case was temporarily suppressed. ”

After a pause, the writer apologized again: "And because it is a big case of collusion, that Chu was temporarily detained in the class room to await trial, so as not to abscond." ”

"Hmm." Zhao Shouzheng nodded, as if the county was not wrong.

"Does the eldest master want to bring him to the hall?" Wu Chengen hurriedly asked inducingly: "There is also the plaintiff in the Tongwei case, Xue Xiaoren, a child in this county?" ”

"Of course." Zhao Shouzheng patted the wooden body and said, "Bring it together." ”

"Fire Lot." Wu Chengen hurriedly reminded in a whisper.

Zhao Shouzheng hurriedly took out a stick from the lottery holder and threw it on the ground.

Wang Bantou hurriedly picked up the fire sign and went down to pass it on.

Taking advantage of this little effort, Wu Chengen hurriedly told the case briefly to the eldest master.

After a while, Chu Liuxiang was brought in, only to see that the brocade robe on his body was dirty and torn, but fortunately, he had all his beards and tails, and his complexion was not bad.

He was full of scruffy beards, and he stood with his head held high in the hall with an untamed face, not to mention, he really had the posture of a hero in the green forest. It's no wonder that the officials didn't dare to let him go......

"Bold, don't you kneel in front of the county lord?" Fan Datong, who served as the long-term attendant, snorted.

This sound really worked, Chu Liuxiang woke up like a dream, and then remembered that the 'dog official' in the hall was the father of the son, and quickly knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"Lord Qingtian is in charge, the villain is wronged!"

"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, no one will say that they are not wronged." Second Master Zhao said in a deep voice: "You straighten up and talk back." ”

"Hey." Chu Liu responded and quickly straightened up.

"You said you were wronged, then explain, where did the bride price of more than two hundred silver come from?" Zhao Shouzheng pointed to the file he had just brought and said: "The neighbors all said that your family is wide and you have made a fortune, how did you make this wealth, and it will be okay if you make it clear?" ”

"This ......" Chu Liuxiang looked puzzled: "We have discipline and can't say it." ”

"Look at you, isn't this self-inflicted?!" Second Master Zhao was so angry that he was shocked and said, "Tell the truth! ”