They exclaimed, "Did he? Childe, you shouldn't be talking nonsense, that's the magistrate, you can do it?"

Wenwu said: "Old man, you don't know, our family is the criminal officer of the Criminal Department, and he is the emperor. He was appointed to inspect around the Great Song Dynasty, in fact, to investigate these corrupt officials and corrupt officials. ”

“... Your Excellency the Judge. ”

They knelt on the ground violently and wept: "My lord, are you Song Ci and Song to be punished?" Ah.... The people of our Pomegranate County are looking forward to you, it's good to come, this corrupt official is going to be unlucky.

Song Ci helped the two of them up and said: "Old man, please get up quickly, Song is late, let you wait for a long time, since Song has already come, how can you ignore this matter?"

After chatting for a while, everyone walked forward again, and suddenly saw a team coming, they stopped people on the street to search, and soon caught a middle-aged dealer man.

The leader asked, "Take out the proof that you paid the tax, otherwise you will go to the yamen." ”

The man's face was flushed, and he said in a panic: "Fart, Lao Tzu didn't do business, and he didn't repair the house and build a house, why should he pay taxes?"

"Don't pay? Hehe, if you don't pay taxes, don't think about going back today, in the world of the Great Song Dynasty, as long as you dare to breathe a breath of fresh air, you have to pay taxes, unless, you will leave this pomegranate county immediately. ”

The man said: "Let's go, as long as you let Lao Tzu go, Lao Tzu will leave immediately, without delaying for an hour."

"Hey, hey? Even if you want to leave, then you should give the money, right? Otherwise, you think you can stay in this pomegranate county casually?"

“.... You guys... You dogs, Lao Tzu wants to go to Lin'an to report you, report you corrupt officials. ”

"Report? It depends on whether you can get out of the yamen's cell, never pay taxes, according to the regulations, you should be in prison for 20 years, ahaha, come on, arrest directly.

Song Ci and the others immediately walked over and said in a cold voice: "A few officials, I want to ask, how much tax did he miss in total?"

They stopped and looked at Song Ci, "Hehe, I heard that your accent is a foreigner, this matter is not your business, and those who know each other immediately go to the yamen to pay taxes, otherwise, there will be no good fruit for you to eat." ”

Saying that, they left, and Ren You said: "This Pomegranate County seems to be darker than Zhu County, and the Great Song Dynasty seems to be unsafe, if it goes on like this, sooner or later someone will raise an army."

Song Ci sighed and said: "Song has known this for a long time, but this is not something we can ask, the Jin people will go south one day sooner or later, wait, then we will all become slaves of the country."

Everyone was silent, Da Song was already terminally ill, and it was difficult to treat, unless it was to scrape the bones to cure the poison, otherwise, sooner or later, it would be the world of the Jin people.

A few officials with the dealer man had soon left, and from time to time on the street, I saw that there were officials searching for proof of tax payment, and in just a while, no less than a few people were arrested and arrested to the yamen.

Pomegranate County is so corrupt that it almost collapses, including all the lizheng outside the county.

"My lord, do we want to go to the yamen at this moment, find the magistrate directly, and then arrest him?"

"This..., don't go for the time being, Song plans to see if there are any unjust cases here, but every yamen, there will always be this kind of thing, this is dereliction of duty when trying the case, they are like going through a formality.

Walking vertically forward, Song Ci saw that a young woman was sitting on the ground burning the dark coins at the moment, today is not half of July, why is this happening? Or is it worshipping ancestors? Sacrifice a loved one who has passed away?

Song Ci walked over and said, "Girl, may I ask what you are doing here?"

She turned to look at Song Ci and said, "Sacrificing the deceased husband, there is nothing, the son's heart is too much."

Song Ci secretly sighed that it was a pity that he lost his life at a young age. "Seeing that the girl is not very old, I don't know why your husband died? Is it a disease? Or was it an accident?"

As soon as these words came out, she immediately cried sadly, wiped her tears and said: "My husband has been beheaded by the yamen because he was involved in a murder case half a year ago, and there is a criminal in the family, son, let you see it."

"Homicide?" Song Ci whispered, he didn't know what the situation was, and he didn't know if it was an unjust death, this matter was difficult to conclude at the moment.

"Girl, this is serious, I see that you are as beautiful as a flower, how can your husband kill someone for something? Is there still a grievance in this matter?"

She paused, stopped talking, looked very sad, and in her eyes, there seemed to be a green fire burning.

Song Ci said: "Girl, if you are wronged, you might as well tell me in detail, don't hide it, Song is the criminal officer of this criminal department, Song Ci!"

She exclaimed, the dark coin in her hand fell to the ground, raised her head and looked at Song Ci deadly, "My lord, you are... Are you saying that you are the arraignment officer of the Great Song Prison Division?"

She felt hope, and just like the two old men before, she knelt on the ground and cried: "My lord, are you the Song Ti sentence who has solved many unjust cases in just a few months?"

Song Ci nodded and said, "Yes, it's Song, girl, did your husband die unjustly?" If this matter is true, you can tell me about it, and Song is willing to redress your grievances. ”

With Qin Xiaoyue's help, she stood up, wiped her tears again, and then invited everyone into the next room, which was in tatters, without a single decent piece of furniture, and it didn't look like life was very easy.

"My lord, the people's daughter is called Xiaoxiang, she is a local, and my husband has just been married for more than a year, he went out to work to earn money, I took care of things at home in the house, I thought that life would be better day by day...... But the good times are not...

She cried again, Qin Xiaoyue took out a handkerchief from her arms and handed it over, "Take it and wipe your tears first, our adults will definitely make decisions for you in this matter." ”

Xiaoxiang paused and said: "My lord, it happened half a year ago, my husband took a hoe to work in the field outside the county that day, but on the mountain, she found a female corpse, and then went to report to the official.

Song Ci thought to himself, this case is somewhat similar to the last case of falling into the water, the person who reported the official was arrested, and then he was determined to be the murderer, but Lu Sheng was lucky to meet him, but this person was....

Song Ci said: "You mean to say that the magistrate directly arrested your husband and treated him as a murderer?"

"Yes, my lord, but my husband didn't kill anyone at all, and this case has nothing to do with him." "Since it has nothing to do with him, then why did he sign the pledge? Could it be that this case is another trick of torture and an unjust case?"

This possibility is very high, in the Great Song Dynasty, there are many murderers who are at large, so that innocent people are beheaded as murderers.

Among them, some cases are difficult to investigate, and others are that the county magistrate does not want to investigate, they neglect their duties and arrest a random person, anyway, it would be good if the person died, besides, they are all ordinary people, so what kind of storm can they set off?

"Xiaoxiang, Song asked you, has your husband ever met you after he was put in prison? What did he tell you before he died?"

Qin Xiaoyue and the others have watched it to the death, after going through so much, they have already seen through the officialdom and the ruined rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty.

Xiaoxiang said: "Where can I see anything?" As soon as he was imprisoned, he was dragged down to the execution ground and beheaded in three days, and then the body was transported back and handed over to me to leave.

Song Ci was stunned, and the rest of the people were also stunned, three days, was it too anxious? Or, is this magistrate deliberately taking credit? In order to be promoted, he can't care so much.

"Then the yamen didn't give you any explanation or explanation? Just transport the body and leave? Isn't that too reckless?"

"My lord, where else is there any way to say this, the official threw the corpse to the ground and left, and scolded unlucky, you say, where in the world is there such a thing? Isn't it?"

"Do you know the deceased? Who is she?"

"This, I don't know very well, anyway, I heard that the family is quite rich, there is a big house on the side of East Street, worth a lot of silver, last year someone paid a thousand taels of silver to buy, but it didn't work."

Song Ci thought to himself, it is a rich and noble family, so it is more likely that the case will kill people and throw corpses, and it just so happened that he met Xiaoxiang's husband who was working, so he met this case.

In large families, there are often cases of fighting for family property, even the prince and others, and now they must find out the identity of the deceased, and then visit again.

"Xiaoxiang, I need the name of the deceased, and then Song wants to find him to visit, I hope you can give it to me."