Shuntianfu County Ya, crowded with people, hundreds of ordinary people crowded around.

Two or three days ago, the government issued a notice to openly interrogate the case of the eldest son of the Xue family, an imperial businessman, who beat someone to death on the street.

In recent years, except for the cases of ordinary people, there are few cases of such families that are openly interrogated, so many people come to see the strangeness with curiosity.

However, when the time was approaching and the trial had not yet begun, many ordinary people could not stand still and began to make noise.

Several officials such as the prefect of Shuntian Song and Fu Cheng, plus Wu Fan, were drinking tea in the inner hall, and a servant came in to explain the situation outside.

Governor Song said, "The time for the trial has already passed, why don't we wait for His Highness, and this will begin?" ”

Wu Fan straightened his sleeves, stood up, and said with a smile indifferently, "It's okay, anyway, the human and material evidence is there, and the prefect can convict him directly according to the instructions of the eldest prince, but it doesn't have to be His Royal Highness in person." ”

"That's what Wu Gongzi said."

Governor Song had a warm smile on his face, and he did not contradict Wu Fan at all.

So the group came to the lobby, the prefect sat at the head of the desk, and the rest of the ministers, clerks and others sat in turn, and Wu Fan also sat in the guest seat.

He is the younger brother of the concubine, and Shuntianfu gives him a lot of face.

"Open." A startled sound went down, the noise stopped, and the two rows of officials sang "mighty", and the sound spread to the outer courtyard, so that all the people who came to watch quieted down.

"Bringing people to commit crimes."

With the order of the Song prefect, two officials appeared in the lobby with Xue Pan, and before the Song prefect could interrogate him as usual, he suddenly heard a report that "General Yu Houjia of the forbidden army has arrived." ”

When Governor Song heard this, it was as if he had heard an old friend's visit, so he stood up with a smile and went to the door of Yi to greet him.

Jia Baoyu strode inside with his own soldiers.

"I've seen Lord Song, since it is a public trial, as the cousin of the criminal, is Xia Guan qualified to listen to the trial on the sidelines?"

Jia Baoyu bowed his hand to the Song prefect and said very politely.

"That's natural, General Jia, please."

"Thank you."

Jia Baoyu smiled and thanked him, and then let his soldiers stay outside, and he followed the Song Governor's Mansion into the lobby.

Because he didn't know that Jia Baoyu was coming in advance, he didn't have a place for him, so the Song prefect asked the official to bring a chair.

"Wait."

Jia Baoyu interrupted, and the Song prefect looked at Jia Baoyu.

"Who is this?"

Jia Baoyu pointed to Wu Fandao, who was sitting still.

Governor Song was stunned for a moment, he naturally didn't believe that Jia Baoyu didn't know Wu Fan, but he was delicate and didn't want to offend either side, so he followed Jia Baoyu's words and introduced

"This is Wu Fan, the eldest son of the Wu family."

Wu Fan snorted coldly, naturally he wouldn't get up to give Jia Baoyu a salute.

Jia Baoyu smiled, "I know this, what I asked is, in what capacity is he sitting here?" As far as I know, it seems that the eldest prince of Wu does not have an official position, how can he sit in the lobby? If you are just curious, you should stand outside like the people outside. ”

Wu Fan suddenly became angry, "Jia Baoyu, don't deceive people too much!" ”

The so-called enemies are very red when they meet, and nothing more than that.

Governor Song was a little embarrassed and said, "Wu Gongzi is an eyewitness in this case. ”

"Oh, since that's the case, as far as the lower officials know, when the case is tried, aren't the witnesses only able to stay in the side hall and wait for the arraignment? When did Daxuan have this rule, and witnesses can still sit in the hall and hear the trial?

"This"

The Song prefect had nothing to say.

Both sides are relatives of the emperor, and he can't afford to offend any of them.

Wu Fan's face was like a pig's liver, because with Jia Baoyu's repeated questioning, all the officials of Shuntianfu in the hall gave him a playful look. It was those officials who began to look at him, as if to say, who is this person, why is he so thick-skinned, the prefect is not sure that you are qualified to sit here, you still don't get out?

"Hmph."

Wu Fan stood up with a cold snort and glanced at Jia Baoyu and Song Governor's Mansion, his eyes were ruthless.

Jia Baoyu naturally didn't need to say it, but the Song prefect didn't speak for him, which made him lose face in front of the public, and also made him secretly hate, plus the Song prefect greeted Jia Baoyu with a smile, which made him very annoying.

This person is actually a two-faced and three-sworded person, when the eldest prince was there before, he was a flatterer!

Wu Fan walked out with a gloomy face, passing by Jia Baoyu's side, Jia Baoyu said coldly, "What is called a detour, Wu Gongzi doesn't understand, you need the general's personal soldiers to teach you?" ”

"You?!"

Wu Fan naturally understood what Jia Baoyu meant, last time Xiyuan bet that he lost, and promised in front of the second prince that he would need to take a detour to see Jia Baoyu from now on.

Although he had moved closer to the eldest prince, he did not dare to offend the second prince.

He didn't know that the second prince had been punished by the emperor.

"Jia Baoyu, you remember for me, Wu Fan will not repay today's humiliation, and swear not to be a man!"

Throwing off this sentence almost frantically, Wu Fan turned to the side, kicked a pillar in the lobby fiercely, and left angrily.

The other officials, seeing the sons of the two great families tearing each other, did not dare to interfere at all, for fear of being hated.

Governor Song watched Wu Fan leave angrily, and a touch of disdain finally flashed in his eyes.

This person is a real villain, he has been an official for decades, and he is the most observant. Wu Fan even held a grudge against him, so he naturally wouldn't fail to see it.

In contrast, Jia Baoyu is much more gentle, except when treating Wu Fan.

But people have to be like this, if they treat their enemies with gentleness, Governor Song thinks that this person is not good.

Therefore, when Wu Fan left, nothing happened to the Song Governor's Mansion, and he still said to Jia Baoyu with a smile, "General Jia, please." ”

"Your Excellency, please."

When Jia Baoyu sat down in the position where Wu Fan was sitting before, Xue Pan, who had been escorted and knelt on the main hall, suddenly shouted, "Brother Bao, you must save me."

As soon as these words came out, the ordinary people who came early to grab a good position suddenly let out a sigh of embarrassment and glared angrily at Jia Baoyu in the lobby.

Jia Baoyu secretly scolded you stupid pig in her heart!

So he stood up and said to the Song prefect at the top, "My lord Mingjian, the lower officials are here, just to hear the trial, if the lower officials say anything after that interferes with the interrogation of the adults, please also ask the lower officials to be expelled immediately, in order to show the majesty of the court's law and discipline!" ”

Governor Song said with a smile: "General Jia's words are serious. ”

"Please also ask your lord to agree, otherwise Xia Guan really won't dare to sit here."

Governor Song was very satisfied with Jia Baoyu's attitude, and said with a smile, "Okay, this mansion promises you." ”

Jia Baoyu immediately thanked him, "Thank you, my lord, but the lower official does have an invitation, and the lord also saw it, Xue Pan is as stupid as a pig, and he was framed and didn't know how to defend himself, so in accordance with the law of the Great Xuan, the lower official invited a Beijing lawyer for him to defend this case on his behalf. ”

"Of course, it can."

"Thank you, sir."

With the permission of the prefect, Jia Baoyu returned to his seat and sat down.

Then a young man in a white and green robe who came in with Jia Baoyu before, and a young man with a folding fan in the winter, walked in.

"Student Xu Yueming has seen Fu Yin and all the adults."

Xu Yueming, a foreigner, a professional teacher, and a native of the capital gave him the nickname Xu Litigation Stick!

Because this person is clear and talented, but he does not take the imperial examination as a career, he holds the great mystic law all day long, and specializes in taking lawsuits for people, and rarely loses the lawsuit.

Because ordinary people can't afford to hire him at all, so he basically serves the powerful and wealthy businessmen, so the people in the capital don't have a good reputation for him.

But he didn't care, he slept all day long, sang poetry and wine, and was not short of money, so his life was quite chic.

As the prefect, Governor Song is naturally no stranger to the profession of a teacher, and he also knows Xu Yueming, so he just nodded, and Xu Yueming temporarily retreated to the side.

"Xue Pan, on the day of Wang Erhu's death, someone saw with his own eyes that you instructed his subordinates to beat him on the street, can you plead guilty?"

"Ah, can I disagree?"

Xue Pan seemed to hear the loopholes in Song Prefect's words, and immediately asked happily.

Song Governor's face darkened, and he was shocked, "Above the court, how can you tolerate child's play, if you dare to do this, this mansion will make people slap their hands!" ”

Xue Pan smiled and subconsciously glanced at Jia Baoyu, but unfortunately Jia Baoyu was playing with a jade weapon in his hand and didn't look at him at all.

"That, I did beat him, but I have beaten a lot of people, I can't come to me when they die, anyway, he wasn't killed by me at the time, he died later, what does it matter to me?"

Xue Pan said very seriously, he was afraid of being slapped.

He didn't know how resentful his words were! What kind of person, so arrogant and domineering, in front of the court, actually said that he had beaten a lot of people!

Governor Song didn't say anything, because he felt that Xue Pan was telling the truth.

"Well, Hugh has to quibble, after you instructed someone to beat him, he returned home, and was found dead in less than an hour, and after a false test, he was indeed beaten to death.

Come on, bring someone with a witness. ”