Twenty-five grinding tofu, twenty-six stewed pork.

The customs of Hai'an New Year are similar to those in other places, early in the morning of the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the people who have a good family background and raise pigs at home are busy boiling water to kill pigs, but even if they kill their own pigs, only pig trotters, large intestines and lungs and more than ten or twenty catties of meat are left, and the rest are all sold to neighbors.

The people who did not raise pigs at home and could not buy meat in the village, and there was no meat in the pot that could not be used for the New Year after a busy year, so they went to the nearby town in groups to buy meat, so the business of the two butcher shops in the town was particularly good today, and the dozen or so pigs killed yesterday were sold out before noon.

The people want to celebrate the New Year, and the officials also want to celebrate the New Year.

Pan Er told the town's Butcher Zhang yesterday, Butcher Zhang specially left a pig's head and half a slice of pork for the yamen, although Wang Qianbu, the son of Wang Ruhai of the post shop, learned to cook in a restaurant in Taizhou City, but can only cook local dishes, the big head had to put down the waist knife and pick up the kitchen knife, change into old clothes that he does not plan to wear in the future, and clean up the meat that Butcher Zhang just sent in the courtyard in front of the lobby.

Yu Youfu saw that Wang Qianbu wanted to help but didn't know how to help, so he turned around and smiled: "Qianbu, go find some branches, preferably fruit branches." ”

Wang Qianbu is the son of the post pawn, he grew up in the post shop, and later went to Taizhou City to see the world, not only can understand the official language but also can speak, subconsciously asked: "Uncle Yu, what are you doing looking for fruit branches?" ”

"Do you know bacon, bacon?"

"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it."

"It's okay if you haven't seen it, I'll let you see it later." Yu Youfu simply put down the waist knife, and sighed while helping the big head wash the meat: "Our hometown not only smokes bacon for the New Year, but also smokes cured chicken and duck, and also fills sausages. I'm too busy today to take care of it, and I'll have to stuff some sausages anyway for next year's New Year. ”

"Uncle Yu, we don't smoke it like this in Ba County." The big head couldn't help but remind.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated, Yu Youfu couldn't help but feel a little homesick, and said helplessly: "The stove here is different from our hometown in Ba County, so we can only smoke it like this." ”

As he was talking, Li Xiucai walked out of the lobby with a stack of notes, and Zhang Shiheng and an archer also moved out the small table and chairs in the lobby and placed them at the door of the first class room.

"Shiheng, go out and ask if Hu Jiaji's family is here?" Li Xiucai glanced at Yu Youfu and Datou, who were busy working, and then put down the transcript and sat on the chair.

Zhang Shiheng answered, and immediately turned around and ran out to ask.

Li Xiucai rubbed his hands and picked up the first transcript on the table, this transcript was recorded when he was questioned a few days ago, this transcript was originally only two pieces of paper, but now there is one more, and the top one is written by the inspector who is sitting in the lobby reading a book.

Li Xiucai was a little surprised that an inspector with a donation background could write a handmade small letter, and the words he wrote not only surprised him but also surprised him, and they were all "criticisms" written in accordance with the laws of the Qing Dynasty!

There is a specialization in the art industry, and the provisions and precedents of the Qing Dynasty are full of sweat, not the guidance of famous teachers, and those who specialize in studying laws and regulations do not dare to touch the criminal noun lawsuit, and he, who has been idle in the Yamen of the Inspection Department for six or seven years, does not understand this.

Could it be that the surname Han was born in a family of eunuchs, did he study law?

The more Li Xiucai thought about it, the more he beat the drum in his heart, and he didn't dare to look down on Han Xiufeng who was sitting in the lobby, thinking that it was not a way to go on like this, either he could leave and find another way, or he had to quickly find a way to let the surnamed Han go.

Just thinking about it, Zhang Shiheng brought a peasant with a gray cloth package into the yamen, bowed down and said, "Mr. Li, Gu Tinggui's eldest brother is here." ”

"Oh." Li Xiucai relieved himself, put down the transcript and looked up in the local dialect and asked, "You are Gu Tinggui's eldest brother?" ”

"Yes, the villain is the eldest in the family, and Tinggui is the youngest, the fourth."

"Put the package down and open it for me to see."

"Oh, okay."

The first time the peasant entered the yamen, his hands trembled with nervousness, and there were many relatives of prisoners waiting to visit the prison outside, Zhang Shiheng simply helped him unwrap the package, squatted down and searched it, and confirmed that there were only four changes of clothes and more than a pound of pig's head meat held with oil paper, as well as a dozen steamed buns, and then got up and said: "Mr. Li, just a few clothes and some food." ”

Li Xiucai glanced at it, then turned around and said, "Deng Liu, go to the A-shaped room and bring Gu Tinggui out." ”

"Okay."

The farmer didn't care about packing up the package that had just been turned over, and walked forward and asked with a sad face: "Mr. Li, does Master Han really want to send my fourth child to Taizhou?" ”

"This is the yamen of the inspection department, not the state office, we only have a class room here and no prison food, if you don't send him to the state office, it will be difficult to keep it closed all the time?" Li Xiucai asked rhetorically, and said coldly: "I can't complain about others now, I can only complain about him." ”

"What happens if you are sent to the state office?"

"Justice, what else can I do, is it possible that the eldest master of Zhizhou still wants to invite him to dinner."

"Mr. Li, do you estimate how the eldest master of Zhizhou will send out the fourth child of my family?" The farmer asked eagerly.

Li Xiucai picked up the "Criticism" written by Han Xiufeng and looked at it, then looked up at Gu Tinggui, who had just been brought out by the archers, and said angrily: "Entanglement is a gang of idlers who fight and fight, and they also hurt people!" According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, those who hold guns and sticks along the river and coast and fight and sound gongs and gather crowds will have a hundred rods and flow for 3,000 miles. ”

"Three thousand miles of exile!"

"Well," Li Xiucai looked up at Gu Tinggui, who was trembling with fright, and said expressionlessly: "According to the imperial court's "Three Streams of the Road", eighty percent of you will be shunted to Shaanxi.

Gu Tinggui was stunned by fright, and his eldest brother asked even more eagerly: "Mr. Li, if the fourth child of my family is really exiled to Shaanxi, will he be able to go home in the future?" ”

"It depends on his creation, if he hadn't died on the road to exile, and he hadn't died in Shaanxi, and the emperor happened to have an amnesty for the world, he would have been able to come back."

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Three thousand miles, this is no different from the death penalty.

The Gu brothers hugged their heads and cried, making it look like they were parting with life and death.

Li Xiucai didn't want to see them crying, so he immediately asked the archers to take Gu Da out and let the relatives of the second prisoner who visited the prison come in.

"On September 16 this year, not only did you gather a gang of skins to go to Baimi to fight with Yang Dahe, but you also hired three helpers from Anfeng Field, one of whom was armed with a knife and the other was armed with a spear. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, if there is a person who claims to be a gunman and is hired to help the beater, he will be punished with 100 rods and 3,000 miles in the case of armed fights and joint fights in various provinces! ”

Li Xiucai put down the record, raised his head again and said: "If people don't know what to do unless they do it, you know in your heart how many things you have committed, and what you just said is just one of them." In short, it's too late to regret it now, take the things your uncle sent in, and spend the New Year in the class room first, and then there will be no good life when you arrive in Taizhou after the New Year. ”

Ma Guozhong of Majiaqiao never thought that he had committed such a serious crime, his legs were limp and he sat on the ground, his uncle was in tears, and he was about to plead again when he was taken out by the archers.

Chen Hu and Chen Biao brothers in Chen Tangzhuang have no father or mother, and their brother-in-law and sister came to visit the prison, and they thought that although they had committed a lot of small things, they had not committed a single major incident, for fear that their sister and brother-in-law would be worried and pretend to be fearless, but Li Xiucai waited for Xu Shiheng to search the package and looked up coldly and asked: "Chen Hu, Chen Biao, do you remember what you committed in the summer before last?" ”

Chen Biao didn't dare to smile in front of the inspector, and he didn't have so many scruples in front of Li Xiucai, so he moved his legs locked by the shackles and said: "Mr. Li, how can I remember the events of the year before last, and besides, what can our brothers do when they keep to themselves!" ”

"You forgot, others haven't."

"What's the matter?"

"Your father and your mother died early, and your grandfather (grandfather) is still alive, and in the summer of the year before last, your two brothers felt that you were biased in favor of your uncle, and they actually rebelled and committed a big fight, and beat you to lie in bed for two or three months."

"It seems to be like this, but Mr. Li, you don't know, that old thing always favors the big house......"

"If you are disobedient, you will be justified!" Li Xiucai slammed the case, stared at the Chen family brothers and scolded: "According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, those who beat their grandparents and grandparents and their wives and concubines beat their husbands' grandparents and parents, are all killed, and they are all executed!" Manslaughter, a hundred rods, three thousand miles! The wounded shall have a hundred rods and three years' imprisonment!" ”

"What do you mean?" Chen Hu asked stupidly.

"What do you mean, you have sinned against your father, and you have wounded your grandfather, and you will be punished with a hundred rods according to the law, and you will be imprisoned for three years!" Li Xiucai snorted coldly, and then said: "This spring, there was a murder in Jiaoxiechang, and your brother not only knew Jiang Liu, who killed people, but Jiang Liu also told you before he wanted to go to Jiaoxian to seek revenge. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, anyone who knows that his companion wants to commit murder to others will not be hindered, and those who do not report after being killed will be given a hundred rods! ”

If he snorted in the year before last, he would have to be roded for 100 years and three years.

This spring, because he had a meal with Jiang Liu, who beat him to death, he was going to be caned for 100 years. The Chen brothers were dumbfounded, they never thought that the two of them had committed such a serious crime.

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Li Jian, who was a member of the Jiepai, thought that even if he was sent to the state government, he would be able to come back with a board at most, but because of the abduction and deception with a fake silver pit, Li Xiucai said that according to the law of the Qing Dynasty, "anyone who uses copper, iron, tin, and lead medicine to cook and forge fake silver will be put in a flail for two months, a hundred rods, and a few light places with smoke and miasma in Guangzhou."

He Dengyuan of Xujiazhuang felt the most wronged, he was just a gangster under Chen Jingjun, and he had never beaten anyone with a bluff on weekdays, but Li Xiucai not only said that as long as he participated in the gambling, he would be punished, but also turned over a small matter this summer, and when he was escorted to the state yazhizhou, the sentence would even be heavier than Chen Jingjun.

"Mr. Li, don't scare me, the one at the entrance of the village is not a pavilion, there will be a few rotten pieces of wood left if it collapses early, it's a big deal for me to buy a few new pieces of wood!"

Li Xiucai glared at him, put down the pen and said: "I am still quibbling now, I heard it clearly, it is the Affirmation Pavilion, which was built by the imperial court to post the list and affirm the education, although it has been in disrepair for a long time, it cannot be demolished casually." It's good that you dare to dismantle the Shenming Pavilion and go home to make a fire. According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, anyone who demolishes the house of the Shenming Pavilion and destroys the board will have a hundred rods and three thousand miles! ”

He Dengyuan's cousin couldn't believe his ears, and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Li, it's also illegal to tear down a few rotten pieces of wood?" ”

"That's not rotten wood, that's the wood of the Affirmation Pavilion." Li Xiucai paused, and then said: "Don't talk about tearing down the wood of the Shenming Pavilion, even if you scold people, it's a crime." According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, anyone who scolds others will be given 10 lashes, and those who scold each other will be given 10 lashes. Your cousin went to Huajiazhuang last month to help Chen Jingjun collect gambling debts, and insulted the people of Huajiazhuang in public, and this account was remembered by him! ”

Han Jiayang's Han Bingqi did not receive preferential treatment because he had the same surname Han as the inspection master.

In Li Xiucai's words, he is idle and does not do his own business, calling himself a teacher to play boxing sticks, teaching people to learn and turning fork dance sticks all over the market, according to the law to ask for a hundred canes, three thousand!

The second head of the Benjia family not only extorted money, but also injured his brother in front of his uncle when the family was divided. According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, those who beat their brothers and sisters will be given 90 canes for two and a half years, and the injured will be caned for 100 canes for three years!

Chen Qingyu from Jiaogang stole a chicken from someone else this summer, hid in a ruined temple in the west of the city and roasted it, and forgot to put out the fire after eating the chicken, burning the ruined temple into a pile of ruins. According to the law of the Qing Dynasty, if the person who caught fire burned the temple and the palace, he would be hanged and imprisoned!

He was not convinced, saying that it was a ruined temple that had been abandoned for I don't know how many years.

Li Xiucai told him that according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, let alone burning the temple in a fire, even if he burned his own house, he would be guilty of breaking the law, and he would have to be given a hundred rods. If it is burned to the houses of the government and the people, it will be even more terrible, and he will be punished with a hundred rods for three years.

Either a rod of 100 flows for 3,000 miles, or a rod of 100 for three years, and some even have to be hanged and imprisoned!

The dozen or so people in the morning were all frightened, and no one was in the mood to eat the food sent by their families. The family members who came to visit them were all crying and going back, and the relatives of the prisoners who were waiting to go to the yamen to visit the prison in the afternoon were all panicked, and Yu Youfu and Zhang Shiheng suddenly became more harmonious, and persuaded the people inside at the door of the class room to "have meat to eat today", and if they don't eat it again, they won't have to eat it if they want to.

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PS: I'm cold again.,Dizziness and sore throat.,There's only one chapter today.,But this is a big chapter.,Tomorrow it's more yards.,Please forgive me.。