Anlu County Nantong Xiapu, north to Sui, Tang, is a traffic artery in South County, so the four seasons of the year to go back and forth boats and vehicles, plus the traders who go into the city to buy and sell, the people who peddle rice and grain, the soldiers who go north to serve, there are a lot of floating population.

But no matter how many people are waiting outside, the time when the city gate is opened every day is still the sunrise that cannot be shaken.

However, there are always exceptions, on the twelfth day of the lunar month, on weekdays, before dawn, the south gate of Anlu County was opened in advance.

In the night, the black-clad and black-crowned official drove the lead and galloped out, and there were two people in the car behind him.

"Isn't that the joy of the county jail?"

The county guard guarding the city gate yawned and said, under the light of the torch, he recognized at a glance that the little official who was driving the car was the subordinate of the county jail, the jailer Le.

The prison officer is the chief official of the prison Cao, who is responsible for litigation and prison affairs, and the prison official is the hundred stone officials under him. The prison seat is located in the county seat, and when a case occurs, it will usually send a prison official to the place where the crime occurred to deal with it.

So before dawn, Le used an emergency voucher to open the city gate and hurriedly took people out of the city, and all the county officials guessed that there must be some case in the countryside......

"It's been a rough year." The county magistrate couldn't help but sigh.

They guessed correctly, last night, at the time of the "people's time", when the night curfew had just begun, Le, who was on duty at the county jail, was sleeping on the desk, but was hurriedly woken up by the jailer, saying that there was a foreign pavilion outside calling the door, and there was an urgent case to report......

Le was woken up from a good dream, and wanted to let the pavilion guard who didn't understand the rules stay in the room for a good night, but he remembered Dr. Xi's nagging that "official business must not be delayed overnight", so he had to let people open the door with an unhappy face and let the pavilion guard who reported the crime come in.

It was someone he knew, Ji Ying, a postman from Huyang Pavilion.

After Ji Ying stumbled and finished talking about what had happened, Le's drowsiness suddenly disappeared!

He realized that this matter involved anonymous surrender, gang tomb robbery, and self-theft by officials, which was a big case!

The stakes were so high that Le didn't dare to assert himself, so he hurriedly sent someone to invite his boss, Prison Pengxi.

I was happy to rest at home today, but soon came to the county jail. He didn't listen to the dictation of Le and Ji Ying, nor did he interrogate the public servants involved in the case, but first reviewed the book written by Heifu, the head of the Huyang Pavilion, which had a brief history of the case.

Qin Law's "Miscellaneous Internal History" stipulates that officials must ask for instructions in writing, not orally!

Xi is a person who pays attention to the legal process, and only after all the formalities are in order to start questioning the criminal, analyzing the case, and giving instructions.

"The incident is urgent, it's too late to ask the county lieutenant to send troops for help after dawn, Le, you drive quickly, take Ji Ying and a Kongwu prison official, go out of the city gate and rush to Huyang Pavilion, and ask the people of Huyang Pavilion to help you control the prison gate in Chaoyangli, and then make him confess his crime and the hiding place of the tomb robbers. After dawn, I personally took the county guards over and wiped them out! ”

Xi handed over the certificate of leaving the city to Le, and Le took the order to go, and when he really went out of the city, it was already normal time......

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"Jailer, is this case a big one? Fang Cai was so solemn that I didn't dare to say anything. ”

The speed of the car was fast and bumpy, Ji Ying held the railing of the car and asked carefully.

"Hugh said that you don't dare to speak out, when the prison Peng speaks, we don't dare to breathe, if you accidentally say the wrong thing, you will be fined 20 bamboo slips, who wants to......" Le secretly slandered in his heart.

The last time we met, Ji Ying was still the plaintiff in the case, but this time, he was already a postman, and everyone belonged to the civil servants in the system. So Le didn't have to hide it, and said with a smile while driving: "Yes, I'm afraid this is the first major case received by the county prison since the beginning of October!" ”

Not to mention the rare anonymous submission, not to mention the scandal of collusion with thieves as a prison gate, let's talk about those tomb robbers. Le Fenming remembers that a few days ago, the county issued a document, and the county guard claimed that the tomb robbery in Nanjun was too rampant and must be cured!

Freezing three feet, not a day's cold, the tomb robbery in Nanjun has a long history, but it is not unique in the past few years. Far away, it can be traced back to the story of Wu Zixu digging the tomb of King Chuping and whipping the corpse of 300. Recently, it can also be traced back to more than 50 years ago, when Qin mistakenly entered Sima into Yiling and burned down the tombs of the ancestors of the Chu Kingdom......

In the war when the Jianghan Dynasty changed hands, the tombs of many Chu kings and Chu nobles were destroyed by the Qin army, and many burial goods flowed out.

Although ask yourself, for the theft of the tombs of those Chu nobles, Qin officials like Le, who were born as commoners, will gloat and say, "Good theft!" "But no matter how you say it, tomb robbery is a matter of injuriousness and is expressly forbidden by law. Destruction during war is one thing, protection in peacetime is another, whether it is the tomb of the Qin people or the tomb of the Chu people, it should be arrested and punished severely.

Now, only a few days after the county document was issued, An Lu had a tomb robbery case. If it can be cracked, it will be a great thing for An Lu Prison Cao, if it can't be cracked and let the tomb robbers escape, then he will have to be reprimanded by the county, and maybe his work will be deducted......

"I'm afraid I'm too late to let the grave robber escape...... Le thought.

As they spoke, the sky had gradually brightened, and when the sun had completely jumped out of the east, the carriage they were driving also arrived outside the Huyang Pavilion......

It's a coincidence, Pavilion Chief Heifu had just changed his clothes, and when he heard the sound of carriages and horses outside, he walked out of the pavilion and smiled at Le Zuo: "Commander, I haven't seen you for a long time!" ”

"Hef, now is not the time to be polite."

Le jumped out of the carriage, and before he had time to return the salute, he took Heifu's arm and hurriedly explained: "The prison Peng has already known about your request, and this case is not trivial, so he specially sent me to deal with it." Hurry up and let the pavilion members assemble, choose your weapons, and set out with me in a moment. ”

Heifu grinned: "Gather, where to go?" ”

"Of course, I'm going to catch thieves!"

Le arranged as a matter of course: "You and I will go to Chaoyangli first, take down the prison door there, and then interrogate him, pry out the tomb robber's hiding place from his mouth, and then ......"

After saying that, Le remembered something again, and began to encourage Heifu: "Speaking of which, although Heifu is a first-time official, he has sophisticated methods and clever planning, not only trying to find out the anonymous submitter, but also hiding the real reason for arresting him, so as not to make the prison door in Chaoyang suspicious. ”

He patted Heifu on the shoulder and smiled: "Now, what you, the pavilion chief, should do has been completed, and then, you just need to follow the instructions of the county!" ”

Le's heart is very good, and he feels that Heifu has encountered such a big case just a few days after taking office, even if he has courage and knows the law, he will be a little at a loss. Hearing that he was in charge of the case and was responsible for formulating the arrest plan throughout the whole process, Heifu should be relieved and relieved, right?

However, Heifu was only embarrassed.

Le spoke too fast, leaving no gaps for people, and Heifu opened his mouth several times, but he didn't find a chance to speak, so he had to listen with a smile helplessly.

"Alas, I only hope that the prison gate there is not suspected of absconding, and I hope that he knows where the thieves are hiding...... Although I rushed here before dawn, it was late after all, for fear that those thieves would be cunning, and they had already finished digging the grave and ran away overnight. ”

When Le finally finished speaking, Heifu opened his mouth to speak.

Unexpectedly, the blood-stained Dongmen leopard came out of the door and shouted: "Heifu, the tomb robber and the prison gate, I have already tied them up in the courtyard!" ”

Hearing this, Ling Yile, who was encouraging Heifu, suddenly became very strange.

"Heifu, is it possible for you to ......" Le looked at Heifu with a stunned expression.

Heifu had no choice but to bow his hand to Le and say: "Commander, I didn't have time to say that those tomb robbers, together with the prison gate in Chaoyangli...... I caught them overnight! Everyone has stolen goods, a lot! ”