The Yamen of the Inspection Department has never detained so many prisoners, Chu Chenggui sent away the idle white servants, and was about to ask if he wanted to make some preparations for tomorrow's seal, Han Xiufeng stood at the door of the lobby and said: "Chenggui, who let the division and detain one room, put the one who took it today in one room, and the three who surrendered in one room." ”

"Master Han, we have six class rooms."

"Less nonsense, let it be off!"

"Huh." Chu Chenggui didn't dare to ask any more questions, and hurriedly gathered the prisoners together with Jiang Huai in the innermost room on the east side, and locked the three gamblers who turned themselves in in the afternoon into the opposite room.

Han Xiufeng motioned for Yu Youfu to take the key, and said casually: "It's not early, stay on duty, everyone else go back, remember to come early tomorrow." ”

"Master Han, don't you go to the court at night and don't ask about the case?"

"I'm a little tired today, so let's lock it up for now."

"The little one will go first to see if the prison food is cooked, and when it is done, bring it to the prisoners to eat, and I will go back when they are finished."

"Okay, let's get busy."

……

The class room was very small, and more than a dozen people were crowded together, so crowded that Chen Jingjun couldn't move.

The windows were sealed, the doors were reinforced with wood, and it was not yet dark, but the room was pitch black, and it was really dark. What made Chen Jingjun even more unbearable was that there was a stinky dung bucket at his hand, and the feces and urine of more than a dozen people could only be pulled in the dung bucket, and he didn't know when the soapy archers guarding outside would help pour it.

He was the first to come in, and he began to shout grievances from the moment he came in, and he couldn't shout anymore.

The few people who had just been imprisoned were lucky, some shouted grievances at the top of their voices, and some sneered and were close to the soapy archers guarding outside, but the people outside didn't reply as if they hadn't heard it.

"Young Master Chen, if you arrest us in the yamen and don't interrogate us, what does the inspection master mean?"

"I'm not an inspector, I don't know."

"Are you waiting for our family to send money, but there is no one in my family, my old man and mother have died early, just me, who will send him money!"

"Don't squeeze me, I'm all squeezed to the base of the wall, and I can't move."

……

Han Xiufeng walked around outside the class room, didn't understand a word, simply nodded slightly with the two archers guarding outside, and then walked into the lobby.

Pan Er just took stock of today's harvest, and when he saw Han Xiufeng, he said happily: "Fourth brother, I thought it was all poor eggs, but I didn't expect there to be three fat sheep." These are Chen Jingjun's in the west of the city, and this pile of silver coins belongs to Chen Tangzhuang, Chen Hu, and Chen Biao brothers, which are the Hu family's money-collecting wealth, and these silver tickets, silver ingots, loose silver and copper coins add up to more than 700 taels. ”

Han Xiufeng sat down and said with a smile: "One is gambling, one is bullying and dominating the market, and the other is extortion, and the stolen silver is naturally indispensable." ”

It turns out that you can make money by being the master of the people, Pan Er couldn't help but smile and said: "I don't know if those guys who will be locked up tomorrow have any money, if only there were so many tomorrow." ”

"If you want to be beautiful, all you want to take tomorrow is hob meat, even if you get a little bit on weekdays, it will be spent a long time ago." Han Xiufeng motioned for him to put away the money, and at the same time looked at the roster and asked, "Changsheng, have you seen Li Xiucai?" ”

"See, as soon as I came back, I went inside to take a look, but he was comfortable, sleeping in the room in broad daylight." Pan Er put the silver money into the money bag, and continued: "I asked the archers who guarded the door, and the archers said that they hadn't seen him for a day, and it was estimated that he hadn't left the house for a day. ”

"He's got his breath down."

"Fourth brother, are you saying that he wants to spend money with us?"

"Well," Han Xiufeng put down the roster and sighed lightly: "The iron-clad official of the Yamen Flowing Water, he is planning to consume us until we leave, and then continue to be his secretary." And it won't be in vain, I said yesterday that I would give him fifty taels of silver a year. ”

Pan Er couldn't help asking: "Fourth brother, why don't you let him roll up and leave, it's not a matter of raising it like this, and our silver didn't fall from the sky." ”

"It's easy to get him to roll up and leave, but if he does, he will definitely hold a grudge and cause trouble for us outside."

"How much of a storm can he make as an idle scribe?"

"It's not as simple as you think, let's be cautious, keep it first, and then find a reason for him to roll up and leave." Han Xiufeng didn't want to talk about these anymore, and suddenly changed his words: "Changsheng, you don't have to go with the archers to get people tomorrow, seeing that the New Year is coming, you can't be unprepared, go to the street tomorrow to buy some New Year's goods, remember to buy more flour, and buy another two hundred catties of quicklime." ”

"What do you do with lime, do you paint the walls?" Pan Er asked puzzled.

"It can be used to paint walls, and maybe it can be used for other purposes."

"Okay, I'll inquire tomorrow to see if there is anything to buy in the town, if not, I'll go to Jiangyan."

As soon as Pan Er's words fell, the archers guarding the gate came to report to Dean Gu of Fengshan Academy asking to see him, Han Xiufeng thought that he must have come to help Chen Youdao intercede, got up and said with a smile: "Please Dean Gu go to the second hall, Changsheng, you go and see if Zhiheng's water is boiling." ”

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Han Xiufeng was neither accustomed to nor reluctant to always wear official uniforms, so he first went to the inner house to change into a padded jacket, and after changing into a box, he said hello to Li Xiucai, who had just gotten up, and then came to the second hall slowly.

Dean Gu stood up and saluted, and Han Xiufeng returned the salute.

After sitting down and greeting each other, Han Xiufeng asked bluntly: "Dean Gu, if you have something to say, are you here for Chen Jingjun, the third son of Dean Chen's family?" ”

"I know that I can't hide it from Master Han," Dean Gu put down the teacup and said helplessly: "Gu has been reading the book of sages for half his life, and he can still distinguish between good and evil, and the third child of the Chen family is to blame for being brought to justice by Master Han, if it weren't for being a friend of Chen Youdao for many years, Gu would have clapped his hands and applauded." ”

"So, Dean Gu also thinks Xiufeng didn't do anything wrong?"

"Why did Master Han say this, Master Han was aware of everything, and as soon as he arrived, he used thunderbolt methods, which is really happy."

"Being an official is not for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes, these are all within Xiufeng's responsibility." Han Xiufeng smiled, and then changed his words: "Dean Gu, Xiufeng knows that you have been entrusted by others to be loyal, but this matter is really not accommodating. You may not know that Xiufeng just sent away the bitter master and promised to give back justice to others. ”

"Master Han, it must be done, if you don't do it, how can you make that kid have a longer memory, Gu wants to ask Master Han to do it, but can you raise your hand when you do it."

"It's not that Xiufeng doesn't give you old face, but this matter is really incommensurate. Human life is at stake, he set up a bureau to lure people to gamble, bankrupt their families, pawn their wives and sell their children, and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river. If Xiufeng bends the law for personal gain, he will be sorry for the court and the people under his rule. I'm sorry for my own conscience, and I'm sorry for the soul he killed! ”

"Master Han, if it is really brought to justice, do you estimate how Master Zhizhou will judge?"

"Master Zhang is iron-faced and selfless, jealous and hateful, and he will definitely let him know what the law of the court is. A man like him must be a hundred rods and three thousand miles. ”

"Three thousand miles, Master Han, you want that kid's life!"

"His life is his life, and other people's lives are not life?" Han Xiufeng put down the teacup and said lightly: "Tomorrow the yamen will be sealed, and he can only be locked up for a month, and then he will be sent to the state government for Master Zhang to judge when the seal is opened next year." ”