On this day, Qi Yuanyi returned to Tianfu Courtyard as usual, and his wife Tian was waiting for him to have dinner with his son Qi Heng.

Qi Heng is nearly twenty years old, but he is a little demented, stammering, and often bullied outside, but this son is the heart of Qi Yuanyi and Tian.

Qi Yuanyi looked at his old wife and then at the idiot, and secretly made up his mind that he must seize the position of the master of the Zhenzhen Palace, get enough power, ask for a decent daughter-in-law for his son, and work hard to live until his grandson grows up, so that this family business can be passed on.

He is Tian Xuying's son-in-law, and he feels that everything in this Zhenzhen Palace should have belonged to his family, and all obstacles must be cleared one by one.

After dinner, Qi Yuanyi said hello to his wife and children, took a relative and walked out of the door, stepping on the afterglow of the sunset and walking outside the town.

Walking a short distance down the mountain, the side leads to the "Purple Cover Cave Heaven", and he will come and walk around every day.

The waterfall rumbles, and the dragon temple built by the Xuanzong Dynasty has been abandoned for a long time, leaving only a grotto covered with wild grass.

Qi Yuanyi walked over, and sure enough, he saw a stranger squatting next to the grotto to rest.

He looked left and right, and when he saw that there was no one nearby, he asked his relatives to stand in the distance and watch the wind, and walked over to talk.

The man had a dark complexion, a full beard that could not tell his actual age, wearing short clothes and short arrows, carrying a medicine basket with a sickle, holding a long wooden staff, dressed as a medicine picker, and when he saw Qi Yuanyi coming, he asked, "But Qi Refiner?" ”

Qi Yuanyi nodded and asked, "Who are you?" ”

The man said, "A certain is Niujiaoling Sect's Zhaizhai Zong Hachiro, and the refiner can call me Zong Ba." ”

"How are you going to behave in charge?"

"Hu Da asked a certain master to inform the refiner that now there are two or three hundred people gathered here to build a wooden building, and the Zhenzhen Palace has a wall and a fangding, and it is on the mountain, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if you bring a few hundred people over, I am afraid it will not be good. Therefore, it is necessary for the refiner to report the news at any time, and only when the wooden building is built and these people are withdrawn, and Liu Yuanjing and the old thief take Guo Shangzao and others to Yinzhen Rock before they can act. ”

Qi Yuanyi saw that what he said was reasonable, so he agreed: "Okay, you wait around here every night, and if there is anything, I will leave a book in the Dragon Temple." ”

Zongpachi asked, "What can't you say directly?" A certain is illiterate. “

Qi Yuanyi choked, the people he came into contact with on weekdays were people who were literate and hyphenated, and he didn't care about dealing with this kind of mountain people at all, so he had to shake his head and said: "It's okay, it's just that if you see each other every day, you're afraid that someone will see you and expose your hiding, so you will wait in the Dragon Temple, if there is something, I will tell you again, and nothing will come." ”

Half a month has passed in such a flash, it has reached the end of September, the Huixian Pavilion has finally been completed, Han Ye heard the news, and the Zhenzhen Palace is busy again.

Everyone came to the hidden true rock, only to see the newly built three-storey pavilion back against the rock wall, located in the wooden wall, carved beams and painted buildings, bright lacquer green tiles, between the mountains and rivers have a unique charm.

They climbed the building and looked into the distance, the field of vision was very broad, in front of them was the green mountains and green waters, and at a glance they could faintly see the Yu monument two miles downstream!

"It's a good place, it's a bit of a paradise!"

Han Ye was interested, spread out rice paper on the table that had been prepared, and wrote down the words "Huixian Pavilion" with a pen.

He has a vigorous pen, Liu Yuanjing saw it, and knew that although this person was smoothed out by the world, his personality was not vulgar after all.

As the saying goes, things gather people by like, see Han Ye's personality, and compare with the reputation of Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi, how can Wang Shuwen, who is like-minded with them, be the villain rumored in the world?

September and October were the busier times for officials in the Tang Dynasty, and Han Ye stayed in Huixian Pavilion for a day before returning to Hengzhou.

Not long after he left, Hengshan County ordered Zhou Gon to visit again.

Guo Hong accompanied the master to meet this Zhou County Order, and the two sides sat down, he was still responsible for making tea, since Liu Yuanjing drank his tea last time, he couldn't leave every day.

Guo Hong has nothing to be reluctant to, there is nothing else to do in the mountains except to learn art, and he can show his temperament in front of people.

Zhou Gon sat down and wiped his sweat, and said: "Mr. Liu, this time I want to help a group of lower-ranking officials, Wang Yancheng's case was sent by Wang Jianjun, and he was sentenced to death, and he will be executed this autumn, which is really unreasonable!" ”

Liu Yuanjing frowned when he heard this, and asked: "This is obviously an unjust case, why did Wang Jianjun hold on to it, and I'm afraid it is not in accordance with the law to execute him so soon?" ”

Zhou Gon nodded again and again and said: "That's right, but the eunuch is powerful, taking advantage of the last few days when Han Envoy Jun was delayed in the Zhenzhen Palace, Fa Cao of the Hengzhou Assassin Mansion joined the army to review the case, and also said that the county had reported that the case could not be overturned, but that report was obviously not in accordance with the rules, and it was all done by Hu Yande." ”

Liu Yuanjing shook his head and said: "There is nothing the mountain people can do about this matter, Zhou Mingfu should go and talk to Pei Guan." ”

Zhou Gon said: "The county has been observed, but there has been no response, so I came to ask Mr., after all, this is a human life!" ”

Liu Yuanjing asked, "I don't know when it will be executed?" ”

Zhou Gon said: "In previous years, the autumn decision was from October to December (lunar calendar), but this year, due to the request of Wang Jianjun, it is estimated that it will be in mid-October, excluding rest, rain and festivals, and the days of canonical punishment are generally only two or three days." ”

In the Tang Dynasty, it was stipulated that the death penalty should not be executed from the beginning of spring to the autumn equinox, nor should the death penalty be performed during the great sacrifice and the fasting, synod, upper and lower strings, the twenty-four qi, the rain is not clear, the month of slaughter, the day of slaughter and holidays.

The first month, May and September of each year are the months of slaughter. There are slaughter days in every month, that is, the first, eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth, eighteenth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth days of each month.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the time of autumn duel is generally in the three months of October, eleventh and twelfth (eleventh and twelfth of the Gregorian calendar and January of the following year).

The total time that can kill people by pinching the head and tail in a year is no more than 90 days, and the autumn decision is no more than 60 days (in fact, the tenth lunar month has entered winter, which should be called the winter decision). In October, excluding the rainy days and slaughter days, there are only about 15 days.

Liu Yuanjing asked: "The timing seems to be a little wrong, in previous years, prisoners were executed, and in remote areas like Hengshan, the death penalty cases that were concluded this year were generally not executed until next year." ”

Zhou Xianling sighed: "No, it's only been more than half a month since the trial of Fucheng was concluded today. Hengshan to Chang'an to take the official road about 2,200 miles, the post station stipulates that the time for fast horses to send official documents is 70 miles a day, just the official documents to Chang'an will take more than a month, the criminal department generally also needs 45 days to complete the review, and then send Dali Temple another month, and finally send the emperor to the decision and a few days of delay, and then send the document to the state and county. After that, there will be three repetitions, which is stipulated by Emperor Taizong, in order to avoid unjust cases, it is half a year for official documents to go back and forth three times, so there are death penalty cases in remote areas that drag on for two years. ”