Li Yinglong asked: Old man, how did your son die?

The old woman said: My son died after being beaten by the people of Lijiabuzhuang.

Li Yinglong asked again: Did anything else happen after your son was beaten by the people of Li Jiabuzhuang?

The old woman thought for a while and said, "There is nothing else, by the way, on the night of her death, my daughter-in-law fried a few vegetables and bought a jar of wine for my son to be shocked, and my son got drunk and died the next day."

Hearing this, Li Yinglong nodded and instructed the servant: Take this mother-in-law out and let her daughter-in-law come in for questioning.

The official replied: Yes, sir.

Then he took the old woman out, and in a moment he came in with the young woman.

When the young woman saw Li Yinglong, she hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, Li Yinglong didn't let her stand up, looked at her coldly and asked: What is your name? Where are the people? Why marry a fool?

The young woman was busy: The little woman's name is Ge Cuilian, she is a native of Zhoujiazhuang in the south of Luoyang City, because her husband's family is not allowed after her husband's death, she met my husband Hu San on the way back to her mother's house, I saw that although Hu San was stupid, but he was honest and reliable, and he would not bully me in the future, so I decided to marry him.

Li Yinglong asked: How did your husband die?

The young woman said: Yesterday morning, I asked my husband to go to Lijia Cloth Village to buy a piece of green cloth and come back to make a dress for him, who knew that when I bought a quantity, it was two feet shorter, so I asked my husband to take the cloth to them to change, although the cloth was changed back, but it was a piece of cloth with several holes, so I asked my husband to take the cloth to them to change, they actually took the cloth unreasonably and beat my husband, my husband died that night after he came back.

Hearing this, Li Yinglong said with a deep face: Your husband died after being beaten, which is an unnatural death, why don't you go to the county government to report to the official.

The young woman hurriedly said: After the death of my husband, I was anxious, and took my mother-in-law to Li's cloth village to find the shopkeeper's comment, the shopkeeper of the cloth village heard that the dead person was very afraid, and he wanted to be private with us, he gave us some silver, and did not let us go to the official, so we did not go to the official.

Li Yinglong asked coldly: How much silver did Buzhuang give you?

Ge Cuilian's voice suddenly became smaller: Give ------ gave us two hundred taels of silver.

After that, he suddenly cried again, and said while crying: "My lord, these two hundred taels of silver are the life money of me and my mother-in-law, and I can't take it."

Hearing this, Li Yinglong waved his hand at her and said, "You get up."

Ge Cuilian stood up from the ground and asked cautiously, "My lord, are we all right?"

Li Yinglong looked at her and said lightly: What do you say?

Hearing this, Ge Cuilian's body shook and said: I don't know ------.

Li Yinglong smiled and said: I don't know either.

With that, he walked out.

Li Yinglong took his servant Wu Jin out of the house and came to the street, and found Liu Dibao still waiting outside, so he beckoned him to come over.

Liu Dibao hurriedly ran over and saluted: "My lord, if there is anything else to send, please do not hesitate to order."

Li Yinglong said politely: Liu Dibao, can you take this county to Lijiabuzhuang?

Liu Dibao hurriedly said: No problem, the small ones will take the adults there.

With that, he led the way forward.

Li Yinglong turned his head and said to Wu Jin, a servant of the government: You don't have to follow, go back to the county government first.

Hearing this, the two said in unison: Yes, my lord.

He turned around and went back.

Liu Dibao took Li Yinglong to stand in front of the gate of Lijiabuzhuang, and then shouted inside: Is Li Da's shopkeeper inside?

After a while, a man who looked to be in his forties, medium height, thin, wearing a blue shirt, and quite energetic walked out of the door of the store, and when he saw that it was Liu Dibao, he smiled and said: Yo, Lord Bunker has arrived, what's the matter?

Liu Dibao said a little doggy: What kind of adults and villains, don't talk nonsense.

After that, he pointed to Li Yinglong with his hand and said: The real adult is here, Li Da Shopkeeper, why don't you come and visit our magistrate.

Shopkeeper Li looked at Li Yinglong, his face suddenly changed, and he hurriedly stepped forward to "pounce" on Li Yinglong's knees and kowtowed, shouting: The grass people see the county magistrate.

This shopkeeper Li once went to the county office to give Li Yinglong a gift on the day Li Yinglong took office, so he knew Li Yinglong.

Li Yinglong waved his hand and ordered: Shopkeeper Li, please get up, let's go to the house to talk.

Shopkeeper Li stood up from the ground, stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation, and said, "My lord, please."

The two of them walked towards the store together.

Shopkeeper Li took Li Yinglong into the tent room in the store and sat down.

A shopkeeper brought two bowls of tea in on a tray and then withdrew.

Shopkeeper Li said carefully: Your Excellency, please use tea.

After that, he first picked up the tea bowl and took a sip.

Li Yinglong picked up the tea bowl and blew the tea leaves floating on the water, and after taking a sip, he suddenly asked: Shopkeeper Li, do you know why this county came to you today?

Hearing this, Shopkeeper Li's body shook suddenly, and he hurriedly stood up from the chair and knelt down and said in a trembling voice: ------ know, the adult must have come for Hu San's death, right?

Li Yinglong asked: Shopkeeper Li, why did your buddies from Buzhuang beat Hu San?

Shopkeeper Li hurriedly said: If you go back to the adult, it is for the sake of buying cloth.

After a pause, he continued, he said: Yesterday morning, Hu San came to our cloth village to buy a zhang and two feet of green cloth, he left soon after and returned, saying that our cloth village played him, to his cloth is less than two feet, I heard very angry, so I called the guy who measured the cloth to ask him how to give less cloth to others, but the guy said that he definitely did not give Hu San a small amount of cloth an inch, but I think Hu San is a fool did not care about him, I think I am unlucky, so I personally measured a piece of green cloth of one zhang and two feet for Hu San, And it was counted foot by foot for Hu San to see, and the cloth was so good that he tore it off and let him take it. After a while, he came back with the cloth, saying that the cloth I measured for him this time was a piece of residual cloth, and there were several holes in the cloth, and I was very strange, because the cloth was measured by my own hands, and it was definitely a good cloth, how could there be holes, so I opened the cloth and looked, and sure enough, there were several holes in the middle of the cloth, but I found that these holes were all new stubble, and they were just poked up. It turned out that this fool was deliberately making trouble with us, I didn't change the cloth for him again, let people drive him out, Hu San didn't do it, he made a lot of noise in the store, a few guys in my store were angry and beat him up, because I also hated him very much, I didn't stop it at that time, who knew that the next day Hu San's mother and daughter-in-law came to find it, saying that the people in our store beat Hu San to death, and asked me what to do, and it was an official in private. I saw that I was killed, and I didn't want to be an official, so I agreed to be private, and compensated them two hundred taels of silver, plus twenty taels of funeral expenses.

After that, he reached out and took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Li Yinglong: My lord, please see, this is a note that Hu San's daughter-in-law set up for me.

Li Yinglong took it and looked at it and asked: Are the two pieces of cloth sent back by Hu San still there?

Shopkeeper Li hurriedly said: Yes, here, the villain will go and give it to the adult.

After that, he stood up and walked out, and after a while he returned with the cloth, and then handed the two pieces of cloth to Li Yinglong and said: My lord, these are the two pieces of cloth.

Li Yinglong took the sermon and said, "I'm going to borrow these two pieces of cloth and that note."

Shopkeeper Li hurriedly said: Your Excellency, please take it and use it.

Li Yinglong stood up from the chair with the cloth and the note and walked out, and the shopkeeper Li followed behind him and sent it out.

Out of the store, Li Yinglong turned his head and said to the shopkeeper Li who was following him and sent him out: Shopkeeper Li, don't go anywhere until Hu San's case is over, you have to follow the rumor.

Shopkeeper Li hurriedly replied: Yes, yes, the villain just stayed in the store and waited, and he didn't go anywhere.

Liu Dibao, who was waiting outside the door, came over and asked Li Yinglong Shili: "My lord, where are we going?"

Li Yinglong waved his hand and said: No, Liu Dibao, thank you for your help.

Liu Dibao hurriedly said: No thanks, no thanks, this is what the villain should do.

After that, he asked mysteriously: Should you look at Hu San's daughter-in-law?

Li Yinglong said lightly: What do you do to look at others?

Liu Dibao said: I think she is quite suspicious?

Li Yinglong said: You just think people are suspicious, but there is no evidence to prove this suspicion, you don't care about it, just do what you have to do.

Liu Dibao hurriedly said: Yes, yes, my lord, I will do something else.

With that, he turned around and left.

Li Yinglong walked alone in the direction of the county office.