After he got the poison, he found a dog himself and tried it.

Absolutely.

Liu Jian felt that there must be something strange on Ning Ping's side, so he turned his head and called his entourage, and transferred the sedan chair to the yamen.

hurriedly passed, and when I inquired, I found out that Ning Ping was now in the prison.

He turned his head and rushed over.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I found that there were several eye-catching guards here.

Immediately, his heart was cold, who are these people?

When he walked over, the guards stopped him.

Immediately, Liu Jian's heart was very angry, but he was still a little blind after so many years in officialdom.

The majesty of these people made him feel a little familiar.

So he spoke as gently as possible: "I am Liu Tongzhi here, a few brothers look at the eyes, who are you?" ”

"They were sent by His Royal Highness King Rui."

Wen Qingzhu answered him in Ning Ping's voice.

Yanami immediately raised his head and looked inside, his pupils constricted instantly.

How can it be!

Ning Ping was standing in front of him intact!

Wen Qingzhu raised his hand and asked the guards to get out of the way: "Let Lord Liu come in." ”

The guards at the door let go and got out of the way.

Yanami was incredulous, but he also quickly calmed down and walked in unhurriedly.

Wen Qingzhu turned his head and went to the work room.

Yanami followed behind her, constantly observing her.

But no matter how you look at it, you can't see any flaws.

Until Wen Qingzhu lifted the curtain, a corpse in front of him was disemboweled, and a man with a mask was holding a piece of intestines, with blood on it, and looked carefully through the light.

When he saw this, Yanami's stomach immediately rolled.

One didn't hold back, bent over and vomited, grunted a few times, and vomited all the things he had eaten.

The sour smell began to spread.

Wen Qingzhu instructed the jailer: "Don't hurry up and take Lord Liu down." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The two jailers at the door hurriedly stepped forward and helped the limp Yanagimi out of here.

There was a sudden silence around.

Xi'er came out of the shadows and went out and called another jailer to clean up the dirty area of Yanagimi.

After a while, there was no one else in the room.

The man in front of him, dressed in his clothes, put his bowels away, turned his head and washed his hands.

Only then did he take off his mask and reveal a delicate face.

This person is Sun Junming, who I haven't seen for a long time.

He pointed to the corpse on the table and said, "My lord, this poison is completely different from what I have seen before, I have just carefully examined it, this poison does not destroy people's internal organs, and there is no problem with muscles and bones, I suspect that it may act on the meridians." ”

"Is there anything you can do here?" Wen Qingzhu naturally hoped to remove Ning Ping's poison as soon as possible.

In a few days, I am afraid that there will be more and more victims in Cannes.

When Jiang Yuanhan will come back here is still unknown.

"I'll take a look at it again, adults can try to prescribe some medicine to repair the meridians, maybe it will be useful." Sun Junming gave a suggestion.

Wen Qingzhu nodded, looked at the six corpses parked here, and asked, "Are the causes of death of these six corpses the same?" ”

"No, there's a corpse that's different." Sun Junming walked in several steps, and finally stopped in front of a female corpse.

After uncovering the white cloth, Wen Qingzhu saw that the corpse in front of him was the peasant woman Wang, who was also the first person to die.

"What's wrong with her?" Wen Qingzhu walked over, and the corpse of the peasant woman Wang was naturally dissected.

Sun Junming pointed to the meridians in the heart of the corpse and said, "The meridians here are different from others. ”

He pointed to the other five people: "Their meridians are all purple-red, but this Wang's meridians are cyan, and the meridians of normal corpses are also cyan. ”

Sun Junming put forward a guess: "I don't think this Wang died of this poison. ”

"Really?" Wen Qingzhu's eyes began to become solemn.

If that's the case, then it's necessary to meet Zhu Dayi tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Wen Qingzhu made preparations early.

Before the people sent out brought back Zhu Dayi, the drums of grievances at the entrance of the yamen rang out.

After waiting for a while, someone came to report that it was a new disaster victim in the city, wantonly robbing and injuring people.

"My lord, do you want to ascend now?"

Wen Qingzhu laughed: "Of course you will ascend." ”

Two quarters of an hour later, with a mighty shout, Wen Qingzhu put on the prefect's mansion and sat down in the lobby.

Instantly, there was silence.

At the bottom of the hall knelt a husband and wife, the woman's face was wounded and she was wearing a man's tunic on her body.

The man lost his coat, kowtowed heavily, and said to Wen Qingzhu: "My lord, please let us call the shots!" ”

"Say." Wen Qingzhu nodded. For the Honored Academy

Seeing her reaction, the man was stunned, but quickly said: "My lord, the grass people run a steamed bun shop, a small business, yesterday the group of new beggars who entered the city, directly robbed all the buns of the grass people's shop, and today they brought more people over, and they were worried that the grass people would not be able to carry it, so they ran out, but I didn't expect this group of birds and beasts to pounce directly on the grass people's wife, want-"

At this, the man stopped abruptly and gritted his teeth in anger.

"Ill-intentioned?" Wen Qingzhu helped him replenish it.

"Yes!" The man lowered his head and knelt down with his wife, "Please let the grass people call the shots!" ”

Wen Qingzhu turned his head to look at the leader of the guards: "You take the servants and arrest all the beggars who have newly entered the city." ”

"Yes!"

Eight ironclad guards and a group of servants set off at once.

The man was directly stunned, and the woman was still a little scared, but after listening to Wen Qingzhu's words, she was not afraid at all.

In less than half an hour, the leader of the guard returned with thirty-eight beggars.

The men tied their hands with hemp ropes, and each of them put a rag in his mouth and took them to the court one by one.

"Get on your knees!" The leader of the guard kicked the first man in the crook of his knee, forcing him to kneel.

The people behind suddenly knelt down in a hurry.

Wen Qingzhu asked the man again: "But these people?" ”

The man turned around and distinguished them one by one, nodding desperately: "It's them!" The neighbors have seen it! ”

"That's good! Bring people and physical evidence! Wen Qingzhu then ordered.

Some of the headhunters presented physical evidence, including wooden sticks that smashed and injured people, pieces of iron, broken silver and copper coins stolen from the steamed bun shop, and some uneaten steamed buns.

In addition, the bosses and men next door to the left and right of the bun shop all came up to testify.

After cross-certification, everything is documented.

Wen Qingzhu then asked people to take down the first beggar's rag and asked him, "Can you confess?" ”

"I'm not convinced!" The beggar immediately roared out in rage.

Wen Qingzhu smiled: "What are you not convinced?" ”

"Why do we strangers want to starve, but you city people want to eat and drink spicy food! We just grabbed a few buns! You're trying to arrest us! ”

The beggar roared angrily and glared at Wen Qingzhu fiercely, as if he was not afraid of death.

Wen Qingzhu became serious: "Now this official is asking you, can you confess to robbing the bun shop and injuring the old eight couples of the bun shop?" ”

"Why confess! If it weren't for the fact that we didn't have enough to eat! How to go to robbery! How can it hurt people! The more the beggar spoke, the louder his voice became, and he was filled with righteous indignation and wanted to persuade people to confess their guilt.

Wen Qingzhu looked at him coldly: "There are also beggars in the city, and they can't eat enough!" They didn't rob or hurt anyone! Do you not hurt the people who make you hungry, but you do the innocents? ”

"I-" The beggar was speechless for a moment, how could this be?

But soon, he adjusted again and scolded: "You dog officials! You'll never know the pain of not having enough to eat! How can you care about the life and death of our people! So much snow! Crush the house, levy such heavy taxes, don't have enough food to eat, go to the city, and you will only be driven out......"

As the beggar spoke, tears flowed out.

"Who drove you out? Where is it snowing? Where is the house crushed? How much do you tax? Where are you from? ”

Wen Qingzhu's series of questions came out, causing the beggar's cry to stop abruptly.

He raised his head in a daze and looked at Wen Qingzhu with some incredulity.

For a long time, he was hesitant and couldn't say anything clearly.

You answer one by one, what the hell is going on? If you are from Cannes, the official will naturally make the decision for you, if you are not from Cannes, the official will collect the testimony and report it to the emperor, whether it is right or wrong, whether it is true or not, and then it will naturally give you justice! ”

Wen Qingzhu's voice was loud, and the originally noisy public hall instantly quieted down.

The beggar suddenly blushed and subconsciously looked behind him.

Following his line of sight, Wen Qingzhu found that there was an extraordinarily inconspicuous person in the crowd, who lowered his head and never raised his head.

"What? The official gave you a chance to say, why didn't you say it again? ”

Wen Qingzhu's tone began to become majestic, making the beggar tremble.

He hurriedly knelt down, and said like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "Grass, the grass people are from Baijia Village, Hezhen, Yunxian County, in mid-November, it snowed heavily for several days, crushing half of the houses in the town, and in October, the tax increased, originally only 30% of the tax, but the official said that this year's tax is fixed, and he handed over 60% of the family's income.

There was no house, there was not enough food, so I could only leave with my family at the beginning of December, but I didn't expect that the road was full of homeless people, there was chaos everywhere, and there was no food to eat, so the grass people could only sell their wives and two daughters, and rushed to Yangzhou with their sons.

I didn't expect to go halfway, I heard that the capital collected so many taxes, there must be a lot of food, the grass people then turned around and rushed to the capital, and then met a kind person, took us to the first to rush to Cannes, but we found that the people of Cannes did not want to see us, so we were confused for a while......"

"How much does your family harvest and how much tax do you collect?" Wen Qingzhu narrowed his eyes, and sure enough, someone was making trouble with it.

The beggar hurriedly replied: "I harvested 2,000 catties of grain, handed over 1,400 catties, and then heard that the price of grain had risen, so I sold most of the grain, but the heavy snow crushed the house, and I couldn't eat much of the rest of the grain, and I wanted to buy grain with money, but I couldn't buy it." ”

There was silence above the court, where is the sixty percent of the tax, it is simply seventy!

According to the laws of Daqi, farmers only need to hand over 30% of the grain each time according to the amount of land!

Finally, Wen Qingzhu turned his head to look at the general judge beside him: "Have you written down everything he said?" ”

"It's all, it's all written down." Tong Ju's hand holding the pen trembled.

This, it's not all natural disasters anymore.

Wen Qingzhu turned around, slapped the table, and ordered: "Take off everyone's rags, let them explain the situation one by one, record them all, and send them directly to the emperor!" ”

There was a gasp inside and outside the courtroom.

The beggars who were arrested knelt down and cried and confessed their mistakes, expressing their willingness to cooperate.

But two of them were shouting along, but they were obviously perfunctory.

With ironclad guards guarding the town, these two people didn't dare to act rashly at all.

The general judgments of the records were questioned one by one, and they wrote down what they said, and one piece of paper after another was used up.

Keep calling for someone to come and get the paper.

The paper was already the length of a palm, but it was only half the record.