"Little master, the little uncle of the slave family has finished chanting the scriptures and is waiting for the adults in the guest hall."

Whether you come or not, I'm here, whether you're an immortal or an emperor. This is the consistent style of the children of Xuanmen.

Therefore, when the county magistrate, who was the emperor of the land, came, the Taoist who chanted the scriptures did not come out of the temple to greet him.

The guest hall is in the west room of the main hall.

When Song An and Hua Fengchun opened the reed curtain and entered the room, they saw a young man who looked sixteen or seventeen years old with clear eyebrows sitting cross-legged in front of a low tea table.

"Poor Dao has seen the county magistrate." Xiao Lao Dao got up and gave a fist salute to Song An.

"Lucky to be the chief." Song An returned the salute to the little old man respectfully.

Xiao Lao Dao beckoned the two to sit on the ground at the tea table.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, chairs were just popularized, so many people are still used to sitting on the ground.

"This is the lotus leaf tea picked in the lake by the poor road, please use it slowly."

Xiao Lao Dao picked up the handle pot and poured tea for Song An and Hua Fengchun.

Song An drank lotus leaf tea for the first time, and he couldn't tell what it tasted like, just a little fragrant.

Without waiting for Song An to open his mouth to inquire about the lake bandits, Xiao Lao Dao said it himself.

"There are about 300 people in the lake, Poor Dao has seen them a few times, the leader of the bandits is a woman in her fifties, and her surname is unknown, Poor Dao only knows that she is nicknamed Female Hades, but she is from Qingzhou."

"Is that female Hades beautiful?" Hua Fengchun blurted out.

Song An was speechless: "At the age of fifty, you still have ideas?" ”

"As long as it's good-looking, it doesn't matter how old she is!" Hua Fengchun disagreed.

Xiao Lao Dao's expression was indifferent: "The female Hades has a bloated and fat body, and her face is hideous and intimidating. ”

"Forget it." Hua Fengchun was deflated.

"Dao Chief, this county heard from your sister-in-law that the female Hades only targeted men and never hurt women, does the Dao Chief know why?"

Xiao Lao Dao shook his head lightly and did not speak.

"Does the chief know where the den of the female Hades is? The county just watched from a high point of view, and did not find that there was a place in the lake that could shelter two or three hundred people. ”

"The lair of the female Yama and the others is not in the lake, and the so-called lake bandits are actually just a trick of the female Yama and their own propaganda to confuse the public and make people unclear where they are."

"So where can they hide......"

"I don't know how to do it."

Xiao Lao Dao told Song An about the female Hades again, but it was all irrelevant.

As for where the bandit nest of the female Hades was, Song An had no clue, so he had to return in vain.

There is a small wharf outside Zhang Liang Temple, and a small boat is tied to the wharf.

"Whose ship is this?" Song An asked Wang Ling'er.

"The slave brother-in-law uses it to travel to and from the island."

"How about borrowing this official for a while?"

"Absolutely!"

The last prefectural commander was to take a boat into the lake to suppress bandits, and when he was hidden under the water, he overturned the boat, and after falling into the water, he was killed and drowned.

Song An planned to take a risk and take a boat out of the island to see if he could lure out the lake bandits hiding in the lake.

The boat was small, with a maximum of three people on board.

Zhang Shun is the best at water in the waves, and it is most suitable for him to row. Song An originally wanted Hua Fengchun to carry her with a paraglider, but Hua Fengchun also smiled cheaply and agreed, but Wang Ling'er didn't want to follow him alive or dead, saying that he only believed in the county order.

Song An had no choice but to let her take the boat.

The waterway out of the lake is divided by patches of reeds, and the width of the waterway is more than ten meters, but the narrow part is only one or two meters, and even a small boat can barely row through.

To Song An's disappointment, until the boat landed, there was no movement in the reeds and under the water.

……

Boom!

Knock knock!

As soon as Song An returned to the county yamen's living area, he heard a sound of drums outside the yamen hall.

A brother hurriedly ran to the newspaper: "Brother Xiaoan, there is an old woman beating a drum outside the yamen to complain!" ”

Previously, Dad Song Jiang and other brothers had agreed that regardless of the size of the official position, they would all be commensurate with brothers. In the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of calling men "brother" regardless of age and age, such as Yan Qing, and Liangshan heroes could be called Xiao Yi brother regardless of whether they were in front of him or behind. For example, Zhao Gou, because he is ranked ninth, his father and his brother are used to calling him "Ninth Brother".

"Brother Xiao'an" is the habitual name of Liang Shanbo's brothers to Song An, of course, the title of "Anzi" is only limited to Hua Fengchun, Hu Yanyu and Xu Sheng.

Unlike Xiaolang Flowers in Spring, Hu Yanyu and Xu Sheng are more stable, and this time they came to Lanling, Song An left them to teach the new brothers paragliding, so they only brought flowers in Spring.

"Song An, let's go to the court to solve the case!" Zhao Gou put down the dishes and chopsticks, pulled up Song An, and ran to the front hall.

Shengtang asked about the case, Song An has only seen it in film and television dramas. Above the high hall, the official man wearing a black gauze hat sat on the Taishi chair, and the two classes of officials knocked the water and fire sticks on the ground with a crisp sound, and at the same time accompanied by the shouting of "might-martial" in his mouth, and then slapped the wooden on the table......

It's exciting to think about!

The officials were brought from Liangshanbo and the brothers temporarily put on the uniforms of the officials, and Hua Fengchun also ran over to act as the head catcher.

After a burst of "might-martial" and the sound of knocking sticks, Song An knocked on the startling wood, and Zhao Gou, who was sitting on the side dressed as a master, shouted loudly outside the yamen: "Take the plaintiff!" ”

A richly dressed man of about fifty years of age walked into the hall with a folding fan in hand.

"Visit the county magistrate in Xia Dong!"

There are two long stones under the lobby, one for the defendant and one for the plaintiff, for the plaintiff and the defendant to kneel.

Dong Si didn't kneel, but just folded his fan and bowed to Song An.

"Dong Si, why don't you kneel when you see this county?" Song An was a little unhappy.

Dong Si smiled slightly and said: "Lord Hui, I took the Xiucai exam at the beginning of this year, and my Great Song Dynasty Law clearly stipulates that those who show talent and fame can not kneel when they see the county officials." ”

"Are you proud to be admitted to Xiucai in your fifties?" Song An said disdainfully. Xiucai is equivalent to graduating from high school in the 21st century, if this surnamed Dong is a Xiucai in his teens and twenties, Song An will not say anything, but he is in his fifties and has just been admitted to Xiucai, and he has to be embarrassed!

"Lord Hui, I am the only person with a meritorious name among the dozens of people in the three generations of the old Dong family, and I am of course proud of it!"

"......" Song An said impatiently: "Who are you going to sue?" ”

"Qian Xiaoyue, the concubine in the ninth room who sued her father, killed her father Dong Ming last night! Wangxian ordered the adults to reclaim their grievances in the next! ”

"The ninth concubine? Then your dad must be tired from working late at night! Hua Fengchun said with a smile, this little wave of hooves never plays waves, regardless of time or occasion.

"Take the defendant!" Song An patted the shocked wood and said loudly.

A woman about 20 years old calmly walked into the hall, knelt on the defendant stone and kowtowed to Song An.

"The people's girl Qian Xiaoyue knocked on the Qingtian lord!"

Song An looked at Qian Xiaoyue, she looked very dignified and elegant, and she was everyone's lady at a glance.

At this time, the outside of the hall was already full of onlookers.

Song An originally thought that it was just that the people in the 21st century liked to watch and eat melons and watch the excitement, but it turned out that their ancestors also liked it, and they dared to love it.

"Qian Xiaoyue, Dong Hei sued you for killing his father, that is, your husband, can you plead guilty?"

Qian Xiaoyue blamed herself: "Back to Lord Qingtian, although the death of the husband was not committed by the slave family, it is not unrelated to the slave family. After the slave family and her husband slept last night, for some reason, a fire broke out in the house, and when the slave family woke up, the fire was out of control. The slave family wanted to pull the husband out of the fire, but the husband was over seventy years old and had difficulty moving, and he was wide and fat, and fell to the ground choked by the smoke, and the slave's petite body could not drag the husband away from the fire, but he was unwilling to let himself be buried here, so he had to escape by himself. ”

Dong Si was furious: "What nonsense! My father was killed by you! ”

Qian Xiaoyue's willow eyebrows were upside down: "Dong Si, you are spewing blood!" ”

"You had an argument with my father last night, and when I got outside your house, there was no movement. When I asked about you, you said that my father was asleep, so I didn't go into the house to look. Whoever wants to start a fire on the fourth watch, my father has either been killed by you beforehand, and you set fire to try to destroy the body, or you set fire to my father! ”

"Dong Si wantonly speculates on blood spurting people, looking at the Qingtian Lord Mingjian!"

"You killed my father!"

"I didn't!"

"That's you!"

"I didn't!"

"That's you!"

"I didn't!"

"That's you!"

While!

Song An slapped the startling wood heavily, interrupting the quarrel between the two of them like a big saw. If the two of them are allowed to quarrel like this, they will not be able to quarrel for three days and three nights.

"Plaintiff Dong Si, you said that Qian Xiaoyue killed your father, but you didn't see it with your own eyes except for speculation, didn't you?"