After Li Guolou finished explaining his official business, the sound of artillery was heard outside, and Lord Bao tried the case. Li Guolou shouted: "Disband!" Good life errands. I don't have that much power, and I don't bring anyone with me. ”

Ai Haire stuck his ass and grinned: "Deputy Li, I, you always have to bring it, just one person!" I never had the opportunity to watch Lord Bao try a case. ”

Li Guolou stood up and put on the "watermelon hat" (because of his size, Li Guolou called it a watermelon hat.) Glancing at Ai Hai's treacherous face, it was already clear in his heart that this stinky boy had not been probed into the case, but he knew everything about his movements in the past few days.

said seriously: "Don't laugh, be louder when it's time to cheer, don't lose the face of the criminal department." Got it? Li Guolou upgraded his face to the level of the Criminal Department and warned Ai Hai not to talk to each other, he had the handle of Ai Hai's lifelong happiness.

Ai Hai smiled and said, "Thank you Team Vice Li for looking up to me, my voice is no worse than Ma Dequan." After speaking, Ai Hai proudly glanced at the other eight people, and now he was the most favored here in Li Guolou. Ma Dequan is just a fool, and he is not a person of the same grade.

The two left the Tianzi compound side by side, and on the way, they also met Yao Cuo, Lu Haikong, but did not meet Xingyunfeng. Li Guolou asked Xing Yunfeng why he didn't go to see the trial? It turns out that Xing Yunfeng is old and has no room for promotion, and he is no longer willing to do this kind of role of standing in the officialdom to praise the chief. The otherworldly is in a class of its own, and after a few years, it will be a pension and a baby.

Colleagues and commanders are all dressed appropriately, and they are full of energy and stepped into the lobby, and people with status and status gathered, although there is no seat to sit, but as long as they stand here, it means that they have a certain status in the criminal department.

The official brought in the plaintiff first, and the person who walked in front was the lawyer Song Shixiong, who was less than forty years old, with a white face and beard, a thin body, and a pair of gold-rimmed eyes. He has a brother Song Shijie who is very famous in Guangzhou, known as "winning and not losing", and wants to hire Song Shijie's masterpiece lawyer, at least two gold ingots are used, and he has already become a legendary figure.

Lawyers are all people with meritorious reputation, who are talented and low-ranking than their masters, and have a bad reputation in society. Ordinary scholars are reluctant to be a lawyer, and the lawyer collects black money, goes through the back door, runs relationships, and falsifies confessions. Many litigants are instigated by litigators, and in the end they lose the official affairs, so the litigators are hated. If the lawyer eats the plaintiff and eats the defendant, and the people in the yamen are in cahoots, and wants to seek justice in the hands of the lawyer, then only a human life lawsuit, or a definite official matter, will have a time when the lawyer will do justice.

Song Shixiong stepped into the threshold of the lobby, first clasped his fist and saluted in the direction where Li Guolou was standing, the officials here are the key to the trial of the case, and the first-hand information is written by people like Li Guolou who are handling the case at the scene.

The Dizi Brigade happened to be the person in charge of this case, and they gathered around Li Guolou, and they were close to Li Guolou. The people of their local number brigade have long changed their courts, and they all worship under Li Guolou's door, the reason is very simple, Li Guolou will become the captain of their team after the Spring Festival. The original captain Liu Chengle has been ordered to leave the Beijing division and go to which village office to do Baozheng.

In a whisper, Li Guolou had a general understanding of the circumstances of the case. In Qilitun Chenzhuang, the widow Chen Luo has a son Chen Zhonghe who is less than sixteen years old, because he has no father in the family for many years, he has become a little bully in the village, stealing chickens and dogs, being rude to people, fighting, swearing, and even being rude to his mother. Therefore, Chen Zhuang's village leader Chen Yajun, patriarch Chen Buli, and mother Chen Luo unanimously decided to expel Chen Zhonghe from the Chen family, and Chen Zhonghe's first major sin was unfilial piety!

Filial piety comes first, and the Qi family is peaceful in the world, first of all, we must look at filial piety. If a person is crowned as unfilial, he has no status in society and achieves nothing. The Qing Dynasty law stipulates that when an official's parents die, they must observe filial piety for three years, which is called Ding Wei. Some officials spend money to sit on the fat shortage, what should they do when their parents die? Adulterers will hide the death of their parents. Because the Qing Dynasty was an official of more than seven grades, they were all officials in different places, and the traffic was not smooth and the information was not good, and many famous officials in history did this kind of thing to conceal the death of their parents. Of course, there are all kinds of reasons and all-encompassing, not necessarily to make money. Some officials have important positions, and the emperor can't do without him, and he can use the imperial power to deprive officials who have died of their parents, which is called seizing affection.

If this case is established now, and the defendant Chen Zhonghe is removed from the Chen family, he will have no right to inherit, and he will not be able to find a good job in society in the future.

Good luck came and said in a low voice: "Song Shixiong is known as a-stirring stick, he likes to confuse the public the most, you can't understand the lawsuit when he hears him, I just hate that I didn't study well at the beginning." ”

Li Guolou looked at the large group of people on the plaintiff's side, and the defendant only had a lonely teenager, and couldn't help but feel weird, how could there be such a mother in the world, and he didn't even want his own son. The boy looks a little dark, but it's not very strong, and it won't be strong in a fight. should like to hang out outside, the tutoring is not strict, and he is a second-rate child.

"So what the plaintiff said is true?" Li Guolou was a little suspicious.

Good luck said: "I have personally scanned and heard, it is all the truth, the stinky boy is not very peaceful, Chen Zhuang is a tyrant, and he specializes in stumbling down, and many people have smeared him with feces." ”

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Oh, I like to play pranks, I feel a little perverted in my heart, and I should teach you a good lesson." ”

"Knock knock!" The big drum sounded, and the big throat official shouted: "Ascension! ”

The two shifts of officials stood on the left and right, "Hmm······ Whiskers ······" The water and fire sticks in his hands hit the bluestone floor tiles, the two signs stood in front of the crowd watching the excitement, and the officials with various torture instruments stood behind, the scene was terrifying, and even Li Guolou became fierce and vicious.

Out of the back hall came out of the bag wearing a bluestone-colored official robe, Wu Defu, wearing a ruby on his head and a flower feather, and a string of agate pearls on his chest was worth a lot. Behind Bao stood a young man with clear eyebrows and an official seal, and this kind of entourage was usually a young minister raised by a big official. Li Guolou was pushed several times by the people around him, all of whom wanted him to have a good life to see what the little husband with Bao looked like.

Li Guolou, like the person next to him, was curious and recognized, a man can grow into such a handsome man, it would be a waste if he didn't be a little minister. (This kind of retinue was sold to the Xianggong Hall when he was a child, and the boy was done clearly in the Qing Empire, and it was also a scene of the Qing Empire.) ）

At the beginning of the trial, in addition to the lawyer Song Shixiong, the plaintiff and the defendant knelt on the left and right, and the people of Chen Village stood behind, including the village chief, the patriarch and the people who came to see the excitement, a total of more than 200 people, generally spending money, before they could enter the court to watch the trial, which was also an income for the guards and had become the unspoken rule of the yamen. The chief above turned a blind eye, as if he did not know about such a thing.

The government trial is like a play, there are many people who want to see the real case trial, and the shadow of spending money can be seen in every link. The gestures made between the officials didn't even know what the catchers and high-ranking officials who stayed in the yamen meant, and only Wu Defu, who was on the line between heaven and earth, knew the meaning.

Bao Yi patted the same shocked wood and said majestically: "Quiet! ”

The audience became silent, and the appearance of official etiquette made people shudder, this is the legendary trial, who dares to make a loud noise, come to the twenty boards first, and let your flesh and blood fly.

Bao Tong nodded slightly, and shouted in a loud voice: "Take the plaintiff Chen Luo." ”

Chen Luoshi was led from behind to the plaintiff stone in front of him and knelt down, and said in a coquettish voice: "The cheap concubine is the plaintiff Chen Luo, please Lord Bao to verify her identity." ”

This is the rule of the trial, if the plaintiff is fake, the trial will not become a big joke. Several villagers from Chenzhuang came up to testify that the plaintiff was Chen Luoshi himself, and the defendant was Chen Zhonghe himself, and there were no fakes, and the case continued to be tried.

Next, it was the turn of the lawyer Song Shixiong to come forward, salute the prefect in the court, and start the complaint: "Today, the plaintiff Chen Luo entrusted the housekeeper Chen Yaxue to sue the rebel son Chen Zhonghe, who is unfilial to his son, unkind to him, unrighteous in handling things, lazy and disgusting, bad at work, stubborn in teaching, and full of bad deeds, and is not worthy of being a member of the Chen family. There are 18 major sins and 30 minor sins, and the existing lawyer Song Shixiong came to read aloud to adults······"

(The Qing Dynasty Law stipulates that in addition to the major crime of rebellion and rebellion, as long as there is a man in the family, a woman cannot be the plaintiff, so Chen Luo also has to entrust the housekeeper Chen Yaxue to be the plaintiff.) ）

Well, the crime committed by a teenager was said from Song Shixiong's mouth for half an hour, and he was spitting and frustrated. Everyone who listened to it felt funny and sad, a lot of them were children messing around, and they were also called unkind and unjust, plus Chen Zhonghe's disrespect for his mother Chen Luo's words, it was a big crime of unfilial piety.

At this time, the doctrine is that the king wants to die and not to die, and the father wants the son to die, and the son has to die, which is the best interpretation of filial piety, and children cannot go against the wishes of their parents. From a legal point of view, as long as what the plaintiff Chen Luo said is true, he will occupy the principles of heaven, and no one can overturn Song Shixiong's lawsuit.

The iron butt of the official master is cultivated in this way, and the official etiquette is not something that ordinary people can do, and the bag that sat on the court for more than half an hour was motionless, supporting his chin with his hands in one posture, his elbows on the desk, and his mouth let out "Hmm!" Yes! "Tell everyone present that he is not sleeping, he has been listening.

Li Guolou and other officials have also practiced when they entered the Criminal Department, and they are still upright for half an hour, with a fierce aura in their majesty, and the spirit of a dragon horse, standing like a pine, only the best among the people can be officials.

After Song Shixiong finished reading the lawsuit, he breathed a long sigh of relief and waited for the chief's questioning.

Wu Defu raised his voice and said, "Master Song brought the case. ”

The shape is a folding style, and the bag is slowly unfolded together, looking down at the shape, and looking carefully without saying a word.

There was silence in the lobby, and even the sound of breathing could be heard. The depressing atmosphere made the defendant Chen Zhonghe, who was kneeling on the ground, move his knees around, and his habit of hyperactivity made Chen Zhonghe uncomfortable, and he had never knelt for such a long time in his life.

Bao Yi didn't find any loopholes in the complaint, and put on an official posture: "Defendant Chen Zhonghe, can the plaintiff Chen Yaxue's complaint be true, what else do you have to say?" ”

Chen Zhonghe, who was in the development period, said angrily: "My lord Mingjian, Chen Yaxue is just a slave of my family, how can he be the plaintiff." I'm a hundred unconvinced! ”

Wu Defu shouted: "Defendant Chen Zhonghe, you have to understand that the defendant is your mother, because she is a woman, so let Chen Yaxue be the plaintiff, and you have to accept it if you are not convinced." If you don't accept it, you will slap your mouth ten times, so that you can remember it for a long time. ”

Chen Zhonghe said angrily: "My lord, I don't have the money to hire a lawyer, I want the real estate and land left by my father, and I am the one surnamed Chen." Because he is not yet an adult and has no inheritance rights, everything in the Chen family does not belong to him now, so the first thing Chen Zhonghe did in the hall was to ask for the family's ancestral property.

Bao Tong sneered and sneered: "A loser like you, do you still have the surname Chen?" No one in the family wants you anymore. Now the judge asks you whether what the plaintiff said is true, and you have to answer it truthfully. ”

Chen Zhonghe looked at Chen Luo's and said, "She is my mother, it is normal for me to lose my temper with her, didn't I apologize later?" Mother and son should not have an overnight feud, I admit to doing other things, and I don't admit any unfilial piety. ”

The crowd behind the public hall was already shouting, "Shameless little cub!" Drive the little cub out of Chenzhuang! The little cub is not worthy of the surname Chen! The people in Chen Zhuang were scolding Chen Zhonghe, saying that he had lost Chen Zhuang's face, and no villager had said good things for Chen Zhonghe.

Li Guolou looked at this scene, but felt weird, a young man did not kill people and set fires, and he didn't even do anything to molest the little girl, why did the whole village hate this young man so much. Can the people of Chenzhuang who come here really represent the public opinion of Chenzhuang? Who bought these villagers, Li Guolou looked at Chen Luo, who looked weak, and Chen Luo, who looked pitiful on the outside, what was he thinking in his heart? How will Lord Bao, who is sitting on the high hall, judge the case? Li Guolou looked forward to the sparks between the two sides and wanted to explore the inner world of Lord Bao.