Chapter 190: Severe Punishment
Gu Tuiguan took Ye Feng and Zhao Zhengyu to the inner hall, and Judge Cheng was already walking back and forth anxiously inside, and when he saw the two of them, he was about to kneel down as soon as his legs were weak.
Zhao Zhengyu's eyes were sharp, and when he saw his movements, he immediately said out loud: "Lord Judge, but do you want to return the innocence of me and this Ye brother?" Then she shook her head slightly and gave him a look.
Judge Cheng has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he immediately understood the meaning of his eyes, and it seems that the saint does not want to reveal his identity. So he straightened up and said, "Indeed! ”
When Ye Feng came to the inner hall of the official mansion of the Song Dynasty for the first time, he was a little curious, and he kept looking at the furnishings of the official mansion, not noticing the eye contact between Zhao Zhengyu and Judge Cheng.
Hearing Judge Cheng say that calling them over was to return their innocence, he retracted his gaze, and then said, "I don't know how the judge handled it?" ”
"Yes, Your Excellency Judge has to give us a satisfactory explanation to the common people!" Zhao Zhengyu also added.
Before Ye Feng and Zhao Zhengyu came to the inner hall, he had already sent someone to understand the cause and effect of Yang Wu's arrest, so he said with a fair and righteous appearance: "Yang Wu, the head of Kaifeng Mansion, accepted bribes, used power for personal gain, acted recklessly, and unjustly arrested civilians, so he was dismissed and investigated, served a year in prison, and then flailed for 5,000 miles!" Jiang Qing, a ruffian in the south of Kaifeng City, gathered a crowd to commit murder, bribed the servants, fought a hundred times, and the flail was first distributed with 3,000 miles. Such a punishment, I don't know if the two of you can be satisfied? ”
"So serious?" Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, it was just a fight, just arresting people indiscriminately, and actually giving them such a serious punishment? You must know that in ancient times, the general distribution was equivalent to a direct declaration of the death penalty. The escort had to escort the convict to a place thousands of miles away, and not only did he give the convict a shackle, but the convict was generally unbearable, and most of them would die halfway through. In order to save trouble, they will usually give them some poison or something directly on the road, and then declare that the criminal is unbearable for the long distance and dies violently.
I didn't expect that it would be just a fight, just arresting people indiscriminately, and there would be such a serious punishment. When did the punishment in the Song Dynasty become so severe? It seems that I will have to be careful in the future and not be caught and beaten on the board......
"yes, yes." The little fat man Zhao Zhengyu nodded.
"Those two ......" Judge Cheng asked again, and it was better to send them away.
"Brother Ye, you go out and wait for me first, I still need to ask the judge for some questions, and then let's go to Qiuyue Tower for a drink, how about it?" Zhao Zhengyu said to Ye Feng.
Ye Feng nodded, he knew that the identity of this little fat man was not simple, and he might know this judge, but that was also a private matter, and he didn't plan to ask.
"Gu Tuiguan, you take this ...... Ye Gongzi went to the side hall to drink tea. Judge Cheng learned his surname from Zhao Zhengyu's mouth, so he ordered.
Gu Tuiguan knew that Judge Cheng still had something to say to the chubby young man in front of him, so he took Ye Feng away.
After the two left, Judge Cheng's legs could no longer support him, he knelt on the ground on his knees, and said with a trembling mouth: "Weichen Cheng Youkuan deserves death!" ”
"Have you seen me?" Zhao Zhengyu sat upright, glanced at him with a pair of eyes, and said lightly.
"Weichen was fortunate to see the dragon face of the saint from afar at the great court meeting at the beginning of the year." He said tremblingly, he is not qualified to go to the early dynasty at his level, and he can only go to the court when the great court will be congratulated by hundreds of officials.
"Get up." He said lightly.
"The ministers are not strict, and they have shocked the holy dragon body, and the sin deserves death, please ask the emperor to give you the sin!" He didn't dare to get up, and his head hit the ground hard.
"Okay, I'm not a murderer, it's right that you don't have strict control, but you don't sin to death. If you go back to the last guilty plea, you will be fined for half a year. Zhao Zhengyu said kindly.
"Thank you, Holy Lord! The holy house is kind-hearted, and it is really a blessing for the people of my Great Song Dynasty! He said gratefully.
"By the way, my identity needs to be kept secret, I came out this time, in addition to feeling the people's feelings, I also plan to see how those rats in the court jump! If their whereabouts are known, you know the consequences. He said leisurely.
Cheng Youkuan had a frightened expression, then put his head on the ground again, and said in his mouth: "Weichen must be tight-lipped!" ”
At this time, I suddenly heard a noise outside Kaifeng Mansion, and a woman's voice said, "Where are the people?" What about people? It was so loud that it even entered the inner hall.
Zhao Zhengyu frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Cheng Youkuan was also very puzzled, so he said: "Wait a minute, Weichen will go and see what is going on!" ”
"I'll take a look with you and see what moths are out of your Kaifeng Mansion!"
"Yes!" The beads of sweat on Cheng Youkuan's forehead were rising, and he prayed in his heart not to do anything again, his little heart really couldn't bear it!
"What's going on?" He walked out of the room and asked one of the officials on the side.
Seeing that it was Judge Cheng's question, the official hurriedly replied: "Lord Judge Qiqi, a woman outside the mansion brought a little girl, she claimed to be the sister of General Yue Siqu, and came to Kaifeng Mansion to dignitaries. ”
"Someone? Who in the Yue family is in my Kaifeng Mansion? It's just presumptuous! Cheng Youkuan's face darkened, and he was unusually irritable in his heart, he couldn't afford to provoke this Yue Siqu, did his subordinates catch the wrong person? What kind of is there every day!
"Yue Siqu? Hehe, interesting, Judge, let's go and have a look, right? A smile appeared on Zhao Zhengyu's face, as if he had encountered something interesting.
"Your Excellency!" When they were about to go to the outside of the mansion to take a look, suddenly a voice came from behind them, it was Ye Feng who also heard the movement outside, and heard that this voice was Yue Jiancomb's voice, so he hurriedly ran out.
"Brother Ye, do you want to see the excitement too?" Zhao Zhengyu turned his head to look at Ye Feng and said.
"Uh...... Brother Zhao, the girl outside the mansion, may ...... It's coming for me. Ye Feng said embarrassedly.
"Oh? Let's check it out! Zhao Zhengyu was a little surprised, but instantly became calm and said.
Then, they walked outside the mansion, Ye Feng saw at a glance that outside the mansion was muttering loudly about Kaifeng Mansion handover, and was about to fight, a girl wearing a white fairy skirt who was going to rush directly into the yamen, and there was a little girl with a goose-yellow light gauze with cold eyes standing quietly behind her.
Sure enough, it was Yue Jiancomb and Long Ranran......
He hurriedly ran over and shouted, "Stop! ”
Only then did Yue Jiancomb notice Ye Feng who came out of the yamen, stopped, the originally angry expression on his face became a hint of joy, and said in his mouth: "Ye Feng, are you okay?" ”
When Long Ranran saw Ye Feng come out, the coldness on his face was also taken back.
"What can I do? What are you doing here? This is Kaifeng, not Linhai City! Ye Feng remembered the fate of Jiang Qing and Yang Wu who were just fighting and arresting people indiscriminately, and asked out loud.
"I ...... I haven't seen you! So I asked others, saying that you came out, and finally found out in Nancheng, you were arrested by Kaifeng Mansion, so ...... As soon as I was in a hurry, I rushed over directly......" Yue Jiancomb muttered a small mouth, looking aggrieved.
"Forget it, will you go back quickly?" When Ye Feng saw him like this, his heart softened.