Chapter 30: A Case Within a Case

Although Liu Gouwa yelled in fear of death and fled from Huang San's side, Huang San was said by Wu Qi to have a clavicle hand, thinking that he had inadvertently used a smug trick when he committed the murder, and now that the conspiracy was revealed, his heart was even more terrified, and he stood on the spot, awakened by Liu Gouwa's shouting, and hurriedly fled to Liu Gouwa's opposite direction - the yamen. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Hearing Liu Gouwa shouting to catch the murderer, Zhang Agou and Zhao Xiaowu, the team leaders who were close to the yamen, reacted quickly and had already sealed the yamen. Huang San, who fled from the road, saw that there was no way out, and there were many officials to round him up, knowing that once he was arrested, he would have no luck, so he couldn't help but be angry, took out the yagger from his waist, waved it at Zhang Agou and Zhao Xiaowu, and shouted: "Get out of the way!" ”

Zhang Agou and Zhao Xiaowu saw Huang San draw his knife, and they both pulled out their yaswords, and when they saw Huang San waving their knives and rushing towards them, they also raised their knives to seal them at the same time, and the three of them fought at the yamen.

Usually looking at Zhang Agou and Zhao Xiaowu and other people in the yamen, they are deferential and obedient to themselves, ordinary people, but at this time, they are under the mountain of the tiger, the sword light Huo Huo, the table tennis and Huang San are fighting, it is difficult to distinguish, Liu Gouwa can't help but feel frightened, secretly wondering: Later generations always said that the ancient officials were as smooth as oil, and the officials were also incompetent people who bullied the soft and feared the hard. It has long been swept into the dust of history.

Just as Liu Gouwa was thinking about his thoughts, Huang San over there was desperate, and he fought for the trapped beast, but he couldn't stand the attacks of Zhang Agou and Zhao Xiaowu in turn, and gradually fell behind. After speaking, he first pulled out his waist knife and rushed towards Huang San.

"Keep people under the knife!" Seeing that Xie Da, the chief catcher, instigated the officials, rushed up and joined the battle group, Liu Gouwa, who was full of consciousness of trial before crime from later generations, couldn't help but shout.

But Huang San, who had already fallen into the wind, was cut to the ground in an instant under Xie Da and others joining the siege, bleeding all over his face, Liu Gouwa saw this, and couldn't help but forget the danger and rushed up, pushing away Xie Da and others who surrounded Huang San, and ordered loudly: "Stop, didn't you hear the words of this official?" All the officials had to stop and retreat.

At this time, Huang San was lying motionless on the ground, his body was covered with knife wounds, and the wounds were dripping with blood, dripping to the ground. Liu Gouwa, who didn't even dare to kill chickens, endured her nose, and stepped forward to probe Huang San's snort in fear, and found that although Huang San's snort was weak, it had not died immediately, so she hurriedly shouted: "Go find a healer!" ”

When Wu Qi heard this, he hurriedly ran out of the yamen and went to the medical hall to find a doctor. Zhou Fuan, the county commander, stood in the hall, looked at Huang San, who was half dead on the ground, and said: "This Huang San killed innocents indiscriminately, the crime is not punishable, and it is not a pity to die, Lord Liu's move is superfluous." ”

In ancient times, once a prisoner was confessed, injured, or sick, the government would no longer pay attention to it, and if he could bear it, he would live, but if he could not bear it, he would die, and if he died, he would die in vain.

At this time, all the poor people in the yatang, seeing that Liu Gouwa had to work hard to save the criminal Huang San who was in danger, all showed incredible expressions, everyone knew that Huang San had determined that the crime was to escape and resist arrest, that is, he was innocent, and Huang San's injuries were so serious, it was a waste of time to save him, and it was a big move.

The laws of antiquity were not as perfect or as humane as those of later generations, so it is no wonder that they thought they were acting strangely and independently. Liu Gouwa also knows that such a case, in the later generations, the judicial procedures are: case filing, evidence collection, trial, conviction, verdict, and execution. A case should have clear facts, pursue the motive of the crime, the process of the crime, and get to the bottom of everything, how can the case be judged as easily as now, although it does not require all ancient officials to be like Bao Qingtian, but it cannot be as incompetent as Zhou Fuan, Liu Gouwa sneered at Zhou Fuan's negligent verdict.

Although Huang San was seriously injured, he was fortunate not to be injured too much, and under the treatment of the city doctors, he picked up a life, but due to excessive blood loss, his face was a little pale, and he was unconscious. He is now the target of key custody in prison, because he was the confidant of Xie Da, the head arrester, but this time it was Xie Da's gang who dealt a heavy blow to him, and he had to make Liu Gouwa suspicious afterwards, suspecting that Xie Da was trying to take advantage of the chaos to kill people and kill people.

After using three cans of alcohol brewed by Liu Gouwa and the doctor using a large amount of trauma medicine, at noon on the third day, Huang San woke up leisurely and said hatefully: "What a ruthless heart!" After seeing Liu Gouwa, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said silently: "I didn't expect that the person I respected the most wanted to kill me, but it was the person I hated the most who saved me." ”

Seeing Huang San's sad appearance, Liu Gouwa comforted him with kind words to take care of his injuries, but Huang San endured the pain on his body and insisted on blaming Sun Xiucai for his murder.

It turned out that Huang San was not surnamed Huang, he was an orphan since he was a child, wandering in Song City, begging for a living, there was a rebellion in the city, a large family was slaughtered and robbed by the rebels, a martial artist surnamed Huang of this large household was seriously injured and dying, and happened to be met by Huang San who was begging in the city, and rescued him, this martial artist felt the grace of Huang San's rescue, so he taught some martial arts and him, this clavicle hand is also a trick passed on by the martial artist, but the martial artist was seriously injured and died, and died not long after, so Huang San did not learn the essence, only learned a plausible, Since then, he has also used Huang's surname and mixed in Songcheng. Because of some martial arts, he soon broke into some fame in the gangsters in Songcheng, made some friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and was also recruited by Xie Da in the yamen to be an official in the county government at that time, and became Xie Da's henchman in the yamen.

Originally, Sun Xiucai accepted the request of Li Zong, the patriarch of the Li clan, to drive Zhang San, Li Si and other lowly students out of the school, but later after Liu Gouwa and the wealthy families in the city reconciled, Zhang San and Li Si were able to continue to stay in the school to study. But Li Zong fought a lawsuit, and under Liu Gouwa's deliberate favoritism, he not only exported a large amount of land, but also lost his prestige, his reputation was discredited, and he formed a feud with Liu Gouwa, so he was angry with Sun Xiucai and looked for an opportunity to take revenge.

After losing the lawsuit, Li Zong found Zhou Fuan, the county magistrate, complained and conspired to take revenge. Zhou Fuan is Li Zong's son-in-law, although Li Zong's daughter is just his own concubine, but Li Zong lost the lawsuit, and he was also disgraced, and Liu Gouwa was aggressive, despised himself, and made himself majestic in the yali, and easily resolved the dirt that he instructed Li Zong and other wealthy families in the city to write books, and he was also extremely angry in his heart. Chen Baihu, the grass on the wall, took the lead in withdrawing the lawsuit, which made him even more angry and angry. Li Zong looked for him to seek revenge, which was exactly what he wanted, so he found Xie Da, the chief catcher, and the three of them conspired together.

Xie Da and Zhou Fuan are the same raccoon dogs, and they both belong to the camp of Shi Weiyi, the deputy envoy of the festival, so Zhou Fuan asked Xie Da to instruct Huang San to kill people and take revenge on Sun Xiucai and Chen Baihu and others. But Huang San was used to his famous trick - clavicle hand, and inadvertently used it when he killed someone, leaving a handle, and was accidentally found by Liu Gouwa at the critical moment of solving the case, so that he had nothing to hide.

However, what Huang San didn't expect the most was that in order to get rid of the crime, Xie Da actually killed people on the spot and ruthlessly killed himself, which made him extremely sad and disappointed, and he was also resentful, and took the initiative to confess the facts of his crime.

When Chen Baihu heard that his only son was murdered by Zhou Fuan, Xie Da, Li Zong and others, he couldn't help but be sad and angry, and shook out another case that made Liu Gouwa excited. That is, after Song Cheng put down the rebellion at the beginning, the county ordered Zhou Fuan to privately resell the official grain and official salt in the official warehouse, Chen Baihu had a few shops in the city, and through Li Zong's relationship, he also bought some official grain and official salt from the county government, and made an account book, and the person in charge of the yamen was also the chief catcher Xie Da.

Liu Gouwa felt that Zhou Fu'an's corruption case was serious, involving all the wealthy households in the city, and the personnel were relatively extensive, so she immediately went to the Zhou Jiedu Embassy to meet Hao Dongqing and explain the situation of the county government.

Chen Baihu set off the corruption case of Zhou Fuan, the county order, shocked the state yamen, and Hao Dongqing did not hesitate to write a letter, ordering Zhou Fuan, Xie Da and others to be suspended pending investigation, and appointed the judge and secretary of the Jiedu envoy to accompany Liu Gouwa to the county government for strict investigation.

At that time, the judge of the Jiedu Embassy was only an adjutant of the Jiedu Envoy, an official who assisted the Jiedu Envoy in handling official affairs, equivalent to the secretary of later generations, and the secretary in charge was the document processing official of the Jiedu Embassy, equivalent to the clerk in the company in later generations, and at this time he was also in charge of the finances of the Jiedu Embassy.

Under the instruction of Hao Dongqing, the secretary in charge took the account books of the state government yamen and went to the county government to reconcile the accounts, not only found out the fact that Zhou Fuan resold the official grain and salt, but also found out that the military grain and salt seized during the suppression of the rebellion were very different from the reported booty. Hao Dongqing, on the grounds of privately hiding military salt and military rations and harboring ill intentions, questioned Shi Weiyi at the yamen of the state capital and found that Shi Weiyi was speechless when he was in Songcheng to quell the rebellion.

During the period of the Five Dynasties, the warlords were in turmoil, and the people in power of each generation closely monitored the generals under their subordinates. Military rations, weapons, military horses, and soldiers, the imperial court has a quantitative limit, and if the excess is exceeded, then your future is worrying. Therefore, in the face of Hao Dongqing's questioning, Shi Weiyi could only shirk his ignorance, and all the seizures during the counterinsurgency were handled by his generals.

Lin Kun is Shi Weiyi's subordinate general, brave in battle, repeatedly made military exploits, when Song Cheng put down the rebellion, his army first captured Song Cheng, made the first contribution, but this time it became the object of strict investigation of the military food and salt case, and it was also Shi Weiyi's car that abandoned the car to protect the commander. As a result of the final strict investigation of the state government yamen, Lin Kun not only lost his official position, but also was raided his home, and was imprisoned with Zhou Fuan, Xie Da, Li Zong and others, waiting for the execution of the state government yamen.