"Did you hear about it, Young Master Li is here!"

"Who is Young Master Li?"

"It is Governor Li who killed Jiannu in Liaodong this year and fled. Eight?? One? Chinese???.? 8?1(a)Z?(8). (1) C(1) O(1) M"

"It turned out to be Governor Li, and he came to us?"

"Well, one of those two young Confucian scholars is Young Master Li, and the other is Scholar Zhao from Youchunfang."

……

When the yamen's servants and servants opened the coffin for an autopsy, the people at the scene already knew the news of Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin's coming, and they were buzzing with each other.

This made the atmosphere gradually become warmer, and people's faces gradually appeared excited and excited, and they subconsciously rushed forward, all wanting to see the demeanor of the young master of the Ming Dynasty, and the messengers who were panicked to maintain order on the scene tried desperately to prevent any chaos.

Originally, the people still didn't believe the rumors of Li Hongyu's appearance, but the scene of Zhang Shan and Lu Xiaoming bowing to Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin was deeply impressed, and they naturally believed that Li Hongyu came.

Now, Li Hongyu, who was born as a champion and twice turned the tide outside the customs and defeated Jiannu, has become an out-and-out hero in the hearts of the people, so everyone wants to take the opportunity to see what Li Hongyu looks like.

Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were invited by Zhang Shan and Lu Xiaoming to the simple pergola that was erected, and then Lu Xiaoming introduced the case to the three in an orderly manner.

"Four people died in a row in just a few days, this case is really strange!"

After Lu Xiaoming finished telling the case, Li Hongyu's brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and then said to Lu Xiaoming in a deep voice, "Governor Lu, what are you doing?" ”

"Young master, when the lower official was investigating the case, the second son of the Chen family was misbehaving on weekdays, and he bullied men and women." Lu Xiaoming bowed to Li Hongyu when he heard this, and replied.

"Bullying men and women?" Li Hongyu's brows furrowed even deeper, looked at Lu Xiaoming and said, "In this way, is it possible that Zhang Laohan said that he was molesting his daughter-in-law?" ”

"Yes!" Lu Xiaoming bowed again and replied solemnly.

"If this matter is true, then this second son of the Chen family deserves to die, and he actually killed four people in a row for his own selfish desires."

Li Hongyu's face sank when he heard this, and then asked in a deep voice, "Who tried the case that day?" ”

"Young Master Hui, it is Liu Zhixian of this county, he is still in office, and he is waiting outside."

Lu Xiaoming glanced at the officials standing outside the pergola and replied in a loud voice, the officialdom is very hierarchical, and those low-ranking officials are not qualified to enter the pergola at all, and they are all waiting outside.

"Call him here and ask if there is any evidence for the second child of the Zhang family to fornicate with the water bandits?" Li Hongyu frowned when he heard this.

"Call Liu Zhixian in." Lu Xiaoming then shouted in a deep voice to the messenger standing at the door.

"The lower officials see the young master, the scholar, the lord of the Tai, and the prefect."

Soon, a slightly chubby seven-rank official bowed into the pergola and saluted Li Hongyu and the four of them in turn, looking a little scared, after all, Lu Xiaoming turned over the case he had concluded.

"Liu Zhixian, this official asked you, is there any evidence for the second child of the Zhang family to fornicate with water bandits?" Lu Xiaoming looked at Liu Zhixian expressionlessly and asked.

"Lord Prefect, the lower official received a report at that time that he was secretly colluding with the bandits, so he was taken to the prison for interrogation." Hearing this, cold sweat suddenly oozed from his forehead, and he bowed cautiously and replied.

"Is there any evidence or physical evidence?" Lu Xiaoming glanced at Li Hongyu when he heard this, and saw that Li Hongyu didn't say anything, so he asked quietly.

"Back to the prefect, there are two witnesses, and they saw the second child of the Zhang family colluding with the water bandits." Liu Zhixian nodded immediately when he heard this, and said busily.

"Come on, bring those two witnesses!"

Lu Xiaoming couldn't help but sneer, and ordered in a loud voice, secretly feeling sorry for Liu Zhixian in his heart, did he think that Li Hongyu and Zhao Xin were so easy to fool?

Liu Zhixian has not been in the capital, so he naturally doesn't know how powerful Li Hongyu is, since Li Hongyu has now intervened in Zhang Laohan's case, then he must be going to get the whole thing to light, if Liu Zhifu can now correct his mentality and admit that he neglected his duties in the case, he may be able to escape, otherwise he will definitely be implicated.

Zhang Shan's face also became cold, and his eyes were full of pity when he looked at Liu Zhixian, who was wiping the cold sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand with a panicked expression, Li Hongyu could easily take down a political envoy, not to mention that he was a small Qipin Zhixian County, and he really didn't have long eyes.

Because Lu Xiaoming was going to try the case at the grave, he brought all the people involved in the case over, and after a while, two young men with thieves and brains were brought in, with a heavy ruffian aura on their bodies, looking a little flowing, like gangsters in the market.

"I've seen the big man." The two young men knew that the people sitting in the pergola were all high-ranking officials, and even the county magistrate could only stand at the door, so they knelt down and saluted in a proper manner after entering.

"This official asks you, have you two witnessed the second child of the Zhang family fornicating with water bandits?" Lu Xiaoming also saw the two for the first time, and he could see at a glance that the two were not good people, so he asked quietly.

"Back to the prefect, the villain and the two witnessed the second child of the Zhang family and the water bandits." The two young men hurriedly replied that now that the matter was so big, even if they wanted to, they would not have a chance to change their words.

"Coming and going?" Lu Xiaoming immediately grasped the speech sickness in the words of the two young people, and asked coldly, "What does this mean, is it collusion with each other or some contact?" ”

"Collusion with each other is collusion with each other!" The two young men hurriedly opened their mouths to explain, and cold sweat flowed down their cheeks due to nervousness.

"What did the second child of the Zhang family do to the water bandits?" Lu Xiaoming sneered and looked at the two young men, as far as he knew, the second child of the Zhang family was an apprentice in a tailor's shop, and he had a promising future, how could he collude with the water bandits?

"This ......"

The two young men were suddenly dumbfounded, and after glancing at each other, one of the round-faced young men explained to Lu Xiaoming with a nervous expression, "Lord Prefect, the villain just saw the second child of the Zhang family conspiring with the water bandits, because the second child of the Zhang family hid it very well, so the villain didn't know what evil deeds he had?" ”

"Conspiracy?"

The corners of Lu Xiaoming's mouth suddenly flashed with a look of disdain, and he looked at the round-faced young man with a cold expression and asked, "Tell this official, since they are plotting, how do you know?" Are you also complicit? ”

Li Hongyu shook his head helplessly when he heard this, a lie often has to be covered up by a lie, but then there may be ten flaws, these two young people are finished now, the more they lie, the more difficult it is to justify themselves.

The reason why these two young people were at a loss was naturally related to Lu Xiaoming, who controlled the relevant important witnesses from the time he planned to overturn the case for Zhang Laohan, making it impossible for them to collude with each other, so it was difficult to round the scene when facing interrogation.

In fact, even if those witnesses collude to confess, it is nothing, the fake is false after all, and it can't stand scrutiny at all, and the reason why the yamen accepted the testimony of those witnesses before was naturally that Master Chen bribed the officials in the yamen, as long as Lu Xiaoming became serious, then it was naturally full of flaws.

"This ...... This ......"

The round-faced young man was suddenly stunned by Lu Xiaoming's words, but he didn't expect his previous unintentional words to wrap himself in, and then wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and explained with a smile, "Lord Hui, it's the villain who sees that the second child of the Zhang family is sneaking around with the water bandits, so he guesses that they are plotting." ”

"Guess?" Lu Xiaoming's face sank, and he stretched out his hand and pointed at the round-faced young man and said, "In this way, you don't have real evidence, according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, this is a false accusation, and you have to sit back." Now that the second child of the Zhang family is dead, you two are waiting to pay for your lives! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the autopsy results are in." At this moment, a clerk walked into the pergola quickly, followed by two servants, bowed to Li Hongyu and the others and said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the villain's inspection, the bones of the boss of the Zhang family are broken in many places, if he does not fall from a height, then it can only be caused by serious beatings."

Subsequently, a servant who was over fifty years old bowed to Li Hongyu and the others and said the results of the autopsy loudly.

"Is it possible that it was caused after death?" Lu Xiaoming frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked quietly.

"Back to the prefect, once a person dies, the blood will no longer flow, according to the blood color of the broken bones, the boss of the Zhang family is a broken bone before death, and has a very serious external injury!" Hearing this, he bowed to Lu Xiaoming and replied.

"Young master, scholar, and lord Zhentai, this is the most experienced servant in Jiujiang Mansion, and the lower officials think that the boss of the Zhang family did not die violently, but died of injuries." Lu Xiaoming pondered for a while, bowed to Li Hongyu, Zhao Xin, and Zhang Shan.

"In that case, how did the county government at that time perform an autopsy?"

Li Hongyu frowned slightly when he heard this, looked at Liu Zhixian, who was standing on the side with a pale face, and asked coldly, "The boss of the Zhang family was so seriously injured at that time, didn't Liu Zhixian see it at that time?" ”

"The young master forgives the sin, the subordinate official deserves 10,000 deaths, and the crimes deserve 10,000 deaths!" When Liu Zhixian heard this, he was suddenly struck by lightning, he couldn't explain the results of the autopsy at all, and he knelt down as soon as his legs were weak, and kowtowed to Li Hongyu with a frightened expression.

"Pull it down!"

Li Hongyu's eyes suddenly flashed with a look of disgust, and he waved his hand at the errand officer on the side, and Liu Zhixian, who was begging for mercy, was dragged down.

This made the officials standing outside couldn't help but shudder, especially those who had received benefits in the case, and their faces turned pale with fright, trembling, because Li Hongyu was personally in charge of this case, so once they received the benefits of the Chen family, then no one would be able to save them.

"Do you two have anything to say?" Waiting for Liu Zhixian to be dragged out, Lu Xiaoming glanced at Li Hongyu and asked in a deep voice to the two young men who were kneeling there with bloodless faces.

"Back to ...... Back to the prefect, little ...... The villain is willing to recruit, yes...... It was the people of the Chen family who instructed the villain to frame the second child of the Zhang family, and the villain was afraid of the momentum of the Chen family, so he had to do it. ”

The two young men looked at each other in amazement, and then kowtowed to Lu Xiaoming in unison, and stammered, even Liu Zhixian has fallen, let alone the two of them, so the best choice now is to confess truthfully, so as not to suffer from flesh and skin.

"Alas!" When Zhang Shan heard this, he suddenly sighed in his heart, the Chen family was in a catastrophe this time, and he couldn't help but feel a little distressed about the true painting of Wang Xizhi, what a pity!

(End of chapter)