Gui Wu's senior brother Zhong Yousheng is now promoted to the warden of the household, and he wants to be called "Master Zhong" by ordinary officials, but now Gui Wu is here for the lawsuit, so he has to find the warden of the torture room first.

After a while, the official of the torture room who had received the case came in a hurry, but he was a faceless.

Gui Wu lives in Xiji Town, so he naturally knows the increase and decrease of personnel in the county government. The original prison warden was a greedy man, and a few days ago he was exposed to ask for bribes and removed from his post, and now this prison warden is a confidant brought by the new county to fill the appointment.

"Master Zheng!" Gui Wushi was very polite and bowed down.

Zheng Dianzhi was gentle, looked at Gui Chongyang next to him, and saw that he had all beards and tails, Fang secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Others don't know, but he knows that this one is the junior brother of the "nobleman", and he is ordered by the "nobleman" to take care of him.

is the position of his own proprietor, the commander of Sanhe County, and it can't be said that it also comes from this little brother.

Otherwise, as the younger brother of the Zhang family, the military can enter the Jinyi Guard, and the civil service also has six departments in the capital, where can I come to Sanhe to make a small county order?

When I heard that the second young master had made up the order of Zhili County, Zheng Dianguan was still puzzled, and he didn't know the reason until the "nobleman" fell last month.

However, the young man's face was sallow, and he didn't look energetic, and the "fear" written on this form was probably true.

It is really "poor mountains and bad waters out of the people", Zheng Dianzhi already has a bias in his heart, and he feels that the defendants in that state, "Mei Qingshu and the Feng couple", are hateful.

When Zheng Dian's official politely welcomed Gui's fifth uncle and nephew in, Menzi looked at the silver in his hand and felt hot. Even the county master's henchmen gave Gui Wu face, and he wouldn't offend people if he accepted this, right?

When Gui Wu and Gui Chongyang sat in the side hall of the second hall, Zhang Liang also got the news, but his steps were hurried and his face was ugly.

This time it was just an "attempted burglary", and he didn't do it in person, but if he really started to do it and hurt Gui Chongyang, what face would he have to explain to his cousin?

My cousin studied with Mr. Gui when he was a teenager, and the two of them did not have the name of teacher and student, but they were teachers and students. For Gui Chongyang, the little junior brother, my cousin is also very careful, otherwise he would not have transferred Wen Jue to Beijing as an official, and he would not have arranged himself to Sanhe County.

It's only been a month of work, and there has been such a big mistake.

"What did Du Zhong eat? Last time, he was obedient, just thinking that he was an understanding person, and he actually let others bully you, he wouldn't mean it, right? Zhang Liang knew that Gui Wu was Gui Chongyang's cousin, nodded and counted as having seen it, and saw that Gui Chongyang's face was not good, and he was much haggard compared to the last time, so he immediately said angrily.

Gui Chongyang smiled bitterly: "The Mei family and the Gui family are each other's in-laws, and no one would have thought that the Mei family would be like this." Speaking of this, I have to accompany Brother Zhang, in order to be afraid that the people in the village will fight that idea again, the younger brother has to scare Brother Zhang under the banner of one or two. It's not that I'm afraid that Fang Zi will leak out, but I'm worried that someone will be obsessed with the idea of beating my younger brother's books because of that Fang Zi...... After all, those are the suicide notes of the late father, and there are many codex notes from the late father who did his studies, if there is a mistake, the younger brother will not be able to hold the blame for his death! ”

When tensor heard this, he immediately became solemn.

Mr. Gui Yuangui is an immortal talent, and his cousin will take him as a teacher. There are also two copies of the codex notes he left behind from his cousin, both of which are regarded as treasures by his cousin. Gui Chongyang is his only son, and it is reasonable to leave a legacy. These things are not to be missed.

There is an old saying among the people, "The eight-character yamen opens to the south, and there is no reason to come in without money", which means that if the people go to court, don't think about spending money. This "spending money" does not mean bribery, but the throwing of fees in the middle of a normal lawsuit.

As long as it is the expenses of the government interrogating the case and prison, the complainant must share it all, including the errand fee, the manuscript fee of the secretary, the tea and wine expenses of the errand, etc., and at the same time, the yamen here must be dotted to the magistrate of the county, the torture room, etc.

Although the Gui family is directly connected to the magistrate, they can't ignore the rules in the yamen, otherwise who can do their best.

Therefore, when Zhang Liang took Gui Wu's letter and ordered someone to go to Mujia Village to detain Mei Qingshu and his wife immediately, Gui Wu had to come out and do a little bit in front of the fast catch on a business trip.

Gui Wu knew the interest, he was familiar with him for the head of the first iron catcher, and he was personally ordered by the county magistrate, so he naturally became more and more dedicated, and regarded the common theft cases in the village as a major case, and he didn't care about eating lunch, so he ordered six catches and rode to Mujia Village.

Not to mention that Zhang Liang was not worried about Gui Chongyang's body, and asked him about taking medicinal prescriptions, he said that Tie Zhutou and his party galloped on seven fast horses, and in less than half an hour, they arrived at Mujia Village.

Because it is a winter leisure time, the villagers are all at home.

These few catchers are fast into the village, and they have to make a lot of noise.

When a few arresters came to Mei's house to detain Mei Qingshu and his wife, there was already a large circle of people outside the gate of Mei's house.

Mei Qingshu and the Feng family are both small people, where did they go through such a battle? The rope was added, and the fierce god behind him was like a vicious god, Mei Qingshu's face was like earth, and Feng Shi was directly frightened and incontinent, his body was soft into noodles, and he was forcibly dragged out.

Mei Ping and his wife seemed to be more than ten years old, and they came out behind the official errand, pitiful, but they didn't dare to stop the official errand from dragging people.

Even the onlookers were silent at this time, and they didn't dare to say half a cool word.

Others can watch from the wall, Du Li Zheng and Mei An are one in the same village, and the other is the head of the Mei clan, so they can't ignore it.

Du Li was frightened in his heart, took two silver ingots, quietly stuffed them to the iron catcher, and asked a cadre to wait until his house to eat tea.

The iron catcher helped people to the end, and he had the intention to help the Gui family establish his authority in Mujia Village, so he would not arrest people back in a daze, so he collected Du Lizheng's "tea fee" and said: "Look at you, you are an understand, why are you still so confused?" They didn't know how to educate the villagers, so that such lawless murderers were rampant! ”

Du Li is listening more and more confused, this Mei Qingshu is a "murderer"? Where did this come about? One is a woman who is afraid of the nest, and the other is a woman in the name of stinginess, and these two people still give birth to bear-hearted leopards?

It's Mei An and Mei Ping, the two old brothers, who are dumbfounded.

However, the other villagers have always been afraid of the government, and even the officials and the old man said that these two people were "murderers", so they were naturally murderers, and everyone invariably took a step back.

Tie Zhutou continued: "Gui Xun handed over the complaint at the county office, suing Mei Qingshu and the Feng family for breaking into the house to seek money and murder, and the county master personally spoke, ordering me to arrest the murderer and bring the murderer to the case!" ”

Who Gui Xun is, the people in the village naturally don't know, that is Gui Wu, who has often been mentioned in the past few months.

Murder!?

Human life is greater than the sky, and all the villagers looked at Mei Qingshu and his wife with horror.

Ordinary cases are hilarious, this involves a life lawsuit, everyone is only afraid, I really didn't expect Mei Qingshu and his wife to have such courage. Those who are so timid can't think about the places where they can offend these two people on weekdays.

Mei An was on crutches so that she did not fall.

The ignorant are fearless, and the more they know, the more they are naturally afraid.

remembered what Mei said yesterday, that the black hair recipe was begged by Gui Chongyang from the nobles in the county, and the leakage was afraid of causing disaster to the Mei family, and the old man regretted it.

Why was it reluctant to come yesterday, didn't you spend more time with Gui Chongyang? Gui Wu is not a good-tempered person, so naturally he won't watch his nephew be wronged in vain, and now this is not coming out? There is also the county magistrate, who was peeped at by a small citizen, how can he not be annoyed?

Feng Shi was scared half to death, but after listening to the sentence of the iron catcher, he was born with great courage, and he couldn't help but want to open his mouth to cry out for injustice. Isn't this a bloody spewing of people? She is worried about the Gui family's recipe, but when did she break into the house to make money and kill herself?

The husband and wife were tied together, Mei Qingshu found out about his wife's struggle, and when he turned around and saw that she was about to speak, he was almost frightened, and immediately pinched Feng's hand.

Feng almost screamed, but he also understood. He can "cry out for injustice", but the Gui family has evidence, this "burglary" is true, do you want to bite out your son?

At this moment, Feng bit his lip vigorously, and he really regretted it.

The crowd of catchers roared and roared away, breaking the peace of Mujia Village.

*

In the village ancestral hall, Du Li was sitting on a high seat, looking at Mei An and Mei Ping brothers very badly. He didn't want to see the official, but there was a lawsuit involving human life in the village, and when the court was opened, he would have to be summoned for questioning.

The faces of the three village elders, Mrs. Gui, Mrs. Li, and Mrs. Yang, were not good-looking.

Old lady Gui coughed lightly and said, "This Gui Xun is too domineering, they are all villagers, why bother to come to this point!" In the end, the merchant grew up and was less educated! ”

Old lady Gui said this in her mouth, but she was secretly happy in her heart.

Gui Wu acted so sparingly, it is estimated that it will arouse the public anger of the villagers.

The days of "Xigui" are better, and the days of "Donggui" are sad, and some of the children and grandchildren who share the land of "Xigui" block the family from offending that side, and "Donggui" can only swallow his anger.

Mrs. Li snorted coldly: "I haven't heard that bad people in this world can have bad intentions and do ring things, and good people can only bear it?" ”

Is Old Lady Gui a fool to be someone else?

The Yang family died by himself, and "Donggui" still wanted to fan the flames and pull the other family into the water, so he was not afraid of burning on his own head?

Mrs. Yang also nodded and said: "Although I bathed in the emperor's grace this year and was exempted from two taxes, when I saw that I was about to send labor, it would be bad if the county lord harmed Mujia Village because of the matter of Mei Qingshu and his family!" ”

People's hearts are like this, if it is not about oneself, it will be really painful.

Even if she had the heart to watch the lively old lady Gui, she could only sigh at this moment.

Labor is light and heavy, depending on how the yamen is assigned, the light is just to stay up for a time and go through a process; If you dredge rivers and canals, build bridges and roads, this cold winter can really kill people.

Seeing that Mei An and Mei Ping were still silent, Du Li said impatiently: "What the hell is going on?" You have to make it clear? What did those two fools do to anger Gui Wu, and even 'murder for money' came out? Entering the room? There are four people in the Gui family's house, and three surnamed Mei, is this a 'collusion between inside and outside'? Are you really crazy? "In the end, I couldn't help but shoot the case, and I was afraid.

Since Gui Chongyang returned to Mujia Village, the Du family has gone to memorize the words, to say that the village wants to clean up Gui Chongyang the most, it is no one else, it is Du Lizheng. But who would have thought that he was planning to do it, Gui Chongyang actually jumped out of the backer, the new county magistrate in the county was on the surface, and the "Senior Brother Xu" who was regarded as the guest of honor that day was the main master.

Du Lizheng is not an ordinary villager, because of this surname "Xu", he also guesses the identity of "Senior Brother Xu". Behind that noble man are two national mansions, and Senior Brother Xu's bearing is there, most of them are the younger brothers of the family, and they are the characters that Du Li is avoiding.

Du Lizheng's words reminded Mei Ping, Mei Ping's eyes were neutral, and he was busy saying: "Yes, yes!" The three of them are surnamed Mei in the Gui family's house, so I'm going to ask Shun Niang, I'm going to ask Shun Niang! No matter how angry those two bastards are, they are also Xiaoba's pro-uncle and aunt, they can't be like this! After that, he was about to go out, but he was stopped by Mei An.

"Confused! Are you asking Shun Niang to pick up Xiaoba for the second time? Mei An said angrily: "There is a virtuous woman in the family, and the husband will not suffer misfortune!" It's all picked up by this bad woman of the Feng family, this time if you dare to steal, it's good to take a lesson, otherwise you will really dare to use the knife next time!