"It was dusk, and the man was trying to rob me of my coins, and I didn't recognize my face during the scuffle." The peasant woman was also inexplicable, and the deacons of the Liberal Rehabilitation Society who were holding the remnants of the code around them were also speechless, if the witnesses really couldn't distinguish them, then they really couldn't figure it out, because this farmer and the lumberjack were about the same size, and in front of the city gate, they didn't even see the guards and soldiers with torches clearly, let alone the victims who were extremely panicked at that time.

"I was buying iron-clad for farm tools at the market, and then I saw this thief robbing the aunt's money, so I chased after him." The farmer said, and took out the iron-clad parts of the package as proof.

At this moment, Anna, who was listening behind the curtain, asked, "There should have been a sound of collision at that time with so much iron-cladbed." ”

As a result, the peasant woman showed a frightened look on her face at this time, "I remembered that the person who robbed me of my money also seemed to be carrying a sackcloth backpack, which was the sound of iron tools colliding with each other. ”

There was an uproar, the peasants' faces turned red, and many of the lumberjacks who were watching shouted and cursed, begging the purple-clothed princess behind the curtain to judge justice, or they would abandon the Confession and the Brotherhood of Garganus and go to the monastery on the hill to apply for a divine sentence.

Unbelievable, this is related to the judicial dignity of the military government, and it is impossible to interrogate clearly, Anna muttered, and then turned to ask the lumberjack, "What were you doing when the case happened?" ”

"I have just cut down some mature tree trunks and branches from the sacred woodland, cut them into firewood, and sent them to the market to sell." The lumberjack replied that Anna bowed her head, praised his honesty, and ordered that the lumberjack's backpack be unwound as well. ”

The lumberjacks were mostly poor people with no property, and their guilds were dependent on the military junta. They make a living in woodlands and swamps, so they are also the most supportive of the junta.

The deacons stepped forward and took a look at it, and found that the courtyard was full of lumberjacks' tools and instruments, and naturally all of them were covered with iron. The farmer's relatives and neighbors who were watching also shouted, saying that since this was the case, the testimony of the victim peasant woman could not be used as the basis for the verdict.

Now, as if there was another stalemate, Anna twisted her body and began to think in her chair, while Goethehilde smiled and watched, and did not speak.

After about half a minute, Anna sat up straight behind the curtain. So the people in the courtyard fell silent again, waiting for the opinion of the purple-clothed princess and the director of the Department of Agriculture.

"It was twilight, and it was difficult to determine the memories of the witnesses. However, please tell me, how far is the city gate from the market? Anna asked.

After the two guards of the city gate came forward and knelt down to salute, they said that it was not too far, about a hundred feet away. So in such a short period of time, they did not see clearly who was the thief and who was the person who helped catch the thief.

"Then you go for another run. Carry all the bags with iron. Anna said in a languid and playful tone, and many immediately expressed their incomprehension, what is it to judge cases without being based on the law and without divine judgment?

But the order of the princess in purple could not be disobeyed. Even though she was completely foolish, the guards and the deacon of the Liberal Rites sent them to the place where the market tax office was located, which was directly opposite the city gate.

And Anna and Goethehilde. Then he climbed to the floor of the tax office of the municipal department, "Gawain asked me to instruct you, if you live in the future, you must choose a high height to avoid moisture, and you must make a closed curtain with light yarn to resist mosquitoes when you sleep, so that this terrible disease will not easily happen again." ”

"These are not difficult things for me and Baldwin's wealth, but when this curtain is woven, will I give you and Gawain a top?" Goldchild quipped, and Anna blushed, who of course knew that she and Gawain were

"Blow it up." In order to avoid embarrassment, Anna changed the subject, and waved her hand to the servants beside her who were holding brass trumpets, and several servants stretched out their colorful trumpets out of the terrace, whining and whining,

The two "suspects" were carrying their bags and running with all their might, like hounds and rabbits running in the ridges, Anna laughed when she saw it, and the people below also surrounded her, not knowing what the princess in purple was doing.

After a while, the guards at the end of the city gate twisted the two back, and when Anna heard the report, she announced to the onlookers below, "The farmer is the real murderer." ”

Many villagers in the suburbs immediately shouted, and some even shouted that the military government and the princess in purple were deliberately biased in favor of the logging guild, and the whole scene became chaotic.

Anna was angry when she heard this, "For the sake of justice, let these two run two more times, whichever is the third time." ”

Then, the guards brought back the two men who had continued to play twice, and the result was indeed the same, and Anna reiterated aloud, "The farmer is the real murderer." It was only a hundred feet away from the city gate, and the weight of the two men was about the same. At that time, the thieves tried to run with all their might, and the lumberjacks chased with all their might, but the thieves were chased and beaten without even running out of the city gates, indicating that he was not good at running. Now I'm adjudicating the case, and the thief is trying to clear his name, and the lumberjack has to prove his honor with all his might, and he runs to the best of his ability—and the farmer loses all three races, which is enough to prove that he is the thief, and there is no reason for him to chase the lumberjack, who will be caught by such a man a hundred feet away. ”

Goethechild laughed and shook his head, then applauded, then suddenly the guards, the deacons of the Reformed Church, and the lumberjacks, and then the villagers and townspeople were all subservient, and the farmer could only bow his head and confess: he had helped the village buy farm tools and iron, but when he saw that the peasant woman had sold a lot of shiny copper coins, he thought that his farming situation was not good, and he had a bad idea.

"God will forgive you, if you think that the fields in your village commune are not good, you can apply for some fields to cultivate in the Shengfeng Real Estate as a benefit farmer, and the harvest can be distributed to you, and if you want to exchange money, the municipal department will also help you buy it." Anna was relieved, and then issued an order, "But this year's application is not your share, and you must still do fifteen days of free labor during the harvest of the sacred estate, as a punishment for your behavior." ”

"Wise princess in purple!" The onlookers and villagers shouted, and Anna, with a slight smirk, walked down the stairs with Goethheard holding arms.

"You're proud of the spring breeze now."

"Don't say that, for the sake of your sick sister, this winter and the spring of the next year, I will go to Fort Mogibuld to live, which is bordered by a huge mountain range, with clean streams and healthy woods, which is of great benefit to your body, and I will accompany you." Anna extended a warm invitation, but several messengers, sweating profusely in the hall of the building, brought the news:

His Majesty's military horses are heading towards Tarsus.

"Did Father really come and ask for the city? It's really lively now. Anna froze, standing on the fifth step of the staircase, and said. (To be continued.) )