Wang Zhongren didn't open his mouth this time, and Wu Zishi, the criminal master behind him, stood up from behind the county Cheng, shook his head and said, "Wang Si, there is no room for half a lie in the court, and covering up is also going to be a lawsuit, why do you remember the incident of last month so clearly, just now I answered without thinking about it, and said, are you lying?" Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Si was frightened, and trembled, "Big... The big man, the villain, what he said is the truth, the sixth day of the first month of last month was the day when my brother and daughter-in-law passed the door, the villain ordered a few tables of meals in the Hu family wine shop, used as a banquet, and only paid some fixed money at that time, and made an appointment to come to the door to pick it up the next day, so the villain remembered it so clearly, where did the villain dare to tell lies in the court"

"That's good" Wu Zishi, the famous master of the sentence, circled around the two people standing on the ground, "How much money did you give Hu Damao that night?"

Wang Si still opened his mouth and came, "It's a total of five taels and seven dollars"

At this time, Wang Zhongren's eyes lit up, and he slapped the shocking wood casually, 'pop', "Bring it, present the physical evidence"

A servant held a tray with a gray palm-sized cloth bag stacked on the tray, and Wang Zhongren motioned for the servant to bring it to Hu Damao.

"Hu Damao, is this your thing?" Wang Zhongren asked.

The official bent down, Hu Damao glanced at the contents of the plate, and said, "Yes, this is the grass people's money bag"

The servant turned around and put the tray on the desk, then untied the rope on the mouth of the bag, and poured out the contents one by one, and the tray was full of broken silver, as well as dozens of copper coins, and a ring, the servant counted and then said to the county Cheng, "Master, there are a total of eighteen taels of broken silver, thirty-seven copper coins, and a ring inlaid with jade and gold."

Wang Zhongren touched his beard and asked, "Hu Damao, these things are your belongings?" ”

Hu Da Maomu nodded, "Lord Hui, yes"

'Pop' sounded.

"Okay, you thief, now that the physical evidence is in front of you, what else do you have to say, the official has already sent someone to inquire about your family, you brought these thirty-seven copper coins with you before you went out that day, the official has found out that the gold ring and the extra silver are exactly the same as the things stolen by the Li family that night, and the facts of how to do it are not summoned one by one."

Hu Damao panicked, waved his hand again and again, "My lord, no, no, it's not stealing, it's really not stealing, that night, when the grass people left Wang Si's house, they walked to the corner of the street, and saw a black shadow tumbling down from the courtyard wall of the Li family opposite the grass people, and the grass people shouted softly, the man didn't speak, and ran away like a gust of wind, and later, I found that there were these things on the ground, maybe the person dropped them, I didn't think much about it at the time, I got the money in vain, and when I went home, I suddenly rushed out of a group of officials and arrested the villain."

"Is there a witness?" Wang Zhongren picked up the teacup and took a sip slowly.

Hu Damao thought for a while and shook his head slowly, "It was the beginning of the hour (9-11 o'clock in the evening), and there was no one on the street."

'Bang' sounded.

"Okay, you big hair, you dare to talk in the court, say, how did you sneak into the Li family and steal"

When Lu Fei heard this, he frowned, secretly thinking that this bastard county Cheng trial case was also orderly, and there was nothing out of line, Hu Damao was indeed suspected of committing a crime, although the things he picked up could not be punished, but if he couldn't hold the real criminal, he couldn't get rid of the suspicion, it seemed that he was still in a hurry, this county Cheng was not as bastard as he imagined.

Hu Damao in the hall was still pleading again and again, insisting that those were picked up, but he came up with no evidence.

Wu Zishi, the famous master of the criminal family, leaned down and said to Wang Zhongren, "Master, to deal with this kind of tricky thief, you must be punished."

Wang Zhongren was already impatient, so he took out a chip from the lottery holder and threw it down the hall, "Come on, torture, beat him with thirty boards first, and see if he can open his mouth."

Several officials rushed up, pressed Hu Damao to the ground, and pulled off his pants, revealing his red and swollen buttocks with rod wounds.

As soon as the crackling board went down, Hu Damao's buttocks, which had been hit by the board, were already blood-red, the skin was open, and Hu Damao screamed like a pig.

Li Shun stabbed Lu Fei lightly, meaning that he wanted to stop it.

Lu Fei ignored him, he thought that no matter whether this Hu Damao committed a crime or not, this board was not wronged, and he had to know that ill-gotten gains were not so easy to take, and this county town would have to be untouched and closed at night under the leadership of his new magistrate in the future.

But the next scene surprised Lu Fei a lot, Hu Damao in the hall had been knocked unconscious, lying there motionless, at this time Wang Zhongren glanced at the master Wu Zishi, the master understood, took down a confession that had been written long ago from the desk, and walked towards Hu Damao, and immediately a group of officials surrounded him, wrapping Wu Zishi and Hu Damao inside, Lu Fei changed his position, wanting to see what they were doing, but the officials were tightly wrapped, and he didn't see anything clearly.

As the saying goes, good things don't carry people, and there is no good thing to carry people, so there must be something greasy in this.

After a while, the officials stood on both sides again, and the master Wu Zishi handed the confession in his hand to Wang Xiancheng.

Wang Xiancheng was shocked, "Okay, the prisoner Hu Damao confessed to the facts of his crime, and now he is now in custody in court, and the official is now sentenced as follows, Hu Damao will be imprisoned for one year, fined 50 taels of silver, and retired from the court."

At this moment, a voice came from the yamen, "Wait, my lord has closed the case like this?" ”

Several theft cases in the county were originally a trivial matter, in fact, there was no need for the county to come forward to try it in person, and it was already considered to care about the people's suffering when it was handed over to a local security officer, but this case was more special, in two months, nearly 30 burglaries occurred in the southeast and northwest cities, which caused a great panic in the small county, and everyone was in danger for a while, and everyone was uneasy.

Wang Zhongren of the county felt a lot of pressure at this time, and he couldn't keep it up one day when this matter would reach the ears of the prefect, and the performance appraisal of the officials in the coming year would only add a touch of bad performance to himself, and the seat of Songzhi County was empty for some days, and he was counting on being able to mix a seven-grade main hall logically, so he had to go out in person, put down the county's civil affairs, taxation, and a series of his own work, and personally try the theft case.

The wolf travels thousands of miles to eat meat, the dog walks the world by eating, this county Cheng is the master who reaches out in the coffin to die and asks for money, and he doesn't forget to take a handful of anything, which is bitter for these county people who have been wronged in vain, who have a history of theft, and who stay on the street in the middle of the night, and the officials who are caught to deal with errands, dozens of people are locked up before and after, and the county government prison is almost unable to let go, who wants to clear the suspicion then they have to pay the insurance bank, this time the county has a lot of silver input, and the prison officials are also happy to score a little firefly small profit, Catch and release, before and after two months.

It seems that today's Wang County Cheng feels that he has almost fished out, and the fine water can flow for a long time, and if he is in charge of the county government in the future, he will not worry about the silver not coming to his bowl, so he found a scapegoat to close the case, and peace of mind.

At this time, Wang Xiancheng was about to leave the hall and go home to count the silver taels, when he heard someone shouting at the door of the yamen, he looked outside, and said loudly in an official tone, "Who is making noise outside?" ”

Lu Fei shook his neck and pulled out his palms at the two officials who were blocking him, "Hehe, buddy, borrowed, your county master called me"

The two officials were looking at each other, Li Shun had already reached out to separate the two officials, and said disdainfully, "Stay out of the way, do you hear, stand like a pile, master, please"

Lu Fei walked towards the lobby step by step, and saw a couplet carved on the columns on both sides of the lobby door, so he pretended to be an ancient person reading and shook his head and read it, "Eat the people's food, wear the people's clothes, the people can be bullied, and they are also the people; It is not honorable to gain an official, and it is not disgraceful to lose an official, don't say that an official is useless, and the place depends on an official."

As soon as he finished reading, Li Shun hurriedly came over, pointed to the pillar on the left, and reminded softly, "Master, you read it backwards, it's from this side."

Lu Fei saw the joke, his mind turned, and he quickly found himself under the steps, "Master, I know, I deliberately read it like this, isn't what this county is doing is the opposite of this couplet?"

Li Shun gave a thumbs up, "The old man is wise, and he can satirize this unhealthy trend by casually reciting the couplet, admire, admire"

Wang Zhongren saw that the people who came were calm and relaxed, leisurely, and entered the public hall as if he was in his own backyard, which was too much to take this Tang Tang County Master seriously, and raised his hand to slap the shocking wood, and shouted, "Where did the Diao people come from, dare to rush into the court"

Lu Fei had already come to the hall, and it was really a bit shocking to listen to the sound of the wood at close range, so he stretched out his ring finger and plucked his ears unhurriedly, and casually bounced the crumbs out of the hall with his hands, and blew lightly on his fingers, and when everything was cleaned up, the county master was already blue-faced and fanged, and his face was full of anger.

The two rows of officials were stunned for a while, not knowing which song was being sung, one would look at Wang Xiancheng, and the other would look at Lu Fei, at a loss.

Wang Xiancheng was about to slap the shocking wood again, Lu Fei hurriedly walked over and pressed his hand, and said with a grin, "Don't, this thing is quite capable of bluffing, don't get rid of you, I still have to use it in the future."

Wang Xiancheng was already furious at this time, so angry that the goatee turned straight to his face, he shook off Lu Fei's hand, and said in a trembling voice, "It's the opposite, it's the opposite, it's coming, it's coming, these two Diao people who disturbed the court will be immediately imprisoned and locked up."

The officials came back to their senses after being yelled at by the county officer, shouted, rolled up their sleeves and raised their arms towards Lu Fei and Li Shun.

Where had Li Shun seen such a formation, he was so frightened that he shrank his neck and went under the desk, and the two officials had already held Lu Fei with his hands behind his back.

"Dude, tap and tap, which school did you graduate from, do you know what the following is?" Lu Fei bowed and shouted with his head down.

Li Shun was also pulled out of the desk by the two servants at this time, and he had already received a few blows on his body, and he was squeaking and screaming.

"Escort away, escort away" Wang Xiancheng waved his hand, and the good interest of closing the case and planning to weigh the silver was all disrupted by these two people.

Lu Fei took advantage of the fact that the two officials were not paying attention, struggled hard, broke free, stretched out his hand to the two officials to catch the figure of them rushing over again, and turned back to Wang Xiancheng and said, "Slow down, Lord Wang, you just ended the case just now?" ”

Wang Xiancheng was angry, and he was shocked, "This county Cheng decided the case, how can you allow you, the Diao people, to rap here and take them away quickly"

Lu Fei shook the clothes that had been torn by the officials, and stared at the few officials who were about to step forward again.

Several officials were really frightened by him, and if they dared to talk back to the county lord, they must not be ordinary people.

"Lord Wang, you are such a great official, but your ability to handle cases is the opposite of your official authority" Lu Fei walked towards Li Shun and pushed away the two officials who were holding Li Shun one by one.

Wang Xian Chengzheng wanted to attack again, and Wu Zishi, the famous criminal master on the side, hurriedly leaned over and whispered in his ear, "My lord, this kid is not disrespectful, the person who comes is not good, he may have a bit of a background, for the sake of caution, it is better to listen to what he says first."

Wang Zhongren's eyes rolled a few times, pinched his goatee, and after thinking for a while, he waved his hand to the officials in the hall, "You guys retreat for the time being."

In the blink of an eye, Wang Xiancheng had changed his appearance, and he was no longer domineering when he spoke, he looked at Lu Fei and said, "The people under the hall are Hu Damao's family?" ”

Lu Fei shook his head, "It's not."

Wang Xiancheng asked again: "Could it be that you are the bitter master of the theft?" ”

Lu Fei shook his head again, "It's not."

Wang Xiancheng frowned, "Could it be that you are a lawyer?" ”

Lu Fei didn't understand what this 'lawyer' was for a while, Li Shun leaned down and said, "It's the person who fights lawsuits for others."

"No, I said my lord, it doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is that this case can't be judged like this" Lu Fei walked back and forth in the lobby.

Wang Xiancheng and Master Wu Zishi glanced at each other, both wondering who this person was.

Wu Zishi is still a little more sophisticated, and said with a little respect, "This son looks dignified, but he has a basis for speaking, Hu Damaogou was arrested by the officials on the spot at that time, and dirty things were also found from him, and he has been detained in court, and he pleaded guilty to the law, why can't the case be closed"

Lu Fei laughed and kicked Hu Damao, who was still fainting to death on the ground, with his foot, "Everyone is like this, can he still draw a charge?" I'm afraid that the confession obtained by torture is unfair."

Wang Xiancheng was furious when he heard this, glared angrily, and pointed at Lu Fei, "You ......"

Wu Zishi hurriedly stretched out his hand and held down Wang Xiancheng, "My lord, don't worry"

Wu Zishi picked up Hu Damao's confession on the desk, "This son, the human and material evidence are all here, do you have to come up with evidence if you want to overturn the case?"

Lu Fei was not in a hurry, reached out and took down the kettle hanging under Li Shun's armpit, drank it all, cleared his throat, and looked around, "Evidence, where is the evidence used, whether Hu Damao is guilty or not will be discussed later, but there are still a few details in this case, Lord Cheng did not say clearly"

"Tell me about it," Wang Xiancheng smiled contemptuously.

"First, according to the judgment of the adult, this Hu Damao is the culprit, as far as I know, in the past two months, there have been more than 30 similar cases in the county, of which only one stolen dirt appeared on him, why didn't the adult ask where the other stolen dirt were hidden; Second, since this Hu Damao is a criminal, how to explain the theft that occurred in the city after he was imprisoned, and whether he still has accomplices, this adult did not ask; Third ......"

Without waiting for Lu Fei to finish speaking, Wang Xiancheng stood up suddenly, "The case has been decided, what do you want?" ”

"Re---- trial!" Lu Fei did not show weakness.