Lu Fei smiled mysteriously, reached out and picked up a few grains of salt in the white porcelain jar, it was coarse salt, so he casually picked up the bowl he had just used for eating, pressed the coarse salt on the table and crushed it into powder, and took one of the candles and rolled it back and forth on the end of the salt a few times. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Old man, come, let's light it" Lu Fei put two candles of the same length and thickness in front of the old man.

The old man was stunned, turned back to the back hall, took the fire fold, and lit both candles.

Both pairs of eyes were staring at the two beating flames, confused, but Lu Fei was full of confidence and waited for the result.

"Guest, who are you?" The old man asked puzzled.

"Old man, don't worry, the result will be clear immediately, the days will be long, then you can save a lot of candle money" Lu Fei was smug, thinking that this time you are not good at asking me for food money, I really responded to that sentence, learn to teach physics and chemistry well, and I am not afraid to go all over the world, no, I will not use it now.

How do you know that the old man was unhappy when he heard this, "What is the future!"

What do you mean by that? When we came in, we saw that you were preoccupied, and your mind was not on business, if it was convenient, you might as well talk to us to see if you could help with ideas, this candle will take a while before it comes to fruition."

The old man is very grateful to this young man who has never looked at each other, whether he says it casually or really wants to help, he is grateful, but this favor can be helped by ordinary people, and the old man sighed again, "It's defenseless to talk about, but you can't do anything about it."

It turns out that this small restaurant is the old man with his eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law in support, the wife died early, the younger son was killed by bandits two years ago, this person is not going well, the old man has not come out of the pain of losing his son, the eldest son was put down to the county jail a month ago, not sentenced or released, so it has been closed, the reason is that it is related to the recent theft cases in the county one after another, this matter is spread ten or ten, people are terrible, and now people on the street know that there are thieves in this hotel, From time to time, the owner came to ask for the stolen things, and gradually no one patronized, and it seemed that it was closing down.

The old man didn't believe this, knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, the old man went to the county government several times to avenge his son's grievances and was driven out by the people in the yamen, saying that everything was until the case was closed, and then he spent money to go to the prison to see his son once, only to know that his son had been covered in bruises, miserable, the son told his father that the night he was arrested was to collect the meal money of a guest during the day, and when he walked to an alley, he rushed out five or six officials at once, and insisted that he was the culprit of the recent series of thefts in the city, he vigorously denied it, and tortured if he couldn't ask, In the end, it was kept locked up like this.

However, when the old man went to the county government yesterday, the people from the yamen told him that the case could not be released before it was settled, maybe this was a gang crime, and these locked up people had to be made to confess to other criminals, or they would pay the bail bank.

With two hundred taels of guaranteed silver, it is impossible for the old man to make up so much silver for a while, so he is thinking about selling the store out.

Lu Fei understands that this is the county Cheng who casually caught a few scapegoats on the street when he couldn't solve the case, and then came to defraud the bank.

Li Shun was a little uncontrollable on the side, and secretly pinched a sweat for the old man, the protection of officials and officials was a common law in the officialdom of the past dynasties, this county and county Cheng are the right and left hands of Lu Zhi County in the future, this hotel old man is not directly aimed at the county Cheng to handle the case unfairly, collect black money, the county is not good at public security, it is just dereliction of duty, but using the case to loot the people's money is to know the law and break the law, according to the law of the Tang Dynasty, the lightest sentence must be sentenced to exile of 3,000 miles, never renewed, Li Shun still can't figure out what Master Lu thinks, However, judging from the way he judged Steward Hu yesterday, this kid's official position can't be cleared.

As soon as the old man finished saying everything, a woman's cry came from the back hall.

Lu Fei pointed to the back hall, "This is?" ”

"Eldest daughter-in-law, maybe I heard what I said just now, I remembered the sad thing, let her go, this child didn't enjoy any happiness after coming to our house, and his life is bitter" The old man also burst into tears at this time, sobbing and swallowing.

By this time a candle on the table had burned out, and a wisp of green smoke had risen and gone out, and the one on the side that had been rolled in the salt was still half there, but it didn't matter anymore.

"Old man, if what you said is true, then I tell you, in the afternoon, you will go to the county government to file a complaint, and someone will give you justice."

The old man stood up in surprise, "Sue? Sue whom? ”

Li Shun was also surprised, he was getting more and more unable to understand Lu Fei's thoughts.

"Sue the county, who else can there be" Lu Fei said very easily.

The old man is sweating profusely, you must know that in the feudal society, the punishment is not the doctor, although the county is a small official, but that is also a Shi, there are more sons to sue their fathers, and the people sue the officials that are all rebellious, even if there is a grievance of the heavens, if you want to sue the official, you have to roll the nail board first and not die before the government accepts this kind of civil lawsuit, and in the end, even if you win, the plaintiff will be punished, this kind of thinking has lasted for thousands of years.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, came from a humble background, understood the suffering of the people, and set up a 'Dengwen Drum' to allow the people to sue the officials, and gave the imperial historians the power to 'hear about the matter'. It is difficult to defeat a person with evidence that catches the wind and shadows, this kind of 'wind and news' is simply nothing, who dares to impeach rashly, the imperial history is still like this, and the people dare not take this risk.

"Sue the officer? The old man's body trembled for a while and he stepped back.

"Yes, as long as you believe that your son has not broken the law, you can rest assured and boldly sue" Lu Fei waved his hand, his sleeves swayed, and extinguished the candle on the table that was still burning and rolled through the salt, "See, can you save a lot"

After saying that, he turned his head and walked out of the store.

Li Shun looked at the background of the master, snorted lightly, and said in his heart: I didn't see it, on the first day of taking office, you dared to open your mouth with this intricately knotted snake, you have courage, I hope you don't bother me.

"Shopkeeper, let's make an account" Li Shun pretended to make a move of paying money in front of the old man.

"Don't, don't, the shop has a treat, you better leave quickly" The old man waved his hand again and again, his face was like earth, whether to sue the official or not, this is a question.

Li Shun took his luggage and quickly followed Lu Fei, "Master, this county is deeply rooted in the county, and many people in the county government have received his favor, you have to offend him, it's not easy to control, not to mention that you are new to the county, and many things also need the help of the county Cheng, isn't it too late to do it when the situation is stable."

Lu Fei stopped and patted Li Shun on the shoulder, "Well, the master is very thoughtful, but I am the master, hahahaha"

Li Shun stayed in the local area in a daze.

Lu Fei was born in a science and engineering class, how could he not understand the truth that this kind of thing is slow and round, but he just wants to take this matter to take out the county, this county can only be decided by one person, since it is necessary to take it early and late, it is better to move early, surprise, catch the county off guard, and not give him a little room to fight back.

Li Shun pointed to the crowded mansion at the door in front of him, "Master, that's the Susong County Ya."

Under the scorching midday sun, the heat is in full swing.

The head at the gate of the county government was squeezed, not a hundred but seventy or eighty, all sweating, but they had no intention of leaving, they all stretched their necks and looked hard into the gate, and a row of officials were holding water and fire sticks to block the crowd out of the gate.

Lu Fei and Li Shun also joined in, and they were squeezing forward, and there was a man with a hat on his head in the crowd who knew Li Shun.

"Yo, isn't this Li Xiucai? Mo Zi (when) came to the house, and he didn't pass the exam this year, right? ”

Li Shun glanced at him, "Go, everything is inferior, only reading is high, medium or not, how can you idle man understand the fun in it, ashamed to argue with you, what are you all looking at here?" ”

The man took off his hat and fanned the wind, grinning, with excitement on his face, "The eldest lord ascended to the court, of course we came to see the punishment."

Lu Fei heard him say this on the side, so he asked, "What case is being tried today?" You are not a county master, how would you know that the case is going to be punished? ”

The man smiled, "Come from a foreign country, look at you from other places, in this month, the eldest lord will not be punished on any day, according to me, it will be lively to kill a few."

Lu Fei was a little unhappy, there was a lot of displeasure in his heart, for hundreds of years, the mentality of the common people has always been the same, "the psychology of the spectators, look at the excitement is not a big deal"

Pouting their butts, shaking their shoulders, and squeezing for a long time, the two finally squeezed into the front row.

"Squeeze Mo Si (squeeze what), squeeze another stick (beat) you to death" The errand officer blocking the door was also a local, and when he saw Lu Fei and Li Shun squeezing in one by one, he shouted loudly and pushed the water and fire sticks.

Li Shun had already regarded himself as a figure with a head and a face in the county, and seeing that the errand officer was so rude that he actually blocked the new county magistrate from the county yamen, a kind of behavior of protecting the lord and inviting merit spontaneously arose, stretched out two fingers, knocked on the water and fire stick in the hand of the errand in front of him, half-squinted, and said without a smile, "Don't say that I didn't remind you, you have a big deal, do you know which one is stopping you?" ”

Several messengers listened to it clearly, and they looked at each other, with an incredible expression, thinking that these officers relied on their official bodies on weekdays, and they also earned enough face in the county town, how could they have suffered such a number of falls, and they couldn't help but get angry, and stared at Li Shun together.

The officer closest to Li Shun poked the water and fire stick to the ground, glared at a pair of big quail eggs, crooked his mouth and gritted his teeth and said, "Be dead."

Lu Fei didn't want to reveal his identity now, he wanted to see how this county man decided the case, whether it was the kind of trick and robbery that the old man in the hotel said, and by the way, he also learned about the facts of this case and the weaknesses of this county Cheng, so as to prescribe the right medicine, so he hurriedly bowed to the officer, put his hands on the chest of the big-eyed officer, pointed to his temples again, and smiled insincerely, "Brother Guancha, don't be like him, he, this, has a bad brain,"

At this time, only the sound of the crash of wooden blocks came from the hall of the county government, and several errand officers who were about to move immediately stood still like door gods.

Lu Fei looked in, and saw that in the main hall, a man who was about forty a year, lean, and had a small beard between his chin was sitting in the lobby, with his back to the picture of "Rising Sun", and the plaque of "Honest .....and Honest" on his head.

Several bookkeeper-looking people set up a few small tables on one side of the main hall, and they were holding brushes, ready to record the details of the trial in the hall one by one.

The person sitting in the main hall was the county magistrate of Susong County, Wang Zhongren, the acting governor of the county, Wang Xiancheng, and Wu Zishi, the famous master of the criminal family, stood behind him.

Wang Zhongren was shocked again, "Come on, continue to try the theft case in the city today, and bring the suspect Hu Damao to the court."

Wang Zhongren opened his mouth, and the handful of goat whiskers on his chin shook up and down like an old chicken pecking rice.

"Bringing people to commit ......"

After a relay of sounds, a man in a white prison robe with blood stains was pushed by two officials from the west side of the yamen into the lobby.

As soon as Hu Damao walked into the main hall, he was kneeling on the ground by the shoulders of the two officials behind him.

Wang Zhongren was shocked again, and his mouth was full of officialdom, "What is the surname of the person kneeling, where does he live, and what kind of livelihood does he do?"

Hu Damao seems to have had an experience of passing through the hall, repeating mechanically, "Hu Damao, who lives on West Street, has run a tavern with his father in recent years."

A 'pop' sound sounded.

"Even if you have a main business, why do you want to do the thing of roosters and dogs" Wang Xiancheng has been so preconceived and intimidated every time he passed through the court, and this method is also a common method used by the adjudicators.

Hu Damao hurriedly fell to the ground, kowtowed again and again, with a crying voice, "Master, the grass people are wronged, the grass people said when they passed the hall the day before yesterday, the grass people just went to the four kings in the west of the city to collect the accounts that day, and they were sent to the officials and big brothers to come here. ”

Wang Zhongren touched the goat's beard, and his face was proud, "Take Wang Si!"

Not long after, Wang Si was taken to the lobby, full of honest appearance, and only knelt down next to Hu Damao, "Cao Min Wang Si has seen the master"

Wang Zhongren pointed at Hu Damao, "Wang Si, do you know this person?" ”

Wang Si glanced at his face sideways, and nodded again and again, "Back to the master, I recognize him, he is Hu Damao from the Hu family wine shop in the west of the city."

Wang Zhongren continued, "Well, this official will ask you again, when the seventh palm lamp was held at the beginning of last month, did Hu Damao go to your house?"

Wang Si nodded again and said with great certainty, "Yes, I have been." ”