It was nearly noon, and the errand clerk in the yazhong was about to pick up and prepare to go on an errand, when he heard the noisy sound from outside the county office, he immediately became curious.

Chen Zhixian, who was a pro-people official, was carefully looking at the newspaper delivered by the post guard, and when he heard the noise outside, he called the disciple to ask what was going on outside the ya.

"If you go back to the master, someone outside has been robbed of his fur fur and shouted to the county office!" The man came back and reported it.

The public opinion is not big, but there will always be some disputes every day in the hundreds of thousands of people under his rule, although the magistrate is a pro-people official, he can't bow down in person, and waved his hand and said: "Small cases such as theft and robbery can be handled by the torture room!" ”

The man hurriedly said: "The torture room Xu Yan doesn't dare to be specialized, and the little one is ordered to report to the adult!" ”

Chen Zhixian's face was angry: "How can the torture room be so useless, and you can't even handle a small robbery case!" ”

"Back to the old man, this mink Qiu was implicated in the robbery, so Xu Yanmu in the torture room didn't dare to call the shots!" The man looked at Chen Zhixian's face and said cautiously.

"Whoa!" Chen Zhixian was surprised, immediately felt that there was a difference, straightened his clothes, and ordered someone to bring the plaintiff and the defendant to the lobby for a personal trial.

When he came to the county hall, the blind man's two hands were still holding Lotte's arm, and he still kept shouting for justice.

Lotte didn't say a word, looked at the blind man with a sneer in his eyes, and let the blind man shout.

"No noise in the court!" Chen Zhixian made an official prestige, slapped the shocking wood, and immediately bluffed the blind man into silence.

Seeing that the blind man was no longer shouting, Chen Zhixian shouted again: "Who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant?" ”

"Master, you have to make the decision for the blind man!" The blind man changed to a hand to grab Lotte, pounced on the ground, and cried and shouted the complaint: "Xiaomin's name is Shi San, originally a Shanxi clan, who made a living by trafficking silk from the south and returning to his hometown. As he spoke, the blind man pulled Lotte with his hand, and then cried: "Unexpectedly, this person saw the villain's mink qiu and became greedy, and conspired with others to snatch the blind man's mink qiu." In broad daylight, Xiaomin is now nowhere to go, please call the shots of Lord Qingtian! ”

Lotte on the side just sneered and didn't speak.

Chen Zhixian heard this, just raised his eyebrows, Lotte begged the master to intercede with himself, to undertake the errand of building Futian Yuan and the Salesian Bureau, this matter has been agreed in his heart, as long as Lotte is running well, it is not a problem to earn more than 100 times, why conspire with others to rob what mink Qiu, and besides, Lotte is also considered to have some reputation in Pingyu, why bother to do this stupid thing of self-inflicted reputation, and thought about it, and guessed a few points in his heart.

Don't say that Chen Zhixian doesn't believe it, even the scribe in the yazhong doesn't believe it. A well-informed ordinary clerk already knew that Lotte wanted to undertake the project, and immediately smelled something unusual from this case.

Chen Zhixian, who had a plan in his heart, said to Shi San, a blind man who was the plaintiff: "Shi San, you said that the defendant and they robbed your mink fur, do you have any witnesses?" ”

The blind man Shi San cried and complained: "Master, the little people have eye diseases and are no different from the blind, how can they find a witness? ”

Sighing, Chen Zhixian looked up and saw a crowd of onlookers outside the county office, and said: "Shi San is suffering from eye disease, and he is a foreigner, can someone testify for this Shi San and severely punish the thief?" ”

"Parents, master, villain is willing to testify for this Shi San!"

"The villain is willing too!"

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As soon as Chen Zhixian's words fell, three people walked from the onlookers to the county hall.

Lotte glanced at the three witnesses, and immediately felt a little imprint in his heart, these three so-called witnesses were all ordinary idlers, and none of them were serious.

I saw that the first person who walked up to the county hall saluted Chen Zhixian, stretched out his hand to Lotte and said: "The villain saw with his own eyes, it was this person who played a two-immortal preaching with his accomplices and deceived this blind man's mink Qiu!" ”

The man's voice fell, and the other two echoed him.

Chen Zhixian nodded and looked at Lotte: "The witness is here, does the defendant have anything to say?" ”

Lotte shook his hand vigorously to get rid of the blind man, and said, "Lord Yu, Xiaomin also has a complaint to sue!" ”

Hearing this, all the onlookers were shocked, now that the plaintiff and witnesses are there, Lotte is already in a predicament, why would he make a counter-accusation.

Chen Zhixian smiled in his heart, knowing that Lotte had a lot of ghost ideas, and he was curious about how Lotte would get out of the predicament this time, and asked, "What do you have to sue?" ”

Sneered and looked at the blind man Shi San and the three so-called witnesses, Lotte shook off the blind man's arm and said: "Master, I want to sue this blind man for conspiring with these three people to make false accusations and defraud two crimes!" ”

"Let's go into detail!" Chen Zhixian is happy to see the Lotte performance.

When he went out and met this blind man selling mink fur, and being robbed, Lotte told about it before and after, and then Lotte stretched out his hand and pointed at the blind man Shi San: "This blind man Shi Sanyan said that he lived in Shanxi, and he was a merchant who went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to sell silk. Second, how did this blind man come to the street without help? ”

"Three!" When Lotte said this, he looked directly at the idler who was the first to testify, and smiled coldly: "This person framed the villain and others to conspire to rob the blind Shi San's mink Qiu, and actually said this trick of fraud to be the two immortals to preach, if it is not a veteran of the rivers and lakes, how can he know the name of the trick of the rivers and lakes, so the villain can conclude that these three people must be the accomplices of the blind Shi San, and make perjury to frame the villain of fraud!" ”

Chen Zhixian slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Shi San, the three of you listen well, Lotte is now accusing you of two crimes of fraud and false accusation, can you plead guilty?" ”

What the? The blind Shi Sanyi couldn't react a little, this Lotte just said two words, and he became the defendant, Rao this Shi San was an old man who walked the rivers and lakes, and he stayed there for a while.

Seeing the blind Shi San standing there, Chen Zhixian shouted: "Shi San, if you have nothing to say, then you will admit it!" ”

"Master, this villain bites back!" The blind man Shi Sanzi is not a fool, he immediately fell on the ground and cried and shouted tears and shouted that he was wronged, knowing that he could never admit it, and then played the sympathy card and cried to the people watching outside the county hall and cried: "The villain is a blind man who is poor and sick and has no way out, and his business is ruined, how can he encounter such a disaster today, God is unfair......

You turtle, do you think it's useful to play the emotional card, the blackest thing in the world is not only the hearts of the people, but also the official office that opens to the south. Lotte sneered in his heart, and then said to Chen Zhixian: "Master, this blind man Shi San's fraud and false accusation of villains must be strictly investigated, first put in a prison cell in the Yazhong, and then carefully inquire about his origin, otherwise if he is allowed to leave today, more people will be deceived and blackmailed by him in the future!" ”

Chen Zhixian nodded: "There is some truth in what you said!" ”

"The grass people are resentful...... "Not only the blind man Shi San, but also the three idlers shouted one after another. The blind man Shi San shouted again: "Xiaomin has traveled the world in business, but he has never seen a black and white master like Pingyu County, and the small people will go to the state capital to sue for this grievance today!" ”

Hearing this, Lotte secretly laughed in his heart that the turtle is the turtle, this blind man Shi San will only play some scoundrels to deceive ordinary people, and he has no experience in going to the government.

Chen Zhixian's face changed when he heard this: "It is extremely hateful to boldly deceive the people and deceive my public opinion, and to slander my local parents without concealment!" As he spoke, Chen Zhixian ordered: "Serve with this history of thirty or forty boards!" ”

The left and right cha Ling also secretly laughed in his heart that this Shi San was stupid, you can falsely accuse Lotte but you can't offend the county lord, this opening is offended, and you will inevitably suffer a lot of flesh and skin. Immediately, several soap officials pressed the blind Shi San to the ground like a wolf and a tiger, and beat him up.

Forty real boards, only the blind Shi San's ass bloomed and cried, and even the three people who testified falsely were also frightened and silent.

After the fight, the blind man Shi San lay on the ground and hummed non-stop.

With a sneer in his mouth, Chen Zhixian asked again: "This official asks you, Diao Min, do you still admit your guilt?" ”

The blind Shi San didn't dare to let go of his rebellious words anymore, so he had to shout: "Master, the grass people have wronged ......."

"Still refusing to admit his guilt!" Chen Zhixian snorted coldly and ordered left and right: "Get on the stick, this official doesn't believe you, a madman, and refuses to confess!" ”

The officials who looked at the lively officials left and right heard this, and looked at Shi San's eyes full of mockery, and at the same time, they were also amazed in their hearts that the eldest man was kind to Lotte, and the defendant became the plaintiff.

Hearing the old man's words, a few soaps in the hall took the clamp stick and clamped it to the ankle of Na Shisan's leg, only to hear Shen San screaming and fainting.

Seeing Shi Sanluo's end, the idler, one of the three so-called "witnesses", was frightened, and shouted loudly on the ground: "Big master, the little one is willing to recruit!" ”

Seeing this, the other two also pounced on the ground and spoke at the same time: "The villain is willing to tell the truth together, and I just ask the master to punish him lightly!" ”

These three people are just helpers that the blind Shi San spent money to find, but he didn't expect the government to be so unreasonable The plaintiff became a defendant, and seeing that Shi San was tortured, he knew that if he was tortured by the board, the money Shi San gave was not enough to pay for the medical expenses, so it was better to confess truthfully.

Hearing the confessions of the three people, Lotte sneered, his face became more and more solemn, thinking that this matter was by no means as simple as he imagined, with his popularity in this county, all ordinary people would never attack him, especially these three local idlers.

Chen Zhixian heard the confessions of the three and ordered: "Wake up that Shi San!" ”

After seeing Shen San wake up, Chen Zhixian said: "Diao Min Shi San, your three accomplices have already confessed, what else do you have to say?" ”

Shi San, who had been beaten by the board and the clamping stick, became honest this time, and shouted weakly on the ground: "The little one knows that he is wrong, he shouldn't be the fraud of the fly camp and the dog to make a living, to frame this master!" ”

"Big Master!" Lotte took a step forward and said: "Although this person has confessed, but his accomplices have not been arrested, the person who escaped by luck must not use the mink fur to deceive others again, the eldest lord for my Pingyu Li Min's parents enjoy a reputation in our county, the villain dared to ask the eldest master to arrest the accomplice, since the treacherous and treacherous, for the benefit of my people!" ”

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