Because the county lieutenant judges the six Cao, the county lieutenant also has his own special office, referred to as the county lieutenant's office.

The county governor's office, like the Liucao room, is located in the lobby courtyard of the county office.

However, different from the six cao rooms on the left and right of the hall, the location of the county magistrate's office is on the right side of the trial hall, and there is only a wall between it and the lobby.

The lobby, also known as the public court, is usually where the county magistrate will ascend to the court to hear and decide cases. As for the second hall behind the lobby, it is also the place where the county order office, but it is mainly the place where the county order and the county officials, county lieutenants and other officials discuss the county governance, and it is also the place where the county order receives the county gentry, the township chief of each township and village, and the old village of the township.

After the second hall is the inner house of the county order, and these ordinary people who are neither the officials of the county order nor the relatives and friends of the county order are not allowed to enter.

Dusk, County Governor's Office.

Cui Geng spent an afternoon and finally read the roster of all the current and temporary personnel of the county government, including the third class of government officials, post stations, work rooms, prisons, granaries, warehouses, and county schools. I really don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it. The small Qingyuan County Government is quite bloated. From the county magistrates, county officials, to Cao officials, government officials, jailers, and temporary helpers, the number of people who received salaries in the county government was no less than 100.

Of course, Cui Geng also found out about the fact that the airspace of the fictitious roster sounded. However, he had just taken office, and he had just established his authority through Cangcao He Jingkui, and the water in the empty sound was too deep, so he didn't know if the county order Hu Zeyi was involved, so he also put it aside for the time being and didn't delve into it for the time being. This kind of thankless task, he will not do it for the time being.

After getting familiar with the roster, Cui Geng sat in the county lieutenant's office and stretched his waist, and when he saw that it was getting late, he was ready to leave for home.

Suddenly, Shi Cao Yaodu knocked on the door gently, holding a letter in each hand and waving it, shouting with a little excitement: "Yes, yes, Lord County Lieutenant, the handwriting is right." This anonymous letter is from Fang Ming's hand! ”

Cui Geng took the anonymous letter in his hand and Fang Ming's usual letters, and compared them carefully, although he was not an expert in handwriting, he could still compare the handwriting of the two letters with a real eight-point similarity. One by one, some subtle writing habits still can't be changed.

He raised the anonymous letter and asked, "Then did he admit it?" ”

Yao Du's face suddenly collapsed, and he shook his head and said: "No, Fang Ming, this dead duck has a hard mouth, and he refused to confess, and he cried and shouted that we wronged him." ”

Cui Geng frowned and said, "Yao Shicao, you have been in the county government for a long time and have experience......

"My lord, I know what you're trying to say."

Yao Du still shook his head and sighed: "Although these two letters are compared by handwriting, we can conclude that they are from Fang Ming's hand. However, the anonymous letter does not have any money he has signed, and the second is not his drawing, so it cannot be used as evidence in court. In this case, he can be overturned unless he admits it himself. Because there are more than one or two people in this world who have similar handwriting? My lord, I have a suggestion for my lordship......"

Speaking of this, Yao Du's eyes were fierce, and he leaned over and whispered: "Directly put this guy in the southern prison and punish him." This kind of scholar embryo with fine skin and tender flesh is estimated to take the initiative to confess without major punishment. When the time comes, he will directly ask him to sign and draw a pledge, admitting that the anonymous letter was written by him. In that case......"

The southern prison in Yao Du's mouth is the county government prison, because it is located in the south of the county government complex, close to the southwest of the Yimen of the county government hall, so it is also called the south prison.

After listening to Yao Du's suggestion, Cui Geng's first reaction was to shake his head again and again, and said, "This kind of thing is not worth extorting confessions by torture." Even if he confesses temporarily, but when he goes to court, he retracts his confession, and even bites me back, what should I do? In the end, it will do more harm than good! ”

I just took office, and my ass didn't sit in a hot position or sit firmly, so I couldn't do such a trivial thing, and I was caught by Song Wen and Hu Zeyi with pigtails.

Therefore, to extort confessions by torture, Cui Geng thinks that it is the next step.

Seeing this, Yao Du laughed awkwardly and said, "That's right, I neglected to think about it, and I actually came up with this bad idea, which almost caused trouble for adults." I hope you will forgive me! ”

Cui Geng didn't care, although Yao Du said that it was a bad idea, but this guy just stood in line and came over to be tempted by himself, at least the starting point is still good, and he still has a certain loyalty.

As a person who has approached him since the first day of his tenure, Yao Du's weight in the county government is still quite sufficient. At least it is not comparable to Qin Liangyou, Song Genhai and the like.

For this kind of person, Cui Geng consciously not only has to be good at entrapment, but also good at it.

Immediately, he patted Yao Du's shoulder with a smile and said, "Yao Shicao doesn't need to be presumptuous. In the future, the official will still have a lot of places to rely on you. ”

Yao Du waved his hand for a while when he heard this, and he didn't even dare to say it.

He has no tricks now, he offended Song Wen, and he wants to continue to keep Cao Yan's position in the county government, who else can he talk to if he doesn't hold Cui Geng's thigh?

At this time, Cui Geng asked again: "Where is Fang Ming now?" ”

Yao Du said: "Still in the fast room, Song Zhutou is personally guarding it. ”

Cui Gengyi raised his leg and beckoned, "Let's go, go and have a look." ”

The fast room is also in the lobby courtyard, and it is the first big room on the left hand of the county government gate. It is in the same hall as the county governor's office, less than fifty steps away.

Suddenly, as soon as Cui Geng entered the fast room, he saw Song Genhai sitting cross-legged on the couch, squinting and napping, looking lazy.

When Cui Geng saw it, he scolded secretly, the nature of the country is easy to change, and it is difficult to move, so he still catches his head, what a fucking urine!

Looking at Fang Ming again, at this time, his hands were tied to the iron chain, and he was sitting on the ground unable to move, and there were two catchers standing around him, one of whom was shaking a swarthy iron ruler, and bluffed loudly: "Do you want to move?" Admit it or not? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu picked your skin tonight and threw it into Mulan Creek to feed the fish? ”

Another catcher shouted at the top of his voice: "You continue to be hard-mouthed!" Lao Tzu will send you to the southern prison tonight, and let you taste the taste of torture! ”

“……”

Cui Geng was embarrassed for a while, damn, typical violent law enforcement!

It seems that the law enforcement team of the Qingyuan County Ya is imperative to rectify the style and discipline, and the overall quality needs to be improved!

"Ahem......" Yao Du glanced at Song Genhai, who was still dozing off, with great disdain, and then coughed twice, and there was a thunder on the ground: "The county lieutenant has arrived!" ”

Swish~

Song Genhai opened his eyes for the first time, pulled his legs and climbed down from the couch, rubbed his eyes, ran to Cui Geng, and snorted: "Ah, the county lieutenant Cui is here, and it is too late to greet him, and he still wants to ......."

"Exempt from it~"

Cui Geng waved his hand impatiently, rushed at the back of the ground above the Ming, snorted his mouth, and said, "How is it?" ”

Where did Song Genhai know what was going on, he was patronizing Zhou Gong just now. Then he glared at the other two catchers and asked loudly, "Are they all deaf?" The county lieutenant Cui asked the prisoner if he confessed, wow? ”

The two catchers squeaked for a while, obviously, there was no gain!

At this time, Fang Ming was still facing away from Cui Geng, and his shoulders didn't even shrug a little, let alone turn his head to look back at Cui Geng.

It seems that this grandson is determined not to admit the anonymous letter!

Cui Geng was silent for a moment, waved at Song Genhai and Yao Du, and motioned for them to go out.

After Yao Du gently closed the door of the fishing room, he looked at Fang Ming, who was facing away from him, and said softly: "Hehe, the world is impermanent, Fang Ming." I'm afraid you couldn't have imagined that we would meet this way, right? ”

Fang Ming was silent and did not respond.

Cui Geng said again: "On that day, you and Mei Ji were cheap. When people took advantage of my danger and usurped my Cui family's business, did they think about today? ”

Fang Ming still didn't move.

Seeing this, Cui Geng walked around in front of him, leaned down to look at Fang Ming, and smiled inexplicably: "Do you think that if you don't open your mouth and don't speak, I won't be able to cure you?" Hehe, if Mei Ji knew that the person who wrote an anonymous letter to Song Genhai that day and reported her for working with Xue Songnian and others in Xiantan Village to make fake wine was none other than her concubine who shared the same bed. What do you think will happen to her? Hehe, Mei Ji and they are not guilty of a capital crime, it is estimated that after a while, they will be fined some silver taels, and the Putian County Ya will release them! When she returns to Qingyuan, with her relationship with Song Wen, hehe, I guess your good days will come to an end, right? ”

At this time, although Fang Ming's was still silent, Cui Geng could clearly find that this guy's shoulders were trembling, and he was obviously a little scared.

"Hehe, don't say that Mei Ji won't let you go when the time comes, even the accomplices Xue Songnian and Peng Tai, I'm afraid they won't let you live in peace."

Speaking of this, Cui Geng pretended to be surprised and patted his forehead, and suddenly realized: "Yes, there is also Lin Sanlang who is far away in Quanzhou Mansion, their Lin family is a wealthy family in Quanzhou, rich and powerful, and there is also a record who joins the army as a brother-in-law." If you let him know, the person who wrote the anonymous letter slandering him for pretending to be a relative of an official and deceiving him was none other than his trusted partner. Guess with the heart of such a gentleman, if you take revenge, what will you do? Not... Let me guess... Spend some money and hire some green skins or traitors on the streets, and cut off one of your arms, or unload one of your legs? ”

Ooh!

Fang Ming raised his head suddenly, his face turned pale, his eyes burst into flames staring at Cui Geng, and he gritted his teeth and asked, "The surname is Cui, what do you want to do?" ”

However, Cui Geng ignored him and continued to take care of himself and said: "Hehe, Mei Ji Song Wen, Xue Songnian and others can make you have no place in Qingyuan, but Lin Sanlang can make you have no place in the entire Qingyuan County, and even take half of your life." Hmm, you must also know that your good days are numbered, so you are in a hurry to sell the property that originally belonged to our Cui family at a low price, right? And then fly away with the cash? Tsk, I'm afraid that since Xue Songnian took the lead in making fake wine, you started to prepare this plan, right? No wonder, on the day that Xiantan Village delivered the fake wine, you lied that you had an upset stomach and asked Mei Ji to come for you! Hey? I remember—"

Cui Geng pretended to be shocked again, and said: "From this point of view, the reason why Miss Cao can know that someone is making fake wine in Xiantan Village is probably because you deliberately leaked secrets, right?" Tsk, the purpose is to tell me the news through her mouth. For the sake of the last double insurance, I am worried that if Song Genhai's anonymous letter does not work, I, as the bitter owner of counterfeit wine, will definitely report to the official, right?

Your plan is indeed very thorough, but if you are careless, you still missed the calculation that I can find someone from the Putian County Government to help me, right? Or did I miss Song Genhai because of the mistake of arresting Lin Sanlang in an anonymous letter, and I was made the county lieutenant of Qingyuan by mistake, right? Because the county lieutenant incident disrupted your deployment, you could have sold the property slowly, but you were afraid that I would retaliate against you as the county lieutenant, so you could only sell it at a cheap price in a hurry. Right?

On the one hand, I am worried that Mei Ji and the others will retaliate against you after they are released, and on the other hand, I am worried that I, the county lieutenant of Qingyuan, will find a way to get back the property that should belong to me, so you are now sitting on pins and needles every day. Yes and no? ”

Fang Ming saw that his carefully arranged plan was plucked off by Cui Geng layer by layer, his face became more and more ugly, and he asked again: "Cui Erlang, ...... you?"

"Don't worry, I'm not done yet!"

Cui Geng knew at this time that he had broken through Fang Ming's psychological defense, but he was not in a hurry to open his mouth, but aggressively: "Fang Ming, Fang Ming, you are shameless and skinless, but I appreciate you more - ruthless!" You said that you were originally a woman who lived in a broken household, not to mention a warm bed, and you didn't even have a place to live. But in order to be with you, Maggie not only conspired to usurp our family's property, but also recorded it all in your name! What else are you not satisfied with? Why do you want to play a trick on her? I'm curious about this, hurry up, now you can talk! ”

"Because this is too strong! This mean woman!! ”

On the ground, Fang Ming roared hysterically, and roared with red eyes: "Although this nominally records the property in my name, she has to nod her head and be the master of everything, and I can't be the master at all!" Also, this actually carried me behind her back, behind me, and secretly made peace with Song Wen. Do you know what the subordinates in the Fang Mansion say about me behind my back? I can't raise my head, my dignified seven-foot man, I was actually beaten by this woman-"

"You're green again?"

Cui Geng was stunned for an instant, and subconsciously asked, "Rub, are you cuckold again?" Uh......"

At this time, Cui Geng could finally understand why Fang Ming wanted to set up a trap for Mei Ji, and then swept away the industry they occupied and flew away.

In this world, it's nothing for a woman to be strong, it's a big deal to be a happy man who eats soft rice.

But this cuckold......

It's crazy, which man can stand it? And it was green by a bad old man who put half his foot in the coffin!

Immediately, he looked at Fang Ming very sympathetically, nodded and said, "Hmm, this kind of thing is really unbearable!" And she has to call Song Wen a father-in-law, these two goods are together, isn't it dust? It's too bad, this kind of woman should be immersed in the pig cage and drowned her! ”

As he spoke, he found that he was inexplicably angry with Fang Ming, which was a bit off-topic......

However, after figuring out the ins and outs, he suddenly found that Fang Mingcheng's refusal to admit the anonymous letter had become unimportant.

He felt that he should strike while the iron was hot, and it was time to take back the property that should have belonged to him from Fang Ming!

"Fang Ming, do you know the seriousness of writing an anonymous letter and lying about the truth? It's the wife and brother who joined the army! The reputation of the county government has been greatly affected, you know? Although there is no conclusive evidence that you wrote it, the handwriting is suspicious, so you are still suspicious. I'm going to hold you for a while. Of course, the official will still send additional personnel to continue to investigate outside! You're the first case since you took office, so you can't be wronged, can you? ”

Fang Ming: "......"

Cui Geng: "Hmm, how long will it take to detain you?" Why don't you wait for Mei Ji to come back, let her find Song Wen to come forward as a guarantee and come to the county Yanan Prison to bail you out? ”

Fang Ming's face changed abruptly, and he shouted: "Don't! ”

Cui Geng: "Don't worry, with Mei Ji's ability, even if you don't move Song Wen, please don't move Lin Saburo to bail you?" These people are all heads and faces, as long as they are the guarantor, this official absolutely believes that you Fang Ming is not a suspect. ”

Jingling, Fang Ming kept twisting the iron chain tied to his body, and said hurriedly: "No, no, no!" ”

Damn, he kind of understood, the surname Cui is going to kill himself!

Seeing this, Cui Geng smirked and said, "Then let's talk about another thing, okay?" Hehe, you said that you have lived in my ancestral house for so long, so what, do you know ......"

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