Who can expect a gang of thieves to have faith? Under Miki, several tomb robbers quickly confessed that someone had hired them to do it.

"Who?"

"Him." The grave robbers pointed to one of their gang and said, "He brought us here, and he pointed out that the grave was about to leave, but he didn't want to be caught by you." ”

Everyone's eyes brushed at the guy with a dead face, Hai Rui's sharp eyes remembered his surname, and after a while, he sneered: "You got up with Xu Wuyi yesterday!" ”

The man was frightened and said, "No, I'm watching the fun!" I finished listening yesterday, and I knew that the coffin was going to be opened for an autopsy today, and I couldn't help but be curious, so I wanted to see in advance, what was inside? ”

"Is that what he said?" Hai Rui's eyes turned to a few tomb robbers, and said coldly: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, anyone who excavates the grave and opens the coffin to see the corpse will be hanged; Whoever does not reach the coffin shall be given a hundred rods and three years' imprisonment. But if you do not tell the truth, the judge will settle your old accounts; If you recruit from the truth, you can still be lightly dismissed, and you will no longer be held accountable for the past! ”

The tomb robber was so indulged by him, naturally he was 'a friend of the dead Dao who did not die and a poor man', so he said nonsense: "Lord Hui, that's not the case at all, he wants us to open the coffin and destroy the corpse!" ”

"Oh......" Hai Rui looked at the man, "what do you say?" ”

"They're spewing blood!" Naturally, the man did not admit it.

"It doesn't matter," Hai Rui said with a faint smile, "Just by organizing the grave digging, you can be a hundred rods and thirty years in prison." As he spoke, his face changed, and he threw out a fire stick and said, "Fight!" ”

The servants on the left and right shouted in unison, forked the man to the ground, raised the stick of water and fire with the thickness of his arm, and crackled and knocked it down. That stick hits the soft meat, and a few strokes can make people go away!

The man held on a few times, and then he couldn't stand it anymore, and cried out: "Don't fight, don't fight, I say I'll say!" Saying that, he finally confessed: "My name is Xu Fa, I am the fifth master's family, I, I, I am sent by order, I can't help myself, I hope the eldest master will forgive me!" ”

"Whose orders were you?" Hai Rui asked in a deep voice.

"Fifth master, oh no, Xu Wu." Xu Fa shrunk his neck and whispered.

"If you want to be mitigated, tell the truth!" Hai Rui said in a deep voice.

"Yes......" Xu Fa whispered: "Fifth Master, Mr. Song, the little one can't take care of you!" didn't dare to look at Xu Wu's appearance of wanting to eat people, so he came truthfully one by one about the two of them who had ordered him to destroy the corpse and destroy the traces yesterday.

Xu Wu is already sweating like a pulp, and the six gods have no owner. Song Shijie whispered: "Don't be afraid, everything has me!" Then he flashed and said: "My lord, this person's words are not to be believed!" ”

Hai Rui sneered: "How else do you quibble! ”

"Adults don't know, this person is a good gambler, and often steals things in the house," Song Shijie pointed at Xu Fa and said: "I just said that I was punished by Xu Wuye, so I have a grudge, and this move must be to frame Wuye!" ”

Xu Wu also understood, and shouted: "Yes, I was wronged, and I didn't instruct him!" ”

Hai Rui couldn't help but sneer: "No wonder people say, 'If the lawyer has a mouth, the white one is black'!" Sure enough, it's a reversal of right and wrong, and it's true! "Because Song Shijie is famous, and Xu Wu has just bought a student, so he can't be tortured, and it really makes people scratch their heads when they encounter this kind of lawsuit.

The interrogation was at an impasse, and Hai Rui knew that in order to make that Song Shijie speechless, he had to pry Xu Wu's mouth open. In fact, after returning to the city yesterday, he had a plan, and he had already asked the relevant people, so he asked Xu Wudao: "Where are you Qingming?" ”

"Back to the master, that day was the Qingming Festival, and the students remember it very clearly. I didn't go out of the city at all, but at home with a group of literary friends chanting poems, drinking and having fun, and the students also made a poem, please be elegant. As he spoke, he ordered someone to take out a scroll and present it to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui opened it and saw that it was a 'picture of early spring in the water town', with a small order inscribed on it: 'Where is the smoking ban in the West Building?' Green Fields Sunny Sky Road. Horses wear willows and neigh, people lean on swings and laugh, and Tanying flowers teach spring drunk. There is also Xu Wu's signature seal below, looking at the payment time, it is this year's Qingming Festival.

Hai Rui frowned slightly and said, "This is what you did?" "But the ecstasy in my heart could not be hidden, and I secretly said: 'If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself!' He was sent to his death! ’

"Of course." Xu Wu raised his head and said, but Song Shijie on the side changed his face and whispered: "Why didn't you discuss this with me!" ”

"This is what the third son helped me think." Xu Wu whispered proudly, as if he had received great glory.

"Hugh is noisy!" Hai Rui had already seen that the two couldn't be together, otherwise no matter how big the opening he opened, he would be sewn up by Song Shijie's mouth, so he patted the wooden body and said, "Where are the left and right?" ”

"In!" The official replied in a loud voice.

"Separate the two!" Hai Rui ordered: "Without my permission, Master Song is not allowed to speak!" ”

"I protest!" Song Shijie said loudly, and before he finished speaking, he was pulled aside by the officials, tied his mouth with a bamboo stick, and whimpered and couldn't speak.

"Xu Wu," Hai Rui asked again, "Is this poem really made by you?" "He deliberately followed Xu Wu and said 'Ling' as 'poetry'.

Xu Wu nodded and said, "Of course." If you don't believe me, I'll recite it to you. Then he recited: "Ask where is the smoking ban in the West Building?" Sunny Sky Road...... Exploring the cherry blossoms, the head teacher is drunk in spring! "Word for word, very fluent.

Hai Rui stroked his palms and smiled: "Sure enough, it's a good poem!" It's comparable to Li Du, right? ”

"That's ......" Xu Wuhun didn't know how to write the word modesty.

"Hehe," Hai Rui said with a smile: "To reach this level, it must be more than ten years of hard study, right?" ”

"Oh, such a ......" Xu Wu pondered for a moment, and said in his heart that he would not pay taxes by bragging anyway, so he blew to the big place: "Cold window...... I've been reading hard for more than ten years. ”

"What books have you read?" Hai Rui asked.

Hearing this, Song Shijie's head buzzed, and his heart said that this idiot, why did he get up nonsense! ”

"Hmm...... It is "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text", ......" These are the only two books he knows.

"I've read these two books for more than ten years?" Hai Rui laughed, and the whole room burst into laughter.

Xu Wu also found that he had missed his mouth, his heart twitched for a while, and he couldn't help but look back at Mr. Song, but saw that Song Shijie was pressed to the ground and couldn't lift his head.

Hai Rui picked up a pen and wrote a word on the paper, picked it up and said, "Let me ask you, what kind of word is this?" ”

"Uh......" Xu Wu said with straight eyes.

"I don't even know 'stupid'," Hai Rui laughed: "I also said that I can compose poetry, I see where you are sitting!" Saying that, he slapped the shocked wood and said: "Bold minion, dare to pretend to be Sven, pretend to be a student." Come, great punishment is waiting! ”

The soldiers under the hall shouted in response, and then several sets of torture instruments were thrown into the hall.

Seeing this situation, Xu Wuyi's legs weakened, and he piled up on the ground and said: "My life is real, don't use torture!" ”

"A student who doesn't even know a word?" Hai Rui sneered and said, "You dare to say that you are not impersonating?" ”

"If you don't believe it, you can ask the county ......," Xu Wu struggled unwillingly.

"Where is the Kunshan Teaching?" Hai Rui said in a loud voice.

"The villain is ......" someone really came out, and sure enough, it was Zhou Qishan, the county's teacher.

This response was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which made Xu Wu and the others stunned, and Hai Rui had long been suspicious of his identity, and had already found the teachings of this county.

That week, the teacher took the money of the Xu family and secretly made up for Xu Wu's school registration, but now I see that he doesn't even know the word 'stupid', if he still insists that he is a student of this county, I am afraid that the first person to be punished will be himself...... After weighing it for a long time, Zhou Jiaoyu bowed down and replied: "Master, he is not a student of this county. ”

"You talk nonsense!" Xu Wu said angrily: "My 1,000 taels of silver, can't I feed the dog?" ”

"Master Mingjian," Zhou Jiaoyu took out a silver ticket from his sleeve, as well as a letter, and presented it with both hands: "This is a letter from the third son of the Xu family in Huating County, and there are 1,000 taels of silver tickets, and they asked me to give a stealing school registration named Xu Wu......"

"So, you're taking bribes and cheating?" Hai Rui said expressionlessly.

"I guess it can't be counted." In fact, Teach Zhou had already been summoned by Hai Rui yesterday, and knowing that he was a tainted witness, he would be safe. At this time, he naturally said unhurriedly: "Although I dare not return this silver due to the power of the Xu family, how can the students insult the way of the ancestors when they read the books of the sages?" So I didn't dare and couldn't fill in Xu Wu's name on the roster. "That self-proclaimed clever Third Young Master Xu thinks things too simply, although the student is small, it is the foundation of the entire bureaucratic class, how can a small edict be filled in and changed at will?

"So, there is no such person in the county school?" Hai Rui looked at Xu Wudao, whose face was like earth.

"Master Hui, there is no such person in this school." The teachings affirmed.

"Dare to pretend to be a student?" Hai Rui raised his eyebrows, his aura covered the entire hall, and he patted the wooden hall and said, "Punish me!" ”

Then two officials stepped forward with a pair of 'clamping sticks'...... It was a pair of poplar planks the size of a door panel, with two locks on top and bottom, holding the hands and feet of the prisoner in place. Then three vertical logs, fastened with cowhide ropes, were attached to both of the prisoner's ankles. The same is true for the two hands, except that the three straight logs are replaced by eleven thinner hardwood strips, so that the prisoner's ten fingers can be entered.

Xu Wu was fully armed in this way, and the execution soap was tightened with a cowhide rope, with ten fingers clamped on top and shin below. Then he passed the solid wood through the cowhide rope, braided two strands, rotated once, and clamped it for one minute, and rotated ten times, and then tightened it ten, and even broke the knuckles and ankles, which was not a difficult task!

However, Xu Wu's pain point was obviously very low, and as soon as the wooden stick turned three times, he howled like a pig, twitched and swayed all over, and said loudly: "I move, I move!" ”

Hai Rui ordered his subordinates to pause, but he didn't let go of the torture equipment, and asked Xu Wudao, who was struggling and swaying: "Quickly recruit the truth about how you forcibly occupied other people's land and how you killed good people!" ”

The pain had overwhelmed Xu Wu's reason, and he was like a bamboo tube pouring beans, how he coveted the Wei family's land, how he colluded with the county household officials to change the landlord into his own family, and then how he gave it to the Xu family in Songjiang, and sent people to forcibly occupy it, and then clashed with the Wei family and suffered losses; How to ask the inspection department to come forward, and as a result, Wei Jiaerlang was killed. had to buy the county order again, let the servants make false tests and be harmless, how to falsely accuse the other two sons of the Wei family, and arrest them. In the end, the Wei family's father and daughter were driven out of Kunshan County, and the case was closed. 1510, all in one breath 'spitting' out.

The main culprits have been recruited, and the rest of the accomplices naturally have no reason to resist any longer! Kunshan inspectors, clerks, chief bookkeepers and other cadres all confessed their parts.

After Hai Rui asked them to settle the drawings one by one, he looked at the bullies and filthy officials who knelt on the ground, couldn't help but be angry, slapped the table fiercely and said: "You are corrupt and pervert the law, do all kinds of evil, collude with each other, and be good people!" It seems that if you don't get rid of these tumors, the people will never be at peace! Come on, put all these scoundrels in jail! ”

"Yes!" Shocked by the majestic aura of Lord Hai, all the officials responded awe-inspiringly.

When all those prisoners were loaded into the prisoner car and transported away, Hai Rui did not stop, his eyes swept over everyone, and he said in a deep voice: "A small bully can mobilize the officials of the county to cooperate, not to mention the forcible seizure of people's land, and can also reduce the big case of human life into a small and small one!" It can be seen how dirty the water in Kunshan County is! Speaking in a obviously low tone, he said with a sad face: "I don't know how many grievances sink in this pool of sewage, I, Hai Rui, am not talented, temporarily take this side of the parents, I want to sweep away the grievances of the people, uphold justice, and exchange them for a pool of clear water!" ”

"Everyone told the whole county, from now on, the Kunshan County Ya will open the door!" Hai Jui announced in a loud voice: "Anyone who has grievances can come to complain, and you must not blackmail or intimidate, and if there is a violator, go to the prison to be the companion of those people!" The crowd responded.

Hai Rui looked around the field, only to find that the master Song Shijie was still covered and pressed to the ground, so he ordered someone to let him go.

As soon as the bamboo stick on his mouth was gone, Song Shijie hurriedly said: "Master, being a master is a profession for villains to make ends meet, if someone gives me money and asks me to help him fight a lawsuit, can I not fight?" If you don't beat me, I'll starve to death. But they have sinned, and it has nothing to do with me. ”

"Clever words." Hai Rui sneered: "You know that these people have broken the law, but you still act for the tiger, weave lies for them, and go all out to open up, trying to make them escape from the sanctions of the national law, isn't it a conspiracy to shield what?" ”

"But the Daming Law does not stipulate that if you file a lawsuit for others, you will be guilty of the same crime as others." Song Shijie argued: "And the villain is a genuine student, adults can check it, and there will never be any adulteration." ”

"Don't think that if you have the identity of a showman, this official can't cure you." Hai Rui said coldly: "I can transfer your origin at any time, sue you for 'misconduct, lack of study', and ask the local expulsion of your student status." Saying that, he patted the big case and said: "Although Da Ming Law does not deal with the lawsuit for others, this official can invoke 'harboring the same crime as the main offender', and refer to the verdict against Xu Wu to convict you!" He is dead this time, even if you don't die, you have to have a hundred rods, travel 3,000 miles, and never let go! ”

Song Shijie knew that this time he was planted, and when he met such a county master who knew the law better than himself and was more proficient in his use, he was indeed like a live fish on a chopping board, even if he could jump again, he would inevitably be slaughtered.

Thinking about this, he smiled bitterly and stopped defending himself: "This time it fell into the hands of adults, and it can only be up to you." ”

Hai Rui saw that he was so single, at least a little more upright than Xu Wu's others, and the evil feeling in his heart was slightly reduced, and this person was not completely useless, so he said slowly: "Actually, for you, whether to judge or not, is between the two. ”

"What do you mean, sir?" Song Shijie asked.

"If you cooperate with the government, I will not blame the past," Hai Rui said in a deep voice: "Otherwise, he will be punished severely," he said aggressively looking at Song Shijie and said, "How do you choose?"

"Do students have any options?" The corners of Song Shijie's mouth pulled up a wry smile; "It's all at your command."

"Good!" Hai Rui bowed his head and said, "You come here with your ears." ”

Song Shijie had no choice but to step forward as ordered, and after listening to Hai Rui's instructions, he laughed and said, "Don't worry, adult, this is the student's specialty." ”

It turned out that Hai Rui actually asked him to be a stage in the yamen, write a complaint for the people who came to sue for free, and help the people fight lawsuits when they encounter difficult cases, so that the people who are honest and clumsy will not suffer in words!

Soon, the people of Kunshan rushed to tell each other, and 'Hai Qingtian' was designed for the common people to rule all kinds of villains. For a time, there was a long queue of people who went to the county government to file a complaint. Hai Rui used his energy beyond ordinary people to carefully look at every piece of paper, especially those who 'occupied the fields, robbed property, and killed people', all of them sued the Kunshan Five Tigers! It seems that for the common people, these five tigers are simply better than natural disasters.

Among them, Song Shijie's help is not small, he has always taken people's money, eliminated disasters for others, and his self-deprecating conscience has been eaten by dogs, but now he has the opportunity to help people avenge grievances and fight villains, although there is no money in the account, but he has won the 'respect' that he has never experienced before - whenever he sees the person he helps, wins the relationship, and thanks him a thousand times, Song Shijie feels that this feeling is too good, and his daughter can't be exchanged!

is determined to change his mind, help the poor to fight lawsuits, avenge grievances, and no longer do those bad things that are unconscionable and have no asshole when he gives birth to a son.

(To be continued)