Yinxian County Ya

In the back office, the county commander Zhou Bangjie was lying on the recliner comfortably basking in the sun, and a delicate little maid knelt on the ground and beat his legs for him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Xi slip", took a sip of tea at the purple tea spout, and sighed pleasantly, it is really a fairy-like day, such a life is not prosperous for ten years, and the iron inkstone is worn out.

In fact, it is said that it is ten years, Zhou Bangjie has been studying for more than 30 years. At the age of thirty, he won the Xiucai, took the exam five times before he won the lift, and then took the exam three times before he won the top three jinshi. The war in the north has been unpeaceful for many years, and Zhou Bangjie spent 5,000 taels of silver before he was selected as an official in Jiangnan.

The hard work of studying in the past naturally has to be enjoyed, and the money spent in the past has naturally to be earned. Less than a month after arriving in Yin County, Zhou Bangjie has scraped thousands of taels of silver.

While Zhou Bangjie was enjoying it, suddenly a drum beat came from outside, and the big drum at the entrance of the yamen was beaten!

Zhou Bangjie was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly pushed away the little girl who was beating her legs and went into the house to change her clothes.

After Zhou Bangjie put on his official uniform and hat with the help of the maid, he came to the front hall. The officials on both sides of the lobby had already stood in shifts, and when they saw the arrival of the county order, they shouted "mighty" in unison.

Zhou Bangjie held his belt with both hands, walked majestically behind the big case, lifted the back of his official robe, and sat on the official chair.

When I looked down, I saw a little beggar in ragged clothes kneeling in the middle of the lobby.

Hey, Zhou Bangjie didn't feel a little surprised, this place is strange, the little beggar also came to the county government to shout grievances, is it the farewell beggar bullying him? That's it, since you've given birth, let's ask.

"Why are the people below beating drums and crying out grievances?" Zhou Bangjie "snapped" and asked sharply, he liked the feeling of shooting the shocking wood very much.

Naturally, the little beggar Chen became famous. After Ren Siqi and Meng Shuyi finished together, they returned to their residence and called Chen Mingyang for instructions. Knowing that Ren Siqi was to avenge his sister, Chen Mingyang said that everything was up to Ren Siqi. At that moment, Ren Siqi wrote the paper, and Chen Mingyang took it and came to the county office, beating the drum and shouting grievances.

Hearing the startling sound, Chen Mingyang shuddered for a moment, but when he thought of his sister who died tragically, he was full of courage again.

"Back to the eldest master, my name is Chen Mingyang, and I am crying out for my dead sister." Chen Mingyang raised the paper with both hands as he spoke, and a servant took it and handed it to Zhou Bangjie, the county magistrate.

Zhou Bangjie took the paper and watched it carefully, the so-called human life is a matter of heaven, and a lawsuit like this must be taken seriously.

After reading the pleadings, he was a little puzzled, obviously it was a murder that happened two months ago, why did no one cry out for injustice until now. After all, he was born as a Jinshi, and his own IQ was still very high, so he was not in a hurry to ask the case, and his eyes were looking in the lobby. At a glance, he saw the scribe Meng who was in charge of recording on the side, so he beckoned him to come over.

"Look what's going on?" handed the pleadings to the scribe Meng, because he had not had time to invite the master for less than a month in Yinxian County, he was not very proficient in the matter of judging the case, and he had to find someone to counsel him.

Scribe Meng hurriedly looked at the pleadings and handed them back: "Back to the prince, this case, I know, happened two months ago, when it was still the prince who was the county magistrate. Lichun Courtyard's Honggu Ah Zi was strangled to death in the middle of the night, and at that time, Wang County ordered Ren Xiucai, who was in the same bed with Ah Zi, to kill someone, and then arrested Ren Xiucai on death row and sentenced to beheading. Now that two months have passed, I don't know why Ah Zi's younger brother came to cry out again. ”

After listening to what happened, Zhou Bangjie nodded, since it was done by his predecessor who had been dismissed, it was easy to say. If the former county magistrate had not been dismissed but had been promoted, then the case could not be retried. However, the predecessor has been convicted and dismissed, of course he can have a good trial, and if he can overturn the case, he can also spread his reputation as a god in judging the case, and add a few points to his triennial assessment.

"That beggar, you said that your sister was killed by Wang Cai, is there any evidence?" Zhou Bangjie asked to the audience.

"Back to the master, it was Wang Cai himself who said that he killed someone. As long as the master sends Wang Cai to confront him, I still have Wang Cai's confession here, with his handprints on it. Chen Mingyang said.

"How can you have Wang Cai's confession?" Zhou Bangjie asked in surprise.

"Someone else gave it to me." Chen Mingyang said honestly.

"Okay, the king will only come to court." Zhou Bangjie immediately ordered to arrest Wang Cai, and then asked Meng Shushu to find the file of the last judgment and look at it carefully.

In less than a stick of incense, the two arresting officials came back and dragged back the drunken Wang Cai. It turned out that after Ren Siqi sent Chen Mingyang to the county government to complain, he asked Xiong Er and others to get Wang Cai drunk and lay on the bed unable to move, so he withdrew from Wang Cai's house.

"What's going on?" Zhou Bangjie looked at Wang Cai, who was vomiting and dirty, and asked.

"Back to the master, he was already like this when we went." The arresting officer replied.

"Wake him up with cold water." Zhou Bangjie ordered.

A servant hurriedly left the lobby and quickly brought back a bucket of well water.

A large bucket of cold water was splashed on Wang Cai's head, and the cold water soaked through Wang Cai's clothes and flowed onto the wounds caused by the beating.

Wang Cai is an agitated spirit, sober from drunkenness.

"I killed people, please, don't beat me again." Before Wang Cai could open his eyes, he pleaded. In the past night, he had suffered enough at the hands of Xiong Er and others.

"Look, sir, he has confessed to murder." Chen Mingyang shouted.

"Shut up, I have ears, sir." Zhou Bangjie scolded Chen Mingyang, he had already seen that something was wrong, this Wang Cai looked like he was afraid of being beaten, and there was something inside.

"Well, that's Wang Cai down there?" Zhou Bangjie was shocked and asked sharply.

Wang Cai was a spirit, and then he realized that he was above the county hall. Without that gang of fierce gods and evil gods around him, his skinny nature returned.

"Back to the eldest master, I am Wang Cai. My lord, I am wronged, the murderer Ren Siqi came back last night, he broke into my house, beat me and insisted that I admit that I killed someone. Then the king began to weep.

The situation is really complicated, how can it involve the fugitive Ren Siqi again, Zhou Bangjie felt confused, let him write eight articles he would, but it was much more difficult for him to solve the case.

Scribe Meng hurriedly walked behind him, "Master, don't let him divert from the topic." Ren Siqi himself is guilty of homicide, why did he force the king to admit the crime, it should be the person who killed him. ”

Zhou Bangjie nodded, thinking about it carefully, this is indeed the truth, if it is really Ren Siqi who killed someone, he has already escaped, why should he come back?

"What about Ren Xiucai?" He asked Scribe Meng in a low voice.

"He must have left, don't worry about him for now, and then confirm Wang Cai's murder." Meng Shuren said.

Zhou Bangjie immediately ordered Wang Cai to be punished, and he was beaten with 20 boards first. Several officials immediately pressed Wang Cai to the ground, opened his pants, and "cracked" and started the board.

"Go to the big teapot of Lichun Temple!" Zhou Bangjie ordered that in the last case, the big teapot was a key certification, and it was he who indirectly identified Ren Siqi as the murderer.

Wang Cai knew that he would die if he confessed the crime, but he gritted his teeth and refused to admit it. Soon the twenty boards were finished, and Wang fainted.

"Wake up, splint." Zhou Bangjie ordered.

"Master, I know a way to get him to admit it." Chen Mingyang said.

"How?" Zhou Bangjie asked casually.

Chen Mingyang immediately told Ren Siqi's method of dealing with Wang Cai, and heard that only a few pieces of paper could make the prisoner confess, Zhou Bangjie was very interested, and immediately asked the official to find the paper.

"Master, I confess, I confess." Wang, who had just woken up, heard Chen Mingyang's words, and he was so frightened that he didn't want to try that suffocating feeling again.

Wang Cai immediately told what happened two months ago.

"Two months ago, I was playing in the gambling house, and the subordinates of Gao Liqun and Gao Xiucai's family found me, gave me fifty taels of silver, and let me go and kill Ah Zi. At that time, I was losing a lot, and when I saw the money, I took the deal. At the third watch, I came to Lichun Courtyard and pried open the door of Ren Xiucai's room with a knife, and saw Ah Zi and Ren Xiucai lying on the big bed inside. I pressed Ah Zi's hands and feet, covered Ah Zi's mouth and nose with a pillow, and covered her to death. ”

Wang Cai carefully recounted what happened two months ago, and Chen Mingyang, who was listening to it, couldn't stop crying out of his eyes, and his eyes erupted with anger, staring at Wang Cai deadly.

"So, it was Gao Xiu who made you kill people? But himself? Zhou Bangjie asked.

"It's not. What is Gao Xiucai's identity, how can he see me in person, he is a subordinate of his family. Wang Cai said.

"Do you know the name of that man?" Zhou Bangjie asked.

"Yes, his name is Gao Fu."

"Someone, go and arrest Gao Fu." Zhou Bangjie immediately ordered.

This is the big teapot of Lichun Courtyard was passed by the officials, and when he saw Wang Cai, he knew that everything was exposed, and he was so frightened that he sat on the ground.

"That big teapot, but you testified two months ago that Ren Xiucai killed someone?" Zhou Bangjie asked sharply.

"Master, I was wrong, I was talking nonsense at the beginning, I don't know who killed Ah Zi." The big teapot cried, he didn't dare to bite Ren Siqi anymore, for fear that the whole family would lose their lives that day.

"Bastard thing, dare to climb indiscriminately, press charges on people, come to someone, pull him down and beat him hard." Zhou Bangjie shouted angrily.

At this time, the official who went to pass on Gao Fu returned to the lobby: "Master, the Gao family said that Gao Fu has left the Gao family and doesn't know where he went. ”

"Bastard, dare to hide criminals, come and send Gao Xiucai to me." Zhou Bangjie was furious.

"Slow down." Scribe Meng hurriedly stopped, "Gao Xiucai can't catch it." "At the moment, I talked about the power of the Gao family.

"What, he's the cousin of the Nanjing Household Squire?" Zhou Bangjie was shocked when he heard this, "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"Master, I think it's this Wang Cai who is climbing and biting indiscriminately, it's clear that he deliberately killed someone when he saw it, but he wanted to climb on Gao Xiucai." Scribe Meng gritted his teeth and said.

Zhou Bangjie nodded clearly: "Come on, pull Wang Cai down and beat him hard, see if he dares to climb indiscriminately." ”