Song Yun'er was very sensitive, and seeing Yang Qiuchi's solemn expression, she asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

"It's a bit of a problem, if the fire is in the north bedroom, and Wang Dianshi's study is in the south, the two are so far apart, this cloud stunned killed Wang Zhaoli Wang Dianshi, it should be nearby in the study to ignite the fire, how can he run to the bedroom so far away?"

"That's right!" Song Yun'er also looked back, "Maybe he wanted to escape from the north side over the wall, so he lit a fire over there by the way." ”

"Since you want to flee from the north, why do you turn back and run out of the south gate and be caught by the patrolling people?"

Song Yun'er was also dumbfounded, thinking that this was a problem, but on the surface she didn't want to admit defeat, so she still said strongly: "Maybe he found that it was not good to climb over the wall when he got to the north, so he ran back and went out through the gate." ”

Yang Qiuchi didn't argue with her anymore, pondered for a while, and shook his head: "I can't figure it out, I can only find out after investigating." ”

Chang Fu said: "Master, it may be too late to investigate. ”

Yang Qiuchi was stunned for a moment, and then remembered what Jiang Zhixian said, I am afraid that the execution order will be issued in the next few days. If so, time is running out for the investigation.

However, what I just discovered is only a situation that is not quite logical, and it cannot be said that the case of Yun Xuan's arson and murder is a wrong case, and it is still far from the standard of a wrong case.

What now? Survey? Who to investigate? Are you stunned? He is a criminal, and in order to reduce his criminal responsibility, there will definitely be many statements in favor of himself, if he denies it, and may even say that he has been wronged, and there is no other evidence, should the death penalty be stopped on the basis of his confession and the whole case will be re-examined? He, Yang Qiuchi, hadn't gone crazy to this point.

Besides, this case was convicted of capital crimes, and the death penalty cases in the Ming Dynasty were all reviewed by the Criminal Department and Dali Temple and reported to the emperor for approval. Some major cases may also have to go through the triage of three divisions and the like, so it is not easy to overturn the case!

What I just had just now were just some unreasonable doubts, and many cases would have some doubts to some extent.

Therefore, Yang Qiuchi decided not to think about it anymore.

Back at the inner office, Yang Qiuchi, the two concubines and Bai Sumei talked and laughed for a while, and it was time to go to the court in the afternoon to ask about the case.

Stepping out of the inner office in the crisp click of the cloud board, after the second hall turned to the warm pavilion in the back hall, and sat firmly behind the public case in the sound of "mighty" in the ascending hall.

Song Yun'er and a few of their little girls came to hide in the back hall to listen to the trial. Today, the county magistrate's case to be tried by Master Jin has been placed on the public case, and the verdict has been drafted.

There were more people who heard the trial in the afternoon, because in the morning, Yang Qiuchi, the new county of Xinzhi County, asked the land lord to help hear the case and other interesting things have spread throughout the city, so the people who came to hear the trial in the afternoon are even more inside and outside three floors, squeezing the lobby patio to the water. Even the streets outside the yamen were full of people.

However, the case in the afternoon was a little depressing, and first a few debts were not repaid. I couldn't see any extenuating circumstances, so Yang Qiuchi directly made a judgment according to the judgment drafted by Master Jin, and the board should be enforced. The trial was completed in three or two clicks.

The latter one is a household in Linxian County who fled to this county in order to avoid errand service, and those who were found out and sent to the government were also beaten a hundred boards according to the opinions drafted by Master Jin, and sent officials to send them back to Linxian.

The onlookers watched with relish, but Yang Qiuchi was dozing off, these small cases are really boring, but most of the cases of the county lord are these trivial little things, really big cases such as murders, I am afraid it will be difficult to encounter one in a few years. The murder of Wang Zhaoli and Wang Dianshi last year is said to be the first case in Qingxi County in many years.

The latter are all loans, neighborhood disputes, quarrels and fights, etc., which are even more trivial, Yang Qiuchi almost yawned in the trial, and the judgment drafted by Master Jin is reasonable and well-founded, and he can't find anything wrong, and the judgment is over according to the judgment. However, Yang Qiuchi thought that it was not easy for people to fight a lawsuit, so he forced the spirit to try them one by one.

In ancient times, the common people did not have as much sense of rights as people now, and it was almost enough, they knew how to forbear, the so-called relics for righteousness, and they were more afraid of officials, even if they had any ideas in their hearts, they didn't dare to talk nonsense, for fear of being beaten by the board, so the case was tried very quickly in the afternoon.

When it was said that it was already slanting westward, the last case of the day was tried, Yang Qiuchi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally easy.

According to the traditional concept of Confucianism, litigation is not advocacy, so there are special restrictions on litigation, and litigation can only be sued within certain periods. This is commonly known as "release notice", the Ming Dynasty is generally 369 notice, that is, the third day of the month, the sixth day of the first month, the ninth day of the first month, the thirteenth, the sixteenth, the nineteenth, the twenty-third, the twenty-sixth, and the twenty-ninth are the announcements. Therefore, after the case is tried in the court today, I can rest for two days.

Yang Qiuchi picked up the last complaint and looked at it, it was a concubine [***] lawsuit. This piqued a little interest in him.

Take a closer look, it is a village chief surnamed Bao, who sued the niece of the defendant Hou Zhong of the same village. This defendant Hou Zhong is a rich man in a mountain village, and he has a concubine named Song Sanniang, and this Song Sanniang has a biological niece named Song Yitong, who was favored by this Hou Chong, so he accepted this Song Yitong as a concubine. As a result, the young and the old were out of order, and they had been advised, but the Hou was ignored, and Bao Li sued them with a complaint.

Yang Qiuchi summoned the original defendant to the lobby and asked the defendant Hou Chong: "Are Song Sanniang and Song Yitong your concubines?" ”

Hou Zhong replied honestly: "Yes." ”

"Do you know that Song Yitong is Song Sanniang's niece?"

"I know, Sanniang told me." Hou Zhong looks very honest.

Yang Qiuchi was angry and funny, and was shocked: "You obviously know that the two of them are two generations of elders and youngers, and you have recruited them all into your bed...... you are simply too ......"

Hou Zhong kowtowed and said: "But I really like Yi Tong, and she is willing to follow me for the rest of her life." ”

"And what about that Sanniang of yours? What do you do with her? Is she okay? ”

"Their family background is very poor, so Sanniang also hopes that Yitong can have someone to rely on after following me."

Yang Qiuchi was a little crying and laughing at this time: "You want her to have something to rely on, and you don't have to take her as a concubine." ”

Hou Zhong kowtowed honestly and replied: "The two of them...... I love both of them...... I can't bear to leave anyone behind......"

Yang Qiuchi was almost mad at him, and said with a smile: "You're fucking quite fratern......"

Suddenly, Hou Chong's sentence "I am reluctant to throw both of them away" made Yang Qiuchi's heart sink and think of Liu Ruobing-the senior Liu who has superb martial arts, cold and beautiful, the Liu Ruobing whose eyes are full of loneliness and desolation, and the sister Liu who was robbed of her virginity by her own confusion, and then she was full of hope to stay with her for a lifetime but could not do so.

Yang Qiuchi was suddenly a little stupid. After Liu Ruobing's chastity was taken away by herself, in the Ming Dynasty, a society where "starvation is small, and disobedience is big", how can she face other men again? So that day, she plucked up the courage to say that she wanted to stay with her for the rest of her life.

Of course, this desire is not entirely out of love, but there is no choice, and Yang Qiuchi does not let him hate it, so he entrusts his life.

Yang Qiuchi had thought about this matter repeatedly, since Liu Ruobing was taken away by herself in order to save herself, then she should be responsible for her, and she should not be left alone for the rest of her life, otherwise, it would be too bad.

However, Song Yun'er has always been in love with herself, and I am afraid that sooner or later she will become her concubine, and Liu Ruobing and Song Yun'er are masters and apprentices. The status of the ancient teacher (master) is very high, the so-called "heaven, earth, king, parent, teacher", therefore, from an ethical point of view, there is no essential difference between the relationship between master and apprentice and the relationship between parents and children, so there is a saying that "one is a teacher, and a father for life".

Therefore, he has to be responsible for Liu Ruobing, but also marry Song Yun'er, if he wants to take both of them as concubines, wouldn't it be the same violation of ethics as this Hou Chong? Although I don't know what the specific punishment will be, I'm afraid that this official will come to an end.

Yang Qiuchi looked at the defendant Hou Chong kneeling in the lobby, as if he saw his future self, slowly recovered from his thoughts, picked up the form and looked at it carefully, only to see that the judgment drafted by Master Jin on it was: "In terms of annihilation, the rod is eighty." Suddenly, a heart sank.

The "Da Ming Law" stipulates: "All foreign marriages that are subject to respect and inferiority, are married together, and marry half-sisters, and if the wife is the daughter of her ex-husband, shall be judged as annihilated." "Whoever is with the annihilation, the rod is eighty."

In ancient China, it was forbidden to be close to foreign relatives or wives and concubines of different generations, which is called foreign marriage, which is called a marriage in which the elders or juniors of their wives (or concubines) cannot be married as concubines.

Yang Qiuchi didn't know if the master and apprentice of the Ming Dynasty also belonged to the "foreign marriage, respect and inferiority", it should be similar. That is to say, if he marries Liu Ruobing and Song Yun'er at the same time, he will be judged by annihilation.

Knowing the news, Yang Qiuchi no longer had the intention of trying the case, and according to the judgment drafted by Master Jin, he hurriedly gave the verdict and withdrew from the court.

Song Yun'er and the other little girls were hiding behind to watch Yang Qiuchi's trial, and when they saw him hastily retreating, their faces were ugly, and they didn't know what was going on.

Yang Qiuchi didn't talk to them, and walked straight to the inner office.

A few girls, not knowing what was happening, trotted after them. Song Yun'er took Yang Qiuchi's hand: "What's wrong with you?" Your face is so ugly. ”

"It's nothing, I'm not very comfortable, just go back and get some rest."

When the girls heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief, and Qin Zhihui said, "Husband must be too tired these days. He instructed Hong Aya: "Hong Aya, wait a while, you can make something light and refreshing for the young master to eat." Red Aya nodded in agreement.

Returning to the internal office, Yang Qiuchi returned directly to his study. This is Yang Qiuchi's private place, which also has a large bed.

Yang Qiuchi threw the black gauze hat on the desk, fell on his back on the bed, pillowed the back of his head with his hands, and looked at the top of the Luo tent, his heart was in a mess, one moment was Song Yun'er's naughty smiling face, and the other was Liu Ruobing's cold and lonely eyes.

Qin Zhihui instructed not to disturb Yang Qiuchi and let him have a good rest.

But Song Yun'er still quietly slipped into the study, sat on the edge of the bed, and patted Yang Qiuchi: "Hey! What's going on? You don't look like you're sick, but like you're full of worries, what's wrong? ”

Song Yun'er would not have thought of what was going on in Yang Qiuchi's head at this moment. How could Yang Qiuchi tell Song Yun'er about this kind of heart, Song Yun'er didn't even know that her master was already with her, if she knew, she would be very sad.

Although he didn't mean it, Yang Qiuchi still felt very sorry for Song Yun'er. Stretched out his hand to take Song Yun'er's hand, and smiled slightly: "Brother is fine, don't worry Yun'er." ”

Song Yun'er listened to his gentle words and grinned: "That's good." After a pause, he said excitedly: "You are more courageous than my father, and the trial will be completed after dividing five by two, if it is my father, a case can drag on for several days, I secretly ran to see him ascend to the hall when I was a child, and then I was too lazy to watch it when I was bored, plus my master forced me to practice martial arts every day, and I didn't have time to watch." ”

Speaking of her master, Yang Qiuchi's heart skipped a beat, but his face was silent at all: "Your master is very strict with you, right?" ”

"Of course, it's like urging my life, sometimes I'm naughty and lazy, and I'll be punished." Although Song Yun'er pouted and said, her eyes were full of pride and gratitude. It can be seen that the relationship between their master and apprentice is very deep.

"Where's your master? Why didn't I come to see you? Yang Qiuchi asked in the smoothest possible tone, and added at the end, "Doesn't she care about the progress of your martial arts?" ”

"Of course I care," Song Yun'er said, leaning down and saying mysteriously: "Actually, my master has followed us all the way!" ”

Yes! Yang Qiuchi's whole body shook slightly, and he almost screamed. hurriedly complained in disguise: "Then why didn't you tell me?" Your master is here, and we should be hospitable. ”

"My master won't let me." Although Song Yun'er found out about Yang Qiuchi's gaffe, she didn't think about it, "My master said that she just came to see how my martial arts were progressing, instructed me for a few days, and then left." After thinking about it, he added with some embarrassment: "I didn't tell you because my master said that she didn't want to see irrelevant people." ”

Irrelevant people? Yang Qiuchi smiled bitterly in his heart, how did I become an irrelevant person. When it comes to intimacy, I'm afraid that I am the only one in the world who is the closest to your master.

Yang Qiuchi asked, "What about your master?" Where is she now? ”

"I don't know, but my master asked me to go to the hill outside the South City Gate tonight, where she was waiting for me."

(To be continued)