Xiao Jiading knocked on the door with the painting rolled in his hand, and Deng Quansheng's voice came from inside: "Come in!" ”

Xiao Jiading stepped in, bowed down and said, "My subordinates have seen County Lieutenant Deng. ”

As soon as Deng Quansheng saw him, he got up from the couch with a smile on his face, patted him on the shoulder very affectionately, and said, "You are here, very good, this official has already told the Kang County Order, and I will do my best to protect you." Kang County's order has been agreed, so I will arrange for you to work in the torture room. How's it going? ”

Xiao Jiading bowed down and said, "Thank you for the cultivation of County Lieutenant Deng, my subordinates will do their best." Live up to the grace of the county lieutenant Deng. ”

"Well, did you bring your guide?"

Xiao Jiading hurriedly took out the road. Deng Quansheng took it, didn't look at it, called the entourage outside the door, and instructed him to take this road to the main book to help Xiao Jiading register and get the scribe's waist card. In this way, he became a scribe of the yamen.

After arranging, Deng Quansheng said to Xiao Jiading: "Let's go, this official will take you to meet the colleagues in the torture room." ”

Xiao Jiading followed Deng Quansheng out and went to the torture room.

The torture room is two suites inside and outside, the inside is relatively small, it is the head of the torture room, the judicial office of Xu, the outside is a large room, and the rows of bookcases are sitting on the scribes of the torture room, there are not many people, about six or seven.

When Xu Houde, the judge of the torture room, heard that the county lieutenant was coming, he hurriedly came out of the back room and gave a salute, and Fa Zuo (equivalent to the vice president) and other scribes in the outer execution room had already stood up to give a salute. The fat man Zhu Haiyin was in front of a table in the corner, squeezing his eyebrows and smiling at Xiao Jiading, but Xiao Jiading pretended not to see it.

County Lieutenant Deng said: "Today, a new colleague came to our torture room, his name is Xiao Jiading. ”

The name Xiao Jiading has now spread all over the Yizhou scholars and literati, and it is no wonder that the ancient communication media were not developed, and there were too few things that could be used as entertainment except for twitter. So what's the matter, the speed of communication in the same city is no less than that of the current media. What's more, Zhong Wenbo, who defeated the state capital Fa Cao, who is known as the number one talent in Yizhou, will wear the news faster. The scribes of these torture wards naturally knew the Dao, but the ancient media mainly relied on their mouths, so they only knew the name of Xiao Jiading, but they had never seen him, but now that they saw him, they all looked at him in surprise. There are all kinds of expressions on their faces.

County Lieutenant Deng introduced Xu Houde and Fazuo Dong Zhong behind him, Xiao Jiading stepped forward to give a salute, Dong Zhong was full of smiles, but Xu Houde made a straight face, returned the salute, and did not say anything.

County Lieutenant Deng said: "Judicial Xu, our Brother Xiao is not only outstanding in writing, but also proficient in criminal law, he is a rare talent, so let's hand over the case of Jiang Zhongyuan's intentional homicide to him, I believe that he will be able to handle it well, you can guide him more." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Jiading immediately found that the expressions of Xu Houde and the scribes behind him immediately changed, Xu Houde was stunned, most of those scribes were gloating, but Zhu Haiyin was surprised and anxious. He immediately understood that this case was a tough bone case! County Lieutenant Deng really wants to fix himself this dog!

There was no expression on his face, and he bowed down and said, "Yes!" The subordinates must do their best to handle the case well. ”

"Hmmm! Look at it, the future is limitless! After that, he patted Xiao Jiading's shoulder affectionately and turned to leave.

Xu Houde had already received the news in advance that a scribe was going to come to the torture room, so he had prepared a book case for him, which happened to be next to Zhu Haiyin's table.

After Xu Houde pointed out his book case to him, he asked the scribe in charge of sending and receiving the case to hand him all the files of Jiang Zhongyuan's intentional homicide case, and then went into the back room. The scribes also sat back in their places, peeking at him from time to time, muttering to themselves, and laughing from time to time, the laughter of which could be heard with obvious schadenfreude.

The literati have been light on each other since ancient times. Xiao Jiading already understood in his stomach what kind of environment he had come to. He didn't talk to Zhu Haiyin, picked up the file and looked at it.

The dossier was very thin, and it took him less than a meal to read it. The facts of the case are also very simple, this Jiang Zhongyuan and his servants stabbed two men to death with a knife in the street more than half a year ago, injuring several people. A lot of people have seen it.

In such a case, with so many eyewitnesses, the facts are clear and the evidence is indeed sufficient, what is so difficult to do? Would they make these people look at themselves like that? And it has been more than half a year since the case happened, but it has not been dealt with, there must be something strange in it, you must know that the ancient Yamen of the Dao is equivalent to the current public procuratorate law, not just the court, the trial time limit stipulated in ancient times is much shorter than that of modern times, such a murder case, the deadline is one month to complete, if it is not completed within the time limit, the official of the Yamen seal and the supervisor (that is, the person directly responsible) will be beaten. This case has dragged on for more than half a year and has not been concluded, and there are no ghosts!

No, you have to figure it out right away, you can't be used as a gun for some reason.

Xiao Jiading stood up, looked at Zhu Haiyin next to him, held his stomach and muttered: "Damn's stomach hurts, didn't you eat something bad?" ”

With that, he hurried out, went to the door, asked the direction of the latrine in the porter's house, and went straight over. When I got to the latrine, I looked left and right to see that there was no one, went in and peed, and when I came out, I saw Zhu Haiyin coming. Then he whispered, "What's going on with this case?" You should know the truth, right? ”

"This case has a lot of origins, who in the yamen doesn't know what to do?" Zhu Haiyin looked back to see that there was no one, and said in a low voice, "This Jiang Zhongyuan, who killed people on the street, is the brother-in-law of the governor of the state government!" In other words, his sister is the wife of this long history. The reason for the murder on the street was that the kid and the deceased were both sons of a big family, and both of them fell in love with a ** woman, and they were jealous, so they had a fight in **. After returning home, Jiang Zhongyuan felt that he had suffered a loss and was aggrieved, so he planned to take revenge, and waited on the street with people, and when he saw the victim come out, he personally stabbed the person to death, and also stabbed to death a servant who rushed up, and stabbed a few. Although the deceased's family is also a big family, there is no one who is an official, just a few dollars, although there are complaints everywhere, the Jiang family still dragged the case down, and it has been dragged until now. ”

The long history of the state yamen is half a level higher than Sima in terms of the five grades, and in the government office, it is second only to the history of the assassin and the other driver. is equivalent to a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, who dares to provoke it?

Xiao Jiading was puzzled: "It's not a matter of dragging it?" Sooner or later, he will still be executed, he killed people in the street, a capital crime. So many people have seen it, can they run? What's the use of procrastination? ”

"Why didn't it work? Wait for the imperial court to amnesty! ”

Xiao Jiading suddenly woke up to the fact that when the emperor was in ancient times, he liked to engage in amnesty for the world, and when his wife and wife were sick, he would have an amnesty, and he would have to make an amnesty on his birthday. Numerous. It's almost once every few years. Once amnesty, as long as it is not a heinous felony, the felony is mitigated and the misdemeanor is released. It turned out that they were playing with this idea. If this case is decided, the ironclad capital crime will not be sentenced, and when the amnesty is granted, you will not lose your head.

Such a case is obviously seriously detained for a long time, but no one dares to take care of it, no one dares to take it, isn't it because his brother-in-law is a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee! Now this county lieutenant Deng has asked himself to carry this rotten wood, making it clear that he wants to kill himself, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee wants to pinch himself to death, isn't that a matter of minutes?

Xiao Jiading was angry from his heart, no wonder County Lieutenant Deng refused to accept his gift last night, it turned out that he wanted to kill himself, so he pretended to be incorruptible, so as to paralyze himself and fall for him. Fortunately, Lao Tzu had learned countless such tricks before crossing over, otherwise, he thought that he had received the attention of the leaders and handed over such an important case as the death penalty case to himself, so why not hurry up and finish it in order to show his talents? When the time comes, I don't know how to die. It's vicious!

The defendant in this case, Jiang Zhongyuan, and the deceased are not good people, and there is really no need to seek any justice for them, so why should he wade through this troubled water?

Zhu Haiyin said: "Big brother, what are you going to do?" ”

Xiao Jiading smiled yin and said, "Scrambled eggs with shredded tofu in cold salad!" ”

The second monk of Zhu Haiyin looked at him puzzledly.

"Let's go back!" Xiao Jiading walked back and came to the door of the Deng County Lieutenant's room, he took out the calligraphy and painting of Sima Tang Lin, the state government, and stepped into the Deng County Captain's signature room.

When County Lieutenant Deng saw him come in, he was stunned for a moment and said, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

"That's right," Xiao Jiading smiled and nodded, "Yesterday I was eating flower wine in the Jade Building, and I met Tang Lin and Tang Sima from the state government. The day before yesterday, he also heard about the fact that I was better than Zhong Wenbo with poetry, and he was very kind to me, invited me to drink, and asked me about some poems. He was very satisfied with my answer, and before parting, he made a painting for me, and asked me to visit his house and learn poetry......"

As soon as he said this, County Lieutenant Deng's old face was already full of surprise, and the little mung bean eyes that were originally squinted also opened, and he looked at Xiao Jiading in a daze.

Xiao Jiading saw the effect, and couldn't help secretly having fun, and continued: "At that time, I took the painting and looked at it, and found that there was no inscription and stamp. Tang Sima smiled and said that he had written it in the painting, let me find it myself. I couldn't find it after looking at it for a long time, and I heard that the county lieutenant Deng was a Danqing expert, so I wanted to ask the county lieutenant for advice, and I didn't know if I could bother to give me guidance and see where Tang Sima wrote this inscription. With that, he spread out the painting and put it on the bookcase of County Lieutenant Deng.

Xiao Jiading made up this lie, and he was not worried that County Lieutenant Deng would go to Tang Lin to verify it, this kind of thing, a veteran officialdom like County Lieutenant Deng would definitely believe it.