Xiao Jiading nodded and said, "Hello! ”

The Tang Dynasty people would not greet him like this, so this made the woman a little surprised, looked up at him, and quickly lowered her eyes and turned away. This turn left a burst of incense, this incense is not the smell of rouge powder, is it the body fragrance of a girl? It's not right, there are not a few women that Xiao Jiading has deeply dated in depth, many of them are girls who have just become adults, but they have never had such a strange fragrance on any woman.

This reminded Xiao Jiading of the Xiangxiang princess in Jin Yong's novel "Book of Swords and Enmity". I eat snow lotus every day, so I have a strange fragrance. This woman is also from the Western Regions, is it so fragrant to eat flowers every day?

Zhu Haiyin saw him staring blankly at the girl's back, so he smiled and said, "Big brother, are you dumbfounded?" Ha Lu Ha ,—— I said Yu shopkeeper, your girl is so beautiful, this dowry will be indispensable in the future, she is your cash cow, Ha Lu haha"

Yu Gui also replied with a smile: "Yes, yes." ”

"What's your daughter's name?" Zhu Haiyin only cared about the beauty just now, and didn't listen carefully to Yu Gui's words, so he didn't remember it.

"Loulan."

"That's a chic name, isn't it, big brother?" Zhu Haiyin looked at Xiao Jiading.

Loulan is an ancient kingdom in the Western Regions, which had mysteriously disappeared before the Tang Dynasty. This shouldn't be a surname, Xiao Jiading said: "This is her own original name?" ”

"No, more than ten years ago, the old man went to the Western Regions to buy and sell things, one day, I passed by a canyon, and saw a lot of dead corpses on the side of the road, all of them were people, all of them were knife wounds, blood flowed all over the ground, it is estimated that they were robbed and killed by robbers. The child sat on the ground and cried, she was about three or four years old at the time, and when I saw that she was pitiful, I took her in as an adopted daughter and taught her to speak Chinese. I knew a little bit of Western Regions Hu, and when I asked her what her name was, she just cried. Because I heard that the Western Regions are also called Loulan, I called her Loulan. ”

"I see." Xiao Jiading nodded and continued to eat.

Zhu Haiyin then asked, "How old is she?" Have you promised your in-laws? ”

"Sixteen, I haven't allowed anyone yet."

"Impossible, how can you not have an in-law if you are so beautiful?"

"Alas, there are few decent people who are willing to marry Hu Nu, saying that Hu Nu doesn't understand the rules. The little woman is very stubborn, so ah, it's delayed. ”

Zhu Haiyin nodded, this is telling the truth, even if he is replaced by himself and marries a Hu girl as his wife, he is unwilling, no matter how beautiful he is, he can go to bed, and he will be a lady in the house, that will not work. He sighed and sat down.

Xiao Jiading has seen too many kinds of beauties in modern society, and he has a high melting point for beauties, so he will not be fascinated easily, not to mention that he is still a cold ice beauty, so he is not interested in talking about her anymore.

He was already full, and said to Yu Gui: "Tell me about your case." ”

Yu Gui waited for his words, and said with a smile: "That's the case, I bought a cow a few days ago and raised it in the backyard, and the cow accidentally fell to death the day before yesterday." As a result, Xie Laosan from the neighbor's snack shop saw it, and he has always been jealous of the good business of my snack shop, saying that I robbed the business by crooked ways, and often looked for our forks. This time, when he saw my cow dead in the backyard, he ran to the yamen and sued me, saying that I had deliberately killed the cow. The servants locked me up at the county office, and no matter how I explained it, they didn't believe that the cow had fallen to his death, and they wanted to punish me. Fortunately, there were people who testified to me, saying that I did not deliberately kill the cattle, and the Yamen finally convicted me of manslaughter and did not punish me, and released me yesterday, but confiscated my dead cattle. I was very angry and went to the yamen to theorize, and they said that it was stolen goods and must be confiscated. - Childe, a cow is worth eight dollars. That's it? I didn't kill the cow on purpose, so why should I punish my cow? ”

In the Tang Dynasty, cattle and horses were specially protected animals, and those who deliberately killed cattle and horses were sentenced to one year in prison. Whoever causes the death of a cow or horse by negligence shall not be punished. As for those who intentionally or neligently kill cattle and horses, whether the dead cattle and horses are stolen and unofficial, there is no provision in the "Yonghui Law", but it is clearly stipulated in the "Tang Law Shu Yi" a few years later, that if a cow or horse is killed intentionally or negligently, beef and horse meat are personal property, not criminal tools, so they cannot be lost to the official, but must be returned to the original owner. Therefore, the punishment of the county government was wrong.

As soon as Xiao Jiading heard it, he knew that the case was actually very simple, but today's officials cannot draw conclusions from the simple Yonghui law. This requires a certain amount of legal literacy. At the moment, he said: "I understand, it is wrong for the yamen to confiscate your cattle and horses, you don't need to write anything about this, because what you want to sue is not someone else, but the yamen, it is the yamen who made a mistake, how can you write a complaint?" ”

Yu Gui was dumbfounded when he heard this, and said, "Then ......, then forget it?" That's eight dollars! ”

Xiao Jiading saw his money-obsessed appearance, and thought to himself, maybe you want to kill the cow to sell as beef buns, and deliberately kill the cow, but pretend that the cow fell to death. However, although Tang Law stipulates that cattle killing must be punished, the concept of modern criminal law makes Xiao Jiading have no such thoughts.

Xiao Jiading said: "That's it, I remember this matter, and after entering the yamen in the afternoon, I'll see if I can help you talk and return the beef to you." ”

"Oops, thank you so much! Thank you Xiao Gongzi! Thank you so much. ”

It's no wonder that Yu Gui is so excited, eight yuan is equivalent to 40,000 yuan. That's just the money of the beef itself, if it is made into beef buns and sold, it will be doubled, which is a lot of money. Rare is expensive, and beef is difficult to eat in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhu Haiyin couldn't eat the food of this snack shop at all, and when he saw that Gu Yezhou had finished eating, he said, "Let's go, big brother?" ”

Xiao Jiading nodded and stepped out, and Yu Gui was accompanying him to see him off.

When I arrived at the front hall, there were fewer people than before, and Lou Lan was cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks and wiping the table, and her pretty face was still as cold as frost. When a regular customer greeted her, she just nodded, not looking at anyone at all, and those diners who wanted to talk had to shut up.

Xiao Jiading understood, this girl's cold appearance, I am afraid that it is also a helpless act of self-protection, she is too beautiful, and in a snack shop like a place frequented by peddlers and pawns, those people dare to say anything in the face of beautiful women, and there is even no shortage of people who rub oil with their hands and feet, if it is not for such a cold eyebrow, and the face is like frost, they will really be bullied.

Xiao Jiading felt some sympathy for her in his heart, and when he walked by her, he whispered: "Miss Loulan, you have worked hard!" After that, he didn't look at her, and went straight out.

Loulan was stunned for a moment, she had never said such a thing to her before, and she couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, and looked at Xiao Jiading's back in a daze.

Zhu Haiyin chased a few steps to catch up with Xiao Jiading and said, "Big brother, have you eaten enough?" If we haven't eaten enough, let's change places and continue eating. ”

"I'm full."

Zhu Haiyin himself barely ate, and his stomach growled, but Xiao Jiading said that he was full, and he was embarrassed to propose to eat again, so he didn't let Xiao Jiading accompany him to eat. He rolled his eyes and said, "It's still early, how about we go on a cruise river?" ”

"Cruise on the river?"

"That's right, the Huanhua River cruise, a great joy in life!"

Xiao Jiading guessed what kind of cruise river this was, it must be a flower boat or something, and said with a smile: "You went to do this early in the morning?" ”

"The river cruise is meant to be in the daytime, and you can't see anything at night. And when he was drunk, he was carried into the river and no one saw him. Best during the day. And Huanhua Creek is not far ahead. Just a short walk. Now at this hour, there is still a long time until noon, let's drink some wine to lift our spirits. ”

"I have to go to the government in the afternoon, and I can't drink."

"Then ......, then don't drink, just play until noon, eat and go to the office, or where to go now, how boring it is to sit in the house."

"That's right, okay. Let's go! ”

Xiao Jiading followed Zhu Haiyin to Huanhua Creek, and sure enough, he saw singing and laughing on the green and secluded water, and from time to time he saw beautifully dressed women standing on the bow of the boat, waving to them.

As soon as he saw the flower boat, Zhu Haiyin's eyebrows fluttered, and when he arrived at the dock, he was a frequent visitor here, and they all competed to greet him. Zhu Haiyin asked for a beautiful painting boat, and the two of them got on the boat, and more than a dozen women on the boat, Yingying Yanyan chirping, leaned on them.

The girls on the painting boat are much more low-grade than the girls in the Jade Building, and the singing and dancing are also very ordinary. But those who come here are not usually here for those reasons. Xiao Jiading is not a serious person, of course he will not be polite, but he doesn't come to be serious, who knows if these women are clean, he doesn't want to cause trouble.

It's fast to mix time in the women's pile, and before you know it, it's noon. Zhu Haiyin let the painting boat dock, and the two took the servants to the restaurant for dinner. Zhu Haiyin ordered a large table of food, and he didn't serve wine. After eating, I saw that it was almost time to go to the yamen, and then I went out of the yamen.

Xiao Jiading returned to the inn first, took the landscape painting of Sima of the palace, folded it into a square and put it in his sleeve pocket, and then followed Zhu Haiyin to the Shaocheng County Ya.

Entered the gate of the county government, turned the wall, walked through the long road, and arrived at the high wall in front of the second hall. There is a door here, but the door is usually not opened, unless it is opened to meet Shangguan and other occasions, and it usually enters and exits from the right corner door. The yamen can be roughly divided into two departments, the front lobby and other places where ordinary people can come in to complain, hear, and see notices, and after this corner gate, the back is the office area of the county government, and ordinary people are not allowed to enter.

Because of Zhu Haiyin, Xiao Jiading went in smoothly without having to talk to the concierge of the corner gate.

Zhu Haiyin sent him to the door of the county lieutenant Deng Quansheng's signing room, pointed to the room in the front of the torture room, signaled that he was there, and left.