"What should be said has been said below, and please ask Lord Shen to be aware of it."

In the county hall, Zu Zhao knelt under the hall, and stated the affairs of Lingzhi County in detail in a non-hurried tone, and his words were not impetuous or impetuous, nor did he add too much oil and vinegar, giving people a feeling of being able to convinc.

In the hall, Shen Yuan sat behind the big case, and Wang Wei sat on the side of the big case. As for Chen Xianjun, he can only set up a small chair in front of the left side of the big case at this time, sit here, and listen to this court trial with a depressed face.

Shen Yuan's attitude was not strict from beginning to end, he would ask whatever he wanted, and he didn't plan to embarrass Zu Zhao at all.

After listening to Zu Zhao's statement, he pondered for a long time, and he had something else to think about in his heart. Before setting off this time, Liu Yuanjun specially explained the case to him, and this case was not about killing a county monarch who tried to flee privately, but about the ancestral family running rampant in the township and privately casting military armor, which was quite suspicious of misconduct.

In the past two days, he heard that Zujiazhuang is a powerful party in this county, and what he has done is no different from other powerful people, and there are places to say that there are also places to go too far, such as annexing fields, collecting land rents, and privately lending usury. However, it is not only the ancestral family that is like this, but also other big families such as the Zhang family and the Zhao family. The ancestral family is not the most powerful, but it is by no means the most benevolent.

And Zu Zhao is just the eldest son of Zujiazhuang, who is gentle and elegant on weekdays, but he is a good talker. Even so, he can only represent himself, not the entire ancestral village, so there is a certain difference in speech.

Shen Yuan naturally had a general impression in his heart, but he couldn't assert it hastily, after all, he had only been in Xu Wuxian for two days, and the news he inquired about couldn't be generalized.

It was precisely because of this consideration that he decided to simply put the case in a showdown so as not to drag it out. Immediately, he turned the direction of the question directly to the ancestral family and the tyrant side of Xu Wuxian, and asked about Zu Zhao's private casting of soldiers, annexation of fields, and oppression of the people, and his tone and attitude became more or less harsh.

Zu Zhao, who had always been puzzled, finally had a little enlightenment at this time, but he was also very surprised. His eyes immediately turned to Chen Xianjun, who was sitting in front of the big case like a pins and needles, he had communicated with Chen Xianjun about this matter earlier, as long as Chen Xianjun came forward to testify about this matter, many problems obviously did not need to be so troubled.

Chen Xianjun felt Zu Zhao's gaze, and immediately turned sideways, looking very embarrassed. It's not that he didn't want to testify for the ancestral family, but considering that the above thorough investigation of this matter must have a lot to do with what the ancestral family did in the past, the private casting of military armor is nothing more than a reason, even if there is no private casting of military armor this year, the ancestral family secretly hid leather armor, horse halberds and good horses in the early years, etc., this is a sure and indisputable matter.

Shen Yuan still had the patience to wait for Zu Zhao to reply, but Wang Wei on the side had already had the intention of making things difficult, and when he saw Zu Zhao hesitate a little, he immediately scolded: "What about asking you, what's the matter, are you dumb now?" ”

Since Zu Zhao thought that Chen Xianjun did not explain the ancestral family, there must be a reason, and he did not plan to expose this point for the time being, after all, he had to rely on Chen Xianjun to deal with it in the future. So he still didn't change his complexion, and Xu Sheng said: "To be honest, what my ancestral family did in Xu Wuxian is really not clear. The ancestral family is a large local family, and there are many people, and how many of them have done anything cannot be asserted that they are all from the ancestral village. Or one or two people have a tyranny, which is also a personal act of deception. ”

Wang Wei snorted disdainfully and reprimanded: "Rhetoric." ”

After a slight pause, Zu Zhao continued: "No one is a saint or a sage, even so, I know that Zujiazhuang is preparing for thieves every year, and he will do his best to resist the thieves Kou Zujia's sons are the first to charge." As for the private casting of armor, there must be some misunderstanding. This year, the county was in turmoil, and Xu Wu's surroundings were repeatedly Huma, so the whole county discussed, thinking that this year's thieves should recruit more volunteers and bravery, in case of accidents. Now that there are many volunteers, it is necessary to expand the blade. The words of the private casting of military armor are purely one-sided, and there must be a misunderstanding in it. ”

After listening to Zu Zhao's words, Chen Xianjun finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and sighed that Zu Zhao, this kid is quite sensible, otherwise if he really spreads out the words, he really doesn't know how to end it. After thinking about it, Zu Zhao couldn't say anything until he returned the favor, so he immediately coughed lightly, turned to Shen Yuan and said: "Lord Shen, this matter is indeed as Zu Zhao said, at the beginning, it was the lower officials who convened the three elders of the gentry in the county to discuss the preparation for thieves this year. ”

Hearing this, Shen Yuan nodded slowly, and immediately asked Chen Xianjun: "Since this matter has been agreed by the county government, why hasn't the county government received the relevant official report?" ”

Chen Xianjun was suddenly embarrassed, laughed for a while, and said: "Speaking of which, this matter is done for the preparation of thieves after all, and there are years of preparation for thieves, and the lower officials think that this matter belongs to the county, and there is no need to disturb the county government, so ...... Hehe, Lord Shen, this matter may be an oversight, but it must be excusable. ”

Shen Yuan pondered silently, but he was not in a hurry to express his position.

Wang Wei scolded coldly: "What kind of words are these, what is extenuating circumstances?" Lord Chen, there are some things you have to be cautious about, this matter has nothing to do with you, the ancestral family bullied others, bullied the county government, for personal gain, do you still need to quibble about this matter? ”

Chen Xianjun was surprised, he really didn't expect that the people from the Cheqi General's Mansion would actually make such an accusation?

Zu Zhao was also moved, he had already seen something bad from Wang Wei's attitude, and even more or less guessed why Zhang Wen, the general of the cavalry, suddenly changed his attitude towards himself? He had never met Zhang Wen, the general of the chariot cavalry, and the reason why Zhang Wen wanted to inquire about his ancestral family was because there were treacherous people who were obstructing him.

He thought about it carefully, the ancestral family and Wang Wei obviously had no intersection, Wang Wei hated the ancestral family so much, there were really many things that he couldn't figure out.

Chen Xianjun still had a few words to defend and said: "Lord Wang, what Xia Guan said before is the truth, how can there be ......?"

Wang Wei said coldly: "Chen Xianjun, you have thought about it, this matter has nothing to do with you!" ”

Chen Xianjun was immediately stunned, not knowing what to do, so he could only shut up.

Zu Zhao seemed to feel the aura of wanting to kill himself on Wang Wei's body, he clenched his fists, and he really couldn't say what he was suffering from.

Subsequently, even though he made a defense on the facts, Shen Yuan was skeptical, and Wang Wei completely thought that Zu Zhao was just a high-sounding quibble. In the end, the court decided to temporarily detain Zu Zhao and conduct another in-depth investigation of the case, not only that, but even thought that the grandparents should be invited to come to assist in the interrogation of this matter, which means that they should take the ancestral family and arrest all the elders of the ancestral family who have the right to speak into the case.

For the next two days, Zu Zhao spent the next two days in the county government prison.

Although he was taken into custody, Chen Xianjun obviously did not dare to snub Zu Zhao, not only arranged a special separate cell, but also sent a clean bedding, which was already a very comfortable treatment compared to ordinary prisoners. In the past two days, Zu Zhao has been very worried that the ancestral family will be harassed by Wang Wei in every way, and then more people will be sent to the prison cell, but it turns out that he doesn't know what effort the ancestral family has spent, and everything is not as bad as he imagined.

Except for himself, no one else from the ancestral family was thrown into the county government jail again.

On the afternoon of the third day, the ancestral family even sent someone to the county government to visit the prison and bring a sumptuous dinner. The person who came to visit him was none other than Zu Zhao's cousin Zu Zhan, who not only brought Zu Zhao a sumptuous dinner, but also some important news.

In the past few days, the ancestral family has been broken everywhere, not only sending people to the county government, but also sending people to Jixian County, sparing no expense to dredge the relationship, and doing everything possible to resolve the matter. Although the county government is still in chaos at this time, after all, the matter of beheading Wang Xianjun has been sent to the Liaoxi Taishou Yang Zhong who is acting as the county guard, and Yang Taishou does not attach importance to this matter, so the above has not taken the ancestral village for the time being. In addition to Yang Taishou's lack of attention to this matter, there are also many differences between Shen Yuan and Wang Wei, one represents Liu Yan, the assassin of Youzhou, and the other represents Zhang Wen, the general of the chariot cavalry, and they both have to compete with each other for the face of their masters, so naturally, both sides will disagree on their positions.

Zu Zhan also told Zu Zhao that in the past few days, Zujiazhuang hired some people with a face to follow the general of the chariot and cavalry to engage in Wang Wei, and found that Wang Wei actually went to the south of the city to visit the Zhao family yesterday.

When Zu Zhao heard this, his eyebrows frowned slightly, and he thought deeply: "If this matter is really the Zhao family's obstruction, it is not impossible. ”

Zu Zhan said solemnly: "This matter must have been done by the Zhao family, hmph, the traitor, the grace will take revenge, it is really hateful." ”

Zu Zhao also thinks that the Zhao family is the most suspicious, and Wang Wei is related to the Zhao family, so everything can be explained logically. He is not only very shameful about the conspiracy of the Zhao family, but also very hateful, the Zhao family ignores the interests of the whole county with the interests of his own family, and even hates other wealthy families because of this. This year, the Zhao family has not donated a penny of food, and at this time, he is still secretly drumming up and framing things, and he really wants to do bad things.

Zu Zhan sighed, and then said: "Eldest prince, you can endure in prison for a few days, right now Ah Gong is trying to expose the Zhao family's conspiracy, but it will take some time." Alas, the family said that it was thanks to the eldest prince who was involved in the prison at this time, otherwise the government would definitely still be pestering the ancestral village, and at that time, ......"

Zu Zhao raised his hand and said quietly: "Fortunately, Chen Xianjun took care of it, and he won't suffer in prison." This matter is not urgent, you go back and tell your grandfather, just hope that you can delay this matter for a while, I believe that as time goes by, there will be an opportunity. ”

Zu Zhan didn't know what medicine Zu Zhao was selling in his stomach, but he still agreed: "I know." ”

A few days later, Shen Yuan suddenly received a letter from the state government, saying that Zu Zhao was released to Jixian County for personal interrogation.

Shen Yuan is hesitating about this matter, on the one hand, after an in-depth investigation, he did not find any traces of misdeeds in the ancestral family, and on the other hand, Wang Wei's almost unreasonable confrontation is really difficult. Now that the state government has asked to bring people to Jixian County for investigation, it can be regarded as getting out of this matter, which makes him breathe a sigh of relief.

So on the morning of February 6, Shen Yuan summoned people to take Zu Zhao out of the county jail, and did not escort him in a prison car, but only put handcuffs and leg shackles, and let him follow the team on the road in an ox cart. He has a good impression of Zu Zhao, and the ancestral family is also really attentive during this time, and secretly gives a lot of benefits, since the ancestral family has no intention of rebelling, this matter will definitely come to light soon, of course, there is no need to embarrass it.

Early in the morning, everyone in the ancestral family went to the county government to see each other off, and even the ancestor came in the spring cold.

Saying goodbye one by one, Zu Zhao remained indifferent from beginning to end, and told the elders not to worry, with the sage of Liu Zhijun, he will definitely be able to repay himself a justice-

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