was even harsher than Jin guessed, Liu Yong slapped Liu Tongxun in the face as soon as he entered the north study, and the first sentence he heard was Liu Tongxun's broken shout: "Kneel!" ”

"Yes!" Liu Yong knelt on the ground with a plop, wanted to reach out and stroke his feverish cheek, raised it and hung it down, kowtowed in a proper manner, and said, "My son must have done something wrong." Please punish Father! ”

Liu Tongxun seemed to have just finished a meeting, the room was full of smoke and smoke, and the leftover cups of tea on several coffee tables had not been cleaned up, which seemed a little messy. slapped Liu Yong, Liu Tongxun himself looked a little discouraged, holding a huge teacup and drinking tea one after another, with an angry face that could not be concealed tired, half-crooked in the circle chair, and took a long breath. said: "I just met with the Nanjing City Gate Leader [1]

, as well as several green camp pipe belts in Suzhou and Hangzhou. In the afternoon, Jin and Yin Yuanchang were seen, and in the evening, it was Nanjing Prefect, Customs, and Yancao. Everyone spoke in unison, praising 'there is a Mao Xianer in the crotch of the pants' and the response to the hexagram splitting is like a god! ”

"Father......" Liu Yong knew the reason for this slap, kowtowed again, and said: "You asked your son to pretend to be a fortune teller!" This is an easy way to communicate with your father. You also said that what to pretend to be like something, pretend to be a fortune teller, and at this moment you have to think that I am a fortune teller......" He glanced at Liu Tongxun and didn't dare to say any more.

Liu Tongxun didn't get angry anymore, coughed, gasped heavily, got up and wandered around the room with his hands on his back. Liu Yong is tall, kneeling on the ground and shoulder-high with his father, he can't see each other in the same city for a few months, at this moment he looks at his father under the lamp, he looks like he has been old for a few years, and even the tendons and veins under his neck have a trace of wrinkles, he opened his mouth to say a few words of comfort and encouragement, but he felt that he couldn't talk about it, only looked at his father who was pacing slowly in a daze.

"Yes, I said that." Liu Tongxun's voice was hollow, humming in the spacious study, "I said to call you 'like', but I didn't say to call you 'yes'!" I didn't say that you were selling your reputation! He stretched out two fingers and held them up, "It's too famous, it's eye-catching, it's causing some irrelevant idleness, you are in danger, the bandits are eyeing you, who can protect you?" Besides, what are you doing with all this miscellaneous knowledge? You must know that you are a dignified two-list jinshi, and you want to be the lord of the Confucian Sasuke generation, and you will be able to tell fortunes and see feng shui, okay? He stood on his feet and said: "You are here to solve the case, it is a major case to solve the king's name, a big case, you have to think clearly!" ”

Liu Yong knelt straight and listened to the training, and his father's words shook his heart with thunder and lightning. One is for official business, the other is for safety, and he is concerned about his future future. Who could think so well for him but his father? Liu Yong's heart was sour, and he choked up and said, "My son has understood, he has already known...... The selling of divination was too serious, but it was fake, and the son forgot the mean and didn't do it just right......"

"You read books like "Six Books", "Shuowen", and "Word Touch", and you took advantage of the errand to sell divination, and you wanted to try the authenticity of these academics, and you unknowingly entered the magic path of the Shushu family." Liu Tongxun said: "No matter what sect is a cult, if any academic school has no effect, who will believe it?" And how can it be handed down? All laws are one, and the country is governed by the world, or it is necessary to be upright and upright! Which of the stars in the sky doesn't shine? The pearl of grain rice also shines, comparable to the flow of the sun and the moon and the river? ”

"My Father Taught ......"

When Liu Tongxun stared at his son, Fang spat out: "Get up!" ......" felt a palpitation in his heart, hurriedly took a small bottle of Suhexiang wine on the bookshelf, took a sip, leaned loosely on the easy chair, stroked the hot head with one hand, and sighed uncontrollably. Liu Yong hurriedly came over, knelt behind the chair and gently massaged and rubbed his father.

"Yong'er! ......" Liu Tongxun half-closed his eyes, massaged by his son, his voice has become very soft, "Sit on the stool and press it for me, you are tall, you are too tired like this!" ……”

"My son is young, and his body is strong, so it's okay. Just rest! ...... "Liu Yong has never seen his father so old and so sad!" So warm! Tears came out of his eyes and said: "It's the son who is unfilial, and he makes you angry, so you should be waited like this." ”

Liu Tongxun shook his head, and the old man's voice was soothing and hoarse: "I am angry with you when I beat you, and I am also a little angry with you." Zhang Tingyu was ordered to go to Nanjing to recuperate, and then took over. When I went to see him this morning, he boasted to me about his achievements for a long time...... From waiting for the Holy Ancestor to the present day...... I'm anxious, how many urgent things to do, and I have to listen to ......"

"He's old, don't care about him."

"I'm not careful." Liu Tongxun interjected and glanced at his son and sighed, "I'm telling you, seventy suspension, I'm sixty years old this year...... It seems that he may not be able to enjoy his long life. If you really live to seventy, you must remind me not to learn from this old prime minister......"

"How can it? Father...... Don't say this, my son is like a knife in his heart when he hears it! ……”

Liu Tongxun smiled bitterly: "It's not just to be angry with him, it's because he is angry...... I called the Yandao and Caoyun envoys to come, and wanted to ask Gao Heng Qiandu who was escorting the copper ship, whether it was on the official road or the underworld. If it is on the underworld, you have to wonder if the more than 1,000 loom workers brought by Widow Cao's machine room are involved with the 'Yizhihua' henchmen...... Who knew that he didn't say three words, Yandao Caoyun two sets of officials, and the nest dogs generally barked at each other - it turned out that three days ago, they ate flower wine in Zangchun Pavilion and fought for a ** fight. When you come to me, you are still enemies who are very red when they see each other! I was so angry that I was dizzy, they rose more and more, shaking off at the scene, the officials of the Salt Gang and a group of nuns in the Pure Land Nunnery covered the adultery at night, and the officials of the Cao Gang were **, they were actually a litter of rabbits! At the banquet, it was agreed to change the wife and commit adultery...... Our Qing Dynasty is really a golden example, and it is ruined. Can such a 'rule of officials' still be rectified? ”

"The son also wants to persuade his father to say a word." Liu Yong really understood the reason for his father's anger, and sighed and said, "If you want to take care of it, just take care of it; If it is pleasing to the eye, you will never be angry. The modern ode of folk rap is 'Bao Longtu'. It's that there are ten, a hundred, and there are ten or one hundred of them in Baolongtu, and when they look at such a bureaucracy, they will be angry and helpless. Learn from the elder father, that clean and self-conscious, and live a chic ......" "He is a chic fart!" Liu Tongxun said, "He also has a nameless fire in his belly, and for the first time he was promoted to the government today, he was furious about the case, and picked the top of Jiangning Dao, Jiangnan Patrol Envoy and Jinhua Prefect, please investigate and deal with it - Jinhua ham is good, he eats a strange taste!" ”

Before Liu Yong could speak, the bamboo curtain rang, walked in Yin Jishan, hugged his hands and smiled: "What a picture of filial piety!" Jishan has been listening to the corner for a long time. You talk to your heart, involve me - don't move, you have a heart disease, and you're too tired, just crooked, brother, you just have to be filial, let's talk. ”

"It's the chief!" Liu Tongxun still sat up in the end, this rest, he looked much better, and while ordering Liu Yong to make tea for Yin Jishan, he smiled and said: "My son is persuading me to learn from you, I said that you are a chic fart, and your Cao Cao will arrive." "Jinhua ham is not delicious, and I can't sleep, so I'm here to eat tea here." Yin Jishan is also in his fifties, but he is good at recuperating Yihe, his eyebrows are full of anticipation, and he looks less than forty years old. Yin Jishan flicked the cup with his fingers, looked at Liu Yong and smiled: "Brother Shi probably doesn't know that Jiangning Dao, Jiangnan Wind Patrol Observation Envoy and Jinhua Prefect are all officials who I used to make old. A man came with a ham and returned to the 'wind' for me, what is there to collect a ham? Before leaving, the three of them all knocked with their fingers, and I was suspicious, and when I opened it, I saw that there was a word 'Fu' written in gold balls. Do you dare to eat this thing? Suicide by swallowing gold? Even Liu Tongxun was surprised and said, "Doesn't it mean that the ham has changed its taste?" scolded in public, picked off the top and said, 'Listen to the ginseng', and went back with his things...... I think you've gone too far! It turns out that there are still articles in it! ”

Yin Jishan smiled wryly: "This is the difference between me and Yan Qinggong." I picked off the top, and I returned them in a few days, called to reprimand them, and comforted them a few words, it's really good, and I want to lift it. It can not only clean themselves, but also teach everyone to be vigilant and self-disciplined, and not too sweep their faces. In the end, I said that one party is sacred, and I can't defend my head, who is willing to do things with me honestly? ”

Liu Yong listened to these words, and admired it in his heart, and felt that this kind of practical learning was really 10,000 times smarter than the Guozi priest wine gathering all beings in Taixue, talking about "filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness, and honesty", saying "shame and goodness", "profit and righteousness cannot be both, I would rather give up profit and take righteousness" and other truths. Thinking about it, he heard Liu Tongxun smile bitterly: "It can be described as well-intentioned!" Straightening by deception is almost treacherous and worthy of righteousness. It's a pity that I, Liu Tongxun, have a violent temperament and can't follow suit. Yong'er, it's okay to listen to your Uncle Yin Shi, but you also have to think about it carefully, and choose the good one for your use. Don't be a toddler in Handan, his set only applies to him Yin Yuanchang. Now that the rule of officials is corrupt, it will not be possible if there are no brave men who come forward to act vigorously and resolutely. So, Uncle Gao Guo, what kind of money, maybe there is a bigger shady curtain behind it, our masters have worked hard to overturn it, see how it is? You fight for me! As he spoke, he suddenly coughed, and Liu Yong hurriedly beat his back for him and replied in a low voice: "Yes." Son obeys! ”

"I'm really convinced of you, Liu Yanqinggong. Knowing that it can't be done is to be brave. Yin Jishan saw the scene of his father and son, and felt very tragic and touching, and his heart was shaken. Trying his best to suppress his surging heart, Yin Jishan reluctantly smiled: "I have just returned to Jinling, and I have to go to Ganshan to supervise the military aircraft, so I can't help handle the case on the spot." But I can help. What do you want me to do? Go ahead. ”

Liu Yong saw his father nodding and said calmly: "The Holy Driver arrived in Nanjing on the ninth day of the eighth month, and Lord Yin expected to know about it. According to the report of the person sent to the undercover agent, Yi Ying does not seem to have the counter-movement to assassinate. However, the masters of the Hongyang Sect Xiangtang gathered three times on the boat in Taihu Lake. Our meticulous work can't reach Yi Ying, and we don't know what to discuss. I heard the master of the hall come back and say, 'The moon is not round fifteen or sixteen. This year, we will sacrifice the ancestor of Hongyang, the motherless mother, and the philanthropic people will be happy every day, and it will be very lively'. It seems that he just wants to take advantage of the emperor's southern tour, Nanjing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou will inevitably celebrate lively, stir up some trouble, and ruin the prosperous brand of the 'prosperous era', so that the people of the world can see the power of the White Lotus Sect. Yuan Changgong didn't come back, they already knew that you were reinstated as the governor of Liangjiang, and they also meant to give you some color. ”

"Humph!" Yin Jishan smiled coldly and said: "I received an edict from Guangli who is also the Minister of Military Aircraft, and I have written to the green battalions of the garrisons here all over the country, and the big fish such as the sky and the earth net!" You can do it first, and go down with an order, and the incense halls around the country will even end it with pots! Liu Tongxun said: "In order to protect the emperor's safety and dignity, it should be like this." I have repeatedly whispered the petition. But the emperor's three secret edicts strictly did not allow it - Yuan Chief, you can take a look. As he spoke, he got up, squirmed to the bookcase, took the key, opened a yellow leather box with a "click", took out a thick dossier and handed it to Yin Jishan. Yin Jishan took it out under the lamp to see, but it was a few folded ensemble booklets, and dozens of pages were densely packed with Zhong Wang's fly-headed small letters, all of which were meticulously written. The activities of the congregants in various parts of Suzhou, Hangzhou, Ningyang, and Yangzhou were secretly reported, as well as several copies of the contacts and missionary contacts between the "Qingchamen Sect" and the "Mixed Yuan Sect" in Shaanxi and Jin, and the Hongyang Sect. Even the tornado in Nanjing a few days ago, and the folk songs and children's songs that accompanied it, were not missing. The last article "Minister Liu Tongxun kneels and plays a request to quickly extinguish the Xiangtang affairs of Pingyi Ying and bandits in various places" The following Zhu criticized: "You can fold this to Yin Jishan to see." ”

Yin Jishan then understood that looking at this excerpt was not Liu Tongxun's personal friendship with him, he smiled and nodded admiringly, and then looked at the following words in block letters:

With such a move, Yi Ying will hear the wind and escape again! The prelude "Skynet is restored and sparse but not leaked" is very commended. Although there are many people who join the church, most of them are reckless, ignorant, ignorant and ignorant and foolish people, wearing sanctification, relying on virtue, enjoying a peaceful and prosperous world, and not suffering from excesses and tyranny, how can they all be willing to rebel and abandon their lives and follow the principle of thieves? Now that the net is exhausted, I am afraid that the good and the bad will be harmed by the pond fish, and I will love and raise the Yuanyuan? I can't bear it. And the car has not been driven, Jiangnan has already gone to the big rope [2]

, must first incur the fear of people's hearts, with a chestnut heart to welcome me to patrol the fortunate, I am the king of darkness, and I am also unhappy. Yi Ying rebelled several times, and he was repeatedly defeated, but he also has extraordinary talents, and I have a relationship with him, and I would like to meet again to see what kind of person he is. Er, Yin Jishan and Liu Yong, known as "capable officials", are all related to my heart. I look at the hearts of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and I will never look at me as a and want to kill them, and I should plan carefully, not to disturb the people, and to help me inspect the people's situation and sightseeing, that is, there is a small risk of inappropriateness, and I will not sin against you.

After Yin Jishan finished reading it, he handed Zhu Pi to Liu Yong, took a long breath, and said: "The emperor is still far-sighted!" The southern patrol was originally a holy rule of algae, and we caught people everywhere with great fanfare, making people panic, so it was better not to come. We only care about the emperor's safety and forget about the overall situation! ”

"But then there was a big problem. Because according to Huang Tianba's report, it is plausible, and he really dare not ensure that no one plots to assassinate the emperor. Liu Yong frowned and said, "Looking at the situation, the emperor also wants us to arrange a private meeting with 'a flower', which is too much-" He wanted to say "child's play", but when the words came to his lips, he felt inappropriate, so he smiled and said: "I mean, it's the same as listening to the drums of the public case, it's too unbelievable." ”

In fact, Yin Jishan and Liu Tongxun are also thinking about it. None of them could imagine how Qianlong had a "one-sided relationship" with "a flower", and it was even more difficult to imagine what "meeting again" meant, and what kind of "fine planning" method should be.

"The emperor loves micro-service private patrols too much." I don't know how long it was quiet, Liu Tongxun sighed and said: "Fu Heng and I, as well as relatives who have bad things, I don't know how many times I have admonished him, asking him to 'hang down his clothes and rule the world', and he said that he would listen to the advice, but in fact, it is still the same." Yin Jishan is an extremely smart person, thinking about it, although he doesn't know it, he knows that behind the "one-sided fate" of this merry emperor, there may be something "wrong". Because of the smile: "Isn't it unpredictable!" I just thought about it, and we still don't understand. Brother, you actually hold all the details of this mission. I'll look at you. If you want me to help, let me say it. ”

Liu Yong has actually been racking his brains for a long time to "fine planning". After pondering for a long time, he said, "I have to discuss it with the Heavenly Tyrants when I go back." This kind of thing, Qingtian is in control, they are more convenient than the guards. There are two things I can think of at the moment. The first is money - the fine work that enters the bandits, and it is necessary to use the money to get close to the 'one branch of flowers' - the special silver items we spend on the criminal department are not convenient to receive and send. ”

"Done! I'll give you an order, take it in the customs money, and we'll settle the bill with the criminal department. ”

"With 3,000 green battalion soldiers, turn the whole into zero, pretend to be ordinary people from now on, go into the city to check the geographical situation of the buildings and shops, especially Linggu Temple, Xuanwu Lake, Jiming Temple, Qingliang Mountain, Taoyedu, Confucius Temple, to Stone City, Mochou Lake and even the Yangtze River Ferry, these places of scenic spots, or there are places where you can see the victory. There must be no publicity, and there must be no contact with each other. A code code, a whistle, can summon at least fifty people to respond quickly. ”

"Done! This one is carefully thought out. I'll arrange it tomorrow morning. ”

Liu Yong looked at the hazy night outside the courtyard through the curtain in a daze, his eyes seemed to penetrate the deep universe of the heavy building, and muttered: "Safety is still the first." Peace and Joy First...... Can you arrange a 'reunion' to follow nature......" He suddenly came back from his trance, and said with his mind: "The Mid-Autumn Festival city is lively in August, and Jin Wu can't help it." Inform the townships, led by the patriarch of the gentry Libao into the city for sightseeing, these are all old men, can restrain their own villagers, set up a few wine sheds, over sixty years old with their identity to lead a gift, such as preserved meat bottle wine and the like, the family children are all into the city, the old man refuses to let the children follow the people to make trouble! ”

"Good!" Even Liu Tongxun was excited when he heard this, and he was originally sitting on his back with his eyes squinted, but he leaned over and sat up straight, and said: "This article should ask for a clear decree, and set up preserved wine and meat to show the virtue of the Son of Heaven to show compassion for the old and virtuous." The government can also set up moon viewing pavilions and the like, tea supply, lottery prize rice, and the atmosphere of peace is up, and people have no intention of making trouble! ”

In the distance, I don't know which one, there is a faint sound of chickens crowing. Yin Jishan took out his pocket watch, the hour hand was pointing at the ugly, because he got up and smiled: "It can be said that there is no last resort!" I can also transfer 3,000 green battalions to listen to you for backup, and it will be foolproof...... Okay, that's it, it's time to let Lao Zhongtang rest - Tianming Yuan Mei opened the office and tried the case of the strange wind blowing away the woman. This incident alarmed all over the country, and rumors spread everywhere. Don't look at it as a civil entanglement - do you want to see the excitement? ”

"Yes." Liu Yong replied with a smile.

…………

Liu Yong missed the sleepiness of thinking about things, and then did not feel a little sleepy, waiting for his father to rest, simply washing his face and drinking tea, and writing the case in the study, listening to the roosters outside for a while, the birds in the trees gradually chirped, and wrote a post to his father to press on the table, still with the iron abacus of the poster, and quietly left the governor's office from the back west corner gate.

Jiangning County Ya is located in the east of the Jiming Temple in Xuanwu Hunan, the main hall of the two halls, the rear Yaqin Zhitang into the north-south axis, is also very tall and open, than some of the government offices in Jiangbei are more magnificent, but in the land of gold powder in these six dynasties, from the governor to the governor of the two divisions, the governor of the customs, the observation of the Yamen is deep and vast, or a small thing. Only in front of the main gate of Yanan in this county, it was originally the military exercise school field of the Xuanwu Lake Water Division, the water division moved to Taihu Lake, the school field was barren and empty, and it looked very open when it came here on weekdays.

On the sixth day of the first month of May, Nanjing Shuixi Gate burned a fire, folk rumors said that there was a beautiful young man who called the wind to start the fire, Yuan Mei took more than 1,000 soldiers and civilians to rescue the faucet waterwheel, and the second day there was a locust plague, and the grass and trees around Nanjing were chewed and swept away, and the tornado was carried out in early May, the tree was pulled down and the house collapsed, and the Kui Xingge collapsed, and the big bronze bell of the Qingxuguan was swept away, and the Han family woman in the east of the city was blown away, and flew out of Tongjing Village, which was 90 miles away...... Everything is shocking, and everything is well-founded. The case dragged on for more than two months before the trial was opened, and it was an edict issued by Fu Hengjun's military department, telling Jin to "cool down, let it go, and watch the movement and see the stillness before acting", Rao is so, who doesn't want to see how this "goddess" who was swept to the sky by the wind and landed unharmed gave birth to a look? Therefore, the sky is unclear, and the flow of people from the four townships and eight miles of Jinling County, and the poor soil of remote villages rush to this school field.

When Liu Yong arrived, he saw that there were already thousands of heads on the horse archery road and the platform of the school parade, countless people like ants, including old and young, women and children, some noisy, some crying, some laughing, salty duck board duck stalls, fragrant fruit halva, rock sugar, hawthorn strings, wontons, fried buns, pasta, soup cakes, and the buzzing and chattering voices. Liu Yong searched for a long time before he found a corner and set up a hexagram stall, which was already crowded and sweaty, and he heard a group of people in the distance shouting in unison as if they had made an appointment:

"Lord Yuan, it's a Qing official, judging Jiao Niang, let's see!"

"Mr. Yuan, the case is clear, and you can see it clearly when you open the office!"

"Please judge the case in front of the Yaye, we have to see if the judge is ......" The shouting was sandwiched with clapping in unison, whistling and laughing in a mess. Liu Yong suddenly had a thought: This group of people is going to make a mess, this county yamen, and what kind of governor yamen and the like will turn into powder in an instant, and thinking about Qianlong's Zhu Pi's secret edict, he can't help laughing at himself. While thinking wildly, Jia Fuchun squeezed out in sweat, squatted down in front of the hexagram stall, and said, "Mao Xian'er told me to find it." Go to Confucius Temple first, I didn't see you, guess you're here, you really guessed right! ”

"Your husband asks hexagrams, or does he measure words?"

"It's not me, it's our boss!"

"Where's your boss?"

"In the crotch." Jia Fuchun smiled, but lowered his voice, "Someone is staring at you - you get up and just go, Fuyun and I will quietly follow to protect you." It's okay, it's two sons! Then he got up. As soon as Liu Yong stood up, he listened to the excited cheers of tens of millions of people, "Mrs. Yuan is promoted to the ya, oh ho ......" When Liu Yong stilted his feet, sure enough, the yamen had been opened, and all the yamen were standing outside the yamen with black and red water and fire sticks, pushing the crowd surging forward, shouting and fighting, and then looking at the ya, Yuan Mei was wearing a white glass top, wearing a white pheasant supplement, wearing an eight-python and five-clawed robe, and turning over the snow-white sleeves to go out of the ya, Liu Yong smiled, and then turned around and squeezed out, drowning in the sea of people in the blink of an eye.

Yuan Mei was elegant, stepping out of the threshold of the county government with a spring breeze on his face, pressing down with both hands like a piano, and the rolling and tumultuous voices quieted down from near and far.

"Fathers and fellow villagers!" Yuan Mei waved his hand and ordered the officials to retreat, and Yuanting Yue Zhi stood under the dripping eaves in front of the ya, and said loudly: "Everyone is willing to see me Yuan someone try this case openly, I obey the will of the people and decide the case here!" Seeing the commotion of the crowd, Yuan Mei closed his mouth with a smile, moved to a moment's quiet, and continued: "But there are too many people today, if you make a lot of noise, you won't be able to see anything, you won't hear anything clearly." As long as I have three feet of open space to try the case, you will watch and listen quietly, and the judgment will be clear, and everyone will be happy. If I can't do that, I'd rather try it another day. If you can agree, whoever wants to make trouble inside, you will throw him before me. Is that good? ”

"Good!"

Tens of thousands of people roared in unison.

"These are good people who obey the law." Yuan Mei had an unbreakable warm smile, on the school field where tens of thousands of people gathered, although there were occasional people coughing and coughing up phlegm, and there were children's noises, his voice was so loud that even the people behind him could hear it clearly: "Please sit down on the ground with the folks in front, and I will judge the case at this level." Judge justly, don't make noise; If it's unfair, don't make a noise, write a post and hand it to the governor's yamen in the east, in a word, my county order is not a county order. As he spoke, he bowed to everyone, and bowed to the people in front of him with both hands: "Please, please sit...... Hey, by the way, slow down, that's your son, right? Hold on to your father......"

In fact, at this moment, Yin Jishan, Jin and Jiangnan Governor Fan Shijie had already heard the news and rushed over. For fear of chaos, the soldiers led by the Governor's Yamen and the Nanjing City Gate have all poured out of the nest and scattered around the school field to prevent mutinies. Yin Jishan and the others were sitting in the county yamen's room, observing the movement through the bright window. Seeing that people are so obedient, sitting in front and retreating in the back, they are still in order, and they are all in a real place. Fan Shijie likes to mock and scold people the most, and can't help laughing: "Yuan Mei, the county order of Guisun, looks sour on weekdays, and he is really a bit of a doorway." Yin Jishan never said foul words in his mouth, and said with a smile: "Look at Zicai's posture, this is really called stroking the qin!" Jin and Fan Shijie were used to joking, and said with a smile: "It's like you, an old turtle, who can't move the bamboo scorn board and beat the ghosts and wolves to howl and flesh and blood fly!" With that, the three of them continued to look out.

"Did the plaintiff, the defendant, and the righteous witnesses in the history of Tongjing Township all brought?" Yuan Mei stood on the stone steps under the dripping eaves, turned around and asked the master beside him.

"Lord Hui Mingfu, they are all waiting in the signing room!"

"Please, please plaintiff."

"Please" does not use "bring". The crowd immediately burst into whispers, but fell silent in an instant. The plaintiff, an old man in his fifties, had come out with the officials. He had probably never been so outstanding, his face was pale with panic in front of his eyes, his steps staggered, he almost tripped over the threshold, and his legs trembled to his knees. Yuan Mei said: "You are a scholar and a protégé of the Son of Heaven, don't kneel, listen to me calmly." ”

"Yes......"

"What's your name and where is home?"

"The student's name is Li Dengke, his home is there, his home is in ......"

"Don't panic, it's like talking to your family."

"Yes." After a few encouragements, Li Dengke seemed to be cross-minded, and his tongue immediately became easier: "In Lijiatun, northwest of Niutou Mountain." Yuan Mei nodded, "You are suing Han Muyi in the east of the city, right, you were originally the in-laws hired by the media." The ceremony of the union was set on May 26. The sedan chair was carried to the door, and you refused to accept it, and the woman injured your doorkeeper, but yes? Li Dengke bowed down and replied: "Father Tai Mingjian, I have already announced my withdrawal from the marriage on May 15, and they sent their relatives to the door on the 26th, how can they be so shameless?" The student is a scholar and will not fight, so he sued the official for correction. ”

Yuan Mei glanced at the people who were listening, and said: "Scholars must know etiquette first, promise marriage in the front, withdraw from marriage later, and go back and forth, can this be called 'following etiquette'?" "Back to my father's platform!" Li Dengke was completely calm, and said stubbornly with his neck stalked: "The daughter of the Han family is not a chaste woman, I have been a scholarly family for generations, and there are no men who have broken the law in the family, and there are no daughters in the clan who have remarried. Yan Kenna, the innocent daughter, became the daughter-in-law of the broom. Yuan Mei pondered and said, "Is it because the Han family woman was blown to Tongjing by the wind?" Is there any other reason? ”

"There is no other reason to go back to my father's platform."

"The two in-laws come and go on weekdays, have you ever had a disagreement? Have you ever heard of the Han family's daughter being uneasy about keeping a good girl? ”

"Nope." Li Dengke said, "However, how can there be a big living person who blows 90 miles and lands safely and returns from Tongjing Village?" It's clearly -"

Yuan Mei interrupted him and said, "I know what you mean, I know - has the Tongjing witness come?" What about the history of their country? The official at the door agreed, and an official wearing a carved gold top and a new yellow oriole uniform came out with two people. The unincorporated official in the mending uniform stood on one side to Yuan Meixing's court, and the two behind him were dressed as peasants, one in his twenties and the other in his forties, and they both knelt down. Yuan Mei smiled at the official: "Xu Sanwei, I haven't seen each other for a long time." ——These two people, who is Li Zheng and who is the party? ”

"Go back to the master!" The man in his forties said: "The villain Xu Qinghuai is the one in Tongjing Village. His name is Xu Yihe, the son of Xu Qingren in the north of the village, and he calls me uncle. ”

Yuan Mei looked at the young man, who was a young man from a crop, wearing a blue indigo coarse cloth robe, kneeling on the ground, his face flushed, and his head was covered with hot sweat beads of nervousness. Because he asked, "Your name is Xu Yihe?" ”

"Yes. The small one is called, called Xu, Xu, Xu Yihe. ”

"What do you do for a living?"

"Farming."

"Who's in the house?"

"Grandma, dad and mom, and my daughter-in-law and a little boy, the boy has just been full, full, full moon, and I'm afraid I'm scared. Her mother and son didn't come......"

"yes, okay." Yuan Mei nodded with satisfaction, glanced at Li Xiucai, who had a blank face, and asked, "The woman surnamed Han fell in your yard?" Xu Yihe kowtowed to the ground, and said tremblingly: "Master Hui Qingtian - no, no, it didn't fall in the courtyard, it was, yes, it fell on the wheat field at the entrance of the village...... Yuan Mei said: "Don't panic, slowly explain the situation clearly." ”

All eyes were on Xu Yihe. He wiped the sweat from his cheeks, seemed to be much calmer, and said slowly: "At one o'clock in the afternoon of the tenth day of the first month of May, I was hoeing the corn field in the field. My daughter-in-law was confined, and my father was sick with asthma, so my mother went to bring me food. Before the meal was finished, the sky changed. In an instant, the clouds came up, and it was so dark that it seemed like a pot...... I saw a whirlwind like a pillar of black smoke in the northwest direction, circling and swirling, first to the west of the village, a few willow trees next to the big well platform were wrapped up at once, and the big flagpole in front of Xu Jinshi's house was also rolled into the sky, and I saw a few ups and downs, and smashed into the pond in the east of the village......

"Seeing that the tornado was getting closer and closer, my mother was so frightened that her legs were weak and she knelt on the ground to chant Buddha. I saw that the wind was about to roll over, and as soon as the crockpot was thrown and my mother was picked up, she ran away. I felt that my ears were full of wind roaring and roaring, and my body was fluttering until I was about to leave the ground. The sand, gravel and dirt were hit on my face, I couldn't see anything clearly, and there was a bloody cut on my forehead, and I was in a daze and only floated in the direction of my house......

"When I ran to the east of my house, I felt that the wind was lighter, and it was as dark as dusk, and I was numb...... When I opened my eyes, several wheat straw stacks were gone, and the wind was swirling around the wheat field, and even stones and trees were swirling around the field. The strange thing is that there is no wind in the center of the field, and there is not even a single grass knot. My mother said, 'Son, this is the Great Compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless our mother and son, hurry up and kneel down with me and chant the Buddha!' ’

"I followed my mother to kneel down to the south and chant the Buddha...... As I read it, the wind was so strong that it wanted to pull me out of the ground, and the stones and tiles hurt all over my body. The two of us couldn't see anything, and we were lying on the ground in one place...... After about half a bag of cigarettes, I suddenly felt that there was no wind...... We were all frightened, and when we opened our eyes, the pillar of black smoke was already swirling farther and farther southeast...... My mom pulled me by the way, kowtowed countless heads to the south, and stood up in a trance like a nightmare...... Just as he was about to go home, he saw a man lying on the sidelines. When I walked to the front, my head was covered with dust, and I was faint on the ground, and I didn't even have shoes, and if it weren't for those little feet, I couldn't even tell the difference between men and women. My mother and I took her home with the help of her......"

When he said this, he took a breath, and tens of thousands of people were dumbfounded. To continue, Yuan Mei asked, "When is this time?" Xu Yihe said: "When the wind rises when I eat, it will be a meal." "Go on." Yuan Mei said.

"She didn't have any injuries on her body, but she was dizzy, and she woke up after pouring half a bowl of rice wine." Xu Yihe said: "At this time, the sky has cleared, and the people in the village are alarmed. Master Xu asked a few words, and then took her to the town in a pannier...... I don't know what happened next. After speaking, he kowtowed, "The small words are true!" ”

Yuan Mei licked his lips with satisfaction and asked Xu Sanwei, "Is what he said false?" "I didn't see what was going on. They reported to my house, and I was having a drink with a few friends and talking about the tornado that had just passed. As soon as he heard this, he rushed with his friends. That is, it is not a slightly outdated card. Yuan Mei groaned for a moment and ordered: "Bring the defendant over!" ”

"Wow!"

The quiet crowd immediately became agitated, and then fell silent again. An old man with a white beard wearing a gray coarse cloth robe, about fifty-four or five years old, coughed and walked out of the yamen, followed by two young men, but they were all dressed short, and they seemed to be the sons of the defendant Han Muyi. One after another was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, her head was so low that she didn't dare to look at people, she was so trembling that she couldn't even walk steadily, she knelt down behind her father and brother, saluted Yuan Mei, turned her back slightly, and seemed to be sobbing.

People's eyes widened. Yuan Mei frowned and looked at the three people, and asked, "Han Muyi, why did you instigate your son to go to Li Dengke's house to make trouble, smash the plaque on someone's door, and hurt someone's family?" Han Muyi kowtowed again and again and said, "Lord Qingtian! Although the villain has no fame, he has also read books, and he does not dare to violate the law, the little girl Suying is a child of rules, and she was framed by rumors for no reason, it is a matter of fame, and she wants to throw herself into a well to seek death, and the Li family is not accepted by marriage, and the sons are angry and come to the door to reason. Young people are full of fire, and there are cases of beating people and smashing plaques. This is the little old man's lax discipline, and the old man only punishes him. But my daughter is really innocent, she was slandered by others, and the street talk said that she was a goblin, and the Han family was so ruthless and unrighteous, how could the child live? I beg the lord to give me a fair word, and the nine clans of the family are grateful to Dade...... "The two sons saw their father in tears, and they were also in tears, and they kowtowed and said: "Don't do my father's business, it's my brother's trouble...... My sister is a clean person, and she is trampled and bullied...... Ask the master to give a fair ......" and cried loudly, and the people in the audience were so frightened that they couldn't help themselves.

Yuan Mei was also gloomy in her heart, and said: "Such a weak woman was blown away by a tornado for no reason, and she died nine times and survived. It was originally a great fortune of misfortune, but it caused a storm all over the city, and rumors were boiling endlessly. The county is also very merciful......" He turned to Li Dengke and said, "This is not a great dispute. If you don't tell you, the magistrate can make peace for your two families. The study of Confucius is based on benevolence! ”

"Students understand." Li Dengke bowed and said, "As long as the student retires from the marriage safely, there is nothing else to ask for." Yuan Mei sank his face and asked, "Divorce?" Why? Li Dengke glanced at Han Suzhen and said: "This matter is too appalling, the wind blows for 90 miles, and it returns every three days, and the city is full of wind and rain, or I think it is a demon, or I think it is a traitor and elope." My Li family has been studying for generations, recruiting this woman as a daughter-in-law, and everyone is making money, where can I defend myself, and who will I tell to? ”

Yuan Mei laughed and said to Han Suzhen: "Suzhen, you raise your head!" Han Suzhen was still hiding her face and crying, choking up and unable to say in a voice: "I...... I don't dare to ......" Yuan Mei said: "Why don't you dare?" You're a decent white man, and this county calls the shots for you! ”

"Yes......"

Han Suzhen raised her head. Her posture is not very standard, with a goose-egg-shaped face, a few freckles on her cheeks, and a pair of eyes shining with tears under her crescent eyebrows. is so shy that he just avoids everyone's attention, and his figure is slightly weak, but he looks dignified and steady. It's just that his face is so pale that he doesn't dare to look at it.

"I have asked Madame to examine her, and she is a virgin. You also heard the words of the Tongjing Village official witness testimony. Yuan Mei said: "Since the white jade is flawless, I don't think you should withdraw from the marriage." ”

"It's horrifying, but the student still asks for a safe divorce."

"What if the official is in charge?"

“…… The students did not dare to obey their orders. ”

"Such a beautiful woman in the boudoir, and there is nothing to lose morality, how much insult did you have the surname Li?!"

There was a heavy coercion in Yuan Mei's voice, and Li Dengke's legs trembled for a moment, but then he calmed down and replied respectfully: "The student didn't say that the daughter of the Han family is a demon. What is a 'demon', abnormal is a demon, this thing has not been done since ancient times, the wind blows people for 90 miles and returns unharmed, tilts Jinling, spreads all over the world, and since then my family has no peace. Just like today, there are different opinions in front of everyone, and everywhere we go, we are being talked about, how can people afford it? As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Mei said: "If it's a beautiful story, what's the point of talking?" ”

"Beautiful talk? - Is this a 'good story'? The students did not understand what the old man said. ”

"In ancient times, there was a woman who blew six thousand miles away, have you heard of it?"

"The old father said that he laughed, it was a play, it was Qi Dongye's language."

"Qi Dongye's language?" Yuan Mei sneered and asked, "Have you read Hao Wenzhong's "Lingchuan Collection" by Chang Gong? ”

When Li Dengke stared at Yuan Meiyi, he said: "Hao Bochang is a native of Zezhou in the Yuan Dynasty, but a generation of loyal ministers, and the students of "Lingchuan Collection" have never read it...... Yuan Mei instructed the officials, "Come to my study and ask the scholar to find the "Lingchuan Collection". He also laughed at Li Dengke, "I'll sing poems for you and judge the case." ”

There was a burst of excitement among the people on the school grounds. "Yongshi Case", not only have I never seen it, but I haven't even heard of it, so I looked at Yuan Mei with wide eyes.

"This poem is contained in the "Words of the Lady of Heaven" in the "Lingchuan Collection". Yuan Mei faced everyone, and leisurely chanted under the eaves:

August 15 Double Star Meeting, a good woman and a good marriage.

Yubo coldly soaked Hibiscus City, and the flower moon shook the light and illuminated the golden cui.

The black wind extinguishes the red candle at the feast, and a fairy peach descends to the sky.

The Liang family has a son who is the groom, and the Qian (rice) family suddenly follows Zhong Jian's back.

Frightened things under the negative lights, the clouds and temples are tilted down.

The limbs of the red jade are weak and weak, and the dream is half drunk.

He raised his eyes and looked at the neighbors, and his clothes were different and his words were different.

I said that Chengdu is 5,000 miles, and I don't know where I came in a trance.

Yurong was lonely and lonely, and his head was speechless and tearful.

Willing to be the wife of the Liang family, the edict of the high door is a godsend.

For a few years, the husband has been a father-in-law, and his eyes are full of children and grandchildren.

It is necessary to know that the couple has fate, and the rich do not seek poverty and do not give up.

Wangfu Mountain is even more white-headed, is it God's will to be a husband and wife?

Look at the Fu family and Bo Ji, the relationship between the Son of Heaven is several days!

He is subdued and frustrated, sometimes high-pitched and longitudinal, sometimes low-pitched arias, sometimes flattened, sometimes agitated and clear. Some of the people who watched the trial could understand and nodded with a smile; If you don't understand, you are also impressed by Yuan Mei's elegant and dignified bearing. It turns out that the restlessness, the novelty and the excitement, the people who want to spy on the secrets, and the people who want to watch the "demon girl" are all unconsciously dissolved in this sound of Man Yongqing.

"How?" Yuan Mei didn't seem to smile, took the book and opened it, and handed it to Li Xiucai, who was stunned locally: "See for yourself, is it true?" Hao Wenzhong's generation of loyal and good Confucian ministers, how could he be willing to write poetry? Back then, the wind blew Wu Mennu and married the prime minister! It's not about this Su Zhen or something, I think it's a matter of whether your son is blessed or not to be blessed with this woman! ”

Li Dengke held the book, embarrassed and a little excited, and said again and again: "It's because of the old decay of academics and lack of clarity in distinguishing things. Old decay is wrong. I'll withdraw the lawsuit and take my daughter-in-law back immediately! ”

"Good! It's called Universal! Yuan Mei laughed and said, "This official is here to marry you and eat your wedding wine!" It's better to choose a day than to hit the day - invite the bride into the office, ask the lady to wrap her in makeup, put on red and flowers, and I will send it to the Li Mansion - Fathers, is it good for me to judge the case like this? ”

"Good!"

Everyone in the square stood up, and the cheers shook the earth.

[1]

The city gate leader, the four-rank official, is responsible for the military affairs of the city defense.

[2]

Da Suo: That is, a big raid.