Su Shilang's face froze, and he couldn't hear the thorn in his words.

He sneered twice, and noticed that the eyes on both sides were really like mangs on his back, and after a moment he asked: "That, I don't know, Master Pei came to congratulate Xiao'er...... But what else? ”

Pei Tan glanced at Su Shilang faintly when he heard this, and said for a while: "Don't worry, after the wedding banquet is over, I will talk to Master Su in detail." ”

As soon as he heard this, Su Shilang's heart was half cold, he smiled and arched his hand, then turned around and walked away.

He also instructed his subordinates not to take the initiative to approach Pei Tan except for the people who poured wine at the banquet.

Who is Pei Tan?

Datang is known as having five surnames, seven sects and four major surnames in Guanzhong, all of which are unattainable families in the clouds by ordinary people. The four surnames in Guanzhong include the Wei family of the current queen, the Pei family of the Pei family of Hedong, and the Liu family and the Xue family who also belong to Hedong. The Pei family is the most profound family after the four surnames in Guanzhong, except for the current queen Wei family, and the Pei family is the fifth generation of the family, and it is the noble family among the noble families.

And coincidentally, Pei Tan, the secretary of Dali Temple, had just taken office, and he ran into a big case.

That is, Zong Huo, the son of Zong Chuke, the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, was riding a horse on Chang'an Street and killed a person. This matter, it is said that nature is big, after all, it is a human life. But then again, the dead man was just a fish seller after all, and Zong Huo, as the son of a first-class master, no one thought that the lives of these two people were equal.

However, the more unexpected things are, the more they end up shocking everyone's eyes.

The daughter of the family who sold the fish died, went to Dali Temple to beat the drum and voice the grievances, at that time Pei Tan had just been named Dali Temple, the third day.

Pei Tan immediately took the people of Dali Temple and went directly to Shangshu Mansion.

At that time, Zong Chuke was in the palace, discussing with Zhongzong and the ministers.

Pei talked about Shangshu Mansion, and that Zong Huo put on a very arrogant posture at the beginning, not believing that Pei Tan dared to do anything to him.

Who knew that Pei Tan didn't say a word, and directly asked his jailers to step forward and press Zong Huo to the ground, and as soon as the shackles were shackled, Zong Huo was stunned.

By the time Zong Huo thought about it, it was already too late, Shangshu Mansion was all some thin people, where was the opponent of the Confucian jailer of Dali Temple, even if it was, who would dare to directly argue with Dali Temple?

Pei Tan was dressed in official uniform that day, as if he was handling a case, first of all, others had already lost three points of courage when they saw him.

When Zong Shangshu came back, he learned that his son had been handcuffed, and immediately rushed to Dali Temple to dignitaries.

However, Pei Tan had already closed the door and did not plan to see Zong Shangshu.

Moreover, Pei Tan submitted a case file to the Criminal Department, which means that after the Criminal Department verifies and approves it, he will send Zong Huo to the guillotine.

When the people in the criminal department saw this case, they were so frightened that they couldn't sit still, who dared to approve this case file?

So of course, the people from the Criminal Department immediately told Zong Chuke again.

When Zong Shangshu saw Pei Tan's erection, he dared to come to the real thing, and immediately became angry, and went directly into the palace to find Zhongzong to reprimand.

But now it was Zhongzong's turn to be embarrassed, on the one hand, Pei Tan insisted on convicting, and on the other hand, Zong Chuke insisted on keeping his son.

Later, even the queen pleaded for mercy, so that Zhongzong and Zong Chuke had only such a beloved son, hoping to deal with it on the other hand.

Empress Wei came forward, and Zhongzong was naturally shaken.

But at this time, Pei Tan took the peddler's daughter into the palace and made her kneel in front of Zhongzong.

The peddler's wife was seriously ill, and the family had only one daughter, who was over 18 years old and unmarried, because the family was poor. Now that the pillars of the family have fallen, the already difficult family is even worse, which means that the mother and daughter will have no way to survive in the future.

Zhongzong's compassion was greatly moved, and he immediately hated Zong Huo who killed the peddler, and Pei Tan fanned the flames, so Zhongzong made a holy decree under impulse to execute Zong Huo according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

Pei Tan took this holy decree with him, and when he returned, he ordered Zong Huo to be escorted to the Dharma field to prepare for the Fa-rectification.

When it comes to Zhongzong's impulsive writing of the holy decree, he immediately regrets it, but the holy decree, how can he regret it. In desperation, Zhongzong could only immediately add another holy decree, the previous decree did not indicate the time of execution, and on the additional holy decree, Zhongzong said that it would be carried out after a month.

But no matter how much it drags on, it still has to be implemented.

It's like the god of decay hitting the broom star, and all the bad things come together. And Pei Tan, his reputation was not very good, and now that he is an official, he is going to kill the son of a first-class official, and the capital is now privately sending the name of a bad star to Pei Tan.

Mrs. Shilang's eyes rolled: "It's also the unlucky Shangshu of that sect, Pei Tan must have taken office as a new official with three fires, and he wants to burn it." ”

Dali Temple is the place where the prison is in charge, and all cases of the dead and alive must be sent to Dali Temple for investigation. Otherwise, how could the people in the capital say that Pei Tan is a bad star, look at him, he is not even a decent official.

Mrs. Shilang bites her veil and hates, Su Shouyue is the son on the tip of her heart, and she is visited by such a person on her wedding day, and she is embarrassed to think about it.

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Pei Tan sat here all afternoon, and when he was drinking, he didn't take off the white silk handkerchief in his hand.

The Su family's wedding banquet was the most luxurious flowing water banquet in Shengjing. The place where the congratulatory gifts were stacked seemed to have become a small mountain.

He saw a weak scholar who threw something like a ribbon in his sleeve in the middle of the pile of congratulatory gifts.

Of all the seats at the banquet, Pei Tan was the quietest here, he drank the wine as water, and the maids who poured the wine had to tremble before they dared to come to him.

As the sun passed, the bridegroom finally came out.

Cui's female identity is expensive, of course, she will not show up to accompany the guests to drink, at this moment, she must have been sent to the cave room.

The groom's official Su kept the promise, dressed in a gorgeous red wedding dress and wearing a red flower on his chest, and walked towards the guests. While arching his hand, he politely drank the wine in the glass.

The guests applauded: "Su Gongzi has a good amount of wine!" ”

Su Shouyue also saw Pei Tan, he didn't avoid it like others, and walked over directly.

"Brother Pei." He gave it up.

Pei Tan's age is actually not much older than their sons in the capital, and Su Shouyue feels that it is very appropriate to call Brother Pei.

However, the two attendants next to him frowned, and said a little hard: "Our lord sealed the Dali Temple a month ago. ”

In the capital, anyone who has an official position should be called an adult, and any title of person is contempt.

Su Shouyue's face was obviously stiff.

There were spectators snickering next to him, and even the groom official kicked his leg to the iron plate.

And Pei Tan neither corrected the words of the two attendants, nor did he promise Su to keep the contract, but just picked up the wine on the table and said lightly: "Congratulations to Gongzi Su for holding the beauty." ”

Su Shouyue hurriedly picked up the wine: "Pei ...... Adult was polite. ”

The two drank wine, Su Shouyue was still a little embarrassed, said a few words casually, and left Pei Tan to go to other seats.

Pei Tan held the empty wine glass and looked at the place where Su Shouyue walked, and when those guests saw the groom coming, they all stood up to greet each other.

Pei Tan's gaze was fixed on a person wearing a cloth robe, who was wearing a crown and hat, his face was white, and he looked like an ordinary scholar, but the clothes were loose on him, as if this person was too thin to hold up.

There were many people dressed like this during the banquet, and they were ordinary people who came from near and far to see the excitement.

Unlike everyone else who stared at the groom's official Su Shouyue, that person's eyes never fell on Su Shouyue.

It wasn't until the third tour of wine that Pei Tan got up from the banquet and was about to leave, and at this time, people got up and left one after another. Including the strange guest who looked like a scholar. This person walked over and bumped Pei Tan at the door, and after reacting, the man apologized repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

So saying, the man hurried away.

Pei Tan stared at the disappearing figure of the person at the door, slowly lowered his head, and picked up the thing from his arms.

When the attendant saw this thing, his face suddenly changed and said, "My lord, what is this?" ”

Pei Tan saw something in the palm of his hand, as thin as a cicada's wings, soft and collapsed in the palm of his hand, and the edges seemed to have some red textures. Pei Tan rubbed it with two fingers, as if it was rubbing on the skin of a person.

Pei Tan also saw it at this time, and his expression was bottomless: "It looks like a human skin." ”

The man who hurriedly hit him and kicked a human skin into his arms?

The attendant immediately turned around and asked behind him: "Do you see that person?" ”

The two attendants were a little flustered: "No, no. ”

The attendant immediately lowered his face: "You guys follow me to chase after me." ”

At this time, he said lightly: "No need." ”

The attendant was surprised: "My lord? ”

Pei Tan stared at the door, "Let's go back to Dali Temple." ”

When he returned to Dali Temple, Pei Tan naturally called him over and threw the thing in his hand.

His face changed slightly at a glance, and then he stroked it carefully for a long time, and then cautiously leaned under his nose and sniffed vaguely.

"Your Excellency...... Sure it's human skin. ”

Pei Tan's eyes deepened: "Living people...... Still is? ”

He was taken aback, the skin on the living and the dead is also very different, and Pei Tan's intention to ask this question is obviously more than that.

He slowly put down the human skin: "There is a corpse smell on the skin, most of them are dead people." ”

And the blood stains on the edges were already blackened and smelled, which did not look like a sign of the skin and flesh of a living person.

"Do you recognize the pattern on it?" After a long time, Pei Tan's eyes fell on the strange tattoo on the human skin.

He stared at it for a long time before he said, "Back to the adults, the little ones don't recognize me." But the small ones...... There is one guess. ”

Pei said: "Let's hear it. ”

He raised his head and looked at Pei Tan: "Parents who are affected by the hair and skin of the body, no one will usually tattoo words on the body, and it is even more impossible for people from the princes and noble families." But in ancient times, there was a kind of ink punishment, that is, the slave who committed a serious crime, engraved words as punishment. Even if the slave is forgiven in the future, the punishment will follow the body for the rest of his life. ”

This is one of the most undignified punishments ever, and it deprives people of the opportunity to be forgiven forever.