When the official came to invite someone, Master Zhang still hugged his chair, "I can't move, I can't leave here!" ”

The officials from the county didn't care about this, and directly brought people and chairs to the public mansion together.

The so-called public mansion is the place where official business is being handled in each town, and such a place generally has a large courtyard, and moving a set of tables and chairs in the courtyard can allow the magistrate to temporarily ascend to the court to try the case.

When Master Zhang was escorted here by the officials, Liu Shun and Liu He's fiancés, as well as Liu Shun's uncles and aunts, were already kneeling in the courtyard.

And the little fairy in Master Zhang's mouth is hiding behind the crowd at the moment.

When the court was opened, the magistrate was shocked, and the people around him were consciously quiet.

"Whoever is kneeling in the hall, report it one by one." The county magistrate leaned back on the Taishi chair, and waved his sleeves after speaking, looking very imposing.

"Zhu Xiaochun, a grass citizen, is Liu He's fiancé."

"Liu Shun, a grass man, is Liu He's brother." Liu Shun slammed his head to the ground, "Please make the decision for the grass people and avenge my sister!" ”

The county magistrate waved his hand, "Okay, okay, next." ”

There were five people kneeling in the hall, including Master Zhang, who had just been escorted over, one by one to introduce themselves, and the post-mortem in Yizhuang also came over, wrote down the results of his autopsy, handed them to the magistrate, and he stepped aside.

The county magistrate read what he wrote in detail, "Who is the bitter master?" ”

"We." Zhu Xiaochun said, "It's the two of us." ”

"Is there a complaint?"

"I didn't have time to write."

"Master, you go over and make up a complaint for them." As soon as the magistrate waved his hand, the master behind him came over with a pen and paper, "Just give one or two pieces of silver later." ”

Zhu Xiaochun looked up in shock, "Lord Zhixian, can we not write a complaint?" ”

"How can you do it without writing a complaint? I can't even accept the case. The master said, "You have brought the silver." ”

For Zhu Xiaochun, one or two is not a small amount, he hurriedly came out, where would he bring silver.

Liu Shun touched his pocket, and there were a few copper plates in it.

Liu Ping'an secretly took out a tael of silver, handed it to Man Cang, and whispered: "You go over and throw the money to them, throw it accurately, don't be picked up." ”

"Don't worry, I'll take care of it." Mancang's quasi-head was good, and he threw it directly on Liu Shun's feet.

Liu Shun looked around and saw a familiar face, and he bowed in the direction of Liu Ping'an.

paid the money and wrote a complaint, complaining that his uncle and aunt's family had joined forces with outsiders to murder his niece Liu He, resulting in Liu He's tragic death.

The magistrate tried the case, which was simple and rude, and directly took the complaint and asked his uncle and aunt's family, "You can admit the accusations of Liu Shun and others." ”

"Wronged, wronged, wronged." Liu Shun's aunt shouted that she was wronged, "We didn't kill anyone." Liu He left us by himself, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

The onlookers burst out, "You lied, and you said before that it was you and Lao Zhangtou who brought people to Wenhua Palace." ”

The magistrate looked at Liu Shun's aunt and frowned, and said solemnly: "What the people in the hall said is the truth. ”

Liu Shun's aunt knelt there trembling, unable to make up any good excuses for a while, so she could only shout that she was wronged.

Lord Zhixian knocked on the startled wood, "Silence! It seems that if you don't see the strict criminal law, you won't tell the truth, dare to deceive the official, come on, hit the top ten boards. ”

"Your Excellency!" Liu Shun's aunt panicked, the sturdy board on her body was not a joke, she couldn't stand it three or two times, "I said!" I said! ”

"I'll talk about it after the fight." The magistrate is very principled, "The official will do it." ”

The two officials quickly put Liu Shun's aunt on the bench, lifted the hem of her blouse, and began to beat, and immediately screamed in the courtyard.

Zhixian sat on the Taishi chair and took this opportunity to drink some tea. He turned his head and said to Li Zheng next to him, "It seems that this official is going to live in the town tonight, and Lao Fu Li is helping this official to allow this to rest in the room and dinner." ”

Li Zheng naturally nodded, "The adults are going to this town to handle the case, and we should naturally treat them well, so I will let people prepare." ”

In addition to the people who were beaten, the people next to them felt quite fast.

After a while, the board ended, and Liu Shun's aunt lay on the bench and couldn't get up.

The officials didn't care if you felt good or not, they just led people up, pressed them to the ground and knelt on them.

"Can you tell the truth to this official now?" Lord Zhixian asked.

"Wronged." Liu Shun's aunt was so painful that she couldn't even say the whole sentence, and this injustice was completely hummed by her.

"Oh, it seems that you still haven't seen the severity of punishment...... "Before the magistrate's words were finished, Liu Shun's aunt interrupted eagerly, "I said, my lord, I said everything." ”

"It's Mr. Zhang from the calligraphy and painting shop, he told us." She immediately confessed, "It was he who told us that there would be a hundred taels of silver if we sent people to Wenhua Palace to be spiritual officials, we just drugged her, and after giving people to Master Zhang, we didn't know anything, it was really not the person we killed, my lord, we were wronged." ”

Liu Shun stared at his aunt's eyes, he was almost going to eat people, it turned out that he had thought of this from the beginning, for a hundred taels of silver, he could actually drug his niece, "You are simply not human, you must not die well!" Liu Shun couldn't control his temper again, and the official standing next to him reacted quickly and stopped the person.

"Downstairs, the official kept quiet without questioning." The magistrate asked Master Zhang, who was kneeling in the middle, "Zhang Xiu, is what this lady said true?" ”

"My lord, she's lying, and this matter has nothing to do with me." Master Zhang hurriedly denied, "I don't know what Liu He is, I'm just a businessman who does my duty." ”

"Oh, you don't recognize it." Zhixian touched his goatee a few times, and he turned to ask Liu Shun's aunt, "When did you hand over people to Zhang Xiu?" ”

My aunt also thought for a while before saying, "It was the morning of seven days ago. ”

"Have you figured it out?" The magistrate asked.

My aunt nodded, "Yes, it was the morning seven days ago, I am not mistaken, my family happened to have goods back that day, and after I unloaded the goods, I used the car to give people to Master Zhang." ”

The magistrate asked Mr. Zhang, "What were you doing on the morning before the seventh day?" ”

"I'm at home." Master Zhang was also a little nervous, but then it was always seven days ago, and even if someone happened to see something, they wouldn't remember it.

"Can anyone prove that you were at home at that time?" The magistrate asked again.

"My buddy can prove it." Mr. Zhang said while thinking, "The guy came to my house that day to help me move things. ”

"What are you moving?" The magistrate followed and asked.