After taking Su Tingan and Ah Rong home, Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng closed the door and discussed the doubts in Su Tingan's falling into the water incident.

"The Lin family can even be so ruthless to their children, it is estimated that they want to take revenge on our previous punishment of Lin Yinpeng and Lin Jiulang." Wen Yiheng was the first to speak his thoughts.

The collapse of Lin Sheng's restaurant, Lin Yinpeng's imprisonment, and Lin Jiulang's autumn queen...... The piles and piles are all straws accumulated on the Lin family.

The Lin family was unable to withstand such successive blows, so they naturally needed to find a character to bear their anger and resentment, and Su Jiudong, who led to this series of incidents, was the first to bear the brunt of the Lin family's anger.

"The Lin family blames you for everything, so naturally they want to find an opportunity to retaliate and teach us a lesson."

Wen Yiheng carefully pondered his thoughts, "At that time, An'er and Lin Xiaolin were playing closely, and the Lin family could take this opportunity to lure An'er into a plan and let us fall into the trap that had been laid out step by step." ”

Wen Yiheng recalled in his heart the relationship between the Lin family and Lord Facao Wei, and pondered whether the matter of almost killing Su Ting'an was a decision made by the Lin family himself without Lord Wei, or whether it was also instructed by Lord Wei.

"The Lin family did this, it should be more for Lin Jiulang, after all, Lin Yinpeng was only locked up in prison for a while, and he will still be released later. And Lin Jiulang is going to wait for the autumn queen to ask for a beheading, and if he wants to dodge the knife, it will be difficult. ”

Su Jiudong was more inclined to be the Lin family's own actions, and Master Wei might not know about it.

When Lin Jiulang and Lin Yinpeng were tried at the beginning, Wen Yiheng and Chu Lufeng were both present, so Master Wei couldn't take a huge risk to offend Wen Yiheng and Chu Lufeng for the sake of the two brothers-in-law, and put his own future into it.

"You are far away from the court, so you may not be familiar with my court's customization of the death penalty. In fact, even if you are sentenced to be beheaded by the autumn queen and want to avoid the knife before the execution, there is a place where you can operate. ”

In front of Su Jiudong, Wen Yiheng made no secret of his mastery and familiarity with the imperial court regulations.

"After being sentenced to the autumn queen, can you still operate in it and escape from the knife?"

Su Jiudong, a modern person, has only heard the lines of "Autumn Queen" from film and television dramas, and only thinks that Autumn Queen's beheading is literally the beheading of prisoners in autumn, but little is known about the rules and meaning behind it.

"Ahem......" Wen Yiheng hinted at Su Jiudong with his eyes, and Su Jiudong immediately handed the teacup on the table to Wen Yiheng with interest.

Wen Yiheng drank moisturizing tea for a long time, and became a lecturer for Su Jiudong.

"According to the ancient custom, I will have a 'autumn trial' and a 'court trial'. The autumn trial and the court trial can be regarded as the first opportunity to operate. As long as it is not recognized as "true truth", it can generally survive. ”

"Isn't that about the same as a modern reprieve?" Su Jiudong muttered to himself.

"I think you will also know something about this, it is a very realistic method, if you have money and connections, you can move the officials who will be tried. And the families of prisoners and suspects who have no money can only rely on luck. ”

Su Jiudong nodded in agreement, at this point, there are similar situations in modern and ancient times, some people have money and relationships, naturally everything is easy to talk to, and those who have no money and no one can only wait obediently to die.

"What is the word 'by luck'? Could it be that the executioner's knife was not fast enough to cut off his neck, so he was lucky enough to survive? Su Jiudong supported his chin with both hands and listened carefully to Wen Yiheng's statement.

"Hahaha...... What are you thinking? If the knife is not fast enough, you can just start with another one, and how can it happen that because the knife is not fast enough to cut people to death, it is decided not to execute the prisoner? Xiang Wen Yiheng was amused by Su Jiudong's naïve thoughts.

"If you are unfortunately convicted of 'truth' at the trial, you can also escape by luck at the hands of the emperor. Because the list of questions and beheadings after the autumn queen needs to pass the 'hook' of today's saints, the saint waves the red pen and circles the red ink, and whoever is circled is who dies. ”

Wen Yiheng also took a pen and wrote Lin Jiulang's name on the paper, and then drew a circle around the name, and circled the three words "Lin Jiulang" in it.

"With today's holy royal pen Zhu Pi, the landing of people's heads is an iron thing. However, the saint is the son of heaven, and he has the virtue of a good life since ancient times. In order to show his benevolence, the Holy One does not draw a circle of the list of people who need to be beheaded. ”

"So luck is reflected here, if you can escape from the pen of the Holy Zhu, it can be said that it is a return to the present life for the accumulation of virtue in the previous life."

However, today's saints do not focus too much on the word "benevolence", so the annual list is circled, and since the reign of the saint, there are very few people who have escaped under Zhu's approval.

"What Lin Jiulang did in Qishan County has been confirmed so far, so if the Lin family wants to save Lin Jiulang, is it more luck than operation?"

Lin Jiulang has done too much evil in Qishan County, and a random passer-by on the street can prove Lin Jiulang's evil deeds. Therefore, Lin Jiulang's crime is real, and he can only hope for luck. dog

Su Jiudong recalled Lin Jiulang's honest and honest evil deeds in the county government, and only hoped that the goddess of luck would not favor Lin Jiulang, and he hated that Lin Jiulang would die on the spot immediately.

"Then those mortals who didn't approve the last one by the Holy Lord, just escaped and didn't have to die?" Su Jiudong didn't agree with this presentation.

People in high positions always like to show their courtesy, righteousness and benevolence in this way, without any regard for the lives of those sentenced prisoners, and they do not care about the heartache and grief of the deceased's family due to the death of their families.

"The few remaining people in the Holy Heaven will stay and wait for next year's inspection. If you can survive this link, it is equivalent to seeking an extra year of life in the hands of the emperor, and whether you will be executed after a year depends on the personal performance during this period. ”

So sometimes there are more suspects who have been sentenced to a "suspended death" sentence in prison than those who have been executed.

"Long pain is better than short pain, rather than luck to live for one more year, this year must be cautious every day, frightened, it is better to be a ghost as soon as possible, die early and reincarnate early. Maybe in the next life, I can reincarnate a good fetus and stop doing that murderous thing. ”

Although Su Jiudong is jealous and hateful, she is still kind by nature, even if the bad guy dies, she will hope that the bad guy can be reborn and not have to repeat the mistakes of this life.

"And the luck part, but what about the part that can work from it?"

"The method of using good offices is nothing more than the simple word 'buy'." Wen Yiheng dipped his fingers in water and wrote down three nouns on the desktop.

"Eunuch", "Writer", "Executioner......

There is money and connections, and if you want to operate from it, you have to buy these three people.

"The first person is the eunuch who is in charge of sorting out the documents for the Holy One. The Holy Lord's daily work and busy schedule of official duties means that he will not finish all his official duties, and the list of people awaiting execution in a year is very large. ”

Wen Yiheng was disdainful when he mentioned eunuchs. In the huge palace, Wen Yiheng has seen too many despicable eunuchs interfering in politics and disturbing the super-outline, and he feels very disgusted by it.

"At this time, you can bribe the eunuchs and eunuchs around the saint and ask the eunuchs to put your list at the bottom. I'm afraid that before it's your turn to draw a circle, the Holy One will take care of other things. ”

"But it's not easy to get close to the eunuchs around the saint, right? That is a person who can always approach the Son of Heaven, and it is estimated that it is difficult to achieve ordinary means of bribery. ”

Su Jiudong told Wen Yiheng some information about the Lin family, and there was no high-ranking official in the Lin family, so Su Jiudong asserted: "Mrs. Wei is just a state-level Facao of the fourth grade, and there are no family members in the Lin family who are officials in the court, so they should not be able to deal with the eunuchs around the saint." ”

Ordinary petty officials or wealthy families may not have access to the eunuchs who accompany the emperor. And the eunuchs who are accustomed to seeing good things in the palace may not be able to look down on the bribes of ordinary officials.

Therefore, the risk associated with the "eunuch", the first target of bribery, has also increased.

"That's why there's a second object of operation - the writer. The writer is the one who writes the list, because some emperors draw circles regularly, for example, the first one does not circle, or jumps in circles. ”

"To find out this pattern, the writer has accepted your bribe and written your name in the position where the emperor does not draw a circle."

Wen Yiheng had previously used a similar method to help several officials in the DPRK and China, so he was very familiar with this method.

"But I still don't think there is much room for these two people to operate, and it is purely based on luck. If you meet a diligent and bloodthirsty emperor like the Holy Taizu Qin Yuan, and draw a circle on each name, you will definitely die!"

Su Jiudong thought that Qin Yuan had executed tens of thousands of people in a fit of anger in several major cases that occurred during the Hongwu period, and if he was unfortunately planted in his hands, he was afraid that he would really have to be reincarnated as soon as possible, find a good family to be reborn and be a new man.

"Although today's saints are not as good as the holy ancestors, they are not as decisive as they are. It was not easy to survive from him. ”

"Just now you also pointed out that you want the above two characters, and there is also a lot of luck, but the next thing to buy is the third person who is the executioner who relies on technology."

In ancient times, not only were the boards played, but the executioners were all ancestral crafts!

If the unfortunate ones on the list are really circled by the saints, there are also family members who don't want to be tired and suffer, and use money to bribe the executioners and the prison officials.

"Executioners are all craftsmen. Go with a knife. can make the prisoner's head fall to the ground cleanly, and the dead will not be guilty; It can also make the lady droop half of her head in a bloody mess, so that the onlookers mistakenly think that she is dead. ”