Gu Yanzhang shook his head and said, "It's a bit troublesome today, I don't feel anything in my stomach, but when I came back and saw that you weren't there, I ate some pastries and dealt with it." ”

At this time, it is normal to have no appetite, so Ji Qingling didn't say more, but said: "Although it is noon, the fifth brother also goes to bed early, so as to make up for sleep." ”

The two of them really took a nap for half an hour, and they didn't mention anything in the afternoon.

The next day, because he had already received Du Tanzhi's reply, after noon, Gu Yanzhang only took rosin and went to Songhe Tower.

Du Tanzhi arrived earlier than him, and he was already sitting in the private room waiting.

The two met and exchanged pleasantries for a moment.

Du Tanzhi said with a smile: "I heard that yesterday Yanzhang entered the internal music for a long time, and there were many suggestions, and it was not until noon, but many of the officials who came to see him only showed their faces, and they were dismissed." ”

One is Liu Boshan's grandson-in-law, and the other is Liu Boshan's personal disciple, with this relationship, the two are naturally a little closer.

Du Tanzhi's personality is steady, his ability is not weak, he can serve as the first official in the Kyoto Prefecture in just a few years, and he naturally has his advantages in the world.

Gu Yanzhang smiled slightly and said: "Ganzhou has raised tens of thousands of displaced people since last year, and the Son of Heaven is worried about the suffering of the people, so he naturally asks more. ”

The two were talking, and Xiao Er had already finished serving the dishes one by one.

"Brother Du is in the left hall, and he has a special position, so there will be a lot of discussion among others, so he won't drink alcohol today." Pointing to the five or six dishes on the table, Gu Yanzhang explained, "It's inevitable that it's a little thinner." ”

"This is the right way to go." Du Tanzhi looked at the simple dishes on the table, not at all, but relieved.

He served as the magistrate of the Kyoto prefectural government, and was responsible for judicial adjudication on weekdays.

The imperial court has a lot of control over the judicial officials, and the rest of the officials feast and drink for pleasure, as long as they do not violate the law, there will be no problems, but if they sit in the Dali Temple official Ziqing, Shaoqing, Sizhi, and commentators, they can not go out to have fun on holidays, and the guests attending the meeting are taboo.

Although Du Tanzhi is not in Dali Temple, and his official position is still low, but the Kyoto Prefecture is also a place that is being watched by everyone, and he will soon be transferred to the official position, and the dispatch has already been decided, just when the time comes, it will be handed over.

Come out today to have a meal with Gu Yanzhang, even if you don't get too nervous, you can be cautious, it's always good.

The two chatted casually, drank tea and ate, and talked about the Great Jin Criminal System.

Du Tanzhi can be regarded as a proprietary director on the side of the law, and Gu Yanzhang is even more of a person who has almost all of them in the Liangshan and Qingming academies when he studied for the judges, and there is only one answer to be considered, both of them have read countless files, and they have also had a lot of experience in judging cases.

"Yanzhang should enter Dali Temple." Seeing that the topic was over, Du Tanzhi suddenly said with emotion, "It's too wasteful to serve as an official in the rest of the ministries." ”

Sure enough, he strongly persuaded him to go to the examination of the judge and do the corresponding position.

Gu Yanzhang smiled a little, but he waved his hand, said a few words modestly, and didn't take it to heart.

There are so many things worth doing in the world that if you have to mix everything up, you will only be greedy and chew too much.

When he came out this time, in addition to some questions about the criminal system that he wanted to ask, there was another extremely important thing.

While talking to the other party, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he had almost asked all the questions that should be asked, Gu Yanzhang lifted the teapot, added some tea to Du Tanzhi, and asked: "Speaking of criminal law, I wonder if Brother Du still remembers the 'Dengzhou Ayun Case' when Emperor Shenzong was in his time?" ”

After chatting for so long, they are all about the criminal system and cases, and they don't involve the rest at all, Du Tanzhi has long been defenseless, and when he heard Gu Yanzhang ask at this moment, he didn't think about it, and said directly: "I remember." ”

"I don't know what Brother Du thinks, Ayun should be hanged or exiled?"

Du Tanzhi replied: "You should be exiled." ”

Gu Yanzhang said: "I want to hear about it." ”

"If it is according to the law, 'kill and hang the wounded', Ah Yun should be hanged, but she immediately turned herself in, the injured do not die, but there are extenuating circumstances, according to the law, she should die, and if she is judged by emotion, the sentence should be commuted, and the exile is just right."

"In the final analysis, the culprit is the evil uncle, the law can only judge cases, not people, and the rest must rely on the power of education, which is also a pity." With emotion in his mouth, Du Tanzhi put down the chopsticks, and for a while he didn't even want to eat the food again, and after a while, he said, "But that evil uncle escaped, only that Ayun is pitiful." ”

Gu Yanzhang nodded and said, "When Mr. talked to us about this case in the academy that day, there was no agreement between the classmates, but they all felt that uncle was very evil. ”

The so-called Dengzhou Ayun case refers to a major case in the first year of Xining.

There is an old bachelor named Wei Da in a village in Dengzhou, who is ugly in appearance, has only a few acres of thin fields at home, is not only poor, but also loves to drink, and is lazy to eat and do it on weekdays.

One night, Wei Da ate bad wine and was sleeping soundly, but suddenly felt that someone was attacking him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a black shadow standing in front of the bed, holding a firewood knife, slashing at himself.

Wei Da was so busy that he only knew how to raise his hand to block it, but he met his finger squarely, and a sharp pain made him howl, which scared the black shadow away.

The villagers heard that something was going on here, so they hurriedly came to see it, and someone reported to the official, and soon the county lieutenant felt the scene.

After the county lieutenant investigated, he found that although Wei Da was ugly and poor, lazy and greedy, he did not steal chickens and dogs, and he had no enemies, and judging from the footprints in the field outside the door and the strength of the knife on Wei Da's body, the murderer should be a girl with little strength.

After some cross-examination, the county lieutenant finally locked on the suspect.

A young girl named Ah Yun from a neighboring village.

After arraigning Ah Yun to the county office, he didn't even need to be interrogated, and he confessed all by himself.

It turned out that Ayun's parents were both dead, and there were only a dozen acres of land and a few houses left in the family, and the uncle didn't want to raise his niece, and wanted to occupy his brother and sister-in-law's property, so after receiving a few loads of grain as a dowry, he married Ayun Xu to Wei Da in the next village.

Wei Da's reputation, Ah Yun knew it, she was desperate, she simply broke the net, took advantage of the darkness, grabbed the firewood knife, and went to "die together" with Wei Da.

According to the criminal system of the Great Jin Dynasty at that time, the county government determined that Ayun's family had received Wei Da's dowry, and the documents on both sides had passed, and they were considered to have become in-laws.