Chapter 11: Above the Court
There are three kinds of people in this world, one is the one you want but can't get rid of, the other is the one you want but can't get, and the other is the person you feel as if you've seen it somewhere but can't remember.
I ran through the crowd, turned a corner, turned into a small fork in the road, and hid behind a wall.
"Finally dumped him! What a clingy guy! I pulled the wall and poked my head out to look outside, Li Mo was dizzy and couldn't find me, and I didn't know where to run.
I couldn't breathe with laughter. took a bite of the rock sugar gourd and swaggered down the street, the shouts of the vendors filling the streets and alleys. I spent a few copper plates to buy a rattle with two projectiles on both sides, and the projectiles can be struck by turning the drum handle.
As I walked, I spotted a man in the midst of the crowd, and his back was very much like Abu. He walked to a hairpin shop and picked up, and the familiar face was clearly Abu!
"Abu!" I yelled in his direction.
The man turned his head to look at me, smiled and said something to the shopkeeper, and then immediately left and went into a small alley.
Pretending you don't know me? Extremely well hidden, superb!
I ran after him, but I couldn't find anyone. No, am I looking away? But the man clearly looked exactly like Abu, but the clothes and hairstyle were the same as those of the Central Plains. He has no reason to come to the Central Plains, the eldest brother and the second brother are busy making a comeback, and he should be busy in the middle of the day.
The fox was suspicious for a long time, I walked absent-mindedly, something pressed on my feet, I was so frightened that I took two steps back, it turned out to be an old woman. I hurriedly helped her up.
Isn't this the liar beggar from before?! She glanced at me, also a little surprised, but quickly retracted her expression, so she cried and shouted, "Hey, my old waist!" What kind of sin have I done, you want to push me, an old woman. "A young man suddenly appeared and pushed me away and helped the old woman up.
"Mother, are you okay mother!"
What the?! Obviously, this beggar said that her son died early, and now how can he - well, I have met a liar.
"My mother just pushed this girl who doesn't know what to do, this waist ...... Hey, my hard-working son, our family is already poor, where can I find Lang Zhongyou now......" After that, the two began to cry pretendedly, tears rushed out, and people who didn't know thought I was bullying their mother and son.
"Hey! This mother-in-law, you clearly said that your son died early, why did a living person pop up? You're clearly a scam! I crossed my waist and coaxed.
The two didn't listen to me, and the young man suddenly stepped forward and grabbed my arm: "If you don't pay us today, don't want to leave here!" β
More and more people came to see the excitement, and people who didn't know the situation began to point fingers at me.
Okay, dare to cheat in broad daylight, I can be regarded as enlightened today.
"I didn't push her, I just didn't push her! Obviously, this old woman herself suddenly fell in front of me, and I was kind enough to help you, why did I say that I pushed you? β
"You lose money!" The guy is vicious.
I rolled my eyes and said calmly: "Dude, being a man is to be reasonable, you are going to suffer if you are so unreasonable, are you not afraid of being sent to the government?" β
"You pushed someone, you should go to the government! Lose money quickly! β
"No, you have to follow me to the government!" I walked over and pulled the old woman up, and the young man grabbed the old woman's other arm.
Both of us refused to admit defeat, and the old woman was obviously the one who suffered the most in the middle.
Between the push and pull, a familiar low voice sounded: "You pull your mother like this, I doubt that you are really this old woman's dog?" β
For a moment time seemed to stand still, and all the noise disappeared. Li Yi was wearing a dark narrow-sleeved python robe, and the dark blue piping showed a cold temperament. He walked slowly to the young man, who seemed to be calmed by Li Di's sharp eyes, and he didn't dare to speak.
After a long time, he pretended to be calm and said to him, "Who are you!" You two must be accomplices, lose your money quickly! β
I shouted at the guy, "Hey! You said he was your mother, so you just pulled her like that! You're trying to blackmail me! β
"I-"
The voice of a group of men and horses came, and an officer and soldier shouted: "Who is disturbing the people's livelihood here!" β
The officers and soldiers dismounted and came, looking angry, and the young man immediately complained: "Official, these two people are accomplices, they pushed my mother and caused my mother to suffer a back injury, and they still don't admit it!" You call the shots for the villain. β
"It's not like thatβ" I was about to go up to ask for an explanation, but Li Yi grabbed me, and I didn't continue to talk about it.
The officers and soldiers looked us up and down, and said to the other junior officers and soldiers behind us: "Take these people away!" β
In this way, we were escorted to the yamen.
There is a huge gilded plaque hanging above the public hall, on which the words "Mirror Hanging" are written. The boss of the yamen, sitting majestically on a high chair, suddenly slapped a piece of wood on the table, and the sound was so loud that I was startled.
"Don't get down on your knees yet!" It was obvious that the boss was shouting at me and Li Yuan, and it was also obvious that he didn't know that this person was Dahuan's general Zhijinwu.
"We haven't done anything wrong, why kneel!"
"You're coming!" The boss called a servant, and he kicked me hard in the calf, but I endured it, and he struck me hard with a beam that I don't know if it had been taken from the roof of a house. I couldn't help it, I still threw myself on my knees.
The official was ready to let Li Yi kneel down again.
"Hey, hey, hey! You can't fight this person, he's Li Yuan, Li Yuan should know, he is your Dahuan's Jinwu general, and his father is the founding marshal! If you do this, you will be beheaded by the Emperor! The official was stunned by what I said, and Li Yi stood motionless, not knowing what he was thinking.
I whispered to him, "Hurry up and say something!" "He didn't answer me.
"Bold!" The boss slapped the wood again, "Not only do you call the general's name, but you also dare to deceive the court by pretending to be a general!" Get down on your knees yet! β
I was so anxious that I panicked, but Li Mo didn't move. At this time, someone outside broke in, and Chen Feng knelt on the ground with a group of soldiers and said, "The end will be too late!" Please forgive the General! β
It took a long time for the boss to react, and he crawled down and knelt in front of Li Yi, and said with a smile on his face: "Villain...... The villain has no eyes, and asks the general to punish him...... "I secretly despise him in my heart."
The old woman and the young man on the side dropped their jaws even more in surprise, and they must have regretted it at this time.
After a while, Li Yuan slowly spoke: "Lord Ming, let me ask you, the fourteen gambling houses in the west and east of the city traded with gambling prostitutes for huge profits, and even intercepted and killed innocent people, do you know this?" β
Li Yuan's calm and waveless eyes made Master Ming dare not look directly, and replied tremblingly: "Villain, villain doesn't know ......"
Guilty!
"Well, thirty-seven dens of the Beggars, the Wind Gate, and the Fire Gate are scattered throughout the city, do you know?"
Lord Ming's whole body began to tremble, his face showed panic, and the two people who deceived began to lose their bodies.
Li Yu squatted down and grabbed Lord Ming's collar, his face became more stern, and he was angry that I had never seen before, and said: "Then do you know that there are thousands of children up and down the city, whose tongues have been cut off, their eyes have been burned by tongs, their hands and feet have been cut off, and they are begging on the street, and they are still looking forward to you coming to make decisions for the justice of the world." β
He let go of his hand and stood up and looked at Master Ming condescendingly. My heart tightened, such a big city was in danger, and the adults who were high-ranking officials did nothing. It turns out that there is a group of people in this world who are suffering more than the loss of their father and mother, and these people have their own misfortunes and pains, and those who are safe and sound are all equally lucky.
Master Ming's eyes were full of tears, his face was red and hot, and his tears wrapped Li Di's legs, crying: "Villain...... The villain is guilty...... But the villain is really hard to speakβ"
Li Yi kicked him away and said behind him, "Bring people up." β
A soldier dragged a little girl covered with a white ribbon into the courtroom, and the little girl removed the ribbon. I was stunned, this is the little girl who begged with the beggar on the street a few days ago, her eyes were still good that day, I said a rock sugar gourd and she immediately opened her eyes, but today she is really blind. Although the little girl's eyes were closed, the eyelids were flattened, and there was nothing in them, no eyeballs......
A woman with one of her ears cut off and a bandage came in behind, she knelt down and said: "Please make the decision, the folk girl was originally the daughter of a fisherman in Yanhua Village, and I never thought that one day the family would encounter several people in black, and they also wore masks, and the little girl didn't recognize them...... It's just that they not only robbed the family of all their belongings, but also raped the people's daughters, sent them to a place full of people, made us go to the streets every day to beg for money, and sent people to watch us on the street corners and alleys. If the money we ask for is not up to the mark, they will whip us and deprive us of water and food...... My father has come here many times to ask the adults to avenge the people's daughter, but in the end he was either told that the adults were not there or were driven away......"
I heard that tears were left behind, these so-called high-ranking officials did not do things with extremely high salaries, did some superficial articles, occupied the pit and did not, and said that they had a hard time speaking.
I stepped forward and hugged the little girl who was standing alone, covering her ears to not let her hear these hurtful things. Asked if her eyes hurt, she shook her head very obediently.
Li Mo stared at Lord Ming, who fell to the ground and cried silently.
He said with teary eyes: "General...... General, don't you know, all this is planned by someone behind it, and those schools are all one gang! They have ...... They have a powerful messenger at work, General! There are also gambling houses, gambling houses are different, but there are also people behind the gambling houses, according to the villain's understanding, the owners of these fourteen gambling houses like to drink a cup of tea every time they come to Lanzhou City. That's all the villain knows, you can spare the villainβ"
Li thought for a moment, stepped in front of the old woman and the young man, and half-knelt down. The two of them immediately shook their bodies, lowered their heads and did not dare to look directly.
"Do you know who, old woman, is instructing you?" Li Xiao softened his tone as much as possible.
"Decay...... Old decay ......" she had been flustered, and suddenly patted her brain, "Oh, although the old decay doesn't know who they are, but one day the old decay picked up this thing from them, and the old decay thought that it might be useful to escape later." β