"Dumb uncle, how is Master?" Pei Xia entered Pei Qifang's small courtyard, the door of the house was closed, and the dumb uncle was watering the flowers in the courtyard.

"Ahh The dumb uncle gestured and said that Pei Qifang was reading a book in the house, Pei Xia walked to the door of the house and knocked lightly.

"Come in." Pei Qifang said in the house.

Pei Xia pushed the door and went in, only to see Pei Qifang holding a book in his hand, sitting upright on the couch. She, the master, is stubborn, and even if she has injuries on her body, she doesn't allow herself to have no rules.

"Master." Pei Xia bowed his head and asked Pei Qifang to say goodbye.

"Stop standing, find your own place to sit." After last night's punishment, Pei Qifang didn't make a big fuss, but he was still expressionless, and it seemed that his anger had not subsided.

"I heard Lord Qi say that Wang Yunsheng has already allowed you to go to the Qiu Zhou Criminal Prison Division?"

"Yes."

Pei Qifang nodded, stopped talking, and Pei Xia didn't dare to speak, so he took the book from the bookshelf on the side and read it. The master and apprentice spent the morning quietly.

This is the normal state of getting along with these two masters and apprentices, after the destruction of Qiu Heguo, Pei Xia found Pei Qifang after several journeys. Pei Qifang's daughter was frail and sickly since she was a child, and she had already gone at that time, and Pei Qifang had neither experience in teaching children nor experience in lecturing as an apprentice. He himself was learned, but he couldn't tell. If you want to talk about the autopsy and investigate the case, you can still teach Pei Xia a lesson or two, if it is a subset of scripture and history, I don't know where to start, so I just let Pei Xia study it on his own, and ask for advice if there is something I don't understand. Fortunately, Pei Xia is intelligent, and he has taught indiscriminately like this, and his knowledge is far stronger than many scholars he saw when Pei Qifang was in the capital.

After lunch, Pei Xia was going to help the dumb man work, Pei Qifang stopped her: "Don't you hurt in your back?" ”

He said this to let Pei Xia rest, but when he said it from Pei Qifang's mouth, it was hard. Thanks to Pei Xia and his master and apprentice for many years, he heard a little bit of concern from it, and he thought he was asking for it.

Pei Xia sat back in his seat and watched the dumb man go to close the bar.

"When are you going to the Prison Division?" Pei Qifang picked up the teacup and moistened his mouth, pretending to ask casually.

"I'll go on the first day of next month." Pei Xia replied respectfully.

"Well, that's going to be soon, you'll need to find a place to stay a few days in advance." Pei Qifang pondered for a while and said, "Wang Yunsheng is small-minded and loves to hold grudges. This time he suffered a loss, even if he didn't know that it was your hands and feet, he couldn't help King Suiyuan, and he would put this account on your head. ”

It was rare for Pei Qifang to take the initiative to talk to her so much, Pei Xia knew that she was afraid that she would suffer a loss when she went to Qiuzhou City, and the master was so hard-mouthed and soft-hearted.

"I know, I'm going to be careful." Pei Xia hesitated, but still wanted to inquire, "Master, ...... your case?"

Pei Qifang waved his hand: "My case involves a wide range of issues, Wang Yunsheng was just a book in the history of the Ministry of Officials back then, and he may not know anything." Even if he really knew that after all these years, he came here from the capital to be an official again, and he had traveled thousands of miles, and there was no evidence for a long time. ”

If it weren't for the case back then, Mrs. Pei might not have died. If Mrs. Pei didn't die, maybe she would be more meticulous than Pei Qifang in taking care of her young daughter, and that Pei Xia, who had only seen her twice, would not be gone at a young age.

Pei Qifang, like her, became a victim inexplicably because of a confused case. She has hated it in her heart for so many years, doesn't Pei Qifang hate it? It is very difficult for her sister's case to be overturned, but Pei Qifang's case may still have a chance.

However, Pei Qifang didn't want to mention it, Pei Xia didn't know much, so he had to think about it in the long run.

Pei Xia asked Pei Qifang a few questions when reading today, and when he left, Pei Qifang suddenly said: "I punished you yesterday, are you dissatisfied?" ”

Pei Xia was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and said, "Don't dare."

"I know you must blame me for being pedantic. If you only want revenge and don't want to think about the prison anymore, I won't care about you anymore, and let you turn black and white upside down. But if you still want to do something about the cleansing of prisons, you can't help but be in awe. The autopsy and investigation of the case must not be sloppy, careless, and not to refer to the deer as a horse, and treat it as a child's play. The slightest mistake can make the dead unjust, and the living suffer in vain, even to the point of no return, do you understand? ”

Pei Qifang's words were not harsh, but they were deafening. Although Pei Xia didn't say anything when he was punished yesterday, he was indeed a little unimpressed in his heart, and at this time, after Pei Qifang mentioned it, he realized that he had made a big mistake. She knelt down and bowed deeply to Pei Qifang, and replied, "Disciple remember the master's teachings. ”

In the next few days, Qiu Niang still came to give Pei Xia medicine every morning. The dumb uncle hit hard the first few times that day, and then lightened his strength, Pei Qifang turned his eyes open and closed his eyes after the initial scolding, so Pei Xia's injury looked scary, but it was not serious, it was almost fine in a few days, but Pei Qifang couldn't help but toss when he was old, and simply refused her visit in the name of letting Pei Xia take care of his injuries, and didn't meet again until Pei Xia left to ask for it.

In the courtyard of the Qiuzhou City Prison Division.

The two officials of the government were spitting bitterness with the officers of the prison department with sad faces.

"Just ask your Mr. Wu to help us take a look. The prefect ordered that the case should be solved within seven days, and it took a long time to find out how the person died. Human life is at stake, you must save him! ”

"Zhao Zhutou is not looking for death or life once or twice, so he can't die with confidence." The prison officer's officer stopped the two men from entering the house. The two men stretched out their heads, and from behind the people who stopped them, they could see a man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, writing in a large pile of cases.

"Please, it's been two days, and there has been no progress in the case, and we will all have to be punished when we turn back."

"What do you eat for the work of your government officials? If you can't do it, I'll go somewhere else and borrow some people. Our Mr. Lu is really not available these days, Lord Cao and Mr. Kong went to Liuhe County to examine a suspicious case, and only Mr. Lu is approving the cases reported in the past few days. Some time ago, you also know about our Criminal Prison Division, after Du Xiao was imprisoned, he asked our Qiuzhou Criminal Prison Department to sort out and report all the cases in the past few years, and Mr. Lu himself couldn't wait to find a rope to hang himself. ”

The officers of the Qiuzhou Criminal Prison Department and the officials of the government often solve cases together, and they have a very good relationship with each other, if they really have no way, they will not be rejected again and again.

"Just delay it for half a day? Just half a day, go and see it and come back. The two men in the government still refused to give up, and they refused to leave at the door.

The people in the Criminal Prison Department are also very helpless, they all work for the people above, everyone knows this difficulty, they have been grinding for a long time, and it is false to say that they are not soft-hearted, they hesitantly looked at Lu Fang in the room and asked, "Mr. Lu, why don't you go for a trip." ”

"I want to go too!" Lu Fang was crazy, "I also want to save you Zhao Zhutou, but who will save me!" …… By the way, what day is it today? ”

"It's the first day of September."

Lu Fang slapped the table: "Is there a newcomer coming today?" What's it called? Why hasn't it arrived yet? ”

"Mr. Lu, it's not ...... yet."

All of them stayed up all night in the Criminal Prison Division, each with thick dark circles under their eyes, and Lu Fang stayed up for several nights in a row, feeling that he was on the verge of sudden death.

His headband had long since been loosened, and his hair was loose, and he looked rather crazy in the dim light. These days, he is so busy that he can't even take care of eating, and he doesn't have time to inquire about the newcomer, only that there is such a person coming.

"Then you wait, when he comes, let him go with you."

"Who is this newcomer? Is it reliable? Lu Fang finally gave a solution, although he didn't know if it would work, but the two men still didn't dare to question him loudly, after all, there might be something to ask the governors of the Criminal Prison Department in the future, so they only dared to whisper to the officers of the Criminal Prison Division.

"You don't know? It's a girl, I heard that she looks very good, I heard from the people in your government, she broke the case in Linci County a few days ago, and Lord Wang personally took someone there. ”

"It's not a day or two that our group of people have not been treated by Lord Wang, how can Lord Wang wear us when he goes out on business."

The Dayu Dynasty explicitly allowed women to be officials, but in fact it was very rare. In the past, if I heard that I could work with a girl, no matter how good or not I looked good, I would have to be excited for a few days, not to mention that I heard that it was a beauty. But now that time is pressing, no matter how beautiful they are, they can't laugh if they don't have the ability.

"What is the case in Linci County? Can you say no? "The left and right are dry and waiting, the two of them might as well think about the last case she handled, first, to have an understanding, and second, to divert attention, otherwise they are really anxious to hit the wall.

The case has already been closed, so naturally there is nothing to say, anyway, it is Mr. Lu who is busy, and their gang of errands are only responsible for helping to find materials and deliver things, and they are also free, so they will roughly explain the case history.

"Oh, that's a strange thing, where did you find that last account book? Didn't Master Zhou find her house but couldn't find it? ”

"It is said to be under the offering table of the temple outside the city. Speaking of which, that Yin Chuan is really bold, he actually hid such an important thing under the noses of so many people, and it was because of this that he didn't find that Zhou Keli. ”

"But how could Du Xiao have such an account book? How could it be in the hands of Zhou Keli? "At that time, Qin Chazuo Li was trying Du Xiao's case on the side of the Criminal Prison Department, and the people on the government side did not know much about the specific situation.

"It's even more ridiculous to say. Didn't Du Xiao marry a concubine at the beginning of this year, and when his wife saw that the concubine was favored, she cried with her brother, that is, Zhou Keli, saying that she was afraid that one day Du Xiao would help the concubine to be the main room. When Zhou Keli heard this, he encouraged her to write down such an account book, so that she could threaten Du Xiao in the future. Poor Du Xiao didn't know that when he heard that his wife and uncle were arrested, he was still yelling and thinking about saving him......"

"It's terrible for these women to be stupid...... I hope the new governor is not a stupid woman with hair and no brains......" The man who spoke was halfway through his words, and when he saw several people in front of him giving him crazy looks, his heart was cold, and he turned his head, only to see the master he said was standing behind him with a cold face.