Fang Shuangping's body was brought back to Yinzhou by his family, and he happened to be buried with Wen Lanxin.

Deng Changning raised his sleeves to wipe his tears, and said: "Cousin, you and Lan Xin's grave are next to each other, and I happen to visit you together on Qingming Festival every year. Under the nine springs, you can also be companions. ”

Chu Cheng couldn't listen anymore and twisted her head to the side.

Lin Boqin said a few words to Fang Shuangping's family and watched them leave.

The summer breeze is bleak, blowing white flags and holding couplets, paper money is fluttering, accompanied by the scattered crying, which is even more sad.

Lin Boqin came to Chu Hui's side and didn't say a word.

The two stood silent for a while, and it was Chu Cheng who spoke first: "I didn't want to force him to die." Chu Cheng let out a long breath, "Lan Xin and my friend, I just want to get justice for her." But now, it's more than I expected. ”

Lin Boqin's eyes were calm and he asked, "What are your expectations?" ”

"Justice is served, so that Fang Shuangping can get the punishment he deserves, even if it is only a hundred and seventy strokes." Speaking of this, Chu Cheng glanced at Lin Boqin with a complicated expression.

Lin Boqin looked at the direction of the funeral procession, and said lightly: "There are so many unexpected things in the world, you don't have to feel depressed. Let's go back. ”

With that, he turned and left.

Chu Xi followed behind him step by step, thinking to herself, no matter what, Wen Lanxin's death had finally found out the cause and effect.

Hu Yu drove the carriage and helped Lin Boqin up.

Chu Cheng followed.

She bent down and got into the carriage, and saw Lin Boqin's black face, and was suddenly stunned: "What kind of expression are you, Wen Lanxin's case has come to light, aren't you still happy?" ”

Lin Boqin raised his eyelids, looked at her coldly, and pointed to the horses grazing on the side of the road: "I haven't settled accounts with you about taking the horse and leaving." ”

Chu Cheng's tone stammered a little: "What kind of account?" I...... I'm here to solve the case and arrest the suspect for you. You're slow, what if you run evenly? ”

"Strong words."

Lin Boqin asked again: "Then tell me, where did you learn to ride a horse?" ”

A woman who has never been to school, riding skills are better than Hu Yuyangla, who believes it? But this happened.

Chu Cheng had thought of this before, and in order to fulfill her lie, she deliberately broke the skin of her ankle.

She lifted the hem of her skirt, took off her stockings, revealed her wounds, and said with tears in her eyes: "I have seen it a few times from afar, and I know how to sit on the saddle without falling off, how can I ride any horse?" It's just that the situation was in a hurry, so I rushed out with a hot head...... No, when you dismount, you still fall off the horse, and you see, it's all broken here! ”

On the woman's slender and fair ankles, there were some broken skin oozing blood, which looked like a white picture scroll dotted with cinnabar.

Lin Boqin didn't expect her to pick up her skirt without saying a word, quickly looked away, and hurriedly said, "Put down your skirt." ”

Chu Cheng let out an "oh" and obediently did so.

Lin Boqin's expression was still tense, but his tone was a little lighter: "Every time I train you, it's for your good, but you don't listen." If Fang Shuangping is exposed by you, he will be angry and embarrassed, and he will kidnap you and threaten you...... Li Siniang, do you understand? ”

Chu Cheng didn't expect him to be angry for this reason.

Moved in her heart, her temper was not so tricky, she even clasped her hands and whispered to Lin Boqin: "Not next time." ”

"And next time?"

"Don't be angry, don't be angry, I'll go home and make you sweet soup."

“…… Who's going to drink sweet soup? ”

"Then what's the matter, your shoulder injury is not healed yet, drink more sweet soup quickly."

"Nonsense!"

Don't think he doesn't know, every time Chu Cheng makes sweet soup, it's to practice his hands.

Chu Shen's eyes widened, obviously a little incredulous: "What's the matter with you, I apologize to you, and you still don't appreciate it?" ”

"I don't need you to apologize, just keep to yourself."

Lin Boqin said lightly.

"I'm going to make you sweet soup anyway."

"No, I don't."

"Well, obedient." Chu Cheng went to touch his head as she spoke.

Lin Boqin came out in a hurry, without an official hat, his dark hair was coiled on the top of his head with a white hosta, the color was supple, and he looked very good.

The carriage was narrow, and Lin Boqin was injured again, so he couldn't dodge, so he could only pump out a few words from between his teeth: "Li Siniang!" Talk as you talk, don't move your hands and feet! ”

"That's not up to you."

“……”

Hu Yu and Yang La were driving, listening to the conversation coming out of the carriage, and laughed out loud.

When they arrived at the gate of the county office, sure enough, their stereotypical and conservative Lord Lin lifted the curtain with a frosty face, looking in a bad mood.

However, Chu Cheng was happy.

She propped up the wheel, jumped out of the carriage, and stretched out her hand to Lin Boqin: "I'll help you down." ”

Lin Boqin glared at her: "No. ”

"Oh, don't play with the child's temper, you have a serious shoulder injury, don't accidentally fall on the horse. There are people coming and going at the gate of the county ya, and it is not good to see it. ”

Lin Boqin almost laughed angrily at her.

Does she still know that there are people here? What is a woman like when she reaches out to help a big man?

"Hu Yu, help me."

Hu Yuzheng and Yang La laughed and urged narrowly, and when they heard this, they hurriedly ran to help.

"My husband is really kind." Chu Cheng bit her lip and said resentfully.

When Lin Boqin heard this, he almost broke his foot.

At this moment, I suddenly saw a woman and a middle-aged man pulling and pulling towards the county office, and the two quarreled louder and louder, and passers-by on the street looked sideways. Yang La and Hu Yu saw that the two of them were getting more and more noisy, and they looked like they were going to fight, so they hurriedly stepped forward and scolded: "What are you doing!" Outside the county office, shouting and screaming, do you want to be punished for the crime of picking quarrels and provoking trouble? ”

When the two saw that they were government officials, they hurriedly stopped arguing.

One of the women cried out loudly with a "wow", and hugged Yang La's leg: "Ask the official master to call the shots!" This Li Zhongyi, who killed a thousand knives, wants to rob my child! ”

The woman looked like she was in her forties, but her hair was much whiter, she was wearing a gray linen gown, and her shoes were patched, and she knelt on the ground and cried miserably, and Chu Ji was startled.

In broad daylight, there are still people robbing children on the street?

It's too unreasonable!

Chu Cheng rolled up her sleeves and was about to administer justice, but saw that the middle-aged man named Li Zhongyi also knelt on the ground and hugged Hu Yu's feet: "Don't listen to this shrew, official, it's clear that she robbed my child, but she came to slander me at this time!" ”

Seeing this, Chu Cheng immediately froze in place.

If she had stepped forward, she might have been the one who had been held by her feet.

Hu Yu and Yang Latui were not, nor were they scolding, and they hurriedly threw their eyes at Lin Boqin for help: "My lord, these two people are arguing, can they be promoted to the court for trial?" ”

Lin Boqin covered his slightly painful right shoulder, straightened up slightly, and said with a straight face: "Trial." ”

Standing at both ends of the public hall, holding a stick and shouting "mighty".

Li Zhongyi and the woman knelt in the hall together, and each reported his identity.

The elderly woman's name was Su Mei and she lived in Xihe Township, Liuli Village. There is no father and no mother in the family, and after her husband died, she has not remarried, guarding a single seedling son, and living by making silk flowers and selling them for money. Li Zhongyi is a merchant in the county, usually walks the streets and alleys, earns a lot of silver, bought a courtyard house in the north wall, his wife died early, and he has no children and no daughters.

Chu Cheng stood outside the public hall, standing on tiptoe to see the situation inside.

Lin Boqin saw that she was probing her brain, and her thoughts were always disturbed by her, so he sat slightly sideways and did not look at her.

After a while, he put his fist to his lips, coughed lightly, and asked, "What is the plaintiff and what is the defendant?" ”

Li Zhongyi took a step forward, knelt directly on the plaintiff's stone, pointed at Su Mei and said, "My lord, Xiaomin is the plaintiff!" ”

"Sue what?"

"Sue Su Mei for stealing my child!"

Li Zhongyi pointed at Su Mei and shouted, startling Su Mei. She came back to her senses, fell on the ground and wailed: "The wicked sue first, it's so unreasonable!" ”

"It's you who doesn't make sense!"

Li Zhongyi's eyes were red, and he was obviously very angry.

He bent down and kowtowed to Lin Boqin, and said in a forbearant voice, "My lord, you don't know anything. Ten years ago, my wife Zhu had a difficult birth, and Su Mei was a well-known stable woman who came to my house to deliver the baby. Unexpectedly, as soon as the child was born, my wife bled to death, and the child also had black lips and purple face, and lost his breath. At that time, the grass people were sad, and they only thought about arranging the funeral of their deceased wife, as for the baby who died early...... If it weren't for this baby, my wife wouldn't have died. At that time, the grass people were angry and resented that this son had killed my wife, so they asked Su Mei to bury the child. But the grass people never thought that the baby was not dead at the beginning, but it was just out of breath for the time being, Su Mei knew that my child was still alive, but she didn't tell the grass people, and she raised the grass people's child as her for ten years, and until now, she refuses to return it! ”

When Su Mei heard this, she cried angrily: "Nonsense, you nonsense!" I gave birth to the child, and I conceived it in October! Li Zhongyi, isn't it because I didn't buy your goods, you have a grudge and want to snatch my child! We orphans and widows, you can't bear to bully!? ”

"I'm robbing your child? It's clear that you're robbing my child! ”

"Li Zhongyi, you obviously started my child's idea because you have no queen under your knees. Just because I was kind enough to deliver the baby for your family back then, you can frame me with impunity...... The Wang family, the Li family, the Liu family...... All of them have children, and they are all the same age as you, why don't you go to them and ask for them? It's not because I'm a bully...... Woohoo......"

The more Su Mei spoke, the more sad she became, covering her face and crying again.

Li Zhongyi didn't want to entangle with Su Mei, he directly bowed his hand to Lin Boqin and said, "My lord, my deceased wife Zhu's little toe was born deformed and has no bones, which is an ancestral disease of her Zhu family. When my son was born, it was the same with my little toe. If the adult doesn't believe it, you can call the child, take off his shoes and socks, and you'll find out! ”

Lin Boqin asked, "Where is the child now?" ”

"It's at the mouth of the cow!"

Lin Boqin called Yang La, whispered a few words, and Yang La immediately went to do it.

Chu Ji didn't expect it to be a child-snatching drama.

She waited eagerly for Yang La to bring someone over, but unexpectedly, the child who came was wearing a kudzu robe, dressed in a short fight, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar she became.

The sun shone on the child, revealing a face with clear eyebrows.

Chu Cheng couldn't help but exhale: "Su Yu? ”