In the eyes of everyone, the two officials brought in were an old couple with gray hair. They were still holding a little girl of five or six years old, with nervousness and fear in their big black eyes, and they had been hiding behind the old woman, grabbing the corners of each other's clothes.

Listening to the report of the officials, Pang Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, there were no people from the Zhao family and the Wei family around the other party, and there were no people from the Governor's Mansion to escort him.

It is a good thing that there is a new case, as long as the attention of the angry people can be quickly diverted, so that they no longer pay attention to the dissatisfaction with Liu Xincheng's verdict, and there is a place to vent the anger in their hearts, Pang Sheng will not mind punishing the defendants in the new case heavily.

"Where do these ignorant people know what the law, generally the master kills the subordinate, as long as the subordinate is casually charged, indicating that the subordinate has the fault of endangering the master's family, that is, the fine is fined. The punishment of exile is already a severe punishment from the heavens, and it is generally not punished like this at all! Do these stupid people really think that this world is fair, and that the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people?

"As everyone knows, it is now a Confucian rule, and it is not the rule of the Legalists, and the first thing that the laws of the dynasty protect is the interests of the powerful landlords! ”

Thinking of this, Pang Sheng coughed lightly, and said to the three ancestors and grandchildren as pleasantly as possible: "Who is the person in the hall, report your name...... That's it, since you have beaten the drum of grievances, you have grievances, just say that this official will definitely uphold justice for you!"

The three ancestors and grandsons had already knelt down in the hall, and two classes of officials with water and fire sticks and tigers on their backs and waists overlooked them with iron faces and cold eyes, like demon gods, making them tremble before the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion.

Listening to Pang Sheng's words that although he was kind but still full of official authority, Mo said that the little girl was trembling with fear, and the two civilian old men were also worried.

The couple glanced at each other, and what came to their minds was that before coming to Jingzhao Mansion, those "heroes" explained their words, and there was a guarantee of "noble people to help each other".

After settling down, the old man trembled and took out the folded shape from his arms, opened his hands and raised them high, and said loudly in a trembling but clear voice: "The old man sued the Liu clan in Shimen County for invasion...... Encroached on my family's fertile land and injured the old man's son and daughter-in-law...... They lay in bed for more than half a month, and finally ...... In the end, they were seriously injured and died!

After saying this, the old man was already in tears, and the six or seven-year-old girl cried out loud.

Pang Sheng sighed in his heart, the secret way is not good, why is it Liu's again, he is really afraid of something, so he hurriedly asked: "Liu's? Which Liu's family?"

Zhou Junchen took the old man's form, quickly swept his eyes twice, and turned around to present it to Pang Sheng, "Hexi Liu." ”

Hexi Liu's family, that is, Liu Muzhi's family.

The last trace of luck in his heart was broken, Pang Sheng's face suddenly stretched longer than a horse's face, and he already felt something in his heart, and turned his head to look at Zhao Ning. The other party had just helped Yu Niang out of the door of the court, and now he was outside the hall, standing in front of the crowd of onlookers, smiling rather than smiling, but his eyes were as sharp as coming out of the sheath.

Coming into contact with Zhao Ning's eyes, Pang Sheng was immediately extremely convinced that he was having a hard time today...... Those who are prepared to say that this difficulty in front of them is not easy.

"It's the Liu family who is harming people again?

"Oh my God, how many tyrannical perverts are there in the Liu family?"

"I don't think there's anything good about Liu!"

"The wicked must be severely punished and the justice of the world must be upheld!"

"You should arrest all the people of the Liu family and interrogate them one by one to see how many evil things they have done!"

The people blew up again, they were very dissatisfied with Liu Xincheng's verdict before, and they still had resentment against Liu's in their hearts, and now they heard the news of Liu's evil and death, and their anger went to a higher level, especially the tragic situation of the old woman and the young son, which made their sympathy soar, and finally this sympathy turned into anger against Liu.

Pang Sheng heard the shouts of the onlookers, and he already despised these fools to the core. The two murders are going to arrest and interrogate all the people of the Liu family?

However, Pang Sheng didn't say much, he has been an official for many years, and he has long been labeled as stupid to the public, these people will take it for granted nonsense, they don't understand the law or the rules, let alone officialdom.

"What evidence is there?" Pang Sheng finished reading the situation, raised his head and asked the old woman officially.

"The old man has a witness, he is the old man's neighbor and fellow villager, when the Liu thugs beat the old man's son and daughter-in-law, they all saw it, and now there are three people who are coming with the old man!" the old man hurriedly replied, and after speaking, he turned around and pointed to a few young men dressed as crop men who could not come forward in the crowd.

Even the witnesses brought ...... Pang Sheng glanced at Zhao Ning again.

After receiving the whispers of his henchmen, he once again found an excuse to go to the second hall to see the Great Elder of the Liu family.

"Huge man, you must suppress this matter! Send someone to Shimen County to collect evidence, no matter what, it will take a while, just a few days!"

He was now sure in his heart that the Zhao clan was going to use a civil case to deal with the Liu clan, and he didn't know how many such bitter masters the Zhao clan had found! Except for Xinxiang Township, because there were many people involved and there was a lot of movement, the rest of them didn't notice it in advance!

But the problem is that after the fall of the White Clothes Society, the Liu family sent people to keep an eye on the Zhenguo Mansion and the main Zhao family's mansion, and before Zhao Qiyue took a group of people out to "hunt", the Zhao family's people did not move at all!

Where did the other party come from to collect Liu's various bad deeds and crimes?

Therefore, the second judgment of the Great Elder of the Liu Clan, or hope, is that the Zhao Clan has not found many crimes of the Liu Clan!

If this is the case, then it is only necessary to suppress or delay the case, and the Liu family will have time to think about it in the long run! In the final analysis, with sufficient eyeline to monitor the Zhao family's main house, the Zhao family's sudden all-out attack on the Liu family made the Liu family unexpected. But this is not an unsolvable problem, as long as Liu is given time to figure out the situation and plan a counterattack, the outcome is still unknown!

"The other party has a witness, and now the public is boiling, and they are all shouting that they want the official to handle the case impartially, and the official can't help Liu Lao in the court. Pang Sheng said, he didn't want to be too obvious and fall into the hands of others. Although the laws of the dynasty upheld the sovereignty of the land, whether it was the Son of Heaven or the hundred officials, they were shouting that the people were the water and the king was the boat.

Whether it is his Jingzhao Mansion or other prefectures and counties, once he is promoted to the court to try the case, a large number of people will come to watch, and they cannot be driven away, although Pang Sheng looks down on the civilians, but he does not dare to do it against the people.

In the final analysis, he is also from a family, attaches the most importance to feathers, and his reputation must not be ruined, otherwise it will be difficult to gain a foothold. The children of the family, one person has a bad reputation, and the whole family will be greatly affected. Liu's just had two murders, and he was scolded by the people outside the hall for not being human, which is a strong proof.

Therefore, the officials of the family are more careful in doing things, and everything else is easy to say, but at least they can't be clearly opposed to the people. This is not like those poor officials, who do not have huge family ties, and are often more bold in doing things.

Of course, things are changing, and today's generals and men, on the one hand, because of the increasingly fierce civil and military disputes, on the other hand, because of the threat of the cold forces, some families have become more and more bottomless in order to survive and develop.

Pang Sheng continued: "If Elder Liu wants to delay time, he can only work his own body, and when the officials of Jingzhao Mansion go to investigate the case, the official will also give one or two advice. ”

The meaning of these words is obvious, the case in the court of Jingzhao Mansion, he has to be tried "impartially", but when the official goes down to check the witnesses' evidence, the Liu family can do a lot of things. Whether it is destroying evidence, creating evidence to distort the facts, or setting up difficult problems for the officials to investigate the case, or beating up and framing the plaintiff as a man, and turning the case into a lawsuit, it can delay time, and at the worst, you can always find a few thugs to be substitutes for the dead.

And Pang Sheng will also ask the officials of Jingzhao Mansion to be "careful and serious" when investigating the case, not to miss any suspicious points, to be gentle in investigation methods, and not to conflict with the Liu family.

In short, what can be ascertained in one day can be investigated in three to five days, and the circumstances that are obviously not in doubt must also be investigated because of Liu's one-sided words, and as for whether the case will be dragged out for a few months in the end, or the plaintiff will be turned into a defendant, it will depend on the development of the situation.

"Then thank you to the huge man. "The Great Elder of the Liu Clan agreed to Pang Sheng's plan.

Officials protect each other, this is the first lesson of officialdom, and the powerful watch over each other and oppress and bully the common people together, which is the basic quality of the powerful. Pang Sheng and the Great Elder of the Liu Clan are both familiar with this.

When Pang Sheng went back to the lobby, the Great Elder of the Liu Clan sat down again, continued to observe the matter, and found that he looked at the direction of the gate of Jingzhao Mansion and secretly sneered: "Zhao Clan, the old man wants to see how many cases you can come up with! Five, or ten? Ten lives, or twenty lives? Trying to deal with the Liu family on this basis is really a fool's dream! Without dozens of big cases and hundreds of lives, the Liu family's 700-year-old family, that is, at most suffering a little loss, will be brought down by you?!"

Pang Sheng returned to the lobby and summoned the witnesses brought by the old couple, and after some answers, "Dagong and selfless" said that the circumstances of this case are particularly serious and the impact is particularly bad, and it must be investigated to the end, and the innocence of the deceased will be returned, and the living will be explained, and the adultery will not be tolerated, so that the crime will go unpunished!

Immediately, Pang Sheng arranged for a servant, led by a head catcher, to go to Shimen County to find out the case, and called the head catcher aside and personally "instructed" him for a while, so that they could quickly investigate.

This move won the unanimous support and praise of the onlookers, and some even began to praise Jing Zhaoyin's wisdom and justice, and apologized for their previous distrust of Pang Sheng, just like the attitude towards Zhao Ning changed from suspicion to support and praise.

Almost no one noticed that Tang Xing left the place early, caught up with the officials outside the gate of Jingzhao Mansion, and pulled the head catcher from the market aside and explained a few words to him.