Chapter 45: Up and down the court

It is definitely not a good thing to go to court, this is the conclusion that Wei Xicheng has come to after many years of walking the rivers and lakes. As the saying goes, "when a talent meets a soldier, it is unreasonable", and many things for people in the rivers and lakes can be easily said and discussed, and even solved by force. It is said that "if you don't fight, you don't know each other", some people are missing a fight, and there may be some contradictions that everyone can solve with a fight and a drink, but once they are put on the table and thrown into the yamen, it is not so simple.

After all, many officials and masters only recognize silver and do not recognize reason.

In the yamen, under the big plaque of "Acting for Heaven" sits an official master. On both sides of the room, there were eight officials with water and fire sticks. The officials were all thin and tall, and there was no flesh on their bodies, which was almost in stark contrast to the fat brain of the official who sat in the center. Why did the judges of the yamen become fat pigs, but the officials and errands have become monkeys one by one?

Wei Xicheng is very puzzling.

At this moment, Wei Xicheng, Wu Liangzi and Jiu Ban stood in the yamen with their hands tied behind them, and Bai Zhenzhen also had his hands tied, but he was just standing in a position in front of them. None of them were kneeling, but in fact they seemed to see who they were, and the judges in the temple did not seem to dare to make them kneel.

It seems that he can only "reason" with them.

With a pretended cough and a serious-sounding sleeper, the judge spoke: "Everyone in the hall, can you be guilty?"

As the judge's voice fell, Bai Trembling took the lead and shouted loudly: "Lord Four-eared, the grass people have been wronged!"

"Oh, what grievances do you have to tell the judge?" the judge named Si'er made a look of being in charge of the people, and put his hands on the table and dragged his chin with his palms, and watched Bai Shiver with interest.

"Grass people tremble in white......"

"Oh Bai Shiver, this official knows you. Si'er interrupted Bai Shiver's words, and turned to the case book in front of him, and said as he flipped through it: "Your case record is very rich." ”

Hearing Si'er's words, Bai Shiver's heart was a little nervous, but his eyes turned and seemed to have thought of a corresponding solution, so he said: "Yes, yes, the villain did make some mistakes before, but now they have all been corrected?" This time, it really can't be blamed for the villain...... Seeing that Si'er didn't interrupt him, Bai Shiver quietly moved his body forward and continued: "The reason why there is such a big movement in Chaos Flame City today is really because of ......." Speaking of this, he glanced back at the nine and a half group of three, and then continued: "It's because the villain is being hunted down!"

"Hunted down?"

"Yes, I was chased and killed by these vicious outsiders!"

"Oh......" Hearing this, the four ears rolled their eyes, and then said the word "oh" deliberately in a long voice. Sure enough, before he finished saying the word, Nine and a Half stood up.

"Your Excellency, he's lying!"

"Lie, what's the truth?" said this, Si'er raised his right hand and placed it flat on the table, and pressed his index finger and thumb together and rubbed it gently. But obviously, Nine and a Half paid attention to this and just talked to himself.

"We didn't go after him. The three of us are merchants from the land of the Foxy......"

"Merchant, then you must have a lot of money with you, right?" said Si'er, and rubbed his index and middle fingers together, but embarrassedly, Jiu Ban still ignored his small movements.

Maybe it's not ignoring, but not seeing it at all?

Jiu Ban was still talking, but Si'er, who had ignored his two small movements, was really embarrassed now. Looking at Si'er's appearance of scratching his ears and scratching his cheeks, Bai trembled, and couldn't help but laugh secretly. Four ears, four ears, you also have a time when you miss, and the big fools behind you probably have to bear it.

Sure enough, before the nine and a half finished speaking, Si Er suddenly slapped the case and said loudly: "You lie!"

All of this was expected by Bai Trembling, but it stunned Nine and a Half. Under the gaze of the nine and a half stunned eyes, the four ears said a complete sentence. When he spoke, his voice was loud, and his words were done in one go, and he seemed to be very sophisticated.

"Merchants? Merchants from the country of ruthlessness? I think you are a group of swindlers, swindlers who can't get out after colluding with Bai Shao and the three swindlers! You say that you are businessmen, can you prove it? Do you have the money to prove your identity? You don't! Come on, put these four swindlers in prison and lock them up for fifteen days!"

In this way, under the stunned eyes of Jiu Ban, and also under the stunned eyes of Wu Liangziwei Xicheng and Bai Trembling, the four of them were taken into the dungeon together and locked in the same cell.

The three of them were stunned that this judge named Four Ears actually made conclusions without being reasonable at all and without being told by others, he was really a person who had no reason to speak of.

And Bai Shake was surprised that these four ears really only recognize money and not people.

Dungeons, dungeons, and dungeons again. The dark, damp dungeon is full of hideous and wailing. The guilty and innocent are imprisoned here, and beneath the Flame City, it almost constitutes a chaotic kingdom. Just as there must be darkness behind the light, this is hell.

The nine-and-a-half people were imprisoned on the top floor of the dungeon, after all, they were not extremely vicious, so they were just locked up with a group of fraudsters and rapists.

But it's still not peaceful.

only heard the sound of "bang", Bai Shisha was picked up by the collar of his clothes and pressed against the wall. The former looked calmly at the anger in the latter's eyes and didn't say a word.

"Say, why frame us, where is our luggage?"

But Bai Shiver's reaction scoffed: "Cut, do you think I'm going to tell you? ”

"What did you say?"

"Am I wrong?" Bai's trembling voice was neither humble nor arrogant, without the slightest fear. "Officials and businessmen colluded, aren't you talking about? I think you are colluding with Si'er and trying to extort the ransom!"

Hearing this, Jiu and a half were directly stunned. Ransom? What is that? Debts to pay money, kill people to pay for their lives, shouldn't they go to jail if they make mistakes, what does this have to do with ransom? When he was in a daze, his hands gradually loosened, which made Bai Shiver feel a lot more relaxed. But Bai Shiver's ease didn't last for a few minutes, Wei Xicheng on the side walked over, he took out the double knives hidden in his clothes before, took out one of them and put it on Bai Shiver's neck very naturally, and said: "Little brother, we are not familiar with the place of life when we first arrived, and I trouble you to give more lectures on the rules of the sermon." ”

Knife, very sharp. The metallic texture of the blade against the skin and the sense of crisis that could cut through the skin and shed blood at every moment made Bai Shiver feel terrified. He trembled and said, "You ...... You're not a businessman?"

"It doesn't matter if we're businessmen or not, what you say next is important to us. At this time, Jiu Ban had already let go of Bai Trembling and stood aside, and Wei Xicheng was alone in front of Bai Trembling. If the aura of Jiuhan is like that of a lion cub, Wei Xicheng is a fierce tiger, and Bai is almost frightened by the trembling.

This habitual deception, the old Jianghu, the young man's white trembling legs couldn't stop trembling, his eyes were turning around between Jiu and a half, Wei Xicheng and Wu Liangzi who was walking with them, and there were thousands of thoughts in his mind but he couldn't say anything. Wei Xicheng also seemed to have lost his patience, so he gently leaned the knife against Bai's trembling neck. Originally, he was just going to scare and scare him, but he didn't expect Bai to tremble and collapse to the ground with a "wow", tears flashing in his eyes and almost crying.

In the face of people who are not from his camp, Wei Xicheng's temper is not so good. Originally, he just wanted to recover his luggage, but at this moment, he was imprisoned in an enemy country for no reason, which made him very unhappy, and the effect of torture to extract confessions was very poor, which made him even more unhappy. So, he took a step forward, as if to make a move.

At this time, a young and flirtatious voice next to him sounded: "Hi friend, don't embarrass him, he's just a poor man." ”

"Oh, really?" Wei Xicheng turned his head, only to see a medium-sized man crouching in the corner talking to them, without looking up. The man was dressed in a linen-colored shirt, and his hair was not short and slightly knotted, and it hung loosely down that it gave the impression that he was not combed very often. Looking at this strange person, Wei Xicheng gradually became curious, so he walked up to the other party and asked, "So, can you tell me the answer I want?"

"Friend, I suggest you put away your knife first. The mystery man smiled and raised his right hand as he spoke, and the defender saw a flash of white flame between his index and middle fingers.

The next moment, Wu Liangzi's voice, which was faint as a mosquito, came to his ears, so Wei Xicheng obediently put away his knife. In fact, Wu Liangzi's words are very simple, just a few words: "This person is very strong, I'm afraid there will be a place on the famous list." ”

Wei Xicheng is a smart person, he doesn't need to fight a master in a closed space, who knows what killer the other party has?

On the other hand, the mysterious man spoke: "You are all strangers, this is the first time you have come to Chaos Flame City, right?"

"That's right. ”

"That's right, the newcomer is not familiar with the place, who are you pit if you don't have four ears?" said the mysterious man's voice, as if all this was taken for granted. "Listen, the first thing you need to know when you come to Flames is that there are almost no problems that money can't solve here. The judge of Chaos Flame City is named Four Ears, and he is a guy with a fat head, big ears and a fat brain, and only money in his head. This dog thing only recognizes money, not people. ”

After a pause, and after realizing that everyone was listening, the mysterious man continued: "The most hateful thing about these four ears is that all crimes are clearly priced, and the rich get away with it, and the rich can only be willing to be punished. For example, if you commit fraud, you can be exonerated with 5,000 pieces of silver, and even if you kill someone, you can still not serve a prison sentence as long as you obediently give him 100,000 dollars. How's that, is it enough?"

The mysterious man's words made Jiu Ban stunned when he heard it, he was stunned for a moment, and then continued: "But we like us don't have ...... at all."

"Hehe, have you ever heard of 'unwarranted'?"

The mysterious man's words silenced everyone. They really didn't know what to say at the moment, and the flowers growing in the greenhouse were taught the first lesson after seeing the sun, and it was really miserable. Among the three people in the group, only Wei Xicheng is an old Jianghu, but he has no experience in officialdom; Wu Liangzi, as a disciple of a country's national teacher, has been raised in the core and softest place of a country for many years, how can he have seen the darkest and most mouth-watering part of this world; as for the nine and a half, let alone the nine-and-a-half.

Just when the entire cell was so quiet that the croaking of rats seemed to be heard, a cough broke the silence. Wei Xicheng turned his head and saw a round object flying out of Bai Shiver's hand. He took it with his hand, but found that it was nothing more than a white stone.

"What is this?" Wei Xicheng looked at the white stone in his hand suspiciously, this stone was very round and smooth, but it opened a small white opening, which was unusually discordant.

Facing Wei Xicheng's doubts, Bai Trembling first sighed and then said, "This is your luggage, and I have put it in this Nashi." I didn't touch any of the money, and everything else was intact. ”

"Nashi?" Wei Xiyan was a little confused, the first time he heard about it was the first time he saw this thing, his eyes were full of curiosity. But what he doesn't understand doesn't mean that others don't understand, Wu Liangzi on the side stepped forward to ask for Nashi to check it carefully, and then said: "It's indeed our things, and there is no missing luggage." ”

"I'm a little strange about this," Jiu Ban, who hadn't spoken for a long time, scratched his head and said, "You're not for money, and you're not for anything else, so why are you deceiving people?"

"A liar is a liar, what other reason can there be?" Wei Xicheng said after Jiu Ban's words, his attitude towards Bai Shao has always been bad, after all, their luggage will not be able to come back.

In the face of Wei Xicheng's ridicule, Bai Trembling glanced up at him, and then continued to lower his head and said, "You all know, the four ears only recognize money...... My brother was caught by him, and he couldn't get out without 30,000 dollars....."

"Thirty thousand, what did your brother do to be treated like this by him?" At this moment, even the mysterious person on the side exclaimed. You must know that in Si'er, 30,000 silver dollars is enough to redeem an old prostitute!

Next, under Bai Shake's detailed explanation, everyone gradually understood the ins and outs of the matter: Bai Shake's younger brother has been strong since he was a child, and his temperament is relatively straight. Once, while wandering the streets, for some reason, he rammed Si'er's car, and Si'er threw him out of prison in a fit of rage. In fact, the matter is not big, even if you don't pay the money to ransom the younger brother who is trembling in vain, he will be able to come out in a month or two, but the bad thing is that this young man's temperament is too straight and he doesn't know how to be flexible. He always thought that the world in prison was the same as the outside, and he judged the other world with his own worldview, and instead of choosing to adapt but resolutely resisting it, he had to do it? So he not only beat other prisoners, but even beat several officials.

So Si Er was enraged, and the child's sentence was almost indefinitely extended, so there was a price of 30,000 silver coins.

After listening to Bai Shao's words, the nine-and-a-half group was almost stunned. They could imagine dozens of ways to be sentenced, but they couldn't think of one. What's wrong with this world? Will it only bully honest people?

As a result, in the midst of their condemnation, words like "Si'er is too inhuman" came and went, and immediately filled the entire depressing cell.

It's just that what no one notices is that they don't know when the mysterious man has disappeared.

Inside the yamen, in the public court.

Si Er sat here leisurely, he had one foot on the other leg, holding a teapot in his right hand and a roast chicken in his left hand. At the moment, his face was shiny.

Suddenly, someone from the hall came running in a hurry, speaking as if something terrible had happened. "Newspaper Newspaper Newspaper ...... Report to the Adult ......."

"What's the matter, say. Si'er took another bite of roast chicken and said casually. Although he was most annoyed by this kind of scout who interrupted his meal, he couldn't help but listen to the news, what if he delayed a big event, but after only a few seconds, the roast chicken in his hand fell to the ground.

"Report...... Lord 'Thousand Machines' have been wiped out!"

"What are you talking about?!" Hearing the news, Si'er suddenly exerted his strength, he threw away the roast chicken and teapot in his hand, and jumped over the desk and jumped in front of the scout. "You say that again?" he grabbed the scout by the collar fiercely, his eyes fierce.

"One of the secret units of my cockroach, 'Thousand Machines', was ...... was wiped out ......"

"Are you sure?"

"Indeed...... Determine ......"

Staring into the scout's eyes, Four Ears seemed to want to see a hint of hesitation in his eyes to prove his suspicion to be false, but until finally he came to the conclusion that the news was true.

So, all of a sudden, he collapsed to the ground, and cold sweat leaked out like a waterfall.

"I'm ...... How am I going to explain to those three adults......"

And in the next second, three eerie and terrifying voices sounded from behind him at the same time:

"We already know. ”