In the winter of the sixth year of the founding of Great Xia, it began to snow in Xuzhou.

At the corner of a street in Fengcheng, Xuzhou, it was crowded with people, and a group of people tightly surrounded a pair of acrobatic grandchildren, only to see the old man wearing a black robe and a red face on his face.

The old man lifted his robe, covered his face one by one, and moved very quickly, and in an instant his red face turned black. When everyone saw this, they were all amazed. The old man saw that the onlookers were interested, and changed his face several times in a row, which attracted the applause of everyone.

When the old man was juggling, the little girl on the side held an iron basin and walked to the crowd to ask for a reward, but most of the spectators were watching the excitement, and very few people were willing to reward, and some people saw the little girl coming, avoided it, and hurriedly walked away; Others waved their hands in decline.

The little girl walked around with an iron basin, only one or two people rewarded, when she sighed, a young man who looked like a show came over, and the show took out a copper coin from the shabby clothes, and sighed: "It's not easy to be home in the four seas, although I Yan Ning is a poor and sour talent, but seeing your grandfather and grandson begging for food like this, although you and I have no relatives and no reason, I don't want to go, you and you keep this copper coin." ”

The little girl took the copper coin and hurriedly bowed down to thank her. The people next to him saw that the poor Xiucai was dressed in tattered clothes and had a lot of patches, but they took out money to give alms, and only regarded him as a fool.

The little girl walked around with the iron basin, and received a few copper coins in the basin, she was thin and small, and walked around in the crowd, and suddenly felt that a person on her back grabbed her braid, she was unstable on her footing, and fell backwards, and the iron basin in her hand fell, and all the copper coins in the basin fell to the ground.

The little girl was so flustered that she didn't have time to stand up, so she lay on the ground, trying to pick up the scattered copper coins.

Just as the little girl stretched out her hand, a huge force came from her back, and a pair of hands suddenly twisted her collar, and then lifted her up like a chicken.

The little girl cried in a panic, her limbs kept swinging, trying to break free, but after all, she was young and weak, how could she break free. She turned her head in tears, and saw a man with pockmarked seeds and a beard staring at her viciously, and cried out in fright: "You let me down, let me down." ”

The man with a beard on his face was the local notorious ruffian Chen Si, he stared at the little girl with wide eyes, and said loudly: "Little girl, you want to run away when you bump into my grandfather?" ”

When the little girl saw Chen Si, she knew that he was the one who pulled her back just now, and when she saw him put all the copper coins on the ground into her pocket, she was so anxious that she screamed and said, "Give me back the money quickly, it is my and my grandfather's money."

Chen Si smiled evilly, reached out and pinched the little girl's face, and said, "Who is your grandfather?"

At this time, the old man heard the cry of his granddaughter not far away, and hurriedly stopped juggling in his hand, and walked here, seeing Chen Si carrying his granddaughter, and seeing the crowd of spectators squeaking indifferently, he was old, he had traveled north and south over the years, and he knew a lot about it, and he knew for a while that Chen Si was not easy to provoke, he bowed to Chen Si and said: "This lord, this lord, I don't know how my granddaughter offended you, and please raise your noble hand. ”

Chen Sizhi sneered: "This little doll wants to defile my money, since she is your granddaughter, you should accompany me with this money." ”

The old man didn't dare to offend Chen Si, so he pleaded helplessly: "This grandfather, the granddaughter has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, and offended the grandfather, and I hope that the lord of the grandfather will return the granddaughter and the copper money to me regardless of the villain." ”

Chen Sisi said angrily: "Are you old man deaf? This copper coin is clearly grandpa mine, but you are good, and you want me to give you this little doll and money together, this little doll offended me, grandpa I am not happy, there is no three coins of silver, grandpa I will not leave today. ”

The old man was already poor and penniless, how could he have three coins of silver, he suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed, crying: "This lord, my grandfather and grandson are just begging for food, and they don't have a penny on their bodies, you have a lot of money, please let my granddaughter go." ”

The little girl and the old man's grandson were heart-to-heart, and when she saw her grandfather crying bitterly, she also cried.

Chen Si heard the cry of the little girl, his heart was angry, he slapped it violently, and shouted: "What are you crying about, your grandfather Chen Si is still alive and well, and if you cry again, Lao Tzu will beat your mouth to you." “

The little girl was beaten by Chen Si like this, and she cried even harder, Chen Si was about to raise her hand to beat again, but as soon as she raised her hand, a person came from behind, reached out and pinched his wrist.

Chen Si was angry, turned his head to look, and saw the man looking at him with an indignant face, the man was dressed in shabby clothes, dressed as a showman, it was Yan Ning who had just given the little girl a copper coin.

It turned out that after Yan Ning gave the reward, he had already left, and when he saw the noise here, he turned back and saw the scene of Chen Si beating people. He was originally a scholar, and after reading the books of sages for a long time, he did gentlemanly things, and when he saw that Chen Si bullying the pair of grandsons, he was indignant for a while, and he couldn't help but help.

Chen Si broke free violently and said angrily: "Who are you, dare to touch your grandfather." ”

Yan Ning said loudly: "I'm just a person who reads, and I can't get used to bullying weak people like you. ”

Chen Si looked up and down at him, sneered, and said: "Who am I Dao, it turned out to be a poor scholar, grandpa and I do things, you dare to take care of it, do you know who Lao Tzu is?" ”

Yan Ning was not afraid, stepped forward and said: "No matter who you are, you can't bully a pair of old and young like this, under the whole world, there is also Wang Fa, a scoundrel like you, naturally there is a royal law to control you." ”

The crowd of spectators was originally watching the excitement, but when they heard him contradict Chen Si like this, they were all secretly worried about him.

Sure enough, Chen Si was angry, he was rampant in the township, no one dared to contradict him, who knew that he was taught and insulted by a poor sour talent, but how did he swallow this breath? At that moment, he said loudly: "Wang Fa? Grandpa, I am Wang Fa, watch Lao Tzu smash your stinky mouth. ”

With a loud roar, the little girl was scattered in his hand, and a punch was thrown into Yan Ning's lower abdomen, Yan Ning didn't expect him to suddenly make a move, he couldn't dodge, he screamed, bent down, and vomited.

Chen Si didn't give up, made up for it, kicked Yan Ning to the ground, and then sat on top of him, and greeted him with his fist, so that Yan Ning wailed again and again, and couldn't speak anymore.

Chen Si fought for a while, his anger did not subside, and when he saw that the grandfather and grandson took away the copper coins and wanted to leave, they hurriedly shouted: "That old man, want to run?" Grandpa is here, see how you can run away. ”

The grandfather and grandson were so frightened that Chen Si hurried over, grabbed the old man, and said angrily: "Take out the money obediently, otherwise grandpa and I will be polite when I move." ”

How dare the old man provoke Chen Si, he hurriedly laughed and said: "Master Chen, you have a lot of money, you can keep these nine copper coins, please let my grandfather and grandson go." ”

Chen Si said angrily: "Jiuwen copper coins, you should call them tweed." kicked the old man to the ground, and the spectators saw that Chen Si was ruthless and did not dare to step forward to stop him. When Chen Si wanted to do it again, a person hugged him from behind, and he turned his head angrily to see that it was still the scholar Yan Ning.

Chen Si was angry and said: "You kid doesn't know what to do, you want to come out, and ruin your grandfather's good deeds, grandpa, I have to kill you today." With an angry roar, another punch and kick greeted Yan Ning on the head, which made Yan Ning dizzy and fainted.

Chen Si fought for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves not far away, and an official came with a knife. Seeing that the official messenger was coming, all the spectators scattered like birds and beasts, and hid far away.

When the old man saw the official coming, he pounced on him and shouted, "Master official, you must be the master of my grandfather and grandson." ”

The official kicked him away and shouted, "Fuck you, you stink." ”

The old man rolled aside, couldn't help but look shocked, and shouted, "You, you're an official!" How so? ”

The official raised the steel knife in his hand and sneered: "If you are long-winded, be careful that Lao Tzu will kill you with a knife." The old man stared blankly at the official and was speechless.

The official walked up to Chen Si again and said impatiently, "What are you doing here?" ”

Chen Si glanced at him and said with a smile: "Master Official, you can see that this grandfather and grandson have polluted my money and want to run away, so I stopped them." ”

The official turned his head to look at the grandfather and grandson, and said coldly: "Since you have defiled the silver, then hand it over quickly." ”

When the old man saw the official throwing his skin towards him, he shook his head and cried, and said, "Master official, it was he who shouted to catch the thief and defiled my money."

The official took out his saber, pointed at the old man and said, "Hurry up and hand over the money, on this snowy day, Lao Tzu will run for your little, it's really unlucky." ”

At this moment, Yan Ning, who was lying on the ground, woke up, and when he saw the official messenger coming, he hurriedly shouted: "Master Guancha, please be the master of the small people." ”

The official asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Yan Ning got up, bowed to the official messenger, pointed at Chen Si, and said: "Master Guancha, this person wants to stain the money that the grandfather and grandson begged for, I can't bear to be bullied by the grandfather and grandson, and I want to seek justice, how can I expect this person to be unreasonable, and he will beat me like this, and ask the official to make decisions for the people." ”

The official saw that Yan Ning was dressed in shabby clothes, and said with a sneer: "You are so poor and sour, do you still want to stand out for others?" ”

The official shook his hand and left, and Yan Ning hurriedly shouted: "Master official, this scoundrel beats people, that's it?" ”

The official said coldly: "What kind of scoundrel beats people, you have no evidence, be careful to sue you for slander." ”

Chen Si roared on the side: "Scoundrel? Oh, Lao Tzu is a scoundrel, it's you who beats you, what's the matter? ”

The official was afraid that Chen Si would say more, so he glared at him fiercely and said, "This is the matter, you all go back and don't say much." ”

The official wanted to come here to get some oil and water, but seeing that it was unprofitable here, he casually snorted, turned around and got on the horse and left, Yan Ning suddenly shouted: "There is no royal law, hooligans beat people, and the officials don't care; robbed the money, and the officials didn't care; Where is the king's law, where is the axiom? This roar attracted the attention of many passers-by.

The official was just about to leave, Yan Ning's roar attracted many irrelevant passers-by, seeing everyone staring at him, the official couldn't hold back his face, so he had to dismount and said: "Okay, you want the royal law, then Lao Tzu will let you know what the royal law is, the three of you, and the little girl, follow the lord and me to the official mansion, let the county magistrate judge a judgment, let you know what is fair." ”

Yan Ning heard that the county magistrate would come to judge, and the heart of the Yamen was in the yamen, and the county magistrate would definitely be able to judge justice, so he agreed immediately.

The ploppy Chen Si sneered and said, "Okay, then let the county magistrate judge the verdict." ”

The official looked at the grandfather and grandson again, how dare the grandfather and grandson not agree.

A few people walked around a few streets and came to the front of the county yamen, the official asked a few people to wait outside, and went in to report, and after a while, there was a shout from the county ya: "Spread Chen Si and others." ”

Yan Ning and the others walked into the county office, and when they walked into the hall, they saw a person wearing a black black gauze hat on his head and a county official's robe, and there was no doubt that he was the county master.

The county magistrate straightened the black gauze hat on his head, shouted, and said, "Kneel." ”

Several people trembled and knelt down one by one, waiting for interrogation. Yan Ning saw that Chen Si was kneeling beside him, his expression was calm, and he said in his heart that after the county master decided the case later, he didn't know if he could be so calm; I saw the grandfather and grandson kneeling beside each other, looking nervous.

After the ascension ceremony, the county magistrate slapped a shocked wood and shouted: "Who is in the hall, what is there to disturb this official." ”

Yan Ning kowtowed and said: "Back to the adult's words, the grass people Yan Ning, the people of Fengcheng, Xuzhou, this morning the grass people went to the street to hang out, and saw the grandfather and grandson performing on the street, this splashed Chen Si, bullying people, and wanted to stain the silver money obtained by the grandfather and grandson selling art, the grass people were angry for a while, and discussed with this Chen Si, how did they know that this Chen Si was quite unreasonable, not only stained the money, but also injured the grass people, hoping that the adults would call the shots.

The county magistrate snorted, looked at the grandfather and grandson, and asked, "The two of you, is what this person said true?" ”

The old man trembled and said, "If you go back to the county official, what this prince said is the truth. ”

The county official shouted hello, instructed the master on the side to pick up a pen and paper to record, and said, "Chen Si, you can plead guilty." ”

Chen Si's face was as usual, Yan Ning and the three of them lowered their heads to listen to the trial, but he raised his head and stared at the master, the master looked at him twice, and immediately understood what he meant, came to the county master, and whispered a few words, the county master's face changed, and suddenly changed his words and said: "Diao Min Yanning, and the old man, can you two confess?" ”

Yan Ning trembled, couldn't believe what the county master said, and kowtowed and exclaimed, "My lord, you are wronged!" It was Chen Si who seized the money and injured the grass people. ”

The county magistrate seemed to be deaf to him, and said to himself: "This person is arrogant and stubborn, refuses to admit his guilt, left and right, punish me, I want to see if you have a hard mouth or the official's stick is hard." ”

The officials on both sides picked up two sticks, pressed Yan Ning to the ground, and said with a cruel smile: "Boy, I think you should confess quickly, so as to save the pain of skin and flesh." ”

Seeing that the officials were all fierce and vicious, Yan Ning was just a poor scholar, how could he not be afraid in his heart? He said in a trembling voice: "Wronged, my lord, it is clear that this person has seized the money, why do you want the two of us to confess?" ”

The county magistrate snorted and said, "If you dare to talk back, come and beat me hard until he confesses." ”

The officials on both sides raised the stick and beat it violently, the stick weighed about ten catties, and it fell down together and smashed on Yan Ning's body, only a few snaps, Yan Ning's back was already peeled open, and he almost fainted in pain.

"Don't stop, keep beating until this kid confesses." In Yan Ning's screams, the county lord slapped the hall again, and said, "Old man, you can confess." ”

The old man was already timid, and when he saw Yan Ning's miserable situation, how could he dare to avenge his grievances, so he hurriedly kowtowed and said, "The county official, the villain is guilty, the villain is guilty." ”

The county official sneered and said, "Okay, since you have confessed your guilt, this official will betray you and return the seized money to Chen Si, in addition, ten battles." ”

The old man heard that there were ten battles, and he almost fainted, and the little girl on the side had been sobbing in a low voice, although she was not very old, but she also knew some truth, and pointed to Chen Si and said: "That's our silver, why give it to him, he is a bad person." ”

Unexpectedly, Chen Si snorted coldly and said to the county master: "My lord, I see that this grandfather and grandson are unreasonable, and they refuse to admit their guilt. ”

The county magistrate shouted: "What a Diao Min, this official thinks that you are old, and sentences you to a light punishment out of kindness. ”

The old man and the little girl cried and screamed, and the official on the side stepped forward with a stick, which frightened the old man's soul away, and the old man cried and begged for mercy: "County official, the villain is guilty, and the villain is guilty." ”

The county magistrate saw him confess his guilt, and saw the little girl staring at him stunned, and snorted coldly: "You little girl, can you confess?" ”

The little girl looked dissatisfied, and the old man on the side hurriedly covered her mouth, pressed her head and kowtowed, and said, "County official, she is guilty." ”

Seeing that the grandfather and grandson confessed their guilt, the county lord told the master to take the prepared charges to the old man, and the old man unwillingly drew a posthumous statement on the charges, and muttered to himself as if deflated: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner." After saying that, Wu Zi fainted, leaving only the little girl to kneel and cry bitterly.

The county magistrate saw that the old man and Yan Ning were beaten and fainted, and ordered: "This old man has confessed, and he can't find any money on his body, throw his grandfather and grandson out, this kid will not admit his guilt, put him in prison, and make him confess no matter what." ”

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I don't know how long it took, Yan Ning came to his senses, and in a haze, he felt that he was already in prison, his back was in a hot pain, his head was dizzy, his stomach was tumbling, and he wanted to vomit. His head was cracking, he felt all the bones in his body crack, and his back touched the cold ground, making him clearly feel the pain of his flesh blooming after the battle. He slowly turned his body over with great force, and rested on the ground for more than half an hour before slowly climbing up against the edge of the wall.

The muddy water in this prison, the smell of feces and urine in the whole room, and the cold wind blowing from the iron window, made Yan Ning shiver and nauseous at the same time. He was not dressed thinly, but at the moment he was wearing a prison uniform, which was only a thin layer, how could he withstand the cold wind. He found a corner and shrank in the opposite direction of the wind, and looked sideways at the foggy sky outside the window, and there was no sunlight in sight, only a few snowflakes falling.

Yan Ning lowered his head and said in his heart: "Hey, it should be that Shu is inexhaustible, and I have complained about the west wind by color, I have been cold for more than ten years, and I was framed by this dog official, and in this troubled world, how many people are as miserable as me." Qin Ji, Renyuner is a bird that can speak, how can you not see the grievances of Jiyan. ”