"My lord, please command, the small one must cooperate, definitely." Lu Maodai said.

"What? You don't speak, you just need to cooperate, and after a while you will not be comfortable and hold back. Li Li commanded.

"No problem, no problem, as long as you can get the mother and son cow back, let the little one do whatever he wants." Lu Maodai said.

"Has your father-in-law been treating you badly?"

"Yes, because he is the little father-in-law, the little one does not dare to be strong, only obedient and obedient, but he did not expect that he has to inch in, not only does not give the small amount of grain according to the agreed amount, but also occupies the small mother and child cow, saying that the little cow eats his family's feed and grass, and only then does he give birth to the calf. This cow would have starved to death if it wasn't for eating the grass of her father-in-law's house. In short, I will find some crooked reasoning to talk about things. I just don't want to give it to the cow. Lu Maodai said.

"It's a scoundrel! Isn't he afraid? ”

"My lord, he is most afraid of being an official. When he saw the official, he was so scared that he died, because the official had the right to take his things, he was afraid, and he didn't want to lose anything. Everything that protects him, even the trivialities, is incomparably precious. Lu Maodai said.

"That's easy, this time it's going to be grand. lest he still be unfit. The more grand it is, the more it can achieve its goal. Yes, that's it! Come on, get ready to go. Li Li commanded.

Li Li ordered Lu Maodai to put on a hood, a black cloth bag, dug two round holes in front, only two eyes were exposed, and Lu Maodai was tied up with five flowers, like a giant zongzi tied, it looked like it was impossible to escape with wings, and it looked like a felon, who came to kill chickens and monkeys.

Seeing this, Li Li almost laughed, but he couldn't help but laugh, because he was about to meet someone.

Then, Li Li sat in the official sedan chair, sounded the gong to open the way, and the group, mighty, rushed to Lu Maodai's father-in-law's house very ceremoniously.

There were many people watching along the way, and the children were running ahead, and they had already spread messages everywhere, saying that the county master was coming, and the county master was coming.

As soon as Lu Maodai's father-in-law heard that the county master was coming, it was so lively, and he also ran out to take a look, I don't know what happened in this small place, look at it, and there will be bragging capital when the time comes.

He was standing at the door with his family to watch where the group of people went, but he didn't expect to come straight to his house, he was afraid of officials, it was okay to watch the fire from the other side, but it was not okay to see the fire when it was coming, he immediately asked: "Is this coming to our house?" ”

"Yes, sir, it's coming to our house."

"Quick, quick, close the door, close the door." He commanded.

"Slow, slow, how, bold, knowing that the county master is coming, he didn't come out to greet him, and he dared to be so lazy, it's really hateful! Come and greet you! Make no mistake! The officials shouted.

"The county is too ...... Master, please, please! His father-in-law said in a loud voice that he hadn't gotten off the sedan chair yet, and began to call.

When Li Li heard it, he didn't get out of the sedan car immediately, and waited for his father-in-law to see it clearly.

Sure enough, his father-in-law was fooled, and when he saw that the sedan chair had fallen, there was no one in the sedan chair, so he looked to the side, and sure enough, he saw that the official was holding a person in black clothes and black hoods, and a person who was tied up with flowers.

Such a tragic situation, the body is a little familiar, but I am not sure.

This masked man with two black eyes made his father-in-law creepy, like a thief, because thieves wear black clothes and black hats or black turbans, and they usually take advantage of the darkness of night to start committing crimes. The thief does not go empty, but always takes something with him.

Thinking that they have a lot of property, they are afraid that the thieves will come to the door, once they come to the door, there must be something lost, this is not expected, that is, no matter how good the preventive measures are, there are times when they are negligent.

After getting off the sedan chair, he saw the thief, he hit a spirit, and hurriedly ran to the sedan chair in small steps, standing respectfully.

After a while, the curtain of the sedan chair opened, and Li Li walked out of it, and said in the first sentence of the meeting: "You are very lucky." Because we just caught a cattle thief. ”

When his father-in-law heard this, he was shocked, how did he know that there were cows at home, and he was also worried about the safety of the cows. So he hurriedly asked, "Where was it captured?" ”

"You don't have to ask. It's a bit complicated. Li Li said, "You only said that there is any loss in your family?"

"What loss?"

"It's this cattle thief who stole the cattle, and you need to check them one by one to see if the cattle you lost are the same as the cattle they stole, and if they are consistent, they must be returned, and if they are not consistent, they must find the owner separately. Do you understand? Li Li said.

His father-in-law looked at Li Li speaking seriously, not like a joke, because he was speaking with a straight face, very serious, as if he was handling a big and important case that caused a sensation throughout the country.

His father-in-law looked at Li Li as if he was joking, and then looked at the cattle thief in black clothes and a black hood, and thought, it's bad, is this the rhythm that wants to be involved in the case? It seems that this is to involve our family! If you meet a confused official, you will be connected to the nine clans, and you will have to eat and drink, and you will have to give gifts before leaving, and there will be many gifts? It's okay, people don't blame it, but less will blame it.

If you meet a Qing official, it's not bad, but I'm afraid of taking the opposite path. If you don't go in the right direction, stop and don't go, it's progress.

The more he thought about it, the more afraid he became, worried that he would encounter a confused official, but no matter if he was confused or not, once he was involved in an economic dispute, it was very common for him to lose his mind for personal gain.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "My lord, my lord, we are very good here, very good, we have not lost any cow, not even a single cow hair, it is impossible for the thief to succeed." No one can touch the cow without my consent. So relatively speaking, it's safe and you don't have to worry about it. ”

"Is it true?" Li Li asked.

When his father-in-law saw this, he hurriedly said, "Of course it's true, it's true." ”

When his father-in-law saw that Li Li still didn't believe it, he suddenly knelt down, pointed to the sky and swore an oath: "Our cattle are definitely our own cattle, and they are definitely not from the wrong way or stolen cows." If you say a lie, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky, and there will be no place to bury you. ”

Li Li saw that he was slowly being fooled, so he asked: "Since you say so, it means that you are very honest and the official believes in you very much, but if you want others to believe in you, you must come up with a lethal weapon." So, what evidence do you have not? ”

"Evidence?"

"That's right, evidence, with evidence, you can prove that what you say is true." Li Li said.

"There are witnesses, and everyone can and is willing to testify for me."

"Proof what?"

"It proves that my cattle are from the right place, not stolen or stolen." His father-in-law said.

"Are you sure they'll testify for you?"

"What else is there to doubt about this." His father-in-law asked.

"Of course there is, you have to say it exactly."

"To be precise, this cow belongs to my son-in-law's family. My son-in-law came to my house not long ago and brought a cow, which is not an ordinary cow, but a cow, with a baby cow, and soon after he arrived at my house, he was pregnant with a calf, and these calves were born in my house, but they are all the credit of the cow brought by my son-in-law, so this cow and calf are my son-in-law's, this is true, who lied, who went out and let the car run and die. His father-in-law said.

"Is that true?"

"Seriously, if a sentence is false, let the adults judge the small ones, don't have to wait until the autumn to ask the cuts, I don't know if the adults are willing?" His father-in-law said.

As soon as his father-in-law finished speaking, the audience erupted in applause, like rolling thunder from the sky.

"Good! Someone came, loosened the cattle thief, removed the mask, ripped off the black turban, and let him see the light of day. Li Li commanded.

After taking off the mask, everyone looked at it and burst into laughter, and when his father-in-law saw Lu Maodai, he was stunned!

Unexpectedly, after three days of not seeing him, his son-in-law turned out to be a cattle thief.

"You, you, why are you here?" His father-in-law was stunned and stammered as he asked.

"Don't ask him, the official brought him here. Since you said that the cow belongs to your son-in-law, what else do you have to say now? Is this your son-in-law Lu Maodai? If so, you return the mother and son cow to him, and if not, you hand over the mother and son cow to the official, who will temporarily detain it until your son-in-law comes to the county government to collect it. Li Li said.

"Yes, yes, yes, my lord, this person is my son-in-law Lu Maodai, yes, this will give him the mother and son cow. It's just that at that time, the dowry that was promised for marriage was still not given a piece of cloth, how can this be calculated? His father-in-law said.

"Is there such a thing? So, it's already ten dolls, and now you're still talking about the dowry? Are you selling your daughter? Li Li asked.

"No, my lord, it's not easy to feed my daughter when she grows up, and the dowry that I said was discounted, how can this be calculated?" His father-in-law said.

"Father-in-law, you said no, that piece of cloth has already made clothes for ten children. Besides, father-in-law, you haven't bought any clothes for your daughter and grandson all these years, and if you give you a piece of cloth, you won't return it to us, will you? Lu Maodai said.

When his father-in-law heard this, he lowered his head and could no longer speak.

Then, he instructed the servants to drive the mother and son cows out of the cattle pen and handed them over to Lu Maodai, and Li Li said, "That's right." Don't be too selfish in the future, even your own people will be pitted, who will dare to deal with you in the future? ”

"The adults are right to criticize, and they will definitely change it in the future!" His father-in-law said.

After this lesson, his father-in-law finally understood that Li Li was not confused and knew very well what he was doing.

This is stealing chickens and rice, raising mothers, children and cows for nothing, and I almost went to prison these days, which made my family embarrassed.

Lu Maodai happily took his mother and son cow home, and his wife was very happy to see it, and said, "I finally got our cow back." It seems that Li Xianling is really our parent official, speaking for us, if there is no strategy, my father will never give our mother and son cows, we can only suffer dumb losses, because there is no evidence, this is good, let my father say it himself, and he can't take it back, it's useless to regret it, it's not like this, it's really high, and it's a wonderful move. ”

"Yes! If it weren't for Li County's order, there would be no way to get this cow back. Lu Maodai said.

"This is really the case, there is a woman in our village who wants to sue her son, but I don't know if she has sued."

"What's going on?" Lu Maodai asked.

"It was this woman who said it under the big locust tree, and at the entrance of the village, she said that her son was not filial."

"Why not be filial? What's your name? ”

"Lu Zishun."

"Oh, I see. Lu Zishun I know that he is very filial. Lu Maodai said.

"Someone gave his mother an idea and asked her to sue. She didn't have a brain, so she was going to sue. ”

"Don't be afraid to sue, Lu Zishun is a very good person, when she meets a Qing official, Li County's order, and the case is in his hands, she can't win, this is evil does not prevail over good. Lu Zishun is very good and will not suffer. Lu Maodai said.

"I know that Lu Zishun is very good, but some people in the village wish that he was not good, because he was too good, but it was easy to make people jealous, so they instigated his mother to go to the county government to sue him, it is estimated that he will be ready to sue in the past two days, you just came back from Li County, and you haven't heard of it?"

"I'm only worried about our mother and son, I didn't ask, and it wasn't our turn to ask, and we weren't people in the yamen, but through these lawsuits, I understood the truth, the yamen is easy to enter, you need to be reasonable, you don't care, if you meet a confused official, you can also give silver, you can win the lawsuit, if you meet a clean official, the silver doesn't work, if you take advantage of the reason, you will win the lawsuit, if you don't take advantage of the reason, you will lose." Lu Maodai said.

While the couple were talking, a group of children outside ran over, shouting as they ran: "

Zishun Zishun,

Always be filial,

confused,

Sue to the yamen. ”

Lu Maodai went out to take a look, grabbed a child and asked, "Little fat man, you say, who sues whom?" ”

"I don't know, they all shouted like that, and I shouted too."

Lu Maodai didn't ask anything, so he let him run, he ran all the way, shouted all the way, and was very happy.

Lu Maodai thought to himself, there must be news if there is no wind and no waves, otherwise, the dolls would not shout like this, their parents must know about it, Lu Maodai arranged the home, and said: "I'll go and ask, and come back to tell you the news." ”

"Okay, go ahead, go ahead."

Lu Maodai arrived at the county office, and when he saw it, he saw that there were some people outside the court. Look at Li Li's trial of the case. He was in the crowd, he was not tall, Li Li was concentrating on the trial, and he didn't notice that Lu Maodai came to hear the trial.

It turned out that it was really Lu Zishun's mother who sued Lu Zishun.

Lu Zishun's mother was originally surnamed Shui. married, plus the surname Lu, it is the Lu Shui family.

Lu Shuishi sued her son for abuse.

It's worth it! This is a felony and an atrocity that needs to be severely condemned! Li Li saw that Lu Shui's was beautiful, quite charming, although it was a half-old, but it was enough to attract men's sideways, people were middle-aged, beautiful and delicious, well-maintained, and looked no less than a twenty-eight girl, just like her name, water spirit, there were water droplets when you pinched it.

"Who is the one who kneels?"

"Little girl Lu Shui."

"You're a folk girl, not small."

"Yes, small, small, oh, no, the people's daughter Lu Shui is here to sue."

"Sue whom?"

"Sue the son of the people's daughter, Lu Zishun." Lu Shuishi said.

"Is your paper ready?"

"It's written."

"Bring it in."

"Yes." Lu Shuishi agreed and handed it to the officer, who took it and handed it to Li Li.

Li Li opened the form and saw that it was very miserable, to the effect that Lu Shui's family was originally a widow, and her husband died at a young age, and she did not remarry, so in order to pull Lu Zishun to grow up smoothly, she gave up a lot of opportunities to ask for marriage.