The front of the Tingwei Mansion was crowded.

The stall owner who sold meat and steamed buns was busy with business before, and the hundreds of cakes he brought were also sold out at this time, and he began to clean up the stall, only then did he remember to ask the person next to him: "Are all the ten prisoners of Shuofang arrested?" ”

"There's one person missing." A scholar who looks like a humane.

"It's already the middle of the day, and no one has come?" The stall owner didn't figure out what was going on with the ten prisoners of Shuofang, but he heard that there were many people here, and they all came to see the ten prisoners of Shuofang, so he came over and set up a meatloaf stall, and the business was really good.

He quietly touched the money bag tied around his waist, showed a satisfied smile, and while cleaning up the stall, he muttered to himself: "I said I would come and return to the case, why didn't I come yet." With so many people waiting, will it not come? ”

The scholar was annoyed and said, "What nonsense are you talking about." ”

The stall owner stopped paying attention to him and asked the others, "I'm afraid that person is about to miss the hour, right?" ”

"You can't miss the hour. If anyone delays the hour, then these ten people will be counted as a delay and sit in a row, and they should be beheaded according to the law. At this time, someone on the side explained. There was a sigh from the crowd around them.

Only then did the stall owner understand, and he was also anxious, and asked the scholar, "How many hours are left?" ”

The scholar pointed to the huge stone sundial in front of the Tingwei Mansion: "It should be returned at noon, and it has passed the third quarter of the first noon." ”

Someone on the side interjected: "The ten prisoners in this Shuofang are all felony suspects, even if they are not delayed, they may be convicted of capital crimes by the court captain." ”

"It's a pity that these people came from afar and went to die." The stall owner sighed.

The scholar became excited when he heard this, and said: "Keeping faith and righteousness and treating death as home, a gentleman will do the same." After that, he burst into tears.

The stall owner couldn't understand his words, but he also saw that the scholar was really in a hurry, so he comforted: "Don't worry, don't worry, there is still some time." Suddenly, I remembered something, searched left and right, and muttered, "Why don't you see the stall owner who sells wine, I don't know when I left." ”

At this moment, the crowd suddenly became agitated, so everyone stood on tiptoe and stretched their necks, and looked towards the end of the street.

Under the afternoon sun, a team of feather forest riders surrounded by a royal chariot drove here, the chariot and the horses Xiao Xiao, in the autumn breeze, the Han family flag fluttered.

Someone on the side of the street asked loudly, "But Uncle Song of the Ten Prisoners of Shuofang?" ”

When Song Bo heard this, he bowed his hand in that direction. The crowd suddenly became excited, and said "It's Uncle Song", "Uncle Song is here", and some people shouted "Uncle Song" and "Uncle Song" from time to time.

Song Bohe had been taken care of by so many people, he was so excited that he forgot about his foot pain, stood up and saluted, and suddenly straightened his neck and shouted: "Noon, return to the case." The old voice drifted in the wind on the street.

"Song Bolai is in the case." The news spread like wind through the expectant crowd. The scholar squeezed to the front, and when he saw the car getting closer and closer, he was so excited that he blushed and his neck was thick, and suddenly he opened his throat and shouted, "Noon—"

The surrounding crowd was silent at first, and suddenly, people's cries sounded like a mountain and a tsunami, "noon-" "noon-" "noon-"

This shout echoed and spread in the sky above Chang'an City.

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The ministers in the palace looked at each other, wondering what was going on? At this time, a court official stumbled in, knelt on the ground and stammered, "Song Hui, Song Hui is in charge." ”

There was a sudden silence in the hall, and then there was a deliberately suppressed low laughter.

In the right wing, Liu Xun, who was originally calm, couldn't stop his excitement at this time. He glanced at the timer leaker and seemed to hear a thud of water falling.

Shi Gao crawled to the leaky pot on his knees, carefully inspected the arrow shaft for a while, and looked up and said: "There are more than three quarters of noon, and it has not passed noon." ”

Liu Xun breathed a long sigh of relief, with a pleased smile on his face, and muttered: "This is to educate and educate the people of the world." ”

The royal car stopped in front of the Tingwei Mansion, Song Bo stood up tremblingly, Song Niang had already jumped out of the car and came to help him, he also forgot the pain, and the old and the young staggered into the door.

The noisy crowd on the street in front of Tingwei's Mansion suddenly fell silent. The eyes of countless people are gazing at the sundial that rises high in the middle of the street.

As the autumn sun sets on the huge sundial, the shadow of the hand moves slowly, and finally stops at noon in the middle of the lower end of the dial of the stone-carved dial. Everyone looked up at the Tingwei Mansion together.

In the lobby of the Tingwei Mansion, Tingwei looked around in Dingguo, and on both sides of the hall sat the great Sima Huo Yu, Prime Minister Wei Xiang, Yushi Dafu Bingji, Leping Hou Huoshan, Guanyang Hou Huo Yun, Prime Minister Sizhi Min Shitong and other ministers, who listened to the trial.

Although Yu Dingguo had tried countless cases, he couldn't suppress his excitement at this time, and his hands holding bamboo slips couldn't help but tremble. He coughed lightly, calmed down, and asked in a deep voice, "Who is in the hall?" ”

Pang Meng and Yuan Liulang, dressed in prison officials' formal clothes, stood solemnly, while Chun Yuji, Qiu Qian, Song Hui, Guo Cong, Zhao Bai, Xu Xin, Guo Quji, Zhang Xiaoyi, Ling Yue, and Zhao Dalang, the son of Xu Fei, who was holding Zhao Wu's tablet, knelt in the hall.

Pang Meng arched his hand and said: "Shuofang County decided Cao Peng Pang Meng, prison officer Yuan Liulang, and escorted the suspects Chun Yuji, Qiu Qian, Song Hui, Guo Cong, Zhao Bai, Xu Xin, Guo Quji, Zhang Xiaoyi, Ling Yue and the deceased Zhao Wuzhi, and at noon on September 15, they were brought to the court. ”

There was silence in the hall, Yu Dingguo slowly glanced at the ten people kneeling in the hall, straightened up, and said in a solemn tone, "At noon, the ten prisoners of Shuofang are brought to justice." ”

The official waiting in front of the Tingwei Mansion, his face flushed with excitement when he heard the words, he adjusted his breathing, clenched his hands into fists, meditated for a moment, and shouted loudly: "At noon, the ten prisoners of Shuofang are brought to justice." Suddenly, cheers resounded throughout the street.

Song Niang raised her little face full of tears, sobbed and said, "Thank you, sister princess." The little princess was also infected at this time, blinked her eyes, hugged Song Niang and cried.

Although it was autumn, the midday sun was still warm, and the official stood at the door and shouted: "Tingwei has been promoted to the court to decide the case." ”

Ting Wei Yu sat in front of Dingguo's desk, coughed lightly, glanced at the file spread out on the case, and looked solemn: "Whoever is kneeling in the hall, report the name." ”

"Maoling people's Guo Cong." Guo Cong replied in a deep voice.

"Zhao Bai of the Maoling people's clan."

"Maoling people's clan Xu Xin."

"Maoling people's Guo is sick."

"Maoling people's Zhang Xiaoyi."

"The people of Chang'an are more than a few." Yu Dingguo raised his eyelids when he heard the sound, and his gaze stayed on Chun Yuji's body for a while. Wei Xiang, Bingji, Huo Yu, Huo Yun, Huo Shan and other ministers also turned their eyes to Chun Yuji. Huo Yu was worried in his heart, turned his face slightly, and found that Huo Shan's lips were trembling, and he couldn't help but get nervous, and the sweat on his forehead was trickling down. He just wanted to raise his hand to wipe his sweat, but suddenly caught a glimpse of Min Shitong who seemed to be peeping on the side, and quickly sat upright.

"Yizhou people's autumn thousand." Qiu Qian's tone was helpless.

"Shuofang Ren's Song Society." Song Bo knelt a little awkwardly, so he moved his body, but unexpectedly hit his foot, and immediately bared his teeth in pain.

Song Niang saw it from a distance and showed a worried expression. Seeing this, the little princess put her arms around her shoulders and gently comforted her.

"Shuo Fang Ren's Xu Liu's Lingyue." Ling Yue lowered her head and muttered.

Xu Dalang held the tablet of Zhao Wuzhi in his hand, hesitated slightly, and said: "The deceased Zhao Wuzhi of the Shuofang clan. ”

Hearing this, Yu Dingguo glanced up at Zhao Wuxu's tablet slightly, and thought, this is the reason for impeaching me at that time, and he couldn't help but glance at Min Shitong, who was sitting at the bottom of the hall. After a while, he retracted his gaze, checked them one by one, and asked Pang Meng again: "Shuo Fang's ten prisoners, what is the so-called crime?" ”

Pang Meng said: "If there is a suspicious case in the county prison, transfer it to the Tingwei Mansion." Guo Cong and other ten prisoners, whose crimes were suspected, were sentenced to the verdict.