"He's a jerk."

After being silent for a long time, Sun Fang said.

"Every time he lost money in a gamble, he would beat my mother when he came home, and my mother had to do farm work during the day, sew clothes for others at night, and go to bed very late."

Sun Fang pursed his lips:

"A few days ago, my mother fell ill, and he robbed most of the money for medicine that she had borrowed so easily......

He even thinks that my mother is a loser, because women can't be used as chips at their gambling table, so he plans to sell my mother and exchange it for money to gamble. ”

Sun Fang raised his head:

"I killed a man, and if the adults want to arrest me, I will confess my guilt...... I just beg my lord to let me meet my mother before I go to prison. ”

For this matter, Sun Fang did not regret it.

Lu Xuan looked into his eyes.

He didn't ask "why didn't you report to the official?"

Because the magistrate and the Qingxian will be in collusion, they only think about how to scavenge the money from the people all day long, and they don't pay attention to the affairs of the people at all.

If the report is useful, Sun Fang will not be forced to take the road of killing his father.

Lu Xuan swept the copper coin in his hand and threw it to Sun Fang.

"Sun Hong is a rotten person."

Lu Xuan said, "You are protecting your mother. ”

Sun Fang was stunned.

"You are not allowed to do this kind of thing in the future, if you have difficulties, come to the county office, and the official will call the shots for you."

Lu Xuan said calmly.

He took one last look at Sun Fang, and together with Cheng Lingzhu, he turned around and left.

………………

Three days later.

In the center of the city, inside the main altar of the Blue Immortal Society.

"The county master has been here for seven days, right?"

Gu Yang, the head of the Gu family, leaned on a chair and held a bowl of tea in his hand.

"Not bad."

He Youde, the head of the He family, nodded, and said with a sneer:

"In seven days, he has broken more than a dozen cases for the Yamen, and he is a good hand in this regard."

"He's in Liwei."

Bo Chang, head of the Bo family, said:

"Now that the county government is holding a trial, it attracts a lot of mud-legged people to look at it every day, as if he really treats him as a blue sky."

"There can only be one day in Qingxian City."

He Youde said, "I think he is killing himself." ”

"It's been seven days since I came to the city, and I haven't taken the initiative to contact me."

Bo Chang frowned, "It seems that he really wants to do something with us." ”

"There's no need to rush."

Gu Yang held the tea bowl, scraped the lid of the cup twice, and said slowly:

"Tomorrow I will go to the county government and test him...... I want to see what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd in this Xinzhi County. ”

"Uncle Gu, how do you test him?"

Bo Chang asked.

"I have my own arrangements, so don't worry about it."

Gu Yang glanced at him, "The head of this family has gone through three county magistrates, and he still has some experience. ”

Bo Chang suddenly felt that his face was a little unbearable, and he could hear that Gu Yang was beating himself.

On the surface, he is talking about the county magistrate, but in fact, he is alluding to the handover of the president during the Qingxian Festival next month.

Gu Yang has been acting as the president for five years, and in the next ten years, the Gu family will lead the Qingxian Association.

Bo Chang had the intention to ask for the past five years back, but Gu Yang talked about his rich experience, and all the words implied that Bo Chang was still young and needed to exercise again.

There was a bit of "adults do things, children don't care" in his tone, and this attitude of relying on the old and selling the old made Bo Chang very unhappy.

But right now, Gu Yang is the president of the Qingxian Association after all, and he has authority, even if Bo Chang is dissatisfied in his heart, he can only endure it.

………………

Qingxian City County Yanei.

"Master, that, that Sun Hong...... Really meant, unexpected? ”

Lupin stumbled.

"What, what do you think?"

Lu Xuan glanced at him.

"Then he, he is in his hands...... Old money, what's going on, what's going on? ”

Lu Ping is summarizing the case file, and after writing it, the file can be sealed and finalized.

"It was Sun Fang's talisman, handed down by the ancestors, and it was snatched by this father, and I returned it to others."

Lu Xuan says:

Sun Hong took the money to the gambling house to gamble, and when he came back, the money was still in his hand, because he drank too much wine and the money fell from his body.

The copper coin must have rolled near the river's edge, and the guy was so dizzy that he stumbled and fell into the river while picking up the coin. ”

"This, this ......"

Lu Ping felt that this seemed a bit far-fetched, but when he thought about it, the logic was very reasonable.

"How many people's footprints are there along the river?"

Lu Xuan asked.

"One."

Lu Ping replied subconsciously.

"Who is the owner of the footprints?"

Lu Xuan asked again.

"Sun Hong."

Lupin replied.

"Will I decide the case or will you decide the case?"

Lu Xuan raised his eyebrows.

"You will."

Lu Ping told the truth.

"So Sun Hong was killed by him or by accident?"

Lu Xuan pointed outside the lobby, "Why don't you go find a murderer for me to go to jail?" ”

"Accident, accident."

Lu Ping hurriedly said:

"This Sun Hong is a rotten person, he does bad things, and his death must be God's eyes."

Lu Xuan nodded approvingly.

"Lord Wu! Woo-sama! ”

At this moment, a duty officer hurriedly ran in:

"Someone reported to the official!"

"Who's the one who reported it? What is it? ”

Lu Xuan came to the spirit.

"The person who reported the official was...... It's ......"

Before the officer on duty could finish speaking, a figure walked straight in.

"County Magistrate Wu, don't come unharmed."

Someone spoke, and the voice was joking.

"Gu Feng?"

Lu Xuan squinted, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Naturally, I am complaining for the county magistrate."

Gu Feng said with a smile.

He dragged a person out from behind him, and Lu Xuan looked at it, but it was the tea stall owner he met on the first day he entered the city.

The old man was covered in bruises, his breath was very weak, and his body was covered with dust, obviously dragged back by Gu Feng.

Gu Feng arched his hand:

"On the day the county magistrate entered the city, he once drank tea at this old man's stall, but I didn't expect this untouchable to be so bold as to steal the county magistrate's silver!"

He took out half of the sticky silver ingot from his bosom and struck it twice:

"Our brother from the Qingxian Association beat him for a long time before he handed over the silver and helped the county magistrate recover his losses."

Lu Xuan looked at him and didn't speak.

"This person is full of lies, and he even said that the silver ingots were given to him by the county magistrate, and the dignified county magistrate would give silver to the untouchables, and you said that this lie is ridiculous?"

Gu Feng waved his hand and smiled:

"I also ask the county magistrate to order this person to be brought to justice."

At this moment.

There are already a lot of people outside the county office.

They are all people in the neighborhood.

After hearing the conversation between Gu Feng and Lu Xuan, they all whispered.

Lu Xuan looked at the tea stall owner who was lying on the ground with a weak breath and sighed.

"According to the ...... of the Great Health Law"

Lu Xuan's voice was calm:

"Whoever has reached the age of sixty shall be judged in a closed house when the judgment comes...... It is not appropriate for this case to be tried in public. ”

Hearing his words, an official immediately ran and began to disperse the surrounding people and close the gate of the county government.

"Take care of things."

Lu Xuan pondered for a moment and said:

"I don't know which brothers helped the county recover their property?"

Gu Feng's tone was relaxed:

"Naturally, they are the brothers of the Gu family, the He family, and the Bo family."

"But ......"

Lu Xuan frowned:

"I lost a whole ingot of silver...... How come you only have half a piece left in your hand? ”

Gu Feng was stunned.

He looked at the silver ingot in his hand, and then at Lu Xuan.

Above the high hall, the county lord said leisurely:

"Could it be...... The brother of the Bo family, what about the money taken from the official? ”

The expression on Gu Feng's face froze.

Then his body trembled slightly.

He is the steward of the Gu family, and his status in the Qingxian Society is not low, and at this time he has already understood what the county master means.

"This, this ......"

Gu Feng was about to explain two sentences, and then heard the magistrate say:

"It's not the Bo family, is it the He family?"

Gu Feng took a deep breath:

"There may be ...... in this"

"When the official took office, he heard that Qingxian City produced a kind of fine wine, and he also wanted to share an altar and go back to bring it to the official's teacher."

Lu Xuan raised the official seal in his hand and put it in front of him to look at it.

"Probably...... There are really brothers whose hands and feet are not clean. ”

Gu Feng has regained his composure:

"Please also ask my lord to allow me to go back and ask the head of the family to give an order and investigate."

"Yes."

Lu Xuan's head:

"Lu Ping, you take this old man down to treat his injuries first, as for the care...... Where is Li Ming? ”

"The subordinates are here."

Li Ming stepped forward.

"If you are summoned by this official and trespass into the court, according to the law of Dakang, you will be punished with a rod for thirty."

Lu Xuan said lightly, "But I think about the stewardship and the official, and I am in a hurry...... and minus ten rods. ”

"What, what ......"

Gu Feng's eyes widened.

Lu Xuan didn't look at him, and threw the token on the table casually:

"Let's fight."

………………

Qingxian City, the Gu family's home.

"Sir, things ...... That's the way it is. ”

Gu Feng lay on the bed, hissing for cool air.

He had received twenty rods, and his appearance was quite miserable.

The officials in the county government have been lying flat for a long time, and they have never done the work of beating people, and their skills are rusty.

The first time I heard the magistrate's order, everyone was gearing up, which showed the majesty of the yamen.

Gu Feng's buttocks, along with his two thighs, were beaten to the point that he didn't dare to sit or lie down, so he could only lie on the bed.

"Master, this, what does this surname Wu mean?!"

Gu Feng had a grudge in his heart, "He spanked my ass, isn't that just a slap in your face......"

"Smack!"

Gu Yang was furious when he heard this, picked up the feather duster on the side, and twitched it Gu Feng's wound:

"You know!"

Gu Feng let out a miserable scream, and tears flowed down his eyes in pain.

Gu Yang snorted, threw the feather duster aside, and sat down at the table in the room.

He poured himself a cup of tea, but a smile appeared on his face:

"Well played, well played! If he doesn't beat you, the head of the family will think that this person has other thoughts. ”

Gu Feng: "Huh? ”

Gu Yang paced around the room with his hands behind his back:

"This newcomer to the county is a temperamental, and this is bargaining with the county.

You entered the court without his permission, and it was clear that you didn't take him seriously, and he beat you, but he responded to me and asked me to take care of my dog. ”

"Then he said before that he wanted the Bo family to return his silver...... Isn't that trying to join forces with us? ”

Gu Feng's head was clouded, "Then shouldn't he show us goodwill?" ”

"The suspect is the buyer."

Gu Yang said confidently:

"He's bargaining with us, beating you with twenty rods is attitude, and reducing your ten rods is showing me mercy.

If I'm right, he'll send someone to find me later. ”

Speaking of this, Gu Yang laughed:

"This county magistrate is really a person from a big place, even those guys who are hungry for money before, and they didn't dare to attack the three major families.

I thought he was an elm head, but I didn't expect his ambition to be so big. ”

"That'...... What should we do, sir? ”

Gu Feng asked.

"Door-to-door cooperation, how can there be a reason not to agree?"

Gu Yang turned around and looked out the window:

"The boy of the Bo family has grown up and his heart is also wild, and he ...... me as an uncle. I gradually have the idea of resisting. ”

He sighed:

"In that case, let my uncle teach him one last time."

Gu Feng listened on the side, only feeling cold on his body.

Just then, a servant knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Gu Yang said.

"Sir."

A servant entered the house, holding a prayer note in his hand:

"This was sent by the Lu master Bo in the county office."

"Good, good, good."

A smile appeared on Gu Yang's face.

He unfolded the sticker, looked at the contents, and nodded slightly:

"Inform the room to prepare, tonight I will have a banquet, and I will invite an important person."

"Yes."

The subordinate responded.

………………

At dusk.

"Master, the car is ready."

Lu Ping lowered his voice.

"Let's go."

Lu Xuan's demeanor was calm.

Lu Ping looked at the county master in front of him and muttered in his heart.

During this period of time, Lu Ping has seen everything that Master Wu has done.

Having served several magistrates, Lu Ping also knew what these adults were doing when they came to Qingxian City.

But the magistrate in front of him is different from those before him.

He was shrewd and capable, discerning from good and evil, and did many practical things, and was on the side of the people.

On the first day of taking office, the lord refused the invitation of the Qingxian Society.

And today, after Gu Feng came in the morning, the old man took the initiative to visit Gu's house.

I guess I finally bowed my head.

Lu Ping was a little disappointed in his heart, but in an instant, he felt a deep shame again.

I have been in the county government for so many years, and when facing the power of the Qingxian Society, is it not the same as bowing my head and pretending to be my grandson, dare not be angry?

It is even said that some of the money looted by the previous county magistrate has also gone into the pocket of the county government and has become a fortune for someone else?

What qualifications do you have to be dissatisfied with County Magistrate Wu?

Lu Ping felt a little embarrassed.

But he also knew that it was because in his heart, he was really looking forward to the fact that there would be a god-like Qingtian Lord who would come to Qingxian City and clean up all those fish and meat people.

Driving the car, thinking crankily in my heart.

After a short time, the Gu Mansion arrived.

Lu Xuan took Cheng Lingzhu out of the car, and when he turned his head, he saw Lu Zhubo.

Lu Ping looked at him, stopped talking, and then quickly lowered his head.

Lu Xuan guessed his thoughts and couldn't help laughing.

He reached out and knocked on the carriage, and Lupin looked up.

"If you want to do big things, you can't work hard, especially when your strength is not as good as others."

Lu Xuan pointed to his head and said with a smile:

"You have to talk about methods and use your brains more."

Lu Ping was stunned.

This chubby man looked at Lu Xuan, and a light suddenly appeared in his eyes.

(End of chapter)