Chapter 22: The Murder Three Years Later

Zhou He's expression was gloomy, and even his hands were trembling when he served the bowl.

"Let's go."

Zhu Yanqu looked at Zhu Xingguo and gave him a look.

Zhu Xingguo immediately understood: "Auntie, go and come back quickly." ”

Zhu Yanqu held the torch high and walked towards Xi Quan's house.

When I got to the door of his house, I looked through the open door.

He was holding a sharp stone knife and carving a piece of wood.

Hearing the footsteps, Xi Quan slightly tilted his eyes and went to see Zhu Yanqu at the door,

Seeing her serious face, he put down the stone knife and wood, got up and walked towards her.

"Looking for me?"

The palpitations in Zhu Yanqu's heart were still there, and when he walked over, he inexplicably took a step back.

"What's the matter?" Xi Quan asked softly.

"She's looking for you." Zhu Yanqu no longer raised his eyes to look at him, and turned sideways.

Xi Quan looked at her lonely silhouette.

Xi Quan stepped out of the threshold, and before he could stop, he heard a plop.

As he looked closely, a woman dressed in tatters knelt in front of him, mixed with a thin girl.

"The folk woman Liu Zhou, I've seen the adult."

Seeing her, Xi Quan's gaze became serious in an instant, and even his tone was very heavy: "What's the matter?" ”

Zhou He raised his red and swollen eyes, and his words trembled: "The folk woman wants to sue the Liu Yu clan of Manhua Village, and she instructed the eldest brother to beat the husband of the folk woman. ”

Xi Quan is a little stupid now, what is the reason for this murder to happen in advance.

He looked sideways at Zhu Yanqu, who was standing on the side, watching quietly.

"Go to the court and speak."

Xi Quan flicked his sleeves, turned around and strode away.

And took out the bamboo whistle and blew the secret horn.

He walked straight in the direction of Changde Street.

The county government is now built in Changde Street, which is only separated by a wall from Quzhou Qianzhuang.

Xi Quan looked at Xi Qian, Xi Huai, who quickly rushed to the county office, and the quick officer.

An order was issued: "Xi Huai, Yu Ji, Qi Liang, the three of you go to Manhua Village and take the mother and son of the Liu family." ”

Xi Quan looked at Zhou He and Liu Lixia, who were kneeling in the court: "You two get up." ”

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An hour later.

It was not only Liu's mother and son who came, but also Liu Qingmai, who was carried by Yu Ji and Qi Liang on a stretcher.

His eyes widened, his face was the color of earth, and there was still blood on his mouth and nose.

"Dr. He." Zhou He saw He Qinguan in the crowd.

Hurriedly stepped forward to ask, but couldn't hold back his crying: "Doctor He, my husband is ...... him"

He Qinguan shook his head and let out a long sigh: "Qingmai didn't survive it, and before he lost his breath, he left a sentence." ”

Zhou He looked at He Qinguan in a daze: "He...... What words were left? ”

"I want you to leave the Liu family."

Zhou He cried and pounced on Liu Qingmai.

In an instant, in the crowd, I saw Liu Qingdou and Liu Yu standing there, with a fearless face.

Turning back indignantly, he went to see Xi Quan standing on Gongtang Mountain, and knelt down heavily.

"My lord, his mother and son killed my husband, and I beg my lord to be the master of the people's wife!"

Xi Quan's fingers rested on the parchment scroll of the population that had just arrived to count the population.

The fingertips pressed the three words Ninghuai County.

There are Xing'an Village, Funan Village, Qingshi Village, Zhaohua Village, Manhua Village, and the county's businessmen and their families.

Of the two thousand one hundred and sixteen, ten have died and two thousand and six remain.

Xi Quan's eyes on this murder that happened three years later.

Clenched the rough startling wood in his hand, picked it up and put it down, and the silent public hall made a heavy muffled sound.

Before he could speak, he heard Liu Yushi, who refused to kneel in the hall, rush to the stone table with a fierce face.

Liu Yu roared:

"When I was in the Song Kingdom, my Liu family never paid attention to the laws of the Song Kingdom, so what, three years of famine, the inaction of the imperial court, let us ordinary people starve to death, I can't be lawless in my eyes, what can you bear with me? Even if you still wear the hat of the county order of Ninghuai County, I don't accept the emperor, and I don't accept you! What are you! ”

Xi Quan's eyes sank: "You are so forgetful." Since taking office, the county has opened a warehouse to help the people, allocated money for assistance, and set up free clinics. Although Ninghuai County is no longer within the jurisdiction of the Song Kingdom, this county order is alive for one day, how can you allow you to make such a mistake and disregard people's lives. ”

Liu Yushi pursed his eyes and raised his eyebrows:

"The old body doesn't want these Rausch Ziwen crepe articles to send away, as the head of the family, what is wrong with asking for some filial piety money? As a young man, he has been helped by his eldest brother since he was a child, and now that he has money, why don't he want to honor his parents and brothers? I only ask you, Lord Xi, this hundred Wen filial piety to his brother's money, will he give it or not? ”

Xi Quan's eyes deepened: "Liu Qingmai is dead, you still want to honor money?" ”

Liu Yushi took a sip and looked at Zhou He who was kneeling in the rules viciously:

"What if he's dead, I have an eldest son! The eldest son is a hundred times stronger than him, and he Liu Qingmai only knows that he loves his daughter-in-law and his girl all day long, and they are all broom stars, worthless things! ”

Standing on the side, holding his chest with both hands, tilting his head to watch the play, Liu Qingdou, who was full of pride, also spat at Zhou He.

He looked at Xi Quan and said unashamedly, "Liu Qingmai has been behind me since he was a child, which time he was humiliated and humiliated, it wasn't me who covered him, now that he has a family and can make money, why can't he divide half of the money with me?" ”

Xi Quan only felt that his brain was beating suddenly, his eyes were dark, and he looked directly at Liu Yu, who despised everything.

With tears in his eyes, Zhou He looked at Liu Qingmai, who had no signs of life in front of him, and stretched out his hand to hold Liu Lixia beside him, heartbroken.

Xi Quan got up, bypassed the stone table, and when he arrived in front of several people, he immediately pressed the mother and son of the Liu family with a serious momentum and his own height advantage.

His deep gaze fell on Liu Qingmai and asked Zhou He, "Liu Zhou, tell me about the scene at that time." ”

Zhou He wiped away his tears, looked up at Xi Quan, and the voices with a crying voice came one by one.

"My lord, at that time, my husband and I received the money in the money village, bought some cloth and porcelain bowls on the street, and when I returned home, my husband first gave my mother-in-law thirty wen.

Due to the famine in previous years, he was not able to give money for filial piety.

Therefore, I will make up some of the filial piety money that has not been given for three years.

But the mother-in-law was not happy, and said that she would make up for it together with the eldest brother's share of filial piety money.

My husband Junnian was brought up by his eldest brother since he was a child, so he gave 20 wen and asked him to buy some coarse cloth for the child to make spring clothes.

Unexpectedly, they didn't want to, so they came up to snatch the money, and my husband was knocked to the ground by them in order to protect me and the child. ”

Knowing the reason, it is the same as in the previous life.

Xi Quan sat back in place and looked at the hall.

Xi Quan's tone was heavy: "Liu Yu instructed Liu Qingdou to beat Liu Qingmai to death. Now the official sentenced the mastermind Liu Yu's to fight 10 times, fined 300 yuan, and serve 10 years of hard labor, and Liu Qingdou conspired to fight 50 times, fined 200 yuan, and served hard labor for nine years. No one in his family is allowed to enter the public career or engage in business. ”

Zhou He held back his tears, his eyes were full of dead silence: "Thank you, lady!" ”

After hearing this, Liu Yushi broke free from the restraints and resisted: "Why? I'm not convinced! You ask the people present, which one obeys your empty county order? ”