Xu Da shook his head when he saw this: You can't squeeze such a big crack in the crowd, little rookie.

He quietly squeezed into the crowd, touched the left and the right, and soon a passage to the door appeared.

Some people were very dissatisfied when they saw him pushing, but after looking at his size and big hairy face, they calmed down again.

With Xu Da opening the way, Wang Qilin mixed in with the front of the crowd.

He looked into the yamen, and there was a beautiful man with a face like a beautiful jade and a sword eyebrow and starry eyes sitting in the public hall, and on either side were officials holding water and fire sticks, and on the public hall kneeled a woman in coarse cloth clothes and a middle-aged man dressed as a foot merchant.

The woman cried and said, "The county lord Mingjian, the slave family did not steal his money. ”

After the slave family picked up the bag, he opened it and saw that there was money in it, so he didn't dare to touch it, but waited at the door of the store until the uncle came back, and the slave family didn't know how much money was inside, and the slave family didn't count it and didn't steal it. ”

Some people in the crowd muttered: "I know this sister-in-law, she lives in the west of the city, and I have never heard that she can steal people's things." ”

"Yes, I know her, isn't her son the apprentice blacksmith who chattered about the gods? She raised her son herself, and sent him to learn blacksmithing, and both mother and son have a good reputation. ”

"Alas, she should go to fortune telling, her son met a baby thief, and she ran into a money-grubbing ghost, this is a villain!"

The merchant shouted, "You woman is talking nonsense, I have in my bag the money I used to buy silk cloth this time, which is full of 100 silver baht, how can I lose it?

"I didn't steal, the slave family didn't steal, please ask the county master to ask the people who know the slave family, they all know that the slave family never steals people's things, the slave family is innocent, and the slave family just picked up fifty silver baht......"

Hearing this, the magistrate slapped the table and shouted: "Chen, you just said that you didn't touch the silver baht in your bag after you picked it up, and now you say that there are fifty silver baht in the bag you picked up, what's going on?"

Chen kowtowed and shouted: "Master Mingjian, after they took the bags, they counted the silver baht, saying that there were only fifty in it, so the slave family knew how to count." ”

The magistrate said: "It's strange to say this, the number of silver baht is not right, will it be like this." ”

"Merchant Xue, the 100 silver baht you stole is not the same thing as the 50 silver baht that Chen picked up?

The merchant exclaimed urgently, "Impossible? Is this my bag? There is also a little man in it, and this is the bag and money that she stole from her!"

Chen shouted, "Isn't it? I didn't steal? Slaves never steal from people. ”

"If you didn't steal it, how could my stolen bag end up in your hands?" said the merchant. "And I immediately reported to the official after I found out that my bag was stolen, and then I went to look for it with an official to find you. ”

He said to the beautiful man Zhixian: "The county lord can ask that official?" The woman wasn't waiting in front of the cloth shop with her bags in tow? Instead, he looked sneakily while holding his bags and sneaking away!"

A servant standing next to him nodded.

The muttering in the crowd did not stop, and then he talked about the officials:

"Can you believe the words of the crotch of the diaper?"

"Shhhh ”

"This is too much of a coincidence, isn't it? This businessman lost his bag and money bag to report to the official? And then I happened to find the corrupt official and go back with him to find his bags and money?"

The official at the door paused, and looked at the people at the door? Many people did not dare to cause trouble, so they quickly shut their mouths.

Wang Qilin moved his neck, which was a little interesting.

The magistrate looked at the messenger under the hall and asked, "Gao Liang, is this Xue's words serious?"

The messenger saluted respectfully and said, "Lord Chang knows the subtleties and knows everything? He is telling the truth, and he is ...... to him."

"No, isn't it? He was talking nonsense, he wasn't telling the truth. The woman cried out in terror.

The merchant shouted, "Hugh wants to spew blood? We businessmen say that the gold and silver cups are not as good as word of mouth, and you don't want to insult my reputation! I have no lies? Would you like to inquire with an adult? Villains have always had an excellent reputation for doing business? Tong Suo is not a bully!"

The woman burst into tears, and the magistrate slapped the table vigorously and shouted: "Shut up the official, no one is allowed to speak if the official doesn't let you speak, otherwise you will be punished by the roaring court!"

He asked the officer again: "Gao Liang, you tell the official what happened, remember, explain it clearly, speak carefully, and be truthful!"

Gao Liang saluted again, and then said: "Please be clear, I got up early today and came to the tea shop opposite the yamen to have breakfast, and I saw this merchant wiping his tears at the yamen. ”

Curious to ask him what was the matter, he said that he had come to report to the official and that he had been stolen from his bag, which contained a hundred silver baht that he had bought for silk cloth this time. ”

So he asked him how he had been stolen, and he said that he had gone into the city early in the morning to look at the various cloth houses, and when he arrived at the Dayou Cloth Village, he saw that there was suitable cloth and wanted to buy it, but in the end the price was not suitable, so he put away his purse and prepared to leave. ”

At this time, he found that his money bag was missing, and he guessed that someone had stolen it, so he hurriedly ran to the yamen to report the case. ”

He followed him to Dayoubu Village to inquire about the matter, and on the way he saw the woman looking out at the mouth of an alley, holding the merchant's purse in her arms. ”

"I captured her, and when I opened the money bag, I saw that there was a merchant's paper and money in it, but it was only fifty silver baht, which was half less!"

The magistrate looked at the woman and shouted, "Chen, what else do you have to say?"

The woman was so frightened that she cried out, "I didn't steal, how could I steal someone's money? If I stole money, why am I still waiting outside? Why don't I run?"

Gao Liang said slowly: "Lord Chang, as far as I know, there is a group of thieves in the county this year, and they have teamed up to steal money and share the spoils together, so will the Chen family be one of the thieves?

"And there were originally a hundred silver baht in this bag, but now there are only fifty silver baht left, and I think if the money is stolen by the Chen family, where will the missing fifty silver baht be?"

"She's a woman who can't show up here early in the morning, I'm afraid she'll go home after stealing the money, right?

Hearing this, Chen, who was crying bitterly, suddenly stared at him with wide eyes, stretched out his arm and pointed at his face and shouted, "How, how do you know that my family has fifty silver baht?"

Gao Liang looked at Zhixian, and Zhixian's handsome face was clouded.

Wang Qilin rolled his eyes vigorously and shook his head vigorously: "Master Xu, what do you think of this case?"

Xu Da said: "In the uncle's opinion, this is blind Jiba's!"

He was naturally loud and could be heard both inside and outside the courtroom.

After the surrounding people reacted, they pushed and retreated to the side, the two rows of officials looked furious, and the officials at the door raised their water and fire sticks.

The magistrate was even more furious, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the door and said sharply: "Who is roaring in the court?

A servant like a tiger and a wolf came up to catch Xu Da, Xu Da shook his waist, and the crown snake flew out.

A little confused, it was still sleeping warmly.

Seeing a colorful snake with a bone crown on its head appearing, the officials weakened their legs.

The onlookers began to run away.

Wang Qilin pointed at Gao Liang and said, "Hey, he was the one who roared in the court, and the county master asked you to pull him out, what are you doing with us?"

Gao Liang shouted, "Who are you? How dare you talk nonsense?"

Wang Qilin said: "Didn't the county magistrate say it just now? Whoever he asks to speak, he will speak, otherwise it will be dealt with as a roaring court." ”

"When the county master asked about Chen, he didn't let you speak, but you took the initiative to speak, so you were roaring in court. ”

The magistrate stood up with a cold face on the table, and shouted: "Who are you? This official also didn't let you speak, aren't you also roaring in court?"

Wang Qilin said: "Your orders are only useful to those who are younger than yours, and they are useless to your own officials. ”

He walked in and took out his bronze seal and slapped it on the table with the big seal of Guanfengwei.

The green tendons on the forehead of the magistrate jumped, and he arched his hand and said: "It turned out to be the bronze captain who listened to the heavenly prison, but my yamen handled the case, and you are the bronze captain of the heavenly prison......"

Wang Qilin knew what he was going to say, so he grabbed his words and said: "As the bronze captain of the Heavenly Eunuch, I am very anxious to see that you can't handle such a simple and small case, so I decided to help you." ”

The magistrate reluctantly smiled: "How can the adults help?"

Wang Qilin walked up to the woman and said, "Chen, the official wants to ask you, if you dare to lie, the official will behead you in court!"

With a flick of his arm, the demon knife flew out like a dragon.

The lobby was covered with green bricks, but the demon knife was easily inserted, the blade of the knife was shaking, and the rust marks were like blood.

Chen was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly.

Wang Qilin asked, "Say, did you steal it or pick up this bag and silver baht?"

Chen cried: "Lord Qingtian, Lord Qingtian, I really picked it up, I didn't steal it, I'm a woman, how dare I steal something?"

Wang Qilin asked again: "Then after you picked up your bags and silver baht, have you ever touched the silver baht?"

"No, no, don't dare, the slave family didn't dare to touch it!" Chen cried again.

Wang Qilin nodded and walked towards the merchant, and said the same: "This official also wants to ask you, if you dare to lie in front of this official, this official will behead you!"

The magistrate couldn't help but say: "Lord Tongwei is so angry and powerful!"

Wang Qilin shook his hand at Xu Da: "Please give the Holy Emperor a cloak!"

Xu Da pulled out the neatly folded cloak from his arms, and after shaking it open, a five-clawed golden dragon flew with the shaking of the cloak.

The magistrate and the full court were stunned.

They didn't react for a moment.

For they have never seen the decree and the holy things in their lives.

After reacting, they hurriedly knelt, no one dared to suspect that this thing was forged, the five-clawed golden dragon was the emperor's forbidden, who dared to calligraphy, painting and embroidering without permission was a big crime of rebellion and rebellion!

The officials knelt down and were dazed, they didn't think that they would have anything to do with the emperor in their lives, and they didn't know how to call the emperor at all.

There are even people who don't know the names of the saints today.

The magistrate knew what to do, and hurriedly shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, Weichen often congratulates the holy driver!"

The officials began to shout long live.

Xu Da glanced at the audience with a big face and indifference: Today's B, I pretended to be it!

Wang Qilin asked the magistrate: "Lord Chang, what did you just say? Whose arrogance do you say? Whose official authority is great?"

Chang Heli said with a smile: "The lower officials have eyes and don't know Mount Tai, and they don't know that the adults are coming with holy relics, they really have eyes and no beads, please forgive your sins." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Now that the official is guarding the cloak given by the Holy Lord, whoever dares to lie in front of it will behead whoever the official will behead, it should be no problem, right?"

Chang Heli said: "Of course, of course!"

Wang Qilin took out his demon knife and picked up the merchant's chin with the tip of the knife, and asked, "How many silver baht are you in your lost bag?"

The merchant tried to keep his composure, and said, "Please be clear, it's one hundred silver baht." ”

"Not lying?"

"Don't dare to lie!"

Wang Qilin put the knife into the sheath and said, "Look, isn't this case clear?"

"Neither of you is lying, Chan has picked up fifty silver baht, and the merchant has been stolen a hundred baht, and it is clear that Chan has not picked up the merchant's money. ”

"Now that the fifty silver baht that Chen picked up will be collected and the owner will be found, Lord Gao Liang will go to help the merchant find the stolen hundred silver baht. ”

Wang Qilin couldn't help but shake his head when he said this: "How simple this case is, Master Chang, you actually found the truth just now, but you didn't insist on your own opinion, so you will work so hard later." ”

Someone in the crowd outside the gate of the public hall shouted: "Your Excellency is wise! Your Majesty is Shengming!"

The common people shouted.

Xu Da glared at the crowd angrily, it was Fat Wuyi who took the lead in shouting just now, and grabbed his lines.

The merchant was flustered and anxious, he never expected such a change, and subconsciously went to see Gao Liang.

Gao Liang bowed his head and was honest.

Chen struggled to kowtow to Wang Qilin: "The adult is wise, and the adult is ...... sage."

Wang Qilin helped her up and said: "You picked up fifty silver baht but didn't think of swallowing it privately, but stayed where you were and waited for the owner to return. ”

He looked at Chang Heli again and said: "Lord Chang, this official stayed in Zhending Mansion a few days ago, and I once heard that the people of Luoba County are simple and simple, and they don't close their doors at night, I thought this was an exaggeration, but I didn't expect it to be true, it seems that you, as a local parent official, have made great contributions!"

Chang Heli bent down and saluted: "Adults praise falsely, don't dare to dare, they are all saintly moral education, and the lower officials don't dare to take credit." ”

Wang Qilin said: "There is a saying in the saint that meritorious service will be rewarded and faulty will be punished, this is indeed your merit, you don't have to be modest." ”

"But this Chen family is a female streamer, but she can resist the temptation of fifty silver baht and hand over the lost property to our court, which is a good example, right?"

Chang Heli said: "Count, of course." ”

Wang Qilin nodded and said: "Then after her deeds are spread in this county, she will definitely be able to greatly improve the morality of the people in this county, is this a great achievement?"

Chang Heli said: "Count, naturally count." ”

He immediately reacted: "Ah, meritorious service must be rewarded, this county has always been like this, Chen's meritorious service should be rewarded, according to the rules of the county, she should be rewarded with a silver baht." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Good things come in pairs, give her two silver baht rewards, one of them can be regarded as I will listen to the heavenly prison to reward her on behalf of the saint." ”

"As for the fifty silver baht, Lord Xu, put it away, let's go find the owner and return the money to him. ”

Xu Dadao: "Okay, what Lord Wang said is very true, every woman in this county has the consciousness of collecting gold, and we, as the imperial court officials promoted by His Majesty's holy decree, must be more conscious." ”

Chang Heli looked at the two of them in horror: "Decree to be promoted? This is the protégé of the Son of Heaven!"

He did not doubt the truth of this statement, because the officials did not dare to use the emperor's name in the public court to deceive, and as for how to do it in private, of course, the big guys knew it.

Fifty silver baht is not a small amount.

The merchant's limbs trembled, causing his clothes to shake.

Seeing that Gao Liang didn't react, he suddenly gritted his teeth and knelt down and said, "Official, official, this money is a villain, they are villains." ”

Wang Qilin kindly helped him up and said, "No, yours is one hundred silver baht, and here is fifty silver baht." ”

The merchant said with a sad face: "Someone stole the villain's money, stole fifty silver baht, and threw fifty silver baht in his bag for Chen to pick up." ”

He pointed to the bag and said, "This is the villain's bag, really, the adult is the villain's bag." ”

Wang Qilin handed him his bag and said, "That's right, this is your bag." According to the official's inference, the thief stole your bag and 100 silver baht and took the 100 silver baht away and threw it away. ”

Xu Da said: "This kind of thing is very common, steal the money in the purse and throw it away, right, all the adults and folks?"

They now have to be careful about even farting, for fear that making a homophonic sound will have something to do with 'no'.

The common people are watching the excitement, they are not afraid, and they nod their heads one after another: "Yes, yes, yes." "Stealing money and throwing away purses or something, that's what they did. ”

The merchant hurriedly shouted, "My lord, no, they must have stolen the villain's bag and taken fifty silver baht, and threw the rest away." ”

Xu Da asked, "You mean, a thief stole your bag with one hundred silver baht, and then only took fifty silver baht and threw away fifty silver baht?"

The merchant nodded frantically.

Xu Da suddenly smiled: "Brother, are you here to be amused? Whether it is adults or folks outside, who has ever heard of a thief stealing someone's money, only to take one handful and throw away half of it?"

Wang Qilin said: "This possibility cannot be ruled out. ”

The laughing people were suddenly stunned, they couldn't understand the brain circuit of the official, why did such a sentence come again?

Someone subconsciously said: "Is this a faint official?"

Fat May Day grabbed people and started to hammer!

Insult the court, it's okay, insult me, it's okay, insult my idol? Draw your sword, you can divide life and death!

Wang Qilin said to the merchant: "If you are stolen a hundred silver baht, and the thief hides fifty silver baht and leaves fifty silver baht in his bag, where will the hidden money be?"

The merchant anxiously pointed at Chen and said, "My lord, she stole the money, she must have hidden the fifty silver baht at home, and what did she want to do with the fifty silver baht, right? This possibility is there, right?"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "This possibility really can't be ruled out. ”

The people have become agitated.

"What's the matter with this adult? How could he believe the peddler?"

"The mouth of a merchant, a deceitful ghost!"

"Young people have no hair on their mouths after all—who beat me?"

The merchant didn't care about the noise outside, he hurriedly said, "Then you can go to her house and look for ......."

"I have fifty silver baht at home. Chen said fiercely, "I have it at home, but it's not stealing from you, it's mine!"

The merchant asked, "How can you, an ordinary weaver, have a huge sum of fifty silver baht?"

"How do you know she's an ordinary weaver?" Wang Qilin quickly asked.

The merchant was stunned.

"Answer right away!"

The merchant trembled his lips in a panic and said, "Yes, yes, I heard what I heard just now, someone outside knew her and said that she was coming, and the villain heard it." ”

Wang Qilin nodded: "I see." ”

The merchant also nodded hurriedly: "Exactly, exactly." ”

Wang Qilin asked Chen, "You have fifty silver baht at home, where did this come from?"

Chen lowered his head and stopped talking.

Wang Qilin said to Chang Heli: "Master Chang, why don't you lead the team to take a look?"

Chang Heli said: "Obey the orders of your lordship. ”

Chen raised his head in despair and said, "The slave family, the fifty silver baht, my lord, my lord, it really wasn't stolen by the slave family!"

Wang Qilin said: "Don't talk about it yet, let's talk about it when the silver baht arrives." ”

The merchant's face was happy, and he glanced at Gao Liang, but he saw that Gao Liang's face was gloomy.

Chang Heli took the official out, Gao Liang wanted to follow, Wang Qilin blocked him with a demon knife and smiled lightly: "You stay, don't move." ”

The road to the small county town is short, and Chang Heli came back soon after taking people out, and came back with a sturdy boy and a money bag, and the money bag was heavy.

The young man entered the door in a trance, and when he saw Chen, he hurriedly went to put his arm around her and shouted, "Mother, why are you here?

Chen looked at his son and smiled bitterly, tears raining down.

Wang Qilin took the money bag and opened it, and inside was a silver baht with white flowers.

The merchant said, "This must be the fifty silver baht that the villain has hidden!"

Wang Qilin sprinkled these silver bahts on the desk, and the bright silver light was dazzling.

He asked the merchant, "Your hundred silver baht should be kept together, right?"

The merchant said, "Yes, sir. ”

Wang Qilin beckoned: "Then come and take a look, is this your money?"

The merchant searched carefully, and then found a few coins that were very good at grinding.

He became excited and said, "My lord, this is the villain's money, you look at these abrasion marks, the villain has an impression of these money, the villain noticed that they were worn out after selling cloth and receiving the money, and he hesitated to accept the money." ”

Wang Qilin asked, "Are you sure?"

The merchant nodded vigorously.

Wang Qilin said to Chang Heli: "Lord Chang, have you also bought cloth from this Xue merchant?"

Chang Heli said: "My lord, he is lying. ”

He turned his head and said coldly at the vendor: "This is what Lord Wang rubbed out with a grinding stone on the spot after letting the official get the money. ”

The two rows of officials, especially those who followed to find the money before, were really full of admiration for Wang Qilin.

The common people even praised each other: "Awesome!", "Young and awesome!"

The merchant said in a panic: "But but, even if this money is real, the villain's money is also there! There are also such things, the real adult, the villain swears to the sky, and the villain's money is also worn out!"

Wang Qilin patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, this official believes your words." ”

"You see that your hundred silver bahts are mixed together, and there are several silver bahts that are worn out here, and as a result, there is not a single one of the fifty silver bahts in your bag, but all of them are hidden in Chen's house, what is going on?"

"Could it be that the Chen family deliberately counted out the money for wear and tear at that time?"

The vendor had already realized that something was wrong, but he had no way out, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "Lord Hui, it may be, it is a coincidence." ”

Wang Qilin smiled and said, "Okay, Merchant Xue, if the official's guess is correct, the cloth you sell will be reprocessed, and you have to dye and spice the cloth yourself, right?"

The vendor nodded apprehensively.

Wang Qilin beckoned to him and said, "Come, come over and take a closer look at these two piles of money, do you find any difference in their colors?"

"If you smell them again, why is there a bunch of them that smell of flowers and a bunch that smells musty?"

The vendor's face turned pale.

Chang Heli gritted his teeth and said, "When death is coming, you still don't admit your guilt?"

The vendor subconsciously looked at Gao Liang, and Gao Liang shouted: "I was also deceived by you, it turns out that you ......"

Wang Qilin smiled and said: "Okay, what are you pretending to be, Lord Gao? You play this in front of this official, don't you say that you don't treat this official as a fool? This matter is masterminded by you behind your back, isn't it?"

Gao Liang was stunned for a moment, and then knelt on the ground and shouted: "Your Excellency, please be aware of it, you are aware of this matter, no, you see that you are serving in the yamen and eating public food, how can you know the law and break the law?"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "That's right, knowing the law and breaking the law is a plus, you know this, right?"

"Yes, of course the lowly does. Gao Liang said.

Outside the door, a common man couldn't help but shout: "Don't believe him, my lord, he ......"

Gao Liang turned his head to look out.

The sound stopped abruptly.

Wang Qilin didn't seem to hear this, he continued to laugh and said: "Master Gao also knows that the crime of knowing the law and breaking the law is one more degree, so why do you refuse to admit your guilt? You must know that resisting the law is also a crime!"

Gao Liang's aggrieved Chong Wang Qilin said: "My lord, there is really no violation of the law in the lowly position, and this matter really has nothing to do with the lowly position. ”

He said to Chang Heli again: "Master Chang, you understand the humble position, please give the humble position a fair word." ”

Chang Heli hesitated, looked up and saw Wang Qilin looking at him with a smile.

He is handsome himself, but has to admit that the person opposite is even more handsome.

But the smile of the person on the other side was not handsome.

It's scary.

So he said decisively: "Lord Wang, the lower officials don't know him, we don't know each other." ”