As soon as I stepped into the room, I saw Hua Ling'er still lying on the bed with her eyes closed, but Chu Mofeng on the side of the bed was lying on the side of the bed and fell asleep deeply, it seemed that she was staying by Hua Ling'er's side every step last night, seeing this scene, Li Yuan's heart couldn't help but warm, and then he took off the robe on his body and gently draped it on Chu Mofeng's body, and then quietly withdrew from the room and closed the door.

Li Yuan thought to himself that if it weren't for this kid's quick reaction last night, and the girl blocked a knife for herself, she would not survive last night, thinking of this, Li Yuan shook his head and smiled, turned around and walked in the direction of the county office.

When he came to the county hall hall, Li Yuan found that Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin were sitting in the lobby, not knowing what they were discussing. When the two saw Li Yuan coming, they got up to say hello, Li Yuan waved his hand and motioned for the two to sit down, while he sat in another seat and listened to the discussion between the two silently.

I only heard Li Jiancheng say with a smile on his face: "Second brother, you don't know, today my brother went to inspect the official warehouse with Liu Zimo and others, and found that the grain in the official warehouse in Xicheng County was about to be full, and it was roughly estimated that it was enough to eat for about a year, so it was just right for my father to open the warehouse and release grain at this time, the new crop of grain has not yet begun to be harvested, and there is not much surplus grain in the people's homes. Now the entire Xicheng Prefecture is full of admiration when it comes to my father. ”

"Big brother, there is another problem that we have to consider, it is true that the grain of the official warehouse is distributed to the poor people, but we still have to transfer the grain of the Taiyuan official warehouse from Jinyang to make up for it, if we open a warehouse to release grain every time we capture a county, then we need to mobilize a large amount of grain from the Taiyuan official warehouse, but we don't know that there are not a few people in Taiyuan who do not produce anything, and when the grain in the Taiyuan official warehouse is exhausted, what do we use to maintain the operation of the army. ”

The rise of the dispute between the two, Li Yuan on the side couldn't help but smile, his two sons said that the views were right, but the consideration of the problem was still a bit one-sided, at this time, Chu Xiaozi was not there, if he was there, he might be able to have a more comprehensive view.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan coughed, and said to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin: "My father heard what you two brothers said just now, and I can't say who is right and who is wrong, it's just that the two of you think about the problem a little one-sidedly, and after Ling'er's injury recovers after a while, the two of you humbly ask Chu Xiaozi for advice." ”

Hearing this, the two hurriedly nodded yes, and at this time, Chu Mofeng walked over from the backyard, Li Yuan was worried about Hua Ling'er's injury when he saw this, and hurriedly summoned him to his side and asked, "How is Ling'er's child?"

"Uncle Li is worried, the girl just changed the medicine, ate something and fell asleep, I guess why I have to recuperate for a few more days. Hearing that Li Yuan asked about Hua Ling'er's injury, Chu Mofeng hurriedly told him about the current situation, and then bowed to Li Yuan and said: "The little nephew thought that if Ling'er's injury delayed the army's journey, it would be absolutely undesirable to delay the fighter, so the little nephew wants to tell you, if the army is opened, I will accompany Ling'er here until the injury is better before chasing the army, and you must not delay your great cause because of this matter." ”

Hearing this, Li Yuan couldn't help but smile and said: "You stupid boy, it will take at least three days to open the warehouse and release grain, during which we will hire the best doctor in Xicheng County to diagnose and treat Ling'er's child, and when the army is deployed, this child's injuries will almost recover, so don't worry, three or two days can still be delayed." ”

Hearing that Li Yuan said this, Chu Mofeng was not a hypocritical person, so he hurriedly made a big salute to Li Yuan, and then hurriedly ran towards the backyard.

Seeing Chu Mofeng walking away, Li Jiancheng on the side asked in surprise: "Father, the matter of opening the warehouse and releasing grain will end tomorrow, why are you ......?"

"If it weren't for the two of them sacrificing their lives to save each other last night, I'm afraid that today you and I, father and son, would have been separated by heaven and man, besides, today the big camp outside the city came to report, and there were local people from Youxihe who went to the big camp to join the army, and recruited more soldiers and horses, and they could also add more strength when they attacked Huoyi. Li Yuan interrupted Li Jiancheng's inquiry, and looked at his eldest son with a hatred of iron and steel.

If you want to say that your eldest son, who is knowledgeable, able to write and martial arts, and does have the demeanor of the eldest son, sometimes he only focuses on the immediate when considering problems, unlike the second son Li Shimin, who has a long-term strategic vision and strong adaptability when facing the battle, but the two are not as calm as Chu Mofeng in analyzing the problem, even if it involves himself, this kid can also jump out and analyze the problem from the perspective of an outsider, which is exactly what the second son of the Li family lacks.

At this moment, Li Yuan sighed in his heart, if the advantages of these three boys are gathered in one person, then this person will definitely be able to achieve a grand career, as for Li Yuanji, in Li Yuan's eyes, he is like a child who has not grown up, with poor adaptability, he can't be a martial artist, and he can't be calm and calm when he encounters things, especially what Li Yuan doesn't like is that this son is ruthless, so Li Yuanping will only focus on Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

At this time, Li Yuan got up and picked up the file on the case and said to Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin: "I have two files here, I originally wanted to go to the court today to ask about the case, but after carefully reading the files, I found that there were many suspicious points, Chu Xiaozi was taking care of Ling'er at the moment and couldn't get away, your two brothers went to the street to inquire separately, and when they came back, they would summarize the information they had collected, and they would go to the court to ask about the case for their father early tomorrow morning." ”

The two stepped forward and each took a file and read it carefully, only to see the record in Li Shimin's hand, which was quite bizarre at first sight.

There is a rich businessman named Zhu Wanpin in Xicheng County, this person specializes in cloth business in Xicheng County, he has never had a dispute with people, and sometimes he will take out some money to help those poor people, who knows that the day before yesterday this person died at home for no reason, the deceased only married a concubine last month, the family suspected that the concubine assassinated Zhu Wanpin, and then sued the county government, the yamen put the concubine in prison and was preparing to be promoted to the court for interrogation, coinciding with Li Yuan and others coming to Xicheng County, the county government temporarily pressed the matter, originally left for a later retrial, but was found by Li Yuan and took out the file。

Seeing that Li Shimin had already gone through the file, Li Yuan instructed him: "Erlang, you go to this Zhu Wanpin's house, carefully inquire about the incident, see if there are any suspicious points, and then ask around the neighborhood, remember that you don't let go of any situation that you think is abnormal." ”

Li Shimin nodded, said goodbye to Li Yuan, and hurriedly left the county office.

However, the file in Li Jiancheng's hand was a case that had already been finalized but had not been concluded for a long time, and Li Yuan saw that many places in the file were vague and vague, and he thought that it must be that he couldn't handle it when the county order tried the case, so he had to do it hastily.

I saw that the file was recorded like this, saying that there was a leather merchant in the west of the city, who made a living by trafficking in leather goods from the Western Regions, and one day a business partner came to Xicheng to ask him for arrears.

The county government sent people to investigate, found that the leather dealer was poisoned and died, then suspected that it was assassinated, and found a guy who had worked under the leather dealer before after several searches, and then arrested this person to the county government and a big punishment to serve, the guy did not admit to killing at first, but he couldn't stand the torture and changed his mouth to admit that he had assassinated the leather dealer, and then the person was sent to prison to wait for the autumn queen to be beheaded.

Li Yuan took the file and said to Li Jiancheng: "Go and visit that guy in prison, then go to the leather merchant to investigate, and finally tell your father the analysis you have summarized, go." ”

Li Jiancheng immediately left the county office in a hurry and walked towards his destination.

After sending his two sons away, Li Yuan sat in his seat and carefully picked up the file and read it.

Li Shimin came to Zhu Wanpin's house, and found that the Zhu family was ready to bury Zhu Wanpin's body today, Li Shimin saw this and hurriedly stopped everyone in the Zhu family, at this time, the Zhu family saw that someone stopped the burial, and they all gathered around and looked at Li Shimin angrily, only to see a young man wearing linen and filial piety walked in front of Li Shimin, and said with tears in his eyes: "This strong man, I don't know why I stopped my father from being buried?"

Li Shimin was about to speak, when someone in the crowd suddenly shouted: "Chen Qi don't care about him, it must be someone from the little slut's family of the Wang family, her family saw that the Wang family's assassination of your father was exposed, so they couldn't get angry and found someone to come here to make trouble, let's take him away, so that your father can be buried in peace." ”

Seeing this, Li Shimin pulled out the sword on his waist and shouted loudly to the crowd: "Stop, I am the second son of Li Shimin, the palace supervisor of Jinyang and the second son of Li Yuan Li who stayed in Taiyuan, at this time Lord Li came to Xihe County, because the case is full of suspicions, Lord Li decided to retry the case tomorrow, and today I came to investigate." ”

Hearing that it was the son of Lord Li who opened a warehouse in the city today to release grain, everyone gradually fell silent, Li Shimin couldn't help but applaud when he saw this, and was about to speak, but who knew that the voice in the crowd sounded again: "Don't listen to him, big guy, who knows if what he said is true or false?"

Li Shimin's heart suddenly became angry when he heard this, originally Li Yuan was attacked and he failed to help in time, resulting in Hua Ling'er being injured, because of this Li Shimin felt guilty in his heart, who knew that he came to investigate and collect evidence today but was obstructed one after another, thinking of this, Li Shimin struggled to push away the crowd, grabbed a lewd-looking person in the crowd, threw it to the ground, and immediately smashed this person to the eye.

Just as he was about to shout loudly, a few officials walked in outside the door, and this person hurriedly shouted to the officials: "Several officials, this person obstructed the burial of the Zhu family, and now he is beating the villain, and several officials are in charge of the villain." I thought that the official would take down the person in front of him, but who knew that one of the leaders saluted respectfully to Li Shimin and said, "Second son, what is going on?" Do you need the villain's help?"

Li Shimin saw that a servant was coming, pointed to the underground person and said: "I came to investigate and collect evidence for Tang Gong today, who knows that this person has repeatedly spoken out in the crowd to obstruct, I suspect that this person has a great relationship with this case, it just so happens that you are here, take this person back and put him in prison first." ”

When the officials heard this, they dragged the person from the ground and dragged him to the county government like a dead dog.

I saw that the young man just now saluted Li Shimin and said: "Grass people Zhu Chenqi visited the second son, and he was offended by the right talent, and I hope the second son will not be surprised." ”

"It's okay, if it's convenient, can we go to the house and talk about it, I have some questions I want to ask, I don't know if it's convenient?" Li Shimin waved his hand, signaling Zhu Chen that he didn't have to mind.

"Second son, please. Zhu Chenqi made a gesture of invitation to Li Shimin, and then led Li Shimin to the house.

After the two of them sat down in the house, Li Shimin said, "I wonder if your father has offended anyone in recent times?"

"No, my father has always been kind and never quarreled with others, as the neighbors can testify. Zhu Chenqi thought for a moment and slowly shook his head.

"Then tell me about your father's concubine Wang, they all said that she killed your father, what do you think?" ruled out the vendetta, Li Shimin suddenly thought that he should know about the Wang family.

"Actually, I never said that it was the Wang family who killed my father, she only entered the door for more than a month, and she usually respected my father like a guest, in addition to taking care of the family's daily life, she often helped my father take care of his business, no matter how she looked like she was going to kill her father. Hearing that Li Shimin mentioned the Wang family, Zhu Chenqi hurriedly said his opinion.

Li Shimin looked at Zhu Chenqi suspiciously, and said: "But the case file of the official government says that your Zhu family said that the Wang family killed your father, and the file is recorded in detail, is the file fake?"

Zhu Chenqi picked up the teapot at hand, poured a glass of water for Li Shimin and said, "The second son misunderstood, it was Zhu Dabiao who told the people in the government that it was the Wang family who killed my father. ”

"Zhu Dabiao, where is this person now? Can you summon him, I have something to ask. Hearing Zhu Chenqi mention a name that was not on the file, Li Shimin felt that this must be a suspicious point.

Zhu Chenqi smiled bitterly and said, "Didn't the second prince send someone to arrest him? That person is Zhu Dabiao." ”

"Okay, then go on, is there anything unusual on the day your father was killed?" Li Shimin nodded, thinking that after a while, the master would go back to the prison to interrogate you well, and see that I didn't take out all your bezoar dog treasures, and then thought about it, this kind of thing that can vent his anger is better to shout Chu Xiaozi together.

Zhu Chenqi's brows were furrowed, as if he was trying to recall the situation of the day, Li Shimin didn't urge him when he saw this, just sat aside and drank tea and waited quietly, after a while, Zhu Chenqi clapped his palms and exclaimed: "Second son, I remember, there is indeed something wrong." ”

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he had a premonition in his heart that it seemed that Zhu Chen's next words would be able to solve all the doubts in this case, and he couldn't help but ask eagerly: "Tell me quickly, listen to it, don't be in a hurry, just say it slowly." ”

"That day..."With Zhu Chenqi's narration, the situation before the crime was gradually restored, it turned out that after Zhu Wanpin returned home that day, Wang stewed two fresh yellow eels for him, Zhu Wanpin was overjoyed when he saw this, and ordered Zhu Chenqi to go to the street to drink.

When Zhu Chenqi came to Fumanlou to drink, he met his distant cousin Zhu Dabiao, Zhu Dabiao saw Zhu Chenqi coming to Fumanlou to drink, so he stepped forward to talk, because Zhu Dabiao is idle on weekdays, so most of the people in the family do not interact with him, Zhu Chenqi saw that Zhu Dabiao always quoted things to eat and drink, so he found an excuse to leave.

Seeing this, Zhu Dabiao asked Zhu Chen to wait in place, and he went into Fumanlou to buy two good braised dog legs and stuffed them for him, saying that he was filial to Zhu Wanpin. Zhu Chenqi knew that his father liked to eat Fumanlou's braised dog legs the most, so he immediately thanked Zhu Dabiao and returned home.

During the banquet, after Zhu Wanpin ate all the yellow eels made by Wang, he felt a little stuffy because he drank some wine, and walked to the study while eating the braised dog legs.

The next morning, Wang came to Zhu Chen's room to ask him if he had seen Zhu Wanpin, and the two immediately went to the study to look for it, but found that Zhu Wanpin had fallen in front of the desk and had been dead for a long time.

After listening to Zhu Chenqi's narration, Li Shimin kept the whole incident in mind, got up and said to Zhu Chenqi: "Please don't blame you for your troubles today, I still need you to go to the county hall early tomorrow morning, I think that Lord Li will definitely try it impartially and give your father justice." ”

When Zhu Chenqi heard this, he hurriedly got up and bowed to Li Shimin and said, "The grass people are willing to rely on Master Li to be the master." ”

After Li Shimin helped him up, he hurriedly said goodbye and walked in the direction of the county office.

Besides, Li Jiancheng on the other side came to the fur merchant's shop, only to see that the place was full of dust and weeds in the yard, and when he walked to the door of the house where the body of the fur merchant was found, Li Jiancheng kicked the door open, and suddenly a smell of corruption mixed with a foul smell came out. Li Jiancheng waited at the door for a long time with his nose blocked, and only stepped into the room when the smell was gone.

I saw that the furniture in the room was still the same as before, the tables, chairs and beds were all dusty, there was still an account book on the table, there was a candle that had long been burned out next to it, and there was an empty bowl on one side of the candlestick, and the liquid in the bowl had long since dried up, as if it had been filled with something before.

Li Jiancheng picked up the bowl and put it on his nose and smelled it, a smell of rotten broth came to his face, and the unpleasant smell made Li Jiancheng almost nauseous, so he hurriedly put down the bowl and walked out of the house.

When he was about to leave the house, he suddenly felt something flashing on the wall, Li Jiancheng immediately pulled out the saber on his body, took out a fire fold with a sword in one hand and the other, and shone it back and forth in the house, and found that there were several geckos lying on the wall, Li Jiancheng couldn't help laughing, it seemed that he was a little nervous because of yesterday's events.

Then Li Jiancheng walked out of the door and walked towards the county office.

The two of them answered the county government one after the other, and met at the gate, at this time they were a little uncertain about the case in their hearts, and they had to consult Chu Mofeng after thinking about it, and the two of them came to the outside of the house where Hua Ling'er was recuperating from his injuries, and they were about to go up and knock on the door, only to see Chu Mofeng walking out with a doctor.

Seeing that the two of them looked like they were talking at the door, Chu Mofeng nodded at the two, and after sending the doctor away, he said, "I don't know what the two of you are talking about?"

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin told the matter of the file and their own discoveries today, Chu Mofeng thought for a moment and said: "Let's talk about Brother Jiancheng first, the leather merchant put the soup bowl on the side of the candlestick, there must be a gecko directly above the candle when burning, the gecko will discharge urine when heated, this thing is highly poisonous, and the leather dealer will definitely not pay attention to the soup bowl when browsing the ledger, so he will die of poison after drinking." ”

"As for the case of Zhu Chen's family, yellow eel and dog meat can't be eaten together, and the effect is the same as taking poison after eating, so I suggest that you try that Zhu Dabiao tonight, I suspect that this person is deliberately harming people, and go to the prison to ask the Wang family if they have a holiday with Zhu Dabiao. Chu Mofeng finished analyzing the case in a few words, and then added a sentence: "But then again, the craftsmanship of this Xicheng County Ya is terrible enough, these gadgets can be measured by my Zi Yao, and the one who asks about the case is also a fool, this Yamen, I really have nothing to say." ”

Hearing this, the two of them couldn't help but roll their eyes at Chu Mofeng, thinking to themselves that everyone thinks that everyone has all kinds of demons like your mansion, but after thinking about it, the county government of this county is like this, so what will happen to the rest of the counties, thinking that these two people hurriedly came to Li Yuan's residence and reported the news of today's investigation and Chu Mofeng's analysis.

It was night in the big prison of Xihe County, Xicheng County, from time to time there was the sound of whipping and screaming, and the sound lasted until the second half of the night, and in the cell on the other side, the fur merchant's men and Zhu Wanpin's concubine stood by the fence and watched curiously.

At this time, a jailer came over and whispered to the two: "You two are lucky, Tang Gong came to Xicheng County to ask about the case, so many files were selected for the two of you, it is said that the two sons of Tang Gong came to the scene today to re-investigate, maybe tomorrow you two will be acquitted." ”

At the beginning of the second day, the county government hall opened the door in a burst of mighty sounds, and the people of Xicheng County heard that Lord Li, who had opened a warehouse yesterday to release grain, was going to try the case of the Zhu family and the leather merchant today, and they rushed to tell each other and came to the county government together.

I saw Li Yuan sitting in danger and patting the shocked wood in his hand, and shouted: "Come on, wait for the criminals Wang and Chen Xiaoer to come to the court." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw four officials escorting the two of them in, and then Li Yuan slapped the hall and shouted: "Take Zhu Chenqi, the son of the victim Zhu Wanpin, to the court." I saw Zhu Chenqi slowly walk forward and kneel down and said, "Grass people, Zhu Chenqi has seen Master Li." ”

"Zhu Chenqi, the official asked you, do you know the Wang family kneeling in the hall?"

"Back to the adult's words, the grass people know that this person is the concubine married by the father. ”

"This official went through the file yesterday, and it was written in the file that the Zhu family sued the official that the Wang family had assassinated your father, but is there such a thing?"

"Back to the adult's words, the person who sued the official is a distant relative of the grass people, named Zhu Dabiao, if the adult does not believe it, he can be summoned to come for questioning. ”

"Led people to commit Zhu Dabiao. With Li Yuan's order, a man wearing prison uniforms and shackles, covered in blood, was dragged in by two servants, Zhu Chenqi couldn't help but gasp when he saw this person's appearance, and he faintly guessed something in his heart.

I saw Li Yuan pat the stunned wood again and said: "Zhu Dabiao, you don't have to go through the ordinary scene again, just say what you said last night in front of everyone." ”

I saw Zhu Dabiao trembling all over and repeating the things he confessed last night, it turned out that Zhu Dabiao was usually idle, often going to the homes of relatives to play the autumn breeze, and everyone was rejected for a long time, last month I heard that Zhu Wanpin accepted a room of concubines, Zhu Dabiao wanted to use this as an excuse to come to the door, who knew that Zhu Wanpin was not at home at that time, he saw that Wang was handsome and teased, and was beaten out of the door by Wang with a grudge.

This person didn't know where he learned that eating dog meat and yellow eel together can cause death, so he followed Wang every day, until that day Wang bought yellow eel in the market, Zhu Dabiao until Zhu Wanpin liked to drink a few cups, and then followed Zhu Chenqi to Fumanlou, pretending to buy dog meat for filial piety, which led to Zhu Wanpin's tragic death.

Afterwards, he took the lead in reporting to the official that the Wang family had assassinated Zhu Wanpin, and everyone knew about the rest of the matter.

After hearing this, Zhu Chenqi got up and pounced on Zhu Dabiao, and kept hitting him with his fists, and was soon pulled away by the officials, only to hear Li Yuan say: "The criminal Zhu Dabiao, the evidence of the harm to Zhu Wanpin is conclusive, and he will be beheaded as soon as noon arrives, and he will be pulled down." ”

Seeing that a strange case was tried so quickly, the crowd couldn't help but hear the words 'Lord Li judges the case like a god' and 'Lord Li is wise'.

Seeing this, Li Yuan walked down and came to Chen Xiaoer, and after helping him up, he said, "Chen Xiaoer, this official has found you not guilty, and you will be acquitted on the spot, you can go." ”

At this time, Chen Xiaoer was stunned when he heard the news, Li Yuan smiled when he saw this and said: "The matter has been clarified, your old boss was not killed by you, let you suffer for so long, the entire Xicheng County Ya owes you an explanation, and this official will compensate you here." After speaking, he saluted Chen Xiaoer, and then said: "Come on, take the money to Chen Xiaoer, and give him a little compensation." ”

The onlookers saw Li Yuan saluting Chen Xiaoer, not only looked at each other, but then saw Chen Xiaoer compensated, everyone was even more surprised, and for a while the county hall was full of people, Li Yuan saw this and stretched out his hand to stop the noise of everyone, and said......

There is a way that the people's hearts are invincible, and watching Li Yuan send troops to Jiahubao and fight Huoyi Song Laosheng, I want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next decomposition......