Chapter Fifty-Eight: Winning Credit
At this time, in the public court, there was a young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, all in armor, and his right hand was held on the hilt of the sword, as if he did not agree with each other, he was about to draw his sword.
Is this going to court?
When the county magistrate came out of the back hall, he was sweating profusely, and he didn't have time to go up to the main seat, so he first went around to the front hall and whispered to the young man: "General Xiaowu, if there is anything we have to chat in the inner hall, don't make it public here, let others listen to it." ”
General Xiaowu didn't squint, and bowed to the county order, "Please also ask the adults to ascend to the court to try the case!"
"Alas!"
The county magistrate wiped his sweat, walked back to the main seat tremblingly, picked up the shocking wood and hesitated, and finally slapped it, "Who is the hall!"
This beat, instead of stopping the discussion, the gossip became even louder.
"Does this county order really dare to be judged?"
"Garrison General Wu Zhenxi, is a six-rank official, right? ”
"Not to mention the garrison general, it is this Xiaowu general, a general of eight grades and hundreds of households, although it is one level lower than the county order, but the county order does not dare to offend easily, this is all a fierce and lawless lord. ”
"The eighth-rank junior general sued the sixth-rank general, can this seventh-grade county order be tried? What does this little general think, I am afraid that the county order must be let out. ”
Bang Bang Bang!
The county commander slapped a few more shocks, and the discussion gradually became quieter, and General Xiaowu bowed, "Captain Wu Sidong, the eighth grade, has seen the county commander." ”
"Captain Wu Sidong, what is the matter with your drumming this time?"
"General Ben beat the drum this time to complain about his grievances, just to sue Wu Zhenxi, the garrison general of Longwei County, and kill his wife after drinking!"
Wu Sidong said that he 'killed his wife after drinking', gritting his teeth, as if what he was suing was not his father, but an enemy with a deep hatred.
"Killing his wife after drinking? I heard that a few days ago, General Wu's mansion was preparing for a funeral, and Mrs. Wu died of an incurable disease......
"Yes, that's what I heard about it, and General Xiaowu was out to suppress bandits at that time and didn't come back. ”
"So, did General Xiao Wu sue his father as soon as he returned to Longwei County?"
"It should be impossible to kill his wife after drinking, but General Wu is a good drinker, but I heard that he once beat his wife after drinking. ”
"So, maybe it was a drunken mistake?"
Bang Bang Bang!
"Silence!"
"Wu Sidong, you said that this garrison general Wu Zhenxi killed his wife after drinking, is there any evidence?"
The county order sweats on his forehead, this case has been promoted to trial, if it is not handled properly, not to mention the black veil on the top, even the head of the person on the neck is difficult to protect.
This trial of generals has always been the most headache in the locality, and it is not impossible to say that this also involves a garrison general with a higher rank than him, if the other party is unhappy, it is to surround the yamen, and it is not impossible.
But Wu Sidong, a small martial general, is also a captain of a hundred households, and he does not dare to offend with real power in his hands.
The other party did not relent, and could only deal with it first, but in private, he had already sent someone to the general's mansion, and he only hoped that Wu Zhenxi could send someone to persuade this little Wu general to go back.
"Wu Zhenxi, Wu Sidong?"
This father-son name sounds like something inappropriate, born with incompatible characters?
"I heard that there is an elder brother in the west of Wu Zhenxi, named Wu Zhendong. ”
After last night, the Taoist priest seemed to be a lot closer to Yan Sang, and when he heard it, he explained, "But when I suppressed bandits many years ago, I died in order to save Wu Zhenxi. ”
In order to miss his eldest brother, Wu Zhenxi named his son Sidong. ”
It turns out that this is the case, I said, Lao Tzu Zhenxi, but you are biased to think of the east, this is not what you are doing.
"Wu Zhenxi has drunk and beaten my mother many times, and the entire general's mansion has seen this, which is ironclad evidence!"
Even the gossip crowd who were watching in front of the hall had heard that the number of times Wu Zhenxi beat his wife after drinking should not be less, which is in line with what Wu Sidong said.
But just beating does not mean that he killed his wife, at least, it is not an empirical evidence.
"It's not evidence, and you didn't bring it with you. The prefectural order frowned.
"I'm a witness. Wu Sidong shouted.
"Is there any other evidence?"
Seeing Wu Sidong's fierce expression, the county magistrate did not intend to continue to dwell on this topic.
"When my mother died of illness, Wu Zhenxi didn't dare to inform me that there was a ghost in his heart, and when I returned to Longwei County, my mother had already been buried in the ground, but I couldn't meet my mother. ”
"This is also evidence!"
Well, that's a suspicion, not evidence.
Yan Sang sighed, this Wu Sidong marched to fight without knowing how, but this brain was really ......
It's hard to put into words.
"That's not evidence!"
"Let me ask you, when your mother was killed by the garrison general, did anyone witness it and die on the spot?"
The county magistrate breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, if there was no evidence, the case would have been handled better.
"Your Excellency can summon the people of the General's Mansion to come to the court, presumably someone will see it!" Wu Sidong said hurriedly, "Then my mother was beaten to death, and there must be scars on her body." ”
"Please also ask the adults to investigate and open the coffin for autopsy!"
Open the coffin for autopsy!
The county magistrate was so frightened that he almost fell off the main seat on the spot, not to mention that this was unfounded or just a guess, even if there was evidence, he didn't dare to open the coffin for an autopsy, and this matter could only be done by the county magistrate.
Otherwise, if this garrison general is forced to rebel and slice him and feed him to the dogs, I am afraid that the county commander will not be able to reach him.
"This is unfounded, it can disturb the peace of the ancestors? General Xiaowu, this is your mother, do you think she will not be at peace after her death?"
The county order can only be persuaded bitterly, but Wu Sidong is extremely resolute, "If you can't be wronged, but your mother died in humiliation, where can you get peace?"
"But this is just your words, what's more, it's all just your guess, General Xiaowu!"
"If you have any questions, why don't you ask General Wu Zhenxi in person?"
"If I ask, I'm afraid that I will be poisoned at this time, and no one will expose the true face of the thief. ”
Wu Sidong shook his head, took out a letter from his arms, and said loudly: "I received a letter about the grievances between my uncle and Wu Zhenxi, and this letter is the real reason why Wu Zhenxi killed his wife after drinking. ”
"More than ten years ago, Wu Zhenxi was awarded the title of Seven Products and Thousand Households for his meritorious service in suppressing bandits, but my uncle died for saving him, which is a big story I heard since I was a child, and my name is also called Sidong because of the memory of my uncle. ”
But the letter told me that it was not my father who named me, but my mother, because she was my uncle's wife, and after my uncle passed away, she lost her body drunk, which led to Wu Zhenxi. ”
"And this thousand-household official position should have been awarded to my uncle, but because of the Wuzhen Xijian Gong uprising, he attacked the uncle, and even lied that the uncle died to save him and occupied the military merits that should have belonged to him, so he became the general of the thousand households. ”