43 And he sat in the court
I didn't expect that there would be a visit from the imperial court, and there would be a court trial in the town's yamen overnight, which can be regarded as a rare event in Chilong Town in a hundred years. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 In the middle of the night, the people who were holding the lights were surprised, and they hurriedly exchanged their heads and began to discuss.
One of them whispered: "When I went to the county seat to do business in the past, I heard people say that according to the grade rules of the current imperial court, where is there any qualification to build a public court in a small town like our Chilong Town...... Don't look at the mayor of the town on weekdays, but in fact, he is just a county man from the eighth grade, and it is not because he said that he wants to establish any prestige and establish a letter, so that everyone paid to build a yamen, but in fact, it is just a decoration. If there is any dispute between the people on weekdays, isn't it all settled in private? If there is a life lawsuit, they have to report it to the county government and go to the county magistrate to try the case. ”
Another person said, "He Fatty, you have a mouthful of multiple farts." Don't look at this little girl's age, she is a minister of the imperial court, and of course she is qualified to use this yamen court. What? You actually asked me what the minister is? It's ridiculous! The minister is armed with the sword of Shang Fang, and has the supreme power to cut first and then play. As for whether our yamen in Chilong Town can try the case, of course, it is up to the ministers of the people to have the final say, which round will you talk more? ”
An old woman next to her heard the two arguing, and hurriedly opened her mouth to mediate, saying: "What are you arguing about? The old woman has lived for such a long time, and she has never seen how the case is tried in this yamen. ”
The man before didn't think so, "snorted", and said indignantly: "I see that this girl is not a little thin, not tall, at most seventeen or eighteen years old, or what kind of Qincha adult? This is like the little son of the mayor of the town who has just learned to speak, Huang Laohan, who sold flowers last time, somehow offended this little ancestor, and I saw Huang Laohan kowtow to the three-year-old child of the mayor on the street to confess his guilt, and he was called 'little master'...... Hmph, it is true that the sons of dragons and phoenixes and rats will make holes, the children and grandchildren of officials are all big officials, and the children and grandchildren of the poor are all poor, what kind of world is this!"
As soon as these words came out, someone next to him immediately whispered: "He Fatty, don't put your grandfather's stinky fart there, do you know what the origin of this minister is? Don't look at it as just a young girl, but she is the daughter of Xie Fengxuan, the number one general of the imperial court today, how can we be compared with the pig-headed son of the mayor of the pig-headed town? Who is General Xie? That is the great benefactor of our Han people. If it weren't for General Xie leading his troops to drive out Hu Lu, and then sweeping across Mobei and uprooting the remnants of the previous dynasty, how would we have a peaceful birthday now? According to your Wang Lao Biao and my opinion, let alone appointing General Xie's daughter a minister, even if the people of the whole world want to support his descendants from generation to generation, it is a matter of course!"
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but let out an "oh", and hurriedly praised the great achievements of the general Xie Fengxuan, and didn't dare to speak indiscriminately. In the midst of the discussion, a group of ordinary people had rushed to the outside of the yamen of Chilong Town, but they saw that dozens of torches were burning in the yamen with the open gate, reflecting the public hall in a brilliant light. The more than 10 fast catchers headed by Jin Zhutou are standing on both sides of the public hall at the moment, all of them with their heads held high, and their appearance is very powerful, only the five-short figure of Jin Zhutou, who is the first leader, is extremely incongruous in the ranks of tall catchers; Mayor Wu is sitting behind a small table next to the public desk, and he is constantly sweating with his wet sleeves. Someone among the people outside the door whispered to others that the small table where Mayor Wu was sitting now was originally the place where the master was sitting when the court opened to try the case, because he had to leave the main seat to the minister, so Mayor Wu had to sit next to him.
Looking at the plaque of "Mirror Hanging" hanging high, Xie Yixiang is sitting behind the public case at the moment. From the time she stepped into the yamen to the present, it has been nearly a meal, but she just looked at everyone inside and outside the hall with an expressionless face, and did not speak, making Mayor Wu and Jin Zhutou and his party unpredictable, and they didn't know what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.
In fact, this is not Xie Yixiang's pretentious gesture, but even she herself does not know how to "open a court trial" in the future. Recalling that when she was entangled with the six black-robed people on the rooftop, if she hadn't suddenly had a flash of inspiration and loudly disclosed her identity, attracting the people of the town, I was afraid that she would have already fallen into the hands of those black-robed people, how could she still have the majesty of this moment? As for the later conversation with Mayor Wu, she threatened to "ascend to the court overnight and personally try the case" in this Chilong Town, which was a whim for a while, and the purpose was just to deter Mayor Wu and Jin Zhutou and the gang, but she did not think about how to arrange it after the past.
It turned out that although Xie Yixiang was a person in the criminal arrest room, it was not that she had never seen the process of arraignment of prisoners in court, but her identity has always been a bystander, and when did she personally preside over the trial? So sitting in the middle of this public hall at this moment, she was still a little at a loss, but she didn't dare to show it on her face, so she had to pretend to be profound, and she didn't speak, and she consumed herself with everyone present.
At that moment, after a small half meal, seeing that Mayor Wu behind the small table next to him was already a little suspicious, and began to quietly look at herself, Xie Yixiang was anxious, knowing that if she didn't come up with some means, she was afraid that she would be seen through by this Mayor Wu, knowing that she was just a paper tiger.
But listening to the loud "pop" sound was simply earth-shattering, and it shook the hearts of everyone present, and even the roof of the public hall seemed to be shaken down by this loud noise. Accompanied by the loud sound of the startling wood, Xie Yixiang learned the tone in the play, deliberately lengthened his voice, and shouted in a deep voice: "Rise...... ......"
Just as the people in the town privately discussed, according to the imperial court decree, where does this Chilong Town have the qualifications to open a court to try cases? At present, this Chilong Town Yamen was just built on a whim by the mayor of the town, and it is nothing but a non-existent thing, and it has never been used. And the people standing on both sides of the lobby at this moment are not full-time yacha, but a dry catcher led by Jin Catcher, and naturally they don't understand the rules and etiquette.
So when Xie Yixiang shouted the word "ascending to the hall" loudly, the catchers immediately stood on the spot. Although they vaguely knew what they seemed to be shouting next, they were not sure, and they were nervous, so they had to look at each other. Fortunately, the golden catcher seemed to have seen some of the world, and hurriedly learned Xie Yixiang's tone and shouted: "Wei ...... Wu ......"
The crowd listened to the head catcher take the lead, and hurriedly shouted in his voice, and in an instant it was really a hundred birds contending and a hundred flowers blooming, which made the entire yamen so unhappy.
It turned out that in order to cooperate with Xie Yixiang's emphasis, the golden catcher deliberately dragged out his voice for a long time, and the shouts of the quick catcher were in different sequences, and some of them didn't hear clearly for a while, so they let go of their voices and shouted: "Black ...... Tiger ......!" The victor shouted indiscriminately while secretly thinking to himself: "Why did the official master go to the court to ask about the case, why did he let us shout the word 'waving'? Could it be that we want to tell the prisoner in the hall that if we don't give a truthful explanation, we will wave a leather whip and reward him with a full beating?"