It was nearly noon, the lively Qian pawn shop was completely silent, and the people who stopped in front of the store to listen also shook their heads and dispersed, feeling a little bad in their hearts, and couldn't help but think to themselves: "The capital is evil and evil is rewarded, when will this evil Qian pawn be retributed?"

Although the movement in the shop was somewhat different from the previous ones, these onlookers still deduced from their previous experience that the five teenagers must have been beaten to the point of inhumanity, or had been beaten to death, and thought that it would not be long before there would be five small piles of scattered white bones on the mass grave.

"His grandmother, why hasn't he come in yet?" Hou Tao took the confession written by the manager of the store and stood up a little impatiently.

The manager of this shop is none other than Qian Wangcai's son, the young owner of the Qian family's pawn, and another fat man. This young fat man not only inherited his father's fat and treacherous, but also inherited his father's color, and even learned his father's method of picking flowers and violence to the fullest, and even better than blue.

"The catcher won't come in. Ouyang Gao was as expressionless as ever, as confident as ever.

"Why?" Hou Tao kicked the manager away, and couldn't help but say curiously.

"Because just now, when you were in the middle of the fight, there were already six teams of twenty-four fast catchers patrolling the streets, and two teams of four strong people, all of whom only stopped for a moment, symbolically drove away the pedestrians who were watching the excitement and left. ”

"Lamb, what you said about this fast catcher is a fast catcher, right?

"You haven't read. Ouyang Gao glanced at Hou Tao, "The government is divided into three classes: 'fast, strong, and soap', the fast class is what you call catching fast, and the strong class is collecting grain and taxes, and the soap class will tell you when the time comes." ”

Hou Tao still wanted to ask, but when he saw Ouyang Gao's face of "I won't say anything if I ask again", he also suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and only sent all his anger to the manager's body, stepped on the manager's chest with a heavy foot, and said viciously: "Have you bought off those servants?"

"Grandpa is angry, this is all bought by the owner!" The manager was in pain, grinning and gasping, pretending to have nothing to do with Qian Wangcai.

"Let's go, come with us to the official!"

As he spoke, Hou Tao lifted the manager up from the ground, and then said to the few people who were lying on the ground with their eyes closed and motionless: "His grandmother's, and a few of you, don't pretend, get up and follow us......!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the few people lying on the ground were lying there motionless, as if they couldn't hear Hou Tao's words at all.

"I really don't know what to do! Hide, and scrap all these guys' tricks!"

"Okay!" Feng Dong sneered, and walked towards Chao Feng with heavy steps, and only two steps away, when he was still three feet away from the Chao Feng, the latter directly got up from the ground with a spirit.

"Grandpa is angry, grandpa is angry......"

As soon as Chaofeng's words came out, those people also got up from the ground tremblingly, kowtowing like chickens pecking rice.

......

The sky is blue and the sun is shining.

The five teenagers swaggered with five big pigs' heads, and even passed through five or six bustling streets, and they also encountered seven or eight picks, but no one stepped forward to ask.

"Lamb, I don't know as much about the yamen as you do, but I know a lot about the yamen! This Guiling has the Yamen of the Political Envoy Division, the Yamen of the Procuratorial Envoy Division, and the Yamen of the Command Room, which is called the Yamen of the Three Divisions, and we can pick one ...... at will."

"I don't know how to pretend to understand. Ouyang Gao sighed, "The national law of Xiyue stipulates that no complaints can be filed by overstepping the level, and none of the three yamen you mentioned will accept it at all......"

"Oh, I haven't finished talking yet, I mean to go to the Yamen of Guiling Mansion!"

"You still know about the government office," Ouyang Gao said with some disdain, "However, the government office will not accept it, we can only go to the county government." ”

"County yamen, such a small yamen, can a seven-grade petty official try a shocking case like ours?"

"You killed the five of them and those people in the Qian Mansion to call it a shocking case. Ouyang Gao glanced at Hou Tao, "Here it is." ”

Ouyang Gao took everyone to stop in front of a big stone archway, the stone archway has four pillars and three rooms, one big and two small, the stone pillars are all three feet around the circle, there are elegant and chic cloud carving ornaments on them, the two stone pillars in the middle are one foot higher than the stone pillars on both sides, the top of each stone pillar has a small squatting lion, the main door Yang denomination inscription "blue sky and white sun" four words.

After the stone archway is a gatehouse built on the stone base of three layers of steps, the door floor is three rooms wide, it is not too big, there is a horizontal plaque hanging on the lintel, the plaque book "Qingping County Ya" four big characters. On both sides of the plaque, there are two red lanterns more than one and a half people high, and the four big characters of "Qingping County Ya" are also written on the lanterns.

The gatehouse is flanked by a figure eight wall with dense notices pasted on the wall. In front of the gatehouse, there are two stone lions squatting one person high, in the gatehouse, there are two officials standing in front of the gate, wearing a long knife at the waist, pressing the handle of the knife with their hands, their eyes closed, and their bodies falling to the east for a while and then crooked to the west, obviously dreaming of Zhou Gong.

In the porch on the right side is a big drum, called "Dengwen Drum", also called "Shouting Drum".

Glancing at the big drum, Hou Tao gave Chao Feng a look, and the latter immediately rushed forward and beat the big drum, and the big drum sounded, like a summer thunder.

Listening to the sound of the drums, Chao Feng couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth and raise his eyebrows, but the movement was a little big, which moved his purple skin, and immediately he gasped with his teeth.

The two dozing officials were even more miserable, and the two half-asleep and half-awake were unsuspected, and they were both frightened, and they were unsteady, and they stumbled two steps unconsciously, and this stumbling made them unlucky, one tripped over the threshold and fell into the door, and the other stepped on the air and fell down the steps.

"Oops......" the two officials screamed almost at the same time.

"Who is it?" The two officials have also learned some boxing and kicking since childhood, and their bodies are better than ordinary people, although they were not lightly fallen, but they recovered quickly. After a moment of effort, his confused head regained its clarity.

The first thing the two of them did after recovering was, of course, to find out the culprit.

Although these two officials are not officials or officials, they do not belong to the registered personnel of the Ministry of Officials, but they only enter the county government through the doorway. However, in recent years, they usually shout at people with the skin on their bodies and the knife on their waists, and they only have to endure it, they bully others to take advantage of others, and rarely when they are bullied, how can they stand this!

The two of them got up, and when they saw the courtroom still holding the drumstick and not putting it down, they immediately understood everything in their hearts, and they couldn't help but push the courtroom to the ground and rewarded them with a good beating.

Hou Tao looked at the scene in front of him, and the green tendons on his face couldn't help jumping: "Good guy, these two people are much more aggressive than me!"

"Who's drumming?" a sleepy official walked out slowly, yawned, and said lazily.

"That's this guy!" the two servants who started beating people kicked the courtiers on the ground in disgust. The pain was so painful that he roared and screamed incessantly.

"You beat the drum?" the visitor also kicked Chao Feng hard, a little resentful.

Chao Feng only cared about rolling on the ground, screaming, where could he say another word.

"I asked him to beat the drum!" Hou Tao began to feel a little sorry for that court, "We want to sue!"

The official who had just come out looked Hou Tao up and down, and saw that the latter was dignified and extraordinary, and seemed to be everyone's son, so he didn't dare to offend easily, and said kindly: "Today is not a 'notice day', not a big case, I advise you to leave early, otherwise you will have to suffer!"

Hou Tao glanced at Ouyang Gao, who seemed to know everything, with some confusion, and the latter naturally understood what Hou Tao meant, and sighed and said: "The announcement day is the day when the county magistrate accepts the people's lawsuits, and the third and ninth are the announcement days of the Qingping County Ya." ”

"Oh, don't worry, we're really a big case!"

"Then come in with me!" Seeing that Hou Tao didn't even know what the announcement day was, the official didn't feel a little more contemptuous of him, thinking that this guy must not be the son of a famous family, and the tone of his voice to the latter was a little more disdainful and arrogant.

Entering the gate, there is another gatehouse, which is similar in size and shape to the gate, except for one corner gate on each side, and the corner door on both sides is wide open, but the gate is closed.

Before Tao could speak, Ouyang Gao said: "This door is the instrument gate, it will not be opened under normal circumstances, the corner gate on the east side of the road we walk is called the 'human gate', and the corner gate you walk is called the 'ghost gate', which is generally for death row prisoner......s."

Hearing this, Hou Tao, who was about to step in, suddenly retracted his feet, and at this time he finally figured out why the official sneered when he saw him walking through this door......