In the back hall of the prefect of Yingtianfu, at this time, the prefect Chen Shi was sitting opposite to Du Buzhi and talking.

I only heard Chen Shi say:

"Brother Du, I didn't expect it to be you!"

It turned out that Chen Shi and Du Bucheng were both in the same country as tribute students, and the relationship between the two was quite good at that time, and Du Bucheng suddenly remembered it when he saw Chen.

Du did not forget to laugh and replied:

"Yes, after many years, I didn't expect that Brother Chen would have been appointed to the prefect of Yingtianfu, which really makes my brother admire!"

Chen Shi immediately replied:

"Brother Du, don't be joking, you have been a supreme minister before, how many of us scholars dream of!"

Du did not forget to smile bitterly and said:

"Don't mention the past, don't mention it!"

Then he changed the subject and said:

"I guess you know what I just wrote to you!"

Chen Shi then said:

"Of course you know, you want to intercede for Yu Dayou, right?"

Du Cheng said:

"That's exactly what it's for!"

Chen Shi stroked his beard, hesitated, and said:

"But this matter is indeed Yu Dayou and his attendant Yu Sheng did not comply with the law, and offended the transfer envoy Xu Xu, Xu Yu asked the official to explain to it, although the official is higher than him, but the official can't know the law and break the law, shield the prisoner, and fall into his mouth!"

Du didn't forget to ask:

"Brother Chen should also see what is written in the paperwork, Yu Dayou is a good friend of mine, I also know him, he is upright and righteous, and he will definitely not know the law and break the law!"

陈时bian says:

"Then let's go to the prison and see him now!"

Du did not forget to say:

"Okay, then thank you Brother Chen. ”

After a while, the two came to the prison, where Yu Dayou and Yu Sheng were locked in a simple cell with all kinds of peculiar smells.

Chen Shi covered his nose when he asked about the smell, and asked the jailer on the side:

"How do you keep suspects in such a place, don't you know that they haven't been interrogated?"

The jailer immediately replied:

"Didn't they offend the envoys, and sooner or later they would go to prison, so we locked them up here in advance!"

Chen Shi said angrily at this time:

"How bold are you, why don't you hurry up and change the two suspects to a good cell?"

After the jailer brought the two out, Chen Shi said to the jailer:

"This official is going to interrogate them first!"

At this time, Yu Dayou seemed to find out that Li Zhifu was behind his friend Du Buzhi, so he said to Du Bufu:

"Brother Du, why are you here?"

Seeing this, Chen Shi said to Du Yi behind him:

"Brother Du, ask him yourself, I'll go out first!"

After Du Buyi hugged Yu Dayou, he asked:

"Brother Yu, how did you offend that transfer envoy Xu Yu?"

Yu Sheng came over at this time, and without waiting for Yu Dayou to speak, he hurriedly said:

"We were just fishing on the river, but I didn't expect that when a few officers and soldiers saw us, they asked us for silver, saying that fishing on this river was illegal, so we naturally didn't want to, we were just fishing, how could there be fishing, these officers and soldiers insisted that we were fishing, and they also lost a fishing net on our boat!"

Du did not forget to say after listening:

"Isn't this a deliberate attempt to make money?"

Yu Shengyou became more and more angry the more he said:

"Yes, so we didn't pay attention to these officers and soldiers, and after a while, they didn't know where to call a group of official ships, and the dog officer came, and you also saw what happened later!"

Yu Dayou turned around and smacked Yu Sheng at this time, and said:

"It's not a troublemaker, you're still embarrassed to speak, can't you bear it before?"

Yu Sheng immediately said:

"Even if we endured it at the time, he would take the opportunity to blackmail us, what is there to bear, I just hate that I didn't scold that dog official at that time!"

Du Bu did not forget to see that Yu Dayou seemed to be scolding Yu Sheng again, so he persuaded Yu Dayou:

"Brother Yu, don't be angry, in fact, Yu Sheng is not wrong, the fault lies in the extortion and extortion of those officers and soldiers!"

Then he turned around and hesitated, and said:

"In that case, I have a way to save you!"

So after Du Bu said goodbye to Yu Dayou, he came out to discuss with Chen Shi, and Chen Shi asked:

"Is that okay?"

Du did not forget to pat Chen Shi on the shoulder and said:

"Okay, just trust me, brother, I will definitely guarantee your safety, Brother Chen. ”

On the second day, Du Buyi and Chen Shi, White Lotus, and the three of them all dressed up as woodcutters, took a hat, deliberately smeared some green mud on their faces, rowed a small boat, and each took a fishing rod, and came to the place where Yu Dayou and Yu Sheng were caught before and fished.

Not long after, sure enough, a few officers and soldiers rowed over again, and only one officer and soldier shouted to the three men:

"Don't you know that fishing in this river is illegal?"

While this person was talking, a small boat appeared behind him, and he secretly threw a net on the boat of Du Chengcheng and a few people, and a few people naturally saw it.

At this time, the White Lotus walked forward and said to several officers and soldiers:

"A few officials, we are just fishing here, how can we fish?"

Several officers and soldiers pointed to the fishing nets that had just been thrown into the boat of Du Bucheng and several people and said:

"You can see for yourself, the nets are all on the boat, and you dare to say that you are not fishing?"

The White Lotus then argued:

"We just didn't fish, you guys are obviously framed!"

The officer and soldier still pointed to the fishing net and said:

"The evidence is here, how can it be framed!"

Then his face changed, and he seemed to lower his voice with a laugh:

"As long as you hand over ten taels of silver, we can be accommodating and let you go!"

Then he asked loudly:

"Got it?"

The White Lotus then said:

"I didn't understand what you said, anyway, we don't have any silver, you have the ability to arrest us and go to the yamen!"

The officer and soldier said:

"Well, you dare to openly oppose the government!"

Then he said to another officer and soldier on the side:

"Hurry up and inform the envoy to come!"

After a while, a group of official ships surrounded him.

At this time, Xu Yu, the transport envoy, walked to the bow of the boat and said to the three of them:

"Don't you three know the rules here?"

The White Lotus said:

"We're new here, and we don't know the rules here!"

Xu Yu said to the officers and soldiers who spoke just now:

"Remind them again!"

The officer and soldier walked forward and said to the white lotus:

"Since you have alarmed our envoy, you will have to triple the silver taels to be accommodating, understand?"

The White Lotus immediately replied:

"We don't want silver, we have a life!"

When Xu Yu heard this, he pointed directly at the three of them and said:

"You Diao people, report your name to this official!"

The White Lotus pointed at Du and said:

"His name is Du Shilang, and he was born as a fisherman for generations!"

He pointed at Chen Shi again and said:

"His name is Chen Xin, and he is Du Shilang's neighbor!"

Xu Yu asked:

"And who are you?"

The White Lotus then said:

"I'm Du Shilang's sister, Du Xiaolang!"

Xu Yu smiled and said:

"Okay, you Du Xiaolang actually dare to be arrested with his accomplices!"

Then he said to his subordinates on the side:

"Take down all three of them for me and take them to the prefect's yamen!"

The officers and soldiers quickly surrounded a few people, Chen Shi couldn't help it, Du Bu didn't forget to immediately signal Chen Shi to be patient for the time being, and Chen Shi endured it.

Along the way, officers and soldiers kept coming to persuade a few people to pay the silver, so as not to suffer from prison, and a few people naturally ignored them.

After arriving outside the gate of the prefect's yamen, Xu Yu personally came over and whispered to a few people:

"This is the last time this official has given you a chance, will you give fifty taels of silver? Otherwise, you will wait for a few years to make trouble!"

White Lotus still replied:

"If you don't want money, you need to die!"

Xu Yu said:

"Okay, you found it yourself!"

Then he led a few people into the yamen, and then whispered to a servant:

"After the interrogation of these three people, they will be directly locked up in the worst cell of your yamen!"

The official nodded.

After a while, several people were pressed out of the court, but the prefect did not order someone to come out to reply.

Xu Yu couldn't help but wait a little anxiously, so he called Fu Cheng and asked:

"Where have you gone, I can wait to bring the prisoner to trial!"

Fu Cheng replied:

"The prefect hasn't been to the government today, so I don't know where I've gone!"

Xu Yu sighed at this time and said:

"What can I do then, these prisoners are serious crimes!"

Fu Cheng hesitated, and when he didn't know how to answer, a person suddenly broke away from the officers and soldiers who were pressing him, removed the hat, and said:

"Lord Honprefu is here!"

At this time, everyone was shocked, Fu Cheng immediately walked in front of the speaker just now, wiped the dirt on his face for him, and when he saw that it was indeed the prefect Chen Shi, he immediately pushed away the soldiers who were pressing Chen Shi on the side, and said:

"You are so bold that even the prefect dares to offend!"

Chen Shi then said to the officers and soldiers around him:

"Let my two friends go, and then take this envoy Xu Yu to the court for trial!"

At this time, when Xu Yu heard this, he immediately came over and knelt in front of Chen Shi, and said:

"Lord Chen, I really didn't know that it was your lord who was fishing, so I was offended, please forgive me!"

Chen Shi came back immediately:

"You don't need to say more, you framed the crime of this official, this official is like a mirror in his heart, he can't bear you for a long time, wait to be tried and imprisoned!"

At this time, after Xu Yu saw that begging for mercy was useless, he stood up, patted the dust on his body, and said to Chen Shi:

"Don't forget that this official is an official of the imperial court, a salt transfer envoy of Wupindu, and is directly under the jurisdiction of the governor, except for the yamen of the Nanjing Criminal Department, you have no right to interrogate me!"

Chen Shi immediately smiled and said:

"Although this official is only a third-grade official of Nanjing Yingtianfu, you may not know that this official also serves as the left servant of the Nanjing Criminal Department, what power can't be interrogated against you? Even if you are a member of the imperial court, this official has the right to try first and then play!"

Xu Yu was startled at this time and asked:

"Master Chen, when did you become the left waiter of the Nanjing Criminal Department?"

Chen Shi smiled and said:

"Don't you know that the yamen of the Liangjing prefect is an important position, and all of them are concurrently held by the imperial court? Before this official became the prefect, he was already the left servant of the Nanjing Criminal Department!"

Xu Yu knelt on the ground at this time and kowtowed and said:

"I don't know...... Xia Guan didn't know, Xia Guan was transferred here just last year by the Beijing Division!"

Chen Shi immediately turned pale and pointed at Xu Yu and said:

"Since you are a newly appointed envoy, you must be punished for a serious crime if you destroy the king's law like this!"

Then he said to Fu Cheng behind him:

"Hurry up and release that Yu Dayou and Yu Sheng, and prepare to ascend to the hall!"

After a while, after a few people arrived at the court, Chen Shi ordered Fu Cheng to write two pieces of paper full of two pieces of paper and put them in front of Xu Yu, shouting loudly:

"Xu Yu, are you guilty?"

Xu Yu kept kowtowing and said:

"The lower official is guilty, and the lower official is guilty!"

Chen Shi immediately slapped the board again and said:

"Now that you are guilty, sign and draw a charge!"

Chen Shi looked at the fact that he had written fifteen articles on his guilt, and he fainted in fright.

Chen Shi then motioned to the official to press Xu Yu's finger and draw the detention, and after announcing Yu Dayou and Yu Sheng's innocence, he withdrew from the court.