When the sky was bright, Bai Sheng and the three were escorted back to the Yuncheng County Ya by Zhu Tong's soldiers and horses, and Zhu Tong did not make it difficult for them to be a man and two women along the way, and let the three of them sit quietly in the public court after arriving at the county Ya, saying that they would wait for the county order to ascend to the court ruling, but they were not allowed to move around at will, and sent 20 soldiers to assist the guards to prevent escape.

Seeing that the sun was rising higher and higher outside the court, Bai Sheng was like sitting on pins and needles, his heart was like soup, and he cursed secretly in his heart, did this county order Shengtang also pay special attention to working from 9 to 5? I don't know what crime he would condemn himself, whether it would be a death sentence? Or would he be exiled for thousands of miles with an assassination to fill the army? He did not have any research on the laws of the Song Dynasty, but he was sure that the matter between him and Yan Poxi could not be washed away even if he jumped into the Yellow River.

"Don't be afraid, I'll defend you later, it won't be a big deal. Li Qingzhao gently held Bai Sheng's hand, stared into Bai Sheng's eyes and whispered. During the previous escape, she had already learned the outline of the matter from Bai Sheng and Yan Poxi.

Yan Poxi held Bai Sheng's other hand and said: "What my sister said is that even if we are really convicted of **, at most we will be punished with a cane in court, or a year and ......a half in prison" At this time, Yan Poxi already knew the true relationship between Bai Sheng and Li Qingzhao, so she followed Bai Sheng to call Li Qingzhao her sister.

"One and a half years in prison?" Bai Sheng was a little surprised and didn't believe his ears, just beat him and then sentenced him to one and a half years in prison? It won't be so light, right? In ancient times, when dealing with men and women, didn't the adulterer be put to death, and the adulteress was immersed in the pig cage?

Li Qingzhao is well-read and talented, of course, it is impossible not to understand the law, so he immediately explained the laws of this dynasty to Bai Sheng, which made Bai Shengmao suddenly.

It turns out that ancient China has always listed ** behavior as a crime, but the degree of punishment is different, in the era before the Tang and Song dynasties, the law sanctioned ** very severely, basically a capital crime, even more serious than a capital crime, but from the Tang Dynasty, the government's punishment for ** crimes began to be reduced, and the Song Dynasty was the lightest, paying attention to "not suing, not prosecuting officials" If the husband sues, the offender will be punished with a buttocks cane or a spine cane, and the cane will be released in court, or if he does not beat the cane, he will be sentenced to one and a half years in prison.

Li Qingzhao also said that in the laws of the current dynasty, the restraint on officials should be more severe, and the emphasis was on doubling the culpability, that is, if an official commits such a crime, the beating will be doubled and the punishment will be doubled.

After hearing this, Bai Sheng put down his heart and thought to himself: No wonder there is an endless stream of such broken things in "Water Margin", it turns out that the law is too light to be afraid of.

Seeing Bai Sheng's relaxed expression, Yan Po was sad and worried, and said, "Don't be happy first, now I'm only worried that you beat Song Jiang too hard, and this crime is fatal." ”

"Where are the people? Where are the people?" A rough voice sounded from outside the public hall, sounding a little familiar, Bai Sheng turned his head to look, only to see a rough man striding in from the outside, but it was a winged tiger thundering, his heart was terrified, and he hurriedly stood up.

At the same time that Bai Sheng saw Lei Heng, Lei Heng also saw Bai Sheng and the three of them sitting in the hall, and couldn't help but say angrily: "This fight made my third brother so miserable, how can you allow this guy to stay here all the time? Why didn't you teach him a lesson?"

Seeing the thunder in a rage, the soldiers in the hall did not dare to make a sound. Lei Heng had already come behind Bai Sheng and scolded: "You thief and bird dare to beat my third brother, see if I don't shoot your today!"

"Brother, stop! I can't fight!" Zhu Tong's voice sounded outside the hall, but Lei Heng didn't let go, only turned his head to look behind him, and asked: "This person is just a Diao Min in Anle Village, why can't he fight?"

Zhu Tong walked in quickly, grabbed Lei Heng's arm, forced Lei Heng to loosen Bai Sheng's collar, and pulled the latter to a corner of the court, and said in a low voice: "Do you know that this Bai Sheng has a brother named Shi Qian?"

Lei Heng was puzzled and asked: "I know, isn't it the flea on the drum who is known as the number one thief in the world?" A few days ago, I suspected that he stole the third brother's things, and went to Anle Village to arrest him, but let him run away.

Zhu Tong shook his head again and again and said, "Confused, brother, have you forgotten who our county name is, and where is your ancestral hometown?"

"Shi Wenbin, what's wrong......? Could it be ......" Lei Heng's voice also quieted.

"Hehe, you understand, where do the villages in Yuncheng County have surnames? Our ancestral home in Zhixian is Gaotang Prefecture, and Qian was not a local at that time, what if he is a relative? If you and I cripple him and kill him, wouldn't we be slapping Zhixian in the face?"

"Isn't it? You can tell that they are related just because they all have last names?"

"Of course not, this Bai Sheng once committed a case last year, and was arrested and imprisoned by me, and then moved to the county government to deal with it, and the top and bottom were very accommodating, and it was easy to get Bai Sheng out. At that time, I was thinking, if it wasn't for the approval of the magistrate, how could he have done it so smoothly?"

"Why didn't I know that? You didn't tell me. And why didn't you talk to me at that time?"

"Alas, such trivial things happen every day, let me tell you what to do? Besides, at that time, you led your troops to the Li family crossing to ambush for a few days, and you were not in the county office, have you forgotten?"

"Oh, it turned out to be something that happened during that time period...... Lei Heng realized, "You mean that he beat our third brother and slept with the third brother's woman, and we are going to slap him up?"

"That's not it, don't we brothers need to slap anyone? I mean, we should always save face for the magistrate, we just have to report the case, as for how to deal with it, it's up to the magistrate himself. ”

The two of them whispered in the corner of the court, their voices were high and low, but Bai Sheng listened to a lot of words in his ears, and said in his heart the real reason why he was spared, and immediately made up his mind, and when the magistrate was promoted, he would definitely mention the time change, maybe it really worked, thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, and when he looked at the second daughter of Yan Li again, he felt that the second daughter didn't seem to hear the conversation between Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, and they seemed to be only nervously watching the actions of everyone in the hall.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a voice in the back hall shouting hoarsely: "Lord Zhixian has arrived!"

Then a clear voice dragged his voice and said, "Rise...... Church"

The atmosphere in the entire public hall suddenly became solemn, and the officials on both sides stood in front of each other with the water and fire sticks in their hands, and then shouted in unison: "Might...... Take"

Seeing this, Bai Sheng turned to look at the back of the hall, Li Qingzhao and Yan Poxi also turned around, only Yan Poxi bent her knees, knelt down, pulled Bai Sheng with one hand, and said hurriedly: "Kneel down quickly!"

An official in his forties turned out from behind the screen, walked to the back of the table and sat down, glanced down majestically, suddenly his eyes widened, picked up the startled wood on the table, patted it, and shouted: "Who is in the hall, why is he so bold, and dare not kneel when he sees this official?"

Bai Sheng knew very well the truth that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, and when he was about to kneel, he heard Li Qingzhao say loudly: "Just because you are a small official with sesame seeds and mung beans, can you stand my knees?"