[February 15, 71st year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, unitary time, prison of the criminal department]

After Qiu Mingli listened to Yao Zibei's detailed complaint, he was also embarrassed and sighed in his heart. He was about to soothe him with gentle words, when he suddenly heard another commotion outside the prison, and when he looked back, he saw Xiao Yihong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who had already brought more than a dozen servants, and broke in violently.

"Lord Qiu, when will you be in charge of the judgment of my criminal department, when will you also be in charge of the judgment of my criminal department? He stood in front of Qiu Mingli like a god, with an inviolable expression on his face.

"Lord Xiao, there are still multiple doubts in this case, just now the official and Lord Qiu interrogated the criminal in detail, then Yao Zibei's murder is really wronged......" Song Jinhua on the side saw his own cousin coming, hurriedly stood up, bowed and replied.

"Shut up! This case is personally tried by this official, and the evidence is ironclad! Then Yao Zibei is the murderer! You, a small criminal department magistrate, dare to stop the execution at the court for no reason, and now you are still saying that people have committed wrongs! This official asks you...... Who gave you such courage? You disrupted the court, brought back death row prisoners without permission, you reopened old cases, and you had ill intentions, you ...... What kind of crime should you be guilty of!" Xiao Yihong pointed at Song Jinhua's nose and scolded angrily.

Qiu Mingli really couldn't stand it, so he said: "Lord Xiao, this matter has nothing to do with Song Tuiguan, stopping the execution in the court and retrying Yao Zibei's case are all the orders of the old man! If you want to go to the fold, even if you go to the old man!"

Xiao Yihong pointed at Song Jinhua and said angrily: "Your account, this official will settle it with you in a while!" After that, he didn't pay attention to Qiu Mingli, just snorted coldly, and waved his hand to order his subordinates: "Come on! Take away the death row prisoner Yao Zibei!"

Several officials stepped forward and dragged Yao Zibei away. Seeing this, Qiu Mingli hurriedly stopped him at the prison door, and said angrily: "How can this weak woman kill two men in a row! This case has not yet been concluded, why are you in a hurry to take her away?"

Xiao Yihong couldn't help but sneer: "The trial hasn't been concluded yet? Joke! Lord Qiu, this woman killed someone, but she confessed to the murder herself, signed and detained, and the human and material evidence is there! Now that the official has sentenced her to be executed, she should be brought to the court for a canonical punishment today! Lord Qiu...... I advise you to get out of the way, don't let your men hurt you......"

After saying that, Xiao Yihong glanced at the officials, and two officials stepped forward, "supported" Qiu Mingli, and slowly pushed him to the side.

Qiu Mingli is already sixty years old, so naturally he can't help the two sturdy servants to push and shove. He saw that the rest of the officials had already escorted Yao Zibei out of the prison gate, and knew that once she was out of the prison of the Criminal Department, she would definitely go and never return. At that moment, he was anxious and angry in his heart, his face had already swelled into purple red, and he pointed at the criminal department secretary and scolded:

"Xiao Yihong, you have made a move and disregarded people's lives! You still dare to hold the old man hostage! Let go with me! The old man will fight with you!"

Song Jinhua next to him was willing to help at this time, but seeing that the other party was a lot of people after all, and Xiao Yihong was the highest official in the headquarters. He hesitated for a moment, but still didn't dare to step forward......

Xiao Yihong saw that the officials had already taken Yao Zibei out of the prison door and dragged him out far away, so he waved his hand, ordered his subordinates to loosen the Qiu Ming ceremony, and said with a smile to himself:

"Lord Qiu, I know that you are a clean official, but after all, this is the Criminal Department! Everything has to be in order! When you sit in the position of the prime minister one day, it is not too late to take care of the case of my Criminal Department! You

Don't say it so ugly, this official didn't hold you hostage! Your unauthorized interrogation of a prisoner in my criminal department today is already a violation of the rules, and I won't care about you, but you can't ...... you obstruct my execution of a death row inmate."

"You, you......" Qiu Mingli pointed at Xiao Yihong's nose, already so angry that he couldn't speak. He had the heart to step forward and fight hard with Xiao Yihong, but he knew that with his old bones, how could he stop the other party's strength?

After all, this is the criminal department of the great cadres. Tyumen couldn't help but regret it a little. He came in such a hurry today that he did not bring any of his men. Now in someone else's territory, even if he is a dignified three-grade Shangshu, what can he do?

Seeing Xiao Yihong turn around and walk out of the prison door, he led his men to escort Yao Zibei and was about to leave. only made Qiu Mingli so anxious that his heart was like a fire. He hated to give birth to three heads and six arms, and knocked over those servants who worked for the tiger to the ground one by one. He knew that this Xiao Yihong had always been black-hearted, and this person was so anxious to take Yao Zibei out of prison, he must take her directly to the court for execution. Perhaps, if you don't reach the court, you will behead people halfway. By then, Yao Zibei's head had already fallen to the ground, and they couldn't explain it.

If Yao Zibei is dragged out and beheaded, Qiu Mingli will not be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life, and how can he explain to his students that he is not sick?

Disease-free ...... It would be nice if there was no disease here.

Justice and justice, in the face of arbitrariness and force, sometimes become so small......

At this time, I suddenly heard an angry shout from afar:

"Stop! What do you want to do in such a hurry to take away the prisoners?"

Outside the prison, a team of officials suddenly entered, led by a red-robed official, fifty years old, who saw his eyebrows like swords, eyes like lightning, wide forehead and high cheeks, long and pointed chin, and a beard under his chin like a hedgehog, and his roots were erect. With this majestic face, if there is a person with a weak heart and a cold heart, he can't help but bow his head when he sees it. This person is none other than Cheng Kezhong, the new servant of the Criminal Department.

In the Great Cadre Punishment Department, everyone knows the prestige of Cheng Kezhong. Just because he was an official in the Criminal Department when he was young, he has been a director and an official since he was in charge of the seventh grade, and he has always been a member of the Criminal Department. In the office of Wailang, he has been working for ten years. He is iron-faced, selfless, upright, and upright, both in the government and the opposition, and he is called "Cheng Buxing" behind his back, which is almost as famous as Qiu Mingli's "not afraid of death". In the past, when Wang Qingquan, the servant of the Criminal Department, was there, he didn't even pay attention to Xiao Yihong, and he was afraid that he would come to the door to theorize. After Wang Qingquan was demoted, the position of the squire of the Criminal Department finally fell to Cheng Kezhong.

"The little one is seeing Lord Cheng!" "A cadre of officials who escorted Yao Zibei, when they saw Cheng Kezhong coming towards him, they didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly bowed to Lord Shilang together.

"Lord Cheng, what are you doing?" asked Xiao Yihong in the back. When he saw Cheng Kezhong's formation, he secretly felt bad in his heart. I said in my heart, why am I so unlucky today! I have just dealt with a "not afraid of death," but there is another "nemesis"! These two thorns have come together, who can stop them? If I knew this, Zhao Yong's silver Lao Tzu would rather not want it!

However, although he was like this in his heart at the moment, if he really went back to three days ago, he would still be tempted to accept the silver.

How can a greedy person restrain his greed......? These 8,000 taels of silver will cost him all his net worth and life!

Cheng Kezhong said coldly: "I want to ask Master Xiao, what are you doing here?"

Xiao Yihong also snorted coldly: "Joke! What does this official do, do you still need to reply to you one by one?"

Cheng Kezhong said with a smile: "Let me say it for Lord Xiao, you are in a hurry to take away the criminal Yao Zibei, just to kill her as soon as possible, so as to cover up your ugly things of accepting bribes privately, bending into tricks, and reversing black and white!"

When Xiao Yihong heard this, he immediately pointed his finger at Cheng Kezhong, and said like thunder: "You! You don't want to spew blood! This Yao Zibei killed people, and the evidence is conclusive! This official took away the criminal, but he executed him according to the law! You said that I took bribes privately, who did I bribe from? Then Zhao Xiaogang is already dead, and this official can still accept bribes from that dead person! Cheng Kezhong, you slander and alarmist people indiscriminately, and this official wants to surrender to the emperor!"

Cheng Kezhong's face did not change, he met Xiao Yihong's fingers, and said in a deep voice: "Lord Xiao, is Zhao Xiaogang really dead? Even if he dies in prison, the cause of death should be verified and recorded." This official has searched all the files in the past two days, and there is no record of Zhao Xiaogang's death or autopsy! Lord Xiao, you hurriedly returned his body to the Zhao family...... Isn't it, you have a ghost in your heart, right?"

Xiao Yihong rushed forward, his fingers were about to touch the tip of Cheng Kezhong's nose, and he said angrily: "Cheng Kezhong, you insult the officials and slander the minister......s! You say that this official has been beaten into a trick and reversed black and white, what evidence do you have? If you go and ask the two principals who accompanied the judge on that day, has the official ever made the slightest trick?

At this time, Qiu Mingli had already walked behind Xiao Yihong, and said calmly: "Lord Xiao, since you have a clear conscience, why don't you postpone Yao Zibei's case for the time being, and wait for Lord Cheng to re-try and execute him after he has been re-tried, why do you need to carry out the execution in such a hurry? Besides, it is already past noon today, and it is not in line with my rules to drag the prisoner out for questioning and beheading at this time!"

Seeing that the two sides were already evenly matched, Cheng Kezhong happened to say what was on his mind. Xiao Yihong also had no intention of fighting at this time, and with a flick of his long sleeves at the moment, he left Cheng Kezhong, Gu Zi walked out with his head held high, leaving behind a sentence of "loud and sound": "If you want to be tried, you will be tried, this official should sit up straight, are you still afraid that you will not succeed!"

When Xiao Yihong's servants saw that Master Shangshu had withdrawn, they had no choice but to abandon Yao Zibei and follow Lord Xiao with a disgraced face......

Although Xiao Yihong was resentful in his heart, he couldn't help but sneer. He said in his heart, I have Yao Zibei's signed confession in my hands, and you can't find Zhao Xiaogang's "corpse", I, Xiao Yihong, want to see what kind of reputation you can judge! Even if you stab the Son of Heaven, what can you do with me!

Along the way, Xiao Yihong thought carefully and suddenly realized that there was an important thing in front of him that had to be done. That is, this "corpse" of Zhao Xiaogang cannot be shown no matter what. Not only can he not show up, but he must arrange a "stand-in" to be buried as soon as possible.

As long as the other party can't find Zhao Xiaogang's "body", this case will be dead without proof at most. In other words, as long as "Zhao Xiaogang's death" can be established, he Xiao Yihong will always be invincible!

After all, Yao Zibei stabbed Zhao Xiaogang in the right eye, which was something she admitted to herself and was absolutely true, so Zhao Xiaogang died of his injuries, and Yao Zibei, who killed him, of course, had to ask for his life.

To kill two people is death, and to kill one is death. As long as Yao Zibei is dead, he Xiao Yihong will win!

It seems that tonight, he still has to go to Zhao's mansion in person......