Detective in the Red Chamber

"As long as you are satisfied."

As Sun Shaozong said, he threw the gavel again, and continued, "Lu San, the case of your public murder is over, but it is only natural to pay back the debt. After you finish pouring the night incense every morning, you might as well go to the spice shop." The shop asks for wages, remember to be reasonable and disciplined, and don't use violence indiscriminately."

Upon hearing this, the smile on Bu Shiren's face froze immediately.

He is running a spice shop, if there is a door to collect debts all day long, how can he do this business? !

"Master, this is probably..."

"The master's sentence is fair, the sentence is fair!"

This time it was Lu Sanxi's turn to kowtow with a smile on his face, imitating Bu Shiren's words just now and saying, "No wonder everyone says you are the master Qingtian!"

"All right."

Sun Shaozong said indifferently, "Since both of you have no objection, then this case ends..."

"Master, master!"

How could Bu Shiren settle down like this?

He hurriedly said, "This is really impossible, I run a spice shop, how can I stand it..."

slap~

There was another gavel, which interrupted Bu Shiren's crying, and Sun Shaozong said in a deep voice, "You unreasonable person, when I asked you just now, you said you were very satisfied, but now you say 'no way', could it be that Deliberately entertaining the official?!"

As he spoke, he raised his voice and ordered, "Come on, get this troublemaker out of here!"

Immediately, four yamen guards flashed out from the left and right, and made a temporary 'stretcher' with water and fire sticks, and were about to carry Bu Shiren outside.

Bu Shiren panicked more and more, thinking of the predicament in the future, finally Fu Ling shouted sincerely, "Master, please give him the salary!"

As soon as he said this, he felt pain in his ribs, couldn't help but turned his head and spat at Lu San, and said in a vicious voice, "I'll take this money, and it's worth it for you to spend a lot of money!"

Lu San glared at him, and was about to retort, but Sun Shaozong said again, "You said just now that this case has nothing to do with asking for wages. Now that you are willing to give him the wages, it must be to forgive Lu San— —Forget it, this official will give him a lighter sentence and allow him to use [-]% of his salary as punishment for crimes."

Bu Shiren was dumbfounded again, how could he have any intention of forgiving Lu San?

Isn't this talking nonsense with your eyes open? !

He anxiously said, "Master, don't misunderstand, the villain did not forgive Lu San..."

"how?"

Sun Shaozong frowned, "Could it be that you don't plan to pay back the salary? Why do you repeat it so much!"

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong raised his voice again, "Lu San, if this is the case, then you should serve hard labor for the time being until you get the 'forgiveness' from your boss, and then you will pay the punishment for the crime."

"This this this..."

"The master's sentence is fair, the sentence is fair!"

Lu San parroted his tongue again, "No wonder everyone says you are Master Qingtian!"

He gritted several of Bu Shiren's hated teeth, but he could only cry and say with a sad face, "The villain is willing...willing to 'forgive' him, and give him his wages when he returns!"

Chapter 484 Clearing Up the Litigation 【Part [-]】

The red sun slanted westward.

Sun Shaozong checked the confession of a pair of aunts and nephews and returned them to Sun Chengye for safekeeping. After drinking two more mouthfuls of refreshing strong tea, he raised his voice and said, "Next!"

"Uncle Thirteen."

Sun Chengye hurriedly reminded in a low voice, "The eleven cases you selected before have all been closed now."

"It's all over?"

Sun Shaozong was taken aback for a moment, and then heaved a long sigh of relief. After the whole day of trial, although he did not encounter any embarrassing cases, the disputes that continued to be cut and messed up were enough to make people feel dizzy.

Rubbing the aching brows, he got up and flicked his sleeves, Sun Chengye immediately shouted "Back..."

Unexpectedly, before the word "Tang" was uttered, I heard the sound of the grievance drum outside the door.

These eleven cases have all been concluded, so why are there still people beating drums outside the door?

Could it be that another major case happened by chance?

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong hurriedly sat down behind the case again, and ordered the servants to bring the drummer to the hall.

Not long after, two yamen servants brought in a man with strange expressions, but it turned out to be a boy of eleven or twelve years old.

The young man was brought to the court, and facing dozens of eyes, he was not at all stage frightened. He knelt down in a respectful manner, holding a piece of paper in both hands, and said in a crisp voice, "To Lord Qingtian, Xiaomin Li Xian has a grievance to sue!"

Sun Shaozong winked, and someone immediately stepped forward to take the pleading paper and submitted it to the public case.

Sun Shaozong picked up the pleading paper and scanned it thoroughly, but saw that the boy not only wanted to seek justice, but also sued Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County, for a pleading!

What happened roughly went like this. This young Li Xian and his father Li Sheng were originally from Dengzhou, Henan. Two years ago, Li Xian's mother died of illness, so he followed his father Li Sheng to the capital to make a living.

A few days ago, the rice shop opened by Li Sheng was temporarily in short supply, so he planned to temporarily borrow a hundred taels of silver from his friend Chen Xu to tide over the current difficulties.

Originally, the two had agreed to meet at Li's rice shop in the evening.

Unexpectedly, at night, Li Sheng waited in the shop, but he didn't see Chen Xu coming to the door with money. In a hurry, he led his assistants to find the Chen family.

Unexpectedly, only Chen Xu's wife Chang Shi was at home, and there was no sign of Chen Xu—and according to what Chen Xu's wife Chang Shi said, Chen Xu had already gone out with the money.

In this way, Li Sheng and Mrs. Chang searched together for three days, but in the end, there was no one alive or dead. They had no choice but to report to the government, hoping to use the power of the government to find Chen Xu.

Who would have imagined that Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County, did not know how to investigate the case, but it was determined that Li Sheng had an affair with the Chang family, and they jointly murdered Chen Xu, and severely punished Li Sheng and the Chang family in the hall.

Putting the pleading paper back on the table, Sun Shaozong raised his voice and said, "Li Xian, you said that your father and the Chang family were both tortured and recruited by Wanping County. What proof do you have?"

"Go back to the words of the adults."

That Li Xian was not stage frightened, straightened his back and cupped his hands and said, "If it wasn't because of torture, why has my father confessed to Chen's aunt for four days, but Wanping County has never found Uncle Chen's body?"

These words really hit the nail on the head, since Li Sheng and Chang have pleaded guilty, what reason is there to continue to conceal the whereabouts of the corpse?So there must be something wrong with it!

Moreover, Xu Huaizhi's case went wrong not once or twice.

So Sun Shaozong immediately ordered someone to take his name card and go to the Wanping county government to bring Li Sheng and Chang to the court for interrogation.

After the officer took the order, Sun Shaozong held the complaint in his hand with great interest again, and asked, "Li Xian, who wrote this complaint?"

"Talk back to the master."

Li Xian cupped his hands and said, "It was written by Xiaomin himself."

"But listening to someone else's dictation?"

"No, the above are all the thoughts of the little people."

tsk~

Although there are some problems in the format of this complaint, the content is clear and well-organized. If the boy did not lie, he can really be called a "child prodigy".

Moreover, Sun Shaozong always felt that the word "Li Xian" seemed to have been heard somewhere.

It will take some time for Li Sheng and Chang's on the left and right to show up. Sun Shaozong simply sat in the hall to test the young Li Xianlai.

Although Li Xian didn't understand why, he also knew that his father's life and death were all in the hands of Sun Shaozong at this time, so he tried his best to deal with it, and talked freely without a trace of cowardice.

Later, even Sun Chengye became interested, and took over the Huatou to test the young man's knowledge of some classics and history subsets, who knows that the young man is even more familiar.

In the end, Sun Chengye couldn't help admiring in private, saying that when he was twelve or thirteen years old, he never had such courage and insight.

Regardless of the comparison of courage and courage, this young man's intelligence is really extraordinary.

After about half an hour like this, two prisoners came in one by one outside.

The horizontal one was Li Sheng who was lying on a stretcher. Seeing his disfigured appearance with blood on his clothes, he knew that he had suffered a lot in Wanping County.

The one standing upright was naturally the Chang family who walked in, and saw that this woman was quite romantic, although her face was full of fear, her actions were quite neat.

It seems that Xu Huaizhi is still a 'patriarchal' master.

"Father! Are you... are you okay?!"

Seeing his father's appearance, Li Xian hurried forward a few knees, reaching out his hand to touch Li Sheng's cheek, but he was afraid of hurting him, so he was choked up and speechless for a while, tears streaming down his face.

When Li Sheng saw his son kneeling in the courtroom, he couldn't help being startled. He straightened his neck desperately, and said in a trembling voice, "My son... why is my son here?"

Li Xian wiped away his tears, and said seriously, "My son heard that Mr. Sun was promoted to the court for questioning today, so he wrote a pleading and came to redress his grievances. Don't worry, Daddy, with Mr. Sun intervening in this case, he will definitely be able to..."

slap~

Hearing the sound of the gavel interrupted the separation between the father and son, Sun Shaozong said solemnly after the case, "Li Sheng, this is not a place for you father and son to chat. What happened on the day Chen Xu disappeared? And tell the truth."

As he said that, he ordered again, "Take Mrs. Chang down first, and we will try again later."

This approach is naturally to prevent the two from colluding in court.

Not mentioning how Mrs. Chang was taken outside the door, but said that when Li Sheng heard this, he remembered his grievances, and hurriedly said, "Master, master, the villain is really wronged, wronged!"

Seeing that he only wanted to cry for grievances, Sun Shaozong raised the gavel, and was about to yell at him, but Li Xian quickly stopped his father, and whispered, "Father, you don't need to cry for grievances. You just need to tell the story of that day. Your lord will learn from you."

Only then did Li Sheng stop crying, and started from the beginning.

But he said that he had been waiting for Chen Xu to bring the money in the counting room behind the rice shop since you were at six o'clock in the evening, but there was still no sign of Chen Xu until nine o'clock in the evening at Haishi.

Thinking that someone would come to collect the debt tomorrow, Li Sheng couldn't help himself, so he called Zhou Feng, the waiter in the rice shop, and hurried all the way to the Chen family.

"At that time, the villain was afraid that brother Chen didn't want to lend me money, so he deliberately broke the appointment, so he played tricks and asked Zhou Feng to come forward and call the door."

"Who would have thought that after Chen's brothers and sisters opened the door, they actually said that brother Chen had brought money out early in the morning."

"We were in a panic, so we searched together along the way, but we never found Brother Chen. Later, we had no choice but to report to the Wanping County Government."

"Who knows, the county magistrate doesn't know how to check it. He insisted that I had an affair with the younger brother and sister of the Chen family. After murdering the younger brother Chen, he ran to the county yamen to call for the thief-and tortured the villain. The villain was tortured. .”

"In the past few days, the county lord has been pressing the villain about where he buried Brother Chen's body, but the villain... the villain has never thought badly about Brother Chen, so how would he know where his body was buried?"

Speaking of this, Li Sheng was so wronged that he broke down in tears.

Sun Shaozong kept his composure, thought over what he said in his heart, and ordered someone to bring Mrs. Chang to the hall, and asked, "Mr. Chang, Li Sheng said that he was beaten into a trick by Wanping County, but you have never suffered anything. Punishment, how come I have confessed to the crime."

"Back... back to the master's words."

Mrs. Chang timidly said, "The misery of brother Li being tortured, the little girl has seen it in her eyes, really... I really dare not try it, so I have to rush to admit it."

For a timid woman, this was all right.

Sun Shaozong nodded and asked again, "What did you do that night?"

"Back to the words of the master."

Chang continued to say timidly, "That night after my husband went out with the money, the little girl waited at home. It was not until she heard someone shouting outside the door that she went to the door to find out what happened, and then she realized that my husband had disappeared."

This Chang's description is too simple, and there is not much information for analysis at all.

Therefore, Sun Shaozong first asked Chen Xu when he left home, as well as what he was wearing, and then calmly said, "What did Li Sheng say when he called the door? You can go out and see what's strange about his expression."

Li Sheng opened his mouth to speak when he heard this, but Sun Shaozong suppressed it with sharp eyes.

Mrs. Chang frowned and thought about it for a while, then shook her head and said, "It wasn't Brother Li who called the door, it seemed that it was a guy in his shop who called the little girl outside to talk to him, as for the expression..."

"and many more!"

Before Mrs. Chang finished speaking, Sun Shaozong suddenly asked, "You said the shop assistant called you over to talk to him? How did he shout? You should learn it carefully!"

Mrs. Chang was a little puzzled, but she still suppressed her voice and called out in a man's tone, "Miss Chen, are you at home?"

Then he said, "That's what he called. The slave came to the courtyard to answer, and the guy asked again, 'I have an appointment with Mr. Chen, but why hasn't he come so late?'"

"The little girl said that the husband had already left the house, and it was the elder brother of the Li family who spoke to him outside."

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong looked at Li Sheng again, and Li Sheng hurriedly pecked the chicken on his head, and said, "It's exactly like this."

"Ha ha……"

Sun Shaozong sneered immediately, and murmured, "This thief is showing his clues!"

Chapter 485

However, Sun Shaozong sneered, and was about to point out the identity of the real murderer and his inadvertently exposed flaws, when he saw that the young Li Xian also had a look of enlightenment on his face, so he changed his words and said, "Li Xian, what did you think of?" ?”

Li Xian bowed his body and said seriously, "The boy also found out something strange when he saw the adults kept asking about Zhou Feng's affairs. My father and Uncle Chen are close friends of the family, so when we call the door, we should call Uncle Chen's name, but how can we directly call Mrs. Chen?"

"This is really unreasonable! Unless he knew a long time ago, Uncle Chen couldn't be at home at that time!"

"In other words, Uncle Chen's disappearance must be related to Zhou Feng!"