letter of commitment

Today is a sunny and cloudless day, but the Ling Mansion on the east side of the city breaks the silence for a moment because of the words brought back by someone.

"what!?"

Shen Qingshu almost exclaimed, Ling Luoqian patted his chest, quite frightened by the sound.

"This is the meaning of the Holy One."

Ling Luoqian spread his hands and said helplessly.

Shen Qingshu originally planned to return to the village after being awarded the seal, but Ling Luoqian told her when she came back from the morning court that she could not leave yet, and she wanted to stay in Fengdu to learn how to manage government affairs, govern states and counties, and some other things. Necessary social participation, and some other affairs, and Zhao Qiaomu later learned that she had a good relationship with Ling Luoqian, so he let her stay with Ling Luoqian and study with her until she returned to Yanyang to take up the post.

"Oh, don't worry about it. Your Majesty's move is to show you a special kindness. He intends to cultivate you. You are just an official rookie. If you take office in the future, there will be many headaches for you."

Shen Qingshu still frowned, while Ling Luoqian patiently waited for her reply.

Shen Qingshu pondered for a moment before opening his mouth: "Okay."

Ling Luoqian nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Confucianism can be taught, so do you know what your responsibilities will be in the future?"

Shen Qingshu shook his head, just like what Ling Luoqian said earlier, he was just a rookie in the officialdom, he really didn't think that much, and didn't understand much.

Ling Luoqian slightly raised the corner of his mouth, which was expected, and said slowly:

"The magistrate is in charge of the government orders of the whole government, and the commander-in-chief of each county. All government affairs such as announcing national government orders, governing the people, adjudicating lawsuits, inspecting traitors, assessing subordinate officials, and collecting taxes are his duties..."

Ling Luoqian explained in detail, and Shen Qingshu listened carefully, but the most effective learning is practice, so Ling Luoqian brought Shen Qingshu to the local government office in Fengdu, intending to discuss sutras for her.

It happened that when they arrived, the prefect was trying a civil case, Ling Luoqian gave the prefect a wink, and brought Shen Qingshu into the hall to listen.

The general course of the case is that a child was lying on the street when a carriage passed by. The parents of the child thought that the carriage hit their child and claimed compensation from him. The driver's theory failed and they had to go to court.

"My lord, you must uphold justice for my son. It was this man who hit my son with a car! My son can't just be hurt like this!"

The husband and wife who appealed almost shouted in unison, and showed the child's injury to everyone.

The magistrate slapped the gavel and sternly shouted at the coachman: "Is there such a thing!?"

"I am wronged, my lord, I am wronged by the villain!" The coachman hurriedly kowtowed and shouted.

"What's wrong with it?"

"My lord, I was driving today to deliver goods to a cloth shop in the west of the city, but when I turned a corner, I saw a child lying on the street. The little man thought it might be bad, so he strangled him." Immediately go down to check, who knows, the couple said that the villain bumped their child, and even claimed money from the villain, but the villain was originally kind, how could he suffer such grievances!"

"My lord, don't listen to his excuses, but we saw him driving a car and knocking my son to the ground. Can we, husband and wife, still take my son's safety as a joke!"

As she spoke, the woman wiped her tears and began to sob, and the man took advantage of the situation: "Your Excellency is still alive, so I must not believe this man's evasive words. There are no pedestrians on the street, but he is the only one with good intentions!"

The magistrate felt that this was reasonable, and then said to the coachman: "You can plead guilty!"

The yamen servants standing in two rows tapped the sticks in their hands in cooperation, and shouted "Mighty—" to deter the opponent.

The coachman was already trembling, his voice was trembling: "Big, big, small, really, really wronged!"

"You dare to quibble! Come here, give me five big boards, and see if I still recruit!"

The magistrate threw down a black-headed lottery, and the yamen servant was about to put him to death, but Shen Qingshu frowned: "Wait a minute!"

Ling Luoqian looked at Shen Qingshu with doubts: "What's your opinion, brother-in-law?"

Shen Qingshu didn't answer Ling Luoqian, got up from his seat and stood in the center, and bowed respectfully to the magistrate.

"My lord, I don't think it's right."

The magistrate didn't know that Shen Qingshu was the champion of this year's new subject, and only regarded her as a friend brought by Ling Luoqian. Although he was a little dissatisfied that his sentence was interrupted, he was afraid of Ling Luoqian, so he subconsciously looked at Ling Luoqian for a hint. Luo Qian shrugged his shoulders, saying that you don't look at me, I don't know either.

The magistrate quietly wiped off his sweat: "I don't know what your opinion is, young master?"

Shen Qingshu turned his back and stared at the appealing husband and wife for a long time, both of them panicked, then looked at the injury on the child's body, and had an answer in his heart.

The coachman seemed to have grasped at straws, and turned to kowtow to Shen Qingshu: "My lord, help me, my lord, help me, the villain is really wronged!"

Shen Qingshu comforted him a few words, then turned to the magistrate and said, "My lord, there are many doubts in this case, may I ask them something?"

"Sir, please."

Shen Qingshu knelt down, pointed at the coachman and said to the couple: "This is the man who hit your child, right?"

"Yes, it's him!"

The husband and wife spoke in unison without any hesitation.

After getting the answer, Shen Qingshu looked at Xiao'er and pointed at the driver, "He hit you, right?"

The child seemed a little scared, and he didn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he made an uh-uh sound. The woman said: "Young master, my son is dumb. You can't ask anything. Besides, we didn't lie, it was this person who bumped into me." Son, we saw it with our own eyes."

Shen Qingshu smiled, and said: "My lord, can you take the husband and wife down to avoid it for a while, I will ask some questions alone."

The magistrate agreed, and sent someone to take the husband and wife away, Shen Qingshu said to the driver: "I just saw that the child has many injuries on his body, do you think your Excellency is driving more than one horse?"

The coachman didn't know Shen Qingshu's intentions, but he answered politely:

"Yes, my lord, the villain's cart is for pulling goods. It is different from a carriage for carrying people. Because it often has to pull some heavy goods, the strength of two horses is not enough, let alone one. It has always been four horses. But, my lord, it really wasn't a villain who bumped into me."

Shen Qingshu turned his head and glanced at the magistrate, "My lord, please remember, four horses."

The magistrate nodded in a daze, not knowing what Shen Qingshu meant, but Ling Luoqian propped up his chin with great interest, watching the good show.

Then, the husband and wife were brought up again, and Shen Qingshu also asked the same question, but added: "I think you must have written down the number of horses, so many injuries, it takes two horses to do it." .”

The husband and wife didn't know how to answer, but after hearing Shen Qingshu's words, they hurriedly replied: "Yes, there are two horses! He just hit my son with a cart equipped with two horses!"

"confirmed?"

"Definitely, we saw it with our own eyes!"

Shen Qingshu shook his head and smiled at them, then became serious when he turned to face the magistrate.

"My lord, the case can be settled."

The magistrate's complexion was no longer good, and he directly shouted to the couple: "You are still fabricating the facts here! Why don't you hurry up and get the facts, so as not to suffer from flesh and blood!"

The husband and wife still insisted that the driver hit them, and the magistrate was slapped in a fit of anger, but who knew that the child actually spoke out because of fear!

"Woooo, my lord, please forgive me, my father and the others asked me to do this, woooo..."

"Okay! How dare you lie to me, the crime will be aggravated! Someone, hit me!"

The magistrate threw down a red-headed lottery, and the husband and wife both changed their faces. Forty big boards, the buttocks will not bloom?

"My lord, spare me! I'll do it, I'll do it."

The woman explained the reason of the matter in detail. It turned out that this was not the first time they had extorted money like this, letting the injured child lie on the street, waiting for the kind car owner to pass by, and kindly caring for the child. When I was looking for the parents, I came out and insisted that the other party hit me, and let the child play the role of the mute, and most of the time the words he said were plausible, and the things that could be solved by paying a little money, the officials who tried the case generally let Taking advantage of the big head and losing money hastily, who knows that today he met a nosy master.

Knowing all the reasons, the magistrate's entire face is already livid with anger, it's fine on weekdays, but now the boss is here, and he has made such a big scandal, what will he do to his face!Thinking about getting someone to detain him, Shen Qingshu interrupted him again.

"Wait a minute, my lord, I still have something to say."

"I don't think the injury on this child was caused by being trampled by a horse's hoof. Since ancient times, there are very few people who can survive under the hoof of a horse. What's more, this little child, I have just carefully looked at the injuries on this child. Most of them are Bruises caused by sticks, and according to the color depth of the bruises, there are both new and old injuries. As the saying goes, a tiger’s poison does not eat its children, but this couple is so good, they actually put their own children’s safety at risk. It is an unforgivable crime to ignore it, please be sure to learn from it!"

The faces of the husband and wife were already pale with fear, and after listening to Shen Qingshu's words, they kept begging for mercy, but in the end, they were each beaten forty times and taken to prison, and this child, Before the couple was released from prison, they were raised by people in the Yamen.

The case was solved, Ling Luoqian looked at Shen Qingshu with admiration, and the magistrate also smiled at Shen Qingshu, but was reprimanded by Ling Luoqian.

"If it weren't for the two of us here today, I'm afraid someone will be taken advantage of. You are so sloppy in judging the case, you should reflect on it!"

"Yes, what your lord said is true." The magistrate could only lower his eyebrows and flatter him, accepting these words.

"Since the trial of the case is over, I will take my leave, but I will come to the court frequently in the future. If I am so sloppy like today, I will definitely refer you to the Holy One, you know?"

"Yes, the lower officials know, don't be angry, my lord."

Later, Ling Luoqian took Shen Qingshu to patrol the public security, resolved several street conflicts before returning to Ling's residence.

Just as soon as he returned to Ling's mansion, he started a new project. When Guozi was led over by the servant, Shen Qingshu subconsciously wanted to escape.

"I heard from Qingling that you got along well with Guozi last time, and you couldn't be stopped if you weren't allowed to ride. It just so happens that the weather is really good today. You and I will go to the suburbs to see how it is."

On the surface, Ling Luoqian was asking for Shen Qingshu's opinion in his words, but in fact, he was already telling Shen Qingshu with his eyes narrowed with a smile that as long as she said no, he would directly carry her to the horse like last time.

Shen Qingshu couldn't help it, he touched Guozi's face timidly, Guozi exhaled a puff of hot air from his nose, rubbed her hand affectionately, and swung his tail back and forth.

Ling Luoqian laughed: "Look, Guozi likes you."

Seeing this, Shen Qingshu also forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and took the rein from the boy's hand: "Guozi, good girl, it's up to you."

Guozi is extremely spiritual, so she knelt down and waited for Shen Qingshu.

Shen Qingshu was overjoyed, and the fear in his heart dissipated, and then got on his horse.

"What a nice girl."