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The servant said: "Wang Wenhan copied it. As soon as the messenger sent it to the mansion, the little one hurriedly sent it after receiving it."

Master Tan and Wen Zhong looked at each other, and immediately prepared the carriage, and hurried to the county government office.

The yamen hadn't been promoted at this time, and the green beast's black-painted gate was tightly closed, and no movement could be heard inside.

Wang Wenhan had been waiting by the stone lions for a long time, and when he saw Master Tan and his party arriving at the gate of the yamen, he hurriedly greeted him from the side, saluted Master Tan, and said politely, "Wenhan has seen Master Tan."

Master Tan hurriedly supported him, and asked, "Wen Han, when did you hand over this certificate, and who handed it in?"

Wang Wenhan said: "A farmer surnamed Gu handed in the certificate yesterday. He cried and complained at the gate of the yamen, and the passers-by gathered around to watch the fun, and also helped to complain together. This alarmed the county magistrate and picked it up in person. This status."

"Wenhan, you should know that after you have been in Tan's house for so long, I dare not call myself a good businessman, but I never dare to make a fuss about medicinal materials. Now this fact is really strange."

Wang Wenhan nodded, but with a serious expression on his face, he said: "Master, don't be in a hurry, the magistrate will not make things difficult for you for a while, the magistrate just handed it in yesterday." He glanced inside twice, Everyone knows that the county magistrate of Suicheng is a lazy person, but whenever a case is tried, it takes ten and a half months to resolve the case.

He paused, looked at Master Yantan's face, and said tactfully: "It's just that it's not easy to escape now that it's contaminated with human life..."

Master Tan wiped his forehead with his sleeve, pulled Wang Wenhan's sleeve and said: "My Tan family lives on medicine and treats people with trust. Although there have been a few muddled accounts over the years, there is no one who is going to court like today. Not to mention killing people, this...how should I do it?"

Wang Wenhan looked at the sky, the sun was already high, and the yamen was still closed at this time, and in all likelihood, the county magistrate had overslept again, so there was no way to try a case this day.

"Master, don't be impatient. This matter still needs to be heard by the county magistrate. The plaintiff and the defendant are in the courtroom. They will confront each other in detail and clarify the whole story before a decision can be made. It's really not possible... Maybe it's not a big deal to borrow some power from the Liu family .”

Master Tan nodded, and said: "That being said, I'm afraid that being framed by others will damage your reputation, and there will be many disadvantages in doing business in the future."

Wang Wenhan said: "Master, don't worry, if there is any movement in the Yamen, I will come out and deliver a letter to you."

Master Tan patted Wang Wenhan's hand and said, "With you here, I can rest assured."

While the two were talking, a ragged beggar walked up the street corner, with a dirty face and disheveled hair, walked up to the big drum at the gate of the yamen, picked up the stick and was about to beat the drum.

Wang Wenhan hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, shouting: "Those who don't have long eyes, didn't you see that the yamen is not open today, it disturbed the master's sleepiness, watch out for your dog legs!"

The beggar took a step back in fright, and muttered: "Isn't your yamen handling cases for us ordinary people? Why do you have to care whether your master sleeps or not?"

Wang Wenhan was too lazy to talk to him, so he winked at the two yamen servants behind him.

Two people walked up to the beggar with sticks, and threw his tattered clothes into the street.

The beggar sat on the ground so ignorantly and began to curse: "Oh, you bastards, you eat the common people and drink the common people's, and in the end you don't do things for us, it's unreasonable..."

People in the yamen are used to putting on airs, how can a beggar be allowed to hurl insults?The two yamen servants raised their sticks to scare them twice, and the beggar obediently shut his mouth, and fled away from the crowd in desperation.

After the beggar walked away, Wang Wenhan walked up to Mr. Tan again and said: "There are people in the yamen who are full and make trouble every day. You know that the county magistrate is perfunctory for officials. It's not because he has no choice but to ignore these things. Nosy things, as our subordinates, we can only do these immoral things against our conscience."

Seeing his helplessness, Master Tan quickly comforted him and said: "The yamen has its own rules, and this is human nature. It's getting late, so I'll go back first. If you have free time, go back and visit your father often. "

Wang Wenhan saluted again, and sent Master Tan and his party into the carriage. After seeing them go far away, they entered the yamen through the back door.

On the same day, some small policemen from the yamen hurriedly squeezed into the Tan family's medicine shop.

A dignified and dignified middle-aged man walked to the front with his hands behind his back, calling for everyone to thoroughly check the medicinal materials in the shop.

The arresters hurriedly turned the medicine shop upside down, took out all kinds of medicinal materials and piled them up in front of the middle-aged man.

The man took out all the medicinal materials and watched and smelled them. After checking for a while, he didn't say anything, and a group of people left in a hurry.

After a group of people left in a mighty manner, an old man rushed to the backyard to report to Master Tan.

Master Tan said: "That's all, if you don't do anything wrong, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, let them investigate."

Unexpectedly, the magistrate slept too much the day before, and he lost his doze. On the second day, he got up early when he had nothing to do, dressed neatly and sat in the lobby, and sent someone to Tanfu to bring a message, calling Mr. Tan went to the court to confront him in person, and there was no mistake.

With a big stone in his heart, Master Tan anxiously took Wen Zhong and the others to the court.

After several people kowtowed, the magistrate, who was full of blessings, clenched his fists and coughed twice, and the two raised tails on the Wusha hat shook a few times.

"Crack", the gavel was re-shot on the official case.

The hall was silent.

All the yamen servants straightened their backs, holding their breath and staring straight ahead.

The magistrate sternly said: "Who is kneeling in the hall? Why did you come here to complain? Why don't you tell me in detail, there is a little fabrication, my uncle... Cough! The magistrate will definitely punish him severely and will not tolerate it!"

The trickster Gu Daha hurriedly kowtowed his head three times in a row, and stammered: "Return...Return to the county magistrate, the young... The young one is Gu Daha. The year before last, due to poor harvest, he abandoned the barren land and went to Suicheng to make a living. A few days ago, my wife got lung disease and coughed continuously. The little one asked the doctor to prescribe a prescription and went to their Tan house to get the medicine. Unexpectedly, my wife, who was a villain, vomited blood and died after drinking the medicine. The death was very miserable. "

The magistrate patted Tangmu again.

Gu Daha hurriedly shut his mouth, lying on the ground, not daring to raise his head.

"How do you know that it was the medicine from the Tan family that harmed your wife, not the prescription?"

Gu Daha glared at Master Tan, and blurted out: "To tell you the truth, I poured that medicine to a wild dog on the side of the road, and the wild dog died on the spot."

The spectators outside the yamen gather together to mutter and point at Master Tan and his party.

The magistrate narrowed his dark eyes and nodded.

Master Tan hurriedly saluted and said: "Caomin's medicine shop never adulterates medicines, let alone make fun of people's lives. There must be something wrong with that medicine prescription."

"My lord, this is a prescription. This is the medicine of the Tan family. To be honest, I dare not say a word." Gu Daha took out a crumpled prescription from his tattered padded jacket. , and the other two packs of herbal medicine, the dark yellow oil paper wrapped with fine hemp rope, are indeed from the Tan family medicine shop.

The magistrate first ordered someone to show the medicine package to Master Tan, and asked, "Did these medicines come from your pharmacy?"

Master Tan squeezed his sweat, lowered his head and carefully identified it.

The old man kneeling behind him said in a low voice, "Master, this medicine was caught by this old slave. I still remember the prescription. It is indeed from our shop."

Master Tan hesitated a little, and said: "My lord, this medicine is indeed from my family."

The magistrate ordered someone to lift up the medicine package and the prescription, handed it to a gentle middle-aged man beside him, and said, "Mr. Bai, what do you think?"

Mr. Bai carefully looked at the prescription and medicinal materials, and hurriedly said: "We need to examine the body of the deceased before we can make a conclusion."

"It makes sense." The magistrate touched his bare chin, stared at the audience with a smile and opened his mouth, "Leave the hall!"

Everyone was dumbfounded, thinking they heard it wrong.

Two rows of yamen servants in the hall began to drive everyone out of the yamen.

This promotion is like a child's play, Gu Daha quit, rolled around in the street, played naughty, crying: "Oh, it's really unreasonable, an official doesn't make decisions for the people, and it's not fair to take the lives of ordinary people It's a matter, is there any law of heaven and king..."

Several yamen servants thought he was noisy, so they ran out with a red-painted stick and pushed him with the tip of the stick.

A yamen servant scolded: "Idiot, when will our lord not redress your grievances, but the autopsy is needed first to collect evidence, don't let your mother cry and howl here, get out, or I will break your dog legs!"

Gu Daha stopped crying, grabbed the man's stick and said: "Don't f*cking lie to me, an honest person, I won't be tried in court today, maybe you are not doing real things by collecting people's money in private."

The yamen servant opened his mouth when he heard this, and hit Gu Daha's ass with a stick, which only made him scream.