The Seven Heroes and Five Righteousness of Crossing

The cell is located in the attached courtyard of the Second Hall, to the southwest of the lobby, so it is called the South Prison or South Prison.The front room is the Prison Temple, where Gaotao is enshrined, and the inner room in the backyard is the general prison and the women's prison. The death cell is in the middle, and there are many guards.

Pan Pan wants to get close to Lai Ziqi, but there are only two ways: one is to commit a felony and be detained next door to him;As the saying goes, there is no coincidence, so Tie Zhu asked her to ask for leave early in the morning. When she arrived at the county government, she offered to ask Ying to stand on duty for Tie Zhu for a few days.

The prisoners in the death cell are all the heinous criminals, with steel grids and iron locks, and strict protection.The airtight room is as wide as a pigeon cage, and the skylight is even narrower. After a while, not even a little sunlight can penetrate.It was dark and damp inside, and the strong musty smell could be smelled from far away.After finally making it to the time for the meal delivery, Pan Pan anxiously picked up the meal and went to the forbidden room.

Lai Ziqi in front of him had sunken eye sockets and looked haggard. He seemed to have been sleepless all night, his eyes were huddled at the base of the wall, and he didn't even respond to the loud movement of the jailer unlocking and sliding the door.Pan Pan pinched Zhang Xi's possessions in the sleeve cage, secretly delighted: This prison beheaded judge is level!People say, "If you work hard at once, then you will decline, and then you will be exhausted." Don't look at this kid who was brave in the court yesterday. He was put in a death row and locked up for a few days.

She coughed lightly, served a crude meal, and greeted: "Hey, it's time to eat."

Lai Ziqi squinted at her, and continued to be dazed.

you boy!Going on a hunger strike... Pan Pan looked around, and as expected, there was a lot of tea and rice poured beside the straw mattress, so he stood up and sighed: "Why do you do this, those who have been sentenced to beheaded will have to be executed in autumn, you I'm lucky, isn't it just the beginning of winter? There's more than half a year to live. If there is a grace on the way, the emperor will pardon the world, and maybe he will go out again."

Lai Ziqi drooped his head and replied, "Amnesty? Why is it so easy to hit? It's harder than catching the deputy 'Ding San and Er Si'."

Pan Pan laughed secretly: It's really hard to change!What time is it, and I was still thinking about the little Pai Gow saying... "Look at your demeanor in the hall, you can be considered a man. If you starve to death here, you will implicate our brothers in the class. At that time, the county magistrate will order you a guard I’m not working hard, I’ve lost my errand, where can our family go to eat.” She deliberately dragged out the word “involuntary” with an extremely long accent.

Lai Ziqi murmured: "There is still something delicious, die early and live early..."

She leaned in front of Lai Ziqi, knelt down and said, "As the saying goes, 'It's better to be a hungry ghost than a starving man'. With a straw mat, you die so poorly. There is a place where paper is burned every year and festival." I can't even find it, and others might be proud of it... Do you think you are worth it?"

Lai Ziqi shuddered and woke up a bit: "You...what are you talking about?"

Pan Pan shook his head and sighed, and his words became more and more vulgar: "Oh, that girl is very charming, you have taken care of her head, and she has already rolled on the kang with a man in her arms..." Before the words finished, Lai Ziqi Suddenly, his eyes were red with anxiety, and he swung the thumb-thick iron chains at both ends of the shackles, and threw them at her without thinking.Oh my god... The person who was so excited just now was so scared that he fell headlong, and then rolled all the way, quickly turning to a safe place. Damn, he actually attacked the police!Luckily, we are agile... She crawled up in embarrassment, brushed off grass dust all over her body with one hand, pointed at Lai Ziqi who was lying on the ground with the other, and cursed angrily, "Why are you crazy? You really are a dog biting Lu Dongbin, and you don't know a good heart." ...Look at you, you are so boring! You are sold to someone, and you are counting money on the back of your ass!"

Lai Ziqi didn't argue, he just stared at something on the ground and got angry.In the end, he shrugged his shoulders, and actually picked up the thing and pressed it to his face, crying bitterly.Pan Pan took a closer look: Isn't this Yang's personal handkerchief we begged from Zhang Xi?I wanted him to steal a more shocking item like a bellyband, but that nerd refused to die... He must have been in a hurry to dodge just now, and accidentally fell from his sleeves...

Pan Pan sat and waited for him to finish howling, and said casually: "Does this handkerchief look familiar?"

"You, where did you get this handkerchief?" Lai Ziqi asked nervously.

She sneered, and said with a disdainful expression: "I picked it up. Last time I saw a man showing off his good embroidery work in the shop, and then I forgot to take it. We saw that the fabric was good, so we used it to polish shoes."

"Is that true? How do you know that this handkerchief belongs to San Yan'er?" Lai Ziqi was dubious.

Pan Pan didn't change his expression, and continued to lie: "We didn't know at first. Yesterday in the hall, your baby Sanyan was crying, and took out a handkerchief to wipe his face. When we paid attention, we found her The color of the handkerchief is exactly the same as the one we picked up, and it is all embroidered with a picture of 'alpricot blossoms and spring swallows'." Seeing Lai Zi Qishi staring at her, he coughed and said, "We are from a family background, so we still have some eyesight. of."

Lai Zi's face turned red and turned white, and his hand clutching the handkerchief kept shaking. After thinking about it for a long time, he choked out a sentence: "What a bitch!"

She moved over cautiously, and said in a low voice: "It's just... to take the blame for this kind of woman and give you two words—it's not worth it."

Lai Ziqi looked back suddenly, Pan Pan was so startled that he stepped back quickly, only to hear him say bitterly, "Who is that adulterer?"

Pan Pan heard: Hey!There is something... So he added more details and said: "He is taller than you, looks better than you, can read and write, and is richer than you."

"Who the hell?!" Lai Ziqi growled.

"Zhang Xiang, the big boss of Chunfeng Building." She held back her laugh and replied quickly.

"So it was him?" Lai Ziqi thumped the ground, "It really is him! I knew this little boy was not a thing! He is a distant relative with Zhang Ren, and he always runs to his house for nothing, but he has malicious intentions!"

"Hey, you can't slap a slap, so you just want to open some..." Pan Pan pretended to persuade.

"No! I risked my life, but let them have a better life! I don't accept this!" Lai Ziqi said angrily, "Brother Xiaocha, please do me a favor, my Lai Ziqi wants to retract my confession! Did I kill Zhang Ren?" Wrong, but that coquettish bitch also has a share!"

Knowing that the circumstances of the case had changed, Wang Qingshan didn't dare to be negligent for a moment, and he signed the certificate to get the person, and passed the certificate to the court in one go.

After a while, Pan Pan and another prison guard brought Lai Ziqi, who was in shackles and chains, to the court.

"Go to the shackles and talk." Wang Qingshan ordered.

Pan Pan and the two obeyed their orders and removed the wooden yoke from Lai Ziqi's neck, but the handcuffs and shackles were still on. Lai Ziqi hurriedly kowtowed to thank him.

Wang Qingshan slammed a gavel, and scolded: "Lai Ziqi, changing the confession to collusion is a more serious crime, you have to think clearly and speak!"

"My lord, the little one is about to die, so how dare he play tricks. It's just that I spent a night in prison thinking about it, and the little one just went to hell. If he meets Zhang Ren, he will ask the little one. Why did the young one suffer retribution, where did the accomplice go? The young one has no face to answer, maybe he still thinks that the county master is protecting him. The young one just thinks like this, because he doesn’t know how to eat, and can’t sleep at night. I've gone, and I won't have a safe life in reincarnation..." Lai Ziqi burst into tears as he said that.

"Enough! Who is the accomplice, call it quickly! The county has its own judgment!" Wang Qingshan slapped Xingmu angrily, and his expression was very ugly when he heard the word "cover up".

Pan Pan stood aside, snickering to himself: This Lai Ziqi has some talent for acting, so I just told him once, and when he arrived in front of the hall, he was so vivid.

Lai Ziqi kowtowed his head and hurriedly said: "My lord, it's true that Zhang Ren was murdered by the younger one, but the younger one was instigated by the Yang family to cause such a catastrophe."

"Oh?" Wang Qingshan was surprised, "Mr. Yang was in the hall yesterday, why did you take the blame for her? Why did you plan to murder Zhang Ren, tell me quickly!"

"The little one and Yang Sanyan were neighbors at first. The two families had a good relationship and had a marriage contract. Later, the little one's family fell into ruin, and she couldn't even afford an engagement. Her family broke up the marriage and married Yang Sanyan to Zhang Ren. Zhang Ren Doing business outside all the year round, my youngest misses Mrs. Yang, so I went to see her secretly. She repeatedly said in front of my youngest that her husband treated her rudely, often scolding and beating her severely, begging my youngest to save her on the basis of years of love One life. The young one was provoked for a while, so she agreed to help her get rid of Zhang Ren. Later, Yang Sanyan told me a way to poke a long nail into the skull, and he could kill people without anyone noticing. The young one was thoughtful. For the sake of consideration, I also deliberately tried to deceive Liu Yuanwai's medicine fragrance. I wanted to order a long nail, but Yang Sanyan told me that there are ready-made coffins in Shishiwei, and stealing one is not as eye-catching as the custom-made one. What she said was that Zhang Ren was killed by stealing the long nails. In the hall yesterday, the younger one shielded Yang Sanyan out of pity for her loneliness. Snakes and scorpions are also a disaster if they stay in the world. Why don't you tell the county master the truth, and we will end each other."

Wang Qingshan nodded, and immediately ordered: "Bring Mrs. Yang to the hall."

Pan Pan watched with cold eyes, this handsome little daughter-in-law was dragged to the front of the hall by the wolf-like slaves, her temples were already scattered, her face was ashen, as soon as she let go of her hands, she fell to the ground, sobbing non-stop.

Wang Qingshan continued in a slow voice: "Mr. Yang, you were in the back hall just now, and you must have heard what Lai Ziqi said..." Suddenly the gavel was knocked heavily, and he shouted sharply, "Whether what he said is true or not, hurry up and tell the truth." !"

Yang didn't expect that Lai Ziqi, who had always been devoted to her, would confess her. He was flustered for a moment, and replied tremblingly: "Minister, I don't know..."

"What a tricky woman! If you don't use the severe punishment, it seems that you won't be able to recruit. Come on! Put your fingers up." Wang Qingshan threw down the red stick with a wave of his hand.

When Pan Pan heard that he was about to be tortured, his scalp felt numb. What kind of thing is "Zhanzi"... Turning his head and looking at the torture rack, he saw two yamen servants come out in response, and one of them took a pair of ropes from the rack and connected them together. bamboo stick, the other walked up to Yang and grabbed her tightly with both hands.Damn!It turned out to be the bamboo stick used by Xiaobaicai on TV to pinch his fingers!I didn't expect to see a real guy today... Pan Pan took a deep breath, and looked at Yang's, he was shaking like a sieve.

"The county will ask you again, whether to recruit or not?"

"My lord, spare me!" Yang's hair was disheveled, weeping unceasingly, "That Zhang Renping often abuses the women, the women... the women are also encouraged, thinking that if they kill him, they will be able to live a good life... ..."

Wang Qingshan was startled: "Who provoked you again?"

Yang replied, "It's Zhang Xiang from Chunfeng Building."

Wang Qingshan said in a deep voice: "Is this true? Frame others, but the crime is added to the crime!"

Mrs. Yang wept and responded, "It was Zhang Xiang. He and his ex-husband were distant relatives, and they had some business contacts in recent years. He visited women's homes in recent years, and he...he despised women... After the head...the woman of the head of the house followed him, and he said that he had a comprehensive method to get the women out of the sea of ​​suffering. If something went wrong, others would be responsible. Those coffins, nails, the women even want to break their heads. I can’t come out, it’s what he said and the women listened to…”

Wang Qingshan's complexion became more and more ugly, his right hand was holding Xingmu tightly, and his veins burst out.The master Kuang Zhen who was at the side saw that he was anxious, and called out in a low voice: "My lord..."

Wang Qingshan gathered himself together, waved his hands to him and said: "It's okay." He threw out a blue stick again, "Come on! Arrest Zhang Xiang to the hall!"

At this moment, Pan Pan admired the county magistrate in front of him from the bottom of his heart. In the courtroom, if he does not follow personal interests, he can be called an iron face.

The two Bu Kuai took orders to go out, and suddenly they heard the sound of the Dengwen drum at the gate of the yamen "dong dong".After a while, a young man dressed as a merchant was passed on to the court, but it was Feng Shaoyuan, the owner of the old Fengshou material shop.

"Feng Shaoyuan, why are you beating the drums?"

"Return to your lord, the grass people beat the drums to avenge an injustice ten years ago." Feng Shaoyuan knelt down and kowtowed.

"How do you say that?" Wang Qingshan felt puzzled.

"Your Excellency, please be careful." Feng Shaoyuan replied slowly, "Uncle Shaoyuan, Fengcai, suffered from an emergency and died suddenly ten years ago. It happened suddenly at that time, but no one felt anything strange. I only learned about it yesterday when I went to court , This long nail can actually kill people. Cao Min thought about it in every possible way when he went back. Uncle Shaoyuan ordered a total of five sets of "descendant nails" at the Gaoji knife shop. Three years ago, the shop was transferred to Cao Min, and there were only [-] left. The long nails, it seems that one was missing in the middle of the trip. The grass people thought that this piece of Ren Baoshi was similar to his uncle, and they were shocked, so they rushed to the patriarch's house overnight to find out the pros and cons. After the patriarch and several members of the same clan After discussing with the elders, I went to the family cemetery to open the coffin this morning, and found this among the bones..." As he spoke, he took out a white cloth package from his sleeve, unfolded it layer by layer, and it turned out to be another seven-inch-long nail!

Wang Qingshan was surprised: "Fengcai also died under the spike!"

Feng Shaoyuan repeatedly kowtowed and said, "Please, sir, make the decision for Uncle Shaoyuan!"

"You may have suspicions in your heart, but it's okay to say." Wang Qingshan hit Xingmu again, and a flash of determination flashed in his eyes.

"My lord, Uncle Shaoyuan had a pair of stepchildren before his death. Since his aunt passed away, his uncle was very harsh on them, hitting and scolding them, so that after a few years, they all changed back to the original family..." Feng Shaoyuan raised Glancing at the county magistrate who was sitting upright, he plucked up his courage and said, "Caomin once asked Uncle Wu in the store why he took the lazy Lai Ziqi as an apprentice and caused so many troubles. Uncle Wu said that he was favored by the young master's family." That’s why he was left behind. This young master... is Cao Min’s former cousin, and now the owner of Chunfenglou—Zhang Xiang!”

Pan Pan lamented that there were such twists and turns... Just waiting for Wang Qingshan to deal with it, an old man dressed as a servant suddenly flashed into his ear, and anxiously approached Kuang Zhen and said something.Hearing Kuang Zhen exclaimed the word "Madam", he rushed to the Dharma table and whispered a few words to Wang Qingshan.After hearing this, Wang Qingshan's complexion changed abruptly, and he uttered "retreat" in a trembling voice, and then walked away...