Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Someone died in the pub.

When people hear about catastrophic events, their first reaction is to hope that it has nothing to do with them, and the next moment they are afraid that it has something to do with them.

What's more, death is a burden that life cannot bear.

Before the lazy man's family could squeeze to the front, they were met with several regretful glances.

No, maybe not regret.

The lazy man's wife thought: What's there to be sad about the death of a lazy and useless drunkard?

The crowd made way for them.

The lazy wife and father walked forward numbly, surrounded by people like county officials.

The dead man was indeed a lazy man.

The dead body looked ordinary, not pretty, like mud. But it wasn't ugly either, as there was no blood coming out of any orifices and no wounds on the body. In the storybooks, this is called "leaving a complete corpse."

The lazy father rushed forward.

This was the first time he knelt down to his son as a father.

He was the only one crying and wailing in the entire tavern.

The lazy man's wife wiped her tears with the back of her hand and asked softly, "Did he die from drinking?"

The people are famous for their warm hearts.

"He died before he even reached the door. No one touched him. He just collapsed, clutching his stomach, and died."

"How can you drink so much every night? Even a strong body can't stand it!"

"You can't blame the shopkeeper. You know best what kind of man you are. Hurry up and take it back. No, go buy a ready-made coffin."

The lazy father was notoriously in poor health, and the family didn't even have a ready-made coffin.

"Where is the money for the coffin?" the lazy man's wife refused to look at him and buried her head in tears. "All the money was spent on drinking."

If others were to say, a drunkard shouldn't marry.

You married her but didn't care about her anymore, and even asked her for money. Then you died and left your wife a widow. It was simply a sin.

The tavern owner said he could provide them with a coffin.

It's not about compensation, it's about seeking peace of mind.

People who are difficult to deal with in life are likely to haunt you even after they die.

But the lazy father was unwilling to do so. He said that his son was strong and healthy, and it was just a drink, so how could he die from drinking?

When no one answered him, he said he would report the case to the police and sue the tavern and everyone present there.

The onlookers felt as uncomfortable as if they had eaten a fly, but the tavern owner was afraid of trouble and said that the lazy man had been drinking with a widower from the next county, and that the widower had just left, so it was still not too late to catch up with him.

After saying this and thinking for a while, he sent two waiters to arrest the man.

Li Shiyuan went to the tavern with the widower. He was alone at that time and had not yet picked up Feng Qianzhi, so he naturally said whatever he wanted.

After standing in the crowd and listening to the whole story for a while, he began to squeeze in. After taking a look, he said that the lazy man did not die from drinking.

Now someone is going to be in trouble.

Then whoever killed the lazy guy should pay the money or his life, right?

The lazy father immediately grabbed his "life-saving straw" and accidentally pinched Li Shiyuan's thigh.

He grimaced in pain and said he wanted to know how the person died. Either report it to the authorities or send the body to the charity cemetery for autopsy, and he would do it.

No one had seen Li Shiyuan in the county before, so how could the lazy man's family trust him?

So the lazy man's family reported the matter to the authorities, and Li Shiyuan stayed in the small county town and set up a stall to provide medical treatment to the people, charging a fee.

After a few days, he became famous, and the government also said that the lazy man died of drinking himself, and the widower did nothing, so no one harmed the lazy man.

The lazy father's mood also changed.

At first, he wanted to catch the murderer who killed his son and make him pay with his life.

But the days ahead were like a huge black vortex, sucking him in.

Without a son, who will take care of me in my old age? Who will carry on the family line?

This loss is not small.

It is a fact that the person is gone, but he is still alive, so he should think about himself and his family, right?

He had no other choice, he grasped at the last glimmer of hope, he found Li Shiyuan, and asked Li Shiyuan to help him perform an autopsy.

"The body had been left there for several days and had become smelly."

Li Shiyuan didn't want to have a cesarean section, but he was alone and the strong dragon could not defeat the local snake, so he was taken directly to the lazy man's house.

Before the autopsy, Li Shiyuan asked the lazy man's family to sign a contract.

The general meaning of the contract was that they asked him to perform an autopsy, and if any problems occurred, Li Shiyuan would not be responsible at all, and they could not blame him in the future.

The lazy man's family members were illiterate, so they each pressed their fingerprints and asked an old man in the alley who was over 90 years old to be a witness.

The old man was illiterate and his hearing was not very good, so Li Shiyuan howled loudly next to his ear, causing the old man to cover his ears and say, "Be quiet, I can hear you."

Just listen.

Many neighbors were also called over by the howling, and they kept looking through the cracks in the door.

The only one who could see the autopsy was the lazy father, mainly because he was afraid that Li Shiyuan would play tricks.

What if this person gave his heart, liver, spleen and lungs to his son and sold them?

In fact, other family members did not agree with this matter and thought that the lazy man should be given an "intact body". However, when they thought about the future of their whole family, they could only wipe their tears and sit under the eaves and wait.

Outside the courtyard gate, there was a sound of gasping, like boiling water, and the person being scolded became the lazy man's wife.

"My husband is dead, and you won't even leave him an intact body!"

"Evil woman! No man can live in peace after he goes down here."

The words reached Li Shiyuan's ears.

He resisted rolling his eyes and took the knife seriously, but the more he thought about it, the more unfair he felt.

What say could a daughter-in-law in such a family have? If she had asked for an autopsy, she would have been immediately told to commit suicide and return home with a chastity memorial.

But there are no chastity arches in the current Zhou Dynasty, but it can still be praised in people's hearts.

Half an hour later, the results came out, and the lazy father's heart finally settled down.

Li Shiyuan took out many sharp little particles from the lazy man's internal organs, and he said they were "iron tree seeds."

The seeds of the iron tree look like black beans, but they are pointed and hard at both ends. When people swallow them, they slide down the throat and nothing happens, but after they slide down, it's all over.

The lazy father shouted that his son could finally rest in peace, and went to the yamen with the iron tree seeds.

The government took it seriously this time.

The lazy man did die from the scratches on his internal organs caused by the iron tree seeds, but there was no bleeding from his mouth and nose as imagined. He just died quietly.

Later, Li Shiyuan left the small county town.

Who was the murderer? Did the lazy man swallow the iron tree seeds on his own, or was he forced to do so? It remains unknown.

After sighing, Shen Zheng began to tell another story.

Luo Bizhi was immersed in it, his thoughts being drawn to her words until the messenger came to report.

"Sir, Prince Cheng'an is here."

Luo Bizhi lowered his eyes, hiding the gleam in them, and stood up, saying, "Excuse me, I'll leave you first."

Looking at his back without even turning his head, Ji Benchang clicked his tongue and said, "Oh no, is he trying to get something for free?"

How can you just look at someone else’s “masterpiece” and then walk away?

But Prince Cheng'an doesn't care about state affairs, so why is he coming to the Ministry of Justice?