Rui Hegui

Ningzhou Government Office.

As the night grew darker, Bandit Chu's servants and Zhuo's family immediately surrounded the mansion, Wu Yi was forced to wait at the door with a group of officials, with his hands in his sleeves, his face gloomy, while his fellow acquaintance, Jia Hanyuan, looked at Master Changdao Before he came, he was very worried, and he came over and whispered: "My lord, this bandit Chu is really too cruel. Today, he investigated the case overnight and arrested Mr. Pei, has he found any clues?"

As soon as Wu Yi heard the word "Chu Bandit", he felt a dull pain in the fracture of his finger again, and frowned and said, "Do you think he is still young, and is he sitting on the Minister of Criminal Affairs with his face? What kind of means and courage are you?" Everything is indispensable."

"Then what should we do?"

"As I said before, until Song Kui brings people back, no matter how powerful Chu bandits are, with their small number of troops, they are no match for Song Kui's troops, right?"

"The one with the horse face, what are you mumbling about!" Seeing this, Youbai, who was sitting on the stone suanni at the door, smashed the leftover pear pit on Jia Hanyuan's forehead, and the water stains immediately covered his right eye. It's like being punched by a fist, and it's hot in an instant.

Jia Hanyuan instinctively raised his hand to cover his right eye, then rubbed it lightly, feeling angry, but he didn't dare to say anything.

Because all the officials present had seen Youbai's martial arts level, the last master Pei who dared to resist had already been tied up and thrown into the hall, his thigh was broken, and he was still yelling non-stop.How dare Jia Hanyuan say a word this time?Of course, I had to swallow my anger and admit it, thinking that it would not be too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and when General Song came back to control Chu Bandit and others, he must make this bastard look good!

After a while, Bandit Chu and Zhao Liangyue arrived.

Wu Yi put on a smile, and went forward with Jia Hanyuan to help them get off their horses, but Chu Bandit raised his hand to refuse, and pulled the reins, causing the horses to raise their front hooves, and Wu Yi jumped back in shock. I almost lost my age on the spot.

"Sorry, this horse is born."

Bandit Chu got off his horse, turned around and helped Zhao Liangyue get off his horse, and then they went straight into the government office side by side, and sat down in the courtroom.

"Come in." Chu bandit said slowly.

Wu Yi brought the officials into the hall and stood there waiting after the salute, but after a while, there was no movement after the case.

Wu Yi raised his head to spy suspiciously, and saw Bandit Chu was only interested in blowing the tea to cool down, and then handed it to the Hubu Duzhi doctor named Zhao Liangyue next to him, but was rejected, and then he insisted on passing it again.

Wu Yi couldn't figure it out for a while, so he cupped his hands and asked, "Chu Shangshu?"

Bandit Chu ignored him, but Zhao Liangyue looked over, but he just glanced at him, then lowered his head and took the tea helplessly.

Only then did Bandit Chu turn his head, as if he had just discovered everyone in the hall, and said, "Oh, it's time to try the case." As he spoke, he raised his hand and asked Jing Mo to present the confession brought from the Ministry of Punishment.

Bandit Chu looked at the confession, raised his peach eyes to look at the officials in the hall, looked at the confession again, and looked up again.

At this moment, the entire government office was silent, and the sky was completely dark, with occasional drafts, the flames in the brazier swayed to and fro, making shadows and shadows, adding to the weirdness.

Many officials thought that on the day Chu Bandit entered the city, he first hung the bloody head on the horse's head to open the way, and then cut off Wu Yi's fingers on the spot.

Finally, Bandit Chu frowned after reading the confession, and the officials in the hall couldn't help shaking.

But the first question Chu Bandit asked was: "Is there a cook in the government office?"

The officials below were at a loss. After a while, Wu Yi stood up and said, "Yes."

Chu Bandit said indifferently: "Then ask the cook to cook some food and bring it over. This officer and Mr. Zhao are a little hungry."

Wu Yi asked the jailer to go to the back kitchen to order, and Zhuo Chuan raised his eyes to signal, and asked the bodyguard who was good at detecting poison to follow.

"Okay, let's start the trial." Bandit Chu raised his chin towards Zhuo Chuan, and said, "Arrange according to what we said before."

Zhuo Chuan took the order, then turned around and said to the officials: "There are three duty rooms on one side of the court, and later, all the adults, go there for interrogation in batches."

The officials were all taken aback when they heard the words, and looked at each other in blank dismay.

Who is going to be judged?

Zhuo Chuan explained: "Chu Shangshuzhai has a kind heart and wants to give you a chance, so let your colleagues interrogate each other on the Ningzhou case."

Your own people judge your own people?What can this find out...

And the Ningzhou case is going to be tried, what kind of case is it?

Officials were inexplicably brought into three duty rooms.

Wu Yi and Jia Hanyuan happened to be assigned to a duty room. After they entered, the door was closed, but the windows were half open. Wu Yi looked out and found that the windows of the three duty rooms were half open. But the angle of view was very friendly, they couldn't see each other, they could only see a place in front of the courtroom, where Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue were sitting and drinking tea.

Jia Hanyuan wondered, "What the hell is he doing?"

Wu Yi shook his head, expressing that he didn't know, he just said, "Just wait and see."

After a while, someone else seemed to have entered the other two duty rooms, and then he heard Bandit Chu issue an order to bring Jiang Zheng who was in the prison to the court.

"My lord, how did he know about Jiang Zheng!" Jia Hanyuan thumped the corner of the table anxiously, and said, "The officer has already advised you, this person is going to be killed!"

Wu Yi himself was also annoyed, and sighed, "How do I know that he found clues so quickly? And that Jiang Zheng is my in-law, can I really kill him?"

Jia Hanyuan wanted to say something more, but Wu Yi interrupted: "Okay, anyway, it's impossible for you to know about that matter, I just need to keep my mouth shut."

In the courtroom, Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue waited for a while, and the jailer came over with Jiang Zheng who was covered in injuries.

Bandit Chu asked: "But the former recorder joined the army, Jiang Zheng?"

Xu was severely tortured, Jiang Zheng's back was already bent very badly, and he was kneeling in front of the hall like an old pottery altar. He was stunned for a while when he heard someone calling himself that, and slowly raised his head, looking at the courtroom with cloudy eyes." "Mirror high hanging" four words, does not look at who is asking the question, just answer one word flatly:

"Yes."

Bandit Chu got up, walked up to Jiang Zheng, showed him the confession in his hand, and asked: "Privately embezzling people's fields, seizing people's women, and embezzling ink for donations, can you admit these three crimes?"

"……recognize."

Then Bandit Chu tore up the confession in front of Jiang Zheng, and said word by word: "But I don't recognize it."

Jiang Zheng watched as the piece of paper carrying his guilt turned into pieces and fell from the hands of the person in front of him like flying snow.His eyes finally moved.

At this time, the doors of the two duty rooms opened, and a man and a woman who had entered before came back to report, and then two officials were dragged out.

Bandit Chu yelled: "You two, one is the general judge of Ningzhou, and the other is the magistrate of the general judgment, how dare you join forces to create unjust cases!"

Although the two of them were terribly afraid of Bandit Chu, they tried their best to argue: "Chu Shangshu, why am I waiting to create an unjust case?"

Bandit Chu pointed to Jiang Zheng, and said, "Isn't this your hard evidence?"

"My lord, Jiang Zheng is indeed guilty, and there are all the witnesses and material evidence."

"Really?" Bandit Chu pointed to a man and a woman who had just entered with his chin, and asked, "Then tell me, who are they?"

"This is... the Song family and the merchant who testified..."

Bandit Chu stepped forward and kicked Ningzhou Tongpan who was speaking on the chest, and he fell heavily on the ground on the spot, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

"These two are not witnesses, they are both my subordinates, but they are using their identities to test you." Chu Bandit said, "You have fabricated false testimony before, of course you have never seen the real witness, let alone being forcibly dragged away by your servants. The Song family and the merchant Yujiu who came here to give false testimony. This kind of flaw is not only stupid, but as an official of the court, it is simply extremely sinful!"

Knowing that disaster was imminent, the two knelt down and shouted for mercy, but the knife in Chu Bandit's waist had already been unsheathed, and the two were beheaded on the spot, with blood spattered three feet directly before the court.

Everyone in the duty room was startled and panicked.

Wu Yi shouted from the air: "Chu Shangshu, the two of them are officials ordered by the court after all, and the judge is a sixth-rank official. Are you arbitrarily abusing the death penalty without reporting it to the court?"

Bandit Chu sneered, standing in the flames of the night, holding a knife and looking sideways. Although his peach blossom eyes were full of smiles, they made people very frightened.

Zhao Liangyue got up from the courtroom, took out the imperial decree he had in his sleeves, held it up with both hands, and said in a loud voice: "Chu Bandit, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, ordered by Emperor Ping Chong to thoroughly investigate the case of Ningzhou. Anyone whose rank is lower than others, Everyone can cut first and play later!"

When all the officials heard the words, they all shuddered and turned pale with fright—that is to say, even Wu Yi, the highest-ranking fifth-rank magistrate among them, and Chu Bandit, who lived in the third-rank Shangshu, could be killed on the spot.

Zhao Liangyue gave Zhuo Chuan a wink, and Zhuo Chuan went to help Jiang Zheng to rest, but Jiang Zhengren just got up and knelt down again.

Jiang Zheng kowtowed heavily to Bandit Chu, and his hoarse voice resounded loudly: "About the disaster relief case in Ningzhou, I have something to report!"

"No need, Jiang Canjun go to rest first." Bandit Chu smiled lightly, and after returning to the official case, he lifted his robe and sat down, and said, "I have to see how the adults in the duty room interrogate my colleagues."

Zhao Liangyue understood, based on what the two discussed on the way when they came, he casually took out a booklet of his own, glanced at the officials who were frightened at the moment, and said plainly:

"This book was drawn up by the Ministry of Punishment. There are ten officials from Ningzhou who confessed to the Ministry of Industry, and they are among the 28 officials present today. However, Chu Shangshusi and the actual situation in Ningzhou are unknown, or the crimes are not as light as the ones on the book. Therefore, Ask you to interrogate each other. Those who are on the list, if they can find out the crimes that are more serious than themselves, can avoid the death penalty; those who are not on the list, if they can find out the serious crimes of others, can avoid living crimes, and even be promoted in the future. After the trial is over, the list of crimes The top ten will be killed immediately, so that I can make a great promise!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the officials looked at each other from left to right. The relationship that was still considered united before entering the official office changed rapidly at this moment and fell apart.

"Where is this mutual interrogation? It's clearly mutual reporting and exposing each other!" Jia Hanyuan sighed fiercely, and said, "Song Kui will not be able to come back until two days at the earliest. The soldiers nearby are no match for the Zhuo family. Everyone now It's the fish on Chu Bandit's anvil, and he can't explain everything in order to survive? Especially the iron mines in Tang County, I guess I will know everything when I ask!"

"Forget it, forget it!" Wu Yi actually laughed, and said, "Even if he finds out, so what if he gets the evidence and kills you and me, do you think Chu Bandit and Zhao Liangyue can return to the capital alive?"

"But my lord, I want to live!"

Wu Yi raised his hand, patted Jia Hanyuan's face, and said, "You and I won't survive today, but don't forget who owns the life of your family and my family. Don't reveal what you promised them."

Jia Hanyuan came to his senses instantly when he heard the words, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, we can't reveal it." Jia Hanyuan asked again, "What about Master Pei? The capital has already told us to protect him."

Wu Yi shook his head and said, "It's okay now. Pei Qu has the same status in the eyes of their master as we do in Han Zhou's eyes. They are just a pawn. Do you understand?"