Su Xiao asked all the way along the street, and then relied on guessing, and finally stopped the group of countrymen in front of the Shuntian government office.
"Sister-in-law! Brothers, wait!"
These people just got ten slaps on one person in the Xingbu Yamen, and they are still walking on crutches.
The woman was still crying after being beaten, unable to utter a decent word.
The man who looked like the head of the village saw Su Xiao and was very impressed with this handsome and lovely girl. He stared and shouted, "What are you doing here?"
Su Xiao said sincerely: "Brothers, this sister-in-law, my name is Su Xiao. Please tell me what happened to you. You have come here once, and if there is no good reason, they will not let you in."
Although Leng Shangshu has determined that the case is not assigned to the punishment department, Su Xiao still couldn't control his legs. These villagers are simple and honest, and they can't think of a time to come to the yamen to report the case and ask for help, so they beat people in a hurry. Although hitting people is wrong, Leng Shangshu has already punished them. Su Xiao then decided to ask them what happened.
"Can you help?" The man said in disbelief: "You are so young, I'm afraid you're not an official lady. How can you help?"
"I'm not an official lady." Su Xiao took out an edict from his waist, and the document was bright yellow. In the world, only the imperial palace would issue such an edict. Su Xiao said earnestly: "This official is a hundred households with six doors. I was ordered by the emperor to investigate the underground boxing match in Feiyuntang, Wuhua County. I heard you mentioned one or two things just now, please tell me in detail."
The edict was revealed, and all the villagers were stunned. I didn't expect to meet the nobles when I went out. The woman was hurriedly thanking.
"Thank you, Mr. Guan, oh, no, Mrs. Guan, no, no, Mrs. Guan."
A villager said: "In this world, a girl with such a beautiful appearance is also a high-ranking official?"
The man was stunned and murmured, "My Niuniu is about the same, just a few times heavier than this girl. I wonder if there is any drama?"
Su Xiao was so angry that he didn't fight at all, and said angrily: "I'm a man!"
Chapter 27: Chasing the Wind and the Shadow
"Then I will ask everyone one by one now."
Su Xiao was holding a small notebook and biting the tip of the brush in his small mouth, as if he was worried about how to write. This matter was originally only half a tolerance, and half of it was actually just Su Xiao's pity for what happened to the Niu family's sister-in-law, so he came to intervene.
With great difficulty, I finally wrote the words "A Small Note on the Twelfth Moon in the Thirty Years of Yuan Sheng's 30th Year", and the villagers next to it were amazed.
"This little girl's characters are pretty good."
"It's beautiful, but I don't know any of them. These round ones look like paintings."
Su Xiao blushed when she heard it. Su Xiao has read books and has also learned to write since childhood. However, there are many women in the family, and most of the writing and writing are taught by her mother. Therefore, Su Xiao's handwriting is beautiful and elegant. As soon as Su Xiaotou returned to Six Doors, he was caught by Liu Yuan when he was signing the signature. Since then, Su Xiao has been overcome with pain, and all writing is in lowercase, which is quite satisfactory. As long as the original habit is not changed, it still looks mellow. When the villagers said it, I felt a little embarrassed.
Su Xiao coughed twice: "Cough, I want to ask Mrs. Niu, why did you come to the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment to complain about injustice. As soon as you entered the yamen, you cried and cried without eyes in the sky in June, what did you mean? What happened to your husband, why do you say that he was detained and kept away?"
Sister-in-law Niu saw that this 'official girl' was born beautiful and vulgar, and her tone was kind and gentle, and she was very fond of her. Although I think she is still young, this posture is not something that ordinary people can have. So began to explain the whole story.
"Here's the thing... My man's surname is Niu, and his name is Niu Shuanzi. We are all foreigners, from Daniu Village in Zijin County. These are folks from Daniu Village. I have nothing to do. My family man thought about going to the capital to find some livelihood. Not long after I went, I wrote back that I had found a job, and I was doing a small job in a martial arts gym. I thought something was wrong. The martial arts gym is rich and good. But The men inside are all martial arts practitioners. The man in my family is a rough man, and he is honest. If he offends the uncle in the martial arts hall, he can't stand it if he beats him casually. At that time, he was asked to change his job. I just didn't expect that the remuneration from the martial arts hall was quite a lot, and it was sent to the family at once, and sent five taels of silver. It was said that the people from the martial arts hall told him to compete with others, and as long as one fight, he would earn one or two silver. "
Su Xiao's face changed when she said this, and her heart moved slightly. Sister-in-law Niu is from the country, and it is true that it is taboo to mention money in such a large audience. But her expression was not just discomfort, but also a deep sense of panic. Probably the money given by the martial arts hall is more than five taels of silver.
But here, it can be said that Niu Shuanzi's black boxing is clear, and it really happened. Based on Su Xiao's understanding of the capital market. Even if a top martial arts hall hires a martial artist, the monthly salary is only a few taels of silver. Niu Shuanzi is just an ordinary peasant, how can he earn so much in a short period of time. The martial arts hall he was in must be an underground martial arts hall.
But underground competition is not a crime, nor can it be convicted.
So this thought was not spoken, Su Xiao asked Mrs. Niu to continue.
Sister-in-law Niu recalled while crying: "Our whole family is very happy that we made money. The man in my family is the one who takes care of the family the most. He has to send letters back every few days, but then there are fewer and fewer letters. In the end, there was no news for two weeks. I was anxious and scared at home, and was thinking about whether to go to the capital to find him. As a result, I received a notice from the Shuntian Prefecture Yamen, saying that my man was not in the capital, but in a martial arts gym in Wuhua County. Boxing, what kind of underground competition, after two months, it is still famous."
Su Xiao sighed inwardly. The case that the emperor handed over to Su Xiao to solve was about the recent rise of underground competitions. So the dossier given contains many past cases. Su Xiao has read a lot, and he can be regarded as a half black boxer. In general underground martial arts halls, they will raise martial artists themselves, and at the same time they will also erect signboards to wait for the challenge of martial arts elites.
But the black boxers in the underground competition, the most profitable is not winning or losing, but the audience's odds. When a black boxer has extremely high odds but loses extremely badly, the martial arts hall will naturally make money, and the boxers under its banner will also benefit from it. Therefore, there is also a self-raised value, who finds a person from outside, pretends to be a competition, and the martial arts hall allows him to win a streak, until the odds skyrocket, and then beat him fiercely, earning a lot of money from the audience.
It is very likely that Niu Shuanzi was hired to be the nurse because he was a foreigner. But others are honest and not good at hypocrisy, and they are weak. Why are you looking for him
Sister-in-law Niu cried loudly: "Young girl is wronged! My man is an honest man, and he will never fight in his life. He must have been framed by others. My man is wronged, and the official girl, you have to take good care of him. ."
Su Xiao smiled and said, "Sister Niu, don't worry. Let me explain to you that although the court does not advocate underground martial arts and black boxing, there is no express rule that it violates the law. That is to say, black boxing is actually not illegal."
"Really?" As if grabbing a life-saving straw, Mrs. Niu clung to Su Xiao's slender arm and kept saying, "Is it alright, is he really alright? Then, when will he be released? People from the yamen said that even visits are not allowed!"
"If the innocence is found, it will be released quickly. Folks, I'm going to ask you some questions now."
Su Xiao asked one by one, and verified what Mrs. Niu had said, proving that what she said was basically the same as what the villagers knew, and there was no extra detail.
The man at the head, Mao Dali, was beaten ten times by Leng Shangshu, and his butt still hurts. He puffed up his eyes and said, "Why are you asking so much? When will Brother Niu be released, you little girl have a nice word."
"The last question, if there is no problem, I will immediately enter the Shuntian Mansion to ask for someone."
Su Xiao tried his best to keep a smiling face, so as not to let people see the trembling in his heart, his tone was calm, he tried his best to suppress his fear, and asked the last question.
"Sister-in-law, did your husband kill anyone during the two months of the underground boxing match?"
an hour ago.
"You're going to find those villagers, aren't you?"
Leng Shangshu was sitting at his desk and writing, and there was only the sound of rustling writing in the silent office. Without warning, he threw this question to Su Xiao at the desk next door.
But Su Xiao was scared off the pen in his hand, because Leng Shangshu said it right. It was just a thought that flashed through his mind just now. But I don't know how to be known by him.
"It's nothing." Leng Shangshu didn't stop for a moment, as if he was just talking in his spare time, "Your eyes are flickering, since you saw those villagers, you've been restless, and you can't sit still while writing, and have been peeking outside the door. If I don't know what you're thinking, I can say I'm incompetent."
Although Su Xiao was surprised, he knew that there were many different people in the world, and Teacher Leng in front of him was also one of the six masters of the country. It is not too much to have such skills.
"Teacher, since you are very observant, why are you not willing to help them more? That aunt lost her husband, and as they said, this matter is related to the Shuntian government yamen, and we should inquire about it anyway. The student just checked the past. In this case, the Ministry of Punishment did not fail to take over the past cases of people suing officials. The students thought that…”
"Xiaohan, remember your identity."
Leng Shangshu cut off Su Xiao's words, although his tone was light, but there was a kind of majesty that forced people to come.
"You are my subordinate, my student, and should not question my decision."
Chapter 28
Leng Shangshu's speech has always been simple. It's not that he doesn't bother to say more, but that everything should be so simple in his opinion.
His words are the conclusion.
It is not a negotiable plan, but a conclusion that requires all subordinates to implement it with one heart and one heart.
As a subordinate, if you don't understand my decision, you should find a way to understand it. If you don't understand it anyway, it means that I don't give you the qualification to know the inside story - Su Xiao seems to have heard such an overtone in his indifferent short two sentences.
—This person… looks a bit like Big Brother Ming.
Strictly speaking, Leng Shangshu and Ming Feizhen have completely different personalities. On the contrary, not much to say that the cold appearance is somewhat similar to Tang Ye. But apart from many differences, Ming Feizhen and Leng Shangshu are very similar in one thing - their decision is almost unquestionable.
It is not that the decision itself is flawless, but that once it is questioned, it is bound to be ruthlessly suppressed. Either demotion or force suppression, depending on the content, there will be different punishments.
They seem to have this quality in them that makes it seem like there would be immediate consequences for rejecting their decision.