The red sun is westward.
Sun Shaozong reviewed the confessions of a pair of incestuous aunts and nephews, and handed them back to Sun Chengye for collection. He poured two more sips of refreshing strong tea, and then raised his voice: "The next one!"
"Uncle Thirteen."
Sun Chengye hurriedly reminded in a low voice: "The eleven cases you selected before have now been broken."
"It's all over?"
Sun Shaozong was stunned for a moment, and then heaved a sigh of relief. After the whole day of trial, although there were no difficult cases, the disputes that were constantly being sorted out and messed up were enough to make people head.
Rubbing his aching eyebrows, he stood up and tossed his sleeves. Sun Chengye immediately called out in a timely manner, "Retire..."
Who would have thought that the word 'Tang' had not yet been spoken, and the drum of injustice was heard outside the door.
These eleven cases have been concluded, so how come there are still people beating drums outside the door
Could it be that something big happened by chance
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong hurriedly took his seat after the public case again, and ordered the yamen to bring the person who beat the drum and complained to the court.
Not long after, two yamen officers led a person in with strange expressions, but it turned out to be an eleven- or twelve-year-old boy.
The young man was brought to this court, facing dozens of eyes, he didn't even have the slightest stage fright, he stepped forward and knelt properly, holding a piece of paper in both hands, and said crisply: "Qingtian, Master Qingtian. , Li Xian, a small man, has grievances to sue!"
Sun Shaozong winked, and immediately someone stepped forward to take the paper and present it to the koan.
Sun Shaozong picked up the paper and swept it through, only to see that the boy not only wanted to avenge his grievance, but even brought it along and sued Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County!
The story goes like this. This young man Li Xian and his father Li Sheng were originally from Dengzhou City, Henan Province. Li Xian's mother died of illness two years ago, and he went to Beijing with his father Li Sheng to make a living.
A few days ago, the rice shop opened by Li Sheng was going to temporarily borrow a hundred taels of silver from his friend Chen Xu because of the short-term turnover, in order to tide over the current difficulties.
Originally, the two had agreed to meet in the Li family's rice shop in the evening.
Unexpectedly, at night, Li Sheng was waiting in the shop, but Chen Xu didn't come to the door with silver. In a hurry, he led the man to the Chen family.
Who knew that only Chen Xu's wife Chang was at home, and Chen Xu was not seen - and according to Chen Xu's wife Chang, Chen Xu had already gone out with money.
In this way, Li Sheng and Chang's searched together for three days, but the result was that no one was alive or dead.
Who would have thought that Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County, who did not know how to investigate the case, actually determined that Li Sheng had an affair with the Chang family, and that they had secretly murdered Chen Xu.
Putting the paper back on the table, Sun Shaozong said loudly: "Li Xian, you said that your father and the Chang family were both beaten by Wanping County. What proof do you have?"
"Go back to the words of the adults."
Then Li Xian didn't have any stage fright, he straightened his back and cupped his hands and said, "If it wasn't a trick, why has it been four days since my father and Aunt Chen confessed, but Uncle Chen's body has never been found in Wanping County?"
This is really true. Since Li Sheng and Chang Shi have already pleaded guilty, why do they continue to conceal the whereabouts of the corpse? So there must be something wrong with this!
Moreover, Xu Huaizhi did not make a mistake in the case once or twice.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong immediately ordered someone to take his famous post and go to Wanping County Yatina, Li Sheng and Chang Shi, to come to the court for interrogation.
After the sergeant took his orders, Sun Shaozong was very interested, held the complaint in his hand, and asked, "Li Xian, who wrote this complaint?"
"Go back to the old man's words."
Li Xian cupped his hands and said, "It was written by Xiaomin himself."
"But listen to someone else's dictation?"
"No, the above are all the thoughts of the common people."
tsk~
Although there are some problems in the format of this complaint, the content is clear and coherent. If the young man did not lie, he could really be called a 'prodigy'.
And Sun Shaozong always felt that the word 'Li Xian' seemed to have been heard somewhere.
The Li Sheng and the Chang Shi on the left and right would also take a while to be present, so Sun Shaozong simply sat in the hall to test this young man Li Xianlai.
Although Li Xian didn't know why, he also knew that his father's life and death were in the hands of Sun Shaozong at this time, so he tried his best to deal with it, and he talked freely without a trace of timidity.
Later, even Sun Chengye became interested, and took the test of the junior's knowledge of some classics and history.
In the end, Sun Chengye couldn't help admiring in private, saying that when he was 12 or 13 years old, he definitely did not have such courage and insight.
Ignoring the comparison of courage, this young man's intellect is truly extraordinary.
After about half an hour like this, I saw two prisoners coming in horizontally and vertically.
The horizontal one was Li Sheng who was lying on a stretcher. Seeing his skeleton and bloodied appearance, he knew that he had suffered a lot in Wanping County.
The vertical one was naturally Mr. Chang who walked in. He saw that this woman was quite romantic. Although she had a look of fear on her face, her actions were still neat.
It seems that Xu Huaizhi is still a master of 'patriarchal over women'.
"Father! You... are you all right?!"
Seeing his father's appearance, Li Xian hurriedly took a few steps forward on his knees, reaching out to touch Li Sheng's cheek, but he was afraid of hurting him, so he was choked up and speechless, and the tears were dripping down.
When Li Sheng saw his son kneeling in the court, he couldn't help being taken aback.
Li Xian wiped away his tears and said sternly: "My boy heard that Mr. Zhi Zhong Sun was in the court today to inquire about the case, so he wrote a petition and came to seek grievance. Daddy can rest assured that if Mr. Sun is involved in this case, he will definitely be able to..."
slap~
Hearing the sound of a jingle interrupting the relationship between the father and son, Sun Shaozong said solemnly after the case: "Li Sheng, this is not a place for your father and son to chat, what happened on the day Chen Xu disappeared? You come true."
As he spoke, he instructed again, "Take Mr. Chang down first, and then try again."
This approach is naturally to prevent the two from colluding in court.
Not mentioning how Mr. Chang was taken out of the door, he said that when Li Sheng heard this, he remembered his full of grievances, and hurriedly said: "Master, master, the villain is really wronged and wronged!"
Seeing that he only wanted to complain, Sun Shaozong raised his gavel and was about to scold him, but Li Xian, next to him, quickly stopped his father, and whispered: "Dad doesn't need to complain, just tell the scene of the day, the adults have a clear lesson."
Li Sheng stopped crying and started from the beginning.
However, he said that he had been in the account room behind the rice shop since that day at [6 o'clock in the evening], waiting for Chen Xu to bring the silver over, but until Hai Shi [9 o'clock in the evening], there was still no trace of Chen Xu.
Thinking that someone would come to collect the bill tomorrow, Li Sheng couldn't help himself, so he called Zhou Feng, the guy who stayed behind in the rice shop, and hurriedly found the Chen family.
"At that time, the little man was afraid that Brother Chen didn't want to lend me money, so he deliberately missed the appointment, so he played a trick and asked Zhou Feng to come and call."
"Who knew that after the younger brother and sister of the Chen family opened the door, they said that Brother Chen took the money to go out early in the morning."
"We were in a hurry, so we gathered together to look for it along the way, but we never found any trace of Brother Chen. Later, we had to report to the Wanping County Office."
"Who knew that the county magistrate didn't know how to investigate, but it was said that I had an affair with the younger brother and sister of the Chen family. After assassinating my brother Chen, I went to the county government thief to call for the thief to catch the thief-and tortured the villain well, but the villain had to be beaten as a trick. "
"In the past few days, the magistrate has been asking the villain where he buried Brother Chen's body, but the villain... The villain has never had any bad thoughts on Brother Chen, so how can he know where his corpse was buried?"
Having said that, Li Shengzhi cried out in grief.
Sun Shaozong calmly pondered what he said in his heart, and then ordered Mrs. Chang to be brought to the hall and inquired, " Mrs. Chang, Li Sheng said that he was beaten by Wanping County, but you looked at it but never experienced it. What kind of punishment, how can you also confess the guilt."
"Go back... Go back to the words of the master."
Na Chang timidly said: "The tragic state of Big Brother Li's torture, all the little girls saw it, really... I really didn't dare to try it, so I had to rush to recognize it."
For a timid woman, this is true.
Sun Shaozong nodded and asked again, "What did you do that night?"
"Go back to the words of the master."
Chang continued timidly: "After my husband went out with the money that night, the little girl kept waiting at home until she heard someone shouting from outside the door and went to the door to inquire about it, and then she realized that my husband had disappeared. "
This Chang's description is really too simple, and there is not much information for analysis at all.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong first asked Chen Xu when he left home, as well as what he was wearing, and then calmly set up a routine: "What did Li Sheng say when he called the door? You go out and see what's strange about his expression. "
Li Sheng opened his mouth to speak when he heard this, but Sun Shaozong suppressed it with sharp eyes.
That Chang frowned and recalled for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's not the door that Big Brother Li called, it seems that the guy in his shop called the little girl outside to talk to him. As for the expression..."
"and many more!"
Before Chang could finish his sentence, Sun Shaozong suddenly asked, "You said that the shop assistant called you over to talk to you? What exactly did he call? You should study it carefully!"
Chang Shi was a little puzzled, but he still pressed his voice and called out in a man's tone: "Chen's wife, is Chen's wife at home?"
Then he said again: "That's what he shouted. The slave responded to the courtyard, and the guy asked again: 'I have an appointment with Mr. Chen, but why is he so late?'"
"The little girl said that the husband had already gone out, and only then did the elder brother of the Li family talk to him outside."
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong looked at Li Sheng again, and Li Sheng hurriedly pecked the chicken on the head as if he was pecking at the rice, and said, "It's just like that."
"Ha ha… "
Sun Shaozong immediately sneered and murmured: "This thief has revealed his clues!"
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