Chapter 16 The Sixteenth Chapter Six Thousand Gold Buys a Book of Ling Chi's Crime to Drive away the Sangmen Star

It is said that Lao Can hurriedly wanted to ask him what would happen if he voted for Hu Ju's family.Renrui said: "The more anxious you are, the less anxious I am! I still have to take two puffs of cigarettes!" The old man was anxious to hear what he said, so he called: "Cuihuan, hurry up and burn two puffs, let him eat to talk about it." Cuihuan Huan took the stick and burned it.Huang Sheng put his luggage away from the inside, and came out and replied, "Ask his buddy to store their bedding." Renrui nodded.For a moment, seeing the guy who came first, he followed Huang Sheng in.It turns out that there is a rule on the horse's head: all the bedding of a prostitute must be placed by his buddy himself, and his family will never put it for him; Then, if someone else put it, there is nowhere to look for it.

But the man came out after laying down the bedding, and said, "The Cuihuan is burning, what's the matter?" Renrui said, "Then you don't have to worry about it." The old man said, "I know. If you come tomorrow, I will pay you twenty Two silver coins, just do it again." The man said: "It's not for silver, sir, don't worry, it's for tonight." Renrui said, "Don't worry about it, don't you understand?" Cuihua also said "I told you not to worry about it, just go back." The guy went out with his head down. Renrui said to Huang Sheng: "It's getting late, you put more charcoal in the brazier, sit with a pot of boiling water next to it, take out my ink box and pen, take out some red grid and white eight-line scripts and envelopes, and take them out. Put two sticks of wax on the table, and you can go to sleep." Huang Sheng agreed with "Yes" and went to do it.

Ren Ruiyan is also finished here.The old man asked, "How about going to Hu Ju's family?" Renrui said, "This foolish old man in the country, when he saw Hu Ju, he kowtowed to the ground and said, 'If you can save my master, you will be a marquis for thousands of generations! Hu Juren said: "It's not good to be a marquis, you need money to do things. I have had dinner with him in the provincial capital, and I recognize this old man. You first bring a thousand silver, and I will do it for you." My salary is outside." The old man took out a leather boot page from his pocket, took out two 500-one notes, and handed them to Hu Juren, but said: "But if the lawsuit is settled, nothing will happen. No matter how much it costs, I can do it." Hu Juren nodded, and after lunch, he put on his clothes and came to pay homage to Lao Gang. "

Lao Can patted Kang Yan and said: "It's not good!" Renrui said: "This bastard Hu Juren is here. I just asked to see him, and said a few clichés when I saw him. Hu Juren took the thousand silver note Putting his hands together, he said: "This is Jia Wei's family. The Wei family respects the old grandpa. I beg the old grandpa to be more fulfilling."" The old man said: "It must have turned over!" Renrui said: "It's okay to turn over, but it hasn't been turned over." The old man said: "How is it?" After looking at it, he said, "Whose banknote is it reliable?" Hu Juren said, "This is Tongyu's banknote. It is the first big bank in our county. It is reliable." Lao Gang said: "So For a big case, how can one thousand silver do it? Hu Juren said: "The Wei family said that as long as it is settled early and nothing happens, he is willing to spend more." Lao Gang said: "Thirteen lives, one One piece of silver is still worth thirteen thousand taels. Anyway, since the old man came, the brother is willing to halve the calculation, six thousand five hundred taels of silver.' Hu Juren repeatedly agreed: "It can be done, it can be done!"

"Old Gang said again: 'Brother is just an introducer, you can't be a master, please go back and ask him, and you don't need to issue a ticket, just write down clearly: halve the number of sixty-five, and the future is willing to come out. Brother Based on this, the knot will be broken tomorrow.' Hu Juren was very happy, and went out to discuss with the old man in the country. The old man in the country heard that the lawsuit can be settled without incident, so he made a special decision. It's strange; besides, don't want to present money: I happily wrote a voucher of 5500 taels and handed it to Hu Juren, and wrote another voucher of 500 taels as Hu Juren's thank you.

"This bastard Hu Juren wrote a letter and sent the 5,500 taels of proof to the county government office. I just accepted it and gave me a receipt. When I was promoted the next day, the same Prince Jin was interrogated. Zijin didn't know anything about these plots. He sat up in the hall and shouted, "Bring someone". When the man knelt in the hall, Gangbi took out the one thousand taels of silver note, the five thousand five hundred taels of certificate, and the Hu Juren's book from his arms, and handed them to Zijin to read it first. But secretly complained for the father and daughter of the Wei family.

"Gangbi waited for Zijin to read it, so he asked Mr. Wei, "Can you read?" Mr. Wei confessed, "I'm a scholar, so I can read." Then he asked Mrs. Jia Wei, "Can you read?" : "I have studied for several years since I was a child, but I don't know much." Lao Gang asked the messenger to show the bank note and paper to his father and daughter. His father and daughter replied, "I don't know why." Gangbi said: "If you don't understand anything else, you must really understand it; whose handwriting is this certificate, and the name is written on it, don't you recognize it?" Call the police: "You show that old man again!" "Older Wei read it and confessed: "This certificate was written by the manager of the young family, but I don't know why he wrote it."

"Gangbi laughed and said, 'You don't know, you'll know when I tell you! Yesterday a Hu Juren came to worship me, and first gave me a thousand taels of silver, talking about your case, and asked me to find a solution. He also said that if he was excused, he would be willing to ask for more money. I think you two vicious people could have endured the torture the day before yesterday. Why don't you take advantage of the situation to please him? I said to Hu Juren: "Tell him The person in charge went and said that he had killed thirteen lives, even if it was one thousand taels of silver, it should be thirteen thousand taels. Hu Juren said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to produce much for a while." "I said: "As long as he understands in his heart, the money will not matter later.If one thousand taels of silver is refused for one life, even if one life of five hundred taels of silver is cut in half, it should be six thousand five hundred taels, no less. "Hu Juren agreed again and again. I was still afraid of Hu Juren Meng Lang, so I told him again and again to tell you the reason for the half-cut. If you are convinced, ask him to write a proof. It doesn't matter if the money is sooner or later. The next day, Sure enough, I wrote this proof. Let me tell you, I have no grievances with you, why did I frame you? You have to think about it, I am an official of the imperial family, and I am the special commissioner of Futai. Come to help Mr. Wang to try this case. If I get your money and get rid of you, not only will I fail the appointment of Futai, but will the thirteen souls agree to me? I will tell you in detail: If human life is not yours Murderer, why is your family willing to spend several thousand taels of silver to deal with it? This is the first evidence. I spent 6,500 taels here, and I don’t know how much it was spent elsewhere. It wasn't your fault. I told him that based on five hundred taels per life, it should be six thousand five hundred taels. Your person in charge should say: "It's really not my family's fault. All can be done, but the number of 6,500 taels is not dared to agree. "Why did he have no doubts, so he settled the account according to five hundred taels of life? It's the second evidence. I advise you to confess sooner or later, lest you suffer from many torture tools."

"The father and daughter kowtowed repeatedly and said, 'Master Qingtian! You are really wronged!' Gangbi slapped the table and said angrily, 'I'm going to enlighten you like this, or don't do it, and fight for me again?'" The guard agreed like a thunderbolt, and he fell on the hall with a stick, shaking his head. "Just as the execution was about to be executed, Gangbi said again: "Wait a minute, the executioner will come up, and I will tell you." Several servants walked up a few steps, knelt down on one leg, and shouted: "Please show me, my lord." Gangbi said :'I know all your tricks: you see that the case is not important, if you get the money, the punishment will be lighter, so that the prisoner will not suffer much; Suddenly, the prisoner was put to death in the same room, and his whole body was completed. This officer has another punishment of severe punishment: I know everything about it. Today, beat Jia Wei for me, just don't make him faint. If you see that his expression is not good, let him loosen the sentence, wait for him to recover and then beat him, and prepare for ten days, no matter what kind of hero you are, I am not afraid that you will not recruit!'

"Poor Jia Wei, within two days, he really couldn't stand it anymore. He was so weeping, and he couldn't bear the torture of his father, so he said: 'There is no need to use torture, I will recruit! I murdered him, father. I really don't know!" Gangbi said: "Why did you harm his whole family?" Why did you poison his family?" Wei Shi said: "I wanted to kill him alone, but I had no choice but to put the poison in the mooncake stuffing. Because he prefers to eat mooncakes, let him be poisoned to death first." , others will not be harmed again.” Gang Bi asked: “What kind of poison did you put in the mooncake stuffing?” Cong: “It’s arsenic.” “Where did the arsenic come from?” Cong: “It’s in the pharmacy I bought it.''Where did you buy it from the pharmacy?''I never went to the street and asked someone to buy it, so I don't know which pharmacy it is.' Ask: 'Who did you ask to buy it?' The dead long-term worker Wang Er." Ask: "Since Wang Er bought it for you, why is he willing to eat this moon cake and was poisoned to death?" Confession: "When I asked him to buy arsenic, he only said it was poisonous rat So he doesn't know.' Question: 'You said your father didn't know about it, do you have anything to discuss with him?' Confession: 'I bought this arsenic at my husband's house, and I bought it for many days. I just wanted to take this opportunity to let it go In my aunt’s eating bowl, there is no gap for a few days. It happened that I went back to my mother’s house that day, watched them make moon cake fillings, and asked them what they used. They said it was a gift for my family, and they mixed arsenic into the fillings while filling them in.'

"Gangbi nodded and said: 'Yes, yes.' He asked again: 'I think you are very straightforward, and the recruiting is not bad. It's just that I heard people say that you treat you fairly and very harshly, yes. Just?" Wei said: "My father-in-law treats me as kindly as my own daughter, there is nothing more generous." Gangbi said: "Your father-in-law is dead anyway, why do you protect him?" After hearing this, Wei said, He raised his head, raised his willow eyebrows, opened his almond eyes, and shouted: "Master Gang! You just want to accuse me of being a Lingchi! Now I have fulfilled your wish. Even if you killed your father-in-law, you will always be a Lingchi!" Why do you have to sit around and kill yourself? You have children in your family too! I advise you to back off!" Gangbi said with a smile: "As for the truth of being an official, it should be investigated; So, first let him paint this confession.'” Besides, Huang Renrui said: "This happened two days ago, and now he still has to plot against that old man. Yesterday I was eating in the county government office, and the prince was so angry that he couldn't speak. Once he opened his mouth, it seemed that he had won over the Wei family." Like silver, Li Taizun here also feels that this case is inappropriate, but he has no way to think about it, unless he can get Bai Zishou to come to the discussion. This plague has just claimed to be clean, and Bai Taizun's cleanliness is probably worse than him Be more reliable. Bai Zishou's character and knowledge are admired by everyone, and he dare not despise him, let alone someone who can subdue him. It's just that it will be detailed in a day or two, and Kung Pao's temper is impatient. It's hard to find a way to go out. It's just that there is no way to get in front of Gongbao. All of us must avoid suspicion. I saw my brother yesterday, and I was so happy from the bottom of my heart. Please think of a way." The old man said: "I don't have a long-term plan either. However, this kind of thing is so urgent that it can't be considered completely. Only in this situation, I will write a detailed letter to Gong Bao, and ask Gong Bao to send Bai Taizun to review. As for this matter If the cannon doesn’t go off, then we can’t care about it. There are many wrongdoings in the world, but in our eyes, it’s enough to do everything for him.” Renrui said: “I admire, I admire. It’s not too late. The pen, ink and paper are all ready, old man, please start writing. Cuihuan, go and light candles and make tea." After concentrating on it for a while, Lao Can sat down in Renrui's room.Cuihuan also lit the foreign candles.Lao Can opened the ink cartridge, pulled out the pen, laid out the paper, and began to write with the pen.Unexpectedly, the ink box was frozen like a stone, and the pen was also frozen like a date stone, and I couldn't write half of it.Cuihuan held the ink box to the brazier to offer, and Lao Can held the pen in his hand, warming it towards the brazier while thinking.After half an hour, white gas came out of the ink cartridge, and the lower half was closed. The old man dipped in the ink and wrote, wrote two lines, and baked it. In less than half an hour, the letter was written and covered, and he planned to ask Renrui. , the letter has been written, who will send it to?He said to Cuihuan: "You invite Master Huang to come in." Cuihuan lifted the door curtain of the room, laughed "Ge Ge", and shouted in a low voice: "Old Tie, come and see!" Lao Can looked out and saw that Huang Renrui was in the south, with a pipe in his hands and his head tilted On the pillow, there was a saliva three or four inches long in the mouth, but a wolf fur mattress was covered on the legs; look at the other side, Cuihua was sleeping on the tiger skin blanket, with both feet tucked inside the clothes, and two hands. Chao was in the sleeves, but his head was not on the pillow, half of his face was tucked into the lapel of his clothes, and half of his face was leaning against the sleeves. Both of them were soundly asleep. Lao Can looked at it and said: "This is not necessary, call them up quickly!" Lao Can patted Renrui and said, "Wake up, you will get sick!" Eye said: "Heh, heh! Is the letter finished?" Lao Can said, "It's done." Renrui struggled to sit up.I saw the stream of saliva by my mouth rolling from the sleeve into the cigarette tray, and fell into several pieces. It turned out that it had been turned into a strip of ice for a long time!When Lao Can was patting Renrui, Cuihuan came to Cuihua's side, first touched his clothes and pulled his feet away.Cuihua woke up startled, and shouted: "Who, who, who?" Rubbing her eyes quickly, she shouted: "I'm freezing to death!" When they got up, they both rushed to the brazier to warm up, but they didn't know that there was no charcoal in the brazier, only a layer of white ash remained, a few embers of fire, but there was still heat.Cuihuan said: "The brazier in the room is booming. Let's warm it up in the room." Then the four of them went to the inner room together.Cuihua looked at the bedding, and found that three parts of it had been spread out neatly. Then she went to see what was sent from the county, but it turned out to be a blue lake crepe quilt, a red lake crepe quilt, two large woolen mattresses, and a pillow.Pointing to the old man, "Do you see this bedding?" The old man said, "It's better." Then he said to Renrui, "The letter is finished, please take a look. While warming the fire, Renrui took the letter, read it from beginning to end, and said, "It's very real. I think it should work." The old man said, "How do I send it?" Look at the watch and say: "four clocks, wait another moment, it's dawn, I'll ask the county to send someone." The old man said: "people in the county get up late, so it's better to discuss with the store after dawn and hire someone It's better to go. It's just that the river is hard to cross." Renrui said: "There were people running around in the river last night, so it's very convenient to cross the river alone." Everyone chatted casually. Two or three o'clock is very easy to pass, and before you know it, the East has already understood itself.Renrui called Huang Sheng and asked him to discuss with the store and hire someone to deliver the letter to the provincial capital, saying, "It's only forty miles away. If it's delivered before noon, if you get the receipt in the afternoon, I'll give you ten taels of silver." For a moment, a guy from the store said, "This is my brother. If the old man delivers letters, he can go. He has delivered letters a few times, and he is quite good at it. He dares to go in even when he is in the yamen. Please don't worry, the old man." At that time, Renrui gave him the application for going to Futai, and he packed up and delivered it. Here Renrui said: "We should sleep now." Huang and Tie slept on the two sides, Er Cui slept in the middle, and they fell asleep in a short while, and when they woke up, it was already the time of noon card.Cuihua had already been waiting in front of him, picked up his two sisters, rolled up the bedding, and left together.Renrui said: "I will send their sister and son here in the evening. We will not send anyone to call here." The man agreed "yes" and went with them.Cuihuan turned her head and said with tears in her eyes, "Don't forget!" Ren Rui smiled and nodded. The two wash their faces.Have lunch after a short rest.After dinner, it had been more than two minutes before Renrui went to the county office and said, "If you have a reply, call me." The old man said, "Yes, please go ahead." After Renrui left, less than an hour later, the store owner saw the person delivering the letter, sweating profusely, enter the store, took out a horse seal from his arms, and opened it with a big purple flower seal, and there were two letters in it: one was Zhuang Gongbao wrote it himself, and the characters were bigger than walnuts; one was a letter from Yuan Ximing on the inner copy, saying: "Bai Taizun is now in Tai'an, and he will send someone to represent him, and he will arrive in about five or seven days." He also said: "Gongbao Shen I hope Your Excellency will wait for two days, and discuss everything after Bai Taizun arrives." Yun Yun.Lao Can looked at it, and said to the messenger: "You rest, come to receive the reward in the evening. Call Huang Erye to come." The shopkeeper said: "I went into the Yamen with Huang Dao." Lao Can thought: "Who will deliver this letter?" How about going? Why don’t you go and walk in person.” He sued the shopkeeper, locked the door, and threw himself into the county government office. After entering the gate, I saw that there were many people coming in and out, so I knew there was something to do.After entering the gate of the instrument, I saw that the hall was very gloomy, with many guards standing on both sides.Concentrating on it for a while, he thought, "Why don't I go up and have a look, what's the case?" Standing behind the guard, I couldn't see it. I just heard the hall yelling: "Mr. Jiawei, you must understand that your own death penalty is irreversible, but you try your best to excuse your father, saying that he didn't know about it. This is your filial piety. This county There is no one who can't fulfill you. But if you don't recruit your adulterer, your father's life will not be saved. You think, your adulterer's idea has caused you to be so miserable. If he hides far away and doesn't even give you a bowl of rice, this person's friendship is very thin, but you refuse to recruit him to the death, and instead make your biological father bear the death penalty for him. The saint said "Everyone is the husband, but the father is the only one." The original husband, for the sake of the father, even if he doesn't care about him, let alone a man with a good friend! I advise you to recruit a good man." Only sobbing.He heard the hall shout again: "Aren't you recruiting? If you don't recruit, I will be executed again!" Then I heard a few words spoken in a half breath, but nothing came out.I only heard the hall yelling: "What did he say?" A scribe went up and replied: "Jia Wei said that it is his own business, how the old man pays, how he recruits; tell him to fabricate an adulterer, The truth cannot be fabricated." He also heard the hall slap the startled hall and scolded: "This whore is really cunning! Squeeze!" The infinite people in the hall yelled "Gah", only a few people ran up and threw their slaps to the ground As soon as it fell, there was a sound of "Huo Chuo", which was soul-stirring. Hearing this, Lao Can was furious, and regardless of the seriousness of the court, he separated the policeman standing in the hall with his hands, and shouted: "Stand away! Let me go!" The policeman flashed.When Lao Can walked to the middle, he saw a messenger holding Jia Wei's hair in one hand, and raised his head, and two messengers were grabbing his hands and slapping him.The old man walked up, pulled the messenger, and said, "Stop!" Then he swaggered up to the Nuan Pavilion and saw two people sitting on the public case. I bowed. Seeing that he is old and disabled, the son hurriedly stood up.But Gangbi didn't recognize him, didn't get up, and shouted: "Who are you? Dare to disturb the court! Pull him down!" I don't know what happened to the old disabled after being dragged down, and let's listen to the next chapter.