Chapter 18 The Eighteenth Chapter Bai Taishou Talks and Laughs Shi Qiyuan

It is said that the prince rushed to the river, when Bai Taizun had already walked over the ice.Zijin handed over the hand version, rushed to the front to greet him, and said, "Your Excellency, it's hard work."Bai Gong replied and said: "Why do you have to pick it up? Brother will naturally go to your yamen to pay his respects." Zi Jin repeatedly said "I dare not". There is a tea shed by the river, hung with colored silk.At that time, I was asked to sit in the tea shed.Bai Gong asked, "Has Mr. Tie left?" Zi Jin replied, "Not yet. Because I'm afraid there will be something to say when the adults come. I just came here at Tie Gong's humble position." Bai Gong nodded and said, "Very kind. It is inconvenient for me to go to pay my respects at this moment, for fear of arousing the suspicion of Mr. Gang." After taking a sip of tea, the sedan chairs and deacons prepared by the county were already ready, so Bai Gong took the sedan chair and went to the county office.Raising the flag and firing cannons, playing music and opening the door are all unavoidable.You can go to the office and let you live in Xihua hall.

Gang Bi had already put on his hat and clothes, and when Bai Gong came in, he would see you with the hands-on book.After the meeting, Baigong asked in detail about Wei Jia's case and how to ask the law.Gang Bi told them one by one, quite complacently, and said, "I don't know who to listen to the nonsense in the letter from Gongbao. According to the humble official, the situation of this case has become an iron case. There is no doubt about it. But this old Wei is quite Qian Wen, sent a thousand silver to the lowly official, and the lowly official came to collect it, so he bought someone to go to the Gongbao office to stir up black and white. I heard that there was a doctor who sold medicine, got a lot of silver from him, and sent a letter to the Gongbao. This doctor got it. Yinzi, I bought a prostitute at that time and was still living outside the city. I heard that if this case is really turned over, I will thank him for thousands of silver, so this doctor will not leave and wait for Xie Yi. It seems that this person should also Bring up the case. Find out this person's stolen evidence, and add another layer of evidence." Bai Gong said: "What I saw is very true. But brother, I have to go through the whole case tonight, and tomorrow I will go through the case. Bring the testimonials, and then make a reason. Or you can actually follow the elder brother's judgment. You can see that at this moment, you dare not be prejudiced. Like the elder brother, he is smart and upright. If he has a plan in advance, there will be no disadvantages. The brother's qualifications are very poor. I have no choice but to discuss the matter as it stands, carefully reasoning, not daring to say that there is nothing wrong with it, but it is a blessing to have few faults." After finishing speaking, he went on to gossip about the scenery in the province.

After dinner, Bai Gong went back to his room, carefully read the whole case twice, and sent out a list to bring it up tomorrow.At the time of the next day's card, the door reported: "The people have all been submitted. Please tell me: do you sit in the hall later this afternoon, or get up early tomorrow?" Three seats are enough." Gang and Wang Erjun hurried up to greet him, and said, "My lord, please do your own thing. I don't dare to jury for lowly ranks. I fear there may be something wrong, so I should avoid it." Bai Gongdao: "Say what's there. My brother is dull, and I can't take care of him mentally, and I am expecting the two brothers to tear up." The two dare not be too modest.

Stop for a moment, the hall is complete, and the manuscript is signed on the door to ask for promotion.All three of them came out dressed and sat in the lobby.Bai Gong held up the red pen, and the first one went to the plaintiff, Jia Gan.They sent someone to bring Jia Gan to him and knelt down in the hall.Bai Gong asked: "Your name is Jia Gan?" The bottom answered: "Yes." Bai Gong asked: "Are you ten years old?" The answer: "Sixteen." Birth, or inheritance?" Answer: "It was originally a nephew of the imperial court, inherited through the house." Ask: "When did you inherit it?" Answer: "Because the late father was killed and died the next day, no one was born. Clothes, the ones who will be accepted by the clan will be considered as successors."

Bai Gong asked again: "Did you come when the county magistrate inspected it?" Encoffined." Asked: "What color is the face of the dead when he is encoffined?" Answered: "White branched, the same as the dead." Asked: "Is there any bruising?" Answer: "I didn't see it." Question: "Aren't the joints stiff?" The answer: "It's not stiff." Question: "It's not stiff, have you ever touched your chest for heat?" Answer: "Someone touched it, and said there is no heat." Question: "Moon cakes There is arsenic in it, when did you know about it?" Answer: "You found out the day after you were encoffined." Ask: "Who saw it?" Answer: "My sister saw it." Ask: "How did your sister know that there is arsenic in it?" Is there arsenic?" Answer: "I didn't know there was arsenic in it, but I suspected that there was something wrong with the moon cake, so I opened it up for a closer look, and when I saw some pink hairs, I asked someone to ask. Someone said it was arsenic, so I went to the pharmacy. If you look closely, it is also said to be arsenic, so you know you have been poisoned by arsenic."

Bai Gong said: "Understood. Go down!" He flicked the ink brush a little more, and said: "Come here from Simeizhai." He sent someone to bring it.Bai Gong asked: "What's your name? Who are you from Simeizhai?" He replied: "The villain is called Wang Futing, and he is the shopkeeper of Simeizhai." Asked: "Wei's custom-made moon cakes, how many catties did you make in total? "Answer: "I made twenty catties." Question: "Is the stuffing sent by the Wei family?" " Said: "The order is twenty catties, and eighty-three have been made." Ask: "Is the moon cake he ordered, is it one kind of filling? Are there two kinds of filling?" Answer: "One kind, both are rock sugar Sesame and walnut kernels.” Question: “How many kinds of fillings do you sell in your store?” Answer: “Several kinds.” Question: “Do you have frozen sesame walnut kernels?” Answer: “Yes.” Ask Ask: "The stuffed stuffing in your store is better than the stuffing in his house?" Answer: "It's better in his house." Ask: "What's the advantage?" Answer: "The villain doesn't know, just listen to it." The secretary of the moon cakes said that the ingredients of his house are better, and the taste is more fragrant and sweet than ours." Bai Gong said: "But the secretary in your shop has tasted it first, don't you think it is poisonous?" He replied: "I don't think so. .”

Bai Gong said: "Got it. Go down!" Then he tapped the ink pen and said, "Take Wei Qian." Wei Qian walked up, kowtowed and said, "My lord! You are wronged!" Bai Gong said: "I don't ask you. I am not wronged! Listen to what I ask you! If I don’t ask you, you are not allowed to say it!” The yamen servants on both sides gave a loud “crack”. Officer, what do you think is the reason for this?Whenever the government sits in the hall, these yamen servants will shout loudly, called "Shouting Tangwei", and if the prisoner is frightened unconscious, he can confess indiscriminately. I don't know which dynasty passed down the rule, but it is ten The eight provinces are all one professor.Today Wei Qian is the defendant and the murderer, so he wants to call out his authority and scare him.

Let’s gossip, but said that Bai Gong asked Wei Qian: "How many moon cakes did you order?" He replied: "Twenty catties." Asked: "How many catties did you give to Jia's family?" Answer: "Eight catties." Asked: " Did you give it away to someone else?" Answer: "I gave four catties to my youngest son's husband's family." Ask: "What about the other eight catties?" Answer: "My family ate it." Ask: "Whoever has eaten moon cakes?" Is there anyone here?" Answer: "Everyone in the family shares, and now there is no one who is not a mooncake eater." Bai Gong said to the messenger: "Check it out, how many people are like Wei Qian? Those who come, pass it on to the church.”

For a while, an elderly man knelt down, and two middle-aged men knelt down.The messenger reported back: "This is a steward and two long-term workers of the Wei family." Bai Gong asked, "Do you all eat moon cakes?" Tell me how many you have." The steward said, "I divided four, and I ate two, and there are two left." The long-term worker said, "Everyone divided two, and we finished eating that day." Baigong asked the steward He asked: "When did you eat the remaining two moon cakes?" He replied: "Before I ate them, this case came out. It was said that the moon cakes were poisonous, so I didn't dare to eat them again. I kept them as a witness." " Baigong said: "Okay, have you brought it?" Answer: "Bring it, it's at the bottom." Baigong said: "Very good." Ask someone to bring it with him.He also said: "Wei Qian and the long-term workers will all go down." Then he asked the scribe: "Have you submitted the half-moon cake with arsenic the day before yesterday?" The scribe replied: "The case is in the warehouse." .”

All of a sudden, the messenger brought the steward and the two moon cakes to the court, and the half moon cake in the warehouse was also mentioned.Bai Gong sent a message to Wang Futing of Simeizhai. On the one hand, he checked the two kinds of mooncakes in detail, and showed them to Gang and Wang Ergong, and said, "The skin color of these two mooncakes is indeed the same. He promised: "Yes." At that time, Wang Futing of Simeizhai had already brought it to the hall. Bai Gong broke open a mooncake and handed it over, asking him to examine it, and asked, "Did the Wei family ask you to order it?" Wang Futing looked carefully, He replied, "That's right, it's custom-made by my family." Bai Gong said, "Wang Futing asks him to go back as a bond."

Bai Gong looked at the half of the broken moon cake carefully in the hall, and said to Gang Bi: "Brother Sheng Mu, please take a closer look. The filling of this moon cake is made of rock sugar, sesame seeds and walnut kernels, and they are all oily. The arsenic made in stuffing will naturally bond with other things. You can see that this arsenic was added later, and it will never bond with other things. Besides, according to Si Meizhai, there is only one kind of stuffing. Today I will use this Looking closely at the two kinds of stuffing, except for the addition of arsenic, they are indeed the same on the outside and inside. Since they are the same stuffing, if someone else eats it, it will be the death of Jia's family. It can't be seen from the moon cakes. If there is soup, you can also put the poison after it. Add it in; the moon cake is a thing, and the skin is dry and hard, so there is no reason to add it. What does Er Gong think?" Both leaned forward and said, "Yes." Bai Gong said again: "Since there is no poison in the moon cake, the father and daughter of the Wei family are innocent people, and they can be ordered to close the case." But he couldn't say anything, so he agreed with "Yes". Bai Gong immediately took Wei Qian with him, and said: "Our government has verified that there is no poison in the moon cakes. Your father and daughter are innocent. You can conclude the case and go home." Wei Qian kowtowed a few times and went . Bai Gong asked Jia Gan to come up again.Jia Gan was a useless person at first, but his sister sent him to come forward. Seeing that the Wei family father and daughter have been released from the case today, I feel a little flustered; I heard that he was sent, not only that he can't say what his predecessors taught him. Even the person who taught him didn't know where he started teaching at this moment. Jia Gan came to the hall, and Bai Gong said: "Jia Gan, since you have inherited your dead father as your son, you should study carefully how these twelve people died; if you can't do anything yourself, you should ask others; why did you put the moon cakes on the table?" Put arsenic in it to frame good people? There must be bad people to instigate you. Tell the truth, who taught you to make a false accusation. Don’t you know that there is a law against sitting down?” Jia Gan hurriedly kowtowed, trembling with fright , crying and said: "I don't know! My sister asked me to make it! The arsenic in the cake was also discovered by my sister and told me, and I don't know about the rest." Baigong said: "According to what you said, If your sister comes to court, the case of arsenic will not come out?" Jia Gan just kowtowed. Baigong laughed and said: "You are lucky to have met me. If I were a shrewd and capable committee member, the moon cake case would be solved, and the arsenic case would be turned upside down. But I don't like to easily bring women to court. Go back and tell you Sister, as my government said, the arsenic must have been added later. I am not in a hurry to find out who added it, because the thirteen lives of your family are a big mystery, and we must investigate to find out. Therefore, the matter of adding arsenic has to be postponed for the time being, what do you think?" Jia Wu repeatedly kowtowed and said, "It's up to the Lord to decide." Bai Gong said: "If that's the case, ask him to make a statement, and let him make a case for him. " When he was about to go down, he shouted again: "If you continue to mess around, I will investigate your case of adding arsenic and false accusations!" Jia Qianlian said: "Don't dare, dare not!" He went down to the hall. Here Baigong said to Wang Zijin: "Does your county police have more detailed ones?" Zijin agreed: "It's okay to have Xu Liang." , more than forty years old, has not yet had a beard. As soon as he went to the case, he knelt down and said, "Send Xu Liang to kowtow." Another case?You are limited to one month to report your life, and you are not allowed to use the power of an official.If you use this trick to cheat, you will be put to death! Xu Liang kowtowed and said, "Don't dare." " At that time, the prince marked the ticket and handed it to Xu Liang.Bai Gong said again: "All the previous witnesses, without bail, will be released by the whole bank." He reversed the case casually, found two papers in Wei Qian's pen, and said, "Let Wei Qian come up again." Bai Gongdao: "Wei Qian, do you want the bank notes sent by your manager?" You. The government wants to borrow this thousand silver note, but it is not for me. It is stored in the warehouse for the time being. It is still the case of the Jia family, so I have to use the ax first. Once the case is found out, the government will return to Futai. I still have to return it to you." Wei Qian even said, "I am willing, I am willing." He collected the paper and went down to the court. Bai Gong handed over the thousand silver note to the clerk, went to the bank to fetch the silver, and paid with the official document of the government.Turning back, he smiled at Gangbi and said, "Brother Shengmu, you can't help laughing at brother accepting bribes in court?" Gangbi said repeatedly, "I dare not." However, everyone in Qihe County knows about this big case. The Bai Taizun arrived yesterday, and today it was reported that both the Jia and Wei families planned to stay for at least ten days and a half months. They knew that the case was closed in less than an hour, and word of mouth spread along the way. Spray praise. But Baigong retreated to the flower hall, stepped over the threshold, and only heard a big chiming clock in the middle, which was clanging twelve times, as if to welcome him.The prince followed him in and said, "Please take off your clothes and eat." Bai Gong said, "I'm not busy." Seeing that Gangbi followed in, he said, "Please take a seat, my brother, I have something to say." people sit down.Baigong asked Gangbi, "Brother, is this case justifiable or not?" Gangbi said, "Your Excellency makes a clear decision, and you can't be wrong. It's just that the humble general doesn't understand: the Wei family has no disadvantages, so why are they willing to spend money?" What? I have never given anyone a single penny in my life.” Bai Gong laughed loudly and said: "My brother has never given money to others, so why would he honor you when he comes on stage? It can be seen that not all people in the world are blind to money. Honest people are the most admirable people. There is only one temper No, he always thinks that everyone in the world is a villain, and he alone is a gentleman. This idea is the most harmful, and it has caused the world's major events to do so much harm! My brother also commits this problem, so don't blame my brother for speaking bluntly. As for the Wei family spending money, It's not surprising that he is ignorant of countrymen." He said to Zijin: "The official case is over now, but it seems that someone will take our two business cards and invite Tiegong to come in and have a seat." He smiled and said to Gang Bi said: "Brother Sheng Mu, don't you know this man? It's the drug seller you just mentioned. His surname is Tie, his name is Ying, and his name is Bucan. Human. My brother even treats him as a villain, so I say it is too much." Gangbi said: "Could it be the 'old and disabled' that was passed down in the province? Is that him?" Bai Gong said: "That's not it!" He donates an official, recommends him, he doesn't want it, is he the one who ran away in the middle of the night?" Bai Gong said: "How dare you. Your Excellency will bring him up for interrogation." Gang Bi blushed and said, "That's really a humble job. This person has been known for a long time, but he has never seen him before." Zijin got up again and said, "My lord, please change your clothes." Bai Gong said: "Everyone, change your clothes so that you can drink to your heart's content." Wang and Gang went back to the house, changed their clothes, and went to the flower hall.It happened that the old man also arrived, first made a bow for Zijin, then made a bow for Baigong and Gangbi, and asked them to sit down on the kang.Bai Gong accompanied him.The old man said: "Such a big case was completed in half an hour. Mr. Zishou, how fast it is!" Mr. Disabled." The old disabled said: "Where does this come from! I'm not a lord, I'm not a small yamen servant, what does it matter to me?" Bai Gong said: "But who wrote the Gongbao letter The old man said: "I wrote it. Should I not save it?" Bai Gongdao: "Yes. The surviving ones should be rescued, and the dead ones shouldn't be prosecuted? You think, this kind of strange case is not common. What can the dispatcher do? I have no choice but to ask you, Sherlock Holmes." Lao Can said with a smile: "I don't have such a great ability. It's not difficult for you to ask me to go, please ask Mr. Wang to make up my fast squad leader first. , mark another ticket, and I’ll go.” With that said, the meal is ready.Prince Jin said: "Please eat." Bai Gong said: "Isn't Huang Renrui here? Why don't you come over?" Zijin said: "I have already invited you." Yi again.Zijin raised the jug and was in a dilemma.Bai Gong said: "Naturally, Mr. Bai is the first seat." The old man said, "I definitely can't take it."After having a drink once and carrying out an order, Bai Gong once again urged Xu Liang to send him to save face, so if the old man had to work hard, he urged him again and again.Zijin and Renrui urged him from the sidelines again, so Lao Can had no choice but to agree. Bai Gong also said: "You have a thousand silver from the Wei family, you take it first and use it. If it is not enough, brother Zijin can plan it for you. Don't waste money, the most important thing is to solve the case." The old man said: "Silver can be used. No need, the four hundred silver coins in my provincial city have already been taken, and I am about to return it to brother Zijin, so it is better to use it first. If the case is found out, I will pay it back to Lao Zhuang; This place is making a fool of yourself." Baigong said: "That's okay. Just take it when you need it, and don't ignore the small things and miss the big things." The old man agreed: "Yes." After dinner, Baigong immediately crossed the river and went back to the province. poor sales.The next day, Huang Renrui and Gang Bi also went back to the province.I don't know what will happen next, let's listen to the next chapter.