The First Yamen of the Great Song Dynasty

There are many unsuitable couples in the world of Water Margin, such as Pan Jinlian, Wu Dalang, Hu Sanniang and Wang Ying, and there are also many discordant couples, such as Pan Qiaoyun, Yang Xiong, and Lu Junyi, Jia Shi.

But Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing are a perfect match from three perspectives to ferocity.

The entire serial killer couple, countless lives fell into their hands, no matter which dynasty they died, they would never regret it.

Gao Ming said in a deep voice: "Sun Erniang, you admit that you killed dozens of people, so let's tell the truth about who you killed."

Sun Erniang just saw that after she said that she had killed dozens of people, the people were angry, and realized that she had said too much, and stammered, "It's not that many... I, we have three ways to not harm..."

Her mouth hurts and her words leaked out. At this time, Zhang Qing continued: "My lord, there are three things we don't harm, one cloud is not harming monks, the fireworks in the second courtyard are not harming, and the three thorns are not harming soldiers. So except for these people, there is really no harm. So many lives were lost."

After hearing this, Gao Ming said sharply: "That is to say, you only harm ordinary people."

When the onlookers heard the words, they were furious and cursed again: "It turns out that you only harm ordinary people! You still have plausible arguments."

At this time, the master, the official, and the others really realized how quick-witted and calm the new magistrate is, who can always hit the prisoner's vital points, which is many times stronger than the foolish magistrate before. .

Following such an adult, the confidence of the masters and officials increased, and they were motivated to write quickly and record the evidence in the hall.

Zhang Qing hurriedly said: "No, that's not what it means, it's just that we didn't harm so many people."

Gao Ming said unhurriedly: "Really? Our government doesn't believe it. Come here and pass on the other two suspects."

The other two suspects were the two clerks in Sun Erniang's store, Xiaoer and Xiaosan.

These two men were big-bodied, and specialized in skinning and cutting in the back kitchen. At this time, they were escorted up, and their eyes looked around stealthily. When they heard the curses of the people, they didn't dare to look back.

Xiao Er and Xiao San were pushed to kneel in front of Gao Ming, they didn't dare to lift their eyelids, and they all lowered their heads, probably realizing that the time of death was approaching.

Gao Ming stared at the two of them, "Er Niang Sun and Zhang Qing said that there are three do not kill in your shop, is there such a rule?"

Neither the second nor the third answered.

Gao Ming drew a command arrow, "Whoever answers slowly, this lot will be used on him. I am asking again, do you have rules in your shop, and do you strictly enforce them?"

Xiaoer heard this, and said first: "Zhang Qing did say it, but Sun Erniang never did it. Last year we returned the medicine and overthrew a big monk and wanted to kill him, but Zhang Qing rushed back and saved him. The villain Remember, that monk is called Lu Zhishen!"

They used to be called the proprietress, but now they are all criminals, so they call her Sun Erniang directly.

Now that things are going on, death is certain, and the blame is placed on Sun Erniang and his wife. They might be able to escape Ling Chi and have a happy execution.

Zhang Qing hurriedly said: "That's right, the villain saved Lu Zhishen, so he let him go, and he didn't kill him! We don't kill the monk."

As soon as he finished speaking, he was retorted by Xiaosan, "No, there are no ones who were saved. Two years ago, there was a Toutuo who beat the store, and was drugged by Erniang Sun. There was a lot of meat, and he made steamed buns for many days! If you don't want to kill Yunyou Monk, because this poor monk doesn't get much meat, but if he encounters a lot of meat, he can find and kill."

"Why didn't the fireworks in the courtyard and the military prisoners be killed?" Gao Ming asked.

"Prostitutes have many good friends and many sisters. If they harm them, their sisters will go around and tell the whole world. How can they come to the door? As for the prisoners and the military, they are not easy to provoke. I am afraid of their friends. Relatives came to seek revenge!"

Zhang Qing's face was earthy.

"Three don't kill, it's clearly bullying the weak and fearing the strong! It's your worst behavior to beautify!" Gao Ming said: "The bones of a thief who is used to lying!" He took out four sticks and threw them on the ground.

A sign is ten boards, and each person has twenty boards.

Nie Liang and the others were not merciless in beating people. They were all evil spirits who killed people.

For a while, ghosts and wolves were howling in the hall, but the people around them were all relieved and relieved.

When the board was finished, Gao Ming said to the guard: "Bring up the evidence of the clothes you found."

The four servants dragged a lot of clothes to the lobby in large and small packages. These were all dug out from Sun Erniang's shop. They were all clothes of the people who were killed by them. The next ones are left in the store, and cleaned up when you are in a good mood when you are free, otherwise you will eat ashes in the back corner of the hotel.

Gao Ming asked the servants to spread it out, and there was a musty and bloody smell, and everyone present couldn't help but cover their noses.

"These are the victim's clothes found in your store. The government ordered someone to count them yesterday. There are 87 pieces in total, including nine pieces of children's clothes and eleven pieces of women's clothes. There are also several monks and priests' utensils." Gao Ming said: "Also, the government found a bloody garment, come here, just show it to them."

It was a robe full of blood, and the blood had dried up and turned black. It seemed that the owner of the clothes had killed many people, and that was why such a large area was stained with blood.

"Who is the owner of this robe?" Gao Ming asked without any emotion: "You use Mongolian sweat medicine to overturn pedestrians, and then strip the clothes and kill them. The other clothes are clean, so this clothes is full of blood. ?”

The owner of this robe is Wu Song, because he ran away after killing Zhang Dujian's family, rested in a ruined temple, and was caught by a branch employee of Sun Erniang. Just when he was about to use the knife, Sun Erniang came and rescued him down.

Take it back to the store, replace it with the clothes and hoops of a Toutuo who was harmed by them before, and let Wu Song go.

This is the origin of the traveler Wu Song.

At this moment, when they saw the clothes, Sun Erniang, Zhang Qing and the others hesitated. After Wu Song changed the clothes, he threw them into the pile of old clothes.

Another layer of sweat broke out from Zhang Qing's body, and the sweat soaked into the wound, making his teeth bared in pain.

With a wave of his hand, Gao Ming ordered the guards to "stretch this garment." Then he said to the prisoners in the hall: "Look at the size of this garment, it must be worn by a person with a height of six feet. Such a person must be worn by you." How come you have no impression of how many human steamed buns you make! Why don’t you just recruit them?!”

Sun Erniang and Zhang Qingqi remained silent.

It's not that he didn't dare to betray Wu Song, because Wu Song had already fled Mengzhou, and even if it belonged to Wu Song, the magistrate couldn't catch anyone.

The reason why they don't say it is because they have a little illusion that Wu Song will come to rob the prison and rescue them when they hear the news that they are in prison.If he betrayed him, a dishonest person would have no status in the arena and was not worthy of being rescued.

Sun Erniang said: "I don't know where the man came from, we slaughtered him and made steamed buns for several days!"

Zhang Qing also said: "If you don't believe me, ask the little girls in our store!"

Gao Ming looked at Xiao Er and Xiao San.

The young lady huddled together and replied: "I remember one day last month, this Erniang Sun brought back a big man, very burly, and I didn't pay attention afterwards. There was a lot of meat in the shop at that time. I don't know if it was made of steamed buns."

Gao Ming calmly continued to ask Erniang Sun: "How did you bring this guy back? Did you overturn the medicine? But I heard your buddy use the word 'collar', it doesn't look like he can't act."

When Xiaosan heard this, he immediately said: "Yes, yes, I followed Erniang Sun and walked back. I seem to know each other, talking and laughing."

Sun Erniang yelled at the guy, "You know what, you don't talk and laugh, how can you trick him into drinking Mongolian sweat medicine?"

The explanation is reasonable, but how could Gao Ming believe it, "Then why is there blood on the clothes?"

Sun Erniang endured the pain in her mouth, and said: "I didn't take enough medicine for sweating. He woke up in the middle of sleep, so I gave him a knife, and he bled a lot."

"Where is that knife?"

"I don't know, I stabbed him in confusion."

Gao Ming sneered, "But if you look at the clothes, how can there be a knife cut?"

Sure enough, Erniang Sun saw that there was no knife wound on the clothes, so she changed her words and said, "I misremembered just now, the wound is on the neck!"

Gao Ming waved his hand, "Pass it on."

Wu Zuo was a little old man who had been waiting by the side for a long time. When he heard the summons, he immediately went to the hall, first paid homage to Gao Ming, then checked his clothes and said, "Returning to my lord, the blood on this clothes, according to the villain, did not come from the neck. It flowed out, several bloodstains can be seen to be splashed, it should be worn when killing, the victim's blood splashed up, this is a bloody coat worn when killing!"

Sun Erniang was dripping with cold sweat, looking up at the young magistrate with a sneer, she felt fear for the first time.

Gao Ming told Wu to continue to interrogate Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang, "The government suspects that the owner of this bloody coat is Wu Song, the murderer who murdered Zhang Dujian's family!"

The loud voice shocked everyone present, even the master was stunned.

Never expected that the magistrate would come to such a conclusion.

The surrounding people were even more astonished. Wu Song, who had been wanted all the time, was also involved in this case. They rushed forward while the guards were not paying attention, just to hear more clearly.

After hearing this, Erniang Sun and Zhang Qing collapsed to the ground like rotten meat.

Gao Ming ordered: "Aside from the murder of Zhang Dujian's family, there have been no other murders in Mengzhou recently. The owner of this bloody coat is suspected to be that Wu Song! Come, show the second and third child the identity of Wu Song." Shadow graphics!"

Nie Liang took Wu Song's picture and handed it to Xiao Er and Xiao San.

When Wu Song beat Jiang Menshen that day, hundreds of people in the happy forest had seen him, and the witnesses made the shadows drawn very accurately.

As soon as the Huaying graphics were handed over, Xiaoer and Xiaosan both said in unison: "This is the person, this is the person!"

The common people suddenly exploded, "It turns out that you and your wife are also involved with the murderer! What a nest of snakes and rats."

People in Mengzhou don't care about any tiger-fighting heroes, and they didn't fight tigers in Mengzhou. They only know how to kill people in Mengzhou. There must be no good comments.

Gao Ming slapped the gavel and shouted, "Tell me! Where is Wu Song's whereabouts!"

Zhang Qing and Sun Erniang held a sliver of hope, they gritted their teeth and didn't say anything, anyway, they were not killed on the spot, they were imprisoned, and they didn't have to worry about no one coming to rob the prison.

But if Wu Song is mentioned, I am afraid that no one will come to rescue him.

Seeing that the two of them were silent, Gao Ming drew out four more sticks, "Hit these two thieves hard! Let's see how long you are going to be tough?!"

Nie Liang took the order, blew into the palm of his hand, swung the board round and hit it.

For a while, they could hear the muffled sound of wooden boards hitting their bodies in the court hall. The people saw it, but they only felt relieved and wished they could go on stage by themselves.

Some people said: "It's too hateful, let alone kill so many people, and even now, they are still covering up other villains!"

Some people also said: "Don't worry, the magistrate will definitely interrogate him!"

Others nodded one after another, giving high hopes to Gao Ming.

Gao Ming looked at Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing's couple being beaten coldly, without any disturbance in his heart, how many people were killed by these two scumbags, he was actually very willing to sentence them to Ling Chi, but Ling Chi is risky.

Mainly because of long nights and many dreams.

Gao Ming naturally knew what Sun Erniang and his wife's plan was for not disclosing Wu Song's whereabouts.

It's very simple, just wait for the jailbreak.

He was held in prison, and when the news spread, Wu Song or a certain hero gathered some people to rob the prison, or rob the court while waiting to be escorted to the execution ground, which was a routine operation.

Gao Ming can see clearly, how could he let that kind of thing happen, once the law field is robbed, many innocent people will be involved.

Another [-] strikes each went down, beating Sun Erniang's and Zhang Qing's backs to a bloody mess, and even the strikes were covered in blood.

Gao Ming asked again: "Are you two willing to talk?"

Sun Erniang was dying and struggled for a moment, as if hesitating, while Zhang Qing looked at her, probably wanting to exchange glances.

Gao Ming didn't have a chance for the two of them to catch their breath, so he took four more sticks and threw them on the ground, saying coldly, "Hit again!"

Nie Liang was exhausted from beating, so he changed to another officer's wheel, and he rested aside.

After another ten or so blows each, Sun Erniang screamed: "My lord, I say—"

As soon as the voice fell, there was a click, which seemed to be the sound of a broken spine, and then she screamed like a pig because of the severe pain, her whole body twitched, she couldn't speak, she struggled a few times in a pool of blood , it stopped moving.

The yamen servant stopped the board, went to test his breath, raised his head and said to Gao Ming, "My lord, she is dead."

There was no wavering in Gao Ming's heart. He would not show any sympathy for someone like Sun Erniang. He looked at Zhang Qing expressionlessly, "What about you, why don't you tell me?"

When the onlookers saw that Gao Ming was simply ruthless and selfless, he was not at all like a young boy who would not take things seriously, and they dared not look down on him anymore.

Even Gao Qiu's yamen is a piece of material capable of great things.

Zhang Qing's mouth was full of blood. Seeing that his wife had been beaten to death, he knew that the lord was serious. If he didn't say anything else, he wouldn't be able to survive, "I, I said..."

"Then Wu Song, do you recognize him? What does it have to do with you?"

Zhang Qing said angrily: "He came from Yanggu County to assassinate Mengzhou, and passed by our Shizipo. He saw through the Mongolian sweat medicine in the wine, and he was never caught. He also caught my wife. I just came back and saved my wife I don’t know each other without fighting, and later he went to the prison camp in Mengzhou, and we haven’t seen each other for a long time..."

Zhang Qing coughed and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Since the trial, he has received dozens of boards on his body, and even his steel and iron bones have been crippled.

Gao Ming didn't care about Zhang Qing's body at all, and asked forcefully, "Continue talking!"

"Then... one day, my apprentice said that he had caught a big man in a ruined temple. My wife hadn't stripped anyone in person for a long time. That day, my hands were itchy, so I said I did it myself. After I went there, I found out that it was Wu Song..."

"Slow! Do you still have apprentices? And branches? Where are they all? Tell the truth!"

Zhang Qing swallowed a mouthful of blood, "This..."

But now he doesn't protect himself, other human flesh workshops, he doesn't have the heart to protect them, so he talks about them all.

The little official quickly wrote it down, because he would definitely arrest people later.

After explaining the location of the other human flesh workshops, Gao Ming asked, "Then, what about you meeting Wu Song?"

"We brought him back to Shizipo... From what he said, he killed Zhang Dujian's family, and the government is arresting him, so we gave him the certificate of the Toutuo we killed before... He turned into a Toutuo and escaped... As for where he went, I really don't know..."

"I don't know? You are obviously still hiding it! Since the interrogation by the government, you have never given a straightforward answer. Every time you have to cover up and use torture to tell the truth. You must still have something to hide about Wu Song's whereabouts!" Gao Ming slapped the gavel again, took two red sticks and threw them on the ground, "Keep hitting!"

Zhang Qing's expression changed in shock. He knew that he could not bear even a single board, and the magistrate clearly wanted his life. "My lord, spare me, everything I said is true, and I really have no more concealment."

Gao Ming, who had no emotion, winked and nodded slightly, telling them to fight again.

The yamen servants took a few deep breaths, and then beat again.

While struggling, Zhang Qing raised his head to look at the magistrate, and found that the other party looked at him as if he was already looking at a dead person.

He felt a bone-chilling chill, and at the same time realized that the prefect didn't want him to leave the lobby alive.

Not to mention waiting for the prison robbery, the other party has already seen through his mind.

Zhang Qing couldn't bear the pain, racked his brains, just wanted not to be beaten, and shouted: "My lord, stop beating, I said, I said..."

It is also good to be able to not be beaten for a moment.

Gao Ming snorted coldly, "Say!"

"I heard the news... that Wu Song fell into the grass... on Mount Erlong..."

"But it's true?" Gao Ming knew early on that Wu Song had become a Tutuo, so he went to Erlong Mountain and became the leader of the bandits.

The great kings on the top of Erlong Mountain include Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and Yang Zhi, all of whom are quite strong in force. Later, when the government came to suppress them, they went to Liangshan to defect.Song Jiang was also afraid of this force from Erlong Mountain.

"It's true, it's all true."

"Hmph, you lie again and again, how can the government believe you, I think you still have something to hide! This sentence is not true." Gao Ming took out two more sticks, "Punishment."

Zhang Qing screamed again and again, "It's true, my lord, it's all true—"

Gao Ming didn't care, and threw the stick heavily on the ground. With the sound of the arrow hitting the ground, there was the muffled sound of the stick falling on the person and screams.

Some people among the people whispered, "It's still like this, it should be true. It seems that the murderous Wu Song went to Erlong Mountain."

"Where is Erlong Mountain?"

"In Shandong."

"Oh, so I went to Shandong."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was not caught, he knew his whereabouts anyway. He went to another state capital, and it seemed that he would not come back. Anyway, he was not in the local area, so everyone didn't worry.

At this moment in the courtroom, Zhang Qing could no longer shout, and was beaten motionless.

Seeing that the board fell, the yamen servant didn't respond, so he went up to test his breath, raised his head and said to the magistrate, "My lord, he's dead too."

Gao Ming thought to himself, these two are dead, anyway, Liang Shan definitely can't make up one hundred and eight.

The onlookers were silent for a while when they heard the words, and suddenly clapped their hands, "Okay, good death! This kind of person deserves to die!"

"It's just cheaper for them! You should kill a thousand dollars!"

Having said that, it is also very good to report a grudge on the spot, without having to spend the night.

Snapped!Gao Ming patted the gavel, and said in a deep voice: "The criminals Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing murdered passers-by on the Cross Slope of Benzhou, murdered passers-by, murdered them for money, and made the victims into human buns to sell. The crime is extremely heinous! During the trial, they denied it in every possible way. , Our government imposed punishment on this couple, hoping that they would confess truthfully, but at the last moment, they still did not know how to repent until they committed suicide! The government ordered that the heads of these two people be shown to the public! As an example to others! The waiter at Shizipo shop Xiaosan made a decisive decision, and issued a list to arrest the four apprentices of Sun Erniang's branch, and at the same time sent an official document to Qingzhou, Shandong, asking the local state government to assist in the arrest of Erlongshan Wusong, and retreat!"

After finishing speaking, he got up and turned into the back hall, leaving the others with a chic back.

The onlookers saw that the magistrate acted swiftly and resolutely. Although he was young, he was so calm and capable. The former magistrate hadn't solved the case until he was dismissed. This Kozhifu solved it within a few days after he took office, and he solved it so beautifully.

Not only did he get rid of a cancer that ravaged the people on Shizipo, but he also interrogated Wu Song's whereabouts.

"Gaozhifu is a very good official, Master Qingtian—"

I don't know who yelled, although the others didn't yell "Master Qingtian—" but they didn't refute, they all nodded silently, and they all agreed.

Who cares which yamen the magistrate belongs to, even if the number one scholar comes, he is an idiot, and the common people will not recognize it.

But even if he is a dude, as long as he can manage Mengzhou well, the people will love him.

Gao Ming's first fire was very beautiful, and everyone's first impression of him was very good, and his reputation was immediately spread.

Moreover, the case of Sun Erniang and Zhang Qing was almost a public trial. The people watched the whole process, and they spurned the couple so much that they wished to crush them to ashes.

In this way, even the so-called hero who wants to avenge the two of them has to weigh public opinion. To avenge the two people whose reputations are rotten to the cesspit, I am afraid that they will not fall into the vast ocean of people's war.

It is said that good things don't go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles, but who is Gao Yanei, the good things he did, went out immediately, and quickly spread to Tokyo.

The Ministry of punishment knew it, his father knew it, King Yun knew it, and the emperor knew it too.

Gao Ming soon received a letter from his father.

At the beginning of the letter, Gao Lian was still very reserved, saying that he solved the case well, and he used practical actions to silence some people in the court.

But after turning a page, he began to exaggerate Gao Ming without concealing it, and wrote thousands of words eloquently, which made Gao Ming's face feel hot.

Those who knew that he just solved a case, those who didn't know that he thought he had great achievements in mending the sky.

However, Gao Ming felt that he should be more prudent and humble as a magistrate. When he replied, he tactfully said that this is just the beginning, and he will work harder in the future. You just wait for my good news.

After Gao Qiu, both Murong Yanze and Yan Qing sent letters.

Murong Yanze said in the letter, Gao Ming, you are a good boy, you can get along well wherever you go.It's just that Tokyo is really meaningless without you. I'm even more boring in the Ministry of Rites now, surrounded by old men. Whenever I have time, I will speak well of you in front of the officials. Yan Qing also speaks well of you, and I will try to transfer you back as soon as possible. Tokyo.

And Yan Qing's letter also verified Murong Yanze's words. Yan Qing said in the letter that Mr. Murong mentioned you in front of the official house whenever he was free.

Yan Qing was much calmer than Murong Yanze, and he didn't say that he spoke good words for Gao Ming, hiding his credit and fame.

Gao Ming replied to each letter one by one. In the letter to Murong Yanze, he asked him to do something, to see if he could add a sentence under the official document of his promotion to the prefect of Mengzhou in the mansion newspaper, if it could be done Just do it, if you can’t do it, forget it.

However, since Murong Yanze works in the Ministry of Rites, it is not difficult to add an insignificant sentence to the residence newspaper.

Although he said that it is fine to do it or not, but in his heart he hoped that Murong Yanze could make it happen, after all it was related to the plan to revitalize Mengzhou Happy Forest.

Everything that should be written was written, stamped with my own seal, and sent to Tokyo quickly.

In Qingfengzhai, Huarong mobilized news to people in Tokyo, all relying on the Dibao, and the Dibao published a month, and the new newspaper after he took office has not yet been published, so Huarong probably didn't know that he was the magistrate.

He had to take the initiative to write him a letter. At this moment, the master Jiang Dongshu came in and presented an official document, "My lord, this is sent by Ma Tongzhi. He has a candidate for the position of the prisoner, let you have a look."

The servant took the document and put it in front of Gao Ming.

Gao Ming was dissatisfied with the boss, who should be promoted first, he was the magistrate, even if he considered the issue of unity and asked Ma Hong for his opinion, it was up to him to make up his mind. When will it be Ma Hong's turn to draw up the list?

Second, Ma Hong is too arrogant, so he sent someone to deliver a message, a letter?What a bull, the new magistrate has arrived, not only did he not show up to say hello, but he even started to arrange for him to be imprisoned in a grandiose manner, and he was not taken seriously as the magistrate.

Gao Ming opened the letter and glanced at it, hehe, the tone in this letter is also very rude, basically it is like saying Gao Ming that you are new here and don't understand anything, the old man has suitable personnel here, you just agree.

Gao Ming sneered, picked up a pen and typed an X on the letter, and handed it to Jiang Dongshu, "Where did you come from and where do you send it back?"

Jiang Dong stopped talking, took the letter silently and went out. The sons of high-ranking officials from Tokyo are bulls, and they are not afraid of offending people at all, but how can I put it, it is really a bit of a pleasure to see the magistrate doing this.

Gao Ming picked up the pen and dipped it in the ink, spread out a new piece of letter paper, and wrote slowly, trying to write neatly and beautifully: Hua Rong, I am the magistrate in Mengzhou, come and find me quickly.