Big ghosts and little ghosts sit in a row

At noon, the rain finally stopped, but the sun still could not be seen. People from the county gathered at the gate of the county government office, and the noise could be heard across several streets.

This time, the county magistrate will try the "Western Suburb Bandits and Murder Case" for the third time in the company of the prime minister himself.

On the same day last month, a caravan from the western suburbs went to Yaoqing Village, Sanchakou, to pick up the spring tea prepared by the villagers as usual. Unexpectedly, a group of bandits rushed out less than two miles away from the entrance of the village. , killed all the people in the caravan, and then rushed to the village.

A total of more than [-] people in the caravan, as well as an old woman from a family in the village and her pregnant daughter were all killed.

All the bandits escaped, but the county government first prevented the villagers from seeing the corpses, and asked the officials to bury them all overnight, and then asked the villagers to donate money to search for the bandits. After more than half a month, Xu Wangcai, one of the informants, was suddenly caught. He insisted that he was one of the bandits, and later he was convicted of buying a murderer without any explanation.

The villagers of Yaoqing Village knew that Xu Wangcai was just an honest tea picker, and he had a very good relationship with the murdered Chen Dahu's family, so how could he kill someone.The villagers were so angry that they handed over a paper of hundreds of people to the prime minister's mansion, and later conducted a second trial with the housekeeper of the prime minister's mansion, and concluded that Xu Wangcai was a perpetrator of all kinds of evil.The villagers smashed the hall in anger, and were all injured by the officials. All kinds of threats and bribes, the villagers had to watch Xu Wangcai being wronged and imprisoned.

However, during the Cold Food Festival yesterday, for some reason, the prime minister came to the county government in person, accompanied by a young man, and threatened to reiterate the case, which led to the current third trial.

Above the lobby, the prime minister was sitting beside him, standing beside him was a young man who was with Shi Wuchang before, and on the beam directly above the lobby, there was a man in black hiding on it. The person is Chen Dahu.

Chen Dahu crossed his legs and blocked his body with a curtain. Most people would not see anyone here. He stared fixedly at the county magistrate sitting in the lobby, with murderous aura in his eyes, and what Lu Ban said in his ear this morning sounded in his mind. if passed,

"The cycle of cause and effect, the retribution is not good, the magistrate is exhausted, and there is no need for a strong man to do it."

Chen Dahu squinted his eyes, and suddenly noticed the young man beside the prime minister. He felt a little familiar, so he looked carefully.

As soon as the gavel was knocked, the two ranks of officers shouted their majesty, and Xu Wangcai, who was kneeling below with scars, fell to the ground in shock.

I only heard the county master say in his sharp voice: "Doo! Xu Wangcai, the prime minister came to interrogate you in person today. Tell the truth." The county master smiled and saluted the prime minister, and then continued to say to Xu Wangcai, "Xu Wangcai, I want to ask you, did you do the caravan in the western suburbs?" The magistrate shook his head, and the gauze wings on the official hat also shook twice.

Xu Wangcai was lying on the ground, not daring to raise his head, and said tremblingly, "Yes, it was all done by grass people... people were killed by grass people..."

The county master stroked his beard, shook his head again, and was about to speak, but was preempted by the prime minister: "Xu Wangcai."

Xu Wangcai shuddered: "The grass people are here."

"The truth received letters from hundreds of people, and they all defended you. You don't have to be afraid of the court, and to be honest, the truth will definitely decide for you."

Xu Wangcai didn't dare to speak at all, he hesitated and trembled, as if he was worried about something.

The county magistrate knocked on the gavel again, and pointed at Xu Wangcai: "Bold! Xu Wangcai! How can the prime minister not answer the question?"

Xu Wangcai raised his head abruptly, glanced at the county magistrate in horror, immediately lowered his head and kowtowed: "Yes, it was all done by grassroots people, there is no wrongdoing, no..."

The prime minister shook his head and sighed softly: "Xu Wangcai, the prime minister intends to seek justice for the people, but you don't say anything. How can you let the prime minister help you? If you didn't kill him, and let the thief get away with it, you have to bear the burden." With this crime, how can I be worthy of those who died tragically?"

Xu Wangcai kept kowtowing his head, tears kept flowing, and said nothing.

The prime minister took a sip of tea, sighed again, and then dropped his majestic tone and chatted with Xu Wangcai gently: "Xu Wangcai, do you have a family? If you are sent to the execution ground, the truth can take care of you."

Xu Wangcai raised his head tremblingly to look at the prime minister, immediately lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "There is only one old mother in Caomin's family, and now she is being taken care of by Caomin's sworn brother, so there is no need for adults to bother..."

The prime minister nodded: "Do you have a family?"

Xu Wangcai showed panic, looked at the prime minister, then secretly glanced at the county master, immediately shook his head, not daring to speak.

The prime minister saw the clue, glanced at the county master who was wiping his sweat, and then turned his head to look at the young man beside him.

The man nodded slightly, walked to the middle of the hall, and shouted to the villagers outside: "Are there any villagers from Yaoqing Village outside?"

The villagers outside whispered to each other, and finally a villager dared to answer.

The prime minister motioned for the villager to come to the hall.

The villager also timidly smiled and knelt in the middle of the lobby.

"The young one is a tea picker in Yaoqing Village, and the young one's name is Zhang Ergou."

The young man began to ask: "Next, I will ask you a few questions, and you can answer them honestly."

"Yes... yes." The villagers nodded repeatedly.

The young man bowed his hands to the prime minister, and then began to ask the villagers: "Do you know the person kneeling next to you?"

"I know you. This is Xu Wangcai from our village. He is also a tea picker like me."

"Does he have a family?"

"Yes, everyone in our village knows, because he and his sworn brothers held a wedding event, and it was very lively that day, so we all know that he married a wife."

"Oh?" The young man continued to ask, "Who is his sworn brother? Do you know?"

"Yes, everyone in the village knows that it is Chen Dahu, who is the victim of this case. He is the son-in-law of the old man who beat Gengtian in our village. He is a good person, honest and honest, and he always helps the people in our village."

The young man nodded: "That's right, that is to say, Xu Wangcai and the family member of the deceased, Chen Dahu, were sworn brothers. They got married on the same day, and Chen Dahu's wife was killed. So... where did Xu Wangcai's wife go? "

Xu Wangcai suddenly kowtowed: "My lord... Caomin... Caomin..."

"Now, my litigator is asking someone else, please don't interrupt." The young man immediately stopped Xu Wangcai's words, and continued to ask the villagers, "Do you know where his wife is?"

"This... I don't know... I just disappeared suddenly. The messenger said that it was taken away by bandits, and I'm still looking for it."

"Oh? He was taken away?" The young man laughed softly twice, and then asked, "I don't know his wife's name?"

"My name is Luluo. She is a girl who likes to wear green clothes. She looks very pretty."

Speaking of this, the county magistrate was so nervous that he kept drinking water.

The young man laughed, turned around and looked at the county magistrate: "Then... the county magistrate, does the magistrate know where the girl Luluo is?"

A strange cold wind blew past, and the vengeance drum outside the government office fell down without warning, and the laughter of children came from nowhere, and everyone present was shocked.

The prime minister stood up in shock, and the county lord turned pale with fright. A puff of green smoke gathered outside the hall, and a white-haired man walked into the hall with a lantern in his hand, and behind him, a red man followed. woman in clothes.