Chapter 660: Chapter 729: Suing Wei Wang’s Disciple “Guo Xian”

Originally, Huang Zhaodi wanted to buy a mule cart to transport people when she went back this time. After all, Xiangyang was far away from Cangzhou and the journey was tiring, but Dai Ling rejected it.

On the way to Xiangyang, they dressed up as "poor" and encountered bandits twice. If they were riding in a mule cart, they would definitely be regarded as "fat sheep", which would be too conspicuous. For the sake of safety, they should keep a low profile.

Huang Zhaodi was also dizzy with sadness and didn't think much. When she heard Dai Ling's words, she nodded in response, and then said pessimistically: "When will this world end?"

"It shouldn't be far. This time I went to Xiangyang, I also gained a lot of knowledge. This imperial examination is for the King of Wei to select officials for the court and send them to various states to take office to maintain the stability of local people's livelihood. This imperial examination is over. , with this group of people taking office, the security in various places should be much better.”

On the way to Xiangyang, Dai Ling also discovered one thing, that is, the official station in the north that had been out of service had begun to be repaired and put into operation, and it was now in Gaozhou.

Once all these stations are repaired and restored, the safety on the road should be much better.

The two of them were chatting and getting further and further away from Xiangyang City.

As we walked further north, the number of people on the official road gradually became less and less, until no one else could be seen except Dai Ling and the three of them.

Although the public security in the Four Prefectures is much better than other places, and there are no cases of strongmen robbing people, the world is still not peaceful after all. There are not many people walking outside. Except for businessmen and scholars, there are few civilians.

"Uncle Ling, this incident has burdened you." Huang Zhaodi apologized.

Dai Ling worked hard to move from Yanzhou to Cangzhou, settle down, and change his surname. He didn't know how much he had to pay. But now, the bamboo basket was empty. She gave Dai Ling the bag of silver he had. Dai Ling didn't accept it either.

"It's not your fault for Zhao Di. Who knew Dai Tu was so cruel and cruel? Alas, it's my fault too. If he wasn't greedy for glory, he wouldn't have done it." Dai Ling had regrets in his words, and he immediately said, "When we get back to Lu'an, Let the child change his surname to Zhaodi."

"Yeah." Huang Zhaodi had such a plan even if Dai Ling didn't say it.

Soon, the three of them came to a three-way intersection. At the intersection, there were signs set up by Xiangyang Yamen to indicate the direction of each intersection.

At this moment, a masked figure suddenly jumped out of a mountain forest ahead, holding a short blade and moving like thunder, heading straight towards Dai Ling and the others.

His goal is very clear, kill Dai Ling first, and then the remaining women and children will be easier to deal with.

He has no unnecessary nonsense, and his attack is the killing move.

As the black shadow shot out in an instant, Dai Ling and the others were stunned for a moment. It wasn't until they saw the masked man heading towards them that Dai Ling started to break out in cold sweat.

He picked up Dai Feng next to him and shouted to Huang Zhaodi to run.

Although Dai Ling's reaction was considered quick, as soon as he took a step forward, the masked man came closer.

"clatter"

At this critical moment, a clear and crisp sound sounded on the official road, and then the masked killer's right knee hurt, and he fell to the ground with a thud, and a stone fell in front of him.

A figure flew over as fast as the wind, and before the masked killer could get up, he held him down tightly.

Soon, two more figures ran quickly from behind, picked up the masked killer, and tore off the black cloth on his face. It was Peng Si'er.

The whole process happened so fast that Dai Ling and the other two people didn't know what happened before it was over.

It turns out that Zuo Gang and the other three who were just following Peng Si'er wanted to catch big fish in a long-term way and were not in a hurry to catch Peng Si'er.

But when he found out that Peng Si'er was going to kill the three members of the family, Zuo Gang couldn't help but take action.

He took out the slingshot from his waist and hit Peng Si'er's knee with one shot.

With Zuo Gang's strength, the crisp sound just now was the sound of the patella of Peng Si'er's right knee shattering.

"Don't be afraid, girl, we are agents from the Xiangyang County Yamen, and this is our head." An agent saw Huang Zhaodi's frightened expression and said quickly.

"I'm the head catcher of the Yamen." Zuo Gang put away his slingshot and saw that Huang Zhaodi was still a little frightened. He looked at Dai Ling aside and said, "Why does this killer want to kill you?"

In this regard, Dai Ling, who had just put down his child and was still a little scared, also looked confused: "Sir, I don't know either. I don't know this person either."

"I don't know why he wants to kill you, even the whole family." The remaining detective who didn't speak couldn't help but ask.

But he was soon glared at by Zuo Gang, and then he slapped Peng Si'er's face with the handle of the knife, and shouted in a cold voice: "Stop screaming, Peng Si'er, right? Murder is not a light crime, even if it is attempted. , it’s enough to lock you up for more than ten years, not to mention that you have other charges. Tell me, why did you want to kill them? "

The Song Dynasty distinguished six situations of homicide.

They are murder, homicide, fighting homicide, manslaughter, drama killing and negligent homicide.

Murder refers to a premeditated murder or a premeditated attempted murder.

When Peng Si'er saw Zuo Gang say his name and caught him committing murder, this matter was obviously not a big deal. Thinking about the crimes he had committed before, he felt that his life was at risk. In desperation, he could only talk about it. Hupi endured the pain and said: "Why don't you let me go quickly? I am General Zhang's man. Do you know General Zhang? He is a close confidant of King Wei. Can you afford to offend me?"

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zuo Gang and the others suddenly changed.

As a police officer of the Yamen, he has a relatively clear understanding of some noble people in the city.

The policeman who was the first to speak just now, as usual, was asking about the identities of Dai Ling and the others.

Dai Ling was about to reply, but he froze even more when he heard this.

Huang Zhaodi learned that the killer was General Zhang's man, and immediately guessed that Dai Tu had sent them to kill them. She almost couldn't believe it.

His body went limp, and he collapsed and fell to the ground. Dai Tu was so inhumane.

Xiaofeng is his biological son.

He didn't even spare his own son.

Huang Zhaodi looked up to the sky and scolded "Guo Xian" for being a poisonous tiger that does not eat its seeds, let alone humans.

The miserable cry made Zuo Gang and Peng Si'er suddenly stunned.

Especially Peng Si'er was shocked.

Hear what this woman said, is she the woman of General Zhang’s uncle?

Zuo Gang's head suddenly became a little hard to turn around. At first, like Peng Si'er, he regarded Dai Ling, Huang Zhaodi, and Dai Feng as a family of three. Now it seems that there is another hidden secret.

At the same time, Zuo Gang also realized that this matter was too involved. If he didn't handle it well, he might get into trouble.

But he didn't let Peng Si'er go just yet. Who knew whether what the other party said was true.

Since the matter was serious, he immediately ordered two Zhaodi to take these people to the Yamen.

…

When they returned to Xiangyang, it was already afternoon.

The current county magistrate of Xiangyang has a surname of Song, and his single name has a clear character.

A sixth-grade warrior.

He is considered to be Zuo Lianglun's person.

There is no way, this kind of faction cannot be eliminated.

There is no need to say more about the aristocratic family.

Song Qingqing was promoted by Zuo Lianglun, so he was naturally divided into Zuo Lianglun's faction by people in the officialdom.

However, to be able to become the county magistrate of Xiangyang, I also have certain abilities. After all, Chen Mo's nod is needed in the end for him to become the county magistrate.

So far, my time as an official has not been too long, but I have been diligent and conscientious.

He knew that the King of Wei was born at the bottom of the family, and whether it was "just following his own preferences" or whatever, Song Qing paid special attention to the people at the bottom, loved to make decisions for the people, and fought against injustices, so he was also loved by the people.

At this moment, he was dealing with a difficult case.

The person involved in the case is Yi Yong, the uncle of King Wei.

Yi Yong is the adopted son of Yi Shiyan's father, Yi Qianchi, from his clan brother.

Yi Qianchi had no sons and only had a daughter, Yi Shiyan. When he first succeeded as the head of the Yi family, there were voices in the family asking Yi Qianchi to take a concubine and have another son or adopt a son so that he could inherit the Yi family. family business.

Later, as Chen Mo became more and more powerful, the Yi family also grew stronger, and this voice in the clan began to do more and more things.

In addition, Yi Qianchi was getting older and his daughter would eventually get married, so he agreed to adopt a son, which was agreed by Yi Shiyan.

What Yi Yong committed was to spoil his concubine and destroy his wife.

Song law stipulates that anyone who takes his wife as a concubine will be punished with a rod of one hundred.

If the wife is still alive and takes a concubine as his wife, he will be punished with ninety rods and ordered to change his title so that the wife can be his wife and the concubine can be his concubine.

What Yi Yong did was that he made his wife his concubine and wanted to make her his wife, but his wife did not agree, so he divorced his wife first and then made her his wife.

So his wife was furious and came to the Yamen to sue Yi Yong.

If it were an ordinary person, this matter would be easy to solve, but as this matter involves the King of Wei, we need to think more carefully.

At this moment, Zuo Gang came over in a hurry.

When Song Qing saw Zuo Gang, he put down the case file in his hand and said, "Didn't you go to keep an eye on Peng Si'er? Why did you come back?"

He also paid special attention to this case.

"Sir, it's not good." Zuo Gang quickly told what happened.

Sure enough, Song Qing frowned after hearing this.

Compared with Yi Yong's matter of just hitting the board, what Zuo Gang said was much more serious.

He quickly put down what he was doing and interrogated Peng Si'er first.

When Peng Si'er saw that Zuo Gang was really from the Yamen, he also knew that adding up the things he had committed, it would be a dead end. In order to give himself a chance to survive, he could only continue to move General Zhang out.

After that, Song Qing asked Zuo Gang to bring Dai Ling and three others for questioning.

Huang Zhaodi was completely disappointed with Dai Tu, and finally stopped hiding it for Dai Tu. She slowly started talking about it, even telling her everything about changing her place of origin and changing her son's surname.

Finally, she knelt down in front of Song Qing with a bang and said: "Huang Zhaodi, a citizen woman, comes to see you, sir, and asks you to make the decision for the citizen women. If the citizen women want to sue Mr. Guo, the 47th person on the list, his real name is Daitu.”

Song Qing's eyelids twitched: "What crime do you want to accuse him of?"

"A commoner woman wants to sue him for abandoning his wife and son to hide from the king of Wei, stop his wife and remarry, sue him... for killing his wife and son..." Huang Zhaodi burst into tears, and Dai Feng next to him also started to cry, and kept shouting: " mother."

Song Qing pretended to drink and said: "Guo Xian is a disciple of the King of Wei. How can you accuse him casually? Do you have evidence?"

Dai Ling immediately stated that he was a witness and also said that he was the uncle of the other party's clan.

Huang Zhaodi also claimed that she was the other party's wife and that the son next to her was the biological flesh and blood of "Xian Guo".

Although Huang Zhaodi's experience is sympathetic, the case is handled based on real evidence, and Peng Si'er's explanation cannot kill "Mr. Guo". After all, Peng Si'er himself said that the person who came to him at the beginning was the Wearing a mask, Peng Si'er discovered that the other person had just entered Zhang's house, but he didn't know who he was.

Although "Guo Xian" can be called to confront him, the other party can also refuse to admit it.

If you want to use Peng Sier to punish "Guo Xian", it will obviously not work.

So Huang Zhaodi needs real evidence.

"You must have evidence to sue him in front of me, otherwise how can you prove that Guo Xian and you are married, and the man next to you is his cousin?" Song Qing said.

Huang Zhaodi immediately claimed that the elders and fellow villagers in her family could prove her relationship with "Guo Xian", and said that her hometown was Taoyuan County, Yanzhou.

Moreover, she and "Guo Xian" were married in a formal way, and the marriage certificate was also registered in the government office at that time, with "Guo Xian's" handprint on it.

Seeing that the other party was so sure, Song Qing immediately said that he would send yamen runners to Yanzhou to verify it immediately.

After Huang Zhaodi and the others left, Zuo Gang said, "In your opinion, how credible is Huang Zhaodi's confession?"

Song Qing said, "Although she looks sad, she is conscious and has received some education. Besides, Guo Xian's identity is not ordinary. If she makes a false accusation, it is not a trivial matter and it is very easy to be arrested. How could she knowingly commit a crime? This official infers that she may not be lying to deceive.

But this matter involves too much, and there must be hard evidence. You should take people to Yanzhou immediately, and quickly."

"Yes."

But when Zuo Gang was about to leave, Song Qing was in trouble again.

After all, General Zhang has a close relationship with the King of Wei.

Guo Xian is the other party's son-in-law.

"Well, let's tell the prince about this first and find out what he thinks." Song Qing understood that whether this matter can be investigated depends on whether the King of Wei can support it.

He asked Zuo Gang to wait for a while, and he wanted to go to the palace to meet the King of Wei.

……

The Palace of the King of Wei

In the study room.

The examination papers for the palace examination have been corrected overnight.

After all, there are only more than 300 examination papers, and there are many officials to correct the papers. Even if they are cross-examined, it will not take long.

The people below handed the examination papers of the top five to Chen Mo, who would select the candidates for the top, second and third place.

Chen Mo saw the names of Guo Ning and Sun Cheng.

Chen Mo decided to decide based on the results, which would be fair to other candidates.

In the end, the top scholar was Sun Cheng.

The second place was Guo Ning.

The third place was Wang Haosheng.

After the decision, Chen Mo casually asked: "By the way, is Guo Xian on the list?"

The people below answered that if the results were considered, Guo Xian was in the top three.

The implication was that if the prince felt that Guo Xian's ranking was too low, he could bring him up.

How could Chen Mo not hear it? He immediately glared at him and then whispered: "The results will be released normally in three days."

"Yes."