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Xinjiang, the shore.

An Eight Immortals table and three long stools were set up.

When playing mahjong, if one of the three is missing, the next one will make them all alive.

"boom!"

Feng Shenglun was shocked and shouted: "Bring the suspects Fei Yingqi, Fei Zhengshi, Fei Ren, Fei Pu..."

It was already afternoon, many gentry did not leave, but more people came to watch.

There were even passenger ships to solicit business and bring the people who were hearing the trial here, just floating on the river to watch the whole process.

Throughout the morning, I was collecting testimonies, witnesses, exhibits, and writing various case materials. Even the officials from the Li Ke and Hu Ke were seconded to help, otherwise no one would be able to sleep tonight.

Zhao Han has actually left a clear message: the case will be tried by the river.

What does it mean?

A public trial was held in front of countless gentry and common people. They were not allowed to leave until the trial was over. They just pitched tents by the river.

In addition to officials from Qianshan County, officials from Guangxin Prefecture also came. There is also the Integrity Office of Guangxin Prefecture. They are responsible for observing and recording today. After collecting all kinds of information, they will review the officials involved.

As for the county magistrate Feng Shenglun, he can judge officials, but he needs the cooperation of the anti-corruption yamen.

Mrs. Zheng was already paralyzed and could not stand firmly. Now that the suspect was not allowed to kneel, a stool was obtained for her to sit on and undergo the trial.

"Fei Ren, Fei Pu," Feng Shenglun asked, "did you two beat Fei Liang on the second day of the twelfth lunar month in the eleventh year of Chongzhen?"

Fei Pu was standing, but he was so frightened that he suddenly knelt down and said, "My lord, have mercy on me. I really didn't want to beat him to death. I held back my strength when I beat him, but my wife asked me to beat him hard, and she also scolded me for not having enough energy after eating too much." "

"Yes, Madam asked me to beat her. My arms were sore from the beating, and Madam asked me to beat her harder." Fei Ren also knelt down.

Feng Shenglun asked: "The lady you are talking about is Fei Yingqi's wife Fei Zheng?"

"It's her." The two evil slaves said in unison.

Feng Shenglun asked again: "Why did Fei Zheng beat Fei Liang?"

Fei Pu replied: "Fei Liang's leg was broken before, and he was raised for a month before he got out of bed. He went to the town to report to the official, and his wife found out about it, so she arrested him and beat him."

"How did Mrs. Fei Zheng know that the servant was suing the official?" Feng Shenglun asked.

Fei Ren said: "Zhang Fu, a civil servant in the town, personally went to Fei's house to report the news."

Feng Shenglun told the Guangxin Prefecture's anti-corruption officials: "According to the investigation, Zhang Fu went on an expedition with the army, and is likely to be the deputy mayor of the newly occupied territory. Whether he went to Huguang or Jiangnan, you have to ask the official selection office of the Jiangxi Chief Secretary."

Integrity officials immediately record the incident.

Feng Shenglun asked Zheng again: "Fei Zheng, was Zhang Fu, a civil servant in Ehu Town, the one who secretly tipped you off?"

Mrs. Zheng sat dumbly and said nothing.

"boom!"

Feng Shenglun slapped the alarm: "Fei Zheng, I will ask you again, but Zhang Fu tipped you off!"

Zheng was still speechless.

After asking three times in a row, Feng Shenglun said: "Since you don't speak, it is regarded as acquiescence. Bring the parents of the victim Fei Liang to court!"

A middle-aged couple was brought over, crying and saying that their son died unjustly.

After asking about the cause and effect, Feng Shenglun said: "Fei Liang was carried home on the second day of the twelfth lunar month?"

The mother of the deceased just cried.

The father of the deceased said: "On the night of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the four of them carried my son back and said that he fell into a ditch and was injured. How could it be that he fell? The skin and flesh on his waist were smashed and the bones were visible. ..." The man became more and more excited as he talked, and shouted to the onlookers, "The villagers are all commenting, who can fall like that into a ditch? My son! Wuwuwuwu..."

The onlookers were talking a lot and pointing at Zheng.

Mrs. Zheng was still sitting there stupidly, as if her mind was wandering.

After understanding many details, Feng Shenglun asked: "After Fei Liang died, did you go to report to the official?"

"We have gone," said the father of the deceased. "The county magistrate at that time, whose surname was Kong, sent two officials and a widower to do an autopsy on my son. After examining less than half a stick of incense, he insisted that my son died from a fall. of."

Feng Shenglun told the anti-corruption officials: "I have sent people back to the county to investigate the files. These three people who handled it will definitely be able to find out who they are."

Due to the temporary absence of three important figures, the murder case cannot be continued.

Then we will continue to try other cases, mainly the Zheng family forcibly recruited good people as servants, and then beat and insulted the servants for a long time.

The circumstances of these cases are simple. Not only are there witnesses, many of the helpers are also injured at this moment.

As they were interrogating, two more people suddenly came over and complained.

But it was the Zheng family who posted a job advertisement in Ehu Town. They thought the wages were pretty good, so they applied to work as servants in the Fei family. Because Zheng had been quarreling for a long time, the two of them would rather leave the Fei family without receiving their monthly wages. As a result, the Zheng family sued the government and ordered them to pay liquidated damages. The county government officials favored the Zheng family, causing the two servants to borrow money to pay the compensation.

When this matter was brought out, the whole place was in an uproar.

Beating people to death has already accumulated public outrage, but now we hear about such immoral things. If someone works for you as a servant, it doesn't matter if they don't get paid. Why do you want to make the servant pay for it?

The patriarch Fei Yuanlu was so angry that he was shaking all over: "This... this evil woman has completely disgraced the Fei family!"

An elderly country squire named Lei shook his head and sighed: "When marrying a wife, you should marry a virtuous one. Our Lei family chooses wives without looking at their background or appearance, only their character. There is no way that such a bad woman can enter our Lei family." Courtyard wall.”

"Hey, the Zheng family is also from a wealthy family in Guangxin, how could they raise a daughter like this?" Another elder said sadly.

Before freeing their slaves, which great clan did not abuse them?

But we can’t bring it out for public comment!

What's more, there are no domestic slaves now, and servants are also good people. Since they are good citizens, they cannot be abused, and the gentry must correct their attitude.

After a while of interrogation, Fei Yingqi suddenly shouted: "Master Xian, I want to report this wicked woman for murder!"

"The case of beating Fei Liang?" Feng Shenglun asked.

"There is another murder case," Fei Yingqi said, "This wicked woman is jealous and forbids me to take a concubine. So I secretly kept a second wife, and this wicked woman even pretended to let me take the second wife home when she knew about it. I believed her nonsense, and really took my second wife home to be my concubine, but I was beaten to death by this wicked woman for a reason!"

The audience was in an uproar and became even more sensational.

"Jealous woman, jealous woman! Such a jealous woman should have given up a long time ago!" The old man surnamed Tang looked angry.

Feng Shenglun asked, "Where is the corpse?"

"It was buried on the back hill of Fei's house in Ehu Lake, and I put a jade pendant as a funeral object." Fei Yingqi said.

"Hahahahaha!"

Mrs. Zheng, who had been silent all this time, stood up suddenly and laughed wildly, "Fei Yingqi, why don't you dare to divorce your wife because you hate me so much?"

Fei Yingqi sneered and said: "Men, you have to fight it out, and you can talk about any ugly things!"

And bigger melons?

All the gentry and common people pricked up their ears, and even the officials in charge of the trial had an expression of waiting to hear gossip.

Mrs. Zheng didn't break the news immediately, but asked Feng Shenglun: "Master, will my crimes affect my children?"

Feng Shenglun cupped his hands towards the west, and said: "Under Mr. Zhao's rule, there will be no implicated matters. As long as your children have not violated the law, they will not be implicated. However, your husband and wife have committed a serious crime. Some family property and land property will be fined and confiscated, and there will not be so much property left to the children."

Zheng turned her head and looked at her husband: "For the sake of my children, I don't bother to mention your scandal, it makes me sick to think about it!"

Fei Yingqi was not afraid, and yelled: "Say it, if you speak out, your reputation will be ruined anyway. If there are too many lice, it doesn't itch, and you will die together. Say it quickly, my little mother will not say it!"

"I won't say it!" Zheng sneered.

Fei Yingqi opened his voice and shouted: "Okay, don't tell me, I will say it myself..."

"Shut up!"

The old man Fei Yuanyi yelled, although he didn't know what scandalous things happened to his son, but it must be very embarrassing for him to be used by his daughter-in-law and dare not divorce his wife for so many years.

Family ugliness should not be publicized, Fei Yuanyi finally couldn't bear it anymore, and threw out his crutches in anger.

Fei Yingqi dodged and was about to speak when he heard a sound of "bang bang bang". Feng Shenglun slapped the gavel and said, "Silence, don't roar in the courtroom!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

Everyone laughed, and felt that today was worthwhile, and it was ten thousand times more exciting than singing a big show.

It's a pity that the last big melon doesn't seem to be split open.

Fei Yingqi sat on the ground slumped. He had held back this scandal for thirty years, as if being strangled by a rope and about to suffocate.

When he was thirteen years old, ignorant of sexual matters, he rolled into bed with the book boy's mother, and this woman was also his nanny. He was actually seduced, and ended up getting the nanny pregnant. After getting married, he was still secretly having a tryst with the nanny, but was caught by his wife Zheng.

Zheng's personality has changed drastically, which is probably related to this matter.

It's like a dog-blood romance drama.

Among the gentry, which family didn't have some dirty things?

The trial of the case was not finished that day, and the officials collectively rested by the river. Some pitched tents, and some slept on boats. Anyway, no one was allowed to leave until the case was settled!

The big uncut melon left everyone unsatisfied.

What's even more regrettable is that many people came too late to see Zhao Tianwang's demeanor.

The restaurant in Fei Ruhe's family is booming now. Merchants traveling from south to north must eat in the restaurant, and the restaurant was even renamed "Longxinglou".

Zhao Han worked as the second shopkeeper here, and taught various "court dishes" in person.

Fei Chun used to tell stories and novels here, Chen Maosheng once sang operas here, and Zhang Tieniu often came here to eat.

There are countless versions of their stories.

For example, the ancestor of King Zhao Tian was the royal chef of the palace, and he mastered many palace dishes that have been lost. Every time Zhao Tianwang came to the restaurant, he deliberately chose a noisy place and concentrated on reading to exercise his will.

Chen Maosheng is regarded as a master of Yiyang opera. According to those who have heard him sing opera, Chen Zhangsi's opera opera is unmatched in ancient and modern times. Before his death, an opera fan wanted to listen to Chen Zhangsi sing an opera. After the opera was over, the man recovered without any medicine.

There is also Fei Chunfei, who is a good storyteller, and even "Gourd Baby" has been rewritten as a novel.

Zhang Tieniu's legend is the most outrageous, because all the coolies on the dock know him. These coolies love to brag, and the more they talk, the more evil they become. Zhang Tieniu has to eat five catties of rice every day, and he can lift a hundred catties of sacks with one hand. The sworn brother was killed by the eunuch, Zhang Tieniu resorted to the Tiyun jumping method, stole the elder brother's head hanging on the pole, and crossed the Xinjiang River on a bamboo pole.

At this very moment, on the passenger ship in the middle of the river, a scholar who had finished watching the excitement was writing a novel.

The novel is called "Biography of the Sons and Daughters of Wind and Cloud", and its overall style imitates "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

There are several leading actors, namely: Xin Zhao (Zhao Han), Li Heming (Fei Ruhe), Li Zhen (Fei Chun), Wang Jushan (Zhang Tieniu), Yang Tianwei (Pang Chunlai).

This scholar obviously collected a lot of information, plus various hearsay.

In his works, Yang Tianwei (Pang Chunlai) is the son of a general in Liaodong. Because the eunuchs colluded with the Tartars, his family was ruined and he was exiled in the rivers and lakes. In Laoshan, I had to meet strangers, learned half a volume of Taoism, three volumes of military art, and five volumes of political strategy, and also learned a lot of superior martial arts.

The first tens of thousands of characters in the novel are all about Yang Tianwei (Pang Chunlai).

As for Zhao Xin (Zhao Han) and others, they are his apprentices in Qianshan.

Zhao Han burned the county government, Zhang Tieniu stole the head late at night, these stories are all linked together. Chen Maosheng is even described as an assassin, singing is just to cover up his identity, and he specializes in assassinating corrupt officials.

Ma Liaoyang and Zhang Puwei, the two leaders of the Secret Esoteric Sect, unexpectedly also made impressive appearances.

Ma Liaoyang and Zhang Puwei are heretics.

Yang Tianwei (Pang Chunlai) only had half a volume of Daoist books, but he was able to beat two leftist monks to serious injuries with one against two.

Therefore, after they left Qianshan Mountain, the two heretics dared to rebel.

Even the Dian Shi of Qianshan County, who was stabbed to death by Zhao Han, became a master of martial arts in the novel. The plot of Zhao Han setting fire to the county yamen almost turned into a solitary raid into a dragon's pool and a tiger's lair, and finally he climbed over the city wall and left.

The scholar put away the pen and paper, went to sleep with his clothes on, and waited to continue watching the case tomorrow.