The red sun sets westward.
Sun Shaozong reviewed the confessions of a pair of incest aunts and nephews and returned them to Sun Chengye for collection. He then poured two mouthfuls of refreshing tea, and then said, “Next!”
“Uncle Thirteen.”
Sun Chengye hurriedly reminded in a low voice: “The eleven cases you selected before have been cut off now.”
“All have been cut off?”
Sun Shaozong was stunned at first, and then he breathed a sigh of relief. After the trial for the whole day, although he did not encounter any difficult cases, the dispute that could not be resolved and chaotic was enough to make people feel overwhelmed.
Rubbing the faint pain in his eyebrows, he stood up and shook his sleeves. Sun Chengye immediately shouted in time: “Get back…”
Unexpectedly, before the word “tang” was released, he heard the sound of the drums outside the door making a sound.
These eleven cases have been concluded, how could someone beating a drum outside the door?
Could it be that something major happened?
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong hurriedly sat down after the case again and ordered the yamen runners to bring the people who beat the drums and complain to the hall.
Not long after, two yamen runners led one in with a strange look, but it turned out to be an eleven or twelve-year-old boy.
The young man was taken to this court. Facing dozens of eyes, he was not at all afraid. He stepped forward and knelt down properly, holding a piece of paper with both hands, and said crisply: “Your Majesty Qingtian, Li Xian, a commoner, has an injustice to complain!”
Sun Shaozong winked, and immediately someone came forward to pick up the paper and submitted it to the case.
Sun Shaozong picked up the paper and swept it over, but saw that the boy was trying to seek justice, but he also sued the Wanping County Magistrate Xu Huaizhi!
The story goes like this. The young man Li Xian and his father Li Sheng were originally from Dengzhou, Henan Province. Two years ago, Li Xian’s mother passed away, so he went to the capital to make a living with his father Li Sheng.
A few days ago, the rice shop opened by Li Sheng was planning to borrow 100 taels of silver from his friend Chen Xu to overcome the difficulties in the moment.
The two had agreed to meet in the Li family’s rice shop tonight.
Unexpectedly, at night, Li Sheng was waiting in the shop, but Chen Xu was not allowed to come to the door with silver. In an anxious mood, he led his friend to find the Chen family.
Unexpectedly, only Chen Xu’s wife Chang was at home, and Chen Xu was not seen – and according to Chen Xu’s wife Chang, Chen Xu had already gone out with money.
In this way, Li Sheng and Chang searched together for three days, but they still couldn’t see anyone alive or died. They had no choice but to report the case to the government, hoping to find Chen Xu with the help of the government.
Who would have thought of thatThe magistrate of Wanping, Xu Huaizhi, didn’t know how to investigate the case, actually found that Li Sheng had an affair with Chang, and jointly assassinated Chen Xu, and imposed severe punishments in the hall, yelling Li Sheng and Chang’s fault.
Putting the paper back on the table, Sun Shaozong sang: “Li Xian, you said that his father and the Chang family were both scolded by Wanping County, but what certificates do you have?”
“Reply to the words of the master.”
Then Li Xian was not frightened and straightened his back and bowed, “If it weren’t for the scolding, why did my father and aunt Chen confessed for four days, but Wanping County never found Uncle Chen’s body?”
This was really hit. Since Li Sheng and Chang had already pleaded guilty, what reason do you have to continue to conceal the whereabouts of the body? Therefore, there must be something wrong with this!
And it was not once or twice that Xu Huaizhi made a mistake in the case.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong immediately ordered someone to take his famous letter and go to the Wanping County Yamen Li Sheng and Chang to go to the hall for interrogation.
After the officer received the order, Sun Shaozong held the complaint in his hand with great interest and asked, “Li Xian, who wrote this complaint?”
“Reply to the master.”
Li Xian bowed and said, “It was written by Xiaomin himself.”
“But listen to someone else’s oral statement?”
“No, it was all about what the common people thought.”
Although there are some problems in the format of this complaint, the content is clear. If the boy did not lie, he could really be called the word “child prodigy”.
And Sun Shaozong always felt that the word “Li Xian” seemed to have heard it somewhere.
It will take some time for Li Sheng and Chang to be present, so Sun Shaozong simply came to the hall to take the exam for this young Li Xian.
Although Li Xian was a little confused, he also knew that his father’s life and death were all in the hands of Sun Shaozong at this time. Therefore, he worked hard to deal with it, and he had no timidity in his talk.
Later, even Sun Chengye became interested and took over the conversation and took the exam to take some knowledge of the classics, history, and collections of the young man. Unexpectedly, the young man could do it even more easily.
In the end, Sun Chengye couldn’t help but admire him in private, saying that he had no such courage or insight when he was twelve or thirteen years old.
Ignore the comparison of courage and ignore it for now, but this young man’s talent is really extraordinary.
After about half an hour, two prisoners were arrested from outside, one by one, one by one.