I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 241 Identity Revealed
As soon as he heard that he was about to hit the board, Jin Baozhen laughed triumphantly, pointed at Zhan Feiyu and yelled, "You sue? Sue if you are not afraid of being beaten to death!"

He yawned lazily, and Chong Guang pointed at Wu Tongzhi, "Twenty boards will beat the sufferer to death. Is Mr. Wu trying to kill someone?"

Although the people sued the officials and would face punishment, but Zhan Feiyu was just a child, and it was understandable that she would sue.

Jin Baozhen talked about her blackmail with the shopkeeper of Jin Yuzhai at the first touch, and then put him in jail. This is clearly collusion between the government and businessmen!Now that the incident happened, why not allow the sufferer to sue for justice?
For Jin Baozhen's domineering, some passers-by couldn't stand it, and said in a low voice: "I saw the shopkeeper of Jin Yuzhai on the street at noon yesterday. Since he said blackmail, why didn't the shopkeeper be arrested too?"

Jin Yu Zhai is a time-honored brand in Huai'an Mansion, no matter how much money Jin Baozhen has, Mrs. Wu can't put the shopkeeper in jail.

In the end, it was just eating persimmons and picking soft ones. Madam Wu took the money and saw that Zhan Feiyu was from outside, so she ordered someone to lock her up.

"No one knows about this little girl. If the shopkeeper of Jin Yuzhai is locked up, Master Chu will definitely know about it." A passerby on the side replied, saying that it was the little girl who was unlucky.

Jin Baozhen thought Chongguang was handsome and handsome at first, but when he saw him helping Zhan Feiyu, he suddenly became angry, "What are you? I'm talking to Mr. Chu, do you have the right to intervene?"

Jin Baozhen yelled and cursed a few times, her domineering appearance did not look like a 15-year-old girl's.

Looking back at the prefect of Chu, Jin Baozhen's voice became coquettish instantly, with a bit of coquettish anger, "My lord, he bullied me."

Zhan Feiyu and Chongguang shook their arms, feeling goosebumps all over their bodies.

The others didn't dare to be so blatant, but all of them secretly looked at the prefect of Chu. Jin Baozhen kept talking about the prefect's concubine before. Is this true?

Even though the prefect of Chu had cultivated himself well, he was also overwhelmed by the pretentious Jin Baozhen at this moment, ignoring her coquettishness, and said in a deep voice, "Come here, bring the complaint."

Detective Zhao was taken aback for a moment. My lord is going to continue the case. Does Wu Tong become the defendant if he knows it?
But since the prefect of Chu had spoken, Catcher Zhao hesitated for a moment, then took the complaint from Zhan Feiyu and presented it to the prefect of Chu, "My lord."

Wu Tongzhi's face turned gloomy, and Master Hong and several officials looked at each other in blank dismay. It stands to reason that even if the little girl files a complaint, the Lord will make the big deal smaller.

Although it was Wu Tongzhi who made the mistake first, but they were colleagues after all, and the matter of each hitting [-] boards at most would be overturned, especially at this juncture, when such a big incident happened, the entire Huai'an Mansion should be unanimous to the outside world.

A moment later, Huai'an Government Office.

The prefect of Chu sat in the courtroom, and the courtroom was surrounded by ordinary people watching the excitement.

Although Wu Tongzhi was the defendant, he was a fifth-rank official after all. The yamen servant moved a chair over, and Wu Tongzhi sat down boldly, with a gloomy expression.

With a slap of the gavel, Jin Baozhen screamed again, "Why do you make me kneel? I am the daughter of the salt merchant Jin's family!"

Jin Baozhen looked angrily at the dignified prefect of Chu, who was dressed in an official uniform. Her father also said that after Guixuan became a teacher, he would be too late, and then he would find a way to marry him to the prefect of Chu.

But at this moment, even though Prefect Chu was very handsome, Jin Baozhen didn't want to marry anymore, so he made himself kneel down.

"Don't make noise in the courtroom!" Chu Zhifu said coldly, it wasn't that he looked down on merchants, but the Jin family's rules were worrying.

"I don't!" Miss Jin Baozhen's temper came up. Perhaps it was because the prefect of Chu was too powerful. Jin Baozhen flinched and pointed the finger at Zhan Feiyu again, "She, a fugitive, doesn't kneel down. My dignified Jin family Why should Miss kneel down!"

Jin Baozhen's voice was sharp and piercing, but Wu Tongzhi took over the words at this moment, "Miss Jin, please don't talk nonsense. Your Excellency is always fair, how can you show favoritism in court?"

After receiving the complaint from the prefect of Chu, Wu Tongzhi couldn't help but conspire. He suspected that the prefect of Chu planned to act preemptively and use the complaint to dismiss him from office and eliminate himself as a potential successor in advance.

At that time, even if the imperial court knew about the siege of the prison and the many corpses hanging on the city wall, the Huai'an Mansion would have to have parents and officials.

The people outside the court couldn't help muttering, "One kneels and the other doesn't. Master Chu is partial to that little girl."

"Shouldn't it be? This little girl was arrested and imprisoned for trumped-up charges, and Master Chu is not allowed to show favoritism?" The straightforward people obviously sided with Zhan Feiyu.

"Yes, that golden girl is making things difficult. She whipped people with a horsewhip in the alley before. The wound on Zhao Kuai's face was caused by her."

Who doesn't have a daughter or a younger sister? These rich and unkind profiteers just have a few coins, and if they disagree with each other, they will bribe the jailer and put her in a prison. Fortunately, this girl is young. If she is a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl, A lifetime is ruined.

"This statement is wrong!" The person who spoke was a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar, and glanced at the few people in the courtroom, "No matter what grievances the little girl has, she must kneel when she sees the official, and the public must punish the official with a stick. Because she was lenient when she was young, where did she put the laws of Daqing?"

Everyone outside the courtroom felt that it made sense when they heard it.

Standing in the courtroom, Zhan Feiyu glanced at Jin Baozhen provocatively, but took two steps forward and saluted again: "Student Zhan Feiyu pays his respects to your lord."

"You?" Wu Tongzhi, who was sitting on the chair, stood up suddenly, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong, and suddenly remembered the prison cell, Wu Tongzhi's expression changed suddenly, so it is so, so it is!
Nanxuan Mansion is a little far away from Huai'an Mansion, so ordinary people don't know anything about Nanxuan Mansion at all, but Wu Tongzhi, as an official of the imperial court, although Chen Xuezheng only came for one day in the previous court examination, Wu Tongzhi also paid a visit to Chen Xuezheng, so naturally Knowing Zhan Feiyu's name as Xiao Sanyuan, but the more important identity is Gu Xueshi's disciple.

As a well-known young scholar, Zhan Feiyu can see officials without paying homage. As for her suing Wu Tongzhi, the prefect of Chu dismissed the board at her discretion. After all, she is young and a little girl, and she was wronged and frightened before.

Does Wu Tongzhi dare to be serious?If he dared to hit Zhan Feiyu with this board today, he probably wouldn't be able to keep the black hat on his head tomorrow.

"Impossible, how could she be a scholar!" The shrill voice almost toppled the roof, and Jin Baozhen shouted in disbelief.

Jin Guixuan is known as a child prodigy in Zhongzhou Prefecture. The Jin family invited famous teachers to teach him, and Jin Guixuan studied hard, Jin Baozhen knew. .

Jin Baozhen looked critically at the smiling Zhan Feiyu, and seriously suspected that the prefect of Chu was talking nonsense, but she turned her head to look at Wu Tongzhi, who had been helping her with the conversation before, sitting on the chair like a mournful man, Jin Baozhen felt a little bit of a shock .

If the Jin family didn't have Jin Guixuan, let alone a scholar, Jin Baozhen wouldn't look down on him even if he was a scholar. Money can turn ghosts around. As long as there is money, there is nothing impossible in this world.

But after being enlightened to study at Jin Guixuan, not only the head of the Jin family, Mrs. Jin, but also the other elders of the Jin family all valued Jin Guixuan very highly. .

In particular, Mrs. Wei, an aunt who would rather marry her uncle to fill in the house, is she going for an official name. No matter how much money the Jin family has, the notice of the imperial salt tax has not yet come down. Nobody took the money, so Jin Baozhen agreed to marry Chu Zhifu, even as a concubine.

Half an hour later, the prefect of Chu announced his withdrawal.

Jin Baozhen was not beaten, but was replaced with silver.

As for Wu Tongzhi, Mrs. Wu's steward and her husband took the blame, admitting that they bribed the prison boss to please Jin Baozhen and put Zhan Feiyu in the prison.

Ma Laotou was dead, and the prefect of Chu didn't investigate further.

As for the seventh house of the Liu family, the prefect of Chu has already dispatched arresters to go there quickly. The crime of forcing a good man into slavery cannot be escaped. , It is estimated that the case will be closed hastily like today.

After returning to the Xinglong Inn, Chongguang took two sips of tea and looked at Zhan Feiyu puzzled, "Fat girl, what are you going to do after all this trouble?"

"Let the Liu family take the blame, let the prefect of Chu take the 50 property from Liu Hefeng's two families." Zhan Feiyu was also playing tricks that day, Jin Baozhen was arrogant and domineering, and Mrs. Wu took money to handle affairs, just as if she was an ordinary little girl, If it is closed, it will be closed, and there is no place to reason.

And once the Liu family's Qi Fang knew that he was imprisoned, he would definitely take the opportunity to make a move and force himself to give Ah Nuan to the Liu family's Qi Fang. Let her sit through the prison!
Chong Guang nodded after he understood, but he still had some doubts, "It's normal for Chu Zhifu and Wu Tongzhi to know that you are being imprisoned. After all, this is a trivial matter, but it is impossible for the Liu family not to know."

After Mrs. Wu received the bank note from the Jin family, she treated it as a trivial matter, and she didn't need to be involved. It was enough for the man in charge of her mother to go to the yamen to say hello. was thrown into prison.

Also because the matter went so smoothly, Wu Tongzhi also thought that Zhan Feiyu was an insignificant little person, and he believed in Mrs. Wu's ability to handle affairs, so he didn't ask any questions at all.

The same is true for the prefect of Chu, because of the cover-up of the Liu family, and because Zhang Changsong and Qiu Dingsi said goodbye when they said goodbye, the prefect of Chu also thought that Zhan Feiyu had something to do with him and left Huai'an mansion. .

Zhan Feiyu looked at his right hand that was almost bitten and pierced, and immediately froze when he thought of Yin Wuyan who hadn't come back yet, "The Liu family probably has murderous intentions for me."

"Just for the 50 taels of silver?" Zhong Guang also screamed like Jin Baozhen, the imperial merchant Liu's family is as rich as a country!To kill Gu Xueshi's disciple for 50 taels of silver, Zhong Guang knew it was impossible with his toes.

But thinking of Zhan Feiyu's narrow escape and being bitten by hounds from legs to arms to hands, she is still amazing, otherwise, based on the 48 corpses hanging on the city wall, Zhan Feiyu would guess It's also a corpse, so it can only be said that the fat girl is fatal.

"It's because I couldn't think of it that I was careless." Zhan Feiyu whispered.

She went to the prison to stay for a few days, just waiting for the court to send a general to come and take away the 50 taels of silver smoothly. If you don't go, you don't know that the boat capsized in the gutter.

Looking sympathetically at the weak Zhan Feiyu, Chong Guang comforted her and patted her head, "A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, fat girl, you are careless."

At first I was surprised that Chongguang didn't gloat, but when he realized that he was about to rub the top of his head into a chicken coop, Zhan Feiyu waved Chongguang's hand angrily, and replied stiffly, "Even if I stay in Xinglong Inn, what should I do?" What comes will come!"

It's just that in the government prison, Zhan Feiyu has become a turtle in a urn!

If he lived in an inn, no matter how many dead men came, He Sheng would definitely be able to escape with Zhan Feiyu with his skill, and he would not be trapped in the prison by being flanked back and forth, almost giving his life away .

"You can save this and say it to Master Qi." Chong Guang smiled, with such a big trouble, it is estimated that the court has received the news, and Master Qi should be back soon.

For the first time, Zhan Feiyu didn't want Yin Wuyan to come back, and Zhan Feiyu's face wrinkled into a ball, "Uncle Chongguang, you can do it yourself, I'm going to study!"

Why worry, only reading!
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Liujia Town.

Whether it was the siege of the government office or the 48 corpses hanging on the city wall, the Liu family received the news immediately, and at this moment it was in the Liu family's study.

Liu Hejin was still as lazy as he hadn't woken up, sitting lazily on the armchair, and gloatingly asked, "Which god did the prefect Chu offend? The prison has been stormed, and I heard that many police officers died. Yamen servant, it is estimated that the magistrate surnamed Chu is sitting at the end this time."

Liu Hejin is an old dude, he likes to eat, drink and have fun, tease beauties, listen to a ditty or something, his brain doesn't like to deal with people like Chu Zhifu, he can't figure out the other party's background, he is sold and returned to the number silver.

"Okay, do you think it would be better for the Liu family to change the magistrate?" The elders of the Six Clans looked at Liu Hejin, who were sitting in disapproval, with distaste.

Although Chu Shao is shrewd, unfathomable, and has an average relationship with the Liu family, he is capable after all. Under his governance, the Huai'an Mansion has been peaceful for the past few years. If a corrupt official comes here, I don't know what will happen.

The elder of the great family said slowly: "What's the matter with Qifang? How did I hear that Zhan Feiyu was imprisoned and Qifang intervened?"

Although Zhan Feiyu came to Liu's family to express her condolences before, her attitude was also very clear. She didn't have the slightest affection for the Liu family, and she came to express her condolences only to return Qi Heng's favor.

"It's not Liu Bao." Liu and Jin don't know about the business, but they know all about these things, "Back then, their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law beat that girl to death in front of Liu Bao. The excitement was insane, and it's too late to regret it now."

Liu Hejin thought that he had met Zhan Feiyu in the middle of the night, so he couldn't help but sit up straight, "It's not that I want others to destroy my prestige, that girl Zhan Feiyu is not a good person, she dares to ask for her personal maid forcibly. The slap from the mourning hall was not hard enough!"

(End of this chapter)