Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 129 Complaint
Xu Zhiqiong asked Guan Xicheng to write a complaint in the prison and stamped his fingerprints.

He followed Xue Yun to Hanyun Academy with the complaint.

Xu Zhiqiong asked to see the house where Guan Xicheng lived. The owner of the workshop, surnamed Yun, was a scholar.

Yun Xiucai had never met Xu Zhiqiong before, so he asked, "What do you two want to do in the Zhaishe?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "I am the litigator invited by Guan Xicheng, there is grievance in this case!"

Yun Xiucai sighed and said, "The magistrate has already sentenced this case, so why are you here?"

"The magistrate of the county has been sentenced, but the Ministry of Criminal Justice has not yet reviewed it. Even if the Ministry of Criminal Justice reviews it, Mr. Liang's family will have to look over it. Even if the lawsuit is brought to Mr. Liang's family, I will fight to the end!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Zhiqiong handed Guan Xicheng's pleadings to Yun Xiucai.

After Yun Xiucai looked at it, he sighed and said, "You are a solid litigator, go, I'll take you to have a look!"

The three of them went to the fasting house. There were no traces of the case two months ago. No one is allowed."

The mud county magistrate is quite cautious, this is to destroy the evidence.

Xu Zhiqiong took some pens, inkstones, and books of various colors from the house, and scraped some wall coverings off the wall, and took them with him.

Yun Xiucai said, "What are you trying to do?"

Xu Zhiqiong took out two taels of silver and gave it to Yun Xiucai: "Don't ask too many questions, and don't tell anyone about this!"

Yun Xiucai pushed Xu Zhiqiong's hand away, shook his head and said, "I'm a scholar, I don't want this money, I know that Xicheng was wronged, I just hope that you, the litigator, can clear him up!"

The two left the academy and walked on the road, Xue Yun said: "Shouldn't we tell Yun Xiucai about this, with our skills, is it still a waste of effort to get a few things from the house?"

Xu Zhiqiong said, "So what if I told Yun Xiucai?"

"I'm afraid he will tell the magistrate."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "The county magistrate already knew about it. Let's go to the county government prison to visit Guan Xicheng. Will he hear the news?"

"If he receives the news, I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to handle. You don't know what he and Si Ni are capable of, it's amazing!"

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "Some people are better at getting along than him, just wait and see."

"What if he is afraid and takes precautions?"

"If he knew he was afraid, he might be able to keep this black hat!"

Xue Yun said with a smile: "You really want to go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to sue, will you win?"

Before Xu Zhiqiong could answer, Yun Xiucai suddenly chased after him: "Two strong men, go slowly!"

Xue Yun sighed: "When trouble comes, I knew this old scholar would not let it go."

Xu Zhiqiong looked at Yun Xiucai and said, "What else is there?"

Yun Xiucai hesitated for a while, and asked: "The complaint, can I let the old man take another look!"

Xu Zhiqiong frowned: "What are you looking at it for?"

Yun Xiucai gritted her teeth, her eyes were red: "On the night when the incident happened, I was in the workshop. Those people were vicious, and I was timid, so I didn't come out to help Xicheng. For this lawsuit, let me put my fingerprints. If the litigator goes to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to file a complaint, I would like to Go testify!"

Xu Zhiqiong nodded and exclaimed in admiration: "A scholar of Daxuan, his spine is not broken!"

Yun Xiucai pressed his fingerprints, and Xu Zhiqiong and Xue Yun went to Guan Xicheng's house.

Guan Xicheng's father left early, but fortunately, his family was relatively well-off, but these days, in order to fight this lawsuit, Mrs. Liu sold all the family property, and now there is only a dilapidated house left without a bed in it.

Mrs. Liu was recuperating on the straw mat. Today she went to the yamen to complain to Guan Xicheng, but was beaten twenty times by the magistrate, and she crawled all the way back.

Seeing two strangers enter the house, Mrs. Liu was not afraid.

I am not afraid of death anymore, what else is there to be afraid of?
Xu Zhiqiong squatted beside the straw mat and showed the pleadings to Mrs. Liu, who asked, "What is this?"

She cannot read.

Xu Zhiqiong read the pleading paper to Liu Shi, and Liu Shi heard half of it, rolled off the straw mat, and wanted to kowtow to Xu Zhiqiong.

"Get up, don't kneel!"

Xue Yun looked at Xu Zhiqiong and found that he was particularly disgusted by others kneeling.

Liu said with tears in her eyes: "You two strong men, are you going to avenge my child? I don't know where the two gods came from. You can take whatever you want from my house. To put it bluntly, I am three years old. Sixteen, less than forty, you can sell me, two strong men, I kowtow to you, I kowtow to you!"

Mrs. Liu was crying heartbreakingly, Xu Zhiqiong said: "What's the use of crying? Put your fingerprint on the pleadings, and on the day of the retrial, you have to go, and go in a good manner!"

Mrs. Liu is of little help to this case, but she has to live, and if she lives, Guan Xicheng has the courage to live.

Xu Zhiqiong left ten taels of silver to Mrs. Liu, but Mrs. Liu didn't dare to take it, so Xu Zhiqiong said angrily, "I'll take it for you. Do you know where Qiu Yueze lives?"

After the accident, Qiu Yueze was still preparing for the exam in the county, but the school didn't accept him, and he rented a house by himself.

At night, Qiu Yueze was still reading under the lamp when Xu Zhiqiong suddenly appeared in front of him.

Qiu Yueze was very skilled, he stood up suddenly and said, "Who are you?"

Xu Zhiqiong kicked him to the ground, looked down at him and said, "I'm Guan Xicheng's friend, do you know why I came to you?"

Qiu Yueze got up, lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry for him, you can beat me, scold me, or kill me."

Xu Zhiqiong sneered and said, "There is a bit of conscience in what you said, why didn't you testify to Guan Xicheng?"

"I went to testify. The incident happened because of me. Can I not tell the truth? But the county magistrate said that I had nothing to do with this case and beat me out. Now I can't wait to pay for Xicheng's life!"

Xu Zhiqiong nodded: "Let me ask you, why did you form a relationship with Geng Dejun?"

Qiu Yueze said: "I was listening to music in Goulan during the day, and I fought with him for a dancer. At first he suffered a disadvantage, but later he found someone. I was afraid, so I found a place to hide. I knew it would hurt Xicheng."

"Do you know the people he was looking for?"

"I know a few of them. One is Xie An, who is a well-known troublemaker in the county."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Write down what you know that day, and use it as a testimony."

……

Xie An was eating at home, and he was the only one at the table.

When he was eating, his wife and three children had to watch on the ground, and only when he was full could the wife and children serve at the table. This was a rule set by him.

Today he came back a bit late, and he ate late too. The three-year-old child couldn't bear the hunger, so he secretly took a piece of tofu from the table and ate it.

Xie An saw it, kicked the child down, and cursed: "Damn, there are no rules."

The child was lying on the ground crying loudly. Xie An stepped forward and grabbed the child's hair and slapped it across the face: "Are you crying? You are crying! Hold it back!"

The child was beaten constantly, how could he hold back, Xie An was annoyed, and raised his fist, his wife stepped forward to stop her, but was knocked over by his punch, Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward to grab his wrist, and he hit back.

Xu Zhiqiong first punched him on the bridge of the nose, Xie An held his nose, and tears came down: "Who are you, you dare to hit me, my nose..."

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and grabbed his hair, pressed him to the ground, and punched him several times.

Xie An's mouth was twisted by the hammer, and he cried loudly: "Grandpa, don't hit me, I, I don't recognize you, you hit the wrong person!"

Xu Zhiqiong shouted: "Cry! Cry again! Hold back!"

Xie An couldn't hold back, Xu Zhiqiong kicked him on the mouth twice, and he stopped.

The wife and children were terrified and wanted to run out the door, but Xue Yun blocked the way and said, "Don't run, it's none of your business, just be honest."

Xu Zhiqiong grabbed Xie An's hair and asked, "Two months ago, you followed Geng Dejun and beat Guan Xicheng?"

Xie An nodded and said: "Master Geng is my friend, this hero, you should consider it..."

Xu Zhiqiong pressed Xie An to the ground, then kicked his face, Xie An cried, "I'm done, grandpa, I'm done..."

"Hold back!"

Xie An held back, and Xu Zhiqiong then asked, "Do you know how to read?"

"No, I don't recognize it."

Xu Zhiqiong said to Xue Yun: "You help him write, write down everything that happened that night, and let him print his fingerprints."

After writing the testimony and pressing the fingerprints, Xu Zhiqiong and Xue Yun had just left, Xie An was full of anger and had nowhere to vent it.

He turned around and punched his wife: "Tell me, where did this person come from? Did you provoke him! You bitch, did you..."

When Xu Zhiqiong came back, he suddenly grabbed Xie An's hair, pressed him to the ground and hammered his face.

"Grandpa, I know I was wrong!" Xie An hissed and howled.

Xu Zhiqiong hit harder and harder: "You cry! Still cry! Hold back!"

……

After collecting several testimonies in a row, Xu Zhiqiong and Xue Yun found an inn to stay in late at night.

The inn was very close to the county government. Xu Zhiqiong was used to staying up late, so he was not in a hurry to sleep. He went to the small black room first to reproduce the scene of the night when the incident happened. The scene at that time was exactly the same as Guan Xicheng's description.

He found another mouse and went to the county government office to investigate.

The county grandpa Tian Jinping was not asleep, and was discussing matters with the county magistrate.

"What is the origin of those two people who went to look for Guan Xicheng in the prison?"

The county magistrate said: "We are still investigating. They are all foreigners. One is called Yunxu. I heard that they often live in our county. The other doesn't even know his name. He seems to be a lawyer."

"A litigator?" Tian Jinping said angrily, "He's clearly a litigator who wants the bad people to make trouble for this county!"

"My lord, how do you think this matter should be handled?"

"Go to that Yunxu's house, bring his family to the Yamen, and stay for a few days."

This is the usual method of Tianzhi County. Some villains don't care about life and death, but as long as their family members are caught, they will behave a lot.

The county magistrate is in trouble again: "This Yunxu has no family, only a bachelor!"

Tian Jinping said angrily: "Even if the family is not here, this person must have a history, within three days, I must find out!"

"The whereabouts of these two people are uncertain, so it's hard to find out," the magistrate said with a perplexed expression, "My lord, why don't we look into Guan Xicheng's case again."

"What are you looking at!" Tian Jinping said with rounded eyes, "You mean the county made a wrong judgment?"

"But he did..."

"What's the matter? Didn't he kill the person? Shouldn't he pay for his life? Do you think Guan Xicheng has been wronged? There were so many people in the workshop that night, Geng Dejun didn't hit others, why did he hit him? A slap can't be slapped, Guan Xicheng doesn't care at all." No injustice!"

"But among them..."

"Don't talk about the things in it. Who can tell right from wrong?" Tian Jinping waved his hand, "This county is in charge of a side of peace. It is worthy of the emperor's grace and conscience. Everything should be based on the overall situation. How can it be tolerated?" Is the young man talking short and long?"

The county magistrate nodded again and again: "Your Excellency is right."

"Go and find out the origins of these two people, let's discuss it tomorrow!"

……

Xu Zhiqiong didn't return all night, Yang Wu sat in the yard feeling uneasy.

Why are you nervous?Do I have a heart?

Yang Wu asked himself, it seems that there is really no.

The fog was too heavy tonight, and the Hanging Flower Gate (the gate between the front yard and the main yard) could not be seen from the main courtyard. Yang Wu always felt that something was going to happen.

There was a rustle in the front yard, as if there were footsteps.

Yang Wuzhuang bravely walked to the front yard, passed the Chuihua Gate, looked around in the front yard, but saw no one.

In the main courtyard, there was an unburned paper figurine that slowly opened its eyes.

Under the mist, the paper figurine walked slowly towards the hanging flower door.

Yang Wu was still patrolling the front yard, defenseless against what was behind him.

The paper figurine came to Yang Wu's back, stretched out a pair of hands, ten fingernails grew to two inches long in a blink of an eye.

The nails slowly stretched towards the back of Yang Wu's head, Yang Wu suddenly raised his head, and a figure appeared in front of his eyes!

"Who! Who is here! Come! Sit down!" Yang Wu was terrified, and burst out several words at once.

"What are you shouting about? You're surprised!" Xue Yun came and was also taken aback by Yang Wu.

Yang Wu let out a long breath: "Why are you here? Where's Ma Shangfeng?"

"Judge Ma can't come back yet, Shanxun County is a bit cold, I'll bring some clothes for Judge Ma."

Yang Wu shook his head and said: "There are no clothes here, his clothes are in the mortal world."

"Forget it, I'll buy him one."

Yang Wudao: "Don't be in a hurry to leave. If you are not in a hurry, stay here for one night and accompany me to relieve boredom."

He wanted someone for company.

Xue Yun shook his head and said, "Hurry up, there are too many things to do, I'm leaving now."

"Then you go, don't send it off!" Yang Wu went back to the main courtyard and continued to sit.

Xue Yun stood in the front yard for a while, raised his head, looked at the surrounding fog, and said in a low voice:
"You don't want to give face, do you?"

Murderous rise!
The dense fog dissipated in an instant.

(End of this chapter)