After the imperial examinations, I grew up by farming

Chapter 33
The next day.

Master Xu Er was summoned to the county government as a murder suspect, which shocked the entire Xu family and the entire Nanli County.

The third master was teaching in the academy, when he heard about this, he hurried to the county government office without waiting for the get out of class to end.

The elder master, the second wife, the fifth lady Xu Linpeng and the Xu family have already arrived first, and the people from the second wife's natal Zhang's martial arts gym have also come. In the county government.

After questioning, I found out that there were several other cousins ​​of the Xu family who were summoned.

The onlookers stood outside the gate of the ceremony.

In the lobby, two rows of guards looked solemn and dignified, and the water and fire sticks quickly hit the ground, and the guards hummed: "Wei——wu——"

Ning Yu, wearing a black gauze hat, walked into the lobby from the inner office, and glanced at the three people in the hall.

Li Xiaoying knelt neatly in the middle.

The second uncle Xu Houzai stood on the left side of Li Xiaoying.

And the middle-aged man standing on the right side of Li Xiaoying, who is eight points like the second master, is Xu Houtian, the cousin of several masters of the Xu family.

Back then, grandfather Xu Yongying died young, leaving behind four orphans and widows who were expelled from Xinghua Village by the Xu clan.

Therefore, the second master deliberately stood on the left side of Li Xiaoying, far away from this cousin.

Ning Yu walked slowly to the trial table and sat down calmly.

"Yu, Yuyu, brother Yu..."

Seeing his nephew, who was grabbing steamed dumplings with him during breakfast, sitting on the seat reserved for the magistrate, the second master was quite frightened and stuttered.

"Crack!" The gavel gave a heavy thud to the trial table.

Ning Yu looked cold and stern, and shouted: "Bold, don't kneel down in front of the court ordering officer!"

"You, you, you... me, me... ouch!"

The second master's eyes were like gongs, and he pointed at Ning Yu, you, me and me for a long time. Ning Yu's gaze was still dull.

The Xu family, the richest man, is famous, and the 12-year-old Jie Yuan is even more famous.

Xu Houtian naturally knew Ning Yu, seeing that Xu Houzai, the second uncle of the direct relative, knelt down, he was a cousin, and he was not in a family tree, so Yan had reason not to kneel.

"Crack!" The gavel sounded.

"Xu Houzai, a commoner."

The second master was still thinking about how his nephew suddenly became the magistrate of the county, he was startled by the gavel, and looked at Ning Yu blankly, "The grass, the grass people are here."

"Someone accused you of entering Lijia Village at night, killing the old man Wang Facai and his wife Wang Chenshi, attempting to rape his daughter-in-law Wang Lishi, burning down three huts, and robbing 160 kilograms of rice seeds. Do you admit it or not?"

"what?"

The second master was stunned for half a second, then raised one knee, making a gesture to stand up, "Brother Yu, what are you talking about? How could the second uncle—"

"Snapped!"

The gavel sounded again, meeting his nephew's sharp eyes, the second master finally accepted the fact that his nephew was the magistrate, put down his legs and knelt down again.

"You don't know if the second uncle killed someone? How dare I..."

"I only ask you whether you recognize it or not, don't talk about him." Ning Yu interrupted the second master sharply.

"No, I don't know Old Man Wang or Old Man Liu."

Ning Yu turned to Li Xiaoying, "Mr. Wang Li, you sued Xu Houzai for breaking into the house, but he bluntly said that he didn't know Wang Facai. Take a closer look, is it him?"

"Returning to your lord, Caomin heard his followers call him the second master Xu, and said that the richest man is the Xu family. As for the specific appearance, it was dark at that time, and the gangster covered half of his face, so he didn't see it very clearly."

Ning Yu said "hmm" and said again: "I order you to come forward and take a closer look at these two people."

"Yes." Li Xiaoying got up and walked to the second master to look at it.

"Keep your dog's eyes open and look carefully!" The second master glared at Li Xiaoying, wishing to fly up and give her a heart-warming favor for the culprit who caused him to suffer for nothing.

After observing the second master, Li Xiaoying walked up to Xu Houtian who had his head half down.

"Raise your head!" Ning Yu said loudly.

From the moment the four policemen arrived at Xinghua Village, Xu Houtian was restless, and seeing the county magistrate replaced by Ning Yu, he was even more on pins and needles.

The reason why the widow surnamed Li was not afraid of suing before was mainly because Li Tanguan and the magistrate would not dare to seek the Xu family’s displeasure, and it was impossible to accept the case. He refused to admit it, and then persuaded the Xu family to pay to settle the matter and settle the matter. Li Tanguan didn't know him, so it was impossible for him to think of him.

Now that the magistrate is replaced by the grandson of that bastard Lin, I'm afraid that he would die sooner, so I poured dirty water on him vigorously.

"Snapped!"

When the sound of the gavel was heard, Xu Houtian was startled, raised his head hastily, and habitually cast his eyes to the right.

"It's him!" Li Xiaoying pointed at Xu Houtian with hatred in his eyes.

"It was he who pushed my father down, pushed him onto the hatchet and killed him. He was also the one who took my clothes off. Although I didn't see the exact appearance, there was something wrong with his eyes, and he kept slanting to the right."

Xu Houtian was startled, he straightened his gaze, and glared at Li Xiaoying, "You woman, don't talk nonsense, I don't know you at all, and I haven't been to Lijia Village."

As he said that, his eyes unconsciously turned to the right, and he looked at Ning Yu from the corner of his eye, "My lord, please be aware of the details and return the innocence of the grassroots."

"My lord, please be aware of the details!"

Li Xiaoying knelt back, stretched her arms forward and nodded her head to the ground, performed a big kneeling salute, and returned the words "Ming Cha Qiu Hao" to Xu Houtian.

The bastards in Xinghua Village used to bully my orphans and widows, but now they want me to take the blame for killing people.

The second master cursed in his heart, filled with righteous indignation:
"Brother Yu, I don't think there is any need to investigate. This grandson must have done it. Their family is black-hearted. They are the best at dealing with wolf-hearted things. Ha, they want to frame me and blame me, Brother Yu..."

"Silence! No noise is allowed in the courtroom."

Master Huang Chao interrupted at the right time.

Ning Yu glanced at the second master who rolled up his sleeves and was ready to fight at any time, and his eyes fell on Xu Houtian.

"Gong Sheng Ming, I will never wrong any good person, come and bring witnesses."

After a while, the guards dragged a bloody man into the court and threw him beside Xu Houtian.

"Brother Yong!" Xu Houtian's pupils trembled, he jumped at the man, and then stared at Ning Yu with hatred and resentment on his face, "Xu Ningyu, is there any law for you to beat me to death?!"

"Openly call the official name of the imperial court, and slap the mouth twenty times according to the law, come." Ning Yu took out a lottery from the lottery and threw it out, "Hit!"

"you dare--"

"Snapped!"

When the slaps of the wind and rain came, Xu Houtian only felt his head quake, his ears buzzing, his left cheek was burning and tingling, blood began to ooze from his mouth less than ten blows, and after twenty blows, his left cheek was so painful that it was numb. Even my teeth hurt.

Don't these turtle grandchildren know how to hit ten times at a time?
"Master." Ning Yu signaled Huang Chao to read the testimony.

Huang Chao cleared his throat, unfolded the testimony with the red handprint, and said loudly:

"According to Xu Ningyong's confession:
On the second day of April, Xu Ningyong and his wife and daughter visited his father-in-law's home in Lijia Village. He learned from his father-in-law that Wang Facai's rice harvest last year was due to the good quality of the grain seeds. The matter of grain seed.

On April [-]th, his father Xu Houtian sent him to Fengyun County, Lin County, and hired four thugs in the name of Xu Houzai, the richest man in Nanli County.

On the afternoon of April [-]th, he returned to Nanli County, and arrived at Lijia Village, the place where the crime occurred, to meet his father, Xu Houtian, at a quarter-hour that night.

At the time of the incident, Wang Facai, his wife and his daughter-in-law Wang Li were at home. During the process of robbing the grain seeds, they were strongly blocked by Wang Li. In desperation, his father Xu Houtian untied his belt and threatened Wang Li, and accidentally killed Wang in the confusion. Later, in order to cover up the crime, the bodies of Wang Chen, Wang Li and Wang Facai were locked in the kitchen and set fire to the house in order to confuse the public.

On the night of the crime, the four thugs left Nanli County, and when they returned to the scene of the crime the next day, they found that Mrs. Wang and Li escaped by chance..."

After reading Xu Ningyong's confession.

The guard brought Xu Ningyong's wife into the lobby and personally confirmed that Xu Ningyong was indeed out from April [-]th to April [-]th.

"Xu Houtian!" Ning Yu patted the gavel, his gaze was like a torch, and he said loudly, "Do you agree with the above confession?"

How can you recognize this?How dare you admit it?Xu Houtian pretended to be calm and said: "You careless about human life, tortured into tricks, I will go to the government office to complain."

"Heh." Ning Yu chuckled, and said loudly, "Bring evidence."

When the two pieces of evidence were presented, Xu Houtian's waist instantly went limp, and he could no longer stand up.

Six sets of night clothes, more than half of which were burned, and two bags of rice seeds, the weight of the rice seeds was exactly the same as Li Xiaoying's stated weight.

"My lord, the grass people are fascinated by ghosts for a while, please, my lord—" Even though he knew that the hope was slim, Xu Houtian still lay down on the ground, begging earnestly.

"Crack!" The gavel fell heavily.

"Xu Houtian, there are all the witnesses and material evidence, so what do you have to argue?"

"Snapped!"

"This official order states that Xu Houtian and Xu Ningyong of Xinghua Village bought murderers to kill, set fire to murder, rob other people's property, and frame others. Xu Houtian attempted rape and rape, and he was punished for several crimes."

"The mastermind Xu Houtian was sentenced to be executed at noon three days later, and the accomplice Xu Ningyong was asked to be executed after autumn! The 160 kilograms of rice seeds belonged to Wang Facai of Lijia Village, and his daughter-in-law Wang Lishi brought them back."

"The Xu family of Xinghua Village was also sentenced to pay 300 taels of silver to Wang Facai's family in Lijia Village and [-] taels of mental damage to Xu Houzai of Nanli County."

"Take it off!"

After the order was signed, the four guards dragged Xu Ningyong, who was half dead, and Xu Houtian, who was crying and howling.

"My lord is wronged, my lord, Xu Houtian robbed the rice seeds and has other secrets, my lord..."

Just as Ning Yu shouted to leave the hall, a woman in her fifties rushed in through the crowd, but was stopped by the guards outside the door of the ceremony.

(End of this chapter)