marquis of jingan

Chapter 17
Jiangdu County Government.

Today is the day for the retrial of Chen Qing's case.

Early in the morning, Chen Qing's family members arrived early, mainly Chen Qing's parents and his younger siblings.

Chen Qing's parents have three children. Chen Qing is the eldest, 16 years old this year, his younger sister just turned 13 years old, and the younger brother is only 11 years old this year.

The conditions of Chen Qing's family are worse than those of Shen Yi's family. Although Shen Yi's family is a poor family among the nobles, they can at least be called nobles, while Chen Qing's family is a farmer in the suburbs of Jiangdu.

Of course, it is impossible for the Chen family to be a poor farmer who can support Chen Qing, a scholar. In fact, the Chen family has more than ten acres of land and lives in a tile-roofed house. Even if you are young, you can have enough to eat, and you can save some money every year.

Chen Qing was educated when he was young, and his master said that he was the seed of study, and he was very hopeful to get a good reputation in the future. Since then, Chen's father and mother never let Chen Qing go down to the land again and do some work, no matter what How much money Chen Qing needs to buy books, paper, pens, and ink, Chen's father and mother will supply it.

Chen Qing was also very upbeat, and successfully entered the "prestige school" such as Ganquan Academy. He was supposed to be arranged to take the county examination next year, and then the government examination, the college examination, and the student honors.

With fame and fame, you can see officials without kneeling, and you can also exempt the two members of your family from the poll tax, so the life of the Chen family will be much easier.

Chen Qing was gifted and intelligent, and he was also eager to learn. At the beginning of the Shangyuan Poetry Contest, he was quite outstanding in one Shangyuan Ci. He was famous in the academy. If there were no accidents, he would have a good chance of being selected as a scholar.

However, at this time, Chen Qing died.

Was beaten to death.

When Chen Qing was sent home, he was already a cold corpse.

It is conceivable how distressed Chen's father and Chen's mother should be?
In fact, Chen's mother passed out on the spot, and her spirit has become abnormal in the past few days.

However, in the past few days, the Chen family came to the county government many times to inquire about the case. On the one hand, the county government was interrogating Shen Yi, but on the other hand, they did not tell the Chen family, only saying that the case was under interrogation.

At that time, the idea of ​​the Jiangdu county government was to put the case to death first, and then report the case after all the dust settled.

But later, Master Lu's entry turned this matter into a turning point. Now, things are different from the beginning.

Now, the government, the Ganquan Academy, the Fan family and other forces have all reached a consensus that Qian Tong should be used to close the case.

Since Qian Tong was used to close the case, there was no need to cover up the matter so much, because Qian Tong was indeed one of the murderers at that time, and the Jiangdu county government was "justice" when he was accused of crimes. It is also worth promoting.

At this moment, the Chen couple was standing in the corner of the courtroom with a pair of children. Chen's mother was still wiping her tears, and their daughter's eyes were red, but she still held her mother's hand and comforted her.

In addition to the Chen family, people from the Shen family also arrived.

On the side of the Shen family are Shen Yi's father, Shen Zhang, and his third elder brother, Shen Ling.

Shen Zhang is less than 40 years old this year. He is of medium build. He is dressed in ordinary clothes and well-dressed. His hands were still trembling slightly.

Obviously, as a father, he was very nervous.

Shen Ling stood behind his fourth uncle, lowered his head slightly and said, "Fourth uncle, you also saw Lao Qi yesterday, there is nothing serious, don't worry."

Shen Zhang rushed back to Jiangdu yesterday morning. After returning to Jiangdu, he went to the county jail to meet his son.

Hearing this sentence, he just "hmm" and didn't say much.

"The county lord has come to—"

Following the call of the Yacha, Feng Lu, the county magistrate who was a bit fat, walked towards the main seat of the main hall, holding his belt with both hands.

Because his belly is a bit big, this action of holding the belt looks a bit like holding his own belly, which looks a little funny.

But at this time, on this occasion, it is obvious that no one dares to laugh at the county lord.

In the lobby, apart from Mother Chen's sobbing, there was no sound.

When the county master sat down, all the people in the lobby knelt down and kowtowed to the county master.

"Meet the county lord."

"Everyone get up."

County Magistrate Feng raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to kneel down. He sat on the chair and said indifferently: "Everyone must already know why I was promoted to the hall today. If this is the case, the county will not repeat it."

Sometimes there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in a county, so not every case is handled by the county magistrate. In fact, the vast majority of cases are not handled by the county magistrate himself, and the number of county magistrates is rarely promoted There are very few of them.

Therefore, the county lord only said this.

The county magistrate Feng glanced at everyone in the hall, and said in a deep voice, "Lead someone into prison."

A few yamen servants who were like wolves like tigers quickly escorted Shen Yi, who was wearing prison clothes, up.

After Shen Yi entered the arena, Chen's father and Chen's mother's eyes fell on Shen Yi, and the two pairs of eyes wished to gouge out Shen Yi.

They all knew that on the day Chen Qing was beaten to death, Shen Yi was taken into prison.

No matter how annoyed he was in his heart, Chen's father and Chen's mother could not get close to Shen Yi because of being blocked by the yamen servants.

After Shen Yi entered the lobby, he couldn't help himself, knelt down in the lobby, bowed his head and said, "Xiaomin Shen Yi, kowtow to the Hall Master."

"Ah."

County magistrate Feng hummed pretendingly, and then said lightly: "Shen Yi, you are a student of Ganquan Academy, and you are classmates with the deceased Chen Qingnai. Chen Qing was beaten to death that day, are you at the scene?"

Shen Yi looked back at his father and brother, then lowered his head and said, "Master, Xiaomin is here."

Feng Xianzun continued to ask: "You see, who beat Chen Qing?"

Shen Yi lowered his head, and after a moment of silence, he opened his mouth and said: "Returning to the county, they were in the woods at that time, Xiaomin only saw a big man beating Chen Qing, and nothing else..."

At this time, Shen Yi couldn't directly say Qian Tong's name.

Because speaking of Qian Tong is to exonerate Fan Dongcheng.

This is a transactional process.

Fan Dongcheng and others have not cleared him of his crimes, so it is impossible for him to exonerate Fan Dongcheng in advance. If Fan Dongcheng denies it now, who will he, a vulnerable group, turn to for reasoning?
Hearing Shen Yi's remarks, the county lord looked at Shen Yi, then stroked his beard, and continued: "In the past few days, when you asked the case, you kept saying that it was not your fault, so the county sent people to investigate the matter thoroughly, and asked During the questioning of witnesses, new facts of the case were indeed discovered."

As he spoke, the county master coughed and said in a deep voice, "Bring witnesses."

Following County Magistrate Feng's order, Fan, Luo, Ma, and Qian were soon brought to the lobby by the yamen's servants.

After several people entered the main hall, the other three knelt down to salute Feng Lu, and Fan Dongcheng alone just bowed his hands to the county magistrate, which was regarded as a salute.

Fan Dongcheng didn't have any fame, so he should kneel down when he saw an official, but he insisted on not kneeling because of his family's power, and County Magistrate Feng could only turn a blind eye and pretend he didn't see it.

He coughed and said, "Young Master Fan, you were also there that day, so tell me, was Chen Qing killed by Shen Yi?"

Fan Dongcheng's face was gloomy.

He first looked up at County Magistrate Feng, then turned his head to look at Shen Yi who was beside him, then gritted his teeth, lowered his head and said, "Master Hui, that day... Wan Sheng was indeed there, Chen Qing..."

Speaking of this, Fan Dongcheng's face was a little ugly, he turned his head and gave Shen Yi a fierce look, and then said with great difficulty: "It wasn't Shen Qi who killed him."

Obviously, Mr. Fan was not satisfied with this result, but due to the pressure from his family, he had no choice but to say these words to exonerate Shen Yi.

After hearing Fan Dongcheng's words, Luo Maocai and Ma Jun looked a little complicated, but they both lowered their heads and did not speak.

Qian Tong's expression changed suddenly, and he looked at Fan Dongcheng who was replying in disbelief.

Just as Fan Dongcheng was replying, Shen Yi, who was kneeling on the ground, suddenly turned his head and glanced at Fan Dongcheng who was standing beside him.

The reason why I looked at this was because the original Shen Yi had only seen Fan Dongcheng two or three times. On the day of the accident, he was beaten up and down after arriving at the scene. In addition, the two souls blended together. Now Shen Yi can't remember much. Know what Fan Dong looks like growing up.

This Mr. Fan has a slender figure, because he is a few years older than Shen Yi, he is about half a head taller than him.

Shen Yi took a deep look at the somewhat handsome face of Mr. Fan, and then firmly remembered this face in his heart.

After looking at Fan Dongcheng, he looked at the faces of the other two people again.

They are Ma Jun and Luo Maocai.

As for Qian Tong... there is no need to look at it anymore.

(End of this chapter)