Husband has a sweetheart

Chapter 26 Clerk Kou Leguo

"That's his senior brother, the person who raised him, exists just like his own father and brother." Zhang Yuqing said, "People are not grass, how can they be ruthless? If his senior brother deserves what he deserves, he will never find a way to help his senior brother get rid of it." crime, but now his senior brother was clearly framed, how could he just watch an innocent person die in the execution ground?"

The clerk was leaning against the wall of the alley, with his hands in his sleeves, looking foolish, "I'm just a little clerk with no taste or class, and I'm useless for this matter!"

"Are you the one who transcribed the file?" Zhang Yuqing asked again, "Has the prisoner pleaded guilty?"

The clerk shook his head, "He passed out after being beaten with a Shawei stick, and he didn't plead guilty... But there are all witnesses and material evidence, and the adults have already sentenced him. It doesn't matter whether he paints or not."

Fang Mo jumped up excitedly, his eyes were red, and he grabbed the document and shouted: "You actually tortured him! It's clearly a trick of torture!"

"What are you doing! I didn't order you to beat your senior brother! You have the ability, go to the judge! Besides, he didn't do anything!" The clerk pushed Fang Mo away, rolling his eyes and said.

Zhang Yuqing held back the excited Fang Mo, and said seriously, "Calm down, beating this man won't save your senior brother. Beat him up, and you will go to prison to reunite with your senior brother. Who will save him?"

"Hey, don't say I'm so useless and let him beat me! If there is a real fight, it's not sure who gets the beating!" The clerk put his hands on his thin waist and yelled.

Zhang Yuqing sneered, "We don't talk about who can call, we talk about who takes money!"

"Collect the money? Who, who will collect the money?!" The clerk suddenly became nervous and shouted with little confidence.

Zhang Yuqing pointed at him, "You."

"I, I, I didn't take the money! Who saw that I took the money? Who saw it?" The clerk shouted vigilantly.

Fang Mo said: "I saw it! It's the money I gave you!"

Zhang Yuqing spread her hands and looked at the document with a smile, "You have to find a way to do this, if you don't want to..."

She and Fang Mo said in unison: "We're sitting at the gate of the yamen and yelling that you won't do anything if you take money!"

The clerk jumped three feet high, pointed at Zhang Yuqing and Fang Mo tremblingly, couldn't utter a word for a long time, and finally said: "I committed crimes in my previous life, and I met you two bad guys! I will charge you three hundred dollars in total." , I have to bear the charge of taking bribes, if it spreads out, our yamen will lose all face!"

Zhang Yuqing was shocked, she turned her head to look at Fang Mo, she didn't expect this guy to be so picky!Could it be that Lu Wei relied on him for not giving him monthly money?
Fang Mo blushed, and said with shame: "My senior brother owed a foreign debt to treat his mother. I just paid him the monthly money, and I went to pay him the debt. It was the creditor who told me that my senior brother had an accident. I just found out. I only had three hundred coins left with me at the time!"

Zhang Yuqing pointed at Fang Mo with trembling fingers, and was speechless for a while, then turned her head, put on the prettiest smile, and asked kindly, "What's your name?"

The clerk took a step back vigilantly, covered his eyes, "I'm just a handyman, I can't afford to be your lord."

"Kou Leguo." Zhang Yuqing looked down and saw the badge on the man's body, smiling like a flower, "Master Kou has already seen that there is something wrong with this case, right?"

Kou Leguo covered his eyes with his hands, not looking at Zhang Yuqing, "I don't know what you're talking about!"

"Why are you covering your face? Are you guilty?" Zhang Yuqing stepped forward and asked with a smile.

Kou Leguo took a step back, still covering his eyes with his hand, "Bah! You are guilty! My mother said that the more beautiful a girl is, the more she will cheat an honest man. If one day I meet a beautiful girl who smiles at me, call me I hide away, don't look at it!"

Zhang Yuqing squinted at him, "I don't care if you like talking to me like this! Speaking of which, if you don't want to help their brothers and sisters, how about letting him copy the files for three hundred dollars?"

This is not bribery, it is clearly someone doing charity!
At this time, Fang Mo also recalled that he was like a headless fly in a hurry, and no one in the yamen wanted to talk to him. Only this little clerk took three hundred coins from him for "filial piety" When he was in person, he was asked to copy a dossier and leave.

"Thank you, Lord Kou! It's because I have blind eyes that I misunderstood you!" Fang Mo said with tears in his eyes, fists clasped.

Kou Leguo pursed his lips and muttered, "I've said it all, I'm not an adult!"

Zhang Yuqing asked: "Based on my lord's experience, is there any way for the government to postpone the execution?"

Kou Leguo sighed, leaned against the wall, and said old-fashionedly: "What's the use of postponing the execution? The key point is how to prove the suspect's innocence!"

"You can get the witnesses of the post-mortem and the officials at the scene to testify..." Zhang Yuqing said.

Kou Leguo smiled, and gestured to the file in Zhang Yuqing's hand with his chin, "You can see that there is a problem, and I can see that there is a problem. The prisoner will be beaten to death without pleading guilty. The chief judge who has tried the case for so many years will not be able to see that there is a problem." Question? There is also Wu Zuo, who has worked for so many years, did the deceased die from a stabbed heart, or did he die from other reasons, he can't tell?"

Zhang Yuqing was shocked.

"Someone said hello!" Kou Leguo shook his head and sighed, "Everything has been arranged up and down, and even the neighbors have bought it! You want to ask them to testify? Huh! They can only prove that the suspect killed someone! Now retract the confession, no It shows that they had a problem at the beginning!"

Fang Mo said desperately: "Is there no other way? Is there really no way at all?"

Kou Leguo hesitated to speak, and finally said: "If you only want your senior brother to be beheaded two days later, it's not impossible..."

"Say it!" Fang Mo grabbed Kou Leguo's arm and shouted.

Kou Leguo sighed, "The case was judged by the officials of Jingzhao Mansion, and the beheaded were executed by people from Dali Temple, two yamen. According to the law of Daxia, in order to prevent unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, if the prisoner pleads not guilty and someone is on the execution ground Crying for injustice for a prisoner, the prison officer must not behead the prisoner, and must remand the case for retrial."

Hope suddenly burst out in Fang Mo's eyes, and he immediately said, "I'm going to complain!"

"Why are you panicking? Can you listen to me?" Kou Leguo rolled his eyes.

Zhang Yuqing shook her head and said, "I'm afraid there will be a price, otherwise how could such a good thing happen?"

If someone complains of injustice and retrial, then the death row inmates will find someone to go to the execution ground to complain about injustice.

"That's right." Kou Leguo said, "The person who calls for injustice will be detained by the government. If the prisoner cannot prove that the prisoner has grievances within three days, the person who calls for injustice will go to the guillotine with the prisoner!"

Wang Chunniang was startled, and murmured, "This is too cruel!"

Kou Leguo put his hands behind his back and snorted, "The law is the law, how can the court be trifling?"

"Lord Kou, is what you said true?" Fang Mo asked with clenched fists.

Kou Leguo flicked his sleeves, with a proud expression on his face, "If you ask other people, they may not know, but you are asking the right person when you ask me! I know Daxialu by heart, and all the files of Jingzhao Mansion for the past ten years are in my mind! "

"Your Excellency is so talented that Da Xialu has memorized it fluently. Why is it still just a document?" Zhang Yuqing asked.

Kou Leguo curled his lips, "What's the use of being talented? My house is barren, my pocket is cleaner than my face, and no official lady is interested in me. Of course I'm just a clerk! Do you think it's easy to be a clerk?"

Fang Mo fell silent.

What he originally thought was that as long as he could postpone the date of execution until their young master returned to Beijing, he would be able to save his brother.

But looking at it now, not only can't save the senior brother, but he has to put himself in it.

"So let me tell you, why are you bothering with this troublesome matter?" Kou Leguo patted Fang Mo who was standing there blankly, "I know that your brother was wronged, so when you go to the grave in the future, burn more paper for him! Who told him to offend you?" Is there a person?"

Zhang Yuqing asked: "You have already seen that he has offended someone, and someone is going to kill him. Then you help us and give us the files. Aren't you afraid of offending people? Why do you want to help the prisoner? Because your conscience is not lost, and you still want to See what is fair and just, right?"

"I'm just a clerk, and I just collect money to do things. What fairness and justice are you talking about! These days, there is such a thing as fairness and justice?" Kou Leguo sneered.

Zhang Yuqing looked at him and said, "Yes, in your heart! If you don't believe in fairness and justice in this world, why let him copy the files? I don’t know there’s something strange about it, so of course there won’t be trouble. When the prisoner dies, he cries and collects the body, and the matter passes away so quietly. But you didn’t. Not only did you show him the file, but you also talked nonsense with us It's been so long! You've been trying to persuade us not to meddle in this nosy business, why don't you just leave? Even the way to save people in the execution ground was taught by Mr. Kou, who knows everything by heart!"

Kou Leguo was speechless by Zhang Yuqing's words.

After a while, Kou Leguo said, "Actually, I know He Qi."

"When I was young, my family lived in Xifang. There were poor people living in that place. He Qi's family was also there. He was tall, strong, strong, and simple and kind. One year, a family's house caught fire and the beams He fell down and pinned down a few people, but he ran in under fire and moved the beams away, saving several lives. He didn't even want to thank him with money or things... just a fool!" Kou Leguo said.

Kou Leguo sighed for a long time, "I thought, such a fool can't die so muddle-headed, at least someone must know why he died!"

Fang Mo burst into tears, then wiped away the tears and said: "I will go to the execution ground tomorrow to complain!"

"You are crazy! You can't prove that He Qi is wronged, and you have to die with him! Why bother? Live well, and burn some paper money for your brother in the future, wouldn't it be good? I'm showing you the file, not to let you He died in vain!" Kou Leguo cursed angrily.

Fang Mo shook his head, "I have to go, I can't just watch my senior brother be beheaded wrongly! Even if I can't prove anything, I'll just accompany my senior brother on the road, anyway, I'm just a beggar without father and mother Son, if you die, die! If I don’t go, even if I survive, I will spend every day of the rest of my life in regret.”

Zhang Yuqing looked at Fang Mo with a look of desperation, as if something was deeply touched in her heart, she clenched and loosened her hands in her sleeves, and finally said, "What if I have a way to prove that the prisoner was wronged?"

　Qingqing is about to make a move

　　
　
(End of this chapter)