Cure the cold-faced general by solving crimes

Chapter 15 Mr. Pei’s debut
  Day two.

Jiang Xihe was still in a daze until he sat in the courtroom.

what happened?
  Where is she?
  At 3 o'clock in the morning, Han Fang knocked on the door of her house just like last time, telling her that Mr. Pei would try the case of Zhu Qi and Xiao Mili today, and asked her to go to the county government office to make paperwork after a stick of incense.

Jiang Xihe was a little confused at the time. Master Pei asked her to take notes? Does this open a door for her and give her an opportunity to make money?
  Jiang Xihe happily agreed, and in less than 1 minute, he was already sitting in the courtroom.

She was friendly in this position. Touching the familiar pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Jiang Xihe patted the table and said hello to these old guys in his heart: I am back again.

Jiang Xihe looked around excitedly, wanting to say thank you to Pei Zhizhao, but he never saw anyone.

Jiang Xihe was dumbfounded until Pei Zhizhao entered the back hall wearing a dark red first-grade court uniform.

Pei Zhizhao is so good-looking.

He is tall and tall, wearing first-class court clothes, which gives him more majesty and solemnity. His eyebrows are frowning, and his eyes are like deep pools. Almost no one who has been stared at by him dares to look at him.

The sleeves of the dark red court uniform were slightly rolled up, revealing his strong wrists. His big, well-jointed hands hung gently on both sides of his body. He held his head high and pursed his lips, showing no anger or authority.

He also has a unique tension that belongs to men. After seeing him, people can't help but blush, trying to gain his attention and affection.

Jiang Xihe moved slightly and looked away. Now that she was a master, she wanted to be dignified. How could she have such messy thoughts about Pei Zhizhao?

Pei Zhizhao glanced lightly at Jiang Xihe, who was sitting below him. The little girl was still wearing the same aqua dress. Today, her hair reached her waist and was only slightly tied with a thin belt. The morning sunlight slanted down on the little girl's face. There was a smile on her lips, playful and tranquil.

She had already prepared her pen and ink a few moments after she arrived, and she was sitting there, looking as if she had been calm for a long time.

Pei Zhizhao sat down and motioned to the Yamen servant, "Take the people."

This was the first court session after the new county magistrate took office, and the trial was about the case of Xiao Mi Li, so the people who got the news early in the morning came to join in the fun. At this moment, many people gathered in the hall.

Zhu Qi and Du Sheng were brought up.

"Who is here?" Pei Zhizhao's voice was loud and confident, echoing in the courtroom, full of majesty.

"Zhu Qi."

"Du Sheng."

"Who is Xiaomi Li?"

The two men replied at the same time, "It's the little girl."

Pei Zhizhao snorted. He had already met these two people separately yesterday, and now he was just telling the people watching in the hall what he learned yesterday.

"Du Sheng, let me ask you first. I have asked about your relatives and neighbors. Your child disappeared a year ago. Children change a lot in a year. How can you be sure that Xiaomi is your child?"

Du Sheng raised his head and said, "Sir, Xiao Mili was abducted when he was playing in front of our house. This year, our husband and wife never stopped looking for the child. Not only in Ping'an County, but also in several surrounding prefectures. It’s..."

"Tell me the important point." Pei Zhizhao knocked on the gavel tree.

Du Sheng took a breath and remembered the pain he had endured during the year of searching for his child. He felt sad in his heart. "A while ago, a relative who was a gangster stayed outside the city and found that the child looked very similar to Xiaomili and was about the same age. Then he told us to go and have a look, and it turned out that the child was not just a millet, but my daughter."

"What's the evidence?"

Du Shengguang cried, and then thought about it before replying, "Everyone who has met her said we look alike."

Pei Zhizhao nodded and raised his chin towards Zhu Qi, "Zhu Qi, we should have had a clear discussion yesterday. Do I need to ask you again?"

Zhu Qi lowered his head and said nothing.

"Bring Li Mao to the court." Pei Zhizhao ordered.

After a while, an old man over sixty years old walked in behind the government servant, trembling.

When he saw Pei Zhizhao, the old man didn't dare to raise his head. He knelt down and said, "Li Mao, a common man, has met the county magistrate." Pei Zhizhao said, "Li Mao, I'm asking you, you have to tell the truth. The police will take him away from your home." Whose family does the child belong to?"

The old man lay on the ground and kept kowtowing to Pei Zhizhao, "Little old man, you can't hide it. That child... was sold to me by Zhu Qi."

There was an uproar in the hall.

Zhu Qi struggled to defend himself, "Master Pei, Xiaomi is my child. My family is poor and I really can't afford to feed myself, so I gave the child away."

Pei Zhizhao hummed, "Are you giving her away or selling her?"

Zhu Qi murmured in a very low voice, "Old Li Tou gave me three taels of silver, and I don't want him to force it on me."

Pei Zhizhao asked Old Man Li again, "In my dynasty, buying and selling children was a serious crime. Don't you know?"

Old Man Li felt wronged, "Sir, when Zhu Qi came to me with the child in his arms, he said he would help take care of her. After a while, I developed a relationship with the child, and thought it would be good for her to take care of me in my old age in the future. When Zhu Qi came again, he said The child was his daughter, and she was sold as a deed, so I gave him three taels of silver, which was the old man's life savings."

Pei Zhizhao glanced at him lightly and did not refute him harshly. He turned to Zhu Qi and said, "Since you said Xiaomi is your child, I will tell you some unfortunate news now."

The three people in the hall raised their heads in unison.

"While the government was waiting for the millet grains to be taken care of, the child contracted a serious disease and is now very ill..." Pei Zhizhao deliberately lengthened his voice and glanced at Jiang Xihe from the corner of his eye. The little girl responded with an anxious look and leaned forward. .

Pei Zhizhao lowered his eyes and said in a sad voice, "I have asked the doctor that if he is not treated in time, his life will be short."

As soon as these words came out, there was a loud discussion in the hall, and many people sighed when they heard the result.

Zhu Qi's eyes widened and he didn't know what to do for a moment.

"I have calculated that Xiao Mili spent a total of 10 taels of silver while he was in the government office. The doctor treated at least 50 taels of silver. Zhu Qi, in order to save your child, you should pay a hundred taels first."

Zhu Qi fell to the ground and said, "I don't have any money."

"If you don't have money, you won't save the child?" Pei Zhizhao asked sharply.

When Du Sheng heard Pei Zhizhao mention that Xiao Mili was seriously ill, he was so anxious that the veins on his forehead bulged. He knelt on the ground and turned around to look down the hall, as if he was looking for someone.

After looking around to no avail, Du Sheng said anxiously, "Mr. Pei, I am willing to pay for the child's treatment. Please also ask the elder to clarify what disease the child has and how is he doing now?"

Pei Zhizhao nodded and continued to ask Zhu Qi, "Zhu Qi, since Xiaomi is your child, you should know where the child's birthmark is. Tell me, is it the left arm or the right arm?"

Zhu Qi blinked, his eyes chattering around, and finally said firmly, "It's the right arm!"

Du Sheng retorted, "Master Pei, there is no birthmark on Xiao Mili's body, but there is a black mole on her calf."

"Okay! Bring the children to the hall!" Pei Zhizhao gave the order, and Liu Qing led a five or six-year-old girl into the hall.

The little girl had big round eyes, tightly holding on to the collar of the yamen servant, and her pigtails were sticking up and down, she was very cute.

The people in the hall were in an uproar. Didn't the county magistrate just say that the child was seriously ill?

Pei Zhizhao looked at the audience and said word by word, "There is no birthmark on Xiao Mili's arm at all. Du Sheng is right. There is indeed a black mole on the child's calf. Whose child is it now? Isn't everyone clear?"

There was applause in the hall, and the people who had good things to do kept shouting, "Master Pei handles cases like a god, wonderful, wonderful."

Pei Zhizhao looked at Jiang Xihe. The idea was all hers. When the matter was settled, the little girl calmly held the brush and wrote on the recording paper word by word.

The morning sunlight slanted into the Ping'an County Court Hall, long and bright. Jiang Xihe was bathed in the morning light, dressed in aqua blue, with a smile on his lips, refreshing and bright.

Pei Zhizhao sat in the courtroom, feeling a warmth rising in his heart.

(End of this chapter)