Touring the Ming Dynasty

Su Rong put a bowl of things on it: "My lord, you haven't rested yet. How can I, a maid, rest first? I asked the kitchen to boil a bowl of lotus seed soup. You should try it first, my lord."

Duan Fei hummed, and continued to bury his head in the case file. Su Rong became curious, stretched her head to look, and said, "Is this the case that Mr. Ma handed over to the young master? These cases seem to be quite simple."

"Oh? Is it simple? Tell me?" Duan Fei raised his head in surprise, looked at Su Rong and encouraged him.

Su Rong said: "Naturally, there is no clue based on these case files. If you question the plaintiff and the defendant face to face, you may be able to see who is lying. Su Rong is still a little confident in judging people."

"Really? Then what do you think of me?" Duan Fei asked with a smile.

Su Rong frowned and said, "Master, your current appearance makes my scalp numb."

Duan Fei chuckled, stopped joking with her, and said, "What's the use of knowing they're lying? Should I just catch them and beat them up? I'm not the kind of foolish official who has to use torture to solve the case. They pleaded guilty automatically, you don’t have to wait for me, go and rest first.”

Su Rong blinked her eyes and said, "My lord, can I go to handle the case with you tomorrow? The doctor said that being bored at home is not good for my health, and I also want to see with my own eyes, my lord, your ingenious plan to solve the case."

"Really? You don't believe me?" Duan Fei rolled his eyes and said, "I'm not the magistrate, so you can't go to court with me, but we won't go back to the Yamen until the end tomorrow, so you want to follow me to have a look." no problem."

"Thank you, young master." Su Rong pursed her lips and smiled, and said: "Su Rong went back to rest, and young master also rested earlier, the days ahead will be long, don't be too tired."

Duan Fei picked up the lotus seed soup and took a big sip, waved his hand, and Su Rong backed out. After drinking the lotus seed soup, Duan Fei read the files for a while, and finally went back to his room to rest.

In the early morning of the next day, Duan Fei went to the government office to meet Mr. Ma, borrowed a few local policemen, and then led a group of aggressive policemen to kill Nancheng.

What he wanted to deal with was a neighborhood dispute first. The plaintiff, named Li Mingchen, sued his neighbor Lian for falsely accusing him of 500 taels of silver. I made some money from doing business and came back. When I paid back the money, I paid back 800 taels first, and I planned to pay back the rest after I made money from doing business next time. Because the relationship with the neighbors has always been good, I didn’t want to go back to the original IOU and write another one. Thinking of Li Chen's second repayment of the money, Lian suddenly changed his face, and insisted that Li Chen didn't pay back a penny, and asked him to pay back 500 taels of silver.

Li Chen regretted it at this time, so he had to write a pleading to the Shangyuan county government. The Shangyuan county magistrate saw that Li Chen could not produce evidence, so he sentenced him to false accusation. Li Chen was beaten and had to pay back the money. When the case was brought to the government office, it happened that the emperor came to Yingtian Mansion on his southern tour, so the magistrate had no choice but to suppress the case for the time being, lest he go out and block the street to sue the imperial court after the boy was kicked out.

All the evidence is against Li Chen, but Duan Fei just believes in him in his heart. A liar will never sue again and again without evidence. Besides, he even asked the policeman who had seen Li Chen and his neighbor Pida. Everyone thinks that Li Chen is an honest man, but his neighbor Pida doesn't seem so honest.

Early in the morning, a group of policemen suddenly appeared in front of Pida's door. They slammed on the door of Pida's house and urged, "Open the door, Pida, open the door! Something serious has happened!"

Pida was sleeping soundly in the house with his wife in his arms, when he heard someone knock on the door, he hurriedly got up and put on his clothes to open the door, before he could complain, the wolf-like tolerance had thrown him to the ground , Immediately tied up.

"Master, what crime did I commit? Why do you want to arrest me!" Pi Da was tied up and left at the door for people to watch. Several policemen from Yangzhou stood by his side, and the rest of the policemen rushed into his room, In an instant, Pida's wife was heard screaming from inside: "Bandits... ah... come here, there are robbers!"

Soon a group of people gathered around Pida's gate, and Duan Fei sneered after hearing Pida's words: "Pida, we are the policemen from Yangzhou, and we came here specially for you. You committed a crime!"

Pi Da was taken aback when he heard the Yangzhou voice, and Shi Bin said to the onlookers: "Two days ago, our Yangzhou government caught a group of thieves, and they confessed that they deposited more than 1000 taels of silver ingots from the robbery and murder in Ying Tianding. Pi Da’s house in Jiaxiang, so we were sent by the adults to arrest Pi and seize the stolen money, and we were escorted back to Yangzhou for trial.”

The onlookers let out a groan, and then started whispering, but Pida screamed, "Impossible, I was wronged, I am not a robber, I did not hide the stolen money, I am not the landlord!"

Suddenly cheers came from the house, and the local policemen shouted: "I found it, I found the stolen money!"

A catcher trotted out, cupped his hands to Duan Fei and said, "Captain Duan, I found dozens of large silver ingots in Pi's house, about seven hundred taels."

Duan Fei snorted, and said to Pida: "Pida, you said you were wronged, so let me ask you, why do you have so much silver at home? Could it be that you are used to sleeping on silver ingots at night?"

Pi Da opened his mouth, the only explanation was already sarcastically given by Duan Fei, he couldn't find an excuse for a while, how could ordinary people store so much money at home?Most of his money was returned by Li Chen. For fear of leaving evidence, he didn't dare to take it to the bank to exchange it for bank notes, so that he kept piling it up in the cabinet, but he didn't expect it to be found out today.

Duan Fei didn't give him time to think, and continued to forcefully ask: "Since you can't tell the origin of the money, it must be stolen by thieves, and now it's stolen by someone else. Come, someone, take Pida and all the stolen money that was found together." Escort back to the government office, and immediately escort Yangzhou Luo after the magistrate Ma lord confirms! This is a big theft case, if Pida wants to escape, break his dog legs!"

The policemen mentioned Pida like wolves and tigers, and Pida felt that he was flying up without touching the ground. Seeing that the familiar door was getting farther and farther away from him, Pida was so frightened that he couldn't help shouting: "Those are not stolen money, but the money that Li Chen next door returned to me. That's not stolen money..."

"Oh? That's the money that Li Chen next door paid you back?" The policemen put Pida down and said in unison, and then Duan Fei sneered: "You said it was the money that Li Chen next door returned to you. What do you think?" evidence?"

"My lord, if you don't believe me, you can call Li Chen to testify for the villain. Li Chen really gave me back the money." Pida was so dizzy by the Yangzhou dialect of the arresters, he didn't think about it at all.

Duan Fei cupped his hands in all directions, and said: "Everyone, be a witness. This man personally said that Li Chen returned the money to him. The total amount of money found was more than 800 taels, that is to say, the [-] taels that Li Chen owed him. All the money has been paid off, everyone said it was right!"