Big Song Xiaohou Ye

Chapter 21
"What are you yelling, what are you yelling! Enough is enough, what are you yelling in the middle of the night?!" The jailer pointed at his nose and cursed.

"Hey, poor man, where's the little girl who came in just now?" Li Ce asked anxiously.

"gone!"

"It shouldn't be far away yet. I'm sorry, can you call her back, I have something to ask her."

"Damn, your master is your servant. If you call me, I'll call you. I'm not free! Take care of you!" After saying that, the jailer turned around and left.

"Wait, wait, come here, sir, look!" Li Ce hurriedly took out the few pieces of silver that he had on his body and spread them in his hands.

"Huh? I didn't expect you to have such a rare thing, hehe... Not bad, not bad." When the jailer saw the money in Li Ce's hand, he immediately stretched out his hand to take it with joy.

But Li Ce retracted his hands all of a sudden, he smiled and said, "I can't give you all of it now, here, I will give you one piece first, and you call that little girl back, and then I will give you another piece."

"You pedantic scholar, if you give it to me all at once, I will call you now." The jailer said greedily.

Li Ce shook his head, and only handed over a piece of silver, the jailer took it with his hand, weighed it, and said: "Forget it, you keep the other piece for the master, and the master will come to get it later." He turned and ran out in a hurry.

Li Ce watched the jailer go out, feeling uneasy for a while, and prayed: "Tweety, Tweety, you must walk slowly."

Yu San looked at Li Ce and asked, "What? Is there a solution?"

Li Ce took a breath to force himself to calm down and said, "If the news arrives, there should be hope."

When Yu San said this just now, Li Ce suddenly thought of the old man fishing, that is, the general. He helped him a lot on the night when the Liao people invaded. It can be seen that he has a good impression of him, maybe this person can save him.

"By the way, third brother, do you know who the guard of Zhending Mansion is?"

"Well, the person guarding this place is Chen Yaozuo, the envoy of Hebei West Road. How do you know him?" Yu San said in surprise.

"What does this person look like?" Li Ce hurriedly asked, he guessed that the old fishing man should be the biggest general in the area——Chen Yaozuo.

"I haven't seen him either. I only heard that he is about 50 to [-] years old. Oh, he is a civil servant. He is not a military commander." Yu San said.

Hearing what Yu San said, Li Ce could basically conclude that the man was Chen Yaozuo.His mood at this time can be said to be like a year, and the waiting time of just a few minutes seems to him to be several hours.

After about a cup of tea, the jailer came back. Li Ce hurriedly looked around, and sure enough, there was a little girl in a cloak behind the jailer. Li Ce hurriedly shouted: "Tweety, here, here!"

"Yes, Mr. Li, Tweety heard it." Tweety replied.

When Cui'er arrived in front of Li Ce, Li Ce was about to drive a gun to replace Cui'er, when he found that the jailer was still watching, he hurriedly took out the money he had saved, handed it to the jailer, and said, "Please trouble me."

The jailer took the money, smiled, hummed a little song and left contentedly.

Seeing that the jailer was walking away, Li Ce hurriedly pulled Tweet closer and said in a low voice, "Tweet, I have something important to tell you. Don't be surprised and don't ask. I don't have time to explain now. Just do as I tell you."

The little girl seemed to understand but nodded, Li Ce said happily: "Someone is going to put me to death now, and there is only one person who can save me, and that is the guard guarding this place. It should be Lord Chen Yaozuo. She must find a way to inform Mr. Chen quickly, saying that Li Ce was framed and will be beheaded tomorrow, and begged him to save him. Do you understand? Have you written it down?"

The little girl's eyes widened in horror, and she asked, "My lord..."

"Okay, don't ask why, just do what I say, that's the best way to help me, did Tweety remember what I said?" Li Ce looked at her expectantly and said.

"Yes, Tweety made it down." The little girl nodded with a serious expression.

"Okay, it's not too late, you go now!" Li Ce instructed.

"Well, son, don't worry, I will definitely bring the news." The little girl had a determined face.

"Well, when I go out, I will definitely thank Xiao Cui'er, go quickly." Li Ce coaxed.

"Well, son, you should be more careful yourself, I'm leaving now." After saying that, Tweety turned around and ran out.

Li Ce watched Tweety'er disappear, and muttered to himself: Tweety, you must bring the news.

After a sleepless night, Li Ce was always looking forward to someone coming to save him, so he got up and looked around from time to time during the night. The feeling of helplessness grows stronger.

Seeing that it was late at night, but no one came to pick him up until now, Li Ce's heart gradually sank...During the period, Yu San asked him to escape from prison several times, but Li Ce refused, and Yu San didn't insist anymore. Sighing, he lay back by the wall and didn't ask any more questions.

The east is pale, the sky is getting brighter, and the sunlight is refracted through the corridor of the cell-it is already early morning.The jailer came to bring Li Ce to the court for trial. The officials of the Song Dynasty were diligent and started working at dawn.

Seeing that the situation was approaching, Li Ce was not as anxious as before. Since the savior did not come, he could only rely on himself. At this time, he must not panic, Li Ce secretly encouraged himself.I don't believe that in broad daylight, the county magistrate alone can turn black and white and confuse right and wrong.Besides, there are so many people testifying for him, so he will never just kill him willingly!

When he came to the court, Li Ce was stunned, and immediately he understood why he was mentioned so early!Because it was just dawn at this time, and there were no people around to watch, the county magistrate could decide the case on his own will!He didn't give the people a chance to discuss it at all!
In addition to the people from the yamen, Li Ce and Ding Cheng were the only ones in the hall. There was also a middle-aged man in his 40s, dressed as a landlord. Seeing his arrogant posture, especially his vicious eyes, Li Ce guessed that this person might be Ma Wencheng's father, Ma Fucai!
Seeing the crowd coming to the hall, County Magistrate Guo slapped the gavel and shouted sharply, "Prisoner Li Ce, you can be convicted!"

The county magistrate seemed to be a different person from yesterday. In this morning's trial, Li Ce was found guilty without even asking.

Although he was annoyed, Li Ce held back his breath and said, "Xiaosheng doesn't know."

County magistrate Guo seemed to have expected Li Ce to say this, he laughed and said, "You don't know? Well, you don't have to be stubborn, I will convince you."

Looking at Guo Quanyao's ugly face, Li Ce felt disgusted. This man has a dark heart and a thick skin, and even the "chameleon" of later generations can't compare to him.

The magistrate Guo glanced at the middle-aged man standing under the hall with a smile and said, "Mr. Ma, do you...do you have any witnesses?"

"Go back to your lord, there are evidences from the grassroots people, please take a look at it." The person in the hall is indeed Ma Fucai.Ma Fucai cast a sharp glance at Li Ce, wishing he could kill Li Ce alive with that look.

"Okay, pass the witness to the court!"

At this time, an old man who was over sixty years old came up to the hall tremblingly with a broken bundle in his hand.The old man timidly walked up to the hall, knelt down on the ground without raising his head, kowtowed and said in a trembling voice: "Caomin... old man Liu, I have seen... my lord."

"Well, old man Liu, I want to ask you, did you see Li Ce committing crimes in the street yesterday, beating Ma Wencheng to death?"

"What, Ma Wencheng is dead?!" Li Ce was shocked.

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