Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 38
After Shan Youwei escorted Yu Zhi and the other arrested servants of the Yu family away from Yan Jiting, Xiang Kang, Xiang Guan and Feng Zhong, of course, immediately returned to the Yu family, which was under strict surveillance. I probably told the Yu family's father and daughter about it.Knowing that his son was tortured in the pavilion, Yu Jian was of course in tears, begging Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong repeatedly, "Mr. Xiang, Feng Youkuo, I beg you, hurry up and find a way to save my dog. Otherwise, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive this test, and he will have to send his life to prison."

"Don't worry, Mr. Yu, we will try our best to find a way to rescue Brother Yu as soon as possible." Xiang Kang comforted him, and then said: "When we came back, Brother Feng and I discussed it on the road, and I think Mr. More blood, so that it is possible to rescue Brother Yu from prison, and help Brother Yu to save his life in prison."

"No problem, no matter how much money you want, I will pay for it." Yu Jian is quite generous in terms of money, and he is far more open than his mediocre son. He immediately said, "Mr. Xiang, how much do you want? The old man will get it now for you."

"Let's take one hundred gold first." Xiang Kang was not polite, and asked for one hundred gold equivalent to 760 yuan, and said: "Yu Gong, you have to be prepared, this one hundred gold is just the beginning. Whether you will need money in the future or not, the younger generation can’t guarantee it.”

The Yu family is indeed rich. Even if a hundred gold is enough to buy more than a dozen adult slaves in this era (the unearthed Qin bamboo slips record that each slave is worth [-] yuan), even if an ordinary family does not eat or drink for a lifetime It may not be possible to earn so much money, Yu Jian still ordered his two daughters to help him up without hesitation, took the key and went to the back room to withdraw money.Xiang Kang also asked Feng Zhong: "Brother Feng, do you have anyone in the Ling County officialdom who you can trust and talk to in the county?"

"I know two small officials, but their friendship is average, so I'm afraid it's unreliable." Feng Zhong replied: "If I want to ask them to help, the most I can guarantee is that they will give us a try and see if we can get through that prisoner Wu. There is a door, but I am not sure if I can get through it."

Xiang Kang frowned, and said after a while: "I don't think it's necessary to try. Captain Shan You is too powerful in Ling County, and your friendship with them is not so good. I'm afraid they don't have the guts to risk offending Shan Youwei." The danger, go and bribe Wu prison for us."

"Then what should we do? Go directly to Ling County to meet that Prisoner Wu?" Feng Zhong asked: "We have never met him before, so it will only be more difficult if we want to get through his door directly?"

"I can only ask the county magistrate of Zhou." Xiang Kang, who had already considered the aftermath, replied: "Ask him to investigate the robbery and wounding case as an excuse, and send a decent official with enough weight to Ling County to investigate. During the case, take the opportunity to buy that Wu jailer, and ask him to save Young Master Yu’s life no matter what, don’t let Shan Youwei vent his anger on him, kill him directly, and then find a way to prove Young Master Yu’s innocence and get him out of prison.”

"That's a good idea." Feng Zhong nodded, and said, "Magistrate Zhou admires you so much, and we have enough things in our hands. It's definitely not a big problem to ask him to send someone to come forward."

"Then when we get the money, we will go back to the prime minister immediately and go to see Magistrate Zhou overnight." Xiang Kang said, "I will ask Magistrate Zhou to send someone to Ling County to investigate the case tomorrow, and take advantage of the opportunity."

When Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong had discussed their ideas, Duke Yu had already returned to Xiang Kang with the support of his two daughters, and asked his daughter to hand over Huang Chengcheng's one hundred gold to Xiang Kang. Xiang Kang took it, He also asked Duke Yu to lend him and Feng Zhong a two-wheeled carriage, and was going to rush back to the Prime Minister immediately to find Zhou County Magistrate for help.Yu Zhi agreed without hesitation, and then took the initiative to say: "Master Xiang, Feng Youkuo, it's getting late, you should rest for one night before going."

"You can't waste time." Xiang Kang shook his head and said, "That Shan Youwei is about to go crazy, and he must continue to vent his anger on Brother Yu. If we waste a little more time here, Brother Yu will suffer a little more in prison. "

Hearing this, Yu Jian inevitably burst into tears again, choked up and thanked Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong who worked tirelessly for his son. Yu Miaoge also had red eyes, and bowed to Xiang Kang and Feng Zhongying, He choked up and said: "Mr. Xiang, Brother Feng, thank you for your kindness. My daughter will definitely repay you in the future."

"Brothers and sisters, if you say this, you will be offended." In front of the beautiful woman, Feng Zhong also had a lot of words, and said with a smile: "What is your relationship with Brother Xiang, and what is the relationship between me and Brother Xiang? You still need it." What kind of repayment can you tell us? If you really want to repay, in the future, the children of you and brother Xiang can just call me foster father."

Hearing Feng Zhong's words, Yu Miaoge, who was extremely thin-skinned, of course blushed to the base of his neck, blushing blushingly, neither did he agree, nor did he not agree, it was extremely embarrassing.Yu Ji, who had been hanging his head next to him, secretly looked at Xiang Kang's reaction, and was very surprised to find that Xiang Kang's eyes were looking at him. Yu Ji was so ashamed that he quickly lowered his head again, and his heartbeat immediately accelerated. , Angrily said: "You know it's my elder sister, why are you still looking at me? Is there something good? My elder sister is there? Why don't you forget me quickly?"

As a precaution, Xiang Kang decided to rush back to Ling County with Xiang Guan and Feng Zhong immediately, and let the other Xiang family children stay in the Yu family, responsible for protecting the Yu family father and daughter, and asked the relatively stable character Xiang Zhuang acted carefully, he would rather bear with it for the time being than give Ling County officials the opportunity to use excuses to arrest people.Then he and Feng Zhong got into a two-horse carriage with two horses, and let Xiang Guan drive back to Xia Xiang in a hurry. The result was quite smooth. At the second watch of the day, Xiang Kang and Feng Zhong returned to Xia Xiang City smoothly.

At this time, the city gate of Xiaxiang County was of course closed, but fortunately, Feng Zhong brought a talisman to prove his official status, and had an excuse to handle the case urgently. The gate of the city was opened immediately, Xiang Kang and others drove into the city, and went directly to the door of Zhou County Magistrate's residence to ask for an interview, and with the help of Brother Kong Fang, they easily asked the door to notify him overnight, and sent the request for an interview to Zhou County, who was already asleep In front of the bed.

County magistrate Zhou really admired Xiang Kang very much. When he heard that it was Xiang Kang who asked for an interview, he didn't lose his temper.Xiang Kang was not too polite, and after finishing the salute and other cutscenes, he immediately told the magistrate Zhou the whole story of the incident, and frankly admitted that Xiang Guan's robbery was just a fake case fabricated in his desperation, and then he gave it to the county magistrate with both hands. He paid [-] gold, and begged Zhou County Magistrate to send someone to Ling County to investigate the fake case, so as to create an opportunity for him to rescue Yu Zhi.

"You guys are really brave. You dare to fabricate such a fake case. Do you know what the consequences are?" County magistrate Zhou's expression was half a smile, and he was neither too angry nor agreed to accept Xiang Kang's hands. The gold that was presented, just asked: "Have you thought about it? What if Zhang Ji is really caught in Ling County, and it proves that what you did is a fake case?"

"Please rest assured, the junior is ready to deal with it." Xiang Kang said in a deep voice: "If Zhang Ji is really caught, when the junior brother goes to confront him, he will say that the robber was not him, but someone else. Someone robbed it. In this way, the false case fabricated by the younger generation can be completely dead without evidence."

"Daqin's law code!" County magistrate Zhou slapped his forehead with a wry smile, and said: "It's so strict, you can still take advantage of loopholes if you want, and even this official can't expose it. It seems that the Qin law formulated by the Shang Lord will sooner or later It must be destroyed in the hands of thugs like you."

Xiang Kang left the table and bowed down, and said with a sincere expression: "Your Majesty, this junior is also forced to do so because of his friends. If this junior does not make such a bad move, Mr. Yu will either die under torture or be tortured into a trick. He will also die without burial." Land, so this junior has no choice but to fabricate this fake case and give me, Brother Feng, an excuse to intervene. This is all the fault of this junior and has nothing to do with Brother Feng. The solemnity of the Qin law, the younger generation must confess (surrender) to plead guilty."

Speaking of this, Xiang Kang paused, and then said: "But this junior can't do this now, because my friend Mr. Yu was indeed wronged, and this junior can't just stand by and watch him be punished innocently and die innocently. The junior must rescue this friend first, and then he can plead guilty to the county magistrate."

As I said before, what Magistrate Zhou appreciates most about Xiang Kang is that Xiang Kang's love and righteousness are enough to make friends. Now seeing that Xiang Kang is still committing crimes for the sake of friends, and hearing Xiang Kang's words so high-sounding, what is in his heart? The anger also temporarily dissipated, sighed, and said: "Let's talk about the apology later, let's discuss how to save your friend first."

"Thank you, the county lord." Xiang Kang was overjoyed, and said quickly: "The county lord, junior, please pretend that you don't know that this is a fake case for the time being, and send a county official to lead brother Feng and the younger generation to Ling The county went to investigate the case, so that the younger generation could have an excuse to contact the officials of Ling County, and tried to let the officials of Ling County save Young Master Yu's life first, so that he would not be used as a punching bag by the Shan Youwei and tortured to death in the Ling County Prison Hit, or tortured into a trick, not guilty and punished."

"The robbery and wounding of people is not a small case. I can send officials to Ling County to participate in the investigation." The county magistrate Zhou pondered, and said, "But Mr. Xiang, after you try to save the life of Mr. Yu temporarily, what are you going to do?" To prove his innocence?"

"This..." Xiang Kang was rarely dumbfounded, and replied hesitantly: "Forgive me, the county lord, the junior has not yet figured out how to prove Mr. Yu's innocence, so I can only take a step by step and think of a temporary solution."

"What if you can't think of a way?" County Magistrate Zhou asked again, and said, "Although Qin Fa does have loopholes to take advantage of, if you want to save your friend, you have to produce solid evidence to prove that Your friend didn't hire a murderer to kill someone before they could be rescued."

"This..." Xiang Kang, who was not very proficient in the laws of the Qin Dynasty, was completely at a loss. Fortunately, Xiang Kang was very quick-witted, and he said with an idea: "The younger generation is bold, please send a senior official who is proficient in the laws of the Qin Dynasty to deal with it." The county investigates and handles this case, so that the juniors can discuss and ask for advice when they encounter problems."

"You don't need to ask for help anymore." Magistrate Zhou smiled happily and said quite proudly: "In Xiaxiang County, when it comes to proficiency in Qin Law, no one dares to be the number one when I claim to be the second!"

"Really?"

Xiang Kang's eyes widened, and he pretended to be pleasantly surprised, but County Magistrate Zhou was even more proud when he saw it, and said: "After I left the school, the first official position I took was to be a court official in Jin Dynasty. , that’s Shang County in Neishi County (a county directly under the Central Government of the Qin Dynasty), and within a month of taking office, he has cleared up [-] fraudulent cases.

"It's a pity that you are not a safe guy, otherwise, why would you appreciate me, a brave and ruthless country bastard?" And said happily: "Your disrespect, I didn't know that the magistrate is so talented. That's great, now my friend is saved."

"The premise is that your friend was really wronged." County Magistrate Zhou said proudly, "I can turn a blind eye to some trivial matters, but if your friend is really If you hire a murderer to kill him, then not only will I not save him, but I will also severely punish you for fabricating a false case!"

"Please don't worry, the county magistrate, my junior dares to use the head of the item as a guarantee. That friend of mine never hired a murderer!" It turns out that Shan Youwei's son was really killed by a murderer hired by my friend, and this junior is willing to apologise with death!"

"That's good." County Magistrate Zhou nodded and said, "Tell me what happened, the more detailed the better, absolutely nothing will be missed!"

Xiang Kang agreed, and hurriedly introduced the situation he knew to County Magistrate Zhou carefully, and tried his best to be as detailed as required. However, County Magistrate Zhou felt very strange after listening carefully, and asked suspiciously: "Mr. Xiang, Who did that friend of yours offend? How could someone deliberately use his name to go to Ling County to lure that Mr. Shan to Yanjiting to die? How could the murderer deliberately use his name to kill him?"

"This..." Xiang Kang was dumbfounded again, hesitated for a while before answering: "I don't know about that, that Mr. Shan is running rampant in Ling County, making bad mistakes and committing crimes, as many enemies as he wants, anyone can kill him But the younger generation speculates that the real culprit behind the scenes may know that my friend Mr. Yu had a feud with Shan Youwei, so he deliberately planted the blame on Mr. Yu, led Shan Youwei astray, completely disturbed the line of sight, and allowed him to get away with it. "

"That Mr. Yu, what's wrong with Captain Shan You?" County magistrate Zhou asked, Xiang Kang hesitated, hesitating whether he should tell magistrate Zhou the truth, magistrate Zhou saw what Xiang Kang was thinking, and said, "Master Xiang, if If you want to save that friend of yours, you'd better not hide anything. Otherwise, even a god can't save your Young Master Yu, let alone this kind of unprovable matter!"

"I have no choice but to tell the truth. Anyway, even if I don't tell the truth, the county magistrate of Zhou wants to know the truth, so he can find out about me and the Yu family with a random search. Anyway, it should be impossible for the government to catch Fan Kui, and It doesn't involve me."

With no choice, Xiang Kang could only bite the bullet and truthfully stated the history of the Yu family's feud with that Shan Youwei, and frankly admitted that he was engaged to Yu Miaoge, and then quickly explained: "Master, The younger generation can swear to God, the reason why the younger generation proposed to Yushu from the Yu family that day was really not because of greed to marry Yushu from the Yu family, but because the Shan Youwei bullied others and forced him to marry Qiang Na. Thinking of the wrong circumstances, Duke Yu actually agreed to marry his daughter to the younger generation."

Magistrate Zhou didn't speak, just looked at Xiang Kang quietly, after a long time, Magistrate Zhou suddenly shouted: "Come here!"

"exist!"

Immediately, a few guards rushed in from outside the hall. Magistrate Zhou pointed at Xiang Kang again and shouted, "Take this Xiang Kang down to me!"

"what?!"

Feng Zhong, who was sitting next to him, couldn't believe his ears at all, and Xiang Guan, the only son of the Xiang family who came with Xiang Kang, even jumped up and subconsciously went to hold the sword hilt at his waist.Although Xiang Kang was equally astonished, he remained calm, and hurriedly shouted: "Brother Guan, don't mess around!"

Several guards rushed forward and pressed Xiang Kang's hands back on the table, and two other guards stopped Xiang Guan and Feng Zhong with horizontal swords to prevent them from violently injuring others.Xiang Kang asked Xiang Guan to calm down again, then raised his head with difficulty, and tried to keep calm and said: "Xianzun, what crime did this junior commit, why did you take this junior down?"

"Xiang Kang, that murderer named Zhang Ji was bought by you to kill Shan Youwei's son, right?" County Magistrate Zhou asked coldly, "You are greedy for the beauty of Duke Yu's daughter, and you are also greedy for the beauty of Duke Yu's family." Money, I was worried that Duke Yu would not be trustworthy and refused to marry a daughter, so he bought murderers and robbers, deliberately used the banner of Mr. Yu to trap and kill that Mr. Shan, and then took the opportunity to give Mr. Yu a favor, so that he could only marry his daughter to you right?"

"This guy is a god? How can he guess so accurately?" Xiang Kang was taken aback—although Xiang Kang had expected that sooner or later someone would suspect him, and even the old Yu family would doubt him after he recovered. The beneficiary was also prepared to deal with it in advance, but Xiang Kang never expected that the county magistrate Zhou, who was usually very good to him, could suspect him in such a short time, and immediately Action was taken.

"You must be very strange, how did I know your plan?" County Magistrate Zhou said coldly again: "It's very simple, I know your family background very well. When you came to visit me before, you were so poor There is only one iron sword left by his ancestors left. How could Duke Yu like you for a person like you? Even if he was forced to agree, how could he regret it afterwards? If I guessed correctly, You may find that Mr. Yu is about to renege, or that Mr. Yu has already reneged on his promise, so you took the risk and set up this vicious scheme to hire murderers to sell a huge favor to the Yu family, so that Mr. Yu can only take the risk. Is it true that a daughter marries you to repay your kindness?"

The precise reasoning of County Magistrate Zhou left Xiang Kang completely speechless, and Magistrate Zhou said: "Xiang Kang, I know that with your shrewdness, you will definitely deny or deny it, but it doesn't matter, I can investigate slowly. If you find out the criminal evidence, you will be killed immediately. Don't tell me that you can take the initiative to divorce the Yu family to prove that you have no intention of coveting the Yu family's money and beauty. When things have come to this point, the divorce is still to save your life. Who is more important, everyone knows."

Xiang Kang was in a state of confusion, knowing that he could still use the trick of denying it now, but he also knew that if he insisted on playing a scoundrel, not only Zhou County Magistrate would completely look down on him, but Yu Zhi, who had already been imprisoned in Ling County Prison, would also kill him. There is no doubt that he must die, and at the same time, the appearance of Fan Kui and Han Li in Shiling Pavilion will be found out by Zhou County Magistrate sooner or later.

At this time, Feng Zhong and Xiang Guan were completely stunned, and they couldn't help but suspect that Xiang Kang was the real culprit behind the scenes. The county magistrate Zhou said calmly: "Xiang Kang, what do you have to say now? I tell you This is a chance for self-defense, if you can prove your innocence, I will release you immediately, but if you quibble or deny it, even if I have no evidence, I will detain you and investigate thoroughly."

"There's nothing you can do to steal a chicken." Xiang Kang smiled wryly in his heart, but he had no choice but to say in his heart: "Brother Yu Zhi, I'm sorry, I just wanted to make you suffer a little bit, and teach you a lesson. The snobbish eyes of the family are ungrateful, but I didn't expect to use too much force, which will cost you your life. There is no way, deny it, huh? Wait! I can't deny it, I still have one last chance!"

(End of this chapter)