Fortunate Young Gentleman

Tang Ning rested at home for a few days, and returned to the Ministry of Justice after his back injury healed.

Although the three-month term of the Ministry of Justice was about to end, with less than ten days left, he still had to stand his last shift.

When he walked into the duty room of the Ministry of Justice, he looked up and saw a strange official.

Tang Ning looked at the seat where he was sitting, thought for a while, and asked, "This sir, is it Yang Lang?"

The official stood up, bowed and said, "Master Tang, I have heard of you for a long time."

Tang Ning remembered that before he came to the Ministry of Justice, Yang Lang seemed to have taken sick leave due to a foot injury, which lasted for two months or nearly three months. This was the first time he saw him in the Ministry of Justice.

He bowed to him and asked, "Is Yang Lang's foot injury better?"

Yang Lang smiled and said, "Thank you for your concern, Master Tang. My injury has healed."

Tang Ning exchanged a few words with Yang Lang and sat back in his seat.

It's good that Yang Lang is here. He is the head of the Ministry of Justice. He can have some free time in the days ahead.

Yang Lang sat at the table, raised his head, and looked in the direction of Tang Ning intentionally or unintentionally.

Although he was not in the Ministry of Justice for nearly three months, he was always paying attention to the news of the Ministry of Justice.

Before Tang Ning came to the Ministry of Justice, there were rumors that this person was the jinx of the Special Kesi. He mutilated himself and left the yamen to avoid disaster. But who would have thought that he did nothing out of the ordinary in the three months in the Ministry of Justice. He also presided over the compilation of "Xiyuan Jilu", which recorded the methods of inspection and solving cases in detail. It was praised by His Majesty and promoted throughout the country. His contribution was great.

This made Yang Lang almost regret it. If he was also in the yamen, some of the credit would fall on his shoulders, and his actions were tantamount to pushing it away.

The peace and quiet of the past three months also made him completely relieved. He bravely returned to the yamen, perhaps he could get a little credit.

Yang Lang sat back in his familiar position, brewed a pot of tea, and just as he picked up the teacup, a clerk came in from outside with a pile of files.

He stood at the door and was about to walk to Tang Ning's table. When he saw Yang Lang in the room, he was suddenly stunned. After thinking for a while, he turned around, walked to his table, put the files on the table, and said: "Sir Yang, the Minister has ordered the Ministry of Justice to review and verify these files as soon as possible."

"Got it, put it down." Yang Lang nodded and casually opened a file.

The case in this file is very simple. In order to build a private house, Jingbian Hou occupied the people's land and allowed his subordinates to cause a murder. If the offender was an ordinary person, he only needed to sign his name. Even if the criminal was not beheaded, he would end up with a house confiscated and exiled.

But this is Jingbian Hou, a powerful official in Beijing, with King Kang as his back. How can he, a small criminal official, afford to provoke him?

His hand holding the file trembled, his eyelids twitched, he put it down, and picked up another one.

"The case of the son of the Marquis of Yanping setting fire and killing people."

"The case of the son of the Earl of Yongchuan raping women."

"The case of the Earl of Huiyang letting his son commit murder."

...

After reading several case files, Yang Lang's body trembled slightly, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. Any of these cases is enough to give him, a criminal official, a headache. Letting a small official like him handle these cases is like asking him to die!

He stood up and looked at a clerk in the yamen, saying, "Is Minister Xu here? I want to find him..."

The clerk said, "My lord, Minister Xu has been suspended for covering up a case."

"Suspended..." Yang Lang stood there, muttering, "Why do you say suspended..."

He fell back to the chair, picked up the last file, and opened it with trembling.

"The case of Minister Xu Cheng of the Criminal Department covering up..."

Tang Ning had heard about what happened in the morning court from Xiao Jue.

Under the secret instructions and support of the Tang family, more than ten court officials, including a censor, collectively attacked Jingbian Hou, Yanping Hou and others. His Majesty ordered the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate to thoroughly investigate these cases. Once implemented, these dignitaries will be skinned alive.

Although the laws of the Chen Kingdom also have some preferential treatment for the dignitaries, this preferential treatment is limited. If the dignitaries really treat the lives of the people as if they were not human lives, they will also end up miserably. Shou Anbo is an example.

It is one thing for them to do these things secretly. No matter how the officials below cover up and conceal them, once they are brought up in the Golden Palace in front of all the officials, most of them will not be able to be resolved peacefully.

Fortunately, Yang Lang came back in time, otherwise, he would have been busy in the last days of the Ministry of Justice.

Tang Ning was leisurely drinking tea and writing the latest volume of the latest public case novel. At a certain moment, he looked up and glanced, and saw Yang Lang stood up and walked out in a daze.

He started writing again, but before he could write a few words, he heard a cry from a clerk outside the door.

"Oh no, oh no, Yang Lang fell into the well!"

"Hurry up and help him!"

...

In the Ministry of Justice, an old man looked at Yang Lang lying on the bed, shook his head, and said, "Yang Lang has just recovered from his old injury, and now he has a new injury. This time, he needs at least two months to recuperate."

Tang Ning sympathized with Yang Lang's misfortune. On the first day of his return to the office, he fell into the abandoned dry well of the Ministry of Justice.

The location of the well was very remote, and there were fences around it. The officials of the Ministry of Justice couldn't figure out why Yang Lang fell into the well and was seriously injured, but the moment Yang Lang was rescued, the Shangshu ordered the wellhead of the dry well to be sealed.

Xingbu Yamen, Xingbu Shangshu Song Yi looked at Tang Ning and said, "Yang Lang is seriously injured and needs to recuperate. These days, the Xingbu Yamen affairs will be left to Mr. Tang."

After that, without waiting for Tang Ning to answer, he pointed to the files on Yang Lang's table and said, "His Majesty has specially instructed these cases. There will also be people from the Yushitai to keep an eye on these cases. Chief Tang must handle them as soon as possible..."

Although Tang Ning didn't want to take the blame or cause trouble, he was not as ruthless as Yang Lang. He would not even let himself go if he was ruthless.

The only well in the Xingbu Yamen has been sealed. He can't climb to the roof and jump off again. In addition, over-the-wall rooms have long been a common occurrence for him, and there is no floor in the entire Xingbu where he would be injured if he jumped.

Unexpectedly, after going around in circles, killing people with a borrowed knife and saving the country through twists and turns, in the end, I still have to cut off the knife myself.

He moved the files to his desk, looked at a clerk, and said, "Go and get all the files that Mr. Xu is on duty in."

The cover-up case of Xu Cheng, the Minister of Criminal Affairs, was the simplest. All the files he had intercepted were piled in the check-in room. All he had to do was to report the truth and Chen Huang would make his own judgment.

The case involving Miss Lian'er's family has both witnesses and physical evidence, so it can be closed immediately.

As for other cases, Tang Ning believed that the Tang family had already prepared everything behind the scenes, and no matter who investigated these cases, it wouldn't take much effort.

Even so, Tang Ning was still a little dissatisfied with the behavior of the Minister of Punishment passing the blame to him. It just so happened that in "The Years I Was the Minister of Punishment", the unfilial son of Lord Song Ci and Song who killed his relatives in the end did not have a name yet. The name Song Yi is quite suitable...

After finishing writing the new chapter in a hurry, Tang Ning picked up a file, looked at a scribe, and said, "Sheng Tang!"