The expansion of the Wei Youtian case brought an unexpected benefit, that is, the opposition forces will temporarily stop and allow the project of dredging the Wusong River to be carried out smoothly.
Hai Rui was ordered to temporarily take charge of the Kunshan County Magistrate to hear the important case. Gui Youguang had to take on the full burden. Fortunately, Hai Rui finished the preliminary preparations, and the civilians were in place and the materials were all ready. Just by his order, the construction started in full swing!
Merchants from all over the country have also arrived in Suzhou City one after another, waiting for the opening of the Maritime Mansion Company, but there has been no movement for a long time, which has made people anxious and has different opinions. It is really not a good phenomenon.
This situation is silent and naturally knows it clearly, but there is no news from Wang Zhi for a day, so he cannot open it all day. Although no one has asked for it like this, it is a tacit agreement between the two sides.
So what Guan Jing has to do now is to comfort all parties and let everyone wait quietly. So he invited celebrities every few days to have a big banquet, which seemed to be a sing and dancing, but in fact, in order to reduce everyone's anxiety.
But some people don’t want him to live in peace and insist on jumping out and causing trouble for him. They ask who is so unethical? Who else can be there except Su Song inspector Lu Dou Yin?
He was the inspector of the Tiantian and had the right to intervene in all criminal prosecution cases in Susong area, supervise trials, and even change the judgments. He was a real official with a small power. After hearing about the Wei Youtian case, he came to Suzhou. He urged to handle the case silently and impartially, and dig deep into the culprit behind the scenes to be very clear, but he saw that he would go back to the guards' sect and dare not punish the Xu family, so he just waited for the opportunity to impeach him.
When silently slapped this annoying mung bean fly, he turned a blind eye to the ear and ignored it. He quarreled with him and did his own way.
After five days like this, Mr. Xu from Beijing finally wrote a letter. He politely thanked Chen for his silent maintenance, but he was unaware of the matter and said that he had written a letter to ask his family that if there was any such matter, they would let them hand it to someone unconditionally and let the government handle it.
Looking at this righteous letter, Chen Si couldn't help but sneer in his heart. He never believed that Master Xu would be unaware of the affairs of his family, nor did he believe that the Xu family would give up, because arrogance is a common problem of this big family. They would not bow to the local officials easily. I am afraid that even Master Xu would not want to let Xu Wu confess his guilt easily, so as not to give a verbal criticism to the political enemy.
Sure enough, under pressure, the Xu family handed over Xu Wu, but he invited Song Shijie, the world's number one lawyer known as the "King of Proof", and was determined to win the lawsuit.
In June, the south of the Yangtze River is sultry and the scorching sun seems to have to bake the skin of a person. In this kind of ghost weather, the people can cat and want to keep the sunlight away from the body. But today it was strange. The people of Kunshan County gathered from all directions to the county government offices with the rising sun, as if they were going to a temple fair.
Because today, the sensational Wei Youtian case will be tried in public! The earliest 200 people will be qualified to enter the county government and listen to the trial process. For ordinary people who are lacking in entertainment, this is as attractive as Wei Liangfu's Kunqu opera, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is to follow it.
But it was obvious that most people came late. When the yamen opened, the officials counted and released the people. After two hundred people arrived, they never let them in again. The rest could only sigh, but refused to disperse for a long time, wanting to wait for someone to come out and tell what happened inside.
As for the two hundred lucky people, they followed the officials into the county government office and waited outside the hall. At a moment, the county master was promoted to the hall, the plaintiff, the defendant, and the defendant's lawyer, the famous Song Shijie, arrived, and then he slapped the woods and opened the court to ask about the case!
Hai Rui asked Wei Youtian who was charged with and what kind of injustice was there? Wei Youtian repeated the prosecutions that he had many times and said again. Of course, this is also the first time. He was able to accuse Xu Wu, the Inspection Department, and even the Kunshan County Magistrate in person to celebrate Gan’s birthday!
However, Song Shijie completely denied the plaintiff's accusation, and he resisted: "Master, it is clear that Wei Youtian's accusation is purely false! The coroner has proved that his son was not injured, as long as the back of the head is injured, so the injury is untenable. Most of the time he accidentally slipped and fell to the back of the head, which is obviously trying to blackmail Xu Wu!"
"You're talking nonsense!" After hearing what he said, Wei Youtian said angrily: "I saw with my own eyes that day that Xu Wu and the people from the Inspection Department beat my three sons to the ground for a full quarter of an hour. Why can't the injury be detected?"
"Where is the coroner?" Hai Rui said in a deep voice.
A vulgar old man was summoned. It was the coroner of Kunshan County. Hai Rui asked him what the truth was. The coroner said: "There is only one fatal wound on the back of his head, and there is indeed no other wound, it seems like he was a slaughter."
"Where is the body?" Hai Rui said in a deep voice.
"The burial has been constrained." The coroner replied.
"Can you guarantee that you didn't tell lies?" Hai Rui looked at him coldly.
A look of nervousness flashed across the coroner's face and he barely calmed down: "The villain can guarantee it!" "Very good!" Hai Rui turned to Wei Youtian and said: "What else do you have to say?"
"Master, he is a lie." Wei Youtian kowtowed: "There were many villagers working in the local area that day. You can ask them!"
"I will ask." Hai Rui nodded slowly and said, "If it is absolutely necessary, can you agree to open the coffin and perform the autopsy?"
At this time, it is said that a person who is 'infiltrated for peace'. After the ** is buried, his family is unwilling to be disturbed again. But Wei Youtian Heng has a heart and must seek justice. He nodded and said, "I'm willing!"
"Yes! The matter is late, the case will be tried in Weijiazhuang!" Hai Rui slapped the auspicious wood and said, "Move it now!"
What a resolute and vigorous Haigangfeng. He immediately led the third squad to suppress the county town and headed towards Weijiazhuang. The people had never seen the county master and the county government asking about the case, but they had never seen Hai Rui go to the countryside to open a church like this. They were all very curious. Those idle and lively people followed behind and left the city, with as many as five or six hundred people.
When I arrived in Weijiazhuang, it was already noon. I got the news early. I was waiting outside the village. When I saw the master's team, I hurriedly paid a lot of worship.
Hai Rui asked him to get up and said, "Do you still know me?" Just as the inside was looking carefully, he found that the master looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.
"Ten days ago, the person you called the inspection department was me." Hai Rui said with a expressionless face.
As soon as this said, he finally met the number. Li was kowtowed in horror, scolding himself for being blind and asking the master to spare his life.
Hai Rui said lightly: "According to the Ming Dynasty's laws, it is a crime to detain officials of the court. Even if the official is not bad, he will have to be exiled for 200 yuan and three thousand miles. Have you bought some gold sore medicine and packed some good things?"
The inside was so scared that sweat was as if it was so snot that he said with tears: "I'm just doing my job on orders. Please give up on the sake of the villain's old man and the younger man, so let's go!" He kowtowed his head even harder, and broke his forehead.
"After orders? Whose orders were taken?" Hai Rui asked with his eyes narrowed.
"Sir, it's the inspector Cai of the Inspection Department." Li Zheng cried and said, "He said there were suspicious people and then he would report it quickly. All of us have to listen to him, so how dare we refuse to obey."
"Inspector Cai." Hai Rui asked the Kunshan inspector who had just arrived: "What's going on?"
"Sir, it's for you." Inspection inspector Cai looked at him wandering. When he saw Song Shijie verbally, he suddenly said: "In order to prepare for the Japanese, he caught the Japanese at the beginning of the year, so the officials ordered the villagers to be vigilant and report it immediately when they find suspicious."
"So that's it." Hai Rui nodded and pointed at Wei Youtian and said, "I'll ask you, can you know him?"
Inspection Officer Cai looked at Wei Youtian for a while, and shook his head and said, "Sir, I don't know you, I haven't seen you before."
"Have you seen him?" But he asked Wei Youtian.
"No." Wei Youtian said: "The one who came from him that day was the one below him."
"Get your subordinates here." Hai Rui ordered inspector Cai and asked Wei Youtian to go to the village to find someone to testify. Of course, both of them had officials to follow him, so as not to make trouble.
After a while, both sides came back. Old Man Wei led seven or eight neighbors, inspector Cai and more than 30 village heroes who were crooked and dying, all stood in the court where Hai Rui tried the case and accepted his question.
Hai Rui first ordered the inspectors to line up and ask Wei Youtian to find out the few who beat the people that day. Unexpectedly, Old Man Wei walked back and forth a few times but still couldn't find anyone. He said to Hai Rui in disappointment: "Sir, I'm not here."
"Is this all of you?" Hai Rui asked.
"Sir, except for a few who have quit, they are all here," said Chief Inspector Cai: "You also know. These people are treated poorly and have a lot of pressure. They are not formally organized by the court, so I don't care if I want to leave."
Seeing that he was pushing him, he was clean and he had to ask Old Man Wei, "Can the people you brought prove what happened that day?"
Old Man Wei nodded and said, "Yes, their land is right next to my house. I saw it that day."
At this time, Song Shijie sneered and interrupted, and said to the old men: "This is above the court, you are responsible for every word you say. You can't speak nonsense." As he said that, he narrowed his eyes and threatened, "You must think clearly before you can say it. The consequences of slandering the Xu family are serious!"
In fact, there is no need for him to threaten. Several honest farmers have been scared by those people, so they looked at Brother Wei apologetically and shook their heads and said, "It's been too long and I can't remember it."
When Wei Youtian heard this, he grabbed the hand of the villagers and said, "How could that happen? It was Qingming that day, so we went to the fields to visit the grave together. When we came back, we said we would work for a while and we would go to my house to have a drink at noon!"
"Brother, you remember it wrong." The villager said, "We went back after scanning the grave that day. Where can we still work?"
Wei Youtian Ru was hit hard, staring at the familiar and unfamiliar former relatives and friends, and murmured: "How could this happen? How could this happen?"
Song Shijie suddenly felt excited and pointed at Wei Youtian and said, "Sir, have you seen this person's true face clearly? He is just a crazy fanatic, feeling that everyone has hurt him! Such complaints are like crazy biting people! Not only can't be believed, but they also have to be severely punished!"
The King of Charity is worthy of being the King of Charity. If someone else sat in the hall, he would probably really be persuaded and treat Wei Youtian as a lunatic.
Unfortunately, the person sitting on the stage is Hai Rui! He treats the poor as warm as the spring breeze, and treats the rich as cold as the winter.
This Lord Hai, who has a complex of hatred and wealth, was not bewitched by Song Shijie at all. He gently said to Zhang Huang's shocked Old Man Wei: "Don't panic, it seems that he has to use his last move."
"" Old Man Wei was silent for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, sir, please open the coffin! My son who went to ** must think so too!"
"Yes." Hai Rui nodded and said, "It's time to go."
Hai Rui's decisive behavior caught Xu Wu and others off guard, and Song Shijie had to speak out: "Slow"
"Do you have any objections?" Hai Rui glanced at him. He was extremely disgusted with these lawyers and litigants, so he naturally didn't have a good look to show them.
"Sir, the villain has worked in the yamen for many years." Song Shijie bowed and said, "I know that the coffin is the residence of ghosts. People who are living must not move without movement, otherwise they will be punished by ghosts. If they have to open the coffin, they must choose to be at noon, when the yang energy is at its peak. At that time, the ghost is the weakest, and the coffin is open, so we can be safe." As he looked at the sun that was sinking in the west, he said, "It's too late now, the yang energy is declining, and the yin energy is rising. It's time when the yin ghosts are getting stronger and stronger, and we can't move the grave anymore!"
At this time, people were superstitious, and they were all scared when they heard this, and the wind came in from their backs. Seeing their cringe, Hai Rui was so angry that he believed in Confucianism, and believed in righteousness and loyalty. He was not afraid of ghosts and gods. Just as he was about to teach his frightened subordinates a lesson, he had a thought, so he calmed down and nodded slowly, "Although ghosts and gods are misty, he would rather believe in it than not." He said that, "Just follow you, the coffin will be opened at noon tomorrow!"
"Sir, wise!" Song Shijie sighed in his heart and said to himself: "It can be considered a night of delay."
So the trial came to an end. Hai Rui ordered his people not to wait for the next day's inquiry, so he took his men back to the county town.
Song Shijie and Xu Wu naturally acted alone. When there was no one, they asked Xu Wu in a low voice: "Is that ** ghost cremated or buried?"
"How could I know?" Xu Wu said in a muffled voice: "I didn't expect that there would be so many troubles, so I didn't care about that."
Song Shijie shook his head helplessly and said, "If you do it, you will do it cleanly and neatly. Otherwise, you will be obedient and avoid causing trouble for everyone."
Xu Wu asked, "What should I do now?"
"I'm not afraid of ten thousand, but I'm afraid that if I can. I'll find a way to destroy the grave and steal the body." Song Shijie thought about it and said, "When I'm sleeping in the middle of the night, don't let people find out." "I'm fine, I'm good at this." Xu Wu got up and rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll go tonight!"
"Idiot!" Song Shijie cursed: "How can you do this in person? Don't tell me that you don't know the tomb robbers!"
Xu Wu said embarrassedly: "Know a few"
"Let them go!" Song Shijie said angrily: "Send more money, let them hurry up and don't miss it."
"Oh, I understand." Xu Wu was so scolded that he lost his temper and whispered: "I'll send someone to hire a master now."
"Yes." Song Shijie nodded angrily.
The task was entrusted to the two most famous tomb robbers in Kunshan, Xu Wu and Song Shijie, and waited anxiously at home until dawn the next day. There was no reply at all.
I can't wait any longer, because Lord Hai has sent someone to urge me.
The two had to get on the bus. When they arrived at Weijiazhuang, thirty miles outside Kunshan City, it was almost noon.
The carriage did not enter the village, but turned to the west of the village with dense tombs. Lord Hai and his group were already waiting there.
However, in addition to those people yesterday, there were a few men tied up and kneeling on the ground, which made Xu Wu and the other two frightened.
The two saluted Hai Rui, and Song Shijie asked carefully: "May I ask, who is on this ground?"
Hai Ruicai said slowly: "Thieves. Tomb robbers."
Song Shijie felt a thrill in his heart. He knew that his plan was foreseeable by the other party and he was arrested! Xu Wu also secretly said with great gratitude: "Fortunately he didn't go in person."
"But this matter is very strange." Hai Rui said slowly: "Why did I say yesterday that I wanted to open a coffin and examine the autopsy? Someone came to dig the Wei family's grave in the middle of the night?"
"Maybe it was a coincidence?" Song Shijie said with a dry smile.
"It happened? It was a coincidence, and it was a coincidence. How could there be so many cases?!" Hai Rui lowered his face and said, "It was clearly someone who intended to block the opening of the coffin and cover up the truth!" He said with a heavy blow to the arbor and said, "Duh, who is instructing you behind your back?!"
The tomb robbers hesitated a little, and then heard Hai Rui slap the hawk again and threatened further: "I am not good at voting. Since I don't follow the actual trick, I have to be punished!"
Then there was a yamen runner who was like a wolf and a tiger, holding various torture instruments and pressing the tomb robbers down there!
Chapter completed!