Fan Zhendong felt that others might not be able to hear Liu Qi's shout, and he had already pulled up the bowstring, so he could compare to Liu Qi's lagging reaction; He also considered that he was wearing a helmet, wearing armor that was difficult to penetrate, and he could calmly shoot and injure Liu Qi, who was dressed indecently, as for whether he missed it, he could win and then speak. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He was soberly aware of the fact that he was a nobleman, and thought: We are a duel, not to mention that the court has promulgated a new law, and paying a ransom can avoid death......

Liu Qi didn't panic as others imagined, running around, and he knew what it meant, sighed, and fired the arrow.

This is a moment of sparks, Fan Zhendong You feels that he can't laugh, that seems too ungraceful, only by not laughing can people feel that their mood is heavy, not intentionally hurting and killing.

But he didn't have to suppress this smile immediately, and before he could change his face at a thought, he felt a chill in his throat.

The angry horse stood tall, brought Fan Zhendong high, and also released the bowstring he was holding, so that the headless arrow threw a long trail in the air.

As an indescribable pain and darkness vanished in tactile silence, his upper body, wrapped in bronze armor, was like rotten wood, and he withered away from the horse's back, and was thrown to the ground in an instant by the frightened horse.

The wind and clouds suddenly stopped.

He couldn't figure it out until he died, obviously he was the first to pull the strings, how could Liu Qi shoot the arrow first, and with his character, how could he become so decisive.

The uproar was extinguished by this change, and the audience only saw the horse pedaling and dragging the human leg galloping away.

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Hua Liushuang waited, and suddenly saw Liu Axue and them coming back, and couldn't see Liu Qi anymore, so she couldn't help but panic, and walked forward, all staggering...... Things were not what she thought, but Liu Axue couldn't wait to tell: "Grandma, Brother shot that scoundrel to death, and he wants to go to the government to surrender, let me come back and say." He himself led the horse eastward! Hua Liushuang secretly shouted "not good", and didn't want to get on the horse, so he hurriedly threw himself into the east to catch up.

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Liu Qi was like a boat, galloping in the open field, he turned around, glanced in the direction of his relatives, turned around and continued to run, and never looked back.

Just a year ago, his father taught him a lesson with facts, and when he shot someone, he already understood that since he had killed someone, he had to devour the evil consequences of killing.

He did not hesitate to come to the government to surrender, but before he finished speaking, he was thrown into prison pending trial.

There are already a lot of people in the prison, and this filthy place has been filled to the brim, and there is a kind of depression that makes people breathless.

The prisoners were dressed in all sorts of colors, some of their clothes were tattered and stained with dirt and blood, and some of them were still intact.

They lived in cells enclosed by wooden pillars.

Liu Qi felt that there seemed to be more people in the prison opposite, standing in his cell and looking at the opposite side, many people were shouting loudly "wronged", chaotically. The prisoners didn't want them to shout, and poured buckets of water at those who shouted.

Liu Qi's heart was full of countless questions, and he said secretly: "The world has just been amnesty, as long as it is not a rebellion, you can be sent home, how can there be so many people here?" At the same time, he couldn't forget the result of the fight he had with people in Uncle Zhang Wei's prison, and he was always vigilant around him.

But the surroundings were not as bad as he had imagined, and a thin scribe said, "You are not very old! How did you suffer this sin? ”

Liu Qi looked at him and saw that his eyes were sunken, his cheekbones were high, his beard was covered with dirt, and he was wearing a chain when he was awaiting trial, almost crawling on the ground, and he couldn't help but feel great sympathy: "What crime? ”

The literati laughed, and several people around laughed like crying, and everyone alarmed the prison, and the prison came over and shouted angrily, but some people shouted without scruples: "You don't know any crime, you are not the only one who has come in, but it seems that you are young." ”

Liu Qi then asked, "How did you get in?!" ”

The thin literati said, "I made up a little song, and I was convicted of it for some reason. Liu Qi asked again and again, saw a bucket, bumped and sounded, thought it was water, so he held the dry food and opened the lid, felt that everyone's eyes were wrong, and then smelled a strong smell, hurriedly covered the lid and pressed it, and asked: "Is there no water?!" He soon saw the chapped lips of the crowd, and immediately understood, but he remembered that the prisoner had just splashed someone with water.

One man said, "Little brother." Don't scream, as soon as you scream, they will water and defeat the fire, pour your whole body, and let everyone suffer too! If you want to drink water, bear with it, there is a bowl of vegetable soup for dinner! ”

Liu Qi had to wait for someone from the government to deal with it, and secretly thought: Let's sleep. So he collapsed and slept until he was disturbed by the public.

By this time it was already night, and the official said that it was an interrogation.

Strode out, dark on all sides.

Liu Qi just heard the only criminal in the room say that he had been awaiting trial for half a month, and he had long been worried, so he walked through a narrow corridor and came to the lobby, feeling that his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't help but look around, and at a glance, he actually found his father and mother on one side, and he was worried.

Before he could look at the people above, he heard a thunderous shout: "Kneel!" ”

Then the officials on both sides began to echo, and shouted in waves: "Might-might!" Liu Qi felt all around, and hurriedly twisted up and down to look at the ground, and occasionally turned around, and saw Abba signaling him to kneel, so he hurriedly knelt down. Only then was he able to look up, only to see an official sitting in the hall.

Under the bright lights, the official wore a gauze crown on his head, wore a rolling black robe, and had a round fat melon seed face, red and yellow, with an oily shiny, and what was particularly eye-catching was the chin, under which there was a lump of fat, and it was hanging and shaking. Although Liu Qi didn't see it very clearly, he also thought it was funny, he couldn't help laughing, turned his head to look to the side, a sobbing woman and several men were sitting side by side, the woman was only a few years older than his grandmother, covering her face with a big sleeve, humming endlessly, and the few big men in gorgeous clothes were all looking at him coldly, so he paid attention.

The official knocked on the eye-catching again, and asked loudly: "Who is in the hall?" ”

"So many people, which one do you ask?" Liu Qi also asked.

When he thought about it, he might have asked himself: just say, "My name is Liu Qi, the beast next to the fire Liu, a flying bird." ”

The official in the hall wanted to laugh a little, and the official played with the waking wood, knocked on the desk, and asked, "Where is the home?" ”

Liu Qi replied one by one.

The official suddenly became stern and said bluntly: "You said you killed Fan Bo's son? ”

They had a conversation with one official and one offender, Liu Hai and his wife were listening, he came to see Liu Qi, and he used money to get through the joint, knowing that the case was about to be tried, and then he paid for the trial. The truth is really as they guessed, the efficiency of the officials in the hall is indeed forced by the Fan family, and when they are pressured by money, they will be judged and decided with lightning speed, and they will not be redeemed at all.

Sure enough, the official continued: "Let's draw a charge!" ”

A servant went to the hall to bring a questionnaire and held the case, Liu Qi looked at it, and before he could see it clearly, a servant went to take his hand.

"Wait!" Hua Liushuang said angrily, "Lord Qingtian." When you hear the case, you don't ask the reason, you don't witness, you don't distinguish the facts of the case, and you don't decide the case, is this a question?! ”

The woman on the other side roared sadly, grabbed the sky, and said sharply: "How do you ask?" My son was killed by an arrow from your thief cub alive, how can you ask? ”

The fat official apologized again and again, and then the sound of the wake wood was beaten, and he said, "Mrs. Fan! Rest the wrath, rest the wrath! Then he shouted: "Come on, take down the people who roared in the court, hit the thirty boards, and blast out of the court!" ”

Liu Hai was also angry, and if he wanted to say something, he saw a person who looked like a master trotting, came out of the back hall, and talked in the ear of the fat official, the official coughed, waved his hand, touched his chin with his fat hand and groaned, I don't know who he laughed with for a long time, turned his head, and said to the big men sitting on the top: "Sir, two members outside." It's this, this, what about this prisoner, this, this! Someone paid for the ransom, and the Criminal Department and Dali Temple handed over the words! Originally, this, this redemption will not be until after the case is settled, but this, this, the old man above has already made the master. ”

He began to sweat, wiped his head, opened his mouth slightly, and scratched his ears again.

The woman next to her didn't have time to cry, the leader of the big man became majestic, and said loudly: "Our Fan family is not easy to bully, it is you who judge the case, and you watch it!" ”

Hua Liushuang couldn't help but snort coldly. The official withdrew his sweaty fingers, looked back at the couple again, and wiped them with the palm of his hand instead, because his throat was stalking, and he lost his voice a little with a "good": "It is a capital crime to be avoided." The death penalty can be avoided, but the living sin is still inescapable, wearing a flail for three days, not five, eight days, or carrying a hundred rods! ”

Wearing a flail is not just hanging a secondary flail, it means putting the prisoner's neck in a cage, bending and not bending, standing still for people to see, only giving water, not food, three days is okay, eight days without dying and not being able to get up; And the back of the staff is a hundred, as long as there is a hint, the clean and neat official will definitely give you a dead man, and you can't die by the spine of the cane, and you can also pat the back of the head more.

Bangs' teeth gritted. He is not a person who easily reveals his emotions, looking at Fan's happiness, Wupin Jingzhao used "humor" to make people imagine, and said lightly: "Let's not talk about whether the dog is guilty or not, he is not yet fifteen, and he needs to be exempted from major punishment according to the law." ”

Liu Qi is only fourteen years old, but he is not small, his body also looks full and stout, his face is also a little dark, he looks seventeen or eighteen years old, when Lord Fan heard that he was less than fifteen, he pounced on him to pull Liu Qi and let people see: "You all take a good look, are you fourteen years old?!" ……”

When he came to arrest people like this, Liu Qi competed with him, but captured him to the sky.

The two kept scuffling, and the officials danced with their hands, so they had to put their eyes on the bangs. They took a look at the bangs, and saw that the father of the prisoner had big shoulders and a round waist, shaped like a giant, and they were not sure whether Liu Qi's age was fourteen, so they shot their eyes back to the hall. The officials in the hall still need to be calm, and they will be pulled away by the people, and the case will be withdrawn, leaving the two families who look at each other angrily. He rested for a while, drank some tea, came out and went to the hall again, reviewed the interrogation just now, lightly buckled the wood, looked down and said: "The facts of this case are complicated, please file a lawsuit on the plaintiff side and submit a pleading!" ”

The sudden change made the Fan people dumbfounded.

The woman was stunned and asked, "Didn't your lord say that this case is simple, don't you want to file a paper?!" ”

The official embarrassedly accompanied the smiling face, put his hand on the case and gestured uncomfortably, and said: "Such as Fan Liushi!" At first, the official thought it was a homicide case, but the criminal case has been settled, and the prisoner has been arrested, where do you need a complaint?! Murder pays for life, and it is justified. But now, there should be twists and turns—"

Lord Fan let go of arguing with Liu Qi, turned around, and pointed at him angrily: "Why do you ask about the case?" I am a first-class uncle, on the rank of quality, above you, the first king has an edict: it makes all the officials meet the high lord, called lonely. Are you turning a deaf ear?! ”

"Sir, don't be angry." The official shook a little, began to sweat again, pulled a handful on his face, and persuaded, "Since there is no form, it is good to testify on the spot, ask the case, ask the case!" ”

He deliberately stopped talking to Fan's side, and asked Liu Qi gently: "How old are you this year!?" ”

"Fourteen!" Liu Qi said frankly.

"Have you ever read a book?" He asked, "What books do you read?" ”

Liu Qi nodded again and again, and then listed a large number of book titles. The official nodded slightly, and asked with a smile: "How can you, a young scholar, shoot the son of the Fan Jue family?!" It is reported that the son of the Fan family is a man in armor and skilled in bows and horses. ”

The officials are really 'discerning'.

Liu Hai can obviously see that the official's words are in the circle again, but they are circled on the heads of the Fan family, take a look at the flowers, and cry and laugh while being bitter.

Liu Qi could also hear that whatever the official asked, he said, and said calmly: "The two of us duel, I won, he refused to admit defeat, so he aimed his bow and arrow at me......"

The official waved his hand to stop, and then came back and asked Fan, "That's the case." Lord Fan! Can you give any evidence that your son did not target this son? ”

Just pulling back and forth like this, the outside of the yamen became noisy, and the door of the hall that was closed at night "squeaked", and suddenly opened, only to see a big man in bright armor lifting a servant to the hall, and then revealing a round of outline, one with a leather jue on his head, a sword hanging from his waist, striding inside, followed closely by several guards.

"Third brother, you came just in time!" Earl Fan was overjoyed.

Dahan is Fan Zhendong's own uncle, the later general Fan Ba.

The post of general is a third-rank official, with the same rank as Jiuqing, and his status is very high.

He came in, patrolled around, came in and listened to his brother and sister-in-law talk non-stop, and he didn't bother with the officials in the hall, and said lightly: "Judge the case!" Retrial! ”

The official in the hall was slightly stunned, and asked tentatively: "Who is this?" ”

"My general asked you to try the case!" The big man next to him shouted angrily.

"Huh! Trial, trial! The fat officer trembled like chaff, and immediately asked himself, "Where did I go?" Oh, he's looking at you. Then, he "that" and "this" for a while, and reprimanded Liu Qi: "You are resentful of killing, especially unforgivable!" ”

Bangs couldn't stand it anymore, seeing that this unprincipled bastard official was incoherent, tossing endlessly, raising his face coldly, looking up at the ceiling of the lobby.

The fire there is difficult to shine, gray and black, as if there is a mysterious thing lurking, attacking him at any time, devouring his son, wife, and daughter, unconsciously, he has a burst of disheart in his heart, and secretly thinks: Knowing his son Mo Ruo's father, even if he knows that Liu Qi is not a murderer, what can he do? ! I came to Changyue to send my son to the execution ground? He took a deep breath to dispel the sullen air, and he had the urge to recapture Liu Qi and kill him.

Liu Qi was happy, he had already seen the essence of the official, and asked strangely: "Are you asking about the case?" Or are you guessing? ”

"Bold! Of course, it's a question. The official couldn't stand the load, jumped up irritably, and fell down the waking wood heavily, startling Fan Ba on the side. (To be continued.) )