Cao Hao has known Tang Zhiyu for many years, and knows that he is a square person, and he will never make the decision to impeach Guo Yiyu because of the one-sided words of "female ghost".

"Yigong, but what's wrong with the file?" When there were only two people left, Cao Hao asked.

Tang Zhiyu nodded and said, "Yes, it's extremely inappropriate." From Zhang Yu's death to the judgment of this case, it was only three or two days of hard work, and it was too hasty. In addition to Zhang Hu, who was imprisoned, there was another suspect who was also at the scene of the murder at the time of the crime. Except for the opening of the court, he said that he was a witness, and after showing his face, he disappeared after that. Where is written above, it is also vague. To say that there is no greasy in it, the lower officials do not believe it. Xia Guan pondered the case last night, and always felt that there was something covered up, and when he stayed up until the second half of the night, he was a little confused, and when he saw the fake female ghost, he really thought it was a ghost who was wronged in a dream. Thinking about the books I have read, the Bao Gong case and the Shi Gong case in the early years, will I also have a Tang Gong case. At the end, he laughed himself.

This is the county government, and even if the political envoy's stay is not private, it will not be known.

can know Tang Zhiyu's identity, so he wants to use it, if he doesn't have power, he won't pinch the opportunity so well.

Hearing Tang Zhiyu mention these doubts, Cao Hao thought for a while and said, "Since this is the case, how do you plan to act next?" ”

"First ask Guo Yiyu the reason, seeing that he doesn't look panicked, maybe he knows the true body of this night ghost." Tang Zhiyu said.

Now, not only is the murder of Zhang Yu's family suspicious, but also the county government is not peaceful, and some people are pretending to be ghosts and want to borrow Tang Zhiyu's knife to clean up Guo Yiyu, the parent official.

Cao Hao thought of this, and his heart sank slightly.

With Tang Zhiyu's identity, he didn't need to deal with Guo Yiyu at all, but directly asked someone to come over and ask the doubts in his heart: "Where is Fengyang Qiu Sheng in Zhang Yu's murder case now?" ”

When Guo Yiyu heard this, his body stiffened, and he said, "This ...... The lowly office does not know...... Maybe I'm going back to my hometown. ”

At this time, even Cao Hao, who was watching from the sidelines, felt that Guo Yiyu's reaction was strange, so he listened to Tang Zhiyu and then asked: "Since they are foreigners, who proves their identity, this father Qiu Da and mother Wang, who live in Xiaoli Village, Guo Township, Qianguo Township, Fengyang, have all been verified?" ”

As Tang Zhiyu asked, Guo Yiyu's face became more and more pale, and his forehead was sweaty.

He slowly raised his head, looked at Tang Zhiyu with frost on his face, sighed, picked up his placket, and landed on his knees: "My lord, I am guilty of negligence if I did not send an official document to Fengyang to verify his identity!" ”

When Tang Zhiyu heard this, his face became more and more frosty, and he said in a deep voice: "It's just negligence? If it is a witness in an ordinary case, there is no need to be so careful, but he is also at the scene of the murder, which is a human witness in a life lawsuit. The real murderer who killed Zhang Yu's family, is it Zhang Hu or this Qiu Sheng? ”

When Guo Yiyu heard this, he hurriedly raised his head, and said with an anxious look on his face: "Human life is at stake, how dare you bend the law in a lowly position?" This Zhang Yu did die at the hands of Zhang Hu, and there is all the human and material evidence! ”

When Tang Zhiyu heard this, his expression softened slightly, and he said: "Since Zhang Hu is the real murderer and has nothing to do with Qiu Sheng, why do you still help him hide his identity?" The law is merciless, how can it be allowed to play favoritism? ”

Guo Yiyu listened to this question, but he didn't defend anymore, and said with a pale face: "It's the fault of the lowly position, the student is a distant relative of the lowly position, and he is afraid that his future will be ruined because of this case, so he did not indicate his true identity." ”

Even if it was the beginning, he didn't dare to hide it anymore and explained the past clearly.

The "Qiu Sheng" mentioned in this case, whose real name is "Qiu Xiaoyuan", is a distant relative of Guo Yiyu, a native of Hejian Xian County, who passed the children's examination last year.

I heard that the Lotus Academy was built in Qingyuan City, and several Confucian gentlemen from Beijing, Guo Yiyu planned to send his eldest son to enroll. I was afraid that my son would be young, so I thought of this nephew of the Qiu family. Thinking of finding a companion for his son and returning a favor to the Qiu family in the early years, he sent a letter to the Qiu family mentioning this matter.

Qiu Xiaoyuan's parents died, and he lived with his grandparents, and his family was not spacious.

Hearing that Guo Yiyu wanted to sponsor his grandson's education, the Qiu family's grandparents were overjoyed, bought new clothes for their grandson, and scraped together dozens of taels of silver.

The grandfather of the Qiu family planned to send his grandson over in person, but he was sick before going out, and they thought that the distance between the two places was not far away, so they asked a fellow businessman who often ran to Jinghai to take his grandson for a ride.

The businessman also did his best, went straight to Jinghai County, helped Qiu Xiaoyuan ask for the way to the county office, and broke up after two clicks.

I don't want to, the distance from the city gate to the county government two streets, there was an accident.

This Zhang Hu has a wine shop in his house, and he looks like a serious person, but he is actually a well-known drunkard scoundrel. Yu's is quite attractive, but he is a romantic surname, and the husband and wife have set up a permanent bureau to cheat money.

Since Qiu Xiaoyuan entered the city, he was targeted by Zhang Hu, so he set up a bureau and sent Qiu Xiaoyuan to the wine shop.

Fortunately, Qiu Xiaoyuan was only young and ignorant, and he was not a real drunkard, so he did not insult Yu's family.

Zhang Hu drank the wine, and when he saw that Qiu Xiaoyuan was not taking the bait, he was a little annoyed.

Qiu Xiaoyuan saw through the "Beauty Bureau", although he did not bring out his relatives in the county to suppress people, he couldn't wait for a while, and he had to leave with his baggage.

Cooked duck, how could Zhang Hu let him fly, seeing that Qiu Xiaoyuan was young and thin, he took out a knife and threatened.

Yu's pretended to be playing again, and their husband and wife were unlucky, Zhang Hu was so drunk that he tripped over himself and fell on Yu's body.

The knife in his hand was sharp, and it was pierced into his neck at once.

Before Zhang Hu came to his senses, Yu gave two convulsions and lost his surname.

The wine shop was on the street, although Qiu Xiaoyuan was too frightened, but he was afraid that Zhang Hu would kill people and kill him, so he took advantage of Zhang Hu's defenselessness to push open the street door and shouted.

So, the case was sent to the government.

Zhang Hu had blood stains on his hands and cuffs, and when he arrived at the official mansion, he was still confused, but he honestly confessed his guilt and only admitted "manslaughter".

Guo Yiyu was taken aback when he saw that Qiu Xiaoyuan was involved in the case. It was also Qiu Xiaoyuan who was shrewd, afraid that Guo Yiyu would be involved, so he didn't know him, and he didn't recognize his relatives in the yamen.

Guo Yiyu originally thought that since Zhang Hu pleaded guilty, there was no need to write down the matter of their husband and wife setting up a bureau, otherwise Qiu Xiaoyuan would really bear the suspicion of "annihilating the husband", and his future would be hindered in the future.

Unexpectedly, when the case came to the next day, Zhang Hu changed his words, did not admit that he had "manslaughter", and insisted that Qiu Xiaoyuan was "killed".

Li Pengju, the third master of the Li family, the head snake in Jinghai, personally went to the county government and sent five hundred taels of silver to tell his godbrother Zhang Hu about the matter.

In his opinion, no matter what the truth is, he must not let his brother die. That outland boy should be the best substitute for the dead.

Guo Yiyu was shocked and angry, and of course he refused to agree to Li Pengju's proposal.

Even if Qiu Xiaoyuan was not his distant relative, just a stranger, it was impossible for him to kill a surname for a few hundred taels of silver.

In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Guo Yiyu quickly closed the case and quietly sent Zheng Xiaoyuan away.

Li Pengju seemed to be Guo Yiyu, who did not know how to raise the situation and deliberately made it difficult for him, and the relationship between the two families became tense.

The case file has already written physical evidence, including the bloody clothes Zhang Hu was wearing, and human witnesses, when the neighbors entered the door, Zhang Hu was supporting Yu's family, only saying that he didn't mean it.

Therefore, after listening to Guo Yiyu's narration, Tang Zhiyu did not question the outcome of the trial.

"Everyone has selfish intentions, now you are a relative's child, you can hide their identity, if you really cause a murder, will you open the net in order to save his surname?" Tang Zhiyu pondered for a moment and said, "It's better for Master Guo to write a new copy of this dossier." Since Zhang Hu repented and pleaded not guilty, you let the Zhang family go to the Yamen to sue him! ”

"Yes, I will follow the teachings of Lord Fantai!" Guo Yiyu was ashamed and said with a red face.

Although Tang Zhiyu didn't like Guo Yiyu, it could be seen that he knelt for a long time, panicked, and he didn't want to say anything more, so he just waved his hand and told him to get up.

It was Cao Hao, who remembered Li Pengju mentioned in this case, and said to Guo Yiyu: "It is Li Pengju's person who pretends to be a ghost?" In the county government, is there anyone from the Li family? ”

"The county is the cousin of the Li family, and if he wants to come to the county government about the arrival of the lord of the domain, he will tell Li Pengju." Guo Yiyu said with a little helplessness: "For the sake of Zhang Hu's matter, Li Pengju has been to the county government several times to make trouble, if it weren't for the pressure of the old lady of the Li family, I'm afraid he would have to go directly to the prison to rob people." ”

Guo Yiyu tampered with the case file, of course, Tang Zhiyu did not like it; That Qingtian Bai said that he blackmailed them, and after knowing his identity, he still pretended to fool people, and Tang Zhiyu was even more disgusted.

It's just that he doesn't have a name to arrest people for a while, and he can't say that he suspects that the other party is pretending to be a ghost and arrests people.

It's still Cao Hao, who asked Zhang Yi to write the pleadings before, just to clean up this Li Pengju.

It's not that I can't bear the one hundred and fifty taels of silver, but I don't want anyone to continue to be blackmailed. Looking at Li Pengju's momentum, if he does not agree with his words, he will make people rude.

If a guest spares his life, he is just giving up his money; If the guests are reluctant to pay for the money, they may be killed.

Tang Zhiyu also thought of this, looked at Cao Hao, and when he nodded, Fang said to Guo Yiyu: "Li Pengju is blackmailing and lawless, if someone hands over the paper. Does Guo County dare to accept it? ”

Guo Yiyu listened, straightened his waist and said: "If someone really hands over the paper, he will naturally dare to accept it." It's just that in this Jinghai City, the Li family is powerful, and even if someone suffers a loss in Li Peng's hands, most of them will endure it, and I'm afraid that no one will dare to show up. ”

Let's not talk about whether Guo Yiyu's county order is qualified or not, Tang Zhiyu can't tolerate a snake like Li Pengju who harms the people.

He didn't say much to Guo Yiyu, and then consulted Cao Hao's opinion, and Zhang Yi came forward and handed the certificate to the county government.

The ink on the paper had dried early, and Guo Yiyu recognized that it was the handwriting of Mr. Font in the city.

When Guo Yiyu read the contents of the resignation paper, he knew that Li Pengju had blackmailed the political envoy and his party to pay the 150 taels of silver, so he understood that Li Pengju was in a catastrophe.

* West of the city, Li House.

Li Peng raised his wine glass and earnestly persuaded him to drink.

There was a woman sitting opposite him, in her twenties, with a handsome face, down-to-earth and generous, with a little cheerfulness in her words: "This is in the north, it's not easy to do it, and you have to make a show; If it were in the south, the Tartar dog officer dared to reverse black and white like this, and he should have been cut off with a knife......"

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(To be continued)