What made Lu Huizhong even more overjoyed was that he was on the list of the first group of jurors selected by lottery, along with Mi Yan, and Zeng Cheng, who was originally in the first group, was adjusted to the third group of alternatives.

Zeng Cheng was originally hopeless in selection, but later because of Lu Huizhong, he was made an exception to be included in the jury, but in the initial grouping, he was assigned to the first group as the first batch of jurors, which made Lu Huizhong very envious.

Mi Yan was a little puzzled by Lu Huizhong's dedication to the jury, and with his family background, there was no need to sharpen his head and drill into the camp. Who knew that Lu Huizhong's words made him dumbfounded.

"Elder Brother Yuan doesn't know, my father is obsessed with the imperial examination, and insists on letting Huizhong enter the examination department, but I have a soft spot for this trial and prison break, since the age of sixteen, plus Enke has taken the exam twice in a row, and now he is still a showman, you say, is there a way to crack it?"

The road to the imperial examination is long, Xiucai is only the beginning, it is difficult to lift in the middle, it is even more difficult to climb to the sky, from the Hongwu period for more than 200 years to the present, the number of people who have been planted has just exceeded 20,000, and the population of the Ming Dynasty is tens of millions.

Although Lu Huizhong is free and easy by nature, he is not stupid, and when he saw Mi Yan's expression, he suddenly gloomy, knowing that it was his own words that made him sad. Although he didn't win the top two times in a row, his brother is not even Xiucai, and he still has the name of a child on his head.

"Ahem, tell me what I'm talking about, let's just talk about the jury today! How happy it is to try the case and break the prison! ”

Mi Yan also realized that he was unconscious, and immediately followed: "Elder Brother Yuan, don't be happy, the trial and prison sentence have nothing to do with you and my brother, according to this regulation, you and I only have the right to choose one or the other based on the witness testimony issued by the official lawsuit and the civil lawsuit!" ”

Lu Huizhong had carefully read this detailed article before, and he also knew that what Mi Yan said was also the truth, so he put away his usual unruly spirit, and said: "The court judgment case, not a major crime of rebellion, is determined by the court after the autumn, as the so-called human life is as big as the sky, since you and I have become official jurors, we must take on the responsibility of being as heavy as the sky, maintain public spirit, righteousness, and clarify this increasingly dirty Yuyu!" ”

Mi Yan had never seen Lu Huizhong so righteous and awe-inspiring, and when he heard what he said, his passion was surging, and his blood was surging, and he shook Lu Huizhong deeply, "What a public heart, righteousness!" Brother Zi'an was worshiped by Miyan! ”

Lu Huizhong hurriedly grabbed Mi Yan's arms, helped him up, and said happily: "You and my brothers are like-minded, why do you worship me, don't be so cheesy!" ”

With that, the two young men laughed together.

Unlike Lu Huizhong's hesitation, his father Lu Sizhen was already angry at this time, and he had just returned to Taiyuan City when he learned that his son had been selected by lottery to be the first group of jurors. It seems that it is inevitable that this bastard son of his own family will be involved in it, and he must plan early. But after thinking about it, there was no suitable solution, and when he was scratching his ears and cheeks, the henchman who did it again last night hurriedly did it.

"My lord, it's done!"

In just four words, Lu Sizhen felt a little calmer, and he always had to make Li Xin lose his temper in the case of Zhang Shi's murder of his wife, as for his unsuccessful son, once this festival passed, he would be sent to his uncle in Nanjing to experience a few years, and he would not be able to discipline him arrogantly by his side.

"All arranged? Don't go out of the pool! ”

"Rest assured, my lord, the gendarmerie barracks are usually very tightly guarded, and the villain will not be able to get a gap. In the past few days, they have been busy slapping the back of the head for a case, and they have cheapened the villain! ”

Case? What kind of case can make Li Xin's henchmen so energetic? Shouldn't they all focus on the murder of his wife? Moreover, now the large and small cases in Taiyuan City are the work of the Prosecutorial Envoy, and there is no reason for their gendarmerie battalion to intervene, which makes Lu Sizhen, who is sensitive by nature, very strange.

"What's the case? Any news? ”

The henchman shook his head.

"The tone is very tight, and the villain can't find out, even in the gendarmerie battalion, only a few of Lu Jiu's henchmen know the inside story. I only know that now both the gendarmes and the soldiers in the city are like facing a great enemy! ”

Hearing that there was an abnormal movement in the army, Lu Sizhen sighed in his heart, and said in his heart, Li Xin, this kid is not ready to use force? But then he rejected this idea, and Li Xin had no reason to use force at all, which was only bad for him but not good.

I had to command the henchman again.

"Two things, all at once! The case of the gendarmerie battalion has been clarified, and it will be reported immediately! ”

When his henchmen left, Lu Sizhen thought about it and felt uneasy, so he returned to the study, wrote a letter in a few moments, put it into a copper pipe after being named, sealed it with wax, and immediately sent it to Jingshi.

After settling down, Lu Sizhen leaned his back on the back of the chair as if he was done, with a relaxed smile on his face, but he was snorting coldly in his heart, Li Xin, Li Xin, this time see how you parry?

Li Xin sneezed hard, then touched his nose again, and said to himself, Who is cursing me behind my back......

This self-talk was very funny in Tian Fuzhen's eyes, and he even made an unprecedented joke: "The general also believes in such nonsense tricks? ”

Li Xinran smiled and said: "You can't do a lot of power to entertain yourself!" ”

"Seeing the frequent undercurrents underwater, and being able to be so calm, the general is so determined. However, if there are only a few people in the city who scold the generals! ”

Li Xin took over the conversation, "Say what they do, let them make trouble, and when they see who is friend or foe, they will clean them up." Let's rehearse and practice the law of Tianfuzun's official lawsuit tomorrow......"

Tian Fuzhen felt that Li Xin seemed to be a little too arrogant, but in view of his usual caution and success in the past, this doubt also flashed in an instant, and pointed to the thick stack of documents on the table.

"Did the general really let Tian sue according to the rules? The words in it are sharp, and in every sentence, this is equivalent to putting a stone to death! ”

Li Xin said with a smile: "Although Tian Fuzun let go of his hands and feet to do your official lawsuit, the eulogy evidence is ten times sharper than that on my manuscript, and even though it is all revealed, don't let outsiders misunderstand Tian Fuzun's favoritism!" ”

Tian Fuzhen's old face turned red, he couldn't let him be selfish, so he was reluctant to get involved in Zhang Shi's case, if it wasn't for Li Xinyi's efforts to invite him to participate, he would rather stay out of the matter with his wishes.

Tian Fuzhen has the same opinion as the vast majority of people, Zhang Shi committed the fact that the law of the Ming Dynasty is ironclad and ironclad, as long as the public trial is allowed to break the sky, there is no possibility of overturning the case, but looking at the meaning of the general, it seems that he should not be merciful, I really can't understand the martial artist who is less than thirty years old in front of him.

Early the next morning, the trial of Zhang Shi's murder of his wife, which had been boiling in Taiyuan for several days, finally began, and the people of the city flocked to the former military police camp. But they were all stopped outside by the military police who maintained order. The people were very dissatisfied, "Didn't you say that the house was opened to the outside world?" How can you not let in? ”

The gendarmerie colonel explained one by one with a smile on his face.

"It's not that they won't be allowed to enter, but the villagers haven't seen the requirements clearly, and anyone who enters the venue must have a letter of guarantee named by the elders of the workshop, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter!"

This caused a wave of complaints among the people, but there were still well-prepared people who issued a letter of guarantee in the name of the elder of the house, and were put into the venue by the gendarmes one by one. These people are full of novelty in their eyes, and I am afraid that such a high-level trial will never be encountered in a few lifetimes.

The court was set up in the location of the original barracks and a tall wooden shed was erected, and an old man with white hair was already in place in the center, and it was Zhang Fangyan, a bachelor at home. There was a row of tables and chairs behind the right side of the main seat, but it was empty, and no one was in place yet. Further out, there are also a row of tables and chairs on the left and right sides of the wooden shed, and there are already people in place on the left, among whom is wearing a scarlet official robe, and the cloud goose supplement on his chest is eye-catching, it is Tian Fuzhen, the prefect of Taiyuan.

After a short time, when the hour came, another group of people dressed in civilian clothes entered the wooden shed, and took place at the tables and chairs on the right, counting as many as eleven people.

Looking at Zhang Fangyan, a scholar of the Zhishi Cabinet in the middle of the main position, his face was full of strictness, the rules of the Ming Dynasty did not go to the state and county, so he was also born in the state and county, and he was good at judging cases and breaking prisons, and when Li Xin proposed that he be the chief judge of the boiling Zhang Shi murder case in Taiyuan City, he agreed without hesitation.

Seeing that after the jurors were seated, the order of the "courtroom" was chaotic, Zhang Fangyan did not rub the sand in his eyes, and immediately slapped the wood in shock, and coughed vigorously, which shocked the jurors.

After all, the presiding judge Zhang Fangyan was in the center back then, and he had been in a high position for a long time, and he had long developed an aura of not being angry and arrogant, and everyone in the "court" no longer dared to talk to each other.

As an official lawsuit, Tian Fuzhen saw that the time was almost up, took the initiative to stand up, and first bowed to Zhang Fangyan, and then asked: "Pavilion Elder, the time has come, can the trial begin?" ”

Zhang Fangyan nodded, cleared his throat, and the luck dantian roared.

"Take someone to commit a stone!"

As soon as the words fell, a scarlet-robed official entered the wooden shed, signaled apologetically to everyone, and went straight to the row of tables and chairs behind Zhang Fangyan to take a seat.

Zhang Fangyan glared at Lu Sizhen, who was late, and then looked at who else in the seats around him hadn't come.

"Where is the King of Jin?"

Zhang Fangyan had carefully read the list before, and King Jin would also be present to supervise as an observer, and King Jin himself also agreed, how could he not come after the hour?

"Back to the old pavilion, I'm still on the way, so I'm here."

Zhang Fangyan's cloudy eyes showed a hint of dissatisfaction.

"Don't wait, take someone to commit it!"

Not long after, Zhang Shi, who was handcuffed and shackled, was escorted up.

Tian Fuzhen saw that the battalion officers of the Three Guards who had fought for their lives on the battlefield had been judged to be the same as before, with dull eyes, unkempt hair, and a haggard face and beard...... The nose turned out to be sour for no reason.