Liaozhai Great Sage

"Sleepless? Hmph, can someone prove it?" County Magistrate Liu hummed softly.

At this time, Tieshan outside the lobby hurriedly shouted: "I can prove that the young master sat in the lobby of the Li family last night and never went out for half a step."

"Never going out for half a step does not mean that Li Xiuyuan will not order his servants to do things. You are a servant of the Li family, and your words cannot be trusted. Now I suspect that you sent the servants of the family to murder the life of Goddess Wang overnight and kill the case. The most important witness, Li Xiuyuan, can you plead guilty?" Magistrate Liu stared at Li Xiuyuan and said.

Unexpectedly, the so-called public trial of County Magistrate Liu did not try Li Dafu, but instead rushed to Li Xiuyuan.

Take down Li Dafu and sentence Li Xiuyuan to a felony, this is to kill everyone.

Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "Just relying on Liu County Magistrate's empty words to convict, isn't Liu County Magistrate suspected of turning black and white and wronging good people?"

"You, Li Xiuyuan, are considered a good person? Don't think that I don't know what you have done. Since you don't plead guilty, it doesn't matter. Come and bring Wang Chuan, the guard who kept watch at night yesterday." Magistrate Liu said again.

After a while, an officer named Wang Chuan knelt down in the lobby.

"Little Wang Chuan, I greet you, my lord."

"Wang Chuan, I want to ask you, did you hear and see what happened in the house of Madam Wang when you were on vigil yesterday?" County Magistrate Liu asked.

Wang Chuan tremblingly said: "My lord, when I was on duty last night, I heard the sound of fighting and screaming in the room of the Witch Wang, but when I arrived, I saw two people. A masked man rushed out of Mistress Wang's room, the two masked men in black ignored the young one and left quickly, but when the young one arrived, she saw that Mistress Wang had died suddenly Inside."

"By the way, my lord, when the little one came, I vaguely heard a man in black shouting something."

"What? Tell me in detail." Magistrate Liu asked.

Wang Chuan trembled all over, and tremblingly said: "The man in black said: The matter has been completed, hurry up and report to the young master."

"Young master? Are you sure that the man in black said something about you?" County Magistrate Liu asked.

"Yes, I'm sure." Wang Chuan lay on the ground, not daring to raise his head.

Immediately, the country gentry and clan elders outside the lobby were startled again, and all looked at Li Xiuyuan in unison.

"No, no way, Li Xiuyuan really bought the murderer to kill Goddess Wang?"

"Sending people to kill Mistress Wang overnight is to prevent today's public trial. It seems that Li Dafu's charges are true."

"It's really true that you know people, face, and heart. I didn't expect the young master of the Li family to do such a cruel thing. Hey, I still can't believe it."

"Yesterday, I saw some signs that something was wrong. I heard that the Hei San who was working in the yamen was cut off by Han Meng of the Li Family Security Company, and a hamstring was broken. Although the Hei San is a famous man in Guobei County The local ruffian, but Hei San didn't do anything outrageous, this Li Xiuyuan's attack was too ruthless."

All of a sudden, people's hearts changed.

The country gentry who supported Li Xiuyuan before, the elders of the clan immediately fell to one side, thinking that Li Xiuyuan was the murderer who ordered his servants to kill Goddess Wang.

As soon as this charge is confirmed, as for today's defendant Li Dafu, he doesn't even need to be tried, and the charge can be found to be true.

If his son is like this, his father can be imagined.

County magistrate Liu smiled when he saw this scene.

The Li family wants to fight with him?

I have been an official for nothing all these years. Those squires and clan elders have enough status and old status, but in the end they are just a group of fools.

It's best to fool such people. With a few words, all those who support the Li family believe that the Li family is the murderer.

"Li Xiuyuan, the evidence is solid now, what else do you have to say?" County Magistrate Liu said.

"unambiguous evidence?"

Li Xiuyuan said; "The so-called conclusive evidence of County Magistrate Liu is nothing more than one-sided words of the yamen servants under your command. Why does County Magistrate Liu only believe in his subordinates and not other people's words? I can also say that Magistrate Liu deliberately put this Goddess Wang was beaten to death, and then a servant was sent to frame me and ordered me to send someone to kill Goddess Wang, so wouldn't two generations of my Li family fall into the hands of County Magistrate Liu alone?"

"Absurd, I am the county magistrate of this county. You are a mere sinner, how can you slander randomly, and your father Li Dafu has already pleaded guilty." After the county magistrate Liu finished speaking, he said: "Master, show this sinner Li Dafu's testimony."

"Yes, my lord," said the master.

Immediately walked over with a piece of testimony.

County magistrate Liu said: "Li Xiuyuan, you have to see clearly, there is your father's signature on it."

Li Xiuyuan glanced at it, and there were all his father's crimes recorded on it, and at the end there was his father's handprint.

The fingerprints are real, but the charge is false.

My father was arrested in the yamen for several days, not to mention torture, it is not difficult to forcibly press his fingerprints.

"It turns out that County Magistrate Liu has prepared everything in the past few days. I really admire, admire, but I just couldn't even get in a word."

After Li Xiuyuan finished reading it, he clapped his hands and smiled immediately: "Since that's the case, why don't you know how County Magistrate Liu will deal with my father and me?"

When Tieshan saw Li Xiuyuan stroking his palm, his eyes flashed and he retreated from the crowd.

"Huh, are you willing to plead guilty now? According to the previous sentence, the judge should sentence Li Dafu to be sent to the frontier, and give out 40 taels of silver to compensate all the victims in the county, but today's case has changed. Hurting people, killing people, committing heinous crimes, colluding with your father Li Dafu."

"So the crimes of the two are added to the same level. Today, the judge sentenced Li Dafu to seek wealth and murder with sorcery. The crime is extremely heinous. He was sentenced to be executed by Qiu Houwen. Li Xiuyuan's murder is also an unforgivable crime. He should be deprived of his fame and immediately sent to prison. Search the mansion, and all the fields, shops, and workshops under the Li family..."

County Magistrate Liu looked envious, and then pronounced the verdict in a dignified manner.

Chapter 57 Killing the County Magistrate

County magistrate Liu pronounced the charges against the Li family, Li Dafu and Li Xiuyuan in public in the hall of the county government office, and made a corresponding verdict.

And this sentence is not light, Li Dafu was sentenced to death, Li Xiuyuan was deprived of his fame, imprisoned in a cell, ransacked his home, and confiscated all the land, acres, shops, and workshops under the Li family.

To put it bluntly, this is ransacking the family and exterminating the family, and they want to steal all the wealth of the Li family.

There is a saying that goes well, the county magistrate who destroys the family, and the magistrate who destroys the family.

It seems that this sentence is not wrong.

This county magistrate Liu was really so cruel, he didn't give the Li family any chance to stand up, and wanted to destroy the Li family in one go.

"Come here, take down the sinner Li Xiuyuan." Immediately, County Magistrate Liu slapped the gavel and shouted.

The faces of the yamen servants changed slightly, they looked at County Magistrate Liu, and then at Li Xiuyuan.

Seeing that Li Xiuyuan didn't seem to have anything to say, as if they had resigned themselves to their fate, several yamen servants immediately made a decision in their hearts, and immediately walked out with their hands folded, and went straight to Li Xiuyuan.

"The big tree of the Li family is probably going to fall today." The yamen servant secretly thought in his heart.

Seeing what happened to the squires, the clan elders were also very angry and annoyed.

"I really didn't expect that the two of the Li family would be such people. The wealth of the past generations of the Li family was all obtained through sorcery."

"Let me just say, the three generations of the Li family were rich, and now Li Xiuyuan's generation is still so rich. Common people say that there is no more than three generations of wealth, and there must be something wrong with the prosperity of the Li family."

"Maybe, the 100 taels of silver that my family lost last month was stolen by the Li family's sorcery. It was in vain that I was so polite to the Li family, but I didn't expect the Li family to be a wolf in wolf's clothing."