Datang: My father is the head bodyguard

"Bring me two shredded radish pancakes. What's that? Right. Wok-fried rice dumplings. Okay, here's one."

Yuchi Baoqi was wearing a short jacket and buying snacks at a dirty stall, while Li Shimin was looking furtively in the direction of the Yamen.

"Why are you so sneaky? Just be normal and act like a spy."

Li Shimin stood up straight and coughed twice: "Isn't this the first time I've been to Bailongyu in a place other than Chang'an?"

Yuchi Baoqi stuffed a big duck leg into Li Shimin's hand: "Take it."

Li Shimin was stunned, but still took the duck leg: "I... I'm really not hungry."

Yuchi Baoqi rolled his eyes and put his arm around Li Shimin's shoulders: "If you were an official, would you think that the people who gnawed duck legs on the street were coming down from above to inspect?"

Li Shimin suddenly felt that it made sense, but he still felt uncomfortable holding the duck leg in his hand.

"Boom boom boom!"

Li Shimin grabbed Yuchi Baoqi and said, "Someone beats the drum to complain!"

Yuchi Baoqi pulled Li Shimin's hand away and took a bite of the shredded radish pancake. The radish's inherent sweetness and fried aroma were very rare in this early spring.

"I'm not deaf. I can hear. Let's take a look first."

After playing the drum, the man knelt at the yamen gate and burst into tears: "I beg Master Qingtian to seek justice for the common people!"

I saw a man walking out of the yamen, walking steadily, wearing a dark blue official uniform, wearing a crotch hat, and a black fish bag hanging on his waist, presumably containing a copper fish charm.

"I am the magistrate of Jinling County. I don't know if you have any grievances. Please stand up and speak."

The man got up and saluted the county magistrate with folded hands: "Sir! The common people went out to look for work as usual today. They didn't return home until noon. Unexpectedly, their wife hanged herself in the main hall."

"Cao Min's wife has a lively nature and is positive about things. She will never seek life or death! Cao Min, please tell Cao Min the truth."

Li Shimin poked Yuchi Baoqi: "What do you think?"

Yuchi Baoqi scratched his head: "How can I see? I see with my eyes. I may not take off my pants and use dermatitis to see. There is no problem."

Li Shimin tugged at Yuchi Baoqi and said, "Be good, let's talk about business."

Yuchi Baoqi was a little perfunctory: "I didn't see the scene, I didn't see the body, and the people nearby didn't visit and investigate. How can I know how to solve the case just by listening to him babbling here alone? I'm not a god!"

The magistrate of Jinling County gave a few instructions to the government officials and gangsters behind him: "Tell the officials where you live, and they will go to investigate the situation now. You just wait here. But is there anything else you haven't disclosed?"

The man hesitated and evaded his eyes, but finally seemed to have made up his mind.

Yuchi Baoqi took Li Shimin's arm: "Look, there's something wrong with this kid!"

The man finally made up his mind: "The third son of the Xie family covets my wife. I suspect that my wife was forced to death by the third young master of the Xie family!"

The Jinling County Magistrate's pupils shrank, and the surrounding people suddenly turned from noisy to quiet, and they all looked at the Magistrate and the man in silence.

"If you don't have evidence and slander others with empty words, you will get slapped with a slap in the face. Did you know that?"

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the third young master of the Xie family came, rushed into the crowd and kicked the man.

"My mother-in-law is beaten by you every day, and I have to work as a lead to support you. I don't know how many times my hand has been stabbed. You beast, a rotten gambler, and a worthless thing!"

Yuchi Baoqi leaned back and said, "Hey, there's something going on. This is such a tangle of entanglements, it's like a twist!"

Li Shimin was still twiddling his fingers, but Yuchi Baoqi told him directly: "He fell in love with her, she couldn't escape him, he hated him, oh yo yo."

The man wiped the blood that flowed from his nose: "Who doesn't know that behind the third young master of the Xie family is Mr. Xie, the magistrate of Jinling County? The third young master of the Xie family covets other people's wives. Who knows that Su Niang doesn't want to, so the third young master of the Xie family will commit murder!"

Li Shimin wanted to see how the county magistrate would handle this situation, whether he would handle it impartially or protect his junior.

The Jinling County Magistrate slowly walked back to the yamen, took the gavel from the case, walked back to the crowd, and slapped the gavel directly on the pillar at the yamen entrance.

"Hey! Be quiet! I want to ask you, do you believe that I will handle the matter impartially? If you don't believe it, I will send a letter to the state capital and send officials to redress your grievance! Because my nephew is related to this case, I am recusing myself. That’s it.”

Yuchi Baoqi nodded: "Yes, we are following standard procedures. This official is at least impeccable as an official."

The man's mouth and nose were bleeding at this time, and his eyes were sinister: "How do the common people know that the officials from the state capital will not defend themselves against Mr. Xie? Will Xie San have someone to help me if he beats me?"

Lord Xie waved his hand directly: "Thank you for hitting someone without any reason. It's a no-brainer! You will be executed immediately!"

Then the officer went over and held Master Xie down, and found a bench for him to lie down on. Thanks to the fact that no one needed to hold him down, he lay down on the bench himself.

After ten strokes of the paddle, the skin was torn apart, and Mr. Xie asked someone to take Xie Yi to the hospital for medicine. At this time, the sentry officer and the foreman came back carrying a stretcher covered with white cloth.

"Report to your lord. The deceased's daughter, Nian Fang, was 22 years old. Her original surname was Xu, and her single name was Su. People around her called her Su Niang. She married this man five years ago and changed her surname to Zhang."

Seeing that the officer had finished telling the life story of the deceased, Wu Zuo quickly continued: "When we went there, there were some messy footprints on the ground. When we arrived, the deceased was still hanging on the beam and had not been taken down. The cause of death was judged to be Death by suffocation, this..."

Mr. Xie stared directly: "Is there anything that can't be said?"

Wu Zhan was trembling: "He was not hanged. There are obvious fingerprints on the neck of the deceased."

The man was suddenly about to rush over, but was stopped by someone: "Nonsense! I was just afraid that the real culprit would not be found at the destruction scene, so I didn't take my wife off the beam. Why didn't I see the fingerprints at that time?"

Yuchi Baoqi leaned into Li Shimin's ear and said, "If the murderer is not him, his wife may have just been killed when he came back."

Li Shimin didn't quite understand, and looked at Yuchi Baoqi with a scrutinizing look: "Did you calculate it?"

Yuchi Baoqi was speechless: "Tsk, didn't I tell you that I can't tell fortunes? If a person is strangled to death due to mechanical asphyxiation, the traces will not be obvious when they first die. These marks will show up after a period of death."

Li Shimin pretended to be suddenly enlightened: "That's it! If you said this earlier, wouldn't I understand?"