[Comprehensive martial arts] I fall into the city

In the 16th year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, in mid-April, the former prefect of Jinling moved from the left to the Yushi of Qiandu, and the new prefect Li Che took office.

Unlike ordinary officials who feasted on guests after taking office and made friends with rich and powerful village eunuchs, the new magistrate first arrived and ordered people to reopen the files accumulated over the years, and was promoted to the court for four consecutive months. Nearly a thousand cases were all tried and cleared.

During this period, the villagers in the eight counties spread the word to ten, ten to hundreds, which caused many people who had grievances to sue came from all over the township to lodge a complaint.

As the saying goes, there are three fires for a new official to take office, and no one knows how long the fire of the new grandpa can burn. Therefore, the villagers crowded outside the government office every day fight to file a complaint first, or post notices in the government office to quarrel. Those who fight must be recorded with their names and places of origin, and unless the government settles the previous case, they will refuse to accept the pleadings.

The crowd dared not fight any more, and refused to stop, so some of those who had filed complaints, those who came from other places, and those with good news, outside the government office, among the crowd, talked about the benefits of Master Qingtian.

At one time, some people said that the grandfather "was like a banished fairy coming down to the world", and at another time, someone said that the grandfather "was reincarnated from Wenqu Xingjun, and his predecessor was Bao Gong". The number one scholar in Beijing was admitted to the Imperial Academy, and later transferred to the Ministry of Punishment, and now he is transferred out, it is our Jinling's blessing!"

This may sound flattering, but most of the people outside the government office are waiting to sue, so they can feel at ease after a few more words, but they don't think flattery is bad, the man responded to everything, was proud of himself, and even spit out his words fly.

The outside of the government office was lively and lively, but the inside of the government office was very quiet. Li Che flipped through the case file and said: "The criminal Xue Pan was originally a manslaughter manslaughter. According to the law, manslaughter is punishable by manslaughter. He should be beheaded. Since he has escaped, the crime will be aggravated." The first class will be added as a notice, and the case file will be sent in triplicate to the Ministry of Punishment for judgment. Lao Chen will nod a few arresters to go to Beijing and arrest Xue Pan. If there is any resistance, it will be dealt with according to the law."

Li Che wrote an official document, stamped it with the official seal of the prefect of Jinling, and handed it to the head catcher Chen Fang standing in front of the hall.

Chen Fang quickly took the official document and put it away carefully.

This is not a difficult case to judge. The Great Ming law is very detailed, and almost all punishments have cases to follow. It is much simpler than those laws that are vague and depend on the discretion of officials.

The plaintiff below broke down in tears and kowtowed again and again, saying that the sky is blue.

The plaintiff was the deceased's domestic servant, and the deceased Feng Yuan was a squire. Because he took a fancy to a girl who was trafficked by a kidnapper, he had a grudge against Xue Pan. Xue Pan ordered his servants to beat Feng Yuan to death. Xue's family was so powerful that the former prefect dared not judge , only took Xue Pan's servant for questioning, closed the case ambiguously, and it was not so easy to fall into Li Che's hands.

Li Che flipped through the case files, and found that not only was his predecessor's sentence vague, but he hadn't even been sentenced for bringing the abductee. He has been kept in prison for food, so he stretched out his hand and sentenced the abductee to a hundred sticks and exile for three thousand miles.

The kidnapper was brought to court, and after less than sixty strokes of the cane, he was beaten into a rotten mess.

Li Che didn't even lift his eyelids, he just said, "Give him a straw mat."

Chen Butou quickly ordered two policemen to roll up the straw mat and carried the man out, and sent water to the back hall to sweep the ground of the courtroom.

After a while, the blood dissipated, and the court opened again.

No one knew the identity of Li Che's murderer Xue Pan. In the past four months, countless unjust, false and wrong cases in the eight counties of Jinling involved 300 local wealthy people, of which about [-]% were from the "Four Great Families of Jinling" Jia Wang Shixue. Although Xue Pan's status is more expensive, everyone knows that the new grandpa has a temper and cannot be persuaded.

Li Che's temper was indeed getting worse.

In his previous life, it was rare for him to die, so he didn't have any regrets at all. Who knew that it would be another lifetime when he opened his eyes. It was a good thing to change from an old man to a boy of twelve or thirteen years old, but he didn't wait for Li Ning.

At one moment he suspected that Li Ning hadn't come, and at another moment he was afraid that she had already left.

After being here for more than 13 and a half years, Li Che's hopes are getting smaller and smaller, and his temper is getting worse day by day. In the past, he was like a fish in water in the officialdom, but now he is a messy dragon.

From Qinggui Hanlin to the place where he was sent down, it was he who tossed about it himself.

Here, the emperor's surname was Zhu, who lived in the cold palace in his early years. He was taken care of by a palace man named Wan, and the master and servant depended on each other. Conferred the title of noble concubine, Concubine Wan Gui was born in a poor family, and once she flew to the top of a branch, the Wan clan's people became extremely arrogant.

When Li Che was in the Hanlin, he joined an official named Wan. After a few days, the Hanlin failed and was transferred to the Ministry of Punishment. After going to the Ministry of Punishment, he joined another superior named Wan. This time he was not as unprepared as last time. , and made up a knife, the official surnamed Wan died of a gas disease while in exile. Not long after, Li Che was transferred to Jinling as an official.

Jinling was originally the capital of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. Later, Zhu Yunwen, the grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, wanted to cut down the vassal. Zhu Di, the king of Yan at the time, brazenly raised his troops and called it "Jing Nan". It didn't take long for Jing Nan to succeed. Emperor, the King of Yan has been in the north for a long time, and he looked down on the gentle south, so he established his capital in Yanjing, which is now the capital.

Most of Jinling's children are former heroes who have no real power but still have a reputation, so it is difficult to be an official in Jinling.

Li Che was not afraid of this. He handled the case quickly, and he didn't care whether the arrester could catch anyone. Once he failed to make a statement, he would be questioned three times.

Li Che knew that the case files of the Ministry of Punishment would be intercepted by the cabinet if they were not in the hands of the emperor himself, so he didn't bother to ask.

In a century-old dynasty, it was normal for people to be corrupt in the middle period, but this is the first time Li Che has seen such a world where relatives control the government and factory guards run rampant.

But that has little to do with him.

He is ready to settle the matter of his tenure and resign.

It was also at this time that he realized that power was not that important to him. After all, at the beginning, he wanted to have power only to protect his family. Now that he is alone, he no longer wants to make a fuss.

The head arrester Chen Fang took the official document written by Li Che himself and went north by boat to the capital to fetch people. Chen Fang was a native of Jinling and knew the strength of the Xue family, but he was just a head arrester. Everyone wants to pursue it, and they will not pursue it on the head of a small pawn like him.

After sailing for a few days, a large boat suddenly stopped in front, and there were two or three small boats beside it. Chen Fang suspected that he had run into a reef, fearing that he would suffer disaster, so he quickly asked a well-behaved little catcher to inquire about the situation.

The little catcher went away for a while and then came back. He said with a smile, "It's nothing serious. That family is also from Shangjing. They picked up a little girl by the river bank. Maybe someone discarded it."

Chen Fang breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "It's not uncommon to sell children and daughters these days, throwing a girl is nothing."

Not long after, the big boat continued to sail, but Chen Fang's boat was smaller, but it was ahead.

The two boats passed by and landed on the big boat behind. Li Ning slightly opened her eyelids and saw an old woman dressed as a servant wiping her face. Her hands were a little thick, but when they touched Li Ning's face, she was subconsciously gentle. Quite a few, sighed again, and said: "Girls from poor families are born like this, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse."

A little maid was staring at Li Ning's face, and whispered, "What a blessing or a curse, anyway, if I was born like this, it would be worthwhile to die in a few years."

The old woman shouted: "Children, what are you talking about? Where is our girl going? When you get there, you just treat yourself as a piece of wood and don't talk! You don't behave, others say It's not that your child's family is unruly, but that our Lin family is unruly, and if the girl lives there, others will say that the girl is unruly, do you know?"

The little maid puffed her mouth and stopped talking.

Li Ning didn't understand what they were saying, maybe it was a dialect, maybe it was a different world, and they couldn't even speak.

After only a few words, Li Ning just opened her eyes when the old woman sighed and said, "You are born too well."

The little maid didn't care about this. She liked Li Ning when she saw her beauty. She smiled at her delicately and said kindly: "Are you awake? What's your name? This is our girl's nanny, Mother Xu. My name is Li Ning. Xueyan, you..."

After she spoke, Li Ning showed a little blank look, and unexpectedly saw the painting on the boat.

The painting is not important, what is important is that she can understand the words on it, and quickly reached out to gesture, but she gestured for a long time, neither the little maid nor the old woman could understand.

Li Ning noticed that her hands had become very small, about the size of when she was five or six years old.

She sighed softly.

Xueyan and Xu's mother originally thought that Li Ning wanted to learn how to gesture with a mute because she couldn't speak, but she muttered a few words, not like a mute, but as if she didn't understand the dialect.

Mother Xu said to Xueyan: "This doll seems to be gesticulating and writing."

Xueyan wondered, "In this day and age, who has the time to teach girls how to read?"

The girl in their family was an exception, but it was the old lady who lost her youngest son and was really sad, so she raised the girl as her son and learned some classics, poetry and books.

Xu's mother took a closer look at the little girl who was rescued, and saw that although the clothes on her body were worn out, her skin was as smooth as snow, and her face was particularly beautiful, and she didn't look cowardly. The figure from the sky is here, and now I feel a little startled.

She was a little uncertain, and knowing that the nuns sent by Rongfu were also illiterate, she pushed Xueyan and said: "I still don't feel at ease, if a lady from a rich family is in trouble, she can save her It's also good fortune, you go and invite the girl."

Xueyan liked Li Ning's face so much, and was startled by what Mama Xu said, she jumped up to go, but before she ran out, Mama Xu shouted again: "Bring your pen and ink here!"

Li Ning didn't understand what they were talking about, but she could see that Mother Xu was very kind, so she smiled sweetly at her.

Mother Xu groaned and covered her heart.

This is someone who lost a little fairy boy!