unlucky ghost

"If you can't trust my lord, then don't submit the certificate. Since you have submitted the certificate, you should obey the rules of our yamen. Otherwise, the certificate will be returned to you. I guarantee that you will not be rewarded!"

Gu Daha really had a big heart, and he dared to contradict the yamen servant, saying: "Could it be that the rules in your yamen are bigger than the laws of the Great Dynasty?"

The yamen servant didn't expect this man to have such an open mouth and such a rascal.

The county magistrate often tells the servants to fight when they are in trouble, and the custody can be dealt with.

The two yamen servants raised their sticks to greet him.

Seeing this, Mr. Tan quickly stretched out his hand to block it, and said to Gu Daha: "Brother Gu, don't worry too much. If it is really my Tan family's fault, I, Tan, will definitely compensate according to the law, and I will never do anything bad. .”

"Compensation, how do you compensate?" Gu Daha patted his butt and stood up from the ground, "Can you still compensate me for a living wife?"

"This..." Master Tan was momentarily at a loss for words.

Gu Daha happily looked around, spat at the gate of the yamen, and ran away with oil on his feet.

The yamen closed the door for three days in a row, and only ordered Mr. Bai to go to Gu Daha for an autopsy.

Gu Daha carried out his wife's body.

Mr. Bai first did a blood test for poison, and then disemboweled him.

The corpse was somewhat rotten, Gu Daha felt disgusted, so he hid outside the door and dared not look at it. After Mr. Bai finished examining the corpse, he quickly wrapped it in a rag sheet and buried it in the wilderness.

Mr. Bai inspected Mrs. Gu Daha's body, and on the way back to the Yamen, he also inspected the dog's body, and then he went back to the house and reported to his home magistrate.

Five or six days passed, and there was still no movement in the yamen.

Master Tan was so anxious that he couldn't sleep or eat.

Two days later, Jiuqi came back from Xinyang with several merchant ships. Two ships were mountain chrysanthemums, another ship was pinellia and honeysuckle, one ship was angelica, and half a ship was schisandra.

Master Tan didn't bother to take people to meet him, so he sent Wen Zhong and his servants to help at the ferry.

At noon, someone in the yamen sent a message again, telling Mr. Tan to go to the yamen quickly, and the case will be concluded in court today.

Master Tan hurriedly made a carriage and rushed to the Yamen. Gu Daha had already knelt in the lobby and wiped his tears.

"Grassmen pay homage to the magistrate." Master Tan entered the yamen, and first kowtowed to the sleepy-eyed magistrate, "I don't know how the investigation of this case is going, my lord?"

The magistrate covered his mouth and yawned.

Mr. Bai brought the gavel to him from the corner of the table.

"Crack!" The county magistrate grabbed the gavel and slammed it heavily on the case of Lihuamu, and all the yamen servants trembled and hurriedly stood up straight.

The magistrate said: "Mr. Bai, tell me."

Mr. Bai nodded slightly, took a step forward and said, "Master Tan's family is so big that he doesn't care about a few dozen taels of silver. How about if Master Tan is merciful and gives him three or fifty taels?"

These three hundred and fifty taels are really not worth mentioning to Mr. Tan, but if he gave it, wouldn't it be a confession of the crime, and it would be a big loss in his own name.

Master Tan said: "It's easy to talk about the silver and silver, but I hope you can explain what is going on in this case, so that the grass-roots people can find out the omissions and make up for the vacancies, so that they will not make such big mistakes in the future."

Gu Daha felt that the money was too little, and said: "After all, it is a human life, how can it be just three or fifty taels, is it possible that the lord has not solved the case at all, and wants to send people with silver taels?"

Bai Catcher smiled and said: "If you talk nonsense again, don't even want three or fifty taels."

Gu Daha held back his words for the time being, obviously not as confident as before.

"Accordingly speaking, this money should not be given." Bai Butou glanced down the hall, and said again, "Gu Daha, you are honest, how did your wife die?"

Gu Daodao: "It is true that my wife died after taking his family's medicine."

Mr. Bai said: "What symptoms did your wife have when she died?"

Gu Daha said: "He vomited black blood from the mouth, he was still unable to breathe, and then he died."

Mr. Bai said: "So, your wife was not poisoned to death by this medicine."

Gu Daha hastily said: "But that dog is also dead, how can this be explained?"

"I've seen that dog too. It died of old age, and it wasn't because of the medicine."

"Nonsense...nonsense, could it be that you even cut open the dog's corpse?"

Bai Butou nodded slightly at him, and said: "If you guess correctly, your wife has already suffered from tuberculosis, even if you don't drink this medicine, you will die."

Gu Daha jumped up immediately, pointed at the noses of the two people in the hall and cursed: "Corrupt dog officials, you must have accepted bribes from the Tan family. I was not present when the autopsy was performed. These are all your one-sided words!"

Zhixian grinned slightly at him and said, "Then what do you mean..."

"I want their Tan family to kill and pay for their lives. Even if they don't pay for their lives, they should be punished severely anyway. We can't just let things go like this!" Gu Daha hurled insults in the courtroom like cursing, but he had a bit of courage.

The county magistrate smiled and said, "You have guts! But...he's a troublemaker."

Cold sweat broke out on Master Tan's forehead, and a stone fell from his heart.

The magistrate took out a command arrow from the case, threw it at Gu Daha's feet, and said with a smile: "Since he is a troublemaker who doesn't know what to do...then, hit me!" The magistrate disappeared from sleepiness.

The yamen servants on both sides immediately stepped forward and pushed Gu Daha to the ground, and lifted the paint stick with a thick wrist to caress Daha's buttocks.

"My lord, I don't care about your crime of desecrating the official authority by falsely reporting the case. I wanted to save my energy and not go into the matter. I asked the Tan family to give you silver taels, and that's it. Until you are convinced!"

Gu Daha was beaten until he screamed and yelled, and cursed: "Officer dog, I'm going to the capital to sue you, I'm going to sue you corrupt officials who don't care about human lives."

Gu Daha was beaten so much that he let out more air than he breathed in, so he was thrown into the street by the yamen servants.

The magistrate looked at Master Tan who was kneeling on the ground and said, "Master Tan is shocked, let's go back."

Master Tan wiped off his sweat, kowtowed and said, "Caomin, Xie County magistrate, for a clear investigation."

Wang Wenhan sent Master Tan out of the yamen, and before leaving, he said to Master Tan: "Gu Daha is a mediocre man, how dare he speak such wild words, and dare to write a false complaint to the yamen, I am afraid that he was instigated by others, and Master Tan You need to be more careful about going here.”

Master Tan thanked him, but didn't take this matter to heart.