lord and beauty

The author has something to say: Today is a little bit less!Tomorrow I will try to have more sizes.

At daybreak, a carriage drove from the back door of Jiang's mansion to the street. There were few people on the street, and occasionally there were lights in the windows of several houses.

Tan Qiu leaned sleepily on Jiang Beimu's shoulder, wearing a red cloak, a circle of white fox fur around his neck, black hair tied up in a bun, and a white jade hairpin pinned to his body. The carriage jolted and swayed back and forth. Jiang Beimu held a book in one hand and was concentrating on it. The other hand gently wrapped around Tan Qiu's waist to prevent him from falling.

The wheels ran over a stone, and the carriage trembled. Tan Qiu shook his body and scrambled to stabilize his figure. When he saw Jiang Beimu beside him, he calmed down a little, wrapped his arms around Jiang Beimu's arm and smashed it. Smacking his mouth, he mumbled, "What is the master looking at?"

Jiang Beimu put a volume of the book in his hand and put it beside the soft seat. Tan Qiu saw the word "Art of War" printed on the book in a daze, and asked curiously, "My master still reads the art of war?"

"Just take a look." Jiang Beimu reached out and lifted Tan Qiu's cloak up, "Are you sleepy? I told you not to follow."

Tan Qiu shook his head, "How could I not come at such a critical time, your friend...is he reliable?"

Jiang Beimu saw that Tan Qiuming was very sleepy but still insisted on discussing important matters with him. It was really interesting, the worries in his heart dissipated for some reason, and he joked with a smile: "The only thing I can guarantee is that he will not Accepting bribes, settling unjust cases, whatever the facts are, it should be."

Tan Qiu was a little nervous, "That is to say, won't you definitely win?"

"What are you afraid of? We haven't done anything, and they need proof for splashing dirty water." Jiang Beimu comforted Tan Qiu softly.

Only then did Tan Qiu feel a little relieved, but there was still a gloomy cloud between his brows.

As the sun pierced through the clouds and the golden glow spread across the earth, Jiang Beimu's carriage stopped at the gate of the official mansion.Tan Qiu jumped down first, and looked at the empty gate with a slight frown. The stone lions on both sides cast a soft golden glow under the sunlight. After glancing at the person who came, he stopped meddling and separated the two sides.

Tan Qiu looked away, Jiang Beimu gave a few simple instructions, and the coachman skillfully drove the carriage elsewhere.

"Master...why didn't you see those people?" Tan Qiu walked beside Jiang Beimu and asked in a low voice, and the two walked towards the gate of the mansion together.

The two entered the gate of the government office and stood in the atrium. There was no one in the inner mansion, and the magistrate did not know where it was.

Tan Qiu looked around, then obediently stood beside Jiang Beimu.The two of them didn't speak, they just stood quietly in the atrium, until the sun was bright, a few figures came sparsely from the gate of the government office, Tan Qiu looked, but they were not the ones who made trouble that day, they must have come to see the excitement, so they Stop meddling.

Gradually, the crowds outside grew more and more, and the yamen servants stopped them a little.

"Let's go, let's go in." Jiang Beimu only glanced back, then turned sideways and said something to Tan Qiu, and took the lead to walk towards the inner mansion.

The magistrate then came out from behind the screen, dressed in an indigo official uniform, about 40 years old, tall and slender, with a refined face, he did not look like a corrupt official. Tan Qiu knew that he should not judge people by their appearance, but this magistrate He seems to be a decent person.

Immediately behind the magistrate, another tall and burly man came out from behind the curtain. He was dressed in a green martial robe, with a gold-encrusted jade pendant tied around his waist. His hands were behind his back. His five fingers were thick and long. man of.

The man seemed to have a sense of it. He glanced at Jiang Beimu, and then looked away with his usual expression.

Jiang Beimu didn't say much, but Tan Qiu's heart was high, beating like a drum, and he didn't dare to relax.

Not long after, a few sharp shouts suddenly came from the bustling crowd outside the door, "Let's go, let's go."

Tan Qiu turned his head to look, and saw that the women who made trouble yesterday were pushing through the crowd and walking towards the mansion. The leading woman came in leading a young woman. It was a fierce stare, and Tan Qiu rolled his eyes.

"Who is in the hall?" the prefect asked after sitting down.

"Under Jiang Beimu, the owner of Xianshuilou shop, this is Tan Qiu, a member of my family." Jiang Beimu slightly cupped his hands and replied.

The magistrate nodded slightly, and looked at the woman on the other side.

The woman said: "Liu Cui, a civilian woman, this is my younger brother and sister." After that, the woman arched her hands to the woman standing beside her.

The woman's complexion is haggard, her appearance is pretty, and her plain clothes make her look even more pitiful, "Reporting to my lord, Liu Yun, the woman, came today to sue Xianshuilou for disregarding human life and deliberately selling the poisonous cakes, causing my husband to remain in a coma until now." Wake up, please be careful, my lord!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Yun bowed gracefully.

"Get up." The magistrate looked indifferent, and replied: "I have read your complaint, Jiang Beimu, I want to ask you, what Liu Yun said, I went to your Xianshui building to buy five taels of plum blossoms on the seventh day of the lunar new year. Cake, two taels of candied fruit, is this true?"

"Return to the adults, it is true."

Jiang Beimu replied with his usual expression.

"Liu Yun, what happened to your husband, did you eat anything other than this plum cake?" The man beside the magistrate suddenly asked.

"My husband was poisoned on the eighth day of the eighth day. He and his second brother went to the mountain to cut firewood. My second brother came back for lunch at noon. I saw that my husband hadn't returned for a long time, so I went to the mountain to look for him. That day he and I I said I wanted to cut some more and keep them for the fire at home, so I went back later, I went back to the house, ordered a bowl of noodles, and took the cakes I just bought to the mountain for my husband to eat. I never saw my husband come back, so I begged my second elder brother and second sister-in-law to go up the mountain together to look for them, and then..."

Liu Yun's voice was inevitably a little choked when she said that she was emotional, and the woman beside her hurried forward to pat her on the back, Liu Yun took a deep breath, and said with red eyes: "I found my husband on the hill at noon. Lying there motionless, with blue lips and unconscious, we hurriedly carried him down the mountain to find a doctor, who said that this is exactly the appearance of poisoning, and he was poisoned because of what he ate.”

"We went to Xianshui Tower to ask him for an explanation. Who would have thought that they would throw us out without any reason at all! We are really desperate, so we came to seek justice from you, my lord!" The woman on the side hurriedly answered. After talking, he cried and shouted.

"It's the first time I know that people bring hoes, shovels and other utensils to the door, and even use an ax to hack people's doors to explain." Tan Qiu sarcastically, Jiang Beimu just reprimanded: "Don't Nonsense."

"Is there such a thing?" The magistrate raised his eyelids slightly.

The woman's complexion changed slightly, she squeezed two tears, and said sadly: "My lord, we really can't do anything, the Xianshui building is closed, we can't find anyone, our third child is still lying there, we still need more Hanging with ginseng!"

"According to the law of our court, those who provoke troubles must be fined and imprisoned for seven days. Since you have submitted the complaint and the government office has accepted the lawsuit, then you only need to wait for the government office to open the court." The man lowered his eyes, took the tea handed over by someone beside him, took a sip, and said calmly.

As soon as the words came out, the woman was at a loss for words, the prefect coughed and said: "This matter can be discussed again, first investigate the case of this family's Saburo."

The man's face was as usual, and there was no danger.

Tan Qiu was a little curious when he saw this situation. Why does the magistrate seem to give way to the people in the city lord's mansion? People have to look at the thin side.

Tan Qiu secretly pulled Jiang Beimu's sleeve, and Jiang Beimu held Tan Qiu's troublesome little hand in the palm of his backhand, squeezed it, and then released it, signaling him not to mess around.

Tan Qiu glanced around with a blushing face, only to hear the magistrate ask, "Jiang Beimu, do you have something to say?"