Hypocrites

It was raining again outside, and the wind was blowing, which made the pedestrian's cheeks stiff.After a while, there was a thunderstorm, which made half of the city tremble.Shen Yu walked through the corridor and went into the house, his whole body was already wet by the slanting rain, he took off his outer shirt to shake off the rainwater.Suddenly, a group of people rushed past and went to the front hall.

Shen Yu poked his head out: "Hello?!"

It was the backs of his classmates, Yan Ran, Chen Hui and others, in a hurry, not knowing why they were in such a hurry.

It was daytime, but the sky was as black as splashed ink.Shen Yu changed into dry clothes and followed.

Everyone in the hall was already chattering——

"He has no conscience! He should be punished with the death penalty!"

Shen Yu was taken aback, Shen Jin took the main seat in the hall, a flash of lightning flashed, everyone's face was pale.

Shen Jin made a gesture to signal everyone to calm down, it was too noisy and he couldn't figure out what was going on.Everyone quieted down, Chen Hui said: "Everyone in the city has seen it. The horse entered Shan Guangyi's mansion all the way. The horse's hooves were soaked in blood. If it wasn't for the rain, you would have seen a bloody road by yourself!"

"What's the matter?" Shen Yu asked Yan Ran, Yan Ran was panting, she didn't know if she ran in a hurry, or what, her eyes were red.

Chen Hui shouted, "Shan Guangyi killed someone!"

"Who did you kill?"

Shen Jin knocked on the table: "Don't speculate." The lightness was overwhelmed by the rolling thunder.

"Miss Yingying." Chen Hui said, looking at Shen Yu, his face was drenched from the heavy rain.

The rainy season is cloudy, and the main punishment is to kill.Dark clouds overwhelmed the city, ready to destroy it, and the people in the city bowed their heads and walked under the heavy cloud, with a tacit expression on everyone's face.

The family where the daughter died, the pungent mother parked the coffin outside the gate of the single mansion. She wanted to invite people to sing mourning, but as expected, no one dared to offend the officials and family members. , want Shan Guangyi to pay for his life.

Having lived most of my life to raise such a daughter, I have reached this point, even if my enemy is the king of heaven, I have nothing to fear.

Some people advised her to spare her life, while others waited to watch the excitement.Two days later, the people in Shanfu heard their ears callused and came out to send her away—the master was hunting in the countryside and accidentally injured a pedestrian, and he was willing to pay three hundred gold in compensation.

Three hundred gold is 30 yuan, which is worth three thousand stones if exchanged for grain.It is several times more than the naco received by a married woman.

The fishmonger's wife cried and shouted: "Human life is so cheap, you can take it if you want! My daughter is my heart, and if I want to buy her life, I will exchange it with your master's head!"

Sure enough, he was beaten by a servant.

On the same day that the fishmonger's wife was crying at Shan's house, Zhou Yu came to Shen Yu's house to cry.

In just two days, he became thin as a skeleton, with unkempt hair and unkempt face, holding Shen Jin's thigh and crying: "Teacher! You must uphold justice! You must not let the murderer go!"

"Get up quickly," Shen Jin felt distressed and helpless, "What does it look like?"

"Students are not promising, let the teacher down, I just hope the teacher can enforce the law impartially!"

Shen Jin became serious: "Zhou Yu, since you mentioned the friendship between teachers and students, do you want me to enforce the law impartially, or do you want me to disregard the facts and punish Shan Guangyi severely to vent your anger for you?"

Zhou Yu only cared about crying.Shen Yu sighed inwardly, and entered together with Song Jun.

"How is it?" Shen Jin asked.

Song Jun replied: "The people in the state prison checked the whereabouts in the suburbs that day. There was indeed dried blood in the forest and arrow marks on the tree trunk. It should be roughly consistent with what Shan Guangyi said. It was when they were hunting in the forest. as prey."

Zhou Yu: "He lied! How can it be impossible to distinguish between a man and a prey! It must be done on purpose!"

Song Jun added: "But I asked the hunters living in the suburbs. Because the forest at the foot of the mountain is close to the official road, there are no large prey at all, and no one will go there to hunt. I think it should not be misunderstood."

Shen Yu also said: "The guards on duty at the gate of the city saw Shan Guangyi go out of the city empty-handed in the morning, and when he came back, his horse carried a blood-stained bag on his back. The whole group was talking and laughing, and the guards thought they had returned from hunting with a full load. If they were accidentally injured, Where can I laugh?"

Zhou Yu yelled in pain, Shen Yu was worried that he would faint, so he raised him up.Shen's mother looked pitiful, and asked her son to take him to the house to rest for a while, before leaving, Shen Yu took a look at his father.To be honest, Shen Jin couldn't see the slightest bit on his face, only his eyes showed thoughtfulness.

Anyone who studied in the academy and was familiar with Shen Jin's conduct, no one would question his attitude.Zhou Yu only came to cry once, rather than imploring Shen Jin to enforce the law impartially, it would be better to say that he came here to confide in his bitterness to the teacher.Yan Ran was not worried, and neither was Chen Hui.

Needless to say, Lian Fan, he thinks that he and his teacher are both straightforward: "Killing for life is justified."

Shan Guangyi was imprisoned soon, which was expected by the students, but beyond the expectation of the people of Ruyang.Shan Guangyi was compared to Lu Jiapeng, the former prefect, as a traitor. Before that, he was afraid to speak out because of the road.

The students talked about this matter, Lian Fan said: "There is nothing to say, just deal with it according to the law. It's just that the girl is poor, people can't be resurrected after death."

For several days in a row, Zhou Yu's three souls went to seven souls, he either went crazy and shouted, or just sat in a daze.Chen Hui took the trouble to talk with him, only to find out that on the day of the agreed elopement, Zhou Yu had arrived at the outskirts of the city early, and had waited for a long time for no one to come, thinking that Yingying had tricked him into marrying another family, so he was disheartened and thought of sending her off no matter what. After getting married, he returned to Anjingfang.Unexpectedly, when I came back, I saw people from the other side of the underworld.

I think Yingying ran into Shan Guangyi and his party in the countryside on the way to the appointment.It was dawn, and the woman with no power to restrain the chicken was walking alone, and was frivolously molested, but could not resist. God saw that she was pitiful, and took her away.

Yan Ran said sadly: "I heard that the fishmonger went to Yu Ge'er's house, and thanked him a thousand times, saying that he avenged his daughter. Yu Ge'er, what do you say?"

Shen Yu was very serious: "Going to prison is one thing, but it's not that simple to deal with it."

When looking at the capital city, Shen Yu also caught the Niu and Qiu family's handles, but because he had no power in his hands, he had to leave it to others to deal with. Fortunately, Shen Jin is a county magistrate, who can make the decision to lock people up.It's just that it's useless to be imprisoned. Referring to Qiu Qianli's fate, the court laws often fail to be effective, and the prisoners are allowed to go unpunished, or they are dealt with by others for other purposes.

Only by being punished according to the law can the crime be rewarded.

Compared with Niu Lu and Qiu Qianli in Wangcheng, Shan Guangyi committed evil without any cover.After all, Wangdu City is at the foot of the emperor, and Ruyang County is far away from the emperor. It is hard to imagine what kind of power the Shan family has.

It was the beginning of spring when Shan Guangyi was imprisoned, and he was imprisoned for a period of time, but he kept his own law and did not move.Everyone discussed in private, guessing that there was a fatal incident, and Shan Guangyi also knew that it would not end well, and wanted to cooperate with the sheriff to make a show to deal with it, but unexpectedly he couldn't step down now.Not surprisingly, I'm afraid he also became anxious and was trying to get out now.

On this day, Song Jun rushed to the academy and looked for Shen Yu: "Hou Liwu has gone to the government office!"

Marquis of Wanhu in Liwu County, Ruyang County, Shan Guan, Shan Guangyi's famous uncle, finally appeared.

Shen Yu and Song Jun hurried to the Sheriff's Mansion.On the way, Shen Yu imagined what kind of person Shan Guan is.

Shanguan used to be with Emperor Huan. After Emperor Wenshen came to power, he quickly returned to his hometown in fine clothes and spent his later years in Liwu County.There are not many legends about him, at least compared with his notorious nephew, it really pales in comparison.

However, Shen Yu knew it was not that simple.The three most important servants around Emperor Wenshen - Qiu Zhiyuan, Niu Shida and Tong Fang, were all single-handedly promoted by him.Emperor Wenshen was young when he took over the throne, Han Wei and his son Han Ying were in power in the outer dynasty, and there was a Queen Mother Han in the palace. There was no one who was familiar with intrigue and cunning behind the scenes to guide him. It might not be so easy for Emperor Wenshen himself Bring down the Han family.The single official must have contributed the most, otherwise why would he be granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households?

These are still secondary, lingering in Shen Yu's heart, lingering like a ghost, is the nursery rhyme I heard in Wangducheng——

There are often rewards in Liuyili.Four-legged animal, standing tall.

There are no thousands of households in the two letters, so pick one ghost out of ten to join.

It wasn't just three ghosts that shrouded the dynasty, there was also an old ghost hiding behind the scenes.

The people in the government office are very familiar with Song Zhuji and the county guard, so they let them go without hindrance.Sure enough, there was an unusual atmosphere in the mansion. There was a caravan parked outside the gate, and the brocade Wenqi's car curtain, carved with gold and lacquered silver, was very luxurious.The attendants, tall or short, were all slender teenagers with fair and handsome faces without exception.

Others may not be able to see it, but Shen Yu only needs to take a look at it, and he will know it clearly—these are all little eunuchs.The body shape and appearance are no different from those who surrounded Liang Heng all day long in the Chu Palace.

There were voices in the hall.

Song Jun booed Shen Yu and told him to go around to the back wall and window.The location of this place is excellent, it is right behind the main guest bed, the conversation can be heard clearly without being discovered.

A voice came from Shen Jin: "Your Majesty is here, I am far away to welcome you."

The other voice was old and difficult, as if the trachea was clogged with phlegm: "You are welcome, Mr. Shen, this Marquis is getting older, and it is getting harder and harder to travel far, so I didn't want to make a fuss at all. It will be a day without someone to serve you. Neither."

"Beside Lord Hou, the drivers and accompanying people have completely occupied the avenue in front of my small government house. How can it be said that there is a shortage of people to serve?"

Shan Guan chuckled twice: "How can others be more considerate than my own family when serving others? Master Shen, I heard that my nephew accidentally injured a commoner and was imprisoned by you. What a great official authority. Mr. Shen, you were born in a scholarly family, so I don't think you need me to remind you that according to the court's laws, accidental injury is not punishable by punishment."

"Master Hou doesn't know something," Shen Jin said, "Shan Guangyi's so-called hunting forest is on the side of the official road, and there are always only pedestrians and no wild animals. When the official road shoots arrows, are they hunting birds and beasts, or ordinary people?"

No one spoke for a while.

Song Jun and Shen Yumao looked at each other under the window, and secretly applauded Shen Jin.

"Master Shen, you must talk about evidence."

"Witnesses and evidence will naturally be presented in court during the trial."

After a while, Shan Guan coughed for a while, and he really sounded very old.

"When you are over seventy years old, life is getting worse day by day. You can't do it here, and you can't do it there." Shan Guan seemed not to want to argue with Shen Jin anymore, "Master Shen, listen to my old man's words, to take care of your body, you have to take advantage of it Young and strong. Flowers watered every day can compete for a hundred days, and withered flowers, no matter how much fertilizer is applied, there is no vitality at all."

Shen Jin didn't understand what he meant, so she replied, "That's right."

"Whether it's me or the emperor, they are all suffering from illness."

The two were silent for a moment, and Shen Yu could imagine the scene of a marquis and an official bowing to the north in the house.

"In recent days, I have found a good prescription, which is of great benefit to maintaining my health. I sent the prescription to the north. Master Shen, if you don't dislike it, I will also copy you a copy, so as to maintain your health."

Shen Jin could only say: "Thank you, Lord Hou."

"Since that's the case, I won't bother you any more. I've been out for a long time and my spirits are weak, so I bid farewell."

The two boys under the window looked at each other.Shan Guan came and went in a hurry.Although there was an aggressive questioning, after being blocked by Shen Jin, she never made things difficult.It is handled with care, making people unpredictable.

Is it because Shan Guan has reached the age when he is half buried in the loess, he is powerless in many things, and he has other plans?

The two hadn't communicated with each other before, Shan Guan was sent away, and Shen Jin who walked around to the back wall grabbed his ears.

"I knew it was you two as soon as I guessed it. Are you very elegant in eavesdropping?"

Song Jun was busy begging for mercy.

"Take your junior to be a gentleman in the corner, Pingyun, have you been free recently?"

Song Jun was accused and walked away in despair.

There are two father and son left.

Shen Yu thought more, he didn't dare to underestimate Shan Guan at all, he chewed over and over again what he said before leaving, he found a taste, and said to his father: "Shan Guan assisting His Majesty in expulsing his relatives is not only a credit, but also a kindness. He Said to send a good prescription to the north to cure the disease, doesn't it mean to seek favor with the emperor. He wants His Majesty to come forward and pardon Shan Guangyi?"

Shen Jin folded his hands and said nothing, Shen Yu looked at his father, wondering what he was thinking.After a long time, Shen Jin seemed to have just recovered, but said: "Son, I almost forgot, isn't it Old Man Dong's birthday in a few days? You send me a gift, don't alienate people."