Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 106 Watching Gao County Magistrate's Case
Fan Ning lit a long-lasting incense outside the window sill. At one o'clock, Su Liang and Duan Yu had already fallen asleep, and the sound of even breathing could be heard from their bed.

Although Fan Ning was very tired, he still endured his sleepiness and patiently waited for the news.

At this time, there was a slight movement on the window sill, and someone gave a low 'chi', Fanning immediately got up, took out a long strip of paper from the drawer, and handed it out through the window.

The person outside the window took the note and quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Fanning's heart fell to the ground, and he lay back on the bed. Not long after, he also quietly fell asleep.

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It was past one o'clock, but Zhang Yi, the chief professor of Gufeng Academy, couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He had never been so excited like today.

Everything was as he expected, and Fan Ning brought a large number of freshmen to Qinxue Building to protest and demonstrate.

Article [-] of the school regulations is very clear. Those who gather crowds to make trouble or demonstrate without the consent of the county school will be persuaded and warned for the first time, and the organizers and main participants will be expelled for the second time.

Zhang Yi is looking forward to Fan Ning leading the freshmen to protest for the second time tomorrow. It will depend on how Zhao Xiuwen handles it then?

Zhang Yinian is nearly 30 years old, and has been a professor in the county school for almost [-] years. Eight years ago, with the support of Yang Han, who had just been promoted to the county magistrate, he became an associate professor and the chief professor of Gufeng Academy.

Since then, the money has been rolling in. Every year, he only uses the number of auditors to collect thousands of dollars. At the same time, there are more than 100 bastard students in Gufeng Academy, which also allows him to collect more than [-] dollars a year.

Not to mention that, there is also the filial piety of his disciples during the festivals, which also makes him earn a lot of money.

The other three chief professors have only twenty disciples, all of whom are the best students, while his disciples have as many as a hundred, basically all of them are from rich families. disciple.

Of course, Zhang Yi also has his own advantages. He has an elder brother who works as an instructor in the government school, and he will participate in the Pingjiang government to solve the questions every time.

As a result, Zhang Yi would get some hints, so that he could bet on one or two questions in each imperial examination, so he became famous, and the students who turned to him every year naturally flocked to him, making him a lot of money.

Especially on the eve of the imperial examination, if you don't take out fifty guan tribute money, you can't even think about taking his two most important secret lessons.

Zhang Yi loves money like his life, especially gold, even more important than his parents.

He was reluctant to eat and wear, and lived frugally. He was very stingy with every penny. He exchanged all the money he collected into gold and kept it secretly.

Over the past eight years, he has saved 3000 taels of gold, which weighs a full two hundred catties, and put them in a tin box.

After closing the doors and windows, Zhang Yi took out a bunch of keys from his waist, opened more than a dozen large iron locks in a row, and pushed open a small door.

Inside is a very small room, only about three or four square meters. There is a large wooden box wrapped in iron, and there is also a heavy big lock on it.

He opened the big lock, and slowly pushed up the lid of the box, suddenly a flash of golden light rushed towards his face, and the gold ingots shone with a charming luster.

Greed and fascination flashed in Zhang Yi's eyes, and he couldn't help but 'Gah!Ga! ' laughed.

He suddenly remembered something, his smile slowly disappeared, and his face turned livid.

He' bang! 'Closing the lid of the box with a bang, he gritted his teeth and said, "Cutting people's money is like killing their parents, Zhao Xiuwen, let me see how you escaped this disaster!"

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After Lu Youwei bandaged the wound, his elder brother sent him home to rest for two days.

The students resumed their normal work and rest. At noon the next day, Fan Ning, Su Liang, and Duan Yu came to the Wuxian county government office to observe the county magistrate's trial.

The people living in the city in the Song Dynasty were famous for being litigious. Zhang San stole the sesame seeds that Li Si was drying, and the shoes Li Si wore were a bit like Zhang San’s lost last year.

As for various contract disputes and various sales disputes, there are endless streams of disputes, so it also supports a large number of dentists and litigators who rely on litigation for a living.

It is also very convenient for common people to file a lawsuit, and the fees are also cheap. Find a dentist, tell your dissatisfaction in your heart, spend more than a hundred dollars, and then forget about it.

The rest of the work will be done for you. He will ask a lawyer to write a complaint, and then come to ask for your opinion.

The dentist went to a lawyer to file a complaint, and then waited for the trial.

Complaints are usually handed over to the prefect, and after the prefect is sorted out, they are handed over to the county magistrate. If the county magistrate really can't take care of many lawsuits between neighbors, they will also be handed over to the prefect for mediation.

Some slightly important cases are heard by the county magistrate, but even so, the county magistrate is too busy dealing with various cases every day, so busy that he has no time to go to the bathroom.

Fortunately, there are not many criminal cases heard by county magistrates, and crimes below the rod punishment are tried by the county magistrate, and crimes above imprisonment are judged by the magistrate, and then the criminal officers from all walks of life will conduct inspections and supervision.

The three of Fan Ning had just arrived at the county government office. In front of the county government hall, there were crowds of idlers on the third floor and the third floor outside. It might be difficult to get in and find a suitable seat.

At this time, Fan Ning suddenly heard someone calling him, "Fan Shaolang!"

When Fan Ning turned his head, he saw a burly man standing behind him.

"Lu Dutou!"

Fan Ning was surprised that the person behind him was Dutou Lu Yougen. Didn't he go to Jiangning County with Li Yun?Why are you still in Wu County?

Lu Yougen looked a little embarrassed, and said with a wry smile, "I'm now the deputy head of the capital, in charge of archers."

The shooter is the fast catcher. If Dutou is the chief of the public security bureau, then Lu Yougen is now downgraded to the captain of the criminal investigation team.

There are a total of three deputy chiefs in the county office, one in charge of archers, one in charge of hand strength, that is, ordinary government servants, and one in charge of Jiezi and foot strength, who is in charge of delivering letters.

"Then who is the boss now?" Fanning asked again with a smile.

Lu Yougen shook his head, "It hasn't been decided yet."

Seeing no one around, he whispered to Fan Ning, "The county magistrate and county lieutenant are wrestling their arms!"

Fan Ning nodded, and said with a smile to Lu Yougen: "These two are my classmates, we are studying the law these days, so we want to practice it, and watch Gao County Magistrate judge the case, I wonder if it is convenient for Lu Dutou to arrange it! "

Lu Yougen knew Fan Ning's background very well, which was the most important thing for Zhu Daguan, and the county magistrate Gao was a student of the Zhu family. With this relationship, I believe Gao County magistrate would be happy to receive Fan Ning.

"Fan Shaolang wait, I'll report to you."

"Everyone let it go!"

Lu Yougen pushed away the idlers and squeezed in, Fan Ning winked at Su Liang and Duan Yu, and the three of them followed suit.

Today's trial is not in the lobby, but in the yard next to the lobby. Two litigators are fighting fiercely, while the two plaintiffs and defendants are standing leisurely aside, as if they are also watching the fun.

The plaintiff didn't take the lawsuit seriously, and the defendant didn't take it seriously. After the trial, the two went home and went about their own business.

The Song Dynasty was probably the dynasty with the least official authority in all dynasties, especially the county government, which was open and close to the people. During the whole trial, except for the county magistrate Gao Fei who sat in the pavilion, everyone else stood.

The plaintiff and the defendant did not kneel down, but stood at each other's sides, and the plaintiff took a sip of the tea offered by the dentist from time to time.

At this time, Lu Yougen whispered a few words to the officer next to him, the officer nodded, and then reported to the county magistrate Gao Fei in a low voice.

Gao Fei also saw Fan Ning and his two classmates, smiled, and asked the secretary to arrange for them to sit and listen.

Lu Yougen brought three chairs and said with a smile: "Three little officials, please sit down, I have something to do, I'm going out first."

"Lu Dutou is free!"

Fan Ning sat down with Su Liang and Duan Yu, and soon, the two men brought them tea.

Su Liang was surprised, and asked in a low voice, "Fan Ning, do you know the new county magistrate?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly: "We had dinner together a few days ago, we just knew each other."

The two didn't ask any more questions, and watched the county magistrate's trial together.

The case is very simple. The plaintiff and the defendant are neighbors. After the Chinese New Year, the plaintiff marinated the leftover meat and fresh fish into bacon and dried fish on the roof. However, they were all missing two days ago.

The plaintiff believes that apart from the fact that the defendant’s house can be easily stolen, other things are impossible. If the thief can get on the roof, he will not only steal salted meat and salted fish.

Fanning and the three listened with great interest, but Gao Fei, the county magistrate, yawned and had to cheer up to try the case.

"Stop arguing, you two litigators. The quarrel is three bowls of tofu, three bowls of tofu. It's very boring. Let the plaintiff and the defendant come up, and I will ask them a few words."

The defendant’s surname was Li, and his family made tofu. Gao Fei asked him, “The secretary has visited your house. You can open the skylight and go directly to the roof. Meat, what do you say?"

The defendant had a male duck voice, he put his left hand on his hip, waved his right hand, and said in a unique and high-pitched voice: "This is not right, which house in Pingjiang Mansion doesn't pickle some bacon for Chinese New Year, of course I pickle the bacon in my house, Besides, it’s not just my house that can get on the roof, there are so many wild cats around, why didn’t the county magistrate interrogate them?”

Gao Fei nodded, and then asked the plaintiff, "The defendant thinks that the wild cats around stole your salted meat and salted fish, what do you say?"

The plaintiff's surname is Zhang, in his twenties, he is a handsome scholar. His family has a hundred acres of fertile land outside the city, and he lives by collecting rent.

The plaintiff raised his eyebrows and said angrily: "The student knew that the cat stole it, and it was his yellow cat who stole it. That area is his yellow cat's territory, and other cats dare not approach.

These days, his yellow cat howled outside the window every night, seriously affecting the students' homework, so the county king asked the county king to arrest the yellow cat for theft.

In addition, their husband and wife always grind tofu in the middle of the night, which also greatly affects the students' studies. The students unfortunately failed the rankings last autumn, and they don't want to fail the rankings next time. "

The common people who were watching the fun outside burst into laughter, and Fan Ning and the three of them also laughed up and down.

Duan Yu covered her mouth and smiled, "This plaintiff is very interesting. He actually didn't sue his neighbor for stealing meat. He thought the neighbor was too noisy, and even the neighbor's cat hated him."

Fan Ning said with a smile: "This is called phishing law enforcement. If you don't release a few fish, how can the yellow cat commit a crime?"

Su Liang gave a thumbs up, "Gao Ming is still a great scholar!"

Gao Fei couldn't help laughing, nodded and said to the defendant: "Scholars study day and night, it's really hard work, I order you to keep the cat in a cage at night, and don't allow it to howl. If the plaintiff comes to file a complaint again, I will send someone to arrest you." cat."

The defendant was full of frustration, so he had no choice but to bow and say: "The villain obeys!"

Gao Fei said to the plaintiff again: "Although you study hard, they also work hard to make tofu. It's normal to grind tofu in the middle of the night. I asked them to keep their voices as low as possible. You have to be considerate of them. In addition, you should go to bed early at night, turn the day and night upside down, and take the exam later. what to do?"

"Students remember!"

Gao Fei said again: "As for the disappearance of salted meat and salted fish, the evidence to sue the neighbors is insufficient, and the basis for filing the case is not sufficient. The county will not accept it, and the case will be closed!"

"Retire first, rest for half an hour!"

Gao Fei then ordered someone to invite Fan Ning and the three of them to the back hall to talk.

(End of this chapter)