"What? Lu Dazhu was kidnapped?"

Magistrate Zheng had just arrived at the county office, and when he led his staff to go to work, a jailer ran in in a panic and reported the report. Magistrate Zheng was frightened when he heard this, and before he could sit down in the seat behind the regular desk,

As if he had been cramped, he sat down on the floor of the main hall.

"You don't have to be nervous." Seeing the county magistrate slumped on the ground, his body shaking constantly, the county captain hurriedly comforted him: "Lu Dazhu was taken out of the capital prison by Yao Dushi and put into our county jail without permission.

The responsibility is not on us."

"But this cell is a place for prisoners under my jurisdiction. Once something happens, no matter who sent it to the prison, the superiors will ask me." The dignified county magistrate was so frightened that he didn't even care about his face.

He burst into tears and burst into tears.

Because Yao Mingyang lived in the Chunlai Inn in front of the county government office, as soon as something happened in the cell, he was notified by the county magistrate immediately. He hurriedly led two of his men into the main hall of the county government office and asked the county magistrate about the reason for the incident.

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"Lu Dushi and I have long advised you not to take Lu Dazhu out and imprison him in our county cell, but you didn't listen. It's fine now. What should I do if the death row prisoner escapes?" At this time, Zheng County Jin was helped by his subordinates.

He sat down on the trial chair in the main hall, although he was still shaking like a lazy dog ​​with cramps, but after being comforted by his subordinates, he slowly returned to the majestic and upright posture that a county magistrate should have in the past.

appearance.

"I proposed to imprison him here. If anything happens, I will take the responsibility. There is no need for you to be so nervous." Yao Mingyang looked down on the timid and fearful Song Bao in front of him.

"You, you." Magistrate Zheng pointed at Yao Mingyang's nose incoherently and cursed: "You are such a broom star, you have caused me so much pain." The magistrate couldn't bear the fright and could no longer care about what was happening in front of him.

He is a seventh-grade official. Although he is at the same level as himself, he is an official from the Criminal Department of the capital, and his prestige is much higher than his.

"I said, you don't need to be nervous. I will take care of this myself." Yao Mingyang seemed to be fearless on the surface. But he also squeezed out something that the county magistrate did not want to hear: "It's just my fault."

The cells in your county government office are made of paper, so I can only consider myself unlucky."

"It's not that there's a problem with our cells, it's that the person you mentioned is a death row inmate, and most of them are incarcerated in exclusive cells under the direct control of the imperial court in places such as Jingshi Prison or Hebei Province. But you took out a death row inmate without authorization and

Put him in a small jail in the county and let him escape." Magistrate Zheng argued with him angrily: "You want me to back you up? There is no way."

The quarrel was a quarrel, and the death row prisoner escaped. This was not a joke between the two of them. Therefore, the two slaves complained to each other, and after scolding each other for a while, they began to ask each other in a discussion tone what to do?

"What should we do? Just report it." Yao Mingyang said without thinking.

"No." Zheng Mingjie shook his head like a rattle: "As soon as this matter is reported, the superiors will immediately remove me from my job as county magistrate, and my life's hard work will be over."

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"Purchase Lu Dazhu as soon as possible. As long as we catch him, you and I will be fine."

"How to arrest?" Yao Mingyang glared at Magistrate Zheng: "You are not working in the Ministry of Punishment, so of course you don't know that the case of a death row prisoner being robbed by his accomplice is very difficult to solve. Now we don't even know where Lu Dazhu is. Catch him? There is no hope.

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"Alas." County Magistrate Zheng sighed: "It's all my fault. I should have listened to Mr. Cui and not reported the matter for the time being. But I didn't listen to him and secretly disclosed the matter to the Taoist Sima.

Cong. It's good now. If I make such a fuss, the Criminal Department will find out about it and send you freeloaders to investigate any case. They will only stir up trouble."

"What did you say?" Yao Ming got angry: "You scolded us for not being able to do things? This is all caused by your own lax management and poor prison cell."

"Don't argue." At this moment, Lu Hechang, who had come from the outskirts of the county after hearing the news, hurried into the main hall and shouted to the two people who were arguing: "Find a way to catch the fugitive as soon as possible."

"Now we don't even know where Lu Dazhu is running. Where can we catch him?" Yao Mingyang bumped into Lu Hechang angrily.

"I told you a long time ago, but you didn't listen. Do you understand now?" Lu Hechang was furious when Yao Mingyang bumped into him.

"Since you two have nothing to do, then you don't have to worry about this matter." Zheng Mingjie was so angry that he was shaking all over: "I have no choice but to ask Cui Gong to find a way for me." After that, he pointed at the two people in front of him.

The capital official issued an eviction order without any courtesy: "Get out of here!"

"What qualifications do you, a small county magistrate, have to expel officials sent by the Ministry of Justice to handle matters?" Yao Mingyang glared at Zheng Mingjie: "I order you to immediately investigate your jailers. They are the most suspect."

"Pull him down." Zheng Mingjie curled his lips disdainfully: "I won't bother you to worry about this."

"County Magistrate Zheng," Lu Hechang glared at Yao Mingyang, smiled apologetically at Zheng Mingjie in a gentle tone, and said, "We can handle this matter privately, don't tell Mr. Cui. Okay?"

"Handle it privately?" Zheng Mingjie glared at Lu Hechang rudely: "You and I don't know where to start? Can we handle this kind of problem privately?"

"Didn't Yao Du say just now? Let's start the investigation from the guards in your cell. Ask them about what happened last night."

"Okay." The county magistrate immediately turned around and said to the county captain standing aside: "Call the jailers in batches for questioning."

Because Wucheng is a small county, there are no full-time criminal case officers under the county captain. The cases are handled personally and through the help of bad people, elders, village chiefs, village chiefs, security chiefs, and neighborhood chiefs. In the main hall.

Here, he is just a small pawn. When the county magistrate and the people sent from above are present, he is not qualified to sit down. Anyway, the small county magistrate goes to investigate and handle various cases, so he takes the yamen to handle them. The jailer also

Considered a yamen servant.

Unexpectedly, it doesn't matter if you don't ask, but it doesn't matter if you ask, but it leads to another shocking case.

What case?

When several jailers recalled what happened yesterday, they mentioned that a man in red clothes led the cell leader into the prison area to inspect the cells under the guise of a private visit incognito.

When Lu Hechang and Liu Mingyang heard this, they beamed with joy: "Magistrate Zheng, it's okay."

"What's going on?" Zheng Taozi didn't know what was going on. After hearing what Lu Hechang and Yao Mingyang said, he felt like he was in a cloud and was completely confused.

"The person in Zhu Yi can only be Cui Jianfeng or his subordinates." After saying that, he asked the jailers present that night to mark the document recorded by the chief bookkeeper (the master in charge of punishment names).

"So, the person who robbed the prison was Cui Gong's people?" Magistrate Zheng was deeply surprised.

"Nine times out of ten, that's the case." Yao Mingyang was extremely happy. He hurriedly whispered to Lu Hechang for a while and then immediately wrote an urgent letter and sent it to the Minister of Punishment.

"Lao Di Guolao's trick is finally exposed." The Minister of Punishment read Lu Hechang's letter several times as if he had found a treasure. While reading the letter, he sipped the wine and felt very comfortable.

He understood that this was exactly the incriminating evidence that Lai Junchen wanted to get. It was good now that the two men got it and delivered it soon. Why wouldn't you be happy about such a great good thing?

Of course, he was even more happy when the cruel official Lai Junchen received the letter from Lu Hechang forwarded to him by the Minister of Punishment. He was so happy that he couldn't sleep and called his brother-in-law to drink and have fun with him all night long.

The brother-in-law and his brother-in-law were drinking and having fun, talking about Lu Hechang going to Wucheng County to handle the case and discovering that Di Renjie's men had robbed the prison and released the prisoners on death row.

"I was originally asked by the Minister of Punishment to handle this matter." Shang Jiuqing sounded a little regretful: "I didn't expect that all the good things would go to Lu Hechang."

"You don't want to go yourself, so why don't you ask me to help you tell the Minister of Justice that you don't want to go?" Lai Junchen asked puzzledly.

"That's because Lu Hechang wanted me to try corn, wild vegetable steamed buns and rotten cabbage soup. I didn't want to go, so I didn't want to go."

"Why did he ask you to taste corn, wild vegetables, and rotten cabbage soup?" Lai Junchen asked in surprise.
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