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The roads in Shanghai County are paved with bluestone, but they are not the kind of bluestone slabs commonly used in water towns. Instead, they are made of three inches square and more than one foot long stone piles, densely wedged on the ground and combined into flat roads. You can imagine how much work it takes. But the main roads in the entire Shanghai city are paved in this way. After seeing this kind of road, Shi Zhong and others were very confused. They thought that this method was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and they were not as beautiful as the road paved with bluestone slabs. I really don’t know why it took this effort.

But the silence was against the opposition and insisted on using this method to pave all the main roads in Shanghai City, and it was extremely wide. The main roads could be paralleled by six carriages and four carriages in the branch roads. For this reason, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were spent. Until this year, some branches were not completed. Not only that, he also ordered the construction of underground drainage channels that matched the streets and houses. Before all the buildings in Shanghai City appeared, a dense drainage network had been built, and the cost was unknown.

But when the new city was opened, everyone immediately realized the great benefits. Walk the road surface first. The original bluestone road was easily crushed by passing carriages, and even the stone slabs were crushed. As a result, the pit was filled with water and soil. As a result, the carriage was dusty when passing by sunny days, and the carriage splashed everywhere when passing by rainy days. Sometimes the carriage was trapped in the pit, causing traffic congestion. However, the road surface of the Shanghai city did not accumulate water when it rained, and no matter how heavy the carriage was, it would come back safely." The silence was followed.

At this time, the yamen runner who was going to detain people was carrying a cloth bag, pointing at a man dressed in a blue nose and swollen face, and reported: "Grandmaster, this is the young boatman who went to detain him, and saw him in a hurry to hide the bag; the brothers had the wise leader of the great master, and their eyes were like lightning, and they could not let him succeed. They threw him to the ground and the stolen people were captured!"

"Oh?" County Magistrate Chen ordered the officer to take the bag in front of him, looked at it silently for a moment, then reached out and scratched his back, and asked the owner lazy, "Is this your bag?"

"Yes, it's the villain's burden." The owner said excitedly: "Thank you for your help!"

"Is this really your burden?" County Magistrate Chen seemed to be distrusted and asked with a slanted look on his face: "What's in front of him?"

"There are five or eight gaps in it" was replaced by the villain before, and the rest were some scattered silver, which was not enough to be replaced."

County Magistrate Chen opened the bag and saw that there were indeed eight silver disciples inside, some broken silver, which was exactly the same as the man said. The onlookers said, "It seems that it is indeed his silver."

After hearing the discussions of everyone, the boatman shouted anxiously: "Sir, it's unfair. This is the money saved by the villain's hard work in selling fish ferry. Because he counts it every night to fall asleep. The villain has the problem of talking to himself, so he must have eavesdropped!"

When the Magistrate Chen heard this, he looked moved and said to the boatman: "Don't talk for now." Then he looked at the plaintiff and said: "Look at this bag again, is it really yours?" He said with a solemn expression: "In this word, falsely accusing others and seeking property, but he will be punished twice as much!"

The man was scared by him and couldn't help but shiver, but he insisted that it was his own.

"Look at it again." County Magistrate Chen said with a cheek, "Is this burden really yours? There is no chance to repent again

"It's really mine." The man's voice became more and more popular, but at this time, the simple-minded boatman was angry by him and pointed at him and said loudly: "You are lying, this bag is the material of a canvas, it is not cut or cut, and it can still be opposite to my sail." As soon as this was said, the plaintiff immediately understood why the county master always asked if the bag was his, and he quickly changed his words: "What I said is that the thing in the bag is mine, this bag is not."

County Magistrate Chen looked at the boatman helplessly and said, "I said, "Brother, are you from the same group as him?" This caused laughter from the onlookers, but the boatman was confused and just denied it flatly: The villain doesn't know what his name is, why are he from the same group as him?"

"Isn't it a group?" County Magistrate Chen took a sip of tea and slammed his mouth and said, "Then shut up, I won't ask you, you are not allowed to say a word; say one more thing, I won't investigate this case, and I will directly award the money to the plaintiff.

"Don't go" The boat pricked Huang Zhangdao, said two words, and quickly covered his mouth, for fear that the master would close the case, which would attract another burst of laughter.

After seeing this person's performance, County Magistrate Chen had a clear idea, but he had to find convincing evidence to confirm his guess, so he took the bag and looked at it carefully. Everyone was breathing under the cover, fearing that he would disturb the county magistrate to find inspiration. For a moment, the yard was very quiet, with only the rustling sound of the wind blowing the leaves, and the sound of the cooing cats.

County Magistrate Chen was looking at the bag, but he heard a cat cry. He looked down and saw that it was a big yellow cat raised by his wife. He was flirting with his eyes around him, staring at the bag of silver, as if he was very eager. County Magistrate Chen couldn't help but laugh and said, "Damn, these paths have changed. Not only people love money, but even cats like silver." Then he thought, "No, the cat has a furious use for silver? Can it take two cents of silver to go to the fish shop and say to the child: "It's obvious that it's impossible to give me a big one?

County Magistrate Chen looked at the cat who was so flattering when he met something he liked to eat. Then he looked at the bag of silver in his hand. He suddenly understood. He carried it on his back and put the bag of silver close to his nose, and then he understood one by one. After that, he understood. The net wanted to say that the old one was ugly but he couldn't help but beat him and rub him, and asked the plaintiff, "You said that Zhouying Kowtou Beiyi. But the bag was not, so where was it originally installed?"

The plaintiff said without hesitation: "Go back to the master. Put it in the box I carry with me." As he said that, he pointed to a large wooden box with many drawers beside him, and said: "I have also entered the package and prepared to go home to send it to someone. I will pack it with the silver. I must have been kind enough to give the boatman a honey yesterday and let him see it. Then he realized the money.

"Do you still have money?" County Magistrate Chen's good temper ended here and interrupted him.

"There is" that humane.

"Take it to me to see." County Magistrate Chen reached out and said.

The man then gathered an exquisite small purse from his arms, handed it to the yamen runners, and said, "This is eight or four cents of silver. Because it is put on it, he did not steal it away.

County Magistrate Chen snorted without comment and signaled the yamen runners to take the silver in front of him. After looking at it for a while, he got up and walked behind his hands, lowered his head, and walked in the yard, as if thinking about something.

So the yard fell into silence again, and everyone stared at the county magistrate who was spinning around, and suddenly saw him stopping, and pointed the ground with his toes and said, "Put two bags of silver here."

"Master, should you put it on the ground?" the yamen runner asked in a low voice.

"Nonsense, can I put my toes on my toes?" Mr. Shen rolled his eyes and said.

The yamen runner shrank his neck and quickly put two bags of silver at the designated location of the county magistrate, and then accompanied the magistrate to look there with his eyes wide open. After a while, the big yellow cat also followed him, persisting on the large pile of silver.

After looking at it for a while, the county magistrate nodded and said, "The truth was revealed and asked the officer beside him, "Did you see it?" The officer rubbed his numb neck and said, "Master, I didn't see anything."

"So I am the chief, you are a soldier." The county magistrate smiled proudly, glanced over the two people, and finally fell on the plaintiff's face. He glared and said sternly: "The bold and unruly people dare to make up lies to deceive the official, and frame good people. Come on the truth quickly." The plaintiff's face changed suddenly, and his voice trembled and shouted for injustice.

County Magistrate Chen smiled coldly: "If you don't agree, come and take a look.

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The plaintiff staggered forward, staring at the big and small piles of silver, and then heard County Magistrate Chen ask, "What have you seen?"

The plaintiff stammered: "Two piles of silver" cats, and ants."

"Why are there cats and ants? Everyone knows that cats like fishy smells, and ants like sweets!" County Magistrate Chen sneered: "Look at the time this silver is put on the ground, my cat is resting on this pile of food to repair, which means there is a strong fishy smell on the silver. But the small pile taken out of you is full of ants. Take a closer look at what the ants are doing."

The plaintiff's legs were weak and his reaction was slow. However, the yamen runner was quick to move. He lay on the ground and stared at him for a while, and said excitedly: "It turns out that these ants are moving some sugar powder,"

"Yes!" County Magistrate Chen said to the plaintiff in a deep voice: "You sell sweets, and you will inevitably stick sugar on your hands and then on silver. Therefore, your pile of silver will be filled with ants. On the other pile, there is no sugar at all, so you will not attract ants, but you will attract cats. Isn't the owner of the fifty taels still clear?"

As he said that, his face darkened and he shouted, "Come on. Take him down and serve him with great punishment."

The plaintiff was so scared that he collapsed on the ground. Finally, he admitted that he was on the boat. When he heard a little money counting, he felt the money. But seeing that the little money was strong and strong, he didn't dare to take it, so he thought of such a way to do so. Unexpectedly, the county magistrate exposes it on the spot.

The county magistrate Chen ordered him to be detained, and ordered someone to wrap up fifty taels of silver and the plaintiff's eight taels, and give him a little justice: "I'm sorry to hurt you. The extra money, even if it's the medicine fee, I'll clear the injustice of the injustice, and I got another unexpected fortune. I was excited and kowtowed repeatedly. Thank you, Master Qingtian.

County Magistrate Chen's seriousness suddenly passed, and he smiled at the Xiaogong and said, "You must not harm others, but beware of others. Don't show your wealth easily in the future." Amid the cheers of the audience, the Xiaogong thanked him with great gratitude. County Magistrate Chen seemed to enjoy this cheer, and even waved to the crowd. Who knew that he could see a figure that had not been seen for a long time, looking at himself with a smile on his face.

As soon as he saw that person, he was happy first, then shrank his neck and stuck out his tongue, trying to disperse the person who complained, but when he saw that the person shook his head slightly, he stopped obediently, sat back straight, and cut off the case seriously. In fact, with his cleverness, it didn't take so much time to deal with these simple cases, but he liked this tone, so he deliberately made it so complicated.

Now the pace has accelerated, and the remaining cases have been concluded in just two seconds. The plaintiff and defendant have no objection, but it disappoints the audience because they have not seen any wonderful jokes, so how can they brag when they go back?

The yamen runners were also very surprised and asked in a low voice: "Grandmaster, are you anxious to pee?"
Chapter completed!