The officials and veterans of the Zhenrong Army were all attracted by the tall and powerful beggar from before, and they had no time to stop the second complainer. They almost watched helplessly as this man rushed to Han Qing's carriage.
"Huh..." Driver Liu Er was afraid of running over someone and affecting Han Qing's reputation, so he quickly pulled on the rope.
The horse's mouth hurt, and it neighed and tried to stop. Dou Rong's uncle Li Yu jumped off his mount and blocked the person between the carriage and the carriage to prevent him from being an assassin from the Maitreya Cult.
Han Qing was caught off guard.
In the carriage, the drowsy Dou Rong woke up instantly and decisively grabbed the sword beside her. Xu Ziling reacted a little slower than her, and also cautiously grabbed the hand crossbow specially equipped for her by Han Qing.
The carriage swayed to a stop, Han Qing frowned, pressed the handle of the knife and looked out. The person who came was probably not an assassin. He had no weapons in his hands and was very thin. The clothes on his body were dirty and torn, and his ears and the back of his hands were covered with cloth.
He was covered with frostbite. However, his eyes were very bright, full of humiliation and unwillingness.
According to the rules, the Secretary of Corrections is only responsible for correcting unjust cases, but he is not qualified to directly accept complaints from the people. Therefore, it is clearly obvious that the complainant has suffered a lot and feels aggrieved, and Han Qing cannot intervene to uphold justice for him.
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"Catch him, catch him!" He said it too late, but quickly. Just when Han Qing was looking forward and backward, not knowing what he should do more appropriately, the surrounding officials had already understood the meaning and rushed forward with roars.
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But the complainant who successfully stopped the carriage rolled decisively and went straight to the belly of the draft horse. At the same time, he shouted loudly again, "I'm wronged, Han Tixing, I'm not dead, I have Zhang Wengong assassinated."
The news. If you don’t accept the complaint, I will die in peace!”
"Stop everyone!" Han Qing couldn't avoid it, decisively pushed open the car door and jumped out, "Inspector Wu, please keep these people and send them to the Crane Control Office!"
"Yes!" Wu Er agreed decisively. He led a few veterans of the Suppression Army and stepped forward. He pushed aside a group of hesitant officials, pulled the complainer out from under the horse's belly, and escorted him to the man behind Han Qing.
carriage.
Among the officials, a man dressed as a county lieutenant was very anxious. He walked up to Han Qing in three steps and bowed to the ground. "Is this person Han Tixing? I'm Zhang Jinbao. I dare to remind Han Tixing that this person is
There is a famous gangster in Qingzhou who specializes in making a living by complaining. You are new here, so don’t be fooled by him!"
"You're talking nonsense, I'm not complaining!" The complainer listened to what he was saying. He quickly turned around and retorted loudly, "Han Tixing, don't believe them. They are a group of people who specialize in silencing the common people.
.Anyone who dares to complain will be slandered as a gangster! If you don’t believe me, ask them, what is my name?”
"You are lying when you open your mouth. Even if I call you by name, you won't admit it!" County Lieutenant Zhang Jinbao was quite quick-witted and immediately seized on the accuser's words to defend himself.
"You can call me out, I will definitely admit it!" The complainer was well prepared and retorted loudly again, "You can't call him out at all. In your file, I was killed by bandits this summer. My surname is Luo.
The owner of the Korean Warehouse in Dongshi. In the summer, you treated me as a dead person and even helped Yan Wuyou, the eldest young master’s book boy in Qingzhou Yan Mansion, to steal my wife, property and shop!”
"Ah?" Many of the detectives and archers around were stunned, and their eyes suddenly widened.
They had all heard about the murder of Luo Huaisheng, the owner of the Korean Goods Store in Dongshi. Some of them even went to the autopsy site and helped them verify Luo Huaisheng's body.
Later, before Luo Huaisheng's body was cold, his wife Wang remarried to a scholar in the Yan Mansion, which made many police officers secretly laugh at him. However, no one expected that Luo Huaisheng came back from the dead half a year later and stopped him.
The carriage of the new executioner!
Before they could recover from the shock, the complainant surnamed Luo continued to add loudly, "Judge Han, I don't mean to complain deliberately, but I didn't dare to take the stand before. The Yan family has great hands and eyes, if I come here when you come
If you dared to file a complaint before, you would definitely die a second time! I am living among the beggars as a living dead, just waiting for this day!"
"You're talking nonsense! You're such a mouthful! Zhang didn't collude with Yan's family. Yan's family has great business, so they won't take a fancy to your shabby shop!" Zhang Jinbao, the county lieutenant, defended in a hoarse voice, anxious and angry.
Immediately, he changed his mind and bowed to Han Qing again, "Han Tixing doesn't know something. In Qingzhou, there are gangsters who like to pretend to be dead people in order to extort other people's inheritance. The real shopkeeper Luo...
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"Okay, I have my own sense of proportion!" Han Qing didn't need to think carefully, he knew who was lying, and interrupted impatiently, "Since he just mentioned Zhang Wengong, the assassinated left inspector of Kaifeng Prefecture, in this case, the prosecutor
He Department will have to take it over. You don’t have to be embarrassed, just report it to your boss truthfully after you go back!"
"This..." County Lieutenant Zhang Jinbao was obviously unwilling. After hesitating again and again, he said bravely, "Unless the lower official deliberately contradicts Han Tixing, it stands to reason that the Tixing Division is only responsible for correcting unjust cases, and it is not appropriate to directly accept complaints.
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"I said, it was the Crane Control Department that took this case, not the Criminal Division!" Upon hearing this, Han Qing immediately had a sneer on his face and emphasized again in a deep voice.
"This..." County Lieutenant Zhang Jinbao was completely speechless, but still unwilling to give up. He stood half-bowed beside the carriage, thinking of ideas.
"Go to the hotel first, then help me change my clothes, and go see Wang Jinglue!" Han Qing didn't have time to wait for him, so he ordered Wu Er and turned around to return to the carriage.
Wu Er immediately understood what he meant. He led a group of veterans of the Zhenrong Army and pushed the county lieutenants, policemen and archers to the side of the road. Then they gathered around the carriage and headed straight for the post house that was specially designed for temporary shelter of officials who were on their way to their posts.
The complainant had been taken away by Han Qing, and the county captain Zhang Jinbao and his minions had no target to guard against. They muttered a few words together and gathered up the team in dismay.
Strangely enough, as soon as their figures disappeared, a bit of popularity immediately returned to the chilly streets.
Many people hiding behind windows facing the street and at the entrance of alleys poked their heads out and whispered to each other in lowered voices. There were doubts and expectations in pairs of cloudy eyes!
The spies following the convoy also took a clear look at what had just happened. They quickly left and reported what they observed to their respective bosses.
"Dongcheng maritime merchant Luo Huai is back from the dead!"
"Zhang Wengong was assassinated, and there is a hidden secret behind it!"
"Shopkeeper Luo knew the secret. That's why Han Tixing kept him by his side in the name of the Crane Control Bureau!"
"The person named Han doesn't care much about the Yan family's power, and he's not easy to deal with!"
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That night, various news and speculations spread rapidly to various places on Jingdong East Road, with Qingzhou City as the core.
Regardless of the mood of those who heard the news and speculated, everyone has to admit that in the next few months, Jingdong East Road will probably not be as peaceful as usual!
