Man Bao entered the pharmacy with a basket on his back, greeted Dr. Ji, sat down in his seat, and began to wait for the patient to come.
At this time, Zhou Lang had just left the gate of Yizhou City and had arrived in Luojiang County. Magistrate Tang, who had rested in the county office for the whole night, also got up and had a hearty breakfast, and then turned around and stared at Qili Village.
The Luojiang County government official came to ask questions.
"Are you saying that the man is now in the gambling house in the county town?"
"Yes, he left the village overnight the day before yesterday. He was playing gambling with others in Daguan Village outside the city. As a result, he won a handful of copper coins. He came into the city the day before yesterday, and then he hid in the gambling house and did not come out." The yamen servant said.
: "He was really lucky in the past two days and kept winning money. But he started losing yesterday and has lost almost all his money. He didn't leave last night. He is probably still in the gambling house now."
Magistrate Tang said: "Then you take the person for a trip and bring him back to me."
The government officials did not expect to arrest the man again. Until now, they still have not understood how the man offended their masters. They told them to stare at him and not say anything, and even summoned the Tang County Magistrate from Yizhou City.
However, precisely because they had recruited this big shot, the government officials did not dare to neglect them. A team of several people rushed to the gambling street like wolves and tigers, pulled out the scaly heads whose eyes were red from gambling, pressed them down, and rushed to the gambling house.
Go to the county government office.
The gamblers who have already made the cover and are waiting for the maniac to drill the last end:...
Seeing that the mangtou was caught by the government officials, they could do nothing but put away the IOU that the mangtou had signed before, and planned to go to Qili Village when they had time.
The monk can escape but cannot escape from the temple. Even if the man is caught, won't there still be people in his family?
The man had not slept all day and night. He was still a little confused when he was caught at the county government office, but maybe it was because he was familiar with the situation once and for all, and he was not very scared this time.
So when he was being escorted to kneel in the lobby, he didn't show much fear on his face. He just knelt in a daze, thinking about gambling.
Magistrate Tang came out of the back hall and sat down on the magistrate's seat in the lobby of Luojiang County with great interest. He also curiously touched the things on the table. After studying the things on the table, he held up his chin and looked at the things on the table.
The dazed leprous.
County Magistrate Tang looked at the mangy head and he knew what he was doing.
He turned to ask the yamen servant, "How much did you lose?"
"I've written eight taels of IOUs."
County Magistrate Tang clicked his tongue and said, "Is this their family's annual income?"
The officer responded with a "yes".
Magistrate Tang took out a stick from the stick, touched it and asked, "I heard that his wife and daughter asked him to sell it. Is there anyone in the family who can sell it?"
The yamen servant said: "There is also a son."
Magistrate Tang handed him the sign and said with a smile: "Then let's put ten signs on him first to wake him up."
"yes!"
The yamen servant took the lot and dragged the man down to beat him. Because Magistrate Tang and County Magistrate Yang were different, the ten slaps the yamen servants slapped on the man were real. The man did not expect that this time the beating would be better than
It still hurt, and I couldn't help but scream loudly.
Magistrate Tang listened expressionlessly, and after he finished typing and was dragged in, he said, "Zhou Dali, look up and see who this officer is?"
The maniac looked up and realized that the person sitting in the hall was not Magistrate Yang, but a very unfamiliar official. He was wearing official uniform and looked very majestic at first sight.
Magistrate Tang smiled slightly at him and said, "Magistrate Yang went back to Beijing to get married. I was sent from Fucheng to try your case. Do you know what you have committed?"
The mangy head shook his head.
Magistrate Tang's originally smiling face sank, and he said expressionlessly: "I don't even know what I have committed. It is obvious that I have no intention of repenting. It doesn't matter whether he is tried or not. Come and put the person in a secret room."
He is in prison and will be executed on another day."
The government officials were stunned and did not respond for a moment. Magistrate Tang raised his eyelids and glanced at them coldly.
The government officials suddenly came to their senses and immediately dragged the bewildered man down.
It wasn't until he got out of the lobby that the man came to his senses and struggled: "What, what do you mean? Execute me, why do you want to execute me..."
No one paid attention to him and dragged him to the deepest part of the prison, pushed him in and closed the door.
Luojiang County is small, poor, and the folk customs are not very strong, so there are few people committing crimes throughout the year.
Even if someone got into a fight or was caught stealing, Magistrate Yang would not put the person in jail and eat free food. Most of the time, he would lock the person up for a period of time, and then force the person out to work after he was tamed.
Either they go to work in the official fields, or they go to serve in the army to build bridges and roads. Anyway, there are always endless things waiting for them.
Therefore, the jails in Luojiang County have always been very loose, and the innermost cells are usually reserved for felons who want to be beheaded.
Since Magistrate Fu, there has never been such a prisoner in Luojiang County, so the inside has always been empty. A person entered from an uninhabited place. The mice and cockroaches that settled inside became excited and squeaked lively.
He got up, ran around and went out to have fun, but he came back after a while.
This made the mangy man, who often saw rats and mice, feel very chilled, so he used his hands to drive away these rats and mice.
He knew that this kind of thing was just like a dog. If you were aggressive, it would become soft, so he grabbed a handful of straw from the ground and beat it like crazy. Finally, he drove away the mice in the cell, but he knew that they didn't
If you go far away, you must be hiding in some corner and watching him secretly.
But the man didn't have the mind to think about this at the moment. He threw himself at the railing, waved his hands outwards, and shouted: "Master, Master, why are you arresting me this time? What does that gentleman mean? What is execution?"
ah?"
The prison guard who was guarding the cell hit his hand hard with a wooden stick, making him retract his hand and shouted: "Be more honest with me. I told you to reflect, so you should reflect on yourself. You don't even know what you have done."
I don’t know, so how can I know?”
After that, he left.
Someone from a cell far away from this cell shouted: "Hey, brother, what did you do, why are you on death row?"
The man's feet went weak, and he knelt down directly. He looked at the place where he was talking, and found that it was a corner, and he could only barely see the people living inside. It was obvious that his cell was really inside.
There was no one in the nearby cells connected to him.
The mangy man burst into tears and said, "I, I'm just gambling. Gambling is not illegal..."
"Come on, can you be put on death row for gambling? We are going to be executed, do you know about the execution?" The prisoner at the corner said: "That means beheading. Brother, how evil have you done?"
"No, I didn't, I didn't..."
But except for the two idle prisoners at the corner, no one listened to him.