Chapter 800 Information (For book friends Jin Yiwei: Rong Rong's 7)
It is easy to find information on newborns in Qili Village. There are only a limited number of children born in a year in Qili Village. Unfortunately, the village chief reported the simplest numbers, but the official documents exchanged and the copies of notices posted on the bulletin board were not enough.
Too much.
Not only does it take a lot of effort to look for it, but it also takes a lot of effort.
Magistrate Tang didn't care how they looked for it, he wanted to see it anyway.
After eating something, he took the data he had just found and compared it with his household registration.
Because children start reading books at different ages, he needs to look through a lot of books. Even if there is only information about Qili Village, he will have to put a lot of effort into it.
Fortunately, he has done a lot of boring things like this, and he can read ten lines at a glance, and his memory is not bad. He took a piece of white paper and wrote down all the people born in the first year of Dazhen to the third year of Dazhen in the household registration, and then compared them.
I just found out the newborn data from the local newspaper.
But it doesn’t mean that you can get what you want by comparing it, because children are very easy to die, some are recorded in the books, and some children have not had time to register in the books, only in the data given by the director -
—Birth or death.
The magistrate of Tang County listed down the data hidden in the documents, eliminated them one by one, and finally focused on the second and third years of Dazhen.
On the big paper he listed, Zhou Man's name was recorded under the second year of Dazhen, indicating that she was born in the second year of Dazhen, and there were three people born in Qili Village in the same year, including Zhou Man and others.
There is her nephew Zhou Lixue.
But that year, the number of newborns reported in the Li Zheng report was two. The strange thing is that in the third year of Dazhen, the number of newborns reported in the Li Chang report was three, but the books show that there were only two children born in that year.
Magistrate Tang County compared the number of children who died in infancy and their ages in the books and newspapers, and found that not a single baby born in the third year of Dazhen died in infancy.
Therefore, the newborn baby born more than three years ago was actually Zhou Man, who was born in the second year of Dazhen.
But why?
Why does Zhou Man have to delay his submission for one year?
Especially when the Zhou family also has a newborn.
The data was reported before the seal was released years ago. Zhou Man was born in November, so there was no time to report it.
Magistrate Tang closed the book with a serious face, folded the page and put it in his arms, walked to the bed and looked at the crescent moon in the sky.
He sighed quietly, knowing that since the longevity lock was on Man Bao, he would definitely be able to find out something about it.
Magistrate Tang stood in front of the window, listening to the crowing of cocks coming from nowhere, and then realized that it was already the fourth watch.
He rubbed his forehead and then felt sleepy, so he turned and went to the backyard to rest.
His long-time follower Mingli had fallen asleep by the door with his coat in his arms. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he woke up at one o'clock. He quickly wiped his face and followed, "Master, you finally want to sleep?"
"Well," County Magistrate Tang said, "get some sleep and remember to deliver a beheading meal to Zhou Dali in prison in the morning."
"Don't worry, Master, I won't forget it."
This was the time when people were most asleep, but the man in the prison had an uneasy sleep due to the injuries on his back and buttocks, and the hunger in his belly. He couldn't fall asleep no matter what. He could only close his eyes, and occasionally
To fight against the rats running over him.
When he was enduring, the footsteps of patrolling guards came from outside the door again. He was used to it. They patrolled several times after nightfall. The first time he was not used to it and thought they were here to interrogate him. Later he found out that they were just patrolling.
Then he lay down quietly.
The mangy man closed his eyes and did not move, but he heard footsteps stopping outside his door. Just as he was wondering, he heard a small voice coming from outside the door, "This is a prisoner on death row. He looks like ordinary people."
It makes no difference, what did he commit?"
As soon as the mangy head stiffened, he heard another man say: "Who knows what he was guilty of? Anyway, it was Magistrate Tang who arrested him, so there is nothing wrong. We can just listen to what the superiors say."
"But it's too fast. I always feel that something is wrong. Although I have never seen a death row prisoner, I heard Mr. Yang say that this death row prisoner will be reported to the Ministry of Punishment for review. This Tang County Magistrate arrested someone on the front foot and interrogated him.
The person will be executed without trial, in case the case is wrongly..."
"Oh, why are you so stupid? Magistrate Yang is not in the city now, and Magistrate Tang is still the temporary magistrate sent from Shangxian County. We are just a small official. Can we say that he handled the wrong case?"
The man's heart felt cold when he heard this. He couldn't help but opened his eyes slightly and saw two people standing at the door of his cell. He pricked up his ears to listen and heard the man continue: "Our county magistrate has just graduated from the seventh grade.
, and County Magistrate Tang is from the sixth rank, which is a whole level higher than our county magistrate. Let alone us, even if County Magistrate Yang comes back, he will not reverse the case for him. Don’t look at our Luojiang County being richer now
But it’s still incomparable to Huayang County. Magistrate Tang naturally wants to finish the case and go back as soon as possible.”
"It doesn't matter whether the man did it or not. If you catch him anyway, that's what he did. When the time comes, he will be executed and reported to the superiors. They will say that he committed suicide out of fear of crime or something like that. It will be a fool's errand."
The man's whole body became weak when he heard it.
"Anyway, it's an old case, and the evidence is inherently insufficient. Who did it? When the time comes, Magistrate Tang has concluded the case and made meritorious service. We can leave, and we will be much more relaxed."
"Well, it is a human life after all."
"That's because he was unlucky. Who told him not to say anything? Even we can see that he concealed something and didn't say anything. Who is to blame?"
"That's right, let's go. This is the last trip. I have to patrol every night, but I'm exhausted."
"is not that right……"
From the corner of his eye, the maniac watched the two figures turn and walk away, and then he tremblingly stuffed his fist into his mouth to prevent himself from screaming. He was so frightened that tears flowed down...
After daybreak, the guards carried wooden buckets and tapped wooden spoons to distribute breakfast. It was still a spoonful of porridge per person, plus a brown steamed bun mixed with bran.
The man was lying on the railing at the door and looking out. The guards ignored him and sent him to the cell at the corner before leaving.
The mangy man couldn't bear the hunger, so he shouted quickly: "Brother, eldest brother, the official, I, I have no food again today?"
"You?" The officer looked back at him and said sympathetically, "Yes, but yours is a little different from theirs, so you have to wait a moment."
The man was startled.
The guard had already picked up the things and left, no matter how he called, he didn't look back.
The man was in despair when two guardsmen came over carrying two large food boxes with smiles on their faces. They walked straight up to the man and asked him to step back in a very good manner, and then opened the door of the cell.
, bring the food box in.
When I opened it, there was a whole stewed chicken, a fish, duck meat in soup, and a large bowl of white rice...
The officer placed all the food in front of the man, and even took out a jug of wine and put it in front of him. He said with a smile on his face: "Are you hungry after not eating for a day? Come on, eat quickly."