Chapter 122: How can we be selfless in public affairs?
In Liu'er Alley, Xicheng District, two brothers fought over four taels and six cents of silver and accidentally killed their old father who was trying to reconcile. The elder brother was sentenced to hanging in prison and the younger brother was exiled to Guangxi. They would not be returned even if pardoned.
On Guozijian Street, there was a rogue citizen who let his dog hurt someone. Afterwards he refused to repent and refused to kill the vicious dog with a stick. At the request of the scholars of Guozijian, the man was detained in a kennel for three months, where he had to eat and live with the dog and was not allowed to leave without permission.
In Yanzhi Hutong, a fierce woman set fire to a brothel, causing more than a dozen men and women to run naked in the street, and three people were seriously injured - the sentence was: the woman was sent to the Jiaofangsi, and her husband was to compensate for all the losses.
Lema Street...
Tsk~
Liu Zhizhong's recent judgment is quite arbitrary .
If a dog bites someone, they lock the owner in a cage and make him eat and sleep with the dog for three months; if a decent woman burns down a brothel, they send her to be a prostitute...
It seems that the person hasn’t left yet, but his heart has flown away first!
Sun Shaozong speechlessly picked up the cinnabar pen and wrote a big "Refute" on the verdict of the "violent woman burning down a brothel" case.
Then he wrote at the top: This woman has a fiery temper, and such a sentence may cause her to commit suicide; to avoid causing controversy, please change the sentence as appropriate.
The victim may feel relieved after hearing , and others may also spread it as a funny story.
But since that woman had the guts to set fire to the building, she must be someone who values reputation and has a fiery temper. Wouldn't sentencing her to the Jiaofang Bureau be like forcing her to seek death?
If she really found a rope to commit suicide, public opinion would probably be one-sided, condemning Shuntian Prefecture for forcing a chaste and heroic woman to death.
It would be fine if he was scolded a few times , but if it affected Liu Zhizhong's assignment outside the capital, how could Sun Shaozong succeed him as the governor?
After all, Liu Zhizhong still lacks some calmness in his work and behavior.
Sun Shaozong grumbled inwardly, "ignoring his age," and put the rejected case aside. He was about to continue reviewing other files when he heard Cheng Rixing knocking on the door outside and saying, "Dongweng, it's time to order lunch."
"Come in."
Sun Shaozong dropped the case in his hand, and saw the door open to the left and right. A clerk holding a tray came up to him with a big smile on his face, saying, "Sir, today's main dish is too oily. If you don't like it, I'll have someone make a few more dishes."
There were more than a dozen bamboo slips on the tray with the names of the dishes written in regular script for people to choose from.
Of course, not everyone has the right to order food. Only three officials and three judges in Shuntian Prefecture are qualified.
"Don't bother."
Sun Shaozong rummaged through the tray and saw that they were all common dishes and nothing new, so he randomly selected six dishes and a soup according to his and Cheng Rixing's tastes.
Then he rolled up the seven bamboo pieces with red silk and said, "That's all. If there are any fresh fruits, you can send me a plate after dinner."
The clerk went away timidly.
Sun Shaozong was too lazy to deal with any official business anymore. He just practiced a few sets of boxing and kicking in the yard to stretch his muscles, and then as usual, he received a lot of flattery.
Sun Shaozong was already used to this, so he went back to the main room without looking around, took the towel from Cheng Rixing, wiped it a few times, and prepared to wait in the inner room.
At this moment, a fat figure suddenly squeezed in from the door and said with a smile: "Sir, I have completed the task you asked me to do!"
The person who came was none other than the governor Lin Delu.
Remembering that he had asked him to help find Xiangling's family, Sun Shaozong threw away the towel and asked, "How come you have found my concubine's family?"
“Found it, found it!”
Lin Delu took out a piece of letter paper from his sleeve, presented it with both hands, and said: "My concubine's surname is Zhen, with the courtesy name Yinglian. Her ancestral home is from Suzhou. Her father Zhen Shiyin was once a chief clerk [ninth rank]. During the Lantern Festival that year, because the family servants did not take good care of her, she was kidnapped by criminals..."
Sun Shaozong only listened to the beginning of his speech, then lowered his head to look at the information copied on the letter. Seeing that the conditions were described in great detail, he knew that there was no mistake.
So he put the letter in his pocket and said with satisfaction: "You have done a good job. I..."
As he was talking, he saw two kitchen guards bringing in food. Sun Shaozong pointed and said, "This soup is for you."
Lin Delu didn't mind the cold, and bowed and said, "Thank you for the soup, sir!"
As he said this, he stepped forward and was about to hold the soup in his hands, but Tang grimaced, so he quickly changed his sleeves to hold it, and then happily carried the soup out of the room.
After going out, he was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he walked back and forth between the east and west wings, telling everyone he met that the magistrate had given him hot soup and praised him for his recent self-denial and public-spirited behavior.
This was to let others know that he had moved from the "cold kang" to the "hot stove".
Let’s not talk about how Lin Delu was showing off with a basin of hot soup in his hand.
However, after this incident, Sun Shaozong suddenly remembered a personal matter, so while eating lunch, he asked Cheng Rixing: "Mr. Cheng, among those 'literary peddlers' we arrested earlier, was there anyone called Drunken King Kong Ni Er?"
When Cheng Rixing heard him asking about Ni Er, he immediately asked, "Could that guy really be your relative?"
It turned out that after Ni Er was arrested, he kept shouting that a flood had washed away the Dragon King Temple and that he was a relative of Sun Shaozong and so on.
Seeing that this guy looked like a scoundrel, Zhao Wuwei only half believed him. However, he still didn't dare to make a decision on his own, so he hurried to find Cheng Rixing for instructions.
After hearing what happened, Cheng Rixing asked him to take good care of Ni Er first.
In this way, if Sun Shaozong brought it up in the future, there would be no fault; if Sun Shaozong did not mention the matter, this ruffian who pretended to be an official relative would be severely punished.
"He is still in jail, but fortunately he has not suffered any punishment."
Cheng Rixing suggested: "If he is really your relative, why not let Zhao Wuwei release him quietly? Anyway, this case is the job of the inspector, and the files and lists have not been handed over to the palace yet."
"He is not really a real relative. Besides, wouldn't it be too easy for him to let him go like this?" Sun Shaozong waved his hand and said, "Give him a title of meritorious informant and exempt him from exile. Beat him with a stick carefully, so that he will remember it!"
Cheng Rixing agreed verbally, but in his heart he was thinking about asking Zhao Wuwei to keep a close eye on him and make sure he didn't offend the adults' relatives.
The two were eating and chatting when they suddenly heard a commotion outside, with screams and noisy sounds coming one after another.
What is going on?
After all, it is the place that handles the criminal cases of the prefecture, but it is run like a vegetable market!
Sun Shaozong took Cheng Rixing out to take a look, but he saw people pointing and looking up at the sky.
He looked up curiously, but saw a round ball floating in the air with a large rattan basket hanging underneath...
Hot air balloons already exist these days?!
