It had just been clear for two days and became cloudy again. With the breeze, drizzle drizzled in the sky, like thick fog, taking away the damp heat that made people have nowhere to hide.

Under the willow tree on the side of the road, Chen Tianming took out a ingot of silver and stuffed it to his old servant, and said, "Bo Ping, I am really thankful to you along the way. I have sent me safe here. I'm so kind, you'll accept it."

Ping Bo took the silver and put it in his arms with a smile: "You are kind-hearted, I am greedy for money. You and I are fellow villagers at least. It's nothing to work hard on the road. I'm just a hard life to travel around the world. Fortunately, the officials here are kind-hearted and took you in. With your talent and learning, you will definitely have a chance to make a name for yourself in the future. When you really have Jinbang High School, you will return to your hometown in a prosperous way and look at me on the ancestral grave and burn some paper money."

Chen Tianming hurriedly agreed. It was a very grand thing for those who had been away from their hometown for hundreds of years to worship their ancestors and was also the care of Xie Pingbo along the way.

Ping Bo took up the burden, said goodbye to Chen Tianming, and said, "I made a profit on the way. When I went back, I went to Ningming Town to sell some goods, which was also an investment."

Tangzhou is separated from the Song Dynasty and the prefectures, and there are thousands of descendants of the Central Plains. Anything is there. Anyone who comes from the Song Dynasty will rob you. Pingbo can make a lot of money by sending Chen Tianming back to the Song Dynasty.

Just as the two of them were bidding farewell, Wei Dalang and Ding Xiaoniu came out of the corner of the street. Each of them held a rope in their hands, tied each old and a young one respectively. The old had gray hair and a slightly hunched back, but the young one was only four or five years old. His eyes were black and bright, and he looked at the people around him and was a little curious.

Seeing Chen Tianming and Pingbo Wei Dalang standing on the roadside, his eyes lit up: "You two feet are so fast. They came here early! We have a fate to meet each other. I will receive the reward later and give you a meal of wine and meat!"

Seeing that these two people were not like good people, Chen Tianming politely said, "Brother is intent, and we have important things to do, so I won't bother you."

"It's a pity that you are not lucky, but I'm not stingy and not asking you!"

Wei Dalang didn't know whether it was true or false, but sighed deeply.

Seeing them holding the two people, Ping Bo asked curiously: "What are these two people? Why are you tied up?"

Wei Dalang raised his eyes: "These two are wealthy people falling on our heads from the sky. They are all thieves from Jiaozhi. The inspection department offers a reward of five stanchions of money for one!"

Ping Bo was surprised and pointed at the old and the young: "They are two, thieves?"

Ding Xiaoniu proudly raised the cloth bag in his hand: "We are not talking nonsense with the thief and the stolen goods are here, how can we betray them? Not to mention this, they also chopped off the firewood from our Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, they didn't carry it on their backs!"

Ping Bo saw that the old man looked tucked, while the younger man shrank. He looked scared and sighed. This place was a foreign land for Ping Bo, so it was hard to say anything. He said goodbye to Chen Tianming and walked along the way.

Ding Xiaoniu looked at Ping Bo's back and spat: "This old dog is also a Jiaozhi person. No wonder he looks like he is sympathetic and sympathetic with the thief. He dares to talk nonsense and take it together!"

Seeing that these two people were so crude, Chen Tianming shook his head and turned back to his residence.

Ding Xiaoniu was proud and followed Wei Dalang, swaying all the way to the inspector's office.

Sang Yi's Zuojiang Road Inspection Office was originally in Taiping County. It was originally the office space for the inspection in Pingxiangdong, but now it is occupied by him and he lives in it on his daily basis.

After finishing the daily affairs on that day, I was about to go back when I heard the sound of drums outside and hurriedly called a sergeant with him to go out to see.

After a while, the sergeant came back and reported: "The inspector was two natives who said they had caught the thief in Jiaozhi and came to the inspection department to receive the reward!"

Sang Yi was shocked when he heard this and hurriedly said, "Take them in!"

Since the announcement was posted, this is the first time that someone has come to receive the reward. Sang Yi has to pay attention to it. He did not respond enthusiastically to the announcement. The first is that the reward of five stakes is not very true. If he is a thief, he will risk his life to catch it. Another thing is that everyone is familiar with this kind of thing, and there are very few people who know how to read it. Relying on the people of the tutoring department to preach a few times, most people still don’t know about it.

Seeing Wei Dalang and Ding Xiaoniu come in, one is arrogant and the other is proud, and it seems that they are all scoundrels in the countryside. Then look at the two so-called thieves tied up, one is gray-haired and the other is still a childish boy, Sang Yi's brows frowned involuntarily.

"Who is coming?"

Wei Dalang hurriedly stepped forward and bowed and bowed: "I have met the inspector, the young Wei Dalang, here is Ding Xiaoniu, who are all from Dingdong, Ningming Town, under the rule of the officials, and are native people."

The good people in the Song Dynasty were different from Xu Ping's previous life. That era was called the name that was used since the war and chaos, and was regarded as the name of obedience to the people. The good people in this era mean personal freedom, not employed to be slaves, servants, maids, concubines, or even laugh at brothels, which has clear legal significance.

Sang Yi looked at Wei Dalang and asked in a deep voice: "Why did you beat the drum just now?"

"I heard the notice posted by the Tijuan Department two days ago, saying that it was the reward for the Jiaozhi thieves. Although we were humble, we always wanted to share the worries of the country and officials. After receiving the news on the notice, we inspected the border villages day and night to prevent the invasion of the Jiaozhi people. It was also God's eyes. A few days ago, we discovered two thieves, the old and young, sneaked into our Song Dynasty and cut down our Song Dynasty trees as firewood. The officials of the Tjuan Department repeatedly declared the mountain ban, saying that every grass and tree on the mountain was the property of the emperor in the court, and that the officials and civilians under the rule of the Song Dynasty could not cut them randomly, let alone the two Jiaozhi people! Isn't this a rebellion? We caught the people!"

Sang Yi listened to Wei Dalang's tongue blooming lotus flowers, and said one by one. I don't know what I learned from someone. He was righteous and had a very strong sense of sacrifice and a great sense of sacrificing himself to the country. If it weren't for the fact that the old and the young were really eye-catching, Sang Yi would have been moved. The border between the two countries, and the border people cross-border hunting, fishing, chopping wood and cutting grass, were actually common. According to Sang Yi's meaning, such things were not easy to deal with. However, he couldn't tell what Xu Ping meant and pondered for a while.

After thinking for a while, Sang Yi said, "The mountains, forests, rivers and lakes are the personal property of the emperor. What you said makes sense. But it seems that the two of them are forced to make a living. They don't look like thieves, do they have any other evil deeds?"

"Yes, some!" Ding Xiaoniu was stolen by Wei Dalang and felt uncomfortable behind him. He had the opportunity to squeeze up and held up the small cloth bag in his hand. "Officials. These two people also stole the food of our farmers in the Song Dynasty. The cloth bag was evidence. We took the thief and stolen goods, and we couldn't accuse the good people!"

After saying that, he untied the cloth bag and poured out the things inside. It turned out to be seven or eight ears of tender corn. This crop is suitable for mountain planting. Although Xu Ping repeatedly refused to open mountains and farming, it has spread in the past two years.

Sang Yi looked at the tender corn on the ground, frowned even tighter, and asked the old man in a deep voice: "Did you really pick these from the farmlands in my Song Dynasty?"

"Official. I have been out of cooking for a few days. Pick a few ears to fill my child's stomach!"

The old man said, turning his head to look at the child biting his fingers.

The child tilted his head and looked at Sang Yi on it, biting his fingers, with fear and curiosity in his eyes.

Sang Yi coughed lightly, changed to a soft tone, and asked the child: "What's your name?"

"My name is Horse Hoof."

“Where did this corn come from?”

"Grandpa picked it from the woods and said he went back and cooked it to fill my stomach."

Hearing this, Sang Yi sighed. No matter how pitiful the grandparents and grandchildren looked, they could not get rid of the charges. Seriously, some of the natives in the mountains were still in tribal states, and they did not think that stealing was a shameful thing. They were almost the same as hunting and fishing in their consciousness. However, now this place is under the rule of the government. The law does not recognize human kindness, and if they violate the law, they should be punished, not to mention that they involve both countries.

"Come on, go to Curry to get a lot of money for Wei Dalang and Ding Xiaoniu."

After Sang Yi's order, the officials under the case responded to the promise and left the official hall.

Wei Dalang and Ding Xiaoniu had already raised their ears, and they were all overjoyed when they heard the word "Quan". They looked at each other and felt itchy in their hearts like a little mouse hiding. There was no flower head here in Pingxiangdong, and they could go to Ningming Town to have a few days of drinking and drinking. It was a happy life that they had never lived in their lives.

Looking at the old man and the child, Sang Yi said in a deep voice: "I think you are not easy to get old. It is also for the sake of your child that I did such a wrong thing. I won't punish you too much. Twenty pounds are considered a minor punishment!"

Only if you steal more than seven silos of corn is matched. If a few ears of corn are not involved in Jiaozhi, the elderly and children are not Song Min, at most they will only give a few precepts. It is the so-called whipping of twenty, which sounds scary. In fact, the method of pressing the folding stick is just seven strokes on the butt. The soldiers who were in charge of the punishment saw that the elderly showed some mercy on their faces and could barely walk back.

After receiving the order from Sang Yi, two soldiers came up to hold the old man, and dragged him to the door of the official hall in a few big steps, pressing him on the steps of the stairs, and one of them took off the old man's pants.

In order to know what to do, Xiaomati followed quickly. When she arrived at the door, she saw another soldier taking a small board from the shelf, and then she realized it. She rushed to her grandfather, opened her arms and raised her body to protect her, and looked at Sang Yi without blinking.

Sang Yi sighed in his heart. When officials decide cases, they are most afraid of meeting elderly people and children and women. They say they are selfless, but the people they see may not have any impression. People are emotional animals, and they will feel pitiful when hitting the elderly and children.

"That old man, how old are you this year?"

The old man lay on the ground and said, "Report to the official, the old man is fifty-eight years old this year."

Sang Yi felt bitter and thought to himself that you were covered in white hair. Why was you in your fifties? If you were over 60 years old, you would be considered an old man, and you would not be punished by the elderly, weak, and women and children. This board would be spared. Looking outside, the child leaned against the elderly, and no one was allowed to get close to him. The soldiers who were sentenced did not know what to do for a while.

The official took the copper coins, and Wei Dalang and Ding Xiaoniu happily received them and thanked Sang Yi.

Wei Dalang held the copper coins and saw the stalemate outside, and said to Sang Yi: "Official, don't look at this thief bone, you can jump into our Song Dynasty to steal things! If the official cannot do anything, he will shake his courage and go up and break his legs with two boards!"

Sang Yi looked stern and shouted, "How can you make noise in the official hall? How to deal with it? The official has his own ideas. Do you want you to teach me?"

Wei Dalang didn't dare to say anything again, but he was still indignant.

Sang Yi said to the executioner: "Looking at the fact that this old man is thin and looks sick, he should not be punished today. Please write it down for now and take it into detention first. You will be punished in a few days."

While talking, he shook his head, thinking that this was a troublesome thing that Xu Ping had caused, so he would leave it to him to deal with. (To be continued.)
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