Chapter 75
At this moment, the magistrate Kang County and the Censor of the Supervisor arrived. Deng Quansheng immediately said, "Mr. Kang County, I am wronged!"
County Magistrate Kang and the Censor Cheng Chonghui looked at all the money boxes. Cheng Chonghui was a little confused and glanced at Xiao Jiading and said, "Will you arrest people based on this money alone?"
When Deng Quansheng heard this, he immediately became energetic and shouted for injustice.
Xiao Jiading also knew that there was no huge amount of property in the Tang Dynasty law that was unknown, so although he had caught a huge amount of stolen money, he had to have other evidence of the crime. At that moment, Xiao Jiading took out Liu Xiangzheng's testimony from his arms and handed it to Cheng Chonghui: "Please check it out by the Censor."
Cheng Chonghui looked at Xiao Jiading with a little indifferent look. Xiao Jiading knew that Tang Lin must have not told him about this matter, because he had just said this matter, and Tang Lin was drunk before he could say it. So he leaned over and whispered: "Tang Sima just ordered it, and he would tell you if he said it."
When Chen Chonghui heard about Tang Sima, he was immediately shocked. He was promoted by Tang Lin. If he dared not listen to Tang Lin, he had already reported some of Deng Quansheng, but he had no real evidence, so he never started.
When Xiao Jiading said that Tang Lin had given the order, he immediately became very brave. He raised his confession and said to Deng Quansheng: "Now, Liu Xiang is admitting to bribing you, the amount is very large. He also knows that others have bribed you. Now, he has found such a huge property from your family. Even if you have never earned this money in your ten lives, where did you come from?"
County Magistrate Deng stopped talking. His family had no business, no rich man. He said that he belonged to his family members for so much money. Moreover, since Xiao Jiading had taken action against him, he must have mastered other iron evidence. That iron evidence should come from Liu Xiangzheng.
After Liu Xiangzheng was arrested, he asked Xiao Jiading for confession and Xiao Jiading. When he got the Liu Xiangzheng, he did not say anything involved in bribery, he was relieved. But after thinking about it, he felt uneasy, so he asked the constable who went to arrest the criminals with Xiao Jiading that night to ask about the situation. When he learned that Xiao Jiading had asked Liu Xiangzheng alone for a long time, he felt something was wrong, so he immediately sorted out his money and prepared to move to another hidden place. He did not expect that two unclear nuns came at the door, so he didn't let their carriage go out. Then Xiao Jiading came again, and he knew that it was over. Both people and dirty people were caught.
The Censor of the Supervisor said to the County Magistrate Kang: "First put the criminals in prison, and we will investigate the property of Deng Quansheng's home together."
County Magistrate Kang nodded and said yes.
Captain Dai personally led people to escort Deng Quansheng back to the jail. Xiao Jiading ordered all Deng Quansheng's families to be separated and confessed separately in order to obtain more evidence of the crime.
This matter lasted until dawn the next day before it all ended. The counting of Deng Quansheng's amazing wealth made County Magistrate Kang and others stunned.
When he returned to the yamen, because Deng Quansheng was an official in Shaocheng County and was not suitable for detention in Shaocheng County, the Censor decided to transfer Deng Quansheng to the prefectural government yamen to be detained.
The investigation and prosecution of official duty crimes is the function of the censor. The local government is only responsible for cooperation and the dominance lies in the censorship. Therefore, Xiao Jiading did not participate.
Because this day happened to be the day of the yamen officials' rest, everyone who had nothing to do went back. Xiao Jiading did not go home, and he had a lot of things to do today. He had to go to visit Su Yunxia's mother's grave in the morning, and this had already been agreed that he would go to a association with Du Erniu and the others to hold a poetry meeting at noon. So it was impossible for him to have time to sleep all day, so he could only hope that the poetry meeting would end early so that he could go to bed early.
I haven't slept all night and was too sleepy. I was going to sleep for an hour before going to pay tribute.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he fell asleep, he heard a banging sound of hitting the door. To be precise, it was the sound of kicking the door, which woke him up suddenly, and he didn't fall asleep. He got up and cursed and opened the door: "Who! The door is about to be kicked!"
When the door opened, it turned out to be Kang Xuan, the son of County Magistrate Kang.
Kang Xuan raised his little face, bowed his fists seriously, and said, "Sir, I am here to learn light skills from you! I have agreed to teach me today."
Xiao Jiading slapped his forehead and was so busy that he had forgotten the matter these two days. He hurriedly said, "Sorry, I..., I'm very busy all day today, I'm about to go out. Tomorrow, how good tomorrow? You come tomorrow at noon, I will definitely teach you!"
He had made up his mind that even if he didn't sleep all night, he would learn some light skills to teach this little guy, so he should not always break his promise.
Kang Xuan looked at him, looked very serious, nodded, and said, "Okay then! But you don't need to push back tomorrow at noon!"
"It must! As long as there is no big deal, I will teach you. You can practice what I taught you before first!"
"Yeah! I'm leaving!" Kang Xuan stepped out and went back to the inner house. Xiao Jiading breathed a little relieved and was about to go to bed again, but the loud noise of Kang Xuan kicking the door with his feet had already driven away all his sleep. He was not sleepy for a while, so he simply got up and packed it out. He went to the shop where Xiao Jiading specialized in selling incense paper, bought a bundle of incense, a large stack of paper money, plus the offerings of pork head meat, glutinous rice, melons and fruits that were specially used for visiting the graves, and a large bag of offerings.
Xiao Jiading hired a carriage and sent him to the Nancheng Cliff. He walked forward and arrived after about half an hour. There was a mass grave inside the cliff. The handlebars were unwilling to enter, so he just wanted to wait outside the cliff. Moreover, the road inside was not convenient for the carriage to walk. So Xiao Jiading paid some money in advance and asked him to wait outside, saying that he would come out after the commemoration.
Xiao Jiading walked in with the big bag of things. The grave was quiet and he heard a few crows cry from time to time. It was very suitable for the situation, making the grave even more gloomy.
Xiao Jiading followed the direction Su Laocai said, searched for a long time and finally found the new tomb.
After seeing the grave, he immediately understood why Su Laocai said that only a small monument was erected, which was indeed too small, and it was not a stone monument, but a wooden board with a black pen simply written on it, and there was nothing else.
Xiao Jiading cursed that Su Laocai could afford to marry nine concubines. He bribed him that day and took out a box of money, which meant that he was still worthy of money. His concubine was dead. Since he was buried in such a hurry, he was really unkind!
Xiao Jiading arranged the offerings, put in incense, and started burning paper. He missed a few words, but he didn't know what to say. After all, this was burning paper and incense for others.
He was thinking about what to say, but suddenly he heard footsteps and crying sounds coming from afar. He was coming towards him.
Could it be that Liu's family came to visit her grave? Then you have to hide quickly, otherwise you will be seen, but you can't explain it clearly.
So, Xiao Jiading flashed and hid behind a huge rock beside the grave and squatted.
After a moment, the footsteps and crying came to the grave. From the sound, it seemed like a man, and he was a little old. Could it be Su Laocai?
It is impossible. If Su Laocai would cry in front of Liu's grave, he would not have buried Liu in this messy grave so hastily.
When I arrived at the grave, the whimpering cry stopped, and I seemed to hear the man talking to myself: "Who is here to worship Liu'er...?"
Obviously, this man saw the offerings and burned incense paper by Xiao Family Ding in front of the grave.
After a moment of pause, he heard the man crying, and then the sound of placing sacrifice cups.
Who is it? There is only one person who heard the sound. A middle-aged man went to the Liu family’s grave to cry and worship, which is really interesting. Xiao Jiading couldn’t help but be curious, so he used the weeds under the huge rock as a cover and looked over. He saw a middle-aged man kneeling in front of the grave, putting his own offering next to his offering, and then began to light incense and burn paper.
The man was wearing a coarse cloth shirt and had a vicissitudes of life. Judging from his clothes, he should be an ordinary farmer.
He heard him crying and say, "Liu'er, go with peace of mind, alas! Yunxia's daughter, in order to avenge you, went to the government to complain, but was arrested by the government and was convicted of death. Alas! She will be with you soon. You mother and daughter also have a companion in the underworld and will not be lonely. Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-wo
The man was crying while burning paper money, without wiping his tears. His wrinkles were covered with tears on his face.
After crying for a while, the middle-aged man continued to mutter: "Pity Yunxia. She has paid her life to avenge you... This child is pitiful, alas! If my father was willing to sell the ox as a betrothal gift and marry you, it would not be today. You would not be killed by the poisonous wife, and Yunxia would not have sacrificed her life to avenge you... That time you came to me... If I agreed... Why today...? Alas! This is all fate! After you left crying, I went to find you early in the morning, hiding outside the Su family waiting for you to come out, but I couldn't see you. I regret it...! I regretted it again and again from my dreams. My father found me a wife because I was sorry for you, and I wanted to die. I said at the beginning that I would not marry anyone except marry you! I have been here alone for so many years..."
Speaking of the sadness, he cried again. After a while, he continued to mutter: "I hope that Su Laocai is tired of you and drive you out, or that Su Laocai is dead, you go back to your parents' home, even if I can't marry you, I can see you all the time. Then I will be happy. Who would have thought that the Wu family, who killed thousands of swords, would beat you to death! Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
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