The sun is particularly bright in the early morning.
The internal government office of Suanzao County has been temporarily transformed into the palace where the Supreme Emperor resided.
Wearing armor and holding sharp guards, they take three steps to a post and five steps to a sentry.
The small inner yamen guard was airtight.
Zhao Ji was sitting in the lobby, happily eating the fruit provided by the place, and his eyes fell on the person under the steps.
The man had a big head and a fat intestine. He was wearing a county magistrate's robe and an official hat on his head that was obviously several sizes smaller than his head.
The fat magistrate placed his hands cautiously by his side and stood respectfully at the foot of the steps with his head lowered.
Zhao Ji looked at the county magistrate and became more and more pleased with him.
He reached out and patted the hands of the two beauties beside him, then sat up and praised: "County Magistrate Wang, not bad, very good!"
"Such a barren wild jujube can actually have such a large-scale county government. The food and drink expenses prepared for me are similar to those in Kaifeng. I can see that you are very motivated!"
County Magistrate Wang was delighted when he heard this, but he did not dare to raise his head. He just knelt on the ground respectfully with his butt raised high.
He shouted, "The official family's Longxing Jujube is a great honor for the small county! It deserves no praise from the officials!"
Zhao Ji nodded and was about to say something.
The grievance drum outside the county government office sounded loudly, and Zhao Ji frowned slightly.
Magistrate Wang looked at the steps with dissatisfaction and asked, "What's the matter?"
Magistrate Wang raised his hand to wipe the oily beads of sweat from his forehead, clasped his fists and said nervously: "Don't worry, officials, there are probably some unruly people coming to make trouble. I will go to the front office to deal with it now!"
"Well!" Zhao Ji closed his eyes slightly, with a look of displeasure on his face.
Magistrate Wang just knelt there respectfully without daring to take a breath.
Big beads of sweat on his forehead kept dripping to the ground.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Ji waved his hand slightly.
"Go!"
"Yes! I obey the order!"
Magistrate Wang immediately felt as if he had been granted amnesty.
He hurriedly stood up and saluted Zhao Ji again, took three steps back, and then turned around and left.
After County Magistrate Wang left, Zhao Ji opened his eyes and snorted coldly, "Humph! It's disappointing!"
Then he looked at the two beauties beside him and said with a smile: "Come on! Keep going!"
When County Magistrate Wang left the yamen and entered the lobby of the yamen, the previous submissiveness and trepidation suddenly disappeared without a trace.
The whole person's back straightened up in an instant, and a pair of eyes as big as mung beans emitted a captivating cold light.
In the lobby, government officials holding water and fire sticks on both sides made the county government lobby look particularly majestic.
In front of the hall, a student from an unknown college was kneeling. On the other side was an old man in his fifties or sixties, holding his legs and wailing.
In the middle of the lobby, the large gold-plated characters "Mirror Hanging High" in the west look shining brightly.
Magistrate Wang was sitting in the lobby, and a tall, skinny master appeared out of nowhere and sat on a small table next to the hall table.
After showing off his grandeur, Magistrate Wang suddenly slapped the hall with his hands, and his green bean eyes quickly scanned the two people kneeling in the hall.
"Mighty~!"
The government officials moved the water and fire sticks and followed the procedures.
Magistrate Wang was shocked again, "Who are you! What's going on! Why don't you come to me one by one in front of me!"
The old man on the ground hurriedly took a step forward on his knees and wailed: "Master Qingtian, you have to make decisions for the common people!"
Pointing at the kneeling student on the other side of the hall, he said, "It was him. He was the one who knocked me to the ground and broke the old man's leg! Not only did he not compensate, he also bit the old man, saying that I was the one who hit him. Broken!"
Then he dragged his legs and kowtowed to Magistrate Wang in the hall, crying: "Master Qingtian, you have to make decisions for the common people!"
Magistrate Wang frowned impatiently and slapped the tree again, "Be quiet! Who beat the drum before to complain?"
The student, who had been angry with the old man for a long time, turned blue when he heard this, and glared at the old man beside him.
Then he bowed his hands to Magistrate Wang who was sitting in the hall and said, "My Lord Magistrate, I am a student of Taoyuan Academy, Wang Jiefu!"
Someone pointed at the old man and said, "On the way to the college today, I found this old man lying on the ground, so I kindly stepped forward to help him up."
"Unexpectedly, the old man bit him back. Fei grabbed Xiaosheng and insisted that it was Xiaosheng who hit him. He opened his mouth and asked for two taels of silver!"
"The young student was entangled by him, and out of helplessness, he came to beat the drum and voice his grievances!"
Magistrate Wang frowned and looked at Wang Jiefu with an increasingly unkind look.
Just this boy, the drumming just now made him unhappy before he could show off in front of the officials.
When I heard that it was such a trivial matter, I felt even more angry.
The old man in the hall was very anxious. He pointed at Wang Jiefu and cursed: "It's unreasonable! You are still a student, but you still talk nonsense when you bump into someone. Everything you have learned has been learned in the dog's belly!"
"Slander! You are slandering! Old man, Xiaosheng helped you up kindly, why do you slander Xiaosheng like this? Are you giving up your face just for a few dirty coins?"
"you……"
"Snapped!"
Before the old man finished speaking, the gavel sounded again in the lobby.
Magistrate Wang said impatiently: "Okay, okay! Now I understand!"
Wang Jiefu hurriedly knelt down and waited for Magistrate Wang to speak.
In his opinion, the county magistrate was a man who also read poetry and books, and would definitely reveal the despicable old man's face.
Unexpectedly, Magistrate Wang's words shocked him.
"Student Wang Jiefu is the first to bump into others, and the second is to falsely accuse others! He is even more audacious. The evildoers are the first to complain and beat the drum of injustice."
"I pronounce the verdict: Wang Jiefu will be fined with a tattoo of two taels of silver, and compensation will be paid to the old man who was knocked down by him!"
"Also, for his righteous academic style, he will be sentenced to twenty rods! He will be executed immediately!"
After saying that, Magistrate Wang reached out and grabbed the lottery box on the hall table.
Wang Jiefu was shocked when he heard this. He hurriedly raised his hands to County Magistrate Wang and said, "Your Majesty, the county magistrate has learned that Xiaosheng never bumped into this old man. He only helped him up out of kindness!"
"In addition, Xiaosheng has classmates as proof!"
Magistrate Wang rolled his big mung bean eyes and snorted coldly, "Huh! Since you are classmates, you must be colluding. How can your words prove it?"
"Besides, hum, if you didn't hit the person, why did you help him?"
When Wang Jiefu heard this, he looked at the magistrate in astonishment above the lobby, under the tall mirror with the word "西" hanging high.
Kneeling straight, his shoulders couldn't help but stretch.
At this moment, he just felt that the Five Classics of Western Books he had learned were so vulnerable?
He didn't hit it, why should he help it? Can't he help me?
Magistrate Wang's pronouncement immediately caused the onlookers to point and discuss.
"Then Wang Er Mazi is used to idleness. I often see him playing porcelain on the street!"
"No, this young man is going to be in trouble!"
"Hey! Who says it's not the case? Good people don't get rewarded!"
"Yeah, I didn't expect it to be so difficult to do good deeds nowadays!"
“……”
Magistrate Wang heard what the people said, and suddenly became furious and slapped Xingmu repeatedly.
"Quiet! Quiet!"
The people were frightened by the majesty of the county government and fell silent one after another.
Seeing that the scene had calmed down, Magistrate Wang curled his lips in disdain, "The unruly people are the unruly people!"
So, he reached out and grabbed the lottery ticket.
At this moment, an inappropriate voice came from outside the lobby.
"I'm afraid this county magistrate's surname is not Wang, but Hao, right?"
