Chapter 205: Passing the Hall (1)
Li Chunfeng's heart kept hanging until the official turned around and breathed a sigh of relief because he saw Xue Yan's replenishment.
Fourth grade.
It seems that the local officials in Jinling City are no higher than the other places.
After the old man sat down, his little eyes glanced at the hall and said slowly: "Who in the hall? Why don't he kneel when he sees me?"
"Li Chunfeng is down to Lingyun Mountain." Li Chunfeng replied, then paused and said, "One of the twenty-eight constellations."
"Oh?" When the prefect heard the name of the twenty-eight constellations, he opened his eyes slightly and said, "The twenty-eight constellations of Lingyun? So young. I have never seen you."
"I have only been promoted to the twenty-eight constellations this year. I have been practicing hard on the mountain before, so I have never seen it before." Li Chunfeng lowered his head and replied.
"That's how it is." The prefect stroked his white beard and said slowly: "Since they are Lingyun's twenty-eight constellations, they should be law-abiding people. Why do they still know that the law is broken?"
"I don't know." Li Chunfeng replied: "What crime did you commit?"
"Everyone is like this, are you annoying?" the prefect said impatiently. Then he flipped through the files on the table and said, "Li Jin, a native of Jizhou. Do you know him?"
Sure enough, Li Chunfeng said in his heart. Then he said calmly: "I did meet a man named Li Jin yesterday. But I don't know if he is from Jizhou."
"That's it." The prefect said: "He was killed last night. Do you know?"
"Are you killed?" Li Chunfeng was surprised and said in a little bit: "I don't know."
"I knew they were all those who didn't see the coffin and didn't cry." The prefect said with a lip service, "Come on, bring the witness."
The free yamen runners went to take the hostages in the audience. Li Chunfeng took advantage of this time to look down at the three people kneeling on the ground.
Fortunately, Jiuyun did not show any strange expression because he was confident in Li Chunfeng. And those two brothers had a personality that was not afraid of heaven or earth. Especially Huang Er, when he saw Li Chunfeng looking at him, he smiled indifferently.
Not long after, the yamen runners came back. When Li Chunfeng heard the sound, he looked back and recognized that he was the drunk man who had eaten in the dining room yesterday. At this moment, he was much more awake. When he passed by Li Chunfeng, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.
"Witness." The prefect witness was brought there, without saying a word. He asked, "Where are you from?"
"Zhang Wanqiang, the grass man, is from Huzhou." The man knelt on his knees and kowtowed.
"Zhang Wanqiang." The prefect leaned forward and said, "Do you recognize this person standing?"
"Recognize it." Zhang Wanqiang nodded.
"Who is he?" said the magistrate.
"The grass people don't know." Zhang Wanqiang looked at Li Chunfeng and said noddedly.
"Bold Zhang Wanqiang!" The prefect slapped the agglomeration suddenly, scaring everyone, including Li Chunfeng. Then he said, "This is in the court. Are you teasing me?"
"The grass-roots dare not!" Zhang Wanqiang was so scared that he knocked to the ground and said, "Sir, please say a few words to Rong Xiaomin."
"Tell me!" the prefect said.
"Caomin really doesn't know what this person is. He only knows that he is a fourth-generation disciple of Lingyun Mountain. He met him in the lobby of Ruyi Tower yesterday."
"Oh?" The prefect seemed to have heard something interesting, and looked at Li Chunfeng with great interest and said, "Fourth generation of disciples?"
"He lies." Li Chunfeng said calmly.
"I didn't!" Zhang Wanqiang stopped hearing this, and stood up and said.
"Kneel down!" He did not have the treatment of Li Chunfeng. The yamen runner behind him kicked his knee. With a "thump", he knelt down on the ground again.
"I am not a disciple of the fourth generation." Li Chunfeng looked at him and then said, "I am the twenty-eight constellations of Lingyun Mountain. This is the disciple of the fourth generation." He pointed at Jiuyun.
"This..." Zhang Wanqiang was stunned. He never dreamed that what he offended was not an ordinary fourth-generation disciple, or even a third-generation white-clothed disciple. But the twenty-eight constellations who were above Lingyun Mountain, second only to Jiuyao.
For a moment, he couldn't speak.
Li Chunfeng continued, "Because my identity is quite special, I am not wearing the Taoist robe of the twenty-eight constellations. So do you think I am also a disciple of the fourth generation?"
"Li Chunfeng." The prefect spoke and said, "It's not time for you to ask. When our mansion asks you, what evidence do you have to prove that you are the Twenty-Eight Constellations of Lingyun?"
Li Chunfeng was stunned when he heard this. He thought to himself, what was the prefect doing? He was too careless about asking the case? In theory, shouldn’t he find evidence of his murder? Why did he remember to ask if he was the twenty-eight constellations? It was just a matter of interest?
But he really couldn't help but answer this. What privilege gave him was that he didn't kneel down. He didn't make him so arrogant that he could despise the court. So he thought for a while and said, "I have all the evidence and evidence. I wonder which one do you want to see first?"
"Oh?" the prefect smiled and said, "Why is the physical evidence? Where is the human evidence?"
"It's physical evidence." Li Chunfeng smiled and said, "Just in the room of Immortal Tower, if the adults send someone to take a trip, they will find that there is a set of Taoist robes in my clothes that are Lingyun's twenty-eight constellations."
"Come!" the prefect shouted.
It is probably because the yamen runners go on duty. So the prefect arranged for someone to go to Li Chunfeng's room.
The yamen runners were very fast, and soon after, people came back. They were holding Li Chunfeng's Taoist robe, but after such a long time of running around and several battles, they were a little ragged.
"Come on." The prefect saw that the clothes were back and shouted, "Does any of you know this clothes?"
After reading all the yamen runners, one of them finally stood up and said, "Sir, I have seen these twenty-eight constellations once."
"Oh?" the prefect smiled and said, "Tell me quickly."
"It's true to look at the color and style of the costume." The yamen runner hesitated and said, "However, since the subordinates have not seen it close, they cannot tell the truth or the false."
"It means I didn't say it." The prefect cursed with a smile: "If even the style is wrong, will he dare to take it out?"
"Sir, do you suspect that this dress is fake?" Li Chunfeng said.
"It's normal for human nature." The prefect said: "After all, no one present has seen this thing. If I believe you, wouldn't it mean that you can just find someone to walk in in such a dress? You can say that you are from Lingyun Mountain?"
"Sir, this is extremely true." Li Chunfeng smiled and said, "Then I have to bother you to find someone to testify."
"Where is the witness?" the prefect looked at Li Chunfeng and smiled.
"Well." Li Chunfeng lowered his head and thought, "Now in the capital, there should be a few people who know my identity. I am just afraid that the adults will not be invited."
"Is this arousing my official?" the prefect laughed and said, "But it's okay."
"Crown Prince, King Ning." Li Chunfeng said slowly: "I can confirm that these two people are the only ones in the capital."
"Hahahaha." The prefect laughed.
Li Chunfeng looked at him and felt a little strange. According to common sense, if a person feels that he has been fooled and is emotionally turbulent, he is very likely to laugh. But this prefect is different. He gives Li Chunfeng the feeling that he smiles from the bottom of his heart and is very happy. It seems that he has encountered something particularly happy.
"Why do you sir?" Li Chunfeng saw that he was laughing so wrong, so he spoke.
"Crown Prince? Prince Ning?" The prefect slowed down and said seriously: "Why don't you say you are the current emperor?"
"Sir, I think what I said is untrue?" Li Chunfeng said.
"Not that." The prefect said: "But it's hard to prove it."
"Then I can't do anything about it." Li Chunfeng spread his hands and said, "Only the prince, the king of Ning and I can't do it. I have been practicing hard on the mountain since I was a child. There are really not many people who have seen me in the secular world."
"There is nothing to do with this official." The prefect also spread his hands as Li Chunfeng, saying, "What crime should you be guilty of deceiving this official?"
"I don't know." Li Chunfeng said in his heart that the prefect has no logic at all. He then said loudly: "Everything I said is true. Moreover, whether I am the twenty-eight constellations of Lingyun, I personally think that it has nothing to do with this case. I wonder why the Lord is chasing him relentlessly in this matter?"
"Oh? Yes." The prefect slapped his head and said, "It's all because Zhang Wanqiang has caused me to deviate from this case. Come on! Let's go down and hit the five big shots first!"
"Ah?" Zhang Wanqiang, who was watching the fun just now, didn't expect that the prefect's head would turn so strangely. He hit him as soon as he came up and shouted: "The grass people are wronged! Master is merciless!"
"Bold!" The prefect slapped the awkward again and said, "You are also a martial arts practitioner. These five big boards should not be a big deal for you. Just treat it as a punishment. It depends on whether you dare to talk nonsense in the future."
Since that's the case, Zhang Wanqiang had nothing to say. He had to grit his teeth and thrust the five big boards.
"Okay." The prefect continued to see that he had finished fighting, "Zhang Wanqiang, let me ask you. Li Jin, do you recognize him?"
"Caomin doesn't recognize it." Zhang Wanqiang learned his lesson this time, and before the prefect answered, he continued: "Caomin has no contact with Li Jin. But yesterday, he encountered Li Jin and the Taoist priest quarreled with the Taoist priest. Because Caomin was drunk at the time, he felt that Li Jin seemed to be saying something. So he stood up and helped. Afterwards, a woman who claimed to be a boy-faced person in Qingliufang appeared. After saying a few words, everyone who was eating at that time dispersed. Li Jin, Caomin remembered that he was taken away by the Taoist priest."
"Li Chunfeng!" The prefect turned to Li Chunfeng and said, "I asked you, is what Zhang Wanqiang said true?"
"Except for what Li Jin said makes sense, the rest are all facts." Li Chunfeng nodded and said.
There is nothing to deny about this. Zhang Wanqiang must have been the only one who saw this scene at that time.
Chapter completed!