Hearing Master Zhang reminded him again, Si Fan took the paper and began to look carefully. After thinking about it for a moment, he was amused. Master Zhang smiled and agreed: "Yes, Dongweng. The king wanted only face. He didn't send the body to the yamen, nor did he complain, nor did he think about asking you to go to the court. He just waited for you to say something, as long as he could give an explanation, the matter would be over."

"Yes." Si Fan nodded, but he was still cautious in his work. "Do you know which company is behind Xiaohongling?"

"It's the He Mansion of the Grand Sima family." Seeing Si Fan's face suddenly change, Master Zhang quickly explained, "The third young lady of the He Mansion also sent a post, and she also received a gift of 100 taels."

"Oh? Come on the post." Si Fan took the post from Master Zhang, opened it and read it carefully several times, thinking, "We parents and officials should punish us a little bit. We don't need to show the public a shackle, just be punished directly! Alas! After ten years of hard work, we have been well-read for sages, but we still have to be a slander for those who are profit-oriented. What a far cry from the beginning of benevolence."

Just obediently, Master Zhang instantly understood Si Fan's meaning. Si Fan did not complain that the Wang family had ruined his compassion (compassion is the verge of benevolence), but was picky about the Wang family's gifts being too light: "Dongweng, the student will ask Wang Yuanwai to add another 200 taels."

"Yeah." Si Fan shook his hand and seemed to be slandering when he heard Brother Kong Fang. He threw a sentence from afar, "Ask those clerks, please come to the yamen quickly and surrender. Let them follow the rules!"

Master Zhang was happy. This was Si Fan's acquiescent approval of the agency in the yamen to collect benefits. So he came to the sixth room of the yamen office excitedly, grabbed a clerk and asked a few questions, and then asked him to go and call someone quickly. After a while, Gu Zhaohe, the chief of the fast-track team, hurriedly ran in, bowed and asked, "Mr. Zhang, do you have any questions to tell me?"

"Yes." In front of Gu Zhaohe, Master Zhang took off his airs, "Bai Er should be yours, right? Let him hand over eight people to the yamen to surrender. His affairs were infringed, and his private fight hurt his life, causing a lot of resentment. The magistrate ordered that eight lives be repaid!"

"Ah?" Gu Zhaohe raised his head in surprise.

It’s not strange that this is the way it is. In this era, the government handles group private fights, which is basically so simple and crude. Since one side has injured a person’s life, one life will be repaid. There is no time to find any real murderer. Anyway, you can choose the person yourself and then execute it.

The county government offices in the Ming Dynasty actually had no right to execute people. Cases that were more than 100 poaches needed to be transferred to the government office, the provincial criminal prosecution department, and the Ministry of Justice for review at all levels. Even the extreme punishment required the emperor to decide.

However, there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. You can use a large shackle of hundreds of pounds to exhaust people to death. You can also use heavy measures to kill people when you are punished. The yamen runners who use punishment have their own skills. They can be beaten to death with just a few ruthless actions, or they can use up the punishment to be ugly, and they can jump to the ground on the spot.

Anyway, there was an explanation from the other party that "it was unbearable to the torture and died of weakness." Therefore, here, Si Fan chose to kill the rod with a relatively "pleasant" approach. For the government, this was already a kind of kindness.

At this time, Gu Zhaohe was surprised that his subordinate relationship with Qin Bai could not stand the scrutiny at all. In fact, if Qin Bai didn't even miss Gu Zhaohe, Gu Zhaohe would have no choice.

However, seeing Gu Zhaohe's embarrassed expression, Master Zhang lowered his face: "Old Gu, do you still want to discount the things assigned by the magistrate? It's not that Bai Er surrenders himself, but that he wants to pick people! Do you want to save everyone who has followed you? It's so interesting. Do you want me to praise you? Just you, Gu, understand the righteousness of Yuntian?"

Seeing that Master Zhang was really angry, Gu Zhaohe didn't dare to hesitate anymore. He smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, you are a little boy. How dare you not know the master and your praise? The little boy will go to Jingjiazhuang now and promise to let Bai Er send him."

Gu Zhaohe thought, anyway, he could pick a few miners or draw a lot to draw a few bad guys. He would not hurt Qin Bai and his brothers. This trip was not difficult, and Qin Bai would not refuse.

After leaving the county government, Gu Zhaohe summoned several of his subordinates, then led his horse out of the city, and they rode towards Jingjiazhuang...

...

In the inner courtyard of the second yard, several women were gathering together to talk.

"Sister Yingzi, are you talking about the match? Did you sell it all out in a moment?" Wei Peiying asked Li Ying curiously. She was well raised during her confinement period and had a slightly rich figure. Moreover, this time Cao Dacai came home, and he seemed to have become much more "gentle" in his speech and behavior, and Wei Peiying's beautiful face also had a lot of smiles.

"It's really sold out, it's just a while. Actually, there's no need to worry about this at all. No matter what the second brother does, it's reassuring to do." Li Ying smiled and said, "Yaoer, have you talked to me this time?"

Ding Yao was a little shy and a little distressed. She lowered her head, bit her red lips and shook her head slightly.

Li Ying was very enthusiastic and said, "Then should you find a way to meet your second brother more?"

"But... but we haven't gotten married yet." Ding Yao said softer and softer, "and... he is still busy."

"We have already lived in the same yard, do you still care about this?" Li Ying laughed, "My second brother has a good temper. He will talk, but he won't eat you."

"Hehe." Wei Peiying on the side smiled and joked, "It was only after eating her that she could fulfill her wish."

"No!" Ding Yao's eyes looked around and lost focus.

Miao Ya, who was beside her, said angrily: "The master has a bad temper at all, so he will drive away from me."

"Hehehe..."

“…”

...

And in the outer room, several men also sat together.

Li Gan seemed very excited: "Brother Bai, this match is really easy to sell. Should I let the village stop everything else and make a match first? If the staff is not enough, let some of the mining people come over. We can also recruit people from the market. This money can be made easy."

"Haha, it's easy to make money?" Wu Lisong sneered.

Li Gan asked in confusion: "Is what I said wrong? I will have 100 taels in a while, and I can get 3,000 taels per month! God, 3,000 taels of silver, 3,000 taels of silver! I have never seen so much money! I never thought about it. Brother Bai, is there really that much?"

"Hehe." Qin Bai smiled and said nothing.
Chapter completed!