In the lobby of the City God Yamen in Tiantong City, standing on both sides of the lobby, just in front of the City God's Book Case, each ghost trooper holding a water and fire stick was contrary to the previous state of yawning.
The cold wind whirled gently, and the sunlight could not shine on the lobby, and it was a little dim.
The ghost messengers gathered their concentration and stared at Xiao Shizhu with wide eyes, trying to make this verbal appearance in the dark, which made the city god speechless, and carefully see clearly.
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Many ghosts had already admired Xiao Shizhu in their eyes.
In their opinion, Xiao Shizhu in front of him was not only eloquent and knowledgeable, but also brave and dared to speak out for justice.
The city god who was so arrogant in the eyes of the ghost messengers in the past was questioned by Xiao Shizhu without any scruples, leaving the city god speechless.
"As a director, he should be well aware of the laws of Jiuyou. But he knew that he had committed crimes and protected his son and beat him at will in the school, protecting his son so that he could threaten his ghost's life and safety at will. He should be demoted to the people."
Then, Xiao Shizhu took a step forward and continued to say loudly to the City God: "According to the Nine Nether Law, the director must be sentenced to commit a crime of knowingly committing and covering up crimes, and he must be sentenced to at least half a year of labor and imprisonment."
The law of the Nine Nether Kingdom is strict, and there is never a lot of time when there is a net opening.
As long as the evidence is as strong as a mountain, the first and the accomplices will be punished.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Su." At this moment, the local judge beside Chenghuangcheng refuted Xiao Shizhu after Xiao Shizhu finished speaking: "If you want us to sentence the director and his son to be guilty, at least it must be conclusive.
Only evidence is enough. Even if you can prove that the female ghost was injured by the curator's son, it is just physical evidence. There is no evidence or confession, so how can you sentence it?"
That's right, although the law of Jiuyou Kingdom is strict and harsh, it also pays attention to evidence; it is to strive to kill a person well, not to wrongly accuse any ghost, but not to let any prisoner go.
Therefore, it makes sense that the judge used this to refute Xiao Shizhu, and it is not a nonsense.
At least now, Xiao Shizhu has only revealed physical evidence. As for human evidence, the oral statements of him and the female ghost alone are simply insufficient evidence and cannot reach the point where the evidence is as strong as a mountain.
It is true that we cannot convict the director and his son just based on these things.
Xiao Shizhu was suddenly stunned, calmed down a little, and suddenly felt a little regretful and annoyed in his heart.
At the beginning, he should have arrested a few students who came here to court with the curator's son and beat the female ghost, so that someone would witness it.
"What should I do? Do I need to show my identity?" Xiao Shizhu was a little embarrassed for a moment, and thought to himself: "No, the national law is ruthless. Even if I reveal my identity, it is not ironclad. Doing so will only make the ghost who does not understand the truth.
I think I use power to suppress others. If the director and his son use this to make a fortune, I will not be able to argue."
Just as Xiao Shizhu racked his brains and thought about countermeasures, the director and his son sneered again.
The two ghosts were filled with a look of pride.
That’s right, in addition to the protection umbrella of officials protecting each other, there are two reasons why their father and son are not afraid of the law.
First, the director's son often beats and scolds other students, but never causes murder.
Secondly, no ghost will stand up to prove his crime. Because the local city god and judge have a great friendship with the director, they are all called brothers and brothers in private, and all ghosts in Tiantong City know it. In this way,
Even if the director is sued and his son is dismissed, the local city god and judge will probably not let the sue be spared.
It is precisely because of this that their father and son are unscrupulous.
Moreover, the local City God is a lazy official, and everything is focused on turning big things into small things. If you can avoid trouble, you will never deal with it seriously. As long as the director's son does not make a fortune, he can just live by the way, the City God will naturally not take it seriously.
With his friendship with the director, he naturally turned a blind eye to the director's son's bad deeds.
This has been the case this year.
But unexpectedly, Xiao Shizhu came to the door today. And Xiao Shizhu stood in the court without fear and said bluntly that he wanted to tell the director and his son.
This made the City God feel very embarrassed before his judge spoke to him. Because he knew very well that the director's son had indeed done a lot of evil things.
Now, the judge refuted Xiao Shizhu for the City God, which made Xiao Shizhu speechless for a moment, and the City God secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that this matter can be resolved as usual.
"Certified."
But just when the director and son and the city god were both secretly proud and thought they had won, a ghost behind Xiao Shizhu suddenly shouted loudly to the court.
Xiao Shizhu, who was still thinking hard, came back to his senses, turned around and looked at him, and saw a ghost man standing among the group of ghosts, who was working in the school hall. He was raising his right hand to face the city god and judge in the lobby.
He shouted loudly: "I testify that since the director's son entered school last year, the director has repeatedly warned us privately not to meddle in other people's business. So his son has beaten many other students so far, but the director wants to
We ghosts turned a blind eye. Otherwise, he would fire us. So we would not dare to meddle in other people's business."
Seeing Xiao Shizhu's courage, the ghost messenger was unwilling to endure it anymore, nor was he willing to protect the director and his son anymore, and said bluntly what he saw and heard.
As soon as these words came out, the city god and the director in the lobby twitched continuously.
In the outer courtyard of the lobby, the ghosts watching were in an uproar.
Immediately afterwards, another ghost agent in the school took a step forward, squeezed out of the group of ghosts, and continued to shout to the lobby: "This female ghost is a new student who has just entered school this year, and is often bullied by him. Just because the other party is
The weak female ghost, and the family is either rich or noble, or an orphan who is without fathers or mothers, so the director's son bullies her unbridled."
A stone caused a thousand waves, and soon other ghost messengers started talking.
"I have seen the director's son burn the other person's left arm with burnt red charcoal. If you don't believe it, you can roll up the female ghost's sleeve to check it out."
"I have seen the director's son beat this female ghost many times, and even stabbed her in the palm of her hand with scissors, and then laughed at the female ghost crying and laughing."...
After the ghost messengers in the school talked about it, the director's son became frightened and his whole body trembled continuously.
Xiao Shizhu had already walked to the female ghost and said to her softly: "Roll up your sleeves and let me see the scalds."
The female ghost looked gratefully at the ghost servants who were still talking about the bad deeds of the director's son, then nodded to Xiao Shizhu, and slowly rolled up the sleeve on his left arm.
Combined on her arm, blue and purple scars appeared again.
After a while, the burns of the copper-sized coins on the female ghost's arm were also exposed as the sleeves rolled up.
The scalding left an ugly red-brown scar on the female ghost's fair arm, which was extremely eye-catching. Xiao Shizhu gritted his teeth and his face turned pale again.
"Yes, it's this hand." When the female ghost rolled up her sleeves, the ghost messengers shouted again: "It's probably near the elbow."
After hearing the ghost's words, Xiao Shizhu and Chenghuang, and the previous words refuted Judge Xiao Shizhu, looked closely in the dark and saw that the scalding on the female ghost's arm was indeed near the elbow.
The director's son, not far away, suddenly collapsed on the ground, his eyes becoming dull and dull.
The law of Jiuyou Kingdom is very strict, and the director's son knew it well. Now it is really proof that he cannot escape the sentence and labor service.
Although he would not lose his life because of this, the labor force that the ghost prisoners in the Nine Nether Kingdom was second only to the Northern Yin Dynasty; it was the most painful and tiring among the many other ghost countries outside the Northern Yin Dynasty. Many ghost prisoners were the most difficult and tiring among the many other ghost countries outside the Northern Yin Dynasty.
, even failed to live until the expiration of the labor service.
Be lenient to others, and only target law-abiding ghosts in the Nine Nether Kingdom.
In front of the ironclad evidence, the director and his son finally felt a sense of despair.
But it seems that retribution will be late, but it will never be absent. Just as the director and his son were in despair, Qinglan and Xiao Shizhu's guards walked in with a few students from the school.
The students kept hanging their heads and did not dare to lift them up and look at him.
Xiao Shizhu looked back and recognized one of the students, who was the student who had been beating people with the director's son before, and was overjoyed.
It seems that Qinglan learned about this from the Imperial Guards, and hurried to the school to bring the director's son's former friends.
Looking at Qinglan and his guards, bringing the three or five students to the main hall, Xiao Shizhu smiled at Qinglan and said, "It's really timely."
Although Xiao Shizhu didn't know what Qinglan used to bring these students, it is undeniable that Qinglan's move solved Xiao Shizhu's urgent need.
"Mr. Chenghuang." After briefly reporting that he was Xiao Shizhu, the follower who called himself Mr. Su, Qinglan said to the high-ranking City God: "These are the accomplices who beat the female ghost together with the director's son. This is learning.
The museum is a matter that everyone knows. Please ask the City God to enforce the law impartially and make a fair judgment after asking the rules.”
"Yes, they are the director's son's friends, and they are the ghosts who bully other students together."
Outside the lobby, the ghost servants from the school started shouting in unison again.
The curator's son, who was sitting depressedly on the ground, had his eyes full of despair.
The City God, who was struggling to get off the tiger, looked at the judge beside him, but when he saw the judge, he looked helpless and at a loss.
After thinking for a while, the City God could only bite the bullet and questioned several students brought by Qinglan according to the procedure.
The result was that although Xiao Shizhu impulsively made a brave act, he did not wrongly accuse the director's son.
In this way, the City God will be even more embarrassed.
The verdict also proves that he had done nothing before and blindly tolerating the curator's father and son, and was guilty of dereliction of duty. If he did not make a verdict, it would definitely cause public grievances.
Moreover, the City God saw that Xiao Shizhu was not like a ghost who was easy to mess with. He knew that it was impossible to pass Xiao Shizhu casually like he did when he was sent to other ghosts. He was even more embarrassed for a while and couldn't help but take off his black hat, scratching his ears and cheeks, and he was very annoyed and irritable.
anxiety.
Xiao Shizhu was not in a hurry. He walked towards the director's son who was still stunned. He took out a box of ointment from his sleeve, pulled the little ghost's hand, and applied some ointment to the other party's wrist that was pinched by him.
, and gave the box of ointment to the little ghost again: "If you apply this medicine for ten days, the bone cracks on your hands will be healed. Be a good ghost, and don't just rely on your official father to do whatever you want next time.
Next time, what I pinched off is not your wrist, it will definitely pinch your neck."
Before the little devil could come back to his senses, Xiao Shizhu walked to the middle of the lobby again, stood behind him facing the anxious City God, and said loudly behind his back: "Please follow the rules and make a judgment."...
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The waves slammed the shore and violently hit the huge rocks at the foot of Dushuo Mountain, and the Jiuyou National Fortifications built on the coast.
The wind and rain were swaying in the huge waves, and the darkness was dim under the dark clouds.
Occasionally, there is a rapid sunlight, and beams of light are sprinkled through the tiny gaps between the dark clouds, which are also in the dark, making them pale and powerless.
However, the rain and mist spots floating across the rain curtains all over the sky were clearly illuminated.
Huge waves roar on the turbulent sea surface, and as the wind gushed, huge waves several feet high rolled in. There was no longer the peace and tranquility of the past.
Under the storm, it stood on Mount Dushuo by the sea, but because the thousand-mile canopy of the big tree on the top of the mountain was not destroyed by heavy rain.
However, the soil is filled with moisture, and the stones are mostly covered with water droplets on Dushuo Mountain, but it is filled with the breath of death.
In less than ten days, more than 3,000 ghosts were infected with the ghost disease and plague in the army of Jiuyou Kingdom stationed here. Half of the sick ghost soldiers failed to see the strong winds and heavy rains all over the sky after dawn today.
The mortality rate is so high, but the cure rate is very low, which makes the near to Dushuo Mountain full of a terror and panic atmosphere.
If the soldier who died of illness was not as good as the soul of the human being, his body would turn into dust and dust shortly after his death, and the plague in his body would disappear.
If the demon soul is in trouble, the body will be immortal after death, and the plague will remain in the corpse.
King Yama had to order the bodies of the dead soldiers who died of illness were burned, and the bodies would never be buried with soil covered by sand, and would not be transported directly to the soldiers' hometown.
Any corpse burned by flames will be filled with ashes into various boxes and then prepared to be sent back to the soldiers' families.
This is not the most headache for King Yama; the thing that makes him the most headache is that he still cannot determine what the source of the disease comes from? Where is it?
This made King Yama unable to eliminate the plague from the source. It was really difficult to control the epidemic by relying solely on drugs, and it felt like a drop in the bucket.
Only by eliminating the source of the disease can we better control the epidemic.
Just when King Yama was in a state of turmoil, his guards came to report that there was a scarred Tushan soul. He came to the door and threatened to tell King Yama what the source of the disease was? (To be continued)