LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 8
The two groped their way to the door in the dark and heard some noise outside.
"Wait a minute." Di Renjie stopped Song Zhen.
Outside the door——
"Wu Xuli, there are really dirty things in it."
"Isn't it normal to have dirty things in the tomb?"
"Not normal! That's not the dirty things you understand, but... I don't know how to describe it."
Wu Xuli sneered: "Could it be that there are ghosts in it?"
"Ah, right, right! That's right! That's right!" The guard nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
"Hahaha, under the shining grace of the saints, how can there be a place for ghosts in the world?"
Song Zhen, who was hiding behind the door, laughed. This young man looked like an honest man who had not experienced the beatings of society.
So, he covered his face with his long hair again, slowly opened his mouth, and a sad female voice came out slowly.
"Woo, woo, woo, my family is in misfortune. I was harmed by a traitor. Who can make peace?"
"Give me back my life..."
"I won't accept this!"
Wu Xuli's ears immediately stood up and even trembled a few times.
"Come, come, the ghost is coming..." The guard was so scared that he ran away with his hands and feet.
Wu Xuli was left alone, shivering in the cold wind.
He turned his head back little by little with difficulty, and suddenly-
He saw a disheveled face! It was less than ten centimeters away from his face. He couldn't see its face, but there was a faint trace of blood at the corner of its mouth.
"Ah, ghost!" Wu Xuli forgot the ability to think, and he ran away more embarrassedly than the guard.
Song Zhen looked down and saw that he had dropped a horizontal sword? After checking that there was no special mark, he quietly put the sword away.
"Let's go, stop playing."
"Hehe." Song Zhen lifted his long hair and no longer maintained this scary look.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears, Di Renjie would never have thought that there are men in the world who can make female voices.
It's really amazing.
There was no opera at this time in the Tang Dynasty. The performance form of Taiwanese opera was basically based on singing and dancing, with very few performance elements.
He couldn't help but ask curiously: "Where did you learn all these skills from?"
"Oh, I learned it from the UP master on Bilibili."
"A Pozhu?" Di Renjie was stunned. This name sounded like a Hu person.
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The two went back to the prison and sealed part of the excavated soil back.
Pretend nothing happened.
Di Renjie sorted out the clues of the case in his mind, and then based on the information he had collected before.
He came to a conclusion! He probably locked in the candidate for the murderer in his mind.
But the biggest problem now is, how should he get out?
He is in prison, but he can't prove the murderer.
Di Renjie turned his head to look at Song Zhen and found that this guy had fallen asleep unknowingly. He was really careless.
He smiled and shook his head, first moved the bed straight, then lay on the cold and hard wooden bed, unable to sleep for a long time.
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Three days later, Governor Lu returned from a business trip.
"What? Huaiying dared to do such a daring thing?"
Lu Yang couldn't believe it. In his impression, Di Renjie had always been a good employee who worked hard and never complained.
He was stubborn and never gave up until he got to the bottom of it.
To be honest, people in their industry need such talents.
Lu Yang has always admired Di Renjie very much.
But now, he actually did such a ridiculous thing?
"Could it be that there is another hidden story?" Lu Yang thought he knew Di Renjie.
Although Di Renjie was stubborn, his character and personality were not a problem.
He would never do this for no reason!
"Bring Song Zhen's case file to me."
Lu Yang carefully checked it, but did not find any problems!
He was puzzled. Did he see the wrong person?
Governor Lu got up and went to the prison. He wanted to meet Di Renjie in person to ask him clearly.
"Huaiying, what happened?"
Di Renjie pursed his lips and said reluctantly: "That night, I took Song Zhen to the crime scene. I have confirmed that he is not the murderer."
"Stupid! How dare you take a death row prisoner out? Even if he is not the murderer, you are familiar with the Yonghui Law Commentary. Don't you know that you will be punished for doing so?"
Article 466 of the Tang Law Commentary: "Officials in charge of the prison shall be reduced by three levels. Those who let the prisoner go will not be given a time limit for arrest and will be convicted according to their crimes."
In short, officials who deliberately let the criminal go will not be given a time limit for pursuit, and will be convicted and sentenced according to the crime of the fugitive. It will be another matter if they find him.
If Song Zhen escapes and is sentenced to death, Di Renjie will also be beheaded on the execution ground.
The consequences are very serious, and it is no wonder that Governor Lu is so disappointed.Song Zhen said, "Lu, you're not curious about why Di Panzuo took me out?"
"Shut up!" Lu Yang glared at him and interrupted him.
"Lu, what's the crime of beheading before the report?"
Lu Yang frowned. What's going on? Is there such a thing?
"Tell me more."
"Song Zhen was sentenced to death without a trial. He was not given a chance to appeal. The next day, he was arrested by a petty official and taken to the guillotine. If I hadn't arrived in time, he would have been beheaded."
Is this true? Lu was shocked.
Good fellow, during the time when I was away on business, you guys all made a fuss, right? You made such a big mess for me?
"Who did it?" Lu Yang asked with a gloomy face.
"Zhao Youguang, the prefect of Fengqiu County, was in charge of the trial of this case, and according to Cui Changshi, it was the clerks of Fengqiu County who took Song Zhen to the execution ground."
Lu Yang fainted with anger, and he cursed: "A bunch of dogs and rats!"
Compared with Di Renjie's secret release of the death row prisoner, the behavior of "beheading before waiting for the report" is undoubtedly worse.
Di Renjie's behavior was just an individual behavior, while "beheading before waiting for the report" affected an entire group.
Although Governor Lu had sufficient evidence to get rid of the relationship, his subordinates made such a big mistake, and he, as a superior, could not escape the blame, which would definitely have a very negative impact on his career.
Lu Yang waved his hand and left the prison angrily. He wanted to settle accounts with Cui Hao and Zhao Youguang!
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"Minister of Works, Bianzhou will be here soon." The accompanying Imperial Censor Wang Yifang gently lifted the curtain of the carriage and called to the people inside.
"Okay, let's take a rest here." A man with a long beard laughed.
The carriage stopped in front of an inn, and Wang Yifang helped the man get off the carriage.
"Minister Yan, I don't know why you..."
"I know what you want to ask, it's nothing more than why I came here in person."
Wang Yifang nodded. Logically speaking, why should a dignified third-rank boss come here in person for such a small matter as delivering the appointment documents?
To be honest, he shouldn't have come here as a fifth-rank assistant censor.
"I have a friend in Bianzhou. Two years ago, when I was the governor of Henan Province, I met a talent for governing the country when I was responsible for the assessment of officials."
Wang Yifang was surprised. He silently took out the appointment documents in the package and asked uncertainly: "Is that person Di Renjie?"
"Hahaha, that's right!" Yan Liben showed a look of reminiscence, and he spoke slowly.
"I am good at drawing and portraiture. I have my own ideas about what I want to draw and what I don't. There are very few people who want to draw and feel the urge to draw them at the first sight of them."
"And Di Renjie is one of the very few people who must be drawn."
Wang Yifang was shocked. He didn't expect that Minister Yan's evaluation of this person was so high?
He couldn't help but be curious about the Bianzhou judge named Di Renjie, no, he would soon be the Bingzhou lawyer.
Who is he?
Then, Wang Yifang took out a booklet from the package, and his expression suddenly became strange.
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