As a Nascent Soul Realm demon cultivator, Jiang Lan has been cultivating in the Tang Dynasty for more than two thousand years. She knows very well that the demon clan is very weak in this southern continent.
Not to mention the Heavenly Court, even the Taoist sects with influence throughout the entire Nanzhan Continent would not let the demon cultivator do whatever they want.
Jiang Lan knew in her heart that nothing would happen if she killed Liu Daye in revenge for her son.
But now that the Earth God of Daliuzhuang has come forward, she can't do it directly. Today's world is no better than before, especially in the Tang Dynasty of Nanzhan Buzhou where the ancestor of humanities was born. There are many Taoist monks who can destroy her family.
Her son was already dead, and his soul had been captured by ghosts. Deep down in her heart, she knew that wanting her son to be resurrected was already a delusion.
So she only had one idea, and that was to make Liu Daye pay for his life and seek justice for her son.
After listening to Jiang Lan's plea, Zheng Li felt a little worried about this case. As the chief clerk of the Yanzhou Prefecture's Prison Department, he naturally had his own judgment on such cases.
So after Zheng Li hesitated for a moment, he said to Jiang Lan: "Jiang Lan, I understand your pain of losing your son, and I also understand your mood of avenging your son. But I want to make something clear to you. Don't refute it first. Listen. I’ll finish, how about it?”
Jiang Lan heard this and nodded while crying: "Sir, please speak."
Zheng Li said: "First of all, it was your son who broke into Daliu Village, not the people from Daliu Village who came to your cave and beat your son to death, right?"
Jiang Lan was stunned when she heard this and wanted to argue, but Zheng Li said: "Don't argue, just say yes or no."
Jiang Lan opened her mouth, and then said with a painful look on her face: "Yes."
Zheng Li said: "The people of Daliu Village have lived here for hundreds of years, so this Daliu Village is originally a place where humans live and gather. Your son is a venomous snake, and he is also a highly poisonous snake demon. He entered Daliu Village Inside the village, the lives of ordinary people in Daliu Village are threatened, so there is nothing wrong with Liu Daye beating your son to death."
Jiang Lan's expression changed and she said, "But my son didn't hurt anyone!"
Zheng Li said seriously: "You can't say that. A murderer broke into the house with a knife. Who knows when he will kill? A highly venomous snake broke into the village. Who can guarantee that it will not hurt anyone? Liu Daye Beating your son to death was based on common sense as a mortal, and your son's appearance does threaten the people of Daliuzhuang."
"Then my son's death was in vain? Is that so?" Jiang Lan burst into tears and asked Zheng Li with strong resentment.
Zheng Li said: "Don't worry, wait until I ask your son."
After saying that, Zheng Li turned to look at Jiang Lan's son's soul, and then asked, "Why did you come to Daliuzhuang?"
When the little snake demon heard Zheng Li's words, he immediately said aggrievedly: "I want to play with them."
"Who are they?" Zheng Li asked again.
The little snake demon said: "They are... people like me."
At this time, Fang Jian added: "He is talking about the children in Daliuzhuang."
Zheng Li was stunned when he heard this, and asked the little snake demon again: "Are you talking about the children in Daliuzhuang?"
"It's them." The little snake demon said: "I often peek at them playing in the woods. I also want to play with them, but they are afraid of me."
After hearing this, Liu Daye suddenly remembered that the children in Daliuzhuang last year seemed to have mentioned that they had seen snakes in the woods outside Daliuzhuang.
Zheng Li asked: "Then how do you want to play with them?"
This sentence was very crucial. Jiang Lan's body straightened instinctively and looked at the little snake demon.
The little snake demon shook his head in confusion and said in despair: "I don't know, I saw them having fun, but I'm different from them..."
When Zheng Li heard this, Brick asked the Earth God Su Yan: "Lord of the Earth, what do you think?"
Su Yan thought for a while and said, "He may not have any intention of hurting anyone."
Jiang Lan nodded quickly and agreed: "My child has been practicing with me in the cave since he was born. He has never gone to the world of mortals and has never hurt anyone."
Su Yan nodded and said, "I can confirm this. This little snake demon has no record of hurting anyone."
Zheng Li said: "That's it." After saying that, he looked at Liu Daye again and asked: "Liu Daye, do you have anything to say?"
Liu Daye was startled, then silent for a long time, and finally said: "Back to Tu Tu Gong and this gentleman, I didn't know it was a snake demon. At that time, all the children in Daliuzhuang were playing by the bamboo forest, and the little snake demon was also there. At that time, Those children were very scared when they found it. I was afraid that it would bite, so I beat it to death with a pole. Other than that, I don’t have anything to say.”
After Liu Daye finished speaking, Fang Jian on the side said: "I can testify, and I have spiritual light to restore the situation at that time."
After Fang Jian finished speaking, all the eyes of everyone present turned to Fang Jian.
Upon hearing this, Su Yan, the Earth God, immediately said: "Since my fellow Taoist has a spiritual light, please take it out quickly and show it to Lord Zheng."
Fang Jian nodded, then raised his sleeves and saw a curtain of water blooming in the air. Soon the scene of Liu Daye beating the snake was completely restored.
But this was undoubtedly another cruel injury to Jiang Lan, because she saw with her own eyes how her child was beaten to death.
Liu Daye's face was full of surprise and awe. He didn't expect that Xiao Fang had such a magical ability?
As Fang Jian took out the spiritual light shadow, everything became clear. After seeing the spiritual light shadow, Zheng Li made his own judgment: "Mortal Liu Daye is not guilty."
"I don't accept it!" Jiang Lan immediately shouted loudly: "You are a human being, and he is also a human being. You are showing favoritism! I don't accept it!"
Jiang Lan burst into tears and pointed at Zheng Li and shouted: "Don't you have a son? If your son was beaten to death, would you also sentence him like this?"
These words made Zheng Li angry, but he kept calm and said solemnly to Jiang Lan: "My verdict is in line with heaven's principles, and Liu Daye's actions at that time are also in line with common sense. The first thing that was wrong with this matter is that your son should not Come to Daliuzhuang. Monsters have their own world, and humans have their own world. We should keep the water in the well and not the river. Your son has crossed the line by entering Daliuzhuang without permission."
"Then before the human race appeared, there was only our demon race in the world. Why didn't you say that this world originally belonged to our demon race?" Jiang Lan said loudly.
Zheng Li frowned. He could see that Jiang Lan was gradually losing her mind, so he said slowly: "Don't be anxious, I haven't finished speaking yet."
Jiang Lan looked at Zheng Li and said, "You have already decided that I was at fault. What does it matter if you haven't finished speaking yet?"
Zheng Li said: "Although the fault lies with your son, your son had no intention of harming anyone at the time, and he has never done any harm to others. Therefore, in my opinion, your son should not have suffered this misfortune, and he should be sentenced to death." "
"Ah?" Zheng Li had just finished speaking. Before Jiang Lan could say anything, the land god Su Yan beside him became anxious, "Master Zheng, it is dead and its soul is trapped. This life has been written off in the book of life and death. How can you say Return the sun to the sun?"
The two ghost guards who were detaining the little snake demon also said: "Returning a dead person to the human world requires at least the approval of the Tenth Palace King of Hell. Master Zheng has no say."
Hearing this, Zheng Li spread his hands and said, "Then what am I doing here?"
Su Yan smiled and said: "Of course I invite Lord Zheng to judge right from wrong. Now that right and wrong have been distinguished, Lord Zheng, you can go back and rest first."
Su Yan's meaning is very simple. We need you, Mr. Zheng, to decide who is right and who is wrong, who is guilty and innocent. As for the rest, don't worry about it. It's useless to worry about it.
Zheng Li was about to speak when a cloud of light suddenly rose from beneath his feet. He looked down and saw that the ground quickly shrunk and he flew high into the sky again.
Then the cloud light under Zheng Li's feet transformed into a spiritual light and flew back to Yanzhou Fucheng. Zheng Li saw Yanzhou Fucheng, his home, and his wife still busy weaving in front of the machine.
'buzz'
Then Zheng Li's eyes went white, but he finally opened his eyes and woke up.
What caught his eye was his bedroom, the dim lights, and the sound of his wife's machine spinning in his ears.
Zheng Li blinked his eyes. At this time, his energy was extremely high. He had only slept for less than an hour, but he felt as refreshed as if he had had a long, good sleep.
Thinking of everything in his 'dream', Zheng Liyou felt very interesting and novel, "Do gods really have to judge cases like mortals?"
Zheng Li was completely sleepless, so he got up and put on his clothes, and then came to the main room.
"Huh? Are you awake?" His wife said in surprise as she watched Zheng Li walk out of the bedroom.
Zheng Li nodded and said, "I'm a little thirsty."
Zheng Li came to the table, picked up the tea cup and drank a cup of herbal tea, and then asked his wife, "Has there been a letter from Wu'er?"
Wu'er is Zheng Wu, Zheng Li's son.
When Mrs. Yun heard her husband's question, she shook her head and said, "Not yet."
Zheng Li thought of the snake demon in his 'dream', and he also missed his son a little bit in his heart, "Wu'er went to Chang'an to study... It's been three years, right?"
"Yes, time flies so fast." Yun also sighed.
...
After Zheng Li was sent back, it was Su Yan's turn to have a headache again, because Jiang Lan had already seized on Zheng Li's words and insisted that her son return to the world.
Su Yan spent a lot of effort to comfort Jiang Lan, asking her to calm down, and then sent Liu Daye's soul back.
However, when Liu Daye's soul was sent back, Fang Jian secretly used magic to seal Liu Daye's memory of himself tonight in Liu Daye's mind.
So when Liu Daye wakes up tomorrow morning, there will be no Fang Jian in his memory about tonight's trial.
Because Zheng Li has determined that Liu Daye is innocent, he will have nothing to do with him in the future. If Jiang Lan continues to trouble Liu Daye, she will be in trouble with Tianfa.
Zheng Li's judgment will be recorded truthfully by Su Yan and submitted to Nanzhan Buzhou Tianjun Mansion for filing. This is an ironclad case.
However, Zheng Li did say that he wanted the little snake demon to return to the sun.
"You immortal officials can't go back on what they said!" Jiang Lan said to Su Yan.
Su Yan was very embarrassed, "Returning Yang is a big deal. If something goes wrong, it will be against the laws of heaven." Su Yan looked at Jiang Lan and said, "You can't possibly not know how serious it is to violate the laws of heaven, right?"
"Then I don't care. You asked Xuanzang to say so, and I also recorded it with my spiritual light. If anything goes wrong, I'll make it right!" Jiang Lan said.
Su Yan patted his forehead, glanced at Jiang Lan and fell into silence.
After a long time, Su Yan raised his head again and said: "Let's do this. I'll think of a solution for this matter. Your son's soul will be temporarily sent to the underworld first. He will not go to the Palace of Hell and will not be reincarnated. He will stay in the underworld for a few days. How about I figure it out?"
Jiang Lan hesitated. She glanced at her son and said, "Can't we let him live in the Earth Temple first?"
"No." Su Yan said: "The rules of heaven stipulate that the soul of any living being cannot be accommodated in the Tutu Temple."
Jiang Lan thought for a long time and then said: "Then... we have to do this for now."
Seeing that Jiang Lan agreed, Su Yan immediately said to the two ghost messengers: "Then please ask these two Taoist friends to send him back to the underworld first."
The two ghost messengers heard this and said, "Okay, but God of the Land, you have to hurry up. We are both very busy, and we don't have that much time to spend here."
Su Yan looked a little helpless, and after hearing this, he could only say: "Okay."
However, Jiang Lan saw some clues. When she saw this, she immediately said: "You two ghosts, please wait a moment."
The two ghost officers turned around and looked at Jiang Land warily: "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Lan immediately took out a few elixirs from the storage bag and said: "You two ghosts, these are some elixirs I have accumulated. They are all over five hundred years old. You two ghosts are so busy working on my son's affairs. Thank you for your hard work, this is a little bit of my thoughts.”
"What?!" The expressions of the two ghost servants changed greatly when they heard this, and they said coldly to Jiang Lan: "How dare you openly bribe the immortal officials?"
"Ah? This...this..." Jiang Lan was shocked and immediately knew that he was being too clever and self-defeating.
But just when Jiang Lan was thinking about how to remedy the situation, she saw the two ghosts step forward, took all the elixirs in her hands, and said: "You openly bribed the immortal officials of the underworld. This is We will confiscate the evidence first and we won’t do it next time.”
"..." Jiang Lan blinked her eyes quickly in astonishment, only to see the two ghosts 'confiscating' her elixir, then immediately returned and claimed the soul-binding soul that locked her son's soul. .
"Let's go, little guy, you come back with us first." After holding the soul rope, Gui Cha said to the little snake demon.
Jiang Lan heard the tone of the two ghosts, which was ten times better than before. She immediately realized that her 'gift' failed, but she also succeeded.
Jiang Lan finally felt relieved and saw her son being led by two ghosts to the Huangquan Road in the mist, while the little snake demon was crying for his mother again.
Even though she was extremely reluctant to give up, she couldn't let anything go wrong at this time, so she comforted the little snake demon: "Don't be afraid, my son. You and the two ghost masters will go to the underworld to stay for a few days. Mom will be here soon." I’ll take you back.”
At the same time as she finished speaking, the two ghosts had already led the little snake demon into the mist, and soon disappeared with the mist.
