"Come here, kneel down and set up a stool!" Jiang Yuntian pointed at Dutou Chen You who laughed the loudest just now.
Chen You was reluctant: "Why should I set up a stool?"
"Three reasons. First, you blasphemed the magistrate, and the following is your fault; second, as a subordinate, you deserve it; third, I think you feel uncomfortable!"
Jiang Yuntian didn't care so much. He picked up Chen You and pushed him to the ground. Chen You still wanted to resist, but Jiang Yuntian increased his strength and squeezed him until he screamed.
"Kneel down and be honest!"
Jiang Yuntian kicked Chen You in the knee, pushed his whole body to the ground, and chewed a mouth full of mud.
"Step on him. If the horse raises its front hooves, you press forward. If it raises its hind hooves, you fall backward. Follow the direction of its shaking and release your force. You will soon be able to tame it." Song Che used a picture from the past. Ya taught his own way to teach Liu Xinnan.
Liu Xinnan snorted stubbornly, stepped on Chen You's head and got on the horse. After some dealings with the horse, she finally tamed it.
"Master Liu, it's all the fault of your humble position. This horse was fine when it came..." Mr. Ma took the initiative to apologize with a face that made the villain look really disgusting.
Liu Xinnan also understood that these wolves, tigers and leopards had bad intentions. She snorted lightly and said nothing more. She just waved and said, "Come into the city."
Song Che and Jiang Yuntian each rode a horse and followed behind him, marching toward Ningguo Mansion with the honor guard.
Unexpectedly, they had just walked less than three miles when a white-collar team appeared in front of them. The size was similar to that of the honor guard. However, the honor guard wore bonuses and rode big horses, while the white-collar team wore white paper and carried coffin.
"Woooooooo..."
Wearing linen and mourning, there was a lot of wailing.
"What a bad luck!" Lu An scolded: "I didn't go to the funeral early, I didn't go to the funeral late, but I have to go to the funeral at this time. Don't you know that my young master will take office today?"
Could it be a coincidence? Most likely not.
"We haven't seen each other yet when we came here. Why did a funeral team suddenly appear?" Master Ma said, "Mr. Liu, please wait a moment. I will take people to drive them away."
Liu Xinnan stopped him, "The dead are the most important and should be respected. Besides, the road was not set by me. How can I interfere with other people's funerals for my own career? Let's speed up and surpass them."
"Master Liu is so selfless, I admire him so much!"
As a result, the honor guard sped up. But who would have expected that when they speeded up, the funeral team also speeded up, clearly wanting them to follow behind and suffer bad luck.
"You've already suffered several insults before entering the city. It seems that your 'small-breasted brother' has a very difficult career." Jiang Yuntian smiled at Song Che.
"Then let's just act as flower guardians?" Song Che smiled, pointed to the men carrying the coffin in the funeral team in front, and asked, "Can you make them kneel down silently?"
Jiang Yuntian took out his sleeves and took out a few copper coins, "Money Dart, have you got the head?"
Song Che smiled and said: "There is an uphill road ahead. If we do it then, the effect will be better."
Jiang Yuntian smiled and said: "Boss Song, how good are you?"
Song Che made a silent gesture, "Shhh... there are no taboos in raising the coffin and sending out the funeral rites."
Soon, the funeral team reached the uphill section, which was quite steep.
Jiang Yuntian took four copper coins and aimed them at the four men carrying the coffin behind him. With luck in his Dantian, he fired them casually. "Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." The copper coins accurately hit the man's knee.
The coffin was already heavy and the road was uphill. The man's knees hurt and he knelt down almost at the same time. The force at the back is relieved, and the force at the front can't be exerted.
"Hey, hey, hey... hold on, hold on!"
Is it stable?
It’s not stable at all!
"Clang!"
The coffin fell heavily to the ground, and the coffin boards were shattered. The body also fell out of the coffin, rolled twice on the ground, and fell into the grassy ditch on the roadside.
"Dad!"
Ha ha!
The funeral team could only stop to collect the bodies, but the honor guard rushed forward and overtook them.
When passing by the funeral team, Song Che did not forget to point at the coffin and taunted: "It seems like this 'coffin' cannot hold down this 'official'."
…
Half an hour later, Ningguo Mansion came into view.
Soldiers and civilians lined the streets to welcome the prefect to take office.
There happened to be a familiar face among the hundred or so wealthy gentry in rich attire, it was Wang Zhipeng who had been caught engaging in malpractice for personal gain before. He was hidden in the crowd, his face full of jealousy and resentment.
"Master Qingtian, you have to make the decision for the women!"
Not long after entering the city, two young women wept and knelt in the middle of the street, begging the newly appointed prefect to redress their grievances.
Liu Xinnan was stunned for a moment, and a touch of excitement gradually appeared on her face. How can an official keep on solving cases? And in front of so many people, it happened to establish her reputation as impartial and selfless.
"If you have any grievances, get up and speak out."
Two young women stood up. One of them held her infant child in her arms and wiped her tears and said: "The woman's surname is Zhang. This morning she took my son to the Dongshi market to buy vegetables. Unexpectedly, a woman suddenly appeared and wanted to snatch the child from my hands. …”
At this point, she glared at the woman next to her fiercely, "It's her, this shameless woman, who openly robs other people's children in broad daylight. Mr. Qingtian, please arrest her quickly!"
"No! No!" Another woman quickly defended, "This child is my son, sir. My surname is Liu. She lives in the west of the city. My husband went to work in the quarry when I was pregnant with the child and was accidentally dropped. He was hit by a stone and died. I gave birth to this child alone and managed to survive by making tofu.
This morning I took the tofu I made to sell in the East Market. When I was in a hurry to greet the customers, I put my child on the stool behind me. Unexpectedly, when I finished my work, I realized that my child was missing;
I searched in a hurry and finally found him in the hands of this woman. This is my child. His nickname is Xiaobao. He is eight months old this year! "
The young woman burst into tears and knelt down again to plead, "Master Qingtian, Xiaobao is my only concern. How can I live without him? Please make the decision for me!"
Children cannot speak, there was no paternity test in ancient times, and blood recognition is unreliable. Both families say the child is theirs, so how can we judge the authenticity?
"You're talking nonsense! The child is obviously mine!" The peasant woman holding the child said while tugging on the swaddling clothes: "Look at this swaddling clothes. It's made of fine silk. Look at you. You're wearing a coarse cloth and it's still patched. You Can you afford such an expensive swaddle?"
The young woman retorted: "The swaddling clothes are just a piece of cloth. You can tear them off and put them on. How can this prove that the child is yours!"
The woman holding the child said: "At least I have the swaddling clothes on the child as proof, but you can't produce any proof. You want my child with just your mouth. You are really a vicious woman!"
"Sister, please do me a favor and return the child to me. He is my heart and soul. I can't live without him!"
Seeing that she was stubborn, the young woman hugged the peasant woman's legs and howled and begged, but the peasant woman kicked her away: "It's still my heartthrob!"
"Wow wow wow..." Poor baby cried loudly.
The people on the street were also talking and pointing.
Whose child is it?
Liu Xinnan is in trouble!
