"What are you calling! Slowly!" Xu Fu scolded sternly, and the voice paused immediately. Then, a young man about fifteen or sixteen years old walked in from outside the door, looked at Xu Fu with some fear, sorted out his language slightly before speaking:

"Young Master, just now, news came from the yamen that Zhang San Jianyin (public name) woman poisoned and killed people... she had been arrested. The county magistrate knew that Zhang San was the disciple of the young master, so he sent someone to come and inform him..."

(The local judicial judge of the Xia Dynasty was called "Scholar", but it sounds strange. It is called the county magistrate here. The same is true for the county magistrate and the yamen. The official positions that will appear later are the same. After all, King Zhou still calls himself me in the list of gods. It is all for convenience, so don't argue in this regard)

"What?!" Feng Xue almost jumped out of the ox cart when she heard this. Zhang San was one of his thirteen disciples. She was quite talented in mathematics. She had just started to learn advanced mathematics in just five years. She can be said to be the backbone of Feng Xue's teachings. Now that she has committed a life lawsuit, how can he not be surprised?

The laws in this world are very simple. In addition to being unforgivable to the heavens, they basically follow the simple moral view of killing people to pay their lives and owing debts to pay their money.

Every year, Feng Xue will convene a unified assessment for all teenagers aged 12 to 18 in the county, selecting the most spiritual and best-scoring part to screen them layer by layer, and finally selecting these thirteen students. If one of them is killed here, he will not feel sorry for him!

Although in this era, even if you commit a death sentence, you can atone for only 600 kilograms of bronze (the Xia Dynasty’s atonement), if you say 1,000 words, these disciples Feng Xue planned to open a school. If Zhang San really committed such a crime, it would inevitably not be able to molest the students in the future. Instead of doing so, it would be better to let him die here.

However, with Zhang San's temperament, Feng Xue couldn't believe that he would kill someone and be brave (commonly fake), although his name was Zhang San...

"Let's go directly to the county government!" Feng Xue gave the order, and immediately there were servants preparing cattle to harness. After two cups of tea, Feng Xue took six or seven guards, three or five servants, and one manager to drive all the way to the county town...

...

The ox cart was not fast. After Feng Xue arrived at the county government, it had been half an hour since she had not had much sleep all night. Feng Xue yawned heavily, then got off the ox cart and walked towards the county government government.

"Young Master Xu is here..." Seeing Feng Xue enter the door, the county magistrate immediately bowed and bowed, don't underestimate this gift. When the two meet, the tribute with a low status is a rule!

Nowadays, officials are basically equivalent to nobles (or only nobles can be officials). Although Feng Xue, the prince's side rank, was called a prince, at best, he was just a low-ranking nobleman.

Based on the calculation of Duke, Marquis, Bo Zinan, if the king of the vassal state is a duke, he is probably a baron, not as good as a county magistrate at the level of a viscount.

But sometimes, the status cannot be calculated simply by titles. As the saying goes, the seventh-rank official of the prime minister, Feng Xue was born in the royal family of Xu. She was always one or two levels higher when she saw people, not to mention that he also created many convenient things, which were very popular among the people. After being crowned, he might transform himself into a direct boss.

Feng Xue naturally understood that the county magistrate respected his future and did not dare to be proud. He also greeted him politely. Then the two of them sat in the side hall, and then a servant came to have a refreshment. Then the two of them started talking.

After the opening greetings and politeness, Feng Xue finally got straight to the point and asked:

"Mr. Luo County, what's going on?"

After hearing this, County Magistrate Luo put down the teacup in his hand, organized the language slightly before speaking:

"The person who reported the case was Mi Shi, the owner of Mijia Grain Store. According to her, her husband borrowed a sum of money from Zhang San to do business three years ago. Later, he made money. He took her back to Sheyang last month and opened a grain store. Yesterday, he invited Zhang San to drink and pay back the money. Unexpectedly, Zhang San was so mean to kill Boss Mi, and then raped her. This morning, while Zhang San was drunk and still woke up, he came to the county government to report the case."

"Boss Mi invited him to dinner, but he killed Boss Mi? And after he was killed, he slept in the bed with his wife all night?" Feng Xue's face suddenly turned dark. Whatever he heard about this, he had a problem, right?

"Who said no? It's just 'risking the woman'..." County Magistrate Luo sighed, Feng Xue was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then he understood it-

No matter what era of being raped, it can basically be considered an unspeakable thing. So generally speaking, if a woman reports the case and says she has been raped, she will generally be directly convicted.

But the premise of this practice is that in this era, the sentencing of rape is not high.

The crime of rape was truly established in the Tang Dynasty. Although the history of this world is different from that world in Feng Xue, during this period, violence was still only equivalent to fighting and injury. Although it was not as good as some Guo Jia (similar to the word "fake", as for which ones are specific, I won't give an example). It was just a matter of fine money to get two whips to get things done.

If Zhang San was just raped, the county magistrate would not even ask anyone to notify Feng Xue. At most, he would ask him to give him compensation and would not even be sentenced.

But the problem is that people died.

On the one hand, the woman was raped, and on the other hand, there were many doubts in the case. In addition, it had been a night, so the evidence had been cleaned up long ago. With the criminal investigation methods of this era, it was unrealistic to not use extraordinary power to find out. According to the idea of ​​County Magistrate Luo, it is wisest to directly give money to the matter.

Killing people to pay for their lives is the most basic law of this era. As the saying goes: everyone is equal before the law, but some people are always more equal.

The Xia Dynasty had a saying that the punishment was redeemed, that is, if you pay a certain amount of bronze, you can get rid of the crime. Zhang San couldn't take it out himself, but Feng Xue was a big family, and this little money was a drizzle for him.

But in Feng Xue's opinion, this is not the case. He cares more about the truth than punishments. If Zhang San is really guilty, he will not pay to redeem people. On the other hand, if he is not guilty, why should he pay?

Not to mention that there was a judgment last night. Feng Xue must have to pursue the bottom line about this matter!

Without thinking much, he asked directly:

"What did Zhang San say?"

"Denied it." The county magistrate shook his head, but did not comment. This matter could not be concluded by anyone. He asked Feng Xue to come over to save trouble, but at this time Feng Xue asked the case, so naturally he had to wait until the investigation could make the conclusion.

Feng Xue naturally knew what the county magistrate was thinking and said directly: "Let him come over, I'll ask him personally!"

………………………………………………………………

ps1: I know that Yakou denies is an idiom that only exists in modern times, but this is not a historical novel, but a mythical novel. If you still have to consider the time of vocabulary formation, then Xia Dynasty should not speak at this time...
Chapter completed!