The long river is setting sun.

With the orange-red shoulders covered with the burning clouds, Xu Tian hiked back to the house as usual.

After all, the Shangshu Mansion is next to the Tianzun Courtyard, which is very close.

"Sir...Sir Shangshu!"

While walking while pondering, I suddenly saw a farmer running from the opposite side. A man and a woman looked like she was in her sixties last year, wearing a cloth clothes and a little girl with pigtails.

As soon as they ran to Xu Tian, ​​they knelt on the ground.

"Sir Shangshu! Xu Qingtian, please make the decision for our family!"

The old man kowtowed and begged.

Xu Tian: "???"

It seems that it is not the responsibility of the Minister of War to rule the people. Why do you find me?

The old woman next to her also knelt there and said, "Xu Qingtian, if it weren't for the fact that there was no way out, we wouldn't have come to find you. We are really desperate..."

"Please get up quickly, old man!"

He helped them up, and just now he found that the two old men had tears in their eyes and their faces were particularly haggard, so he asked kindly, "Old man, what happened? Is there anything I can help you?"

"Xu Qingtian, please, please help us! My son was studying at Tianzun College. A while ago, someone beat him to death!"

At the beginning, the old man couldn't help crying.

"What? Is this happening?"

Xu Tian raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't worry, old man, listen to me. If such a thing really happens, as the principal of the Tianzun Academy, I will never give up. I will definitely give you justice. Follow me into the mansion first and tell me slowly."

"That's great, great, thank you Lord Xu, thank you Lord Xu..."

The two old men were so grateful that they burst into tears and followed Xu Tian into the mansion.

"Old man, what's your son's name?"

As soon as he entered the main hall, Xu Tian first asked the three of them to sit in the house and ordered people to serve tea before asking.

The old man replied: "Sir, the villain's son is named Zeng Yihuai, and he is a student from Class 3, Tianzun Academy..."

"Zeng Yiying?"

Xu Tian was stunned, "Zeng Yihuai is your son?"

"That's right." said the old man, "Sir, do you know my son, too?"

Xu Tian nodded and said, "He is my student, and he is a very outstanding student. You said he was beaten to death. What's going on? I clearly heard that he died suddenly after relapse of an old disease."

At this time, he also felt a sudden realization. Sure enough, there was something strange about Zeng Yihuai's death.

No wonder it's been spreading in schools.

"Let me say it." The old woman said, "My Lord Xu, this is the thing. My son and the fifth prince were classmates and friends. At that time, my old man went out to sea to fish. The fifth prince recovered from the epidemic. My son invited him to come to the humble house to celebrate. After dinner, the old man happened to come back and asked me to go with my son to help him pull the net and collect fish. But while we were at the beach, the fifth prince became very beastly after getting drunk and ruined my daughter-in-law who had just passed the door!"

"Old man, this is serious? But did you see it with your own eyes?"

Xu Tian's face turned cold when he heard this. If this was true, then he would really regret saving the fifth prince Su Yinzhen.

"Mr. Xu, this is true. When our family came back, the fifth prince was still lying on my daughter-in-law. My son was so angry that he started fighting with the fifth prince, but he was no match for the fifth prince. In the end, he was beaten to death by him, wow..."

After saying that, he couldn't help crying, and was out of breath.

"Then what?"

A trace of shock and anger flashed in Xu Tian's eyes, "Have you reported to the official?"

brute!

brute!

"I'm reporting to the official, but, just now, there was a man in a very noble dress who gave us ten thousand taels and asked us to withdraw the lawsuit..."

The old man took over the conversation and said, "We don't want that bad money. We just want to seek justice for my poor son, so we insisted on going to the yamen... Before the trial was held, someone arrested our daughter-in-law and young daughter, threatening that if we still wanted to continue to sue, we would kill our daughter-in-law and young daughter..."

"It's outrageous!"

Xu Xiangxiang, who was beside him, couldn't help but speak.

"It's too much, this is a great traitor and evil!"

Lu Su was also indignant, "Is this what the prince of a country does? It's worse than a beast!"

Xu Tian also felt a fire burning in his chest and said, "So you withdraw your lawsuit?"

"There is no way, sir, we really have no way."

The old man cried and shook his head, "When the court opened, they asked us to lie to the county magistrate that my son died suddenly due to an old disease, and wanted to extort the fifth prince a sum of money... Sir, our little daughter and daughter-in-law are in their hands. We, we have to do as we do. In the end, the fifth prince pretended to be magnanimous and 'forgive' us!"

"I have pity for my son! I'm dying with my eyes open!"

The old man and his wife were crying.

Xu Tian did not ask why you didn’t confess truthfully in the court, because even if they confess truthfully, how about the magistrate Cong Zhongzhi, who dared to take the fifth prince under the court?

Officials protect each other, let alone the defendant is a prince?

He suddenly recalled that what others said before seemed to have even the Si Zun of the Shang Fangsi came to listen to the trial in person.

The method of using family members as a threat to let the two elders turn their confessions and deny them can be said to be perfect, killing two birds with one stone, and easily lifting the fifth prince out of guilt.

In other words, this matter cannot be caused by Shang Fangsi.

Of course, the two elders have no way to complain and seek justice.

"We have to help you, so we must not let such beasts get away with it."

Xu Xiangxiang was filled with righteous indignation.

"Yes, the prince breaks the law and is guilty of the common people. So what if Su Yinzhen is a prince? Do something worse than such beasts and you must not spare him!"

Xu Tian nodded and thought, "But this matter is not that easy to handle, and evidence is needed. Old man, was there anyone else there at that time?"

"Along with my son and the fifth prince's mutual friend, his name is Zhou Zemin. He also went with us to help collect fish. When he came back, he also saw the fifth prince's beastly journey with his own eyes."

The old man replied, "But he refused to come out to testify."

"Zhou Zemin..." Xu Tian nodded slowly and wrote down the name.

Just look for a breakthrough from this person.

He, Old Xu, has decided on such a major case of public outrage!

Even if the other party is a royal family, he will never admit defeat. So what if you are a prince, you will still bring you to justice!

"Sir, we know that you are the living Yazu. You are willing to make military orders for the people and the emperor. We know that other officials will definitely shelter the fifth prince, so we can only come to you..."
Chapter completed!