my wife is queen

Chapter 75
The next scene made Li Dingguo realize the benefits of power.

If a person is killed, the government office will follow the green law of murder for life and directly sentence him to death.

Killing three people is a major case. Not only does it need to write a memorial and send it to the imperial court, but it will also be tried by the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple.

Li Dingguo took more than a dozen lives in his hands this time, and most of the remaining sticks were also seriously injured.

Still committed a major crime in the capital, but killing Li Dingguo is not enough to deter the people, and should be sentenced to Ling Chi, lighting sky lanterns and other tortures.

Li Dingguo didn't want to take the brothers from the Nursing Home with him for one reason. He didn't want the brothers to go to the execution ground together and end up beheaded at Caishikou.

He had already made up his mind to use his own life to repay the great kindness of his benefactor Li Mian.

Li Dingguo and Li Mian have not been in contact for a long time, but he firmly believes that after his death, Li Mian will take care of his grandfather, take care of him, and live a life without worrying about food and clothing.

As long as you can feed grandpa, it's all worth it.

Li Mian and Sun Chuanting looked at each other, nodded, and carried a cloth bag from under the eaves to Liu Etou's house.

When he passed by Li Dingguo, he patted Li Dingguo's shoulder lightly, and he could stand up.

Li Mian took the cloth bag to the gate of the house, threw the cloth bag directly into the gate, and then sat down on the threshold, as if waiting for someone to arrive.

Sun Chuanting did not follow, but stood under the eaves opposite the house, looking around, waiting for someone to come.

The movement in Liu Eitou's house had already attracted the attention of the nearby patrols last night, and the news was immediately sent back to the Wucheng Bingma Division and told Lu Guangzu, the deputy thousand householder.

He knew that Liu Eitou had done a lot of bad things, and the house was tightly guarded. Even if a border warrior walked in, he might not be able to escape unscathed.

The border warriors were not wearing armor, and at night, there were ambushes everywhere in the house, and the sticks were still holding crossbows.

Lu Guangzu was born in Liaoxi generals, fought on the battlefield for many years, but he still has lingering fears about Liu Eitou's house.

So he didn't take the situation of Liu's head house to heart.

He continued to hug a beautiful concubine and slept in the Xijiao room, waiting for Liu Eitou to dispose of the man's body the next day.

But what Lu Guangzu didn't expect was that the body thrown out was not Li Mian's, but Liu Etou's body was thrown out.

Lu Guangzu had just come to the yamen to order Mao, and when he heard about it, he couldn't sit still.

The silver profit held by Liu Eitou not only involves him alone, but also several commanders in Wucheng Bingma Sili.

He immediately led a dozen guards and rode tall horses to the pasture yard.

"Come on."

When Lu Guangzu arrived at the gate of Caochangyuan, he saw Li Mian sitting on the threshold. Just as he was about to ask for someone, he saw Sun Chuanting on the opposite side.

He could only put aside his thoughts of arresting Li Mian temporarily, and waved his hand: "Go and arrest that important criminal, and send him to the imperial prison for interrogation."

Knowing the relationship between Sun Chuanting and Shen Guangzuo, the prefect of Shuntian, Lu Guangzu did not dare to send Li Dingguo to the prison of Shuntian Mansion, but sent him to the edict prison.

The money from the Caochangyuan also involved the eunuchs in the palace, and handing it over to the prison for interrogation was much less worrying than the Shuntian Mansion.

If there is no accident, Li Mian can be implicated.

Facing more than a dozen patrolmen, Li Dingguo didn't take it seriously. He could kill them all in half an incense stick at most.

However, he is a citizen, and the patrol is an official.

With the existence of a layer of official clothes, the people do not fight with the officials, they can only let the patrols put him in shackles.

Before reaching the patrol fence and approaching Li Dingguo, a person next to him spoke.

Li Mian pointed to the cloth bag inside the gate, and said slowly: "Yesterday, I found out that the owner of this house was selling private salt. My son-in-law sent a tenant to check here. As expected, he found private salt. In order to avoid the crime being exposed, the owner of the house wanted to kill people, but he was captured by the tenants of my son-in-law's estate."

After hearing this, the guards stopped moving forward, stopped and looked at Lu Guangzu.

A concubine exposed Li Mian's identity, and the guards and other small pawns couldn't afford to provoke him, and he didn't want to become a pawn in the infighting of high-ranking officials.

Everyone pretended to be deaf and dumb, and waited until the dust settled before deciding whether to capture the tenants of Huangzhuang.

Lu Guangzu's face was gloomy and he was speechless.

After Princess Changping got married, according to the rules, the royal family rewarded a three to five hundred acres of Huangzhuang.

If Li Mian mentioned the last sentence of a householder, he needs to produce a deed of sale to prove Li Dingguo's identity, and the tenant is different.

To put it bluntly, a tenant is a long-term worker, and does not need a document issued by the government. As for whether Li Dingguo is a tenant of Huangzhuang, it all depends on Li Mian's mouth.

At this time, Li Dingguo cannot be taken away casually.

Having the identity of a tenant of Huangzhuang involves the face of the Tian family.

Even if it's a dog in Huangzhuang, it still eats a piece of imperial food, not everyone can take it away casually.

What's more, in Li Mian's words, private salt was also involved, and the killing of Liu Eitou was completely different.

Not only was Li Dingguo not guilty of breaking into Liu Eitou's house, but he was also commended by the government. He was not seeking money and murder, but caught the private salt dealer who sold private salt.

The imperial court's taxes mainly come from two sources.

One is grain tax and the other is salt tax.

Selling private salt is no different from private casting in the past, both of which are serious crimes of confiscating one's family and exterminating one's family.

Lu Guangzu refused to let Li Dingguo go, and wanted to take him away by force, but Sun Chuanting stood beside him.

With Sun Chuanting's temper, as long as he dares to arrest someone by force, he will inevitably suffer a big ear.

If they can't be arrested, they will make a fool of themselves in public and lose face.

Lu Guangzu was caught in a dilemma. Princess Changping would not be able to deal with this matter today, let alone a son-in-law from a poor family.

But what made Lu Guangzu feel helpless was that he couldn't do anything about Li Mian. He could only watch him stuff a bag of private salt in Liu Eitou's house, confounding right and wrong and exonerating Li Dingguo's charges.

After much deliberation, Lu Guangzu decided to go directly past Sun Chuanting and take Li Dingguo away.

As for Li Mian, he didn't take it seriously at all, and just ignored it.

The person who really made Lu Guangzu feel afraid was Sun Chuanting who stood opposite the house.

Just when Lu Guangzu made up his mind and was about to order the patrol to take Li Dingguo away.

The officials in charge of criminal names from Shuntian Mansion arrived, and they only brought two yamen servants with them. They took Li Dingguo away without being afraid of more than a dozen patrolmen.

Lu Guangzu knew that this official from Shuntian Mansion was a member of Shen Guangzuo, and he would only be in cahoots with Sun Chuanting, so he took him away and confirmed Liu Goetou's crime of selling smuggled salt.

(End of this chapter)