Chapter 56 The thief turned out to be me
boom!
As Song Jiaren grasped the dagger, a mountain-like pressure came from the air.
The peddler's legs went limp and he was pinned to the ground by an invisible force. He tried his best but couldn't even lift his head.
Song Jiaren looked indifferent and threw the dagger with the bent blade on the ground.
Butler Wu walked forward with a dark face and waved his hand. Two figures suddenly jumped out from the crowd and pinned the peddler down.
Being stabbed in the street, Li Nuo was not angry at all, he even felt like laughing.
After much anticipation, the assassin finally arrived.
According to Daxia law, assassination, especially in the streets where there are huge crowds of people, has extremely bad social impact and the crime is much more serious than ordinary injury.
Even if he was not injured at all, he could still be sentenced to three years of imprisonment and exile three thousand miles away.
If Li Nuo got even a scratch or drew blood, the assassin would be hanged.
Article 258 of the Daxia Code: Anyone who murders another person shall be sentenced to three years in prison; if he has already injured another person, he shall be strangled; if he has already killed another person, he shall be beheaded.
According to this verdict, the female assassin should be sentenced to death by hanging even if she was not a servant of the Li family.
Li Nuo did not understand the laws of Daxia at the beginning. Under Pei Zhe's deliberate guidance, he convicted her of assault instead of murder. Of course, his sentence could not exceed two years, but he was not a rookie who had just arrived, and he would not be fooled by the old-fashioned Magistrate Pei.
The peddler had been controlled, but he still looked at Li Nuo with resentment, gritting his teeth and saying, "You bastard, your whole family will die a miserable death!"
Bang!
Steward Wu slapped the peddler angrily, and several bloody teeth flew out. The peddler's face immediately swelled up. Although he stopped talking, the resentment in his eyes deepened.
Butler Wu looked at Li Nuo and asked, "Master, how should we deal with him?"
Li Nuo said without hesitation: "Send it to the county government office."
The two guards took the assassin away first. Li Nuo looked at the frightened Song Muer and said to Song Jiaren, "Madam, I'm going to the county government office. You can take Muer back first."
Song Jiaren nodded, and before leaving, she couldn't help but ask Li Nuo, "How... did you know he was an assassin?"
Li Nuo smiled and explained, "His hands are too white and tender. How could the back of a peddler who sells goods on the streets of Chang'an all day have such white and tender hands? The moment I saw his hands, I became suspicious of him..."
Song Jiaren secretly admired Li Nuo's meticulous observation, but she didn't show it on her face. She held Song Muer's hand and said, "Muer, let's go home first."
After watching them leave, Li Nuo happily walked towards the Chang'an County Government Office.
Butler Wu told him that the peddler just now was a warrior in the Inner Breathing Realm.
For a warrior in the second realm, his life span will be tripled when he is sentenced.
Three years in prison plus exile three thousand miles away, the basic life span increased by six days, multiplied by three is eighteen days, which is equivalent to the ten days he normally spends judging cases.
Li Nuoba needs more assassins like this.
One a day is never too much for him.
Before he and Butler Wu reached the county government office, a fragrant breeze blew past behind them, and a figure appeared beside Li Nuo, walking side by side with him.
Li Nuo turned his head and looked at Song Jiaren, but didn't say anything.
Chang'an County Government Office.
Upon hearing that another assassin who tried to assassinate Li Nuo was caught, County Magistrate Pei, County Assistant Magistrate Zhang and County Lieutenant Wang all put down their work and hurried to the court.
The young man was held on the ground. Butler Wu stood in front of him and said with a sullen face, "Tell me, why did you want to assassinate the young master? Who ordered you to do that?"
The man raised his head, sneered, and said, "Stop talking nonsense. I will kill you or chop you up, whatever you want!"
Butler Wu snorted coldly and said, "You are a tough guy. I will try all the eighteen tortures on you one by one to see if you can still be so stubborn..."
The man showed no fear on his face. He pulled the corner of his mouth and said sarcastically, "Old man, if I don't try, you are my grandson. If I snort, I am not a man!"
"Okay, okay, okay..."
Steward Wu said three good words in a row, looked at Magistrate Pei, and said in a sinister tone: "Take out all the torture instruments you have here, I want to see if his bones are as hard as his mouth!"
"Wait a moment……"
Li Nuo walked out and glanced at Butler Wu. He was clearly the victim, so why did his attitude change after he said a few words?
In this situation, Butler Wu sounds like a vicious villain, while the assassin seems like a righteous man who is not afraid of power or sacrifice... This is not right!
Li Nuo walked up to the assassin and asked, "Have I ever offended you?"
"Pooh!"
The man spat out a mouthful of blood and phlegm. Fortunately, Li Nuo dodged it quickly in time.
Butler Wu was not so good-tempered. He kicked him to the ground and said to Li Nuo, "Master, don't waste your words on him. Just drag him out and beat him to death to save trouble..."
"What the hell, can you please understand the law..."
Li Nuo looked at him speechlessly. If people could be beaten to death at will, what was the use of laws? If he really did that, what was the difference between him and those corrupt officials who took human lives lightly?
Besides, caning is caning, and caning to death is death penalty, with a difference of three levels. Beating someone to death on the spot with caning is a serious violation of the law, and the officials involved will be suspended and investigated.
He is a commoner and has no such power.
After hearing what Li Nuo said, the man sneered even more and said sarcastically, "Stop pretending, you bastard. If you were a man, you would give me a quick death. I'll have a scar on my head, and eighteen years later, I'll be a brave man again!"
Li Nuo looked at the stubborn assassin and felt something was wrong.
That's really not true.
No... He is a criminal, why can he be so indignant and righteous in front of the victim?
He calls someone a bastard and calls him "master" all the time. He kills someone in the street and he's still proud of it?
Li Nuo stood in front of him and said, "If you want to kill me, at least let me know the reason, right?"
The man pulled the corner of his mouth and sneered, "Li Xuanjing is a traitor who forms a clique for personal gain, abuses power, betrays his trust, embezzles and perverts the law, murders loyal people, and takes human lives lightly... Such a traitor should be killed by everyone. Today, you killed one of me, but there are still thousands of me. There are so many righteous people in the world. Can you kill them all?"
Li Nuo was stunned for a moment and was about to say that he had recognized the wrong person. His name was Li Nuo, not Li Xuanjing.
However, why does the name Li Xuanjing sound so familiar?
Li Nuo quickly remembered that Li Xuanjing's name was often written on the books that Butler Wu moved from his father's study.
Oh, his father’s name is Li Xuanjing.
Forming cliques for personal gain, abusing power, being treacherous, taking bribes and bending the law, murdering loyal and good people, taking human life lightly... these are not good words. If any of them is applied to an official, it can be said that he is not a good official.
When these words appear on a person, there is no doubt that this person must be a traitor to the country who is bad from head to toe and bad from inside to outside.
Li Nuo couldn't believe that his elegant and handsome father was such a person.
So he turned his eyes to the woman beside him.
Song Jiaren turned her head away.
His eyes turned to Butler Wu.
Butler Wu looked up at the sky.
His eyes turned to Magistrate Pei.
Pei Zhe looked down at the ground.
It seemed that everyone was avoiding this question. Even Butler Wu, who respected his father to the utmost, did not refute it for the first time...
After being stunned for a long time, Li Nuo seemed to understand something.
He understood the sad and angry look of the female assassin.
He understood the arrow that was shot at his life at the county government gate.
He understood why Pei Zhe, as a county magistrate, had to be so servile and fawning to him, and never said a word of objection in the face of his repeated provocations, and why all the officials he met in recent days had to be so servile and cautious towards him.
He understood why the powerful examiner wanted to sacrifice his relatives for the sake of justice, why the housekeeper Wu had been obstructing him from reforming the legal system, and why he needed countless guards whenever he traveled...
At this moment, everything seemed to have an explanation.
I sat up in shock from my dying illness, and realized that I was actually the thief?
(End of this chapter)
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