In this confrontation, both sides looked unkind.

Before Xie Zongjia could speak, the third child of the Xie family rushed to the uncle and scolded: "You fuck, how dare you come." ”

The uncle said angrily: "Why don't I dare to come." ”

Xie Zongjia grabbed Xie Laosan and said, "Don't make trouble, this is the yamen." ”

Lin Gao took a step forward and arched his hand to Mr. Xie and said: "My family, I also have something wrong with the past, everyone is a neighbor, and we can discuss one or two things, and make trouble in the yamen, everyone is not good-looking." ”

Xie Zongjia sneered twice and said: "The surname is Lin, it's too late to admit it now, okay, I don't want to bully others, or those two ways, one is that you take your son, kowtow to my daughter in the township to make amends, and ask my daughter to return home; The second will be my daughter's dowry, and the money she has saved in recent years will be returned, and my grandson will return to my Xie family, and we will both clear. ”

Lin Gao said: "Your daughter stole her husband's family wealth, mean to her nephew, I will not tolerate her again, let alone make amends." As for her going back to her parents' house, I can give this makeup, but nothing else, you don't think it will work. ”

Xie Zongjia laughed and said, "You old bastard, is my old Xie family's daughter begging for you?" Am I here to reason with you today? ”

The uncle said angrily: "This is too deceitful, where is there such a domineering person." ”

Xie Zongjia looked at the uncle and said, "The people of the old Xie family are domineering, and you didn't know it on the first day." ”

"In that case, we only have to go to court against Bo." Lin Gao said in a deep voice, he can also be regarded as a salute before a soldier.

Xie Zongjia sneered: "To Bo Gongtang, it's up to you, I don't know where the yamen opened, look, this is Ge Xiangshi wrote the pleading, the lawyer in the provincial city, he is in five fingers, and when the time comes, he will lose and wait to cry!" ”

The county officials were noisy and muttered for a while, and the yamen finally reacted a little, the trouble was too fierce, and they used a stick to educate.

At this time, a scrivener shouted: "Wait on the side to deliver the complaint first, and then there will be an envoy from the torture room to collect it, and the people on both sides of the complaint are all together, come to the hall first." ”

As soon as the official said, the people on the side were in a commotion, and with Lin Yanchao, they followed a wave of people to line up in front of the county yamen, and then entered the county yamen in turn.

The Houguan County Ya looks a little dilapidated, and it is no wonder that the last time it was rebuilt was in the Xuande period, and it has been more than 180 years. This is not too incorruptible, and the officials are superstitious about the saying that officials do not repair the government.

After more than 180 years of the county, pursuing the style of the new three years, the old three years, and tinkering for another three years, only in the orthodox and Zhengde years, the hall was added, the back hall, and the rest are the same. Lin Yanchao followed Lin Gao, the uncle passed the gate of the county government, which is the middle gate, which is the henchman of the county government, the west of the middle gate is the county prison, and the east is the Yin Hotel and the land temple.

The gatekeeper let all the people led by the yamen let go, and as for the rest of the relatives of the bitter master, the people who came to the yamen to hang around were also let go and let them enter the middle gate. This is the meaning of the county lord, Zhou Zhi County every time the day of the announcement, the people will be allowed to observe, in order to show fairness and clarity.

After the middle gate, it is the main hall of the county ya, the east of the hall is the history hall, the west of the hall is the treasury, and the library pavilion is erected. Behind the main hall, there is the mansion of the county, the county, the canonical history, and the main book, which are not open to the public and are not allowed to be visited.

The people were piled up on the platform of the main hall, and there were three or four hundred people who counted the lawsuits.

"Ascension!"

With a powerful voice, the ascension to the hall began. The officials took their places, shouting with dignity, and the water and fire sticks poked the ground with a loud sound.

The hundreds of people outside suddenly fell silent, full of fear of authority. But seeing Zhou Zhixian wearing an official robe and walking out of the hall with a figure-eight step, the master and the master Bo followed behind.

When Zhou Zhixian first met in social studies, Lin Yanchao felt that this person's official authority was very important, and when he saw him in such a pomp today, his official authority added three points. Zhou Zhixian sat under the plaque hanging high in Mingjing, picked up the complaint on the case, and after saying a few words to the master, the clerk who was sitting next to him took a roll call and tried the case.

Lord, the two sides knelt in the hall to make a statement, and Zhou Zhixian listened to the two of them while reading the complaint.

Several cases were tried, and after reading the pleadings, most of the statements were made without asking a few words, and in addition to the case of the heavy dà, I asked a few more words to the two parties.

It's not that they don't want to ask, but it's difficult to understand the language, and most of the people who come to sue can't speak official language, and the county officials who try the case are all outsiders, so the pleadings are the most concise and clear. Lin Yanchao suddenly realized why the ancient lawyer industry was so developed, and it turned out that the officials judged the case on paper. Therefore, the quality of a complaint is related to the success or failure of the case.

After a while, there was a board in the court, and it turned out that in a case, the father was partial to the woman who married later, and the son of the mean ex-wife, the son of the later son, sued the father. And Zhou Zhixian paper, without asking the reason, ordered the official to arrest his son first and beat him with thirty wrenches.

The reason is that the son sues the father, and there is a rebellion.

Lin Yanchao also straightened out the thinking of the ancients little by little.

The Confucian idea of the rule of law was inherited from the two Han Dynasty's quotations and prison sentences. Heavy Lun Standing Criminal Law, Qing official Hai Rui once said that he would rather wronged his younger brother than wronged his brother. Rather than wronging an uncle, I would rather wronging a nephew. If you don't understand this, no. For example, if the ministers of the Ming Dynasty gave the emperor a fold, there was always a sentence in it, the Holy Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety. Filial piety governs the world, not the rule of law.

In this way, the judgment of the case is more important to educate the people and guide the direction of the wind, rather than simply adjudicating the case.

The son fainted after being beaten bloodied, and was poured a basin of cold water by the officials, and then tried again. Seeing this scene, the people outside the arena all changed a little. Even Lin Yanchao was a little shocked, it was really not fun to fight a lawsuit. Zhou Zhixian tried more than a dozen cases in one go, and five or six people were beaten by the board.

"The Xie family sued the Lin family for beating his wife for no reason, and one person from the Xie family and the Lin family each stepped forward." A scribe sitting on a bookcase is on a roll call.

Mr. Xie glanced at the Lin family and said, "Lin Pusi, please!" ”

Lin Gao glanced at Xie Zongjia, but his heels did not move.

"Aren't you scared?" Xie Zongjia said sarcastically.

"Mr. Xie, deal with you, a three-foot boy in my Lin family is fine, why bother my grandfather." Lin Yanchao took a step forward.

"You...... Don't make a mistake about yourself," Xie Zongjia scolded, he didn't expect Lin Yanchao to go to court with him.

"Don't worry, I won't show mercy."

"Hmph, you'll be crying then." Mr. Xie walked into the lobby with his sleeves and knelt down on the bricks.

Lin Yanchao also crossed the threshold, stepped into the hall, and knelt beside Xie Zongjia.

Lin Yanchao also tasted kneeling for the first time in ancient times, his face was on the ground, and he only saw the soles of the soap officials' boots on the left and right.

"Raise your head!"

Lin Yanchao raised his head, and it was clear at a glance in the court. Zhou Zhixian was sitting behind the public case, took a sip of tea, and the official on the side shouted: "Who is kneeling in the hall, report the name!" ”

"Xiaomin Xie Yu is a person from Miaofeng Village, Yong'anli, Hongtang Township, and has been the head of Yong'an Lili since the second year of Qinglong."

Zhou Zhixian listened and said: "Chief Xie Li is educating the place for the imperial court, get up and talk back!" ”

"Thank you, old parents!" Xie Zongjia stood up, looking a little proud. In the public court, people who have no merit have to kneel from the beginning to the end, and Xie Zongjia can be exempted from kneeling, this is the power of the lieutenant.

"Xiaomin Lin Yanchao, a person from Hongshan Village, Yong'anli, Hongtang Township, is now studying in social studies for two years, and his father is a talent in the Qinglong period, so he is determined."

When Zhou Zhixian heard that he was a talented child, he bowed his head slightly, and couldn't help but say after looking carefully: "This is not the young man from Hongtang Social School, why did you come to a lawsuit with the head of the township?" ”

A stone fell in Lin Yanchao's heart, he was afraid that Zhou Zhixian would not recognize himself, so he deliberately wore the old clothes that he saw Hu Tixue in social studies that day. On the side, Mr. Xie's face changed greatly, he looked at Lin Yanchao repeatedly, and he had a feeling of bad things in his heart.

Lin Yanchao replied: "Thanks to the old parents' concerns, the eldest Xie family was originally a family of in-laws, and my grandfather heard that his in-laws instructed his eldest daughter-in-law, and he complained to the yamen out of nothing, and he was so angry that he was burned inside. The grandson was worried about his grandfather's health, so he answered the news on behalf of his grandfather! ”

Xie Zongjia scolded from the bottom of his heart, he was a despicable boy, and he smeared himself before the trial began. And the people who were watching on the side also had a lot of discussions, one was to praise Lin Yanchao for his filial piety, and the other was to worry about Lin Yanchao, a child, how to deal with an adult in court, this is not to bully the small.

Lin Yanchao listened to the discussion and smiled slightly, firstly to emphasize that the grandson answered the interrogation for his grandfather, which was a filial piety, and secondly, he secretly criticized the daughter-in-law for suing her husband and father-in-law, which violated the principle that the husband is the wife and the father is the son. Referring to the previous example of the son suing the father, he didn't fight a lawsuit, but he first managed the three-point chance of winning, which is a moral advantage.

The people and scribes began to discuss, and public opinion was already on Lin Yanchao's side.

Zhou Zhixian didn't show favoritism, but said lightly: "Is the Xie family making something out of nothing, falsely accusing your grandfather, this official has his own judgment, your father is a showman, get up and talk back!" ”

Lin Yanchao stood up.

"Read the Xie family's complaint to them."

Holding a pen and writing on the side, he spread out the paper and read it aloud.

…… After the women passed through the door, they were bullied, they were as ugly as mountain ghosts, and they were often insulted, and the day was still not noon, and they were already afraid that lunch was out of time, and they were still peaceful, and they had spent the night in the morning, and they were all kinds of things, which cannot be enumerated......

…… The grasp on the face is tired, and the green blocks between the arms are edged. Every time he is beaten, he can only cry out. The neighbors were sad when they heard it, and the passers-by wept because of it......

…… Whoever has no children would rather not be sad......

The pleadings account for seven points in the victory or defeat of the lawsuit, which is why the ancient lawyer did not need to appear in court to defend and could help people win the lawsuit. Lin Yanchao heard that every word of the pleadings was extremely heartbreaking, and he was also quite literate, and he really deserved to be a lawyer who could rank five fingers in the provincial capital.

A few of the people on the side who did not know the truth began to be filled with righteous indignation, but as for the lack of righteous indignation, it was just that their education was too low and they could not understand it.

"Whose daughter marries their family is really unlucky."

"Lord of the county, you must be fair to the abbot of the people!"

If it weren't for the moral advantage created by Lin Yanchao before, the people would have supported the Xie family a long time ago.

Uncle couldn't help but say: "This is just nonsense, none of which is true!" Dad, why don't you plead. ”

Lin Gao said: "You are still a member of the yamen, I don't know this, now the defense is to roar in the court, and directly hit the team." You see that the tide is so calm. ”