After reading the pleadings, Zhou Zhixian couldn't see joy and anger on his face, but asked Xie Zongjia in the hall, "Where is your daughter?" ”

Xie Zongjia lowered his head and said: "Hou was outside the yamen, he was beaten by his father-in-law and his husband, and he was physically and mentally injured, and he didn't want to see anyone. ”

"Send her in for an examination."

Soon the eldest lady was invited in, but seeing that the right side of her face was bruised, the group was a little excited.

"It's all born to my parents, even if it's a daughter-in-law who marries into the door, it's someone else's heart!"

"Xiaomin still has witnesses, it's a neighbor!" Xie Zongjia was arrogant and scored another three points.

The witness is really from Hongshan Village, as if she was a woman from Miaofeng Village who married into Hongshan Village, but she is indeed a neighbor. This neighborhood is now 1510 accusing Lin Gao, how the uncle is a mean daughter-in-law on weekdays.

After hearing this, Zhou Zhixian threw the paper aside and asked Xie Zongjia: "What do you want about your daughter's beating?" ”

Xie Zongjia said: "Please old parents, cut off the two of them, the Lin family should return my daughter's five-acre dowry field, and Lin Gao will be held accountable for the crime of beating my daughter, stripped of her position and sent to prison." ”

Zhou Zhixian nodded and said, "It's not too much. ”

Zhou Zhixian said to Lin Yanchao: "According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the father-in-law or the husband beats his wife to the point of being injured, this is a state of righteousness, and the official can forcibly sentence the husband and wife to divorce and investigate the fault of the husband's family, what is your objection?" ”

Lin Yanchao understood that according to Confucian law, just as a father can sue his son, but a son cannot sue his father; A husband may divorce his wife, but she cannot divorce her husband. But it is too much to really meet the husband's family, the government is the master of the wife's family, and the husband and wife are sentenced to be separated and separated, if the husband and wife should not be separated, then the rod is eighty!

Lin Yanchao also understands that whether he can win this divorce lawsuit or not is to sentence seven out or be righteous. If the sentence is severe, the eldest mother can get the five acres of dowry land as she wishes, and Lin Gaozhu will be punished for beating his daughter-in-law. If it's seven, the eldest lady won't be able to get anything.

Generally, the case can be closed at this time by the county of Zhouzhi. But Zhou Zhixian didn't, not biased towards the Lin family, he just wanted to see how Lin Yanchao's ability was.

Lin Yanchao didn't panic at all, but he didn't open his mouth to refute.

Zhou Zhixian said: "If you don't speak, the official will treat you as poor in words, if you confess for your grandfather, how about the official be lenient and give a light sentence?" ”

Lin Yanchao said: "Back to my parents, although my grandfather has expelled my eldest mother from the family, he is still my elder in the past, and if I say some things bluntly, I will be disrespectful to my elders, but if I don't say it, it will be unfilial to my grandfather." ”

Lin Yanchao came back with words, but still held on to a filial piety word. Xie Zongjia didn't understand, and secretly exclaimed in his heart. The people on the side also felt that Lin Yanchao was reasonable, and everyone thought to themselves, this young man knows how to maintain the face of the family, and this aunt is accusatory, what is the duty of being a daughter-in-law.

Syllable!

Zhou Zhixian slapped the wooden hall and shouted: "This official allows you to be a child, so I don't want to blame it, but if you can't make the decision, what do you say in the court, let your grandfather confess in person." ”

"County lord, it's really blue!" Xie Zongjia couldn't help kneeling, but this was from the heart.

Lin Yanchao said in his heart that this county is really not easy to fool, and at the moment he can only temporarily 'soften' and say: "Back to the old parents, the student knows that he is wrong." It's just that the student has something that he doesn't know. As the neighbors saw, when my grandfather drove my eldest mother out of the house, he slapped her in the face, right? ”

The woman who was a witness replied: "Yes, I saw it with my own eyes. ”

"So the bruises on this lady's face were indeed hit by my grandfather?"

"That's right, all the folks can be witnesses."

Lin Yanchao said: "But when my grandfather slapped me, it has been almost a month, and the bruises have not subsided for such a long time, could it be that my grandfather has practiced iron sand palms?" ”

Burst! The secretary who was drinking tea sprayed half a sip of tea, and when he saw Zhou Zhixian, he glanced at him unhappily, and swallowed the remaining half of it.

And the people outside are laughing.

"That's a long-term injury, in the past, I heard your grandfather beating Xie Niangzi every four or five days." The woman defended herself.

"Dare to ask if it's four or five days apart?"

"There are six or seven days, two or three days more. I heard it with my own ears. The woman quickly changed her words.

Lin Yanchao said to Zhou Zhixian: "Old parents Rong Yu, my grandfather works as an errand in the express delivery shop, and he only goes home once a month on two days, and he never returns home again, otherwise he will leave his post without permission." How can this be said to be two or three days, four or five days, or six or seven days? ”

Ha ha! The people around the periphery burst into laughter again.

"It was the woman who heard it wrong, or her husband beat it, but he heard it as his father-in-law."

Lin Yanchao looked at the woman and sneered: "It's really a cow eating grass on the house, the wind blows a thousand pounds of stones, the scoundrel can't say anything, let me ask you again, was it the father-in-law who beat it, or the husband beat it?" ”

The woman hesitated, "Either the father-in-law beat him, or the husband beat him, or he beat him together." ”

The witnesses were confused, and Mr. Xie also stepped forward in a hurry and said: "The old parents are above, no matter what you say, Lin Gao is this guy, and it is not false to beat my daughter, and this alone can be broken." ”

Lin Yanchao said calmly: "Mr. Xie, why bother to argue in a hurry, the more you are like this, the more it seems that you are at a loss." To tell the truth, my Lin family treats your daughter well, otherwise why would you ask the best lawyer in the provincial capital to write a flowery complaint. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Zhixian frowned, and the lawyer has always been untreated by the government.

Lin Yanchao continued: "You said that this is something out of nothing. If it weren't for my Lin family's treatment of your daughter, why would you let your daughter hurt herself, and if it weren't for my Lin family's treatment of your daughter, why would you find a woman who spoke incoherently to give false testimony. ”

"The more you try to arrange this, the more you seem to be weak-hearted. You arranged a lot of tricks, thinking that it was just enough to fool us and others, but the old parents have the name of Qingtian, and you can't hide it from him with such means. ”

"Nonsense, nonsense." Xie Zongjia was annoyed and angry.

"Are you saying that the old parents are the blue sky, this sentence is actually nonsense, a bunch of nonsense? Xie Zongjia, I didn't expect you to be so bold. Lin Yanchao sneered.

There was laughter again, and the people outside the venue were very happy, such a lawsuit has not been seen for a long time, and such a smart child is also rare.

"You...... Stinky boy, how can I ......" Mr. Xie's teeth are about to be crushed.

"Chief Xie Li, if you continue like this, this official will regard you as a roaring court." Zhou Zhixian unhurriedly took the tea lid and picked up the tea powder on the tea water.

"Xiaomin doesn't dare." Mr. Xie sweated coldly, and returned to his original place immediately.

"Lin Yanchao, you have a bit of eloquence, but don't think that if you praise this official, this official will believe you. Your Lin family sued the eldest lady for seven crimes, where is the reason? ”

is a county where oil and salt do not enter, and Lin Yanchao is also convinced. However, no matter what the senses of Zhou Zhixian are, the lawsuit itself is won.

Lin Yanchao walked up to the eldest lady and asked, "Since the government has not yet made a decision, you are still my aunt, but I have a few words to ask you?" ”

The eldest lady scolded: "What are you, you tell me to answer, I will answer?" ”

Lin Yanchao turned around without hesitation and said, "Back to my old parents, my aunt won't answer." ”

"The folk woman Lin Xie can't help but answer." Zhou Zhixian said.

The eldest lady gritted her teeth and said, "Okay." The folk girl knows. ”

Lin Yanchao looked at the eldest lady and said, "Auntie, let me ask you if you married into our Lin family, have you cooked breakfast for a day in the past five or six years?" ”

The eldest lady was greedy for sleep and refused to get up early, and Lin Qianqian had been cooking breakfast for the family. The eldest lady said: "No, I cooked it all at once." The complaint said that it was still noon, and it was too late for lunch. ”

"Auntie, let me ask you if you have washed the clothes of your grandfather and third uncle once in the past five or six years?" The eldest lady said: "Why not, I washed all the diapers when you were a child." ”

"There is a mulberry field at home, you can raise silkworms, can you weave a little for your family?" The eldest lady sneered: "I didn't raise mulberry silkworms, you eat the northwest wind?" ”

"Auntie, three years ago, you had malaria, who carried you overnight and traveled ten miles to the provincial capital to seek medical treatment, didn't you say that you beat your father-in-law?"

The eldest lady raised her head when she heard this, and when she said her earlier, she imposed a quibble, but when she said this, she showed a look of guilt. It can be seen that she still has this husband and wife love for her uncle. Sure enough, it is more touching to be in love than in reason.

Since the eldest lady does not deny it, the following things are much easier.

Lin Yanchao picked up a lot of things to say about how the uncle treated the aunt at the beginning. This is not difficult, except for the uncle who is a little lazy, but the Gu family has nothing to say. In the end, the eldest lady didn't say anything, her eyes were slightly red, and she actually left tears. Mr. Xie was in a hurry.

Speaking of the last sentence, Lin Yanchao said at the moment: "The old parents are above, and the students have already asked to understand, as for how to convict the crime, please show me." ”

The people who were watching on the sidelines also understood the reason at this time, and pointed at the eldest mother. Xie Zongjia lowered his head, revealing a depressed look.

When Zhou Zhixian wrote a judgment: "The dowry field will be disposed of by the husband's family, and the Xie family must no longer have the heart to get involved, and the cost of the lawsuit against the two parties in this case will be borne by the Xie family alone." A woman obeys her father at home, marries her husband, has three outlines and five constants, and is always orderly ......"

"It's over, I can't get anything this time, and I was ridden on the head by the Lin family to pee." Mr. Xie stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

"Wow!" The eldest lady suddenly burst into tears, she suddenly ran out of the hall, all the officials have been in battle for a long time, and they have never seen any women who complained before, and they made any self-harm in a hurry, and they stepped forward to stop them at the moment, and it was really bad if something happened in the hall.

Zhou Zhixian's verdict had not yet been written, but the eldest lady ran to the outside of the hall, kowtowed to Lin Gao, and the uncle and cried: "Dad, I was wrong, Xianggong, I was wrong, it was my fault in the past." ”

"I said I wanted to leave, I just said it, I just wanted you, you can let me a little bit."

"I don't want to leave, I want to go home, I want to prolong my life! I want to live longer! ”

This. This. Lin Yanchao was also stunned, he didn't expect this step, could it be that his last questioning made the eldest mother's conscience discover?

The broad masses of the people on the side, worthy of being enthusiastic, are persuading them to dismantle a temple rather than a marriage.

The eldest mother cried bitterly in public, the uncle deserved to be the first soft-hearted person in the Lin family, brushed the ground, the whole person collapsed, knelt on the ground and picked up the eldest mother, and the husband and wife howled together: "Mother-in-law, we are not leaving, we are not leaving, we will go home to live together, and Yanshou has been crying and shouting for you." County lord, we are not leaving, we are not leaving! ”

The eldest lady suddenly cried bitterly: "Xianggong, I will listen to you in the future, listen to you!" ”

Seeing that things were about to develop in another direction, Lin Gao spoke: "My son promised you to go back to my Lin family's house, but I haven't agreed yet!" Do you think the gate of my Lin family, you can enter if you want, and you can go out if you want? ”