Just when Xu Hao was impressed by the other party's mansion, the other party came to punish Guzi, to say that there was nothing wrong with such a punishment, but Xu Hao always felt a little weird.

Guo Guzi shouted: "The monks have a breeze on their sleeves, how can there be twenty stone grains of rice?" ”

Fang Fu said unhappily: "Idiot! This official is cheaper for you, pointing to this as an excuse to turn around the street, I don't know how much you can earn. ”

Xu Hao was stunned, isn't this the same as forcibly begging by order? Which one is this playing? The nuns should be let go if they are not guilty, even if they are disgusted with this kind of person and want to take the opportunity to teach them a lesson, they should not say these words, it is obvious that they are encouraging them to continue to walk the streets and go from house to house, and they should be punished or encouraged? It's confusing.

However, when the two sisters-in-law heard this explanation, they were tacitly speechless, and were obediently led down, and Liu Gongzi walked in with his head down.

Fang Fu said coldly: "Liu Yuan, you are a son of an official eunuch, and you are a prisoner, you live a restless life, what are you doing to marry a prostitute?" so that his wife hanged herself. If this case goes deeper, you should both pay for your life. ”

Liu Gongzi said with sincere fear: "The prison student's wife has always been unvirtuous, and her father and brother are not good, and she instigated his wife to stir up the restless house day and night, and stole property from her mother's family. If you want the prisoner to be cowardly, how dare you abuse her? It's hard to put into words. ”

Fang Fu said: "She didn't stop you when you married a prostitute, what's wrong with it?" It is probably that both of you and your husband have suffered losses, and it is not easy to read that you seek fame, so you will not be removed from the list and fined 500 taels of silver to repair the Temple of Literature. Jin Zhi exempted her from official duties, and severely fined her a hundred taels of silver to give relief to the poor. ”

Next, on the grounds that they did not protect the master's mother, they ordered the servants to drag them down to play the board, and the seven or eight mothers-in-law who were bluffed cried wolf howls.

Fang Fu didn't seem to bear the woman being beaten, and said, "Let's spare it, and each person will be fined five taels of silver." ”

At this moment, Xu Hao finally understood that he dared to punish the plaintiff and then the defendant, this is the way of most civil officials, and they do not favor any party. Each of them will play 30 boards, and the above will not accuse and can also generate income for the yamen, and the people who have nothing to do with themselves will also applaud happily.

Fang Fu summoned Zhou Du's father and son to come in and said, "You two are the most hateful, don't teach the Zhou family to learn well." It is common for Liu Yuan to marry concubines and prostitutes, but as a wife, he is holding a knife and splashing it on the street, it is clear that you instigated your daughter to submit to her husband, so as to steal things from you, and now that the person is dead, you have come to take the opportunity to cheat money. ”

Zhou Du was in a hurry. said: "Why does the master of this case believe Liu Yuan's words? His family is a village eunuch, isn't the little one the son of a village eunuch? I raised my daughter to marry Liu Yuan, and I was full of hope that their husband and wife would be harmonious and live a good life forever, how could there be any reason to find her unvirtuous? But is it forbidden for him to take a concubine and observe the law of etiquette? Don't talk about the difference between the top and the bottom, the difference between the descendants?

The size of the Liu family was translocated, and the cheap concubines wore gold and silver to eat and cook, but they imprisoned their wives in a cold room, with no clothes and no food. It's like dead. Even so, I refused to relax, and I wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots behind my back, and listened to the prostitute who wronged my son for adultery with monks and Taoists. What woman can endure the notoriety of this adoptive man?

Now the two sisters-in-law are here. Didn't the adults test her? If it is really a man, even if the little girl is dead, the old man is willing to sit guilty, and there is nothing to say about death. If it's a woman's body. Then the prostitute kills with the sword of the tongue, which is murder, even if she does not pay for her life. At the very least, they must be sent out of office and become slaves. ”

Fang Fu asked, "What evidence do you say are imprisoned in a cold room?" If you don't give her food and clothing, how have you spent the past few years? ”

Zhou Du said: "The Liu family spent 6,000 silver to buy the mansion of the former squire, which has an eight-story house. He lived with the prostitute in the inner house, my daughter with two dowry girls, and one wife in the small courtyard at the back, if there was not a well, I am afraid that I would not even have water to eat.

When the daughter got married, the younger one married no less than 600 gold, and gave away another hectare of land. In the past few years, the children have worn wedding dresses and eaten from this hectare of land, and in order to let her husband try the township, she sold 20 acres, leaving 80 acres, and Liu Yuan was only willing to return 20 acres. ”

Fang Fu shook his head and said: "You are a poor man called Huazi, you open your mouth for six hundred gold, and close your mouth for a hectare of land, you can see how greedy you are for money." ”

Zhou Du shouted: "Adults, don't just talk about the present, the small ones are rich and poor, and his family is rich and low, how can the small ones be called flowers?" ”

Sister-in-law Gao couldn't help but walk up and said: "What he said is the truth, now he is poor, and his family background was good before, who in Jinling City does not know the Zhou family?" ”

Fang Fu said angrily: "Who allowed you to talk in court? Hit out. ”

Immediately, a servant held a water and fire stick to pick up people, and Gao was hit on the buttocks, covering it and shouting: "I'll just go out, oh, the thief will cut off the head, and God will kill it." "Scolded and went.

Fang Fu continued: "The Nian Zhou family has a foundation, and they are exempt from beating and questioning, and each person is punished with four knives of paper. ”

Xu Haoxin said that he was really good at making money, and he didn't let go even if he knew that the Zhou family was poor. The so-called big paper is a kind of red rough-edged paper, the paper is thick and only the government is qualified to use, and the people are strictly prohibited from circulation, that is to say, you can't buy it if you have money, which is a monopoly thing.

It is said that it is a penalty of silver, because the people can't buy it and no one dares to sell it, so they can only fold six taels of silver per knife, so the father and son have to be fined a total of six eight hundred and forty-eight taels of silver.

This is not counting, the government will collect taxes and transport will have a loss in fire consumption, and so on there are similar unspoken rules on the scales, plus the officials who pluck the feathers of the geese, to say the least, it will cost you ten taels of silver.

Zhou Du understood this, and said dissatisfiedly: "Eight knives of paper and sixty taels of silver can't come down, my father and son are poor and have no money." ”

Fang Fu said unhurriedly: "Didn't you say that you sent an acre of land?" Return the land to Liu Yuan and ask him to pay the paper price for you. ”

Liu Yuan smiled secretly in his heart and said: "Don't listen to his nonsense, you are so poor that you can't even eat, how can you give your daughter a hare of land?" It was the prisoner's own. ”

Zhou Du said angrily: "What year did you buy it?" How much did it cost? Who was the original landlord? Where is the original deed? Who is the name of the person who testified? ”

A few words of questioning made Liu Gongzi speechless, and simply closed his mouth.

Fang Fu became impatient, frowned, and said: "The twenty acres of land that have been sold are enough, and the remaining eighty acres will be returned to the Zhou family on the same day, and Liu Yuan can buy them first." Well! Send the paper to the yamen within three days. All the prisoners were exempted, and Jin Zhi was released and went home. ”

After the trial of the case was over, the people who were watching suddenly dispersed, and some people said that the government asked about the case well, some said that the question was bad, and some cursed and praised. Anyway, it's the norm.

Xu Hao turned around and walked out, sighing that since ancient times, the common people have been most afraid of lawsuits, the two mouths of the official word really deserve their reputation, and they have to be fined if they are justified or not, and they have to deal with the officials, waste of time, hurry to get angry, etc., in case they are corrupt officials again?

Will the officials be able to try the case well? Looking at Fang Fu's table today, it is clear at a glance, and if you carefully investigate and collect evidence, it is not difficult to give a relatively fair verdict. It's a pity that in the eyes of the officials, they are all ordinary people. It is difficult for a clean official to decide family affairs, and no matter what the final verdict is, it will inevitably cause dissatisfaction from one party, so it is better to simply conclude the case in the first instance.

After the case was decided, a notice had to be posted, and soon the secretary office wrote the original circumstances of the case and the names of the people who paid the fines more or less clearly, so that the people could not find the slightest fault.

In addition, there is also a trial record for the record, and the party will write out the judgment in detail, file and keep it, and finally explain the reasons why the sentence is so awarded.

In prison. Jin Zhi happily prepared to go out, and the subordinates were busy moving the furniture, etc., Hu Desheng looked at it with a smile.

Liu Gongzi said convincingly: "Thank you Master Hu for your righteousness, this kindness and virtue are unforgettable." ”

Hu Desheng said proudly: "You can rest assured that I will do something." Lord Fang is dedicated to the country, and when he was the county magistrate, he always tried the case like this, and in the name of it, he used the silver he was fined for the people and took it from the people, so that you were nothing more than spending some silver taels. I will never be entangled in lawsuits. ”

Seeing Xu Hao coming over, Liu Gongzi said proudly: "Xu Xianggong, I'll wait for you to go out another day." I'll treat you to a drink, haha! ”

Xu Hao stopped and said: "This result is not a bad result, I hope you can do it yourself, people are watching the sky, and treating your father-in-law's family well is the way to deal with people." ”

Liu Gongzi said unhappily: "I haven't counted the accounts I was beaten, I'm not a muddy Bodhisattva, it's just a matter of not being guilty in the past, if you want me to treat this villain's family well, don't think about it!" ”

"Nosy." Hu Desheng frowned and said: "Our grievances are not over yet, Lao Tzu will give you a chance one last time, if you are willing to marry your sister to me as a concubine, I will guarantee you to be admitted to the Jinshi, if not, hum!" ”

Xu Hao said in surprise: "Can you keep me an official?" ”

Hu Desheng naturally wouldn't tell the truth, he had the intention to lie to him, and said proudly: "That's." ”

Xu Hao also pretended to be very embarrassed, and muttered: "I have to think about it, you give me some time." ”

Hu Desheng laughed and said, "Give you a day, don't wait for it." ”

Xu Hao suddenly shook his head and said, "No, my sister can't be small." ”

"You!" Hu Desheng was furious, and said with a dark face: "Then don't blame me for being rude." After saying that, he walked away.

At this time, the Liu family carried everything to the carriage outside, and Liu Gongzi hugged the golden branch and said with a smile: "Xu Xianggong, we will meet indefinitely." ”

Xu Hao smiled and walked into the women's prison, and saw Sai Jinhua lying on the wooden board weakly, her whole body was dirty, and it was all the scars and stains that had been played.

Lustful and Qian Addict were contentedly eating wine with two prison women in their arms, and four or five female forbidden sons were sitting on the other side drinking and eating meat.

When Qian Ji saw him come in, he smiled and said, "Master Xu, when will today's routine be given?" ”

Xu Hao casually took off the ring on his finger, threw it to him and said, "This is worth 100 gold, enough for a year's money." ”

Under the coveted gaze of the women, the lustful tuberculosis stretched out his hand with bright eyes, but was quickly held in his hand by the money fetish, and said with a smile: "Ten taels of silver outside can only be counted as one tael here, even if Xu Ye's reward is really worth a thousand taels of silver, after deducting three meals a day, I will calculate it for you for half a month, after all, everyone has a share." ”

"Whatever!" Xu Hao couldn't stand the dirty environment and air here, "I'd better go to the gatehouse." ”

"You please, please." Qian Yi nodded and made a gesture of respect.

When Xu Hao left, he said: "Brother, listen to what Hu Ye means, this guy's good days are coming to an end, and he will be reduced to a prisoner in the next two days, and he will have to be locked in prison all day long and not be allowed to move around at will." ”

Qian Addict couldn't put it down, fiddling with the ring inlaid with gems, lowered his head and said: "That's none of my business, being locked up in prison is bad luck for him, at most I will be kind to him and let him suffer less." Hehe, I'll be able to make a big profit again. (To be continued......)