Donkey Trouble Volume 3: Reckless Men Paying Debts 41, Arbitrary Judgment and Confusion Case

Interrogate confused cases with benevolence, and judge confusedly and indiscriminately.

"What is the relationship between the brothers and them?relatives?friends?or—acquaintances?" Lu Xing avoided answering, and first cautiously probed.

To answer in a measured way how to deal with Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter, you must first find out what the relationship between Zheng En and the lazy worm is with them. Is it close or estranged, far or near? Why do you meddle? What benefits do you want to get? This is Lu Xing's line of thinking.

Zheng En didn't know anything about this relationship, he didn't know anything about the rolling pin, he thought it was a dead reason, and of course the problem with Lu Xing was to cook taro in rice soup, and he was confused: "What does this have to do with you?"

"We are friends, your business is also my business, and my business is yours. Do you say?"

What Lu Xing said was the unspoken rules to follow in doing things, and Zheng En took it literally, but of course he still didn't understand: "My business is your business, it's your business, why don't you know what our relationship is?

"Yes!" Facing the hard fist, Lu Xing could only nod his head.

"Don't talk like a taro in your mouth! What the hell are you talking about with them? You make it clear, and we'll judge you!" Zheng Eun reprimanded.

When the lazy insect heard Zheng En say that he wanted to judge the case, he stood beside Zheng En like a servant, pawned his stomach, and shouted indiscriminately: "Ascend to the court, ascend to the hall! Stand well, stand well! Confess leniently, resist strictly! Cunning denial, the master will handle it strictly! Raise your head, all his heads will be raised, and he will explain honestly!"

Force is also power. The hardness of the fist is identity, status, and axiom. The lazy insect is a joke, and Lu Xing doesn't dare to play around. He made a stomach full of grievances, with a bitter face, and said, "Her mother and daughter have opened a small shop in my town—"

As soon as Lu Xing spoke, he was interrupted by a lazy worm and said, "Is the Lu family shop yours?"

"Brother, I'm also the chief of the body!" Lu Xing said proudly.

In the later Han Dynasty, the grassroots political power was divided into big and small guarantees. Xiaobao is equivalent to the village of later generations, and Dabao is equivalent to the township of later generations. Lujiadian is a famous town and belongs to the Dabao level. Lu Xing's position is equivalent to that of the township leader of later generations, and he is at the department level. Not to mention that at that time, everything was dictatorship by him, that is, a democratic society in later generations, and he was also an amazing character who shouted and hugged before going out, "my township", "my town", "my people", and stomping on the ground and moving around!

Helplessly, Zheng En and the lazy worm knew very little about the situation of officialdom, and they didn't know anything about the mentality of being an official.

Zheng En asked, "How many Lujia stores are there?"

"More than 5,000 households!"

"How many?"

"More than 30,000 people. ”

"How many people are in your family?"

"There were more than a hundred of them, including the servants they used. ”

Zheng En said angrily: "I grass, the Lu family shop is more than 30,000 Lu family shop people, how can it be your family?

"He's the security chief!" one of the thugs reminded.

"What kind of thing is the chief of the bodyguard, isn't it just to run errands for everyone, and everyone to pay him a few taels of labor fees to spend? It should be a slave hired by everyone and a housekeeper dog for food!"

Faced with two idiots who didn't understand anything about officialdom and the mysteries of power, and who were reckless men with superb martial arts and murderous fun, Lu Xing wanted to cry without tears, so he could only put away the boss and the chief shelf, and carefully corrected: "Brother is right, Lujiadian belongs to everyone, and I am just a manager!"

"Tell me! How do you manage things?"

"Yes. The mother and daughter had no funds for the antique business, so I kindly helped them and lent them four hundred taels of silver. I don't know that they were unlucky and lost a mess. I think they are pitiful, so I let the little one, her daughter Xiao Cong'er, go to the restaurant to work to pay off the debt. Unexpectedly, she was kind enough to treat her as a donkey's liver and lungs, disobeyed discipline, violated the rules many times, and was fined more than two hundred taels alone——"

"What rules, be specific!" asked Jung.

Lu Xing didn't dare to say that Xiao Cong'er didn't wear open-chested clothes and didn't let customers touch her mistakes, so he chose what was recognized as wrong and slandered: "She was late for work and dozed off at work!"

Zheng En thought that when he was working at Dong Da's house, the chickens had to get up before they crowed, and they were still napping in a daze with a sesame bag, of course they would not stand on his side and speak: "Being late is because you go to work early, and you doze off because you don't let you sleep well!

"It's so tiring to work, and you still get up early and feel dark, you should look for her fifty taels of overtime pay, and in turn you want to punish her? What kind of thing are you bullying a working girl?" The lazy bug shouted.

"Yes, no—" Lu Xing couldn't answer, only stammered.

"Is it a thing or is it not a thing, make it clear?"

Lu Xing couldn't say clearly, so he could only remain silent.

"What's wrong with her?" asked Jung.

"She doesn't work well and steals. The things she stole are worth more than 800 taels of silver, as the saying goes, if you catch one time, it is a hundred times, and I will only punish her twice, which is not much, right?"

"What did she steal from you?" Zheng Eun felt that stealing from her part-time job was a big mistake, and said.

"High-end cosmetics!"

"What is it, exactly?"

Lu Xing is not dark about fashion cosmetics, and chooses the latest and most expensive women's brands and says nonsense: "Luozidai, corn fragrance, butterfly powder, goldenrod rouge, rose cake, thrush set fragrant round, jade girl peach blossom powder, ......"

Zheng En has never enjoyed a rich life since he was a child, let alone an elegant woman, he doesn't know what "cosmetics" is at all, and he thought that he stole peanut cakes and sesame cakes to satisfy his hunger when he was hungry at work, so he speculated from this, thinking that Xiao Cong'er must have been unable to eat enough at work, and was extremely hungry, so he stole those snacks and fruits and other foods that Lu Xing said, and asked: "How many 'flower decorations' did she steal from you?"

"That's not tasty!"

"It's not delicious, what did she steal?"

"What did she wipe on her head and face?"

"You don't let out a crooked fart! She's a big girl, and she's not crazy, what are you doing with those belly-filling things on her body? It's clearly framing! Framing someone else, you will be fined fifty taels of silver!" Zheng En pronounced the sentence.

"If you don't admit your guilt, you'll hit another fifty boards!" the lazy worm roared and cheered!

Lu Xing couldn't see through whether Zheng En and the lazy worm really didn't understand or made trouble, he was afraid of the real fight, so he didn't dare to argue, so he could only bow his head and obey the verdict, and said:

"She went to work in a restaurant and made a contract, but she didn't have enough time to run away. In the past year, in order to find her, I have hired more than 20 people, and more than 2,000 taels of wages and travel have been posted. I'm angry with her, I can't eat or drink well, I often have stomach pains, I can't sleep at night, I feel dizzy all the year round, and she has to at least pay some silver—" Lu Xing didn't dare to say that the reason was uncertain, and he chose the recognized big mistake.

"If you work for you and enjoy and earn money, what will she run? You won't let you eat, drink, or sleep, and brutally abuse, won't you let people run? Run well! Run right! If you don't run, you won't be tortured to death? She didn't let you spend money to find her, why did she pay you for finding her money? If you can't sleep at night, you don't work, you rest too moist, if you are asked to carry peanut buns all day long, cross the springboard, and see that you can't sleep? These strokes are all blowing, and you are not allowed to mention them again! Go on, don't fucking mix chaff with water, give me a stone to smash and grind the stone (real)!" Zheng En judged.

"Be lenient in confession, and strict in resisting. If you dare to mess around, you will be punished!" the lazy worm roared fiercely.

Lu Xing didn't dare to mess around anymore, so he had to tell the truth: "Since you came forward to intervene, brother, all miscellaneous items such as fines, compensation, medicine expenses, and mental damage expenses will be waived, and only let her pay off the debt of 3,500 taels with IOUs." This is black and white, her mother signed it, and pressed her handprint!"

"How many litters of silver does it take in a month?" asked Jung.

Lu Xing didn't understand what it meant, and scratched his scalp stupidly.

"Will you give birth to silver?" roared the lazy worm.

"No!" Lu Xing understood.

"I won't give birth to a cub, why did you just say that you would lend you four hundred taels, and now it has become three thousand five hundred taels?

The turnover of silver can increase in value, and it is allowed by law to lend money and collect profits, but Lu Xing did not dare to argue with this truth, and said that he was afraid that the two of them would use the "torture instrument", so he had to bow his head under the low eaves and swallow a mouthful of breath: "According to what the brothers said, the interest is all exempted, let her pay back the four hundred taels of old capital!"

"Deduct the one hundred taels of silver that you were fined just now!" said the lazy worm.

"Okay, then let her pay back three hundred taels!"

"What if they don't even have three hundred taels in front of them?" asked Zheng En.

"She is not embarrassed without me in front of her, and when she goes back, she will work in my restaurant, and I will arrange light and clean work for her. Give him another one or two per month, and he will be rewarded for his good work, I will forgive her for making mistakes, and I will not punish her. It's all from a town, you say, I don't take care of them, who will take care of them?"

"What did you just say that letting her pay off her debts is for you to be a housewife?" Zheng En asked as he stared at him.

"That's a shopkeeper in a restaurant, how can I know that she doesn't agree! That horse, this shopkeeper Liu, isn't this bad reputation for me? This time let her go back, just to work, and don't mention the matter of paying off debts as a housewife!"

Lu Xing became so honest that not only did he no longer mess around, but he also didn't even want usury interest on IOUs, and the lazy worm felt that he had a lot of face and became proud.

He shouted to Xiao Cong'er's mother and daughter with a life-saving benefactor: "Alas, you two talk about it, are we judged fairly?"

No one paid attention, only a low whimper.

If you want to know what will happen next, please watch the next time: Reckless Men Paying Debts.