If there is any difference, it is that there is no master in the hall who is arguing with each other in Chu Zhen's imagination, and there are no people watching the excitement, just a few parties arguing word by word.

"Child, you see, the one with two beards is the father-in-law of the widow's husband's family, and the one next to him is his son, the little lady who covers her sleeves and sobs is the little widow who came to sue, the young man next to her is her brother, and the thin little old man is her father." Pointing to a few people in the hall, the official said softly.

"Brother Hu, the matter has come to this, and you still have to insist on it?" Above the lobby, Chu Qian said helplessly, in fact, he had already written the verdict, if it weren't for the other party's identity, Chu Qian wouldn't have to bother to say anything, and directly decided the case.

"My lord, the Hu family has been a scholarly family for generations, the family style is rigorous, and there has never been a rude insult, and this matter must not be set a precedent from me." Hu Juren shook his head vigorously and said.

"What a faux pas, you ......." The widow's younger brother was furious, pointing at Hu Juren and was about to scold, but fortunately, the thin old man had some insight and knew that this was an official office and could not be presumptuous, so he hurriedly pulled his sleeve.

Hu Juren seemed to be taken aback, his body shook, and after seeing that there was no danger, his face regained his composure, and his son also said on the side: "My lord, my sister-in-law married into my Hu family, she is a member of the Hu family, and she should abide by the family rules of my Hu family, how can she marry someone else." ”

"Brother Hu, there is no reason in the imperial decree to prohibit widows from remarrying, if Brother Hu still insists on seeing it, this official can only go against your will." Chu Qian sighed and said, if he didn't know that Hu Juren had failed to test repeatedly, if he didn't succeed next year, the imperial court would definitely give him a chance to participate in the palace test and grant him an official position, so give his future colleagues a face, otherwise Chu Qian didn't need to talk nonsense at all, and directly made a big surprise and decided the matter.

"My lord, there is no prohibition in the imperial court, but there is no way to allow it, if the adult insists on going his own way, Hu is a small person with little power, and he can only turn to Kaifeng Mansion Yin to preside over justice." Hu Juren said stiffly.

"You old man, my sister is only nineteen years old this year, if she doesn't get married, who will support her for the rest of her life?" The young man standing next to the widow raised his eyebrows and said loudly.

"Marrying into my Hu family, that is the Hu family, and the Hu family will naturally bear the life of my sister-in-law in the future." Hu Juren's son said sternly.

Hu Juren's son's words did not resonate with the young man, and the two families started a new round of arguments, and the quarrel was full of red sweat, which also made Chu Qian annoyed.

"Judging by the appearance, if the adults don't make a decision, this case will have to continue to be tried." Behind the lobby, the guard said softly: "If the young man is tired, it is better to let the little one find an opportunity to report to the adult." ”

Looking at Hu Juren's appearance of defending the truth, Chu Zhen despised it in his heart, this should be the prototype of the formation of science, although it did not occupy the mainstream position in social values, but there were already sprouts, and then in the next hundred years, it gradually developed, and finally formed a climate, I don't know how many generations of thoughts have been imprisoned.

"Is there pen and paper here?" Chu Zhen pondered for a moment, then turned around and said to the officer.

"Wait a minute." The official didn't ask much, this is the place where Chu Qian usually rests when he tries the case, the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are all complete, the official looked carefully, and immediately found the pen and paper next to the bookcase.

"You present this to your uncle." took the pen and paper, dipped the pen in ink, Chu Zhi wrote a few lines on the paper without thinking, and after the ink dried, he folded it casually and handed it to the servant.

"No problem." The official said with a spring breeze on his face, gestured to Chu Qian, and did not walk out directly from the back hall, but went around in a circle, walked to the main entrance of the lobby, found a gap for the debater to rest, swaggered past them, came to the side of the little official next to Chu Qian, handed over the page written by Chu Qian, whispered, and then withdrew with a nonchalant look.

The little official took the letter and didn't open it to watch, and immediately forwarded it to Chu Qian, and at this time, the officials in the hall didn't seem to see anything, and the two families who were still standing upright on both sides with their chests upright, and were still going to argue, seemed to realize something, and gradually fell silent, and looked at Chu Qian with sneaky eyes.

Gently opening the letter, Chu Qian's eyebrows raised, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said to the little official next to him: "Present this to Hu Juren." ”

Hu Juren inexplicably took the letter paper handed by the little official, opened it and looked at it, brushed it, his face suddenly turned red, as if he had been burned by fire, and he didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed, and his hand holding the letter paper kept shaking, and his son saw this situation, and hurriedly leaned up and asked, "Father, what's wrong?" ”

Hu Juren didn't speak, but his hands trembled even more, and he was careless for a while, as if he couldn't even hold the letter steadily, and gently fell to the ground, revealing the side with words, except for Chu Qian and Hu Juren, everyone didn't know what was written on the letterhead, and when they saw the letter paper fall to the ground, they naturally looked at it curiously, only to see the black and white words on the letterhead, and clearly wrote a few lines:

"Cardamom years, widowed and widowed, strong uncle, melon fields and plums, marry or not?"

The little widow also seemed to be a literate person, and when she read the contents of the letter, two red clouds floated on her handsome little face, and with a sigh, her two sleeves immediately stroked her cheeks, and she looked down and did not dare to look at everyone.

In the Song Dynasty, there were not a few people who read and write, and they could enter the yamen as an errand boy, and it was definitely not possible to know a single big character, and the officials on both sides naturally understood what the content on the letter paper meant, and the eyes of Hu Juren's father and son became inexplicably weird, with a look of sudden realization.

"Okay, it turns out that you guys are actually playing this idea, no wonder you oppose my sister remarrying, it's really ......." The little widow's younger brother, about sixteen or seventeen years old, was the age of his flesh and blood, and he could not hide his words in his heart, and when he read the contents of the letter, he glared angrily and scolded loudly.

This time, the thin old man didn't stop his son anymore, he tightened his face, and looked at the Hu family father and son angrily, if he wasn't good at words, I am afraid that he would also scold him like his son.

"In-laws, don't get ...... wrong." The ancients married wives and had children relatively early, although the son was already very old, although he looked a little old, but Hu Juren's real age was only about thirty or forty years old, in the face of everyone's contemptuous eyes and the young man's reprimand, Hu Juren looked embarrassed, and no longer had just been calm, and Hu Juren's son, who was still handsome, was too embarrassed to stand quietly behind Hu Juren, not daring to face everyone.

"Brother Hu, this official asks you again, to marry or not?" Looking at the unkempt situation in the audience, Chu Qian couldn't help but smile, slapped the startled wood, and shouted loudly, feeling a sense of raising his eyebrows in his heart.

"Marry, marry, marry." Hu Juren shook his head to avoid the scuffle of the young man, and hurriedly shouted.