"Boy, when you see the official, you have to let your kid know how many eyes Lord Ma has!"

Seeing Shi Yiwen standing there calmly, looking fearless, Zhao Gongzi's nose let out a cold snort.

"That is, when I meet with the official, I have to give a hundred boards first!"

Shi Yiwen just sneered and said nothing.

"Let's go, let's go to the official!"

Reaching out to pick up the woman who was kneeling on the ground.

Xu Niangzi, who was helped up, looked at Shi Yiwen gratefully, as if explaining, and as if she wanted to grasp this life-saving straw, she grabbed his hand and said.

"Childe, I, I'm really not a fugitive, I'm really not."

"Hmm,"

Nodding with a smile, Shi Yiwen said to her.

"Don't be afraid, when you meet the official, just tell the truth."

Unlike the last time I went to Jiangning County, this time I went to Shangyuan County in the inner city, and it was not far from Xu Niangzi's house to Shangyuan County, that is, only two or three miles. On the way to the Yamen, Shi Yiwen walked unhurriedly, and he seemed to be calm and composed, but he was just thinking about how to deal with the official when he met the official in his mind.

I didn't expect to go to see the official again, I don't know, what kind of person that Shangyuan Zhixian is.

A group of people went to the yamen to fight a lawsuit, which naturally attracted a group of good passers-by, after all, everyone likes to watch the excitement, and when they arrived at the county office, they had already followed three or four hundred people in the dark.

According to the instructions of the yacha, Shi Yiwen stood in the middle of the yatang.

"Childe,"

When the delicate words came into his ears, Shi Yiwen turned his head to look, only to see Xu Niangzi standing aside, looking at it timidly, her eyes full of fear. In the twilight, her appearance is particularly charming, looking at her, Shi Yiwen understands why someone has bad intentions towards her.

remembered what happened to her before, so she comforted her.

"Don't worry, as long as the deed of sale is not signed by you, they will not succeed."

"Don't speak!"

The officials on the side immediately drank him off.

"The county lord is going to be promoted to the court to judge you!"

Shi Yiwen stopped with a smile, he looked at the people in this yamen, Zhao Gongzi on the side stood there calmly, and the two domestic slaves of the Zhao family greeted the servants warmly.

Seeing this scene, Shi Yiwen's heart tightened, and he frowned and pondered.

"It's really the Zhao family!"

Thinking that he had provoked the "Zhao family", Shi Yiwen couldn't help but smile, but saw more than a dozen officials in the yamen walking out with black and red sticks, and posing in the yamen, and someone shouted.

"The master ascended to the hall...... With the plaintiff! ”

That Zhao Gongzi walked into the ya, and someone shouted over there.

"Take the defendant!"

When he was still stunned, someone behind Shi Yiwen shouted.

"Why are you standing stupid? Deaf but? Didn't you hear your grandfather call you over? ”

The officials in the yamen did not have the slightest politeness when Shi Yiwen fell, and the "Zhao family" also had two obvious attitudes.

This is the second time we have been in a lawsuit!

But it seems that this time has nothing to do with him, thinking in his heart, Shi Yiwen looked at the yatang, compared with Jiangning County, it is no different, the eight officials are separated, all of them are dressed in the robes of the officials, and they are holding black and red sticks in their hands and posing there.

Behind the "public case" in the main hall, the person sitting was probably Shangyuan Zhixian, in his forties, with a long beard, sitting behind the public case, wearing a red official robe and a black gauze hat. At the first table of the public case sat a clerk.

When Hu Weiliang saw that the plaintiff and the defendant had gone to court, he slapped the case on the ground and asked in a hoarse voice.

"Plaintiff, what's your name?"

"Hui Xianzun, the boy's surname is Zhao, his name is Mingchuan, and Zhao Enhui is in the next family, and he is now studying in Nanjing Guozijian."

As soon as Zhao Gongzi opened his mouth, he put on his identity in a dignified manner.

The son of Hyobe Lang Nakamasa!

When Shi Yiwen heard this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, how many grades of officials is this? And the woman beside him trembled even more. This is the son of a dignitary.

When he assumed his identity, Hu Weiliang's brows furrowed slightly, and his body moved and asked.

"It turns out that he is also the son of an official eunuch, and he is a prisoner of the country, since this is the case, look at the seat."

After Zhao Gongzi sat down in the chair, he continued to ask.

"I don't know who Zhao Gongzi sued today?"

"Back to the county, I will sue this thief for preventing me from arresting the fugitive slave, and second, I will sue the fugitive slave for ignoring the law of the country, deviating from the master, marrying someone privately, and asking the county to uphold justice."

After speaking, Zhao Gongzi, who was sitting on the chair, held a fan in his hand and bowed his hand.

"Defendant, what do you say?"

As soon as he was asked by the magistrate, Shi Yiwen made up his mind in an instant, and a few thoughts flashed in his heart, and he said unhurriedly.

"Back to the county, this Zhao Gongzi said that Xu Niangzi is a fugitive slave of the Zhao family, not coveting his beauty, if I am a Ming Dynasty but all the powerful and wealthy gentry see the beauty, it can be pointed out as a fugitive slave and forcibly kidnap the people's daughters to go home, then what is the use of national law?"

The situation in front of us is clearly that the skylight should be opened to speak brightly, and the matter should be taken to a greater extent.

"Xu Niangzi was originally from Sichuan, and moved to Nanjing with her father-in-law four years ago, when did she become the domestic slave of the Zhao family? Whether it is fleeing or not, you will find out when you go to Sichuan. ”

The more the magistrate on the stage listened, his brows wrinkled tighter, and he looked at Shi Yiwen a few times, and said in his heart, as soon as this kid came up, he said that the national law was useless, the powerful were arrogant, and he forcibly abducted people's daughters, and this crime was really not light!

"How to investigate the case, this official has his own measure, how can I need you to point fingers here!"

After a sharp reprimand, Hu Weiliang continued to ask.

"Zhao Gongzi, since you say that this Xu Niangzi is your family's fugitive slave, is there any evidence?"

"Back to the county, naturally there is a deed of sale, four years ago, after Xu Niangzi came to Songjiang, because of the poverty of the family, she was sold into my Zhao family as a slave."

"The eldest lord, the eldest lord, the people's daughter is wronged, the people's daughter is wronged, the people's daughter is in love with the Xianggong, and the family is quite passable, how can the Xianggong sell me into the Zhao family, if the Xianggong sells me, how can the Zhao family let me leave? The daughter of the people died three years ago, and in the past three years, the women of the people have been forced to make a living, often going back and forth to the thread village, and making a living by embroidery......

When Xu Niangzi kept kowtowing to avenge her grievances, Zhao Gongzi had already taken out the deed of sale and presented it.

"Whether it is wronged or not, the official has his own judgment!"

After taking the deed of sale, the magistrate took a closer look, and it was determined that there was a tooth sign on it, and then handed it to the criminal master who recorded it on the side. After the criminal master took the deed of sale, he turned on the light, looked at it carefully for a while, and then said.

"Hui Xianzun, there is indeed a tooth line signature on this deed of sale, and there is also a deed maker's finger, and this deed is indeed pressed by the woman, and judging from the dense fingerprints, the woman's figure should be similar to Xu Niangzi."

The appraisal of the criminal master made the corners of Zhao Gongzi's lips lightly, and his face showed color, and Xu Niangzi's pretty face suddenly turned pale and muttered.

"No, it can't be, it can't be, I, I'm not a fugitive slave......"

In panic, Xu Niangzi looked up at Shi Yiwen, as if she wanted to grasp the last straw, and said urgently.

"Childe, childe save me, save me, I, I'm really not a fugitive slave, I'm really not a ......"

When she spoke, the lady had already cried into a tearful person.

Looking at this scene, Hu Weiliang was stunned, the corners of his mouth moved, although he had some doubts in his heart, but the deed of sale was there, so he asked again.

"Master Liang, this deed of sale, but it was decided three years ago?"

"Back to the master, looking at the color of the paper and the color of printing, it is indeed not less than a few years."

The master's answer gave Hu Weiliang a bottom, he looked at Xu Niangzi who was kneeling with a pale face, and said in shock.

"Xu Niangzi, you ...... trick"

Just before the word "slave" could be spoken, someone suddenly shouted.

"County honor, and slow!"

After shouting these words, Shi Yiwen saluted.

"Yu Xianzun, I don't know if I can take a look at Xu Niangzi's deed of sale!"

"Who are you?"

As he spoke, Shi Yiwen stood up straight and looked at Hu Weiliang behind the table without humility or arrogance. Seeing that Shi Yiwen was dressed in brocade clothes, and his demeanor and temperament were far comparable to ordinary people, his words were also polite.

"In Xia Shi Yiwen, it's just a person who sees injustice on the road."

"Yo, the road is ...... to see the unfair"

When Zhao Gongzi, who was standing, heard this, he sneered, held a fan in both hands, and waved his fists at the magistrate.

"County Zun, the student accused him of Shi Yiwen secretly hiding my family's fugitive slaves, please punish the county with dignity!"

"It's not a fugitive, it's not like you came with your mouth open."

Without waiting for him to speak again, Shi Yiwen waved his hand again,

"Please also ask the county to take a look at the deed of sale."

"What's the matter, master."

took over the deed of sale from his master, Shi Yiwen was not interested in the content of the contract, but carefully checked the seal on it. Especially the seal of the dental shop, after experiencing several times of buying a house and property, he knew that the seal of the dental store was very important in ancient times.

Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, with the continuous expansion of the scale of commodity trade, the tooth shop began to be divided into two categories: "official teeth" established with the approval of the government and "private teeth" operated by private secrets. These dental shops are found in all walks of life in society, and have been generally recognized by buyers and sellers, and also by the government, after all, for the government, dental shops also shoulder the responsibility of collecting taxes.

There is nothing wrong with the seal of the dental bank, there are both official seals and private seals, and even the signature of tax payment. Coupled with the deed-maker's pledge, it is indeed a perfect certificate.

Is it really perfect?

Staring at the finger on the deed of sale, Shi Yiwen walked to Xu Niangzi and said.

"Xu Niangzi, I'll take a look at your hands."

Xu Niangzi looked at the son in front of her in confusion, and when she saw him holding her hand and looking at it for a while, she only felt very shy.

"Father-in-law, son-in-law, please ......"

Without waiting for "self-respect" to speak, he saw Shi Yiwen sneering in his heart, staring at Zhao Gongzi with his eyes.

"Zhao Gongzi, you just said that this deed of sale was personally signed by Xu Niangzi, right?"

"Exactly!"

With his right hand gently shaking the paper fan, Zhao Mingchuan sneered.

"She signed the charge with her father-in-law that day."

"In that case......

With a sneer, Shi Yiwen turned to face the magistrate and said.

"County Zun, the signature on this contract is definitely not the fingerprint of Xu Niangzi!"