Chapter Seventy-Five: Passing the Hall

(Dizzy, a little convulsion, dead or alive, until now...... )

The Cheng family's complaint was also submitted, and the government immediately merged the two cases and announced that the court would be heard on the 20th of this month.

In the blink of an eye, it is the 19th, and tomorrow is the day of the church. In the battle related to Jiang Qing's honor, the Cheng family did not dare to be careless. For this reason, Mrs. Song asked people to invite a famous lawyer in Shuzhong, and asked her younger brother and Cheng Zhicai to discuss countermeasures with them all day long. She herself and Lai Pozi were a few companions as women, playing cards and playing money in the back hall, while entertaining time, while waiting for the front to give Ding Mao.

When it was dark, the maid served food, and then withdrew the game, and several mothers-in-law served Song's meal. She was savoring the gold, jade and silver fish soup that the chef of the house learned from Laifulou, and the maid reported that the big man was here.

"My son, haven't you eaten yet?" When Song saw his handsome son, he couldn't help but worry about it, and asked his mother-in-law to add a pair of dishes and chopsticks for him, and sat down to eat together.

Cheng Zhicai didn't have much appetite, only barely used a small half bowl of porridge, seeing that he was preoccupied and wanted to speak, Song waved his hand to rebuke a companion, and asked: "My son, can you be sad for tomorrow's lawsuit?" ”

"Hmm......" Cheng Zhicai's handsome face had a deep sadness.

"Don't worry, with your uncle and a few lawyers, it will be foolproof." Song comforted him and said, "When the time comes, you just stand there and don't speak." ”

"Niangniang, even if Banniang and I don't become husband and wife, we are still cousins and sisters...... Cheng Zhicai finally made up his mind and whispered: "I wrote the book of releasing my wife......"

"Ridiculous!" Song smiled and said: "When her father came to our house to rob people and engrave monuments to our house, he regarded us as relatives!" ”

"After all, we can't stand Banniang first." Cheng Zhicai said in a low voice.

"What am I afraid of her?" Song's willow eyebrows were upside down and said: "Since the day she married into the Cheng family, did she lack food and use, or didn't treat her as a young grandmother?" She is good, she has not moved in her stomach for two years after entering the door, and she will take two concubines for you, so she will pretend to be sick and show me. I, as a mother-in-law, deserve to be angry with her? Say what's wrong with her, go on a hunger strike to seek death? She died quietly at the time, so she didn't have to embarrass my family now! ”

"Mother, you misunderstood Ba Niang," Cheng Zhicai sighed and said, "Things are not as ...... as you think"

"How's that going?" Song stared at his son.

Under the forced gaze of his mother, Cheng Zhicai's eyes flickered, his lips moved for a long time, and finally lowered his head and said, "I don't know why." ”

"Don't be able to let go of that slut anymore." Song thought that his son's old love was over, and said with a smile: "There are many Jiang Qing's families in Shu, and they have long been staring at my family's talented and unparalleled Lang, and after taking that slut off, the threshold of our family will be broken by the matchmaker." ”

"Mother, I," Cheng Zhicai said with a gloomy expression, "I don't want to get married again." ”

"Silly, I'm still waiting to hold my grandson." Song smiled disapprehantly: "By the way, are there any movements in those two girls, then I specially asked someone to see them, they are all good men who are good to raise!" ”

"No ......" mentioned this topic, Cheng Zhicai sat on pins and needles, and said: "Mother, there's nothing else, I'll go back to read first." ”

"Go back, don't read tonight, rest early." Song said: "Raise your spirit for tomorrow." ”

"Yes." Cheng Zhicai said softly.

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The next day was a rare sunny day, just after the hour, the county government was full of Meishan people watching the lively. After a series of disputes, this ordinary divorce lawsuit has risen to the height of the grievances between the Cheng and Su families, the contest between the common people and Jiang Qing, not to mention the attention of the whole city, and the gambling house even opened a gambling game - betting on the outcome of today's lawsuit, whether to divorce his wife or divorce.

Although they were both divorces, these two ways were very different for both parties at that time.

Under the teachings of Confucius, a woman can only be divorced if she is guilty of the sin of 'seven outs'. What is Seven Outs? childless, adulterous, aunt-in-law, tongue-in-cheek, theft, jealousy, and sickness. Who would dare to marry a woman with such a bad reputation on her back?

Saying that divorce is tantamount to announcing the death penalty of the woman! Although it is a bit exaggerated, it also describes the harm that this move has done to the woman.

On the other hand, because it is the woman's assertion, if the government finally decides to divorce, it will undoubtedly determine that the man has a big fault that has to be divorced, which is a great harm to the man.

The people of Meishan are waiting to see who hurt whom in the end......

Emotionally speaking, there are more people who support the Su family, after all, people hope to defeat the strong with the weak, and challenge Jiang Qing with the common people. This can also be seen from the cheers and encouragement of the people after the Su family appeared, which was much louder than when the Cheng family appeared.

The Su family's formation is really not small, in addition to the three Sus, there are also four strong young people, who will protect Su Banniang, who is wearing a white veil on her head, in the middle.

But compared to the pomp and circumstance of the Cheng family, it is a big thing - more than 20 family members, hugging and carrying five sedan chairs, one of which is a female sedan chair with green curtains, followed by several maids and women, and drove directly into the county office.

When people saw the Cheng family's Xuanhe's momentum, they couldn't help but sweat for the Su family...... Can you beat this behemoth?

The county government hears cases, all of which are in the second hall. In addition to the chief judge, the secretary, and the third-class officials, some ordinary people are often released to observe outside the hall to show that the chief judge is impartial and impartial.

When the two sides of the dispute arrived, the audience outside the venue was in place, and Zhou Daling, wearing a green silk official robe, a waist band, and a straight headband, appeared in the hall.

"Meet the Great Order...... "Except for the officials who stand on duty, everyone salutes to Zhou Daling, and women salute ten thousand blessings.

"Everyone's flat." Song Daling sat down under the plaque of 'Mirror Hanging', and ordered someone to sit for the Song family, who had an order, and Song Anzhi, who had an official status. Then he glanced at the 'Qing Shen Qin' plaque facing him above the screen door, and said in a deep voice: "There is a case of mutual prosecution between Su Banniang, a citizen of this county, and Cheng Zhicai, a student of this county, in accordance with the criminal law of the Great Song Dynasty, the two cases are hereby combined into one case and tried today." As he spoke, he patted the hall and said, "Ascension!" ”

The officials of the 'mighty ......' station poked water and fire sticks to the ground together, and made a low voice in their mouths, reminding both parties to pay attention to the order of the court.

"Xuan, the plaintiff and defendant Su Banniang went to court." Then the team leader asked loudly: "Which one is Su Banniang?" ”

"The people's girl is." At this time, Banniang had already taken off the mask, revealing a thin and haggard face, she was wearing a plain white dress, covering her head with blue cloth, and there was a kind of pitiful beauty of cheeks. I saw her walk into the hall. After standing still, fold his hands on his lower abdomen, bend his knees slightly under his eyes, and make another blessing salute, which makes people unconsciously sympathize.

"Are you prosecuting privately, or are you asking someone to sue on your behalf?" Zhou Daling asked, he saw Su Banniang, a weak woman, so many relatives and friends, and said in his heart that he must be looking for someone else's help.

"The folk girl sued herself." Who knew that Su Banniang said firmly.

"Okay." Zhou Daling announced Cheng Zhicai in again, and when he asked, the man invited a lawyer here, so he also let him in.

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After that, the plaintiff and the defendant read out the pleadings in court.

Listening to the statements of the two parties, the intensity is simply like mud. Su Banniang only said in the form, "The union of husband and wife is the fate of the previous life, but if it has turned against each other, like cats and mice hate, wolves and dogs, then it is better to return to their roots, resolve grievances and release knots, and do not hate each other, one is separate and two are wide, and each life is happy." Such elegant language, read in Su Banniang's gentle tone, makes people not feel angry at all, but feels that if they are together, they will be together, and if they are not together, they will be separated, and husband and wife should be like this.

On the other hand, the complaint read by the lawyer of the Cheng family was fiercely derogatory to her, laying out her eight crimes, seven of which were disobedience to her in-laws, childlessness, disobedience to women's morality, and jealousy...... Four. Clear-eyed people know at a glance that this is a counterattack to Su Xun's accusation of the Cheng family's six points.

It's just that in such a comparison, it is inevitable that what makes people feel more noble is not the Cheng family as Jiang Qing, but the Su family as a commoner.

After the statements of the two parties were completed, Zhou Daling said to Su Banniang: "The Cheng family's complaint is well-founded, but you only ask for ......a sentence of divorce on the grounds of 'anti-suspicion'" and paused: "Do you have anything else to add?" ”

"No more......" Su Banniang shook her head.

"The official had no choice but to focus on the Cheng family's complaint." Zhou Daling said in a deep voice: "The Cheng family's accusations against you, four of which are in line with the 'seven outs', if you can't prove your innocence, the official has no choice but to let him divorce his wife." ”

"Great Order Mingjian," Su Banniang smiled miserably and said: "The girl is a scholarly girl, and my mother taught me with women's virtues, and I have been raising my face since I was a child, so that I am filial to my in-laws and abide by my duty." And the folk girl married into the Cheng family for two years, except for the last two months of bedridden, there was no day when she accidentally served her in-laws, and she was cautious in her words and deeds. There has never been arrogant and rude words and deeds, and there has never been a behavior of competing for favor in the pepper room. It is because except for 'childless', the rest are slander. ”

"Oh," Zhou Daling looked at the lawyer and said, "Su said that your family is slanderous, can there be any evidence to disprove it?" ”

"Naturally, there is." The lawyer sneered: "We don't cite examples from within the family, because the witnesses are all members of the Cheng family, which is not convincing." Let me just say one thing, on the day of the Qingming Festival this year, half of the people in Meishan saw this woman, who was carried by a man, snatched out of the gate of Cheng's house, ran through half of Meishan City, and went to the dock to get on the boat. As he spoke, he pointed to the door and said, "Da Ling Mingjian, that adulterer, is right in the hall!" ”

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Turn off the fan and turn on the air conditioner, and the eyes will be fine, alas, it's not that I don't want to be environmentally friendly......