Chapter 23: Murder Without a Sword (Part II)
Li Chang Cheng Kaitai was very proud of his prestige, and asked Wang Shushi in a cold voice: "Your daughter married into my Cheng family early, and she is a member of my Cheng family." Now you are hiding your daughter and causing the villagers to fight, what is the reason? ”
Wang Shushi wanted to defend a few words, but Cheng Kaitai waved his hand again to prevent Wang Shushi from speaking. "I won't bother to reason with you today, and you don't have to defend yourself. There are only two ready-made truths for you to choose from. ”
Master Wang had no choice but to ask carefully, "I would like to hear about it." ”
"The first truth, you can keep your daughter. But in the past, the Kaishan brother's family married Sister Lan, and they paid you a bride price, but now Huainan's little brother fell in love with Sister Lan and paid a bride price to Kaishan's brother.
Therefore, you first return the bride price of the founding brother, and then pay the bride price of the little brother Huainan, and then you can naturally leave your daughter at home! Naturally, we have nothing to say. ”
Wang Shushi exclaimed: "How can there be a reason for double compensation!" ”
Cheng Kaitai rolled his eyelids, "I'm not reasoning with you, I'm just reasoning with you, just listen!" The second reason, if you send Sister Lan back to Kaishan's brother's house, we will not blame the past, and the old grudges will be written off from now on, and we will no longer be allowed to interfere in the affairs of the Cheng family in the future! ”
When the Cheng family, who was defeated yesterday, heard this, they felt very relieved and fought for face, and applauded one after another. But the Wang family was extremely dissatisfied, and shouted and scolded on the side, and the Fang family also took advantage of the situation to help.
Wang Shushi left his daughter in order to let her observe the festival, satisfy his wish for the glory of the lintel of the old boy, and win practical benefits such as exempting the whole family from servitude for his sons. But that's all twenty years later, and it will take at least twenty years for a widow to stay on the table.
Now if he wants to pay the bride price, it is the immediate benefit, and Wang Shushi is very reluctant in his heart, not to mention being forced to pay twice the bride price.
Just when he was entangled, Cheng Kaitai scolded again: "You old winter, don't rely on reading for a few days, and take the high shelf after teaching a few students." The old man can also find someone to talk to in the county office, and the county government's affairs in Huaxi have to rely on the old man to do it!
If you annoy the old man, the old man will send a message to the county government! If nothing else, I applied to run the social study on the side of the Cheng family in Xiahuaxi Village, and at that time, the old man invited another gentleman to teach and took your errand. You just guard two acres of broken land and drink the northwest wind! ”
These words are very lethal, and Wang Shushi, who mainly relies on restraint to live, shook his face, his heart and liver also trembled, and he said in a trembling voice: "Since this is the case, I am sending Sister Lan back to her husband's house." ”
Fang Yingwu supported the clan uncle, and watched coldly for a long time without speaking. At this time, he suddenly asked: "Sister Lan returned to her husband's house, so the marriage is up to the other side?" My family or my husband's family? ”
Cheng Kaitai turned his head sideways and sneered: "Xingzi is too talkative, get out of the way, no matter what, it will not be in the hands of your Fang family!" Wang Dongyan, tell me, who should be in charge? ”
Wang Shushi bowed his head with a bitter face and said: "Let the husband's family be the master, there is no second word in the future." ”
Cheng Kaishan and Cheng Huainan each got their wishes, one could sell the widowed daughter-in-law to get a heavy bride price, and the other could marry the person he liked back home, and they were all happy in their hearts.
Cheng Kaishan stepped forward and saluted Cheng Kaitai: "Thank you, brother, for being the master!" ”
Cheng Huainan also grinned non-stop, and his shapeless ugly face was flushed. Everyone looked at it in their eyes, and then thought about Sister Lan's Peugeot appearance, and couldn't help but sigh in unison, "Flowers are going to be inserted in cow dung".
At this time, I heard Fang Yingwu's unrelenting strong argument: "If you haven't signed the paperwork, it just hasn't taken effect!" ”
Cheng Huainan was also worried that things would change again, and said to Cheng Kaitai: "It's better to choose RI than to hit RI, take advantage of today's RI to be accurate, please ask the old uncle to be a middleman, write a copy of the document in public, and the same clan will be a witness here." The gift of the Chinese will be served separately. ”
"What's so hard about that?" Cheng Kaitai had the intention to stand up in public, and instructed his son: "You go to write the paperwork, sign it for your father after you write it, and then hand it over to both sides to sign, by the way, Wang Dongyan also signed it, so as to save yourself from regretting it!" ”
After a while, everyone on the Cheng family's side signed it, but when it was Wang Shushi's turn, he saw that his hands were trembling and he didn't put down the pen for a long time.
Fang Yingwu slowly walked to the side of Wang Shushi, took the document in his hand, looked at it carefully, and smiled at Wang Shushi: "Mr. Wang, don't sign it, otherwise you will have a share if you commit a crime." ”
Cheng Kaitai didn't understand what Fang Yingwu meant, but he didn't want to understand, as long as he knew that this was the troublemaker. Immediately, the other party shouted and scolded: "Go home, don't make trouble here!" ”
Fang Yingwu was unimpressed in the face of the insult, and said with a document in his hand: "Dare to ask Cheng Zongjia, Cheng Kaishan is your brother, and Cheng Huainan is your nephew." So Cheng Huainan is two generations lower than Cheng Kaishan, Wang Lan is still Cheng Kaishan's daughter-in-law, so Cheng Huainan is actually Wang Lan's junior? ”
Cheng Kaitai instinctively felt that something was wrong, but replied with a cold snort: "So what? Although they are of the same race, they are distant relatives of each other and are not related by blood. What's more, the pair of Cheng Huainan and Sister Lan are a match of age, and they are not the same surname, where to avoid anything! ”
Fang Yingwu said: "Cheng Zongjia, as an official servant, doesn't know that in the Ming Dynasty, widows are forbidden to marry their ex-husbands' close relatives and the same clan!" ”
Cheng Kaitai was stunned, "Is there such a statement?" ”
Fang Yingwu sighed, "Wait for these ignorant law blindness, so blind!" The statutes of my Ming Dynasty are written plainly, that whoever marries an unmarried relative of the same clan and a wife without a relative shall have a hundred rods each; If he marries a close wife or a niece, he shall each have sixty rods for one year."
Without waiting for everyone to react, Fang Yingwu increased his voice and continued: "If you accept your father, ancestors, concubines, and uncles, you will be killed!" ”
Fang Yingwu said the word "chop", and the audience was shocked, and there was silence.
For these mountain villagers, including Cheng Zongjia, who prides himself on being superior, the crime of killing his head seems to be a very distant thing, and it has nothing to do with them. Unexpectedly, today I heard a "chop" from Fang Yingwu's mouth.
Brother Fang Yingwu shouldn't be able to make up laws and regulations, he is half a scholar, and he must know more about this than these lonely peasants. As the old saying goes, if you don't go out, you will know what is going on in the world.
The three of them were closed in a valley, and they married each other very casually, and they didn't think about so many generational issues. Is it because Cheng Huainan should have been called Sister Lan's uncle before, and now he should be killed for a great crime?
But it's not an uncle, and there's no blood relationship! But who knows? Who knows if the law recognizes this?
In the silence, I could only hear Fang Yingwu sigh faintly: "It's really sad to be blind. The Cheng family committed a big crime against morality, but they didn't know it. ”
Cheng Kaitai was the first to wake up, no wonder Fang Yingwu deliberately provoked them to sign the documents just now, just to ask for ironclad evidence! It's ridiculous that I thought this was standing in public!
Thinking of this, Mr. Cheng, who was greatly embarrassed, gritted his teeth and said: "There are many illegal things in the people, and the government may not be in charge of them all." You must know that the people do not sue the officials and do not hold them accountable, but even so, what can you do? You little person, do you know which way the entrance of the county government is open? ”
"Don't bother with Cheng Zongjia, of course I know what the county government gate looks like. A few days ago, I also met with the county lord in private, talked about Jingyi and won his appreciation, and gave me five taels of silver to help my students, in addition to meeting some of my father's classmates, and I gained a lot. Fang Yingwu said as he took out a small ingot from his arms and shook it.
Cheng Kaitai sent tax silver into the county treasury, and even if he recognized that this small ingot was the appearance of the official cast small silver ingot, there was a big one that was fifty taels.
At this time, Cheng Huainan, the main party, always had a blank mind, but he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the marriage document in Fang Yingwu's hand, and suddenly felt excited.
Just now he was complacent about signing this document, and he was overjoyed that a knowledgeable lady was in his hands. Now it seems that this is a fucking talisman! Damn it! Or took the initiative to make a knife and handed it to others!
Cheng Huainan yelled and rushed forward, about to forcibly snatch the document from Fang Yingwu's hand. But Fang Yingwu had already taken precautions, quickly dodged away, and hid in the crowd of the Fang family.
The Fang family, led by Fang Fengshi, formed a circle and firmly protected Fang Yingwu in the middle. Fang Fengshi took the opportunity to raise his arms and shouted: "The relatives of Wang's family have seen it today, this Cheng family is really deceitful too much, Mr. Wang is also a decent person who teaches and educates people, and he has been bullied to the point of selling his daughter!"
Our Fang family is indignant about this, and we can't bear it, is it that your Wang family is indifferent? It's better to rely on others than on yourself! ”
The Wang family and the Fang family suddenly made a loud noise together, and the voice was ten times louder than just now, completely suppressing the Cheng family. is the so-called justifiable, the Cheng family has committed capital crimes, and Cheng Zongjia has become an accomplice, what else is there to be angry about.
This time, Cheng Kaitai didn't dare to turn a deaf ear, and he suddenly thought of a sentence - scholars don't use knives to kill people. In the past, he had always scoffed at this sentence, but today he really realized it!
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