Chapter 26: The Xue family beats the drum and voices grievances
This situation also attracted people who came and went to stop for them, or point fingers at them, and follow in the direction of the county government.
What a way, who makes the people's lives so boring, on weekdays, it is either the Zhang family or the Li family, etc., these trivial things, such a direct family to the county government is a minority, such a major gossip has been encountered by them, how can they be willing to miss it, so naturally they will follow all the way.
Sure enough, when they arrived at the gate of the county government, one of the girls was called by several elders to beat the drum and go away.
Several men stood by the drumming girl, waiting for the movement in the county office, and the women, seeing the old lady being carried to the door of the county office, sat on the spot, and then called out.
"God, why is my wife's life so miserable..."
"The Jiang family and the Liu family who were killed that day, this conscience has been fed to the dogs, not to mention the twenty taels of silver in my family, and the two daughters will be stuffed into my house to eat and drink for nothing, let us raise them for a lifetime..."
"Oh my God, a bunch of wolf-hearted things, watching the only grandson of my old Xue family go, no man bullies us like this..."
"Twenty taels of silver, my God, all the belongings of my Xue family add up to only five taels of silver, except for a dilapidated old house, only those two acres of thin fields are left, how can we live..."
"My old Xue family is miserable, there are nine granddaughters in the family, and none of them have been married, the two sons are old again, and they can't do it anymore, and the whole family has five taels of silver, but how can they live, these goddamn people, and give my old Xue family two people to eat dry rice, oh my God, this is not for my family to live for more than a dozen people..."
"These lack of great virtue, my grandson is dead, who to marry their girl, it's just a marriage, why don't you want to quit the marriage, just to ignore my old Xue family's twenty taels of dowry money, without this money, how can we live as a family, this is to let us starve to death, these black-hearted things..."
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With the old lady's scolding, the onlookers also roughly understood the situation from her words, this is the death of the grandson in the family, the two family affairs set for him cannot be withdrawn, and the bride price of twenty taels of silver cannot be returned, and the family has to raise the granddaughter-in-law who has not passed the door.
Take a look at this big family, except for the middle-aged and elderly men, all of them are women.
One two three four five...
Count it, and even the girl with the drum is nine girls.
There are only five taels of silver at home and two acres of thin fields, and this life is really not easy.
Besides, other people's grandchildren are dead, and they still refuse to give up their relatives, and this in-laws really have a bad conscience.
For a while, everyone took pity on this big family, a family of more than a dozen people, all old and weak, women and children, and little property in the family, it was really pitiful.
With the old lady's complaints, and the sound of drumming continued to sound, the sound of 'Wei ~ ~ Wu' finally came from the palace, and with the shocking wood in the hands of the county lord, the people of the Xue family were passed in.
And the onlookers naturally gathered at the entrance of the county government to listen to the hall.
After Xue Yuhe told the family affairs with Jiang Liu, the master who was standing next to the county master whispered a few words in his ear, and also let the county master know a rough idea, and he already knew about this matter in his heart.
After that, he naturally summoned the people of the Jiang Liu family to come over and confront them in the court.
Directly summoned to the yamen, the Liu family, who had never seen such a big battle, was of course afraid, but fortunately, the Jiang family was there.
Seeing that they were not in a hurry, I was afraid that they had a plan, so the Liu family also hid their panic, well, yes, let them come out first.
As for the Jiang family, it was not surprising that the Xue family came to the Yamen to complain.
Just right, they can also take this opportunity to publicize it, after such publicity, the chastity arch can be stabilized again.
So after the county magistrate asked them why they didn't quit their relatives, Jiang Zhengwei, the old man of the Jiang family, told the rhetoric that he had prepared in advance.
It means that their Jiang family is a cultivator and a scholar, and the reader talks about etiquette, righteousness and shame, and the same is true for the daughters in the family, since they have agreed with the Xue family to accept the gift, and the granddaughter of the family is also preparing a big red dowry at home and waiting for the future husband to marry, then even if they have not yet passed the door, they are considered to be members of the Xue family, born as the wife of the Xue family, and died as the ghost of the Xue family, how can they ignore the etiquette, righteousness and shame because of the death of their husband, and turn around and marry to another family, so they naturally have to be widowed for their deceased husband. Therefore, this family matter can't be said to retreat, as soon as her husband dies, she will quit her family, what face will she have in the future...
Although he couldn't understand many of Wen Xuan's words, Daddy Liu listened to him say such righteous words, and it made sense when he heard it, and the county master also nodded frequently, so he quickly agreed, "Yes, yes, our Liu family is like this, just quit like this, and I'm so sorry for my son-in-law who died in vain, I can't retreat, and my daughter-in-law will also widow my son-in-law." ”
And the old man Xue, who was kneeling on the ground, saw that the county master kept nodding because of the Jiang family's words, and then turned his head to see that the people outside were also listening to the hall with such expressions, this is not good, the situation is very unfavorable to their Xue family, so he immediately objected.
"Bah, it's such righteous words, but it's just to be greedy for my family's twenty taels of silver, Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master of our people, we are ordinary people, those Lao Shizi are righteous and shameful, we don't understand, but these twenty taels of silver are our family's life-saving money, without this money, how can we live as a family, this looks like survival is difficult, why do you pay attention to what kind of false name." Why is the grandson dead, we will become shameless if we retreat from the family, there is no such thing in the world, our family's twenty taels of silver is not blowing in the wind, is it just such a name is more important than the livelihood of our whole family, can we let our family go to beg for food for it? Guys, don't you think? ”
Old man Xue is buttoning his head to the county lord again, and he turned around to ask the onlookers, asking them to support themselves, we are ordinary people, few people talk about these false names, and if you want to talk about fame, you have to live your life first.
For the people, what Old Man Xue said also makes sense, isn't this kind of courtesy, righteousness and shame just those rich people playing, they ordinary people naturally take survival as the primary condition.
Ordinary people naturally have the way of ordinary people, and after his encouragement, most of the onlookers favored the Xue family.
After that, of course, there is a verbal exchange on both sides.
On the one hand, the head is reasonable, and on the other hand, we simply say that as long as we have money or, we don't pay attention to these false names.
And the onlookers fell on both sides like grass on the wall.