But this scholar looked at Lu Hong next to him hesitantly, and Ke Yi, who was also on duty, and said,

"Is it convenient to say here, what I want to talk about is about you, master......"

"Something about me?"

Zong Jiyuan listened to it fresh and funny, and when he thought about it, he hadn't done anything unseemly, and he had nothing to betray, so he said,

"There's nothing inconvenient, these two errand officers are like brothers to this master, you just have to say it!"

"In that case, well,"

The scholar gritted his teeth and suddenly knelt down in front of Zong Jiyuan,

"The villain has grievances, please ask the grandmaster to be the villain's master, if you don't want to master, the villain is willing to die in front of the county yamen!"

"What?!"

Lu Hong and Ke Yi were a little breathless when they heard this, and said in their hearts, how can the people who come here today all play like this, Ke Yi said,

"Hey, I said, if you have a grievance, you will beat the drum and cry out the grievance, why do you want to entangle our master? Isn't it also afraid of being beaten with those thirty blows? ”

"The beating is small, the villain is worried that if not, these people in your government will not accept my lawsuit at all, and now the villain has sued the grandmaster, if he refuses to make the decision for me, then I will let the whole city know that he Zongji Yuan bends the law for personal gain and is an official who specializes in oppressing the people......"

The scholar had spoken desperately, his blood boiling, and his voice began to tremble.

And Lu Hong and Ke Yi listened to it even more full of fire, Lu Hong rushed to say,

"Hey! Be careful what you say! When will our master ......?"

"Okay, it's okay,"

Zong Jiyuan waved his hand to stop him, but he was secretly a little funny, and said in his heart, what happened to this scholar, so he quietly pulled him up from the ground and said,

"This brother, don't worry, even if my Zong Jiyuan is not a good person, but our Lord He is a good official who is honest and honest, if you have grievances, just say it, someone will definitely call the shots for you."

"Well, that's ......"

The scholar was still trembling slightly, and stabilized his mood before he said,

The villain's name is Hu Zhenli, 24 years old this year, and he lives in Hujiadian in the southwest of the county. When I was five years old, my parents died, and it was my brother who was thirteen years older who worked hard to raise the villain, and our brothers have always depended on each other. Eight years ago, when the villain was sixteen years old, the mother and daughter who fled from nowhere fell at the door of my house in the winter, and the brother was soft-hearted, and after seeing them, he rescued them, and the mother and daughter woke up, saying that they were homeless, and knelt on the ground and kowtowed to express their willingness to stay in my house as a servant, and the brother saw that he was pitiful and took them in.

The mother and daughter are very good and diligent, our brother raised some chickens and sold eggs for a living, since they arrived, the house has been cleaned up, and the number of chickens has increased a lot, and life is getting better and better.

However, the mother died after only two years because she had been left sick after the cold in the past, and she must entrust her daughter Zhang Guizhen to us before she died. At that time, although Gui Zhen was one year younger than me, only seventeen years old, and our relationship was very good, my brother had never married for many years in order to take care of the villain and fear that I would be wronged. The villain insisted that the elder brother marry her, and the two of them kowtowed in front of the old man, and the old man went with peace of mind, and we sent her the last ...... together."

Speaking of this, Hu Zhenli stopped, as if immersed in the days that had passed.

Zong Jiyuan listened, and was also a little moved, but somehow remembered Zhou Zitong again, and after a while, he only heard Hu Zhenli sigh and continued,

"After my brother got married, our life has been very good, but the villain thinks that after all, I have grown up, and it is inconvenient to always live with my brother and sister-in-law like this, so I moved to an independent courtyard next to my vegetable patch, but it is less than a few hundred meters away from each other.

Not long ago, a man came to his brother's house to buy eggs, and when he saw his sister-in-law, he spoke lightly, although he was scolded by his brother, but he still refused to give up, and after going back and forth several times, he actually said that his sister-in-law was originally his family's child daughter-in-law, and asked his brother to return his sister-in-law to him, otherwise, he would have to give him a hundred taels of silver as compensation......

"What? Why is he ......?"

Lu Hong, who was on the side, was already very angry when he heard it, and couldn't help but say.

Zong Jiyuan was naturally very angry when she heard this, but she was more concerned about what this matter had to do with herself, so she thought about it and asked,

"Then why didn't you come to the county government to sue him, and ask Lord He to make the decision for you?"

"That's what I said at the time,"

Hu Zhenli looked at Zong Jiyuan's gaze and inadvertently revealed a trace of resentment,

"But my brother said no, because there was someone behind that person, and if we went to the county government to file a complaint, not only would we not win, but we would also have to go to jail for a foul accusation, so we could only swallow our anger...... But who knows, just last night, my sister-in-law suddenly came to me crying, saying that my brother was actually dead, and he was killed by that guy......"

"Oh? There is such a thing......"

Hearing this and looking at each other's expressions, Zong Jiyuan seemed to understand something, and said thoughtfully,

"Why don't you tell me who 'that person' is?"

"He—he said his name was Zong Jicai,"

Hu Zhenli's voice began to tremble again, and he looked at Zong Ji Yuandao,

"I also said that there is a younger brother named Zong Jiyuan, yes, he is the master of this Liaodong County Ya......"

"Huh?!"

When Lu Hong and Ke Yi heard this, they were stunned,

"Master, master, this ......"

"I see,"

Although she had been prepared a little, after hearing him say it clearly, Zong Jiyuan was still very uncomfortable, but her discomfort was mainly due to annoyance.

Because the Zong family is a big family in Liaodong County, although when his father Zong Siye returned from the suburbs of Beijing with the whole family, because he was excluded by his own family, he set up another door outside the north gate, but those clan brothers and clan brothers of the family knew that they were on an errand in the Yazhong, and it was not impossible to do anything under her banner, but who was this Zongji bastard, she really couldn't remember for a while.

Seeing some doubts on her face, Hu Zhenli misunderstood, and immediately cried,

"I know that the person who sued is your brother, but my brother is like a biological father to the villain, and his grievances cannot be ignored no matter what, and I, a flat-headed person, really have no other way but to try to find you, master, to judge...... If you really want to defend your family and ignore my brother's grievances, then the villain will die here......"

"Alright, alright,"

Zong Jiyuan saw that he was so angry that his face was red, it was really ridiculous and pitiful, so he said,

"Don't just say what you can't die if you die, if you die, what will your sister-in-law do?"