Chapter 20: The Unreasonable Woman
"These officials, you came just in time, you came to give me a review." As soon as the aunt saw that an official had appeared, she immediately stepped forward, and the wicked man with an excited tone sued first, "This stinky boy wants to sell me ten cents a pound with a rotten raspberry, and after I expose it, he becomes angry and insults me in public, and his behavior is not only detrimental to the simple atmosphere of our Xingshui Town, but also ruining the reputation of the county master!" ”
Gu Huai'an rarely dealt with these market women, and at this moment, seeing her empty mouth and white teeth reversing right and wrong, her face turned red with anger, and she didn't know how to justify, so she had to squeeze out a sentence dryly: "Don't listen to her nonsense, a few officials, she is framed!" ”
Several officials frowned, glanced at each other, and before the person standing at the front could speak, Gu Changning had already wrapped a pound of raspberries with clean leaves, and took the initiative to hand them over, "Brother official, you see, the raspberries we sell are all freshly picked raspberries, before coming to the market, my brother and I have already eliminated the bad ones, each one is good, it is definitely not what this aunt falsely accuses!" ”
She saw the person, handed the raspberry to the most powerful official who stood at the front, and waited for him to take it, lowered his head, with a trace of anger on his face, and said with some grievances: "My father passed away more than a month ago, and my mother is still pregnant, and my brother and I saw that the family was about to open the pot, so we went to the mountains to find a few catties of raspberries to sell, and wanted to let my aunt have a full meal, but this aunt was so unreasonable, she ate three raspberries herself, and was stingy and refused to spend money to buy them, and deliberately slandered our raspberries and said they were rotten. and still making noise about beating people......"
Gu Changning's eyes turned red as he spoke, and tears were held in his eyes, and he sobbed and said, "We're just...... I want A-Niang to ...... Eat a full meal......"
The facial expressions are perfect, and people can't afford to doubt their hearts.
"What nonsense are you little bastard! How can I eat three of you, but I only ate two! When the aunt heard what she said, she immediately pounced on her angrily, and wanted to grab Gu Changning and beat her hard.
"Look, sir, she dares to do this to me in front of you, if you are not there, my brother and I will not be beaten to death by her!" Gu Changning deliberately hid behind the official, pretending to be frightened and trembling.
She dared to rely on the official messenger so fearlessly because she knew the official who was standing in front of her, and knew that he was different from other officials and was a reasonable person.
Of course, at this time, she had only heard of his name, but had never seen him, and it was Gu Changning in the previous life who really saw him in person.
Gu Changning knew him for the first time because there was a big case in the county in the last life, this case is said to involve a rich and noble family in Jingshi, the case is extremely serious, everyone has a lot of discussions about this matter, and the news has spread all over the surrounding counties like wings, and there is no one in the nearby ten miles and eight villages who does not know, and she naturally heard a little.
And the person in charge of this case at that time was the official in front of him.
There were very few clues in this case, and it was not done for a long time, and the people above were angry and wanted to interrogate the county master, and the county master charged the official who he had always looked down on, and handed it over.
not only shielded himself, but also drove him away, killing two birds with one stone.
The official was driven out of the county seat, and before leaving, the people who had received his favor spontaneously went to see him off, Gu Changning was still a childlike at that time, and he was very curious about the uproar, so he followed the little sisters in the village to see the excitement, and then he recognized him.
When he appeared, Gu Changning didn't recognize it at once, he only looked at the familiarity, and only remembered this stubble after recalling it carefully, and immediately decided to take a gamble and seek his help.
She was not disappointed, this official really made a move.
"He's telling the truth?" The official asked the woman with a calm face.
"This ......" The woman saw that the official seemed to be angry, hesitated, and was worried in her heart, and nodded invisibly for a while, and then quickly explained, "It's not entirely like this, I only ate two of him, not three!" ”
The official looked at the child behind him.
"She didn't eat the third one because I stopped her!" Gu Changning was not timid, and looked directly at the official master.
The official nodded and said, "Since you like this raspberry so much, why don't you buy a pound and go back." ”
"What?" The woman was stunned for a moment, but did not react.
Gu Changning was also stunned, what kind of disposal is this?
"What, you don't like this raspberry?" The official frowned, with a displeased look on his face, "You don't like you to take three from others!" ”
"It's two, sir." The woman immediately added.
"She wanted to take the third one, but she didn't make it, and I stopped her!" Gu Changning also explained.
The woman glared at Gu Changning fiercely, but Gu Changning turned her face away, not bothering to look at her, which made the woman even more hateful.
"Official, official, you see, the little woman's family is not rich, this thing costs ten yuan a catty, and it is useless to buy it back, this ......" The woman said flatteringly to the official.
"It's useless to buy it back?" The official's dark eyes turned to her, and his face was cold, "So, you didn't plan to spend money to buy it?" ”
"It's so expensive, what am I buying it for......"
"That's eating for nothing and not giving money." The official nodded and said to the people behind him, "How should such a law be judged?" ”
The official behind him has not followed him for a day or two, and when he heard this, he was very clever and single-minded and said, "The light one will be beaten with thirty boards, and the heavy one will be sent to the place of exile!" ”
"What? That's impossible! When the woman heard this, she immediately jumped up, and cried out, "There is no reason, there is no royal law, I just ate his two little raspberries and will be arrested and exiled, now in this world, officials and businessmen collude, and oppress the common people, you see that this official is still holding the raspberries he sells, it can be seen that the two have already colluded together, I am really wronged......"
As the woman's cry grew louder and louder, so did the crowd of onlookers, who surrounded them all, pointing with their fingers outstretched, and looking at the officials with dissatisfaction.
Gu Changning felt bad when she saw it, knowing that these people had listened to this woman's words, and they didn't even understand the cause and effect, so they looked at them with accusatory eyes, which really annoyed her, she couldn't help but "snort", and the volume overshadowed the woman's loud shouting, "You aunt is so unreasonable, you don't give money for eating my things for nothing, and you slander me for selling rotten fruits, and you will beat me and my brother when you come up, this official will make the decision for me after understanding the situation, and you are here to splash and roll around, it is really black and you are white!" ”
After hearing Gu Changning's words, everyone knew what had happened, and the voice that was originally accusing the official immediately became quiet, and finally slowly turned into quiet.
"You ......" The woman saw that the people around her who were originally speaking for her were quiet, and immediately raised her eyebrows, and she wanted to sprinkle again, the official's face was already black into a piece of charcoal, and he looked at her coldly.
"If you have any opinions about me, you might as well go to the court and say, Li Yuansan, take her away!"
Li Yuansan is the one who just echoed this official.
When the woman saw that the official had come to the real place, her expression was horrified, and her voice was held in her throat and she couldn't come out, and she felt panicked at this moment.