"Brother Bolt, you're back."

Zhang Jiuxin waited for another quarter of an hour, and finally saw the figure of the bolt returning in a hurry under the catalpa tree outside the courtyard.

"When I walked to the side of the halfway reservoir, I heard the sound of the morning drum, Xiao Jiu, let's go quickly, the public trial will start soon." The bolt quickly put a whole basket of pigweed on his back into the corner of the fence wall, and pulled Xiao Jiu to walk out of the firewood gate.

"Don't worry, the firecrackers haven't gone off yet." Zhang Jiuxin asked the plug to stop.

As soon as the bolt entered the hospital, the sound of Qian's "clang" weaving in the upper room stopped, obviously Qian was also worried about this public trial, but she had never left the house, not to mention that this was a shame for their second room, and she would not go to join in the fun.

Zhang Jiuxin pulled the bolt under the catalpa tree outside the wall, and when he saw that there was no one left and right, he said softly: "Brother bolt, has Guo Langzhong come back from collecting medicine from the mountain?" ”

"Nope." Seeing that Zhang Jiuxin frowned, the bolt hurriedly said:

"Xiao Jiu, don't worry, before Guo Langzhong went up the mountain yesterday, I handed him a message according to your instructions, presumably he had already passed the word to his grandfather, and it is estimated that sooner or later, grandfather should come back."

"Crackling, Crackling, Crackling"

While the two were talking, the sound of firecrackers to worship their ancestors sounded on the side of the ancestral hall.

"Go"

Zhang Jiuxin pulled the bolt and walked quickly towards the ancestral hall.

Along the way, there was an endless stream of old people, children and adults, apparently they received a notice last night, and the villagers finished their work early, so they wanted to see the excitement.

After all, it has been two years since the last public trial of the ancestral hall.

"Boom!"

Uncle Long held two wooden pipes in his hands, and slammed the big drum placed under the verandah of the ancestral hall, and stretched the tone: "Chen Zheng has arrived, open the ancestral hall!" ”

"Squeak"

The four gates of the ancestral hall slowly opened.

I saw that in the second hall of the ancestral hall, eight clan elders wearing corrugated hats and crutches were sitting on two rows of Huanghuali high armrest Nanguan hat chairs with majestic faces.

"Bring the sinner woman Du Shi to the court."

Standing behind the row of armchairs on the left, Uncle Zhang took a step forward in front of the hall, shouted, and two members of the law enforcement team pressed the Du, who was tied up with flowers, to the patio in front of the hall.

"Woo woo woo ......."

Du knelt under the bluestone slab of the patio, his mouth stuffed with strips of cloth, and he wanted to plead but could not make a sound.

"Du Shi, you instructed the blind mother-in-law to poison your little nephew Zhang Jiuxin, can you confess?"

"Woo woo woo" Du shook his head desperately.

Uncle Zhang gave the man who was holding Du a look, and the man took the strip of cloth from Du's mouth.

"Wronged, village elder, clan elders, I really didn't instruct the blind mother-in-law, everything is the blind mother-in-law's own opinion, my little nine has been weak and sick since she was born, I regret it is too late, how can I harm him, I am really more wronged than Dou E, woo woo woo ......"

Du's five bodies fell to the ground, and his voice was hoarse: "Please also invite the village elder, all the clan elders are the masters of the concubine, and the concubine is innocent!" ”

The old village chief frowned, and tapped his crutches: "Du Shi, let me ask you, is the blind mother-in-law you found?" ”

"Village Chief, I'm looking for a blind mother-in-law just to ......."

"You only answer yes and no?"

Du Shi still wanted to quibble, but the crutches in the hands of the eight clan elders slammed into the floor in unison.

The sound of "bang" frightened Du Shi, and he opened his mouth to respond, but remembering his son's confession last night, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Clan elders, no matter how you judge me today, I always said that, I just looked for a blind mother-in-law to exorcise ghosts for Xiao Jiu, and I never had the slightest dissent."

"The eldest clan elder sitting on the right seat opened his eyes and opened his closed eyes:

"If she is so hearted, if she doesn't give her the canes, shackles, handsticks, shackles, sticks, fingers, knee presses, and torture tools of the clan one by one, how can this poisonous woman confess."

"I ...... I was really wronged! ”

Not to mention the turns, just listening to the name, Du Shi was so frightened that she almost became incontinent, any punishment was enough to make her life worse than death, Du Shi was really scared, and even his voice changed tone: "I..... I'm really wronged! Woowoo"

"Don't listen to her nonsense, go to punishment!"

"How dare you !!!"

A thunderous sound rolled in from a distance, and Zhang Jiuxin, who was gathered outside the ancestral hall, looked back.

I saw a few men wrapped in cloth clothes appear on the barn field, all of them were tall and vigorous, with a fierce spirit, staring at the onlookers with sharp eyes like eagle hooks, and some of the timid ones were forced to flash to the other side, and gave way to a main road leading to the ancestral hall.

"Daddy~ Why did you come, woo woo woo, if you are one step late, your daughter will be beaten to death by the Zhang family!" When Du Shi saw someone coming, he immediately wailed.

The person who came was the person from Dujia Village, the father of the Du family, and the Du butcher who was known for ten miles and eight townships.

"Stop."

Uncle Zhang walked out of the ancestral hall quickly and stopped people under the stone stairs in front of the ancestral hall: "What does our Zhang family have to do with you people with foreign surnames when we open the court to try the case?" Quickly retreat. ”

"Hmph"

The head of the Du butcher snorted coldly, and said angrily: "You are trying my daughter, naturally it has something to do with me, and ten miles away, I heard you say that you will be punished in turn, what's the matter, do you want to be beaten into a trick?" ”

After Butcher Du finished speaking, he took out the pig-killing knife hidden in his sleeve and waved it forward, causing the villagers on the side to retreat again and again.

"Presumptuous!"

The old village chief in the second hall suddenly stood up from the Nanguan hat chair: "If you want to be beaten or punished, it is all a matter of our Zhang clan, and you people with foreign surnames can't point fingers." ”

"Come on, blast these barbarians out of Miaohe Village!"

"Who dare? Whoever of you comes up, Lao Tzu will cut him to death? With a move, the people he brought showed a pig-killing knife in their hands, and quickly formed a circle.

The people of the Dongzhang tribe have never seen this big battle, and the younger children are so frightened that they cry "wow, wow, wow". The man from the law enforcement team looked at the stick in his hand and hesitated, after all, the sword has no eyes.

"You ...... Are you deceiving no one among my people? The old village chief shook his crutches and said hoarsely: "Today, even if the old man fights for his life, he can't allow you to go wild here!" Ahem, ahem! ”

"Dad, are you alright?" Uncle Zhang hurriedly stepped forward to help the old village chief who had already walked into the hall.

"According to Article 292 of the Kaiwen Law of our dynasty, those who assemble a crowd to fight with weapons shall be sentenced to death and exiled to the Mongol Tower, where the ringleaders and others who actively participate."

Zhang Jiuxin saw that no one in the clan came forward, so he crossed the crowd step by step, stood in front of the knife edge of Du Butcher and others, and looked over one by one:

"Regardless of whether you are out of ordinary love today, or you are bought by Butcher Du with a lot of money, as long as I go to the official office, one or two of you will never want to step into the homeland of Yinshan County for half a step in this life and this life."