Chapter 120: Fan Tieniu's Lawsuit (I)
Tanbaiwan Village, Hengtang Township, has been very lively in the past two days, first the relatives of the Lu family drove away Fan Tieniu, the son-in-law of Lu Yuanwai, and the daughter and grandson also disappeared.
The Lu family dove occupies the magpie's nest and handles funerals for Lu Yuanwai, and is very ready to take over all the family property outside Lu Yuan.
The maiden family of Lu's wife, Wu, was unwilling to fall into the hands of the Lu family, and Wu's two brothers came with more than a dozen Wu family children to help Wu handle the funeral.
The son-in-law Fan Tieniu was driven away, and his daughter and grandson also fled, and the Lu family and the Wu family no longer had any obstacles and began to discuss how to divide Lu Yuanwai's property.
It was only at this time that Wu, the wife of Lu Yuanwai, who had been fooled by the two brothers, woke up like a dream.
It turned out that the Lu family and the mother's family did not want to leave the property to their daughter, let alone that they kept saying that they were afraid that the Fan family would come to rob the property, but that they wanted to divide the property that should belong to their daughter and grandson.
Wu lay in front of her husband's spirit and cried loudly, and was carried into the room by her two brothers, and several women from the Lu family and the Wu family took turns persuading Wu.
However, there was also a serious disagreement between the Lu family and the Wu family's division of property, and the Lu family only agreed to give the Wu family's pension to Lu Yuanwai's house and a shop in the city.
The more than 600 acres of land left by Lu Yuanwai belonged to the Lu family and was inherited by several brothers and sisters outside Lu Yuanwai.
However, the Wu family could not accept this division method, and they demanded that at least half of the land be allocated to the Wu family for retirement, and there was a fierce quarrel between the two sides over the division of 600 acres of land.
In the room, Lu Ashui slapped the table and said angrily: "Part of my brother's land was left by my father, and it has nothing to do with your Wu family, my eldest brother is gone, of course the Lu family has to take back these lands."
Other land has also been saved by my eldest brother for decades, and it has been benevolent and righteous to leave the shop and house to my sister-in-law, and not a single acre of land will be allowed! ”
Wu Chongyi, the eldest brother of the Wu family, sneered: "Everyone is a fellow villager, who doesn't know whom?" Your father left a total of 300 acres of land, and your brother divided 100 acres, and the two daughters each gave 50 acres, but you asked for money and land, and my brother-in-law spent money to buy all the land in your hands.
The other land is bought one after another with the money earned by the restaurant in the city for 20 years, and now that the restaurant is not profitable, you want the land, and all the good things have been occupied by you, why? ”
Lu Ashui straightened his neck and roared, "Just because our surname is Lu and your surname is Wu, the land belongs to our Lu family, and your Wu family doesn't want to take it." ”
At this moment, a disciple of the Lu family ran into the door in a panic and said urgently: "Second uncle, someone from the official mansion has come, and there are a lot of archers!" ”
Lu Ashui was stunned, why did the government come to the government?
He also stayed in the county government for two years, and he knew very well the rules of the county government, generally only the county order to inspect the countryside to go to the countryside, unless there was something important, otherwise the general archers would not come.
Could it be the Fan family?
Lu Ashui suddenly felt a thrill in his heart, and he still remembers the scene that happened two years ago clearly.
At this time, he had already heard the rough voice of Dutou Lu Yougen, "Everyone is out of the way, and the government is investigating the case!" ”
Lu Ashui couldn't stay any longer, so he had to hurriedly walk to the courtyard.
I saw that the courtyard was full of archers wearing red-edged soap clothes and carrying long knives at their waists, while the elders and children of the Lu family in the spirit shed hid on the other side, looking at the murderous catchers in fear.
Lu Ashui hurriedly stepped forward and saluted Lu Yougen, "Lu Dutou, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”
Although Lu Ashui often claimed to be his own family with Lu Yougen when he was in the county government, in fact they had nothing to do with each other, especially today, when Gao County's order specially explained.
Lu Yougen said coldly: "Lu Min went to the county government to report the case, saying that his grandfather died in vain, and the matter is very important. ”
Lu Ashui was suddenly shocked and angry, "My brother obviously died of illness, where is it not clear?" I know, it must have been instigated by Fan Tieniu, he is so bold! ”
"Shut up!"
Lu Yougen shouted angrily, "If there is a report, there will be an investigation, who are you from Lu Atian?" ”
"I'm his brother!"
Lu Yougen asked coldly, "I want to see Lu Atian's wife and children, where are they?" ”
At this time, Wu Chongyi stepped forward and said, "My eldest sister is not in good health, so it is inconvenient to see outsiders. ”
"Who are you?"
Lu Yougen glared at him, "You are Lu Youzhuang's son?" ”
Wu Chongyi hurriedly waved his hand, "No! No! I am his brother-in-law. ”
"It's really funny, the county government is investigating the case, but the main owner is not there, a bunch of messy people are positive, I want to see the main one, where is their family?"
At this time, the Wu family rushed out with a cloak, knelt in front of Lu Yougen and cried: "The official is the master of the people's women!" ”
"You are Lu Atian's wife?"
"The folk woman is exactly!"
Lu Yougen nodded, "Your grandson and daughter went to the county government to report the case, saying that someone wanted to seek your husband's family property, which caused him to die unexplained, this case involves murder for money, and the county monarch attaches great importance to it, so I led the archers to investigate the case." ”
This sentence made everyone around gasp, and they all retreated.
Lu Ashui and Wu Chongyi glanced at each other, and Lu Ashui hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Lu Dutou misunderstood, my brother is really sick, no one harms him, and no one seeks his property." ”
Wu cried out: "It's not for money, what are you doing here?" You give back my daughter and grandson! ”
Wu Chongyi was so anxious that he stomped his feet, "Eldest sister, these are two different things, my brother-in-law's death has nothing to do with us, we are afraid that you will suffer, so we came to help you." ”
At this time, Lu Yougen's face was gloomy as water, and he said impatiently: "No need to explain, we will do things according to the regulations, first confirm the property, Aunt Wu, I need proof of all the property in your husband's name, please hand over the title deed and house deed to me, and also count the money and belongings in the family, we need to register and make a register." ”
Wu pointed to Lu Ashui and said: "The title deed and the house deed were all snatched away by him!" ”
Lu Yougen snorted coldly, "It seems that it is really suspected of murder for money, take it for me!" ”
Several archers rushed up and pushed Lu Ashui to the ground, and Lu Ashui shouted angrily: "I didn't kill for money, I just kept it on my behalf, and the house deed and land deed are in the room." ”
"Whether there is a crime or not, let's talk about it after the investigation!"
Without waiting for Wu to speak, Wu Chongyi hurriedly handed over the key to the cellar, "This is the cellar key, and my brother-in-law's money is all in the cellar." ”
Lu Yougen snorted heavily and ordered his subordinates, "Move all the things out and register!" ”
His men entered the house, and in a short time they took out the title deed and the house deed, and a dozen or so hunters laboriously carried out several large and heavy chests from the cellar, all of which were silver and copper coins, which had been sealed.
At this time, Qian Zuo walked out of the spirit shed quickly and whispered a few words to Lu Yougen.
Lu Yougen nodded and said to everyone: "We will thoroughly investigate the cause of Lu Atian's death, and before the conclusion of the investigation comes out, you can conduct the funeral normally, as for these land deeds, house deeds and property, they will be temporarily seized by the government as evidence, and once the investigation is over, we will return them to the owner." ”
Lu Yougen waved his hand, "Take it away!" ”
The catchers carried a few large boxes, left the Lu family with the house deed and land deed, and returned to the county office, leaving only dozens of people from the stunned Lu family and the Wu family.
"We've been fooled!"
Wu Chongyi said angrily to Lu Ashui: "The county government is obviously here to help Fan Tieniu fight for property, except for Lu Yuan, what should we do?" ”
Lu Ashui gritted his teeth and said: "I don't believe that Gao County Ling dared to shield Fan Tieniu so unscrupulously, I want to sue and ask for the property belonging to the Lu family to be returned." ”
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Two days later, Lu Atian's property dispute case was tried at the county office.
The day before, the county government had concluded the investigation into Lu Atian's death and confirmed that he had died of a serious illness, but the property dispute caused by this case has become more and more troublesome.
More than 30 members of the Lu family jointly filed a lawsuit with the county government, demanding that Lu Atian's land deed be returned to the Lu family.
However, due to the Wu family's refusal to fight for property anymore, the Wu family, who was eyeing each other, had to be forced to withdraw from Lu Atian's property dispute.
In the court, on one side were Lu Ashui and his two younger sisters, and on the other side were Fan Tieniu's family of three.
Gao Fei looked at the complaints of both sides, and he asked Lu Ashui first, "Lu Atian died of illness, although he has no son, but he has a son-in-law, a daughter, and his grandson, you and your sisters want to share your brother's land, what reason do you have?" ”
Although Lu Ashui was born as a lawyer, he was still a little powerless in the face of Gao County's sharp questioning, after all, he never considered seizing property by fighting a lawsuit, but wanted to use a rogue method with a large number of people to drive away Fan Tieniu and forcibly occupy his brother's land.
Even if the squire mediates, he is confident that he will not lose to the Fan family, not to mention that the Zhu Daguan that the Fan family relies on has already returned to Wujiang?
But he never imagined that this matter would actually cause trouble to the county government, Lu Ashui knew that he was at a loss, and he flinched a little in his heart, but he couldn't explain it in front of the clansmen, so he had to fight this lawsuit head-on.
"Back to the county, 300 acres of my brother's 600 acres of land were left by my father, and my two sisters and I did not get them, and my brother directly transferred the title deed to himself without our consent.
In addition, my father's house and his restaurant in the county town were left by my father, and we both believed that although the eldest brother had the right to inherit, after the eldest brother died, the ancestral property should be inherited by other brothers, and should not be directly handed over to his descendants. ”
Lu Ashui's sister also added: "We don't want the family property that the eldest brother earns by himself, we only want the property left by the father." ”
The other party said a little reasonable, Gao Fei nodded, and asked Fan Tieniu's family of three, "What do you say?" ”