"Master Hou, the master of the in-laws sent a letter, saying that Young Master Changfeng and the housekeeper had set off from Kyoto and came to Yongzhou when the letter was sent."

Lin Chen took the letter from the house and explained to Huo Jing.

Huo Jing was busy with official business, and he was in contact with the flying pigeon through letters, as well as with His Majesty in Kyoto, so there were many letters to and from the big tent and Huo Mansion every day.

Lin Chen and Ding Yi divided their labor, and they would help Huo Jing classify and record the letters, and there were traces to follow, which was the consistent habit of the Huo family.

Now that Lin Chen got the letter from the Lu family, he came to tell the young master as soon as possible and sent the letter.

Huo Jing took the letter, and asked Lin Chen while reading it, "Is there any letter from the people in Kyoto?"

"The letter from the Black Armor Guards who stayed in Kyoto two days ago has arrived, and when it comes to this matter, they have sent two people to protect it secretly."

After reading the letter, Huo Jing nodded, "Now that the river is frozen, they can only travel by carriage." The terrain from Kyoto to Yongzhou is flat, and there are no mountains and dense forests along the way, so two people should be enough. When they enter Yongzhou, they will report back to me. ”

"Whoa."

After Lin Chen finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Huo Jing, "Don't let your wife know about this matter first, so as to save her from worrying."

Lin Chen knew that the carriage was very slow, and it was the first time that the young master of the in-laws family went out alone, so he had to delay more time on the road, if the young master Changfeng did not appear in Yongzhou by the time, the lady would have to be cranky.

"Whoa."

Lu Weimang was in the yamen, guarding her bookcase, and she didn't know that the housekeeper was coming to Yongzhou with Changfeng, and she was only bored at this time.

Because of Lao Qin's atmosphere, there are very few cases that require the participation of the yamen, and ordinary people have hatred and anger and solve them in the village. Moreover, because the number of acres of land is small, Lu Weimang does not need to think about it at all. As for the conscription every winter, Lu Weimang did not arrange it. She believes that the self-helper is helped, and in previous years, she needed the yamen to give orders and take the free conscription to repair the water channel, but this year she didn't need it. The road has its own caravan that wants to make money in the future, and the trade road to Jincheng will be flattened, Lu Weimang just hired people to repair the road near Jincheng, and the rest naturally do not need to recruit free people to work and contribute. She likes to do things with real money, equivalent exchanges.

Therefore, in the yamen of the state capital, everyone is busy, there are full-time jobs and part-time jobs, in short, after Lu Weimang arrived, the people in the yamen of the state capital spontaneously got busy, and even Qi Hongxi, who was self-controlled, volunteered to go out to supervise the work, and always be worthy of the monthly salary issued by Lu Zhizhou, right?

In the yamen of Nuoda, Lu Weimang was drowsy.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"What sound?"

Lu Weimang woke up from his squint and sat up straight.

The official at the door immediately came to report, "My lord, someone is beating a drum and crying out grievances!" ”

“？” Lu Weimang didn't react for a while.

After realizing that he had encountered the first lawsuit in his official career, Lu Weimang almost jumped up from his chair in excitement.

"Hurry up!"

In the silence of the yamen, after an unknown number of years, the high-pitched voice of the official sounded, "Xuan, the plaintiff is in court!" ”

In the solemn yamen, footsteps sounded, and then a servant appeared on Lu Weimang's yamen with the plaintiff.

Lu Weimang sat behind the bookcase, looking at the two kneeling in the hall, one old and one young, judging from their similar appearances, it is not difficult to see that they are mother and daughter.

"Who is in the hall, and what is the complaint?"

Lu Weimang patted the wood in surprise and asked lightly.

The old woman in the hall did not have the crampedness and embarrassment of ordinary grass people, only her daughter trembled when she heard the startled voice.

"The old woman wants to sue her two sons for unfilial piety, this is a paper."

As soon as these words came out, the officials were stunned, and they exchanged heads and talked about it endlessly.

The officials of the state capital yamen are all natives of Jincheng, because Jincheng has always been autonomous, so there is no need for officials to come forward on weekdays. It was also the first time they had stood in court, and it was also the first time they had heard a mother sue her son.

"These two sons, don't think about being people in the future."

A young man whispered.

This voice was obviously heard by the old woman in the hall, and she saw that her face was ugly, but she still did not shake her neck.

Lu Weimang glanced at the mouthy servant and looked at the old woman in the hall.

"Old lady, it is written in your form that your husband died a few months ago, and he has not been buried yet. You sued your two sons just to get them to pay for the funeral, right? ”

"Yes!"

There is no antecedent, and there is no consequence, the form seems to have been written by a literate person in the village, and it is not detailed, Lu Weimang looked at the old woman's daughter.

"Tell me more."

The daughter grabbed her mother's arm tightly and forced her composure, "It's an adult." Here's the thing. They are the people of Zhangjia Village, Ge Town, at the foot of Qilian Mountain outside Jincheng. E's father was born and raised in this village, but he gave up two sons who went to the city, the eldest brother and the third brother. Since he can remember, his father has never taken a day off, either working in the fields, or going out to work to find money, working all his life, and finally marrying his brother and brother a daughter-in-law, and taking a large family into the city to live. But a few days after the good days, my father died suddenly last month. In Zhangjia Village, the old man died and had to return to his roots, and he was buried in a beautiful way. But the elder brother and the younger brother pushed this and that, and the other pushed this, and no one refused to send his father back to the village for a big burial, so he had to buy a thin coffin in the city and bury it outside the city. There are wild and wild mountains, we are not without roots, how can we be buried there, Eniang stopped them and did not let them bury Edad, and they froze for more than a month, seeing that the old man's body could not stand it, there was no way, so I came to sue the official, and asked the official to treat the two unconscionable brothers, and let Eniang take Edad back to the village for a big burial. ”

The young woman spoke with an accent, but she tried her best to speak official language, so that Lu Weimang could understand.

Lu Weimang listened, even guessed, understood what she meant, and before she could speak, the head catcher under the hall took the lead in speaking, "Lady under the hall, you should go to the old village chief to solve such household matters, no matter how bad it is, there is still a lieutenant chief, where can you tell these trivial things to the yamen." If our adults accept your case, whoever loses a chicken in the future and who waters the land first, won't the adults have to judge? Where can the adults be busy? ”

After a lecture, the woman in the hall looked at Lu Weimang again, "My lord, according to the usual practice, this case is not within our jurisdiction. If they want someone to judge the case, they can invite the village elders to judge them and judge them. ”

It is difficult for Qing officials to cut off family affairs, which has been the case since ancient times. Moreover, since the case was unjust, unharmed, and unbroken, and the old woman looked clean and round, and no one treated her harshly, did you really call the two sons of the old woman and ask them why they did not send them back to the village?

As soon as the words of the head catcher fell, Lu Weimang had not yet expressed his position, and the young woman said, "Now the Emen's family is the brother in charge, and the village chief and the clan elder only listen to the brother's hardships, and don't care about Eniang's thoughts at all. ”

The old woman stood up after hearing the words of the head catcher, "You said housework, is it that this old woman died at the door of your yamen, and you are willing to take care of it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the whole house was silent.

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