"Ascension!"

Shocked by the wood, Gu Yunji sat down on the top, the left and right officials stood on both sides, and the killing rod in his hand quickly hit the ground, and a neat and low voice came out: "Might-Wu-"

Gu Yunji looked at the woman kneeling below, and was about to ask, but heard Xue Liu's voice suddenly: "Slow!" ”

"Xue Liu, what are you going to do?"

Seeing that Gu Yunji was determined to open a court for interrogation, Xue Liu really couldn't stop it, he glanced at the woman, and his eyes showed ruthlessness: "I am an official, she is a people, but anyone who sues an official, whether it is right or wrong, must first eat a killing stick!" Master Gu not only wants to try the case, but also please pass the punishment first! ”

Gu Yunji's eyes were slightly cold, and he said coldly: "It's good for the civil prosecutor to eat and kill the mighty stick, but that is only applicable to the lawsuit of skipping the level!" Xue Liu, you are the county magistrate of Yibin, the highest magistrate in a county, if she wants to sue you, she will definitely not be able to get through in the county, so she can only ask for help in the city. ”

"And I, Gu Yunji, am the general judge of the Xuzhou Mansion, and my official rank is the sixth grade, just above you, the seventh-grade county order, and I am the official directly under you. The criminal and prison litigation and supervision officials are all within my purview, and she sued you Xue Liu to me, which is compliant and legal, and there is no need to eat and kill! ”

Xue Liu seemed unwilling: "But ......"

"Smack"! The startled wood made a crisp sound on the table, Gu Yunji's eyes sharpened, and he reprimanded: "This official temporarily uses the Yibin County Ya to judge the case, and the idle people should retreat." Xue Liu, you are related to this case and can be tried on the sidelines, but if you dare to obstruct it again, this official will beat you up first! ”

After warning Xue Liu, Gu Yunji looked at the woman kneeling below again, his voice softened slightly, and he asked routinely, "Who is in the hall?" What grievances there are, and tell them truthfully. ”

The woman kowtowed to him and said with tears in her eyes: "Lord Yutong, the name of the folk girl is Zhang Cuiying, she is a native of Yibin County, Xuzhou Prefecture, and her family lives in Zhangjia Village, Rongtai Town, and has been farming for generations. The daughter is the only daughter in the family, raised by her father Zhang Fengyi, and when the girl became an adult, she recruited Qi Zhijian from the neighboring village to become a husband, and now the daughter has been married to her husband for nearly eight years and has a daughter. ”

"Three years ago, Yibin County ordered Xue Liu to take a fancy to my family's 20 acres of fertile land on the south bank of the river on the outskirts of Fucheng, and wanted to exchange it for inferior dry land halfway up the Rongyin Mountain, but my father refused, so he forcibly forced it, exerted pressure with the authority of the county official, and threatened that if the field was not handed over, my family would not be able to stay in Yibin County."

"These twenty acres of fertile land are the ancestral property of my Zhang family, and my father naturally refused to hand it over no matter what. My father and husband had a dispute with Xue Liu's group when they were protecting the fields, and he actually instructed his subordinates to ...... Beat my father to death and broke one of my husband's legs......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Cuiying couldn't cry anymore, almost speechless, and hid her face in extreme pain and whimpered.

"She's slandering!" Xue Liu's face turned pale, and he jumped out impatiently to refute, "What forcibly changed the land, what killed people, it's all nothing!" She made it up out of thin air to slander me! ”

"Xue Liu! I'm asking her to speak up, am I allowed you to speak? Gu Yunji scolded, and commanded the left and right to step forward, "Come on, shut his mouth for me, don't let him open his mouth without my order!" ”

The officials of the county government are all by Xue Liu's side all the year round, and they are his cronies, and when they heard Gu Yunji's orders at this moment, they actually looked at each other, and they didn't know whether to listen to him for a while.

Gu Yunji's eyes narrowed slightly, and he sneered: "Why, the official still can't call you?" Are you the official of Yibin County, or his Xue Liu's personal thug?! ”

The officials were still hesitating, and Chen Peishi, who was standing on the side, stepped forward decisively, pulled out a sweat towel out of nowhere, and stuffed it into Xue Liu's mouth three times and five by two, and stuffed it tightly. Then he backhanded his arms backwards, and his movements were clean and neat, without any mud and water.

Xue Liu's body is obese and lacks exercise all year round, how can he match the strength of a young man in the prime of life, he was easily restrained from moving, but his mouth couldn't make a sound, he could only whine angrily.

Seeing this, Gu Yunji cast an approving look at Chen Peishi, then looked back at Zhang Cuiying, and asked in a deep voice: "The twenty acres of fertile land you mentioned, but where I saw you arguing with people on the bank of the river that day?" ”

Zhang Cuiying wiped her tears and nodded, "Exactly." ”

Gu Yunji said: "But I clearly heard it that day, those men said that the land belonged to Chen Xunzhou, the same knowledge of the mansion, if what you said was true, this land was taken away by Xue Liu, how could it involve Lord Chen, the same knowledge?" ”

Zhang Cuiying said: "Originally, the fields in that area were scattered and belonged to each family, and after Chen Xunzhou became a fellow knowledge, the Chen family's power became bigger and bigger, and they began to annex the fields one after another. Although my father was born in a farmer's household, he was a teacher, and the family's land was planted by hired long-term laborers, and if there was no land, my family would have no source of income, so my father did not sell the land to the Chen family. ”

"Over time, the Chen family has completed the annexation of the fields on one side of the entire riverbank, leaving only my family's twenty acres of land in the middle, every time it is harvested and sown, there is always some inconvenience, and the Chen family has tried to buy our land several times, but has not succeeded."

"Later, in order to curry favor with Lord Chen, Xue Liu offered to exchange land with us, wanting to solve this 'trouble' for him, but we refused, so he forcibly snatched it and gave it to Lord Chen, so now the land is indeed in the hands of Chen Xunzhou, who knows it."

Gu Yunji asked again: "Why did Xue Liu propose to exchange land with you, instead of paying for it?" ”

"Because Xue Liu, a dog official, is greedy and picky, he wants to curry favor with his boss, but he doesn't want to pay money, so he came to persecute and coax us!"

Zhang Cuiying cried so much that her eyes were red, her eyes were full of monstrous hatred, and she gritted her teeth and said: "The land he used to exchange is located on the mountainside of Rongyin Mountain in the north of Rongtai Town, and it is said to be a field, but it is actually no different from a barren mountain!" There are weeds and rocks everywhere, they have not even been cultivated, and they cannot grow food at all. Not to mention this kind of land in exchange for our family's 20 acres of fertile land, even if it is one acre, I will not will! ”

Zhang Cuiying's eyes were like quenched poison, and she glanced at Xue Liu several times, eager to eat him alive, but the next moment a sense of powerlessness came up, and her spirit fell: "How can the people fight with the officials, whether we are willing or not, the land is still taken away by Xue Liu, and then my family will be defeated." ”

"People always have to eat in life, and I have no choice but to cultivate, sift and sow seeds on the wasteland given by Xue Liu. My husband had a broken leg, and there was no strong labor force in the family, and I was a weak woman, and in the past three years, I had barely cultivated four acres of land, and finally planted grain, but before the autumn harvest, I was accidentally cut off by the natives who came down from the mountain, so that my last hope was gone......"

Zhang Cuiying couldn't cry, her back could barely support the weight of her body, and she collapsed in despair and weakness.

Gu Yunji listened with a heavy heart and said slowly; "That's why you are desperate and run to your original field to cut the rice planted by the Chen family?"

Zhang Cuiying nodded lightly, then wiped away the tears on her face, and sighed sadly: "Three years have passed, and the matter has come to this point, no matter how entangled it is, it can't be undone." I don't want twenty acres of land, and I don't want grain. But—"

Saying that, the sadness on Zhang Cuiying's face suddenly turned to determination, and she said word by word: "My father's life, as well as my husband's legs, I have to get it back no matter what, I want Xue Liu, blood, debt, blood, and repayment!" ”

(End of chapter)