Chapter Seventy-Eight: Reconciliation
Wang Zheng's chubby body sat down in his place with difficulty, and he shouted at the hall, completely opening the small case of Kuncheng that attracted the attention of many parties.
"Whoever kneels in the hall, report his name. Whatever is told, it will be reported as well! Wang Zheng shouted loudly, and the people watching at the yamen immediately lowered their voices, and most of the originally chaotic shouting disappeared in an instant.
It was the first time Hua Manqing saw so many people, and it was also the first time she saw Kuncheng's parents. She clenched her fists and took a few deep breaths, then she boldly stepped forward, first told Wang Zheng and others her identity, and then told her own grievances and the Zhao family.
She was a young girl, and the words she said were specially choreographed by Su Hengyu and others. Halfway through the story, the women outside were teary-eyed and immediately gained most of their sympathy.
Compared with her, since she was escorted into the yamen, she has unscrupulously scolded everyone, and the mother and son of the Zhao family, who have a vicious face and do not respect their parents and officials, also made everyone feel bored.
Even a corrupt official like Wang Zheng has a lot of dissatisfaction in the face of a fierce and rude person like the Zhao family's mother and son. Thinking about the two silver tickets in his arms again, his momentum when he faced the Zhao family was instantly more sufficient.
"Zhao Chengming, is your sister-in-law telling the truth?"
Zhao Chengming gritted his teeth and said, "She's telling the truth, but my lord, they broke into my house last night......"
"What broke into your house, we obviously heard that you were going to be bad for Xiaoxi and them, so we went to save people!" The neighbor man, who came to testify for the Hua sisters, hurriedly stepped forward to interrupt him when he heard that Zhao Chengming was about to complain.
When Mrs. Zhao saw so many helpers on the side of the Hua sisters, she was angry and anxious, and scolded directly in the court: "Okay, Hua Manqing, you little slut!" I said that your family is sick, small, how can you survive for so long without dying, it turns out that you hooked up with the men around you and let them help your family! I have a bad stomach at a young age, and what happened last night must have been planned by you and deliberately framed my family! ”
The more Mrs. Zhao spoke, the more she felt that she had guessed right, she had long been dissatisfied with the little girl of the Hua family. A girl's family doesn't stay at home well on weekdays, and she still runs around the city, not like a serious person at all.
Hua Manqing was so angry that she cried on the spot: "You are talking nonsense, I didn't!" The uncle and aunt of the Song family are kind-hearted people, so they are willing to help us. I went to your house last night just to save my sister, you see what you beat her into, the doctor said that if I had saved someone later, my sister's life would have been lost! ”
At this moment, Hua Manqing was not afraid of the Zhao family at all, she had already been repeatedly told by Su Hengyu and others when she came.
No matter what the Zhao family says, she just needs to remember to sell badly.
The more pitiful she is and the more sad she cries, the more the Zhao family will be hated, and the more benefits their sisters will get in the end.
The initial nervousness had disappeared after he said the first words, and at this moment, Hua Manqing only felt that he was covered in armor, and he was a soldier who was charging forward for his family!
And everything is going according to Su Hengyu's guess, and the vulgarity and rudeness of the Zhao family are seen by everyone.
Wang Zheng listened to Mrs. Zhao's unclean scolding, and he also felt very harsh.
Immediately, he patted the shocked wood: "Silence! That Zhao family wife, before the official opens his mouth to ask you, don't open your mouth yet. Above the court, you can't afford to wait here and make noise. ”
Wang Zheng is also an official, and for ordinary people, it is an existence that cannot be seen or touched. The big officials of the family have spoken, where do they dare to talk more, they can only let the witnesses on the side of the Hua sisters tell everything they heard and saw last night.
By the way, the person who came to testify also took out the sack that the mother and son of the Zhao family had brought to them, and there was also a "Zhao" character specially embroidered by Mrs. Zhao for Hua Manxi, saying that she was afraid that others would take away her own sack.
Such a relationship is always placed in front of everyone, and when Wang Zheng asked before, Zhao Chengming had already admitted that he wanted to sell his wife and sister-in-law.
Now anyone can see what the truth of this case is.
Wang Zheng was not a very hard-working official in the first place, but this time he was willing to sit in the hall and try the case obediently, all because of the two hundred taels of silver tickets.
Now that the facts are obvious, he didn't bother to continue wasting time on this case, so he immediately made a decision: "This matter has been questioned by the official and the physical evidence." The human and material evidence is there, and the defendant Zhao Chengming has also admitted his guilt in court. At this point, the official pronounced the verdict, and the crime of Zhao Chengming sued by Hua Jiamanqing was established! Zhao Chengming and his mother Zhao Liu beat the daughter of the good family in front and wanted to sell her into the flower building. sentenced these two people to ten years in prison and confiscated all the Zhao family's assets! ”
Wang Zheng actually didn't remember the laws of the Great Wei very clearly, and he only remembered a little about the punishment of buying and selling good families.
However, Kuncheng is his territory, and it is naturally up to him to decide how to punish him.
After the verdict was announced, the mother and son of the Zhao family immediately cried and rushed to the ground, shouting injustices louder and louder.
Hua Manxi stood up in such a voice, and said in a firm tone: "My lord, please also ask your lord to sentence the people's wife and Zhao Chengming to reconcile!" ”
Wang Zheng raised his eyes and saw Hua Manqing standing on top of the court with his sister in tow.
Hua Manxi's face was very haggard at the moment, and there were faint red blood stains on the bandaged place on his forehead.
But no matter how pitiful the other party was, Wang Zheng didn't mean to pity her.
He will punish the Zhao family, firstly because of the two silver tickets, and secondly because Hua Manqing is just Zhao Chengming's sister-in-law, and the two are not a family, so Zhao Chengming naturally has no reason to sell Hua Manqing.
But Hua Manxi, as Zhao Chengming's wife, how could she reconcile with her husband because the other party beat her and sold her?
As soon as Wang Zheng showed a dissatisfied look on his face, the master on the side remembered the second fifty taels of silver tickets that Su Hengyu had guaranteed to him.
He hurriedly pinched his mustache and stepped forward to whisper to Wang Zheng: "My lord, allowing civil couples to reconcile and divorce is a decree personally promulgated by His Majesty today. If you come forward to preside over the reconciliation of the two, and then bring this matter to Your Majesty, wouldn't it be more able for Your Majesty to know, even if you are far away in Kuncheng, you will always keep in mind the laws of the Great Wei and the holy words of Your Majesty? ”
Wang Zheng felt very reasonable when he heard this, so he agreed to Hua Manxi's request, and announced in the court that the relationship between Zhao Chengming and Hua Manxi as husband and wife would be severed.
After seeing with his own eyes that the marriage books of the Hua and Zhao families were found out and declared invalid by Wang Zheng. Hua Manxi's tears rolled out of his eyes in an instant.
She knew that she would be a free man from now on.
Although today's case is not complicated, it has made the people of Kuncheng see all the excitement.
When the case came to an end and everyone dispersed, Su Hengyu could still hear that many people were talking about things in the hall.
Even Mrs. Zhao's scolding words have been learned several times.
Su Hengyu took Ziyun to watch everything at the gate of the yamen, and when the master and servant followed the flow of people and walked out, she suddenly instructed Ziyun: "You remember to remind me that when you write a reply to the eldest princess, don't forget to add that the magistrate of Kuncheng asked us for a bribe of three hundred taels." ”
Ziyun was stunned: "But Childe, didn't we take the initiative to give it to others?" ”
"It's not written on the silver ticket, I don't admit that I know that I sent it on my own initiative? You just have to remember that Wang Zheng, the magistrate of Kuncheng, refused to enter the file because of the title deed when I wanted to buy the flower field here, and he refused to give up until I paid three hundred taels of silver. Su Hengyu whispered.
Su Hengyu closed the fan and strode towards his carriage.
She is a person who loves to give out silver, but some people take this silver as a treasure. Some people take it, and it is a curse.
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Late at night, on the Black Wind Mountain outside Kuncheng, a group of people dressed in nocturnal black clothes and holding long knives quietly touched into the village in the mountains like ghosts.
In the distance, the laughter of a group of bandits drinking and punching almost spread throughout the mountains.
The leader made a few gestures behind him, and they immediately scattered and infiltrated into the boundless darkness of the village.
Looking at it from a distance, I can only see the three big characters "Black Wind Village" hanging in front of the village.