Chapter 67: The county magistrate adjudicates the case

Hearing the woman's reply, a man dressed as a literati came out of the doorman's room, stood in front of the woman, and said: "Since you don't have a paper, you can come with me, and you will dictate it, and I will write the paper for you, but you need to pay 50 yuan to write the paper!"

"The people's daughter has no money, she just came out of her in-law's house and is penniless, where will the money come from for you!"

The literati look like they can't help it.

"You also know that this county government can't sue anyone who wants to! You don't have a pleading, and the county lord can't accept your case. You'd better go back and raise money and come back again!"

After the literati finished speaking, he turned around and went back.

The woman knelt there for a long time and didn't move, and shouted in her mouth: "County lord, please call the shots for the people's daughter!"

It's just that there was no response from the county ya, and the woman was very stubborn, kneeling at the door and shouting, and after a while, a bunch of people gathered at the gate of the county ya.

Peach and Wang Menglan were soft-hearted, so they began to look for silver money on their bodies, but they didn't see a penny after looking for a long time, where did they get the silver money in their world!

Wang Menglan wanted to find Xue Yutang, but she was embarrassed to speak, but Peaches had no scruples, ran to Xue Yutang and stretched out her little hand: "Give me fifty yuan!"

Xue Yutang looked at Peaches happily: "Why do you want to help her?"

"Don't you think she's pitiful?"

"I don't think so!"

"Are you a cold-blooded animal? Look at her kneeling there and her voice is hoarse!"

"Hehe... Sometimes you can't just look at the surface, I haven't seen her mother-in-law yet, so she can't count just what she says! Or if you call me Brother Sheng, I will be happy for a while, and I will give you the money!"

"Don't! Hmph..."Peach pouted and shook Wang Menglan's arm again.

Xue Yutang looked at Wang Menglan and stopped talking, and said with a smile: "Why do you want to give it too?"

Wang Menglan nodded shyly.

Xue Yutang sighed, took out a piece of loose silver from his arms and handed it to Wang Menglan: "The money is for you, but I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed!"

Wang Menglan was stunned, but she didn't say anything, but took the silver from Xue Yutang's hand and whispered, "I'll give it back to you!"

Xue Yutang watched Wang Menglan walk towards the woman with the silver, and his brows wrinkled unconsciously.

Peaches turned around and grimaced at Xue Yutang.

When the woman saw that Wang Menglan had brought her the silver, she didn't even say thank you, grabbed it, and shouted inside: "Master, I have money, you come out and write a letter to me!"

After shouting for a long time, the literati came out again and led the woman into the porter.

Wang Menglan silently returned to Xue Yutang's side, but Taozi was dissatisfied: "She is really, she won't even say thank you!"

Wang Menglan patted Peach's arm gently: "She's also in a hurry!"

People sometimes like to watch the excitement, this woman went in for a small half an hour, the people around did not disperse, but there is a tendency to gather more and more, when everyone is discussing, I heard the "dong dong" three drums inside, a cadre of officials rumbling, arranged separately in the county office, a person with an official hat, sitting high in the hall, a beat of the hall, shouted: "The person with the complaint!"

I saw the woman come out of the gatehouse, follow behind the master, and come to the lobby with the paper in her hand.

The county official motioned to the official to present the paper in the woman's hand, sat in the hall and watched carefully, and only after half a burnt of incense did he raise his head and say, "You tell me the details of the case!"

When Peaches heard it outside, her apricot eyes glared and muttered, "There's something wrong with this county master!

Xue Yutang explained beside him: "This just shows that this county official is quite clear, he only understands the facts of the case when he looks at the pleadings, and asks the complainant to repeat it again to see if there are any omissions, or to judge whether the complainant will be falsely accused!"

Momoko was unconvinced: "Who would run here to slander others if they have nothing to do." ”

Xue Yutang shook his head and didn't speak.

After listening to the woman's story, the county magistrate in the hall took out the token from the desk in front of him and threw it to the ground: "Go and pass on Li He's family!"

A servant at the bottom picked up the token from the ground and led the two people to leave in a hurry, and the people around the county government saw that the official came out to arrest people, and they gave way one after another, and a few good people followed the whole process.

After another half an hour, an old woman covered with patches was escorted to the county hall by the officials, and when she entered the door, she was obviously stunned when she saw the woman kneeling in the hall, but she didn't say anything, knelt on the ground and said: "The woman Li He knocked to see the lord." ”

The county magistrate didn't talk nonsense and asked, "Do you know the people under the Li He family?"

"Tell the lord, the women know!"

"Since you know, then is it true that she sued you to leave her house!"

"It's true!"

"Then the official asked you again, this divorce should have been done by your son, why did you come to divorce her?"

"My lord, the son of the woman is dead!"

"Oh, now that you're dead, why do you insist on getting rid of your daughter-in-law? Have you ever wondered what to do with your young children?"

When the old woman heard this, she burst into tears: "My lord, the women don't want to! It's just that my daughter-in-law is a widow at a young age, and the women can't bear to let her continue to suffer, so I hope to give her freedom and let her find a good family to marry while she is young!"

"Mother, Chen'er doesn't want to marry again, Chen'er is willing to serve your old man for a lifetime, and send your old age to the end, Chen'er can't forget Li Yuan!" When the woman heard the old woman speak, she immediately cried.

This county magistrate has not encountered such a case for many years, obviously for the sake of mutual good, but he has to go to court.

"I said old man, I know you are doing this for the good of your daughter-in-law, but without your daughter-in-law, only you are old and young, how to live!"

"Sir, although the old woman is old, her body is still strong, and she can do some work to support my grandparents and grandchildren, and if she is still married this morning, she can also take care of her son for a few points, and she can support herself until the child is in her teens and twenties. ”

The magistrate looked at the woman again and asked, "Do you have anything to say about your mother-in-law?"

"The county official, the people don't agree, one is that I don't want to find someone else, since I married into the Li family, I was born into the Li family, and died as a ghost of the Li family!

This time the county official was stumped, this one had to divorce his daughter-in-law, and the other refused to leave no matter what, the county official sat in the hall for a long time without speaking, at this time, suddenly heard outside the door, the drum sounded again: "County official, you have to be the master of the people's daughter!"