When Su Xubai came, the Hu family was crying and making a fuss. Xie Chengyin stood aside calmly, with a faint smile on his face. The county magistrate only felt that one head was as big as two.
Knowing how to deal with it, when he saw Su Xubai coming, he felt as if he had seen a savior, and stood up immediately.
"Master Su..." The county magistrate looked at Su Xubai with a troubled face, "What exactly happened? Both sides have their own explanations, and I can't figure out what happened!"
"Him!" Su Xubai glanced at Mr. Hu who was kneeling on the ground, covering his face and half-awake, and snorted coldly, "He smashed my shop first, hurt the people in my house last, and later he thought
Taking away my wife by force can be regarded as robbing a common woman!"
"According to the laws of our dynasty, what is the crime of robbing a common woman, Lord County Magistrate?" Xie Chengyin looked at the County Magistrate who was standing there with a bit of scrutiny in his eyes.
Xie Chengyin looked at the county magistrate and felt his heart tremble: "I am enforcing the law. Those who raped will be exiled for three thousand miles and sent to far away evil states. If they are not successful, they will be sent to five hundred miles. Those who are injured will be hanged."
When the Hu family heard this, they jumped up immediately: "What are you talking about? What does it mean to rob a girl? My son didn't do anything and he was beaten like this. You can't do it just because he is from the capital.
It’s just nonsense!”
Xie Chengyin looked at the crying Mrs. Hu coldly, with a bit of contempt in his eyes: "Nothing has been done? If you confuse right and wrong, your family really just said it casually. The local wealthy businessmen don't know how to help the common people, but they also fight
Smashing competing shops, and even raping women, all of which are not serious crimes!"
The county magistrate listened to Xie Chengyin's words, pinched his sleeves, and carefully wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Hu didn't care about any laws. She stared at Xie Chengyin and sneered, "What do you mean by destroying a shop? You are trying to grab the business first. My son is just coming to the door to argue. As for that little boy?"
Bitch, she's just a concubine, like a vixen, why do you say that my son raped a common girl? Who knows if she was the one who got it together!"
Su Xubai's expression suddenly changed as he stood there. He stared at Mrs. Hu without saying a word, just looking at her coldly.
Mrs. Hu felt a little guilty when he saw her, but she still frowned and shouted: "What are you looking at? Could it be that I said something wrong? If something like a vixen is brought to my son, my son will also need it. How can I use it?"
Should he grab it himself?"
Xie Chengyin glanced at Su Xubai, and saw that his face was getting more and more ugly, and frowned: "The county magistrate is really good-tempered, and he actually allowed a civilian woman to yell in the lobby!"
Xie Chengyin's voice was not loud, but to the county magistrate's ears, it was like a loud drum beating one after another.
"Crack!" The gavel was raised high and fell heavily.
The people in the hall fell silent for an instant. The county magistrate looked at the person standing in front of him. After a moment of hesitation, he said firmly: "Ms. Hu Chen, if you disturb the court, you will be fined twenty big boards!"
Mrs. Hu never thought that the county magistrate, who was usually very polite to her, would punish her today. Her face was full of disbelief: "My lord, the county magistrate..."
At this time, the county magistrate already understood his position, and his face was firm. Although the government servant beside him was surprised, he still stepped forward to suppress Mrs. Hu.
When the fight started, Mrs. Hu's cries could be heard from a radius of five miles. Xie Chengyin and Su Xubai stood aside, watching expressionlessly.
It was not until Mrs. Hu finished beating that Su Xubai looked at the county magistrate and said: "My wife was frightened. Even if she wants to come today, she has no way to come here to testify. But I, Su Xubai, have a complaint and there are witnesses. The criminal is
He was also captured by the county magistrate himself and will be detained for a day or two. When my wife gets better, how about she come back to testify?"
What did Su Xubai mean? What else did the county magistrate not understand? He subconsciously glanced at Xie Chengyin standing in the corner, swallowed inexplicably, and subconsciously felt a little panicked in his heart.
He took a few deep breaths to steady his wildly beating heart. He looked at the Hu family not far away who dared not say anything after being beaten: "According to the laws of our court, the victim has no way to come to the front of the hall.
, the victim was imprisoned in accordance with the law, and I did not show any favoritism at all. Everything was carried out in accordance with the law. Hu Xiu was imprisoned, a doctor was found to treat his injuries, and he will be tried again at a later date!"
Xie Chengyin raised his eyebrows slightly, then glanced at Su Xubai, and the two of them said to the county magistrate in a tacit understanding: "Your Excellency, you have a clear warning!"
When they left, the Hu family was crying and fighting. There were many people who came to watch the show. Although they did not dare to provoke them on the surface, they secretly gnashed their teeth and said that they deserved it.
Su Xubai and Xie Chengyin were not in a hurry to leave. They just stood there and watched them make trouble. Mrs. Hu had been making trouble for a quarter of an hour. When no one paid attention to her, she just let it go and made people laugh in vain, so she quickly cleaned up.
Su Xubai and the others said a few harsh words, and then left without stopping.
When Su Xubai got on the carriage, Xie Chengyin had been sitting in it for a while. He was holding a book casually. Seeing Su Xubai get on the carriage, he asked, "Do you still read the storybook?"
"It's from Ah Chun!" Su Xubai took a look and said softly, "She doesn't know many words, and she can't understand those difficult and obscure books, so I found some harmless words in the book for her to read!"
"Didn't you say she is a peasant girl? Which peasant girl is literate?" Xie Chengyin raised his eyebrows with surprise on his face.
"She has been working in a drug store for several years, and she can match the names of medicinal materials. I also took the time to teach her the Thousand-Character Classic. She is also easy to learn, and she learned a lot of words in a short time, but she is not very familiar with it yet.
I found some story books for her to read." Su Xubai sat down next to Xie Chengyin, "Don't all my daughters like to read these short stories!"
Xie Chengyin looked at Su Xubai for a long time, and then said with a smile: "The dignified Tanhualang is more than enough to teach a great master, but he actually teaches a peasant girl who can't read a word of thousand-character Chinese, and he goes to such great lengths to find such a person."
I don’t know how many girls’ families will be hurt if this matter spreads to the capital!”
Su Xubai knew that Xie Chengyin was laughing at him, so he didn't care. He just talked about the county magistrate: "On weekdays, the county magistrate often colludes with the Hu family. Today, he abandoned the Hu family directly. Did he find out who you are?"
"My father, the emperor, and my mother may not know about my escape now. He is a small county magistrate. No matter how powerful he is, he cannot possibly know who I am." Xie Chengyin smiled and shook his head.