"What nonsense are you talking about? You were obviously the one who took away my father's fame, and then rushed to my cousin's house to force us to be killed. Why are you confusing right and wrong!" Jiang Ziyu's face turned red with anger.
"Pah!" Jiang Weiyang slapped her, and Jiang Ziyu's thin face immediately swelled into a doughy bun.
Li immediately protected him, looked at Jiang Weiyang and said angrily: "What are you doing!"
"It's not your child's place to interrupt what an adult is saying. This is contempt for the court. My sister, you are too doting on your children. If you really want to wait for the prefect to come, if he yells like this, you will be punished!"
"There's no point in trying to incriminate someone. Brother, in this courtroom, he still wants to confuse right and wrong!" Jiang Weiming said coldly.
Years of sage books have taught him to know etiquette, understand shame, respect the law, and act with integrity. Even if he suffered repeated injustices, he still had hope in his heart when he saw the prefect striding up the hall. He knelt down and shouted.
"I did not commit any murder against my eldest brother. Instead, he disregarded brotherhood and repeatedly murdered me and my family. Please be aware of this!"
The fat prefect glanced at him and narrowed his eyes on Jiang Weiyang.
Jiang Weiyang immediately knelt down and said: "My second brother has been jealous of my literary talents since he was a child. He has spread rumors everywhere that I am ignorant and incompetent. This time I took the high school entrance examination but he failed to take the exam due to illness, so he was jealous of me and even punched me. Taken together, no matter how much I value brotherhood, I can't bear it any more, so I ask you to take a closer look."
"If we were really jealous of you, would you still come to our door to be beaten?" Jiang Weiming laughed angrily.
Jiang Weiyang did not speak, but looked at Lu Jing who was standing aside. Lu Jing quickly knelt down and bowed.
"Jiang Weiming's family is really cruel. They framed their eldest brother and was cast aside by his neighbors, so they wanted to come to my house to have fun. But when eldest brother Jiang found out, he put past the blame and worried that they would not live well. He gave us money early in the morning and asked us to take care of Jiang Erlang. As a family, we also want to sit down and untie our knots when we come to my house."
"Who would have known that as soon as he came to the door, Jiang Erlang's family would beat him like crazy, and we would all suffer as well. Please be careful!"
After he finished speaking, he screamed, as if he was suppressing grief, he took out a handful of silver from his arms, and pointed out the physical evidence. The Lu family members who had arrived a long time ago were also outside, showing their bruises to everyone, and began to preach how great Jiang Weiyang was. Loyalty and wealth.
"That's not the case, my father is not such a person!"
"We didn't do this, they distorted the facts!"
Mrs. Li and her children tried their best to defend themselves, but they were ridiculed by the Lu family, and the expressions of everyone onlookers became unpredictable.
Jiang Weiming felt dizzy, and he opened his mouth to refute, but there was so much to say that he was stuck in his heart, muttering without sound. He usually boasted about his talent in writing and writing, but at this critical moment, he could not speak every word. Can't tell, she's worse than that country woman!
He was so furious that he staggered and almost fell to the ground. Li quickly tried to help her, but was rushed aside by the Yamen servant. She wanted to defend Jiang Weiming, but Jiang Ziyu held her hand.
"You can't speak at will." He pointed to his swollen cheeks, saying that if he was beaten, he would be beaten. How could his sister be so young? How could she bear it?
Mrs. Li was also worried, with tears rolling down her cheeks, but she did not dare to make any sound. She could only try to gather the children behind her and pin her hopes on the prefect.
"They are colluding and deliberately confusing right and wrong. Please let me know clearly!"
The magistrate obviously didn't want to listen to their nonsense here. He sat in the high hall without saying a word. When everyone was overwhelmed by him, he finally said in a slow and cold voice.
"Jiang Dalang's lawsuit against Jiang Erlang was submitted a few days ago. I also asked people to go to their county to investigate and it is indeed true. Jiang Erlang's family ignored the etiquette and law and murdered their relatives. Now that the witnesses and material evidence are complete, Jiang Erlang is directly detained. His family should compensate Jiang Dalang’s family for their losses, and this case is over. Let’s drag it on.”
After being detained, anyone can be beaten to make him confess.
Jiang Weiming's family was shocked. Of course he had sued him before in the county. The county magistrate had enriched his own pockets and said he had falsely accused him, so he was kicked out of the government office. He thought this was treachery, but he didn't expect that the magistrate was actually a better person than the county magistrate. The master had no scruples and settled the case in just two words.
Jiang Weiyang and Lu Jing looked at each other and immediately kowtowed to the county prince.
"The master knows everything clearly and solves the case very quickly. I, Dayu, must be the one who makes the decision, the master Qingtian!"
The two of them were flattering each other in front of the court. The prefect even laughed out of his eyes, but he was waving his hands at the government officials.
"Don't suppress Jiang Erlang yet!"
Jiang Weiming's face turned pale and his teeth chattered. His family was clearly innocent, but under the gaze of these hungry wolves, they turned into a treacherous villain who couldn't speak a word!
He suddenly pushed away the yamen servant and glared at the prefect.