The county magistrate asked the officials to rush to arrest people and collect evidence.
Ruoxuan suggested that they go to the gambling house in the city to arrest people. When they entered the city and passed the gambling house, she saw that Zhao was still inside.
Mrs. Zhao was indeed inside. After stealing the money yesterday, she immediately went to the city to pay back the money she owed to the gambling house.
After paying off five taels of gambling debt, she still had one tael left in her hands. She couldn't help but try her luck while holding the money.
After all, if she wins and recovers her losses, she can quietly put the money back.
Then, I really won in the first round!
Won the second round too!
so excited!
Good luck!
Then her butt sat down and never got up.
At dawn, Mrs. Zhao walked out of the gambling house with a two hundred tael IOU tied to her head.
It’s over!
How could you lose so much?
I don’t know what’s in the brocade boxes in Liu’s house. If I steal them and sell them, how much money can I get in exchange for them?
Mrs. Zhao was really scared this time. If she didn't pay back the money she owed to the gambling house, her hand would be chopped off.
Two hundred taels is too much!
No matter, during the day, weak families usually have no one and they all go to the ground. She goes back first and steals all the things. She can sell them for as much silver as she wants. Otherwise, where will she find two hundred taels?
As soon as Mrs. Zhao ran down the street, Ruoshui came and took the officials and arrested her!
Above the official hall
Mrs. Zhao knelt on the ground, her two elephant legs shaking like a sieve.
Where has she seen such a battle before?
Magistrate Zhang slapped the court: "Ms. Zhao, your husband is suing you for deliberately setting up a trap for him to destroy your innocence, pretending to be happy, and cheating on your marriage! You also stole the money saved by your mother-in-law at home, and abused your niece at home. Is this related to this?"
Ruoxuan pointed her little finger and quietly gave her a magic trick to speak the truth.
Mrs. Zhao hurriedly kowtowed and shouted: "The magistrate is unjust! I did do those things. I knew that my husband could not see at night, so I deliberately put sweat medicine on his wine to make him unconscious, and then pretended to lose his virginity. I pretended to be happy and tricked my husband into marrying me, but actually nothing happened."
After Zhao finished speaking, she was stunned for a moment and was so frightened. How could she say what she really meant?
She hurriedly waved her hands and said: "No, Lord Magistrate, I made a mistake! I didn't do those things! I just stole six pieces of silver from my family, and I also have a share of that money, right? It's not considered stealing! Xuan Bao is really She is an idiot. She almost chokes to death even if she eats custard. What does it have to do with me? She is an unlucky person who caused me to lose so much money. What’s wrong with me just pinching her a few times? Whose child is not beaten by the elders? Who grew up with a crazy child like jewels and treasures..."
As she spoke, Mrs. Zhao covered her mouth and was about to cry!
No, why did she say everything in her heart?
Mrs. Zhao waved her hands vigorously: "Your Excellency, you are wronged! I am not the one, and I have never done what I said!"
The masters and servants of the Yamen looked at her in shock, so was she here to confess her guilt or to cry out for injustice?
Zuo Shui and Zuo He were so angry that they both knelt down at the same time: "Please make the decision for us! We, the weak family, dare not keep such a vicious woman!"
Zhao was so anxious: "No, sir, I didn't do it, I really didn't do it. Those were what I just said from my heart, and I didn't know why I just said them all. Sir, you are wronged!"
Ruohe: "Sir, Mrs. Zhao has told the truth in her heart and has confessed. She abused my niece. Please make the decision for my niece!"
"No, sir, I didn't! That's just what I said in my heart, I didn't do it! Sir, you are wronged!"
Mr. Zhang slapped the gavel hard: "Quiet!"
Zhao was so scared that she shut up.
Master Zhang said to the doctor on the side: "Doctor Lin, please diagnose Mrs. Zhao's pulse."
This doctor was also a clerk of the Yamen. In addition to autopsy, he was also very good at identifying people.
He can tell whether the other person is a virgin or a boy by counting the pulse of a living person, and even knows how many children the other person has given birth to in total.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhao ran away, "I don't know the pulse! I don't know the pulse!"
However, she was quickly restrained by two police officers.
Ms. Zhao resisted wildly: "I don't take my pulse..."
Doctor Lin grabbed her wrist and said after a while, "Sir, this woman is not pregnant and is innocent."
Ruoxuan glanced at Doctor Lin curiously: Hey, there's something about this man.
Ruohe breathed a sigh of relief: He knew it, he hadn't done anything.
Mr. Zhang was shocked: "Mrs. Zhao, you cheated on your marriage first, stole second, and abused the young children at home. Your behavior is bad, your character is vicious, and the law does not tolerate it. I will punish you with ten big blows as a warning to others!" You are required to return the bride price and stolen silver to the weak family within ten days."
Ms. Zhao collapsed on the ground: "Sir, I was wronged! How could I have any money to pay back!"
Ruo Shu took out two divorce letters from his arms and threw one of them to Mrs. Zhao: "Sir, I want to divorce Mrs. Zhao."
"Sir, I don't want to be divorced. If Ruohe saw my body, he should be responsible...well..." Mrs. Zhao was dragged down by the Yamen.
Mr. Zhang doesn’t care whether others divorce his wife or not. “As for divorcing your wife, after you withdraw from the court, you can take the divorce letter to your master and change your household registration. Retreat from the court!”
After Mr. Zhang finished resolving the family dispute, he went to the back of the county office to change clothes.
When he first took office, he planned to go around the villages below to examine the public sentiment and see how to make the people in the county live a good life.
Shaxi County is located in the southernmost part of Xuanyuan Kingdom. It has many mountains, miasma, wetlands and wastelands. He wanted to make use of these wastelands, but he couldn't think of a good way at the moment.
Ruohe took the divorce letter and followed his master to modify the household registration and remove Zhao's household registration from the weak family.
At this point, Zhao was finally divorced!
Ruoshui and Xuanbao were waiting on the cart outside. They saw Mr. Zhang coming out from behind in casual clothes and preparing to mount his horse. "
Mrs. Liu had been waiting for the cart to enter the Yamen. There were several large bags of wild bamboo shoots on the cart.
Hearing Xuan Bao's words, she looked over, her eyes dim, flashing with surprise and appreciation: Is this the new county magistrate? So young and handsome?
Ruoshui had a dark face and moved his body, blocking Mr. Liu's sight.
Mrs. Liu: "..."
She was just appreciating the beauty, what could he do to stop her?
Magistrate Zhang looked over and said with a soft smile, "What's the matter with Xuan Bao?"
Ruoxuan patted the large sack on the cart and said, "Sir, thank you for upholding justice for our family. These are wild bamboo shoots. They are delicious. I will give them to you and brother Qian."
Magistrate Zhang wanted to refuse, but when he heard a new name for food and Xuan Bao mentioned his son's name, he thought of the books his son bought yesterday, as well as those persimmons, dates and chestnuts.
The annotations in that book were astonishing even to him! Especially his views on farming were refreshing to him.
There are also those persimmons, dates, and chestnuts that even my daughter, who has always been picky about food, can’t stop eating.
Was it this family that sold it?
It seems that the weak family has a close connection with our own family.
He walked over and asked, "What are wild bamboo shoots?"
Weowu Shui said: "It's just the stems of wild grass. My little girl accidentally discovered that they can be eaten. It tastes pretty good."
He knew that if Mr. Zhang was a good county magistrate, he would have investigated the geography and people's conditions of Shaxi County and discovered that there are many wetlands in Shaxi County with wild wild grass.
Ruoshui wanted to get fame and pursue an official career before. He knew that discovering that these wild bamboo shoots were edible was also an achievement.
Magistrate Zhang was stunned for a moment, wildgrass stem? Are they the stems of wild grass that grow in the wetlands?
Mrs. Liu handed over a wild bamboo shoot burrito: "Try it, sir. This is a burrito made of wild bamboo shoots."
Xuan Bao nodded: "Well, the wild bamboo shoot rolls made by my mother are delicious!"
Weak Shui: "..."
Do the mother and daughter want to be so enthusiastic?
That was the wild bamboo shoot roll he had left uneaten!
The county magistrate, a handsome boy in his thirties who wears a beard to pretend to be mature and steady, is not as gentle, elegant and naturally beautiful as he is?
