"Master Shen...Mrs. Hou..." The magistrate wiped the sweat from his forehead and raised a polite but awkward smile, "Why are you two here at the same time?"
Shen Ji raised his eyes slightly, his eyes fell on him, and his tone was gentle, "Because of some trivial matters, the prefect does not need to pay attention to us, just investigate the case."
The prefect was ashamed, with a sneer on his face, and he did not dare to ignore the two of them.
"Master Qingtian, we have been wronged!" Liu Yin was the first to get angry, kneeling on the ground and crying, "We were just standing in front of our own house to discuss matters. I don't know where I offended Mrs. Hou, and she arrested us here..."
The magistrate's face was slightly stiff, and his eyes drifted to Fang Xu unconsciously. He coughed twice and said, "Mrs. Hou naturally has her reasons for asking you to come."
"Please forgive me for being ignorant. What crime have we committed?" Liu Wei'an looked at Fang Xu with fear on his face and murmured, "Mrs. Hou's move made us very panicked."
Fang Xu sat aside with a calm expression, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with her.
Liu Wen couldn't see her aloof look, gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Please give me a reason, madam. If you can't explain it clearly, what you did today is definitely a way to bully others!"
"That's right!" Liu Yin raised her voice with a ferocious face, "You also ordered someone to beat my husband. Aren't you just relying on your power to bully us people?"
Fang Xu raised his eyes to look at them, with a hint of smile in his eyes, "You bully me with one word from the left and another with the right, and just accuse me of it with just a few words?"
"Why did I bring you here?" Fang Xu raised his hand slightly, slid his fingertips over the pendant on his earlobe, and laughed softly, "It's because you are deliberately making things difficult for my daughter-in-law, and I, the mother-in-law, Is there any reason to ignore it?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Liu Yin panicked, her eyes flickering, "We just want to go in and take a look at the remains of our family members, but this girl won't allow it, so we will naturally have to argue a few times!"
"That's right, we just care about our family." Liu Wei'an sighed and shook his head helplessly. His eyes fell on Liu Fanyin, with a bit of disappointment in his eyes, and he complained, "Ayin, it's not my uncle who picked on you. , the person lying in the coffin is your biological father, how can you not even have the most basic funeral rites and funeral banquet?"
"As a child, if you are so unfilial, my uncle will say something to you."
After a few words, Liu Fanyin was immediately identified in the eyes of others.
Liu Fanyin's eyes darkened, and just when he was about to speak, he heard his second uncle on the side speak.
"Ayin, what you did today makes my second uncle feel chilled." Liu Wen shook his head and sighed, took out a letter from his arms, unfolded it and laid it on the ground, "This is the letter that my third brother wrote to me before he passed away. "
"The letter stated that if anything happens to him, the property in his hands will be divided equally among the three of us, brother and sister, and he told us to carry forward the Liu family."
Liu Wen kowtowed heavily to his superiors and said in a loud voice, "It just so happened that we came to the government office today, and the common people dared to ask Master Qingtian to make the decision and fulfill the last wish of my deceased brother!"
Liu Fanyin turned pale and stared at the letter on the ground. Unable to suppress the anger in her heart, her voice became sharper, "This is not my father's handwriting at all!"
"This..." The prefect glanced at Fang and Shen who were standing next to him, and was a little undecided for a moment.
Fang Xu stood up slowly, walked to the magistrate, and said with a soft smile, "Sir, I can lend you a pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
The magistrate didn't dare to say no, so he quickly responded, "Mrs. Hou, you're welcome."
Fang Xu stood in front of the writing desk, took out a pen and paper, and wrote half a page eloquently, not forgetting to blow on the wet ink.
"What a coincidence." Fang Xu raised the paper in his hand, raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I also have a secret letter from my father-in-law. It clearly says that the family property belongs to his daughter Liu Fanyin."
As soon as these words came out, the Liu family members all darkened their faces. Even Liu Wei'an, who was the best at pretending, changed his expression and could no longer smile.
"You are obviously committing fraud!" Liu Yin couldn't help but lose her temper, pointed at Fang Xu and shouted, "The words on this are clearly written by you yourself. Do you think we are all blind?"
"Mrs. Liu's words are strange." Fang Xu put down the paper, raised the corners of his lips, and looked at her quietly, "If you say I am committing fraud, who can testify for you?"
"You..." Liu Yin subconsciously looked up at the magistrate, but saw that the latter didn't look at her at all, and she felt even more angry. "My eldest brother and second brother have certainly seen it!"
Fang Xu sneered and shook his head slowly, "You are a family, how can you believe what you say?"
Liu Yin gritted her teeth and subconsciously retorted, "You have neither a signature nor my third brother's seal on it, so how can you count it?"
"Look at what Mrs. Liu said. It's really interesting." Fang Xu lowered his eyes and stared at the letter paper on the ground, "Does the letter Mr. Liu Er took out have these things on it?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes turned to the ground. Liu Wen felt very guilty and raised his arm to press the letter.
With this look, even a fool can see that there is something wrong in his mind.
Liu Wei'an rolled his eyes, slapped Liu Wen on the face, and yelled, "Bastard!"
Liu Wen was stunned, looked at him with a puzzled face, and murmured, "Big...brother?"
Liu Wei'an frowned and glared angrily, "The third brother forgot to stamp it, wouldn't you tell him after him?"
"Furthermore, third brother clearly left a message, why didn't you tell the magistrate?"
Liu Wei'an stretched out his hand to push him away, raised his eyes and looked up, with a sincere and honest smile, "Sir, my second brother was so angry when he saw A Yin treating her own father like this that he took out this unmarked letter. .”
Liu Wen came back to his senses and nodded hurriedly in response, "Yes, Lord Magistrate, it's the common people who are too impatient."
Liu Wei'an looked at the prefect, and the smile on his lips deepened, "Sir, my third brother actually left a message a long time ago, saying that he only had a daughter, A Yin, who was married to a wife. He was afraid that there would be no one to look after the Liu family, so he called us brothers and sisters. In the capital, families gather together to help each other.”
"Yes, that's it!" Liu Yin saw that she still had something to gain, so she immediately switched sides, "Liu Fanyin is a married woman. She naturally thinks about her husband's family if she gets any good things. If she still has her mother's family in her heart, how can she not give it to her? Will you take care of your biological father’s affairs?”
"Even I was touched by the sincerity of what they said." Fang Xu took out his handkerchief, wiped the corners of his eyes, and said softly, "Fanyin also wanted to send her in-laws to a glorious burial, but she was really powerless! "
"She has six shops under her name, and all of them are losing money. The Liu family is also encountering difficulties. The huge mansion cannot make ends meet."
"Fanyin spent all his savings to buy a high-quality coffin for his biological father, but he really can't afford so much money." Fang Xu shook his head, with a look of distress on his face, "This kid is a dull gourd and doesn't want to trouble me. I had to bear it by myself."
"Now that things have come to this, I can't bear to hear such a good daughter-in-law being humiliated for nothing." Fang Xu sighed softly and blinked at Liu Fanyin.
"Fanyin, since we have reached this point, you might as well tell everyone how much money the Liu Family Shop loses every day."
