"good!"
County Magistrate Liu said and slapped the gavel again: "Xu Cai, I'm going to sentence you to compensate Xiao Ye's family seventy-six taels of silver, and to open your mouth ten times as a penalty. Can you accept the punishment?"
"The grass people...the grass people accept the punishment!"
Xu Cai was initially dissatisfied, but looking at his father who was still nodding, he had no choice but to admit his guilt.
"Sir!" Ye Luoxin spoke at this time.
Magistrate Liu thought that Ye Luoxin was dissatisfied with the penalty and asked, "Xiao Ye, what else do you want?"
"Sir." Ye Luoxin saluted upward: "The civilian woman thanks you for making the decision for the civilian women, but the civilian woman has one more thing to ask Mr. Xu."
"But it doesn't hurt to ask."
Ye Luoxin turned to Xu Cai and asked, "I wonder why Mr. Xu went to the gate of the academy today to cause trouble for a few civilian women?
We only made 25 boxes of pig's trotters. This size has no impact on Xu Ji Restaurant's business.
Logically speaking, Mr. Xu should not be attracted to come in person. So,"
Ye Luoxin paused, "Who said what behind his back to attract Mr. Xu here?"
Before Ye Luoxin said these words, Xu Cai's heart was filled with hatred for the Xiao family.
After being punished this time, sooner or later he would have to retaliate and go back.
But Ye Luoxin's words were like turning on a switch in his mind, causing him to wake up suddenly.
Yes, why would he cause this trouble for no reason!
If they sell pig trotters, let them sell it!
Twenty-five portions of pig's trotters, ten times the compensation, only amounted to seventy-six taels of silver, which was not enough for him to treat his friends to a meal.
Now, because of the seventy-six taels of silver, his nose and face were bruised and his face was swollen. His whole body was sore, and he would be slapped ten more times soon.
It's so ridiculous and stupid!
"It's all that Xu Chao!" Xu Cai gritted his teeth, "It was Xu Chao who told me that you sell soy sauce meat at the entrance of the academy, and you also threatened that what you make is better than what Xu Ji Restaurant makes, and what Xu Ji Restaurant makes is as good as It’s like shit! I really couldn’t swallow this breath, so I decided to give you some color to see!”
"Xu Chao?" Ye Luoxin smiled, "He is really stingy. I just didn't sell pig trotters to him yesterday, but he actually held a grudge!"
"What?" Xu Cai's eyes widened, "You didn't sell him trotters yesterday?"
"Yes!" Ye Luoxin said coolly: "A person like him is not worthy of eating what I cook."
"But he said," Xu Cai was stunned: "He said that the pig's trotters you make are really delicious, and we can't let you continue to develop like this, otherwise, sooner or later, Xu Ji's business will be affected."
"Alas!" Father Xu on the side covered his face with his hands when he heard this and let out a helpless sigh.
He asked himself that he had never done anything evil in his life, so why was this son so unsatisfactory and could be easily taken advantage of by others no matter how he taught him.
With him like this, how can I trust him with my business in the future?
Maybe, it's really time for him to renew his relationship.
Xu Cai didn't know that he was almost useless in his father's heart, and he was still immersed in resentment against Xu Chao.
"When I leave here, I will immediately go to settle the score with Xu Chao. I will beat him until he is full of teeth!"
"Nonsense!" Xu Zishang shouted, "Go home and think about it, and you won't be allowed to step out of the study for a month!"
The truth has become clear, and County Magistrate Liu is about to pronounce the verdict immediately, but Ye Luoxin kowtows to the top again and says: "Sir, a citizen woman has a merciless request."
"What's the matter?" Magistrate Liu was also a little confused.
"Can Mr. Xu give these ten slaps to the women themselves?"
The county magistrate thought for a moment and said, "Okay!"
There have been examples of torturers personally carrying out executions before, but this does not set a precedent for them.
When Xu Cai heard that Ye Luoxin wanted to carry out the execution himself, he immediately looked at the three of them warily.
"You, you, you... what are you going to do?" He stuttered a little: "I tell you, you can hit me, but not the two people behind you!"
Ye Luoxin smiled softly: "Young master Xu was also taken advantage of. I will record these ten slaps in the account first. If something like this happens again next time, I will slap him together."
After hearing Ye Luoxin's words not to fight yet, Xu Cai finally relaxed.
Under the supervision of the county magistrate, the Xu family paid the money and several servants were beaten with sticks. The case was finally closed.
The onlookers watched with great interest. It was rare for a poor man to defeat a rich man like this.
It wasn't until Xu's father took Xu Cai to leave that the crowd of onlookers slowly dispersed, commenting on the stupidity of the Xu family's young master.
Ye Luoxin and others were left behind by the county magistrate.
They followed the magistrate to the back hall. There were already maids burning incense burners, making tea, and waiting for the arrival of the guests.
"What happened today has frightened a few of you. Come, have a cup of tea to calm down the shock." Magistrate Liu was very polite.
"You don't have to be polite, county magistrate. A civilian woman is too embarrassed to do this." Ye Luoxin said politely.
With Ye Luoxin's ability to cope with it easily, none of the Xiao brothers said anything and only stayed behind quietly, acting like Ye Luoxin's bodyguards.
Magistrate Liu didn't think there was anything wrong with a woman coming forward. Instead, he laughed and said, "If you can afford it, you can afford it."
"This time, the county went to donate a threshing machine to the prefect, which was appreciated by the prefect. The prefect has already issued an order to immediately make 50 threshing machines according to the samples and send them to various county offices, so that each county can follow the samples. If we build it ourselves, our Anchang Mansion’s harvest this year will definitely be greatly improved compared to previous years! You have also contributed a lot!”
"It's all thanks to the wisdom of the adults that the threshing machine has been developed. The woman and her family don't dare to take the credit." Ye Luoxin said calmly.
Liu Zhixian looked at the woman in front of him. She was still dressed as a peasant woman, wearing a blue and gray cloth dress and a carved wooden hairpin on her head. Everything was ordinary and could not be more ordinary.
But for some reason, Liu Zhixian saw an air of nobility on her delicate face.
This kind of nobility is innate, and no matter how you cover it up, you can't cover it up.
He stared for a long time, until he heard a cough and finally recovered.
Following the source of the coughing sound, he saw Xiao Mu's face darkened a bit.
Magistrate Liu knew that he had lost his composure, so he quickly put away all his thoughts and continued: "I have kept you here today because I have some good news to tell you."
Several people sat up straight, and Magistrate Liu spoke proudly: "The first thing is this year's taxes. Magistrate Song has already agreed. Our Qinghe County will still have a tax of three out of ten this year, and it will remain unchanged for three years. In the past three years, the people of the county can take a good rest!"
For farmers, this is absolutely great news.
After Xiao Song heard what Magistrate Liu said, he couldn't help but exclaimed, "That's great!"
"Besides this incident, I also bring good news." Magistrate Liu continued.
