Liu Shicao was at a loss.
A middle-aged man wearing a purple official robe walked into the side hall. The military attache was indeed different from the civilian officials, calm, sophisticated and dignified. Huainan's pacifying envoy, Li Zhi.
"Master Li, you are here..." Liu Shicao quickly gave way.
Li Zhi waved his hand, walked to sit down next to Liao Heng, and said to Liu Shicao: "Marriage justice will be heard by the Shicao. I can just observe. You can't use public affairs for personal gain."
For some reason, Liu Shicao was sweating profusely. He kept saying yes and calling people: "Go quickly and bring the defendants Zhang Laichun, Zhang Yue'e, Zhang Laichun, Zhang Yue'e, and Liu Neng, the third son of the Liu family, to the court."
"yes!"
But before the yamen servant came out of the hall, he heard an exclamation coming from outside the yamen:
"Master Qingtian, you have to make the decision for my servant!"
Then he saw an old man in his fifties, a young woman, and two servants carrying a stretcher. On the stretcher lay a man covered in blood.
At the end of the team, a fat young man holding a folding fan walked swaggeringly. Looking at his face, he looks very similar to Liu Shicao in the high hall, and to the fat woman who made trouble at Fuman Inn earlier.
Zhang Laichun, Zhang Yuee, Liu Neng.
Zhang Laichun took his daughter Zhang Yue'e and knelt down and cried: "Master, Shen Fang, the young master of Fuman Inn, came to my house to cause trouble because he was dissatisfied with the marriage. My servant argued with him, but he beat him half to death. You have to make the decision for us. ah!"
The defendant becomes the plaintiff?
A good move is to turn against customers.
"Bah! How shameless!" Shen Wenjun scolded: "You are clearly the one who injured my second brother, and now you want to frame him with a bitter plan!"
Zhang Laichun pointed at the blood-covered servant on the stretcher, "Look, look, listen, my servant was beaten like this, what's the point of making excuses!"
"Ouch, ouch..." the servant's wail resounded throughout the court, "It was Shen Fang who beat me, it was Shen Fang who beat me!"
"Also, they accused me of committing adultery with Zhang Yue'e, which is totally nonsense." Liu Neng, the third son of Liu Sang, maintained his posture and looked down upon Song Che and others:
"Master Liu, Mr. Liu has been doing business in Yangzhou for generations, and Miss Zhang has been living in the boudoir for a long time. If our reputation and reputation are ruined due to slander, how can we gain a foothold in Yangzhou City in the future? Please punish us severely, sir. These unabashed philistines!"
"You...you spit on others!"
Shen Tong pointed at Zhang and Liu's family and cursed: "My son told you personally on the hospital bed about these dirty things, and he was so angry that he vomited blood——"
"Then let your son come to court," Liu Neng said coldly: "The servants of the Zhang family were beaten like this, and they were carried here. Don't say that your son is delicate. Furthermore, if your son beats another servant, Can’t a servant fight back? A servant’s life is not his life!”
"You...you guys!" Shen Tong was angry and stepped forward to grab Zhang Laichun's collar: "We got married a year ago. Seeing that the wedding is approaching, why do you openly regret it!"
He glared at Zhang Yue'e again: "My son is sincere to you, and I have already regarded you as my daughter-in-law. Why did you commit adultery before the wedding? Don't you have any sense of shame?"
"Sir! He beat someone in court, my lord!"
Zhang Laichun shouted for help, but his daughter Zhang Yuee also looked coquettish and didn't feel guilty at all.
Liu Neng saw the opportunity and intervened. He seemed to be trying to stop the fight, but in fact he was pushing Shen Tong hard. "Fuck you, the evildoer will file a complaint and make a big fuss in court. You will be punished with extra crimes!" He pushed Shen Tong to the ground.
"Second uncle!" Shen Wenjun hurriedly helped him.
"Uh... this, this, this, who is the plaintiff and which is the defendant now?" Liu Shicao only glanced at Li Zhi.
Li Zhi focused on Song Che.
Song Che just said lightly: "Sir, I will collect evidence later. I will be back soon."
Liu Shicao waved his hand, signaling for him to go.
"Husband, are you going to take your second brother to court? He can't stand the excitement in his current state." Shen Wenjun asked worriedly.
Song Che patted the back of her hand, glanced at Liu Neng and others, and said in a sinister tone: "Don't worry, if they want evidence, I will give them evidence, a thousand or ten thousand."
After that, he strode out of the courtroom.
A quarter of an hour later.
Song Che walked into the courtroom with a dozen men, women, and children of all kinds, including two stretchers. On the stretchers lay two men covered in blood.
"Sir, I have brought all the witnesses and material evidence. There may be a lot of charges. Let me tell you slowly -"
Song Che first pointed to the injured person on a stretcher and said:
"This man's name is Zhang San. He was originally a vegetable seller. When he passed the door of the Zhang family, the Zhang family came to sell vegetables. However, because they were given less than three cents, the two sides got into an argument and were beaten by the Zhang family's evil servants. "
Zhang San was so ecstatic that he raised his head and shouted: "Yes, yes, the Zhang family beat me, the Zhang family beat me!"
Song Che pointed to the injured person on another stretcher and said:
"This is called Li Si. When I was renovating the yard yesterday, I came across a jade bowl. I took it to the pawn shop this morning to pay back the money. Liu Neng defrauded me of it for thirty taels. Afterwards, Li Si felt dissatisfied and asked Liu Neng to argue. As a result, he was dragged into an alley and beaten.”
Li Si was so excited that he raised his head and shouted: "Yes, yes, it was Liu Neng who beat me, Master Qingtian made the decision for me!"
"You are slanderous! You are fabricating facts! I didn't even go to the pawn shop this morning, how could I beat him!" Liu Neng retorted loudly.
Song Che pretended not to hear, and pulled two more men over: "This man is called Wang Wu, and this man is called Ma Liu. The two of them saw with their own eyes that the Zhang family beat Zhang San, and Liu Neng beat Li Si."
Wang Wu and Ma Liu nodded repeatedly: "Yes, sir, we saw with our own eyes that the beating was very severe."
Song Che then took out two bloody wooden sticks from the stretcher and threw them into the court: "Look, sir, this is the murder weapon they used to commit the crime, and it's still stained with blood!"
"you you you--"
"What are you, you're not done yet!"
Song Che pulled two more greasy-headed beggars and told them, "Sun Qi, Zhu Ba, tell Mr. Liu what you saw."
Sun Qi said: "Reporting to your lord, I have been staying in a ruined temple in a poplar forest in the northern suburbs of Yangzhou all year round. I have repeatedly seen Liu Neng and Zhang Yue'e having private meetings in the woods late at night, doing things that are just like that."
Zhu Ba responded: "The villain has also seen it, and it is clear to all!"
Song Che waved to the three widows with their children again: "He family, Huang family, and Lu family, if you have any grievances, I will give you justice."
Widow He wiped away her tears and said: "My lord, three years ago, a civilian girl was buying tofu in the East Market. She was raped and raped by Liu Neng, and she became pregnant and gave birth to a child. I asked the child to identify him as the father, but he denied it and used his power in the city to seize me. Mother and daughter drove out of the city..."
Widow Huang and Widow Lu both cried and recounted the same situation.
At this time, the three children broke free from their mother's hands, rushed to Liu Neng, opened their mouths and shouted: "Dad! Dad..."
Who doesn’t know how to buckle a shit basin?
Who wouldn’t commit perjury?
Why bother to accuse someone?
