Mrs. Ma was confused. She didn't expect that the case would come out like this. They obviously had noble people in the Yamen!
"Mom, I don't want to reconcile!" Ma Zhongping said with a mournful face. He didn't understand why it got to this point. In fact, he believed in Zhenniang in his heart. She was not that kind of person. But just now he didn't know why, he was filled with anger, and then things got worse and worse, and now there is no way to end it.
Mrs. Ma: "Your Excellency, the county magistrate, you cannot sentence me like this."
People around you are laughing. How should the county magistrate judge you? Do you still listen to you, an old woman?
Later, because Mrs. Ma could not provide evidence to prove that Qi Zhenniang had an affair with her cousin Meng Yun, He Ziqi was convicted of slander and slapped with ten big sticks as punishment.
This was a small punishment but a big warning, so it was regarded as her punishment for sneaking out of the county office.
What if we don’t impose punishment and future generations will rush to imitate? There are still many similar cases, and He Ziqi wants to reduce as much as possible such cases of casually slandering women for adultery.
What? Is she going to be beaten? ! Mrs. Ma couldn't believe her ears. This - this was an unprecedented verdict!
In cases like this before, women like her eldest daughter-in-law were really indefensible.
If you're lucky enough to be able to prove your innocence, forget it. They cannot prove it to themselves, that is, they won the lawsuit and achieved their goal. In short, no matter what the outcome is, victims (plaintiffs) like them will be fine.
Seeing this result, Qiao Yingzhe stood up with a dark face and raised his legs to leave.
Seeing this, Mrs. Ma hurriedly rushed towards him, "Mr. Qiao, please beg for mercy on our behalf. We will not sue. Please ask the county magistrate not to impose such a sentence."
When an old lady hugged her thigh, Qiao Yingzhe scolded with a dark face, "Let go!"
Seeing this, Mrs. Ma hugged her tighter, "Mr. Qiao, we did this after listening to your words. You can't ignore us."
She can leave her eldest son alone, and just make peace with him. If ten big blows hit her, it would probably take half of her life! How does this work?
Being teased, Qiao Yingzhe immediately turned his face and said, "That's nonsense. Who do I know you are?"
"You don't know me, but I know you."
"It's a joke. There are so many people in Liucheng who know me. You and I, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Ma family, had no enmity in the past. Why do we do this?"
He Ziqi at the top and Xue Xu at the bottom and others watched the dog-eat-dog drama with great interest.
Qiao Shouyi's face was grim. What he was most worried about happened. But didn't he ask his confidant to inform his son and ask him to find a way to silence the people in Majiacun? Why didn't he do it?
Qiao Shangyi still didn't know that his confidant was still unconscious in a corner at this moment.
Qiao Yingzhe cupped his hands and said to He Ziqi, "Your Majesty the County Magistrate, this old woman should be beaten hard if she bites others randomly."
He Ziqi didn't listen to him. He asked Mrs. Ma below, "Mrs. Ma, you said that everything you did was ordered by others. Do you have any evidence?"
Mrs. Ma: Evidence? Another piece of evidence! She hated the word evidence.
"No -" Mrs. Ma cried sadly. Suddenly, her eyes lit up, "Wait, evidence? I have it!"
"What evidence?" He Ziqi didn't expect that she really had it? Is this an unexpected surprise?
"They gave me a pack of five-stone powder! I only used half of it for my eldest son and kept the other half."
Qiao Yingzhe's face darkened, this damn bitch was ruining his business! That's it, he said, how could things get messed up? Damn it, if she hadn't withheld half of it, how could she be in this trouble now?
"You said I gave you five stone powder, where is the evidence?" Qiao Yingzhe asked with a sneer.
Mrs. Ma's eyes bulged, and he also asked her for evidence?
She burst into tears and swore to the sky, "The five-stone powder was given to us by Mr. Qiao's eldest son. How can a poor family like us afford the five-stone powder..."
"That's good, where's the evidence?"
"The unused Wu Shi San is at my house——"
Before she could finish her words, she was grabbed by her daughter-in-law, "Mom——"
Seeing her daughter-in-law's guilty look, Mrs. Ma suddenly had a bad feeling, "What's the matter?"
"I sold the remaining five stones." The youngest daughter-in-law of the Ma family said awkwardly.
Mrs. Ma suddenly staggered, what a sin!
Their words were heard by everyone present.
Qiao Yingzhe snorted softly, kicked her, broke free from the restraints, tossed his sleeves and left the county office.
Then, Mrs. Ma was held down and slapped ten times.
Mrs. Ma cried and howled and was beaten ten times, and the case was over.
After the injured Meng Yun used hemostatic medicine, Lu Mingzhi came forward to ask a doctor for him, and then as soon as the case was over, he was sent to the Qin family's temporary residence. Qi Zhenniang came with her daughter. After the divorce, she was homeless. Moreover, she was worried about her cousin being injured.
Upon seeing this, Ma Zhongping hurriedly handed the executed Mrs. Ma to her younger brothers and sisters to take care of her, and followed her. Along the way, he begged Qi Zhenniang. Seeing this, other people from Majia Village followed suit.
These people, except Qi Zhen's mother and daughter, were all stopped ten feet away from the Qin family's temporary residence.
At this time, Meng Yun had woken up.
The first thing he said when he saw Qin Sheng was, "Sixth General, Meng Yun has lived up to his trust."
Meng Yun felt very guilty. He now understood that he had fallen into someone else's trap.
He didn't expect that he had been very careful, but he still almost got into trouble. If the Sixth Major General and others hadn't appeared in time, the hundred hectares of land would have been lost in his hands.
The person behind the scenes really used a vicious trick, slandering him and his cousin for having an affair, killing them during the chaos, and then using the blood relationship between his niece and him to inherit the 100 hectares of land under his name. The Ma family can do this if they have help from the government.
Qin Sheng patted him on the shoulder and said, "The matter is over. Don't think too much."
Although Meng Yun was tricked by others, he still managed to achieve the goal of losing people and losing land. Speaking of which, there is hard work without credit.
Meng Yun said quickly, "Sixth General, since you are here, please arrange for someone to pass the land back to you, right? From now on, my subordinates will still guard the land for you." In this case, he really Scared.
Qin Sheng looked at Lu Songli, who nodded slightly. It goes without saying that Meng Yun is loyal, but after what happened, she has other plans, whether she can get this land back or not.
Ma Zhongping, who was stopped ten feet away, watched helplessly as his wife and daughter were far away from him. His wife didn't even look at him. He sat on the ground, covered his face and started to cry.
The people in Majia Village did not expect such an ending. Seeing Ma Zhongping like this, they just felt pitiful.
"Zhongping is still good, but his mother did the evil. Now a good family has been torn apart by his mother."
