Mo Ziwan said casually, "There is no need to plow the ground for medicinal materials like crops. You can plant them first, and wait for the milkweed to grow and then cut it back to feed the pigs. The roots will rot in the ground even if the ground is not plowed." Fertile land."
"How do you know that you don't need to plow the ground to grow medicinal materials? Is it good to grow without plowing the land?" Mo Tingyu feels that whether he is growing medicine or crops, the land should be tidied, the soil should be loosened, and the grass should be pulled out. Only the crops that are planted can be harvested.
"I guess this land still needs to be plowed, otherwise the medicinal herbs won't grow well in the future. We don't care if we wait a few more days. We might as well wait until they all grow. Then we will plow the land again and clear out the weeds in the soil. .”
Murong Qingyuan listened to Mo Tingyu this time, "Then just do what grandpa said!"
Since the people had already lost money on the matter of the land being stolen, they could no longer care about it, but they didn't care about it anymore, but some people didn't intend to let them go.
Chen went to the county government the next day to file a lawsuit against the Mo family in Lanwan Village for bullying. They just saw that the field was full of weeds and thought that the weeds were of no use, so they went to cut some in the field. Carrying a basket, people asked them to pay them twenty taels of silver.
Mrs. Chen cried in the yamen and said that these two taels of silver could last half a year.
Wei Changfeng looked at the two people kneeling under the stage, "You said their fields are all filled with a kind of weed?"
It was probably that the Mo family had used up Chen's brain, so Chen didn't consider Wei Changfeng's question at all. After hearing this, he immediately nodded and replied: "Yes, there are milkweeds all over the floor."
After answering, he continued: "They are all milkweeds. I thought that with so many weeds growing in the field, the land would be barren, so I thought that if I cut some weeds would help them weed."
Wei Changfeng didn't mind at all that Chen was rushing to speak, but she ignored the court and let her talk a long time. When Chen saw that the official on the stage was so talkative, Chen became more relaxed as he talked, and continued: "I'll cut them off for them." A few, then they will have less trouble.”
Wei Changfeng sneered and said: "You have good intentions, but tell me why only this kind of grass grows in his land? As far as I know, if the land is left alone, it is impossible for only one kind of grass to grow. Damn, isn't this weird?"
Mrs. Chen was slightly embarrassed before continuing: "At that time, I was also surprised that dozens of acres of land were covered with vetch. I just found out yesterday that the vetch in the land was specially planted by them. You said that good crops are not grown in this land. , What does it mean to grow grass specifically? Isn’t this harmful to people? If I knew they were the ones planting it, I would never cut the grass in their fields.”
Wei Changfeng was still good-tempered, "It's unusual to grow grass in the ground. You live in the same village. Have you never heard of such a strange thing from them before?"
Chen's answer was straightforward, "I don't know, I just found out yesterday."
After Chen finished replying, Wei Changfeng looked at Fan Dali, who was also kneeling on the ground, "What about you? Did you know before?"
They both came to complain after discussing it, and naturally they insisted that they didn't know beforehand.
After Fan Dali denied that he didn't know the Mo family planted milkweed, Wei Changfeng continued to ask, "Then do you know what they plant this grass for?"
Mrs. Chen replied: "I just heard them say yesterday that vetch is medicine. I don't know if it's true, but even if it is medicine, it's not a valuable thing. It grows everywhere. How can I get it?" Where are our two taels of silver?"
"I went to the drug store and asked about it, and they said that the seeds produced by milkweed are medicine, but the seeds that have grown now are not medicine. If you ask me to pay compensation, you can't ask me to pay that much. The most I can do is pay some seed money. They are extorting my money."
"Sir, you have to make the decision for us! It's not easy for us to earn some money with our hard work. We can't let them blackmail me."
Chen's cry, Fan Dali also agreed and asked Wei Changfeng to make the decision for them.
Wei Changfeng said: "My lord, I will not spare mercy to those who break the law and discipline."
When the two heard this, they thought it was Wei Changfeng who wanted to punish the Mo family. They thanked each other profusely, "Sir, you are truly our great master Qingtian."
After thanking us, Mrs. Chen asked again without knowing what was wrong: "Sir, the Mo family extorted money from us. Do we have to punish them to return the money to us and make them compensate for our losses?"
Wei Changfeng sneered at the corner of his mouth, "We have to compensate for the losses, otherwise your Qingtian lord's cry will be in vain!"
"Okay, you go back first! After I find out, I will make a decision for you and give you justice."
The two of them became even more happy when they heard this, and they were shouted out of the Yamen after expressing their thanks again.
After Wei Changfeng let the two people out of the yamen, he ordered the yamen servants Yang Maozi and Fan Liu to go to Lanwan Village to investigate the case. The two had been to Lanwan Village before, and they helped measure the land the Mo family bought.
Before the two left, they gave detailed instructions: "Today, these two people obviously want to rake up trouble. Go and check them out. I remember that the Mo family bought sixty or seventy acres of land at once. After buying so much land at once, the villagers Everyone must be aware of it, and if you want to clean up so much land, you will definitely have to ask for help. I guess the villagers must know what is being planted in the land. If you say it was cut without knowing, you are obviously lying!"
"Not only did I not repent after stealing something, I even thought about beating up the person who was stolen from me. If I don't punish this unhealthy trend, I really won't be worthy of the title they call me."
If Fan Dali and Chen knew that they were being punished more severely because they called out "Master Qingtian", they would definitely not have called out. Not only would they not have called out, they would not have complained about this even if they were beaten to death. of.
On the way back, the two of them were in a very happy mood. Even Fan Dali felt that his wife was extremely smart this time.
"If it weren't for me, our two taels of silver would have been in vain. Now we can not only get the money back, but also make her a fortune. Their workshop has made so much money, why should they pay us two or three taels of silver?" Only ten taels will do."
Chen was happily dreaming.
Fan Dali did not hesitate to give in, "Recently, fewer and fewer people are asking me to kill pigs. If we can really get them to pay us a sum of money, it will be an extra income for us."
"We can definitely compensate. Have you forgotten how Han threatened us before? Not only did he want to pay back the money he gave us, but he also asked us to pay him double the money."
"Yes, yes, you have a good memory. I forgot about this." Fan Dali didn't care about the embarrassing things she had done to him now.
When Fan Dali heard that he would be compensated with double the amount of money, he immediately felt that it was too little. "A few taels of silver, that's not much, right?" At this moment, he didn't feel that he had paid too much.
Mrs. Chen doesn't care about that much, "We will just ask for more when the time comes. There are adults deciding the case anyway. What if we are awarded more?"
The two of them daydreamed all the way back, but little did they know that not long after they arrived home, the Yamen servants also arrived in the village.
After Yang Maozi and Fan Liu left the Yamen, they went home and changed into their regular clothes before walking to Lanwan Village.
After the two arrived at Lanwan Village, they went directly to the village chief's house. According to Fan Dali and Chen's description, they were brought to Mo's house by the village chief Li Youdi to make compensation, so the first person they wanted to find was naturally the village chief.
When the two arrived at the village, Li Youdi was not at home, but this did not affect the two's investigation of the case. Directly ask his family members to notify him of his return.
When Li Youdi heard that someone was coming to the house, he had no choice but to put down what he was doing and follow him to call his nephew and walk home. On the way, he asked again: "You didn't ask who they were?"
When his nephew called him to go back, he naturally asked who was coming to the family, but his nephew didn't tell who was coming. Now he couldn't help but ask again on the way.
The nephew replied: "They said you will find out when you go back."
"No one knows, so you definitely don't know anything either."
The nephew grinned innocently and said, "I asked, but they didn't say anything. They said they would tell you after you went back."
After listening to his nephew's words, Li Youdi couldn't help but quicken his pace. After hurriedly returning home, he looked at the two people sitting in the room and immediately laughed, "I said Peng Wazi doesn't know anything. It turns out it's Two adults are coming to the house."
The two of them stood up after Li Youdi entered the house. After Li Youdi's words, Fan Liu clasped his fists and said, "I'm here to bother Village Chief Li."
"Why don't you bother me? Please sit down, please sit down. Please sit down." Li Youdi said with a smile.
After the two of them sat down, he also sat down and said, "Two adults, come
Are you looking for me for something? "
"That's right." One of them replied, and then continued: "Two people came to the Yamen this morning. They said they were from your village. One is named Fan Dali and the other is Chen Lanying."
"But there are these two people?" Yang Maozi asked after naming the two people.
Li Youdi nodded in confusion, "Yes, what do they have to do?" What were they doing at the Yamen? Did he take the initiative to go to the Yamen to admit his mistake? How can they be so conscious?
From yesterday when Mrs. Chen was happy to take out the money to compensate, to now when she heard that they were going to the Yamen, Li Youdi couldn't understand the thoughts of their family more and more.
"These two people went to the government office this morning to sue Mo Tingyu and Song Nanzhi from your village, saying that they extorted money from them!"
After Li Youdi heard what the yamen officer said, he was so shocked that his mouth grew bigger, "What?"
Yang Maozi had to repeat it again.
After Li Youdi listened again, he was so angry that he slapped the table hard, "They are so shameless."
After slapping him again, he felt something was wrong and apologized to the two government officials, "I'm sorry, I'm not angry at you."
"It's okay." The two said.
"Sir, Uncle Mo and Aunt Song were wronged! You must not listen to them."
"We adults also felt that this matter was a bit strange, so we were sent to find out the details."
"Let me tell you, I know all about this. I went to help Uncle Mo's family find the two families who stole the vetch."
"Okay, please speak slowly."
Then Li Youdi started talking about when Mo Tingyu and Song Nanzhi went to Beijing, and continued until the two came home and told him that the milkweed in the field had been cut, and then how he went to find the stolen milkweed. Grass people. After speaking, he repeatedly said to the two yamen servants: "Uncle Mo and Aunt Song really didn't extort their money. If they really wanted to extort their money, they couldn't only have these four taels. Moreover, these four taels of silver are still with me." here...
"Why is the silver in your hand?"
