bookcurios Chapter 207 Frank and frank
Chapter 207 Frank and frank
While the lobby was bustling with activity, the entire county was also busy. Almost every time a trial began, there would be enthusiastic people who would constantly report what was happening in the lobby to the busiest place.
It is human nature to watch the fun. Perhaps when everyone first heard that the Zhao family from the funeral supplies shop was suing Miao Sili, they just watched it for fun.
However, from Shen Lingzhu beating the drum to tell the story, to Miao Sili's private collection of confiscated items, and the involvement of the romantic incident that just happened at noon, it instantly aroused heated discussion among the people.
In addition, someone filed a complaint accusing Miao Sili of seizing his family's land. The county magistrate said in the court that the case would be heard within three days.
Oh my god, Miao Sili became famous all over the county.
His wife waited for news in a private room in a restaurant opposite the county government office, but bad news came one after another. People kept going to court to sue Miao Sili, as if they had agreed on it.
Shen Lingzhu, kneeling in the hall, repeatedly made room for the newcomer. Finally, she simply knelt in the corner, quietly looked at her uncle and asked silently: "Who arranged this?"
After Huang Zongqi shook her head decisively, she turned her gaze to the legal advisor who was sitting at the side desk taking notes.
The other party seemed to have noticed something, looked up and nodded slightly at her. It turned out that it was prepared by the county magistrate.
Shen Lingzhu turned to Miao Sili, who was half-lying on a recliner not far from her, but received a vicious look from him and a word through gritted teeth: "You wait."
She smiled and replied, "Come on." After saying that, she swept his legs provocatively.
Miao Sili angrily slammed the armrest of his recliner, only to receive a slam of the gavel from the county magistrate: "Miao Qiang, are you planning to roar in court?"
"I dare not." He was almost suffocated to death and could only keep his mouth shut and listen to those kneeling in the hall, testifying against him one by one.
In particular, the evidence produced by Mr. Zheng and the witnesses he brought proved his guilt beyond doubt.
Elsewhere, Mr. Cai, who was delivering messages back and forth to the restaurant across the street, thought he would be blamed, but now he is not worried at all, because even Mr. Zheng, the owner of the old restaurant, has gone to court to sue Mr. Miao for forcibly taking 20% of the restaurant's shares.
Mrs. Miao didn't bother to scold him for suggesting to bring up the matter, she just said: "This bastard said that the old restaurant will get 10% of the shares.
The other ten percent must have been taken by that bitch; we didn't search all of them in Lianhua Hutong at noon."
"Sister, if my brother-in-law is convicted, will our house be confiscated?" one of her younger sisters was worried.
"Also, a lot of yamen runners went to your house to search just now. Should we go back and take a look?" The key point was that his husband was helping to guard the Miao family. If the yamen runners used violence, he would not dare to fight back.
Her other two sisters also advised her to go home, saying that it would be best if she could hide her private property to avoid being convicted and having her house confiscated.
You have to know that Mr. Shen is a Jinshi, and he had someone to protect him so that his female relatives’ dowries would not be confiscated. But his brother-in-law still forcibly confiscated it.
What does the Miao family have? To put it bluntly, he is just an official, neither of good character nor of good standing.
"My mother-in-law is at home. She is a good person. She has helped many young people who have just started working in the government office in the past, so she still has some face." Mrs. Miao now feels that her mother-in-law's kindness is not redundant.
When she returned home with her family, the yamen runners had already searched the dowry list and only took away Hu's things, leaving nothing else behind.
Her sister and brother-in-law wanted to say goodbye, but her mother-in-law was very understanding and thanked them and let them go home first.
Cai Yuansheng and his wife were walking at the end. They said to the unhappy sister, "Sister, take this opportunity to hide something and leave a way out for your nephew and you."
They could sense that their brother-in-law was in trouble, and completely.
When Mrs. Miao returned to collect some of the money, her mother-in-law said, "Go and gather up all the things that don't belong to you and send them to the government office to get a decision on the sentence."
"Mom, I, I really don't have anything of unknown origin except the silver given by my husband." Mrs. Miao was very aggrieved. She always exchanged silver for land and collected rent.
After saying that, she looked towards the room where her mistress stayed, and angrily rushed over and kicked the door open: "Hand over everything you have taken from my husband over the years."
The mistress stammered that she hadn't had any more, which instantly ignited Mrs. Miao's anger. When she hit her, the mother-in-law thought it was too outrageous and asked the maid to pull them away.
Miao Sili didn't know that the woman he favored had been killed again, but he had no time to think about his family at this time.
The constant stream of plaintiffs alone was enough to upset him, and of course some of them were untrue.
Miao Sili argued for himself, but the county magistrate could not just listen to what they said. It would take time to verify.
So after today's trial came to a temporary end, Shen Lingzhu stood up immediately. She had been kneeling for a long time and her legs were numb.
When her uncle helped her leave, Miao Sili was just being taken away for detention. His son glared at Shen Lingzhu and said, "Don't be so complacent, you..."
But before he could finish his words, his family covered his mouth and took him away.
Huang Zongqi frowned and said, "Before Miao Sili is completely convicted, be careful with him.
In addition, you must inform your uncle as soon as possible, and it would be best if Xianzhu could come to the court."
“I can do it too, don’t let him toss around.
"Brother, after you come down from the Qixing Temple, you must review your lessons more." Although the eldest brother had never fallen behind in his studies, Shen Lingzhu still hoped that he would review his lessons again.
If my uncle can be reinstated before the county exam, my eldest brother can sign up to take the exam.
"We'll report the news and let your uncle decide.
Find Fang Jiminxin, they're fast." Huang Zongqi didn't want his niece to come in and out of here frequently.
But things went against their wishes. Before they even reached the ceremonial gate, the legal advisor came over and said, "Miss Shen, please wait a moment. The county lord wants to see you."
"Thank you, Master." Shen Lingzhu exchanged a few polite words with him, then turned around and asked her uncle to go back and find Minxin's fast horse. She would be home soon.
Huang Zongqi knew the difference between the important and the unimportant, and asked Chang Youzhuang to take good care of his sister while he took a few young people away first.
However, when Shen Lingzhu was asked to be on duty as the county magistrate, Chang Youzhuang was often taken to another place to wait.
When they met privately, she cleverly bowed and stopped kneeling: "Greetings, Your Excellency. I wonder if you have any advice for me?"
County Magistrate Wang didn't let her stand up straight without any formalities. "The fire behind the Miao family was caused today. Were you acting on orders?"
"There are other people who received a share of the dowry. Do you still want to investigate?"
Shen Lingzhu sensed something was wrong, and without thinking, she said, "Before I came, my uncle told me that the county lord would be in charge.
But today's incident was a coincidence. If the Miao family hadn't come to our door and told us to be more careful in the future, I wouldn't have revealed the matter of the mistress in Lianhua Hutong."
Magistrate Wang excused her from the formalities and, looking directly at her, asked, "So, you acted on your own initiative?"
"Yes, until now, my uncle still doesn't know the situation here. Otherwise, based on his love for me, he would never let me go to court with the lawsuit." Shen Lingzhu looked back frankly.
County Magistrate Wang couldn't help but show admiration. From her eyes, it could be seen that this was entirely due to an emergency situation and the girl did it at her convenience.
It actually gave him a good opportunity to move forward.