Chapter 20 2. Report to the official
Chapter 20 2. Report to the official
Although the day before yesterday was a hectic day, I got up very early the next day because I had to report to the government.After a good night's rest, Ah Ming's condition improved a lot, and he actually knew those rascals. Xu Lingyuan wrote them down with a pen, and it was much easier to find them with the location and name.
After getting the clues, Xu Lingyuan decided to go first with himself and Changsheng. He felt that not to mention how efficient the county government is in handling cases, even the distance from the county town to those villages is not close, and Amin's injury should not be moved. It is better to wait for those people. Let's talk about it after being caught.
Changsheng was so relieved from the pain that he couldn't straighten his back, but because he had to drive the carriage, he still insisted on going with Xu Lingyuan.Hongying and Ah Mu look after A Ming and A Ming's father at home.Just when they were about to leave, Ah Gui ran over. It turned out that the patriarch asked him to come, to see if he could be of help, Xu Lingyuan asked him to accompany Ah Mu and her daughter in the yard, after all, there was Ah Ming's father Now, I'm afraid Eminem is inconvenient to them.Then go away.
"Master, should we report directly to the officials when we arrive in the city, or go home and tell the master first?" Lu Changsheng asked Xu Lingyuan.
"Let's go back first." Xu Lingyuan said that he didn't understand the situation of the county government at all. It may be influenced by modern costume dramas. , he decided to go back and ask about the situation first.
After returning home, everyone was shocked by Changsheng's injury. After asking the reason, they lamented that the city was still peaceful.When Xu Lingyuan heard that Father Xu was at home, he went directly to look for him.What he didn't expect was that this father, who didn't even show up when he was seriously ill, still attached great importance to this matter.After listening to Xu Lingyuan's narration, he personally took Xu Lingyuan and Changsheng to report to the county government.
The county magistrate looked to be about 50 years old, and he seemed to have some righteousness. In addition, Xu's father was also a well-known figure in the city. His family was injured, so he naturally paid more attention to it.After knowing the facts of the case, the county magistrate issued a token to let the government officials arrest the people, and then asked them to wait for the summons at home.
After returning home, Xu Lingyuan learned from Xu's father that because the current emperor strictly investigated the administration of officials, and the county magistrate of this city also paid attention to reputation, although it was not a breeze, the handling of the case was still quite fair.Xu Lingyuan felt relieved after hearing what he said.
"I was afraid that you would not be used to living there, so it seems that you have changed a lot, and you are more energetic than before." After talking about reporting to the official, Xu's father actually chatted with him about daily life.
"Don't worry, I was paranoid before, let's think about it now," Xu Lingyuan promised cautiously, unexpectedly, Xu's father, who was not welcome by the original owner, noticed his change.
"It's good. Since you're thinking about it and something like this happened again, you might as well move back." Father Xu said very relieved.
"You also know that my health is not good, and I'm idle when I come back. I'm used to living there, so I won't come to cause trouble for the family." Xu Lingyuan said sincerely.
"What are you talking about? Our family can't afford you anymore?" Xu's father said with some dissatisfaction, then glanced at Xu Lingyuan, and said: "Since you want, then you can do it, but here always It's your home, come back whenever you want."
"I see, thank you father." Xu Lingyuan nodded and said.
"Well, I still have something to do. You should go and see your mother." Father Xu said with satisfaction.
After Xu Lingyuan came out, although he didn't want to go, but after all, he agreed just now, and this is considered a courtesy, it's always bad not to go, and besides, she didn't have any grudges with the original owner, mother and daughter, so she went too.
Although Xu's mother is not affectionate to him now, she is not indifferent. After saying a few polite words of concern, the topic of the two turned to Xu Siyuan. Xu's mother said that Xu Siyuan would always mention him recently, and hoped they would Xu Lingyuan also politely agreed that the brothers could get closer.Then there was nothing to say, Xu's mother asked Xu Lingyuan to leave on the grounds that he should rest.
After Xu Lingyuan came out, he waited for news from the county government in his former room.
Sure enough, as Xu Lingyuan expected, the Yacha went to arrest people in the morning and didn't come back until the afternoon. Of course, the result was good, and those scoundrels were all caught.
According to the person who sent the message, the scoundrels saw that Amin passed out on the spot, and hid when they got home, but they didn't see any movement until the next morning, so they thought everything was fine, and they were all catching up on sleep at home. , was caught by the yamen, and the county yamen was going to be promoted the next morning.After Xu Lingyuan heard the news, he asked Xin to find a driver, insisted on rushing back, and prepared to pick up A Ming to testify.
Since the new coachman was not familiar with the road, when Xu Lingyuan arrived home, it was almost dark, but Agui was still there.Everyone was very happy after hearing the news, especially Hongying, who said that she would go with Xu Lingyuan the next day, and even Agui would go with her.
Because Ah Mu, Hongying, and Ah Ming are all witnesses, they must go, and Xu Lingyuan will also go, so there will be enough people, because Ah Ming has a head injury and cannot sit still, and it will take a lot of time for him to be settled. There is no more room, and there will be no more people in the carriage, so Xu Lingyuan can only promise to take Agui there again in the future.
In the end, only A Ming's father was left.He also wanted to go along at first, but firstly he couldn't sit down, and secondly, it was useless for him to remove the mess, so it was impossible to let him go.Seeing that he couldn't go, he insisted on someone to take care of him. They couldn't ignore his life or death.Xu Lingyuan discussed with him to send him back first, so that the patriarch could take care of it for him, and he could come again when they came back, but he was afraid that Xu Lingyuan would not let him come in the future, so he refused, and asked the patriarch to send the rice to Xu Lingyuan At home, we need to find someone to take care of him here and serve him tea and water.Finally, Hongying was annoyed.
"If you continue to be so unreasonable, when we go to court tomorrow, if the magistrate asks us why Amin was there at that time, I will say that he was looking for food for his father and was forced by you. See Will the county magistrate arrest you too!" Hongying said without hesitation, looked at Ah Mu and they all looked at Ah Ming after she finished speaking, and she said again: "I am telling the truth, what he did is wrong No one is allowed to talk about it, and we didn't treat him badly, it was because he was unreasonable." After speaking, he sat aside angrily.
But I didn't expect Hongying's words to be quite useful. After Xu Lingyuan and A Gui persuaded a few more words, A Ming's father actually agreed, but Xu Lingyuan promised to pick him up as soon as they came back. Agree first.In this way, after everyone finished eating, Xu Lingyuan sent A Gui and A Ming's father back, because the patriarch's family was going to deliver food to A Ming's father the next day, and it was troublesome for him these two days, so he left At that time, Xu Lingyuan brought some things to the patriarch,
At dawn the next day, they were ready to go.Just a few steps away from the carriage, they heard someone calling them, and when they looked back, it was Agui.He ran to the front of the carriage and said that he wanted to go too, and said that he thought about it when he was driving back last night. He could squeeze in front of the carriage with the driver and it would not take up much space. Xu Lingyuan looked at his figure and smiled, but Still let him go up.
In the carriage, Xu Lingyuan and Hongying sat on one side, the seat board on the other side was removed, Ah Mu hugged A Ming who was half lying in the carriage, and Agui sat between the driver and the curtain of the carriage.There are a total of four and a half-year-old children and two adults. Xu Lingyuan doesn't know if this is considered overloading. He just hopes that nothing will happen to the horse, and he must feed it more food when he comes back.
When they arrived, the people from the Xu family were already waiting for them. Knowing that they had already eaten, they planned to take a break before going to the county government office to wait.What Xu Lingyuan didn't expect was that he saw Xu Siyuan who should be in the academy.
Probably because of the frequent correspondence, Xu Siyuan got closer to him a lot. When he saw Xu Lingyuan, he went over to hold him back. Although he was still a little cautious, he was obviously very happy.
It wasn't just Xu Lingyuan who was surprised, but everyone in the Xu family was even more surprised than him.Their taciturn second young master went over to grab the more withdrawn eldest young master and started to speak proactively, and the eldest young master also had a very gentle appearance, just like two good brothers who love each other.If they heard that the second young master asked for leave for the eldest young master early in the morning, they were just curious, and even praised the second young master for his brotherhood, but now they really can't understand the scene of brothers and friends respecting each other, they can only see it through their eyes Expression: This is too sudden!
Xu Siyuan didn't care about this. When he came back from the academy yesterday, Xu Lingyuan had already gone back. After hearing what happened, he decided to wait for Xu Lingyuan at home today.He thought that he was also at fault, if he didn't let Changsheng deliver the letter, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened.
Xu Lingyuan looked at the child in front of him who was blaming himself, and comforted him, saying that bad people will always do bad things. Fortunately, they were caught this time, and it wasn't all bad things, so as to save them from harming others again. Take it easy.
After resting for a while, everyone rushed to the county government office, and Xu Siyuan also went with him.In this way, even Xu Lingyuan and the others, as well as those who followed Xu's father, there were quite a few people who went there. Of course, except for Xu's father and Xu Lingyuan, the rest of the people could only watch from a certain distance outside the courtroom. People who are purely curious have surrounded the court several layers outside.
When he was promoted, Xu Lingyuan didn't have to kneel to the county magistrate, he just stood and saluted.The gangsters began to make excuses in every possible way, insisting that they were wronged, and the two who were scratched by Hongying actually said that they were scratched by cats.However, due to the sufficient witness and physical evidence, especially the money bag they snatched from Changsheng's body and the hairpin on Hongying's head were found in the homes of the yamen, so they had to go to court after a short interrogation. pleaded guilty.
Under Xu Lingyuan's suggestion, the hired lawyer deliberately highlighted their bullying, even robbed the car of a scholar's family knowingly, and scorned the scholars and the government. Daban, and the disaster of prison.Moreover, because of appealing for injustice and making noise in the court, they each added [-] more boards.
At this time, Xu Lingyuan interceded for them, saying that if they reflect on themselves in prison and are willing to correct their mistakes, they hope that the county magistrate will give them a lenient punishment and reduce some physical pain.After hearing Xu Lingyuan's words, several people quickly said gratefully that they must regret it.It seems that these seventy boards are indeed very deterrent.
I don’t know if it’s because of Xu’s father. The county magistrate is very reasonable, and finally sentenced them to only [-] boards. It’s just that their prison life has been extended a lot, but they are very grateful. After all, [-] boards beat people. Remnant is still very easy.In the end, the case was successfully concluded.
"Young master, I just don't understand why you pleaded for those scoundrels. You can only relieve your anger if you beat them [-] times!" On the way back, Hongying secretly asked him in puzzlement.
"Didn't their jail time be extended?" Xu Lingyuan said indifferently.
"But this isn't a big deal to relieve my anger." She said frankly.
"Exhaust? You can also vent your anger on them when they are in prison, and they don't know that you did it, so they won't hate you."
"They're all in prison, what's the matter... Oh, I see, you mean to go to the prison boss to punish them? You are smart, young master! Let's go find someone tomorrow and let them bully others. Said it was caught by a cat, hum!" Hongying said after understanding Xu Lingyuan's words.
Xu Lingyuan didn't speak after listening. He didn't quite believe that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil, but he fully agrees that good will be rewarded with good and evil will be rewarded with evil.
Back at Xu's house, after lunch, Xu Lingyuan refused to persuade him to stay, so he went back with Amu and the others.
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