The Philosopher's Dandy Dream

Chapter 95

When the "dong dong" drum of grievances is sounded, it is time for an official to be promoted.

Liu Duxing followed Taishou Luo to the hall.

"You have to watch carefully for a while!" Prefect Luo took the official cap handed over by the boy, and sat down on the chair in the hall.

"En." Liu Duxing responded, and then stood behind the prefect Luo with a serious expression.

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"Ascension!!!"

"mighty!"

The voices of the yamen servants made Liu Duxing's ears numb, this was the first time he had seen such a battle.

If it was the first time for Liu Duxing to judge a case by watching people, then for Liu Duxing, it was also the first time for Liu Duxing to see people come to judge a case.The small yamen was surrounded by a group of people.

There are two people kneeling in the hall, one is shopkeeper Sun whom I saw yesterday, and the other is a woman who has never seen before.

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"Who is in the hall? Why are you beating the drums?" Lord Luo's voice was filled with icy slag, and Liu Duxing couldn't believe that the person sitting in front of him was the man with a smiley face in the mansion, who regarded money as his life, and turned black and white.

"People's women, people's women..." The woman appeared in the hall with a weathered face, disheveled hair, and tattered clothes. Before she could say a word, she was already sobbing.

"Go back to your lord! The younger one is the defendant!" A middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes stood beside him, his face was full of winning.

"Shut up!" Prefect Luo patted the gavel. "Your Excellency, when you ask a question, don't make an assertion. The plaintiff speaks first!"

"Hey, Mr. Hui, the woman is originally from a family named Chen in the suburbs of Yanzhou. On the fourth day of last month, Sun Weihe, a businessman in Yanzhou, hired my daughter to fill his house... Cocoa..."

"But what?"

"But he actually married my daughter to his son as his wife."

As soon as these words came out, the people onlookers were in an uproar.

"Ah... this woman really doesn't know what's good and what's wrong! She's so dissatisfied as a wife instead of filling the house..."

"Hmph! It must be greedy for the money of Shopkeeper Sun. Shopkeeper Sun is a big family in Yanzhou!"

"Tsk tsk, this kind of thing has to trouble the prefect..."

Watching the people talking outside, Governor Luo patted the gavel again, "Silence!"

As soon as he heard the sound of the gavel, the following immediately stopped.

"You keep talking."

"Yes... It was not a big deal to marry his son, but... but... the son of the family named Sun is robbing his wife!" The woman cried even more miserably.

Shopkeeper Sun couldn't hold back as soon as he heard the woman talking about restraining his wife, and shouted loudly, "It's nonsense! My lord, don't listen to her mouthful..."

"Shut up!" Prefect Luo patted the gavel again. "Listen to the woman."

"Thank you, sir!" The woman bent her elbows and wiped the tears off her face with her cuff, and choked up, "I didn't believe that his son beat his wife, but my daughter died less than a month after getting married... My family is like that. A daughter, the manager of my family is now too angry to leave the house, lying on the bed..."

"Then you today?"

"I hope that the master can be sentenced to life for life! Let Sun Weihe's son pay for my daughter's life!"

"Okay! This officer has already understood the general case. Regarding the fraudulent marriage, Sun Weihe, what do you say? Come quickly!"

"My lord! The villain, Sun Weihe, is a merchant in Yanzhou. This woman has falsely accused me. Her daughter has always had palpitations, and her death has nothing to do with my family. Today, she wants to ruin my son's reputation and make my son pay for his life..." Sun Weihe looked resentful.

"Don't bother talking about him! What I'm asking is about your fraudulent marriage!" Prefect Luo didn't get angry and pretended to be arrogant.

"This..." Sun Weihe's face turned pale, "But she also lied to me that her daughter is healthy..."

As soon as this remark came out, it was tantamount to admitting the woman's accusation in disguise.

Prefect Luo yelled, "Bold Sun Weihe, you were the one who concealed it first! You even made a sophistry! Come on, pull it down and beat it!"

"Ah, my lord! My lord! My little injustice..." Sun Weihe kowtowed quickly, but the servants at the side had already dragged him into the hall and beat him up.

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Hearing Sun Weihe's screams, Liu Duxing was startled. Didn't shopkeeper Sun buy the painting yesterday? Could it be that Luo wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone?

Governor Luo was not moved by Sun Weihe's voice, he just said to the women in the hall, "Ladies in the hall."

"My lord!" The woman quickly responded.

"Sun Weihe said that your daughter has always had heart palpitations, but is it true?"

"This...this...isn't..."

"Really?" Prefect Luo frowned, "Call the shopkeeper of the pharmacy!"

"My lord..." The shopkeeper of the pharmacy knelt tremblingly in front of the hall.

"Is it true that this woman came to your shop twice a month on the [-]th day of each month to get medicine?"

"It's true, it's true..." The shopkeeper lowered his head, not daring to look up.

"What kind of medicine did you catch?"

"It cures heart palpitations..." the shopkeeper replied honestly.

"It's for my housekeeper..." the woman said hastily.

"Then how long have you been arrested?" Prefect Luo glanced at the shopkeeper of the pharmacy.

"Ten years..."

"You're spitting blood!" Hearing this, the woman suddenly pushed the pharmacy shopkeeper who was kneeling beside her, and began to fight with him, "My daughter has already gone, yet you came here to give false testimony..."

"Hey, hey..." Prefect Luo hurriedly asked the yamen servant to pull the two of them away.

After the two separated, Prefect Luo stared angrily, "Bold and cunning woman! How dare you act presumptuously in court!"

"My lord! This man is a perjury! It's a perjury!" The woman screamed regardless of her image.

"Perjury?" Prefect Luo's face became a little colder, "It is passed on to Mrs. Wen who delivered the baby in Xicun."

"My lord!" Wen Po came very swiftly.

"Do you remember this woman?"

"Remember! She gave birth to a baby girl with palpitations 16 years ago..."

When she saw Wen Po's face, the woman's face turned completely pale in an instant, and she collapsed to the ground as if she had lost her soul.

"What else do you have to say?"

"..."

"Well, now this judge makes a ruling! The woman cheated first, and Sun's cheated second. It is nonsense for the woman to ask Sun's son to die. It should be severely punished. Forgive him for being lonely. If he loses another son, he will be punished." The Sun family boycotted it with silver in order to encourage honest and simple folk customs. Do you two have any objections?"

"The little one has no objection!"

"Women, women don't..."

"That's the end of the matter! Back out!"

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After the crowd dispersed, they were full of praise for Governor Luo.

"Sure enough, it's the prefect, who knows everything!"

"Yes! Yes! The woman..."

"Hey, poor shopkeeper Sun..."

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Prefect Luo took Liu Duxing back to Luo Mansion after changing clothes in the back hall.

"how?"

"That woman..." Liu Duxing remembered that the woman hoped that Shopkeeper Sun's son would pay for his life with his life.

"I got what I wanted." Luo Taishou smiled.

"Didn't you say yesterday?"

"Hahaha, that's just a name, after all, it's just asking for money."

"Then shopkeeper Sun?"

"It's just ten boards. I saved my son and got what I wanted! I guess it's too late to thank me!"

"is it?"

"otherwise?"

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In Yanzhou City.

"Thank you, Shopkeeper Sun! Thank you, Shopkeeper Sun!"

"Thank you for your hard work today. The board is just right."

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Outside Yanzhou City.

"This dress is terrible!"

"Have you got the money yet?"

"It's here."

"That's enough."

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A bright moon in the sky.