Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

When the county magistrate reacted from seeing the old women in the country scolding and fighting each other, the two old women in the hall beat them several times, and they looked like crazy women.

Not only the magistrate was stunned, but the guards next to him didn't react immediately, because everyone was respectful when they came to the court, and they had never seen such a disorderly scene in the court for so many years.

"Silence! Silence! Silence!" The county magistrate knocked on the gavel several times, and the crisp voice awakened the reason of the two wrestling together. The two of them remembered that they were not in the countryside at this moment, but in the county where everyone was afraid. In the yamen, there is still the magistrate sitting on it!

The guards also reacted, and the guards on both sides stepped forward to pull the two who had let go, and then separated them.

Looking at the baggy coats and messy hair of both of them, Zhixian suddenly felt that this case might be several times more troublesome than he expected.

Qu Siniu and Meng Shi, who were kneeling on the ground, looked worriedly at Mrs. Meng who was pulled to their side, and asked nervously, "Mother, are you injured anywhere?"

Father Meng, Meng Shan, Meng Ke, Qu Yi, and Liang Kangsheng, who were standing at the door, also walked into the courtroom at this time, regardless of the guards' obstruction, and they all surrounded Mrs. Meng, all talking about her.

Mrs. Meng opened her mouth a little, and her voice leaked from her lips: "What can I do, I have wanted to beat this shameless old bastard for a long time, but now I let out a bad breath, clothes and hair I messed it up myself, otherwise Mrs. Qu would mess me up and make people think I was bullying her!"

Mrs. Meng's voice was very small, but it was enough for the few people around her to hear, and everyone felt relieved.

Meng Shan also quietly gave his old mother a thumbs up, Jiang is still old and hot.

After Mrs. Meng made trouble, now everyone no longer talks about Mrs. Qu suing her family's children for being unfilial, but instead discusses the scuffle between two daring women.

Mrs. Meng then said quickly: "I've knocked Mrs. Qu into a daze now, old man, go up and expose Mrs. Qu's words. I'm behind. If Mrs. Qu wants to be a monster, I'll stop her."

On the surface, Mrs. Qu only had a few more scars on her face than Mrs. Meng, but in fact, she was pinched several times by Mrs. Meng, and she was still in pain so much that she couldn't react.

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was silent, Father Meng quickly knelt down and looked at the magistrate, and said righteously: "My lord, the little old man's surname is Meng, he is the father of the Meng family, Qu Siniu's Yue family."

"There is one thing that Mrs. Qu didn't make clear just now. Although Qu Siniu is the son of their Qu family, their Qu family sent Qu Siniu to my Meng family's big house when Qu Siniu was four years old. Siniu and my daughter have been married for a total of 14 years, and the Qu family has never given me a penny from the Meng family."

When Father Meng finished speaking, the county magistrate squinted his eyes and asked, "Oh? Since the Qu family has never given money to your Meng family, why are you willing to help the Qu family raise their children?"

"Returning to your lord, my Meng family mansion has a carpentry handed down from family, so the people in our Meng family mansion live a slightly better life than the surrounding villages."

"Back then, Mrs. Qu threw the child in my Meng family's big house. The four-year-old child couldn't find his way home. Seeing that the child was pitiful, my old wife and I took the child home and gave him a bite to eat. "

"Later, no one came to pick him up from the Qu family, so I asked the villagers to help me to inquire about the Qu family. They said that the Qu family was poor and couldn't afford to support the child, so they sent the child away. My old wife and I discussed how to send Qu Siniu away. Once you are raised, you will be accepted as an apprentice."

Although Father Meng and the others mostly made household items for ordinary farmers, occasionally some wealthy households would ask people from their Meng family house to make those with carved patterns at home.

Therefore, although Father Meng was a little scared facing the magistrate, he resisted for the sake of his daughter and son-in-law, and tried to finish what he wanted to say calmly.

After reviewing the relationship between the two families, the county magistrate found another problem: "Old man Meng, when you adopted Qu Siniu, did you ever think about letting him marry your daughter so that Qu Siniu would do nothing for nothing?" live, without wages?”

One of Mrs. Qu's complaints just now is that Qu Siniu only sent home one hundred wen for two months. Since he learned carpentry from Meng's family, he should not only earn one hundred wen in those two months. Was the money just taken away by the Meng family?

Speaking of this father Meng, he is full of confidence: "My lord, when my old wife and I decided to adopt Qu Siniu, the little girl was only three or four years old. We didn't know that the two children would see each other later. Besides, after Siniu graduated from the teacher, Our Meng family didn't let Si Niu work for nothing."

Apprentices must have no wages before they leave the teacher, and some have to pay the master to learn the craft, but after the apprenticeship, there is no need for it, and they can earn money by themselves.

Qu Siniu became a teacher half a year before marrying the Meng family. After that, he kept the money for his work by himself. Originally, the young couple could live a comfortable life.

It's a pity that an old lady Qu came out halfway, insisting on letting Qu Siniu bring the Meng family back to live in the Qu's house, and also asking Qu Siniu to carry the Meng family's mansion to pick up private jobs, which made a lot of jokes.

The magistrate continued to ask: "Is there any evidence?"

Father Meng thought for a while, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Mrs. Qu who came over: "Bah! You didn't let Qu Siniu do the work for nothing, so he worked in the Meng family for so long before getting married, and his hands Didn't save any money?"

"Also, the money in these few months is only so little, whoever it is that you took the money away? I know, it must be the little hoof of Meng who hid the money?"

"Before the family was separated, she made such small thoughts. Did she expect our old couple to die soon! Vicious bitch, the old woman was blind and asked her son to marry her!"

"My lord, I have a hard life. With such a son and daughter-in-law, the family was so poor that they couldn't afford to eat. I have another one in my stomach. The old man and I were reluctant to sell the child, so we sent the child to the big mansion of the Meng family. of……"

"I pooh!" Mrs. Qu poohed just now, and Mrs. Meng poohed even louder immediately, and then she knelt on the ground, "Tiger poison doesn't even eat its offspring, old Qu's family why you did that, you don't know why, you are not afraid of the old man Ancestor looking for you in the middle of the night?"

Mrs. Meng hid her trembling hands under her cuffs. She was terrified to death at the moment, but she couldn't let Mrs. Qu put the pot of shit on her daughter and son-in-law, she had to suppress the arrogance of this thief woman!

"Even if your family was poor when you sent away Si Niu back then, what happened after that? A few years after Qu Lao Wu was born, your old Qu family bought land and built a new house. Is it so poor that you can't afford food? Our Meng family still Not as much as your song family!"

"My lord, this old lady Qu doesn't have a single word of truth in her mouth, she's lying. As long as my lord sends someone to Qu's Village and Meng's big house, just ask anyone."

Mrs. Meng and Mrs. Qu were louder than each other, and just by the two of them, the courtroom was arguing like a vegetable market, and the county magistrate even had the urge to rub his ears.

"Quiet! Quiet!" After thinking for a while, Zhixian nodded to the master who was in charge of recording.

The master put down his pen, and ordered the two guards nearby to go to the two villages to inquire, and then went to the back of the court.

Seeing that Mrs. Qu wanted to refute, the magistrate hastened to knock on the gavel twice, making Mrs. Qu shut up unwillingly.

After waiting for a while, the master returned to the court and handed two thick booklets to the magistrate. Granny Qu's eyes rolled wildly. She recognized the booklets, which seemed to be used for household registration.

Granny Qu panicked, she remembered her youngest son said that there were a lot of things recorded in the household registration, and she didn't know what to see in the county.

The old lady Meng who interrupted all her plans glared bitterly. If this stinky woman hadn't come out suddenly, she would have ordered Qu Siniu and Meng Shi to shed a layer of skin today!

Flipping through the first household registration booklet that recorded Qujia Village, the magistrate read out the items recorded one by one: "The Qujia has ten acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry land, all of which were successively added 25 years ago."

"According to the records, the house was repaired once 28 years ago, from half an acre of land to one acre of land. It was newly repaired for the second time 14 years ago, covering an area of ​​one and a half mu of land. It has not changed since then."

The land used to build houses in the countryside is not arable land, and the price is cheap, so everyone likes to make their backyards as wide as possible. Anyway, many people use some stones pasted with mud as courtyard walls.

As long as the land can be enclosed, it is my own house. The large land can be used to grow vegetables without paying taxes. You can also raise chickens, ducks, and pigs to add meat to the family.

Looking at it, the county magistrate's frown deepened: "Qu Zhicai, the fifth member of the Qu family, passed the county examination 15 years ago and obtained the honor of being a child.

Can the Qu family afford to support scholars?

You must know that studying is not easy, especially for students born in rural areas, even if they are talented, if they want to pass the county examination, they must first finish their basic education, and then study the Four Books and Five Classics for a few years to lay the foundation. It will take at least five or six years.

In other words, the Qu family was already able to support scholars 20 years ago, not to mention that the Qu family still has so many fields and newly built houses.

Counting the time, the situation of the Qu family is indeed as the Meng family said, it is not a family that cannot afford to raise children, they can go to the Meng family to bring Qu Siniu back to the Qu family, but the Qu family did not do that.

Finding that things didn't go as she expected, Mrs. Qu rolled her eyes and knelt on the ground and began to wipe her tears: "Bullying people, the whole family of the old Meng family bullied me, an old lady, God, please open your eyes!" Take a look!"

At some point, it is useful to cry, make trouble and hang yourself, because the world is more inclined to sympathize with the weak.

But in the courtroom, when the magistrate faced the crying old lady Qu, he would not soften his heart just because she cried twice. If this was the case, the case would continue to be broken.

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