[Red House] Lixian

The Jinling government office was awe-inspiring and solemn, with policemen standing in line on both sides, and Jia Yucun sitting in the middle worrying about the case.

It is not difficult to simply judge the case, mainly because the forces behind it are not simple.

"However, people came from the palace yesterday, and even the Jia family's political master wrote a letter asking me to help the Xue family. On the Weifu side, there are not many people behind to help speak. It seems that the Xue family is more powerful?"

"After all, the four great aristocratic families are connected with each other. Although the Wei family is a relative of the Jia family, facing the Xue family, the Jia family still chooses to preserve this old relationship?"

Jia Yucun originally taught Daiyu in the Lin Mansion, and was later recommended by Lin Ruhai to Jia's Mansion.With the help of Jia She, a first-rank general, he was restored to his post early and transferred to the local area.I was also somewhat grateful to Jia's house in my heart. After seeing Jia Zheng's entrustment, I thought about the affection of Jia's house, and I had some calculations in my heart.Looking at Mrs. Xue sitting on the chair on the left, she nodded.

This time, to Bo Gongtang, the three members of Xue's family are invited.Jia Yucun cared about the influence of Xue's family, and seeing that Wei Qian hadn't come yet, he ordered someone to leave a room for Mrs. Xue to wait patiently.

It was three poles in the sun, and Wei Qian was late.Not only her, but also many elderly people from Jinling, standing at the entrance of the lobby with crutches in hand, listening to the case judgment inside.Apparently, Wei Qian was worried about Jia Yucun's secret favoritism and decided to decide the case in public.

"The little girl went hunting early in the morning, and she spent a lot of time after she came back. Please forgive me." Wei Qian wore a plain dress.After all, I still have to keep my filial piety for Wei Yan, so I simply put on a skirt of light gauze smoke and five clouds, the outermost layer is embroidered with finely divided white plums, and the inner layers are embroidered with cloud patterns and clouds.

Standing in the lobby is a sight to behold.Beautiful and refined, standing like a white lotus.

"Forget it, now that we're here, let's get started. Wei Shi, the Xue family sues you for indulging in murder—"

"Wait." Wei Qian bluntly stopped Jia Yucun's words: "Is this the beginning, my lord?"

"Otherwise, how are you doing?"

Wei Qian looked at the lobby, Jia Yucun was judging the case, Mrs. Xue was sitting on the left, beside Xue Baochai were Xue Pan who was sitting on a soft chair, and "Zhang Qiaozui", a famous lawyer in Jinling.

"Why are there people sitting in the lobby besides adults?"

"Mr. Xue was stabbed and couldn't get up. As for Mrs. Xue—" Jia Yucun immediately understood Wei Qian's meaning.

In any case, Mrs. Xue is a white person, no matter how rich the family is, no matter how imperial merchants, they are still ordinary people.And Wei Qian bears the status of a township lord.Even Wei Qian was standing, why should Mrs. Xue sit?

"Girl Qian, after all, I am also your elder, so you respect me so much?" Mrs. Xue couldn't help but said at this time: "If we talk about relationships—"

"From Sister Wang's point of view, I should still call you aunt, so I can't watch my aunt make mistakes and put myself above the king's law. As the saying goes, the king of heaven and earth, master, your majesty is here, how dare you sit?" Wei Qian smiled and took out a wishful handle from her sleeve robe.

The emerald green Ruyi is engraved with the words "Wen Wan Hui Min" in seal script, which was the treasure bestowed by the sage at the beginning.

"This is what the sage gave me in the past, and later he bestowed the title of Lord of the Township. Now that this thing is released, if His Majesty is here in person, why don't you kneel down and worship?" Wei Qian sternly shouted while smiling.

Holding Ruyi in both hands, the phoenix eyes scanned the lobby.When Jia Yucun saw it, he quickly led the crowd to bow down.Madam Xue turned pale with fright, even Xue Pan jumped up and knelt on the ground obediently.

Mrs. Xue had known about the royal gift in the Wei Mansion, but she never expected that Wei Qian would actually take it out.

"If I knew it earlier, I would have taken out the copybook that the Daming Palace gave to the ancestors back then." Mrs. Xue complained secretly, and there was no room for her to regret it at this moment.

"Long live, long live, long live." Those who watched the excitement at the gate of the government office also knelt down.Several elders also greeted the emperor in the past, looked at each other after seeing the imperial gift, and followed suit.

"Seniors, please get up quickly." Wei Qian helped the elders up first: "At present, filial piety and brotherhood are the first priority. The elders are holding poison sticks. Please also ask Lord Jia to give you a seat."

Jia Yucun ordered people to give seats to the elders. Please enter the yard and listen between the gate and the main hall.

Madam Xue got up, naturally she didn't dare to sit on the chair anymore.Xue Pan looked back and forth, hesitating whether to sit or not.It wasn't until Xue Baochai pushed it that he groaned and lay down again pretending to be seriously injured.

"Mr. Xue is really a loyal person, and he worships a seriously injured person." Wei Qian stabbed, and handed Ruyi to Jia Yucun.Jia Yucun respectfully invited Ruyi to the table, but stood on the edge of the chair and dared not sit down.

"Even if the Son of Heaven breaks the law and commits the same crime as the common people, since your lord is the judge, please sit down." Wei Qian said: "My lord said I was guilty, so I came here. Selfishly thinking that my lord has just taken office, and I have the intention to let my lord stand in front of a saint." You showed your face, so I invited you to bring the imperial gift, and let the lord judge the case in front of the holy object. Presumably, the lord is aware of the details, and in the future, he will be able to bring the holy family to the sky and skyrocket."

Skyrocket?

Jia Yucun smiled wryly. How could he be sentenced when he encountered such a case just after he was reinstated?The two adults wrestled, and I was the cannon fodder!

But Wei Qian also showed her skills this time, Jia Yucun didn't dare to treat her like a normal daughter, and said cautiously: "Mr. Xiang, the Xue family sued you for indulging in murder. Here is the pleadings. What do you have to say?"

"Your Excellency is well aware that this matter happened only a few days ago. If you want to come, you should have asked someone to inquire about the situation that day. Your Excellency should be clear about the cause." After speaking, Wei Qian suggested that Xiang Ling and others should be summoned. There were many vendors who were present that day.

Xue Baochai saw that Wei Qian had been prepared for a long time, and his heart was not good. Wei Qian seemed to be in a trance, and looked at Xue Baochai.

The two rarely meet each other, but this time Wei Qian saw something different. "Yuehua?" Minrui caught a ray of moonlight from Xue Baochai, which was exactly the same as the Yue Shengnv he had dealt with a few days ago.

"I didn't find Yuesheng's magic weapon at all when I went out at night these few days. Could it be that Xue Baochai got it to inherit the inheritance of Yuesheng?" Wei Qian thought, Xiangling and the vendors described the scene that day, and Xiangling cried when he was emotional. Yulihua, the people listening at the door sighed endlessly.

"Wicked people have their own troubles. If you, idiot Xue, hadn't gone to tease others, how could anyone not see it and do something to you?"

"It's also the Xue family who is powerful, so what's the matter with bullying the little girl of the Wei family?"

"That's right, both families are orphans and widows. The head of the family has gone early, so why bother to compete for this position? The Xue family is deceiving people too much!"

Everyone was discussing in private, and suddenly three or four big men shouted loudly: "Bah! What a shameless slut! It must be seduced by this little bastard from Weifu, otherwise Mr. Xue has never seen what kind of bastard, and he would See her?"

"Mr. Xue's family hangs around the flower field every day. How could he care about a little girl who hasn't grown up yet?"

"That's right! Mr. Xue's family just touched you a little bit. It's a blessing you have cultivated in several lifetimes. How dare a mere slut servant girl dare to resist? Why don't you accept it honestly!"

While the public was complaining for Xiangling in low voices, suddenly there were many voices shouting for the Xue family to show their might.

The onlookers saw this and looked at the slender girl with tears streaming down her face.Although Xiang Ling is not a peerless beauty, but if she is not a little bit pretty, would Xue Pan look up to her?

"The Xue family is really shameless. In order to excuse their family, they dare to say such nonsense?" The Jinling elders sitting in the courtyard couldn't help shaking their heads.

Even Jia Yucun despised the Xue family's behavior in his heart: "After all, you are a merchant. If you don't show up on the stage, this trick is disgusting. What's the use other than bullying his little daughter?"

However, when Jia Yucun saw Xiangling, he vaguely felt that Xiangling was quite familiar.Where do you seem to have seen it?

When Xue Baochai saw the loud men at the door, a cold light flashed in his eyes.According to her plan, how could she find such a person who is not on the stage to show her power?

"I didn't listen to my mother secretly sending someone. Could it be my brother's cronies?"

These people spoke dirty words, and soon after, they began to attack Wei Qian and other female family members of the Wei Mansion.

Seeing that something was wrong, Jia Yucun decided to stop: "Enough! There is no room for noise in the lobby!" Dissatisfied, he glanced at Xue's family and continued to settle the case, asking the vendors what happened that day.

What the vendors said was similar to what Xiangling said, but one or two people seemed to have no intention of mentioning Xue Pan's drunkenness.

Zhang Qiaozui took the opportunity to argue: "Although it is wrong for Mr. Xue to do something wrong after drinking, it is also human nature to talk nonsense after drinking. But the guests of the Wei Mansion commit crimes in the street, and the crime is even greater."

Then, he began to quote scriptures and use previous cases to help Xue Pan.

The elders in Jinling listened and nodded.

Mrs. Xue was delighted in her heart: Wei girl, you are so young after all, and you have your own principles in your hands, so you didn't even invite a lawyer, but invited a group of old men instead.How about it, be silly!These old men may not be facing you!

Jia Yucun listened to Zhang Qiaozui's defense, and said slowly: "Indeed, the two cannot be discussed together. Xue Pan's stabbing case is one thing, but it is another thing for a servant girl in the Wei Mansion to be molested. Now the judgment The most important thing is that Xue Pan was stabbed, if the Wei government wants to sue Xue Pan for molesting, it can open a separate case.

Wei Qian pursed her lips and said, "In this case, let's talk about the wounding case first. According to what my friend said, Xue Pan's injury is not serious, it's just a skin trauma, and he was still alive and kicking just now. He must have recovered from his injury long ago."

Zhang Qiao responded with a smile: "Mr. Xiang also said just now that my son got up temporarily because he was loyal to the emperor and patriotic. Now he is lying on the chair and can't get up at all."

"In that case, why don't you ask a doctor to have a look? The little girl has some medical skills in the Doumu Temple in recent years, so she can help with diagnosis and treatment."

"Xiangjun is the defendant, how can what he said be taken as evidence in court? Besides, some illnesses are deeply rooted, and you can't see it just by listening and asking."

"Since you can't tell, how do you know he's sick?"

"Hmph! If my son is sick, won't you tell me by yourself! Could it be that you still have to trust your family's diagnosis?"

"The defendant's words cannot be listened to, but the plaintiff's words can be believed?"

"I have a medical certificate from a famous doctor in the city here. If you don't believe me, you can read it yourself." Jia Yucun handed Wei Qian the medical certificate from a doctor in the city, and Wei Qian asked Xiangling to pass it to the elders in the hospital after reading it. Let's take a look around the audience at the door for the last time.

Situ Yun led the people around him to wait and see among the crowd, and said to Zhang Qingyuan next to him, "The priest is also proficient in medical skills, what do you think?"

"Based on this medical certificate alone, Mr. Xue's injury is indeed not serious." After Zhang Qingyuan went back to report to Tong Yuanjiao, the sage ordered the Seventh Prince to come down to clean up.

At present, the saint prefers the fourth prince to succeed to the throne, and he is unwilling to let the fourth prince take risks, so it is the turn of his second trusted prince, Situ Yun.

"It's just that the young master's injury doesn't seem that serious, and he should have recovered." Zhang Qingyuan cared about Wei Qian, so he said something nice to Situ Yun, and exposed Xue Pan's situation with one word: "absolutely It's pretending to be sick!"

The medical certificate was passed around and placed on the table again, Jia Yucun said: "Xiangjun, what do you say."

"Since my lord thinks that the medical certificate is correct, it must be that Xue Pan is ill." Wei Qian said, "Just do whatever your lord wants to do."

In the courtyard, a group of elders couldn't help muttering, why would Wei Qian ask him to wait for someone to come over just to see how she made an apology?

Situ Yun listened at the door, and was about to walk in when he was suddenly stopped by Zhang Qingyuan: "Wait a minute, the situation seems to be going too smoothly." It is very beneficial to the Xue family, the granddaughter of his old friend Jia Daishan is not the kind of bully The stuff!

Moreover, when Zhang Qingyuan saw those people in the alley not far away, it seemed that Wei Qian had already prepared for it?

In the courtroom, Wei Qian looked calm, and Jia Yucun tentatively wanted to close the case.

However, the lawyer of the Xue family coughed lightly: "The young master of the Xue family felt that his actions that day were reckless, which compromised Miss Xiangling's innocence. , this wounding case can also be dealt with lightly."

"Oh?" Wei Qian said in a drawn-out tone, "Your Excellency thinks so too?"

Jia Yucun didn't speak. In this day and age, where does a maid have any human rights?Not to mention the maid, if it wasn't for the concubine Ji who came to buy and sell after passing through Minglu's concubine's room, it would be nothing more than a word from the head of the house if she wanted to buy and sell again.

"The Xue family was born as a merchant, and in terms of merchants, if the seller's goods are damaged during the transaction, they must be bought at full price. Mr. Xue's move is also the way of honesty for merchants." Jia Yucun praised, and said to Wei Qian: "The township Jun, what do you think?"

Wei Qian didn't agree, and didn't object, she just said, "Leave this matter aside for the time being, just talk about the crime of wounding others, what is your lord's punishment?"

"Since it is hurting people, it should be locked up in prison according to the law and pay for the wound medicine. However, it is better to settle the enemy than to end it. I think that if the Xue family is willing to do it privately, he will be compensated with double the medicine money, which will save your guests from going to prison. disaster."

"In other words, these two cases. The crime of hurting people is punished by paying for money and sent to prison, and the other molestation case, let Xue Pan marry my girl because she is concerned about her innocence?"

In today's era, there are extremely high demands on women's innocence. If they are molested in public, it will be difficult to talk about marriage in the future.Marrying Xue Pan might be a good talk.Jia Yucun thought about deciding the case by himself, then looked at the elders in Jinling, nodded and said: "Otherwise, it will be difficult for Miss Xiangling to find a husband in the future. The Xue family has a lot of money, and it just happens to take care of her for the rest of her life. The Xue family takes concubines and will return her free life." , it can be regarded as a blessing in disguise for this girl."

"It seems outrageous, but it makes sense, and neither family will be offended." An old man holding a poisonous staff twitched his beard and nodded.It seems to agree with Jia Yucun's verdict.

"If there is no opinion from both parties, the judge will pronounce a sentence."

The Xue family didn't care, forced Wei Qian to bow his head, and then sent the maid, why not be satisfied?

"Wait a minute!" Wei Qian stopped Jia Yucun: "My lord is very discerning, and this little girl admires it so much. Presumably, my lord's decision today can also be used as an example in the future. The little girl also has a few pleadings here, which are similar to the case of the Xue family. .Since the elders of Jinling and everyone are here, I ask your lord to cut it off according to what you said today."