The carriage stopped, the woman and Lu Ziyu got down from the carriage, solemnly straightened their clothes and mother and son walked towards the door, before they could approach, they were stopped by the watchman, who looked at them with squinted eyes, “What are you doing?”
The woman accompanied them with a smile, “We are from the Lu family and have something important to report to the county magistrate.”
The watchman didn’t care, there were many people who used this excuse to see their master every day, “What is it, tell me first.”
“This ……”
“What, if you don’t want to talk, then go away.”
The watchman indifferently wanted to go back, and Lu Ziyu hurriedly said, “It is someone who has come to sue the county magistrate, and we have come to inform.”
“What?”
The watchman pulled out his ears, “Say it again, someone is suing our master?”
“It’s true, they’re on their way, it’s a little …… man named Song.”
The woman pulled him and Lu Ziyu’s words stalled as the woman smiled, “It’s the gang that beat up young master Zhou Lin.”
The watchman knew about Zhou Lin, he squared his expression, “Is it true what you say?”
The woman nodded her head like a chicken pecking rice, “It’s true.”
“Wait.”
The watchman went in to report and came out a short while later, leading them in.
The magistrate’s wife received them, swept a few glances at them and got straight to the point, “You say the gang that beat up my little brother is coming to sue?”
Hearing her call out to Zhou Lin’s little brother, the woman knew her identity and nodded fawningly, “Yes.”
“How do you guys know that?”
“I won’t hide it from you, madam, this is my son Lu Ziyu, who was betrothed to Huang Yu two years ago and is there today to withdraw from the marriage.”
Only when she heard that he was going to withdraw from the marriage did the county magistrate’s wife look at them squarely.
The mother and son were so happy that their faces showed it, and the county magistrate’s wife saw it in her eyes and smiled coldly, but said on her lips, “You are still discerning, that girl Huang Yu did not succeed in seducing my little brother, and even instigated someone to beat him up.
“Madam is right, that girl is not a good person, she is also the one who has been on our family Ziyu’s back, fortunately young master Zhou has relieved us.”
The magistrate’s wife put her tea down and instructed the maid to move a stool for them to sit down.
The two of them were flattered.
“Will you be willing to testify in the public court later?”
The Prefect’s wife asked slowly.
The two men hurriedly said, “Naturally, I am willing.”
……
The prefect’s wife sent someone to tell the prefect what had happened.
After listening to the subordinate, the county chancellor swaggered off to find the county magistrate and arched his hand not very respectfully, “My lord, my subordinate has a matter to ask of you.”
When he heard his words, the County Chancellor’s hand shook as he held his pen, and the ink stained the paper, really because the County Chancellor was used to being arrogant and had never spoken like this before.
He hurriedly put down his pen and tensed his nerves, “Speak.”
“There was a maid who seduced my wife and brother, my wife and brother didn’t grasp it and brought her home, before anything could be done, his family rushed in and broke my wife and brother’s arm, and just like that they still refused to stop, saying they came to sue, and asking your lordship to be fair and enforce the law.”
The county magistrate knew exactly what kind of moral character his wife’s brother had.
But the county chancellor never took him seriously because of his background. He, the County Magistrate, was the equivalent of a poseur, and if he did not do what the County Magistrate said was right, when the three years were up, he feared he would be transferred to a more barren place.
But he couldn’t bear to do it to an innocent person, so he put his hand to his forehead, “I can’t, my headache is coming back, I have to go back and lie down for a while, you can handle it.”
If it were in the past, the magistrate would have let him go, but today was different, and he said, “Your Lordship’s head should wait until after this incident.”
……
When Song Wan Yue and her party arrived at the magistrate’s office, they banged the drum directly and the magistrate ordered the magistrates to bring them up. When they saw the wound on Huang Yu’s forehead and the Huang Xing couple being carried to the court, the magistrate cursed in his heart, “Zhou Lin, that animal”, but slapped the wood in his hand, “Who is underneath? What are your grievances?”
Huang Yu’s frail body shook a little, but she still held herself together and said word for word, “My daughter Huang Yu is suing Zhou Lin for forcibly robbing my daughter, trying to destroy my innocence, and injuring my parents.”
His words were followed by a snort of laughter, “You don’t even look in the mirror to see how you look, can Zhou Lin look at you?”
Song Wan Yue narrowed her eyes and followed the sound to look over, there was a person standing to the left of the County Magistrate, who was looking at them with contempt, as if they were looking at ants.
She laughed too, “Does the county magistrate mean that Huang Yu ran to the Zhou family on her own, and that her parents injured themselves?”
Hearing her call the County Chancellor directly, the County Chancellor felt that it stung his ears, he looked at Song Wan Yue, seeing that Song Wan Yue did not kneel down, he immediately coldened his face, “Someone, teach her what rules mean!”
A magistrate came forward.
Seeing that Song Wan Yue was about to suffer, the county magistrate felt compassionate, “Forget it, the little girl doesn’t know any better, so if she doesn’t kneel, she won’t.”
Although the county magistrate had a big official position, almost all matters in the county office were decided by the county prime minister, and even these magistrates listened to the county prime minister.
The county chancellor narrowed his eyes, but still gave the county magistrate this face and waved his hand for the magistrates to retreat, “Since the little girl said so, Your Excellency will pass the person up for questioning.”
“Summon Zhou Lin.”
Zhou Lin was summoned and was helped in by two nose-swollen underlings, one arm immobilised, walking slowly and looking frail.
As soon as he stepped into the lobby, he howled, “Master Qingtian, you must do something for me, Huang Yu saw my family background and seduced me.
“You are talking nonsense!”
Huang Yu’s eyes turned black with anger and her body shook uncontrollably. Huang Liang held her up and looked angrily at Zhou Lin.
“You kid dare to stare at ……”
Zhou Lin saw his gaze and lifted his other hand to hit him. Thinking of something, he put his hand down again, “My lord, everything I said is the truth, if you don’t believe me, you can call witnesses to the court.”
“Bring witnesses!”
The mother and son of the Lu family were brought up.
Seeing that it was them, Song Wangyue narrowed her eyes.
The Huang family were also not expecting it and looked at them with wide eyes.
As the mother and son of the Lu family knelt down, the woman spoke, “Master, this Huang Yu is a watery woman who will use any means to seduce people. Two years ago when my son came to town to buy something, she took a fancy to her and found a way to rely on my son ……”
“You, you ……”
Huang Xing covered his chest and almost spurted out a mouthful of blood. They were the ones who came to the door to propose marriage in the first place, saying that Lu Ziyu admired Yu’er, but now they were saying jerky things and slandering Yu’er.
The uncle’s eyes were red with anger and he was about to go over and violently beat up Lu Ziyu, but he was stopped by Song Wangyue’s quick eyes and hands, this was a public hall, if he really struck out, she couldn’t protect him from being beaten with a board.
“Calm down.”
Huang Yu looked at Lu Ziyu and asked word by word, “Lu Ziyu, do you dare to swear to the heavens? If you tell a lie let heaven strike thunder and lightning strike!”