Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 312
"Ascension!"

With a slap of the gavel, Gu Yunji sat down at the head, the left and right yamen guards were separated from each other, and quickly hit the ground with the killing stick in his hand, and a deep and orderly voice came out: "Wei—wu—"

Gu Yunji looked at the woman kneeling below, and was about to ask, but Xue Liu suddenly said, "Wait!"

"Xue Liu, what are you doing?"

Seeing that Gu Yunji was determined to open the court for interrogation, Xue Liu really had no way to stop him. He glanced at the woman with a ruthless look in his eyes: "I am an official, and she is a citizen, but if the people sue the government, no matter whether it is right or wrong , you have to have a meal of killing power first! Since Mr. Gu is going to try the case, please go through the punishment first!"

Gu Yunji's eyes were slightly cold, and he said in a cold voice: "It's good for people to sue officials for killing power, but that's only applicable to leapfrog complaints! Xue Liu, you are the county magistrate of Yibin, the highest official in a county, she wants to sue You are bound to be stuck in the county, so you can only ask to go to Fucheng."

"As for me, Gu Yunji, I am the general judge of the Xuzhou Prefecture. My official rank is sixth rank, which is just above you, the county magistrate of seventh rank. I am the superior directly under you. Prison litigation and supervisory officials are all within the scope of my authority. She told me To sue you, Xue Liu, is legal, and there is no need to take the killing power!"

Xue Liu seemed unwilling: "But..."

"Snapped"!The gavel made a crisp sound on the table, Gu Yunji sharpened his eyes, and reprimanded: "I temporarily borrow the Yibin County Government to settle the case, and idlers should stay away. Xue Liu, you are related to this case, so you can listen to the trial, but you If you dare to obstruct again, I will beat you with a killing stick first!"

After warning Xue Liu, Gu Yunji looked at the woman kneeling below again, his voice softened, and he asked routinely: "Who is in the hall? What grievances do you have, and tell the truth."

The woman kowtowed to him, and said with tears in her eyes: "My lord, the name of the civilian girl is Zhang Cuiying. She is from Yibin County, Xuzhou Prefecture. She lives in Zhangjia Village, Rongtai Town. She has been farming for generations. The folk girl is the only one in the family. The daughter was brought up by her father Zhang Fengyi, and when the Minnv became an adult, she recruited Qi Zhijian from the neighboring village as her husband, and now the Minnv and her husband have been married for nearly eight years and have a daughter."

"Three years ago, Xue Liu, the county magistrate of Yibin, took a fancy to my family's [-] mu of fertile land on the river bank in the south of Fucheng, and wanted to exchange it with the inferior dry land halfway up Rongyin Mountain. My father refused, so he forced Persecution, using the power of the county magistrate to exert pressure, threatening that if the land is not handed over, my family will not be able to stay in Yibin County."

"The [-] acres of fertile land belong to my Zhang family's ancestral property. Naturally, my father refused to hand it over no matter what. Xue Liu saw that coercion would not work, so he simply grabbed it by force. My father and husband were with Xue Liu and his gang when they were guarding the land. A dispute arose, and he ordered his subordinates to... beat my father to death and broke my husband's legs..."

At this point, Zhang Cuiying was sobbing and could barely speak, covering her face in extreme pain and sobbing.

"She slandered!" Xue Liu's face was livid, and he jumped out impatiently to refute, "The forced land change and the beating to death are all nonsense! She fabricated it out of thin air to slander me!"

"Xue Liu! I'm asking her to file a grievance. Are you allowed to speak?" Gu Yunji scolded, and ordered the left and right to step forward, "Come on, shut him up for me, and don't let him speak without my order!"

The yamen servants of the county government have always followed Xue Liu's side, they are his confidantes, when they heard Gu Yunji's order, they looked at each other in blank dismay, wondering whether they should listen to him or not.

Gu Yunji narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a sneer, "Why, I can't order you anymore? Are you the government servants of Yibin County, or Xue Liu's personal thugs?!"

The yamen servants were still hesitating, but Chen Peishi, who was standing by the side, stepped forward decisively, pulled out a sweat towel from nowhere, stuffed it into Xue Liu's mouth repeatedly, and stuffed it tightly.Then he moved his arms backwards like a backhand, the movements were clean and neat, without any sloppiness.

Xue Liu was obese and lacked exercise all the year round, so he couldn't match the strength of a young man in his prime, so he was easily restrained, but he couldn't make a sound with his mouth, so he could only whine angrily.

Seeing this, Gu Yunji cast an approving look at Chen Peishi, then looked back at Zhang Cuiying, and asked in a deep voice: "The [-] acres of fertile land you mentioned, but the place where I saw you arguing with others on the bank of the river that day? "

Zhang Cuiying wiped away her tears, nodded and said, "Exactly."

Gu Yunji said: "But I clearly heard that day, those men said that the land belonged to the Tong Zhi Chen Xunzhou, if what you said is true, the land was taken away by Xue Liu, how could the Tong Zhi Master Chen be involved? "

Zhang Cuiying said: "Originally, the fields in that area were scattered and belonged to different families. After Chen Xunzhou became a co-prefect, the Chen family became more and more powerful and began to annex the fields one after another. Although my father was born in a farming household But he is a teacher, the land in the family is planted by hired long-term workers, if there is no land, my family will have no source of income, so my father did not sell the land to the Chen family."

"Over time, the Chen family merged the entire field on the river bank, leaving only my family's [-] mu of land lying in the middle. It was always inconvenient to harvest and sow. The Chen family tried to buy our land several times, but failed."

"Later, in order to curry favor with Mr. Chen, Xue Liu offered to exchange land with us. He wanted to solve this 'trouble' for him. We refused, so he forcibly snatched it and gave it to Mr. Chen. So the land is indeed in the land right now. In the hands of fellow acquaintance Chen Xunzhou."

Gu Yunji asked again: "Why did Xue Liu propose to exchange land with you instead of buying it with money?"

"Because Xue Liu is greedy and stingy, he wants to curry favor with his boss, but he doesn't want to pay, so he came to force and deceive us!"

Zhang Cuiying's eyes were red from crying, and her eyes were full of hatred. She gritted her teeth and said: "The land he used for exchange is located on the hillside of Rongyin Mountain in the north of Rongtai Town. It is said to be a field, but it is actually no different from a barren mountain! Everywhere It's just weeds and rocks, and it hasn't even been plowed and cultivated, so it can't grow food at all. Not to mention our family's [-] mu of fertile land, I wouldn't even give it to one mu!"

Zhang Cuiying's eyes seemed to be poisoned, and she gouged out Xue Liu several times, wishing to swallow him alive, but the next moment a sense of powerlessness surged up, and her spirit sank: "How can the people fight with the officials, whether we are willing or not, the land It was still taken away by Xue Liu, and my family was defeated after that."

"People always have to eat when they are alive. I have no choice but to plow, sift, and sow seeds on the wasteland given by Xue Liu. My husband has a broken leg and there is no strong labor in the family. I am a weak woman. For three years I managed to reclaim four acres of land and planted food with great difficulty, but before the autumn harvest, I was accidentally cut off by the natives who came down from the mountain, so my last hope was gone..."

Zhang Cuiying broke down in tears, her back could barely support her body weight, and she collapsed in despair.

Gu Yunji's heart was heavy when he heard it, and he said slowly; "So, you were desperate and went to your original field to cut the rice planted by the Chen family?"

Zhang Cuiying nodded lightly, then wiped away the tears on her face, and sighed sadly: "Three years have passed, and the matter has come to this point, no matter how entangled it is, I can't undo it. I don't need the [-] acres of land, and I don't need the grain. But—— "

As she said that, the sadness on Zhang Cuiying's face suddenly turned into determination, and she said word by word: "My father's life, and my husband's legs, I will get it back no matter what, I want Xue Liu, blood, debt , blood, compensation!"

(End of this chapter)