The county magistrate changed his career to selling private vegetables and sold them out

Chapter 215
"I didn't kidnap that girl." Under the hall, Mother Jiao knelt in the middle of the hall with a peaceful expression, her eyes soft and gentle like water.

At the top of the hall, the prefect Leng Shangduan sat in the hall to hear the case. On the lower left is Mr. Xunmei, and on the lower right is the magistrate of Guyang County.

Jiao Dazhuang looked up at Mr. Xunmei, and at Fu Qiyuan, who was looking at Jiao's mother worriedly, and swallowed hard.

He is so sorry!

If he had known that this woman's background was so strong, he shouldn't have been greedy for that money!
But now that the arrow is on the string, he can't help but regret it, otherwise he will lose his last way of life!
"I... villain, villain is the brother of Jiao Tongchun, the late husband of the Jiaomei family. When this woman first arrived in Xinghua Village, she hardly ever went out except to buy some firewood, rice, oil and salt, and she never interacted with the villagers. It's weird. very!"

"Once she was entangled by Lai San from another village. Jiao Tongchun helped her out of the siege. They came and went, and the two of them got married. When they got married, they didn't have a banquet or entertain guests. Even I, the only Clan brother did not invite, this is another strange thing!"

"Two years after they got married, once I went to Tongchun to borrow money. At that time, there was only this woman in the house. She was holding a little girl. I saw it was real! I thought it was the child born by the two of them. I didn't take it to heart!"

Speaking of this, Jiao Dazhuang rolled his eyes back and forth, and said again: "I didn't know that they had moved from Xinghua Village to Huaigu Village until after Tongchun passed away. They brought a boy with them, Xing Er, called Erlang. Huai Gu The villagers in the village have never seen Jiao Mei's first child, but I know that she sold that girl, and she abducted that second boy from outside!"

What Jiao Dazhuang said was all about Jiao's mother's past privacy, they just wanted to check, but they couldn't find out for a while.

But prefect Leng can still find many loopholes in Jiao Dazhuang's words.

He patted down the gavel and said solemnly: "How do you know that Jiao Jia Erlang was abducted by her, not picked up by her? What evidence do you have to prove that the girl was sold instead of dying Or gave it to someone else? Even if it was sold or given away, what does it have to do with you? I ordered you to come here. Who did you instigate to slander Cheng Taifu’s daughter in this court? Half a lie, break your leg first!"

Jiao Dazhuang was anxious and frightened, and his heart turned violent, and he said whatever came to mind, "The dignified son of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, looks like a baby bump, can you still lose it? She stole it!"

This kind of trick is not enough in anyone's eyes, prefect Leng directly ordered someone to execute the punishment in court!

From this it can be seen that someone is maliciously targeting Mrs. Jiao, trying to tarnish her reputation with evil intentions!
The board was on his body, and after ten boards, Jiao Dazhuang couldn't take it anymore and begged for mercy repeatedly.

"Sister, sister, please forgive me! I was wrong, I shouldn't have framed you, stop beating, I will recruit, I will recruit anything!"

After a series of wailing and begging for mercy, Prefect Leng waved his hand, and the board finally stopped.

On the street where the Yuzhou government office is located, Fu Ting stopped his horse and looked at the gate of the government office not far away with a sense of loss. Several guards carried the man who had been beaten to pieces.

Is it too late after all?
He led the horse and walked slowly forward for a while, tied the rein casually to the stone lion at the gate of the yamen, took out the official seal from his pocket and gave it to the yamen guard, and sat down on the next step.

The yamen servant carefully looked at the Shangshu order in his hand, and returned it respectfully with both hands.

He wanted to go forward to say something, but saw the adult leaning against the wall tiredly, with his eyes closed.

The yamen servant pursed his lips and returned to his post.

……

"I don't know who that person is. As long as I follow their instructions, I can get 100 taels of silver! They found me through the villagers of Huaigu Village. I really don't know who it is!" Jiao Dazhuang snotted his nose. Lying on the lobby in tears, twitching in pain.

"My lord, there is no need to interrogate again. I know who is behind the scenes." Fu Qiyuan said expressionlessly, with indelible sadness and resentment in his eyes.

Mr. Xunmei seemed to have thought of something, his face turned livid for a moment.

Prefect Leng felt that this matter was not easy, so he quickly waved his hand to let the Yamen servants take Jiao Dazhuang down.

The farce ended like this, and when Prefect Leng was about to leave the hall, Mother Jiao once again bowed to the hall and said in a deep voice, "My lord, the women are indeed guilty!"

Mother Jiao's words were like a heavy hammer, which buzzed in everyone's ears.

"Mei'er...!" Mr. Xunmei's face turned pale, and he wanted to stop something, but he couldn't speak.

He has no right to judge for his daughter what was right and wrong 20 years ago.

Jiao's mother's thoughts slowly drifted to a distant place, she sighed melancholy, and said: "After I left Shangjing, I lived without a fixed place and wandered around. I didn't return to Shangjing until my mother became seriously ill."

"I originally thought that I would leave Beijing after my mother's illness recovered, but I never thought that I would not be able to see my mother for the last time. Like a dead spirit, I kept a vigil for my mother outside the house for three days, and then stayed at my mother's grave. It has been seven days before, but I still have no face to see my father, after all, it is hard to get over it!"

"On the day I left Shangjing, I went to Lingyin Temple to pray for my father. In the temple, I saw the original culprit who separated my Cheng family's second wife, my cousin, Cheng Lan!"

Having said that, Mother Jiao slowly closed her eyes.

At the gate of the government office, Fu Ting turned his head slowly, stared at the direction of the inner hall, and clenched his hands tightly into fists.

"Cheng Lan was fulfilling her wish in the temple with a child under the age of one. Her dowry maid, Cheng Yuan, brought news that her husband had brought a woman into the house and was going to accept him as a concubine. Cheng Lan was furious. They took away all the servants in the mansion, but left the child in the temple, intending to take revenge on her husband."

"The child was crying and dying. I couldn't bear it, so I took the child down the mountain. I thought about sending the child back to Fu's residence in a few days, but the child was weak and sick, and the doctor couldn't do anything! I carried the child all the way to find the famous quack doctor. That's how I came to Yuzhou."

"Maybe it's that child's life that should never die. Maybe it's because of my predestined relationship with the child. He's getting better day by day! As an unmarried woman with a child, life is not easy, so I found Xinghua Village, a sparsely populated village, and settled down there." feet."

"Jiao Tongchun is a native of Lincun. He is kind, loyal, affectionate and righteous. After he saved me, I made up my mind to spend the rest of my life with him! He thought the child was my own, and being kind to me and the child was better than My own life, the child needs a father, he is the best candidate."

Two lines of tears rolled down Mother Jiao's eyes, but there was an infinitely gentle smile on her face.

(End of this chapter)