There was no shortage of food on the way to escape, and the lucky lady was busy farming.

Just talking and talking, someone soon raised questions:
"It's just that I saw this, isn't it the fault of the Yang family's youngest brother? He knew clearly that he was drunk, but he still took other people's money. Asking him to compensate for the money doesn't count as wronging him."

"Isn't that true? If I were the Yang family, I would have to beat him up. He caused such a big trouble and brought the Yang family's bad reputation for so long. Who wouldn't be angry?"

Yang Mingda's eyes darkened, but in the end he didn't say any more and mentioned Zhu Youcai:

"You said."

This was the first time Zhu Youcai saw such a big battle. He shrank beside Yang Mingda, shook his body, shook his head and said:
"If I don't say anything, my mother will beat me if she knows I've done something bad."

Yang Mingda looked at Lin Chaoqing.

It's just that Lin Chaoqing's attention was not on these people at this moment. Instead, when others were not paying attention, he secretly hid his hands in his sleeves.

After standing here for so long, Lin Chaoqing felt very cold.

Although the snow has stopped, the temperature has dropped a bit lower. The snow along the street has melted on the ground for a long time, making people feel cold when walking by.

He rubbed his hands and saw everyone staring at him. He returned his attention and slowly reviewed the opinions of several people in his mind. He looked at Zhu Youcai:

"Did your family really get money?"

Zhu Youcai was frightened when he saw the officers and soldiers. When he saw Lin Chaoqing staring at him like this, his legs softened immediately. He no longer felt that his mother was so scary. He said everything that should be said and should not be said:

"My father came to get the money, and it has nothing to do with me. My father told people that he needed it urgently, but after he got it, he was no longer in a hurry.

After I was no longer in a hurry, I asked my mother to take away the silver. After she took it away, she hid it in the cellar and refused to let anyone use it. "

After saying that in a flash, he also covered up the fact that he had stolen the money, and he completely picked it off.

He also secretly glanced at Lin Chaoqing, and when he saw his serious expression, he was about to cry:
"I already told you that I have to fight with others later. You have to let me go. If you catch me, my father and mother will come to find you!"

Lin Chaoqing frowned.

50 taels disappeared. If you want to say that the person who needs to bear most of the responsibility, you really have to blame Yang Mingda.

He turned to look at Yang Mingda and said coldly:
"Now that the silver is in your hands, no matter where it ends up, you should return the Yang family's property to the Lin family as stated in the document."

Yang Mingda looked up at the Yang family, then at the Lin family, and finally shook his head:
"That is an unreasonable document. To exchange 50 taels for the Yang family's property is too much. The common people ask you to make the decision and destroy this unreasonable document."

Hearing this, Lin Chaoqing frowned.

It's unreasonable, but since you agree with it, it doesn't matter how unreasonable it is.

Why are you starting to break the contract now?
Although he looked down upon Yang Mingda's behavior, Lin Chaoqing knew in his heart that it was not as simple as one person breaking the contract.

He knew that there were many disputes among merchants, and he was not ashamed of what the Lin family had done, and did not want to destroy the entire Yang family because of this incident.

After all, he had seen all the actions of the Yang family during the snowstorm. Among other things, the clothing business run by the Yang family's daughter had given him all the clothing needed by the refugees for the winter at the appointed time.

He had also seen the clothes. They were of fine workmanship and far exceeded the price he paid to the Yang family's daughter.

He prides himself on being fair, but sometimes he is not completely fair. When there is a conflict between morality and law, he prefers the Yang family who are morally reasonable.

But he didn't show this preference on his face. He looked at Yang Mingda and frowned:

"In this case, you should return the 50 taels of silver given by the Lin family. Since you accepted it, you also acknowledged the fairness of the document. Why are you regretting it now? Even if the document is destroyed, you still have the 50 taels of silver. I still have to pay it back.”

Yang Mingda knew he was wrong, shook his head, lowered his head and said:
"The common people are willing to compensate the Lin family for their losses, and I hope you will learn from this and spare the Yang family who were innocently implicated." Lin Chaoqing felt inexplicably relieved.

He sent someone to call the witnesses, and the witnesses narrated them one by one. The plot was almost the same as what Yang Mingli said. Lin Chaoqing had a clear idea in his heart, and the case gradually became clear.

When the matter got here, the case should have been closed, but there were too many people watching, and they were all talking about how Lin Chaoqing would be sentenced.

The more Lin Chaoqing listened, the more outrageous it became. In desperation, he had to ask someone to bring tables and chairs over and announce the result on the spot.

Yang Mingda took the main responsibility and compensated the Lin family for all losses. The Lin family was fined another 50 taels of silver for the fake seal.

At this time, Yang Mingda owed the government 50 taels of silver.

When the matter came to an end, everyone lost interest and found excuses to leave.

Yang Mingda looked back and saw that he had nothing to do. He turned around and was about to leave, but was suddenly stopped by Yang Mingli:
"Second brother, my mother is going to have a funeral today, aren't you here to take care of it?"

Yang Mingda looked at the mourning hall and shook his head:

"If mom doesn't welcome me, I'll tell her and leave."

"Why aren't you welcome? Mom was still talking about you until the end!"

Yang Mingli quickly pulled Yang Mingda over, held him down, grabbed him and kowtowed several times on the coffin before giving up.

"You were so brave just now, why don't you have the courage to look at your mother now?"

Yang Mingli forgot the age difference, taught Yang Mingda a lesson and said in a cold voice:
"Tell me, how are you going to pay back the money?"

"I don't know, rescuing Sheng'er from there will waste all my savings."

Yang Mingda squatted on the ground, his face a little painful.

He also wanted to leave, but he couldn't bear to face this situation just because he asked the Yang family to accompany him.

After thinking about it again and again, I decided to come back and testify for the Yang family.

"Now I don't owe you anything. We don't owe each other. Don't look for me again."

Yang Mingda lowered his eyelids and said a few words. Just as he was about to leave, Yang Mingli grabbed him:

"Mom left some money for you before she left."

Yang Mingda was stunned for a long time, and finally squatted on the ground, hugging his thighs and crying helplessly.

……

Song Rutang grabbed Zhu Youcai who was trying to escape, pulled him back, and sneered:
"Where do you want to run? Why don't you say a word when I ask you to tell the truth?"

Zhu Youcai pursed his lips and tried to break free from the hands of this man who was taller than him. However, Song Rutang was too strong. He struggled several times but could not break free from Song Rutang's hands.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the scheduled cricket fight time was going to be late again, Zhu Youcai was about to cry:

"You only said that you would find me 50 taels of silver if you tell the truth when you come here, but you didn't say that there are so many people here listening. If you knew there was a big official here, I wouldn't come here even if you beat me to death!"