Bachelor

Chapter 98 Need Evidence
Hearing the county magistrate Zhang Duan's question, Sun Dan thought for a while, sorted out the memories of the former Sun Dan in his head, and told him the whole story.

Of course, there are many things in this marriage between Sun Dan and Zhi Niang that are worthy of scrutiny, and even he doesn't know the details.But the key to this matter was the shop, all he had to do was insist that when his father ordered this marriage for him, he didn't give that shop to Wan Butcher as a bride price.

So Sun Dan started from the night of his father's death, saying that he was kneeling in front of his father's coffin to thank relatives and friends who came to express their condolences, and then Wan Tufu and his son rushed in with the Di Bao and the matchmaker, waving the contract in their hands, Forcibly confiscated the Sun's shop, and left Zhi Niang in the Sun's house.

Zhang Zhixian quietly listened to Sun Dan finish all this, stroked his beard, and said: "There is a contract for this matter, there is a matchmaker's words, and there is a witness from the land protector. He is the teacher on behalf of the emperor and herdsmen, and he is walking the righteous way of a saint. Enforce the law impartially. This matter is not easy to handle, and the reason is all on your father-in-law's side. Although you and I have a teacher-student relationship, we can't bend the law for personal gain."

"The teacher is an honest gentleman, and the students admire him." Sun Dan complimented him, and then said: "But there are many doubts about this matter, and the students still want to tell the teacher some questions."

"Okay, tell me, if there is something suspicious about this matter, the teacher will naturally investigate and find out the truth, and give you justice."

Hearing what Zhang Zhixian said, Sun Dan felt at ease, cleared his throat, and said, "Master, have you ever thought about it, my father is illiterate, how can I understand that contract. Although there are monograms and fingerprints on it, there are monograms. That kind of thing is just a circle on the left and right, and anyone can draw on it. As for the fingerprints, my father has passed away for many years, and there is no way to compare them." Mentioning the dead father and thinking of his parents in another world, Sun Dan felt a little sad , He was silent for a moment, lowered his voice, and said: "My father loved the students the most when he was alive. That shop is my son's livelihood. How can I give it to others as a bride price?"

Zhang Duan, the county magistrate, suddenly came to his senses and put his hand on his forehead: "Yes, this is indeed the truth. In Zouping today, to marry a woman from a good family, the bride price is only two or three taels of silver. , only about thirty or forty. If your shop was sold for more than 1000 taels, how could your father pay such a high price for an ordinary woman. As you said, just ask someone to draw a bet, it looks like It looks decent, and I can't tell whose handwriting it is. As for the fingerprints..."

Zhang Zhixian asked again: "When was your father buried?"

"My dear benefactor, I will be buried the next day."

"Hey, Jingyuan, you are so confused. If you had doubts that day, you should ask the government to ask me to make a decision for you. As long as you have a pair of fingerprints, you can know whether the contract is true or not." Zhang Zhixian couldn't help but stamp his feet. .

Sun Dan sighed, rubbed his chin, and said: "The dead are the most important. At that time, Sun Dan wanted to let his father go to the ground to be safe. How could he make trouble in the government and alarm his father's spirit in heaven?" He was also very depressed. Back then, I didn't Time travel to the Ming Dynasty.At that time, Sun Dan was a fool with insufficient brains. When I met a guy with such a low EQ and IQ, what could I do?
Zhang Zhixian also sighed: "Jingyuan, you are sincere and filial, and I am very pleased to be a teacher. But things have come to this point... It makes people don't know what to say."

Sun Dan was crying again, and deliberately pretended to be too sad to be able to control himself: "Isn't the student forced to do nothing? When he arrived in the capital, he entered the Imperial College. If it really didn't work, the student stayed in the Imperial Academy's school building. .As for the family members, they will be placed in their hometown, and they will only come to pick her up when the student is selected as a Juren, a Jinshi, and becomes an official."

"Inappropriate." Zhang Zhixian shook his head: "You will really become an official in the future, and according to the official practice, you will be sent to a local county magistrate for one term. The country has its own laws, and local officials cannot take their families with them. One term You have been a local official for several years. You are now seventeen. Two years later, you will be 19 years old. After a few years as a local official, you will be in your twenties. You have not been able to stay with your family members, and you are still talking about having children. There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and having no descendants is the biggest. I was also a father before being a Jinshi in the middle school. After I became an official in Shandong, it has been several years, and I have never had the opportunity to go back to Zhejiang to reunite with my family. Therefore, as a teacher, I remind you that you must hurry up You have the opportunity to give this important event within these two years, so as to comfort your father's spirit in heaven."

He and Sun Danben had a teacher-student relationship, and felt it necessary to remind this student.

Sun Dan was also moved when he heard such kind words from him, and pretended to be troubled: "My teacher is right, so what can I do otherwise? There are obviously many doubts about my shop. , students just can’t solve it.”

Zhang Zhixian also slapped the table fiercely, and said angrily: "What a lowly butcher Wan, he made up his mind to hit us scholars. It's not easy to be punished for being so unruly, and it's not enough to calm my hatred." The squires ruled the world together, and the squires were mainly composed of scholars with fame and reputation.

As long as you have read books and gained fame, you have already squeezed into the ruling class.

Now that Sun Dan was deprived of his family property by an ordinary butcher using deceitful means, not to mention that Zhang Duan and Sun Dan had a teacher-student friendship, even if it was any scholar, he would feel the same way.

The interpersonal relationship in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was intricate, and teachers and students, the same year, relatives and friends were the important links to maintain their interpersonal relationship.Sun Dan will be an official sooner or later, no matter what achievements he has in the future, the teacher-student relationship with Zhang Duan will last a lifetime.

Moreover, this matter has risen to the level of an ordinary citizen challenging the authority of the ruling class.

Seeing Zhang Duan getting angry, Sun Dan already knew that there was something serious about this matter.

He stood up and made a long bow: "Master, the student is also at a loss now. It's not that he wants to make trouble for the teacher. It's really sad in his heart and he can't vomit."

Zhang Duan hurriedly stretched out his hand to support Sun Dan, and said angrily: "As far as this matter is concerned, the left and right are just the one-sided words of the butcher, the matchmaker, and the land protector, and the words of such lowly and unruly people are not accurate. In this way, you can visit again to see if you can find any flaws in it. As long as there are people who testify and have physical evidence, this teacher will give you justice. As a teacher, I can only talk so far, and it depends on how you do it. Yes Now, if there is any inconvenience in doing things, you can ask Shui Butou and the others to assist, and I will give orders."

Zhang Zhixian's words couldn't be more clear, and Sun Dan is not an idiot, so why can't he understand.

Zhang Duan's meaning was very simple, that is, to ask Sun Dan to find a physical evidence and a personal witness. As long as there are these two things, the case can be judged.

Sun Dan was overjoyed, and saluted again: "Students will do it now."

"Wait." Zhang Zhixian asked Sun Dan to sit in the lobby for a while, then took 20 taels of silver from the inner room and handed it to Sun Dan, and said gently: "Jingyuan, you are going to study in the Imperial College soon. Well, it’s not easy to live here. My teacher is originally from a rich family in Zhejiang, and his family has quite a lot of property. The 20 taels of silver should be treated as a farewell farewell for you, so study hard and don’t embarrass me.”

Sun Dan hurriedly said: "Thank you teacher, the students will definitely live up to your expectations."

After leaving Zhang Zhi County, Sun Dan thought about it.

Zhang Duan was right about this matter. If he wanted to get the shop back from Butcher Wan, he had to go through another procedure, which was to make this matter a civil dispute.There must be a victim, there must be a defendant, there must be a lawsuit, and there must be evidence.

Evidence is necessary, and Zhang Zhixian's words have just reached my ears: as long as there is a personal witness, there is another physical evidence.Regardless of whether the evidence stands up to scrutiny, he will give Sun Dan a satisfactory result.

Not to mention the relationship between Sun Dan and Zhang Duan's teachers and students, even if another person was the magistrate, the judgment would be the same.After all, anyone knows how to choose between a scholar who has read sage books and understands the principles of life, and a rude and uneducated small businessman.

This is also the difference between the rule of man in ancient society and the rule of law in modern society. In the Ming Dynasty, where science was underdeveloped and the necessary authentication methods were lacking, local officials judged cases, especially this kind of civil disputes, in many cases from the perspective of morality and social influence. Make the necessary choices.

Physical evidence is not easy to get, and there is no way to get it.However, witnesses are easy to handle.

Didn't Butcher Wang get the local security and a matchmaker to act as his witnesses, so he successfully snatched the Sun's shop?

It seems that the breakthrough point of this matter lies with these two people. As long as they are found, they can tell that they were coaxed by Butcher Wan or got benefits from him. Sun Dan will be able to take back that shop smoothly.

But there is a problem here. Although the land protection is not an official, it is also a manager who helps the government maintain the place.According to modern society, he is an external employee of a public institution. If some unconventional means are used against him, Zhangzhi County may not look good in face.

Then, we can only open the gap from that matchmaker.

Matchmakers, tortoises, yamen servants, gangsters, and whores are the bottom of the bottom in feudal society, and they only need to force her a little to get her to speak without any future troubles.

Moreover, there are many doubts about this matter.It is very likely that the matchmaker was greedy for Wan Tufu's money, and then colluded with Zhiniang's father and brother to obtain the Sun family's property. The reason for this is on Sun Dan's side, and even if something happens, the Zouping people will clap their hands Applause.

As far as Sun Dan knew, that old woman named Gong Matchmaker had a very bad reputation in the county, and she was a filthy bastard who didn't recognize her money.Many daughters of good families were deceived by her perfect tongue and got married very poorly.Not only that, but this matchmaker is also engaged in the business of buying and selling people.Some time ago, I bought many girls from poor families in remote mountainous areas and sold them to kilns.

When this woman was mentioned, everyone in Zouping shook their heads.

This Mrs. Gong is also the matchmaker who made a match between Brother Zhiniang and Sufen some time ago.

Sun Dan thought for a while, then walked towards Mrs. Tang's sweet wine stand at the north gate, planning to ask Mrs. Tang to coax Matchmaker Gong over.

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