Wei and Jin Cooks

  Chapter 695 Trial Case 2

   Two half-centenarians came out of the crowd and knelt on the ground.

  When Zhao Kuan saw it, he immediately stopped kneeling and asked them to stand and answer.

  The two old men simply stood up and handed over their hands to report their names to Zhao Kuan.

  Zhao Kuan glanced down at the reasons for their appeal, feeling helpless, and asked, "Hasn't Lizheng ever mediated your dispute?"

  The two old men said indignantly: "I don't agree with Li Zheng's mediation."

   "That's right, he's totally messing with it."

   "Okay," Zhao Kuan asked, "Old Man Zheng, since you are suing, then you should speak first."

The two old people are fighting for a vegetable field. They are both survivors of Luoyang who moved back. The difference is that the place where they moved back this time is in the village of Mr. Zheng. some feelings.

Another old man named Fang, his previous village was too few people, and was passed by the rebel army again, the house was dilapidated, no matter how difficult it was for people to live in, so he obeyed the yamen's choice and went to Mr. Zheng's village. I lived in an old house.

  Because both families were small, in response to Zhao Hanzhang’s proposal, the two families formed a pair and worked together.

   In order to show their closeness, the Zheng family generously took out the vegetable field sown by the family before, weeded and hoeed the field with the Fang family, and shared half of the vegetable field with them.

As a result, the vegetable field had not been opened for a long time, and the two families quarreled over the types of planting next year. Zhao Kuan asked a few words, and he understood. In fact, it was Mr. Zheng and Mr. Fang who had a disagreement. , I don't care what vegetables my neighbors grow.

But the two old men are different, they are very stubborn, one insists that they grow the same vegetables, and the other insists on growing different ones, then Mr. Zheng decided not to play with Mr. Fang, so he will give Mr. Fang The vegetable field was withdrawn.

  Of course, Mr. Fang refused. The vegetable field was overgrown with weeds before, and the two of them weeded the soil together to loosen the soil. Why did he take it back when he said it?

  Moreover, there is no reason to take back something that has already been sent.

  So Mr. Fang only promised not to play with Mr. Zheng anymore, but it is impossible to take back the vegetable field.

  Zhao Kuan's head is about to grow old. What he fears the most is this kind of case where the public says the public is right and the woman says the woman is right. Alas, it seems that things are not going well here, and the case is brought to the county government.

But Zhao Kuan still made a mediation for the two, first to be soft, and after persuading them to relax their defenses, he decided that the vegetable plot that had been given to the Fang family was still the Fang family's, and the Fang family was responsible for what kind of vegetables to grow. It is decided that neighbors should be considerate and help each other. The so-called distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. In the future, we will need to take care of each other.

  Zhao Kuan asked the Fang family to send some vegetables to the Zheng family, and the matter was over.

  Old Master Zheng and Old Master Fang muttered twice, but they still complied, expressing their acceptance of the county magistrate's verdict.

   It's just that the two sides are still a little awkward, turning their heads to one side to avoid looking at each other, just turning their heads left and right and walking out.

  Zhao Kuan continued, one person after another was called to the hall, there were all kinds of disputes, the small ones were like neighbors and family disputes, and the big ones were people suing officials.

   At this time, the person kneeling on the ground is suing a small official from the Governor's Mansion.

"...Then Chen Dalang relied on his younger brother Chen Erlang's power to insist on taking my sister as a concubine." The man kneeling on the ground wiped his tears and said: "The little man sent by the school to help the village said that this matter should be reported to the county. The king will be the master for me, so the king will not sit idly by."

"But I just had this thought. I don't know how they knew it. They sent people to stop me at the entrance of the village and beat me up. I lay at home for four or five days. I ran out early this morning with the help of people from the school. Reporting officer."

  When Zhao Kuan heard this, he slapped the gavel angrily, and asked, "Do any of you know about this?"

   "Chen Li is the uncle of Chen Dalang and Chen Erlang's brother, so of course he knows it. He brought people to my house and smashed things, so I'm not allowed to speak nonsense outside."

   Zhao Kuan turned cold.

   Zhao Hanzhang, who was watching, also turned cold.

  Zhao Kuan looked aside, and summoned two yamen servants, "Go to Xiaochen Village immediately, and invite Lizheng and Chen Dalang for questioning. Be smart, and ask a few more people."

  Wang Siniang on the side immediately said: "Mr. County, I will take them there."

  Zhao Kuan looked at her with a frown, "Someone died in the east of the city. The county captain took people to investigate the case. I will see the Chen family and the Xiao family in a while. Xiao Chenzhuang can let the two yamen servants go."

  Wang Siniang: "I'm worried that if they don't investigate carefully, they will be fooled by the Chen family. This matter involves the governor's office and the envoy. If it is not handled properly, it may arouse public anger."

   Zhao Kuan thought so too, but he didn't want to face the crying Xiao and Chen families alone.

  He sighed, but still waved his hand and let her go.

   Wang Siniang became happy, immediately put down her pen, and left with the two yamen servants.

  This case cannot be decided at the moment, Zhao Kuan asked the Yamen servants to take the young man who complained.

  The young man trembled and asked: "Xian, County Lord, are you going to hit me?"

   "What did you do to hit you?"

  The young man wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "People in the village said that the next report will be to beat the board."

  Zhao Kuan said: "This regulation is exempted by Zhao Shishi. Those who sue under Yuzhou and Luoyang, no matter whether they sue their superiors, their wives sue their husbands, or their sons sue their parents, they will not have to be punished."

  This article has also been announced, but in the past six months, Zhao Hanzhang has often announced some things, not everyone can remember, so most people don't know.

Seeing the eyes of the young people in the hall and the onlookers brighten up, Zhao Kuan said slowly, "However, although there is no penalty, if it is found out that the accusation is a false accusation, then it will be punished as a false accusation. That’s more than just hitting the board.”

  The young man immediately said: "It's not a false accusation, the county lord. I definitely did not make a false accusation. This matter has caused a lot of trouble in our village. Many people can be my witnesses."

   Zhao Kuan nodded, waved him back, and then looked at the time. Seeing that the Chen family had been sitting on the mat waiting, he decided to continue the interrogation on an empty stomach.

  He said to the yamen servants: "Bring the Xiao family and the Chen family here."

  The two families that were caught and fled were the Xiao family and the Chen family, and the Chen family that was crying in the lobby was another family, and they were brothers with the arrested family. They came to plead for Zhao Kuan to let them go.

  The two families were brought out of the prison, both embarrassed and disheveled. When they met twice, the Xiao family was also somewhat related to theirs, so they huddled together and cried loudly.

  The main event came, and the young man standing beside Zhao Hanzhang cheered up and stared at him with piercing eyes.

  He clicked his tongue twice, and said with some admiration: "I didn't expect that Magistrate Zhao would actually hear the case in court. I thought he would try the case secretly."

  Zhao Hanzhang stood with his arms folded and asked, "What's so special about this case? Why can't it be tried in a fair manner?"

Good night

  (end of this chapter)