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Chapter 77 The Haunted House

The Yan brothers could hardly believe their ears.

The prefect said that except for a pair of gold bracelets and the three silver hairpins and silver lilacs that were worthless at first sight, all other jewelry heads and faces could not be used to pay for money!

"Why?"

The three brothers opened their mouths three times, but this time they spoke in unison.

The prefect's face was as deep as water: "These are either things from Li or things Li gave to his daughter. They have nothing to do with your family. They were originally those who occupied others by your family. Li can sue you for theft."

Yan Zhaoshi knew about the things that Li Qiniang and Yan Xuehuai were all over. He always thought that Sun and Zeng had taken them to separate them, but he didn't expect that they were also here with me.

Yes, I am the head of the family, and how dare I compete with Sun, Zeng and two nieces?

Yan Zhaoshi regretted it a little. He shouldn't have listened to me that day, so he went to Li Qiniang to send her divorce. If he hadn't sent her divorce, Li Qiniang wouldn't have mentioned Heli, he wouldn't have been beaten in the account, and Ashu wouldn't have been for nothing.

Yan Zhaoshi didn't say anything, but Yan Zhaoshan and Yan Zhaolin were already shouting.

"Who said it was hers, it was hers? And Eryatou, who was originally from our old Yan family, and of course Eryatou's things are also from our family."

"That's right, this is all from our family. The woman just needs to be beaten, and my second brother is too cowardly. He is stupid in studying. If I had heard of me, I wouldn't have happened today."

The master said, "Rareless! Who allowed you to shout in the yamen? Since the adults said that these things were from Li Qiniang and her daughter, they just carefully verified them. Don't you believe in the government office?"

Yan Zhaolin shrank his neck and dared not speak anymore.

He could see clearly how Yan Jingxiu was punished by the stick that day.

Yan Zhaoshan still insisted: "If there is evidence in the yamen, then take out the evidence."

The master sneered: "Okay, do you say these belong to your family, do you have any evidence?"

Yan Zhaoshan paused and said firmly: "Put it in my mother's box, that's the evidence."

"If your mother stole the official silver from the government and put it in her box, will this official silver belong to your family?" The master was almost angry and smiled.

Yan Zhaoshan choked up and said that the official silver was the money. He took it out and spent it. Who knows?

However, of course, he couldn't say that. He thought for a while and said, "This is what our brothers respect to me, we are witnesses."

The prefect felt that if he continued to ask, he would doubt his life.

So he signaled the master not to speak and let him speak.

"Since these are Li's belongings, they are stolen goods, but you say that this is what your brothers respect to me. This is what you admit yourself. Come and put these three people in prison!"

What? Why are you put in jail?

What they did, they did nothing.

Yan Zhaoshi reacted. The prefect said that these were stolen goods, but the eldest brother said that they were filial to me by their brothers. So now, the person who steals things is not me, but the three of them!

Big brother, alas, I haven’t read a book and can’t even speak.

Yan Zhaoshi no longer acted as a juren, and he knelt down: "Master, the student's brother is a farmer. He does not understand the law and speaks recklessly. Please do not have the same knowledge as him."

Yan Zhaoshan was furious when he heard this. What does the second brother mean? He said he was a farmer and said he did not understand the law. He looked down on him.

He had long known that the second child looked down on him, and he didn't think about who gave him the opportunity to study back then. If he was the one who studied, the one who became a juren would not be the second child, but him.

Yan Zhaoshan had a bad memory, and he had long forgotten that there was an old scholar in the village who didn't have money to teach. Dad Yan sent him and Yan Zhaoshi to study. He barely recognized a few words and refused to go again. It was so fun to climb trees and pick bird eggs, and reading was useless. Yan Zhaoshi studied. Later, the old scholar recommended him to go to the county school. After Yan Zhaoshi went to the county school, he copied books for others to study. Sometimes he went to the restaurant to wash dishes and work to make money. Dad Li, who runs a restaurant, thought that although he was poor, he had backbone and was a good material, so he married his daughter to him. Yan Zhaoshi did not have to worry about his tuition fees and pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

Yan Zhaoshan doesn't remember these past events. He just knew that he didn't study for the sake of supporting the second child. If he had also studied, he would have been the top scholar.

Now the second child actually looks down on him in front of outsiders. He is so unrestrained!

Yan Zhaoshan then punched the yamen runners, and the yamen runners were keen on their abilities and were about to pull him away, but the punch hit the yamen runners' face.

Yass runners...

The prefect slapped the table: "No matter whether they stole things or not, they will be put in jail!"

Yan Zhaoshi no longer wants to be imprisoned, and his injuries have not yet healed.

"I said, those things are from Li Qiniang. When Li Qiniang left, she forgot to bring them. The ones left at home were not stolen, really not!"

Although Yan Zhaolin scolded his second brother for being unscrupulous, he didn't want to be imprisoned. He had seen Yan Jingxiu being beaten, and he had also seen Yan Zhaoshi's injuries. He was crazy and stupid before he wanted to go to the throne.

"Yes, I remember this incident, too. My second sister-in-law and niece left in a hurry and forgot to take these things. My mother was kind-hearted and put them away."

The prefect nodded with satisfaction, but did not go to see Yan Zhaoshan, but said to the yamen runner who was fisted for no reason: "This man beats people in the yamen, and gets prison. You can take him there."

The yamen runner gritted his teeth. Even if the prefect doesn't say anything, he will visit this guy in the account, hum!

Yan Zhaoshan was taken away and finally returned to peace.

The prefect said to Yan Zhaoshi, who was still kneeling on the ground, "I can't afford to ask Juren Yan to get up, but I can't afford it."

Yan Zhaoshi's face was red and red. If the matter today was spread, his reputation would be ruined.

He quickly got up, but he bowed respectfully, thanking the prefect for being conscious.

The prefect just wanted to fight quickly and despise his praises.

The prefect said to the master: "Please come over and calculate how much money these are."

The prefect had two masters, one was the master of the famous criminals, and the other was the master of Qian and Grain.

Those who can be money and grain masters are all good at making accounts.

Master Qianliang came over, and in front of Yan Zhaoshi and Yan Zhaolin, he finished his calculations and said, "A total of 4,213 taels and 5 cents."

The prefect looked at Yan Zhaoshi: "It's only more than 4,000 taels, and half of the distance is ten thousand. Do you have anything to avoid?"

Yan Zhaoshi thought about it and gritted his teeth: "This house in Luoguxiang is worth three thousand taels."

Yan Zhaolin was anxious and gave the house to Li Qiniang. Wherever they lived, they heard that renting a house in Xinjing City was too expensive.

He blinked hard at Yan Zhaoshi, but unfortunately Yan Zhaoshi didn't see it.

The prefect thought this was almost the same, so he asked someone to call Li Qiniang and her daughter in. If Li Qiniang agreed, this house could be worth three thousand taels.

Li Qiniang laughed as soon as she heard this. She did not go to see Yan Zhaoshi, but said to the prefect: "Sir, as far as the people know, the house in Luoguxiang has passed by the water a few days ago and boiled a lot. How could it be worth three thousand taels?"

The master also said to the prefect: "The student has just been there, and the Yan family's house is burning in a mess, and it is indeed not worth three thousand taels."

It's not just worth it, I'm afraid I can't even sell a thousand taels.

A house that is too hot is too unlucky and is almost the same as a haunted house. Maybe there is something wrong with Feng Shui.

Seeing that the master knew about this, Li Qiniang continued, "It's not only not worth three thousand taels, but also the prefect still remembers that this house was bought by a civilian woman from the silver, but Yan Zhaoshi took advantage of the loophole. His name was written in the fish scale book, so the civilian woman could not get the house back. The civilian woman spent five hundred taels to buy it back then. Could it be that the Yan family thought that if a fire burned, the house could be sold back to the civilian woman?"

Yan Zhaoshi was stunned, and Yan Zhaolin was also stunned. How much they could know when doing business? Li Qiniang understood what she said. Not only is your house not worth three thousand taels, but even five hundred taels are not worth, because this is the money I paid, and you burned the house.

The prefect smiled secretly, but his face was serious: "How much does the Yan family pay for the house? Can you accept it?"
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