Chapter 197 Complaint
Jinshan's wife, Xu, had also met Li Zhang. Although he had a very bad impression of the Xu family, he had a good impression of the Xu family. At that time, Jinshan had a premonition that something was going to happen at home, so he asked Xu to return to the Xu family to hide in advance.
However, after the accident between Kingsoft, Xu never showed up again. Although Kingsoft had never mentioned it, everyone actually had some guesses in their minds. After all, the couple was the same forest bird, and they flew away each other when the disaster came. What's more, they were originally a marriage of interests, and the two had no children.
But it was not until today that Li Zhang knew what happened to Xu. It turned out that after Xu returned to her parents' home, she was immediately placed under house arrest by her father and brother, and she was strictly prohibited from going out to contact the Jin family. After Jinshan was exiled, they even wanted to marry Xu again, but what unexpectedly happened was that Xu actually found out that she was pregnant at this time.
Originally, with Jinshan's size, it was very difficult to get his wife pregnant, but thanks to Li Zhang's help, he helped him lose weight while giving him medicine from later generations. As a result, Xu was actually pregnant. Unfortunately, Jinshan had been exiled to Qingzhou before he had time to learn the good news.
Originally, it was such a big deal like pregnancy, the Xu family should have notified Mrs. Jin and her daughter no matter what. However, what was unexpected was that in order to completely cut off the relationship with the Jin family, the Xu family actually asked Xu to abort the child in her belly. Originally, Xu was unwilling, but her father and brother forced her to put the abortion medicine in her body.
But what no one expected was that although the fetus was shot down, Xu also died of heavy bleeding. Originally, the Xu family wanted to block the news, but a maid next to Xu was taken from the Jin family. She escaped while the person was not paying attention and then found Mrs. Jin, which allowed them to know about Xu.
"I'll fight with them!" Jin Xiaomei heard that her sister-in-law and her unborn nephew were all dead at the hands of the Xu family. She roared angrily, picked up her stick and went to the Xu family to fight to the Xu family. After all, this is the two lives of their Jin family. One of them was that the Jin family finally had a bloodline, so how could she not be angry?
"Don't be impulsive!" Li Zhang hurriedly rushed forward to stop him when he saw Jin Xiaomei's murderous look, but unfortunately, Jin Xiaomei broke free by shaking her hand. Fortunately, the wild dog was there, so he immediately stepped forward to grab her arm. No matter how hard Jin Xiaomei struggled, it was useless.
"Little sister, don't mess around!" Although Mrs. Jin's eyes were red at this time, she could still maintain her rationality. At this time, she also spoke to stop her. As soon as she said that, she couldn't help but burst into tears again. Some time ago, she was exhausted because of Kingsoft's affairs. After Kingsoft was exiled, she missed her son again and became much older. Now she was hit so hard that she felt like she had lost her energy and her eyes became a little hollow.
"The Xu family killed us two members of the Jin family. Wouldn't that be it?" Jin Xiaomei gritted her teeth and wanted to break free from the wild dog, but the other party's arms seemed to be cast from iron, and they didn't move at all, which made her scream again with anger.
"Of course I can't forget it. Forced to have an abortion is a serious crime. Let's go to Kaifeng Prefecture to file a lawsuit!" Li Zhang went up again and said, "He didn't learn it in Zishantang for nothing. Now he has a lot of understanding of some laws of the Song Dynasty. As far as he knows, the laws of the Song Dynasty are very severe for forced abortion, not to mention that they are still a corpse and two lives now, and they can kill the Xu family through regular channels.
"Cai? Is this... not good?" Mrs. Jin said hesitantly at this time, because in her opinion, this was the family scandal of their Jin family, and she was still a little worried about causing trouble to the government.
"Mom, sister-in-law is a corpse and two lives. No matter what, you can't let the Xu family live a better life!" Jin Xiaomei shouted with dissatisfaction with her mother's attitude. After saying that, she said to Li Zhang again, "Let the wild dog let me go, let's go to Kaifeng Mansion now!"
When Li Zhang heard this, he nodded to the wild dog, and the other party immediately let go. At this time, Mrs. Jin sighed and said, "Okay! Anyway, our Jin family has nothing. In order to seek justice for my poor daughter-in-law and grandson, I don't want this face anymore!"
Seeing Mrs. Jin agreeing, Li Zhang immediately found Li Yong and the clerk Lao Qiu beside him. He had been in the officialdom for many years and was very familiar with things like paper, so Li Zhang asked him to help Mrs. Jin's family with paper paper.
The next morning, Li Zhang personally took Mrs. Jin and Xiaomei Jin to file a lawsuit. In addition to the family, the one who was traveling with him also had a little maid. This maid was the maid who escaped from Xu to report the news. She was a witness, so she naturally had to take it with her.
There is no drum for complainants to report the case in front of Kaifeng Prefecture. It will take until Bao Zheng became the prefect of Kaifeng Prefecture in the future to set up this kind of drum. Later, yamen at all levels set up this kind of drum. Before this, ordinary people want to report the case, sometimes they have to accept blackmail from the yamen guarding the door, otherwise they may not even be able to enter the door.
Li Zhang is now an official, so naturally no one dared to blackmail him. He immediately took the Jin family and his daughter to the government office and handed the paper on it. Because this was a murder case, the paper on it was soon handed over to a judge in Kaifeng Prefecture.
Speaking of ancient complaints, it is not like the ones performed in later TV. In fact, the prefect of Kaifeng generally does not directly hear cases. The person who is actually in charge of the case is the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture. Yes, it is the judge who is the same as the official position of Lu Wu. However, the scope of power of both parties is different. The judge of Kaifeng Prefecture mainly tries some less important cases. If some cases are controversial or have a major relationship, they must be submitted to the upper hand, and it may end up falling into Lu Wu's hands.
After receiving the Jin family's case, the judge asked about Mrs. Jin's incident and the maid made a testimony. As for physical evidence, it was easy to deal with. As long as Xu's body was found, it would be known. Therefore, the evidence in this case was complete. After the judge asked clearly, he quickly issued an arrest warrant for Xu's father and son. However, a murder case like this would definitely not be pronounced on the same day, so the judge asked Mrs. Jin and the others to go back and wait for the news. As long as the verdict was made, the government would notify them.
Li Zhang also felt that the case was nothing unexpected, and Mrs. Jin's situation was not very good, so he advised them to go back and rest first, and it would probably take a result in three to five days.
But what Li Zhang never expected was that although the Xu family father and son were arrested, the result of the verdict was delayed, which made him worry. Could there be any change in this?
Chapter completed!