Magistrate Ji, who was wearing a round collar and a formal attire, entered the courtroom, sat behind the case, and slapped the gavel in his hand.
"Snapped."
The government officials standing on both sides beat the ground with their killing sticks rhythmically, and shouted in a low tone: "Might~Wu~"
A sense of majesty suddenly came up, and the people outside the government office also looked serious and stopped laughing.
"Brother Yun." Ji Min came behind Yun Luochuan and gently tapped his shoulder with the folding fan in his hand.
Yun Luochuan turned his head and saw Ji Min hurriedly calling out: "Brother Ji."
"Mr. Ji." Shen Wan, who had met Ji Min once, nodded to him.
Ji Min raised his hand to Shen Wan and called out, "Mrs. Shen."
He heard from his father that the trial of Mrs. Shen's case was going to be held today. He thought that Brother Yun might come with him, so he came to the front to take a look, and sure enough he saw Brother Yun standing with Mrs. Shen.
The two stood side by side, their shoulders almost touching. I don't know, I thought they were a couple!
"Mrs. Shen, don't worry, my father will try the case impartially." He will not favor the Ning family just because the eldest man of the Ning family is an official.
Shen Wan nodded and said, "I'm reassured that Mr. Ji is a good official."
Hearing Shen Wan say that his father was a good official, Ji Min felt quite proud.
Magistrate Ji, who was sitting under the high-hanging plaque in the mirror, glanced at the people standing outside the door, his eyes fell on Shen Wan, and asked loudly: "Is the owner of the Shen Family Tea Mountain here?"
Shen Wan and Yun Luochuan looked at each other, nodded, walked to the hall, knelt on the ground and said, "The civilian woman is here."
She is just an ordinary woman now, and she has to kneel when she goes to court to meet an official.
Lord Ji glanced at her and said, "Get up first!"
"Thank you, sir." Shen Wan thanked her and stood up.
At this time, the villagers from Chashan Village also arrived, standing on tiptoes at the end of the crowd and looking into the Yamen. They wanted to see what kind of punishment the man who set fire to Chashan would receive.
Village Chief Bai spent a lot of effort and said a lot of nice things before he pushed his way to the front. The person he squeezed to see that he was an old man just frowned in displeasure and didn't say anything.
Bai Dongsheng didn't come. He developed a high fever last night and was carried to the hospital by the villagers early in the morning.
The doctor at the medical center said that it was caused by an injury to the back of the head, and that he would need to be observed in the medical center for a day or two until the fever subsided before he could go back.
Master Ji then called the three prisoners. After Ning Erye and two young men were brought up by the Yamen servants, they were pressed on the shoulders and knelt on the ground.
There were no injuries on the three of them. It looked like they had not been tortured, they were just a little embarrassed.
The master read the three people's confessions. It wrote in detail why Mr. Ning sent the boy to burn the tea mountain and how the boy burned the tea mountain. It also had the fingerprints of the three people on it.
After Master finished reciting, the people outside the door began to curse Mr. Ning one after another.
"The second master of the Ning family is so abominable! Just because he is envious of making money from the tea made by others, he feels that he has made a loss by selling it. He does not want to think that others can make money from the tea mountain. That is because he has an exclusive secret recipe for making tea. .”
"That is, this tea mountain is a treasure in the hands of Mrs. Shen, but it is just a piece of grass in the hands of the Ning family. If it weren't for Mrs. Shen, the Ning family's tea mountain grass would have grown taller than the tea tree and they wouldn't be able to sell it."
"That's right, that's right. He still hates Mrs. Shen. He was the one who first went to Youranju to cause trouble, okay? She's also the eldest daughter of his Ning family. He found someone to slander Mrs. Shen in the street before he entered the Yamen and lost all face. , you’re too shameless to see people, okay?”
"This is clearly a sign that evil will be punished. He still has the nerve to hate Mrs. Shen and burn her tea mountains."
"Tsk, tsk, how come this century-old family with a pure and upright family has fallen into such a state?" A scholar said, shaking his head in disappointment.
When Mr. Ning heard this, he felt as if he had been slapped twice, and his old face turned red.
Yes! How could his century-old family with a pure and upright family become like this!