Outside the government office, people from Jingou Village were kneeling on the ground. They all had injuries of varying degrees, and there were several people lying on stretchers in front of them with their arms and legs wrapped in gauze.
"That unscrupulous Mr. Shen instigated his servants and people in Yingou Village to commit murders and hurt people. Please ask Mr. Qingtian to make the decision for us."
"My poor son, his legs were broken. How will I live in the future?"
The elderly woman beat her chest and cried out in grief.
"I can't live this life..." So many people knelt outside the Yamen, crying and begging Magistrate Shen to make the decision. Naturally, they attracted many people.
"What's wrong with you?"
Someone asked about it.
"Who hurt you?"
So many people were injured, including young and old, men and women. Could it be that bandits entered the village?
"It's Mr. Shen, the owner of Youranju."
"Dong Shen's family?
That’s impossible! That’s a wonderful person!”
Some people don't believe it.
"That's right, how could Dong Shen's family do such a thing!"
He spoke with an angry expression: "I'm already here, how can I still lie to others?
That's the Shen family.
We are from Jingou Village, and we are all honest and responsible farmers.
Then Mrs. Shen bought the tea mountain owned by Master Jiang in front of our village. When the tea mountain was owned by Master Jiang, the people in our village were honest and hard-working, so they hired people from our village to take care of the tea mountain."
"Who knew that after Mr. Shen bought the tea mountain, none of us from Jingou Village invited us, but all the people from Yingou Village on the other side of the tea mountain were invited.
People in our village used to make a little money by taking care of the tea mountains, so that they could buy some oil, salt and coarse cloth for their homes."
The person who spoke spoke very pitifully about the people in Jingou Village, and the people watching could not help but feel pity for them.
"Didn't you say that after buying the tea mountain, Dong Shen's family will recruit people in the villages near the tea mountain?
Logically speaking, since there are two villages, one village should recruit half of them!"
"That's right, the people in Jingou Village used to take care of the tea mountains. They should be more familiar with the tea mountains and know how to take care of the tea trees. Why don't we recruit any of them!"
"Perhaps people from Yingou Village have promised the recruiters benefits, so they only recruit people from Yingou Village."
The onlookers speculated one after another.
"We thought so too."
The man added, "I was afraid that Dong Shen's family had been deceived by the people below. The family was poor and they really wanted to continue working in Chashan. So the whole village went to Chashan to see Dong Dong's family and asked. Previous question.
But when Dong Shen's family arrived, they were so majestic that they said we were causing trouble and directly asked the people from Yingou Village and the servants she brought to knock us off the tea mountain.
Return to the person who did it, ten taels of silver per person!"
"This is too much! Isn't this buying a murder to hurt someone?"
The young and energetic son said indignantly.
"That's right! Even the elderly and children are not spared!"
Among the people kneeling, there were old people and children, and they also had bruises on their faces.
Everyone sympathizes with the weak and is more willing to believe what the weak say.
"We are okay, the injuries are not serious. It's just that a few young men who were protecting the elderly and children were injured a bit seriously. They lost their arms and legs. The village chief was also angry. Now I am lying in bed and cannot get out of bed.
All of us in the village have no choice but to come and ask Master Qingtian to make the decision."
The speaker was the younger brother of the village chief, Cao Dian. Cao Dian was particularly good at talking. With just a few words, he was able to transform their rogue boy from Jingou Cun into a loving and loyal man.
He also turned them into just asking them if they were threatening to cause trouble.
Village Chief Cao was not ill, and it was he who made the idea for all the villagers, young and old, to kneel in front of the Yamen and beg Master Qingtian to make the decision.
He knew that everyone in the world sympathized with the weak. If the whole village, young and old, were injured and knelt down at the door of the government office and cried, everyone would definitely stand on their side and target the Shen family.
Even if Shen and the people in Yingou Village accuse them of causing trouble, they can refuse to admit it. They can also accuse everyone in Yingou Village of being bribed by Shen, which will naturally help Shen frame them.
Among the crowd of onlookers, there was a girl who glared at Cao Dian angrily. She wanted to shout that they were all talking nonsense, but she endured it and hurried to the car rental place with a basket in hand.
She wanted to go back to the village quickly and tell everyone that the people in Jingou Village were pouring dirty water on Dong Shen's family and the people in Yingou Village.