When I walked out of the county government office in Jiangling City, I looked at the rising sun. Although the weather was getting hotter, I felt refreshed despite the beautiful flowers:
Finally - free.
She has never felt as happy as she does today.
Even though she was extremely poor now and her life was even more hopeless than in her previous life, even though she had become a little widow, she was still full of hope for life.
For the first time, I deeply felt that nothing is happier than living.
Thinking that I had just rushed to the county government office, I had failed to live up to the delicious food in Jiangling City, and I was afraid that my elegant cousin would not be happy with the meal.
She looked at Shu Jinxuan with a smile: "Cousin, whatever do you want to eat? I'll treat you today."
He pinched the only five taels of silver in his arms and quickly added: "Just don't be too expensive."
"Of course I can't be polite to you today."
Shu Jinxuan didn't expect that the turn of events would come so suddenly. Even though he was happy, he was reluctant to let her spend more money. He pointed to the previous noodle stall: "I think the tofu skin I just ate tastes good. Why don't we go and have another bowl."
Huaru Jinfeng's eyes paused slightly: "Okay."
Although she wanted him to save money for herself, she didn't want him to save money to this extent.
After all, he was a rich man, but he was wronged by being forced to work like a cow and a horse with him, and he had to eat at a roadside stall with him.
Just thinking about the current situation, there is really no need to pretend to be fat.
Looking around, she accidentally caught a glimpse of a book shop not far from the county government office opening its door. She pointed towards Shu Jinxuan: "Cousin, go to the noodle stall first, and I'll go to the book shop to buy some pens, ink, paper and inkstones."
After leaving the Dou family, how to make a living is the top priority.
After working as a lawyer for so many years, the first thing she thinks of is still her old profession.
Although Hua Junnian proposed to divide the family, the property that the Hua family can divide is really limited.
In my memory, the Hua family also had ten acres of farmland in the village back then. In order to protect the child born to the convict’s wife, whose third uncle had an affair with the original owner, almost all of the land was given to the convict’s deceased husband’s family, leaving only two acres of thin farmland.
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Both Hu Nanxi and Meng Yutang were unwilling to endure hardship. One relied on the pension from the county and the other relied on her husband's salary and went to her parents' home to catch the autumn wind. The fields had been abandoned for many years and no one was cultivating them.
The most he can strive for now is the old house of the Hua family and his grandfather's annual pension.
However, living in the village was inconvenient for taking on litigation cases, and in Hua Junnian, Cai Baiwei and his wife traveled around for business all year round, so she came up with the idea of renting a small courtyard in the city.
This is not only convenient for myself, but also helps Hua Junnian and Cai Baiwei find a stable livelihood in the city.
You can't just stay in the village and wait to die, and you have to be buried.
After making up her mind, she first went to the bookstore and spent a tael of silver to buy some of the cheapest pens, inks, paper and inkstones. She also went to the store to exchange for some copper coins, and then returned to the noodle stall.
At this time, the noodle stall was much busier than before, and many people were talking around Shu Jinxuan:
"Miss Hua really relied on her own ability to get the new magistrate to write a remarriage license with twenty complaints?"
"Absolutely true."
Shu Jinxuan showed admiration: "My cousin didn't say a word. The county magistrate just looked at the complaint she handed over and expressed his position at that time."
Everyone listened with suspicion on their faces. Although they did not dare to discuss it openly, they began to whisper among themselves: "I heard that the new magistrate had an engagement with Miss Huajia earlier. Isn't it that the magistrate is caring and protective?"
"I heard that it was the Hua family who disliked the Ye family and took the initiative to break off the engagement. If the county magistrate should not have protected the Dou family for this reason, why did he protect the Hua family instead? This is a bit unreasonable."
"Who knows, I heard that the young lady from the Hua family was wild and promiscuous, so she wanted to remarry after watching the mourning period for Sanlang of the Dou family. I'm afraid she had a secret affair with the county magistrate a long time ago. I guess she is.
The magistrate was deceived by her."
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Seeing Hua Rujin coming, everyone immediately stopped whispering, gathered around her, and asked in unison: "Miss Hua family, Mr. Shu said that the magistrate has judged your marriage to the Dou family, can you take it seriously?"
Hua Rujin looked at the faces that were looking at her with eyes wide open, and just nodded slowly, then sat down next to Shu Jinxuan.
"Miss Hua Jia is really a woman who cannot be outdone by women. She is amazing."
Everyone's faces were filled with smiles, but their hearts were full of regret.
If I had known that the case would be closed so easily, I should have taken over the case yesterday, not only to earn some money, but also to defeat Gu Langxi and become famous.
"Excellent."
Hua Rujin responded casually, and then heard someone shouting from the restaurant next to her: "Come on, come on, come on, someone has gone to the county government to file a complaint."
She just looked for her voice and saw that the people surrounding her dispersed in a hurry, and they all ran as fast as they could to the county government office.
"Well, if I rely on this method to take over the job, I'm afraid my small body will burst my head and I won't be able to overtake a group of rough old men."
Hua Rujin put down the pen, ink, paper and inkstone in her hand while concentrating on how to save her life.
"I just heard from the store owner that he is from Yangzhou and his soup-filled steamed buns are excellent. You can try them."
Shu Jinxuan put a hot bun in front of her. Seeing that she was absent-minded, although she didn't pay attention to the whispers just now, she still had some doubts about Ye Chengguan's quick decision: "Cousin, you said Mr. Ye is really just because
Did your complaint change the case?"
Hua Rujin pinched the fragrant and tender steamed bun and smelled it at the tip of her nose. The aroma was fragrant: "Everything must have an entry point. As I said before, if we hold on to the suicide note and the cause of Dou Sanlang's death, I'm afraid that
It played into Gu Langxi's plan, but if he changed his thinking, there would be another result.
This member Dou wants to kill his relatives for justice, but I won't let him do it. Dou Erlang is already full of misdeeds. The facts are before our eyes. Mr. Ye is not a vain person. He will not build a potential chastity memorial in order to add another chastity arch to the county.
The cases of adultery and even murder were ignored.”
"I see."
Shu Jin suddenly understood: "This Member Dou is really puzzling. You can obviously save your son's life and gain a reputation as a noble and upright man. But now it's better. If you lose your wife and lose the army, Dou Erlang will be imprisoned and he will probably be exiled."
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This is also a question that Hua Rujin has been thinking about.
Why on earth did the old guy insist on being buried for his son?
Looking at her elegant cousin who also looked puzzled, she decided not to think about these troublesome things anymore.
Anyway, with the county's verdict, he could no longer do anything to himself.
"Let's eat. Later I want to go to the bookstore to buy some Torah books. After buying the books, I can rush back early to tell my mother and father the news, so as to save them from worrying anymore."
Hua Rujin urged while eating the fragrant steamed buns.
"Why do you suddenly want to buy some Torah books?"
Shu Jinxuan looked puzzled.
Hua Rujinwen smiled and glanced at the noisy county government in the distance.
Although I came from an academic background, I know very little about the laws of this dynasty, and there are always some differences.
As for Dou Yuancheng's plan last night, she actually had no idea in her heart, so she could only deal with him based on the common and reasonable self-defense common to all dynasties.
If according to the laws of some dynasties that severely punished the crime of adultery, and based on what Dou Yuancheng did to the original owner before, it would not be an exaggeration to just stab him to death.
Furthermore, she had to carefully study how to write a serious complaint.