(Dizzy, I had a convulsion at some point, and I couldn’t get it going, until now...)
The Cheng family's complaint was also submitted, and the government immediately merged the two cases and announced that they would be mentioned in court on the 20th of this month.[]
In a blink of an eye, the 19th came, and tomorrow was the day of hearing. The Cheng family did not dare to be careless in a battle involving Jiang Qing's honor. For this reason, Mrs. Song invited a famous litigator in Sichuan, and asked her younger brother and Cheng Zhicai to fight with them.
They discussed countermeasures every day. She herself and Mrs. Lai and several companions acted as women, playing cards and making money in the back hall, passing the time while waiting for Ding Mao to be given.
When it got dark, the lanterns were turned on, and the maids brought the food, then the card game was stopped, and several women were waiting for Song's meal. She was savoring the gold and silver fish soup that the chef in the house had learned from Lai Fulou, and the maid reported that she was big
Lang is here.
"My son, haven't you eaten yet?" Mrs. Song couldn't help but let go of all her worries when she saw her handsome son. She asked her mother-in-law to get him a pair of bowls and chopsticks and sit down to eat together.
Cheng Zhicai didn't have much appetite, so he barely ate half a bowl of porridge. Seeing that he was preoccupied and hesitated to speak, Mrs. Song waved his hand to dismiss his companion and asked, "My son, are you worried about tomorrow's lawsuit?"
"Well..." There was deep sadness on Cheng Zhicai's handsome face.
"Don't worry, with your uncle and several lawyers working together, everything will be safe." Mrs. Song comforted him and said, "When the time comes, just stand there and say nothing."
"Empress, even if Ba Niang and I are not husband and wife, we are still cousins..." Cheng Zhicai finally made up his mind and whispered: "I will write the book about letting my wife go..."
"Absurd!" Mrs. Song said with a smile: "Her father came to our house to rob someone, and when he carved a monument in our house, he treated us as relatives!"
"After all, we can't help Banniang first." Cheng Zhicai said in a low voice.
"What do I have to do with her?" Ms. Song's eyebrows raised. "Since the day she married into the Cheng family, have I been short of food and use for her, or have I not treated her as a young mistress? But she is good.
If you don't say anything when your stomach is not moving, I will give you two concubines, and you will pretend to be sick. As a mother-in-law, do I deserve to be angry with her? What's wrong with her, and then go on a hunger strike and seek death? She was actually dead at the time
To save peace and quiet, we don’t want to embarrass my family now!”
"Mother, you have misunderstood Banniang," Cheng Zhicai sighed: "Things are not what you think..."
"What does that look like?" Ms. Song stared at her son.
Under his mother's gaze, Cheng Zhicai's eyes flickered, his lips moved for a long time, and finally he lowered his head and said, "I don't know why."
"Don't let go of that bitch anymore." Mrs. Song thought her son's old love was over, so she laughed and said: "There are many families of Jiang Qing in Sichuan, and they have long been eyeing my handsome and talented man.
After divorce, the threshold of our family will be broken by the matchmaker."
"Mother, I," Cheng Zhicai said with a gloomy expression, "I don't want to get married again."
"What a fool, I'm still waiting to have a grandson." Madam Song said with a nonchalant smile: "By the way, are there any movements between those two girls? But I specially asked someone to look at them. They are both good for giving birth to children."
The appearance of a man!”
"Not yet..." When this topic was mentioned, Cheng Zhicai felt on pins and needles and said, "Mom, if I have nothing else to do, I will go back and read first."
"Go back, don't read tonight, go to bed early." Song said, "Stick up your energy for tomorrow."
"Yes." Cheng Zhicai said softly.
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The next day was a rare sunny day. Just after Mao Shi, people outside the county government office were full of Meishan people watching the excitement. After a series of disputes, this ordinary divorce lawsuit had escalated into a grudge between the Cheng and Su families, and the common people and
The intensity of the rivalry between Jiang and Qing attracted the attention of the whole city. The gambling house even offered a bet on whether the outcome of today's lawsuit would be divorce or divorce.
Although they were both divorces, the two methods were very different for both parties at the time.
Under the teachings of Confucius, a woman can be divorced only if she commits the sin of "seven outings". What are seven outings? Childlessness, adultery, neglect of aunts and uncles, gossip, theft, jealousy, and bad diseases. Carrying this
Who would dare to marry a woman with a bad reputation?
To say that divorcing a wife is tantamount to pronouncing the woman's death sentence! Although it is a bit exaggerated, it also describes the harm this move does to the woman.
On the other hand, divorce is advocated by the woman. If the government finally decides to divorce, it will undoubtedly determine that the man has made a big mistake and has to be divorced, which will cause great harm to the man.
The people of Meishan are all waiting eagerly to see who hurt whom in the end...
Emotionally speaking, there are more people supporting the Su family. After all, everyone hopes to defeat the strong with the weak and challenge Jiang Qing with the common people. After the Su family appeared, people's cheers and encouragement were far greater than those of the Cheng family.
It can also be seen when it appears louder.
The Su family's formation was really quite large. In addition to San Su, there were four strong young men, who closely guarded Su Baniang, who was wearing a white veil on her head, in the middle.
But it pales in comparison to the grandeur of the Cheng family - more than twenty servants, cheering in front and behind, carrying five sedans, one of which was a female sedan with green curtains, followed by several other people.
The maid and mother-in-law drove directly into the county government office.
When people see the Cheng family's illustrious power, they are filled with envy and jealousy, and they can't help but sweat for the Su family... Can they fight against this behemoth?
Cases heard by the county government are all conducted in the second hall. In addition to the chief judge, the secretary, and the third class of yamen servants, some common people are often allowed to listen outside the hall to show that the chief judge is impartial and impartial.
When both parties to the dispute had arrived, the audience outside the venue took their seats. Zhou Daling, wearing a green silk official robe, a horn belt around his waist, and a straight-legged futon on his head, appeared in the hall.
"Greetings to the great order..." Except for the yamen servants on duty, everyone bowed to the great order of Zhou and saluted, and the women bowed to the great blessing salute.
"Everyone is safe." Song Daling sat down under the plaque of "Mingjing Gaohang", and ordered people to set up seats for the Song family, who has a royal title, and Song Anzhi, who has an official status. Then he looked at the screen door facing him.
Qing Shenqin's plaque said in a deep voice: "There is a case of mutual prosecution between Su Baniang, a citizen of this county, and Cheng Zhicai, a student of this county. In accordance with the criminal law of the Song Dynasty, the two cases are hereby merged into one case and will be heard today."
With a slap in the face, he said: "Ascend to the throne!"
"Mighty..." The office workers on the station poked the water and fire sticks on the ground together, and made low sounds in their mouths to remind both parties to pay attention to the order of the court.
"Xuan, the plaintiff and defendant Su Baniang are in court." Then a class leader asked loudly: "Which one is Su Baniang?"
"That's the daughter of the people." At this time, Ba Niang had taken off her veil, revealing a thin and haggard pretty face. She was wearing a plain white dress and had her head wrapped in blue cloth. She had a kind of pity-like beauty.
.I saw her walking into the hall. After standing still, she folded her hands on her lower abdomen, slightly bent her knees under the eyes, and then performed the Wanfu Salute. Her pitiful appearance made people unconsciously feel sympathy.
"Are you prosecuting on your own or asking someone to prosecute on your behalf?" Zhou Daling asked. Seeing that Su Baniang was a weak woman and had so many relatives and friends, he thought that he must ask someone else for help.
"A civilian girl is suing." Unexpectedly, Su Baniang said firmly.
"Okay." Zhou Daling called Cheng Zhicai in again. When he asked, the man invited a lawyer, so he also let him in.
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Then both the plaintiff and the defendant read the pleadings in front of the court.
Listening to the pleadings of the two parties, the intensity of the pleadings was completely different. In the pleading, Su Baniang only said, "The union between husband and wife was originally a bond in the past life, but if they have turned against each other, they will be like cats and mice, and wolves and dogs will hate each other."
Therefore, it is better for everyone to return to his true nature, resolve grievances and resolve knots, let alone hate each other, part ways with each other, and live happily." Such elegant language, read in Su Baniang's gentle tone, makes people unaware of it at all.
On the contrary, if you are angry, you will feel that if you are in harmony, you will come together, and if you are not in harmony, you will scatter. This is how a husband and wife should be.
On the other hand, the complaint prepared by the Cheng family's litigant was a fierce denigration of her, laying out eight crimes against her, seven of which included being disobedient to her parents-in-law, childless, unruly women, and jealous... four of them. Those with a discerning eye.
At first glance, you can tell that this is a counterattack against Su Xun's six accusations against the Cheng family.
However, under such comparison, it seems that the one who is more noble is not the Cheng family as Jiang Qing, but the Su family as common people.
After the two sides finished their statements, Zhou Daling said to Su Baliang: "The Cheng family's complaint is well-founded, but you only asked for a divorce on the grounds of 'remutation'..." After a pause, he said: "What else do you want?
Is there any supplement?”
"No more..." Su Baniang shook her head.
"Then I have no choice but to rely on the Cheng family's complaint." Zhou Daling said solemnly: "Four of the Cheng family's accusations against you meet the 'seven claims'. If you can't prove your innocence, I have no choice but to let it rest."
Wife."
"The great order is a clear warning," Su Baniang said with a sad smile: "As a girl from the scholarly family, my mother taught me the virtues of women. She gave me instructions from childhood, telling me to be filial to my parents-in-law and to abide by my duties. And the girl of the people married into the Cheng family.
For two years, except for the last two months when I was bedridden, I served my parents-in-law carefully every day and was careful in my words and deeds. I never behaved in an arrogant or rude way, and I never behaved in a vying for favor. Therefore, I eliminated the "childless"
Except, the rest is slander.”
"Oh," Zhou Daling looked at the litigant and said, "Su said that your family was slanderous. Is there any evidence to the contrary?"
"Of course there are." The litigator sneered: "We won't give examples within the family, because the witnesses are all Cheng family members, so it is not easy to be convincing. Let me just say one thing, on the Qingming Festival this year, half of Meishan
All the people saw this woman being carried by a man and snatched out of the Cheng family gate, running through half of Meishan City until she got to the pier to board the ship." After that, he pointed to the door and said: "Da Ling Mingjian,
