Because of the shock she suffered yesterday, Mrs. Cheng stayed up all night. She held the Taiping Sutra in the Sutra Hall and recited it all night. Early this morning, she went to Xuanmiao Temple in person to pay homage. Although she was a little regretful not to see Guanzhu Sun, she felt better.
Already.
It was already past lunch time when I entered the house.
"...Don't do it. Make me some drink. I'll eat it and then sleep for a while. We'll eat it together at night."
Mrs. Cheng gave instructions to the servant woman as she walked.
The servant girl responded yes.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I saw two servant girls coming out carrying a few cases.
This was just put on yesterday. Mrs. Cheng was stunned for a moment.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"The master said, this one is not very good, so he asked me to go to the warehouse and pick another one." The servant woman lowered her head and said.
Mrs. Cheng frowned and saw that the maid was hiding something. She sighed, waved her hand and stopped asking, and walked into the hall.
Mr. Miles was still pacing back and forth in the hall, and there were still traces of tea stains on the floor.
What happened yesterday really made people very angry.
He disobeyed and ran out to live on his own, took the money to build a house, disobeyed in public, and even had a second room there. What a misfortune for the family!
Mrs. Cheng sighed, but with the blessing of the real person, she felt much calmer today.
"Master, forget it, don't be angry." She stepped forward and said, "She can do whatever she wants. Throw away the money and build the house with her. Whatever else she can make, just spend it next month."
Once we get out, the world will be able to see how we treated her, and those discussions will disappear on their own."
What else can be made?
If you don't mention it, then the anger that Mr. Cheng had suppressed started to rise again.
"Why can she make such a fuss? You really underestimate her!" He said, and before he continued, he saw several people hurriedly running in from outside the door.
"Master, master."
Mrs. Cheng also turned around and looked a little surprised.
Why are the shopkeepers in this house here at this time?
"Madam." Several people quickly stopped their feet and saluted.
Mrs. Cheng's eyes fell on two of them and she sneered.
"Why did you two come to my place? Are you in a hurry to deliver the account books and harvest to the second lady?" she said.
The two dealers turned red and lowered their heads.
"Madam, something happened..." they stammered.
"Something happened?" Mrs. Cheng interrupted them and laughed even more, "If something happens, come to us? If nothing happens, go and offer good things to others?"
"Forget about you and me. You and I are still one family. Now these things will become someone else's! What are you talking about!" Mr. Cheng shouted.
Mrs. Cheng was startled.
"How's it going? Has anyone been kidnapped? Beat her to death and send her to the capital." Mr. Cheng ignored her and asked.
Lin Jiu lowered his head.
"No. No." He said.
Mr. Cheng was furious.
"Trash! There are so many of you, but you can't defeat a few of these outsiders!" He said and walked out, "What a trash, I can't count on you, I'll go there myself!"
Everyone stopped him in a hurry.
"Master, they went to the government office." Lin Jiu said.
Government?
"How dare they complain first?" Mr. Cheng shouted angrily.
"No, no, I said I turned myself in and confessed." Lin Jiu said, feeling that it was awkward to say it.
Surrender yourself and plead guilty?
Mr. Cheng was a little stunned.
What crime do you plead guilty to?
At the same time, the Jiedu official in Jiangzhou Prefecture was also confused.
"Are you going to turn yourself in and plead guilty?" he asked, unable to help but look at the famous posts on several cases again.
Just now, a minor official came in with a name card, saying that someone wanted to file a lawsuit. It looked like it was Guidelang Zhou's family. The official who had only come here last year was still panicking and had to get up to greet him.
Guidelang is a military general but also a capital official. He actually wants to file a lawsuit. Could it be that something happened in Jiangzhou Prefecture.
The old official next to him stopped him.
"My lord, there is no need to panic. This Guidelang is not a stranger in our Jiangzhou Prefecture." He said with a smile, "Nothing will happen to him. It's just a dispute between relatives."
On the one hand, he told the history of the Zhou family and the Cheng family.
"Back then, when the wife of the Zhou family was mourning, the Zhou family and the Cheng family were fighting like crazy. They each wanted to come forward in the government, but how could they come forward about such a thing? Just pretend they didn't see it." The old official said.
The promoter nodded and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems that there must have been another quarrel this time because of something. When you meet me later, you just need to hum and haha." The old official said.
Unexpectedly, when the Zhou family members were let in, they did not behave like superiors and scolded them to force them to seek justice. Instead, they said that they had committed a crime and demanded to be punished.
Is it a ploy?
The official and the old official looked at each other.
"As the saying goes, a son should not tell his father's faults. Even if his father is at fault, he should not make a fuss, let alone fight. This time, in order to fight for the dowry for the young lady, we should have either advised him or asked the government to make a decision, but we were impulsive.
I hurt someone." Manager Cao stood in the hall with a solemn expression. He was not at all aloof like the Beijing officials' family members. Instead, he saluted with a bit of humility, "As servants, in the eyes of outsiders, our behavior will not be the same.
This is the behavior of the young lady. It is our fault for trapping the lady in such injustice, so please punish me."
Is that so?
The official's expression was complicated, while the old official beside him narrowed his eyes, seeming to grasp some of the meaning of these words, but he was not sure yet.
"Then since you know that you are wrong and it is a family matter, I will not care about it and you can make up your own mind," the judge said.
Manager Cao bowed and saluted.
"Just as we should admit our mistakes and accept punishment, we should also strive for justice." He said, "It is no longer a family matter at this time, so we should admit the sins we should admit, but we should also ask for the requests."
"What do you want?" the promoter asked with a frown.
"Sir, my little lady wants to ask the government to determine her mother's dowry." Manager Cao raised his head and said.
The judge sat up straight in surprise, and the old official beside him finally understood his doubts and was fighting for the dowry for the young lady! It turned out that this kind of fight was not just a verbal fight, they actually wanted to decide the dowry through the government.
"It is a serious crime of disobedience for a child to take his parents to court if he does not speak up about his father's faults, but now there is really no way out." Manager Cao said, saluting again, "I hope you will forgive me.
"
While saluting, he reached out and pushed forward a piece of paper.
Seeing the pushed paper, the official and the old official narrowed their eyes.
They have long been trained to have sharp eyes and can recognize a flying coupon at a glance.
If a child files a complaint against his or her parents, the government will not accept it. It would be frivolous to file a lawsuit directly. However, if it involves family property, there is room for negotiation.
As for the room for negotiation, it is entirely within the control of officials.
The promoter looked at the man who was kneeling and saluting, and then looked at the money being pushed in front of him, and he understood everything in his heart.
You turned yourself in and confessed your bullshit, you are here to pay for a lawsuit!
But should I accept it or not? After all, the Cheng family is a wealthy family in Jiangzhou Prefecture, and the current wife of the Cheng family is even more wealthy, and the second master Cheng is still an official.
Although the Zhou family is a Beijing official and their status is not inferior to that of the Cheng family, firstly, the emperor is far away from them, and secondly, it is about family property. The court has always respected filial piety and brotherhood, and is most afraid of such things like fighting between father and son, whether father and son are close to each other...
"My wife is about to get married. Her mother died early and she cannot send her off in person. I want the world to see the dowry left by her mother and let the world know that her mother is worthy of being a mother. However, the elder of the family keeps taking possession of her dowry.
, I really feel sad for you." Manager Cao said again.
It sounds so nice, but it’s not just about the money….
The push officer frowned in deep thought and said nothing, while the old official looked at him with twinkling eyes.
"It's not that I'm greedy for money, but that I want to get justice for my mother," Manager Cao added.
When these words were spoken, the eyes of the promotion officer and the old official stopped blinking and lit up.
Manager Cao never looked at the expressions of these two people and kept his head humbly lowered. After saying this, he took out a few more pieces of paper and pushed them over.
"This is the dowry list and documents of our Zhou family. I hope you will be careful."
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"Master, Master."
The housekeeper of the Cheng family ran in with a panicked look on his face, unable to hold his hat up because he was running askew.
"How is it? Did you find out clearly?" Mr. Cheng stood up and asked hurriedly.
Mrs. Cheng, who was kneeling in front of the table in front of the table and chanting the Taiping Sutra hurriedly, also stopped for a moment and listened to what was said here.
"I've found out clearly." The housekeeper gasped, "I really went to the government and was imprisoned..."
Mr. Cheng sat down with a strange look on his face.
"Are they crazy?" he asked.
The butler shook his head.
"Master, they are not crazy, they are suing us." He then said urgently, "The clerk in the cell secretly told me that the Zhou family said that Mrs. Cheng has submitted a complaint and wants to sue our family for embezzling her mother's dowry. Please
The government is aware of it and makes the right decision!"
What? Submitted a petition! Please ask the government to clarify the dowry!
Mr. Cheng sat up with a look of disbelief on his face.
In the room, Mrs. Cheng also sat up and looked at the scripture in her hand. She felt that she couldn't help but feel so confused no matter how much she read it.
What else is there to make a fuss about? The fuss actually involves the dowry. Compared with this, running away and spending ten thousand guan randomly are nothing to worry about.
Could it be that not even a real god can restrain this fool?
