In Lin Jue's small courtyard, the lights in the room are on and the long windows are open. The faint fragrance of flowers in the courtyard lingers in the night. In the cracks between the corners of the house and the roots of flowers and trees, night insects chirp, one after another loudly, like
It's a concert.
Lin Jueduan sat in front of the desk under the window, holding a book in his hand as a sign of reading. But he did not read a word at all, he was waiting.
A clutter of footsteps came from outside the courtyard, and the insects suddenly hid in their hiding place without a sound. Under the light of the lantern, the courtyard door was pushed open with a crash. A group of people rushed in with a roar.
Lin Jue put down the book in his hand and looked up. He saw the three brothers Lin Ke, Lin Song, and Lin Run striding into the courtyard. Lin Jue stood up slowly, with a smile on his face. The wait was finally here.
"Lin Jue, haven't you slept yet?" Lin Ke asked with a sneer when he saw Lin Jue walking out of the house.
"Hello eldest brother, hello second brother, hello third brother." Lin Jue saluted respectfully: "Aren't the three brothers asleep too? The weather is a bit hot tonight and I can't sleep, so I just read a book."
"Hey, it's so hard to work hard." Lin Song said with a smile.
"It's not about studying hard. I'm going to the academy to study soon. I can't embarrass my family, so..."
"Stop talking about this, we are not interested in hearing it." Lin Run interrupted rudely.
Lin Jue frowned and said, "What's the matter with the three brothers coming here so late?"
"Stop pretending, don't you know? What happened at Wangyue Tower tonight?" Lin Song sneered.
Lin Jue put his hand on his forehead and suddenly said: "Oh, are the three brothers talking about Butler Huang and the others arresting Zhang Yanei? Of course I know this, and everyone in the house knows it."
"You know you are still so calm. Don't you want to explain?" Lin Run shouted.
Lin Jue spread his hands and said, "What should I explain? This matter has nothing to do with me."
"You're still making excuses..." Lin Run shouted.
"Third brother, don't do this." Lin Ke finally couldn't bear the noise of his two younger brothers and stopped him.
Lin Run had no choice but to shut up and retreat.
Lin Ke looked at Lin Jue with a smile and said: "Do you know how the head of the family punished Butler Huang? Just now, Butler Huang was beaten with ten sticks and carried back. He is no longer the steward of my Lin family, he is just an ordinary person who drives carts and feeds horses.
A servant."
Lin Jue groaned and said, "It's a pity. How could such a shrewd person like Butler Huang do such a stupid thing? The family law does not allow it. Although I sympathize with him, he also brought the blame on himself."
Lin Ke chuckled and said, "Yes, you are to blame. However, I feel that he was set up. Lin Jue, we real people don't tell lies. The three of us are here on the orders of the family master.
I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. Uncle Changqing saw you hanging out in Wangyue Tower and wanted to take you on the spot, but somehow he provoked Zhang Yanei. Well... let's not talk about how he provoked Zhang Yanei.
We are here to ask you on the orders of the family leader, do you admit that you went to Wangyue Tower today?"
Lin Jue nodded without hesitation and said: "I went, not only today, but also yesterday and the day before and the day before yesterday."
"Okay, you can tell me frankly. On the day of the court training last month, you were beaten for this, and you actually dared to do it after that. Do you regard family law as nothing? Or do you deliberately challenge the power of family law?" Lin
Ke asked coldly.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "What did brother say? How dare I do that? I didn't go to Wangyue Tower to do anything bad. I went there last month and was beaten. I didn't explain it because I couldn't explain it. But afterwards I
I feel that I must explain it clearly to prevent the head of the family and everyone in the house from misunderstanding that I went to the fireworks place and ruined the family's reputation. So I went there these few days to ask the people in Wangyue Tower to prove it to me."
"What are you talking about? Why can't we understand?" Lin Ke frowned.
Lin Jue sighed and said: "Originally, I interrupted my meeting with the head of the family tomorrow morning. Since several brothers have come to ask about this matter, I will explain it clearly to them in advance. Three brothers, wait a moment, I will get you some things.
Take a look."
Lin Jue turned around and went back to the house. When he returned a moment later, he found a thick stack of paper in his hand.
"What is this?" Lin Ke frowned and looked at the stack of papers handed over by Lin Jue.
"Brother, you will know the whole story after just one look." Lin Jue said with a smile.
Lin Ke reached out and took it. The servant next to him stretched out the lantern to light it. Lin Ke looked at the papers under the light. After reading several pages in a row, Lin Ke's face became a little ugly because he had roughly understood the meaning on these papers.
The content is to prove something.
It was a stack of oral testimonials signed by eighty-nine people with their fingerprints. It proved the fact that Lin Jue rescued a woman who had fallen into the water on the red boat of Wangyue Tower in the West Lake more than 20 days ago. The oral testimonials included a company that operated and rented out dinghy boats.
A boatman, two tourists on the lake not far away, as well as Wangyuelou’s mother Xie Danhong, Wangyuelou’s top cardholder Xie Yingying and two brothel women present.
The next three or two pages are the oral accounts of eyewitnesses when Lin Jue was having sex with two brothel women on the street that day. They record the conversation between the two women and Lin Jue at that time, proving that Lin Jue was recognized by them as their savior.
And the fact that he was invited to Wangyue Tower for tea.
All oral statements are stamped with names and fingerprints. This is the most effective proof document in Dazhou law and can be used as evidence in court.
"That day, Green Dance Xiaohu and I went to the West Lake to play. We saw someone falling into the water in the middle of the lake, so we rescued the person who fell into the water. I didn't know that they were from a brothel, but even if they were girls from a brothel, their lives would still be the same.
After that, we didn’t reveal our identities as members of the Lin family, so we went ashore and left. Unexpectedly, the people in Wangyue Tower had been hoping to repay the favor of rescuing people, and they searched everywhere for my whereabouts. I was with Lu Wu that day.
While shopping, I happened to be recognized by Xie Danhong and Lan Niang, the mothers of Wangyue Tower. The two people refused to let me go and invited me to go to Wangyue Tower and said that Ms. Xie Yingying had to express her gratitude in person. I saw that it was really indecent to argue and talk on the street.
, so I had to follow them to Wangyue Tower." Lin Jue slowly narrated.
Lin Ke frowned and said, "In that case, why didn't you speak out on the day of the court hearing? But you were willing to be severely punished by the family law?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "Brother, I had no evidence and no one could prove it. If I say it, will you believe it? The only ones who can prove it to me are the maids Lu Wu and Xiaohu in my room. Will you believe their words?
What?"
Lin Ke was speechless. Of course he knew that it was useless for Lin Jue to tell this story based on the court training that day. That family meal was absolutely unavoidable. The maids and boys in the room
His testimony is not credible at all. Lin Jue is very clear-minded.
"I had nothing to say after being punished by the Nadun family, because it was me who was caught. But I wanted to clarify the matter afterwards, so as not to let the head of the family and everyone in the clan think that I went to a place of brothels and fireworks to have fun.
So, the purpose of my frequent visits to Wangyue Tower in the past few days is to ask everyone in Wangyue Tower to prove their innocence to me and explain the whole story clearly. To this end, I also found relevant eyewitnesses, all of whom are famous
You can ask everyone with that surname one by one."
"Originally, the people in Wangyue Tower heard that I was beaten because of this, and hoped to come to clarify for me. However, considering their status, it seemed inappropriate to let them come to the Lin family mansion without the permission of the family owner. So they wrote oral statements.
.But as long as the head of the family is willing, they can come to my door to clarify things for me at any time."
"I did go to Wangyue Tower this evening. I went to get the things they wrote to prove my innocence. After getting these, I had all the things I needed to prove my innocence. I stayed there for half a day.
hour, and then I went back home. As for what you said about Zhang Yanei that happened there tonight, I don’t know at all, because I was not there at all when it happened. Or after I returned home, I heard what Lin Hu told me
Mine. I originally wanted to hand these things over to the head of the family early tomorrow morning to prove my innocence, but some brothers are here, so it would be better to explain it clearly in front of them. I wonder if these brothers can hear clearly.
Already?"
Lin Jue talked calmly, explaining clearly the ins and outs of the matter and his own mental journey. He also talked about tonight's events in an understatement. Lin Ke frowned and pondered, he didn't expect this matter to happen.
There will be such an inside story. The oral accounts of these eight or nine witnesses directly proved the error of the court's family law punishment that day, and even made the reason why Lin Jue frequently visited Wangyue Tower in the past few days more reasonable. Originally, in the hall just now
After the meeting about punishing Huang Changqing was over, the three brothers became more and more angry as they thought about it, so they came together to confront Lin Jue about his visits to the brothel in the past few days, and took the opportunity to beat Lin Jue up again to vent his anger. But now, all the reasons are gone.
This is no longer true. Lin Jue is just looking for evidence to prove his innocence. He is not looking for flowers and willows.
All this seems to be impeccable, although Lin Ke feels more and more that this is a careful design by Lin Jue. The rescue may be true, but Lin Jue is definitely not innocent in what happened tonight. But now, it seems that he can't find it.
He knew there was something fishy in the matter, but he couldn't do anything about it. This feeling was very unpleasant. Looking at Lin Jue with a calm face, Lin Ke seemed to be able to hear the ridicule in his heart, and there was a feeling that his IQ was being crushed.
