The entire Ming Dynasty has not had a war for many years.
Which guard soldier does not dress neatly and cleanly outside?
Although these two people were wearing school uniforms, they were really dirty.
Madam is right, they were either clothes they picked up, or they were lazy people from some guardhouse who didn't want to stock up and escaped.
If they wear the clothes they picked up, then they are common people and beggars.
If a common man dares to insult his wife in public and make her so angry, he is seeking death.
If they were deserters, their guards might also be looking for them.
Letting the yamen officers capture him not only relieved the madam's anger, but also helped the guard capture the deserters, which was the best of both worlds.
Thinking of this, the magistrate burst into laughter.
If this is the case, it would not be in vain to wake up so early to make a great contribution.
With leisurely steps, the magistrate slowly walked to his seat above the lobby, stared at Xiao Chen closely, and sat down.
"Let's not talk about whether you have insulted my wife. The clothes you are wearing are a problem in itself. Tell this county, are you a person who performs tasks outside the health office?"
Hearing what the other party said, Xiao Chen understood that the clothes he was wearing might affect his judgment on this matter.
"What are these clothes?" Xiao Chen lowered his head and flicked the dust off his body, "We deliver food to the health center. If there are clothes in the health center that are not worn, the old clothes will be given to us." Xiao Chen made it up casually.
A pretense.
If you want to know the fairness of the other party, your identity must not be exposed. Only by participating in the case as a common person can you see the true character of the county magistrate.
"Nonsense." Picking up the gavel, the magistrate knocked again.
However, the sound was not loud this time, as if it was just done casually.
"They are farming in the health center, do they need to buy vegetables outside?" He pointed at Xiao Chen coldly.
"I was talking about delivering vegetables, not selling them to the health center."
"What's the difference between delivering food and selling food?"
"The storage areas of the health centers are gathered together, but some of them are far away. If you want to eat food, you have to transport it. This is what we do." Xiao Chen said calmly.
The magistrate fell silent.
In this way, they are also half of the government. When it comes to punishment, it is still difficult to grasp the right measure.
Seeing that the magistrate didn't speak for a long time, Xiao Chen knew that his words might have put pressure on the other party.
He hurriedly explained: "Everyone in our village has delivered food to the health center."
"Oh." The magistrate raised his head and looked like he understood. He raised his right hand and pointed at Duan Tianming: "Then what about the knife on his body?"
"The storage area is far away from the Baihu Station. We were afraid of encountering gangsters on the road trying to steal the food, so the health station provided us with knives."
"You are bold and cunning. In broad daylight, you insulted the county's wife in public. For the sake of transporting vegetables to the guard station, I will slap you fifty times."
After hearing Xiao Chen's explanation, the magistrate's face immediately turned cold, and then he issued an order.
The government officials on both sides picked up the water and fire sticks with both hands and gathered around Xiao Chen.
"Wait a minute." Xiao Chen shouted sharply.
He raised his hand and pointed at the old woman next to him: "I just said she looks like a human being. Is this considered an insult?"
"Of course. If you say that a living person looks like a human being, doesn't that mean that she might not look like a human being?"
"I didn't say she doesn't look like a human being." Xiao Chen smiled faintly, "She said herself that she is as beautiful as a flower. I just said that she looks like a human being and it has nothing to do with being as beautiful as a flower."
The magistrate frowned and looked at the old woman: "Did you really say that?"
The old woman tossed her hair: "Did I say it wrong? Aren't I as beautiful as a flower?"
The magistrate's face twitched a few times and he wanted to refute, but he didn't dare to speak.
He had no choice but to look at Xiao Chen again: "There must be a reason for your conflict, right? I don't believe that she can come to you on the street and say that she is as beautiful as a flower? Unless there is something wrong with her brain."
Speaking of this, Xiao Chen shook his head and helped the old man sitting on the ground next to him: "The old man went to the city to sell vegetables, but your wife blocked his way. The vegetable cart backed up and the old man fell. The injury is so serious, what does the county magistrate think?
It’s better to deal with it.”
The wound on the old man's head was no longer bleeding, but the donated blood that had just flowed out stained his clothes red, and he still looked miserable at the moment.
"Madam, is this possible?" the magistrate asked in a low voice with a smile on his face.
"yes."
The magistrate straightened his back and said: "You are a unruly man who goes to the city to sell vegetables without even looking at the road. He falls down and blames others? Is it possible that you are the only one who can walk on this road? I don't think your injuries are serious.
I won’t let you compensate Madam for the shock fee, you can go back.”
As he spoke, he raised his right hand and waved it towards the door.
Xiao Chen was stunned.
The county magistrate's ability to confuse right and wrong is as good as his own.
It was obviously the old woman who was blocking the way and the old man was injured. Now, in the mouth of the magistrate, it was the old man who frightened his wife?
What are you frightened by? Are you frightened by the blood flowing from your head?
Just as he was about to retort, the old woman next to him spoke up.
"We can't let him go."
"Why is this?" The magistrate was stunned.
He is already injured. If you don't let him go, are you going to compensate him for medical treatment?
"This old guy abuses dogs."
"Dog abuse?"
"Yes." The old woman nodded fiercely, "Dogs are our partners and our friends. He keeps dogs, but treats them like livestock. He actually lets the dogs pull his cart. He is such a cunning person.
He is not worthy of keeping a dog. The master should fine him and punish him for disrespecting the dog. Then confiscate his dog and find a good home for the dog to spend the rest of his life."
The old woman's words made Xiao Chen really speechless.
Treat dogs like animals?
Let the dog live out the rest of his life?
In your eyes, the dog is your father, how can you still live the rest of your life peacefully?
"In our Cang County, such a bad thing actually happened?" The county magistrate was obviously very angry, "Old man, did you really let a dog pull your cart for you?"
Hearing the magistrate ask himself, the old man raised his head tremblingly: "I am ninety-nine this year, and I have no relatives in my family. I want to eat, but my body is getting worse every day, and I am really unable to do what I want. Today
I got up, harvested all the vegetables in the field, and wanted to take them to the city to sell, but the vegetable cart was so heavy that I couldn't pull it. In desperation, I tied the big dog at home to the shaft of the cart to help the little man pull the cart."
"This is really what happened, you unruly citizen." The magistrate's face turned livid. "Someone came and confiscated his big dog and beat him to the tune of fifty boards to set an example."
"I'm telling you, Lord Magistrate, this person can't live anymore. He can't pull a cart with a dog? What's the point of raising a dog? Apart from looking after the house and nursing home, it can't help with some work?" Xiao Chen's heart was filled with anger.
rise.
"Using a dog to pull a cart? What do you need those oxen and horses for? If you can't live well, why can't you live well? It's not because you're lazy." The magistrate raised his neck, "If you work harder, you can use your family's carriage to help people transport things.
, or rent out the extra house and get some income, but can’t you survive?”
The family carriage?
Extra house?
If the old man had these things, why would he drag a cart of vegetables into the city with his butt stuck out to sell them?
Can it reach the point where you can no longer survive?
Xiao Chen raised his head and looked at the magistrate in his seat, who was wearing the official uniform of the seventh rank of the imperial court, as if he were looking at an idiot.
This kind of person who never understands the sentiments of the people and relies on taking things for granted and talking nonsense can actually take charge of a country and claim to be the parents of the people?
"May I ask, sir, do you think ordinary people have carriages in their homes? Do they have houses in the downtown area?" Xiao Chen asked coldly.
"Our Ming Dynasty is prosperous, but which common people still don't have carriages or houses in the downtown area? Why, do you look down on our Ming Dynasty and our national strength?"
The magistrate's eyes widened and he was ready to get angry again.
"Alas." Xiao Chen sighed, "For you to be the parent official of Cangxian County, the people of Cangxian County are really unlucky for eight lifetimes. Take off the black gauze hat on your head yourself."
"You, who do you think you are, dare to say such arrogant words? My father-in-law is the prefect of Hejian Prefecture. As long as he rises one step higher, I will be the prefect of Hejian Prefecture. Take away my Wusha, and I am not afraid of being laughed at.
Lose your teeth."
"Come here, this man insulted the county magistrate's wife in public. He was even more disrespectful to the county in the lobby. He dragged her out and beat her with a three hundred big board." As if the three hundred big board still didn't understand his hatred, he added, "until he is beaten to death."
As he said that, he picked up a token and threw it in the middle of the lobby.
