Bai Banxia looked at Li Liang and said, "It's true that you are filial, but if you suffer for them, they will never know their fault, and they will never understand the punishment they have to bear after making a mistake, and they will not repent."
Li Liang had a painful expression on his face and said with a choked voice: "I understand, but my grandma will die if she takes a hard hit."
At this point, not to mention Mr. Du and County Magistrate Zhou, even the people in Maple Village could see what was going on.
Mr. Du said with a dark face: "Whoever is responsible will get a slap in the face. I want you to be filial, so I will only give Mrs. Li twenty big slaps as a warning to others."
"Sir, please let me take the blame for my grandma." Li Liang kowtowed and begged.
Master Du ignored him and directly signaled for execution.
Zhang Tie winked, and someone immediately went to hold Li Liang down. Although two more people held Granny Li down, the board started to slap.
Mrs. Li screamed repeatedly, but Mr. Du ignored her and looked at Carpenter Li and said, "Carpenter Li is an accomplice. He eavesdropped on court secrets while working and collaborated with others to make false accusations against good people. Do you know your crime?"
"Sir, spare your life, I will never dare to do it again!" Carpenter Li knelt down and begged for mercy, but Master Du coldly uttered four words: "Crime plus one."
Carpenter Li shuddered. He regretted it so much now. He just overheard the conversation of the high official and found out that the benefit belonged to a relative's family in Maple Tree Village. He asked Mrs. Li to reveal the news and asked her to find a way to get the court's request in advance.
Use the land, and when you earn the money, you will split it half with him.
He didn't dare to get too close when eavesdropping, and he listened vaguely, so he misunderstood Mr. Du's "double compensation" for requisitioning people's land as "ten times compensation." According to the Zhang family's purchase price of seven taels, the compensation was also
Seven taels, half of it is only divided into three and a half taels of silver. It is not worth the medical expenses to endure these hardships for three and a half taels of silver.
The problem is that the Li family did not grab that piece of forest land, and the rest of the land is ownerless, and it is impossible to register for temporary development. Although he felt sorry for it, he did not want to harm the Zhang family. After all, he would not be able to get the money if he did it again.
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But his aunt Mrs. Li said that she hated the Zhang family so much that even if she couldn't make this money, she couldn't give the Zhang family an advantage. She must take this opportunity to make sure that the Zhang family never recovers.
When Mr. Du announced the double compensation in public just now, he was dumbfounded, but he felt much more balanced in his heart. At least the loss was not ten times, which made him feel much better.
He winked at Mrs. Li from a distance, but he didn't know that Mrs. Li kept gesturing for him to report it. He thought that he had heard the wrong news and was afraid that Mrs. Li would blame him, so he had to bite the bullet and did it.
He regretted it so much now. Why didn't he rein in the situation? Why did he let Mrs. Li's hatred clear the way?
"Carpenter Li, if you still haven't explained everything clearly, I might as well ask you to be given a lighter sentence." Zhou Hai said.
Carpenter Li reacted, kowtowed hurriedly, and then told what happened.
As soon as he said this, everyone suddenly realized that before the contact, the Li family competed with the Zhang family for forest land, and then hated the Zhang family, and deliberately sabotaged the Zhang family's attempts to marry the Luo family's daughter. Finally, they understood.
It's all because of the word "profit". Ten times compensation is indeed a huge amount of money. Unfortunately, Carpenter Li heard it wrong.
"It's so stupid!" Mr. Du snorted coldly, "The imperial court has regulations that requisition people's fertile land and pay double the price. There has never been a precedent of ten times. You caused these things because of eavesdropping, and the Li family also caused these things because of greed.
If you commit evil with others, you will be punished now for your own sake."
Immediately, Mr. Du ordered Carpenter Li to be beaten thirty times and exiled outside the customs.
Next to me, Mrs. Li also finished her spanking. She rolled her eyes and passed out, not knowing whether it was pain or anger.
Li Liang's father and mother didn't dare to say anything. They hurriedly carried Mrs. Li home. Li Liang got up and followed her.
"Girl, let's just forget it?" Mr. Zhang was a little unconvinced, "Aren't you going to interrogate the other members of the Li family? It's obvious that they only stuffed things into our family, and their hearts are dark."
Bai Banxia pulled her grandfather's sleeve and whispered: "The court affairs have been delayed. This gentleman is already very unhappy. It is inconvenient to talk about civil affairs for the time being."
"Yes." Grandpa nodded and said nothing more.
Bai Banxia glanced at Li Liang's back, and there was one more thing she didn't say. She was doing it for Li Liang's child.
But the matter can be settled as it is. She doesn't want Li Liang to be implicated, so she won't go public, but Li Liang's parents can't let it go easily.
The matter finally calmed down. Mr. Du sent people to the mountain to investigate again. After making sure that everything was correct, he ordered the groundbreaking tomorrow.
After Mr. Du and the others left, the people in Maple Tree Village suddenly went into a rage. They all scolded the Li family at first, but soon changed to asking the village chief from whom to choose the people to be hired by the imperial court.
"The Zhang family has been wronged this time, so I will make a decision and give the Zhang family two places, and the remaining 15 people from the west and east of the village..." the village chief began to talk.
The division was basically divided into two or three households, and the Zhang family was really considerate of them by giving them two places, but no one had any objections. It was true that the Li family went too far, and there was nothing wrong with the village chief's arrangement.
When the village chief arranged for people, a voice sounded from behind Bai Banxia: "How did I do?"
Bai Banxia turned around, looked into Qi Zhen's bright black eyes, couldn't help but smile, and gave him a thumbs up, saying: "I must give him a thumbs up, I can rest assured that you are doing the job."
When grandpa heard this, he turned around and asked, "Did Xiao Qi find out that he was exchanged?"
Qi Zhen nodded slightly, "Let's talk about it when we go home."
"good."
Things were almost arranged. Mr. Zhang greeted the village chief and they returned to Zhang's house together.
The family gathered around, staring at Qi Zhen and asking what the Li family had buried in the forest.
"There was a jar with venomous snakes, bats, geckos and other messy things in it. It was very smelly, so I threw it under the cliff." Qi Zhen glanced at the backyard, "A small jar was also thrown at the root of the backyard wall, and the same thing was inside.
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Mr. Zhang's face changed greatly, "This is a poisonous poison. The imperial court has clearly ordered not to raise poisonous poisonous poisons. The Li family is so cruel and wants to kill us!"
Zhang Renshen slapped the table, "Li family, I'm not done with you!"
Bai Banxia was a little surprised. In her previous life, she also planned to study Miao Jiang's voodoo technique, but because the voodoo technique was lost, there was no chance. She didn't expect to encounter someone using this thing to harm her grandma's family.
"I'm afraid you are young and don't know that in the early years, Gu masters from the Miao border entered our Juexia and used Gu insects to kill countless people. Later, some people also learned it, and even raising Gu became popular for a time. Later, there was a large-scale epidemic.
, originally thought it was a natural or man-made disaster, but they did not expect it to be caused by cultivating voodoos, so the imperial court issued an order not to raise voodoos. Raising voodoos is regarded as a witchcraft, and those who raise voodoos will also be regarded as unlucky people."
Mr. Zhang spoke slowly, "It has been many years since this happened. Nowadays, no one in Juexia dares to raise Gu. Because of the unknown situation, it is rarely mentioned. You younger generations may not know about it, but the older generation in the village all
It’s clear. If any family gets involved in this stuff, they will be kicked out of the village, and they may be beaten to death by the villagers.”
