Just as Xu Hao looked at the head of the house with admiration, the other party said to punish Guzi, saying that there was nothing wrong with such a punishment, but Xu Hao always felt a little strange.

Guzi Guo shouted: "Mencius is honest and can there be twenty stones of rice?"

Fang Fu said unhappily: "I fool! I am a good official. I'm pointing to begging for alms on the streets. I don't know how much I can earn."

Xu Hao was shocked. Isn’t this just the same as begging forcibly by orders? Which one did this person play? The nun should be let go without guilt. Even if he hates such people, he should not say this. It is obvious that he encourages them to continue to go around the streets and spread trouble everywhere. Is it punishing or encouraging? It is confusing.

However, when the two sisters heard this explanation, they immediately stopped talking and were taken obediently. Mr. Liu lowered his head and walked in.

Fang Fu said coldly: "Liu Yuan, you are a child of an official and a prison student. You live a restless life. What should you do if you marry a prostitute? What will happen if your wife is hung. If you continue to investigate this case, you should both pay your life."

Mr. Liu said in fear and trepidation: "The wife of Jiansheng has always been unvirtuous, and his father and brother are bad. He instigated his wife to get in trouble day and night and stole property to his parents' home. If he wanted to be timid and cowardly, how dare he torture her? It's hard to describe it."

Fang Fu said, "Why are you not stopping you when you marry a prostitute? You are probably both of you and your wife who are in trouble. It is not easy for you to seek fame and fortune, so you will not be removed from your list and fined 500 taels of silver to repair the Confucian Temple. Jinzhi will not let her become an official and will be fined 100 taels of silver to help the poor."

Then, the servants of the Liu family ordered the yamen runners to drag them down to beat the board on the grounds that they did not protect their mistress, which made them scare seven or eight wives cry and howl.

Fang Fu seemed to be unable to bear the woman being beaten and said, "Let's spare me, each person will be fined five taels of silver for relief."

At this moment, Xu Hao finally understood. It turned out that this person was going to punish the plaintiff and then the defendant. This is the way for most civil officials to be officials, and they do not favor any side. Each of them will beat the thirty boards, and the superiors will not blame them and can also generate income for the yamen. The people who do not care about themselves will also applaud them happily.

Fang Fu summoned Zhou Du and his son to come in and said, "You two are the most abominable. You don't teach Zhou well. It is common for Liu Yuan to marry a concubine and prostitute. As a wife, she is treacherous in the street with a knife. It is obvious that you instigated your daughter to surrender your husband to avoid stealing things from you. Now that people are dead, you are here to take the opportunity to cheat money again."

Zhou Du was anxious and said, "Why did the master believe in Liu Yuan's one-sided words in this case? His family is a village official. Isn't the young one the son of the village official? I raised my daughter and married Liu Yuan, hoping that the couple would be harmonious and live a good life forever. How could he choose her to be unvirtuous? But should he not be able to abide by etiquette and law when taking concubines? He could not tell a difference between superiors and subordinates, and between legitimate and illegitimate?

The Liu family changed their ranks. The concubines wore gold and silver cauldrons and cooked them with big food. However, they imprisoned their wife in a cold room, without covering their bodies and food. They just thought they were dead. Even so, they refused to relax. They wanted to cut weeds and root them in secret, and believed that they were wronged by my son for adultery, monks and Taoists. Which woman could tolerate this bad reputation for raising Chinese?

Now both sisters are here. The adults haven't tested her? If she is really a man, even if the little girl is dead, I would be willing to be guilty and have nothing to say to death. If she is a woman, then a prostitute is killing people with a sword and a sword. This is murder, even if she doesn't pay her life, she will at least be an official as a slave."

Fang Fu asked: "What is the evidence you said you were imprisoned in a cold room? How did you live in the past few years if you don't give her food and clothing?"

Zhou Du said: "The Liu family spent 6,000 yuan to buy the mansion of the former minister, which had eight-story house. He and the prostitute lived in the inner house. My daughter brought two dowry girls and a wife in the small courtyard at the end. If there was no well, she would probably not even have water.

When my daughter got married, she gave her a dowry of more than 600 gold and gave her another hectares of land. In the past few years, her children have wore wedding dresses and ate from this hectares of land. In order to get her husband to have a village examination, she sold twenty acres and left eighty acres. Liu Yuanheixin only wanted to return twenty acres."

Fang Fu shook his head and said, "You are a poor beggar who speaks 600 gold and keeps you for a hectare of land. You can see how greedy you are."

Zhou Du shouted: "Sir, don't just talk about the current situation. The young one is rich and the poor and the poor only. His family is rich and the poor only the poor and the poor. Why are the young ones beggars?"

Sister Gao couldn't help but walk up and said, "What he told is the truth. Now he is poor. His family background was good before. Who doesn't know the Zhou family in Jinling City?"

Fang Fu said angrily: "Who allows you to speak nonsense in court? Try it out."

Immediately, a yamen runner held a stick of water and fire to chase people. Gao was hit on his butt and covered him and shouted, "I'm just out. Oh, the thief was beheaded, the gods killed him." He went there cursingly.

Fang Fu continued: "I believe that the Zhou family has a foundation, so they are not punished without being punished, and each person is fined four knives of big paper."

Xu Hao thought to himself that he was really a good person to make money, and he would not let it go even though he knew that the Zhou family was poor. The so-called big paper is a kind of red breasted paper. The paper is thick and only the government is qualified to use. It is strictly forbidden to circulate among the people, which means that you cannot buy it even if you have money. It is a monopoly thing.

To say that it is a fine of paper, it is actually a fine of silver. Because no one dares to sell it if it cannot be bought by the people, he can only give 6 taels of silver for each knife. In this way, the father and son will be fined a total of 6848 taels of silver.

That's not all. The government's tax collection and transportation will cause damage to fire. And so on, there are similar hidden rules on the weight. In addition, the officials who pluck their hair by geese, they will have to ask you for ten taels of silver.

Zhou Du understood this and said dissatisfiedly: "Eight-knife paper and sixty taels of silver cannot be saved. My father and son are penniless and have no money."

Fang Fu said slowly: "Don't you say you've given a hectares of land? Return the land to Liu Yuan and ask him to pay the paper price for you."

Liu Yuan laughed in his heart and said, "Sir, don't listen to his nonsense. He is so poor that he can't even have enough food to eat. How can he give his daughter a hectare of land? That place was originally owned by the Jiansheng family."

Zhou Du said furiously: "Which year did you buy it? How much did you use? Who was the original landlord? Where was the original contract? Who was the name of the person who testified?"

Mr. Liu was speechless after a few words, so he simply closed his mouth.

Fang Fu became impatient and frowned and said, "It's fine if the twenty acres of land sold, but the remaining eighty acres will be returned to the Zhou family today. Liu Yuanke will buy them first. Yes! The big paper will be sent to the yamen within three days. All the prisoners will be exempted from offerings, and Jinzhi will be released and returned home."

After the case was tried, the people watching suddenly scattered. Some said that the minister asked the case well, some said that the question was not good, some cursed and some praised. In short, this is the norm.

Xu Hao turned around and walked out, sighing, noticing that since ancient times, the people have been most afraid of lawsuits. The word "official" is indeed well-known, and if you have any reason or not, you will be fined. You have to deal with the officials, waste time, get angry, etc. What if you get corrupt officials again?

Can an official be a good case? It is clear at a glance at Fang Fu's performance today. If you investigate and collect evidence carefully, it will not be difficult to give a relatively fair judgment. Unfortunately, in the eyes of officials, they are all ordinary people. It is difficult for a clean official to judge family affairs. No matter what the final judgment is, it will definitely cause dissatisfaction among the party. It is better to simply close the case in the first instance.

After the case was judged, the notice had to be posted. Soon the letter office wrote clearly the whole story of the case and the person who paid the penalty clearly so that the people could not find any fault.

In addition, there is a review form for the archives. Fang Fu will write down the judgment in detail and archive the case. Finally, he will explain the reason for such a punishment.

In the prison, Jinzhi was ready to go out happily, and the servant was busy moving the furniture, and Hu Desheng looked at it with a smile.

Mr. Liu said convincedly: "Thank you, Mr. Hu, for your righteousness. This kindness and virtue will never be forgotten."

Hu Desheng said proudly: "Don't worry if I do my business. Lord Fang is dedicated to the country. When he is a county magistrate, he has always tried cases like this, saying that he used the fined silver for the people to take it from the people. Therefore, you are nothing more than spending some silver and will never be plagued by lawsuits."

Seeing Xu Hao coming, Mr. Liu said arrogantly: "Mr. Xu, I'll wait for you to go out another day. I'll treat you to wine, haha!"

Xu Hao stopped and said, "This result is a perfect result. I hope you can do it well. People are doing things, God is watching. Treating your father-in-law and family well is the way to deal with people."

Mr. Liu said unhappily: "The account of my beating has not been settled yet. I am not a Bodhisattva of Ni. It would be fine if I don't blame him. I want me to treat this villain well, so don't think about it!"

"Mediating on other people's business." Hu Desheng frowned and said, "The grudge between us is not over yet. I will give you a last chance. If you are willing to marry my sister to me as a concubine, I guarantee you will pass the Jinshi exam. Otherwise, hum!"

Xu Hao said in surprise: "Can you guarantee me to be an official?"

Hu Desheng naturally would not tell the truth, and he was determined to lie to him, and said proudly: "That's it."

Xu Hao also pretended to be embarrassed and pondered: "I have to think about it very much, give me some time."

Hu Desheng smiled and said, "Give you a day, it's time to go out of date."

Xu Hao suddenly shook his head and said, "No, my sister can't be a baby for others."

"You!" Hu Desheng was furious and said with a dark face: "Then don't blame me for being rude." After that, he left.

At this time, the servants of the Liu family carried all their things to the carriage outside. Mr. Liu hugged Jinzhi and smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, we will never see each other in the future."

Xu Hao smiled and walked into the women's prison. He saw Sai Jinhua lying weakly on the wooden board, her whole body was dirty, and it was covered with stains that had been played with.

The erotic tuberculosis and money-honored were satisfied and hugging two prisoners to eat wine. Four or five women were sitting on the other side drinking and eating meat.

When Qian Ren saw him come in, he smiled and said, "Master Xu, when will I give it to today's common practice?"

Xu Hao took off the ring on his finger and threw it to him and said, "This is worth hundreds of gold, enough for a year."

Under the coveted eyes of women, Secure Teng stretched out her hand with her eyes radiating, but was held in Qian Ren's hand in a hurry and said with a laugh: "The ten taels of silver outside can only be counted as one tael here. Even if Mr. Xu's reward is really worth a thousand taels of silver, after deducting three meals a day, I'll calculate it for you for half a month. After all, everyone has a share."

"Whatever!" Xu Hao couldn't stand the dirty environment and air here, "I'd better go to the concierge."

"You please, please." Qian Li nodded and bowed, making a gesture of congratulations.

When Xu Hao left, Sei Tui said, "Brother, from Master Hu's opinion, this guy's good life is coming to an end. He will become a prisoner in the past two days. He has to be imprisoned all day long and not be allowed to walk around at will."
Chapter completed!