Chapter 204: Framed, a den of snakes and rats
Chapter 204: Framed, a den of snakes and rats
The sound of the woman beating the drum to appeal for justice attracted many people to stop and watch, but the door of the county government office was not opened for a long time.
"Boom boom boom!"
"My Lord, my husband has been wrongly accused. Please help me."
"My husband is wronged."
Jiang Yueyang stared at the tightly closed gate of the county yamen, his brow furrowed. Normally, if someone beat the drum to complain, the county magistrate should immediately hear the case in court.
At this time, I heard the discussions of the onlookers.
"This Xue is also a miserable person. Not only was her husband imprisoned, but she also had to pay a large sum of money for medical expenses to the Tao family."
"The county magistrate clearly doesn't want to offend the Tao family on her behalf. It's useless for her to keep knocking on the door day and night."
"I heard that if Xue Shi couldn't come up with the money to pay the debt, the Tao family would ask her daughter to sell herself to them as compensation."
Jiang Yueyang slowly moved towards the center of the Bagua, feeling very stealthy for a moment.
Speaking of Xue's daughter, someone lowered their voice and said, "The eldest son of the Tao family has long had his eyes on Xue's daughter, but Xue is unwilling to marry her to him."
"No one would be willing to do that, right? She's a concubine, not the wife, and she's the seventh concubine."
"That's hard to say. If it were Xue's neighbor, Mrs. Liu, she would have packed up her daughter and gone there long ago."
"That would require her daughter to be as pretty as Miss Zhou, otherwise Mr. Tao wouldn't be interested."
"If you ask me, what happened that day might have been a deliberate scheme by Mr. Tao to get Miss Zhou."
Hearing this, someone hissed.
"How dare you say that? Are you trying to save your life? If the Tao family finds out, you'll be in big trouble."
"I didn't say anything, did I?"
"Let's all keep our mouths shut and avoid getting ourselves into trouble."
After that, the few people stopped talking, but they did not leave. Instead, they kept looking in the direction of the county government office.
Jiang Yueyang tried to hold back, but couldn't, so he stretched out a finger and poked a woman on the back.
The woman instinctively turned around and saw Jiang Yueyang, who was obviously a rich man, holding a white fox. Her eyes were full of confusion.
"Hello, excuse me, what's going on?"
Hearing the voice behind them, several people who were originally looking at the county government office turned around.
The woman subconsciously wanted to answer Jiang Yueyang's question, but her clothes were pulled off by the woman behind her.
And then...then they all moved away from Jiang Yueyang.
Jiang Yueyang was speechless as he watched several people walk out more than ten or twenty meters in an instant.
Ye Wuhen couldn't help but burst out laughing, "Jiang Yueyang, they make you look like a monster!"
Jiang Yueyang said sinisterly, "If you can't speak, then don't speak."
Ye Wuhen cleared his throat, then controlled his facial expression, and finally forced himself to stop smiling.
Jiang Yueyang snorted proudly, "Even if you don't tell me, I can still know it!"
【Xiaogua, tell me what happened? 】
System: [Host, to be honest, sometimes I really want to change hosts. With a gossip detector like me here, why is your first reaction to ask them?]
Hearing that the system wanted to change the host, Jiang Yueyang chuckled twice, "I won't hide it from you, I want to change the system all the time.
With such an unreliable system like yours, if I didn't have the interstellar protection shield, I would have died countless times! 】
system:【……】
The system suddenly remembered something, [The mall is mine! ]
[I bought all these things myself! You've leveled up so many times, but you didn't even mention any rewards for the host.]
The system explained guiltily: [The mall I have is much better than the malls of other systems. Their malls have many restrictions, but mine doesn’t.
You see, as long as you have money you can buy dinosaurs, mummies, zombies, and zombies... How cool is that! Even if they have money... they can't buy them.
What are those things for? To kill yourself? Or to destroy the world?
system:【……】
Ye Wuhen pursed his lips and tried to hold back his smile, almost getting a stitch in the side.
Why is this conversation between one person and another so indescribably funny? It's clearly a serious topic!
Jiang Yueyang exhaled heavily, "I'm not asking you for a reward, we just got to the point.
You can shut yourself up later, but first tell me what happened to the Xue and Tao families.]
The system immediately said: [Ms. Xue’s husband, Zhou Daqiang, was a farmhand of the Tao family. One time, Miss Zhou went to the Tao family’s farm to look for her father and was unfortunately seen by Mr. Tao.
Miss Zhou was born beautiful, and Master Tao was attracted by her beauty and wanted to force her to marry him as his seventh concubine.
Although the Zhou family was poor, there was absolutely no reason for them to marry their daughter off as a concubine, let alone sell her for fame and fortune.
Moreover, the Zhou family only has one child, Miss Zhou.
After being sternly rejected by the Zhou family, Mr. Tao felt embarrassed and wanted to get Miss Zhou even more.
So one day, he called Zhou Daqiang to his home on the pretext of work, and then slandered Zhou Daqiang for stealing.
In order to vent his anger, Master Tao ordered his servants to beat Zhou Daqiang severely on the pretext of stealing.
Who knew that God is watching what people do? Young Master Tao accidentally kicked a stone and fell, hitting his head.
Then, Zhou Daqiang was handed over to the authorities on charges of stealing and beating him.
He also smashed a few vases, saying that Zhou Daqiang had done it, and demanded that the Zhou family compensate him for the vases and medical expenses, totaling three hundred taels.
The Zhou family could not afford to pay such a large sum of money, so it was natural for Master Tao to propose to take Miss Zhou as his concubine.
He said that as long as Miss Zhou married him, Zhou Daqiang would be released from prison and would not have to pay a penny.
The Xue family refused to yield, and County Magistrate Zhu and the Tao family became accomplices, leading to the current situation.
Jiang Yueyang was so angry after hearing this that his face turned pale. [Shameless! This is too much!]
In front of the county government office, Xue was still banging the drum and shouting that her husband was wronged.
Perhaps the people inside were annoyed by the drumming, the gate of the county government office suddenly opened, and several yamen runners came out.
A yamen runner walked over, grabbed Xue, and pushed her hard, causing her to fall to the ground.
The onlookers subconsciously moved over, and Jiang Yueyang and others followed suit.
"Ms. Xue, Zhou Daqiang was caught stealing and committing murder with evidence! This is not a place where you can act unreasonably. Leave immediately, or don't blame us for being rude!" The bailiff said viciously.
Xue climbed up and grabbed the yamen runner's trouser leg, "My husband is innocent. He didn't hit anyone, and he didn't steal anything! I beg the county magistrate to investigate!"
The bailiff kicked Xue away and said, "We caught him red-handed, with irrefutable evidence. What's the point of injustice?"
"Hey, how can you hit people?" Ye Wuhen suddenly shouted.
As soon as this was said, some kind-hearted people echoed, "That's right, how could you hit someone?"
Ye Wuhen continued, "The people are beating drums to appeal for justice. How can the county magistrate, as a fatherly official, turn a blind eye?"
"According to the laws of our Great Xia, as long as someone beats the drum to complain, the county magistrate must go to court to hear the case! Is the Luoyang City county magistrate's behavior ignoring the law?" Jiang Yueyang added.
"Court is open! Court is open!" Ye Wuhen shouted.
The killer from the Blood Demon Pavilion understood what Ye Wuhen meant and shouted, "Open the court!"
Then, the people also shouted together, "Court is about to begin," with great momentum!
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