Although Wu Dafu was timid in his heart, he still had a sense of anger, so he couldn't help but choked, "My lord arrested us, doesn't my lord know who we are?"
Bai Shan said with a serious face: "This county naturally knows who you are, the question is do you know who you are?"
He picked up the gavel and slapped it again. This time, except for the people kneeling in the hall and the bystanders standing in the yard, no one was frightened. Those who still don't want to go to court, come here, put them back in prison, let them think about who they are."
Wu Dafu was taken aback, and quickly said: "I said, I said, my name is Wu Dafu."
Guo Dalang on the side was also very anxious, and rushed to say: "My lord, little Guo Dacai."
Bai Shan thought about their names, and couldn't help but said: "You are quite destined, a rich man, a rich man, sounds like a family, how come you are enemies?"
As soon as Wu Dafu heard this, he thought of his son who died young, and all kinds of bullying by the Guo family in the past, tears flowed for a while, and cried: "My lord, what you saw yesterday is that their family is bullying our family. The daughter-in-law was caused by them to have a miscarriage, and my son died before he could open his eyes after he was born, I beg the adults to make decisions for the little one."
Bai Shan turned his head and asked Guo Dacai: "Are you sure about this accusation?"
Guo Dacai naturally didn't recognize him, and quickly waved his hands and said, "My lord, I don't know anything. I was working outside yesterday, and I didn't come home until the sun was about to go down. When I got home, his wife was already giving birth. What does it matter to me?" thing?"
Wu Dafu pointed to Diao Shi who was beside Guo Dacai and said, "My lord, she pushed my wife. Many people saw it yesterday."
Bai Shan then asked Diao if he accepted the accusation.
Of course Diao denied it, and said: "I didn't push it, she came to push me, and I couldn't stand still and fell."
The three of them were taken away so quickly yesterday that they didn't have time to see Bai Shan and Zhou Man leaving together, so naturally they didn't know they were together.
So Mrs. Diao shirked it completely, "The reason why the two families had conflicts was because she poured dirty water on my door. My mother-in-law also knew about this. How could a good family pour dirty water on other people's door? I couldn't be more angry." I just quarreled with her a few times, and who knew she would hit me, I could only dodge, but she refused and pushed me, but I fell myself."
If Man Bao, Daji and Xibing hadn't told Bai Shan about the situation at that time, Bai Shan would have suspected that things were really as she said.
Xuexiong Tang is right. In a criminal case, the prisoner's narration must be viewed with suspicion, and the judgment of the case relies more on objective evidence.
Bai Shan asked slowly, "Is there any witness?"
Diao said confidently: "My mother-in-law can testify."
"Your mother-in-law is your relative, and her testimony is unacceptable," he asked, looking at the neighbors he had invited in the yard, "the head and the mistress of your alley are here. Already, did anyone see what happened yesterday?"
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, then shook their heads together, saying they didn't see it.
Wu Dafu was furious when he saw this, "My lord, someone must have seen it. It was just about time for dinner, and everyone had to go out to wash vegetables and rice. How could no one see it? They were afraid of the Guo family and refused to come out to testify of."
Of course Bai Shan knew it, but Man Bao had said it. The sound of the quarrel between the two families was as loud as thunder. Although there was no one in the alley, several families poked their heads out of the wall to watch.
The walls in that alley are not high, and Bai Shan can basically see the scene in the yard from the outside. Naturally, people can see it from the inside to the outside.
But Bai Shan only glanced at Wu Dafu, "Speak when you are told to speak, and be quiet when you are not allowed to speak."
Seeing Wu Dafu being reprimanded, Guo Dacai felt a little proud, and the neighbors in the yard also had a plan in their hearts, and they became more and more unwilling to come out to testify.
The county magistrate asked this question, who knows if the Guo family did something, or the head of the county has face with the county magistrate, and plans to put this matter on the Wu family's own head
Bai Shan asked twice more, seeing that no one came forward to testify, and when Wu Dafu felt desperate, Bai Shan said: "Since none of the neighbors have seen it, let's pass on the witness from this county."
Man Bao, who had just finished drawing a simple county map with Master Song, came to join in the fun, just in time to see Daji and Xibing coming to the hall, her eyes lit up, she immediately turned around and ran from the small door in the back hall to the front yard, and squeezed into the crowd of onlookers Among them, he also raised his hand and said: "There is also me, and I, I am also a witness."
Having grown up so big, she has been in the hall of Dali Temple, and has been interrogated by the Yushitai, the Ministry of Justice and the three divisions of Dali Temple, but she has never been in the hall of the county government.
As far as the time she ran out of the small gate and the front yard, Daji and Xibing had already talked about halfway, and they were speechless when they saw her running over to join in the fun.
Wu Dafu seemed to see a savior, ignored Bai Shan's previous warning, and said again: "That's right, that's her, that's her, she gave birth to my wife, she was in the alley at that time, she saw everything."
Looking at the embroidery and the material on the cuffs of this lady, you can tell that she is a rich man, and she kindly saved his wife yesterday. According to his mother, she paid for the medicine, so she will definitely not be killed by the Guo family. bought.
Guo Dacai and Diao's obviously thought of this too, and their faces paled.
Bai Shan's eyelids trembled slightly, he could only pat the gavel lightly, and said under the watchful eyes of the two rows of government officials who stared at him wide-eyed: "Witnesses come forward and report their names."
Man Bao stepped forward with a serious face, cupped his hands and said: "Next Zhou Man, these two are my attendants, the three of us passed by the alley together yesterday..."
Man Bao's narration is particularly detailed. Compared with Daji, who can answer a question and answer without saying a word, her narration is like a slowly unfolding picture scroll, and the scene at that time can't help but emerge in front of everyone's eyes.
So Wu Dafu's expression changed when he heard her say that a pregnant woman was carrying a basin of water to the opposite door, and when he heard Diao rushing into his yard to scold his wife, his expression softened a little, and then there was pushing and shoving between the two of them. fight.
Man Bao said with certainty: "It was Mrs. Diao who pushed the man to the ground with great force."
Bai Shan asked Diao, "Is what the witness said true?"
Diao's Nuonuo opened his mouth a few times but failed to speak, after Bai Shan patted the gavel impatiently, he said: "Yes, it's true, but I can't blame me, it was the rich family who caused trouble first." , she was the one who hit me first."
Seeing that she was shirking responsibility at this time, Wu Dafu was furious, "That's because you usually bully people too much. If you hadn't spread rumors that Dahua's pregnancy was a girl, saying that our family couldn't have a son, How could Dahua be so angry?"
Very good, finally the old grievances were brought out, Bai Shan didn't stop him now, and started to ask about the old grievances between the two families.