“Ah, be gentler... Uncle, please, be gentler... It hurts! Ah...!”
"Oh my! Oh my! Ouch! It hurts so much! It hurts so much!"
Two young hunks from the last shift were lying in the house, being rubbed hard by two old men.
Screaming like a pig being slaughtered.
One after another.
Extremely bloody!
This made Xu Zhiqian outside the house laugh non-stop.
After a while, the only sound in the room was heavy breathing.
With a creak, the door opened and two old men walked out of the house, rubbing their hands together, looking as if something had happened.
Xu Zhiqian immediately stepped forward and asked, "How are their injuries?"
One of the older men cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Madam Xu. They only suffered minor skin injuries. I have already applied medicine to them. Just pay a little attention to them."
Xu Zhiqian breathed a sigh of relief and nodded, "Thank you both."
He immediately ordered Qingmei to take the two doctors downstairs to rest.
After the doctor left, Xu Zhiqian knocked on the door gently.
The door opened directly, and Li Si was seen standing inside the door with a pig-like face.
"How are you?"
"Thank you for your concern, Madam Xu. I'm much better now."
"That's good!"
Xu Zhiqian nodded, then turned her head to look at Zhang Fei who was half lying on the couch, "How are you?"
"Don't worry, you won't die. Ah!"
Zhang Fei sat up with difficulty and glanced at Xu Zhiqian again, "As for you, you should take it easy and don't make your voice hoarse from laughing."
Xu Zhiqian pursed her lips and said, "You are a grown man, but you are so afraid of pain. How dare you say that?"
"Let me let you be arrogant for a while."
Zhang Fei said, "I will argue with you after my injury is healed. I need to save my strength to deal with Wang Sinong now."
Xu Zhiqian frowned, "You are not acting on impulse, are you? Although our dynasty allows citizens to sue officials, if you can't produce evidence, it will be very disadvantageous to you!"
She did not object to Zhang Fei taking revenge. This had already hit him right in the face. As a person who hated evil, she certainly thought that she should fight back. However, she was worried that Zhang Fei was too impulsive and would fall into the other party's trap.
Zhang Fei narrowed his eyes, "Don't worry, I have thought it through clearly. Just wait. This time I want to make Wang Sinong feel the fear of the person who spies on me, so as to achieve the effect of killing the chicken to scare the monkey."
Xu Zhiqian looked at Zhang Fei in shock.
Killing the chicken to scare the monkey
You are just an earpiece, and you are using officials as an example to scare the monkeys
Could it be that I used the wrong idiom
... ...
Palace.
"Rebellion! Rebellion! How can this be absurd! How dare that little Zhang San slander me?"
Wang Wenshan paced back and forth in the hall, cursing angrily.
Li Kai, who came to inquire, explained: "Wang Sinong, please don't be angry. I... I am just asking as usual."
Wang Wenshan stopped and turned to Li Kai and said, "Li Tongpan asked as usual, which proves that Kaifeng Prefecture still doubts me. Do you know how much damage this will cause to my reputation?"
Li Kai responded with an apologetic smile, "It's mainly because Zhang San said that you, Wang Sinong, had met with Li Si during the investigation of his case and threatened him. We can't just turn a deaf ear to it! Please forgive me, Wang Sinong."
There was no evidence and he spoke very politely.
Wang Wenshan said: "Yes, I met him at the beginning, but I didn't threaten him. I wanted to apologize to Li Si through him. When I knew that my nephew did such a thing, I wanted to kill my own relatives for the sake of justice.
But I never expected that he would use this as an excuse to blackmail me and demand a high compensation. Alas... I was also soft-hearted. I thought that this was all because of my poor upbringing, and I was also responsible, so I asked my nephew to try his best to agree to his unreasonable demands.
But I didn't expect him to go even further and use the same old tricks again, trying to blackmail me again. This is really unreasonable."
Li Kai frowned and asked, "Are you serious, Wang Sinong?"
"It's absolutely true." Wang Wenshan trembled his five fingers. "Five hundred strings of cash in compensation, does Li Tongpan think this is really reasonable?"
Li Kai frowned and said nothing.
The compensation at that time did set a record, and at that time, Li Kai and others also thought that this was what Zhang Fei wanted.
Based on this result, Wang Wenshan’s words are obviously more credible!
Wang Wenshan added: "My nephew was unwilling to agree to his request, but I forced him to agree. I thought I could teach him a lesson, but I didn't expect that he would just push me further and make things worse."
The more he spoke, the angrier he got. He shook his head and said, "No, I can't just let this go. I must sue him for slandering me to prove my innocence."
Li Kai said: "Wang Sinong can certainly do this. If it is proven that Zhang Fei is indeed a false accusation, then our Kaifeng Prefecture will also handle it impartially."
His attitude was very clear. He said that we in Kaifeng Prefecture will handle the case impartially. You can sue if you want, but you still have to follow the procedures.
Wang Wenshan also recorded a confession for him and sent him away.
As soon as Li Kai left, Chen Yu, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice, came out from the back hall.
"I never thought that Zhang San would go directly to Kaifeng Prefecture to sue my mentor."
Chen Yu just shook his head.
This was indeed beyond their expectations. They originally thought that Zhang Fei would definitely ask Xu Zun and Wang Anshi to come forward to seek justice. Because there was no evidence, once Wang Anshi and Xu Zun got involved, it would be a power game.
They could then concentrate the forces in the court that were against Wang Anshi and Xu Zun and use this case to oppose the Municipal Taxation Bureau, which would kill two birds with one stone.
But no one expected that the fool would go straight to Kaifeng Prefecture to file a complaint.
"He is courting death!"
Wang Wenshan smiled coldly: "You said that I can sue him for slander and extortion, can it be successful?"
Chen Yu said, "It will definitely work, because he can't produce any evidence. And judging from the outcome of Li Si's case, most people will believe that Zhang San is using the same old tricks to blackmail our teacher again. However, our teacher should act immediately to express his anger and grievance for being wrongly accused."
Wang Wenshan nodded and said, "Write me a petition right away and send it over today."
... ..．
Kaifeng Prefecture.
"How about it?"
Lu Gong asked Li Kai who had just returned.
Li Kai smiled bitterly and said, “Wang Sinong said that he did meet Zhang San, but he just wanted to apologize to Li Si through Zhang San and never threatened him.
Not only that, Wang Sinong also said that it was Zhang San who blackmailed him and made very unreasonable demands, but he still agreed. Therefore, he thought that Zhang San was going to use the same old tricks to blackmail him again. Wang Sinong also said that he would sue Zhang Fei for slandering him.
Lu Gong frowned and said, "Only the two of them know the truth of this matter. It is difficult to judge which is true and which is false."
Li Kai nodded and said, "Unless Zhang Fei finds evidence to prove that it was Wang Sinong who hired someone to kill someone, it will be difficult for him to win the case."
While they were still chatting here, Wang Wenshan's petition was delivered to Kaifeng Prefecture.
"I didn't expect it to come so soon. It seems like Wang Sinong will never give up easily this time." Li Kai looked worried.
Lu Gong said: "We will handle it impartially."
If the case is to be handled impartially, Zhang Fei must be summoned for questioning immediately, as he has now become the defendant.
Soon, Zhang Fei was called to Kaifeng Prefecture.
"I falsely accuse Wang Sinong. Will the prefect believe it?"
Zhang Fei couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.
Lu Gongzhe couldn't help laughing, and frowned and said, "This is not a question of belief or disbelief. I want to see the evidence. You said Wang Sinong threatened you and hired someone to hurt someone. Can you provide evidence to prove this?"
Zhang Fei said confidently: "Of course I have evidence!"
Li Kai was getting anxious, "Then just take it out!"
"I won't take it." Zhang Fei shook his head.
“… … !”
Lu Gong was stunned for a long time, almost fainted from anger, and could not help but burst into anger, "Asshole! Do you really think I can't do anything to you? Come on! Take this man down and give him twenty lashes of the cane."
Zhang Fei was not afraid at all. Instead, he angrily shouted, "You are really protecting each other."
Lu Gong was furious. I have been honest all my life, how could I allow this guy to slander me? "You are a lawless person. I asked you to produce evidence, but you refused. Aren't you deliberately teasing me?"
When he talked about it later, he felt aggrieved.
It's not bullying.
Zhang Fei asked back, "May I ask the prefect, Wang Sinong said he did not threaten the common people, have you asked him to produce evidence?"
Lu Gong was so angry that he said, "But now you are accusing him of hiring a murderer to hurt someone, and he is accusing you of false accusation. You have to prove that you did not falsely accuse him."
Zhang Fei continued, "But he also said that Xiaomin blackmailed him. Did he produce any evidence? Then can Xiaomin also sue him for false accusation?"
"... ... ?"
It’s truly a closed loop.
Lu Gong said: "You are just making trouble."
Zhang Fei said: "I have never been unreasonable. I didn't produce evidence because I was afraid that you would protect each other. I remember that when I tried Ayun's case, the Grand Secretary Sima allowed me not to reveal the evidence for the sake of fairness.
Unless you let me go to court with Wang Sinong, I will not produce evidence even if you beat me to death. God knows if the evidence will disappear inexplicably after I produce it."
This trick again
Lu Gong was so angry that his teeth were itching. He vaguely remembered that Zhang Fei had used the same trick to deal with Sima Guang, but at that time he used the emperor, and now he used Sima Guang instead.
This is really a series of things leading to another. I'll have to use Lu Gong's trick next time.
What a sharp tongue! Li Kai raised his hand to stop the yamen runner who came forward, and then said to Zhang Fei: "Are you going to sue Wang Sinong in court?"
Zhang Fei said: "And he has to go to court for trial. Does he dare?"
Li Kai asked, "How do you know Wang Sinong wouldn't dare?"
Zhang Fei said: "If he dares, that would be great. I will produce evidence in front of the world to expose his hypocritical face."
Lu Gong nodded and said weakly, "Okay! I promise you, if you can't produce evidence, I will never let you off easily."
He also understood what Li Kai meant. They both claimed that they were right, but neither of them could produce any evidence, so he just let them fight it out between themselves.
Zhang Fei said confidently: "If I can produce evidence, I hope the prefect can handle it impartially."