The common people watching were in constant commotion.
Is this for real
Of course, it's for real...
Yu Zi was dragged away by the officers and beaten with a stick ten times. When she was brought back, she was unsteady on her feet and fell to her knees on the ground. Her face was as pale as snow, her lips twitched in pain, her breathing became unrhythmic, and beads of sweat appeared on her nostrils.
She trembled as she took out the petition that she had prepared long ago from her bosom, and stared at the scroll being handed to Shen Jun.
Then slowly unfolded—
Read it carefully and word by word.
In just a few breaths, you can read about a woman's life.
This woman was the one who gave birth to her, raised her, and educated her.
It was also a "previous example" of someone who had the same fate and suffered the same fate as Yu Zi - if she hadn't protected and taught him with all her strength, Yu Zi's future would have gone in the same direction. She could almost imagine a future where she could see the end at a glance.
Being despised, humiliated, beaten, and insulted.
Every day when she opens her eyes, there are endless farm work and housework to do, a "husband" who beats her at any time - maybe there is more than one "husband", and maybe the "husbands" are brothers, fathers, sons, grandfathers and grandchildren - and countless children to be born and children who keep dying.
Poverty, violence, despair, and helplessness would fill every corner of this long period of time, transforming into the dirtiest colors to fill her unknown life. These festering things would squeeze out every ounce of space that could give her a chance to breathe.
Only complete numbness and death could bring her relief.
That's a future that makes you suffocate just thinking about it.
As the granddaughter that grandpa and grandma hate the most, Yu Zi was suggested to be sold to a robber or married to a family as a child bride more than once. It would be a loss to continue to raise her, and the longer she was raised, the more she would lose.
They call it: it has been like this for generations.
yes-
Every generation is like this!
All the neighbors are like this!
Why can't she do this
Is she a beautiful girl
Or a lady from a noble family
Does she have a father who is a marquis and a prime minister
Or is your mother a member of a royal family
Neither
Since it's neither, why can't she do the same
Yu Zi is also extremely lucky.
After her fate partially overlapped with that of A Niang Yu Meiren, at a critical crossroads of fate, she headed towards another unknown direction.
Bang!
Shen Jun slammed the petition on the table in anger.
He asked Yu Zi with a sullen face: "Commoner Yu Zi, is everything written here true? Is there a single word that is false?"
Yu Zi endured the pain and knelt up straight: "It's absolutely true!"
After the prelude was complete, Shen Tang ordered the officers to bring up Yu Zi's grandfather and grandmother. The two old guys were quite courageous. Although they looked a little bad after being squeezed in the prison for a whole night, they did not look too frightened.
Shen Jun didn't just arrest the two old men.
Everyone in Zhujia Village, young and old, was arrested.
I wonder which person was so bold as to cause trouble
After much thought, this possibility is the most likely.
I asked around but no one could give me an answer. I felt really nervous the whole night. But after all, they were wanderers who had traveled all over the country when they were young. It was impossible to do this job without courage and strong psychological quality. They had a strong heart that was no weaker than that of scholars. I quickly adjusted my mentality and prepared to take things one step at a time.
When they were brought up, they were still quite stable.
Shen Tang looked at the two of them with a cold expression.
This old couple both have good looks.
The man has regular facial features, a full forehead, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He has a natural honest and sincere look, a simple temperament, and is not aggressive at all. The woman has gentle eyebrows and eyes without any edges. Her eyes are round and the corners of her lips are naturally curved upwards. The gray hair at her temples is the finishing touch. The first impression she gives is that of a very gentle and loving "old woman" or "old lady".
When these two typical "good guys" appeared, their expressions were just the right amount of confusion and fear, which caused the onlookers to whisper. No matter how you look at it, these two families are ordinary, simple and kind-hearted elderly people. Was it wrong to file a complaint
The fact that the granddaughter was suing her grandfather and grandmother had already displeased most of the common people - once they saw the old couple's appearance, the balance in their hearts had already tilted greatly towards the Zhu couple.
They didn't know what Yu Zi was going to sue for, but no matter what the reason was, they were her blood relatives and her closest elders. Not to mention that these two didn't look like bad people, even if they were really heinous criminals, it was not the turn of a junior to sue!
The old couple bowed to Shen Tang obediently.
Her timid and pitiful appearance won the sympathy of a group of elderly people, who could not help but point fingers at Yu Zi. The old couple of Zhu were also puzzled, secretly looking at the thin Yu Zi with their peripheral vision, and the more they looked at her, the more they felt that this face looked familiar.
Finally, a flash of inspiration came to my mind.
"Big girl? Big girl, is it really you?"
The old lady Zhu called out in surprise.
Then he said angrily, "You unfilial child, why are you here? Do you know how long your grandfather and I have been looking for you?"
Shen Tang sneered inwardly.
She didn't even bother to sit up straight. Under Qi Shan's disapproving gaze, she sat crookedly, propped her chin up and asked with a smile, "Does the old woman recognize this man?"
Old lady Zhu nodded: "Yes, my grandson."
"Then do you know why you are here today?"
Old lady Zhu shook her head.
She really didn't know at first, but when she was brought up and heard the whispers of the common people below, the fragmentary words reminded her, and she guessed a little. She was so angry that she wanted to peel off Yu Zi's skin!
This bitch!
Shen Tang pointed at Yu Zi and said, "Your grandson is now suing you two old people, saying that you murdered his mother, Yu. Is that true?"
When old lady Zhu heard this, she couldn't believe it.
Just like changing her face, she instantly switched from disbelief to being wronged. She slapped her thighs with both hands, collapsed on the ground, and cried to the sky, "It's unfair, it's unfair, I am wronged. How can you say this? Her mother committed a crime and was punished to pound rice, and then she committed suicide. What does this have to do with me? Everyone in the village knows about this!"
When the common people heard this, there was an uproar.
Yu Zi sneered.
As expected of an old fellow who sells daughters of good families everywhere, this mouth is indeed eloquent, and I don't know how many people he has deceived and harmed with this tongue! Damn it!
Yu Zi clenched her hands into fists at her sides.
Old man Zhu also joined in the conversation.
That "good guy face" can even shake the judgment of those who are not aware of the situation, causing them to trust him and sympathize with him at the same time.
I wanted to spit in Yu Zi's face.
Shen Tang held her chin up and watched the old couple singing, reciting, acting and fighting. Their acting skills were definitely the pinnacle of immersive performance, and they were really old actors! She tapped the table with her fingers, signaling for silence - the court was such a serious place for a trial, it was not appropriate to make a lot of noise!
Gu Chi: “…”
Before I say this, my lord, please sit up straight.
Shen Tang called over the clerk and asked, "Is this true?"
The clerk replied: "Mr. Shen, it is true."
Upon hearing this, the old couple Zhu breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Tang asked the old couple Zhu again.
"Do you have any other explanation?"
Old lady Zhu wiped her tears pitifully and cried out that she was wronged: "I thought I was good to the girl. Her mother committed a crime and we were worried that we couldn't take care of her due to our old age. We were also worried that her mother would bring trouble to her, so we arranged a good marriage for her. But she ran away without saying a word, and has been away for several years... Even if she didn't like this marriage, she shouldn't have run away. I really don't know why she is like this. She even blames us for harming her mother. I am wronged, Mr. Shen..."
As he spoke, he shed tears of true emotion.
Because Yu Zi ran away from marriage, the man's family, who didn't get a wife, chased after them and smashed a lot of their belongings. The old man was so angry that he fell ill for half a year. In order to calm down the trouble caused by Yu Zi, he also paid a lot of money for her and the old man's coffin.
This is the only grandson they have.
Can you still harm Yu Zi
The old lady of the Zhu family sobbed and hinted that not long after Yu Zi escaped from her marriage, news spread in Zhujia Village that Yu Zi had run away with a strange man, and several villagers even reported it with details.
They guessed that Yu Zi ran away from the marriage because of this.
Even if that is true—
"Girl, just say it, why bother running away?"
He escaped from the marriage, is not living well, and now he is suing them.
What's the point
After thinking about it, it should be for their coffin money.
After hearing this pitiful denunciation, the common people below were so furious that they wanted to rush over and punch Yu Zi twice - how could there be such a shameless and vicious offspring in this world!
Extremely unfilial and hateful!
Shen Tang listened and hummed a few times.
She listened very, very carefully.
Even old lady Zhu thought she was persuaded.
Only Yu Zi on the side gritted her teeth.
She believed in Shen Jun! She believed that Shen Jun, who dared to show his sword to the seven local snakes, was definitely not a foolish and incompetent person, and it was even more impossible for him to be led by the nose by a few words from an old woman in a mountain village!
Shen Tang did not let Yu Zi down.
She suddenly sneered and asked the old lady Zhu indifferently: "Old lady, let me ask again - is it true?"
Old lady Zhu said, "I was wrongly accused."
Shen Tang slammed his transparent and crystal Wen Xin flower seal on the table with a loud slap. His eyebrows were cold and he shouted, "Unjust? Say it again to this Wen Xin flower seal!"
As a former smuggler, the old lady Zhu was under surveillance when she traveled all over the country, so she knew what the Wenxin seal meant. However, as an ordinary commoner, her knowledge was limited and she only knew the basics. She said, "I am really wronged."
Shen Tang sneered: "What a stubborn person."
The common people below calmed down a little after seeing this. They thought the old couple were good people and that Yu Zi, who had reported their parents, was disobedient and unfilial, but Shen Jun's attitude showed that there was something wrong with the old couple.
Could it be that there really is some hidden secret that they are unaware of
She asked them with some ill intention: "Old woman, do you two know what crime is to sell a thing?"
Old lady Zhu’s face turned pale.
Shen Tang pointed at Yu Zi and questioned the old couple: "Yu Zi's biological mother was abducted and sold here by you, right?"
Old lady Zhu was extremely panicked, but she managed to remain calm on the outside. She said in a panicked tone with tears in her eyes, "No, no, how dare I do such a thing? This will bring punishment from the gods! My ancestors will blame me!"
Then he swore to the sky.
Her mother, Yu, was definitely not sold out by her.
He even brought out his ancestral graves to support himself.
In fact, it was she who "rescued" Yu.
Old lady Zhu had an expression that said "I have to say it", gritted her teeth, and said cruelly: "… This matter is a family scandal. For the sake of my poor daughter-in-law, I didn't intend to tell her. I will take it with me to my grave. Da Niu's mother was indeed abducted and sold here, but it was not our family that bought her. It was the three old deadbeats in Zhuangjia Village. They tortured her beyond recognition and planned to sell her because she didn't give birth for several years. I felt sorry for her so I asked the old deadbeat to marry her back to keep my stupid son company…"
The common people watching had a great feast.
This, this, this—
A woman serves a father and his two sons
Although the world is extremely chaotic and disorderly, Fugu City is still a "city" after all, and the order is relatively good. Such scandals that cannot be seen in public are only kept at the level of gossip. At most, people would discuss privately about which family is so chaotic, but it was all "said" or "heard".
For a moment, they looked at Yu Zi differently.
Old lady Zhu continued to cry and complain: "Everyone in our village knows about this, but for the sake of the eldest girl, we never told her because we were worried that she would despise her mother. I don't know where she heard those nonsense to slander us two old people."
She sat on the ground heartbroken, wanting to roll over in grief, while old man Zhu beside her also lowered his head in embarrassment.
Shen Tang shook his head in his heart.
It would be a real loss for these two old guys not to act.
She asked Yu Zi: "Is this true?"
Yu Zi knew that if she wanted to redress the injustice for A Niang, all the shameful past would be dug up, and people would talk about and laugh at her - but Yu Zi knew better that A Niang had always been an upright person.
Upright!
Clear and innocent!
The one who should be ashamed of this shameful past is not her, Yu Meiren! It is these two old bastards!
Yu Zi said: "Three parts true, seven parts false."
She took a deep breath. "It's true that A Niang was abducted and sold. It's true that she was tortured by the three bankers. Everything else is false! They were the ones who abducted her to this point. A Niang never gave in for a single day! Was it her fault that she was abducted and sold? Was it also her fault that she was humiliated by the father and his two sons? If it weren't for these two old guys who harmed people... They have abducted more than just Xiaomin A Niang in their lives! They have harmed so many people! They deserve to die!"
Those who share the same fate as her mother...
They were all harmed like this!
Yu Zi wished she could strangle them to death right now.
How dare they speak nonsense and confuse right and wrong in front of Mr. Shen? Are they still human beings? ! !
Shen Tang said: "They really deserve to die!"
She pointed at her own monogram.
Facing the old couple of the Zhu family and the common people below, he said sternly: "Do you know that there are words in this world that can make people tell everything they know? Under the words, any truth can be said! You are lying here, at least one of you will have your tongue pulled out! If you betray one person, the lighter punishment is to chop off feet and hands, and the heavier punishment is - all five punishments! I will not punish you, and I will not use torture to extract confessions. As long as you repeat it again in the court and under the words -"
"This is the last chance. Is it unfair?"
The fierce momentum made the old Zhu couple feel uneasy.
This time, they were really panicked.
But there is still hope in my heart—
Maybe, maybe Shen Jun was deceiving them
Where in the world is there a way to make people speak the truth uncontrollably? If there is such a thing, wouldn't that be a god
There are no gods, but there are enough words.
Shen Tang winked at Gu Chi. His special skill was to make people speak the truth!
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