Almost all the people in Tonglin County knew about the Zhou family's affairs. Today, when they heard that the county magistrate was going to try the Zhou family's case, they were all surprised and rushed to the county government office to watch the excitement. Not long after, the gate of the county government office was crowded with people.
"My lord, my lord." County magistrate Qian finally couldn't help asking the handsome man sitting below who was drinking tea leisurely. Say a word and tremble all over.
Yan Shi looked up at him, "Magistrate Qian, please tell me."
County magistrate Qian wiped the sweat that was about to fall into his eyes with his sleeve, "Zhou, Mrs. Zhou has no paperwork. The next official asked the people below..."
"No need, Mr. Qian," Yan Shi put down the teacup in his hand, turned his head and said to Qu Liushang, "Mr. Qu, I need to trouble you to help Mrs. Zhou write the certificate."
"Deling." Qu Liushang put the small box in his hand into his sleeve, stood up from the chair, and deliberately bumped Zhou Yongyan when he passed by, "Sorry, sorry, I can't go You must offend me." Although he apologized, but with a smile on his face, everyone knew that he did it on purpose, and he deserved a beating.
Zhou Yongyan could only smash his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and he had to forgive him with a smile on his face.
Qu Liushang borrowed the master's desk, paper and pen, and asked Mrs. Zhou to tell the story of the incident. After Mrs. Zhou finished speaking, he picked up the pen and wrote in a frantic manner.
After Qu Liushang finished writing the petition, he could be promoted, taking advantage of this time, Yan Shi asked Hua Ling who was sitting on the other side, "Do you want something to eat?"
Hua Ling shook her head, "Brother, I don't want to eat."
Yan Shi thought that he couldn't bear it because of Zhou's family matter, the little princess was so kind, seeing others living a bad life was more painful than her own.
"Eat a piece of hawthorn cake?" This thing can help digestion, Yan Shi always felt that the little princess was young and was prone to hunger when she was growing up, so she bought a lot of snacks along the way and fed them anytime, anywhere.
Looking at Yan Shi's coaxing look, Hua Ling couldn't bear to refuse, "Then I'll only eat one piece." I really ate too much at noon and now I can't eat any more.
Yan Shi ordered Zhao Chunhai, who was standing behind him, to get a piece of hawthorn cake from the carriage.
The yamen servant in the lobby didn't hear what Yan Shi said to Zhao Chunhai, and saw him go out, thinking that he was going to get something important, and when Zhao Chunhai handed the white handkerchief to Yan Shi, he went out again. When she saw Hua Ling eating like no one was around, her eyeballs wished she could fall to the ground.
This lord really dotes on this husband and wife very much.
Hua Ling ate small mouthfuls, and after he finished eating, he finished writing the paper for Qu Liushang, and he showed it to Yan Shi for a review, and then sent it to County Magistrate Qian.
County Magistrate Qian finished reading it with three or two eyes, and he saw the pleading paper as a formality. He couldn't be more clear about the Zhou family's affairs. County Magistrate Qian asked Yan Shi cautiously, "My lord, can you please?" Ascension?"
Yan Shi nodded, County Magistrate Qian straightened his back and slapped the gavel, he looked a bit like a county magistrate.
"Who is kneeling in the hall, and what grievances are there?" Tell me quickly."
Mrs. Zhou knelt down on the ground, her back straight, neither humble nor overbearing. "Mr. Zhou Zhang, a private woman, wants to sue Zhou Yongyan for privately raising a concubine. She also asked her illegitimate son to be brought into the mansion by his mother to pretend to be an abandoned baby. She deceived the private woman for more than ten years."
County magistrate Qian looked at Zhou Yongyan again, patted the gavel and asked, "Zhou Yongyan, can you admit what Zhou Zhang said?"
A scholar could not kneel when he saw the county magistrate, not to mention that Zhou Yongyan was a juren, so he stood in the hall and spoke, "Responding to your lord's words, what Zhou Zhang said is not true. I didn't raise a concubine outside, let alone give birth to children selflessly."
Hearing this, Hua Ling tugged at Yan Shi's sleeve and whispered, "Brother—"
Yan Shi patted Hua Ling's hand reassuringly, "Don't worry, just look down." He really underestimated this Zhou Yongyan, he was really cunning.
Zhou Zhang was furious, "You are talking nonsense! You..."
"Silent!" Magistrate Qian patted the gavel and asked Zhou Yongyan, "Do you know where the child was brought back?"
Zhou Yongyan said, "According to what my mother said, it was picked up by the small river outside the city. That day my mother happened to go to Baiyun Temple to offer incense, and picked up the child on the way back."
"Is there any evidence?"
"Yes," Zhou Yongyan said, "all the servants who accompanied my mother to offer incense that day can testify."
Mrs. Zhou said angrily, "The servants of the Zhou family are all yours, so they will naturally speak for you! Besides, you may have put the child by the river."
County magistrate Qian nodded, "That Zhou Zhang, do you have evidence that Zhou Yongyan raised a concubine?"
Mrs. Zhou's expression darkened suddenly, "There is no evidence for your lord's words."
"Then how can I trust you without evidence?"
Mrs. Zhou said, "You'll know after a blood test."
Since Zhou Yongyan keeps saying that the child is an abandoned baby, but if he and the child's blood are fused together, then Zhou Yongyan's lie will be self-defeating.
At that moment, the county magistrate Qian ordered the young master to attend court on Tuesday.
From the moment Mrs. Zhou said that she wanted to do a blood test, Zhou Yongyan was like an eggplant beaten by frost. When the young master arrived in the hall on Tuesday, he seemed to come back to his senses and said loudly, "My lord, this blood test can't prove that I'm a child." What, if he is an abandoned baby of one of my distant relatives, wouldn’t that mean that I will suffer this unreasonable disaster?”
County magistrate Qian was a little embarrassed, what Zhou Yongyan said this week seemed to make sense. Yan Shi rubbed his chin, Zhou Yongyan seemed to be really eloquent this time.
At this time, Qu Liushang tilted towards him, and said a few words to him, Yan Shi nodded.
Qu Liushang stood up from his chair, and bowed his hands to County Magistrate Qian, "Master County Magistrate, I am a doctor. I have a way to prove whether the second young master is Zhou Jieyuan's biological son, and whether Zhou Jieyuan has raised a concubine." .”
County magistrate Qian hurriedly said, "Please tell the doctor."
Qu Liushang folded his arms and looked at Zhou Yongyan, "Zhou Jieyuan, you really don't know who the second young master's parents are?"
Seeing Qu Liushang like this, Zhou Yongyan trembled in his heart, but no one else knew about the fact that he had raised a concubine back then, even his mother only found out after her death, so he didn't believe that this person would What method, so he said, "I really don't know."
"Very good," Qu Liushang nodded and then showed a wicked smile, "Zhou Jieyuan really thinks everyone is a fool, just think about it, if my lord doesn't have enough evidence, how can we let County Magistrate Qian open the court?" Trial this case? We have found the tomb in the outer room. If Zhou Jieyuan said that the blood test is fake, then we can have a bone test. I started studying medicine when I was three years old, and I have achieved a little bit until now. Medical books Li Youyun, this bone test is more prepared than the blood test. Then let's dig up the man's grave and drip the second young master's blood on the bone. If the second young master's blood melts into the bone Well, that person is naturally the second young master's biological mother. Then Zhou Jieyuan, you keep saying that you are an orphan who has no father and no mother, how can you have any blood relationship with the other woman? Brothers, please be troubled, and take the second young master with me. Let's go."
"I'm not going! I'm not going! You don't want to dig up my mother's grave!" The second young master, who had been kneeling beside Mrs. Zhou, suddenly went berserk. to push him.
"Yo, the second young master is so fierce," Qu Liushang flicked back, not even letting him touch the edge of his clothes. The yamen servant next to him rushed to restrain him, pushed him to the ground and knelt down, "Be honest!"
After all, the second young master is a child in his teens, how can two adults have the strength, he was restrained immediately and couldn't move, he just stared at Qu Liushang angrily with his eyes.
Qu Liushang brushed off his clothes, then cupped his fists at County Magistrate Qian, "I wonder if the magistrate understands?"
County magistrate Qian was at a loss, "Look what do you understand?"
The corner of Qu Liushang's mouth twitched into a smile, looked at Zhou's father and son and continued, "Just now the second young master said that we would not let us dig his mother's grave. He was talking about his mother. Isn't he an orphan who doesn't know who his parents are? Why did he say Is his mother buried in the tomb?" Qu Liushang repeated the word "his mother" emphatically.
In fact, Yan Shi and the others don't know where the outer room is buried, let alone whether Master Tuesday knows or not.
Said that he was not Mrs. Zhou's own. Just now Qu Liushang was just cheating, Zhou Yongyan is old and cunning and not easy to cheat, but the second young master is young, so if he doesn't cheat, he will be fooled.
After Qu Liushang said this, he went back to his seat and sat down, and then it was up to County Magistrate Qian.
County magistrate Qian slapped the gavel, "Zhou Yongyan hasn't really recruited!"
"Father..." The second young master looked at Zhou Yongyan with tears in his eyes, knowing that he had caused trouble, but there was nothing he could do.
Seeing the situation now, Zhou Yongyan could no longer deny it, and just about to confess, he heard the noise and crying outside.
"Who is making noise in the hall?" County Magistrate Qian asked.
A yamen servant reported, "Your Excellency, it is Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Jieyuan's mother. She is arguing to go to court."
County magistrate Qian couldn't hold back his mind, so he turned his attention to Yan Shi, but Yan Shi didn't look at him at all. County magistrate Qian had no choice but to "bring her up."
Mrs. Zhou went to the hall crying, County Magistrate Qian asked, "Why are the women in the hall making noise in front of the mansion?"
Mrs. Zhou wiped her tears and said, "The woman is pleading for my son. He just did something wrong back then. Now that he is dead, he begs the Lord for mercy."
"You can't say that," County Magistrate Qian said. "Even though a person is dead, the mistakes he made still exist. How can they be written off?"
Mrs. Zhou said, "He was too young back then, so it was inevitable that he would make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. Wouldn't it be better to correct them?"
Mrs. Zhou sneered, "If you say that, so many murderers say I was wrong after killing people, can the dead people come back to life?"
Mrs. Zhou's robbed face turned pale and then turned red. She pointed at Mrs. Zhou and yelled, "You shameless bastard, if something happens to my son, I'll never end with you!"