I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 124

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The prefect frowned and said, "Ms. Zhang, this prefecture has summoned all the witnesses you cited, and no one can fully prove that Geng Shiyong released the snake to harm his wife.

However, several people witnessed Zhu stabbing her husband with a knife.

Because of your eagerness to protect your master, I will not punish you for roaring in court. Come, take him away."

"Master, Master... Madam, Madam, please don't be silent! It was that ungrateful Geng Shiyong who first harmed us... Madam...

Oh my God, my wife was furious when she grabbed the knife, she didn’t mean to hurt anyone. It’s unfair…” Nanny Zhang was finally gagged and dragged away.

People outside the hall were talking about it, and some said: "Killing a husband in the street, the death penalty."

"She doesn't look like a weak girl!"

"Humph, you evil woman, you deserve to be killed!"

"I just heard that she and her husband had a quarrel in the carriage, and then the knife was used."

"No, no, the nurse just said that Madam Zhu was furious after she was caught cheating. Her husband scolded her in the carriage for not being able to have children and that she was not charming enough..."

"Ah? This..."

"Yes, yes, yes, the nurse said that her husband was able to study because of her wife, but he colluded with the accountant to steal money to support his mistress, and also released a snake to harm her.

After being caught cheating, he turned around and said that the first wife was not as charming as the mistress. Ugh, Chen Shimei."

"Oh my god, what a miserable life!"

"But she must pay for her murder."

"She is a vicious woman."

"You are the poisonous husband."

The onlookers suddenly started arguing about the person in the hall.

Mrs. Zhu was still kneeling in a daze, with no servants behind her to protect her.

Shen Xiaoye did not see the plaintiff, nor did she see any lawyer present. She knelt on the side waiting to listen to the prefect and his assistants discuss the results.

I also thought to myself, before coming here, Xiao Xuanmao had inquired and found out that Mr. Geng is not dead, and Mrs. Zhu turned herself in, so she should be given a lighter sentence, right?

She wanted to ask her uncle who was standing next to her, but when she looked up, she felt that he was standing too high. Alas, it was unfair.

Although ordinary people did not have to kneel when meeting officials on a daily basis, they had to kneel in the lobby on special occasions, unless the chief official exempted them. My uncle was a student and was exempted from this ritual by the prefect.

In order to distract herself, Shen Xiaoye thought again, doesn’t the young Mrs. Zhu next door have any relatives coming over?

After a while, the gavel sounded again, and the prefect said, "Ms. Zhu, you killed and injured your husband on your way home, which is one of the ten evils.

And there are witnesses and evidence in court, and now this government sentences you to death according to the law."

"What?!" Shen Xiaoye raised her head suddenly, and said, "Mr. Geng is not dead. If Madam Zhu surrenders herself, wouldn't she be sentenced to exile at most?"

Suddenly, everyone looked at her.

Shen Xiaoye followed up by saying, "Master Prefect, you are a judge, shouldn't you investigate the whole story and make a judgment according to the law?"

"Children don't understand, don't speak." The prefect stood up and waved his hand, ordering Madam Zhu to be locked up in the prison, waiting for the Ministry of Justice to review it, and then said: "Adjourn!"

Shen Xiaoye stood up and said, "Wait a minute, Madam Zhu has at most committed murder but has not yet committed suicide. She does not deserve to be put to death."

The cook behind her was kneeling, not daring to get up, but she reached out to pull her.

Shen Xiaoye broke free and walked quickly towards the case, but was blocked by the yamen runners' water and fire sticks.

Shen Changsui was restrained here. She stretched out her hand but failed to grab it, so she looked up at the prefect and said, "Why? Why?

Why is it that a woman who beats her husband is punished with death, while a husband who beats his wife is only given a beating at most? "

The onlookers were all stunned, and the cook was so scared that she fell to the ground.

Shen Changsui sighed lightly, but did not say anything to stop her.

The prefect looked down at her with half a glance, but saw her suddenly turn around and shout at Mrs. Zhu who was being carried away: "If you don't fight, you will die. Your scumbag husband will use your money to live a carefree life, and will use the house and bed you bought to marry me."

big week

At the pier of Yuliang Town, Huizhou, various boats are docked. It is just after noon, and the sun is hanging high in the sky, determined to spread the warmth of love to the world.

Except for those who were guarding the boats, everyone on the boats either stayed in the hold or went ashore to find a place to relax and escape the heat.

On the shore, there were few pedestrians, but a group of people were still moving back and forth between the warehouse on the shore and the ship.

In the two-story restaurant built by the water next to the dock, in the residence of the Earl of Zhongyi, the fourth son of the second house, Shen Ruozhe, who is almost fourteen years old, is leaning against the window of room number three, gazing at the people and horses on the shore more than ten feet away.

There were several hundred of them, most of them in tattered clothes, with patches of clothing that had fallen together and the sweat that clung to the ground clearly visible.

Under the supervision of officials wielding sticks and whips, they were moving grain onto rows of cargo ships under the scorching sun.

As soon as he stopped for a moment, the whip would hit him. He would stagger while carrying the grain bag, but he had to grit his teeth and continue carrying it.

After a while, a porter was knocked to the ground by the two bags of grain on his shoulders.

Several laborers quickly moved the grain away and, despite the whips of the officers, moved the man who was vomiting blood to the side.

One of the middle-aged men took out a few copper coins from his waist, nodded and bowed, and put them into the hand of the officer. The officer put them into his sleeve and turned around to shout at everyone to continue moving the grain. He walked to a shady place and talked to someone for a while, and the man ran towards Yuliang Town.

After a while, in the distance, a group of young boys came running towards the injured person. Their voices were just changing, and their hoarse voice of "Dad" shattered a cloud in the sky.

Shen Ruo...

He rubbed his ears, turned around and said to the servant Hu Wu: "Go and take him to the infirmary and have a good look at him."

"Fourth Master, there are a lot of pitiful people in this world, you..." In the corner, Old Mai stood up and spoke.

"Uncle Maizi, that kid is the one who helped me catch mandarin fish yesterday." Shen Ruozhe has always had good eyesight and can see people's faces clearly within a hundred steps. Earl Zhongyi often lamented that he was too weak to practice martial arts and join the army.

Old Mai was stunned, remembering yesterday morning, when the Fourth Master, who had lost his appetite for several days, wanted to eat mandarin fish, but thought the ones at the fish market were not fresh enough. While fishing on the shore, he met a young man who jumped into the water to help him, and he finally got to eat the delicious mandarin fish.

Thinking that the Fourth Master had started eating normally since yesterday, she sat back in the corner.

Hu Wu gave Shen Ruo a silly smile and ran down the restaurant.

The young man in the distance had already wiped the blood from the wounded man's mouth and spoke loudly, as if that could dispel his panic, "Dad, wake up! The emperor has issued an edict that starting next year, there will be no additional taxes for men who have reached adulthood. My uncle came back from delivering goods a few days ago and said that Huzhou no longer has to pay grain taxes since last year. Farmers no longer need to transport grain to the capital, and can just pay silver directly."

As he spoke, he carried his father on his thin shoulders with the help of the middle-aged man, "Dad, good days are coming to our family, you can't get hurt."

Others couldn't help much either. If the tax grain was delayed in entering the warehouse, they would be punished, and even if they lost everything they would not be able to pay the penalty.

The young man dragged the person for only a few yards when Hu Wu caught up with him, forcibly took the injured person and carried him to the stretcher he had called for.

The boy didn't react for a moment and was a little confused.

Shen Ruozhe saw Hu Wu pat the boy on the shoulder and pointed at this side and said something.