Lady forced to seek prince

Chapter 310 The Truth
There were so many people kneeling down suddenly, Gao Li was waiting for someone to stand there for a while, with an expression of disbelief in his eyes.

In Fengxia Village, no one dared to oppose the Gao family. They dare not say a word about the Gao family, but now they are reporting them to the government office.

"You're talking nonsense," Gao Zhengfa came back to his senses first, and said immediately, "It's a false accusation...it's a false accusation...you...colluded with those emigration, how much benefit did the emigration give you?"

"My lord," the villager behind Meng Gao took a few steps on his knees, revealing his hand, which only had three fingers left, "My two fingers were cut off by the Gao family, just because I didn't want to sell grain. There are five members of our family, both parents are seriously ill, and the children in the family are still young, so there are few people who can go to the land. The 75 acres of land allocated, but the Gao family has to take away [-] buckets of grain, and one bucket is only given forty yuan. !"

"I wanted to save some rice grains and sell them in Minxian County, so that I could get more money to buy medicine for my family. When Gao's family found out, they refused to agree, so they tied me up and beat me up in the open space of the village. In the end, my family was arrested. They took at least 76 dou of grain, but were given 73 dou of silver."

"My family is one hundred and three dou, and the Gao family counted five dou less."

"And my family, a total of 560 buckets of rice in three years."

"my home……"

The kneeling people spoke one after another.

After speaking, there was a burst of crying: "How did my brother and sister-in-law's family die, do you still remember?"

"They want to sue the Gao family. They just wrote the pleadings. On the way back, they encountered bandits. The whole family was killed. Those who killed them were Wang Hu and others."

"No...it's Gao Lizheng. It's Gao Lizheng who colluded with Wang Hu. We all know that every year, in addition to selling grain to the Gao family, everyone also pays rice to support the bandits. The Gao family said that this is for Let the bandits not come to the village, and whether they come to the village, isn't it up to them?"

"I also want to complain for my brother and sister-in-law, but I dare not... Those people are too scary, they kill people without blinking an eye, and the government can't catch them."

The woman choked up even more as she spoke: "Just because they are my brother and sister-in-law, I even sent two buckets of rice to Gao's house. Every time I think about this, I feel uncomfortable. I feel sorry for them."

It is obviously wrong for a woman to do this, but no one will blame her, how can she fight against bandits?But it is also a dead end.

Knowing who killed the family members, not only can't blame, but also give people food.

Do it just to be alive.

"My lord," Meng Gao took a deep breath and looked at the clerk in front of him, "A while ago, the bandits broke into the West Village of Fengxia Village at night, and it was also arranged by Gao Li. The day before the bandits came, Gao's family We have been told that no matter what happens in the West Village, we are not allowed to go out."

"Meng Da is right. Gao Li sent his two sons to tell us that we should send the news to every household. If the government investigates it, we will say that we are afraid of bandits and dare not report the news."

"We were really scared by the bandits, so we could only listen to the Gao family."

That night, there was no movement in the East Village of Fengxia Village. They were like dead people, but Meng Gao knew that no one in the East Village could sleep, and everyone kept their eyes open until dawn.

Everyone in the East Village of Fengxia Village lowered their heads. When Meng Gao looked at Zhao Luoyang and the others, he had a guilty expression on his face.

"If we hadn't heard that the sixteen households of the West Village were fighting against bandits together, we might not have dared to sue the Gao family," Meng Gao said. We discussed it secretly, and we need to write a pleading paper and send it to the Yamen."

Meng Gao continued: "I haven't finished writing the pleadings. When I was working in Gao's house, I heard Gao Lizheng and Gao Zhengfa say that they want the refugees to besiege the government office, clean up Mr. Zhao, and then deal with the sixteen households in Xicun. Tell the news to everyone and..."

Having said that, Meng Gao looked at Zhao Luoyang: "Miss Zhao."

When Gao Zhengfa heard this, he seemed to have grasped Meng Gao's trick: "They don't have any contact with the resettlers of the West Village, so why do they think of telling the sixteen households the news? It's all fake."

Meng Gao responded to Gao Zhengfa: "You don't allow us to talk to the [-] resettlers, saying that the movers don't have money in their hands, and that they might sneak into the village to steal. Let us keep an eye on the movers every day, even if the movers come to the village to fetch water. , they can only be half an hour in the morning and half an hour in the evening, and they are not allowed to come to the East Village on weekdays."

"We know that you want to force the resettlers to have nowhere to go and have to spend a lot of money to buy food from you, but you see the resettlers from the West Village go to Zhuangzi and the stockade to do work, burn charcoal and sell money, the Gao family The business couldn’t be done, so I got bad intentions and secretly dealt with the sixteen resettled families.”

After finishing speaking, Meng Gao looked at the official again: "We will understand this, because this is how the Gao family treated us."

"It's a pity that the Gao family's calculations were wrong. Wang Hu and others failed to break into the West Village, and were killed by the court. Gao Zhengshen, who led the bandits, died at the hands of the bandits instead. Gao Lizheng was sick and anxious. Can't get sick."

"At that time, I also tried to get in touch with the sixteen resettlement households," Meng Gao said. "My big cow's bones have never been healthy, and the sixteen resettlement households sold cheese, so I took rice grains and wanted to exchange some cheese for Danny." Niu fills the body, the girls of the Zhao family collect very little rice, and leave some whey for the cow every day, we feel sorry for the migrants, but the migrants treat us like this, we feel guilty in our hearts."

"Later, I saw the sixteen households making leather jackets with the migrants around me. From the bottom of my heart, I felt that the sixteen households were very powerful, so I told the girl of the Zhao family about it. I thought that after the sixteen households knew about it, they might be able to think about it. Find a way to deal with it."

This is the cause and effect of the whole thing, Meng Gao explained clearly.

After saying this, Meng Gao took out a thick stack of paper from his arms and handed it to the clerk: "This is the amount of rice bought by the Gao family in the past three years. There are 23 households in the whole village, except for those with the surname Gao. We all remember how much rice was sold and how much rice was confiscated by the Gao family and given to bandits."

Gao Zhengfa looked at the note, his eyes were red, he just wanted to go forward and snatch it, but he knew in his heart that it would be useless to snatch it.Gao Lizheng, who was being supported by others, had a livid face, and he stretched out his arms and waved them wildly, as if he was about to pull Meng Gao over and tear him to pieces.

Gao Li was waving like this for a long while, and finally opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood with a "poof", his eyes stared straight, and his body fell limply, seeing more air out and less air in.

The Gao family immediately cried out, and Gao Zhengfa took the opportunity to help Gao Lizheng leave, but the civil official ordered Zhao Xuejing, "Please take a few people and help Gao Lizheng go to the front clinic for treatment."

After the civil official finished speaking, he looked at the members of the Gao family: "All the rest of the Gao family will stay here and wait for interrogation by Mr. Zhao."

Hearing this order, Gao Zheng's feet softened, and he almost fell to his knees in front of Gao Lizheng. He knew that the trial would be over, and when they compared the accounts handed in with the villagers' records, they would find that the villagers said All are true.

And if one person says this, and the whole village says this, how can they argue?

Gao Zhengfa's eyes went black for a while, and their Gao family was really over.

Cao Ben and Xie Chen stood not far away, and all the words of Meng Gao and others fell into their ears.

Xie Chen glanced at the paper. It is not surprising that these farmers still remember how much rice they sold in three years.

They spend their energy in the fields all year round, and the only thing that can make a living is the grain. The whole family, waiting for the grain to be sold for money, is bought at a low price. I don’t know how uncomfortable they feel. These must be in their hearts. Notes must be clear.

Cao Ben frowned and said: "I didn't expect Taozhou to be like this, if I didn't see it with my own eyes..."

Xie Chen said indifferently: "They just want us to see, didn't you hear? They planned to use the refugees to make trouble early in the morning. They knew that we would rush to Taozhou today, so they set up such a stage for us, but I didn’t expect the migrants and farmers to stand up and sue them.”

"The common people know who treats them well and who treats them badly, so instead of scheming against Zhao Jingyun, they complain to Zhao Jingyun at the government office."

Cao Bendao: "Then shall we reveal our identities to the clerk now? So we can sort out the case?"

Before Xie Chen could speak, he saw another person pushing over.

Zhao Xueli looked at the crowd and said: "People from the Ding family and the Zou family stopped the yamen's servants and wanted to take away the rice grains. Let's help Mr. Zhao."

"Let's go," the surrounding people heard this and responded one after another, "Go, go and help Mr. Zhao."

Zhao Xueli led people into the city, Xie Chen and Cao Ben didn't react for a while, they were pushed aside, Xie Chen staggered, almost fell to the ground, but luckily someone supported him.

Then a familiar voice said: "Grandpa, be careful."

(End of this chapter)