King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 28 Give You Justice
"With my famous name, Zhu Jinghong, how can I be worse than your idiot..."

As I said before, Zhu Jinghong still needs to show some face, he really can't do such a bullying thing.

It's just a lesson to Xue Pan, there's no need to put your own reputation on it, if the father in the capital knows, it's no wonder he didn't get beaten to death.

Thinking of this, Zhu Jinghong couldn't help feeling that he was really a gentleman, and he must have left a good impression on Baochai.

After hearing these words, Baochai in the house finally breathed a sigh of relief, as did Aunt Xue.

"The Thirteenth Lord is magnanimous, and the women of the people respect him!" Baochai said again.

"It doesn't matter whether I respect you or hate me, if I listen to the Xue family doing evil again..."

"Never forgive me!"

For the last four words, Zhu Jinghong's tone was so severe that Xue Pan almost lost control of himself in fright.

"Master Thirteen, don't worry, the villain won't dare to act foolishly again, from now on he will only do good deeds and not do bad deeds!"

Seeing that Baochai didn't speak, Zhu Jinghong didn't bother too much. He still has business to do today.

Slowly retracting the knife into its sheath, Zhu Jinghong looked at Xue Pan and asked, "You said just now that Hu Jin'an was playing tricks?"

Seeing that his grievances could be cleared away, Xue Pan quickly replied: "Exactly, this guy wants to make up for the shortfall, and it's time to concentrate on making money!"

Xue Pan knew more or less about the affairs of the government, and he knew about Hu Jin'an's mess.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Jinghong said slowly: "In this way, things are more interesting!"

Now is the time to check the account books, but there are officials who persecute the good people in order to balance the accounts, which can be treated as a negative example.

There is Hu Jin'an in Yingtian Mansion, are there similar things in other prefectures and counties?The question speaks for itself.

The current situation is that Zhu Jinghong needs to know the real situation in Jinling in order to arrange money, grain, salaries and silver.

If there are prefectures and counties that are at a loss, they will all cheat like Hu Jin'an, and the suppression of Japanese will probably be messed up later.

Then, it is necessary to strictly investigate the matter of Hu Jin'an and make him a typical warning to Jinling magistrates.

After straightening out his clothes, Zhu Jinghong asked slowly, "Xue Pan...do you know what crime he is charged with for slandering the court officials?"

Seeing that there was an opportunity to clean up, Xue Pan quickly replied: "Master Thirteen, everything the villain said is true, if there are false words, the sky will be struck by lightning!"

Zhu Jinghong continued to ask: "It is Hu Jin'an who has caused grievances, are you willing to go to the palace gate to report on this person and seek justice for yourself and Feng Yuan?"

In fact, Zhu Jinghong's remark was logically flawed. He came to cause trouble without understanding the situation. He should apologize to Xue Pan, why Xue Pan went to trouble Hu Jin'an.

Xue Pan sensed that something was wrong, but Zhu Jinghong's prestige made him dare not tell.

"What does Master Thirteen mean?" Xue Pan could only pretend not to understand.

"Why, you don't want to?" Zhu Jinghong's voice suddenly became cold, and he didn't give him a chance to shirk.

Xue Pan was excited, and quickly replied: "The villain is willing, the villain is willing!"

Zhu Jinghong asked again: "Then when do you plan to sue? Where do you go to sue?"

"The villain will find someone to write a complaint tomorrow, and then go to the Chasi Yamen to sue him!"

"tomorrow?"

"No no...today, the villain will find someone to write a complaint!" Xue Pan had a strong desire to survive, so he changed his words immediately.

"it is good……"

Zhu Jinghong smiled, patted Xue Pan on the shoulder, and said, "If the Chasi refuses to accept your case, you can sue to the palace, and the prince and I will uphold justice for you!"

Although he felt like crying at the moment, Xue Pan still managed to smile: "Thank you Thirteenth Master!"

"I misunderstood you today, don't blame me!"

Seeing that the master was about to be sent away, Xue Pan laughed and said, "It's the blessing of the villain's whole family that the thirteenth master is here in the humble house!"

Zhu Jinghong nodded, and then walked to the main room in the courtyard. This scene made Xue Pan's heart hang again.

But fortunately, Zhu Jinghong stopped when he walked up the steps.

He cupped his hands and said: "Just now I spoke abruptly, please forgive Miss Xue, Zhu is leaving..."

Inside the house, Baochai turned her head to one side angrily, and cursed out the words "Dengtuzi" again in her heart.

Zhu Jinghong, who was outside the house, suppressed the idea of ​​face-to-face communication with Baochai, turned around and gestured to the left and right guards.

But seeing him walking down the steps, a group of guards surrounded him and walked out of the yard.

"Congratulations to the Thirteenth Master..." Xue Pan kowtowed again.

It stands to reason that he should send it out in person, but unfortunately his legs are really not in control, so he can only kowtow respectfully on the spot.

After Zhu Jinghong left, this guy yelled at the surrounding maids and mothers-in-law: "What are you still doing in a daze? Why don't you hurry up and help the master up!"

These maids got up quickly, came to Xue Pan and helped him up, and then Aunt Xue and Baochai also walked out of the house.

"Pan'er, are you okay!"

Seeing the injury on her son's neck, Aunt Xue was very anxious, and hurriedly ordered the maid to call for a doctor.

Forced to smile, Xue Pan replied, "Mother... my son is fine!"

After being greeted by Aunt Xue, Xue Pan was helped into the room and sat down, his legs were still trembling at the moment.

"Pan'er, what is going on with this matter, you can tell mother clearly!" Aunt Xue was full of worries.

There was no other way, Xue Pan told Aunt Xue everything that happened a few days ago.

Aunt Xue and Baochai were shocked when they learned that the so-called son of Zhenjiangwei was actually Zhu Jinghong's false name.

According to the situation at that time, the slaves of the Xue family besieged Zhu Jinghong and his party, but Xue Pan was not killed by the guards, it was God's blessing.

"Pan'er, are you really going to sue that Hu?" Aunt Xue was even more worried.

"Mother, you heard it just now, the thirteenth master forced your son to sue, does your son dare not go?"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Xue turned to look at Baochai: "Bao girl, what do you think of this matter?"

Sighing, Baochai said helplessly, "I'm afraid this matter is very involved. We know too little information, so we can't guess Thirteen Lord's intentions in doing this!"

"It's just Hu Jin'an, we're afraid that he won't succeed, so we'll sue him..." Xue Pan said carelessly.

As long as he is not allowed to confront Zhu Jinghong, he is willing to do anything right now.

Baochai shook her head and said, "I'm afraid it's not that simple!"

"Then what do you say?"

After thinking for a while, Baochai said to Aunt Xue: "Why don't you write a letter to your uncle and uncle in mother's name, explaining the reason of the matter and let them help you make up your mind!"

The current trial procedure is complicated, and normally it takes two months to finalize the case.

What's more, it is still such a big case now, the handling officials will definitely be cautious, and it will only take longer if there are no special circumstances.

Xue Pan nodded, took a sip of tea to suppress his shock, and said, "This is a good way. Uncle and uncle are officials in Beijing, and they all know what is going on!"

Aunt Xue also nodded, and just as she was about to order the pen and ink, she heard a commotion outside, and it was people from each house of Xue's family who came.

Thinking of the bad intentions of these people, Aunt Xue's face suddenly turned ugly, and she felt angry when she mentioned these people.

"Madam, Second Uncle and the others want to see you!"

Ignoring the servant girl's report, Aunt Xue said directly to Xue Pan: "Pan'er, these people have no good intentions, go and send them away!"

Knowing the thoughts of these people in the clan, Xue Pan nodded and got up to leave.

Facing Zhu Jinghong, his legs trembled, but he was not afraid of these people in the clan. How could he not obey his mother's orders.

Xue Pan is a fool, he came to the gate of the courtyard and scolded everyone without waiting for them to ask.

The reason is that everyone did not treat Zhu Jinghong well, which caused today's disaster, and it was hard for him to ask Zhu Jinghong to appease his anger.

In other words, Xue Pan set himself up as the savior of the Xue family, and in turn gave the clan members a scolding.

Relying on the confidence brought by this set of rhetoric, Xue Pan said to everyone in a stern tone: "That's all for today, I don't want to hold you accountable, but if anyone makes mistakes on the emperor's mission again, don't blame me for using family law!"

In fact, Xue Pan's bastard character is very effective in suppressing these clansmen with evil intentions.

(End of this chapter)