Chapter 30
An Jingchen immediately raised his head, "What do you mean?"

"What do you mean?"

Chang Junjie looked gloating, "Oh, by the way, I forgot that no one informed me, you don't know about it yet. Then let me tell you, your wife has been caught in the Yamen, selling smuggled salt!

You must know that selling smuggled salt is a capital crime, haha, this time there are both witnesses and physical evidence, no matter how he makes excuses, there is nothing he can do to save his life! "

"fart!"

Zhao Yuanlin said angrily: "Everyone knows that smuggling salt is a capital crime. Sister-in-law An will not be stupid. We will not believe your nonsense anymore."

"She is indeed right. You are indeed not a man. In order to slander her, you can make up any kind of lie!" Yu Zian said sternly: "We don't want to hear your farts, get out!"

"Do I need to make it up?" He laughed and looked at An Jingchen, "He kept saying that others would suffer retribution, but who would have thought that it would be me who would suffer retribution in the end! I heard that you and your husband are deeply in love, maybe we can meet again at this time. On the one hand, if I go too late, I'm afraid I'll be thrown into death row..."

That woman could do any kind of hard work in order to earn money. When she thought of the five taels of silver in her purse, An Jingchen's heart suddenly thumped.

Could it be possible that she really was a smuggler?

Before he could finish speaking, An Jingchen rushed out.

The two roommates were still asking him where he was going, but An Jingchen strode away without even having time to answer.

"If I really made it up, how could he be so anxious?" Chang Junjie raised his eyebrows proudly and walked away.

Zhao Yuanlin and Yu Zian looked at each other, "I don't believe she is such a person."

"I don't believe it either!"

In the Fengxi County government office, Qiao Muchao was treated as a criminal and forced to kneel in the hall. Although her hands were tied behind her back, her straight posture showed stubbornness and unruliness.Li Zheng, Chang Guihua and Chang Wenhui from Xiangshui Village also knelt beside her as witnesses.

The county magistrate Mr. Chen pointed at the bag of salt on the table and said sternly: "Who in the ordinary world would buy so much salt at one time? Now that there are witnesses and physical evidence, you have to admit it even if you don't admit it!"

"That salt is what I use to make hand-peeled bamboo shoots. Two jars of hundreds of kilograms of hand-peeled bamboo shoots require more than a kilogram of salt every day. It seems like so much, but in fact it doesn't take long."

Qiao Muyao said in a neither humble nor condescending manner: "Dongzhi asked me to carry salt for her. I found out that she had no salt to eat at noon, so I gave her a liter. In the conscience of heaven and earth, I didn't make her a penny. It can't be considered selling private salt at all. Please be aware of this."

"Sir, this woman has always been cunning. Recently, because she was peeling bamboo shoots, Fengxiju sent a carriage to pick her up. After getting the carriage, she took the goods with her, bought and resold them, and even sold private salt. If she hadn't discovered it in time due to her humble position, she wouldn't have known about it. No matter what kind of disaster it is, please punish me severely." Li Zhengyi said righteously.

After the founding of Dacheng, strict salt laws were promulgated, especially the sale of illegal salt, which was a serious crime of beheading.Once it is discovered in the jurisdiction, officials from top to bottom will be implicated to some extent.

In order to keep the black gauze hats on their heads, the masters of those small places committed countless crimes by adhering to the principle that they would rather kill a hundred people by mistake than miss one person.

Qiao Muyao argued: "My lord, don't listen to her nonsense, I didn't buy or sell at all. Especially smuggling salt, this is a trumped-up charge..."

"presumptuous!"

Master Chen slapped the gavel tree with a loud bang, "According to the laws of this dynasty, anyone who resells more than three kilograms of salt is guilty of selling illegal salt. Anyone who sells illegal salt must be punished! You sell it privately." I gave Xu Dongzhi, a villager in this village, one liter of salt equivalent to three kilograms, so I should ask, Qiao Muyao, can you plead guilty?"

"Wait!"

Qiao Muyao was about to retort when a familiar voice sounded like thunder. She turned around and saw the tall and tall An Jingchen coming against the light.The skylight poured down from behind him, making his delicate and handsome face look like an immortal.

(End of this chapter)

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