high official

Chapter 147
It's a pity that Wang Xian has practiced...

Looking at the thick stack of files, he was not afraid. After all, he had been an agent of canon history in Fuyang County for a period of time, so he was naturally familiar with it, so he would not have nowhere to start.

He also intends to show off his skills and let these people know that the 'No. [-] official in the south of the Yangtze River' is not just for nothing.Taking out the time spent on reviewing the account books, and only using a meal, he browsed the case files from beginning to end, picked out a dozen files to be processed today, and glanced at the stunned Zheng Sixing: "The imperial court expressly stipulates that the scribes handle The dossiers should be stacked in priority and presented in categories. You can’t even meet the most basic requirements, I think there is a big problem with the torture chamber!"

Zheng Sixing is not very afraid of Wang Xian, because the economic and administrative officials are all appointed by the Ministry of Officials, even the county lord can only suggest dismissal.Wang Xian is just a classic history, and cannot determine his fate.Of course, if Wang Xian couldn't be restrained, as the immediate boss, he would give him small shoes every minute.

Zheng Sixing had no choice but to deal with it carefully, glanced at his subordinates lying on the ground and said, "It's not like this usually..."

"Don't be afraid. How can I punish you without teaching me?" Wang Xian said lightly, "Let's see tomorrow." As he spoke, he slightly curled his fingers, tapped the file on the table and said, "Since today's trial has been scheduled, let's Call the plaintiffs and defendants to Xiya.”

"Yes." Zheng Sixing responded, and took people out, to the outside of the yamen, and said to the people waiting there: "Second master has an order, wait for you to go to the west yamen." Call out the parties who have been in court today, and lead them into the West Yamen.

Zheng Sixing went in to report, and when he came out, he called the party involved in the first case to go in.An old woman with a dark face and a young woman with a sad face entered the Hall of Classics and History.

At this time, a group of subordinate officials who had been punished for copying had moved to the back hall. In the Hall of Classics and History, there were scribes in the punishment room who took notes, and Zaoli with water and fire sticks.Wang Xianduan sat in the hall, although he was not as solemn as when the grand master ascended to the hall, but he could still make the ordinary people breathless.

The two knelt under the hall, and Wang Xian asked in a deep voice, "Is the Han Zhao family and Han Lin family under the hall?"

The two quickly agreed, and Wang Xian asked again: "Han Zhao, what are you suing Han Lin for?"

"I am suing my daughter-in-law for the crime of unfilial piety." Han Zhaoshi was the old woman, and she cried sadly when she heard the words: "The old man has a hard life, and his son died early. No one can control this unfilial daughter-in-law..."

"Silence!" Wang Xian patted Xingmu, and said in a deep voice, "I let you speak, I didn't make you cry!"

"Yes..." The old woman said sadly: "After my husband and my son died, my daughter-in-law and I lived together at home. She thought I was a burden when I was old, so she talked sarcasticly to me all day long, and only gave me money." Eating bran and swallowing vegetables, she secretly eats white rice, and big fish and meat." Then she burst into tears: "Please master the old woman's decision, help me teach this unscrupulous daughter-in-law a lesson!"

The old woman had disheveled white hair, bowed her back, and cried endlessly. She was very pitiful.But her daughter-in-law was also blushing, trembling hands and feet, crying, very pitiful.The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law seemed to be competing in the courtroom to see who would cry the hardest. Everyone laughed secretly, and the courtroom was a mess...

"Silence!" Wang Xian patted Xingmu heavily, but he couldn't laugh.There is a saying that it is difficult for an upright official to decide on housework. Who is right and who is wrong?Moreover, this case is difficult to judge because it involves filial piety. The country governs the world with filial piety. If I wrong my mother-in-law, it will inevitably cause controversy.But if the daughter-in-law is wronged, I am afraid that as soon as he takes office, he will be labeled as a foolish official by the common people.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Xian asked the old woman calmly, "You said your daughter-in-law abused you, what did you eat this morning? What did she eat?"

"Back to the old man, the old man ate brown rice with pickled vegetables, but she ate white rice with meat." The old woman said angrily.

"Really?" Wang Xian looked at Han Lin, and saw that she was supposed to be a beauty, but she was obviously sallow, emaciated and malnourished.

Han Lin shook his head and said sadly: "It's true that women give pickles and brown rice to their mother-in-law, but it's because their family is poor, and they really can't afford white rice or meat..."

"Then what do you eat?" Wang Xian asked.

"I only ate some wild vegetables to satisfy my hunger..." Han Lin said sadly.

"Nonsense, you clearly ate well behind my back!" the old woman said angrily, "Now you're pretending to be pitiful again."

"Daughter-in-law didn't lie to you..." Han Lin cried and said, "I'm just afraid that you will feel sad when you see it all the time, woo..."

"What's wrong with me?" the old woman muttered.

"Okay, okay, calm down, old man." Wang Xian said to the old woman with Yan Yuese: "If you haven't eaten enough in the morning, you must be very angry. You go outside and wait a while, and the official will ask someone to cook for you. When you are full, let us No matter how good you say it."

When the old woman saw that the old man was going to treat guests to dinner, she felt that her face was bright, so she went down proudly.Her daughter-in-law couldn't argue, so she had no choice but to feel wronged.

"Next." Wang Xian put the file aside and picked up another one.

Zheng Sixing watched with cold eyes, seeing that Wang Xian did not break out of Ding Mao, he smiled in his heart and said, why is the first official in the south of the Yangtze River also incompetent?
At this time, the second pair of plaintiffs and defendants came in again. They were a businessman wearing a Liuhe hat and a Songjiang dark flowered cloth straight gown with a sly smile on his face, and a countryman wearing a felt hat and a short jacket.Both of them prostrated themselves under the hall and shouted loudly: "The elder please be the master for the common people!"

Wang Xian asked the two of them to get up, let the countryman talk first, and the countryman said: "I tell the elder, the villain went to the city to sell vegetables the day before yesterday, and accidentally crushed a chick in Boss Zheng's house. Boss Zheng caught him I don't want to let him go, I have to ask Xiaomin to pay him all the money! Xiaomin refused, so he ordered me to be arrested and interviewed by officials, and I was squatted in a board room for two days..."

"You need a penny for a little chicken?" Wang Xian looked at Boss Zheng and said, "You're too dark, aren't you?"

"Your Excellency, my little chicken is a selected high-quality laying hen. When it grows up in the future, it will be able to lay eggs for at least three years." Boss Zheng said calmly: "Now he killed my chicken Well, the villain let alone lost a thousand eggs, and there is an old hen. Now the villain is not a chicken, as long as the eggs are paid, it is already kind..."

Erhei and Shuaihui looked at each other after hearing this, and thought to themselves, why is it such a weird case?It's clear that he intends to make difficult for the adults!
However, Wang Xian seemed to agree with Boss Zheng's statement, saying: "If you say this, the amount of compensation is not too much." Then he turned to the countryman and said: "You should compensate for the loss of others, and you cannot deny it."

Seeing that Wang Xian favored the rich, the countryman burst into tears and said, "It's not that the grassroots don't want to pay compensation, but they really can't afford it."

"Let's make an IOU first." Wang Xian said lightly, and ordered the scribe to write it for him on the spot.

Now, even those Zaoli couldn't stand it any longer, and wondered why Wang Dianshi was so stupid?It is obvious that blackmail is also an accomplice.

The country people are honest, so they had to put on a sad face and obediently signed the IOU. Boss Zheng happily accepted it and was about to resign, but Wang Xian stopped him and said, "Wait a minute."

"What are your orders?" Boss Zheng had no choice but to stop.

"This account is only half settled, why are you leaving?" Wang Xian looked at him with a half-smile and said, "We still have to calculate the second half...do you need feed for your chickens?"

"Of course I have to eat it. I feed it three times a day, and it's all millet." Boss Zheng couldn't help boasting.

"How much should I feed in such a day?" Wang Xian asked again.

"Two taels a day, and one tael more after laying eggs..." Boss Zheng felt that something was wrong, and his voice became smaller and smaller.

"Very good, three or two a day, 72 catties a year." In the Ming Dynasty, one catty was equal to 16 taels. Wang Xian calculated for him, "In three years, it would be 210 six catties. What is the price of millet in this county?"

"My lord, we don't produce millet in the south, and it takes ten cents to buy a catty." Zheng Sixing said softly.

"Very good, it's 160 cash in total," Wang Xian said, looking at Boss Zheng and saying, "Now that he has paid you for [-] eggs, you should also give the saved feed money to him." He, that's fair and reasonable."

"Ah..." Boss Zheng opened his mouth wide and said, "I still have to find him more than 100 Wen?"

"That's right." Wang Xian nodded.

"How can there be such a calculation?" Boss Zheng refused to accept it: "If I raise chickens like this, I won't have to pay for it?"

"Yeah, raising chickens is risky, and the cost needs to be reduced. Don't use millet in the future." Wang Xian said indifferently: "You are a rich man, you can't make IOUs, pay [-] Wen to others, and then get out."

Boss Zheng yelled at injustice, but Wang Xianzhong slapped him awake and said: "Bold and unreasonable people, dare to bully the good, corrupt the people's morals, refuse to obey discipline, and roar in the court! Come on, give me twenty sticks, fork out yamen!"

"Here!" The Zaolis watched and relieved their anger, responded loudly, and kicked Boss Zheng off.

Waiting for the countryman to thank him, Wang Xian asked outside, "Have you eaten?"

"Eat!" In the yard, Ling Xiao, who was dressed as a man, replied crisply.

"Have you vomited?" Wang Xian asked again.

"I threw up." Ling Xiao said with an impatient smile.

"Go out and have a look!" Wang Xian led the crowd to the yard, and saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law vomited, each of them vomited on the ground.

Ling Xiao patted the backs of the two of them, comforting them while comforting them: "It's okay, it's okay, just spit it out."

"What did your lord add to the noodles?" Zheng Sixing and his little friend were stunned.

"It's just an emetic." Wang Xian said calmly, "Let's see what they eat in the morning."

"..." Zheng Sixing and the others realized that, compared to Wang Dianshi, they were full of integrity.

Going forward to check, I saw that besides the noodles, the mother-in-law spit out rice and pickles, while the daughter-in-law spit out vegetables and radishes...

"Confused old woman." Wang Xian sneered and said to the ashamed old woman, "You don't know how to be blessed when you are born, why don't you pay your daughter-in-law?!"

"Yes." The old woman turned to her daughter-in-law and said in a low voice, "Good boy, mother is blind, so she doesn't dare to mistrust you, you are really a filial child..."

The daughter-in-law also cried and apologized: "My daughter-in-law is usually too fierce to her mother-in-law, which makes her think wildly..." The mother-in-law hugged each other and cried, and the estrangement disappeared.

　The second update, I'm tired, I'm asking for a ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)