Traveling through the Prosperous Pastoral of Peasant Girls

Chapter 20 The Enemy's Unlucky
Chapter 21 Bad luck for the enemy
They took them from Qifeng Town to Fucheng in the morning, and at about one o'clock in the afternoon, they were promoted, and the magistrate began to bring criminals to trial, and those good-hearted residents of Fucheng swarmed into the government office.Landlord Yan and his son knelt down together, but Mr. Xu, who was the plaintiff, sat on the chair beside him.

Zu Chuanfu, the magistrate, slapped the gavel and asked, "Is that the defendant Yan?"

Landlord Yan quickly replied: "My lord, the small one is Yan one."

"Yan Yi, are you guilty?"

"Cao Min is sleeping in his own home, and he doesn't know what crime he has committed?"

The magistrate pointed to Mr. Xu and said, "This is Mr. Xu, the plaintiff. He sues you for using his family's name and producing inferior crispy rice to ruin the reputation of his business."

The aloof Mr. Xu looked at him sideways: "You dare to sell your crispy rice in my name to the capital, aren't you a little too courageous?" Landlord Yan said with a bitter face. Know the whole story.

"Master Xu, my lord, these are all not my fault, the Liu family personally taught the secret recipe of making rice crackers to... to my relatives, and the relatives taught it to my concubine, so my family made rice crackers and sold them.... "

"This statement remains to be investigated. Why did you name Xu's restaurant, Mr. Xu's?"

"My lord, it's all about that bitch, my little concubine's idea was not my original intention, my lord..."

"Okay, let's stop here for the time being, arresting the head..."

The head catcher standing next to him hurriedly replied: "Yes"

"Bring all the people mentioned by Yan Yiyi tomorrow, and we will continue the trial of this case tomorrow!"

At the same time the next day, Liu Tao Jinyang and their parents, Da Pang, his mother, grandma, eldest cousin, and the eldest wife of Landlord Yan were all brought in. The prefect started the second round of interrogation, first questioning Liu Tao grandma and aunt.The grandma and aunt didn't dare to hide anything, so they told the whole story, and also said that it was Jin Yang who voluntarily let Dapang enter the workshop.When the magistrate asked about Fatty, Fatty was so frightened that his legs trembled and he answered incoherently.

Jin Yang was afraid that Mr. Xu would take his anger out on him because of the leakage of the cooking method of rice crackers. Although the secret recipe of rice crackers belonged to him, it was being made by other people, which somewhat impacted his interests.Thinking of this, he rolled his eyes and said to the magistrate: "My lord, you should ask Fatty 'what did I say to him when he entered the workshop'?"

When the magistrate asked Dapang, Dapang said truthfully: "That day, Brother Jinyang said to me when he opened the door to let me in, 'Big Fatty, you can remember that, when you grow up, you can open your own workshop. Make it yourself and eat it yourself' is the sentence."

Liu Tao secretly exaggerated that fat children can be taught, and his words clearly pushed away the responsibility of Jin Yang for letting him enter the workshop. "When you grow up, you can make it for yourself", just this sentence, "I made it Self-eating' The responsibility for deliberately leaking secrets is much weaker.

The next interrogation target is Liu Jiaojiao. The eldest cousin Liu Jiaojiao has never seen the big world. She came to the court as a criminal for the first time, and she was afraid and did not dare to lie, so she instructed her grandma to go to Liu Tao's house and let everyone Pang saw the production process of the rice crust, and told the original story when he came back, and he told the landlord Yan to imitate it when he returned home.In the end, he didn't dare to admit the purchase of Mr. Xu's crock pot and pasting the red stickers from Xu's restaurant, and put it all on Yan Yiyi's head.

The matter became clear, and the magistrate began to pronounce the sentence: "Liu Jiaojiao was interested in the production method of Liu's crispy rice, and colluded with Liu Huang's (Liu Tao's grandma), causing Liu Dafa to enter the workshop to spy, and Liu Jiaojiao was fined 20 taels of silver to beat the top ten. Mrs. Liu Huang forced his son and his family to submit, but Fatty Liu succeeded. Mrs. Liu Huang fined him 20 taels of silver and ten strikes. Mrs. Liu thinks you are too young, so you don’t need to be punished. Yan, a profiteer, has bad intentions , embezzled the secret recipe of the Liu family, made inferior crispy rice and sold it at a high price to deceive people, and also embezzled the business name of Mr. Xu, ruined the reputation of the Xu family business, not only confiscated the illegal income, but also confiscated all illegal utensils and raw materials, demolished Workshops that make rice crusts will be fined another 2000 taels of silver and will be imprisoned for two years, and the rest will not be dealt with for minor crimes..."

Grandma was pushed to the ground by the yamen servant and spanked ten times with a medium-sized board. Liu Tao's father paid for the fine of 20 taels of silver.The eldest cousin was spanked ten times on the buttocks, and she could only cry from the beating.

Landlord Yan refused to fight since he accepted the punishment. The raw materials for the oven and the carriage for transporting the crispy rice were confiscated. In addition to the prefect fined 2000 taels of silver, the tax department also fined 500 taels.The business in the county seat was sold at a price, and 270 mu of good land was sold for [-] mu and a fine was paid. Except for those managed by various ministries, it was tantamount to bankruptcy.He hated Liu Jiaojiao for not acknowledging the idea of ​​buying jars and writing red stickers, but pinned it on him, and wrote a divorce letter in prison to let her leave the house and rush back to her mother's house.

The eldest cousin was stripped of all her clothes and accessories by the eldest wife, and even the jewelry on her head was stripped off. Chunxiang was sold, and she hugged a piece of colored glaze with disheveled hair, and went home crying alone to her aunt's house.

Liu Tao and Jin Yang avenged their innocent beating. They were overjoyed to see Liu Jiaojiao being beaten, and they also felt lingering fear after being happy. They would never do such stupid things as letting others spy on them.But it's not bad, the punishment of grandma and eldest cousin has nothing to do with them. Isn't it right to be punished because of greed? At least grandma and auntie can't come here in the near future.Because in the countryside, if a woman is spanked by the government, it is a great shame, and going out will become a joke for being pointed out by idlers.

Grandma was beaten with a medium-sized board. Although her skin was not broken and bleeding, her buttocks were so swollen that she dared not lie down or sit.Later, I thought that Landlord Yan's family had earned a lot of money with rice dumplings, and they didn't give them a copper coin. Instead, I was punished for it, and I called my grandfather and uncle to ask them to go to Landlord Yan and Liu Jiaojiao for compensation.Before the two of them left, news came that Liu Jiaojiao had been purged, left the house and returned home, and the idea of ​​compensation was lost.

A few days later, the third uncle's house and the cowshed were almost built, and the two of them went to Fucheng to meet Mr. Xu again, because Mr. Xu's caravan trip could reach the northern border of Daqing Kingdom, and they could buy special products from outside the Great Wall. Cows With Milk.

Brother Su heard about it, and he suggested to the two of them: "Bosses, if you want to buy cows that specialize in milk production, the cows in the Quanhe Grassland are the best in the north. The cows there have a milking period. It can produce nearly [-] catties of milk every day, which is unmatched by cows in other places..."

The two knew that if the cows were not fed additives to promote lactation, ordinary cows would only produce [-] catties a day, and if there were good cows with a daily output of [-] catties, they would have to buy them anyway.

"Brother, is the Spring River Grassland far from here?"

"It's 100 miles away from the border, and you have to walk more than [-] miles to cross the border. However, if you don't make a detour to cross the border, you have to pass Wanquan Mountain. There are many bandits there, so it's not safe."

(End of this chapter)