peasant family

Chapter 378
The woman smiled cheerfully: "It's not a secret, you can find out if you go outside and ask casually! When our Wang Zhifu took office, he let his wife sit on the donkey with the child in his arms, and drove the donkey himself. Go and make a private visit to take office."

It is very special, and through this method, one can clearly know the folk customs in Yeyufu.

The woman continued to gleefully, and said with spittle: "Once he visited a shopping store in the city that was short of catties, taels, and short feet. He also visited the government office where the yamen servants were like wolves and tigers, oppressing the poor even more. It's annoying. Ever since, he made up his mind to rectify this bad atmosphere.

On the first market day when Wang Zhifu took office, Wang Zhifu put on casual clothes and wandered around the market. He wandered to the butcher shop in the west of the city, and saw a lot of noisy people surrounded there, so he went to have a look.

It turned out that the owner of the butcher shop was arguing with a young man. The young man was holding a pole with a string of ropes hanging from it in one hand, and a small piece of pork in the other.

Wang Zhifu went up to pull the young man out and asked, "Little brother, why did you quarrel with the butcher shop owner?" '

The young man said angrily: "Today I came to the city to sell firewood, and I only sold it for ten yuan. My old mother wants to eat meat. I plan to buy half a catty of meat and go back to my mother. After buying, I met someone on the way back." Brother Zhang next door to my house came to the city to sell vegetables, so I weighed them by his name, but the half catty of meat was still half a tael, so I went to the butcher shop to find them, but they refused to admit it, and said that I came on purpose Find faults and make trouble!It is not easy for us poor people to earn money. If I am the kind of person who likes to find fault and make trouble, why should I buy half a catty of meat! '

At that time, Wang Zhifu said, "Why do you need to be angry with him?"Why don't you go to the government office to sue him? '

The man said: "I think so too, but will the magistrate take care of such trivial matters?"I don't know how to write any pleadings, and I don't have the money to ask someone to write a pleading!Besides, it's hard for a strong dragon to overwhelm a local snake, even if I sue him, won't he still bully others after that? '

Wang Zhifu persuaded him: "Little brother, you are a little frustrated now. Let me tell you, when you enter the gate of the mansion, beat the drums to express your grievances. When you arrive at the mansion hall, you will kowtow to the lord. Answer whatever the lord asks you, and you are not allowed to look up." Look at the magistrate!Our new magistrate is a good person, as long as you go to beat the drums and complain, he will definitely handle the case for you! '

The guy was still unwilling to go, worried that the magistrate would not handle the case for him, so he went after hesitating again and again! "

Lu said: "The magistrate let him go, and he will naturally handle the case."

"That's right, that young man really went to the government office, beat the drums to protest his grievances, and the magistrate was raised to interrogate the case." The woman and You Rong said.

"What's the result?" Lu asked.

The woman said: "Of course the result is good. The magistrate not only made the decision for the young man, but also called the butcher shop owner to confront him, and then asked the team leader to say in the lobby of the government office that the butcher shop owner was arrogant outside, but in In front of the magistrate, it was like a mouse seeing a cat, and he confessed his crime very honestly! The magistrate fined him 20 taels of silver and warned him not to withhold the taels of silver! Guess what happened to the 20 taels of silver?"

Mrs. Lu shook her head, expressing that she didn't know.

Shen Qing's eyes lit up: "Could it be, I gave it to that young man's brother?!"

"Hey, girl, you are really smart. That's right, the magistrate did give the 20 taels of silver to that young man!" The woman smiled.

(End of this chapter)