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Onlookers said: "I don't know."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help turning his head to look at him, "...I wonder what the excitement is for you?"

The other party didn't recognize Zhao Hanzhang, so he said matter-of-factly: "They were crying when I came here. I missed the time for them to speak and have been crying until now. How do I know who they are?"

Zhao Hanzhang looked him up and down and said, "A big man, with sound limbs and a strong body. He doesn't work during the good time, but comes to the county government office to watch the fun?"

The other party was unconvinced and said to him, "Now no matter what the man or woman is, isn't the girl with sound limbs and a healthy body? Why don't she go to work and come to watch the fun?"

Zhao Hanzhang choked for a moment and then said: "I first came to Guibao Land to learn about Luoyang."

When the other party heard this, his expression immediately improved, and he said with a smile to Zhao Hanzhang: "That girl is right. Our envoy is a woman, so the status of women in Luoyang City is quite high. If you have the ability, you can go to the Yamen and recommend yourself to be a female official. .”

Seeing that Zhao Hanzhang was tall, with a pine-like figure, and only half of his face exposed was as white as jade, the young man felt swayed, so he defended himself: "I didn't come to see the fun for nothing."

"Oh?" Zhao Hanzhang looked at him curiously.

He immediately said: "I'm here to see what's going on. If I go back to a restaurant and learn how to do it, I can make money."

Zhao Hanzhang was surprised: "Is there such a way to make money?"

"Of course there is. Some storytellers can't come to see the excitement in time, and the news is very slow. At this time, people like me who are the first to see the excitement and can tell the story completely are very popular. Storytellers are very willing to learn from us. Get the news."

Did it turn out that information trading existed so early?

Zhao Hanzhang pointed to the people in this circle and asked: "Are they all here to watch the fun?"

"That's not it. You're just watching half of the fun. The rest are here to complain."

Zhao Hanzhang's heart suddenly dropped. There were only so many people in her Luoyang city, so many people came to complain in one day?

She has not slacked off during this period of time. Why didn't she know that Luoyang had changed so much?

"There are cases that have been accumulated for half a decade. Today, there are people coming to the door crying and making trouble. Magistrate Zhao is very busy."

Zhao Hanzhang breathed a sigh of relief, "This is a case that has been waiting for half a decade."

"yes."

"Why doesn't the county magistrate deal with it one day at a time, but wants to accumulate it?"

"In addition to urgent cases, major cases and important cases, such small cases naturally have to be accumulated and dealt with." The young man agreed with Zhao Kuan's handling method and said: "Otherwise, the county magistrate and county lieutenant would have to deal with these trivial matters every day. Don’t you have to be too busy?”

Zhao Kuan, who was talking quietly and had been lowering his head to deal with official documents, put down his pen, took all the cases on his left hand, picked up the gavel with his right hand and patted it, making everyone inside and outside the county government office quiet.

Even the person who had been sitting on the ground and howling could not help but become a little quieter.

Zhao Kuan said to the people on the ground solemnly: "Ms. Chen, please wait until I finish handling the cases that have been accumulated in the past before talking to Xian Yan. Come here, pour water for everyone in the Chen family, and ask them to sit down at the table and wait."

The yamen servant agreed and took out two mats from a room and spread them out in the yard of the county yamen. He also brought seven or eight bowls and a teapot to pour water for them. "I have been crying all morning. Drink some water to moisten them." Moisten your throat."

The Chen family is a family of scholars. They took the tea bowl with both hands and drank all the water. Then they lowered their heads and carefully wiped away their tears. They got up from the ground and sat on the mat, waiting for Zhao Kuan to handle other cases. He had no intention of jumping in line.

The crowd who had been watching the excitement finally looked away. Zhao Kuan was stunned again and asked: "Are Qiao Dacheng from Anyuan Village and Zhou Ji from Xiangdong Village here?"

"Yes, yes," the crowd immediately squeezed out two groups of people, three on each side, two men and one woman. As soon as they walked into the courtyard and saw each other, they both snorted heavily.

On the left, there is an elderly couple with an injured young man. On the right, there is a father and a pair of children. The daughter has been dressed as a woman and is crying while following her father and brother inside.

When they got to the court, people on both sides of the court knelt down in clear distinction.

Zhao Kuan glanced at their pleadings and their respective demands, then looked up at the people kneeling in the hall and asked: "Qiao Dacheng, you are the plaintiff, you go ahead and speak."

The young brother on the right responded loudly and was about to speak. The Zhou family on the left was unhappy and shouted: "County Lord, we are the ones who suffer. It's our turn to speak first."

Zhao Kuan slapped the crowd in shock and shouted: "What are you arguing about? Whoever the county asks will speak first. If you don't accept it, go down and get the board first and then come back and talk to me."

The Zhou family immediately stopped making trouble.

Qiao Dacheng glanced at the Zhou family proudly, and then said, "This is my sister Qiao Niang, the county gentleman, a common man. She married Zhou Ji two years ago. It is a good idea for two families to marry with two surnames." , but the Zhou family did not treat my sister well, but always bullied her."

Qiao Dacheng began to list examples of how the Zhou family bullied Qiao Qiaoniang. For example, they asked her to go out to fetch water alone in the middle of winter. At the beginning of spring, Luoyang was in chaos, and their village was also affected. Many people wanted to flee Luoyang, and the Zhou family also packed their bags and fled. , but left Qiao Qiaoniang behind.

Qiao Dacheng said: "They were afraid that Qiao Niang would dilute their food supply, so in the middle of the night while Qiao Niang was sleeping, they took their luggage and ran away. Fortunately, the two villages were not far apart. When our family escaped, they went around to Xiangdong Village. , so I brought my sister with me, otherwise she would be the only girl left in the whole village, and even if she didn’t starve to death, she would be fed to the wolves.”

"But because it is not easy for two families to get married, as the saying goes, it is better to demolish ten temples than ruin one marriage. After we were moved back by the emperor, we still asked Qiao Niang to go back to the Zhou family to continue living with Zhou Ji. Who knew that Zhou Ji was actually a beast?" Qiao Dacheng said: "The autumn harvest is busy, and the autumn sowing is after the autumn harvest. My sister has lost a lot of weight because of this, and he even beats her. So I asked the county king to divorce the two families. From now on, the marriage between the man and the woman will have nothing to do with each other. .”

Zhao Kuan asked the Zhou family, "Is what Qiao Dacheng said the truth?"

"No, no," Zhou's mother said quickly, "Is this all slander?"

Zhao Kuan asked: "Okay, let me ask you, did you let Qiao Qiaoniang go out alone to fetch water in winter?"

Zhou's mother said: "Back to the county, many women in our village have to take care of the housework, cook and carry water."

"It's true that when it comes to cooking, women carry water. Only those who don't have men in the family, or those who abuse the girls in the family, will let women go out to carry water alone in the winter, right?" The young man standing next to Zhao Hanzhang and Zhao Hanzhang said: "This case What is judged is whether the county magistrate understands the people's livelihood. If the county magistrate does not know the actual situation of the people, I am afraid he will really believe what this woman says."

Zhao Kuan glanced at her lightly and asked, "Zhou Ji was lame and injured at that time? He used a woman to carry water? Let me ask you again, did your family take Qiao Qiaoniang with them when they fled?"

"We wanted to take her with us, but we had called her, but she couldn't wake up. It was because we didn't pay attention. We were so busy at the time that we thought she had followed her, but we didn't know that she was sleeping soundly all the time. There was no such big movement outside. can not hear."

"Fart, it's obviously because you gave her a tranquilizer, and you even lied to her that it was a medicine to regulate your body and prolong your offspring. She fell asleep after taking it."

"This is just your one-sided statement."

Zhao Kuan patted the gavel and asked, "What about beating my wife?"

At the mention of beating someone, Zhou's mother became excited instantly, pointed at Qiao Dacheng and shouted: "The county king has to make the decision for us. My son also asked him to beat him, and the beating was so severe that his legs were lame."

The young man kneeling aside still had some injuries on his face, and he was also angrily glaring at Qiao Dacheng and Qiao Qiaoniang.

Father Qiao sighed and said to Zhao Kuan: "County Lord, my son-in-law's leg was indeed injured by my son. Please forgive him for his first offense."

Zhao Kuan's eyes fell on Zhou Ji's leg and asked: "Is the leg seriously injured?"

Mother Zhou immediately said: "It's serious..."

"Shut up!" Zhao Kuan was stunned and said, "I didn't ask you this question, I asked Zhou Ji. Zhou Ji, if you answer this county's question, is the leg injury serious?"

Zhou Ji nodded immediately, "It's very serious. The doctor said that even if you take good care of it, you may develop problems in the future."

Seeing the look of resentment on his face, Zhao Kuan asked, "What is your request?"

Without thinking, Zhou Ji pointed at Qiao Dacheng and said, "I want him to go to jail or break one of his legs."

Zhao Kuan understood. He said: "It is a state law. If he breaks the law, he will be punished according to the law. How can you satisfy you that you use evil to fight evil and violence to fight violence?"

Zhao Kuan said: "He beat you, I will sentence him later. What do you say to the Qiao family's proposal of reconciliation?"

Zhou Jidao: "I don't want to reconcile. I want Mrs. Qiao to serve me all the time. If her brother hurts me, she will have to serve me all her life!"

Qiao Dacheng's face turned red with anger, he pointed at him and yelled: "Don't even think about it!"

Zhao Kuan clapped his hands and said: "How is it appropriate to make noises in the courtroom?"

After stopping the quarrel, Zhao Kuan looked at Qiao Qiao Niang, who had been wiping her tears, and asked: "Qiao Qiao Niang, are you willing to reconcile with Zhou Ji?"

Qiao Qiaoniang glanced at her brother first, then bit her lip and asked, "County Lord, if I refuse to be harmonious and take care of my husband with all my heart, can my brother's crime of beating my husband be given a lighter sentence?"

"Qiao Niang!"

Zhao Kuan said calmly: "No!"

"And this county already knows how to judge. I just want to ask you what you mean by asking this question."

When Qiao Qiaoniang heard this, her tears fell. She hugged Qiao Dacheng and cried loudly. Then she turned her head and said to Zhao Kuan: "County Lord, I don't want to get along. I want to stay in the Zhou family."

She said to Zhou Ji: "Ms. sir, please don't sue my eldest brother. I will definitely serve you well in the future."

"You're dreaming! I have a broken leg!"

Zhao Kuan was shocked and said: "Whether you want to reconcile or not is not up to you two. The county has not made a decision yet."

He said sternly: "Qiao Dacheng hurt Zhou Ji, and the Qiao and Zhou families have become enemies. According to the law, Zhou Ji and Qiao Qiaoniang are sentenced to make peace and divorce. From now on, they will marry a man and a woman, and they will have nothing to do with each other. Wang Wenshu will write a letter of divorce to them. "

Wang Siniang, who was sitting in the lower left corner, bowed slightly and agreed, and immediately started writing letters of departure for them.

The Zhou family was shocked and couldn't understand, and shouted: "County Lord, our Zhou family doesn't want to reconcile, and neither does the Qiao family. Why should we be sentenced to divorce?"

"Why?" Zhao Kuan snorted and said, "Didn't I tell you just now that your two families are enemies and can no longer get married!"

The Zhou family did not accept the verdict, so Wang Siniang wrote a divorce letter for them in two strokes. Seeing this, she said: "Are you stupid? Marriage is not just a man and a woman becoming husband and wife, it is better to marry with two surnames. Since the two families have become enemies, and you two will become enemies in the future, then there is no need for this marriage to exist, and it will naturally be a divorce."

"The "Book of Laws" clearly stipulates that if someone in the husband's family hurts the wife's family, or the wife's family hurts the husband's parents, brothers, etc., or if there is a life-and-death feud between the two families, the two families must reconcile." Wang Siniang's gaze He glanced at Zhou Ji and said: "Zhou Ji resents his uncle and the Qiao family, and the reason for the discord between the Qiao family is just to reduce his brother's guilt. There is no need to continue this marriage. You sign the divorce letter and divorce separately." Go ahead."

So Romeo and Juliet, in Jin Dynasty, can't even get a marriage certificate, because the two families are feuding, and the county government wants to prevent them from getting together.

The eldest brother standing next to Zhao Hanzhang was obviously also literate. He quietly said to Zhao Hanzhang: "This is actually stipulated in the "Qin Code". The "Han Code" and "Jin Code" did not pay much attention to this matter before. If the man does not I wish to reconcile and divorce. This marriage will probably not be divorced, but now our envoy is Zhao Hanzhang, and she is a girl. Although this law still uses the "Jin Code", it is quite biased towards women. Otherwise, if it were the case before, the county monarch would never Dare you judge like this."

Zhao Hanzhang asked: "Isn't it good to cut it off like this?"

"It's not a bad thing, it's just a good marriage. It's a pity."

Zhao Hanzhang: "...is this marriage good?"

The young man paused, thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "That's right. It's really not good. If it breaks, it will break. But the Zhou family lacks an outlet, so I'm afraid they won't let the Qiao family go."

Sure enough, Zhou Ji was forced to sign a divorce letter, and Zhao Kuan helped them sort out the marital property dispute, and then the Zhou family would sue Qiao Dacheng for hurting others.

Zhao Kuan didn't ask any more questions, and directly ordered the Qiao family to compensate the Zhou family for a sum of medical expenses. The amount was not too much, not too little, and it happened to be the property that Qiao Qiao's mother could get from the Zhou family.

All three members of the Zhou family were dumbfounded, "That's it?"

Zhao Kuan raised his eyes and glanced at them before saying: "Of course it won't stop. According to the law, Qiao Dacheng will play ten games and give you half a month to recuperate. After half a month, you will serve for three months. You must arrive every day." The county government came to report, do you have any objections?"

Qiao Dacheng had no objection and agreed loudly.

However, the Zhou family is still unhappy. The service is no longer what it used to be.

In the past, one month of service, let alone three months, could kill someone, but now the government is very strict and will not beat the laborers, nor will they make them work day and night. Although the service is hard, it is similar to Zhou Ji who broke a leg. It's really not worth mentioning.

Zhou's mother said: "County Lord, why do you need to give him time to recuperate? He should be sent to serve immediately after finishing his training."

Zhao Kuan sighed and said, "As of now, do you, the Zhou family, have no regrets? Haven't you thought carefully about why the situation has reached this point?"

He said: "Now Zhou Ji has injured a leg and lost a daughter-in-law, and the Qiao family is scarred. The Qiao family has to pay both money and labor. It is obviously a lose-lose situation. You haven't thought about it carefully. Is it the reason for the situation?”

"I think from now on, not only the reputation of the Qiao family will be damaged, but the reputation of your Zhou family will be damaged even more. If you mistreat your daughter-in-law like this, which other girl will be willing to marry into the Zhou family in the future? Even the entire Zhou family may be affected. , if the three of you in the family cannot see the reason and do not repent, then this will be the case in the future."

Mother Zhou's face turned red and she couldn't help but look back. Sure enough, she saw people surrounding the door pointing at them.

She was ashamed and angry for a moment, and she cried out pain while covering her heart.

Zhao Kuan also took advantage of the situation and asked people to take them out and replace them with the next one.

See you tomorrow