Chapter 341: settle a lawsuit
Chapter 341 Judgment
Yang Lan'er raised her eyebrows, she didn't expect the county magistrate to be so young, maybe in his twenties, she thought he was at least a middle-aged man.
There were two rows of government officials standing on both sides of the lobby, and two obese middle-aged men knelt in the middle. These two people should undoubtedly be the heads of the Zuo family and the Qiao family.
Ai Ziwen informed, and the yamen servant let him in.
Yang Lan'er and the other four stood outside the fence to watch. The county magistrate saw Ai Ziwen coming, and saw that he was gentle and clear-eyed, and was a little happy in his heart. Xu Erjia, I think you are a good-looking talent, and you are by no means a person who has been trapped in the shallows for a long time. Why did you hire the daughter of the Zuo family so lightly? Are you willing to divorce today?"
Ai Ziwen heard the words and saw the county magistrate's gentle tone, so he replied truthfully: "This is a marriage contract made by the parents of the students when they were young. The family is poor, just because the poor can't beat the rich, so right and wrong arise out of no reason, causing trouble to the adults, the students are really ashamed.
As for whether to withdraw the engagement, my lord should first end the case of one daughter and two families. "
After speaking, with tears in his eyes, he immediately presented the Jitie, marriage letter, and token together.
"A high-minded scholar like Ai Ziwen would show weakness in order to win sympathy?" Su Yongyuan shook his fan and smiled playfully.
Yang Lan'er looked at Ai Ziwen standing aside in the lobby with lowered eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and said with a light smile, "Wisdom desires roundness, but action desires squareness, courageous desires but small desires, and he is smart if he understands and adapts."
Su Yongyuan nodded.
In the lobby, Father Qiao and Ai Ziwen were taken to a side room.
The county magistrate asked Zuo Yuan: "Has your daughter ever promised to the Qiao family?"
Zuo Yuan lowered his head and knelt down and said for the first time: "My lord, it was true that we were married at the beginning."
"Since this is the case, it should not be promised to the Ai family." The county magistrate slapped the table heavily angrily.
Zuo Yuan trembled in shock, gritted his teeth and insisted: "The distance between the two families is too far, I thought they had already forgotten."
The county magistrate asked coldly again: "It is written in the marriage letter that 'I have never been allowed to hire anyone since I was a child', how can I explain it?"
"At that time, I wrote it according to Ai's father, without thinking too much."
"How many years and months did you get married with the Qiao family?" Seeing Zuo Yuan's repeated words, the county magistrate felt a little angry when he saw Zuo Yuan's repeated words and slightly averted his eyes.
These ordinary people are afraid that he will be too leisurely, and make trouble out of nothing, it is simply hateful!
How dare such a clumsy strategy be used in front of him?
Is this mocking his IQ?
Or provoke his authority?
Zuo Yuan was silent for a while when he heard the words, he hesitated and couldn't speak.
The county magistrate slapped the gavel hard, "Say!"
Zuo Yuan shuddered all over, and said a date indiscriminately.
The county magistrate drank Zuo Yuan away, asked the yamen servant to bring Qiao Yuan up, and asked, "What proof do you have for hiring Zuo's daughter?"
Qiao Yuan knelt on the ground and lowered his head: "The six rituals have passed, and this is the certificate."
"Is the matchmaker available?"
"The matchmaker is in the capital, not here."
The county magistrate groaned in his heart, treacherous! He asked again: "Submit the Jitie and marriage letter of your marriage, my lord will have a look."
Qiao Yuan looked up at the lord, and immediately lowered his head, he couldn't help beating his heart: "My lord, we didn't expect to encounter such a thing when we came here this time, so we didn't bring it with us."
The county magistrate sneered: "When did you marry the Zuo family?"
Qiao Yuan thought for a while, and then said nonsense: "May 10, the 25th year of Zhengde,"
(end of this chapter)