Chapter 08
Seeing a man and a woman tied to the front of the hall, the guests who were mourning were surrounded by curiosity, whispering and talking. At this time, Mrs. Yang and her brother came from the backyard. Many guests who were mourning were curious and stepped forward to express their condolences.
Ye Xiaotian looked at Yang Lin's beautiful daughter with a stingy look. He noticed something strange. Then he turned his head and saw an old woman wearing filial piety and filial piety talking to an old man with a crutch and holding her ears. Everyone present was obviously centered on him.
The old man looked in his seventies and eighties, with wrinkles on his face and gray hair. He was leaning on a golden rattan pole in his hand. It was the old patriarch of the Yang family in Jingzhou. Mrs. Yang whispered a few words to him, then turned to everyone and said aloud: "Dear relatives and friends, I have something to say."
Mrs. Yang coldly glanced at Ye Xiaotian and the woman with a pale face and anger, and said to the guests in the hall: "My husband died, I'm sorry to come and pay my respects to mourn. I'm so grateful. But while I was mourning for my husband, this slut..."
Mrs. Yang stretched out her hand and pointed to the beautiful and graceful woman, and said gritting her teeth: "This slut actually rebelled while mourning for a poor man, had an affair with others, and did such a miserable thing!"
As soon as the words were spoken, it was like a thunderclap on the ground. The guests in the hall were suddenly in an uproar and looked at the woman, with extreme contempt on their faces.
The beautiful woman widened her beautiful eyes in shock, as if she didn't expect that Mrs. Yang would have arranged such an unbearable charge for her. She looked at Mrs. Yang in shock, and suddenly she burst into tears and said angrily: "I don't, I don't! You wronged me!"
Mrs. Yang sneered repeatedly, not accepting her words at all, but said to the old patriarch Yang: "There are evidence of this matter with the family manager and the servants. The adulterer and the mistress took it on the spot. If it weren't for this, how could I be so self-deprecating and shamed the family?
The old patriarch, I have taken down this adulterer and amateur. This is my Yang family’s business, and it is my Yang family’s business. My husband is no longer here. I am a wife and a man. How to deal with it? I also want to ask the patriarch for you to tell me."
The old patriarch closed his ears and said loudly: "Ah? Lao Liu's family, what did you say? What's the door of your house? You can't hear it clearly if you make a loud noise."
Ye Xiaotian never expected that Mrs. Yang would convict him without asking. In an instant, he understood Mrs. Yang's vicious plan. Unexpectedly, Mrs. Yang was not only fond of money, but also so small-minded. She just because her husband pampers her concubine and because she had nothing to do, the concubine gave birth to a daughter for her husband. He was so jealous that he wanted to give up the concubine's daughter to death.
The old patriarch of the Yang family, who was behind his ear, was still asking at the top of his voice: "What did she say? What did she do when she tied her up? She broke your home door?"
Ye Xiaotian yelled directly on his neck: "Madam Yang! This is completely nonsense. Don't talk nonsense. I, Ye Xiaotian, and this little lady, have never known each other and don't know each other at all. Where did the affair come from?"
Mrs. Yang actually didn't believe that this boy with a foreign accent was an adulterer, but she wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of her thorns in her eyes, so she didn't ask him, just sneered: "If you say there is no, there is no? Sanshou, tell everyone, where did you catch him."
Yang Sanshu immediately took two steps forward and said to everyone: "Dear masters, the youngest is Yang Sanshu, the manager of the Yang Mansion. This man sneaked into the Yang Mansion and had a secret meeting with the slut. The two were untied while they were wearing loose clothes, and the youngest went to send money for the monthly bill. It happened that he discovered it, so he caught them and handed them over to his wife for disposal."
Ye Xiaotian shouted: "Yes, I was indeed in this little lady's room at that time... No, in the courtyard! However, I didn't have an affair with this little lady. When I arrived in the courtyard, I had never mentioned her name. I really had a big deal to tell her."
Mrs. Yang was slightly stunned. Although she was eager to kill the woman, she could not hide her curiosity and could not help but ask, "What's the big deal?"
Ye Xiaotian glanced at her and said proudly: "Today, there are guests from all over the Yang family who are coming from afar. I wonder if there are people in the officialdom? I must tell you about this big thing in front of the government, otherwise I am afraid that someone will not be able to make a decision impartially."
Mrs. Yang said furiously: "If you are open and honest, why can't you tell others?"
Ye Xiaotian sneered: "I am naturally open and honest, but I have long heard of your Mrs. Yang's character. If you don't go through the public, who would know if you would cover up the sky with one hand?"
Ye Xiaotian's words naturally aroused the curiosity of the guests. There was a whisper in the hall. The old man in the shirt who had been standing aside casually since he arrived at the hall suddenly smiled slightly, took two steps forward, and said slowly: "I am the magistrate of Jingzhou Hu Kuo, what do you have to say to me!"
Ye Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, looked him up and down, and hesitated: "Are you really the local magistrate?"
Hu Kuo's face was slightly dark, and he was displeased: "Bastard! The sky is blue and white, and in full view of everyone, is this official in the government pretending to be casually? Or is it that you have nothing to say at all, so you are just messing around and intend to delay time. Hum?"
Mrs. Yang sneered: "What can he have to say? It is clearly a pair of adulterers and adulterers. The love of the affair is exposed and they want to be sophisticated. Listen to what he says, the old patriarch, according to my opinion, it would be better to sow the dog and man and woman just soak the pig cage."
The old patriarch of the Yang family held his ears and said with a smile: "Piglets? Yes, yes, the old sow in my family just got a litter of piglets yesterday, and fifteen little piglets are all alive. Haha, have you heard of it?"
The old man had bad ears because he was too old and was a little confused. Otherwise, just looking at the situation, he would have known something was wrong. As a result, he was just interrupted. Others knew that he was confused and ignored what he said.
Hu Kuo said calmly to Ye Xiaotian: "If you have nothing to say, then there is no need to say it. I am too lazy to care about such an unfamiliar and unconventional matter, so I will leave it to the old patriarch of the Yang family to deal with it."
The man who was benevolent next to him had already whispered: "This young man, the one in front of you is really an old parent from this county. If you have anything, just say it quickly and don't mislead yourself."
Seeing this, Ye Xiaotian had no choice but to shout, "Master, go slowly! There is a letter in the little man's boot, which was written by Master Yang of this mansion. As long as you take it out and read it, the truth will naturally be revealed."
My brother-in-law's suicide note? Hu Zhixian was shocked when he heard this. He turned around suddenly, looked at Ye Xiaotian, and glanced at Yang Sanshu indifferently. As his identity, he naturally had no reason to bend down to touch other people's boots. Yang Sanshu knew it and quickly stepped forward, bent down to take off Ye Xiaotian's bad boots, and pinched his nose to find a letter from the soles of his boots.
Ye Xiaotian sneered and glanced at Mrs. Yang. He could already think of how wonderful Mrs. Yang would look like after he finished reading the suicide note.
Magistrate Hu frowned and looked at the sweat-stained letter, and ordered Yang Sanshu with disgust: "Open it!"
Yang Sanshu held his breath and spread the letter, raising it in front of Magistrate Hu. Magistrate Hu took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, shook it in the wind, and hid it in front of his mouth and nose.
When Mrs. Yang heard that this was her husband's suicide note, she was moved and couldn't help but walk forward and said to Magistrate Hu: "Brother, what did you say in the letter?"
When Ye Xiaotian heard Mrs. Yang's name to Magistrate Hu, a cold air rushed from the Yongquan acupoint on the soles of her feet to the Baihui acupoint on the top of her head. Her whole body was cold and her hair was erected: "Brother? This Magistrate of Jingzhou is actually Magistrate Yang's brother!"
Ye Xiaotian never expected that his greatest security responsibilities now were Mrs. Yang's brother, which was awful! Ye Xiaotian was so worried that he quickly thought: "Mrs. Yang hated that concubine gave birth to a daughter, so he would not share the property for her. If she wanted to mess with me, how could her brother not help her? Who would have these gentry in Jingzhou offended the local officials for me, a foreigner?
If Mrs. Yang was forced to public opinion and did not want to tear her face in public, even if she agreed to divide the property for this little lady, she would hate me to the core. If they wanted to kill me a foreigner silently on the territory of this magistrate, wouldn’t it be easy for them to kill me, a foreigner? This…”
Ye Xiaotian was shocked and scared, and looked around in a panic, suddenly fixed on the face of a pretty woman with a look of grief and anger...
Magistrate Hu took out a handkerchief from his sleeve and shook it open. He held the handkerchief with two fingers and blocked his nostrils. He was looking at the letter Yang Sanshu held. When Ye Xiaotian saw the woman, he suddenly became anxious and took a deep breath and said aloud: "Sir, this letter says..."
Ye Xiaotian had not yet solved the answer when he took out the letter, so he wanted to wait for the county magistrate Hu to read the letter and make a big reversal. It would have a dramatic effect. He often watched the show in Beijing, and was a little drama fan, which was also a bad taste of him.
Now that he saw that the magistrate was actually Mrs. Yang's biological brother, he didn't dare to pretend anymore. However, the truth could not be told, it was taking risks with his life. So in an instant, Ye Xiaotian came up with a huge lie.
No one has ever told a lie in his life. Ye Xiaotian naturally also told many lies. He told his superiors, colleagues, parents and brothers, and officials, lies with good intentions and malicious lies.
But no lies he had told before were as important as the lie he had told today, because it was a life-saving lie, and no lies he had told before had been so perfect, so reasonable, so shameless that it even affected his life.
Chapter completed!