Chapter 308 Don't be fooled by the old dove
Although it was time to eat at this time, the people of Chenjia Village surrounded him. Many people stood outside the yard with their jobs, eating and watching the fun.
Chen Ada brought in a few people, including an elderly couple who looked over fifty or less than sixty, and their bodies looked quite hard, but even if they were hard, they were so hard that they had to work in the fields at such an old age.
This elderly couple must be the parents of the dead Chen Ershier. They also brought a child. This child looked almost ten years old. In ancient times, he could not be considered too young. There were many people who got married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. If we look at the age of getting married, the child would have a wife in three or four years, and in another one or two years, he might be able to be a father!
Behind them, there was a woman who was dressed simply but was quite clean and decent, but her face was not very healthy and her body was very thin. Compared with Zhao Qianduo next to her, she looked very married and looked so thin.
These people must have been told to meet the officials long ago. When they saw Yang Ze standing in the yard and wearing official uniforms, they immediately knelt down and called the master together.
Yang Ze reached out and helped him, saying, "Get up, this is not a court, there is no need to be so polite. Come on, bring stools for the two old men and let them sit down and talk."
Chen Ada hurriedly brought two small stools and asked the old couple of Chen to sit down. He called the old man uncle and the child nephew. The old couple of Chen were a little afraid of the officials. They dared not be honest and dared to be honest and sat on the stool. This way of sitting seemed more tiring than standing.
Yang Ze glanced at the woman and thought to himself, "Is this Chen Ershier's widow? He looks quite honest and has no mean appearance. Moreover, his body is not very good, and he doesn't look like a troublesome person. How could he have to ask that cow? When he returned the cow, he returned a thin cow. It shouldn't be!" He looked at Zhao Qianduo next to him again. It should be the guy who was provoking him, but this guy had a shrewd appearance.
But if you want to mediate disputes, it is not possible to look at people's appearance. It is impossible to be smart and you are not a good person.
Yang Ze said: "Since everyone has arrived, let's talk about the matter. I came from the west of the town. Although I am not your parents, it is normal to manage this matter. I just say hello to your local county magistrate afterwards!"
What he said was that he could completely determine the case. If he had to say that it was a case, if the Chen family and the Zhao family were not convinced, then let’s talk to the local county magistrate!
The old couple of Chen family and Zhao Qianduo dare not disobey. Even if Yang Ze is an official from another place, they have to accept it. If they don’t accept it, they will not be able to accept it.
Yang Ze said to the old couple of Chen family: "I have heard from you that the reason for the matter is right, but I don't understand some specific details. Let me tell you. It is normal for widows to remarry. We are generous and do not care about being widows. It is good to be a widow. But there is nothing wrong with not being a single person. However, women cannot take away their husband's family's things when remarrying. Why do you promise to let her take the cow away?"
As he said that, he looked at the cow outside the door. Okay, this cow is really thin. Although it has not fallen into the point of falling as soon as the wind blows, it seems that it will not last long.
Old Man Chen quickly stood up, bent over, and said, "When I say to the master, Caomin's family was originally very poor. Since her son married a wife, his life has gradually improved. He also bought a cow to plow the land. If Chun'er hadn't worked early or late, he would have exhausted his body, Caomin's family would have been as poor as before. Therefore, if she remarried, we old couple would not stop her. It would be nothing to give this cow to her. It was originally earned by her hard work, half of it. As long as we can use the cow, we are content."
His ex-daughter-in-law was named Liu Chuner. She was a very capable woman and was filial. So when they mentioned it now, they still said that Liu Chuner was good. She didn't say anything bad. Old Man Chen was a reasonable person.
"Oh, so that's it!" Yang Ze nodded: "Once you marry, listen to your parents, marry again, and she can marry again, and it's okay to take away a cow. Moreover, this cow can still be used by you. It's considered a cow for two families, and it has feelings and righteousness."
Yang Ze looked at Liu Chuner and asked, "So, since you have agreed to have a cow for two families, why did you still return a cow that can't work when you return it? Anyway, this cow is not all yours. What can you do if you let it do more work? Why don't you bear it?"
Liu Chuner was very timid and more honest. She first looked at Zhao Qianduo, and Zhao Qianduo immediately turned his head over and didn't look at her. Liu Chuner had no choice but to say, "Home, the cow in the family can still work. If you rent it out, you will make some money to supplement the household income, so the head of the family bought a sick cow from the market..."
When she said this, it was equivalent to telling the truth, but it was different from Zhao Qianduo's statement.
Zhao Qianduo immediately became anxious. He didn't want to pay attention to Liu Chun'er, so he asked Liu Chun'er to take care of the disaster. But when Liu Chun'er told the truth, he couldn't stand it. He did such shameless things. What if the official ordered a punishment, wouldn't he be able to open his butt?
Zhao Qianduo hurried forward and said, "Master, that's not the case. My wife has no knowledge and talks nonsense. In fact, that cow is the original cow. She only grows the cattle and does not raise cattle, so she just raises the cattle, but has not changed the cattle. If the Chen family insists on giving an explanation, then the cattle is willing to take a step back and return the cow to them. The cattle are not allowed, and all the cattle are for his family in the future. Isn't that okay?"
Yang Ze glared at him and said, "I didn't let you speak. Are you guilty if you are a thief? Come on, hold his mouth, twenty!"
The soldiers in the west of the town immediately stepped forward, held Zhao Qianduo, and slapped twenty times in the face. This time, Zhao Qianduo became honest, his eyes were full of panic, and he felt that he was going to be unlucky!
The people outside the courtyard were all from Chenjia Village. They were very excited to see that Zhao Qianduo, a bastard, were beaten. They were so angry that they all regarded the affairs of Chen Ershier's family as their own.
Yang Ze thought about it. It seemed that the reason for renting a cow that Liu Chuner mentioned just now was that. He had been in Zhenxi for a long time, so he had never paid attention to the law of the Dafang Empire on cows. When he was reminded, he began to think about it.
In the Dafang Empire, or in the entire ancient times, due to low productivity, cattle were important means of production. In order to restrict the people from killing cattle, they sold cow skin and beef to make profits, so the fields were unable to be cultivated, so they established special laws.
It is okay to kill beef and sell meat, and cow skin and horns can be sold, but there is a heavy tax. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you kill beef and eat meat at home, but it cannot be sold as a commodity, and you cannot make a profit by selling beef. But it is okay to buy and sell live cattle. After all, people who buy cows generally use cattle to plow the land.
In the process of buying and selling beef and cowhide horns, the official agent often collects more taxes. Sometimes the tax is even more than the money for selling beef and cowhide horns. Of course, this is a means for the official agent to blackmail the common people. From the outside, it can be inferred that the tax on selling beef here is very heavy. Killing beef is not cost-effective, and no one can buy the meat of sick beef. Who can bear it if you pay the tax alone?
But if you rent a cattle to work for others, you will get a lot of money. Moreover, the government encourages the people to use cattle together, and they collect very little taxes. Sometimes they even turn a blind eye and ignore such things.
In this way, Zhao Qianduo's small abacus was obvious.
The original owner of the skinny cow must have to raise this thin cow, and needs to be handy for the fodder and use a cowshed. This is not cost-effective, but if you kill the meat, you have to pay heavy taxes. Moreover, the meat of the sick cow cannot be sold at a price. Who can buy the sick beef? The horn medicine shop of the sick cow will not be collected, and the cow skin of the sick cow is not hairy, and it doesn't look good, and it can't be sold at a price even more. Therefore, the sick cow fell into the hands of the original owner, so he had to sell it at an extremely low price, so he bought it by Zhao Qian.
The good cow should be rented out a lot, even more than the money for buying this sick cow. Zhao has a lot of money and is naturally unwilling to return the good cow to the old couple of Chen family. It is not his parents. Why should he be filial? The word "profit" is the first, so he returned the sick cow and even wanted to push the sick cow to the old couple of Chen family, thus cheating the good cow forever. This idea was good, but unfortunately Liu Chuner did not lie for him, and Yang Ze even slapped him.
Yang Ze figured out the matter, glanced at Jumodora next to him, and smiled and said, "Old Jiu, if you were the first official, how would you break up this case?"
Kumatara also figured out this matter. He understood the generous law even more clearly than Yang Ze. After a smile, Kumatara said, "Why, Lord Yang is taking the exam for the poor monk?"
"I dare not, I just think that you can't make a good case. It's said that it's hard for a clean official to make a family matter. Besides, it's related to two families." Yang Ze paused and said, "I am using a provocation to provoke the generals. Lao Jiu, don't be fooled."
When people inside and outside the courtyard heard their answers, they were puzzled. This old man was a monk? Then why didn’t he shave his head and wear monk’s robes? He was a bit like a rich man.
Chen Ada and Zhao Diduo were also stunned. Lao Jiu? What is that? I can understand this. This old man is a monk, right? Why isn’t the official judge now? Is it a monk who has decided the case? Is it changed to a monk who has decided the case? Should we listen to the monk?
Kumatara thought to himself: "This little beast, just use the method of using the provocation, and you have to say it out. Isn't this forcing me?"
He said, "Okay, I have to not be fooled. How to make this case happen, I have no idea."
OK, didn’t you tell me not to be fooled? Then you won’t be fooled, it depends on what you can do!
Unexpectedly, Yang Ze immediately said: "Cai Cai, take out the paper and pen, draw a painting, and paint the old Jiude is respected and claims to be extremely smart and smart. As a result, as soon as I tested him, he was exposed. He couldn't even break the case of a cow. It seems that he only knows how to eat beef, a waste that only knows how to eat, and only knows how to pull, remember to add an old word before the word "waste!"
Cai Cai quickly agreed and actually went to get paper and pen to draw the big figure of Kumotara on the paper.
Kumatara was furious and said, "It's not that I can't stop, but I don't want to say it out for you to know."
"If you don't know, then you won't be stubborn. Even if others laugh at you, they will still make jokes in their hearts and will not say them out."
Chapter completed!