Back Off, Let Me Come

  Chapter 555 Chapter 555: Sentencing [seeking a monthly ticket]

   After saying a word, the whole room was silent.

  The old woman first widened her cloudy eyes in astonishment, then came back to her senses, her expression froze, and finally she howled loudly to cover up her guilty conscience. Typical—I'm old, I'm loud, I'm reasonable, I can mess around.

   The onlookers also fell into the logic of Shen Tang and haven't recovered for a long time. Looking at each other, they always feel that this makes sense, but they can't explain why. If they hadn't been [silenced] by Shen Tang, they would probably have chattered for a while.

  Which household’s daughter-in-law is not allowed to work?

  Touch the knife, sharp knife, needle and thread?

but-

  If pregnant women touch these, the fetus will be deformed.

   So, to touch or not to touch?

  If pregnant women don’t touch it, who will do these jobs?

   Could it be that mother-in-law and husband serve tea and water? Thinking about it again, their wives/mothers/other family women have never heard of any pregnant women getting this treatment. Isn't the baby born fine? Therefore, work can be done.

  Shen Tang ignores the old woman's sincere interpretation.

"Why, can't you give an explanation? Didn't you swear that the widow Zhuo killed the child? Do you have evidence that the child was injured at that time? It was not you and your son who threatened pregnant women to hurt them? If there are pregnant women I really can't touch these things, but your mother and son have sinister intentions to harm your daughter-in-law and grandchildren! If you can touch them, you will falsely accuse Widow Zhuo!"

   asked Gu Chi again: "Wang Chao, what is the crime of false accusation?"

  Although Gu Chi's understanding of this aspect is not as proficient as Kang Shi's, but the foundation is there, and basic common sense can add a few words.

  He saluted and spoke slowly.

  "If you follow the old law, you will be falsely accused of rebellion."

"what for?"

  Because a group of onlookers below were listening attentively, Gu Chi could only explain in a simple and easy-to-understand manner.

"If it is verified that the old woman's family fabricated the facts and falsely accused the widow Zhuo, they will be sentenced for the crime of the falsely accused. That is, the old woman's family falsely accused the widow Zhuo of murdering her only grandson, and the old woman's family should be punished for the crime of 'murder' according to the law. .”

   And what happens to murdering others...

   Illiterate people who can't read large characters also know that one life is worth one life!

  The old woman's face was pale.

  Widow Zhuo has not woken up from this reversal, but she knows that she and her daughter are safe, and she can't help crying with joy.

  Shen Tang asked again: "This is the old law, what about the new law?"

  Gu Chidao: "Depending on the seriousness of the case, the light one can be punished with a cane for 30 years, paraded in the street for seven days, and then one year in the pound; if it is more serious, the punishment can be one hundred with a stick, five or seven years in the pound."

  The onlookers gasped in unison.

  Seeing this, Shen Tang snorted coldly.

   To deal with feudal superstition, earnest explanations are useless, and people don't know what science is. Only magic can defeat magic. In their logic, defeating them with their logic can really make them have a long memory!

  The old lady had already been frightened by the conversation between Shen Tang and Gu Chi.

   Stared at his daughter-in-law fiercely from the corner of his eye.

  The little woman trembled from her stare, and faltered: "Yes, but the woman did feel pain at that time..."

  Shen Tang was speechless: "You were about to give birth at that time, and the baby's movements were very abnormal? These arguments are untenable!"

  The little woman was so anxious that her forehead was sweating.

  As soon as the child fell to the ground, she panicked when she saw his terrifying appearance. Her first reaction was to worry that her mother-in-law and husband would blame her.

  She was so scared.

  The child crawled out of her stomach, something happened, how could she escape? This is the lifeblood of mother-in-law and husband!

   If she confessed to this crime, her humble life would be ruined. When panicked, the mother-in-law said that taboo with a ferocious expression, she was like a drowning person grabbing a stake. She didn't want to hurt anyone, but she didn't want to die even more. He half pushed and half admitted the charges against Widow Zhuo.

  My mother-in-law said a lot, so she believed it.

   Carefully recall that Widow Zhuo is indeed a slut. My husband is burly, powerful and honest, he does more work and less complains, and many young daughters-in-law like him openly and secretly. It is unreasonable for the widow Zhuo, who has been in drought for many years, to seduce her husband and harm her son?

  Even if I wronged Widow Zhuo...

  But flies don’t bite seamless eggs, and Widow Zhuo checks herself on a regular basis. How could these misunderstandings arise?

   Who knows, things turned out like this.

  According to Jun Shen, he would be tortured to pound rice with a stick.

  Yong said with a crying voice: "If the children of the peasant women were not killed by Widow Zhuo...then why are they born so weirdly?"

   Cowardly, she struggled unwillingly.

Shen Tang said: "This is related to many factors. It is possible that some of your ancestors were like this, or it may be that you worked too hard when you first became pregnant and did not eat enough. Simply put, it is eating too badly. If you think about it, your child will Only by absorbing it from the mother's body can it grow up smoothly. How can your child be well if you are not doing well? All in all, this matter has nothing to do with Widow Zhuo..."

   Widow Zhuo has nothing to do with it.

  But the old woman's family of three has a big problem.

  If we do not cure them, how can we curb this unhealthy trend of fabricating and framing? If the person sitting here today is not Shen Tang, but anyone who believes in this taboo, what will happen to Widow Zhuo, mother and daughter? If you don't die, you will be forced to death!

   Must set a good example!

"Because of your first offense, I originally wanted to give you a lighter punishment, but—if you succeed in false accusation, Widow Zhuo has no other choice but to die! This is a living life! Without severe punishment, it is not enough to serve as a warning. All!"

  Shen Tang took a heavier tone.

   "Old woman, because you are old, I will spare you twenty sticks, but only ten sticks, three years of pounding rice, and seven days of public exposure!"

   "As for you—"

  Shen Tang looked at the little woman.

   "I'm sympathetic to your weak health after giving birth for less than a month, so I will spare you 30 rod punishments. It will also be three years of pounding rice and seven days of public exposure!"

  Finally, he looked at the man who had been silent all this time.

"As an adult man in your family, you have no ability to distinguish between right and wrong. You allowed your old mother to maliciously accuse innocent people without stopping, and almost killed an innocent person. It is a heinous crime! The fifty sticks spared by your mother and wife are up to you I accept it. I will sentence you to fifty rods, three years in prison, and public exposure for seven days!"

  The son of the old woman, the husband of the little woman, vaguely knew the seriousness of the matter before Shen Tang opened his mouth to judge, but he didn't dare to say a word, but he couldn't help feeling a little hatred for the old mother, daughter-in-law and even the innocent son in his heart.

  Hate the old mother's arbitrariness.

  Hate the incompetence and cowardice of the daughter-in-law.

  Hate his son for being a deformed evildoer and embarrass him.

   But hearing Shen Tang's penalty, he was instantly dumbfounded.

  Finally, he stopped keeping silent, and opened his mouth to cry out for injustice—fifty with a cane, three years in prison, isn’t that killing him?

  The old woman and the little woman were also frightened.

  It's a bigger reaction than hearing your own penalty.

   One by one weeping like the sky is falling.

  Under the speechless expressions of Gu Chi and the others, Shen Tang gave their family of three the treatment of "Silent Silence", and the world was instantly clean. Shen Tang turned his head and asked Gu Chi: "Is there a severe sentence?"

   This matter cannot be decided by her alone, lest the sentence be too light or too heavy. Gu Chi wrote down the final verdict.

   laughed: "It's just right."

  The weight is appropriate and full of humanistic care, fully considerate of the age of the old woman and the body of the little woman, very good.

  Even when Kang Shi came, the sentencing was not bad.

  Shen Tang looked at the common people below again, and said earnestly, "A good word will warm the winter three times, and a bad word hurts the cold in June. I hope you will remember this sentence, and remember that the tongue can kill invisible!"

  The moment her voice fell, the young scribes and Qishan raised their heads in tacit understanding and looked up, and there were auspicious clouds and rays of light!

   ヾ(ω`)o

   The last inspection was not completed, and it was said that an appointment is required, so tomorrow, on the 17th, I will go to Wenzhou Fuyi. Alas, I hope it will go well. There are still eight or nine weeks before I can meet my daughter, hahahaha.

  (end of this chapter)