Little Scholar's Circle of Husbands

On the morning of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Fangzhou went to the county government office.

Master Lu gave him three days to think about it. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Fangzhou wrote the conditions he had set out in a letter and handed them over to Yan Yan. The above-mentioned condition is: when the family was divided, the family property was re-divided, and he had to take half of it.

This condition is higher than Lu Fangzhou's bottom line of taking away the family property that originally belonged to the Zhou family.This is a normal behavior of negotiation, and no one is so stupid as to show the bottom line at the beginning.

This is the reason for the so-called exorbitant asking price and paying back the money on the spot!

However, the reaction of the Lu family was beyond Lu Fangzhou's imagination. It is said that Master Lu was so angry that he said that he would sue the government that day.At this time, it is the Spring Festival holiday, and the Daliang County Government has a seven-day holiday for the Spring Festival, centered on the first day of the new year, with three days before and after each, that is, the 28th, 29th, [-]th day of the new year and the first, second, third, and fourth days of the new year.

The county magistrate of the third year of junior high school was still celebrating the New Year in his hometown, and it would be impossible to sue on the same day. Mr. Lu put aside this idea for a while, but he didn’t give up. Open the office early and on time.

The county magistrate's surname is Ma, and Juren was born. The county magistrates of the Liang Dynasty generally required Jinshi to be born. At the beginning, Juren could only be a county magistrate. After a good job, he could be promoted to a county magistrate, but he could only be a county magistrate in a remote county.Sheng County belongs to Xia County, which happens to be the largest official that Ma County Magistrate can be.

Originally, the Lu family treated Tsushima county magistrate very politely, and all the gifts were sent to him during the New Year and festivals. After all, Master Lu was just a scholar, but later the Lu family climbed the big tree of Yuezhou magistrate, and Tsushima county magistrate would not Ignore it.

So on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year's Eve, when faced with Master Lu's command-like request, Ma County Magistrate was so angry that he ignored it at all, and left home slowly back to Sheng County according to his original arrangement.

So much so that the Lu family sent people to look at the gate of the city for a whole day, but they didn't wait for the county magistrate, and they didn't have a chance to explain the situation clearly in advance.

As soon as the class opened on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, Lu Xingzhou handed over the petition, accusing Lu Fangzhou of maliciously blackmailing the Lu family. He had clearly separated the family and had written a book, but now he wanted to destroy the book and re-divide the family property.

Lu Fangzhou also handed in a petition, suing the Lu family for the uneven division of the family and requesting a new division.

Lu Fangzhou's petition this time has a lot to say. The person who wrote it was Chen and his name was Liang. He was a teacher at a private school in a neighboring county, and he was also the mentor of the county magistrate.Magistrate Ma respects his mentor the most, and he will definitely send people to visit him every year and festival.

Therefore, Mr. Sun Ge posted the post himself and asked Chen Liang to write this pleading. The pleading is clear and clear, and a sentence is added at the end: I hope the law will be enforced impartially.It means that this matter should be done in a business-like manner, and no favoritism should be allowed.

Ma County Magistrate is not a fool to be able to survive from the county magistrate to the county magistrate. He understood it at a glance, and immediately patted the gavel: "The court begins."

The yamen servant read a string of "mighty" and it started.

Lu Xingzhou was the first to open his mouth and showed the lottery that was made at the beginning: "My lord, when the family was separated, the whole family of the Lu family was present, the intermediaries, and the scribes were all alive. Your lord can summon them one by one. They can all prove that they signed the contract at that time. During the lottery, did Lu Fangzhou do it voluntarily, and did others act in coercion?"

Ma County Magistrate said "Yes", and ordered the yamen servant to take the lottery and read it carefully. After finishing it, he did not summon him, but looked at Lu Fangzhou: "It is indeed complete, what can you say?"

"My lord, there are too many things to talk about." Lu Fangzhou pointed to Lu Xingzhou, "My lord must know that this person is Xiaosheng's younger brother. Xiaosheng is 22 this year, and Xiaosheng's younger brother is also 22. Xiaosheng's mother passed away ten years ago. Yes, Xiaosheng's younger brother's mother married into the Lu family ten years ago. It is said that Xiaosheng's younger brother should be ten years younger than Xiaosheng. Are you qualified to share the family property with me?"

"Lu Fangzhou, don't spout blood. How could I not be Daddy's son?" Lu Xingzhou snorted coldly, and stood beside the master of the Lu family. There were two identical snub noses, how could he not be father and son.

Lu Fangzhou smiled: "That's the problem. Before Xiaosheng's mother was alive, his father didn't take a concubine. The mother of Xiaosheng's brother was neither a concubine nor a wife. What qualifications did she have to give birth to Xiaosheng's brother? Fornication? The Daliang law stipulates that the son of an adulterer is not allowed to participate in the separation of the family, and the act of an adulterer should be severely punished!"

"You!!" Lu Xingzhou was so blocked that he couldn't speak, so he could only look at Master Lu.

Master Lu shouted angrily: "Nizi, what is your filial piety for slandering your biological father for having an affair?"

"Back to my father, my father knew that the division of the family was uneven at the beginning, and he agreed to the division of the family. The feeling of licking the calf is gone, and he still requires his son to perform filial piety? The son is not a fool, and he doesn't care what the world thinks of me. Is the adultery a slander? If the father has evidence, he can refute it in court!"

"You, you, what do you know!" Master Lu stomped his feet and shouted bitterly, with a sad expression, "Your brother's mother and I were childhood sweethearts, and we fell in love with each other. If your grandfather didn't force me, how could I have married your mother in the first place? My husband in name only, I will return true love after your mother dies. I feel that I am not ashamed of your mother. The uneven division of the family is because you are willing to degenerate and do such shameful things. As a father, to punish you, just now So divided."

"Father's words sound good!" Lu Fangzhou was angry, "Since they are in love with each other, my father should have sternly rejected Xiaosheng's grandfather at the beginning. My grandfather accumulated good deeds, regardless of poverty, and loved talent even more. My father had no money to study at the beginning. The money from the grandfather. How could such a kind person break up other people's marriages? If he knew that his father already had someone in his heart, he would definitely have given money and things to let his father marry the man into the house. How could he let his father and Xiaosheng Mother getting married? Father is just coveting the family property of Xiaosheng's grandfather's family. On the one hand, he deceived Xiaosheng's grandfather and mother, and on the other hand, he also deceived Xiaosheng's younger brother's mother. He spent his youth for more than ten years in vain. I was still in fear all day long, fearing that things would be exposed and I would be soaked in a pigsty.”

"You! Bastard, bastard! You actually cursed your second mother." Master Lu scolded angrily.

Lu Fangzhou sneered: "The father recognized this second mother, but the son did not. The son's mother is the only daughter of the Zhou family in Sheng County, not the woman who came from nowhere!"

"You!!!" Master Lu coughed violently and thumped his chest, "What did I do to give birth to such a beast!"

"Is the son born by the mother's hard work in ten months of pregnancy, or was the mother brought up with all the hard work, and the father has been a decent father in front of the son for a few days? The so-called raising or not teaching is the father's fault. Should the father reflect on himself!" Lu Fang Zhou snorted coldly.

"My lord, take a look!" Master Lu saw that he couldn't beat Lu Fangzhou, so he had to look at County Magistrate Ma, and he pointed at Lu Fangzhou and said heartbrokenly, "How dare I hand over my family property to this kind of rebellious son?"

"Your Excellency, you can learn from the sky. You should have seen that according to the laws of Daliang, all the property of the Lu family belongs to Xiaosheng." Lu Fangzhou also said to Ma County Magistrate.

After listening to the words of the three members of the Lu family, Ma County Magistrate already understood the ins and outs of the matter. Mr. Lu married Zhou's daughter because of Zhou's family property, but he was unwilling to give up his childhood sweetheart, so he showed mercy and gave birth to two sons of the same age.

This kind of thing was not uncommon in the Liang Dynasty. Ma County Magistrate used to be the magistrate of three or four counties before, and almost every county had such a case or two. The difference from Lu Fangzhou's case is that those counties Most of them are untruths, the parties involved are either incapable, or they don't want to lose face and avoid going to court, and the side that bullies them mostly gains power and has the ability to settle it.

The case of Lu Fangzhou was put back in the past, and Ma County Magistrate naturally favored Mr. Lu, and it was a case of confusion. Even a clean official would not be able to resolve this kind of housework.

Today is different, not to mention that Lu Fangzhou's words are logical, but the Lu family's attitude towards him before, County Magistrate Ma didn't want to be favoritism anymore, he slapped the gavel and enforced the law impartially.

"According to the law of Daliang, Lu family's successor Ke gave birth to Lu's son when Lu's wife Zhou was still alive. Lu's blood, because of his mother's actions, took away the identity of the legitimate son. You can still participate in the division of the family as the son of the Lu family, but you can only enjoy the share of the concubines."

As soon as Ma County Magistrate finished speaking, the Lu family father and son immediately refused to accept it.

Master Lu knelt down and cried all the time, and it was Ke Shi who cried: "I forced you to do this all the time, and the bitch refused to do so. Now that the incident happened, I will take the punishment. Please let the bitch go, my lord. She is innocent."

Lu Fangzhou sneered from the bottom of his heart when he heard this, if Ke Shi really refused, and if the matter got to the ears of the Zhou family master, the Zhou family master would naturally help her.How can it be that the son has been born for more than ten years now, and the Zhou family doesn't know at all?

Lu Xingzhou also argued: "My lord's words are different. My mother was married by my father, so why can't I be a legitimate son? This kind of thing also happens in other counties. Why is it that they are fine, and it becomes a violation of the law when they come to your lord?"

"Shut up!" Master Lu choked Lu Xingzhou, which was a violation of the law, and the county magistrate didn't follow the law.

Unexpectedly, Lu Xingzhou didn't understand Master Lu's meaning, so he threatened in court: "You are just the county magistrate of Sheng County, you can sentence him like this, I will go to Yuezhou Prefecture later, the magistrate will definitely not sentence him like this!"

"Shut up!" Master Lu yelled angrily, his family is nothing in the eyes of the prefect of Yuezhou before he knows how to fry Torreya torreya!It is absolutely impossible to die before leaving the teacher, first get the formula of Torreya torreya, and then say, "My lord, my wife and I are already half a hundred people, we can't live for a few days, and there are only a few years to be punished or not punished." The root cause of this matter has been planted early, and the matter has come to this point, I do not ask others to forgive, but I hope to do my best to make up for it."

County Magistrate Ma is also a smart man, so he turned around and asked Lu Fangzhou what he meant. He was also familiar with the tricks of extortionate prices and repaying money on the spot. It's much easier to talk about.

It is impossible to uproot the Lu family at once, and it will be troublesome if the dog jumps over the wall in a hurry.

Lu Fangzhou also understood the meaning of Ma County Magistrate, so he asked Master Lu: "How does father want to make up for it?"

"It's a redistribution of the family property." Master Lu said.

"Equal split?" Lu Fangzhou asked.

"Good idea!" Lu Xingzhou scolded, "Most of the Lu family's wealth was saved by my father and me. You only study and drink, and you haven't done anything for the Lu family. How dare you want to share it equally?"

"Not doing enough?" Lu Fangzhou sneered, "Have you forgotten why you took me to court?"

Lu Fangzhou meant the method of frying Torreya torreya, Lu Xingzhou understood it, and was about to curse the method, but Master Lu stopped Lu Xingzhou again.In Master Lu's opinion, Lu Fangzhou is not good at management, and his family property may not be able to keep it. In the future, it will be prosperous by relying on Torreya torreya, and it will be so easy to get back the family property lost today.

Then he agreed to Lu Fangzhou: "Okay!"

"The son took back all the things that belonged to the Zhou family on behalf of the mother, and invited someone to measure the remaining parts, and the clansmen and people in the middle witnessed it." Lu Fangzhou said.

"Okay." Master Lu nodded, and at the same time he was secretly pleased that Lu Fangzhou didn't mention the recipe for frying Torreya torreya in the hall, so this recipe can be changed with peace of mind.

Seeing that the two sides had reached a conclusion, Ma County Magistrate also announced the result in court, and strictly ordered the matter to be settled within the first month.

Seeing such a result, Lu Xingzhou was so angry that he didn't wait for Master Lu to go back first. It is said that he didn't even sit in the sedan chair, and even kicked his own bearer.

Master Lu gave Lu Fangzhou a hard look, and walked away.

Only Lu Fangzhou smiled happily, did not forget to thank the county magistrate and master Bo, and then walked out of the county office cheerfully. After this matter is over, he can take Er Niu home.Once the first month is over, you can hire someone to start the whole house. In February, you can invite all the old masters from the tea gardens, and the tea frying can be settled.

Thinking of Lu Fangzhou being even happier, he was about to turn the corner to the Sun Mansion when he saw Sun Tong, the housekeeper of the Sun Mansion, already waiting at the door, with a sedan chair parked behind him. Unlike the previous blue cloth warm sedan chair, this one is commonly used on mountain roads A bamboo chair sedan chair is just a chair with two bamboo poles on the side, and a sunshade on top of the better ones.

"Grandpa, the girl is homesick. The master has already taken the girl home. He told the old slave to wait for the young lady here. When the young lady comes out, he will take the young lady to catch up." Sun Tong said with a smile.

Apparently Mr. Sun Ge didn't have any doubts about Lu Fangzhou winning the lawsuit. He concluded that Lu Fangzhou would win, and took Er Niu to Xiaotan Village early in the morning.

While Lu Fangzhou was happy, he remembered that there was no preparation at home, and Sun Ge had come all the way so he couldn't entertain casually, so he hurriedly said, "Uncle Sun, hurry up and leave."

"Yes, uncle."

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