Chapter 45： compensation

Chapter 45 Compensation

Not long after, Li Zheng indeed sent someone to ask Jiang Sanlang to go to the township hall for questioning.

Jiang Dalang went with his third brother, leaving his second brother to stay and take care of Ying Bao and Dalu.

The Xiangtang is the place where Li Zheng and the township officials work. Today, Li Zheng will interrogate the offenders here.

It was getting dark now, lanterns were hung high in the courtyard of the Xiangtang, and there were several torches placed around, illuminating the entire courtyard.

There were a lot of people squatting beside the courtyard wall. They were all heads of households jointly guaranteed by the three criminals. There were twenty or thirty people in total.

Some heads of households were too old, so their sons were punished on their behalf, and each received twenty spanks.

Because the number of villagers is limited, people have to queue up to get the boards.

For a time, the yard was filled with the sound of crackling wooden boards hitting flesh, and screams of pain.

Jiang Sanlang walked into the main hall with the support of his eldest brother, and met Li Zheng with his fists clasped.

Li Zheng asked him to tell the whole story, and asked a document to record it in court, and then checked it with the confessions of the three robbers.

After confirming that the crime was correct, Sun Lizheng sentenced the three offenders to compensate Jiang Sanlang for a total of fifteen taels of silver for his medical expenses. These fifteen taels of silver must be delivered within a time limit, otherwise you will be severely punished.

Tu Da was very happy. He immediately asked his family to bring him five taels of silver and presented it to Jiang Sanlang himself. "This is a young old man who cannot teach his son well. Please forgive me, Lord Jiang Sanlang."

Jiang Sanlang took the money expressionlessly and said softly: "It doesn't matter whether I forgive you or not. The public will make its own decision."

He will not forgive these people anyway. If he dares to do evil to his father and daughter, he will have to pay the price.

The remaining twelve taels were left by Chen Sansheng and Chen Lv'er's family.

But the thirty-year-old family has nothing but four walls, and the mother-in-law is still pregnant and can't get out a penny.

Sun Lizheng asked the ten households who jointly guaranteed the money to jointly contribute the money. Anyone who dared not pay the money after the due date would be punished until the money was paid in full.

Chen Ergou, who was squatting at the door, saw that he could still be like this, so he had a weird idea.

He also claimed that his family had no money and could not even afford a penny.

Sun Lizheng sneered, slapped the table and said, "Well, let the ten households in your joint guarantee jointly contribute the money."

When the ten households heard this, they hated Chen Ergou so much that they all secretly gritted their teeth and decided not to let his family have an easy time in the future.

Among these ten households, there is Chen Changping’s father, Chen Laoshuan.

 Chen Laoshuan is also fifty years old this year. He was forced to take off his pants and push him on the bench and beat him twenty times in public. He felt that he was humiliated. However, he was asked to come up with another 500 yuan. He was so angry that he vomited blood.

It’s impossible not to come out.

So he asked his younger son to go home and get the money and give it to Sun Lizheng.

After being slapped and fined, Sun Lizheng let him go as a matter of course.

Chen Laoshuan was carried home by his younger son Chen Changhai.

He was angrily cursing along the way, scolding Sun Lizheng and Cun Zheng for being ungrateful, and scolding Chen Ergou for not being a thing.

“Sure enough, it’s not like a family doesn’t stay in the same house. Look what Chen Ergou has done! He started out as a thief and now he is a robber. He is a good example for his father!”

Speaking of which, Chen Ergou is somewhat related to Chen Laoshuan, but I didn't expect that he would be so shameless and ask his family to contribute money to his family.

"It took eight lifetimes of bad luck for our family to jointly insure with his family. Changhai, tomorrow you go to your cousin's house and ask him to change us to another jointly insured household." Chen Laoshuan said angrily.

Chen Changhai said angrily: "Father, you can change it if you want. Who dares to get involved with Chen Ergou's family now? Let me tell my uncle to drive his family out of the village quickly."

It was really a disaster for thousands of years. Then Chen Ergou's father was a stealing. So older, the New Year actually went to steal the chickens in the neighbor's house. As a result, he was caught on the spot.

Sigh, it just so happens that my family is cooperating with others like him.

When Chen Laoshuan returned home, he lay down on the kang while Chen Feng gave him medicine.

“You said Chen Luer couldn’t think of anything else and hung out with the street gangster Chen Sansheng. This is a good time. Chen Ergou finally gave birth to a son. If he doesn’t have a daughter, he will be sentenced. Tsk tsk…”

 Chen Fengshi was muttering, but she also complained: "It's the same with your cousin. How could you let someone beat you like this? You won't be able to get on the bed for several days."

Chen Laoshuan's cousin is Chen Changsheng, the village leader of Xichen Village, and he was also the one who pushed them out as co-insurance households. Chen Laoshuan was also very unhappy about this.

I do n’t talk about it at all, and it ’s shameful to lose money. What kind of relatives are this?

snort! When it's his turn to be Muramasa, he will definitely let him have a taste of what it means to be unkind.

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During the garrison, Jiang Sanlang returned home holding his sleeping daughter.

Chunniang quickly stepped forward to pick up her daughter and put her on the kang.

"How are you? Is the injury serious?" Chun Niang touched her husband's head.

"Fortunately, it's no problem." Jiang Sanlang took out a bag of silver from his arms and handed it to his wife, "This is the compensation awarded to me and Bao'er by Li Zheng, a total of fifteen taels."

Chunniang took it, put it aside, and asked: "How were the people who harmed you punished? Shouldn't they be fined and let go?"

"He has not been released. He said that he will be sent to the county government early tomorrow morning to be punished by the government."

After all, Li Zheng is not a public official and does not have the right to sentence criminals, but he can still fine him some money or beat him a few times.

Chunniang felt relieved, put the money away, and asked:

"Have you eaten? I'm warming the dinner in the pot. Do you want to eat some?"

“I’ve eaten, chicken porridge at my eldest brother’s house.”

Jiang Sanlang then said to his wife: "Bao'er is not in good spirits today. Langzhong Li said that she might be frightened, so he prescribed a tranquilizing medicine for her to drink.

Let Bao'er sleep with you tonight. You can take care of me while I go to the west room. "

"Okay." Chun Niang picked up the oil lamp and led her husband to the west room. "You sit down first, and I will bring you hot water."

Jiang Sanlang nodded, took off his shoes and sat on the edge of the kang. His head felt heavy and he wanted to sleep.

After a while, Chun Niang brought hot water for him to wash his face, and then went to get a basin of water for his feet.

After Jiang Sanlang washed up, he lay down directly to sleep.

He lost a lot of blood today, his whole body felt cold, his eyelids were trembling, and he might faint if he didn't fall asleep.

At this time, Chun Niang brought another bowl of golden ear porridge and insisted that he drink it before going to bed.

Chunniang covered her husband with a quilt and then returned to the east room. She brought a basin of water to her daughter to wash her face and hands, and then fetched water to wash her feet.

Ying Bao's eyelids moved slightly, she was falling into a dream of her past life.

In the dead of winter, she came back from doing laundry by the river. Uncharacteristically, her biological mother, Han, who always looked down upon her, invited her into the house and took out a gorgeous dress and a pair of footbells for her to put on.

 Ying Bao took the skirt and shook it open to take a look, her face darkened.

The material is thin, the skirt only reaches the calf, and there are long tassels hanging from the waist. It is a dance skirt worn only by Hu Xuan dancers.

“Ying’er, there are distinguished guests at home today. Didn’t you learn the Hu Xuan dance at Wuchun Academy? Let’s demonstrate it to the guests.”

Han shouted "Ying'er", which probably made even her feel awkward, and the motherly smile she pretended was particularly fake.

"Whether your father can be an official depends on this distinguished guest, so you must behave well and never offend the distinguished guest."

Ying Bao threw the skirt in her hand on the table and sneered, "Why don't you let your second daughter go? I'm petty and ugly, and I'm afraid it will stain the eyes of your distinguished guests."

She had frostbite on her hands, feet and face. It was such a cold day that she would be scolded by people even if she wore such a thin dress, let alone dancing in front of men, even walking on the street.

What kind of demonstration, I just want to sell her again.

What kind of people has she not seen in Wu Chun Yuan these years? Fortunately, I had a good relationship with Sister Wen and was young, so I was not pushed out early by the head of the dance hall.

Unexpectedly, her own mother redeemed her to please the nobles.

(End of this chapter)