Chapter 418： trial

One day in late October 1994 in the holy calendar, the cold wind had filled the northwest bay.

In an open field next to the village of Totor, a thinly dressed cowherd is carefully tending several cows.

Not far away, an old cow shook its tail and rattled, a large pile of green-brown cow dung fell on the ground, like a steaming haystack.

The cowherd showed a happy expression. He ran over without the slightest hesitation, and put his bare feet into the dung pile. Suddenly he felt that the whole world was warm.

Just when he was immersed in enjoying this rare happiness, the sound of horseshoes sounded hurriedly on the road in the distance, and accompanied by flying dust, a group of knights galloped towards the village of Totor.

Dressed so well, he must have come from the city, maybe he is a friend of Master Fubinen in Port Flanders.

The cowherd was guessing, when the knights approached, they stopped for a long time, as if they were discussing something.

Suddenly one of them rushed over to him, startling the cowherd, he probably didn't provoke them.

He froze in place, not knowing how to react.

"Hey, that man." The knight who came over shouted loudly.

"Me? Are you calling me? My lord." The cowherd pointed to his nose.

The knight in black sneered, "Nonsense, if I don't call you, are you calling those cows? Well, I..."

Then he noticed the cowherd's way of "warming".

By God, what the **** is this hillbilly doing?

Suppressing the discomfort in his heart, he frowned and asked, "Who are you from here?"

The cowherd shivered, partly from cold, partly from fear.

"I'm a farmer living here."

"Is this cow your own?"

"No, it's the property of Master Fubinen."

"Hmph! A mere squire without a title dares to call himself a lord. It's really arrogant. Is that guy in the village?"

It seems that he came here to seek bad luck for Mr. Rich Binn. The cowherd has already seen that the comer is not good, so it is better not to get involved in the affairs of the big man.

"He should be at home by now."

The cowherd pointed to the mansion located in the very center of Totor village.

The black knight turned his horse's head and returned to his ranks.

"Master Hayden, that man named Fu Binen should be at his home, let's rush in and arrest him."

"Don't worry!" The director of the Department of Public Security, who personally led the team to Totor, twirled his mustache.

"Wait until the people behind are all together before making a move. Make sure to build up the momentum so that people can see Lord Gryman's thunderous fury."

As soon as Ruth Hayden finished speaking, a team came from a distance. The members inside were all dressed in uniform black uniforms. This was a police team belonging to the Department of Public Safety. They trotted all the way, panting .

Seeing his team coming, Ruth Hayden turned to the person next to him and said, "Second Lieutenant Makarov, watch carefully, we will give an explanation to the brothers in the army later."

Makarov didn't speak, but silently gave him a military salute.

The news about Totor Village was spread to the army under Paul's instruction, and the crowd was furious for a while. For the lower-ranking officers and soldiers, they seemed to see a possible tragic future for themselves and their families—if someone who committed such a crime Words that go unpunished.

Fortunately, their commander-in-chief is Paul Greiman, and the Earl has assured them that they will deal with this matter seriously. Officers and soldiers wrote letters to join in the arrest of Fubinen, but the Earl did not agree to their request, but asked the army to send several representatives to observe the trial of Fubinen on the spot. Makarov, who was already the platoon leader, was one of them.

On this day, the villagers in Tuotol saw a scene that they never dared to dream of.

A large group of people dressed in uniform black clothes surrounded the house of Mr. Fubinen inside and out.

"You guys are so brave, you know this is... Oops!"

The servants and guards inside wanted to come out to stop them, but they were immediately restrained by being pinned down on the ground.

The people in black showed their swords shining brightly, as if they would see blood if they disagreed with each other.

At the gate, Ruth Hayden rode on a tall horse and said to the villagers who were boldly watching from a distance: "Dear and law-abiding villagers, I am Ruth Hayden, the head of the public safety department of the lord Earl Paul Greyman. Hayden, I came here for nothing else but to uphold justice. Mr. Greiman has already investigated the issue of Fubinen's occupation of the pension land of the sacrificed soldiers. Today, I will hold a meeting with the judge sent by the lord's court. The public trial assembly, try this criminal."

After hearing Hayden's words, the surrounding villagers were stunned.

What? The lord wants to give us mud legs justice?

Soon, several ragged men and women ran out, rushed to Hayden and knelt down on their knees, crying tearfully, "Long live Lord Greyman!"

Makarov on the side immediately dismounted, helped them up and comforted them repeatedly.

Ruth Hayden looked at them and thought to himself: It seems that these people are the ones who are suffering from this incident.

Just when Hayden shouted to the onlookers, there was a lot of chaos in Fubinen's mansion, and people were escorted out with their hands bound.

In the end, the chief culprit of this incident was brought out—Fu Binen himself. He was carried out. The master is now in a state of drunkenness, and he still doesn't know what happened.

"Haha! What kind of drama is newly choreographed at this time? So many people... hiccup... vomit!"

Hayden dismounted, came to him holding his nose, and grabbed the other party's collar, "Fu Binen, something happened to you!"

"What happened? What happened?"

The dazed landlord obviously didn't know that he was about to face disaster.

"Hmph!" Hayden threw him aside in disgust, and gave an order: "Call all the people in the village, and the public trial will begin immediately."

So on the threshing floor of the village, a special trial began.

The judge who came with the police team first listed several major crimes of Fu Binen in the embezzlement of the pension field, including abusing the identity of the taxpayer, excessive usury, and bullying the martyrs.

Then the judge loudly announced that everyone present should report Fu Binen's crimes together.

A person rushed out from the crowd, he was wearing a patched priest's robe, it was the country priest Hershey that Paul had met in Port de Flandre that day.

He was trembling with excitement when he knew that the public trial of Fu Binn was going to be held. As expected, Earl Greiman did not disappoint him, and finally he was able to bring down that bully. Seeing that no one responded to the judge's words in the crowd, he got angry and stood up.

"Villagers, you have to trust the lord's court. If you have any grievances, please speak up!"

But still no one dared to step forward, but a turning point happened! The judge announced one thing. According to the lord's order, Fu Binen's fields will be distributed to landless and landless families in the village, and those who can expose Fu Binen's crimes will be given more land, and the audience is boiling.

As a result, the public trial meeting immediately turned into a complaint meeting, and a pile of crimes that had been buried for a long time came to light.

Hearing that their property was going to be divided, Fubinen's family protested loudly, clamoring to go to the lord to seek justice, but no one paid any attention to them.

Finally the judge quietly asked Hayden: "What do you think should be the sentence?"

Hayden snorted, "Sentence as Lord Graeman said."

Before coming, Paul confessed that if Fubinen's crimes were limited to those previously known, he would be spared his life, but if there was any more, he would be sentenced to death.

But as far as the complaints about the harvest from the conference just now, there are several cases involving human life and conclusive evidence.

Soon, Fubinen, who was still drunk, lost his life in such a muddled way. Maybe he woke up the moment the noose was around his neck, but it was too late—in fact, it was already too late.

Fu Binen's henchmen were also executed together, all of whom had their own lives in their hands.

For other family members or servants of Fu Binen, those who had committed illegal acts were punished to varying degrees according to the severity of the crime, and the others were all dismissed or became ordinary local villagers.

In short, this "brilliant" family that has been around for countless generations is completely finished.

The public trial meeting ended with shouts of praise to the lord.

After Hayden announced the establishment of the circuit court, it was the long-awaited land distribution link. However, this link cannot be completed in a day or two. Huxin Town will send a group of capable political officials to come here Inventory of Fu Binn's property and preside over the distribution.

The news of the destruction of the Fubinen family also spread throughout Arda and even other territories along with the cold wind.