“Before me, my mother was pregnant with two children, but my father aborted them both. Because I was born prematurely, my father said that my mother looked down on him and had an affair with someone else to have me, this bastard. It was clearly my father who beat my mother, which caused her to give birth prematurely.”
“Last month, my dad got drunk and beat my mom. I protected her and he broke my head. When my mom saw me bleeding, she thought something had happened to me, which is why she fought back. My grandparents said that my mom pushed him, and he hit his head on a rock and died. It had nothing to do with my mom.”
“My mother didn’t do it on purpose, and my grandparents weren’t accomplices. They just didn’t report her. I beg you, Grand Preceptor, to do justice for us. It was my father who beat people up. He deserves to die. My mother did nothing wrong, and my grandparents did even less wrong.”
Fang Ruotang frowned and summoned the county magistrate.
The county magistrate immediately brought up the case and explained the situation to Fang Ruotang in detail. The story was similar to what the little boy had told her, but a wife killing her husband was a serious crime.
Fang Ruotang was immediately displeased and retorted, "Why? That man almost beat his wife to death several times, and she couldn't even fight back? Besides, she didn't intend to kill him. Even if she did, it wouldn't have made a difference. Who doesn't want to live? Just because she married him, does that mean he has the power of life and death over her?"
The county magistrate was in a dilemma and secretly glanced at Ye Wuxia.
Fang Ruotang glared at him with her round eyes, "Why are you looking at him? Look at me!"
“He has to listen to me, so what use is he? If I say he's right, then he's right! Release him right now.”
“But what if this sets a precedent and other women follow suit?” Fang Ruotang’s face darkened as soon as the county magistrate asked this.
This was the first time she had ever been this angry.
"Are you saying that women deserve to be beaten and should just suffer in silence?"
"No, no!" The county magistrate was frightened and immediately dared not say another word.
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