Chapter 92 Please, Sir, make the decision for me

Zhao didn't want to wait even for a single day. When she thought of Zhao Jingtian and Tao in the Rong'en Marquis's mansion, acting like uncles and marquis ladies relying on Yun's dowry, she felt so angry that she almost wanted to vomit blood.

"Good boy, can I go to Shuntianfu now to beat the drum and redress my grievances?"

She looked at the sky outside the window. It was almost the end of the afternoon. If it was any later, the government office would be closed.

Lu Xinlan was looking at the sky outside the window when he heard a familiar voice.

[Do you need to know when to beat the drum to protest injustice? Don’t you know that the first effort will be strong, the second will be weak, and the third will be exhausted? ]

[Besides, when those scumbags killed people, why didn’t they think about whether the other party had family to take care of? ]

[And if an official only thinks about getting to work, then he is no different from a piece of rotten salted fish.]

Lu Xinlan, Zhao: "..."

Forget it, just be reckless.

It is true that matters like redress cannot be reconsidered over and over again.

Zhao grabbed the lawsuit, lifted up the hem of her skirt and rushed out.

Pei waved to her sisters, signaling them to catch up.

Lu Xinran wanted to ask what this had to do with her, but, well, maybe there was still something to be said for.

Never mind, it won’t hurt to go and take a look.

Although she and Zhao had no mother-daughter relationship, those in the Zhao family were really not human beings.

The Yun in the booklets was too miserable and pitiful. If possible, she wanted to seek justice for her.

She hopes that both Tao and Zhao Jingtian, who murdered her, will receive the punishment they deserve.

When the two men went out, Zhao's carriage had already headed straight for Shuntian Prefecture.

There was a fire burning in her heart that wanted to destroy the world, and she would not let them have an easy life even if she had to die with them.

She urged the driver to go faster and faster, and as soon as the carriage stopped, she jumped out and rushed to the drum.

Boom, boom, boom!

The drum for reporting the incident was struck loudly.

Two teams of officers immediately ran out of the hall. Zhao stood in front of the door with the complaint in both hands, waiting to go to court to file the complaint.

Song Junyan is in Shuntian Prefecture today, which is a rare occasion. He is sorting out the closing documents for some previous cases.

When they heard the drumbeats, they saw a minor official running in.

"Sir, the wife of the Minister of Justice, Mrs. Zhao, came to knock on the drum to report a case, saying that there is a grievance."

Song Junyan narrowed his eyes slightly, "Get ready to go to court."

He had guessed that they would not give up just like that, but he did not expect Zhao to be so hasty.

However, the victim was his own mother, and it would be difficult for ordinary people to endure it, let alone someone as impatient as Zhao.

He instructed his men to prepare for the court session, changed into his official robes, and arranged for someone to deliver the message to the palace. Then he strode into the hall.

"Who are you and what do you want?"

"Your Excellency, I, Zhao, am suing Zhao Jingtian, the Earl of Rong'en, and his wife for stealing the dowry of my first wife, Yun, and the property of the merchant Yun family. I beg you to investigate this matter."

Standing in the court, she suddenly became clear-headed and spoke in a coherent manner.

She held the complaint in both hands and handed it to the officer, then watched the officer hand the complaint to Song Junyan.

Song Junyan only read a few lines and immediately realized that the lawsuit must have been caused by Lu Xinlan.

Although the contact was not that much, the other party's behavior was almost identical to the words in this complaint.

"Mr. Zhao, do you have any evidence to sue Lord Rong En?"

Zhao handed over the letter sent by Yun Cheng: "These are the handwritten letters and promises left by my uncle Zhao Huishan when he took Zhao Jingtian to the Yun family forty-two years ago to demand the family property."

Yunhua was able to gain a foothold in the capital city where officials and wealthy businessmen gathered, and also set up a family business, so he was naturally thoughtful in his actions.

He had prepared for the worst from the beginning, so under the repeated threats from the Zhao family, he made them sign a document that implicitly symbolized their intention to seize the Yun family's property.

After Yun's death, when Zhao Huishan forced them to leave Beijing, he verbally admitted that it was the Zhao family that had let down the Yun family and Yun Ting.

There is literal evidence for all of this, and there are eyewitnesses who saw it all.

After Zhao handed over the evidence, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"I beg you to seek justice for my mother and my grandfather's family. I..."

She gritted her teeth, her chest heaving violently for a moment before she continued in a slightly trembling voice, "I am willing to donate all of my biological mother's dowry, as well as the property that the Rong En Marquis's Mansion has embezzled and the Yun family has given me, to the court for disaster relief.

"I have no other request but to seek justice for my biological mother and my maternal grandfather's family."

The traditional rule is that a woman's dowry is for her own use and there is no reason for the husband's family to take it.

When a woman dies of old age or illness, her dowry will be inherited by her children.

Yun had no other children, so according to the law, her dowry should be inherited by Zhao.

It was reasonable for her to ask for her dowry and the property that the Yun family had given her over the years.

But her words that she would not take a penny of all the property and would donate it all to the court for disaster relief gave this case a different flavor.

Song Junyan looked past Zhao and at the two sisters standing in front of the court door.

The Lu family did produce two very capable young men.

He could conclude that these words from Mrs. Zhao were also taught by Lu Xinlan.

He waved to a policeman and whispered a few words in his ear. The policeman answered yes and hurried out.

At this time, more and more people were gathered outside the court, attracted by the sound of the drum.

Although rumors of what happened in the Duke's Mansion the day before had leaked out, it was only circulated among a small number of people.

The people in the capital knew nothing about this, and when they saw Zhao beating the drum to sue her biological father, they all came up to her curiously and pointed.

"Is this the eldest daughter of Lord Rong's mansion? How could she come here to sue her own biological father?"

"Who knows, but didn't you hear her say that she was asking for her mother's dowry? I guess she's short of money lately."

"Her mother took away half of the Yun family's fortune when she got married. She also had a lot of dowry when she got married. Her dowry was one of the best in the capital. How could she be short of money?"

"You are in financial difficulty, why would you sue your biological father? This is so unfilial and rebellious."

“…”

There was a lot of discussion outside the court.

Lu Xinran listened to the movements around him and secretly pulled Lu Xinlan's arm.

"Can we do this?"

Why does she feel that the evidence is too weak and that Zhao Jingtian, that scumbag, might turn the tables?

Lu Xinlan smiled and looked at the officers in the court: "Don't worry, as long as our request is only for our grandmother's dowry and the property that the Yun family sent to the Bo's Mansion, we can win the case."

Zhao donated all of this to the court, and it became the emperor's money.

The emperor would definitely not sit idly by when it comes to hundreds of thousands of taels.

There were so many people around that she couldn't explain in detail, and Lu Xinran seemed to understand but not quite.

But my sister was so awesome in the past, if she said she could win then she could definitely win.

She looked around and when she turned around she met Song Junyan's gaze. Her heart jumped again.

[This person looks quite normal, why does his gaze look so... scary.]

[Or is it that he has already embarked on a path of perversion, and neither he nor the people around him have noticed?]

In the hall, the two people, one sitting and one kneeling, were both dazed and speechless.

If she continued to complain casually like this, her overwhelming anger and sorrow would be washed away!