Chapter 127: A Great Victory
"Lei Jin, what do you say?" Hang Qi looked at Lei Jin.
In front of the county magistrate, Lei Jin no longer dared to act that powerful. He stammered for a long time and dared not speak.
"Sir, the village head said that this matter was just my one-sided story. Is there any woman in the world who would joke about such a thing just to wrongly accuse someone she doesn't know well?"
Lin Xi's words were strongly recognized by the onlookers, especially the female spectators.
Everyone knows how important a woman's reputation is, and no one can joke about such things.
"Today, I don't know which hero couldn't stand it anymore and spoke up for me, so I have the opportunity to stand here and defend myself. If you don't make a penalty, I don't know if someone else will be unable to stand it again and make a big fuss tomorrow." Lin Xi said.
If before it was purely a cry for injustice, now Lin Xi can be said to be making a covert threat.
Hang Qi looked at Lin Xi, speechless. This woman was so shameless.
It was clearly Xiao Yongyan's doing, yet she pretended to be ignorant of their marital affairs.
However, the crowd suddenly started talking.
"My son said that the person who wrote the article is from Fenghe Town."
"Yes, I listened to the lectures, too. I think his name was Mr. Shuer."
Hang Qi was stunned. Mr. Shuer?
This guy seems to be Xiao Yongyan's current teacher. Could it be that he took up his pen to speak out in anger for his students?
The more Hang Qi thought about it, the more logical it seemed to him. Even if Xiao Yongyan wrote an article, he would not be able to spread it around the streets and make it known to everyone. It seemed that Mr. Shuer was more powerful.
Hang Qi called his master over and asked, "Who is this Mr. Shu Er?"
The master was also very puzzled. "Sir, I have thought about investigating this before, but I have found nothing. I heard that this person is very mysterious. There is always a screen between him and the students during class, and he never shows up."
A man who never shows up, Hang Qi was a little hesitant.
Living in the capital for a long time has taught him one thing: never look down on people from small places, even if they look insignificant at the moment, they may be related to some important person.
Under the imperial city, every family has a few backers.
Although he is in a small place now, once his thoughts are formed, it is difficult to change them in a short time.
"This matter," Hang Qi said slowly, "Lei Jin, I don't think you are telling the truth. Come, torture me!"
Lei Jin never expected that things would develop to such an extent, and begged for mercy in a hurry, "Sir, everything I said is true, I would never dare to lie!"
Hang Qi said, "If you can still say this after being tortured, I will take it as the truth."
At his command, the officers stood on both sides of Hang Qi, one on the left and one on the right, and pressed him to the ground.
Lin Xi watched with interest. What were they going to do?
Just as he was thinking about it, he saw the officer coming up with a hand-clamping stick and putting it on Lei Jin's fingers without saying a word.
It looked painful, and Lin Xi frowned subconsciously.
Lei Jin had never seen such a scene before. When he just touched the wooden stick, he kowtowed and admitted his fault. "Sir, I'm telling the truth. I was blinded by greed and wanted to bully Lin Xi. It's all my fault."
The hard stone floor was knocked by the thunder force, causing quite a noise.
Lin Xi looked at his forehead, which was completely red. If he hit it again, it would probably bleed.
Hang Qi looked at Lei Jin coldly, thinking that he could hold on a little longer, but he was begging for mercy before the fight even started.
In public, he could not be partial, so he slammed the gavel and said, "Lei Jin, since you admit it, according to the laws of our dynasty, I sentence you to one year in prison."
"Sir, please spare my life. I have a wife and children at home and I can't be left without anyone to take care of them!" Lei Jin shouted, but the police were ruthless and dragged him directly into the jail.
Seeing this, Lin Xi began to sing praises in an exaggerated tone, "Your Excellency is truly a good official for the people, you are very perceptive and impartial!"
The onlookers outside agreed with what they saw. No one knew how depressed Hang Qi was. He thought he had found a good opportunity to attack the couple, but he was forced to make the decision for them.
Hang Qi was filled with anger, with nowhere to vent, "Adjourn the court!"
The crowd that had come to watch the excitement then dispersed.
Zhao Tan, who witnessed the whole process, felt even colder in his heart. Lin Xi did not suffer any loss under the county magistrate, so what could he do to her? He was afraid that he would lose his position.
After leaving the county government office, Lin Xi and Xiao Yongyan jumped on their horses.
"After this battle, the name of Mr. Shuer is completely separated from you." Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan nodded, "Of course, this way, it will be more conducive to using this identity to get things done."
"Oh, right, the silkworms at home are about to start spinning cocoons. I need to go back and keep an eye on them." Lin Xi began to worry. "They have no experience. I'm worried something might go wrong."
Taoli Village, silkworm house.
Cui Hongyue and Xue Lili were both inside, watching the silkworms spin silk and make cocoons bit by bit.
Seeing Lin Xi coming, he pointed at the silkworms in the grid and said, "Boss Lin, look, these silkworms have started to spin cocoons."
Lin Xi observed carefully and soon found the problem, "Why are these cocoons so dense?"
Generally speaking, if the silkworms were allowed to choose on their own, only about one-third of the positions in a square cluster would be occupied, but now more than half of the positions are occupied.
Xue Lili said, "There are so many grids, I was afraid they would be wasted, so I drove some silkworms over here."
Lin Xi was shocked and pointed to a silkworm cocoon that had not yet been wound and showed it to Xue Lili, "There are two silkworms trapped in this cocoon. Can you see it?"
Xue Lili said happily, "I saw it, this cocoon is bigger than the others."
"This is called a double-palace cocoon. Although it is larger than ordinary cocoons, it is because the silk threads spun by two silkworms are spun together, so it will break into pieces when used. But an ordinary cocoon is a complete thread, continuous." Lin Xi patiently explained to the two.
Cui Hongyue didn't expect that raising silkworms would require so many details. She felt sad and said, "Boss, we really didn't mean it. We thought it would be better to keep the silkworms together as much as possible."
"It's okay. You don't have experience for the first time. Just be careful next time." Lin Xi waved her hand and didn't care. She didn't have any expectations for the first batch of silkworms. The main purpose was to accumulate experience.
Li Qionghua's home.
The silkworms raised in the house began to spin cocoons, but her family did not prepare a place for the silkworms in advance. Goudan heard other children say that the silkworms were about to spin cocoons, so he started to release the silkworms everywhere.
Three days later, the children placed silkworms everywhere on the Zhao family's firewood pile, under the benches, and on the beams.
Because the farms were very busy these days, no one in the family paid attention to Goudan's behavior.
By the time Li Qionghua discovered something was wrong, her house was already filled with silk cocoons and small white dots everywhere.
"Goudan, what are you doing?" Li Qionghua was so angry that she couldn't keep an eye on the child and he started to make trouble.
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