Jingying and Chongfeng immediately reorganized the team and asked the people who had grievances to stand up, line up, and speak slowly one by one.
A man in his thirties knelt on the ground and said in pain:
"Your Highness, please help me. My wife was raped by Lord Li's son! Lord Li gave me five taels of silver to settle the matter, but I refused and sent someone to do chores at home. My mother, who is over seventy years old, was so angry that she fell ill and has been bedridden for more than two months!"
Chu Dichi's eyes turned cold as he glanced at Magistrate Li who was kneeling beside him.
Li Zhifu was so frightened that he trembled all over:
“Regent… Your humble servant…”
His face was pale, knowing that this situation was difficult to break.
Now, even if the Sixth Prince came, he couldn’t save him.
"Master Li, I will give you a chance to redeem yourself," the man spread his legs lazily, folded his hands,
"You handle these cases in person. If you handle them well, I will atone for your crimes. If you don't handle them well, I will kill your entire family."
A hopeful look appeared on Magistrate Li's pale face.
really?
The Regent would surely not play tricks on him in front of the people of Jiangnan.
He held onto the stone steps and kowtowed tremblingly: "Yes, I will enforce the law impartially."
"grown ups……"
Cui Qianjin helped the trembling Li Zhifu up, and their legs and feet swayed like leaves in the wind.
"Someone, come quickly... arrest that rebellious son Li Cheng'an."
Soon, Li Cheng'an, the son of Li Zhifu, was detained.
When he came, his belt was not tied tightly, his face was covered with several red mouth marks, and he was still talking nonsense:
"Dad! What are you doing? I'm in the middle of an important business trip and can't get away."
Li Zhifu scolded:
"If you can't get away, then don't do it, you good-for-nothing bastard, how dare you defile a decent woman behind my back!"
"Come here, hold him down and give him forty lashes!"
Li Chengan's eyes widened.
What?
Before he could figure out the situation, he was held down by two soldiers and hit hard by a thick board.
"ah!"
it hurts!
“Dad, are you serious… ah! ah!”
Let him go!
It hurts him so much!
Magistrate Li felt heartbroken when he looked at his only son, but he had to do this in order to save the entire Li family and himself.
As long as the father is alive, there is no need to worry about having no descendants.
My son, this is all your own fault, so you have to bear the consequences yourself!
Soon, Li Cheng'an was beaten until he was covered in blood and fainted. Prefect Li took out another two hundred taels of silver to compensate the commoner, and sent someone to invite a doctor to see his old mother. Only then did the commoner stop crying and thank the Regent.
The second citizen was a woman, she knelt on the ground and wept:
"I pay my respects to Your Highness. Your Highness, I and my husband run a small business selling sweet soup to make a living, but we were targeted by the restaurant owner Zhang. He threw a dead rat into my sweet soup and gave Lord Li money, so that Lord Li used the dead rat as an excuse to forcibly close my sweet soup shop."
Their family lost their livelihood.
"Afterwards, Boss Zhang tried to forcibly buy my dessert shop at a price half the market price. I refused to sell it, so Lord Li helped him..."
As he spoke, he couldn't stop crying.
There are constant cries of injustice.
Chu Li squatted on the steps, looking at these miserable faces, feeling uncomfortable.
There is yin and yang, black and white, right and wrong, good and evil in the world. It is impossible for the sun to shine in every corner. In those invisible places, there are many such bullying, humiliation, and unfair exploitation.
However, as long as Da Chu is doing well, the people will be full of hope.
As long as the regent is just and fair, the people can believe in justice.
Magistrate Li sent someone to call Boss Zhang to handle the second case.
For a while, there were people crying, shouting for justice, and presenting evidence...
There is a constant stream of people.
When the news of the lakeside cottage spread, people from all over Jiangnan came to watch, and many of them had grievances and asked for justice.
Looking at the scale, it will probably take at least five to seven days to deal with it.
"Brother Ali." Qin Muxue came over, holding three hot sweet potatoes in her hands, "Sister Chusan roasted them, they smell so good."
Chu Li moved his butt and squatted a little to the side.
"Let me try it."
"It looks pretty good when the Regent handles an unjust case." Qin Muxue squatted beside her.
Chu Li took a bite of the sweet potato and said, "I find it interesting. I've seen the Dali Temple handle cases in a fair and strict manner before, but this Lord Li cried while handling the case, as if he was torturing himself. It was really fun to watch."
After a while, Qin Muyu also came over.
Chu Di handled these trivial matters slowly and methodically.
He sat here, lazily leaning sideways with his chin supported. If he met some stubborn prisoners who refused to admit their crimes, he would raise his eyes and give them a stern look, which would scare them to tremble.
Jingying stood on his left hand and Chongfeng on his right hand. Behind them were the dark guards with swords, as well as the two door gods, Xiao Yexing and Bai Jinyi. No matter who saw them, they would not dare to look up and look directly at them.
Under the cold and narrow face, there are thoughts that no one dares to guess:
Xiaojiu just came out, why hasn’t he come over yet?
Aren't you going to come over and talk to him?
Chu Dichi propped up his chin, tilted his body, adjusted to a natural posture and turned his head to look, only to see three people squatting on the steps with their necks shrunk and buttocks stuck out, eating sweet potatoes.
Chu Li was in the middle, and the Qin brothers and sisters were on both sides.
The three of them held the sweet potatoes in their hands, eating until their mouths were full of mush. They talked and gnawed while making humming noises, like rustling hamsters:
"This sweet potato is roasted to a crispy outside and tender inside..."
"Yes, yes, Chusan sister said she would fry some potatoes for us later."
"Will I fart if I eat too much of this?"
"Muyu, you farted."
“…Nonsense! I didn’t!”
“I saw it all!”
"..."
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