"Greetings, Your Excellency!"
Yue Jiuyue's kowtow this time was truly sincere.
"I wonder why this woman summoned me here?"
Although Magistrate Tang did not come with Village Chief Lin, he sent his advisor along. He was already aware of what had happened here and thought that the woman wanted to use him to intimidate the villains because of the sweet potato incident.
This was a trivial matter for Magistrate Tang. He wouldn't have come if Lin Yueshi hadn't been the one who found the sweet potatoes.
Yue Jiuyue knelt on the ground and did not get up. Lin Chaodong and his wife, as sons and daughters-in-law, naturally knelt on the ground as well. However, apart from Lin Chaonan who guessed something, the others all looked blank.
"My lord, I have been a widow for ten years because ten years ago my second sister-in-law's husband came to my house and asked my husband to go up the mountain to catch rabbits. As a result, my second sister-in-law's husband returned safely, but my husband froze to death on the mountain."
At that time, I was heartbroken and in a daze. Even though I was kicked out of the house by my mother-in-law and had nothing, and my four children and I almost froze to death that winter, I never thought that there was another reason for my husband's death!
As a woman with no house or land, I had to work my ass off to support four boys, so I had no time to think about anything else.
However, when I saw my second aunt just now, I suddenly remembered that on the day my husband passed away, my second aunt's husband had come back earlier, and he didn't even dare to look at my husband's body. He hid in the house the whole time, and he didn't even show up for my husband's funeral!
At that time, I didn't think much of it, but when I couldn't sleep on sad nights, I heard my second aunt's husband calling my husband's name in the night, begging him to spare his life, saying that he didn't mean it.
Therefore, I suspect that my husband didn't fall into the pit and freeze to death on his own, but was killed by that man!
"I implore Your Honor to uphold justice for my husband! Give him the justice he deserves!"
"I beg Your Honor to redress my father's grievances! Give him justice!"
Yue Jiuyue pressed her forehead to the ground, listening to the original owner's son behind her pleading with Magistrate Tang to make a decision, and felt a bittersweet feeling in her heart.
To hell with the living, they're more important!
To hell with everything else, for the sake of the clan's stability!
What did Lin Jiaming do wrong? Why was he murdered, and why does he have to watch from the afterlife as the evildoer goes unpunished and lives a happy life?
What did the original owner do wrong? She was an ancient woman who had just lost her husband and was kicked out of her home by her in-laws. She almost died in that cold winter.
What did the four children do wrong? Just because they lost their father, do they deserve to be abandoned by their elders? Are they just supposed to stand by and watch them freeze to death?
Don't they have any conscience?
Since they have no conscience, let her, who has a conscience, send them on their way!
Magistrate Tang never expected that what he thought was a trivial matter would eventually lead to a murder case.
"As the magistrate of Caolu County, I will naturally uphold justice for you!"
"Village Chief Lin, I have only brought two guards with me this time. We are short-handed. I would like to trouble you to have all those involved in this case kept under guard by separate guards. No one is allowed to approach them, and no one is allowed to speak to them."
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
Village Chief Lin sighed. The truth that had been kept secret for ten years was finally about to come out.
"Guard Liu, go back to the county town and bring a team of men."
"Yes, sir!"
Liu, the guard, accepted the order and quickly left.
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