This is outrageous! Someone has died.
Just a moment ago they were watching their father beat his son, but when their father swung the broom at An Wu, Zhang Da and Zhang Er felt incredibly relieved.
If it weren't for them hooking up with Zhang San'er, that brat wouldn't have gotten into gambling.
In the blink of an eye, I saw An Wu kick his father to the ground, and then the old man's throat was slit.
Although the whole process only lasted for a moment, the two Zhang brothers and the women in the house all saw it clearly.
The woman's screams and the desperate cries of the Zhang brothers grabbing their weapons instantly echoed throughout the courtyard.
The onlookers, who had initially been watching the commotion, immediately reported the incident to the authorities upon realizing that someone had died.
Meanwhile, the local residents blocked the gate.
Soon the Zhang brothers and An Wu and others were taken to the county government office.
The situation is no longer just about Anwu collecting debts; it's about a death occurring on their end.
Regardless of whether they killed intentionally or not, the fact remains that someone died.
Another important issue is that ordinary people are not allowed to carry knives.
"Anwu, I ask you, the Zhang family has accused you of murder, do you admit it?" Zhao Minggeng asked.
An Wu naturally could not admit it.
Then, based on a series of witness testimonies and physical evidence, An Wu's kick played a crucial role, constituting negligent injury. Furthermore, An Wu and his companions were found to have been carrying knives without authorization, violating the laws of the Divine Dragon Kingdom.
Anwu was sentenced to twenty years of hard labor, along with the man with the sword.
The rest of the accompanying personnel were each sentenced to five years of hard labor.
Zhang San'er's gambling brought trouble home, resulting in his father's death. He was truly unfilial and deserved thirty strokes of the cane.
An Wu and his group, seeing that they had not only failed to get their money back but had also gotten themselves into a murder case, were naturally unwilling and insisted that the Zhang family pay compensation.
Zhang Da and Zhang Er now hate their younger brother to death. Ignoring their mother's cries, they immediately separated from their family and severed ties.
The house was converted into cash for 50 taels of silver. After deducting 10 taels of silver needed for Old Master Zhang's funeral, the remaining silver was divided into four parts, one for each of the three brothers and one for Old Madam Zhang.
As for whether Zhang San'er has the ability to repay An Wu's money, that's beyond the brothers' control.
Old Lady Zhang berated her two brothers in court for being heartless and ungrateful.
“Mother, if you hadn’t spoiled my third brother all these years, how could he have ended up killing our father? Are you going to continue to be so stubborn?”
If Mother really can't bear to part with Third Brother, then Mother will live with Third Brother.
Anyway, Mother has already received the money that was rightfully hers.
My brother and I don't have the ability to patch up his hole anymore.
Mother, please take care of yourself. If you continue to cry and whine here...
"The real estate broker is coming to take over the house later. Mother's savings from all these years will probably be gone."
After finishing his sentence, Zhang Da left the courtroom without looking back, with Zhang Er following closely behind.
They still have to go home to handle their father's funeral arrangements and move house.
At Zhao Minggeng's command, those who deserved to be flogged were flogged, and those who needed to be detained were detained.
He hated gambling the most, but since the Divine Dragon Kingdom had not explicitly banned gambling, he couldn't arrest all those who participated in it.
Therefore, Zhao Minggeng took advantage of the fact that someone had died, as well as the charge of illegal possession of weapons, to sentence these people.
Every scumbag is a piece of cake. Send them all to places with mines, work themselves to death all day long, and see if they still gamble or do evil.
As for why Anwu insisted on targeting Zhang San'er...
Zhao Minggeng knew without even investigating that someone was eyeing the house in Dawar.
The people of Dawar are all stubborn as mules; not one of them is willing to sell their house.
No one can be forced to act improperly. If anything goes wrong, Magistrate Zhao's office is truly in the best interests of the people, so no one dares to do anything reckless.
But it's easy to catch a gambler; they'll fall into a trap.
They never imagined that this would lead to someone's death.
Before Zhang San'er was executed, An Wu's fierce gaze terrified him to death.
Before he could recover from his shock, the executioner's stick struck him hard on the buttocks.
"Aww..." Zhang San'er's mind was completely blank.
To serve as a warning to others, Zhang San'er's execution was carried out in public.
Here, someone is carrying out an execution; there, someone is reading out the charges, concluding that gambling ruins a fortune and may even lead to death.
Let the people learn from this.
Ordinary people know that gambling is bad, yet many people still gamble, causing many families to break apart, and the victims can't find a reasonable way out.
Now we finally see a gambler get beaten up, and many ordinary people are watching with disgust and contempt.
"Yes, he deserves it. If anyone has a gambler, just chop off his fingers. Maybe then all those troublesome things that happened later won't happen."
These words were spoken by someone sent out by Zhao Minggeng.
The goal is to instill in the public the idea that gambling will result in the loss of one's hands.
Whether or not people will actually cut off their hands is unknown, but it will definitely have a deterrent effect.
When it was possible that she didn't have any private savings, nothing was more important to Granny Zhang than the money itself, regardless of whether it was Zhang San or not.
When I arrived home, the white banners were already hung up. A funeral specialist had been hired to help with the arrangements.
The eldest grandson of the Zhang family was agile enough to leap up from the east roof ridge and summon his grandfather's soul.
After calling back the soul but not seeing Grandpa Zhang come back to life, the young man came down from the west roof ridge and began the entire encoffining procedure.
As for any so-called "rest of the body," that doesn't exist.
After all, the house has already been mortgaged to the brokerage firm, and they will be coming to take it back soon.
The brokerage firm was quite humane; after the funeral for Old Man Zhang, they sent someone to say that they were allowed to stay at their house one more night, and that they would come to collect the room early the next morning.
Old Mrs. Zhang started causing trouble again after the old man's funeral.
They either wanted to search the eldest son's room for money or they wanted to rob the second son's room.
This finally pushed her two sons to their breaking point. They dragged her back into her room and locked the door from the outside.
The two brothers quickly packed their things, found a car, and drove back to their hometown in the countryside overnight.
Before leaving, Zhang Da took the lock off Granny Zhang's door.
They left without even saying goodbye.
They resented this mother, and for some unknown reason, they had doted on her from a young age.
This kid was spoiled rotten and became completely clueless, and later he even got into gambling.
The whole family suffered because of him, but he shouldn't have brought the creditors home, otherwise his father wouldn't have died.
And this mother, in the county government office, also extinguished what little remaining affection the two brothers had for their children.
Since you love your youngest son so much, then you should live with him.
They preferred to take their entire family to the countryside and live in a drafty mud house.
Fortunately, I still have ten taels of silver in hand. If I cultivate a few acres of wasteland, I won't have to worry about making a living.
They used to be afraid of the dogs in Northern Mongolia, but now what are they afraid of? Northern Mongolia has become Inner Mongolia Prefecture.
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