When County Magistrate Lu saw the men dressed in the uniforms of imperial guards coming to the lobby, he got angry and wanted to take more than 20 people to attack Wang Dahai and his men.

After they were all beaten up and dragged out like dead dogs, County Magistrate Lu knew that he was finished.

When Ma Dahe saw this scene, he, who had traveled far and wide and had some experience, collapsed to the ground with a face as pale as death.

As a scholar who could understand some of the cunning people, Yu Yulang quickly knelt down and said to An Xin, "Sir, I am just a distant cousin of Jiao Niang, but I have never done anything bad."

"Today, Jiao Niang said she wanted to go back to her parents' home. Since I happened to have some time, I decided to go home with her."

"Student." An Xin curled his lips: "I wonder which class you were in."

Even the children reluctantly called themselves students in front of officials.

Only a scholar could legitimately meet an official without kneeling, and could justifiably call himself a lifelong student.

If it were someone else, An Xin would not be so pretentious and lose face, but for this hypocrite who uses women to get rich, he is a real villain.

It was hard for An Xin not to hate him.

"You're just a...young student who hasn't passed the imperial examination yet." Yu Wulang felt that he was being looked down upon again.

This feeling started after he seduced his fiancée into marrying Ma Dahe as his concubine and received money in return.

He no longer had to wear washed-out clothes in the academy, and he had money to treat his classmates to dinner at a restaurant. He felt proud and his inferiority complex disappeared.

Now, being brought back to his true colors by the woman who called herself "official" sitting in the lobby, Yu Wulang's eyes darkened and he gritted his teeth and said, "If my lord has nothing to do, can I leave here?"

"No." An Xin didn't know who he was. After a quick glance, she saw hatred flashing in this person's eyes towards her.

Just because I exposed the fact that he was incompetent.

"grown ups……"

An Xin raised his hand: "Don't be anxious, kneel aside and wait."

Then they began to deal with the case of the Ma family conspiring to frame Fang.

What the Ma mother and daughter said in front of everyone is the best evidence.

Ma Dahe had no way to defend himself and began to beg Fang for forgiveness.

"Yunniang, you and I have been married for more than ten years. This matter was caused by my husband's momentary confusion. Can you please see our past relationship and forgive me for once?

I will treat you well in the future, I swear to that."

Fang looked at Ma Dahe who raised his hand to swear, and the corners of her mouth twitched, with sarcasm in her eyes.

"oath."

If oaths and promises work, you should be struck by lightning when you sue me and see me being stripped and beaten with sticks by those yamen runners. "

"You bitch, how dare you speak to my son like that? I'll beat you to death today." Mrs. Ma saw her daughter-in-law who had always been submissive.

He immediately flew into a rage and was about to hit Fang because Fang dared to say such outrageous words to his own son.

"Snap!" An Xin felt that clapping the wooden board sounded quite majestic. No wonder the officials sitting in the hall liked to clap it from time to time.

"Mrs. Ma roared in the court, and they dragged her out and gave her ten big strokes of the cane as a punishment."

"You bitch... wuwuwu..."

Ma Dahe, who was kneeling beside her, quickly covered his mother's mouth, "Sir, my mother is a woman who doesn't know the rules of the hall. Please forgive me."

You said to Fang’s red and swollen face.

Ma Dahe looked at Fang who was beaten by her mother. It seemed like she was used to it. When he looked at her, there was no guilt in her eyes.

"Yunniang, please ask the Lord on behalf of your mother to forgive her this time."

Ma Dahe said as a matter of course: "She is old. If she is stripped and beaten with a stick, how can she hold her head up high and face her neighbors, relatives and friends in the future?"

Fang gnashed her teeth and looked at Ma Dahe with hatred: "So you know that if you are stripped of your outer clothes and beaten with a stick, you will never see each other again.

Then why didn't you stop me when I was dragged out by those yamen runners?"

With tears in her eyes, Fang turned her head after speaking in a hateful tone, and two lines of tears fell down her cheeks.

She was a girl who was taught to be virtuous by her mother since she was young. She could not say those words just now because she was deeply hurt by Ma Dahe's cruelty and ruthlessness.

Ma Dahe was speechless for a moment after being blocked by Fang, but he still spoke to this woman who always obeyed him, and said in a commanding tone: "I asked you to help your mother speak well to the adults, so just say it. Why are you talking so much nonsense? Go and ask the adults to forgive your mother and stop spanking her."

"Heh!" An Xin's eyes turned cold, "Do you think I'm dead?"

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"Ma Dahe threatened others in court, don't drag him out and give him 20 lashes, and then drag him back in to continue the trial."

"Sir, don't do that!" Ma Dahe uttered a cry, and Liu Boxing ordered the guards to cover his mouth. He was dragged away to be beaten with a stick along with Ma Po, who was glaring at An Xin.

Ma Xiaohua, who originally wanted to curse, saw her brother and mother being dragged out and heard screams coming in, so she didn't dare to stand out and shout anymore.

However, when the two were dragged in again, people in the lobby realized that they had overthought.

An Xin didn't even have anyone strip them of their clothes or beat them with a stick.

In the end, Ma Dahe was given the heaviest punishment by An Xin according to the crime he committed. He was charged with attempted murder and sentenced to ten years in prison.

Wang Erdan and the Ma family were more or less participants and insiders in the murder of Fang. Although they were not sentenced to jail, their property was confiscated, which is probably not much different from sentencing them to jail.

Jiao Niang denied that she knew Ma Dahe was going to murder her original wife.

Seeing that she was about to give birth and the baby would need someone to take care of it, An Xin took back the courtyard and most of the money that Ma Dahe had bought for her and did not pursue the matter any further.

Yu Wulang coaxed his fiancée Jiao Niang, who had been engaged to him since childhood, into becoming Ma Dahe's mistress so that he could study and have fun.

As long as Jiao Niang doesn't sue him, Yu Wulang will not have committed a crime.

However, what he did would soon spread throughout Fengshan County. If no one talked about his bad behavior, no academy would accept him in the future, and he would probably find it difficult to hold his head up high in life.

Such arrogance cannot stand being looked down upon when one is at his lowest point.

For someone who came up with such a perverse idea, making him live in the world and be looked down upon is probably the greatest punishment for him.

An Xin awarded most of the property confiscated from the Ma family to Fang as compensation for what the Ma family had done for her over the years.

Fang never imagined that even though she was prepared to die to maintain her innocence, in the end there would be a turn of events and she would receive a fair and just verdict.

She and her mother knelt on the ground, their foreheads swollen from expressing their sincere gratitude.

Not only was she able to keep her innocence and avoid being stripped and beaten with a stick, but she was also able to receive so much compensation that she and her elderly mother will have no worries in their future lives.

How could Fang not be filled with gratitude towards An Xin?