It happened that the students were all at home that day, so I went over the matter in front of the children.
Afterwards, Lord Zong finally understood what was going on.
Three days later, the trial officially began.
The old principal of Wanjun Academy was invited, and there were also many people who were listening, such as Marquis Yuyong and Prince Fengping.
On the Xiao family's side, Uncle Xiao happened to be on vacation and came specially, so everyone was really gathered together.
The fifteen students other than those from Hangzhou No. 2 were also there, and it was quite crowded.
Although Lord Zong had tried many cases, this was the first time he had tried so many officials and students, so he couldn't help but feel nervous and concerned.
At the Hang family, Hang's father did not come.
Hang Lixing showed up as the eldest brother and stood next to the plaintiff Hang Er. He did not need to kneel because he had made great achievements. He was as graceful and elegant as pine, cypress and bamboo, and had a fair and clean appearance. He looked different from the students of Wanjun Academy.
Of course, in order to save face, Hang Lixing also invited his classmates to come and watch, and stood in a similar position to those students.
"The plaintiff Hang Gengyuan sued your Wanjun Academy's Mr. Wu for humiliating and beating students, forcing them to drop out in order to earn compensation. Does the dean have anything to say?" Lord Zong was very polite.
This old headmaster looks like a wild man now, but many years ago, he was also a world-famous figure.
The old headmaster stroked his beard and said, "Is he the one who got 100,000 taels? These children have been attending school for a while now, and he's the first one. He really made me a lot of money..."
"Cough!" The "Mr. Yunhu" next to him immediately coughed.
The headmaster was startled and said, "We made money, yes, but we don't beat children casually. We only beat them when they make mistakes. It's for their own good."
Hang Lixing glanced in the direction of Mr. Yunhu with disgust, thinking that this person was a bit too talkative. If he hadn't reminded him, who knows what this confused headmaster would have said.
But he always felt that Yunhu Lay Buddhist looked familiar...
He just glanced at it and didn't take it seriously.
"That's wrong. My brother was beaten by the teachers at the academy. After returning home, he couldn't sleep all day and all night. He had nightmares all the time, and there were some bruises on his body. The academy claims to be teaching students, but my brother didn't learn anything. I suspect that this Wanjun Academy is just a pretense of teaching students and a real profit-making business!"
Lord Zong had already understood this, so he didn't want to continue arguing with the Hang brothers.
He directly asked the students in the academy to testify.
Xiao Qi and others lined up and started speaking one by one.
"Master Huo wouldn't hit us for no reason. He wasn't paying attention in class, so he was punished by getting spanked a few times on the palms. It didn't hurt anything, it's no big deal..."
"He also drugged Master Huo. Luckily, the drug only made people sleepy. If it was poison, Master Huo and the others would have died!"
"Sir, Hang Er is not doing his job properly at the academy. He broke a lot of things there, but they didn't ask him to pay for it. I originally wanted to persuade him to quit, but who knew he would redeem himself with money? It's clearly written in black and white. It's only right that we take his money."
"During his time at the academy, Hang Er even killed several of the chickens and ducks raised by our headmaster. You don't know how poor our academy is. I heard that the headmaster only ate vegetables and porridge every day and was reluctant to eat meat. He raised all the chickens and ducks for us to use, but Hang Er secretly killed several of them just because he refused to obey the teacher's discipline!"
"I also think Master Huo was right to beat him!"
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