A car accident, our family of three crossed

Chapter 228: Court Confrontation (Part )

The county magistrate slammed the gavel and immediately ordered people to go to the official yamen to bring Gong Ya Ren in for questioning.

At this time, Chen Laoer and his wife were waiting outside the door to be summoned. As soon as the county magistrate opened his mouth to summon them, the two of them came in tremblingly and knelt down to kowtow.

"I am Chen Laoer, a commoner, and I am Chen Xu, greeting you, sir."

"I want to ask you, are those people your parents and brothers?" asked the county magistrate.

Chen Laoer and his wife nodded and said, "Your Excellency, they are our parents and brothers."

"I'm going to ask you again, they sued Hang Tongsheng and his wife for forcing you to sign a contract to sell your bodies. Is this true?"

"Your Excellency, that's not true." Xu was the first to speak up. "Before we met the young master and the mistress, we had already sold ourselves to the pawnbroker and had been working there ever since. It's not true that the young master and the mistress forced us to buy or sell."

Old Lady Chen was used to being a boss at home, and she looked down on her second son and his wife. When she saw Xu talking, she subconsciously wanted to curse. When the words came to her lips, she remembered that she had just been punished by an adult and her face was still burning with pain, so she held back the words.

"Chen Lao Er, is what your wife said true?"

"Your Excellency, what my wife said is true. We dare not deceive you."

After the county magistrate confirmed with Chen Laoer, he proved that the matter had nothing to do with Hang Shuheng and his wife, and it was all a false accusation by the Chen family.

"Since this matter has nothing to do with Hang Tongsheng and his wife, you two can just stand aside and wait!" As for the details of why Chen Laoer and his wife sold themselves into slavery, they would have to wait for the manager of the pawnbroker to arrive.

"Thank you, sir!"

Hang Shuheng and Song Ning both bowed to express their gratitude. When Song Ning stood up, she staggered slightly. Hang Shuheng helped her up in time, bent down and considerately brushed the dust off her clothes in front of her knees. His gentle and skillful movements were extremely natural.

Peng Desheng didn't like Hang Shuheng. No matter what he did, he was not happy. He said sarcastically, "Hang Tongsheng and his wife are really in love! This young man is so impetuous. He is in public and he doesn't even take it easy."

Hang Shuheng chuckled, "Your Excellency the County Magistrate, you are too kind. Madam and I grew up together and have a very good relationship."

"You two have a good relationship, but you can still be affectionate when you get home. This is in court, how can it be allowed?"

"May I ask, sir, has my student and my wife done anything inappropriate? Please let me know."

Peng Desheng opened his mouth to speak, but was speechless. He had only said a few words in a hurry, but he didn't expect the other party to be so relentless.

The county magistrate was watching the fun with great interest and had no intention of stopping their verbal dispute. How could he not know what Peng Desheng was thinking? He was just dissatisfied with the loss he suffered before and wanted to take the opportunity to suppress the other party, but he was defeated in the end.

"I won't argue with you about this, huh!" Peng Desheng held it in for a long time before he uttered these words.

Hang Shuheng mocked him, "Sir, the county magistrate, are you envious of your husband and wife's good relationship? You don't have to be envious. This daughter-in-law needs to be coaxed and loved. If you go back and coax her more, you will be able to reconcile as before."

As soon as these words were spoken, the people watching outside the hall burst into laughter, and the bailiffs and detectives in the court had a hard time trying to hold back their laughter.

The county magistrate couldn't help laughing, but when he saw the scene gradually getting noisy, he cleared his throat and slammed the gavel, "Silence, silence, don't discuss anything that has nothing to do with this case."

With the intervention of the county magistrate, the court suddenly became quiet. Soon, the official Gong Ya was brought in.

"I greet the county magistrate."

"Are you the manager of the government dental clinic?"

"My Lord, it is me."

The county magistrate pointed at Chen Laoer and his wife and said, "Do you recognize these two people? Are they from your dental practice?"

Gong Ya Ren looked up and saw that it was Chen Lao Er and his wife. He was shocked. Could it be that these two people had committed some crime in their new master's house that implicated Ya Ren?

On the way here, he asked the constable why he was taken to the government office, but the constable kept silent and only said that he would know when he got to the government office. He thought about it tremblingly all the way, but he didn't expect that it was related to Chen Laoer and his wife.

"Your Excellency, the couple did work in my pawnshop. They were bought by a new owner more than half a month ago. I personally went to the government office to get the official deed. Your Excellency will know once you order someone to check." He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "I dare to ask your Excellency, what crime have they committed?"

The county magistrate did not answer his question directly, but asked again, "Are they bought from the pawnbroker, Mr. and Mrs. Hang Tongsheng?"

"My Lord, it was Hang Shuheng and his wife. At that time, they only wanted to buy a servant. Later, seeing that Chen Laoer and his wife were honest and decent people, and Mrs. Hang was kind-hearted and didn't want to separate them, so she bought the couple together."

After Gong Ya Ren explained the details of how Hang Shuheng and others bought people from the Yahang, the county magistrate knocked down the gavel and shouted at the Chen family: "Did you hear me clearly? You dare to make false accusations without any evidence. You are really bold! Do you really think the government court is your farmyard?"

"Please spare us, sir, please spare us..." At this moment, the Chen family members dared not say anything else except begging for mercy. They kept kowtowing, "We will never dare to do it again. Please spare us, sir!"

"Hmph! You ignore the law and despise the court. If I let you off easily, where will the dignity of my government be?" The county magistrate knocked the gavel heavily.

Seeing that the county magistrate was angry, Chen Lao Niang seemed to have thought of something in a hurry, and said hurriedly: "Sir, sir, even if the master did not force my son to sign the indenture, they might have been forced by the pawnbroker! We don't want anything from the pawnbroker, we just want to get back the money my son got from selling himself. Please, sir, help us!"

After Chen Lao Niang finished speaking, she kowtowed repeatedly and asked the county magistrate to make the decision. She didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with what she said.

Chen Laoer and his wife felt as if their hearts were thrown into an ice cave and frozen. These were their parents and brothers. They went to court over the matter of their selling their bodies just to demand the money they received. There was no family affection at all.

"Mom, please stop talking." Chen Laoer reminded her disappointedly. If he still had the money from selling his body, he would rather use it to buy out the family relationship between them.

The people outside the hall who were watching the fun had already started talking about her inhumane words and criticizing her.

"Oh my god! This is too shameless. They don't care why their son and daughter-in-law sold themselves into slavery. They only care about the money their daughter-in-law got from selling herself. This is too shameless."

"How can such a person be worthy of having a son? He is extremely selfish."