Chapter 8 Getting into a lawsuit
The boss smashed his teeth and fell to his mouth and said, "Miss, this piano is made of the best ancient paulownia wood. Just this paulownia wood has to risk his life in the mountains and forests. I don't know how long it will take to search for it. Look at the strings again, each string is made of 36 black gold threads, and you get what you pay for. Such a top-quality piano is not much for you to have twenty taels."
The girl smiled silently, with a faint smile on her cheek, which looked very moving. When her red lips opened slightly, she looked like an arc. The beauty was that Yang Ling, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but be moved. The girl turned her head and looked at him, obviously knowing that he was peeking at him, but there was no displeasure in her expression.
The girl turned her head and looked at her brother with a smile, and suddenly said a string of things Yang Ling couldn't understand. The agile young man also answered with a similar pronunciation. The girl shook her head and said to the boss: "Boss, I sincerely want to buy your piano. Apart from me, I am afraid that I am not willing to spend so much money to buy this piano. This is how, fifteen taels, if you are willing, I will do your business."
The white-haired old man smashed his mouth again and nodded, "Okay, the goods are sold to the home. Since the lady said that, then the old man of piano will be sold to you."
The girl smiled slightly after hearing this, reached into her arms and took out a purse, poured out a bead from it, placed it in the palm of her white little hand, and held it in front of the boss and said, "Okay, there is a good and pu bead here. Even if it is placed in a small place, it is worth 18 taels of silver. I will use this bead to exchange for your piano, and you don't have to ask for money. Just give me a piano box."
Although there was gold and silver and the Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes at that time, bartering was still very popular among the people, so the girl's behavior was not surprising. The old man took the beads and squinted his eyes to look at the sun. It was indeed a good pearl. The girl exchanged such a good bead for his piano, and the business was indeed not a loss.
However, the old man looked at the pearl greedily and secretly thought: Although the merchants from Jimingyi are very prosperous from north to south, they are not a good place to do musical instrument business. After opening a store for two years, they still have more losses and less profits. They are planning to sell the store out to Datong to do business.
As the end of the year approaches, the bead has to find a way to sell it. The brother and sister do not recognize it themselves, and they are definitely not locals. The accent he just spoke is like someone outside the pass, and maybe they were passing by. If she missed her bead for nothing, she could still make some profits from her business losses.
Thinking of this, the old man became greedy, and gave it to him, slid the bead into the sleeve, and laughed and said, "Miss, I only need to trade this piano in cash. If you really want to buy it, please take the silver."
The girl pouted when she heard this, thinking that the money on her body was not enough, so she paused and said, "You boss, obviously, are giving you a cheap deal, and you have to give up on it. It's okay, I won't buy the beads."
The old man blinked in a cunning manner and made a shocked expression and said, "Beads? What beads? You come to my store to buy things, but you are not here to sell things. Have I seen you any beads?"
"What?" The girl's face suddenly turned red. She slapped the counter angrily and said angrily: "Why are you so unreasonable? Do you want to rely on my beads?"
Her brother was furious when he heard this. He reached out and grabbed the thin old man. He actually picked him up from the counter and cursed angrily: "Damn it, how dare you rely on my sister's things? Do you think I, Ma Ang, are you easy to bully? Old dog, please return the beads."
The boss immediately opened his throat and howled: "Bandits, you have hit people, neighbors and neighbors come to see me. My old man has always been fair in business, and he is always a good deal. No one is a man and a man, and outsiders have come to bully people."
He saw that Yang Ling was dressed as a local. At that time, people had a strong sense of rural concepts. A typical example of helping their relatives did not help. He thought that the neighbors all came over, and the locals testified that they could only leave with a loss to the outsiders. He was really incompetent to him and had two sons. Are they still afraid that they would not be able to do anything to the outsiders?
The young man who called himself Ma Ang was even more furious. He raised his hand angrily to beat him, and cursed: "The treacherous old dog is really a bully!"
At this time, a strong man in his early forties with a beard rushed out. When he saw this, he roared and punched him violently, saying viciously: "Let go of my father, where did the little bastard come from? He bullied me at the door of my Wang family."
The strong man seemed to have a lot of strength, and this punch made great power. Ma Ang smiled contemptuously and raised his arm. The old man, who was like a monkey, was thrown away by him. He stood there without moving. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the strong man's fist with a "splash". His five fingers closed and slowly tightened. The strong man screamed in pain. He slapped his wrist and knelt down in pain.
Ma Ang sneered coldly: "Do you want to pretend to be a thief who blocks the road and robs? Is it the only strength of this?"
The old man was slapped twice by him while pulling his collar. When he was thrown away, he pointed at Ma Ang and shouted even more vigorously. He just screamed twice, suddenly his face turned red, he breathed a few times, and his body suddenly lost its breath.
Ma Ang was still waiting to show off his mighty man's wrist. The neighbors and neighbors on the left and right sides of the store had already surrounded him. Someone helped the old man up and suddenly shouted: "Wang Saner, come and see your father, the old man is not good."
Ma Ang turned his head and saw that the shopkeeper who was interested in wealth was gray and soft and was held in his arms. He was shocked and couldn't help but let go of his hands.
The strong man named Wang Saner quickly snatched over and hugged me and sniffed me. He was completely breathless. He couldn't help but wailed immediately, and said with tears in his eyes and tears: "Dad, I pity you at such an age, you were beaten to death by a thief, Dad."
At this time, a man of similar age jumped out of the back door. The women and children behind him followed him, and it seemed that they were all from the Wang family and ran out after hearing the sound. Ma Ang originally thought that the family was going to pretend to be cheated, so he just sneered. At this time, he saw that their family was surrounded by father and grandpa and cried constantly, his face changed color and his heart became timid.
He quietly pulled his sister's sleeve, gave her a wink, and put her wrist on her shoulders and was about to go out. The people from the Wang family were not willing to let go. Hula ladies gathered around and shouted, pushing and shoving. In a hurry, someone went outside to call out two yamen patrolmen. He heard that it was a major case that killed people. The two yamen dared not be negligent. Don't follow the neighbors and broke into the store and shouted: "Where is the murderer?"
This Jiming Post was originally because the post was formed, and it was not considered a county town. It was just that the military status was important. In addition, it was an important post for merchants to transfer, with rich taxes, so it also set up a county department to manage a place with a radius of dozens of miles. However, the county magistrate was a seventh-rank official.
When Ma Ang saw that the official sent a letter came, he had no courage to kill the official and rebel, and he immediately did not dare to do it again. The son of the owner of the musical instrument shop pointed at him and said, "It's him, it's this thief who killed my father."
Ma Ang said with some qi deficiency: "I don't. This boss is old and I'm ignorant of my beads. I fainted from shame and anger. I died of qi and blood. What does it have to do with me?"
There is no murderer who says that if I don't kill someone, I'll let him go? The two yamen officers ignored what he called out. One of them pulled a thin iron chain from the back, put it on his head with a thud, put it on his shoulders, wiped his arms, and tied him up. The other one held a knife in his hand. As long as he dared to resist, he would definitely be a knife in the head.
After tied up Ma Ang, the yamen zipped up a zipper and shouted, "I have something to say to the great master, let's go! I said, "Old Wang family, don't cry anymore, take your father to the yamen and say, "You are the neighbors, please give me a testimony together."
The girl was so anxious that tears were rolling in her eyes. Seeing that her brother was about to be tied up, she hurriedly pointed at Yang Ling, who had been watching silently and coldly, and said, "My brother did not kill anyone. This person has been there, he can testify."
Yang Ling kept looking at it, and although Ma Ang was young and energetic, that old man was ignorant of people and property, so he was really an old thief. Judging from his situation just now, he probably had some problems with cerebral hemorrhage and heart disease. He was beaten and scolded by Ma Ang, and he was angry and anxious. When he was excited, he became ignorant of his pearl and lost his life.
After hearing this, the Yamachao who had already stepped out of the store and came back with a slight smile and said, "Since that's the case, please go back with us to get a personal certificate."
Seeing the beautiful girl crying in the rain and her face was full of pleading, Yang Ling felt soft and nodded. The group came to the county government office, and the eldest grandson of the Wang family went up to beat the drum and complained about the injustice. The county magistrate Min Wenjian hurriedly put on his official robe and went to the hall to ask about the case.
Although the seventh-rank county magistrate on the stage is usually the youngest official, it seems that the person who comes out can kill him with one finger. In fact, the county magistrate has much more power than the current county party secretary. He also serves as the county bureau chief of the county industry and commerce, finance director, tax bureau chief, court president, public security bureau chief and many other positions.
This Min County Magistrate, who is a civil servant from most Jinshi and has a background in Juren, was originally a guerrilla general in the border army. Because of the special geographical location of Jimingyi, he was sent here to manage both literature and martial arts.
It was a big surprise when Yang Ling saw that the county magistrate was actually a black-faced man with a beard. The county magistrate, who was born in a military officer, had been in civil service for two years and knew some of the rules. When he heard that Yang Ling was a scholar, he hurriedly asked someone to show him a seat and waived the gifts, and then he sat in the hall to ask about the case.
From this perspective, the brother and sister were not passers-by, but the son and lady of the Yicheng Master Ma who just took office yesterday. Yicheng is also an official under the jurisdiction of the county magistrate. However, Jiming Yicheng was because the Yicheng became a city, and the local Yicheng master was in charge of No. 100 people, and it belonged to the military Yicheng system. However, it was actually the same level as the Magistrate Min County.
Chapter completed!