Song Wangyue took the doctor into the courtroom.
In the main hall, Huang Yu and Huang Liang and their aunt and uncle were still kneeling, Huang Xing and his wife were each leaning on them, and the Lu mother and son were kneeling instead of sitting, and a tai shi chair was placed beside them, on which Zhou Lin was sitting leisurely, with a cup of tea in his hand.
At the first sight of the doctor, his hand holding the tea gave a lurch, and then he spoke out sorrowfully, “Chu Yuan, you’d better go back to wherever you came from.”
The doctor, who used to hate to retreat when he saw him, did not flinch at this moment, and met Zhou Lin’s gaze, saying indifferently, “Excuse me, Young Master Zhou, I am here to testify.”
The tealight in Zhou Lin’s hand smashed out, the tea inside tilting out and forming an arc.
Song Wangyue’s quick eyes and hands pulled the doctor out of the way, and the tealight fell to the ground, breaking into pieces after a crunching sound.
Huang Xing and his wife were so shocked by the sound that their bodies shivered.
The magistrate narrowed his eyes.
The county magistrate saw it clearly and felt more confident in his heart, immediately slapping the alarming wood, “Raise the hall!”
The mother and son of the Lu family knelt down again.
Zhou Lin was still sitting on the tai shi chair.
The Prefect’s voice was majestic, “Someone, move the chair down.”
No one moved.
Zhou Lin subconsciously wanted to rebuke the county magistrate, daring to make him stand is eating his heart out, right? When he met the county magistrate’s gaze, he swallowed his words and stood up.
This is when a magistrate came over to move the eunuch chair away.
“Who is in the hall? Give me your name!”
The doctor knelt down and said respectfully, “I am a doctor from Qing Yun Town, I am here to testify to the Huang family, it was Zhou Lin who robbed Huang Yu and tried to destroy her innocence.
“Chu Yuan, you don’t want to be killed!”
Zhou Lin threatened loudly, not putting the county magistrate in his eyes in the slightest.
“Unbridled!”
The County Magistrate heavily slapped the alarming wood, “This is the lobby, not a place for you to do anything nonsensical.”
Zhou Lin was full of disinterest.
“Unbridled!”
Another drink rose, and the prefect standing behind the county magistrate spoke out, “Kneel down!”
Zhou Lin stared in disbelief, “Sister, brother-in-law ……”
“Kneel down!”
Zhou Lin poofed down on his knees.
“My Lord, please continue the trial.”
The prefect had a respectful attitude.
Looking at his different attitude from earlier, the county magistrate’s heart drummed a little, wondering what the hell he had in mind, but he nodded and pointed to the Lu family’s mother and son and asked the doctor, “Do you know them?”
“Yes, they are the family to whom Huang Yu is betrothed, and early this morning, before Huang Yu woke up, they came over to withdraw from the marriage.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the people standing at the entrance of the hall to watch the fun suddenly let out a chatter, pointing towards the mother and son of the Lu family.
The county magistrate told them to keep quiet, “What else do you know besides that?”
The doctor spelled out a few of the greatest evil deeds Zhou Lin had done and said, “Your Excellency, this is only a small part, Zhou Lin has done so many evil deeds over the years that it is impossible to finish.”
“That’s ……”
As his words fell, voices came from the doorway and one of them pushed his way from the crowd to the front, “My lord, we are also from Qing Yun Town, we can testify that what Doctor Chu said is true, not only us, but the whole town has suffered from his oppression as well.”
“We can also testify.”
One after another, several more people came out.
The county magistrate let them into the lobby and a few of them said a lot more about Zhou Lin’s bullying of the people in the town.
Zhou Lin was irritated and wanted to get angry, but was stopped by the county magistrate. He held down his temper and pondered in his mind how he would deal with these people after this incident.
“Zhou Lin, what else do you have to say?”
The county magistrate asked drily.
Zhou Lin’s eyes slanted and he said defiantly, “Your Excellency, you can’t listen to one side of the story either, I didn’t do any of these things, they are all false accusations, please investigate clearly and clear my name.”
The county magistrate picked up the wood and was about to slap it down, but was stopped by the county chancellor, “My lord, I also think we should investigate clearly.”
The County Magistrate brushed his hand away and the wood fell, “Come on, put Zhou Lin in the jail and keep him under proper supervision.
The mother and son fell to their knees and looked at the county magistrate, their voices panicked, “Your Excellency ……”
The county chancellor casually waved his hand, and immediately a magistrate came forward to cover their mouths and take them down. As for Zhou Lin, no magistrate dared to touch him for the time being.
Zhou Lin looked at the county magistrate smugly.
The County Chancellor had already spoken, “Didn’t you hear what Your Lordship said, escort the man down.”
“Sister, brother-in-law ……
Zhou Lin didn’t dare to believe it.
The magistrate had a sullen face, “A prince who breaks the law is as guilty as a commoner, even if I am your brother-in-law I can’t shield you, take it down!”
“Brother-in-law!”
Zhou Lin panicked.
“Take it down!”
The magistrates came forward to take Zhou Lin down.
An eerie silence fell over the hall.
Even the county magistrate did not react, he thought the magistrate would make a dying struggle and would cover up Zhou Lin.
“A few ……”
The county chancellor arched his hand towards the Huang family, “I mistakenly believed Zhou Lin’s lies and wronged you, I hereby offer you my apologies, I’ll cover all of your medical expenses and have someone bring them to you in a moment.”
The Huang family stiffened their bodies and did not dare to move.
They did not believe that Zhou Lin had been punished just like that, and that the county magistrate had let them off the hook just like that.
After saying this, the County Chancellor turned around and left.
The Huang family, the doctor and a few others who had testified sat paralyzed in the lobby as they stared at each other in disbelief.
Song Wangyue looked at the County Chancellor’s back and narrowed her eyes.
“Song, Miss Song ……”
The doctor slowed down and was ecstatic, “I, we won!”
Song Wangyue withdrew her gaze without a trace and smiled, “Congratulations to everyone.”
Everyone burst into laughter, the kind that came from the heart, the Great Master Qingtian was on their side, their days of being oppressed had come to an end.
“Let’s go back quickly and tell them the good news.”
The first man who stood out said happily, and the rest of the few got up and were about to follow him out the door.
“Wait a minute.”
Song Wangyue shouted at them and looked at the doctor, “When you go back, it would be best to ask everyone to write down all of Zhou Lin’s crimes, only with sufficient evidence will the lord be able to convict him.”
“Good, good, good.”
Several people’s heads nodded like chickens pecking rice, Zhou Lin had already been sent down to the big prison, the people in the town had no more fear, so naturally they would all be willing to write.
Song Wangyue told them to go back with the Huang family as a carriage.
When they left, Song Wangyue went to the back office with the worried county magistrate. Those people were only happy and did not see the county magistrate’s different look.
“I always feel that something is wrong when the county magistrate just stops.”
The county magistrate gestured for Song Wangyue to sit down.
“It’s not right, there should be a backstroke.”
The magistrate thought of the passer-by and his body jolted, “He should, should be, has gone to move for help, the Qingping passer-by is his brother-in-law, he, he, he ……”