Reborn in Dunhuang, I am farming and doing business in the desert

Chapter 75 Sentenced to Marry Feng Laizi

Several young men rushed forward, tied Xue Lingyao and Xue Yi's hands behind their backs, and dragged them out.

"What do you want to do?" Wang rushed out of the house and hugged her daughter.

Zhang Shanyue stepped forward and grabbed Wang's hair, saying viciously, "I also want to ask what you want to do? Wang! Did my Shen family dig up your ancestral grave? How could you be so despicable as to use Xue Lingyao to seduce a man and frame my family?"

Wang protected her head with both hands and screamed, "I don't know what you are saying! Let go!"

"Oh! Since you don't know, then go to the township office and listen carefully to what those people say!" Zhang Shanyue grabbed Wang's hair and dragged her out.

Seeing how hard the woman was struggling, Ah Zhu Niang and several other women came to help. They dragged her and her two children to the township office.

Shen Zhao and his mother pushed Xue Lingyao and her brother in front of Feng Laizi and the others and asked them sternly, "Do you know them?"

Feng Laizi had already been beaten. When he looked up and saw Xue Lingyao and Xue Yi, he was stunned.

Then he glanced at Shen Zhao again, his face showing panic.

Yesterday, his two brothers accepted the two hundred coins given by Gao Qiuqiu, who asked them to come and propose marriage to the Shen family. He also said that as long as they ruined Shen Zhao's reputation, the Shen family might marry their daughter to them.

But they didn't know that the Shen Zhao from yesterday was actually another person.

Feng Laizi's already not very smart brain became even more confused, and he couldn't help but yelled to Xue Lingyao: "A Zhao, yesterday you clearly said that you liked us brothers and wanted to marry us, why did you change your mind today?"

Xue Lingyao shook her head in horror: "I'm not Shen Zhao! She is!"

Shen Heng slapped Feng Laizi in the face and shouted, "You are allowed to call my sister by her name? The one who wants to marry your brother is Xue Lingyao. Look! That's her!"

Then he pushed Xue Lingyao and Xue Yi to Feng Laizi and said, "Remember, the person who likes you is called Xue Lingyao! Do you hear me?"

Feng Laizi nodded wildly, hugged the tied girl, and cried, "Ah Xue Lingyao, why did you lie to my brother to go to the Shen family to propose marriage? My brother is dead, wuwuwuwu."

Xue Lingyao struggled frantically, but her hands were tied and she couldn't get up for a while.

When Wang saw her daughter being held in the arms of an ugly leper, she screamed, "Let her go! She is not Shen Zhao! You should go find her!"

After saying that, he glared at Shen Zhao fiercely.

Shen Ang sneered: "It's your daughter who likes him. She went to the Feng family in Yuli Township with your son. The villagers can all testify to this. They just confessed it."

"What are you asking for? Anyway, my daughter's name is not Shen Zhao, so let them go find Shen Zhao!" Wang shouted in despair.

Shen Ang's eyes were cold, and he kicked Feng Laizi: "Hey! Tell me who was the one who went to your house yesterday?"

Feng Laizi looked around and pointed at Xue Lingyao and Xue Yi, crying and sneezing, "It was them who went to my house, and the girl from the Gao family was with them! Yesterday she clearly said that she liked my brother and wanted to marry into the Feng family, and she even asked us to come here today to propose marriage."

But when the two brothers came with two sheep to propose marriage, the eldest brother was suddenly stabbed to death. Woo woo woo woo. This Shen family is so scary. Now even if he has a hundred courages, he would not dare to mention Shen Zhao's name again.

"Three elders, miser, did you see this? The Xue family siblings deliberately used my daughter's name to cheat people outside and even had an affair with others. I will never let this go!"

Shen Ang clasped his fists towards the three elders and said, "I hope you can uphold justice for my daughter Shen Zhao and clear her name."

The third elder stroked his beard and nodded: "Don't worry, I will give you an explanation."

At this time, another villager brought Qin Yang over. But when the village head asked about her daughter-in-law, Yang just shook her head and said she didn't know: "My son has gone to the border, and my daughter-in-law wants to go back to her parents' home. How can I control her? As for who she deceived and who she took to meet men secretly, it has nothing to do with my Qin family."

The three elders and the village headman had no choice but to let her go back: "In this case, then you can go back. If your daughter-in-law returns to Yanze, you must discipline her well."

Yang curled her lips, glanced at Xue Lingyao, bowed to the three elders, and left.

Soon, the three elders and the village headman took Feng Laizi and several people from the Xue family to Yuli Township. Shen Ang, his son and many young men also went with them, but he asked his wife and daughter to go home first.

Since human life is involved, the matter has to be handed over to the county magistrate for handling.

However, with the testimony of the villagers in Yanze Village and the fact that the Xue siblings had indeed impersonated others to defraud marriage, the county magistrate quickly made a judgment. Shen Ang was not guilty of killing in self-defense, but he had to be fined two months' salary as a legal punishment, and he was required to pay 200 coins for Feng Laizi's funeral expenses. He also ordered Xue Lingyao to marry Feng Laizi.

When the three elders read the verdict to Wang, she fainted on the spot.

Xue Lingyao screamed in horror: "I won't marry! I don't have an engagement with him!"

The three elders put away the bamboo slips and said coldly: "The Feng family members in Yulixiang have proved that you two siblings went to the Feng family and promised to get married. It is not so easy to regret now."

"It was obviously Shen Zhao! It was Shen Zhao who went that day! I didn't." Xue Lingyao cried loudly.

The three elders sneered and said, "Girl of the Xue family, you don't have to acknowledge the Feng family's marriage proposal, but impersonating someone else to commit fraud will result in tattooing on the face and pounding grain. Are you willing to accept the punishment?"

Xue Lingyao was stunned.

After the three elders left, Xue Lingyao was still kneeling in the yard in a daze.

Wang hugged her daughter and cried until her voice was hoarse: "Lingyao, why did you go to the Feng family in Yulixiang? Did you really say that to that beggar brother?"

Xue Lingyao shed tears silently.

She was really bewildered at the time and believed what Gao Qiuqiu said, thinking she could embarrass Shen Zhao.

But in the end, I was the one who was embarrassed.

At this moment, Xue Lingyao hated Shen Zhao so much that she wished she could tear her into pieces.

"Mom, it's all her fault! She's the one who ruined me!" Xue Lingyao held her head and cried, "They all knew Shen Zhao's name, so why didn't they sentence her to marry into the Feng family?"

"Also, Ayi, you read through the laws all day, why didn't you tell me that I can't impersonate someone else?"

Xue Lingyao then pointed her spearhead at her brother who was kneeling not far away. She quickly crawled over, grabbed his collar and shook him: "Tell me! Why do you want to hurt me?"

Xue Yi looked at his elder sister calmly and said calmly, "I have not learned this law, and I did not know that my sister was impersonating Shen Zhao. That day, I was worried that my sister would be deceived, so I kept persuading you not to go, but my sister insisted on going and telling the Feng brothers those words."

"Shut up!" Wang slapped her son in the face and pointed a shaking finger at his eyes: "Ignorant bastard! Why did I raise an ungrateful bastard like you?"

Xue Yi shrank back and looked at Wang with an innocent face: "Mother, I didn't do anything, how can I be an ungrateful person? Besides, I have always been protecting my sister, but my sister refused to listen to my advice. What can I do?"

"Rebellious son! How dare you be so stubborn?" Wang slapped Xue Yi in the face again and said through gritted teeth, "I shouldn't have accepted you, this evil creature, in the first place!"

Xue Yi wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled sadly: "Then why did mother accept it?"

(End of this chapter)