A small peasant girl's home is bare, but I have a spiritual space

He looked at the chaotic crowd and shouted, "Silence."

With his scolding and the efforts of the yamen runners to stop them, the angry crowd gradually calmed down.

But they saw that Hu Yao's expression was still extremely angry, and he was breathing heavily, and they wanted to go up and beat him to death with their own hands.

Seeing that everyone's emotions were temporarily calmed down.

Magistrate Hu looked down at Hu Yao again and said coldly, "Hu Yao, do you admit your guilt?"

Hu Yao raised his face, which was swollen like a pig's head, and looked at Magistrate Hu.

There was only confusion on his face.

He didn't know why this second uncle, who could solve any problem he did by just going to his house and acting cute, became so strange today.

No matter how he begged for mercy or hinted, he seemed determined to die.

Just as he was wondering, Magistrate Hu glared at him with an angry look in his eyes and raised his voice, scolding him: "Hu Yao, do you admit your guilt?"

Hu Yao stared at him blankly, his lips trembling, unable to speak. After a while, he burst out in a tearful voice: "Second Uncle..."

"Huh? You dare to claim to be a relative in court? Someone, come and beat him up."

As soon as he finished calling out "Second Uncle", the public anger that had just been temporarily calmed was about to rise again.

Magistrate Hu became anxious and quickly ordered his men to attack Hu Yao.

The yamen runners were also not vague. They were very good at observing people's words and expressions. Even though they were on good terms with Hu Yao on normal days, after seeing the situation today, no one dared to show leniency to him.

He stepped forward and pushed him to the ground. The dull sound of the stick hitting flesh and Hu Yao's shrill screams that were not like a human voice instantly resounded throughout the lobby.

Hearing Hu Yao's miserable screams, his lackeys were trembling with fear and could not control their urine and feces. The hall was filled with a foul stench that almost suffocated the runners closest to them.

"How about it, sister Ran, do you feel relieved?"

Liu Yu looked at Hu Yao, who was being beaten and screaming in the hall, with satisfaction in his eyes.

Lin Yiran nodded. Although the scene before her was tragic, she was not a saint and had no sympathy for Hu Yao at all. Hu Yao actually dared to bully his second brother to that extent.

If he hadn't been lucky enough to save Liu Yu, the one who would have been slandered for intending to rape the teacher's daughter and been beaten in the court today would have been his second brother.

While ordering his runners to beat Hu Yao, County Magistrate Hu looked at Liu Yu to observe his reaction.

Seeing that he was actually asking for the opinion of the woman next to him, County Magistrate Hu suddenly felt incredible.

Rumor has it that the Fourth Prince is cold-hearted and aloof by nature. Apart from his mother and father, he doesn't speak kindly to anyone.

Who is this girl in front of me?

Just as he was constantly speculating about Lin Yiran's identity, a middle-aged couple squeezed in from the crowd, crying and trying to rush into the hall. When County Magistrate Hu saw that it was his eldest brother and sister-in-law, his heart skipped a beat. This was bad. He had clearly sent people to send the couple away because he was afraid that they would make trouble and he didn't know where they got the news. He quickly ordered the bailiffs to stop the two people who wanted to rush in.

"Hu Ergou, how could you, a conscienceless person, beat your nephew like this? If your sister-in-law and I hadn't worked day and night to support your schooling, would you have achieved what you have today?

You are an ungrateful person, I have misjudged you." Magistrate Hu's elder brother was so angry that his eyes turned red, and he shouted at Magistrate Hu with tears in his eyes.

Mrs. Hu saw her precious baby lying limp on the ground, his face was bruised and purple, swollen beyond recognition, his body was covered with wounds, and his buttocks were beaten so hard that they were covered in blood.

Her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. She regretted so much at the moment. She had given birth to four daughters in a row and finally gave birth to a boy. It was inevitable that he had been spoiled. She also knew that her son had done a lot of ridiculous things in the past few years.

She also often advised her son to be kind to others, not to cause trouble, and to study hard. Her son clearly agreed to all of this, but why did the onlookers look at her son with such resentment in their eyes?

She didn't want to know, and she didn't dare to know. She just pretended to be deaf and blind. She just wanted her son to be alive. As long as her son could survive, she would do anything.

Mrs. Hu began to kowtow to the crowd, her voice full of self-blame and regret, "I am Hu Yao's mother, and I did not educate my son well. I will make up for the harm he has brought to everyone.

Even if it costs me my life, I just hope to spare his life. I will lock him up in the future and never let him out to harm others again."

Everyone stepped back tacitly when they looked at her. If they had known this would happen, they would not have done it in the first place. If she had educated her child well earlier, there would not have been such a disaster today. They did not sympathize with her at all, and some of them even got emotional and threw rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Mrs. Hu.

Every wrong has its perpetrator and every debt has its creditor. They must make Hu Yao die today.

We finally have the chance to execute Hu Yao, so there is no reason to let him go. Although this woman looks a little pitiful, all the people who have been harmed by her son Hu Yao are pitiful.

Hu Yao knew that his parents were coming, and he also saw them begging for help everywhere in order to save his life, but he also knew that he could not escape death now. Even if he was stupid, he realized at this time that his second uncle was clearly preparing to use him as a scapegoat to establish his prestige.

It’s all my fault for not listening to my mother and doing a lot of stupid things. It’s no use regretting it now!

I'm sorry, mother. If there is a next life, I still want to be your son. Then I will be filial to you and will not do any more wrong things.

He was destined to die anyway, and he didn't want to suffer the pain anymore, so he shouted hoarsely, "Stop hitting me, I plead guilty!"

The bailiff grabbed his hand and pressed it on the ink pad, then took a stack of his petitions and pressed his fingerprints on them one by one.

"Hu Yao pleads guilty to injuring the restaurant owner"

"Hu Yao pleads guilty to riding a horse and injuring a mother and daughter"

"Hu Yao pleads guilty to dumping a scholar's body on the street"

"The college intended to kill his classmates, Hu Yao pleaded guilty"

……

The bailiff grabbed his hand and pressed it on the complaint while reading it aloud.

When he finished reading, everyone fell silent, staring with red eyes at Hu Yao, who was lying on the ground like a dead dog.

With a snap, a execution sign was thrown heavily to the ground and lay quietly on the bluestone ground, its color as bright red as blood.

The majestic voice of Magistrate Hu rang out: "Hu Yao's crimes are extremely heinous. He has confessed all his crimes today and should be executed. I sentence him to be executed immediately!"

When Magistrate Hu's elder brother and his wife heard that Hu Yao had been sentenced to death, they were so shocked by the tragic news that they fainted on the spot and were carried away by several yamen runners.

As soon as Magistrate Hu's verdict came out, the place fell into deathly silence, and then a tsunami of cheers resounded throughout the entire Yamen Street.

There was an old grandfather who was crying loudly while holding his little grandson.

There was a shopkeeper who was leaning on crutches and kept clasping his fists towards everyone to thank them for their congratulations.

There was a young woman wearing white mourning cloth, crying in front of a portrait.

There was an old lady crying her heart out.

Looking at the crowd around him who were as excited as if it were New Year's Day, Lin Yiran was very happy. He looked at his second brother, who was staring blankly at the cheering crowd, not knowing what he was thinking.

"Second brother, are you happy?" Lin Yiran asked.

Brother Lin turned around and looked at her: "I don't know, I think I should be happy, but I can't be happy."

"Why?" Lin Yiran was very curious.

Brother Lin stared at Lin Yiran in a daze. After a long while, he exhaled heavily, "Hu Yao was brought to justice. It was not because Magistrate Hu was impartial, nor because the laws of the Great Xuan Kingdom were ruthless. It was Yuhua's credit."

"If it weren't for Yuhua, both I and the villagers would still be bullied by naughty kids like Hu Yao, and we would have nowhere to seek redress."