Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

The crimes committed by these people are too numerous to list, one after another.

When the onlookers heard about the crimes they had committed, they wanted to find slop and throw it on them.

"It's unfair, sir, I am innocent!" The elders shouted loudly.

However, when the witnesses and material evidence of the incident were displayed before everyone, they were suddenly speechless, and all their arguments seemed so pale and powerless.

"Bang!" Magistrate Du slammed the gavel and pronounced the verdict: "Hua Qikang, Hua Qifu, Niu Datou, Hu Dazhuang, Tao Ergou, and Wu Sanlang were the instigators of murder, robbing others of their property, and defiling women. They deserve death and are sentenced to be executed in autumn. Their property will be confiscated and the government will not help the victims.

Hua Qi'an, Hua Qiming, Hua Qishi, and You Fu accepted bribes and sheltered criminals. They were exempted from the death penalty, but were found guilty and sentenced to exile three thousand miles away, never to return home.

Hua..." Magistrate Du read out a string of names of the villagers in Huajia Village, and punished them according to the law based on what they had done. The lightest punishment was to pay a fine to the victim and apologize to the victim, while the heaviest punishment was also to be executed in the autumn.

After Magistrate Du made the verdict, he slammed the gavel and was about to leave the court when Yan Yiyi spoke out to stop him.

"Please wait, sir. I have something else to ask you to do."

Magistrate Du: "Miss Hua, please speak."

"The common woman asks to split the clan."

Prefect Du frowned and said, "Dividing the clan is a big deal. Can you make the decision?"

"Of course you can. My father gave me the power of the household before he left. I have the right to handle any matters concerning the Hua family."

The old clan leader and the elders looked at Yan Yiyi in shock. The old clan leader shouted sternly: "You are not of the Hua family's bloodline, and you have no right to ask for a division. Even if Hua Feifan is here, the clan must not be divided without reason!"

Yan Yiyi took out a token and held it high. The common people present did not understand, but the Hua family members and dignitaries all knew that it was the token of the head of the Hua family.

Everyone was shocked. They didn't expect that the head of the Hua family would actually give the token to his adopted daughter who had already married off. The three sons of the head of the Hua family were watching outside the hall!

Seeing how calm and composed they are, it is obvious that they are not surprised by this. Hiss - have all the Hua family members lost their brains?

When they saw a large group of people kneeling in the hall, and thought about what Yan Yiyi was going to do with the token in hand, they suddenly realized and admired the Hua family's good plan.

Tsk, he let his adopted daughter who had no blood relationship with him to divide the clan for him, and all the infamy was borne by Miss Hua. Even if Young Master Hua became an official in the future, he would not be able to impeach him.

His father is the head of the family. He gave the title of head of the family to his daughter. Miss Hua was in charge of the important matter of dividing the family. What could a young master with no real power who could only study for the imperial examinations do?

advise?

I tried to persuade her, but my sister is stubborn and wouldn't listen.

He advised his father, saying that his father was a daughter-slave and that he was not favored, so he felt very aggrieved.

Miss Hua has always not cared about other people's opinions and has always done her own thing. Besides, she is already married. I have to say that the head of the Hua family has raised a good daughter!

It’s all because of our own bad boys who are not motivated enough. They lost to those country guys from other places. What useless bad boys!

Yan Yiyi curled her lips and smiled: "In this case, do I have the right to divide the clan on behalf of my father?"

Magistrate Du said politely, "Yes."

Yan Yiyi looked down at the old clan leader and the others, "Reasons? Aren't you delivering the reasons to us now? We, the Hua clan, disdain to associate with sinners like you.

Moreover, although we are from the same clan, in terms of blood relationship, we can only go back to our great-great-great-great-great-grandfather's generation.

If we divide it by direct lineage, we all belong to the side branch. The direct lineage has long been extinct, so isn't it natural to divide the clan?"

When the people heard this, they thought, yes, since the direct descendants have all died out, isn't it normal to divide the clan?

"My father was kind and righteous, and never proposed to split the clan, but I didn't expect you to do such a thing worse than pigs and dogs, and you even used our family's name. Ha, do you think we are being taken advantage of?"

Seeing this, Lu Qiao raised his arms and shouted, "Branch! Support Miss Hua to branch out!"

Seeing this, Hua Muyu's friends raised their arms and shouted, "Divide the sect! Divide the sect!"

Hua Muyu also wanted to shout along, but Hua Muxin was quick to grab his half-raised hand and forcefully pressed it down. This stupid brother, this is not the time to show off or join in the fun.

At the same time, Hua Murong covered the mouth of her stupid brother, and looked at Hua Muxin tacitly, seeing helplessness in each other's eyes.

The people were incited and started shouting.

Magistrate Du took advantage of the situation to do Yan Yiyi a favor: "I will make the decision to split the clan! Others in Huajia Village can also apply to split the clan."

The villagers who were lightly punished and the ordinary villagers who came to testify all demanded that the clan be divided.

They are not stupid. Yan Yiyi's move clearly shows that she wants to sever ties with Huajia Village. They also do not want to be oppressed by the clan, so that the descendants of the clan leader and elders will not continue to oppress them by relying on their status.

With this opportunity to get rid of them, even if the sect is divided, it doesn't matter. They still live in Huajia Village. As long as they unite with others, they will not be afraid of them using their identities to threaten them.

Moreover, it feels so refreshing to be the founder of your own sect and be the ancestor!

As for whether they would be bullied by others? They were all from the same village, so they could unite even if they split up. After all, they all had the surname Hua. Splitting up the clan did not mean that they would split up the relationship of living and supporting each other in the same village. Splitting up the clan was just to prevent the clan leader and his people from blackmailing them.

At this point, the Hua Mansion completely severed its ties with Huajia Village.

The case came to an end. Seven people from Huajia Village were executed, the remaining twenty-odd people were sentenced to exile, and more than forty were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from five to ten years. More than ten people voluntarily paid compensation and apologized.

Nearly a hundred people were locked up in the government jail all of a sudden. Together with the previous prisoners, the jail cells were overcrowded for a while, causing the workload of the jailers to increase dramatically, but their monthly wages did not increase, which made them very dissatisfied.

The resentment and dissatisfaction in their hearts could only be vented on the prisoners. After a day of hard work, when they returned to the cell, not only were they not full, but they also had to eat food that was forcibly removed.

Anyone who was lazy during work would be whipped. Every day his skin was torn and flesh was broken, and there was no medicine to apply. He had to continue working hard the next day.

Day after day, in less than half a month, some old men could no longer bear the exhaustion and were dying. Once a person died, their family members would be notified to collect the body, otherwise it would be thrown into a mass grave.

Almost no one from Huajia Village came to claim the bodies, because most of the family members of these old men were exiled to other places. The villagers had long been dissatisfied with these elders and would not interfere.

The elder of Huajia Village and his brothers, who had been so powerful for decades, ended up having their bodies thrown into a mass grave and eaten by wild beasts.

The villagers of Huajia Village were suddenly divided into more than a dozen clans. The chiefs of more than a dozen small clans were worried that Huajia Village would suffer retaliation from people from other villages, so they united.

They would stand idly by when someone came to seek revenge on the innocent descendants of the clan leader and elders, but if they, the innocent people, were bullied, they would unite and fight back, using their strength to tell the people in the surrounding villages that they could seek revenge but must not implicate innocent people like them, otherwise they would not mind a fight to the death.

The old patriarch and his descendants could no longer survive in Huajia Village, so they moved out, changed their names, and never returned to Huajia Village in Shacheng.