Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

Seeing the two men stand up, County Magistrate Qiu Jiarui asked knowingly, "The yamen runners reported earlier that Liu Xu and others are relatives of the Chang family. I wonder if Young Master Chang can help me clear up my confusion?"

"Your Excellency, it is indeed so. This is Liu Xu, my adopted sister, and Liu Xu is my adopted mother." Chang Yifei replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

Liu Xu's heart skipped a beat. Xu Ruolan glanced at their backs in surprise when she heard that.

"Oh? Why haven't I heard of this before?" Qiu Jiarui was a little suspicious.

"Your Excellency, my stepmother is a low-key person and doesn't want to show off. But my parents think that our two families are not small and insignificant, so this matter still needs to go through the formalities. We will come to Qinghe County in the near future to discuss an auspicious date for the banquet with my stepmother!"

"Oh? I wonder where this Mrs. Liu's home is?" Qiu Jiarui heard the hidden meaning.

"Oh, look at me, wait a moment, sir!" Chang Yifei turned around and asked with Xu Ruolan and Liu Xu blinking their eyes: "Stepmother, little sister, can I... speak?"

Liu Xu rolled her eyes. Xu Ruolan knew what he meant and nodded slightly.

Chang Yifei bowed to the county magistrate and said, "Your Excellency, my stepmother is the daughter of the Xu family in the capital, and the younger sister of the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, Mr. Xu."

After saying this, regardless of Qiu Jiarui's changed expression, he turned to Qiu Jiayu and said, "So, what Miss Qiu said just now, that my stepmother is not qualified to wear brocade, is a pure false accusation!"

Liu Xu: I will just watch you perform quietly.

"Then, then they hurt me too!" She regretted it when she heard Chang Yifei say that those people were relatives of the Chang family. She also just heard that this woman's brother seemed to be much taller than her brother, and she was jealous and afraid.

Liu Xu was right about one thing, Qiu Jiayu was indeed arrogant and domineering. But she was just saying it verbally, after all, most people would just swallow their anger when they heard that she was the county magistrate's sister.

Besides, this woman didn't take it for free, she was paid, and her mother spoiled her, so Qiu Jiarui said it a few times, but seeing that she didn't make any big mistakes, he didn't take it too seriously.

Who knew that he would run into a tough guy this time, and his identity would not work. Thinking that he had his mother to protect him, he got bold and got into trouble...

"Ms. Qiu, regardless of whether my mother and the others hurt you, you are bullying others and robbing them by force, isn't that right?" Liu Xu retorted, then turned around and bowed to Qiu Jiarui, and asked innocently,

"Sir, I am a young girl, and I would like to ask you, sir, would you close the store just because the store owner did not give you the item you liked but had already sold it to someone else?"

The girl's voice was clear and crisp. Although her words were a bit confusing, Qiu Jiarui and the people watching outside the door heard them clearly. The people were talking about it. Qiu Jiarui's temples were throbbing even more violently at this time. He tried to reply gently:

"Of course not. I am an official appointed by the imperial court. How could I do such a thing?"

"Oh, then I'm relieved! Thank you for clearing up my doubts!" ​​Liu Xu said politely, but he hadn't said the word "should" yet.

"By the way, sir, I have another question!"

"Ms. Liu, please speak." Qiu Jiarui didn't know why, but when he looked at the innocent little girl in front of him, he felt scared.

"Can we, the officials' wives, send the officials of the government office to do whatever we want? If so, when I return to Beijing after the New Year, I will go to my second uncle and eldest brother to find some people and ask them to follow me. This way, I won't be afraid of others bullying me because I am young."

The voice was still clear and pleasant, but the words made Qiu Jiarui break out in a cold sweat.

This girl is simply a little devil. If he doesn't handle today's matter well, he will definitely lose his job!

"Of course not, Miss Liu, you are joking!"

"But your sister did this? And the police officer she brought with her not only didn't ask questions or collect evidence, but directly arrested people! Even when there were witnesses, he still only listened to Miss Qiu's words?"

Liu Xu blinked her big, kazilan eyes and said something with an innocent look that made the Qiu siblings and Constable Sun sweat profusely.

"Also, why is it that when they both met the official, my mother and the others knelt from the moment they came in and have not stood up, but I heard that Miss Qiu has been standing since she came in?"

"Does she have any honors? Or a title? Or has His Majesty allowed her to not kneel before an official?"

As Liu Xu threw out questions one after another, Qiu Jiarui actually started to wipe his sweat in the middle of winter.

Chang Yifei saw that it was almost time, so he quickly pulled Liu Xu over, suppressed his smile, and bowed, saying, "Please don't blame me, sir. My little sister is just a curious child. If I said something wrong, please forgive me for her young age!"

Qiu Jiarui: Damn it, you two siblings have said all the good and bad things to me!

"Haha, it's okay, it's okay! Miss Liu is innocent and cute! I was negligent! Madam Liu, everyone, please stand up and answer!"

"Thank you, sir." Everyone in the hall, except Xu Ruolan, stood up together.

Han Duoduo had cursed the Qiu brothers and sisters thousands of times in her heart at this time. She must tell Uncle Mu, the eldest sister and the youngest brother about this. Wait for her!

"Please help me, sir, to understand what crime I and my friends have committed! In addition, I want to sue Miss Qiu for bullying others by taking advantage of her power. When that plan failed, she teamed up with Constable Sun and others to falsely accuse me and my friends of wounding others, and also wanted to illegally arrest me and my friends, disrupting local order. Please make a wise decision, sir!"

"Please make a wise decision, sir!" As Xu Ruolan finished speaking, the person who had stood up earlier knelt down again.

Chang Yifei didn't expect Xu Ruolan to have such a hot temper. Before he could figure out how to react, Liu Xu had already pulled him down to kneel.

Forget it, don’t think about it!

The veins on Qiu Jiarui's head were throbbing, Qiu Jiayu and the little maid had collapsed on the ground in fear, and Constable Sun and others also knelt on the ground.

Qiu Jiarui glanced at Qiu Jiayu, who was slumped on the ground, and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he put away his emotions, slammed the gavel, and asked in a cold voice:

"Detective Sun, Qiu Jiayu, do you have any objections to what Xu Liu has filed?"

"Brother, no, it was clearly their fault. I had already paid an extra sum for a horse, but not only did she not sell me, she also pushed me down! Yes, it was that servant who pushed me, and he even scolded me!" Qiu Jiayu didn't know whether she was angry or scared, and her speech was incoherent.

Liu Xu curled her lips when she heard that. With just such little courage, you still learn to bully others by taking advantage of your power, what an idiot!

"Miss Qiu, your words are really far-fetched. You stepped forward to snatch it, and my servant just stretched out his hand to block you. Does that hurt you? If you don't believe me, you can summon the owner and the clerk of Jixiang Cloth Shop!" Xu Ruolan responded directly.

"As for the illegal arrest of this woman and others by Miss Qiu and Constable Sun, the villagers outside can all testify to it!"

Qiu Jiarui's face turned black at this moment. Although he was a little selfish and wanted to punish his sister, after all, they didn't have any losses.

But Xu Ruolan and the others were too disrespectful to him. They were obviously forcing him to do his job impartially. There were so many people outside. It was really...

"Call the witness!"

Ling Zhijie and others were already outside, and soon the bailiffs brought them in.

"I am Ling Zhijie, the owner of Jixiang Cloth Shop, and I am here to greet you, sir!"

"I am Wang Xiaohu, a clerk at Jixiang Cloth Shop, and I am here to greet you, sir!"

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In the end, Constable Sun and his companions were sentenced to fifty lashes of the cane for dereliction of duty and abuse of power and were demoted from their posts as constables and expelled from the county government office. Qiu Jiayu and his servant were given thirty lashes of the cane on the grounds that they were young and were ordered to pay Liu Xuti one hundred taels of silver for mental damages.

By the time Butler Xu and others arrived, the case had already been closed.

Qiu Jiarui left the court with a gloomy face, and had Qiu Jiayu and the other person carried back to the inner court.