"The young general is truly pitiful, having such parents."

"I feel like something's wrong. The Fang family is selling everything they have and exploiting their two younger sons to support the eldest son's studies. But how's the eldest son doing academically? Did he pass the imperial examination?"

"Of course not. You can't be an official if you have a lame leg."

"What about before you became lame? Was you a scholar or a juren?"

No one knows or has heard of it.

However, this case in Jingzhao Prefecture was indeed a good one. Before the trial even started, they had already witnessed a lively event.

With the sound of the gavel, the public trial finally began.

Today, the Fang family mainly attended the meeting and did not ask many questions.

There is a new witness in the court, or a criminal.

Landlord Wang and his daughter Wang Fujiao had been found long ago. They had gone to a new place under an assumed name, but they were not living in seclusion.

Landlord Wang is still a landlord and lives a good life with his daughter.

It is worth mentioning that Wang Fujiao became a mother and gave birth to a son with her surname. If nothing unexpected happens, the son is Fang Jin's.

There was no change in the appearance of the two men, so the court found out when they wanted to investigate.

As early as a month ago, they were secretly escorted to Beijing and imprisoned in the Jingzhao Prefecture Prison, and have been keeping a low profile ever since.

They obtained their identities privately and were suspected of being accomplices in the murder of Fang Jin, so their treatment was definitely not as good as that of Fang's family.

"Who is here?" the prefect asked sternly.

The kneeling father and daughter kowtowed tremblingly.

"Commoner Wang Yonggui/Commoner Wang Fujiao..."

I don’t know what the father and daughter went through during the one month in prison. They looked disheveled, thin, and their eyes were dull.

Ever since Fang Jin saw them, he couldn't hide the hatred in his eyes.

He compromised and married Wang Fujiao, a nymphomaniac, but the father and daughter schemed against him, used him, suppressed him, and even wanted to kill him...

"Do you recognize Fang Jin?"

"I know him. Fang Jin was my ex-son-in-law." Landlord Wang knelt on the ground obediently.

All the previous shrewdness and foresight have been worn away, and now only decadence and regret remain.

"Oh? Tell me from the beginning. How did you choose Fang Jin as your son-in-law?"

"I have a small fortune and only one daughter, so naturally I spoil her to the skies."

"She had a serious illness when she was a child and recovered, but the doctor said Jiaojiao would continue to be fat because it was a sequelae of the illness."

"Jiaojiao was fine when she was little, she didn't understand these things. But when she grew up and got married for the first time, her son-in-law was obedient to her on the surface, but secretly called her a pig-head and always told her to eat less. Jiaojiao really liked him, and in order to please him, she starved herself to death."

"I was so distressed that I gave my son-in-law a good scolding. After that, he never dared to do that again. But a month later, Jiaojiao discovered that he had a child outside..."

"I divorced my daughter's husband. Since then, Jiaojiao, perhaps stimulated by this, has started to like good-looking men, but the relationship doesn't last long. After a few months, they divorce."

"I thought, although my reputation is a little bad, it's not against the law. I have money, so I'll just follow Jiaojiao."

The people felt uncomfortable when they heard this.

Many aunts and young wives feel that nowadays a woman will be looked down upon if she remarries, but Wang Fujiao has been able to divorce so many times, so why do they feel a little envious?

Men all think that Wang Fujiao is ugly and unfaithful to her husband.

"It's normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines. Even raising a child is not a big deal. How can you divorce a husband? And then you always get a divorce. It's simply heresy."

A man condemned.

Next to him, the woman twisted his ear.

"Can you tell me again? I think that girl is pretty good. If the man does it on the first day, she will do it on the fifteenth!"

"If you dare to have any unfaithful thoughts, I will divorce you."

The man felt humiliated when being treated like this in public.

"You bitch, you want to divorce me? Do you think you have a landlord father? Without me, who would want to live with you?"

Fang Nanzhi was listening to the noise in the court when a quarrel broke out nearby.

She looked left and right, and her eyes were a little overwhelmed.

Fortunately, someone helped him. The police scolded the noisy crowd and arrested anyone who dared to disrupt the order in the court.

The quarreling couple finally quieted down.

"Jiaojiao was shopping and somehow she saw Zhongfang Yin. I sent someone to tell the Fang family, and they were very proactive."

Landlord Wang continued.

The prefect frowned: "You mean Fang Yin, not Fang Jin?"

"Yes, it's Major General Fang Yin." Landlord Wang already knew Fang Yin's current identity. He didn't know if telling the truth would affect his reputation, but many people knew the whole story.

He can't hide it.

Meng Lan sat up straight after hearing this, and his eyes fell on Wang Fujiao, with an ambiguous look in them.

For some reason, Fang Nanzhi shuddered as he watched.

She quickly spoke well of her second uncle: "Aunt Lan, don't worry, my second uncle is just beginning to fall in love, and he only likes you."

Meng Lan smiled and said nothing.

Fang Nanzhi became even more frightened, feeling that Aunt Lan was like a rooster about to duel with its opponent, confident, elegant, but stern.

"Oh? But how did your son-in-law become Fang Jin in the end?"

"On the day we met, we realized Fang Yin was a fool. No wonder the Fang family was so proactive. But Fang Jin, who is well-educated and refined, is more favored by Jiaojiao."

Landlord Wang told the truth.

Everyone felt strange when hearing this. Did Wang Fujiao go to the Fang family to choose a husband?

If you don’t like the second one, you’ll choose the eldest one?

"At first, the Fang family was reluctant because they disliked my daughter's bad reputation."

"Later, I doubled my daughter's dowry, and Fang Jin agreed. We also reached a consensus with He that she was willing to be demoted to a concubine."

There was commotion around again.

"Wait, I'm repeating myself. At the beginning, the Wang family took a fancy to the young general, and the Fang family was very proactive. But when it came to Fang Jin, the Fang family was not happy?"

"Really? He's willing to let his silly son marry a girl with a bad reputation, but he doesn't want Fang Jin to marry her. Haha, the old man of the Fang family didn't take any of this bowl of water at all, and gave it all to his eldest son."

"The eldest son isn't worth that much, is he? Didn't you agree to double the dowry?"

"You don't know this. If Fang Yin were to marry Wang's daughter, the dowry would definitely be kept by Old Man Fang to support Fang Jin. And if Fang Jin were to marry on his own, the dowry would be his." Someone who understood the situation spoke up.

The smart guy was Cheng Xiaohu. He was transporting goods back to Beijing. When he heard from the housekeeper that Jingzhao Prefecture was bustling and Zhizhi and the others were there, he came over.

It was really lively.

"So that's how it is. Fang Jin sold himself for money and made his wife his concubine?"

In the court, the prefect was questioning He.

When He thought about this, she still felt aggrieved: "My parents agreed, and no one in my husband's family supports me. I have no choice but to agree."

"However, the Wang family treats common women well. They assigned me a little maid to serve me, but she was later snatched away by my mother-in-law..."

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