{"id":3333,"date":"2021-07-01T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2025-12-06T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T14:47:35","slug":"tofuh-chapter-121-1-we-wont-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/07\/01\/tofuh-chapter-121-1-we-wont-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH – Chapter 121.1 – We Won’t Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Earlier the people outside the county court house\u00a0 overwhelmingly denounced Jiang Zhen. However, at\u00a0 this moment, everyone was confused.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe emperor even sent an imperial edict to this Jiang Zhen. What is the origin of this Jiang Zhen?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThat Jiang Zhen married into someone else\u2019s family.\u00a0 From this point of view, it is not right for an imperial envoy to ask him for his parents\u2019 old age . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThe whole village is speaking for Jiang Zhen ah . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The people of Hecheng County were talking, but at the same time, the people who followed Zhou Maohe to this place to observe, were also a bit confused.\u00a0 This Jiang Zhen, was he good or bad?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, Zhou Maohe only became angrier. These people, Jiang Zhen\u2019s people must have paid them to come!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYou are so obsessed with Jiang Zhen\u2019s money that you perjured yourselves for him?\u201c Zhou Maohe said angrily.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, we did not . . .\u201c Jiang Ping was looking at Zhou Maohe, he was scared of Zhou Maohe so he could not speak smoothly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, even if he could not speak fluently, someone else could and did. Zhao Liu knelt down to the ground and said directly, \u201cYour Excellency, you are wrong! Jiang Zhen has never committed the crime of lack of filial piety. He has been filial since he was a child and helped his family with work since he was five or six. He helped to take care of his younger brothers, and since he was seven or eight, he worked in the fields. At eleven or twelve, he worked more than his father!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cEveryone in our village knows that. Before he came to our house, he did all the farm work in Jiang family. He also single-handedly brought up Jiang Chengxiang and Jiang Xiaomei!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Zhao Liu continued to speak, and when she was finished, the people from Hexi Village immediately gave their agreement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yes, Jiang Zhen used to be very filial!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>That\u2019s right. In the past, when Jiang Zhen was still in the Jiang family, he did all the hard work for the Jiang family.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>If the Jiang family had good food, it was only given to the two younger sons to eat. Eldest Jiang did not even have a bite to eat, but he was never angry about it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Old lady Jiang always beat him. He had suffered so much as well.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The Hexi villagers spoke out one after another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people outside were very noisy, but Zhou Maohe did not drive them away and even allowed them to speak. But he did not believe them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Those rich people were the most treacherous. They were also good at using money to buy others. These people are most likely bought!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe looked at these people with a cold expression. \u201cDon\u2019t talk nonsense. If you perjure yourselves for money and disrupt the public court, each of you will be beaten with a board twenty times!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Twenty boards? The Hexi villagers became a little scared after hearing that. They were already a little afraid of the government, so upon hearing that they would be beaten, they naturally flinched a little. But none of the escorts working under Jiang Zhen flinched.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, what we said is the truth!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He Chunsheng looked at his father, and his father also said loudly, \u201cMy lord, when my youngest son was still not married and lived at home, I treated him better than this Jiang family treated Jiang Zhen. My lord, he should also give me money! How can he not give me money?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Zhou Maohe was in the imperial court, he could talk a lot, but in front of these people, he could not say much. He was dedicated to people, so how could these people not understand it? He can\u2019t believe that they were still helping Jiang\u00a0 Zhen!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What kind of good person can a man like Jiang Zhen be!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cLord Zhou, I have something to say,\u201c Jiang Zhen<\/span> suddenly said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen had been in a bad mood till now, but he soon figured everything out. He couldn\u2019t live a peaceful life at all, so since it was time, he had to fight for it. Of course, the top priority was to solve the problem before him first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen looked outside the yamen officers and saw Zhao Jinge standing at the door anxiously as well as people from Hexi village. He suddenly calmed down. He\u2019d be fine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen looked at Zhou Maohe and said directly, \u201cLord Zhou, you came to me at my mother\u2019s birthday banquet last time. I am afraid that you already knew that the Jiang family wanted to sue me, so may I say a few words now?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hearing Jiang Zhen mention the birthday banquet, Zhou Maohe became so angry that he did not even want to fight with him. At that time, he had a good intention to persuade Jiang Zhen, but he did not expect that Jiang Zhen would not listen at all and even ask people to drive him out!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Looking at Jiang Zhen\u2019s attitude at that time, he could tell that Jiang Zhen was bad to his parents . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Then say it. I would also like to see what you have to say!\u201c Zhou Maohe said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen didn\u2019t utter a word. Instead, he pulled his belt, ripped off his clothes, and took them off. Although it was winter, Jiang Zhen was not afraid of the cold because he had been exercising a lot. He also did not wear much clothes, so he could simply strip his clothes at the moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>You!\u201c Zhou Maohe was about to criticize him, but he suddenly couldn\u2019t say what he wanted to say anymore.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There were many <\/span>old injuries on Jiang Zhen\u2019s body. <\/span>The wounds on Jiang Zhen\u2019s body belonged to the former Eldest Jiang.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

During his years in the Jiang family, Eldest Jiang was beaten and injured by the Jiang family. There were many wounds on his body that had never been treated. Naturally, all of those wounds turned into scars.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen pointed to a deep wound on his arm. \u201cLord Zhou, this wound was caused by my mother when I was seven years old.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He then pointed to the burn on his other arm. \u201cLord Zhou, this wound was caused by my mother when she burned me when I was sixteen years old.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhen I was fifteen years old, my father burned it with hot bamboo.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThis wound . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Eldest Jiang had lots of wounds on his body. In fact, these were not just left by old lady Jiang, some of them were left by villagers of the same age who bullied him. But, at this time, Jiang Zhen blamed it all on old lady Jiang and Butcher Jiang. Anyway they would not be able to remember how many times they had beaten\u00a0 Eldest Jiang up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jiang Zhen blamed his parents,\u00a0 Zhou Maohe couldn\u2019t say anything. He didn\u2019t know that the Jiang couple was so bad to Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The scholars who followed Zhou Maohe were also silent at this moment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

People sympathized with the weak. Before, the Jiang\u00a0 family looked too pitiful, so they sympathized with the Jiang family, but at this moment . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, he is my son, so what if I beat him? Your Excellency, he hit us!\u201c Old lady Jiang cried.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It was just that while she was crying, there were obviously not as many people who sympathized with her like at the beginning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe frowned and immediately said, \u201cJiang Zhen, your parents have given you flesh and blood, it\u2019s just some chastisement you suffered from . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cLord, I have not finished talking!\u201c Jiang Zhen said, \u201cLord Zhou, I\u2019m not trying to win sympathy. I just want to tell Lord Zhou that their words should not be taken lightly . . . They\u00a0 haven\u2019t\u00a0 told you that, I had lived a life worse than cattle and horses in the Jiang family for more than twenty years.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe\u2019s face stiffened. He previously really did not know that father and mother Jiang were so bad to Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMy lord, they did not treat me well, but as my Lord said, I was born and raised by them. That\u2019s why no matter what they did to me, I suffered in silence.\u201c Jiang Zhen said, \u201cYour Excellency, before I left home, I have been working for them as they wanted and never once complained. I had also never done\u00a0 anything to them after I left home, so please be aware of it!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYou are talking nonsense. You had clearly beaten us repeatedly!\u201c Old lady Jiang and the others said one after another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, if I really wanted to beat them, why didn\u2019t they leave Hexi and flee to somewhere else?\u201c Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t support your parents. Seeing that your parents don\u2019t even have enough to eat, you were still indifferent. What do you have to say about it?\u201c Zhou Maohe asked again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to ask my lord to search these people,\u201c Jiang Zhen suddenly said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cSearch?\u201c Zhou Maohe was stunned.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, let someone come and search them, then we will know if my parents really did not have enough food to eat!\u201c Jiang Zhen said. He was extremely good at observing people, and after observing these people from the Jiang family before, he found out one thing<\/span>\u2014<\/span>old lady Jiang must be hiding some silver.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cOn what grounds do you want to search my body?\u201c Old lady Jiang immediately said, and then said to Zhou Maohe, \u201cMy lord, didn’t you say that you will give us justice? My lord, why don\u2019t you arrest him already?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of all the Jiang family, Jiang Chengxiang was the smartest one, so after hearing what Jiang Zhen said about searching their bodies, his heart jumped and he panicked a little.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before, when that Young Master Shen gave them a lot of silver, they divided that silver into three parts: he, Jiang Chengwen, and his mother, each had a share.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengwen\u2019s share was probably taken away by Huang Min, but he only gave Zhu Shufen twenty silver of his share, and the rest were hidden on his body. He was afraid to keep it at home, fearing it would be stolen so he naturally had to put it on him. His parents probably did the same.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the past, they would never have done this, but recently, they have not been in peace at home and have been bullied by the villagers. How would they dare to leave it at home? But if it were found . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Proofreader: Xiao Hua<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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