{"id":3353,"date":"2021-07-06T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T07:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2025-12-06T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T15:01:38","slug":"tofuh-chapter-121-2-we-wont-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/tofuh-chapter-121-2-we-wont-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH – Chapter 121.2 – We Won’t Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Old lady Jiang was still trying to make\u00a0 trouble, but Jiang Chengxiang took out his money and said, \u201cLord, <\/span>I have some money on me.\u201c He took it out, all on his own initiative, which<\/span> was better than being searched.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhy do you have so many silvers with you?\u201c Zhou Maohe was surprised that this man could take out forty silver at once. He was obviously not as poor as he appeared to be!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMy lord, <\/span>it is not only just on him but also on my mother,\u201c Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYes, my lord. My mother also have it on her. It was gifted to us by a gentleman who pitied us.\u201c Jiang Chengxiang hurriedly said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cA gift? Who would give you so much money? You are obviously not poor at all. You deliberately changed into dirty clothes and pretended to be poor to harm me,\u201c Jiang Zhen said. \u201cYour Excellency, when I married into the Zhao family, the Zhao family was penniless, that is, they did not even have a piece of land. Zhao Jinge, their ger son, had to work as a long-term worker to earn money to support his family, so their family eat thin porridge every day. But the Jiang family had more than 30 mu of land at that time and was one of the richest families in Hexi Village. They said that I forced my parents to live apart, but I dare not admit it. They are just jealous of the Zhao family\u2019s development, so they want to harm me.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengxiang unexpectedly had so much money on him that it had already made people suspicious of the Jiang family. And then Jiang Zhen said something like this . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yes, at that time, the Jiang family was far richer than the Zhao family, and Jiang Zhen was well . . . Why<\/span> did he bother to go to the Zhao family?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen hadn\u2019t put on his clothes yet, so his upper body was naked. He stood straight and spoke neither humbly or arrogantly. He was very <\/span>convincing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe\u2019s expression froze. <\/span>If what Jiang Zhen said was true, then . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After listening to only one side story of the Jiang family\u2019, Zhou Maohe already had a preconceived opinion of Jiang Zhen, and now . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cJiang Zhen, you can\u2019t deceive me!\u2019 Zhou Maohe slapped the wooden chair again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cNo, I\u2019m telling the truth. Please check it out,\u201c Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, if Jiang Zhen had not saved my life when I went to the capital, I am afraid he would still be penniless . . . Alas, I should not have given him a lot of money out of gratitude, causing him to be targeted and sued in the public court because of his money.\u201c Zheng Yi sighed and said, \u201cThis money is also not for him alone. Zhao Jinge was pregnant, but he still protected me . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYes. In the past, when Jiang Zhen had no money, how come they did not try to sue Jiang Zhen?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Yes! When the Jiang Zhen left the Jiang family, the Jiang family was still rich. If it were not for Jiang Chengwen being cheated out of money, how could they have fallen to this point today?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact, the Jiang family is not poor now. They still have a lot of land! Jiang Chengxiang is also carrying 40 silvers with him!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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People were talking one after another. At this time, the hearts of the people in Hecheng Country were already partial to Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe only felt that he was a little unsteady. Were all of the previous events really a coincidence?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He had never paid attention to the Zheng family before. After all, the Zheng family had no other promising person except Second Master Zheng. When he came to Jiangnan this time, he actually wanted to check someone else. It was the letter that made him angry and made him come here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe was still in deep thought, but Jiang Chengxiang was already becoming more and more anxious.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the imperial edict and these things . . . if everything went on like this, he was really afraid that Jiang Zhen would get out of it!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Why was this imperial envoy so <\/span>pedantic? When a case<\/span> was in trial, why did he still let people talk and even listen to outsiders talking?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengxiang was in a hurry when suddenly someone came from outside.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Seeing those people, Zheng Yi and Zhao Jinge both became relieved.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The people who came were from two sides. One group was the people Jiang Zhen rescued from the nest of water bandits, both men and women. As soon as they came, they knelt down and cried, pleading for Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe had someone look outside and soon learned what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jiang Zhen escorted Zheng Yi to the capital before, he defeated a group of bandits and saved many people from their hands. He opened the Jinzhen Escort Agency with the people he saved from the hands of water bandits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe, this man,\u00a0 had always sympathized with the weak, so he felt a little bad in his heart at this time. The leader of the other group who came was a white-haired old man and by his side stood the second uncle of the Jiang family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second uncle of the Jiang family previously reprimanded Jiang Zhen with very strong voice. He was very eloquent and confident but now that he had come to the Yamen he bowed his head like a quail, looking very afraid. He was really very afraid right then.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before, Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui brought the Hexi villagers to the county town, relying on their emotions and reasons, but he was different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

They, the elders of the Jiang family, were all bound by the people sent by Zheng Yi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zheng Yi made up his mind to save Jiang Zhen, so he thought of the method of treating them the same way they treated others.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If the Jiang family can sue Jiang Zhen, why can\u2019t he find someone to sue the Jiang family? In the Jiang family, it was not like there were no people with higher seniority than Butcher Jiang.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After bullying several elders of the Jiang family, all of these elders obediently obeyed. They were afraid of the imperial envoy, but they were also afraid of the Zheng family and Jiang Zhen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Their families were all in the hands of Zheng Yi . . . so they were going to sue the Jiang family no matter what.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Daqi was very kind to the elderly. People above the age of seventy do not need to kneel when meeting officials. Zhou Maohe has always respected the elderly, even when he knew that these people have also come here to save Jaing Zhen, he still invited them respectfully to the yamen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cElders, are you also here to plead mercy for Jiang Zhen? It was wrong of him to ignore his parents<\/span>\u2014<\/span>\u201c Zhou Maohe said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, we are not here to plead mercy for Jiang Zhen. We are here to sue someone,\u201c the old man at the front said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This old man was the oldest member of the Jiang family. He was not like the second uncle of the Jiang family, always jumping around. In fact, he had always been indifferent about what was going on around him and just waited for his son to bring him meals every day. After finishing eating, he would sit at the entrance of the house, either drowsy or telling stories to the younger generation of the family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But at this time, all the people in his family, were under Zheng Yi\u2019s care, so he also had to come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe was startled and then immediately asked, \u201cYou also want to sue Jiang Zhen?\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cNo, my lord, I want to sue Jiang Chengwen. He is lazy and forced his parents to sell their fields and land for his own extravagance. After being cheated of the money, he even sold his younger sister, which is really unfilial.\u201c The old man continued, \u201cAfter that, he also forced his old mother to work on the fields to support him. He is simply worse than animals.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cLord, I also want to sue Jiang Chengxiang. He cheated his parents of money. He was not working and let his old father take care of his family affairs, when he was in the country town, eating meat and drinking, leaving his father to starve at home. He is also unfilial,\u201c the old man continued.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWhat!\u201c Zhou Maohe was shocked. He never expected that something like this would come out. Someone has come out to sue the other two sons of the Jiang family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>Nonsense. My Chengwen and Chengxiang are the most filial!\u201c Old lady Jiang immediately said, \u201cYour Excellency, you can\u2019t listen to his nonsense!\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMy lord, what I said is true. Just look at their hands,\u201c that old man said again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Old lady Jiang and Butcher Jiang\u2019s hands were full of calluses and many frostbite wounds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe had seen the hands of these two before, and after that, he felt even more sympathetic to them, but then, looking at the hands of Jiang Chengwen and Jiang Chengxiang . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two men, Jiang Chengwen and Jiang Chengxiang did not have any calluses on their hands! Especially Jiang Chengxiang, his pair of hand was extremely well-maintained. His hands did not look like they belonged to a countryside person but to a scholar!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the contrary, Jiang Zhen . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen stretched out his hands. Those hands did not have frostbite but were covered in thick calluses, black and thick. There were also many scars on them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhou Maohe didn\u2019t believe Jiang Zhen\u2019s words before, but right now, he froze.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, Jiang Chengxiang forced his parents to split up their family because his older brother was cheated out of money. Many people in Hexi Village know about this matter, so please, my lord, investigate it clearly.\u201c Then the old men said, \u201cAt that time, this Jiang Chengxiang\u2019s wife brought her family to the Jiang family house and forced her in-laws . . . to divide the family . . .\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This old man looked to the second uncle of the Jiang family; the second uncle immediately took out a letter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>My lord, this is what we asked them to divide; it\u2019s not the same! My lord!\u201c old lady Jiang said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That old man glanced at old lady Jiang, pointed at her, and said slowly: \u201cMy lord, I also want to sue her, Jiang Wang. This Jiang Wang is not a virtuous wife or mother, so they should divorce.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Old lady Jiang was stunned and unable to react. She was accused too?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At that moment, Zhou Maohe already knew that he was probably set up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although Jiang Zhen was not a good man, but Jiang Chengwen and Jiang Chengxiang were not good men either!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYour Excellency, Jiang Zhen has already married into the Zhao family, so this is out of his control. But these Jiang Chengwen and Jiang Chengxiang are both unfilial to their parents. I ask my lord to chastise them,\u201c that old man said again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cYou are talking nonsense!\u201c Old lady Jiang was furious and wanted to tear the old man up.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

No matter how much the law paid attention to filial piety, it had always been unregulated in the countryside, so she did not think it was wrong to hit this man at all.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>You dead old man . . .\u201c Old lady Jiang hated the old man very much, so she actually pulled him to the ground.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>How dare you!\u201c Seeing this, Zhou Maohe became furious. That woman actually made a move on an old man with white hair in front of him!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengxiang also secretly thought, \u201cIt\u2019s bad.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He only thought that the imperial envoy would believed them, because Jiang Zhen really did not support his parents so they could easily sue him. But he did not think that, in the end, even he would get himself involved\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If it weren\u2019t for the fact that this imperial envoy was so stubborn in all these things, how could it end like this?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengxiang hurriedly went to pull his mother away, and it was only at that time old lady Jiang found that the expression of the imperial envoy looked particularly ugly.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This . . . This . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Old lady Jiang immediately became anxious. \u201cChengxiang.\u201c<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cMother . . .\u201c Jiang Chengxiang\u2019s hands shook a little.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not suing. We\u2019re no longer suing Jiang Zhen. Let\u2019s go!\u201c Old lady Jiang had heard Jiang Chengxiang explain a lot of things related to the crime of lack of filial piety these days, so she immediately became frightened. She couldn\u2019t let anything happen to Jiang Chengwen and Jang Chengxiang!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Zhou Maohe heard her words, his face darkened at once.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This . . . This . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He was so angry. He brought many people to witness this trial, <\/span>but it turned out to be a farce! No, he<\/span> was just made a fool off by this Jiang family . . . It was just outrageous!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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