Chapter 8

This is the first time Niu Jing sent someone to find him after he came back. Naturally, he will come and have to preside over this matter!

Cui Shi saw Niujing behind the crowd. Unexpectedly, he was there. Did he see all his appearance just now?

When Dufu saw the village head coming, he hurried to the house and moved a stool for him to sit down.

"Village head, we invited you here today to make an appraisal for us." Du Xiaoli said.

"Oh? What identification?" Li Mingfu asked. He looked at Du Xiaoli and found that the girl was different from before.

"Well, when my mother was ill, we asked my uncle's family to borrow 200 Liang silver. Not long after my mother was buried, my aunt paid off the debt with my house. Not only that, she also withheld all my furniture and didn't let us take anything out. Now we want to ask the village head to identify whether our house is not worth 200 Liang and still needs to be used Furniture to pay off the debt. "Du Xiaoli said the matter briefly.

Li Mingfu looked at Cui Shi and Du Fu. When he knew about it early in the morning, he wanted to talk to them, but he never came to them. Now he just took this opportunity to talk about them. "When the repair was finished, Du Fu and I helped him pay the bill. It cost more than 300 liang of silver, didn't it?"

Du Fu had to nod under Li Mingfu's eyes. Cui Shi also knew this at the beginning, so he opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

Seeing Du Fu nodding, Li Mingfu went on to say, "Du Hai's house has only been repaired for seven or eight years, and the discount is only a few dozen liang of silver. Why don't you even have two hundred here?"

"Village head, we..."

Du Fu wanted to speak, but Li Mingfu gave him a stare and interrupted him. "As duhai's brothers, you drove their children out of the house before his wife's bones were cold, and did not allow them to take things out. If you do so, Xiuheng can sue you for embezzling your family property!"

"Village head, we don't encroach on family property. Their family borrowed our money and didn't have money to pay back. It's natural to use the house?" Cui couldn't sit still and retorted to Li Mingfu.

"Even if you want to use the house to pay off the debt, you should compensate them for their excess money and return all their furniture to them." Li Mingfu said, "do you want to wait for their brothers and sisters to sue you for embezzlement? If so, the county magistrate will adopt my confession, and they will still take back their property, and you may be imprisoned."

Fengming state has a law that embezzles other people's property is to be sentenced, so Li Mingfu is not alarmist.

As soon as Cui and Du Fu heard that they were going to jail, they lost most of their momentum. Then they thought what if they offended the village head and didn't give themselves the development right of the back woods? At this thought, even Cui had nothing to say.

"How's it going? Have you figured out what to do?" Li Mingfu knocked his cigarette gun on the edge of the stool and asked.

Cui and Dufu looked at each other, gritted their teeth and said, "if it's a big deal, we'll let them move back the things in the house."

"That's not enough. The price difference of that house doesn't count?" Li Mingfu said calmly.

"What does the village head say?" Du Fu asked.

"If you want me to say, you'll let them move everything in the house and give them 50 liang of silver. That's it." Li Mingfu thought and said.

The Du Xiaoli brothers and sisters did borrow their money. Cui would not agree to get the house back. Fortunately, the house on the mountain can still be repaired. Let's give them some money.

"This..." Cui wanted to bargain again, and Dufu pulled his clothes.

"So listen to the village head. We'll supplement them with 50 liang of silver and return the furniture to them. No one is allowed to talk about it again in the future." Du Fu promised the village head.

"Well, today I testify with the villagers. That's it. You give Xiuheng fifty Liang silver, and then the big guys go to help them move things. Look at these two small bodies, they can't carry anything." Li Mingfu got up and shouted to the villagers, "All the men in Du Zhuang, it's time for you to do it. If anyone is lazy and unwilling to do it, I'll kick him into the river to take a bath!"

"Hahaha, village head, that's why we're all here!" the villagers laughed when they heard the village head's words.

Du Fu came in and took thirty Liang silver notes, a ingot of ten Liang silver and ten Liang silver coins. After Du Xiuheng got the silver, he thanked Du Xiaoli to the village head: "thank the village head for presiding over justice for our brothers and sisters!"

"Ha ha, you two kids, don't go to command them to move things for you. First move what you need today, and then move the others tomorrow. I'm an old lame, so I won't help you. I'll go back first." Li Mingfu said with a smile.

"The village head is going back? I'm not going to join the fun. I have guests in my house. I'll go back with you first."

"Ha ha, let's go together." the village head said and left with doctor Niu.

"Oh, I forgot to pay for the medicine!" when Du Xiuheng thought of returning the Niujing silver, he had gone far. He had to give it when he had time tomorrow.

When Niujing returned to his home, a boy of about 12 or 13 years old was standing at the door and looking out. His handsome facial features and pale face were wrapped in a beautiful water blue robe even in early summer. Seeing Niujing salute him, he said faintly, "this is not the capital, so doctor Niu doesn't have to do those false rites. In case outsiders see anything." "yes." Niujing got up, looked at Han Mingyi and said, "young master, you just came here today, have a good rest tonight. Let's start again tomorrow." "OK." Han Mingyi nodded and took the lead back to the house. At noon the next day, Du Xiaoli came to Niujing's house. "Grandpa Niu, are you home?" Du Xiaoli shouted at the house outside the fence yard of Niujing. Niujing came out of the house and saw that it was Du Xiaoli. He smiled and said, "it's Du Xiaoli. Come in quickly." "good grandpa Niu." Du Xiaoli answered sweetly, opened the fence door and went in. He saw that there was an imperial concubine chair in the hall room more than before, on which lay a 12-year-old boy. Next to him stood two men of eighteen or nine, all dressed in black. She took a look and knew that the boy was not normal, but it had nothing to do with her. She looked at Niujing and said, "Grandpa Niu, are you busy now?" "already. Xiaoli, aren't you busy moving things? Why are you here?" Niujing just treated Han Mingyi and is now resting. Du Xiaoli handed half of the hare in his hand to Niujing and said, "I caught this when I went into the mountain yesterday. My brother said the hare in the mountain tasted good. He specially brought half of it to Grandpa Niu. By the way, let me pay for the medicine I owed before."