Chapter 971: Public trial
Hey, my little fairies can you show some love to Guide To Reign My Tycoon Husbands? It's really close to my heart and the adventures and fights in it are also amazing and the snu snu chapters. Hehehe ...you will see an upgraded version of them hehehe.**************************The two men continued to shout as they dragged Su Wan through the mud again and again.
Their speech was rather ugly and unsightly.
"Women have long hair but they are short on knowledge. All they know is to scheme and rely on men. Yet this bitch want to be a good person and asked us to work for her and when we did, we are suddenly the bad person!"
"Ahhh! If she was my wife I would have strangled her to death!"
"What can we expect from a woman who opens her legs for five men day and night!??"
"Drag her here! Isn't she hiding in her home? I will show you the true face of that woman!?"
The two brothers screamed and scolded Su Wan in a particularly disgusting way and yet no one stopped them. This was because Su Wan had opened dormitories and houses for the outsiders at a rent which was too low.
Compared to the landlords, Su Wan was providing jobs and houses which were ten per cent lower than theirs. Wasn't this equivalent to letting people know that they were black-hearted and wanted others to pay more for a residence which was not even good enough?
As many of the landlords were officials of the county magistrate's office, they didn't stop the two brothers. In fact, they wanted these two brothers to suppress Su Wan such that the woman would know her place.
Since that woman wanted to present herself as someone special then don't blame them for being hard-hearted. Because of her, they were suffering from quite a lot of loss.
She was cutting their livelihood which was similar to killing one's parents alright! Can they not hate it? They hated it, they hated it so much that they wanted to kill Su Wan.
What was more ugly, was that the woman announced that she was going to open another workshop. They were yet to find out what that workshop was about but they did know that the money paid to the workers was actually five hundred coins!
First the farmers and now the workers, everyone wanted to work for Su Wan and it was getting harder and harder for them to find someone to work for them.
And even if they somehow managed to find someone, that person would ask for at least three hundred copper coins!
Three hundred! Those mud-legged people once worked for them for thirty or so copper coins but because of Su Wan, they were getting bolder and bolder.
It was only right that they teach Su Wan a lesson.
"Drag her here! Drag her!"
The two brothers continued to hit the drum and shout.
One of the officials from the county magistrate's office turned to look at Yamen's head and said to him, "Why don't you listen to them, my lord? The county magistrate might be the leader of this small city but she is still under the jurisdiction of his majesty. She cannot ignore the plight of the poor and make them suffer. Right?"
"I think my lord is correct," Master Qi was also in the crowd of officials, he wanted to see what was going on and when he saw that it was Su Wan who was in trouble, he immediately rushed to the front.
That woman and him were mortal enemies! Before she came the Lai family was the ruler of this place and no one dared to go against them but ever since that woman came to this city, she had turned the situation around.
Now the Lai family was just relying on its old strength and savings. Even his wife had been worrying about what to do these days.
The Yamen lord looked at the two troublemakers and then glanced at the ministers. He scolded them fiercely in his heart, 'Of course, you would want to drag County Magistrate Su! Who here does not know that you have suffered great losses in her hand? Now that you have gotten your hand on this opportunity of course you will not let it slide.'
However, he was just a small yamen lord, there was nothing that he could do in this situation other than listen to the words of the ministers.
At that moment, a carriage slowly drove to the Yamen.
The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing a beautiful face that had lost its baby fat and now resembled that of a mature woman.
With a smile on her face, Su Wan greeted the Yamen officers, "Everyone, you are doing a great job. I have brought chilled watermelon juice. If you want you can come and drink it."
The Yamen officers liked Su Wan as she had controlled a lot of crimes happening in the city. In the past, they could only helplessly watch the ministers run rampant but now it was different.
The two brothers who saw that Su Wan was speaking to the Yamen ministers without showing any panic on her faces were startled but then their expressions changed and their mouths turned crooked.
No, they could not stop now! If they stopped now then they would definitely be ruined.
"You bitch! Come down and face us!" One of the brothers yelled at Su Wan.
Lin Yu who was following Su Wan turned to look at the two brothers. His gaze sharply swept at the two and he said to them, "Speak well and strive to be a proper man even if you are nothing but shrews on the street. I will not show mercy if you use that dirt mouth which is filled with shit to curse at my wife. Don't forget that I am a commoner too."
"Y...You…" the elder one who had just spoken turned pale with anger when he saw that Lin Yu was scolding him.
"Alright, there is no need to get angry over such useless people," Su Wan smiled and said to Lin Yu who huffed and glared at the two men even though his wife said that there was no need to worry about these people, he wouldn't let them or the people from the Lai family escape.
They would have to pay for this humiliation.
Lin Yu alighted from the carriage as he helped Su Wan down. Dressed in a vibrant red dress with a black robe, Su Wan walked past the crowd and came to a stop in front of the head of the Yamen.
"Master Bai, if you do not mind can we continue with the public trial? I would hate to let people down, in case we do a close-room trial, some people might unjustly accuse me and say that I used my power to suppress the commoners," as Su Wan glanced at the ministers of the county magistrate's office standing in the crowd.
More than twenty ministers and none of them spoke up for her, she would clean them up very soon.
This was the reason why she asked for a public platform to speak on, if the matter was hidden from the outside world these people might spread rumours about her tyranny to the entire city.
She was not a big official but Su Wan was the first woman official. Because she was appointed by the emperor, these people could not do anything to her but that did not mean that they were not willing to scheme against her.
She had to protect herself and her family.
When the ministers saw Su Wan looking over they stiffened. Now they could only hope that the Lai family would deal with this woman because if they did not then she would deal with them!
Master Bai was stunned when he heard Su Wan say that she wanted to hold a public trial. These two brothers sounded really confident and it was clear that they had some evidence in their hands.
If Su Wan held a public trial, she would not be able to suppress these two brothers. He glanced at the troublemakers and then turned to look at Su Wan before questioning, "Are you sure, county magistrate?"
"I am, I have been working for the people of this city with all my heart and soul. I have done nothing shameful to be ashamed of," the corner of Su Wan's mouth curled up slightly. "And it will be better if we can finish this trial soon, I have another workshop and factory plan that needs to be discussed."
Master Bai's eyes brightened while the rest of the ministers' hearts turned cold. They had a feeling that Su Wan said these words to them for a reason.
However, this did not concern Master Bai or Lord Pei and Lord Lu who came rushing when they heard that Su Wan was once again pushed to a trial.*******************[My dear fairies can you please send a few golden tickets and gifts along with comments and power stones? Please continue supporting the author! Your support is my motivation to work hard! ]*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*