When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 54 Gu Hua is accused, Qiu Ju and her daughter faint in the lobby

The third uncle and the fifth uncle looked at Gu Hua with murderous eyes at this time. They originally thought that a lean camel is bigger than a horse and a broken ship still has three thousand nails.

But when they broke into Gu's mansion with their clansmen, they slowly discovered that only some things displayed on the surface were worth looking at.

Next, whether it was the large storehouse in the Gu Mansion or the small storehouse where Gu Hua currently lived, the clan members rushed in despite the maid's obstruction. What they found were all some big, bulky and not very valuable things.

"Gu Hua, the third and fifth branches of the Gu family accused you of taking beggars to rob their two families. Do you admit it?" asked the prefect of Jiangzhou City who was sitting in the lobby.

"In reply to the prefect, I admit that I took the beggar to their two homes to take the things." Gu Hua: "As for robbing, I deny it."

"Bang!" The prefect slammed the gavel down and asked, "Why don't you admit it?"

Gu Hua raised the corners of his mouth, looked at his third and fifth uncles sarcastically, and said calmly, "The reason why I brought the beggars to the two families to get things.

That's because my two uncles thought that the things in my house, which had been doing business for many years, were better and more valuable, so they insisted on exchanging ordinary things from their two houses with me.

Otherwise, he not only asked us to return the 50,000 taels of silver that our clan had given him, but also asked for half of my shop. I had no choice but to agree.

So I made an agreement with the two uncles that they would bring people to my house to get the things, and I would bring people to their houses to get the things, and we would exchange things for things, and neither of us would be held responsible for compensation or damage.

If that is not the case, then why don't you ask them whether they are bringing people to my house to exchange things or to rob my house?"

The prefect was stunned.

He raised his hand and touched his stubbled beard. He was really too young. It was the first time he heard of bartering at other people's houses. He realized that he could see everything if he lived long enough.

"Gu Minglin from the Third House, Gu Mingsen from the Fifth House, do you agree with what the young master of the Gu Mansion said?
If you don't agree that we are exchanging things for goods, then what kind of behavior are you two taking so many people to Gu's house and moving all the things there?"

"..." What kind of behavior? Robbery! !

Third Uncle: "This... Sir..."

Fifth uncle: "We are going to..."

Gu Hua: "..." I just stood aside and listened quietly to how you argued and justified your robbery.

There was really no reasonable explanation for taking people to someone else's house to take things, so the sinister and treacherous Third Uncle could only bring up his fellow clansmen.

"We heard that Gu Hua went to Saibei to do business and disappeared. His life or death is unknown. I am the patriarch of the Gu family and I am here to help look after his things."

"Ha!" Even the prefect sitting in the court couldn't help but sneer at these words: "According to what you said, it's to help watch over it."

The Third Uncle felt that his answer was reasonable, and quickly replied: "Yes, yes... Sir."

"Oh," the prefect's eyes flashed with disdain, "As for helping to look after the items in the mansion, I heard that Master Gu has a great uncle who is even closer by blood.

No matter whether she is alive or dead in Saibei, according to the law of close bloodline taking over the property, it will never be the turn of you tribesmen.

And just now Master Gu mentioned that you also took 50,000 silver coins from a family to leave the clan. If they were not forced to a certain extent, who would take out so much silver coins to ask to leave the clan that gave them protection? What do you think? "

"This...this, this..." The third uncle and the fifth uncle were speechless for a moment when they were asked by the prefect.

Gu Hua stared blankly at the prefect who was sitting in the lobby. She had the illusion that this upright man was favoring her.

Prefect Lin glanced at her with a lofty look and snorted softly.

If he hadn't been a classmate of his uncle, when he went to Beijing to report on his work before the New Year, he would have learned that he would come to Jiangzhou City to serve as the prefect this year. Chen Yunting, that shameless man, came to beg him to take care of his little nephew after he came. Who wants to care about such a trivial matter. "Old masters of the third and fifth rooms of the Gu family, do you admit that you agreed to go to each other's mansions to take things, or continue to sue each other for robbing your own home.

If it is the former, then you are making a false accusation and should be punished with a beating. However, considering your age, I will sympathize with you and let the matter go if you each pay a fine of fifty taels of silver.

If it is the latter, if you go to each other's house and take things exceeding a certain amount, it would be considered robbery if you sue each other.

If it is convicted of robbery, the sentence could be 10 to 20 years in prison, or five years or more..."

"No, no, no," said the fifth uncle in panic, "We won't sue."

They are all over 60 years old. If they are really sentenced, there will be no day they get out.

Third Uncle's eyes flickered, and he acquiesced, and stopped suing.

He is older than his fifth uncle. If his fifth uncle could not get out after being sentenced, he will be even less likely to get out after being imprisoned.

The third uncle and the fifth uncle paid the fine for false accusation and left the lobby smoothly.

Later, Gu Yuming and Qiu Ju, mother and daughter, were taken to the lobby by the Gu Mansion's chief steward. However, they were caught on the spot when they sneaked into the Gu Mansion's storehouse the night before when the Gu family members looted things.

Because he failed, he was sentenced to five years of hard labor by the prefect.

"Master, please, since I raised you, please save us, mother and daughter."

Everyone at the gate of the government office looked at Gu Hua...

Butler Fu gritted his teeth in anger. This old woman was trying to put her master on fire by saying this.

If the master doesn't save you, you will get a reputation of being cold and indifferent.

If I rescue her, the prefect will have sentenced her. How can I save her?

Gu Hua shook his head and said calmly, "You were originally a poor person, despised by your husband's family and almost beaten to death. It was my mother who passed by and saved you.

After I brought you back, although you were nominally my wet nurse, I didn't let you breastfeed me many times because my mother was feeding me herself. She only asked you to do it in the next few months when her milk was insufficient.

And you never really took care of me for a single day. Calling you wet nurse was already a courtesy, but you took advantage of this favor and bullied others in the mansion for many years.

In the end, you even teamed up with outsiders to plot against the Gu family with your untreasured daughter. After being discovered, not only did I not ask you for ransom money, I also gave you twenty taels as a nominal wet nurse subsidy.

This time you took advantage of my absence to bring people into the mansion to steal, and you were sentenced by the adults. Let’s not talk about whether I can save you or not. Even if you violated the law, how can I save you? "

After saying this, Gu Hua turned around and left dejectedly as if he was hurt.

The people watching at the gate of the yamen pointed fingers at Qiu Ju and her daughter, scolding them for having no conscience, colluding with outsiders to betray their master, and finally committing theft.

Now that she has been sentenced, she still has the nerve to ask the master to save her. "She is really shameless."

The men were sent to work as laborers in the government-run mines, but it was uncertain what the women would do. Only then did Qiu Ju and her daughter realize that it was too late to regret.

Seeing that Gu Hua no longer paid attention to them and turned to leave, the mother and daughter fainted on the spot in the lobby in panic.

"You rotten-hearted thing, you dare to report my son to the hall, I will tear you to pieces." A woman hurriedly ran over from the street, yelled, and rushed towards Gu Hua who was walking out of the hall of the government office~
(End of this chapter)