Chapter 525 Circuit Court

"My child!"

Seeing that his grandson was still hesitating, the old man's tone was filled with a hint of urgency.

"Don't you see that Paul Grayman has fallen? His body has been contaminated and invaded by evil that comes from nowhere. His original noble soul that belonged to the nobility is no longer pure. Ours The lord has become the spokesperson of the devil in the world. He... will bring disaster sooner or later. He has already brought disaster. Isn't the situation of our family a clear proof? "

The old man said angrily:

"If it's just the misappropriation of wealth, that's it. There are many lords in the world who are ruthless and cruel to their subjects. What can we do? We can only hope that his descendants will not be as greedy as his parents. But... but Paul Greenman also humiliated us personally."

The young man shook his head in disbelief, "No, Count Grayman is a very easy-going person in life. How could he humiliate others for no reason?"

"Oh, my child!" The old man said with a serious attitude, "For those who are truly insidious, they don't bother to humiliate them in person like a fool. What they are keen on is to use sharp daggers to humiliate people secretly. you one Knife. On the surface, they respect you, befriend you, and even flatter you, but in private they show their fangs like poisonous snakes, slandering your reputation, destroying your prestige, and making your reputation among everyone. It became stinky.”

The young man murmured, "Has our lord ever done such a thing?"

"Have you ever done it?" The old man was a little funny. He said sarcastically: "He does it every day!"

"My boy, do you know the Circuit Court?"

"I know."

The old man leaned on his cane again and said, "The existence of this so-called circuit court is a humiliation to us. As long as it exists, we will suffer humiliation."

"how so?"

"You know, our family has been in charge of this village since ancient times. Whenever the villagers have disputes, they will come to us for adjudication. This is due to the prestige accumulated by the family over the generations. People believe in our prestige. Believe in our justice and accept our order, so our family naturally has the right to rule in this place. We have the power to punish those who make mistakes, and we even have the power to execute those who commit crimes. "

"But ever since Paul Gleiman established the circuit courts, these natural powers have been gradually taken away from us. Nearly every one of his laws has been directed against us. The evildoers who deserve death The lord's judge actually needs to personally interrogate and convict the gangsters, and the monthly inspections have overturned the clear rulings of the jurisprudence. Many villains and gangsters have been released by the circuit court, allowing these scum to continue to cause chaos. Our quiet and peaceful life.”

"More importantly, this is a heavy blow to our family's prestige. What we say is no longer the final word in the village. Those ignorant mud-legged people no longer regard our words as truth. They turn to Lake Center Town The greater authority offers his knees.”

"This, this, this...is there any greater humiliation than this? Ahem, cough, cough."

Having said this, the old man coughed excitedly again.

"You know what?"

He stepped forward and grabbed his astonished grandson with such force that the young man even wondered whether the grandfather in front of him had become younger.

"Just a month ago, I, the patriarch of this family, the oldest man in this village, your grandfather, was severely humiliated by the circuit court."

The young man supported his excited grandfather to prevent him from falling, and asked in surprise: "What exactly happened?"

"A month ago, I gathered the whole village in the open space at the entrance of the village, intending to publicly punish three villains who evaded debts."

The young man asked: "Is it a debt owed to our family?" But he immediately felt that he was asking too much. The only ones in this village who had the ability to lend money were his own family.

"Yes." His grandfather replied matter-of-factly.

"If you owe money, you have to pay it back. This is a natural principle. However, these three villains actually plan to walk away without paying back. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"

The young man couldn't help but ask: "Where are they going to escape to?"

The old man spat on the ground, "Bah, you want to go to the city to work, you are a bunch of bastards! Ah, this is another major crime of Paul Greenman. What kind of factory is used to attract a bunch of bastards to run to the city? , If this continues, who will farm the land, won’t the fields in the countryside become barren? "

The old man once again turned the topic back to the insult he had suffered, "I asked the servants to tie up the three villains, whip them first, and then announced that they would stay at home to work and pay off their debts - for those who do not pay back the money and People who evade debt have been doing this since ancient times. But the families of the three villains went to the circuit court to prevent me from punishing them. Is this still justified? "

The old man asked loudly into the air in front of him, as if Paul Grayman was standing there.

"Why? That's not the case in the Circuit Court," asked the young man.

The old man said angrily: "The circuit court said that the interest rate we set exceeds the upper limit set by the lord and is usury."

"Go to hell with loan sharks, kid, ask the nearby villages if there are any other lenders with lower interest rates than our family? We offer such low interest rates out of kindness and mercy, but the lord actually Committed evil."

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"Do you know how the people in the circuit court acted? At the beginning, I stopped their unreasonable troubles on the grounds of sacred traditions that could not be desecrated. The first time they came, there were only three of them. After being rebuked by me and running out of words, they retreated. But in the afternoon, they came with 60 people, most of whom were so-called policemen, fully armed, holding shining swords. Our family, which has always been peaceful and peaceful, has never seen such a posture. They broke into our manor rudely and barbarically under the banner of the lord and robbed the three villains who owed money. My God, this was done in broad daylight, in front of more than 600 people in the village."

At this point, the old man covered his face with his dry hands.

"I... I am so embarrassed! This is a slap in my face, and in the face of our entire family!"

"The prestige that my family has established in the village for hundreds of years has been lost in one day... Alas!"

The old man sighed painfully.

And the young man fell into a long silence.

"Go talk to your father again, child."