Xiao Erlang was dragged into the hall, and as soon as the cloth was removed from his mouth, he immediately shouted, "Brother, you are framing me! It was clearly you who made me do it, and now you are pushing all the blame onto me..."
He was terribly frightened, his mind still full of the talk of exile from the night before with Bai Shan. So today, as soon as he was brought before the court, he bit the bullet and insisted he was mad, and shoved all the household responsibilities clean away. Who knew that his elder brother would instead shove everything onto him?
Seeing that County Magistrate Tang was looking at him with suspicion, he was afraid that he would be sentenced directly if he spoke too late, and hurriedly defended himself, "Your Honor, Your Honor, what my elder brother said isn't true. The Yan Family's vegetable plot wasn't tilled by just me, our whole family did it..."
