In the Lingzhou Mansion Mansion, as the water and fire sticks in the hands of the two classes of officials knocked out a heavy sound on the blue brick floor, they shouted the long word "mighty-" in their mouths.

"It's terrifying—my legs are weak. Qian'er quietly whispered to Liu Wan beside her.

Liu Wan's eyes signaled that she was being spoken, and looked up at the court.

Lord Li Mingyuan, the governor of Lingzhou Prefecture, slowly sat down and began to try the case.

"Bring it up—" Li Mingyuan waved his hand.

In fact, the dumb aunt has been waiting beside her, and she has been locked up in prison for a few days, her hair can't be combed, her hands and face can't be washed, and she has been wearing a full set of clothes, and she has long been crumpled, so she looks unkempt and obviously thin.

"Ahh

Asa squeezed her hand.

"Don't roar in court!" the hall scolded.

"It's a mute, I haven't seen the majesty of the adult, so I'm out of shape - please forgive me Lord Li. Liu Dingmao clenched his fists and apologized. He was a court official, so he didn't have to bow down.

"That's it-" Li Zhizhou raised his hand and slapped it down in shock.

The dumb aunt was pressed by the two officials, and her knees fell to the ground.

"Who is kneeling in the hall, who is the surname, where is the name, who is the complaint, one by one!"

Avi was already kneeling on the ground, and he kowtowed, "Big lord, Lord Qingtian is in charge, the grass people sued the daughter-in-law of the Liu family, the Liu Tian family, she opened a medical clinic privately, and the grass squandered people's lives, killing my lady and the child in the womb......"

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Li Zhizhou was interrogating, and the master on the table next to him was brushing and writing records.

The dumb aunt slowly propped herself up and looked up at a middle-aged man with a mustache in the hall. Looking at the side again, the officials on both sides stood expressionless like the door god.

Kneeling in the audience is Avi, Avi's mother, and Avi's father and father-in-law are missing.

On the other side, kneeling Liu Wan, Qian'er, and Chang'an, and next to him stood Liu Dingmao.

This is the court of justice.

I never imagined that I would be able to personally participate in this kind of ancient litigation that I had only seen in film and television dramas in my lifetime.

She felt and figured out her situation from this atmosphere, Lord Zhizhou's demeanor and voice, the situation is not very good, it seems that Liu Dingmao has not made a good way in the past few days, so today's trial, this official is completely businesslike.

It is also expected that Liu Dingmao will not spend a lot of money to get through the relationship for her little girl, and secondly, Liu Dingmao is honest and old-fashioned, and he will not come to these twists and turns in the officialdom.

Ah Wei and his mother told and cried, splashed dirty water and insulted, a man and a woman, an old and a young, singing and harmonizing, and there to state the case like a play.

They are plaintiffs and naturally have the right to plead first.

She was the defendant, and she could only obediently shut up and listen.

Liu Wan, Qian'er and the others next to him were already dumbfounded when they heard it, Liu Wan rubbed his fists fiercely, only hating that he didn't practice the ability to fly to the wall to get people's heads in the air, otherwise he would have reached out and pulled out the tongue of Avi's mother and son now, how could there be such a black and white reversal full of nonsense?

In their crying, they are completely innocent and weak people who have been cheated by the dumb aunt, and the dumb aunt, the little daughter-in-law from the Liu family, relying on the wealth and power of her husband's family, under the guise of childbirth, openly murdered people, and also received a high reward.

"After a lifetime, I dare to accept ten taels of silver, my lord, a poor person like us, for this ten taels of silver, I begged relatives and friends to borrow it everywhere, but she also killed people-" Avi's mother cried, and kowtowed after speaking.

"When did she collect so much money? besides, your lady's death was purely accidental—" Liu Wan couldn't help but exclaim.

"Don't roar in court!" Zhizhou slapped again.

"Wan'er, calm down in everything first-" Liu Dingmao reminded his son.

Liu Wan bowed his head indignantly.

The dumb girl looked at Avi Niang quietly.

"Ten taels of silver are collected one after another, which is indeed too high for ordinary people. Defendant Yanagida, you come and tell the official that what the defendant said is true?"

The dumb aunt stood dumbfounded, not speaking.

"Defendant Yanagida, can you admit to the charges listed by the plaintiff?" asked Zhizhou again.

The dumb aunt still looked at the mother and son who complained.

"Yanagida, I ask you—" Zhizhou raised his voice.

The dumb aunt was a spirit, and then she looked at the court, but she didn't defend herself.

This situation is somewhat rare, generally regardless of the plaintiff and the defendant, as soon as they come up, they hate to open their mouths to speak, justify, and excuse themselves, and the plaintiff hates to say that the defendant will go to the eighteenth layer of hell, and the defendant also tries his best to overturn the case for himself, and no one in this world is willing to admit his guilt obediently, unless he is a fool.

Everyone in the hall looked at this woman.

Even Lord Li Mingyuan of Zhizhou couldn't help but squint his eyes and look at the woman kneeling at the bottom of the steps.

A little woman indeed.

Not tall, thin, delicate, not ugly, but not so beautiful and amazing, just a little daughter-in-law with a medium and ordinary appearance.

Even Chang'an can see that it is the turn of the little grandmother to speak now, but why doesn't the little grandmother speak, only by speaking can she clear her name, does the little grandmother really have to admit those charges?

Chang'an was so anxious that she pinched Qian'er's hand, Qian'er endured the pain, but in fact, she was even more anxious, tears rolled in her eyes.

Liu Dingmao also turned to look at the dumb aunt, shook his head slightly, and sighed in his heart, after all, she is a little girl from a poor tenant's family, and she is usually a little clever, but now that she is in this court, she must be stupid by the majestic formation in front of her, so she can't even speak.

Since there is no defense and no denial, once the crime is confirmed, it will be troublesome.

Liu Dingmao suddenly sweated on his forehead.

When Ah Wei's mother and son saw that this woman couldn't even answer a word of denial, they were immediately proud, and Ah Wei kowtowed triumphantly, "Lord Zhizhou, we want her to compensate, and the Liu family has to give us human life silver, two lives, can't we send it away for three or five hundred taels of silver! We don't want three thousand taels less!"

"It's one thing to lose money, and she has to pay for her life! But mother and son, she must pay for her life!" Avi's mother also kowtowed and shouted.

I want both money and life, but it's really ruthless!

Liu Wan was so angry that his body trembled.

"The defendant is not allowed to intervene!" Li Zhizhou was shocked and shouted majestically. "Defendant, why didn't you speak? Is there something hidden or is it unwell?"

The dumb aunt looked up at the old man of Zhizhou again, she knew that in the local governance of Dongliang Kingdom, there was no separation of powers between counties and states, and official affairs such as litigation were also presided over by Lord Zhizhou himself. Then the power of his life and death is in the hands of this middle-aged man named Li Mingyuan.

What kind of person is he? greedy for money, lustful, playing with power, or is he honest and fair?

The latter is definitely not counted, because the person who takes advantage of the war to extort money is not destined to be a good bird, and local squires and loose officials like Liu Dingmao were repeatedly invited by him to be forced to take out silver to donate to the country, and he could not come up with the will of the imperial court to donate silver taels to support the war. It can only be said that it was the idea of these people in the government and the government themselves, and they were making a windfall of war.

Then this Lord Zhizhou will definitely not be a good official.

Now she could only hope that he didn't get so bad.

With a little bit of justice, she has hope of turning over.

"My lord, since the defendant does not say a word, does not defend, or denies it, that is, she has confessed to all the charges listed by the plaintiff, and it seems that the villain can ask her to draw a charge and convict. The master next to him suddenly spoke.

Zhizhou shook his head: "Don't convict so hastily - Brother Ding Mao, what ...... is your daughter-in-law" Li Zhizhou's inquiring eyes turned to Liu Dingmao.

Liu Dingmao clenched his fists: "This kid turned out to be a mute, and then he slowly spoke, but he still didn't say much, especially not good at justifying." From beginning to end of this matter, I don't know very well, she can deliver women and see a doctor, this is true, my aunt and my youngest son's lives were saved by her, and my fifth aunt, who has not been pregnant for many years, was also diagnosed and treated by her, and now she is pregnant. And it cured my son's madness. I have seen these things with my own eyes, and I will never dare to talk nonsense or spread false rumors. She has recently opened a million records, delivering babaries, diagnosing women, and selling medicine, which is very popular with the villagers, and I am very surprised that she suddenly died——"

The room was amazed.

There has long been rumors that the Liu family has a fairy hand who is good at gynecology, but that is all nonsense from the mouths of ignorant people, as a person from the government, no one has ever believed that there will be such a strange thing.

Unexpectedly, Liu Dingmao admitted in public today that this was indeed the case.

"Wan Ji? The medical clinic she opened, and the defendant's mother and son are the things that happened in Wan Ji? Then we have to go to Wan Ji to investigate. ”

The dumb aunt looked at Li Zhizhou in the hall and bowed suddenly, and finally spoke, she had eaten and drunk badly in the past few days, had not rested well, and her voice was a little hoarse, "Thank you, Lord Zhizhou, as long as the government is willing to go to Wanji to check, the little woman will be at ease." ”

"So you can speak?" In the face of such composure, Lord Zhizhou was not reserved, and looked at this strange little woman with some surprise.

He noticed that there was something really different about this woman.

is obviously a girl, but she exudes a rare calmness and seriousness.

Li Zhizhou stood up, "Okay, today, the official will personally go to Wanji." ”

Wan Ji has long been sealed.

A team of officials arrived, and there were a few people lingering at the door, it seemed that they had come from afar, and several carriages and ox carts were pulling the pot-bellied mothers, who were looking around why Wanji closed the door, where can the legendary midwife be found?

As soon as the officers arrived, they were surrounded by the people.

"My daughter-in-law has had a stomachache for a few days, so she has to save her life—"

"My lady is a cross fetus, and the midwife doesn't dare to take over, so she can only find a dumb aunt!"

"Tell us where she went?"

Several sedan chairs carried Lord Zhizhou, Liu Dingmao, and the master.

The mute aunt was supposed to walk, but Li Zhizhou took care of Liu Dingmao's face, called a small sedan chair and stuffed the dumb aunt in it and brought it - lest the people along the street pay attention, and Liu Dingmao's face couldn't hang it.

Qian'er, Liu Wan, Chang'an and others followed far behind.

"Bodhisattva bless - Buddha bless - real person bless - I hope that Lord Zhizhou will act impartially and not wronged my little grandmother!"

Liu Wan couldn't cry or laugh: "You, you don't pay attention to asking for people, the Bodhisattva Buddha is a real person, you ask for everything?" So half-heartedly, maybe the Buddha and Bodhisattva are angry, and no one will come to bless them, but delay things!"

Qian'er snorted: "You don't talk about cool things - as long as the little grandmother can be safe, it doesn't matter who I ask for!"

"Silence, silence—get out of the way—get out of the way—" shouted the officer in front of him.

However, the people who came to seek medical treatment surrounded Wanji, especially those who came not far away with the mothers, who were unwilling to leave like this, and noisily looked for the dumb aunt.

"Is there really someone looking for her to deliver a baby? Is it really better than an ordinary midwife?" Li Zhizhou looked at the crowd shouting in front of him in surprise.

"Lord Zhizhou-" Liu Wan ran forward, "My lady said that the situation of these mothers is very critical, and they must deliver the babies immediately, otherwise the lives of both mother and child will be in danger." So she said, please allow her to deliver them on the spot, and then go back with the old men to confess their sins. ”

Zhizhou looked at Liu Wan in disbelief, "What do you mean by that little lady, is there no better midwife on the ground without her Lingzhou?"

When a man heard this, he immediately ran over, and he knelt down and kowtowed: "Master-please ask the lord to be merciful, and allow the dumb aunt to give birth to my young grandmother--we have invited all the doctors and midwives, it is useless, so Liang Yan from Liangzhou rushed to Lingzhou Mansion for help." ”

The man said and handed over a famous post: "My family is Liang Yan Li's family, and the old man is the courtier, this woman is the most beloved daughter of our waiter——"

Zhizhou was stunned, looked at the famous post, and no longer hesitated: "Open the door, let the mother enter Wanji to give birth, and bring the dumb aunt." ”

Two female jailers rushed over, one left and one right, picked up the dumb aunt and left.

Entering the door of Wanji, the dumb aunt shook off their hands, took a quick look, and closed the store for several days, but fortunately everything in the store was the same.

She took a deep breath, quickly tore off her dirty clothes, changed into a white cloth coat, and looked back at the door, looking for someone to help—since the store was closed, the staff in the store had dispersed.

"Girl, I'm here—" Wang Qiaoshou squeezed in from the crowd, "I'll boil water—boil medicine—"

As he spoke, he found the dumb aunt's medicine box and handed it over.

The dumb aunt has Wang Qiao's hand in the palm of a wide hand, Wang Qiao's hand is very strong in midwifery, recently followed her diligent practice, as soon as the midwifery preparation and the things used on the way, she has long been familiar with the heart.

The boiling water was relatively slow, and the dumb aunt couldn't wait, so she advanced to the delivery room made of a small cubicle.

It's a strange pregnant woman.

Liangzhou people, so naturally do not come to Lingzhou Mansion to establish archives.

The physical condition of the pregnant woman is not yet known.

The dumb aunt asked quickly.

What age, how many babies are few, how long is pregnant...... While asking, flip, press, and stroke the pregnant woman's belly with your hands.

Finally, you have to check the situation at the entrance of the palace.

Wang Qiao came with boiling water in his hand.

The dumb aunt quickly washed her hands, sanitized them simply, put on white cloth gloves, and signaled the pregnant woman to cooperate in the correct position.

She was about to instruct her on how to lie down and how to curl up.

I didn't think that the woman had already taken off her middle coat and lay down, curled up her legs, exposing her lower body, and cooperated very well.

The dumb aunt was stunned, this ...... The woman seems to have gone through such a test a long time ago.

"We Liang Yan also have a Wan Ji, and it is also a little lady like you who is delivering the baby, she has checked me a few times, it is she who asked me to come to you to deliver the baby, she said that my pregnancy is dangerous, and she herself is not sure-" The mother raised her head and said intermittently.

The dumb aunt's heart is hot, Liang Yan's Wanji, bluegrass!

Xiao Nizi, she did a good job, even the women of large families are willing to accept her examination, which shows that she is doing a good job.

"This notebook, the bluegrass girl told me to bring it with me, saying that you must be useful!" said the mother, pulling out a booklet from her bosom.

"Pregnant Woman Register", the dumb aunt fumbled for the book, looking at the familiar handwriting, her vision was blurred, and her heart was hot.

It seems that his efforts have not been in vain, and the sweat he has spilled has watered a strong flower!

"Okay, with this, I have a number in my heart!" the dumb aunt quickly pointed to the inspection, and then instructed Wang Qiao to pull up the curtain, close the door, and start to deliver the baby.

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