Chapter 1 The Only Female Servant
In the eighteenth year of Daxing Yuanlong, the second day of June.
Gushui County, Zhaojia Village.
Early in the morning, it had just rained, and the mud road in the village was difficult to walk, but the door of Zhao Dabao's house was surrounded by the villagers with three layers inside and three layers outside. The village chief and the chief of the security department were all there, and even the clan prince was alarmed. Outside, the old and young in the village probed their brains, and after a while, they saw a person escorted out of the house.
It was Zhao Dabao.
Zhao Dabao has been tied up by five flowers, and he is escorted by two young adults in the village, pushing and shoving all the way, shouting all the way, "Clan father!" I was wronged! ”
"Are you wronged? Zhao Dabao, last night, the neighbors heard you quarrel with your mother-in-law, your mother-in-law was so noisy that you were still shouting to kill her. In the middle of the night, she hanged herself on the beams of the house, which was also a coincidence. ”
"I, I'm just angry talk, how do I know that she can't think about it in the middle of the night, and she hangs herself!"
"Humph! I'm afraid that you killed your mother-in-law ruthlessly, and you were afraid of taking the life of the lawsuit, so you hung her on the beam of the house and pretended to hang her, right? Someone in the house snorted, and came out after the clan lord, the village chief, and others, wearing a coarse satin robe and a shiny face.
"Zhao Tuzi, I have no grievances with you, why did you frame me!" Zhao Dabao's eyes were red.
Zhao Tuzi snorted again, glanced at the villagers outside the house, and arched his hand towards everyone in a pretentious gesture, and said, "Young and old, we all grew up listening to the stories of the older generation, and we have all heard of the hanged ghost, right?" The hanged man had long tongues, some of them three inches long! Zhao Dabao's mother-in-law hung on the beam of the house, and her tongue didn't spit out at all, isn't it strange? Just now, my clan father and I went into the house and lowered the person from the beam, guess what? ”
There was no sound outside the house, and more than 100 people stared at Zhao Tuzi, their curiosity was hung high, and they were anxious to wait for his next step.
Zhao Tuzi coughed quite facefully, and then raised his voice and said: "The rope around the neck of the Zhao family's mother-in-law is so tight that she can't take it off!" If this man hanged himself, the size of the noose should naturally be enough for his head to get into. But the mother-in-law of Zhao Dabao's family is wrapped around her neck with a rope sleeve and can't take it off! Just ask, she can't take it off after death, how did she put it in before she died? This is clearly someone strangled him to death and then hung it on the beams of the house! ”
There was still no sound outside the house, and it took a while for someone to figure it out and make a sudden sound.
"Zhao Dabao, you have nothing to defend this time, right?" Zhao Tuzi had the glory of solving the case, and said to the three old men in front of him, "The clan lord, the village chief, and the security chief, take him to see the official!" ”
The two young men who were holding Zhao Dabao began to push again, Zhao Dabao was speechless, his face turned red in a hurry, and he turned around and struggled, "Clan father! I was so wronged! You have always watched me grow up, am I the cruel man who killed his wife? My mother-in-law is fierce, when did I quarrel and fight, and I was not the one who suffered? I was so angry last night that I shouted that I would kill her sooner or later, but that was angry talk, I didn't dare to do such a ruthless thing! Father-in-law, my mother-in-law is gone, and there are still a pair of children at home, if I am wronged, how will they live? Please have mercy on my two babies, don't listen to this Zhao Tuzi! ”
The old man headed by him had a white beard and a rickety figure, and when he heard this, he looked back at a pair of crying children in the room, his face finally showed unbearability, and he sighed and said to the two young adults: "That's it, go to the county, please Miss Dusk." ”
When they heard this, they were silent.
The two young adults had no choice but to let go of Zhao Dabao and walk out of the courtyard. Outside the courtyard, the villagers automatically made way and watched the two young men move away.
Before he could retract his gaze, a childish voice came from the crowd, "Who is Miss Dusk?" ”
An old man looked at his little grandson beside him, smiled and touched his head, "Miss Dusk, she is the daughter of the county magistrate. At the age of three, he followed the old man in and out of the city to the public office of Yizhuang, and learned the good ability of first-hand autopsy. ”
The child's eyes widened, "Woman? ”
Although he was young, he also knew that all the majestic tolerances in the county government were men.
"Isn't it...... Woman. The old man smiled and sighed, "I'm afraid I'm the only maid in Daxing." ”
"Female officer?" Toddlers are curious.
"It's not official. Women can't be officials after all, Miss Twilight has not served in the county government, but the autopsy method is quite clever, the county magistrate allowed her to follow her father in and out of the Yizhuang public office, when the old man is not in the city, if there is a case, she will see the examination. ”
"That's amazing!" The young boy blinked wide, and in his eyes, anyone who can handle cases like an official is a powerful person.
"Isn't that amazing...... Alas! The old man sighed, his smile faded, "It's amazing, but it's a poor woman after all." ”
"Pathetic?"
"Poor place! Born in the twilight family, it was her bad life. The old man turned his head and looked in the direction of the county seat, and his tone was far away, as if telling a story, "I am a servant." Those who deal with the dead all day long inspect those who are dry and rotten, and have dead air on them, and when they walk down the street, the dog barks twice when they smell it. The nobles felt unfortunate and did not want to do it. Since ancient times, this line of work has been carried out by untouchables. Although the old man is a county official and has an official position, he is in a lowly position. The twilight girl was born in the twilight family, so she naturally fell into the lowly family. That's fine, her mother is still an official slave. ”
"Official slave?"
"Isn't it? Her mother's family, I heard that the original scenery was beautiful, and it was a prestigious family in Shengjing. It's a pity that the battle between the DPRK and China was convicted eighteen years ago, and all the men in the clan were executed, and the women became official slaves. Her mother was sent to Gushui County, and the magistrate at that time took a fancy to her and wanted to accept her as a concubine, but the eldest lady in the house did not allow it, and her mother did not want to, so she begged to marry the old man. The daughter of a dignified official family, and finally married a servant, alas! Poor people too. God doesn't bless the poor man, she just got married for less than two years, and she went because of dystocia. ”
The old man sighed heavily, "When the twilight girl was born, her mother swallowed her breath, and the fortune teller criticized her for being hard, and the nurses in the county town were afraid of being restrained by her and refused to feed her." The old man couldn't invite a nurse, and he couldn't bear his daughter starving to death, so he came to our village to buy two milking ewes, and pulled her to adulthood as a father and a mother. Because the fortune teller said that she had a lot of evil spirits on her body, and she could only survive with the dead, so the old man begged the county magistrate, and at the age of three, he took her with him and went out to Yizhuang, where the mortuary was in the city, and passed on to her the ability of an autopsy. It's strange to say, since the old man took his daughter to Yizhuang, whenever there is a case in our county, there is nothing that cannot be solved! This case has been solved a lot, and the official reputation of the magistrate is naturally high, and there is no one in our county magistrate here who has not been promoted over the years! People in the county town said that this twilight girl was very angry, and Xu was the reincarnation of the Yin Judge, although she was afraid of her, she was also very respectful. Even the magistrate of the county went in and out of the public office by her, as if she was a maid in the yamen. ”
The toddler was fascinated by the story, and thought it was much better than the story told by the mother before going to bed.
The old man beside him sank down again in a brisk tone, and sighed: "Alas! Even so, Twilight is a woman after all. With such a background and such rumors, I am afraid that it will be difficult to marry a good family in the future. Pity her for a good face, quite like her deceased mother. ”
"Good looks? How good is it? Is it better than Sister Axiu in the village? The toddler asked curiously.
The old man smiled and touched his grandson's head, "When the people come, you will know when you see it." ”
In June, it was raining in Jiangnan.
It had just rained in the middle of the night, and when the sky had cleared up in the morning, it began to rain again.
The smoke and rain in the south of the Yangtze River covered the winding road in front of the village, and in the rain and fog, there were rare people coming.
The waiting villagers looked at the entrance of the village, and the young children held umbrellas, excitedly went to the front, tiptoeing to the end of the road.
At the end of the road, the people walked slowly, the wind was low, the fog was light, and the skirt corners were plain white. An oil umbrella, half covering the face, holding the umbrella of a section of the wrist frost better than snow, the umbrella on the green bamboo branches, raindrops fall like jade.
The world is quiet, leaving only the sound of rain. When the visitor came to the front of the house, the villagers remembered her name as the judge of the Yin Division, and they dispersed with a hula, and their eyes were really fearful and respectful, and they watched her put away the oil umbrella and look into the house.
The umbrella was put away, and the child's eyes widened suddenly.
I saw the girl standing quietly in the rain, the jasper years, the green bamboo hairpin, a section of green silk, the wind blowing, the back is like a jade bamboo, and the style is clear. That face is difficult to describe, but I feel that only such a face in the world can set off such a clear demeanor. It's really like a bamboo in the rain, and the frost and snow are condensed on the wrists. The demeanor is outstanding, and the beauty is unparalleled in the world.
There are only gentlemen in the world, but I never thought that there would be women in the world with such a demeanor.
The people in the village are simple, they don't know how to write and ink, and they don't know how to praise, but even the young children in the village can see that compared with the girl in front of them, Ah Xiu's good face in the village is just the color of fat and pink.
The wind seemed to be still, and the crowd was silent. The three old men under the eaves had already gotten up and were about to come out, when the girl took the first step and saluted the three old men: "Three clan elders." ”
Although her voice was faint, there was a clear voice in the rain. The three old men saw that she was well-mannered, but they didn't dare to hold it up, so they hurriedly asked: "Thank you Miss Twilight for coming here on a rainy day, Zhao Dabao's family, you must have heard about it on the road." The people have been put down to the ground in the middle of the house, so please go in and see. ”
Twilight bowed his head, raised his feet and walked into the courtyard, and when people entered the house, the courtyard left a faint medicinal fragrance. The young children outside the house smelled the fragrance of Chinese medicine in the wind, looked up at their grandfather, and were a little puzzled in their innocent eyes. Why can't this twilight girl smell it?
The medicinal fragrance is quite fresh and refreshing, and it smells good!
Outside, the villagers began to wait again with umbrellas.
In the courtyard, Zhao Dabao sat on the muddy ground, his body was already soaked, but he stared at the closed door of his house, his eyes full of hope.
After a cup of tea, the door opened.
Twilight walked out, and the eyes of the hundred and ten people in the village looked at her.
"Hang yourself." She has a light temperament and concise words, but for Zhao Dabao, they are the heaviest words she has ever heard in her life.
Two words washed away his grievances and lived his life.
The onlookers in the village were in an uproar and talked about it, but Zhao Tuzi obviously said that Zhao Dabao's mother-in-law should have been strangled and hung on the beams of the house, how could it be that it was only an hour before she became hanged?
But no one didn't believe what Twilight said. The cases she handled, she didn't miss!
But the crowd didn't understand - why?
"It can't be!" Suddenly there was a shout in the courtyard, and someone jumped out, his face full of disbelief.
It's Zhao Tuzi-
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Why an ancient saying?
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