The pillar also helped Yongxiang bring an invitation to the big head, and the big head took the invitation and stopped talking, first, the fourth brother didn't dare to go without speaking, and second, he didn't know how much it would cost to eat this meal.

Han Xiufeng knew him too well, and knew that he actually wanted to join in the fun, so he simply asked him to go back to the inner house to take ten taels of silver, and then go with the pillar who had just taken ten taels of gift money from Qin'er.

As soon as Datou and the pillar left, Eunjun got up and said goodbye.

Second Master Fei went to the opposite "Moxiang Pavilion" to see the dog egg write big characters for a while, and then returned to "Tingyuxuan" with a purple clay pot, and asked curiously: "Zhixing, what is the name of the little girl who came yesterday afternoon?" ”

Han Xiufeng paused, put down the book he found from the "Houyi Hall" a few days ago, and said with a smile: "It seems to be called Lan'er, not hired by my family, nor did I buy it." It was the two Mrs. Ao who saw that Cuihua was about to give birth, and there was no one around to serve them, and the big head was clumsy, so they asked her mother's daughter to help take care of it. ”

"I said why is that girl so diligent and sensible, it turns out that she is from the Ao family."

"I remember what you said, I have to quickly ask Xiao Shandong to go to Ao's house to report a message and tell them that they have been promoted!"

"Yes, yes, yes, we have to hurry up and let Xiao Shandong go and say it, so that they can also be happy."

Han Xiufeng said that he would do it, and immediately got up and opened the door, and asked Xiao Shandong, who was sweeping the fallen leaves outside, to go to Ao's house to report the good news, Fei Erye glanced back, thought about it and asked curiously: "The woman who cooked at noon looks a little familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere." ”

"You always say that you are the wife of the shopkeeper He, right?"

"That old mother is the wife of the shopkeeper He!"

"It should be, there is no one else in our family."

"The shopkeeper He has silver, how could his wife come to our house to be a mother?" Second Master Fei felt very strange and looked incredulous.

Han Xiufeng brought the door and sat down: "People didn't come to our house to be an old mother, but they came to help for a few days when they saw that Qin'er was pregnant with Liujia and had difficulty moving." It is also to take this opportunity to ...... to repay the favor. ”

"Repay the favor, what does she want to repay the kindness?" Second Master Fei was even more confused.

Han Xiufeng sighed lightly and explained with emotion: "You don't know, she has a fourteen-year-old daughter, who was born with a 'three-petal mouth' (rabbit lips), and when she was just born, the shopkeeper He saw that such a 'freak' was born, and he actually planned to let the guys in the store drown or find a place where no one was around. ”

"There is such a thing!" Second Master Fei was taken aback.

"I also just knew," Han Xiufeng took a sip of tea, and continued: "The child who was conceived and born in October, the meat that fell from his own body, where was the Ding family willing to throw it, so he desperately hugged the shopkeeper He. The shopkeeper He had no choice, he threw the door away in a fit of anger, never hugged the child again, never gave the child a good face, and even locked the child at home to raise, and did not allow the child to go out, and did not allow the Ding family to take the child out, so as not to be embarrassed. ”

"No wonder I don't know, it turns out that he is ashamed to speak, he doesn't want others to laugh at him." Second Master Fei reacted, thought about it and asked, "What happened later?" ”

"Later, the Ding family worked so hard to bring up her little daughter, and even the name she chose by herself, called Lian'er, can imagine that this means that her daughter's life is more bitter than Coptis chinensis!" Han Xiufeng paused, and then said: "Last year, I took Datou, Cuihua and Yu'er back to Beijing, she and her eldest daughter went to the guild hall to help cook rice, and overheard Cuihua and Yu'er talking to Mrs. Ji, who was still alive at the time, about rare things in Shanghai. ”

"Can the foreign devil doctor be cured?" Second Master Fei asked subconsciously.

"Coincidentally, although Yu'er has never seen how foreigners treat 'three-petal mouth', I have heard more than once that foreign devil doctors can cure it when I was in Shanghai, and as far as I know, it can indeed be cured."

"And later?"

Ding finally saw hope, but she was a woman who couldn't read a lot of words, how could she send her daughter to such a far away place for treatment, not to mention that she had to ask for a foreign devil doctor, so she could only keep this matter in her heart. Until ten days ago, I asked the shopkeeper, the storage shopkeeper and the He shopkeeper to help find a smart and reliable girl to accompany Yu'er out of Beijing together, so that Yu'er would not even have anyone to talk to along the way. She was overjoyed to hear the news, and quietly exchanged all the gold and silver jewelry from her mother's marriage for silver, and sent me here together with the private money she had secretly accumulated over the years. ”

"It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world!" Second Master Fei sighed and asked again, "You agreed?" ”

"It's not that I agreed, it was Yu'er who agreed. Yu'er felt that Lian'er was pitiful, and before Qin'er and I could speak, she took the silver and pulled Lian'er into her room. ”

"Does Shopkeeper He know about this?"

"I didn't know at first, but I didn't know until Lian'er and Yu'er walked for a few days. I don't know if I feel guilty, or I am worried that I will mistake him for a hard-hearted person, but I came here a few days ago and sent five hundred taels of silver. ”

"Did you take it?" Second Master Fei asked with a smile.

"I took it, why didn't I take this silver?" Han Xiufeng smiled, and then changed his words: "It's just to help his daughter collect it, I'll help her daughter save this money first!" ”

"Zhixing, Zhixing, you are really a bodhisattva."

"What kind of bodhisattva am I, it's really not easy for Ding, it's not easy for a mother to do this."

"Well, it's not easy to think about Ding."

Second Master Fei asked about the affairs of the family, and then looked at Han Xiufeng with a smile and asked, "Zhixing, do you have something to do at night, do you have a party?" ”

"It's okay, and there's no entertainment?"

"Then Yongxiang invited you to eat and drink, why didn't you go?"

"The general he just made is Lianshun Baoju, do you always say that I dare to go?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically, and then said: "I have heard of Lianshun for a long time, and I have heard of it as early as when I was in Ba County. ”

"You heard about it when you were in Ba County?"

"I heard of him not because of anything else, but because of a case in the eleventh year of Daoguang, which was even compiled into the "Criminal Case Review".

"Are you saying that Lianshun committed a crime in the eleventh year of Daoguang, and was also compiled into the "Criminal Case Review"?" Second Master Fei asked in surprise.

"He didn't do anything, he was just implicated." Han Xiufeng put down the teacup and explained with a smile: "He has a younger brother named Lianfeng, and at that time, it seemed to be the pen post style of the yamen, and his younger brother had a house slave...... If I remember correctly, it seems to be called Chang Zaiqiu, Chang Zaiqiu helped his son buy the daughter of another house slave and became a daughter-in-law for his son. As a result, his mother-in-law thought that her daughter-in-law was lazy and unfilial, so she poisoned her daughter-in-law to death. was worried that the poisoning would be exposed, and he poisoned the maid he had just hired at home. ”

"This woman's heart is too poisonous!"

"That woman is poisonous or not, let's not talk about this case for the time being. After Chang Zaiqiu learned that his mother-in-law had poisoned her daughter-in-law and summoned her girl, she not only did not report it to the official, but also concealed it. His mother-in-law hid from someone else's house after committing the crime, and lied that she was staying overnight. Chang Zaiqiu also ran to the home of Lianfeng's elder brother, Lianshun, the left-wing general of the Shirujing camp, and told him about his mother-in-law poisoning his daughter-in-law and calling the girl. ”

"Did you take it?"

"I didn't take it at first, and I was beaten by Lianshun's family, and then the matter should have been a big one, and none of them ran away, and one of them was all captured by the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army."

Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then said: "If that mother-in-law just poisoned her daughter-in-law, then this case is not difficult to decide, after all, 'the punishment is not the doctor, the courtesy is not inferior, and the law is not applied to the Venerable', so the mother-in-law does not have to pay for her daughter-in-law as usual, as long as it flows for thousands of miles." But the daughter-in-law who was poisoned was originally a slave, and the maid in the family was also poisoned, so the case was not easy to break, and finally went all the way to the Criminal Department. ”

Second Master Fei really couldn't figure it out, so he couldn't help but say, "Why is it hard to decide?" ”

"Because Chang Zaiqiu and Chang Zaiqiu's mother-in-law were originally Lianfeng's house slaves, and the house slaves poisoned the maids who were also house slaves, some people said that it was the house slaves who killed the house slaves, and they should be judged according to the law of house slaves beating each other. Some people also think that although Chang Zaiqiu and Chang Zaiqiu's mother-in-law are Lianfeng's house slaves, they are the same 'elders' and 'honorables' in their own families, and poisoning their own house slaves is the maid, and they should be punished according to the law of deliberately killing innocent slaves and maids, that is, there is no need to pay for their lives, as long as the rod is sixty, and the prison is one year. ”

"What's the end?"

"The Criminal Department, together with the various divisions, searched through the laws and regulations, but did not find any similar cases. After tossing for more than a year, it was finally determined that although the slaves were lowly, they also had a father-son and husband and wife relationship in their respective families. In this respect, slaves are no different from ordinary people, and if a slave adopts a child of a common household as his righteous child, or marries a woman, he is turning a good citizen into a pariah, and should naturally be treated as an ordinary person.

And the maid bought by Chang Zaiqiu Liqi is someone else's slave, not a good one, and in terms of name, it is more forgivable to buy a deed than to adopt an abandoned child. From the perspective of grace and righteousness, slaves and maids are no different from righteous sons. Weighing the severity, often Zaiqiu Po Niang poisoned the girl, and it should be punished according to the law of deliberately killing the righteous son.

Because Chang Zaiqiu didn't buy the maid for a long time, his mother-in-law poisoned the maid and should be punished according to the murder of the hired worker and should be hanged. As for the poisoning of his daughter-in-law, it is clearly a misdemeanor and there is no objection. In the end, the two sentences were added, and Chang Zaiqiu's mother-in-law was sentenced to 2,000 miles, and she was sent to Xinjiang as a slave, and she was not allowed to pay to atone for her crimes. ”

Second Master Fei reacted and couldn't help but ask bitterly: "Lianfeng and Lianshun are famous because of this case?" ”

"The people in the yamen, especially the old masters of the yamen, know all the names. By the way, Lianshun was also implicated because of this incident, and was handed over to the ministry for harboring and protecting and even beating the servants because of the domestic slaves. ”

"But how many years have passed since this incident, and besides, this matter has nothing to do with Yongxiang's treat!"

"Second master, I just said this case, I just said that I had heard of Lianshun a long time ago, and the reason why I didn't go to eat this meal was because of something else."

"Because of what?"

Because Lianshun's official reputation is not very good, in March of the twenty-third year of Daoguang, the first emperor appointed him as the counselor of Yarkand, but he was dismissed for favoritism after only seven months. Later, under the recommendation of the king of Dingjun, he was impeached by the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and then he was impeached by his subordinates when he was appointed as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and then he came back to be the imperial history of Zuodu and was impeached by his imperial history. ”

Thinking that the position of the Admiral of the Nine Gates was too eye-catching, and I don't know how many people were staring, Second Master Fei suddenly reacted: "Yongxiang climbed the high branch of Lianshun and walked very close to Lianshun. If Lianshun is unlucky, Yongxiang will be implicated! ”

"If he hadn't climbed the high branches of Lianshun, he would have been promoted to a general?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically and sighed lightly: "Rong Lu and Wen Xiang reminded him that he couldn't listen to it, so he had to stammer, and he really stammered." Therefore, we must stay away from him in the future, so that we will not be implicated in the future. ”

"What about the pillars and iron locks, do you want to remind them?"

"The pillar lock is just a small boss, and it has little to do with them."

"Where's the big head?"

"The big head is not on an errand in the Yamen, the commander of the infantry army, and he is a colleague of Yongxiang when he was in the river camp, and it is just a meal of wine, so it has little to do with it. I'm not like the pillars, the locks, and the big heads, and if I go, I don't know what people think. ”