A bowl of steaming chaos was swallowed, and the rebellious internal organs finally surrendered, calling the stall owner to bring a bowl of hot noodle soup, pinching a small toothpick and picking it off, while taking small sips and drinking it.

The crowd gathered under the big willow tree has dispersed a lot, and vaguely from the cracks in the people can see a little woman in gray cotton clothes holding a baby in her arms is crying in a low voice, presumably the mother and the two have encountered some difficulties, listened attentively, the people around them were messy and did not hear what to say clearly, see the little woman crying for a while and look at the baby in the swaddling clothes, full of anxiety.

It is estimated that this milk baby has some kind of acute illness, and this woman has no money to treat him, so she knelt there in the cold to raise money, this scene has seen a lot, especially at the door of the Shanren Hall opened by Zhou Langzhong, a group of groups, some old men with white hair and beards, in order to save their grandson, knelt on the wall and kowtowed to Zhou Langzhong, hoping that he would be kind enough to save him.

In the final analysis, those who open pharmacies and sit in the hall are still doing business, and if they don't have money, they won't show you, let alone treat you.

Disease is not a thing that can be cured by one or two patches of medicine, its conditioning, light ten days and a half months, heavier one or two years or two, one sticker or two patches of medicine on credit to you, then later? I can't give it all to you, people still have to buy medicinal herbs!

Therefore, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and sometimes it is no wonder that people are ruthless.

Bang bang,

The little monkeys are very cute to jump around, and some monkeys can also learn to play martial arts with sticks all over the field like people, and the dog has seen it once before, and immediately left the soup bowl and paid the bill and was about to run forward.

As he turned around, he glanced at the young woman under the willow tree out of the corner of his eye, and at this moment, his body was fixed.

The woman looked just average, but the tears left on the two eyes of the goose egg face were frozen by the cold wind, and they looked crystal bright from a distance.

The tear stains are so obvious, how many tears do you have to shed, this scene reminds me unconsciously of the picture of blood and fire, and the tears on my mother's face at that time are also so thick.

The onlookers were attracted by the sound of the monkey's gong, and under the big willow tree, only her mother and mother were left alone, and the dog sighed and walked slowly.

The ground was so cold, the young woman was kneeling in such a daze, perhaps tired from crying, and a person was silently bowing her head there.

In front of the woman was a piece of white linen with a few words written crookedly with a brush, beginning with:

Selling yourself to save your husband?

The dog was stunned, how could it be different from what he thought! Hurry up and look down again.

In order to save her husband from prison, he sold himself for five years.

This......

Look up at the young woman, who was in her twenties. At present, the maids and servants of the Dongcheng staff can also have five yuan of food and silver a month, and they can save four or five copper coins a year if they are thrifty, so isn't it a loss?

The dog pointed it out and asked her, but the young woman's voice was already hoarse, and she opened a pair of red and swollen eyes and said roughly, "The slave family will pay it off once today." ”

The dog said in his heart, no wonder many people only can't see it, and only the outsiders of Dongchengfang can take out ten yuan at one time.

Since he couldn't watch the monkey show, the dog was not in a hurry, so he squatted next to her and chatted at the moment: "Sister-in-law, can you tell me what happened to your husband and was arrested by the yamen?" ”

The woman looked up at the dog, sighed and said softly: "I don't know when I got together with a skillful hand in the same village, once I was made to do an eye, and there was nothing to do at that time, and a few days later, when the skillful hand committed the crime again, I was caught by the master and sent to the yamen, and then I confessed to my husband." ”

The dog shook her head and said that her husband was careless in making friends, and it wasn't all, to put it bluntly, he had his own thoughts that he shouldn't have, so he got such a disaster.

"When did this happen? Is the case broken? The dog asked again.

The woman said: "It's this winter, the family suffered a disaster, the baby suddenly got sick again, and he really didn't have money to take medicine, his father just, alas, blamed me for complaining about him, so he let him do this bad thing!" He's usually a very honest man, woo woo woo ......"

The more she spoke, the more sad she became, and in a moment she covered her face and began to cry again.

As soon as the woman cried, the dog's head was big, and when she was annoyed, she wanted to get up and leave, stood up and thought about it, and then squatted down patiently and said, "Sister-in-law, don't cry, how is your little baby?" Are you still sick? ”

The woman shut up, covered the swaddling clothes in her arms with her hands, and said, "I'm fine, he's sleeping." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the doll in her arms woke up, perhaps because she was hungry and began to cry, and the woman looked left and right, and saw that there were no adult men around, so she lifted the corner of her clothes and fed the child.

The dog looked at the sweet food of the baby in the swaddling clothes, and the tongue in his mouth licked his lips unconsciously.

slapped himself hard, and in the woman's inexplicable gaze, she turned around and ran to the chaos stall next to her to buy a bowl of hot chaos and brought it over, and said to her: "Sister-in-law, you eat while it's hot!" ”

The woman hurriedly waved her hand and said, "Thank you, Xiaolangjun, I'm not hungry, you can eat!" ”

Can she not be hungry, she has been kneeling here and crying for so long on a cold day, she really wants to die to save face.

The dog sighed and said: "Sister-in-law, you have to take care of the baby in your arms if you don't think about yourself, besides, I've already eaten, buy this bowl of chaos, and then take it, the stall owner won't give you a refund, so you can eat it while it's hot!" ”

Seeing that the dog said this, the young woman blushed and nodded, stretched out her hand to take it, and snorted and ate the baby in her arms.

There were few bowls of chaos, and when she saw that she had finished eating the dog and took the bowl and wanted to serve it more, the woman hurriedly stopped: "Thank you Xiaolang, don't buy it again, I'm already full!" Really don't eat it. ”

The dog sighed, and just as he didn't have enough money in his pocket, he returned the bowl as she said.

Turning back to her, he squatted down and asked, "Then how is your husband's case judged?" ”

The woman said in a low voice: "The sentence is for theft, and I broke twenty canes in court, and I was fined two times to compensate for the loss of the master's family, and the official who decided the case said that he would need to be imprisoned for three months before he could be released!" ”

The dog pinched his fingers and calculated: "The case adjudicated this winter is almost three months due today, so why do you suddenly ask for so much money?" ”

The woman said: "I don't know, today a few errand officers came to the door, saying that the official in the yamen said that the New Year is coming soon, and the remaining days will be converted into fines, and a total of ten yuan will be needed, so I can release my husband, if not, this case will be sealed, and it will be retried again in the next year, maybe he will be stabbed in the face and sent to the army to do hard labor!" ”

"I once heard from a neighbor that I was a hard worker in front of the army, and ten out of ten couldn't come back, and I couldn't find the dead bones, and my baby was still so young, I couldn't live without my father, so I had no choice but to sell myself for some money to get my husband out of prison."

After saying that, the woman lowered her head and was speechless, but the dog's heart was overturned!

These black-footed dogs are also lawless! People are obviously going to be released from prison soon, and you are tossing so much, it is obvious that the whole family will have a bad New Year!

Let's not talk about the case being sentenced and sentenced, just the matter of being in front of the army, I once heard my father say that in the "Song Criminal Law", this kind of small theft case will not go to the front of the army.

Presumably, the servants were scaring the ignorant woman into extorting some money.

It doesn't matter if it's a little money, ten dollars! This is the rhythm of forcing people to death, and the average family of four only spends about ten times a year.

This woman still has a baby waiting to be fed in her arms, where do you ask her to get such a large sum of money, except to borrow a loan shark that eats people, and the only way left is to sell herself.

The hearts of these officials are too dark! If you don't see it, it's fine, but today I happened to be bumped into by myself, and I have to ask what I said about this matter, even if it makes Liu Sanlang angry, I have to explain the matter to him, and I can't have no conscience in broad daylight.

At that moment, he picked up the woman, asked his husband's name, and then told her to wait at the tea shop across the road, and that there was an acquaintance in her yamen who could help ask, and then she strode towards the yamen with her thanks.

Searching for the old way, he went directly to the small side door on the east side of the yamen, and faced the fast road that was guarding the door with a waist knife next to him.

"Brother Lao went inside to give Zhao Zhutou a word, just say that the puppy has some miscellaneous things to trouble him!"

People who can be public in the yamen, whether they have the ability to do it or not, put it aside, none of these brains are stupid, seeing that the dog said so casually, the man didn't ask anything else, just replied and waited, then turned around and walked in.

After a while, Zhao Zhutou hurriedly walked out, and when he saw the dog, he complained: "I said puppy, what's the matter with running to my brother at this juncture!" Today, my brother is busy with his feet and does not touch the ground, I really don't have time to chat with you, and after today, my brother will have a good chat with you! ”

The dog looked left and right and dragged him to a remote place a few steps and said, "Brother Zhao, the kid has something to ask you about!" ”

Zhao Zhutou tilted his head and saw that the dog seemed to have something to say, so he nodded and said, "Say, what's the matter?" ”

The dog said, "The kid wants to ask you for a case!" ”

Zhao Zhutou was stunned and said, "What case?" ”

The dog coughed, cleared his throat and said: "There are two thieves, one is stealing and the other is in control, unfortunately they were both arrested, the yamen hit the board, and was sentenced to a fine and three months in prison, and is serving in prison, and happened to meet the yamen for the New Year, will this case be retried after the seal is opened next year?" Will it be stabbed to serve before the army? ”

Zhao Zhutou saw that the dog was talking louder and louder, and his expression was becoming more and more uneven, he was an old man who had handled some old cases, and he knew that he was fighting for others, so he pointed at him and smiled:

"I can't imagine that you, a little beggar who can't even eat enough, still have the heart to fight for others, and you deserve to be praised by many people as a 'little good man in Nancheng'!"

The dog pouted and said: "What a little good man in Nancheng, I just can't look down on the two of my mother, and I was forced to kneel on the street by the officials in the yamen in the winter to 'sell myself to save my husband'!" ”

This time, it was Zhao Zhutou's turn to be stunned, and he grabbed the dog's hand and asked, "What sold yourself to save your husband?" What the hell is going on? Tell me about it! ”