Seeing that Wang Huizu was struggling to think about it, Wei Tingkui proposed that he just go and ask Wu Niang directly. Wang Huizu sighed: "If she can say it, she has already said it just now." ”

"And what does she mean by stuffing these two beads?" The county magistrate was starting to get a little impatient.

She would rather die than return, indicating that going back is more terrible than the consequences of adultery. However, what is the purpose of the Pu family to train her so well? Wang Huizu's brows furrowed deeper and tighter.

Qin Xiong, who was sitting silently on the side, glanced at Wang Huizu and said with a disdainful expression: "Master Wang, your imagination is indeed quite rich, but you must respect the facts in judging the case, not guess out of thin air." The adulterer and adulteress have confessed their guilt, and the human and material evidence is readily available, but you still let the adults try the first instance and retrial, don't you think your behavior is even more incomprehensible? ”

Wang Huizu smiled calmly: "Sometimes what the eyes see is not necessarily the truth, the truth is often hidden in unknown places, and someone needs to dig it out." ”

Qin Xiong's eyes swept Wang Huizu sharply, and said, "Please make it clear, this is a yamen, not a construction site!" We're curtain customers, not digging tunnels! Now the case is clearly laid out in front of us, and it needs to be closed as soon as possible, and we are still waiting for the results of the trial! Is it interesting for you to say something that doesn't exist? ”

Wang Huizu smiled slightly and replied: "If you only look at the surface, then what else do you want us masters to do?" Master Qin, what do you say? ”

Qin Xiong said coldly: "Then according to Master Wang's opinion, how should this case be decided?" Each person first re-hit the 20 boards and force them to tell the hidden truth? ”

Wang Huizu said: "Torture is also a means, but it is easy to bend into a trick. ”

"Humph!" Qin Xiong glanced at him dissatisfiedly.

Wang Huizu lowered his head and continued to study the beads in his hand. After looking at it for a while, he noticed that there seemed to be a slit in the bead, and when he tried to twist it gently, the bead parted from the middle, and there was a small white ball of paper inside.

opened another bead, and a small paper ball came out of it, Wang Huizu opened it and looked at it, and there was a line of delicate words on it.

Wang Huizu handed the note to the county magistrate: "My lord, look! ”

Wei Tingkui took the note and couldn't help but read it out loud: "'I was originally a child wife and forced me to be a prostitute'." Oh, Master Wang, you are really a god! This case is really boring! ”

Wang Huizu smiled modestly: "My lord's award!" ”

Now all the doubts can be solved, the reason why Pudong Sheng raised Wu Niang for seven years and didn't let her have a round house with her son was to sell her to a brothel at a high price! No wonder he would rather bribe the official to bring Wu Niang back! Wei Tingkui suddenly realized.

"After this matter was learned by the talented and intelligent Wu Niang, she decided to save herself, but the Pu family compound was heavily guarded, and she was a weak woman with wings and could not escape, at this time, Pudong Sheng's younger brother Pudong Chen happened to come to visit relatives, Wu Niang saw that he looked talented and did not go with his brother, and did not hesitate to promise himself, the purpose was to let him take himself to escape from the Pu family compound." Wang Huizu analyzed.

Unexpectedly, the two were found by the Pu family when they fled. Pudong Pudong Sheng didn't know that Wu Niang had learned the secret that she would be sent to a brothel, and thought that it was just a simple adultery case, so he sent the two to the county government in a fit of anger. Wei Tingkui continued.

"When the adult asked Wu Niang if she pleaded guilty, in fact, she had concerns, afraid that Pudong Sheng would take revenge on her biological parents or be killed if she said it on the spot, so she thought of a way to write what she wanted to say in the note and hide it in the step shake she carried with her, and pretended to commit suicide in the hall, the purpose was to give way to the hand of the adult, hoping that the adult could see through her abnormal behavior, open this step shake, and find the note to avenge her." Wang Huizu said.

"She knows that Pudongchen will not watch her die, and will definitely defeat the silver hairpin, it seems that this Wu Niang is quite scheming!" Wei Tingkui couldn't help but sigh.

"Children who have been away from their parents since they were young are under the fence wherever they go, there is no one behind them, and everything can only be relied on by themselves, especially when she knows that she has been used and betrayed, she did not swallow her anger but learned to fight back, which is really admirable!" Wang Huizu praised from the bottom of his heart.

In his eyes, although the crime of adultery with her second uncle has been confirmed, it is understandable that she is trying to save herself. After all, to live is to have a chance to punish the wicked.

Since it's just a pawn used by the husband's family, why can't you give him a "green hat" while jumping out of the fire pit, and by the way, expose their old bottom and expose their ugly crimes to the world?

Even if you have to bear the infamy of adultery in this life, it is better than being sold to a green building, and thousands of people will not be able to turn over in your life.

Based on this, he decided to help this weak woman who dared to stand up against fate.

Qin Xiong, who was silent on the side, was very unhappy when he saw that Wang Huizu had robbed all the scenery on the first day he came.

But the hatred in his heart was itching, and he had to act like it on the surface, and he grinned a smile: "Master Wang is really extraordinary, Qin admires!" ”

Wei Tingkui saw Qin Xiong's praise, and couldn't help but say, "Master Qin, this deputy I found for you is good, right?" Yes? Hahaha! To have the two of you to assist, I, Wei Tingkui, am really fortunate in my third life! ”

"Where, where, my lord and Master Qin have won the prize!" Wang Huizu bowed down and humbly said.

"Now that there is a case in this case, then which case should we close first?" In addition to being happy, Wei Tingkui was worried again.

"Since this case was started by the crime of adultery between a child adopted wife and her second uncle, it is natural that the adultery case will be settled first!" Qin Xiong said without hesitation.

"Master Qin is right! It is also believed that the case of adultery should be settled first. However......" Wang Huizu wanted to speak and stopped.

His eyebrows furrowed slightly, staring at the public case intently, thinking about how to reduce the punishment for Wu Niang and Pu Pu Chen.

After all, if the adulterer is a relative, and the woman already has a husband, I am afraid that she will be confiscated.

These two people are thin and have never suffered hardships, and once they are confiscated, I am afraid that they will never return.

"But what? Master Wang has something to say. ”

"However, according to the bottom of the list, although it is a fact that the two committed adultery, it cannot be punished as adultery by relatives." After thinking about it for a while, Wang Huizu said slowly.

"This ......" Wei Tingkui looked embarrassed.

"The law clearly stipulates that if a woman has a husband, she shall be responsible for 90 boards; If the two parties are related, it is a heinous crime and the punishment is severe. Now, these five mothers have both a husband and an adulterer and a second uncle, which is a crime on top of a crime, how can they not be punished for the crime of adultery by relatives? Master Wang, don't you want to obey the laws of the Qing Dynasty? Qin Xiong's language is sharp and aggressive.

"Master Qin is right! Master Wang, although Wu Niang is pitiful, we are a county government here, and we have to be sentenced according to the law! Wei Tingkui said that he couldn't help.

"My lord, Wu Niang is just a child wife, she has never had sex with Pu Siyuan until now, how can she be considered husband and wife if she has not had a round house?" Wang Huizu said.

"This ......" Wei Tingkui was speechless.

"Not counting husband and wife, then Pusi's second uncle is not her second uncle. Moreover, it is clearly written on this note that she will be sent to the Qinglou to pick up guests in the future, and the Pu family has no intention of making her a daughter-in-law at all, so in my opinion, this case is an ordinary adultery case! ”

"Master Wang, you have to pay attention to evidence in everything. It's a bit of child's play to conclude that the Pu family forced Liang to be a prostitute based on just a note from the defendant, right? How can you be sure that what she says is true? And how can you be sure that she is not talking about it to get revenge on the Pu family? ”

Qin Xiong's words made Wang Huizu speechless.

"Yes, Master Wang, that's just the defendant's words, how can we be sure that what she said is true?" Wei Tingkui, who had no opinion, echoed.

"Then let go of the crime of adultery first, and then settle the adultery case after the evidence of the Pu family's crime of abducting and selling children and forcing them to become prostitutes." Wang Huizu said.

"The two defendants in the adultery case have pleaded guilty, and this case cannot be delayed any longer, my lord, the verdict should follow the laws of the Qing Dynasty, rather than judging arbitrarily according to one's own personal ideas!" Qin Xiong, who looked at Wang Huizu's left and right, strongly objected.

"My lord, this case is a question you gave me for the next exam, I hope that my lord can keep his promise and let me finish this answer sheet seriously." Wang Huizu tried his best to fight for it.

"Okay, Master Wang, you will write the verdict in this case." Wei Tingkui said.

Wang Huizu was overjoyed and wrote a verdict overnight and handed it in.

The prefect of Changzhou is a pedantic person, and when he saw the words "child wife and the man's second uncle committed adultery", he was furious: "This kind of immoral thing is so light? Don't think about passing it here! Dismissal and re-sentencing! ”

Immediately, the verdict was returned.

"Master Wang, the verdict has been sent back, how can this be good?" The people in the house asked worriedly.

This little guy has been in the county government for a long time and has seen a lot, and before that, Qin Xiong's verdict was passed once every time, and it was never rejected once.

And now, Wang Huizu's first case was rejected by the prefect, which means that his views are not recognized by the prefect, and the master who is not recognized by the prefect, does the county master dare to continue to keep him?

Wang Huizu had to re-annotate and give an explanation:

The so-called kinship is inferred from Pu Si's side, and if the two get married, then Pu Pu Chen will be Wu Niang's second uncle.

But in fact, the two are not married, how can they be called husband and wife? If it is not husband and wife, then the kinship is not established.

This time, the bitter explanation finally convinced the prefect, and the verdict was sent to the hands of the priest. Wang Huizu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this time it was done.

As a result, soon, the judgment was also refuted.

Zhen Si believes that Wu Niang called Pu Si's father Pudong Sheng as "Weng", then, he should call Pudong Sheng's younger brother Pudong Chen "Uncle Weng", since he is called Uncle Weng, then he is Wu Niang's Uncle Weng, Uncle Weng is shouted, how can he say that he is not a relative?

Return!

Wang Huizu once again explained bitterly: "Weng" has two interpretations. In the marriage relationship, Aunt Weng (father-in-law and mother-in-law) is for the daughter-in-law. And Wu Niang and Pu Si are not married, and this relationship is not established.

Wu Niang called Pu Si's father Weng, just using the folk name, which is a general name for the elderly, Weng Yuan (old husband, old woman), not Weng Gu (father-in-law and mother-in-law).

Although they are all called Weng, this Weng is not Bion.

Wu Niang and Pu Pu Sheng are not Weng Gu relationship, so Wu Niang and Pu Pu Chen have nothing to do with it.

After Wang Huizu finished explaining, he quickly ordered someone to send it to Zhensi.

This is a dedicated master, and after getting his hands on it, he looked through it directly in the sedan chair.

"Isn't this a puppet? Ridiculous! He tossed it aside.

Suddenly, I felt that the sedan chair stopped, opened the sedan curtain and asked why, and the entourage said, "My lord, someone stopped the sedan chair in front!" ”

He poked his head out, and saw a little girl with a muddy face standing in the sunset with a broken rice bowl in her eyes, looking at him with a pitiful eye, very pitiful, so he instructed his subordinates: "If you come out to beg at such a young age, there must be something difficult at home, give her more silver taels, and let her go home quickly." ”

The entourage took out a little silver tael from his arms and handed it to the little girl, the little girl took the silver tael and ran away, ran a few steps and suddenly stopped, turned around and grinned, and said sweetly: "Thank you, old man!" ”

Then, throwing two pigtails, he ran away.

He stared at the little girl's back and was stunned for a long time, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses and ask his subordinates: "What did she call me just now?" ”

"Back to my lord, she called you...... Old man. ”

"Old man, this man is not a puppet." Zhen Si shook his head with a smile, let go of the sedan curtain shut, and picked up Wang Huizu's explanation again.

Behind the sedan chair, Wang Huizu gave the little girl a rock sugar gourd, and watched the sedan chair gradually move away until it finally disappeared from sight.