The day before yesterday, a government official came to report to Chen Qiao: "There is a murder at the root of the city wall of the West Gate!" ”

There was a murder, and Chen Qiao definitely had to go to the scene. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he came to the door of a house at the base of the city wall of the West Gate, Chen Qiao saw a corpse hanging from a tree.

"Who is the bitter master?" Chen Qiao frowned and asked.

"I am!" A young offspring answered on the sidelines.

"Who are you dead?

"I am the grandson of the deceased!"

"What caused this?"

After listening to the narration of the young descendant, Chen Qiao understood what happened.

The deceased's surname was Lu Hui, and he was an old man in his sixties.

Lu Laohan's son and daughter-in-law used to run a grocery store in the city, and he took care of his grandson's study at home, and the family was happy. Later, there was a sudden fire, his son and daughter-in-law were both killed, and Lu Laohan was unable to take charge of the store, so he sold the grocery store and took his grandson to sit at home.

One day, Xu Damin, a neighbor, came to Lu Laohan to borrow a hundred taels of silver.

Half a year later, Lu Laohan asked Xu Damin to repay the money and pay interest, but found that the IOU had become a blank piece of paper!

The two had an argument over this. Lu Laohan couldn't get an IOU, so he hanged himself from a tree at the gate of Xu Damin's house......

"Pass Xu Damin over!" Chen Qiao instructed the officer.

The official pounded the door for a long time before Xu Damin walked out with a tired face.

Chen Qiao pointed to the corpse on the tree and asked, "Look at it, why is this?" ”

Seeing this, Xu Damin asked in horror: "Why did Lu Laohan hang himself in front of my house?" ”

The officials dismantled Lu Laohan's body, and Chen Qiao ordered the servants who came with him to inspect it on the spot. After the inquest, it was reported that there were two strangulation marks on the neck of the corpse, which should have been hanged elsewhere first, and then the body was removed here......

As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Damin immediately shouted injustice and asked the government to arrest the culprit of moving the corpse and killing people as soon as possible.

Chen Qiao waved his hand and said, "Since Lu Laohan's death has nothing to do with you, you don't want to add to the chaos anymore." ”

Lu Laohan's grandson quit: "Why do you have nothing to do with him?" If it weren't for his deliberate intention to ignore people's money, how could Ah Weng seek his own death? ”

Chen Qiaoxun said: "If someone asks you for money with an unwritten IOU, are you willing to admit it?" You are the most suspicious of moving the corpse and framing people, you are a talented and excellent character and learning, unlike the wicked, first carry your Aweng's body back to be buried, and wait for the official to slowly find the evildoer. ”

After listening to Chen Qiao's story, Zhang Baoer always felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't figure it out for a while.

At this moment, a government official came to report: "There is a daughter-in-law who came to the yamen to accuse her mother-in-law of making vinegar and selling it without permission." ”

"Daughter-in-law sues mother-in-law?" Zhang Bao'er frowned, and instructed the officer: "Go to the court, I will try this case!" ”

When she arrived at the lobby, Zhang Baoer ordered the arrest to arrest the mother-in-law quickly.

Zhang Baoer has never shied away from the people in the trial, and at this time, many people have gathered in the hall to watch the excitement.

After a while, the mother-in-law who brewed vinegar had already come to the hall.

Zhang Baoer asked: "You brewed vinegar and sold it privately, but the facts?" ”

When the mother-in-law arrived at the lobby, she was so frightened that she couldn't give up, her face was pale, she kowtowed like pounding garlic, and kept saying: "Xiaomin deserves to die, Xiaomin deserves to die, brewing vinegar without permission, violating the criminal law." I just ask for forgiveness from adults, and I won't dare to do it next time. ”

Zhang Bao'er nodded and said: "Wine, vinegar, salt and iron, the state monopolizes it, and you make vinegar and sell it privately, which is a crime." Thinking of your first offense, the scale of the transaction is not large, and you can admit your mistake above the lobby, and punish you with 20 boards to see the after-effects. ”

Soap Li was about to press down her mother-in-law to torture, Zhang Baoer waved her hand and said, "Wait." ”

Zhang Baoer turned to ask the daughter-in-law again: "Your woman understands the righteousness and kills her relatives, which is worthy of praise." I wonder if you are filial to your mother-in-law at home? ”

The daughter-in-law hurriedly said: "The county magistrate is Mingjian, the little woman is at home, filial piety to her mother-in-law, and abiding by women's morals. The front door does not enter the nun, the back door does not enter the monk, I am a man who can stand up with my fists, and I can walk over a horse on my arm. If you ask my neighbors, as long as they talk about me, no one will not give me a thumbs up. I served my mother-in-law, I asked for peace at three in the morning and five in the evening, and only when she was healthy and healthy, I could sleep at night. Once my mother-in-law is sick, I can't wait to take her pain on myself and share the pain with her. ”

Zhang Baoer laughed and said: "What a filial woman, it is really moving." Today your opportunity has come, and this official has fulfilled your filial piety. Your mother-in-law has to suffer 20 boards, so let you go and take it for her. ”

In front of the hall, he pressed the little daughter-in-law down to the court, slapped her ass with 20 boards, and the case was closed.

Zhang Baoer's peculiar verdict made the onlookers in the hall jaw-dropping.

As soon as the trial of the case here was completed, two more people pulled and pulled, scolded and scolded, and surrounded by onlookers, came to the county government to file a complaint.

One of them turned out to be Zhang Baoer's old acquaintance, the original county Cheng Qingquan.

Seeing Cheng Qingquan, Zhang Baoer had a playful smile on her face.

Zhang Bao'er ignored Cheng Qingquan and asked another young man: "Who is your surname and where do you make a living, to be honest." ”

The young man hurriedly said: "My surname is Wu, my name is Wu Da, I live in Wujiazhuang, and I am a Zhuang family!" ”

"Why do you have a dispute, come quickly!"

"Lord Prefectural Order, this is the ......"

Wu Da and his mother relied on each other for their lives, serving two acres of vegetable gardens to survive. Every morning, Wu Da has to pick a load of green vegetables and go into the city to sell them. got a few money, bought some firewood, rice, oil and salt, and came back to pass the time.

Wu Da's mother saw that her son was not too young, so she asked the matchmaker to go around to say goodbye. However, no girl from any family wants to marry. Three rafters grass house, four walls, which daughter can endure such hardship.

Early this morning, before dawn, Wu Da picked up a load of vegetables and entered the city.

When he walked to the city gate, he vaguely saw a ball of paper on the ground, so he picked it up and put it on his waist. When I arrived at the vegetable field, it was still early, and the vegetable field was deserted, and there were few people in sight.

He put the flat shoulder on the steps, suddenly remembered the paper ball he had picked up, felt it out and looked at it, and was surprised! This turned out to be a stack of silver tickets, count carefully, a full sixty taels of silver! Wu Da had never seen so much silver, and pinched his thigh to prove that it was true.

Wu Da stopped selling vegetables, and poured the vegetables in his burden to a familiar vegetable vendor.

Wu Da came to the money village and exchanged a silver ticket with the smallest face value for three taels of silver. I went to the butcher shop to cut three catties of meat, went to the rice shop to measure three buckets of rice, and went to the cloth shop to cut a piece of cloth for A-Niang, and I didn't spend a tael of silver in total.

Wu Da's mother saw that her son had gone home early and had bought a lot of things, so she asked strangely, "Why do you buy so many things during the New Year's Festival?" Came back so early today and met a good market? ”