Chapter 66: Eighty or Ninety?
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Li Zheng led people to the gate of Widow Ma's house, and easily pushed the door open, and couldn't help but be surprised, and said in a low voice: "Sure enough, there is a thief, this door has been opened." ”
Liu Yuanshan, who followed behind, smiled in his heart, and said secretly: What is the door, the doors of the main house are opened for you to ensure unimpeded.
"Let's go!"
Da Lang waved his hand, followed by a few men and went up.
Walking to the door of the main house, listening to the silence in the room, someone couldn't help but say: "Did the thief run away, why didn't there be any movement at all?" ”
"I can't run, the thief is still in the house." Da Lang took the lead, raised his foot and kicked it hard, and kicked the door of the main house of the horse widow's house open with a "bang", and everyone was stunned by Da Lang's actions for a while.
The people outside were stunned, but the people inside were frightened.
"Ah......h
"Who ......" was Liu Xiaozhong's panicked shout.
"Sure enough, there are thieves!"
After hearing the man's voice, a large wave of people poured into the whole courtyard in an instant, pouring into the main house of the horse widow like flowing water, but unfortunately there was a black hole inside, and it was impossible to see who the thief was.
Liu Yuanshan willingly made a handful of Lei Feng, slowly took out a torch from the side, and then slowly lit the torch, handed it to Da Lang and said, "Here you go!" ”
"Okay, this little thief, I'll see where you run!" With a torch, Da Lang walked less than two steps in the black hole room, and the whole room was brightly lit, and everything inside was impressive.
On the big red bed in the middle, the horse widow wore a drape, dragging the quilt and trying her best to hide her body, while on the other side, a **** man who was also wearing a cloak bowed his head deeply, and his face was like ashes!
"This ......"
The people who came to catch the thief were not enough for a while!
Isn't this to catch a thief? When did it become a traitor?
Da Lang didn't know it, so he smiled and said, "I see where you thief are running now, hand over the stolen things to me." Holding a torch in one hand and vigorously pulling away the red quilt on the two of them with the other, the spring light of white flowers suddenly illuminated everyone's eyes.
"Alas! What a wickedness! Li Zheng's face turned pale, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You, you, Widow Ma, you have done a good thing!" ”
There were greedy people looking at the fat figure of the horse widow, some disdainful of spitting and abandoning, and naturally there were also the horse widow's close relatives who were trembling with anger, only Da Lang was excited, walked to the head of the bed and pulled the man off the bed, and said: "Let me see who you are this thief." ”
The long hair in front of the man's face was lifted, and Da Lang suddenly froze in place, and shouted with a disbelieving expression: "Dad? ”
"Big brother?" Liu Xiaohou shook his head fiercely, as if telling himself that this was not true, but that it happened in a dream.
"Filial piety?"
In an instant, many people saw the adulterer's face.
"I'm not Liu Xiaozhong, you recognize the wrong person!" Liu Xiaozhong's face was pale and trembling, his eyes searched everywhere to find his clothes, but he didn't know where the clothes were placed after looking for a long time.
"Dad, it's you, I won't admit my mistake." Da Lang put down the mallet and said.
"Liu Xiaozhong, I'll kill you!"
A brother of the Wang family rushed out of the crowd, and the mallet in his hand fell on Liu Xiaozhong like raindrops, and Liu Xiaozhong could only hold his head and wail.
Although his brother has passed away, and although his younger siblings are widowed, he can't tolerate Liu Xiaozhong bullying him like this.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting!" Liu Xiaozhong wailed, and Da Lang pulled the Wang family back.
The whole room was in shambles.
Li Zheng's face was pale, and he glanced at the horse widow who had shrunk under the mattress, and said to everyone, "Go out and come to the courtyard." You two put your clothes on. ”
Liu Yuanshan quietly pulled Da Lang to the side and whispered: "Da Lang, someone will definitely beat your father later, you better hurry home and call your mother and our grandmother out." ”
"Good!" Da Lang turned around and ran.
The people in the house gradually withdrew, and the originally cold courtyard suddenly became more lively than the market.
"Adulterer, *** me!"
"Alas, the reader."
"Liu Xiaozhong, some time ago he sold his nephew to force his sister, I know that he is ruthless, but I didn't expect to do this kind of thing that is not as good as pigs and dogs, this is ......"
"It turned out to be a shameless well-dressed beast!"
"He's still thinking about taking the test for fame, hehe, he won't be able to read in the future, and he won't be able to become an official."
In ancient times, the imperial examination tortured the background, once there was a stain on the body, it would not be tolerated by Shilin, even if the article was as splendid as mountains and rivers, there was no chance to be a leader, Liu Xiaozhong this time, it can be said that his future and fame were ruined.
"I'm sorry, I'm still testing for fame, and he deserves it!"
"Hehe, even if he is allowed to take the test, what if he can still be admitted to Xiucai? Just like him, God won't let him live. ”
……
While there was a lot of talk, the horse widow was carried out of the room by several big men, thrown into the courtyard, and scolded by everyone.
Liu Xiaozhong's clothes were searched for a long time but he couldn't find them, so he had to come out with a mattress.
Li Zheng was already upset with him, and immediately became angry, stepped forward and tore off the mattress on his body, and scolded: "There is a bastard with immorality, you still have the face to wear clothes, come here, give me a beating, according to the law of Emperor Taizu, hit ninety boards first." ”
Liu Xiaozhong was pushed and pushed to the ground, and argued strangely: "Lord Lizheng is wrong, there is a saying in the Da Ming Law, there is a saying in the law of the Ming Dynasty, there are eighty adulterous rods without husbands, and ninety rods for adultery by husbands." Ma is widowed and has no husband, and the two of us should each receive eighty boards. ”
"Poof...... Many people were amused by him, what time was this, and they were bargaining.
Theoretically speaking, the Ming Dynasty did not allow people to use lynching, but there was one exception, that is, "fornication!" The Ming Dynasty not only stipulated that fornicators could use lynching, but even stipulated that husbands were not guilty of killing people on the spot when they caught their wives fornicating with others. It can be seen that the entire Shilin class has a deep hatred for fornication.
But the woman must go and be clothed with the rod.
Li Zheng was afraid of making a fool of himself, so he didn't let the horse widow take off her clothes, which was considered to be an open side.
The villagers took out two bamboo poles nearby, and under the auspices of Li Zheng, they each beat 90 boards. Of course, this kind of bamboo pole is the original ecological bamboo pole, not the kind that is filled with mercury in the yamen, and the beaters are merciful, although it is ninety boards, it will not kill people.
Not long after, Dong and Guo ran out of the house in a hurry, and when they saw Liu Xiaozhong's appearance, the two of them knelt on the ground and cried, hugging Lizheng's thigh and begging for mercy, but at this time, people also beat up, and it was too late to plead.
"Tie it up, send it to the county government tomorrow!" Li Zheng waved his hand and ordered someone to tie up the two adulterers** and send them to the county government overnight. Of course, in the end, Guo was allowed to put clothes on Liu Xiaozhong's body.
After the lynching is used, as for how the county will punish him, it doesn't matter to him. Li Zheng didn't bother to ask again, shook his head and walked back, and said as he walked: "Bad morals, alas! ”
(Don't worry, this is the end of the family fight!) )