Chapter 188: A Bizarre Way of Death
The cause of the maid Qiuyue's death was revealed, and it turned out that she really committed suicide.
Despite this, Mrs. Ma also made a major mistake, she went to Qiuyue's room without authorization to take pearls in front and coerced Qiuyue behind, thus indirectly killing a person's life.
But these are all unintentional mistakes, at least Mrs. Ma didn't intend to kill Qiuyue.
The prefect was embarrassed, and according to the law, he really couldn't find a basis to cure Mrs. Ma's crimes, but it was not only unreasonable to let Mrs. Ma go like this, but the prefect did not allow it in his heart.
If you let Mrs. Ma go easily, you will inevitably develop her arrogance, and others will despise their maids even more.
After weighing it repeatedly, the prefect only symbolically fined her a hundred taels of silver to compensate Qiuyue's family.
This amount of money is enough for Qiuyue's parents to spend their old age in peace.
Mrs. Ma escaped in this way. But Ma Fu knew that this did not mean that Ma Liu was not wrong, but that the prefect had always followed the rules, and Mrs. Ma had just taken advantage of the law.
He wanted to compensate Qiuyue's family to make up for his mistakes, and the prefect fined him one hundred taels of silver, but he asked the account clerk to prepare two hundred taels of silver.
The little maid of the Ma family specially brought Qiuyue's family from the countryside to the capital.
At first, Qiuyue's family was grief-stricken, and they didn't forgive Mrs. Ma anyway.
But Ma Fu didn't care, he first repaid two hundred taels of silver, and then asked Qiuyue's two brothers to do things in the restaurant.
Ma Fu even bought a small courtyard in the capital for Qiu Yue's family.
Things have come to this point, and he is considered to be dedicated.
Qiuyue's brother finally stopped pestering, and the eldest brother took his sister's body back to his hometown for burial. Her second brother and parents stayed in the capital.
The incident in Qiuyue was full of turmoil in the city, which almost completely ruined the reputation of the Ma family, and Master Ma could still be so aggrieved, which shows the benevolence and righteousness of Master Ma.
The flow of people in the Drunken Immortal Building has not only decreased, but increased a lot!
Mrs. Ma is very grateful to Li Ling, if it weren't for Li Huiyuan's help, I'm afraid that this matter will be entangled for a long time. She didn't know how long she would be in her cell.
She also wanted to give Li Huiyuan a banquet at the Zuixian Mansion to express her gratitude.
When the little guy went to the inn to invite Li Ling, he refused, the Ma family is not harmonious, he has already realized it last time, this time he will definitely not be involved again.
Li Huiyuan didn't want to come over, and the Ma family had no choice, so they could only send someone to send a hundred taels of silver as a thank you.
The prefect was also very grateful to Li Ling, and the two cases were solved with the help of Li Jieyuan, and he asked Lei Zhutou to come to the inn with a thank you gift to thank the other party.
"Li Huiyuan, thank you this time, if it weren't for your help, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to close the case, not only for us who caught fast, but even the prefect wouldn't be able to explain to Shangfeng!" If the case is not resolved, it may really affect the future of a local official.
"The brothers know that Li Huiyuan is not short of gold and silver, and one of my subordinates is an Orion family, and we specially collected some game from their village, from wild boars and rabbits, etc., these are all things that cannot be bought in the market, and I will bring them to you to taste!" Lei Zhutou said respectfully.
They have already inquired, Li Huiyuan was born in a commercial family, which is not comparable to ordinary small households, and he will not be rare for mundane things such as gold and silver.
It happened that his family surnamed Zhang was worried about not being able to sell the prey, so Lei Zhutou decided to select some good prey from Zhangjia Village and give Li Huiyuan wine.
"I've already instructed the inn to keep the cupboard, and the kitchen will make these prey in batches for you to drink, if you usually have anything you like to eat, you can also order them to do it." Lei Zhutou explained to Li Ling.
The catchers brought their prey to the inn, and they naturally had to make proper arrangements.
After Lei Zhutou finished talking about the matter, he refused to leave, still staring at Li Ling with a keen gaze.
"Lei Tou, you better hurry up, there will be no such shop after this village, and Li Huiyuan is a busy man, he doesn't have much time to waste."
The catcher who came with him saw that his own head catcher was not enough, he couldn't stand it anymore, so it was better to tell the matter directly. Anyway, he also let Li Huiyuan give a happy word.
"This ......, Li Huiyuan, this time we do have other things to ask for besides coming over to express our gratitude to you." Lei Catcher said everything.
His hometown is in a small mountain village 100 miles away from the capital. There are beautiful mountains and rivers, and the people are outstanding. It used to be a great place to look forward to.
There are about 100 households and more than 400 people in the village. It is mainly composed of villagers with the three surnames of wind, cloud, and thunder.
Each of the three clans has a chief, and the village is headed by the patriarch of the three clans, which rotates every ten years.
Originally, the villagers had lived like this for generations, but they were all right.
Who knew that since the patriarch of the Lei clan took over the position of Zhongzheng five years ago, the tranquility of the small village was completely shattered, and the demon extended his sinful palm to the villagers.
Uncle Lei Zhutou has only been in office for a few months, and there are constantly old people and children in the village who are constantly losing their hair, nausea and even convulsing all over their bodies. Doctors from far and near have been cured.
Some people even brought their relatives into the capital to let Lei Zhutou help find a way to treat them, but unfortunately, the so-called doctors in the capital were helpless.
Things got worse, and slowly the young adults also developed symptoms.
Everyone suspected that the patriarch of the Lei clan had brought bad luck to the village, so they persuaded him together and gave up the position of the patriarch and Li Zheng to Father Lei.
Unfortunately, Father Lei did not bring good luck to the people in the village, and the villagers' conditions continued to deteriorate, and finally began to die.
Villagers kept falling, and the people in the entire mountain village panicked, at this time, it was obvious that it was not just a matter of re-electing Li Zheng, and everyone could not stay in the village.
In order to be able to survive, people keep dragging their families out of the village and leaving other places.
Many people came to the capital to join Lei Zhutou, most of these people have not read much, but they have the strength, in order to live, in order to live in the capital, they have done any work they can think of.
Householders, watchmen, and even go outside the city to help people do farm work. Lei Zhutou ran and broke his leg, and finally settled the villagers.
And the two people in front of him who came with him to give Li Ling gifts were the young men in the village.
However, there are still some people who do not want to leave their homes in the mountain villages, suffering from diseases and may die at any time.
"Li Huiyuan, help us one more time, please take a trip to the village and find the source of the disease!" The three of them pleaded together. (To be continued.) )