Xiao Jiading asked her to talk about the situation at that time, and she said sadly: "That day, the master was almost dying, and Lang Zhong was already hanging him with ginseng soup and letting him leave a will." At this time, I heard Lu Chao outside beating and scolding a servant girl loudly. It's loud. Lu Chao has a violent personality, but he has followed the master since he was a child, and the master is also more tolerant of him, and the master has heard of and talked about him when he beats and scolds other servants, and he only said that he wanted to change, but he didn't change it. This time it was like this again, I was very angry, so I asked the maid to tell him not to make noise, but he didn't listen, and was still insulting the servant, and laughed a few times from time to time, and the handmaid didn't dare to cry loudly. His virtue is very bad, and the old man has already given him a daughter-in-law, but he still eats from the bowl and looks at the ...... in the pot."

Xiao Jiading interjected: "This Lu Chao has already married a daughter-in-law?" ”

"Yes! It was the master of the master, who gave him our original personal maid Cuilian. Both have two children. ”

Xiao Jiading already knew that this was the common practice of large families in ancient times, matching their elderly male servants with the maids in their own houses to form a family, so that if they gave birth to a child, they were still servants of their own family, which was equivalent to getting a slave for free. And it can also make these slaves grateful and work more attentively.

"You go on."

"Where did I go?" After the old lady was interrupted, she was a little dazed.

"Speaking of letting that Lu Chao beat and flirt with the maidservant, you let the maid say, he doesn't listen there."

"Yes, yes, he didn't stop, but he continued to beat and scold, which made the maid cry and scream. I couldn't listen to it. So he went out to talk to him, but he said that the servant girl must be taught a lesson, or the master will not be there in the future. They're going to turn against the odds. I was so angry that I couldn't do anything about it, so I came back. The old lady asked me what was wrong, and I didn't dare to tell him the truth, for fear that he would be angry and say that there was nothing wrong with me. As soon as I said this, it was said that there was murder, and some people screamed that I was startled, and the rest of the room was also frightened. We ran out of the city. I saw Lu Chao lying on the ground, his skull was full of blood, and his hands and feet were still twitching. Yan Erlang held a large stone in his hand. Stood there panting. I freaked out and hurriedly asked what was going on? They all said that Yan Erlang beat Lu Chao to death with a stone. I asked Yan Erlang. Then he threw down the stone, knelt on the ground, and said Tell the officer. ”

Xiao Jiading hurriedly asked: "Did he say that he wanted to report to the official?" ”

"Yes."

As far as modern criminal law is concerned. To constitute voluntary surrender. They must first take the initiative to surrender to the public security organs and other corresponding units. The act of passively waiting for arrest is only a good attitude of admitting guilt, and cannot be found to be voluntary surrender, so even in the state of modern criminal law, his behavior cannot be found to constitute voluntary surrender, and thus he will be given a lighter punishment. In the Tang Law, the rules for voluntary surrender are much stricter, and the Tang Law stipulates that the crime of intentional homicide itself is not allowed to surrender. In other words, if you commit intentional homicide, you cannot be dealt with lightly. Of course. If intentional homicide is committed as a result of another crime, such as robbery, the crime of theft may be exempted from punishment as if it were voluntarily surrendered, but the crime of intentional homicide shall still be punished.

Therefore, Yan Erlang's behavior, whether in the Tang Dynasty or in modern times, cannot be punished lightly. It is not possible to start thinking of a solution from this aspect.

Xiao Jiading said: "You continued, what happened after Yan Erlang said that he was going to report to the official?" ”

The old lady said: "My son was very angry at the time, and when the old lady was like this, there was a fight and killed someone, so I asked the servant to hurry up and report to the official." At this time, the old lady heard the movement again, and asked what was going on outside? My son told him about it, and the old lady sighed and said to call Yan Erlang in. We called him in. Yan Erlang knelt on the ground when he came in, and the old lady asked him to help him up, patted the edge of the bed and said to Yan Erlang: "If you are sentenced to death, then who will support your old lady?" ”

Xiao Jiading said curiously: "The old lady knows that Yan Erlang is supporting his old lady? ”

"Yes, the old lady is a very kind person, and she knows the situation of the people below very well. Yan Erlang has been with him for many years, so he naturally knows the way. This Yan Erlang is very loyal and filial, and the old lady often praises him. ”

Xiao Jiading's heart moved, and he hurriedly said: "The old lady appreciates his filial piety very much? ”

"Yes, the old lady often said that filial piety comes first. If a lamb knows how to kneel and suckle, how much more is it a man? If a person is not filial to his parents, then he cannot be considered a person! ”

Xiao Jiading thought for a while, and asked carefully: "Then does the old lady want Yan Erlang to give his mother a pension?" ”

Xiao Jiading's question was very skillful, he didn't ask the old lady if he hoped that Yan Erlang would not be sentenced to death, so that he could provide for his mother's old age, if he asked like this, it would involve the question of whether to sentence him to death, because her son clearly asked for the death penalty, and this old lady looked like a person who had no idea, if she asked, she might agree with her son's point of view regardless of her son's attitude, it would be troublesome. So Xiao Jiading just asked the old lady if he wanted Yan Erlang to give his mother a pension, so as to avoid the issue of the death penalty.

The old lady naturally didn't know that this was a cliché set up by Xiao Jiading, and she wanted to use this sentence to get Yan Erlang out of the death penalty. Then he said casually: "Of course, the old lady hopes that he can support his mother for the elderly." ”

Xiao Jiading was overjoyed in his heart and immediately recorded this sentence, but when he expressed it, it was written: "According to the memories of Mrs. Zhang's wife, after the incident, Mrs. Zhang hoped that Yan Erlang could provide for her mother in old age. ”

With this sentence, Xiao Jiading felt that there was some hope for this matter. He then asked, "What about then?" ”

"Later, the people from the yamen came and arrested Yan Erlang."

"Didn't the old lady say anything more?"

"Talk?" The old lady slowly recalled, "By the way, the old lady asked Xiao Wuzi to send a letter to the yamen. ”

"Who is the little five?"

"It's the old lady's personal servant."

"What about the contents of the letter?"

"I don't know what to say, it was written by the old lady herself, and she only wrote a few words, and we didn't see it. However, before this, the old lady had been explaining the matter of watering with Xu's field. I guess that's the thing. ”

"What kind of field is watered?"

"The Xu family's field is next to a part of our family's field, we are below, they are above, if the water is sufficient, it will be fine, but when the rain is insufficient, there is a problem with watering, the Xu family is domineering, the waterway is blocked, only irrigation of his family's field, our family can not get any water. This year, it seems to be the case again, so the lord sued their family to the yamen. The scribe of the yamen presided over the mediation between our two families. Our request is that his house be watered for a day, and we will be watered for a day. That's fair. But the Xu family was unwilling. Saying that they are on top, of course, they should be poured first, at least for three days, and then for one day for us. After arguing for a long time, they gave in and said that they would pour it for three days and we would pour it for two days. Our old lady said he wanted to come back and think about it. As a result, he fell ill. On the day he died, he said about it, saying that they were all neighbors, and it would be good to suffer a little loss, and agreed with the Xu family's suggestion. Because this matter has to be decided by the owner, the old lady's letter may be written in this content. ”

It turned out to be a dispute over the relationship between neighbors and water, and Xiao Jiading asked: "Have you all seen the contents of this letter?" ”

"No, after the master finished writing, he enveloped the letter and asked Xiao Wuzi to send the letter to the yamen. After a few days, the old lady's funeral was almost over, but there was still no news of the case on the Yamen's side, I thought it was strange, so I called Xiao Wuzi to ask if he had sent the letter. Xiao Wuzi knelt down and said that he had just diarrhea that day, and he took the letter and went to the thatched house, but he didn't expect that when he was in a wide coat, the letter fell into the thatched pit. He didn't know what to do at the time, and when he arrived at the gate of the yamen to take out the letter, he found that the letter was gone, so he quickly looked all the way back, and found that the letter was in the pit and had been soaked in feces and urine. He was afraid of punishment and did not dare to speak. I had no choice but to go to the yamen in person and say that we agreed with the Xu family's suggestion, and the yamen closed the case. ”

Xiao Jiading's eyes rolled a few times and asked, "This letter was written after Yan Erlang killed Lu Chao, right?" ”

"Yes, it was the night of the day, when the old lady could barely move, and in the second half of the night, he couldn't speak or move all of a sudden, and he went when it was almost dawn."

Xiao Jiading immediately made a transcript, which was written following the above words, and after writing, the whole sentence became: "According to the memories of Mrs. Zhang's wife, after the incident, Mrs. Zhang hoped that Yan Erlang could give her mother a pension, and immediately wrote a letter to the yamen, asking the personal servant to send it to the yamen. After many days, I learned that Xiao Wuzi inadvertently fell into the pit and soaked it. ”

Such a record makes this letter, which is likely to only agree with the Xu family's proposal on the treatment of adjacent water relations, into a letter asking the yamen to let Yan Erlang give his old mother a pension!

Because the letter has not seen the real content of the letter, it is inferred that the letter to Yan Erlang intercedes cannot raise a substantiated objection.

This case is likely to be cleared up from this!

However, Xiao Jiading has another worry, that is, will the family of the deceased sue everywhere because of the change of sentence? Therefore, this worry must be solved.

Xiao Jiading asked the old lady again: "After Lu Chao died, what should I do with the funeral?" ”

"He is a slave of our family, and the government naturally pays for him to pay for the funeral. In addition, he was also given the money for the burning of the Hun family. ”

Ten times that is equivalent to 50,000 yuan. Not less. However, Xiao Jiading still wants to explore the thoughts of his family and has a bottom in his heart.

After Xiao Jiading proposed to see Lu Chao's wife, the old lady hurriedly agreed to accompany him personally, but Xiao Jiading didn't let him, he didn't want the old lady to be on the side, otherwise something would be difficult to say. So the old lady asked her personal maid to lead Xiao Jiading to see Lu's wife. (To be continued......)