Chapter 85 Meritorious Service Gets Rewards and Spoils
Mrs. Min and Grandma Min are very fond of eating courgette with sauce, and when it comes to rice, it also relieves greasy. Especially Grandma Min, who ate half a bowl alone.
Xu Lanyin saw that they liked it, and said that she would make more squards and send them after the end of the year.
After the meal, Xu Lanyin said goodbye, and the Min government sent a return gift, a fine cloth, a set of fine porcelain dishes, five catties of brown sugar, and also sent a carriage to send them back to the shop.
The one who drove the car was Aunt Feng, although he was the chauffeur of the county government, he often served the Min family.
Xu Lanzhou sat in front and gossiped with him, and now Lao Feng's attitude towards the Xu family's sisters and brothers is very good.
When the carriage went around to the front of the county office, he met several people in clothes who had just come out of the county office, and one of them was Zhao Wu.
Zhao Wu also saw Xu Lanzhou and asked, "Why are you here?" ”
Xu Lanzhou said with a smile, "We just went to give a New Year's gift to the family of the eldest prince of Fujian." "He can't talk about Lord Min, so he has to say Master Min.
Zhao Wu asked again, "Sister is here too?" ”
Xu Lanzhou said, "Well, it's in the car." ”
The other catchers also knew Lao Feng and greeted him.
Zhao Wu came to the window of the carriage and called in a low voice, "Sister." ”
Xu Lanyin lifted a little curtain and looked out, Zhao Wu's hair was messy, his clothes were dirty and wrinkled, and he looked like a person who was busy solving the case day and night.
She laughed, "Tired? In the evening, I will stew pork knuckle soup to replenish you. ”
Zhao Wu nodded, and couldn't wait to report softly, "We solved a big case, and I made meritorious service and got a reward...... "I couldn't help but buy good things for my sister."
The carriage walked away, and He Yu quickly withdrew his gaze from looking at the carriage, patted Zhao Wu's shoulder and said, "Boy, okay, no wonder you can be a catcher as soon as you come......
Zhao Wu hurriedly smiled, "I'm new here, and I want Uncle He to teach me a lot." ”
He Yu said quickly, "It's easy to say, but Uncle He will teach you everything I know, learn more." ”
A tall catcher squeezed his eyes and smiled, "Let's go there to relax in a while, Uncle He wants to teach that unique skill to Brother Zhao." He's still a chick, wahahahaha......"
A short catcher quickly said, "If Brother Zhao can't learn that trick, Uncle He won't take him to play in the future." Hahahaha......"
Zhao Wu scratched his head embarrassedly, and a few catchers laughed and walked forward.
Xu Lanyin's sister and brother went to the dim sum shop, Xu Dashi invited Lao Feng into the house to drink tea, and gave him a bag of dim sum.
The Qin family and Xu Lanting are also here, and in the morning, the Qin family went to the silver building to buy a silver hairpin and a pair of silver cloves for Xu Lanyin, and also bought a silver hairpin for Mrs. Xu. She felt like a widow and didn't buy it for herself.
They went to buy preserved fruits, candy, fireworks, red paper, wine, birds and chess, and then summoned an ox cart to go home.
I didn't buy pork, and now many families in the village are killing New Year's pigs, and his family only went to buy four pig's feet and a pork rib yesterday, just waiting for Xu Lanzhou and Zhao Wu to come back to replenish their bodies.
I stewed soybean sprouts and pork ribs soup last night, and stewed soybean pig's feet soup tonight. The Xu family's big house raised two pigs, and they never killed them, and they had to wait for Xu Lanzhou and Zhao Wu to be killed when they were both at home.
Back at home, Xu Lanyin began to cook. Pork trotter soup, sauerkraut stewed tofu, boiled dried vegetables, and a pot of rice stewed. Wait for someone to come back, and then fry a garlic sprout marinated pork and mung bean sprouts.
Xu Lanyin opened the door of the west chamber again, boiled a large pot of water inside, and Zhao Wu came back to take a bath.
The water boiled, she pressed the fire down, and when she was about to go home, Zhao Wu came back.
Zhao Wu carried a jar of wine and an oil-paper wrapped braised pig's head meat in his right hand, and a heavy package in his left hand.
When he saw Xu Lanyin here, he grinned. said, "Sister, I made meritorious service today, got a reward, and shared the spoils. I bought wine and meat for my family, and I bought gifts for my sister and sister-in-law. ”
The word "share the spoils" is unusually harsh.
Xu Lanyin frowned and asked, "What do you mean by sharing the spoils?" ”
Zhao Wuxian didn't answer her words. When I opened the package, there were a few large pieces of money and some loose money, as well as a brocade box. said, "Zhang Sanlang, a foot merchant in Liuhe Village, just returned home five days ago, and he lost a hundred taels of silver at night. This is what he earned after three years of hard work outside, and when he came to report the crime, he was so sad that he hit his head on the ground......"
Stealing more than 100 taels of silver is considered a big case, and after receiving the report, He Zhu quickly led them to Liuhe Village to investigate and collect evidence.
He Zhukuai's investigation found that the owner had a dog, but the dog did not bark, thinking that it should be his own family or acquaintances who often go to his house to commit the crime. The "dark line" in this village told him a key point, when the foot merchant was not at home, his daughter-in-law Li Sanniang had a concubine......
He Zhutou took them to the concubine's house and found nothing, so he arrested Zhang Sanniang and the concubine for interrogation, and beat the two of them to the point where their skin was broken. The two couldn't stand the torture and confessed, but they couldn't get the money.
In ancient times, the judgment of cases also had to be based on evidence.
He Zhu quickly changed his thinking, and asked the newcomer Zhao Wu to go to Liulu Village for two days in disguise as a merchant. I really found that Zhang Sanlang and his parents were not sad at all, and they bought meat to eat and drink every day.
Yesterday, he led people to arrest Zhang Sanlang and his parents and interrogate them separately. It turned out that Zhang Saburo was very angry when he went home and heard that his daughter-in-law was "messing around" with others, and in order to take revenge on the two of them, he thought of this way of guarding and stealing. He buried the silver under the tree in the backyard, ran to the county office to report the case, and warned his parents not to take the initiative to tell Zhang Sanniang about her concubine. That thing is not a secret, naturally someone said.
He Zhutou and others really fell into the trap at the beginning and detained the charges on Zhang Sanniang and her concubines......
Xu Lanyin praised, "He still has some real skills, and you have to learn more from him in the future." Then he asked, "What did those people do?" ”
Zhao Wudao, "Zhang Sanlang guarded himself for theft, and also reported a false case, confiscated the one hundred taels of silver, fifty rods, and imprisoned for one year." His parents did not report it, and harbored the criminal, and because he was old, he was flogged twenty. Zhang Sanniang and her concubine committed the crime of adultery, each with 50 rods, and was imprisoned for two years. ”
The prison guard was sentenced to one year for the case of self-theft and false reporting, but Zhang Sanniang and her concubine for adultery were sentenced to two years, which is the big difference between ancient and modern. If it is modern, Zhang Sanlang is really breaking the law and will definitely go to prison. And Zhang Sanniang and the others are moral mistakes, and they will be acquitted after criticizing education.
Xu Lanyin couldn't help but say, "Zhang Sanniang and his adulterer are too wronged, how can they be sentenced more heavily than Zhang Sanlang." ”
Zhao Wu looked very knowledgeable and said, "Of course, the crime of adultery is more serious than the prison guard's self-theft." When Zhang Sanniang is released from prison, she will be sunk in the pond if she doesn't get it right. Sister don't help them speak, it will hinder my sister's reputation if it spreads. ”
Well, it's true that I don't know much about the ancient laws as a modern person.
Xu Lanyin asked again, "What's the matter with the spoils?" ”