As soon as the Lantern Festival passes, the annual leave of 100 officials ends. The emperor went to court, and the government opened the door. The Ming Empire has entered a new year.

The first thing in the Inspectorate at the beginning of the year was to summon Wan Niang and Chen Lin, and the turmoil caused by "The Ugly Fox Evening Lady" was finally reflected on the court.

Because it is not a real trial, it is just an inquiry, so Wanniang, Chen Lin, and Liu's treatment is good. There are tables, chairs, and tea to serve.

Bai Tang pulled Qiu An to help Wan Niang. Li Chongyuan and Yun Luan also came to the scene to stand for their son-in-law and husband. The imperial historians of the Inspectorate looked at this battle, and they were all excited: today this court can be ashamed!

The chief inspector of the Imperial Palace, Lord Ding Ru Zhending, sat upright, and the supervising imperial history was lined up, all staring at Chen Lin and the Liu family with blazing eyes like wolves and tigers, vowing to make a good start in their battle!

Chen Lin is still good, and the Liu family is already trembling and sweating.

Lord Ding coughed lightly, and politely said to Li Chongyuan: "Lord Li, today I ask Chen Juren and Wan Niang to distinguish between right and wrong, not a trial. So that you don't have to be informal. ”

Li Chongyuan smiled reluctantly: They were all forced into the Inspectorate, and the surname Ding still said cool things!

Ding Ruzhen took out a thin booklet, put it on the desk, and looked at Bai Tang and Xu Sandao with a smile: "In recent days, there has been a lot of popularity in the market, and the teahouse and the neighborhood are talking about it. Someone reported to the Inspectorate, saying that this book does have real people and real things corresponding to it. He turned to Chen Lin and Wan Niang with a smile, "The two of you may solve the confusion in Ding's heart?" ”

Chen Lin took a breath, and just as he was about to speak, Wan Niang got up and handed over the fold of paper to Ding Ruzhen with both hands. He was in a hurry, and looked at Wan Niang's eyes with a hint of desire!

Ding Ruzhen unfolded the letter paper and praised it first: "Good words!" After reading the content, his face slowly sank.

"Chen Juren. Wan Niang said that she was your child's daughter-in-law, and she sold it to your family when she was nine years old. Later, he learned the craft of weaving and relied on her to support the whole family. Just wait for you to get married, but I don't want you to marry another Miss Li, can this matter be serious? ”

Chen Lin's face was shocked inexplicably, and before he could react, his wife had already shouted: "Lord Qingtian, Wan Niang, she is talking nonsense!" She's not my child's daughter-in-law at all—"

"Liu!" Ding Ruzhen held up the paper, "Wan Niang said that you still have her deed of sale, and it is clearly written on the deed of sale, she is the child daughter-in-law you bought!" ”

Liu's eyes widened: "This, this me, my family used to buy a child daughter-in-law, but she died of illness many years ago!" Wan Niang moved next door to my house more than three years ago. I saw that she was alone, disfigured, and living by weaving, and was very pitiful. But she has a good character and a skill, so just-just-" She stopped her mouth in time, and her eyes rolled, "and accepted her as a righteous daughter!" ”

Bai Tang raised his eyebrows. Qiu An sneered: "It turns out that Mrs. Chen still did a good deed?" ”

Wan Niang shook her head, sneered and said with her mouth: "Certificate of household registration." ”

Chen Lin's face was extremely ugly: Did Wan Niang want to put him to death? She is not afraid that she will die and reveal all her secrets?

Ding Ruzhen was prepared. He transferred the household registration information of Chen Lin's family and expanded: "The Chen family's household registration was recorded three years ago. The yellow book does state that the people of Chenjia Village, Xinghua County. The head of the household, Chen Lin, Xiucai. mother Liu, and a nineteen-year-old woman, Lin Wanniang. The surname is Lin, not Chen. He nodded, "Because Wanniang has never been married to Chen Lin, the identity of her daughter-in-law is not written on the household account - Liu, what else do you have to say!" ”

Liu slapped his thigh: "My lord, I am really wronged!" My hard-working child daughter-in-law is really dead! This lady is me—"

"Your Excellency!" Bai Tang interrupted Liu's words, "Since Mrs. Chen said that this Wanniang is not Bi Wanniang, does she have a proof?" ”

Liu Shi hurriedly said: "Yes, yes!" I'm in the village—" The son glared back at her sharply, his eyes cold and fierce, and she froze in fright. suddenly remembered: If Lord Ding went to her former residence to inquire, she wouldn't be able to hide what she had committed at the beginning!

Liu was quite beautiful when he was young, and married a mason with a blue brick house. When Chen's father was alive, he was very kind to Liu, he was capable, and he was able to grasp it inside and out, and he was reluctant to let his wife suffer hardship. Therefore, Liu's life before and after marriage is quite comfortable. It wasn't until Chen's father fell from the roof and died on the spot when he was building a house for a large family in the county that Liu's time of suffering began.

At that time, Chen Lin was only seven years old, he had already entered school, and he was very intelligent, which was valued by his husband. The pampered Liu barely supported it for half a year, and he had to make money as a housekeeper and take care of his son, so he was so busy every day that he was ruthless, and he looked for a matchmaker to buy a girl named Wanniang. Wan Niang is from another village, her family is so poor that she can't open the pot, she stays at home and waits for death, her father and mother are total, it is better to sell her! Liu has already calculated, if it is said that it is to buy a maid, he will have to give an example of money every month. How could she be willing to give it? So the deed was made to explain that Wan Niang bought it back to be a child daughter-in-law. Child daughter-in-law, it's good to give her food!

Wan Niang was only nine years old at the time, and the children of poor families were in charge of the house early, and her immature shoulders carried all the work of the family. Raising chickens and ducks, three meals a day, sewing clothes and shoes, Liu resumed his leisurely life, and gradually became bare and smooth. Relying on the thirty taels of silver compensated by Chen's father's owner, he barely supported his son to study.

It stands to reason that Chen Lin will be able to have a round house with Wan Niang after he is sixteen years old. But the shrewd and vicious Liu felt that his son was so outstanding, and his future would definitely be better! What blessing does she have to match her son? So I strictly guarded Wanniang and beat and scolded me at every turn! Once Wanniang couldn't stand it anymore and ran away from home, making the whole village know.

alarmed the clan elders in the village and reprimanded the Liu family fiercely, and she relented a little. A few days later, Wanniang fell ill, at first it was just a cold and cough, which could have been cured by taking medicine, but Liu's half of the money was reluctant to use it on her, and she was so bad that her condition worsened and she coughed up blood. The village chief really couldn't stand it, so he came to the door and forced Liu to invite a doctor, and the doctor checked the pulse, shook his head and left: "At a young age, the foundation has been hollowed out." Lack of energy. ”

After the doctor and the village chief left, he scolded the village chief for Liu's "evil woman"! He also scolded the village chief, "As the head of a village, you actually connived at the wicked woman to abuse her daughter-in-law to death!" ”

The village chief suddenly broke out in a cold sweat! Secretly made a decision.

Wan Niang's oil ran out and the lamp dried up, and it didn't take long for the fragrance to disappear as the doctor expected.

When Liu was proud that he had cleared the obstacles to his son's future, the village chief brought the doctor who had treated Wanniang, the elders of the clan, and Wanniang's father and mother to the door!

Liu suddenly felt bad, and before she had time to cry, make trouble, and hang herself, the village chief reprimanded her evil deeds in front of everyone, and directly locked her up in the small black house behind the ancestral hall.

The crowd applauded. Liu did not see the light of day in the small black house, and the days like the living dead passed for more than half a year, until her son was admitted to Xiucai, and the village chief reluctantly agreed to let her out.

Chen Lin sighed shamelessly facing the villagers, and moved out of the former residence with the Liu family.

If the government secretly visits and confirms this matter, she will not be able to escape a prison sentence! My son's future will be ruined in his own hands! Yes, Liu's mouth opened for a while, but he couldn't spit out half a word full of wrongs!

Bai Tang and Qiu An looked at each other and chuckled. Wan Niang had an accident and her identity was suspicious, so he immediately asked Qiu An to send someone to Chen Lin's hometown to find out the news. Unexpectedly, Chenjia Village in Xinghua County was destroyed by an earthquake many years ago, and the surviving Chen clan people did not know where they went. If this were not the case, the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate would not have returned empty-handed.

But the people sent by Qiu An were lucky, and found a dilapidated and collapsed dwarf stone tablet among the many graves: Lin Wanniang's tomb.

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