Someone behind couldn't help but ask: "What is Chen Laoaxe?" ”

Lao Tang said: "It is that Chen Siqu, he was running errands in a small cloth village in Chenliu Town, and there was a day when a few gangsters went to make trouble, and everyone else hid to the side, only he rushed to the front with an axe, and won the favor of the main family with this knowledge, since then the carp rushed to the sky, and others gave him a mixed name, called 'Chen Lao Axe'." ”

"This matter can be concealed for a while, where can it be concealed for a lifetime, after a long time, someone will penetrate the bottom, in fact, this Chen Lao Axe was originally a good man walking on the road, but he is smaller, it is better to be more conspicuous, he was born in Zhuxian Town, and the few who hit the door that day were in a group, and he lost at the feet of the Son of Heaven, he didn't dare to be a ringing horse, and I don't know why, he actually ran to the Li family's cloth Zhuangzi, and gave him a mixed head!"

Counting the old things, even though he had tried his best to cover it up, Old Tang's tone was still a little sour.

He said it, but he was not satisfied, and asked again: "Do you know Feng Erjiu, who manages the tea shop for the Wei family?" ”

Seeing that the people beside him hadn't reacted yet, the handyman who was close to him hurriedly nodded and said, "The one who came to the yamen in the moon?" I heard that he relied on the Wei family's tea to buy and sell, and he has made endless money for several lifetimes, and in a place like Chao'an Street, it is actually a courtyard that can be placed in three entrances! ”

Old Tang sneered and said: "The buckle and rope surnamed Wei is the manager of his family, it would be good to be able to leave three melons and two seeds, what else do you expect to enjoy endless silver money in a few lifetimes?" According to the southerners, it was an old cat with a salted fish on its nose - sniffing fish! ”

The crowd laughed.

Speaking of Xingtou, Lao Tang's voice was a little uncontrollable, and he said with spittle: "Feng Erjiu's family background is all based on being a steward in the Li family back then. It is said that men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, the Li family is rich and noble, and if they get that son-in-law, they will also lose seventy-seven eighty-eight, how can you be Chen Laoaxe to gain power......"

"There are more than ten old shopkeepers in the Li family in the county alone, Chen Lao Axe is a foreigner, or a small shop in Chen Liuzhen, how can you subdue those old ones behind him?"

He laughed twice and said, "I heard that the master of Bu Zhuangzi didn't take care of things much in those years, so he had to be a little bit ......."

Old Tang was only halfway through his words, when he inadvertently glanced ahead, and said "Huh" - it turned out that the black shadows had already walked only a few feet away from here.

Several people heard the voice, turned their heads, and said strangely: "It's not like the Chen family." ”

The sharp-eyed humane: "The little lady in the back is so handsome." ”

"The oil umbrella is blocked like this, and you can still see whether you are handsome or not, do you have a pair of eagle eyes?"

The other little handyman said a little sourly: "Didn't you see that she was dressed as a woman, no matter how handsome she was, it had nothing to do with you, it was better to comb the girl's hair next to her, so there was still a hope!" ”

"When I saw a good-looking person, I didn't have the luck to marry home, and I couldn't even look at it?" The man in front of him pouted angrily.

Someone else echoed: "What does the other person's pot have to do with you, what you eat in your own bowl, I see that although the appearance of the one behind me is ordinary, it is quite kind, and it is also a girl's head." ”

Rao is weather is extremely cold, and the snow has been falling, which has not stopped a few young women from judging their heads.

Old Tang listened to it funny and said: "You babies, you have only been weaned for a few years, and you don't pee according to your own virtues, and you dare to talk here." ”

Someone was not convinced, and said: "Uncle Tang I don't like to listen to this, look at their dress, but ordinary fabrics, I haven't seen any good jewelry, Mo Dao I just said two words, that is, it is a real match, and it may not be that anyone is inferior to whom, how do you not know the depth?" ”

Without waiting for Old Tang to speak, the old handyman next to him laughed and said, "What a Jiang Lin!" Say you're still not convinced, who taught you to look at people and only look at clothes......"

Jiang Lin frowned his eyebrows, and was about to refute, when he saw that the person was about to walk in front of him, he stopped, and saw a man and two women walking one after another, but after seven or eight steps, he followed two little ladies, the person on the right was holding an oil umbrella in his hand, because of the direction of the cold wind, she was poking her head out of the umbrella, as if adjusting the umbrella surface, revealing a round face, and sure enough, there were five or six points of appearance.

The woman was so focused on the direction of the wind that she didn't pay attention to her feet, but somehow she suddenly stumbled and pounced, and fell into the snow like a dog gnawing mud.

As soon as she fell, the oil umbrella in her hand naturally fell to the ground.

The little lady on the side reacted very quickly, shouting "Qiu Shuang" in her mouth, and in an instant, she opened the oil umbrella that was blocking the two of them and set up half of the person.

Jiang Lin stood close, subconsciously took a few steps forward, and helped pull the person up, but before he could straighten his waist, he heard someone ask, "It's okay, right?" Where did it hurt? ”

The voice was as clear as a stream, but it was full of concern, and it warmed people's hearts.

He couldn't help but look over.

The other party also bent over, as if listening to the fallen woman, and when he turned his head wrong, he met his gaze, and said softly: "Thank you little brother for your hand, hard work." ”

She smiled and thanked her, her tone sincere and earnest, and her face was reflected in the snow under her head, as if it were transparent.

Jiang Lin involuntarily held his breath, lest he accidentally blow too loudly in one breath and melt the other party.

The little lady was wearing a cotton jacket, and her whole body was dark blue, and there was not even a little embroidery on it, but I don't know why, it was obviously a rough dress that could be seen everywhere, and it looked exceptionally clean on her.

Jiang Lin has been bold since he was a child, and he is also young and young, he meets a little lady of the same age on weekdays, but if he is neat, he has to look at it twice, if he looks good, he can't say that he has to find an excuse to come forward and say a few words.

However, at this time, he saw the woman opposite, and inexplicably, he suddenly felt a little ashamed of himself, and he was at a loss for a while.

The weather was too cold, boiling water and firewood, his house had not bathed for many days, his clothes had not been changed, and he was often sent to clean outside the yamen, and his pants had already been stacked with layers of mud, and the cuffs were also thick black stains.

He was a little remorseful, and unconsciously wanted to tidy up the hood on his head, but he raised his hand but touched his hair first.

It was greasy and greasy, so dirty that Jiang Lin's face was about to turn red.

But in the blink of an eye, a man and two women in front of him had already turned around, and the woman who had fallen also stood up straight, as if she had eased up, patted the snow slag on her dress, and stepped forward to thank her.

Jiang Lin didn't remember what he had replied to, so he couldn't help but secretly look at the woman in green clothes, and when he reacted, he had already gone far.

A group of people gathered around behind, and a small handyman pulled a few times in the snow, dragged out a shovel, and said with a smile: "Jiang Lin, you tripped people and are still pretending to be stupid here!" ”

He woke up empty-handed, and it turned out that the shovel had just fallen on the ground, but he had to laugh wryly, and couldn't help but look at the back of the woman in Tsing Yi ahead, and muttered to himself: "I'm afraid it's not the little lady of the Zhang family......"

It was still enclosed, and not far away the sound of Dada's horses' hooves and wheels rolling on the snow.

The crowd followed the prestige, and sure enough, they saw two carriages coming in front of them.

The car swept by, stopped a few feet away from the yamen, and many people came down from above one after another.

Old Tang pointed to one of them and said, "See that one in a sheepskin jacket?" ”

Several people hurriedly probed to look.

"That's Dr. Zhang."

Before they could reply, they heard the sound of horses' hooves, and this time everyone recognized it.

"It's Chen Yuan's family!"

"The two actually bumped into each other at the door!"

"I'm afraid I'm going to fight?"

"Yamen, who dares to fight? Don't say we're still standing here, there's a bunch of water and fire sticks waiting in there! ”

"The revenge of killing my father, if you don't fight, can't you just do it?"

A few handymen in this compartment were jousting, and the two families in that compartment entered the door early.

Not long after the main lord arrived, the number of pedestrians on the road gradually increased, and they all walked towards the yamen.

In the winter, it has snowed for many days, and there is little pastime in Xiangfu County, and it is rare to encounter a lawsuit.

Not long after the ascension drum sounded, people poured out of the gate.

The snow can be swept every day, and it is more important to see the excitement than it. The handymen packed up their things and followed.

The trial has already begun in the lobby.

Jiang Zhixian sat on the top and asked the bottom of his head: "What is the inside story of Chen Siqu's long needle on the back of his neck, you don't have to deceive, you recruit it from the truth!" ”

Dr. Zhang's skin and face are wrinkled, and his hair and beard are white, but his face is ruddy, and he looks quite energetic. He bowed tremblingly and said, "So that the officials know that although the villain had seen Chen Siqu that day and administered an injection, he did not pierce the back of the neck ...... needle."

He said a medical case, and finally said: "Although the villain is not a famous doctor, but these many years of medical practice is cautious, no matter the use of needles, medicine, all according to the medical theory, Fengfu acupoint is the back of the head acupoint, that Chen Siqu has no disease in the brain, although the person is in a coma, more is a disease in the heart, now can not find the former medical case as evidence, but when the consultation is accompanied by many people from the Chen family, there is no reason. ”

***

Qiu Shuang held Qiu Lu's hand, and he didn't feel that the knee he had just knocked hurt, and he was standing in the crowd listening to gossip with relish.

"As soon as Chen Siqu died, Dr. Zhang fled to Linxian with his family, in my opinion, it was all because there was a ghost in his heart, otherwise he would have sat upright, how could he hide?"

"Fart! The Chen family had already smashed the gate of Zhang's house, and more than a dozen heroes were blocking outside every day, if he didn't dodge, he wouldn't die? ”

"Who said no, like Dr. Zhang, although he was not old enough, it was not easy to get it, have you heard of the Su family in Chunping Lane?"

Someone soon answered: "But it's the one that grows yellow peonies." ”

"That's right, now it's a family, and it used to be very poor, his eldest son, the one who was born with the original, was just a short-term hire for the gate garden in the capital, and then he got a strange disease, and he couldn't be cured in the capital, so he could only take it back, and he didn't know how many doctors, all of them were useless, and then he invited Dr. Zhang to go - in fact, it was just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, who expected that the medicine was prescribed and the needle was injected, and after one or two months, people were able to eat and sleep, and slowly got better. Since then, the word has spread, and many people who have incurable diseases are willing to ask Dr. Zhang for consultation, and many people have been cured......"

"Then why did he use a needle to kill Old Man Chen?"

The bystander replied: "When Chen Siqu was arrested and imprisoned in prison for a long time, it was a big winter, and he had already lost half his life, and no one was watching, and it was common for him to get out of the prison cell, and it was common for him to have a few more bones and a few pieces of meat. He came out with his eyes closed, and he didn't have a chance to talk to anyone, and the devil knew what was going on. ”

Another humane: "It's not a matter in prison, and it's hard to say if you give the Chen family an injection after death...... Those who can testify are all members of the Chen family, how can Dr. Zhang explain clearly. ”

"But why did the Chen family bother to prick that Chen Siqu with a posterior needle? It doesn't make sense! ”

The case was still being tried in the hall, and the busy idle people outside couldn't enter the inner hall, so they had to gather around and talk about it, lest others not know how much they knew.

After Jiang Zhixian asked, he turned to the Chen family and said, "Chen Siqu has been dead for many years, why didn't you appeal at the beginning, but you didn't come until today?" ”

Chen Shoudao: "The villain's father has always been in good health, but he only lived in prison for more than ten days that day, how could he be sick when he was released from prison? Moreover, he foamed at the mouth before he died, and his hands and feet were convulsed, in the past, the villain was young and ignorant, and he couldn't answer when he went to ask Dr. Zhang, so he no longer pursued it, but now after many years, I think back, I only feel that it is very wrong, and I only decided to open the coffin for an autopsy ......"

One question and one answer in the hall, whether it is Chen Shou or Dr. Zhang, they all insist on their own words.

Doctor Zhang argued: "I have no grudge against that Chen Siqu in the past, and I have no enmity in the near future, what good is it for me to kill him?" ”

"In the second year of Xianping, you were still squatting in Tianyuan Hall, renting a humble house on Taiguang Road to sleep in, and when you moved to Linxian in the third year of Xianping, you could buy a house immediately, where did you get the money?" Chen Shou scolded, "The surname is Zhang, I respect you for being an old man, don't be embarrassed!" ”

Doctor Zhang suddenly changed color, and said angrily: "The old man has been practicing medicine for decades, and he has a foothold based on medical ethics and medical skills, the world is not full of wolf-hearted and dog-lung people, there are always people who know how to repay their kindness, can't they save money to buy a house?!" ”

Chen Shou sneered: "Your family doesn't have that ancestral tomb yet!" ”

He turned his head to Jiang Chengde in the hall and said: "So that the officials know that this surnamed Zhang Yuan colluded with others and made a good appearance of medical skills, but he was a person who got into the eyes of money, he received the benefits of others, his hands were poisonous and spicy, and he didn't save people with needles, but he actually harmed my father's life!" ”

Dr. Zhang said angrily: "In the court, you actually made such a slander, you said that I killed your father's life, but there is evidence?!" ”

"Isn't that broken needle evidence?! Except for you back then, where was there anyone else close to my father?! ”

Doctor Zhang is old, Chen Shou relied on his high voice, and forced the other party to speak before he could speak, and pressed it down again.

The hall was full of Chen Shou's loud accusations for a while.

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