Chapter 14: Dou E's Injustice

Yan Qiu was embarrassed by my question, covered her mouth and smiled for a while and said, "I was indeed invited to the court, and I was a few minutes late on the day of the trial, and the consequences were unimaginable. ”

The three of us gloating guys are definitely going to let Yan Qiu talk about their troubles. She was asked to tell us how she had been tortured when she was late.

Yan Qiu said: "I was a few minutes late that day, but I didn't catch up when the roll call was called, and six or seven others were also late like me." We were all seated together, waiting for the judge to finish sentencing everyone before it was our turn, and our stomachs were rumbling with hunger. In the end, the judge arranged for us to attend two weekends of study observations. ”

I interjected, "I thought I was asking you to go up the mountain to chop wood, but I didn't expect it to be so simple?" Be hungry, be hungry, who told you to be late. ”

Yan Qiu smiled for a while and said: "You listen to me, I originally thought that learning and observing was not a punishment, but I didn't expect that when I arrived at the designated place on the weekend, the police officer gave one of us a paper bag, and I still wondered what kind of study it was, and I actually had to use a paper bag?" Later, I learned that what we studied and observed was the autopsy of a body that had died due to drunk driving. You have to look at each process carefully, and at the end you have to take turns to summarize the speech, and you have to watch it again next weekend. At that time, the scene was extremely chaotic, the three men and four women were breathless, the paper bags were not enough, and they had to ask the police officer again. To this day, I still remember it vividly, and I can't talk about it anymore, and I'm going to get motion sickness if I talk about it again. ”

The three of us have been laughing crazy for a long time, and what happened to Yan Qiu is simply the most embarrassing thing I have ever heard. The fat brother simply stopped the car at the rest station, we laughed openly, the whole car shook, the joy index in the car exceeded the standard, and if the window was not opened, the car was estimated to burst.

We went to the toilet separately, filled the car with gas, the fat guy started the car again, and we started to run down the long highway again. As the temperature got colder and colder, we took out all the coats in our bags and changed them into.

Yan Qiu asked: "What kind of place is this, why is it so cold at three o'clock in the afternoon in the summer?" ”

I said to Yanqiu: "Let's take the Huji Expressway, it seems that this is about to arrive in Jining, the geographical trend here is a big outlet, and the summer evening is very cold." There was also snow in June, and maybe Dou E's injustice happened here. ”

Yan Qiu nodded first, indicating that he knew something about the abnormal climate in Jining, and said to me: "Don't go out and talk nonsense, let people laugh, Dou E's injustice happened in the Chuzhou boundary of Huai'an, Jiangsu." ”

The fat brother was interested again and asked Yanqiu: "This kind of legend and story, you also learn history?" ”

Yan Qiu said: "Although it is not an official history, but we who study history are more interested in this knowledge, and sometimes it is our main job to verify the authenticity of the legend, so we have really read the specific content of this story." ”

Jiang Li obviously liked to listen to Yan Qiu's speech, and chased after Yan Qiu to tell him how Dou E was wronged.

When Yan Qiu saw such a good audience, she couldn't help but arouse her desire to speak, so she told us the story of "Dou E's Injustice".

The story takes place in Chuzhou in the Yuan Dynasty, which is Huai'an, Jiangsu in Yan Qiu's mouth. Dou E's original name was Ruiyun, and she had no mother since she was a child, and she depended on her father who was a scholar. In the year of the spring exam, his father Dou Tianzhang had the intention to enter Beijing to take the exam and earn a good future, but he had no place to place his daughter.

Because his life has been poor, he borrowed a lot of money and food from the wealthy Cai family on weekdays. Cai Po's husband died early, and she only had one son under her knees, so she found Dou Tianzhang and persuaded him to go to Beijing to take the exam with peace of mind, and foster her seven or eight-year-old daughter in her own home to be a child daughter-in-law.

Although Dou Tianzhang is reluctant to have a daughter, this is also the best result, the Cai family is a generation of scholars, and they are very loyal, and their daughter lives in her house with food and clothing, someone loves her, and she has a good son-in-law when she grows up, so she agreed.

Cai Po returned all the IOUs to Dou Tianzhang and gave her a silver ticket of one hundred taels, so Dou Tianzhang took the money, left his daughter, and went to take the exam by himself. But things were not satisfactory, Dou Tianzhang was tired on the road, became seriously ill, spent silver taels and delayed the exam time, so he had to wander outside, and there has been no news since.

Ruiyun stayed in Cai's house, and Cai Po changed her nickname to Dou E. Xiao Dou'e helped the servants wash and sweep the floor at Cai's house, cook and cook, be hardworking and capable, and work without picking thick and thin, which was deeply liked by Cai Po.

Ten years have passed, Dou E has become a beautiful and dignified girl, and Cai Po has chosen a good day to marry a pair of children. After getting married, Cai Changzong, the young master of the Cai family, read poetry and books every day, Dou E took care of the housework, and the family lived a peaceful and smooth life.

Cai Po's husband once lent a sum of money to a person named Sailu Doctor, Bian Que was born in Lu State, and some people called him Lu Doctor, so this Sailu Doctor claimed that his medical skills were better than Bian Que, similar to Sai Hua Tuo.

Cai Po came to collect debts, and Dr. Sailu deceived Cai Po that there was no money in the clinic and asked her to go home with him to get it. walked to the remote place, took out the rope he had prepared in advance, and wanted to strangle Cai Po. happened to be bumped into by Zhang Donkey's father and son who were passing by, which saved Cai Po's life.

Cai Po was grateful to these two, so she let them live in her own house, and let the father and son work at home, with food and lodging and preferential treatment. Unexpectedly, this donkey was lustful, and when he saw the beautiful Dou E, he became lustful, and tried his best to get close to Dou E.

In the year of the spring exam, Dou E's husband Cai Changzong also had to go to Beijing to catch the exam, giving himself years of hard study in exchange for gains. Cai Po trusted Zhang Donkey's father and son who saved her very much, so she asked Zhang Donkey to accompany her son to take the exam together, and asked him to take care of the young master carefully on the road.

Walking to a big river, this donkey was full of courage, and while he was washing by the river, he pushed Cai Changzong down the river, and Cai Changzong was swept away by the river and drowned before he could call for help. Zhang Donkey took the coil he brought for himself, and went home to report the funeral in a fake way, saying that Cai Changzong fell into the water and died.

Cai Po, who died of her son, was ill, and Dou E was also a young widow, and she has been relying on her mother-in-law to take care of her.

One day, Cai Po looked good and wanted to drink a bowl of tripe soup. As soon as this donkey saw a god-given opportunity, if Cai Po died in Huangquan, this big family business and beautiful wife could be taken for herself. So he put a packet of rat medicine in the tripe soup, asked his father to bring it over, and urged Cai Po to drink it while it was hot.

When Cai Po saw the tripe soup, she suddenly felt nauseous again, and she didn't want to drink it anymore, so she ordered Zhang's father to take it out. The old man smelled the lamb belly soup very fragrant, anyway, Cai Po didn't drink it, so he picked it up and poured it into his stomach, who would have thought that his son had taken the mouse medicine and killed his biological father.

Zhang Donkey's father still did not repent after his death, and he took Cai Po to see the official, sued the county magistrate of Shanyang County, and made up a set of Cai Po's murder of her father. The county order is also a fool, if he doesn't ask carefully or investigate, he is tortured to extract a confession, and Cai Po has to admit to the murder.

Dou E's poor mother-in-law was old and sick, so she took all the crimes herself, and Dou E was escorted to the execution ground and sentenced to death. Before the execution, Dou E made a wish for three "blood spattered Bai Lian, June frost, and drought for three years", which means that her blood does not fall on the ground, but falls on the white ayazi, and there is no need for others to collect the body, and her body will be buried in heavy snow, and the boundary of Chuzhou will be in drought for three years to show her grievances. Unexpectedly, after Dou E's death, the wishes of these three villages were realized one by one.

Dou E's father finally won the first place in one fell swoop, and took the identity of the Eight Governors to inspect the civil government.

One night three years after Dou E's death, Dou Tianzhang was checking the case file all night when he saw his daughter's soul flying to his side, telling his father about his grievances and asking him to clear his name.

Dou Tianzhang was furious, returned to Shanyang County, tried the first trial, retrial, investigation and research, collected evidence and confessions, and finally tried the case clearly. Zhang Donkey was sentenced to chopping, and the Shanyang County County ordered a hundred rods and was never hired. The old and helpless Cai Po was taken in and raised by Dou Tianzhang.

Among them, there are two theories about Cai Changzong's death, one is that he died of illness and had no money to treat him, so Cai Po went to Dr. Sailu to ask for debts. The second is that he was killed by Zhang Donkey on the road.

I can't help but laugh when I hear Yan Qiu talk about this, this story is really ironic, I think that the real wronged is probably not Dou E, for his own grievances, the three-year drought in Chuzhou, isn't it the people of Chuzhou who are really wronged? In a society dominated by agriculture, how many people will be displaced after three years of drought, and how many little Dou'e will starve to death on the streets?

The fat brother's thinking is obviously not on the same channel as me, and he muttered to himself: "Dou Tianzhang can see his daughter's soul, and can he communicate with the soul that has been dead for three years?" Then he looked at me meaningfully.

I suddenly stood upside down, as if I saw something in the fat brother's eyes.