Chapter 52: Smoke and Rain
It turned out that the Cao family had come to invite the old lady to go to Beifu to sweep the dust, and the old lady took a nap, so she went back. Later, Mei'er was wronged and went to Beifu to report, saying that the old lady would go to Nanfu first, so that the Cao family could spare time to deal with the urgent matter at hand. It was also because Mei'er went to Beifu, and the old lady asked Lan'er to look for her, but she didn't find it, which was the accident.
The urgent matter handled by the Cao family is the Ma Pozi's family. After the death of the mother-in-law, Zhuang Hu went to the Ma family to lobby and asked the old horse head and Ma Dajia to carry the bodies of the two surnamed Ma and Liu to the suburbs of Liu's house to knock back.
That night.
Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the old horse head and his daughter Ma Dajia carried the three corpses into the carriage, and lit four lanterns at the four corners of the carport. Before going out, he and his daughter burned three incense sticks and three stacks of paper money in the carriage. Properly, the two drove out of the carriage. When I went out of the city gate, I happened to encounter a curfew, and the government lined up to guard it, and it was still being searched and released one by one in the middle of the night. The old horse was frightened and hurried to turn the carriage around.
By the next day, the old horse head went to the city gate early to guard it to see when the government army would disperse. After waiting for a long time and not seeing the scene to disperse, he asked Ma Dajia to go to Beifu to find his wife's support. Later, Ma Dajia entered the mansion from the back door of the North Mansion in confusion.
Ma Dajia didn't dare to find Cao directly, and still met her master Fei Jiu first.
told Fei Jiu about the situation, Fei Jiu was so shocked that he couldn't close his words, pulled her outside, and said, "It's good for your family to do this kind of thing, what else do you ask for your wife?" My wife has a lot to deal with these days, and she can't be idle at the end of the year. ”
Fat Nine is wide and fat, usually hot-tempered and rude, but meticulous and cautious in his heart, Cao treats her extremely lovingly, no matter what she does every day, Cao never lets go of a hundred hearts for her. Among them, Cao Shi often said: "Her body is out of my right and left, and I trust her heart." As a result, the kind of person who became the kind of person waiting for the Cao family before and after the saddle of the horse was even more desperate. She also knows how to advance and retreat, and does things steadily, the Cao family handed over many things to her, and also sent people to follow her for her instructions, and the miscellaneous affairs in the house were exempted from her participation, and she was only dedicated to running outside for the Cao family. The horse's big feet are under Fei Jiu's hands, so he is her master.
Fei Jiu saw Ma Dajia crying miserably, and said with some compassion: "It's not that I won't let you see my wife, I have to sweep the dust on the twenty-fourth in previous years, and this Mrs. is ready!" You know this. ”
Ma Dajia nodded wildly, and when she was about to go back, Fei Jiu didn't let her go, and asked her to wait for her at the back door first.
After that, Fei Jiu dodged and went to the Cao family's courtyard. She thought about informing Cao.
Cao's busy day and night on the 20th, for the family banquet in Dongfu, and then for Zhuang Pu's affairs and palace affairs on the 21st, on the 22nd, because of the loss of face, he went to the fence bamboo garden at the behest of the county lord. At that time, Yu Qi also helped Guiyuan to get gold paper drunk and send it to Xifu.
At that time, there were only a few masters and servants of the Cao family who stayed in the Fence Bamboo Garden, and there were also Linglong masters and servants and others. After the old doctor examined Aunt Nazha, he said to Cao, "The pulse is stable, and there is no major problem. ”
Yi Linglong said coldly: "Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise the master would not have spared me, and he would have deducted my silver." ”
Cao Shi ignored Yi Linglong, and only went to Aunt Nazha and said, "You see, I didn't embarrass you for a moment." I didn't embarrass anyone. Just said come and ask. Since you don't have to talk, it's fine. You're resting on your own. ”
Cao Shi was not at ease, so he asked the old doctor to see him exactly, and the old doctor repeatedly confirmed that it was okay, so Cao snorted and said, "I can trust the doctor when he said it's okay." Are you at ease? If I'm not at ease, I'll find someone to see, but if I can't believe it, I'll find someone, so let's ask the old lady to invite. ”
Aunt Nazha said, "My stomach hurts, just sleep and sleep." ”
Saying this, the Cao family hurriedly led people out of the fence bamboo garden. After going out, Cao Shi hated: "I didn't eat the mutton, I made a commotion!" I'm so! ”
Guiyuan and the other girls didn't dare to open their mouths to be relieved, so they went back to their courtyard.
Not long after returning to the hospital, Fei Jiu came. She came to convey to the Cao family about Ma Dajia's family.
Cao's anger was not extinguished, and when he heard Fei Jiu say that these things had nothing to do with him, he said angrily: "Is it that I have to manage all the injustices in the world?" When I can't see that I have a moment of comfort, why don't you open up to me when you have rich eyes! ”
Fat Jiu was silent anymore.
Gui Yuan motioned to Fei Jiu to go back first, Fei Jiu understood, and was about to leave after saluting, Cao Shi said coldly: "Come back." ”
Fat Nine is back.
Cao sighed: "I'm the one who worries about it!" After thinking for a while, he said, "You go and call the eldest girl." Then go to Xifu to give the third wife a speech. ”
Fat Jiuying, about to leave again, Cao Shi called back again, and sighed long: "Forget it!" You quietly let Bigfoot in. Stay out of the way. ”
After that, the fat nine led the horse into the courtyard and the house.
Cao Shi has come over, and sat on the kang to eat tea and wait. As soon as Ma Dazu arrived, he knelt down first and returned to peace. Cao Shi didn't let her get up either. He said slowly: "For the New Year, you won't shy away from coming in." The white flower in the hair is heart-wrenching. ”
Ma Da's feet were clumsy, and before she could react, Fei Jiu had already stepped over to help her pick the filial piety flowers in her hair.
Cao Shi then said: "How did you meet the curfew?" Isn't it the big girl's suggestion to you, you don't want to do that? If you want me to say, who have you lost by swallowing your anger? Left is just a loss to yourselves. If it were me, I would like the officers and soldiers guarding the door to open it and take a look, and announce those who are unsightly to the world. If you have nothing to do with it, you clapped your hands and stood up straight and said to death, it is the one surnamed Liu. It didn't lie about slipping, it was. The second master of our house was beaten for your matter, and he can't get up and down the kang today! Your family has a head to seek grievances, and our second master is not wronged? Who are you looking for? ”
In one breath, Cao Shi did not pause, and said Ma Dajia speechlessly.
Fei Jiu was on the side, and said in a tentative tone: "That lady means ......"
Cao said: "I don't mean anything. Just do what the big girl wants! Listen to my thoughts, just my thoughts. If you want to do it yourself, I can't help you. But if I have some ability, I still end up here? I was still being chased by people, and I couldn't wash it! ”
After hearing this, Ma Dajia leaned over and kowtowed. Of course, these words later came to Zhuang Hu, and Zhuang Hu was very dissatisfied when he heard it.
Cao Shi said again: "Take it out and support some silver, it's not enough, I'll support you a little more when you come back." In the future, you stay and do things, and you have to be more careful. Needless to say. ”
In this way, Fei Jiu led the horse and big feet to go out and receive a sum of silver in the account office. Ma Dajia didn't dare to take it all, so he gave half of it to Fei Jiu, who took pity on her and didn't take it at all. The two quietly went out through the back door.
When Ma Dajia got home, the old horse head asked her, "What does the wife say?" Is there a way to go out without being checked? ”
Ma Dajia repeated what Cao said, and the old horse head also felt that it made sense after hearing it.
The old horse head said: "You wife has nothing to say, your mother took over a few jobs from her and gave so many benefits." Now that your mother is dead and troublesome people, I really can't get over it. If something happens out there, run! Go back to your wife to repay you. I'll fight hard and see if I can come back with a good one. ”
The old horse's head meant to send the corpse to Liu's house to make trouble, and the horse didn't have to follow.
Ma Dajia was a little uneasy, but listened to her father's words, and was not far from the city gate, so he shrank in one place to watch. Fortunately, the old horse's carriage was not investigated, and it was successfully given. Ma Dajia was not at ease, so he quietly followed behind.
All the way to Liu's house in the suburbs.
The old horse head was crying and mourning outside the courtyard, and all the people in Liu Bamu's family heard that they all came out to see, and when they saw that the old horse was wearing sackcloth, wearing a filial piety hat, and holding a wooden spirit card, he cried heartbroken. The door of the carriage was wide open, and I saw three corpses lying there.
Liu Bamu didn't see the corpse before, and only shouted to take away the old horse's head. But the crazy Liu August saw it, and asked Liu Bamu and the others to look at the corpse in the car.
Really looked at the car, Liu Bamu fainted.
The family carried Liu Bamu back to the house, pinched the person, and woke up the medicine, and Liu Bamu woke up.
When he came to his senses, Liu Bamu slapped the kang and cried: "Oh my God! How did this become a dead man? Isn't it a good idea to change your heart and eyes? ”
Liu August said stupidly: "If you change it, you will die." Heaven and earth are destroyed, heaven and earth are destroyed! Don't die well, don't die well! ”
Because of crying for a while, Liu Bamu was helped out by his subordinates again. At that time, he didn't listen to the old horse's cry, but only pointed to the old horse's head and said: "You old thing, you lied to me, saying that you can cure it, but at this moment, you will kill people and blackmail me." ”
The servant said to Liu Bamu: "It was a young master who came to pick up people that night. ”
How did Liu Bamu not know that it was a young master, and now that the master has gone, the government has come to ask, how can he prove it? Now that this old man is sending it back, even if you deny it, you have to deny him! Therefore, Liu Bamu said to the servants: "He is the one who picks up!" You saw it that night! Is it him, isn't it? ”
Liu Bamu stared at his servants viciously. The servants did not dare not listen, and nodded hurriedly.
Here, Liu Bamu was afraid of the incident at the east window, so he just wanted to deny and intimidate him to leave someone to go away, or pull the body away, as if there was no accident at all, and it would not attract the government.
Liu Bamu asked the servants to drive away the old horse's head, but the old horse's head was lying on the carriage and refused to go. He only said, "These two people are from your family, and they killed my wife." I don't report to the official, thinking about the death of two families, and it is useless to report it, I come today, just for one piece, you have to pay a sum of money for me to bury. ”
Liu Bamu smiled and said casually: "Who killed who doesn't know yet?" My family is lying on your car, you are standing here, I see that you killed the three of them, and now you are red-eyed, and the thief's heart is upright, and he is framed and beaten up! You said that the two of them killed your mother-in-law, and you asked your mother-in-law to get up and speak, confirm and confirm, see if it is or not? Since the three of them are dead, and your body is good and painless, it can be seen that you are not old in the heart of a thief, and you are vicious in your black hands, murdering and blackmailing. If you don't leave, I'll be called an official!" ”
The old horse head didn't expect Liu Bamu to have sharp teeth and plant false accusations. You know, the person surnamed Liu is the one who killed his grandson! Thinking of this, the old horse head trembled with anger, and before everyone could say anything, he slammed his head into the body of the car, until his skin was broken and bleeding; Seeing that his body, hands and feet were intact, and the government could not believe it, he gritted his teeth and lay down on the carriage, and then pressed his hands and feet under the wheels of the carriage, and called for the horses to walk, and in the blink of an eye, the wheels of the carriage were crushed on his hands and feet.
Only the sound of bones shattering was heard.
Liu Bamu and the others turned pale with fright, covered their mouths and screamed.
The old horse head couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Am I okay now?" It's all your people who made me like this! Someone from the government came and told them to check it well, and I was seriously injured! You just beat me and crush me in the carriage! I didn't hurt God and reason, and I didn't want to kill anyone! But you, kill my grandson! What is the reason of heaven! ”
When Liu Bamu and the others saw this, they were so frightened that they even retreated to dodge.
Because the old horse's head was screaming so loudly, Liu Bamu ordered: "Cover his mouth and pull him and the carriage in." ”
When the servants had heard, they did so.
After a while, Liu Bamu's family dragged the old horse's head and carriage into the courtyard. After this scene, Ma Dajia, who was lurking in the distance outside, saw it.
Ma Dajia was afraid that his father would be poisoned, so he ran to Liu's house to save people. But when she got to the door, she remembered Cao's words, so outside the gate of Liu's house, she turned around with tears and ran towards the city gate.
Yes, Ma Dajia reported to the official.
Not long after, the government sent people to Liu's house. Bigfoot leads the way. In this three-life case, the government collected the corpses and horses of Liu's house and returned them to the hall. Custody for interrogation.
After day and night investigations, the case report was as follows: Liu Bamu's family only insisted that Lao Matou was a murderer and liar, and did not know anything else. The old horse head insisted that the two surnamed Liu owed money and debts, beat his wife, and killed his grandson. The government really had no clue, and asked Ma Dajia again, Ma Dajia was cowardly, but he just cried and didn't dare to speak. Later, I heard that Ma Dajia was doing things in Zhuangfu, and the government did not dare to make a judgment, so he first asked someone to go to Zhuangfu to inquire. When the inquirer went to the Zhuang Mansion, he wanted to ask the master who was walking on the official and wanted to hear what the old man meant. But this matter was not reported by the gatekeeper, but only reported to Cao's face first. When Cao learned of this, he was secretly happy in his heart, and said to the people in the government: "The government has its own official disposal, and our lord walks in the official, and he can't be protected by his family and servants." It should be to avoid suspicion. Fortunately, I received you, if you find it in front of the old men in the official residence, I am afraid it will not be so easy to speak. In the end, the Cao family introduced to the people of the government how Ma Dajia is honest, how virtuous he is to repay his kindness, and how he is indeed an errand in the mansion.
When the government got these words, they took care of the old horse, and tried every means to investigate Liu Bamu's identity in detail, so as to find clues to cure her sins. checked and checked, and there were only those fireworks and willows in Liu Bamu's predecessor; He also checked the person's personality, interpersonal relationships, and so on. Finally, it was planned that the Liu family would harm the Ma family. The facts of the case were not clearly explained, so the verdict was confused. Liu Bamu was not convinced, and asked someone to sue on paper. The government also felt that the New Year was over, and it didn't want to be a big deal, so it took the case and asked someone to investigate the deeds of the two surnamed Liu again. Because the person surnamed Liu had done a lot of shady things before, at this time, the death was tracked down by the government, and many people who were related to him were pushed by thousands of people, saying that he had many bad things on weekdays. In this way, the government concluded that the person surnamed Liu had harmed the Ma family and hastily closed the case. did not delve into why the Ma family had a relationship with the person surnamed Liu, which led to a bloody case. After arriving, the case had nothing to do with Ma Pozi, the dead Ma Naibao, and Mr. Guan's case.
The government's verdict was: After investigation and evidence, a number of witnesses accused the person surnamed Liu of being arrogant, reversing black and white, framing others, lending money for extortion, abducting and abducting, and stealing excessively.
Here, there is a great article. Previously, it was said that the person surnamed Liu was familiar with black and white, and he was quite capable. The government hastily closed the case here, and those who think deeply should feel that it is meaningful.
Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Liu Bamu got rid of it: "This matter has nothing to do with me, I live alone in the suburbs, how do I know what my uncle and son have done?" ”
Liu Bamu wants to get out, at least so that he can save himself and his daughter.
The government believes that there is no evidence of death on both sides. Each has its own reasoning, and if Liu Bamu's mother and daughter are convicted, it should be inappropriate. So he asked someone to go to Zhuang's mansion to find Zhuang Lu overnight, but Zhuang Lu was reluctant to come forward and let Cao's receive him.
Cao said to the government: "In this case, the two families are dead, and it is not appropriate to investigate the living." I know the Ma family, Mrs. Ma still has to make New Year's clothes for the girls in our house, and now no one does it, but it's a pity. I don't have to say anything about her personality, she did things in the palace in her early years, and now she is old, and she came out to do things for us, and she knows the details of each other. Not everyone can do that. But having said that, women and children are weak, they are two big men, after all, it is clear who harms whom. If you really make a judgment, you will sentence the Liu family to pay the Ma family a sum of money. They are all dead, and they are fighting to and fro for the living, and the dead cannot be buried. ”
The government's return will be roughly done according to Cao's words. Liu Bamu was reluctant at first, but then he thought that there was no way, after all, his uncle and son had done too many evils, and in the end, he and his daughter would never be able to do anything.
So, Liu Bamu responded to the government's private judgment and promised to pay money to the Ma family.
Because Lao Ma Tou and Ma Dajia were taken into custody together with Liu Zhairen during the trial, on the evening of the 23rd, the government once again sent someone to reply to Cao's family and asked them to pick them up the next day. It's also the meaning of coming back to close the case. Cao Shi responded and asked Guiyuan Yuyuan to pick it up early on the morning of the 24th.
By the 24th, Beifu was busy with the fine work of sweeping the dust, and when it was almost over, the Cao family asked Guiyuan Yuyuan and the two to invite the old lady. Unexpectedly, when the second servant arrived in Zhongfu, the bamboo girl replied that the old lady was resting. The two girls came back to Cao and said that the Cao family should only know, and they were busy with family affairs for a while, so they remembered the matter of Ma Dajia's mother and daughter, and asked Guiyuan Yuyuan and the two to go out to pick them up.
Guiyuan Yuyuan hadn't left yet, Mei'er came, and kindly said to Cao's family: "The old lady will go to Nanfu first this year." ”
Cao Shi felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this, but it was good to think about it, if he didn't come, he wouldn't come, he was happy to do other things, so he let the people not be busy, and then start to get busy when the old lady came soon. After all, it's a show for the old lady.
In previous years, the old lady would always come to Beifu first, and this year she would go to Nanfu first, Cao's was bored for this, not because she was jealous of anything, but she couldn't hold it on her face, and felt that the old lady had lost her face. Anyway, the management of the family is the North Mansion, this dust sweeping is a family matter, and the head family should be the North Mansion.
Cao was sullen and didn't want to do anything at hand, so he and Guiyuan Yuyuan went out to pick up the mother and daughter, and bought some fashionable dishes outside, so that they could come back to cook and serve them to the old lady to taste, so as to win over the old lady's heart.
Unexpectedly, the old lady went from Dongfu to Beifu, but the Cao family was not there, so she went out. In other words, sweeping the dust and removing the old, stopping business outside the house, and sweeping the dust inside the house, only this one day. It's a big deal.
However, the old lady was angry in Beifu for another reason.
It was originally said that the old lady swept the dust and went to Beifu to start another incident, but at this moment, she said that the Ma family's murder case was not for anything else, but only to undertake Mr. Guan's confused case. Of course, it is also to inherit the poem chanted by Zhuang Pu, the second master of Xifu, and the words are "Yan Feifei" written by Wu Shuji, a female lyricist in the Song Dynasty, such as:
"The smoke is falling, the rain is falling, the snow is piling up on the plum branches, where does spring come from?
Drunken eyes open, sleepy eyes open, sparse shadows and slanted slants? Urging from the Church Plug Tube! ”
Smoke and snow, smoke and snow fall. There is a way that there are people among people, and there are cases within cases. No matter how big the injustice is, how can it be better than the family affairs of the Zhuang Mansion? What is the surname Liu? What is Ma Pozi? What is Mr. Kwan?
It's just that Feifei is fascinated, with ups and downs, and is appreciated by people after dinner.
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The term "Yanfeifei" is only Guan Tang's own interpretation, and cannot be interpreted by literary critics, as follows:
The full name of this poem is "Sauvignon Blanc Order. Yan Feifei", this poem comes from Wu Shuji, a female lyricist of the Song Dynasty. It is a poem to redress one's own grievances. There is a poignant story in the background, which is now hand-organized for everyone to enjoy. Why is this word in history?
It turned out that in the Song Dynasty, the Wu family was beautiful and the family was poor, and one day was taken by a nouveau riche, and occupied it for a long time, the Wu clan was angry, in order to cry out for injustice, but the nouveau riche held the grand consortium, bit people back, framed the Wu family for being arrogant by nature, * extreme, and at the same time accused her of cheating, and formed a gang to slander the Wu family, and wanted to put the Wu family to death. Therefore, the government arrested Wu and imprisoned her, tortured her in every possible way, tortured her to extract a confession, and asked her to confess. But Wu swore to die. After that, an official named Shi Qikai was sent from above to take over the case and transfer the case for retrial. The official had already heard of Wu's talent, so he asked the jailer to release her, treat her with food and wine, and persuaded her: "I have heard about your talent for a long time, but I have not had a chance to see it." When I saw you today, my bearing was really extraordinary. I believe that you are not what you say in the case, so I will try to protect you. If you could come up with a good poem today, I would present your grievances to the table for another verdict. This may exonerate you and restore your innocence. ”
Wu is grateful. Because I saw the sleet in the rain outside the house at that time, the plum blossoms were proud, so I took this opportunity to compose this "Sauvignon Blanc Order. Words of "Smoke Feifei".
After that, Wu's case was rehabilitated. Soon, a famous man surnamed Crepe paid a huge amount of money to buy her and marry her home as a little wife, retook her name, and later called her: Wu Shuji.
Shu, that is, Duan Hui Shude, talented, Ji, such as Cai Wenji. And Cai Wenji's fate is not the same as Wu's? It's just that the person who redeemed the Wu family is not Cao Cao, and the person who married is not Dong Xi.
In the cycle of history, people are different, and things are so similar. But between the good and the wicked, it is unspeakable whether there is retribution, or thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi, and it cannot be said!
This is the word of "Smoke Feifei" to make the story a little clear. Please laugh and accept.