Chapter 10: Bone Examination (II)
"This way...... Is it accurate? ”
It was the first time that Master Fang had heard of it, and his voice was full of doubts.
"Accurately, absolutely!"
"Sister, who are you listening to?" Unexpectedly, the second wife, who has always been submissive, also had such a decisive time, and the eldest lady looked at her directly, "Don't rush to the doctor, carefully let people take advantage of the loophole!" ”
"It's the third master who said it!" The second lady looked at the old lady, "The old lady also knows." ”
Everyone looked at the old lady.
"I heard about it when the third master went to Zhongzhou for the first time...... the old lady nodded, "There is an inch silver building at the east entrance of Gongxian Street in Zhongzhou Mansion, the shopkeeper's surname is Qian, I forgot what it was called, I went to bathe in the river with a few friends that summer, but a fierce man plunged into it and never came out...... On the day of the funeral, a woman named Su Yuniang brought a three-year-old child to the door, saying that she had been kept outside by the money shopkeeper and wanted to recognize her ancestors and return to her ancestors......"
"So Mrs. Qian is going to have a bone test?" The eldest lady asked.
"How could Mrs. Qian come up with such a wonderful idea?" The old lady picked up the tea, "It alarmed the government, and the master came up with it." ”
"Alarming ......"
Feudal official?
Hearing the word "government", Old Man Fang's heart immediately jumped up, and he looked at the old lady with his mouth half-open.
Was it shock, or was it scary?
Remembering the shock she was when she first heard this story, the old lady's heart turned.
"If you don't want to admit it, it's just that if you want to be taken away, how big of a deal is it, and you want to alarm the government?" Master Fang finally closed his mouth, revealing a disapproving expression.
"It's this Su Yuniang who wants to take away the family property!" Drinking tea one by one, the old lady looked at Master Fang quietly, and after a while, she put down the teacup, "This money shopkeeper was originally a young man in Cunyinlou, and he was favored by the old shopkeeper, and he became a son-in-law who was inverted...... Secretly raised outside, relying on the fact that the child looked exactly the same as the money shopkeeper, and the family heirloom jade pendant given by the money shopkeeper, even Mrs. Qian resolutely denied it, Su Yuniang refused to listen to everyone's advice to take the child away, and was finally sued by Mrs. Qian to the government! ”
"What happened?"
Everyone leaned down, especially Master Fang, whose heart was tightly tensed.
"In the court, the two of them said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and when they saw that the dispute could not be resolved, the prefect proposed a bone examination, and wanted to identify whether the child was the money shopkeeper in the court."
"What was the result?"
The old lady sat up straight, and everyone straightened up.
"The child's blood dripped on the bones and swirled and slipped off."
"The surface of the bones is hard and smooth, and it takes a lot of work to cut with a knife, not to mention blood, nothing can drip in, how can the government decide the case like this?!" Zhao Qing was indignant.
This is simply a matter of careless human life!
When she first came to ancient times, she heard such a terrifying method of judging the case, and the hot-tempered Zhao Qing couldn't help but be filled with righteous indignation, but the body she had just taken over couldn't let her do as she wanted, and her heart was surging with anger, but her face was still warm and indifferent, and she couldn't see a trace of anger, and her thin and slow voice like a yellow warbler couldn't hear a trace of injustice, she just thought she was curious, and the old lady couldn't help laughing:
"Bone blood, bone blood, this is the mystery of bone and blood relatives, the surface of the bones is smooth and round, no water or oil can get in, but the blood of people who have bone and blood relatives can get in, this is called dripping bone relatives!"
"At that time, the third master was as curious as you, and he didn't believe that this method could solve the case." The second wife took over, "I heard the master say that this method was already in the Southern Dynasty, and the "History of the South" written by Li Yanshou in the Tang Dynasty recorded this method of checking relatives by dropping bones, and also took out many experience cases in the yamen to show the third master, and the third master specially checked these classics, and the famous forensic doctor Song Ci of the Song Dynasty also mentioned this method, which is well-documented and cannot be wrong......
Tang dynasty? Song dynasty?
Zhao Qing heard the clouds, mountains and fog, although she did not study history well in her previous life, she still knew about the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and after the Song Dynasty, wasn't it the Yuan Dynasty, and then the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty? According to the words of the second wife, their era is after the Song Dynasty, which dynasty should be the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, how can it be the Chu State?
Could it be that the history of the space she came to was the same, but after the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, there were differences?
No longer following the original historical trajectory?
I couldn't figure it out if I wanted to break my head, Zhao Qing, who had always been big in dealing with things, simply didn't want to, and heard Master Fang ask, "What happened later, how did the prefect finally break it?" He sounded serious again.
"Needless to say, that kid is not the money shopkeeper at all!" The old lady looked at Master Fang pointedly, "The facts are clear and the evidence is conclusive, but Su Yuniang is still denying it, and she shouted in court again and again that she was wronged, and it was not until she was tortured that she was truthfully recruited...... said that she was born in Zuiyun Building, and the money shopkeeper was just a benefactor of her...... Later, I found out that I was pregnant, because I didn't know who the child's father was, and saw that the money shopkeeper's family was honest and wanted a son, so he lied to him and said that since she got along with him, she had never let others touch it, and the child was his. and stole the ancestral jade pendant that had been given to Mrs. Qian and was casually thrown to the bottom of the cabinet by her, and promised that when he saved enough money, the two of them would stay and fly together, and go to other places to open their own silver building. ”
The old lady sighed.
"It's really not enough to swallow an elephant! If it weren't for Mrs. Qian's shrewdness, the family business left by her father would have become someone else's! The eldest lady looked at Master Fang pointedly.
Old Man Fang twisted his head to the side.
"This money shopkeeper is also enough to pocket." The second master didn't see the dark tide in the hall, he sighed, "There are many people in this world who look like each other without blood and bones, and they think that the child is their own just by their appearance, but they were deceived by a prostitute, and they didn't say that they would give money and effort to support their son, but they were still thinking about abandoning their wives and daughters for her...... "The more I talked, the more I felt that this money shopkeeper was a nest, and the second master didn't know what to say about him for a while, and he rejoiced again and again, "Fortunately, Mrs. Qian is shrewd and holds on to the finances, otherwise I'm afraid that even that inch of Yinlou will be deceived by the essence!" The tone was sonorous, and the second old man looked cynical.
Zhao Qing was dumbfounded.
"It's not ......," the second lady nodded, "Later, Su Yuniang's mother and son both died in prison, this is retribution." The words turned, "It's not that the method of dripping bones has been verified, the evidence is ironclad, then Su Yuniang won't admit it, the child is exactly the same as the money shopkeeper, and if she doesn't make trouble, she will really succeed." He glanced at Zhao Qing's lower abdomen expectantly, "It has been recorded in so many classics, and this method is completely accurate!" Turning to Master Fang, "Do you dare?" ”
"What am I afraid of?" Master Fang stiffened his neck like a cockfight, "Okay, when the child is born, he will have a bone test!" ”
There was a sudden silence in the hall.
Even the old lady looked at Master Fang in a daze.
The reason why she took over the topic of the second wife and told this story in public was to shock Master Fang!
If it is true that this child is not Shen Huaiyu's, it is okay for him to admit it now, the two families can still negotiate, if it goes to the government, his fate will definitely be worse than Su Yuniang. colluded with her daughter to pretend to be a blood relative, plotted to seize the property of the Shen family, and prevented his family from ruining, she is not the ancestor of the Shen family!
But now he agreed without blinking an eyelid!
This kid, is it really the third master?
said that she was still hesitant in her heart, but subconsciously, the old lady who had strong confidence in the Shen family's wealth had completely believed that this child was Shen Huaiyu's.
The second wife on the other side had already sobbed, "Huaiyu, Huaiyu, you finally have a queen......"
Seeing with their own eyes everyone's almost blind trust in the method of bone testing and Master Fang's unhesitating determination, everyone in the hall, including Zhao Qing, already believed that this child was Shen Huaiyu's.
She couldn't help but cry out in her heart.
"My father, shall we talk about some science?"
"That method is really not bright, not to mention a Su Yuniang, even a hundred sons have also been tested as strangers, and when the time comes, your daughter will be worse than that Su Yuniang, and more wronged than Dou E!"
Agreeing to a bone test is tantamount to putting a rope around her neck early, and only waiting for the execution to be carried out!
The heart is overturned, but Zhao Qing also knows that today Master Fang has to agree if he agrees, and if he doesn't agree, he has to agree, and only by accepting it can he save the lives of her mother and son.
As for the future, I can only take one step at a time.
Thinking of the uncertain future brought by this unexpected child, Zhao Qing's heart was shrouded in a layer of gloom.
The old man's heart was also churning like boiling water.
This kid turned out to be the third master's?
Without a handle, is the Fang family still willing to vouch for him?
The ownership of the grain in the Liuhe area directly determines the victory or defeat of the battle between him and the Yang family!
I heard that Yang Ziqian, the eldest young master of the Yang family, had made a marriage with the fifth lady of the Nanzhou Zhuang family, and raised 300,000 taels of silver from Nanzhou as a guarantee from the Zhuang family...... However, because of Shen Huaiyu's violent death, many merchants who have been cooperating with each other all year round have gone into hiding...... Now all the funds of the Shen family are staked on grain, and once defeated, they will lose the right to supply food to the army of the Western Expedition...... He didn't dare to think about it.
In any case, I have to ask Master Fang to promise to guarantee him today.
If it is not possible to threaten Zhao Qing with an unmarried pregnancy, what should he do?
The eldest man pondered nervously.
The eldest lady's eyes also flashed with a strong unwillingness.
"This method is good, but it will be difficult for the third master to be tossed again." She sighed as if unintentionally.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves.
The second old man made room for the case.
"Take the bones from the third master, this is called killing corpses!"
Only the most evil people will be killed!
"Huaiyu, you will have incomplete bones when you die!" The second wife burst into tears.
Painting Mei Sumei both stepped forward to take the handkerchief and persuaded to persuade. The maid who was guarding the gate of the courtyard suddenly heard a heart-rending cry coming from the hall, and she didn't know what was going on, and she also looked inside.
Let's make trouble, the more fierce the trouble, the better......
Seeing her own words, the hall boiled like boiling porridge, and the eldest lady smiled coldly in her heart.