The prisoner was indeed a nun wearing a square hat and sea green, with a slender body, white skin and wrinkle-free skin, and at most twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

"Cheap billet!"

I don't know which woman shouted this first voice, and soon gained the echo of same-sex partners one after another.

The women cursed viciously, like rising waves, and beneath the waves were the men's relishful discussions about the case.

"I listened to the lecture to seduce a wealthy businessman in Huizhou and stabbed him to death after getting drunk."

"Huh? Usually muffled, delicate and weak, so ruthless. ”

"Hmph, that's your Mu Zhimu Jue, I have long seen that this nun is not simple. You think, a woman who can write, write poems and paint, and come from Suzhou, maybe she used to be a female envoy. ”

"This eldest brother, what is the envoy?"

"It's prostitutes, those scholars spoil them, and they come up with the title of Wen Zou Zou, but in fact, not all of them are out for sale."

"Oh, hey, hey, hey......"

The men chuckled under their breath, rejoicing at how easy it was to have an intracranial orgasm.

Zheng Haizhu turned around, brushed the edge of the crowd and quickly retreated, finding Zhang Dai waiting under the corridor.

"Zhang Gongzi, the official has come over with someone. Look at that female master, but the Sister He you are looking for? ”

Zhang Dai frowned, his gaze to the center of the whirlpool of the crowd.

"It's Sister He! How could she kill people......" Zhang Dai snorted, and was about to squeeze forward.

Zheng Haizhu grabbed him: "At this moment, there are a lot of prodigal children with dirty thoughts, and this is not the place to talk well." Don't worry, I know one of the officials, so let's go directly to the county government now. ”

Zhang Dai bit his lip and replied "Okay", then turned his head to look at Sister He's surroundings, and saw that the onlookers had not yet spit or even throw stones, so he beckoned the servants and followed Zheng Haizhu into the alley.

……

After Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, Songjiang Mansion was divided into three counties: Huating, Shanghai and Qingpu.

Zheng Haizhu and Zhang Dai came to the northeast of Fucheng, which belongs to Shanghai County, and is far less prosperous than Qingpu in the west and Huating in the southwest.

The county seat is not big, and the downtown areas where officials, scholars, and industrialists live are even smaller.

Zheng Haizhu took Zhang Dai's master and servant, turned around and walked out of the alley, and the county government was in front of him.

Under the big tree outside the yamen, Zheng Haizhu stood still and asked, "Zhang Gongzi, take the liberty of asking, do you have a name, that Sister He will know it as soon as she hears it." ”

Zhang Dai said: "We are from Shanyin, and the boys' names in the family are called monks, which means to dispel demons and avoid evil, because I am the mother's firstborn, Sister He has always called me a big monk." ”

"Okay, got it. You're still waiting here. ”

"Miss Zheng, do you want to take the silver?"

Zheng Haizhu stopped, and said in his heart, the reminder is right, this rich and noble son is also favored.

"Bother Zhang Gongzi to give me two or three coins of silver, the more broken the better."

The servants who followed Zhang Dai were quick with their hands and feet, and in a blink of an eye, they took out a handful of silver horns like small paper balls and handed them to Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu came to the gable root of the county government and saw the officials coming.

"Roll on, get out of the way, I've followed two streets like a fly, look at your aunt's egg hair!"

The official surnamed Liu, who scolded and drove away the last few onlookers, stepped on the shadow of the slanting sun and returned to the door of the public office, and bumped into Zheng Haizhu, who had rubbed under the steps.

"Hey, Miss Zheng......" Liu Zhutou hurriedly put away the fierce look on his face, bared out a mouthful of buckteeth, squeezed out a smile, and greeted Zheng Haizhu.

Liu Zhutou is an old official of Songjiang Mansion, and from late summer to late autumn this year, he has long recognized Zheng Haizhu's face.

This woman is not only the long-term hired maid of Master Han's family, but also the prefect who issued a bounty for suppressing bandits, and she often corresponds with Lord Huang's family.

It's like a fairy who is also famous and able to speak next to the immortals.

How can a handyman like herself, who runs errands on the mountainside, treat her as an ordinary person.

Words must be polite.

After the salute, Liu Zhutou met Zheng Haizhu's puzzled gaze, and took the initiative to sigh: "Girl, Lao Liu, I am bitter, I haven't returned to Songjiang Mansion for more than half a month." Shanghai County is also evil, originally three or four officials, walking, sick, there is only this little fart child whose mouth hair has not grown, the county master went to the mansion to borrow someone, and the old man Huang sent me. ”

Zheng Haizhu softly reassured: "It's good that the moon is not less silver." Those who can work harder are the urgent need of the officials, Futai and Master Huang can see it, and Master Liu is only afraid that he will have to reuse it after returning to the west. ”

"Hey, Cheng Zheng girl's auspicious words." Liu Zhutou thanked him earnestly.

He is an old Jianghu, and in a few words, he saw that Zheng Haizhu didn't look like he was passing by, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes, so he turned his head and said to the little servant behind him, "You press people in first, lock them in the prison", and then raised his hand to lead Zheng Haizhu to a corner of the porch pillar of the gatehouse.

"Why did Miss Zheng come to the county today?"

Zheng Haizhu didn't say a word, and the left hand against the wall moved, stuffing silver into the palm of Liu Zhu's head.

Liu Zhutou bluffed: "What is this doing, the girl has something to tell Lao Liu is." ”

Zheng Haizhu pursed her lips: "Master Liu will put it away first and buy a winter jacket for my niece." If you don't accept it, I won't say what you ask, but I'll pull you to stand here. ”

Liu Zhutou said in his heart, this woman is very fine, don't make her displeased, thinking that my old Liu is afraid of the serious, and he is willing to accept money to do things only after asking about the situation, so he responds to "good and good", and refuses to laugh, shakes his wrist, draws the broken silver into his arm, and coughs and says: "The girl is talking to Lao Liu." ”

……

In the late Ming Dynasty, the landlords and merchants of the gentry class were so rich that they were overflowing, but the public finances were similar to those in the north, and they were stretched.

The county jail in Shanghai County is as simple as a livestock shed

Fortunately, it is not the edict of Jingshi, and the smell of blood and gloomy is not heavy, only the lingering smell of feces and urine.

"Miss Zheng, you can come out quickly if you ask a few words. The county is not here, but the master is staring at the mortuary for an autopsy, and it will be time to come over in a while, and I will help you look at the door. ”

Liu Zhutou whispered and hurriedly left this row of dirty houses.

Zheng Haizhu turned around and stuffed another broken silver in his hand to the cell leader recommended by Liu Zhutou: "Buy some wine for Brother to drink." ”

The cell boss took it as a matter of course.

In these years, the public even owes the monthly money, from the officials and the disciples to the jailers, who have become accustomed to asking for benefits from the people at any time on weekdays.

Only today, this decent woman was quite generous, and the cold and hard face of the cell boss eased for a moment, and she decided to take special care of her.

He took the initiative to take Zheng Haizhu through his duty room, bypassing the cell of the outermost row of detainees, and did a better job of avoiding people's eyes and ears.

Turning into a deep and dark passage, the cell head pointed ahead: "The room with the cat on a leash, this is." ”

"Cats?" Zheng Hai looked curious.

The cell boss explained: "The murder prisoners are all heavily handcuffed, their hands and feet are inconvenient, and some of them have been severely bitten by rats in the past, and their skin and flesh are rotten, and their bones are exposed, which is miserable. Last month, when the people of Futai came to inspect the county government, they saw it and ordered the county to raise cats in several cells where death row prisoners were kept. ”