Jiang Dalang and the others rushed to the road and stopped the team carrying the women.

They all wore knives around their waists, and they were vicious, which made those who carried the pig cages suspicious, and they stood in place one by one and did not dare to act rashly.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a few seconds, and a man in his forties came out and said, "Who are you?" ”

"The people who draw their swords to help when they see injustice."

Zhao Jun came out of the crowd, frowned and said, "In broad daylight, you want to immerse people in pig cages?" ”

The man sneered: "This person does not abide by women's morals, and has his own patriarchal treatment." Don't meddle in your affairs as a foreigner, beware of jail time. ”

"Woooooooo

Hearing this man's words, the woman in the pig cage kept whimpering, shook her head desperately, and her tears couldn't stop flowing.

Zhao Jun didn't bother to talk nonsense when he saw this situation, and waved his hand: "Save people." ”

"Rub it!"

More than a dozen elite Praetorian Guards drew their swords and surrounded them.

Jiang Dalang pointed the knife at the man and said, "Squat!" ”

There are also a lot of people on the other side, there are seven or eight, two people carry the pig cage, and the rest follow, all of them are strong men.

But in the face of the Praetorian Guards, they didn't even dare to let go of a fart, and under the pressure of the blade that flashed with cold light, they squatted on the ground one after another, and the pig cage was also put down.

Zhao Jun walked over, and at this moment Huang Sanlang opened the pig cage and pulled out the rags stuffed in the woman's mouth, the woman could make a sound, and howled for the first time: "Xie Guanren help, Xie Guanren help!" ”

"What's going on?"

Zhao Jun asked.

"It's not good to die, the Zhou family sold me to the Wang family with a daughter's bones!"

The woman, Ah Xia, cried.

Zhao Jun was stunned at first.

Then a strong anger rushed straight to the Heavenly Spirit Gai!

This daughter bone has another saying in the later generations - with a secret marriage!

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there has been this custom of marrying the deceased son with the dead, and Cao Cao once hired the deceased daughter of the Zhen family for Cao Chong and organized a netherworld marriage.

However, in the Han, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, this custom was not particularly prosperous, and at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it gradually became the mainstream.

As long as the family has money and the heirs die young, they often look for suitable women who die early, move the bones of the graves, hold a ghost marriage ceremony, and bury the people together.

For this reason, the Song Dynasty even derived a large number of people who robbed graves and excavated bones, so that during the Zhenzong period, laws were also issued to severely punish those who robbed and excavated bones.

But all this can't stop the grave robbers who violate the law and discipline, as long as there is a demand for underworld marriage, there are many people who are willing to take legal risks and continue to run into the cemetery and open the museum to dig up the corpse.

But what if the corpse is limited, or the age and birth date are incompatible?

Naturally, there is another way.

Obviously, using living people to mate is also one of the methods.

Zhao Jun asked the woman about the specific situation.

It turned out that the woman's name was Fang Caixia, nineteen years old, a native of Shouzhou, Huainan West Road, due to the drought in Shouzhou the year before last, she was forced to go north with her family to ask for a living in Tianfu the year before last.

When passing by Yuxian County, it happened that the son of the Zhou family, a rich peasant here, had reached the age of marriage, and when the man saw Caixia, who was sixteen years old at the time, he thought she was good-looking, so he informed his parents and asked them to send a matchmaker to say.

The Fang family originally fled, but was forced to stay for a day because it was too late in the city, and then went north along the canal and went to Yingtianfu by land.

At this time, someone suddenly came over and told them that they were willing to pay a dowry and hire Caixia as their wife.

In this case, everyone will agree.

After all, for the Fang family, life has been very difficult, one more person is one more oil bottle, and if he marries his daughter out for a bride price, he can also have to go to Tianfu.

So Fang Caixia's father agreed without thinking about it.

Both sides were very good at the beginning, and the eight characters of the birthday were also calculated, the work of Fengtian, the combination of Bingdi, the good fate with the conclusion, and the Hongxiang Zhuang.

Normal development is also a beautiful thing.

Unexpectedly, half a month later, on the night of marriage, he was drunk at the banquet of his parents and sons this week, and when the banquet was over, he should have entered the cave room, he insisted on sending a few friends who had played since childhood.

Those friends were also very drunk, and a few people agreed to send them to the entrance of the village, and the Zhou family was about to go back into the cave house, but on a whim, they were sent a little farther, and when they went back, a person passed by the river, fell into it and drowned.

Now the marriage turned into a funeral, and the Zhou family suddenly fell out of the sky, accusing Fang Caixia of being a widow and a widow.

The Fang family was afraid that the Zhou family would ask for the bride price back, so they threw down Caixia and fled overnight. made a mess of this marriage all of a sudden, and also made Fang Caixia's fate fall to the bottom.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Fang Caixia cannot be blamed for this.

The problem is that the Zhou family needs an outlet, so Fang Caixia became the object of catharsis, and became the slave of the Zhou family, all kinds of beatings, humiliation, corporal punishment, etc.

In the past two years, the Zhou family has almost abused Fang Caixia, and the people in the village can only sympathize with it in their eyes, and they can't do anything.

And Fang Caixia lost contact with her relatives and was helpless, although she was abused in the Zhou family, she at least had something to eat, so she could only swallow her anger and dare not resist.

It also happens that the Zhou family also has a minor second son, and the Zhou family can only be regarded as a rich family, not a big landlord.

There is no way, so I can only raise Fang Caixia as a child daughter-in-law first, and when the second son grows up in the future, I will treat him as a concubine.

As a result, the young son of the Wang family, a large landowner in Yuxian County, died this year, only 17 years old, and the Wang family was grief-stricken, hoping to find someone to match the young son with a yin marriage, so as not to be lonely on the Huangquan Road for the young son.

I searched for two or three months, but there was no suitable candidate.

Seeing that the children in the family have been suspended for so long, and the corpses are about to rot, Mr. Feng Shui, who showed Fang Caixia and the Zhou family children before, had a bad idea, he thought that Fang Caixia's eight characters were compatible with the young son of the Wang family, and the age was about the same, so it was better to.

So the Wang family spent a lot of money to find the Zhou family, and the Zhou family thought that this Fang Caixiake had killed their eldest son, and they made their family fall into the middle, and being a concubine for the second son might also hurt the second son, so it was better to change a lot of money.

This money is many times more than the bride price given at the beginning, and I have made a lot of money after coming and going.

It's just that the Song Dynasty abolished slavery and did not allow slave trading, even if he came to the door to become a slave, he also signed a contract, and the master killed the slave was a homicide, and he had to be punished with a rod and an additional distribution.

When Chen Zhizhong was the prime minister, he killed his maidservant and was demoted and released. He was a doctor who could not be punished, and he was protected by Song Renzong and Zhao Zhen. Ordinary landlords killed tenants and slaves at will, and basically beat them with a hundred sticks, and then distributed them to the frontier.

What's more, Fang Caixia is not a slave, but the wife of the Zhou family, if she kills her directly, if the Fang family comes to her in the future, the Zhou family may be in prison and sued.

So they simply framed Fang Caixia for adultery with others, and they had to deal with it according to clan law.

In this way, it only needs the big landlord Wang to take care of the official mansion, and let the villagers unify the caliber to Fang Caixia was killed by being immersed in a pig cage for adultery, so this matter will naturally be over.

At that time, there are people from this village to help make perjury, and Fang Caixia has no proof of death, so even if the Fang family, as a foreigner, comes to the door in the future, there is nothing they can do.

And today, it was the time when the Wang family sent someone to pick up Fang Caixia, preparing to directly immerse herself in the pig cage and drown, and then bring the body back.

Listening to the whole thing, Zhao Jun can be said to be angry, and his nose is almost crooked.

Although I know that there were many bad habits in ancient societies when I studied history, I only got a glimpse of them from history books before, and I have never really seen such a situation.

But now he is living in front of his own life, if he lets this go, then what face does he have to face the bold words he once said to change the Great Song Dynasty?

"Grab it!"

Zhao Jun said without hesitation: "Da Lang, go back to the boat and call some people, and the participants will not be let go!" ”

"Yes."

Jiang Dalang turned his head and ran towards the river in the distance.

"This official!"

When the leader of the Wang family saw that the other party was menacing, he didn't dare to make a big statement, but said: "Everyone is here to beg for food, so as not to make things bigger." ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun asked: "Does it mean that you are careless about human life, but it is just a trivial matter?" ”

The leader said: "Please make it convenient for this matter, as long as you can not see it today, our Wang family will not treat you badly, I have five taels of silver in my sleeve, and please smile." ”

When Fang Caixia heard this, her heart suddenly tightened, she squatted on the ground, and looked at Zhao Jun with eyes that were almost pleading.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Jun didn't look at her, but turned his head to look at Huang Sanlang and the others, and said with an almost mocking smile: "San Lang, he said that he wanted to buy me with five taels of silver." ”

"Hahahahaha."

Huang Saburo and the others also laughed.

The prefect is in charge of the state, and after the tax came up last autumn, the treasury had more than 40 million yuan?

It is all controlled by the Governor's Hospital, and it is distributed according to the annual expenses.

Even if you don't mention the treasury, the gifts given by Guanglu Yijian, Wang Zeng and others, the worst can be worth hundreds of thousands, and the expensive ones are even nearly 10,000 yuan.

Just these few taels of silver?

It's called Hanako.

Seeing everyone's ridicule, the leader's face turned cold and said: "I advise you not to know what is good or bad, so as not to be offended, and it will not even be good if you can't get out of this Bozhou." ”

"Huh, threaten me?"

Zhao Jun sneered and said, "Then what if I insist on taking care of it?" ”

"The Shixian order in the yamen is a friend of the head of my family, don't toast and don't eat and drink."

The leader said coldly.

"The prefectural order."

Zhao Jun pretended to groan, and then said: "It stands to reason that we and other righteous people can't see death without help. But if it's really a county order, then it's not like I can't give a thin face. But what if you deceive me? So if you can get the county order to come over, then talk about it again, otherwise I will take care of this matter today, and I will arrest you and go to the official. ”

"Is it true that you can see it if you want to?"

Seeing that Zhao Jun seemed to be a little afraid, the leader said coldly: "If you are afraid that we will deceive you, then follow us to the county, and you will naturally be able to distinguish the truth from the false." ”

After he said this, a person squatting next to him whispered in his ear: "Sixth brother, and you can't go to the county, if you really let him take someone to the county government, the yamen will open the court to try the case, and the matter will be big, and everyone in the county will know what the head of the family has done, I'm afraid it will hinder his reputation." ”

As soon as the leader thought about it, he immediately changed his words and said: "The county still won't go, and this matter still has to be reported to the head of my family first." ”

"Okay."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "You go and report the news, I will detain the rest of the people, I advise you to go and come back quickly, otherwise I don't mind arresting them and reporting to the official." ”

The leader stood up, hesitated slightly, and finally ran away.

Other Wang family servants were arrested by Zhao Jun.

Fang Caixia choked up in fear and said: "Official, you can't let him go back to report the news, when the official Wang brings someone over, won't the little woman be a dead end?" ”

Zhao Jun soothed: "Don't be afraid, since I dare to save you, I can make decisions for you, and I won't tell you that I also have an official status." ”

"The big officials also have official bodies?"

Caixia asked a little dazedly: "The official's official, is it big?" ”

"Roughly speaking, it should be a little bit bigger than his Shixian order."

Zhao Jun thought about it.

The Jilu officials on the county magistrates of the Song Dynasty are generally the seventh grade, and they are the first grade, which is indeed a little bigger.

Fang Caixia obviously didn't know how big the other party said, and thought that it was the boss of the county order who judged the state, so she was overjoyed.

After a while, Jiang Dalang brought several teams of forbidden troops over, about 40 people, and more than 50 Praetorian Guards, who entered the village in a rage, broke into Zhou's house, and arrested Zhou's family.

And the leader of the Wang family over there was a housekeeper of the big landlord Wang, and after he was released by Zhao Jun, he hurriedly drove the carriage to the direction of Yuxian County.

When they came, they brought carts and horses to transport the corpses back, but they didn't expect it to come in handy. Although it was only a horse driving, it was faster than walking, and it was whipped with all its might, and the carriage took less than an hour to reach Yuxian County after a distance of more than thirty miles.

At this time it was about five o'clock in the afternoon, and the butler hurried back to the mansion of the great landowner and reported it to him.

When the landlord Wang learned that he had bitten the gold halfway, he was furious, so he immediately went to the county government to find Shi Xianling, hoping that he would take the officials and his own family to find the other party's trouble.

Shi county order is actually like that with the big landlord of the king, after all, the county order is a flow official, the Song Dynasty officials are too mobile, a county order, Zhizhou and the like, often in the local office will not exceed two years, there is really no need to manage too deep interpersonal relationships.

But there is a problem that the younger brother of the landlord of this king is a jinshi of the third year of Tiansheng, although he is only a fourth-class fellow jinshi, but after all, he has been mixed in the officialdom for so many years, and he is currently serving as a governor in other places, and this person has a good relationship with the current Bozhou governor Guo Chengyou, Guo Chengyou occasionally comes to the Wang family as a guest.

In addition, the king is a big landowner who is very good at being a man, and often gives some silver money or some expensive gifts. Therefore, for the sake of this personal relationship and gifts, Shixian Ling basically turned a blind eye to the Wang family's misdeeds in the past, and tried to protect one or two in the lawsuit.

But now the big landlord of Wang asked him to take the officials to arrest people, as if the official mansion was opened by his family, and directly called it, which made Shixian Ling very displeased.

However, considering that the big landlord Wang recently lost his son and may lose his mind in anger, the county order can only be understood.

It happened that the canal and ditch were blocked again at noon, and someone had already reported to the county, and Shi Xianling felt that it was in Guo Zhizhou's face, and the two things were solved together, so he agreed to the request of the big landlord Wang and personally took people over.

Without further ado, while the sky was not completely dark, the county commander and the big landlord of Wang took hundreds of people and rushed towards Zhao Jun's village.

(End of chapter)