Chapter 19: Punishment
Fortunately, not long after Lu and Chen entered the house, they heard a report from the yamen, saying that the child had been found and was in the hospital at the moment. The child had some injuries, but the doctor had taken care of them.
Hearing this, the aunt and sister-in-law were both happy, and asked which hospital the child was in, so they went straight to He'an Hall. As soon as the two entered the medical hall, they asked if Lord Qin had sent a little girl.
The medicine boy said yes, he knew Chen, knew that this was Master Lu's wife, and another beautiful woman called Chen his sister-in-law, thinking that it was Master Lu's sister-in-law, the mother of the little girl in it.
The medicine boy led the two aunts and sisters-in-law to the backyard room.
In the room, a little doll is lying quietly on the bed, and the doctor girl is sitting next to her, taking care of the child while flipping through the medical book. From time to time, he will reach out to probe the child's forehead, and he is very careful. Seeing that the medicine boy brought the two ladies, he must be the parents of this poor child.
The daughter, who went out well in the morning, was lying on the hospital bed in the hospital hall with injuries all over her body, like a fragile rag doll. Lu's heart was broken.
She bent down to kiss her daughter's little face, but she saw the blue and black handprints covering most of her daughter's face, but she didn't dare to kiss it, for fear of hurting her.
Lu covered his mouth stiffly, and tears fell like rain for a while. Accidentally, a few teardrops fell on Jiang Yuqing's face.
The child lifted his eyelids and woke up.
"Mother, hug!" After suffering this crime, her throat and eyes were itchy and blocked at this time, and her voice sounded extremely hoarse and weak.
Lu couldn't hold back any longer, took his daughter into his arms and hugged him tightly. Faced with the lost and recovered daughter, Lu was sad and happy for a while, and he couldn't help crying.
Jiang Yuqing couldn't bear Lu's sadness, and took the initiative to put his little face up and stick it with his mother: "No, cry and cry!" Baby, okay. Lu heard that his baby daughter was immature and comforted, and he cried even more, and it took a while to calm down.
At this time, a group of people poured in outside the lobby, it was Master Lu and Jiang Wenkang.
Jiang Wenkang and his wife just went back to their parents' house for a wedding banquet, and when they heard that the little niece in the family was lost, they immediately scared off the chopsticks. The two immediately stuffed the confession gift for the bride tomorrow to their old lady, explained it, and left in a hurry.
Halfway through, I happened to bump into Master Lu, and when I heard that the child had been found and was being treated with Antang, the group rushed to the hospital again.
In any case, the child was recovered. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. After waiting for another half an hour, the old Hu family and the Jiang family of Xijindu arrived.
Jiang Yuqing wanted to stick the elders one by one, but she didn't have much strength now, she was groggy, and she had a fever after a while.
Everyone hurriedly called for the doctor. After the old doctor came to see it, his face was very solemn, and he said that this burning was dangerous, so let them be mentally prepared.
After hearing this, Lu almost fell to the ground.
This disease is dangerous and urgent, and it is in the work of the medicine boy boiling medicine. The corners of Jiang Yuqing's mouth were blistered, his lips became blue, and the whole person began to twitch violently, and the Jiang family was at a loss for a while.
This is a convulsion caused by a high fever. The old doctor asked her to untie the child's clothes, spread out the needle bag, twisted the silver needles and pierced them one by one on various acupuncture points around her......
Looking at the red-burned granddaughter, Lao Hu's heart was broken. cried and slapped himself, "It's all my fault, if I hadn't responded to the old pious woman with that little face, how could I have caused my good treasure to suffer such a crime......"
Although the Lu family was angry, he also knew that his mother-in-law was no wonder about it.
She endured her sadness, wiped away the tears on her face, and comforted her mother-in-law in a dumb voice: "Mother, you don't have to blame yourself, this time it was just an accident."
No one in our family loves a good baby less than me, a mother.
This is her blessing, and it is also the blessing of me as a mother. If she woke up and knew that her grandmother had hurt herself for her, she would not be happy. ”
The others followed and advised, "Yes, mother, don't be sad." That scum has also been caught now, the county magistrate is a good official, he will definitely not end well......"
The Jiang family stayed in the hospital all night, busy all night, and worried all night.
This was also the most torturous night for all the Jiang family.
Looking at the dying child, the distress and anger of the Jiang family also reached its peak.
If it weren't for Tan Laosan, he would have been escorted back to the county jail to wait for the verdict to be announced. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will be beaten to death by the angry Jiang family.
Xu is heavens heard the prayers of the Jiang family, and by dawn, Jiang Yuqing finally had a fever.
The old doctor, who had also been busy all night, beat the painful old waist, checked the child's pulse again, and showed a relieved smile: "Okay, it's okay."
As the old saying goes, if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing. The child is well raised, and good days are ahead! ”
"Thank you, thank you, doctor."
The Jiang family was grateful.
The Lu family and the old Hu family stayed in the medical hall and watched Jiang Yuqing. The rest of the Jiang family went out for breakfast.
Because of Jiang Yuqing's fever, the family didn't even remember to eat yesterday's dinner, and stayed up all night, which would be hungry and tired.
I found a breakfast shop near the medical hall and ate hastily. I packed some more for the Lu family's old Hu family before returning to the medical hall.
After a short rest, he got up and went to the county office.
This matter should be closed today.
This incident made a lot of noise, but in one afternoon, the whole city spread the news.
Most of the people are good people, and they hate human traffickers.
Although Tan Laosan's behavior has not yet been concretely determined, the people have privately equated him with human traffickers, so they are very sympathetic to the Jiang family's plight.
I heard that the county government opened a court to hear the case today, but everyone who had no work in their hands rushed to the county government to see the excitement, and for a while the periphery of the county government hall was completely blocked.
The only people from the Tan family came were Xiao Hu and his two sons.
Her hair was slightly messy, her eyes were black, her face was haggard, and she hadn't slept well all night. Compared to yesterday's jubilant spirits, it is simply different.
At the beginning of the morning, the hall officially opened.
Qin County ordered people to bring the suspect and the bitter master to the court.
Tan Laosan personally brought people back with Qin County's order, and he also caught a positive one, and he couldn't deny it.
He thought that he couldn't run away from this board today, and in line with the truth of "confessing leniently and resisting strictly", he hoped that the county magistrate would be able to take it lightly for his good attitude.
When the time comes, I will sell it miserably, and I will beg my mother to take care of it, and I will come out after a few days. I have to say that his intentions are very good and his ideas are very naïve.
Therefore, without waiting for the killing stick to come down, Tan Laosan made a 1510 move.
According to his confession, he owed a huge debt of 150 taels of silver. He said that he would have five days to repay the money, and if he couldn't pay it back, he would cut off one of his arms.
He couldn't help it, so he started the idea of the family's land.
However, when his father died, Yoma knew that this little son was unreliable, so he handed over the land deed, title deed, house deed and other things to his two brothers, and he couldn't get it at all.
It just so happened that her sister-in-law was going to get married, so he put on the idea of his sister-in-law's dowry.
But his sister is also a shrewd person, and she looks at her wedding dress like an eyeball, and he has failed to do it several times, and he has not succeeded at the moment when his sister goes out.
It wasn't until at the wedding that he saw his aunt and her little granddaughter.
He will notice Jiang Yuqing, but it is really because the child is too good-looking. He had never seen such a good-looking child when he was so old, like a little virgin sitting in front of the viewing room.
His third aunt told him that if a good-looking little girl was sold to the Qinglou to be a thin horse, it would be very valuable. Moreover, the set of silver jewelry she wears alone is worth a lot of money.
So he thought about taking the child and selling it. It just so happened that the child was asleep.
He saw that her aunt had put the child to sleep in her mother's room, and when she came out, her mother had not locked the door.
Moreover, his third aunt found him again and said that she was willing to take the initiative to cover for him. The reason is that her third aunt has a grudge against the child's family.
He readily agreed. took advantage of the crowd to sit down and sneaked into his mother's room. He first rummaged through her room, but found nothing. He decisively attacked the child.
He was afraid that he would wake up the child when he did it, so he called someone to come. I used a drug-soaked handkerchief that I accidentally got a few days ago to cover the child's mouth and nose, and sure enough, the child struggled a few times and fell into a coma.
After leaving the village, he originally wanted to take the big road to the county seat, but later he was afraid that the old Hu clan would find out and chase him, so he changed it to the small mountain road.
There were thorns on both sides of the entrance to the mountain road, and in the panic, one of the child's shoes was caught and dragged down by the thorns, and he didn't think to pick it up.
After running for a short and half way, he couldn't run anymore, so he stopped at the side of the trail to rest, and accidentally let the poisonous snake bite him.
He knew the poison of this snake, if he didn't hurry to find a doctor for treatment, he was afraid that he might be crippled for the rest of his life.
He had no choice but to pick up the child's jewelry, leave her on the side of the road, and rush to the county seat alone to find a doctor.
I never thought that I had just walked out not far before I let Qin County Ling arrest him back.
Tan Laosan knew that he was arrested so quickly, all because of the little shoe that was scratched off by thorns at the trailhead.
The remorse in my heart, I can't go back to the shoes I dropped yesterday and slap myself twice, and then snatch the shoes back......
As for the third aunt confessed by Tan Laosan. Qin County Ling asked for the specific name and address, and immediately brought it to someone.
The rest of the Jiang family didn't recognize her, but the three daughters-in-law of the Jiang family did.
It was Tan Pozi who was in the wonton stall a few years ago, begged them for bracelets and cursed Jiang Yuqing for not growing up, and was severely cleaned up by the Lu family.
On the same day, she was invited back to her parents' house for a wedding wine, and she recognized Jiang Yuqing in Lao Hu's arms at a glance. Her eyes were red at that time.
It just so happened that her third nephew lost the gamble and needed to buy life money. She immediately took it to heart and provoked his nephew, saying that this child was good-looking, and if he sold it to the Red Mansion, it would be worth a lot of silver or something.
Tan San'er is bad and stupid, and she will take the bait as soon as she provokes him.
After that, she offered to give him a lookout. It was purely to take revenge on the Jiang family, and he was angry with the Jiang family before he came out.
The truth of the matter is revealed.
As the so-called enemies see each other, they are very red-eyed.
If it weren't for Qin County Ling and Master Lu desperately pulling them, the three of them would have pounced on her and tore her alive.
However, Qin County's order grabbed the Jiang family's daughters, but not the Xiaohu family.
Xiao Hu pounced like crazy, picked up the big-eared scraper and fanned it, scolding while beating: "Where is our old Tan family against you, you want to harm your nephew like this."
He's your own nephew, a thing that has lost your conscience......
Mrs. Tan is not a vegetarian either, so she immediately fought back.
For a while, the two mothers-in-law, who were almost 100 years old together, were fighting, and the hair locks were flying wildly, and they couldn't get along.
As the saying goes, it's not a family, and you don't enter a family. Whether the Tan family marries out of the daughter or the daughter-in-law who marries in, there is no good thing. It's all stupid and bad.
Others were happy to see the excitement, but Qin County's order was suddenly painful.
It's not like that. In the public court, the two shrews beat each other, so they were busy pulling them away.
After making such a fuss, there should be a result of the matter.
Human and physical evidence is present.
Tan Pozi instigated others to commit a crime, and in this case, assisted the principal offender Wangfeng, causing a de facto crime, and was an accessory. He was sentenced to death by hanging in accordance with the law, and three days later he was executed at Caishikou.
Hearing this, Mrs. Tan suddenly collapsed to the ground.
The main culprit, Tan Laosan, abducted and trafficked young children, and abused and injured the abducted children, robbed and abandoned them, and his crimes were heinous. He shall be punished by imprisonment according to the law.
Three days later, he was beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market in the west of the city, and compensated the Jiang family with 30 taels of silver.
Although Tan Laosan has been in school for two years. didn't learn anything, caused trouble, and was finally kicked out by the unbearable gentleman.
When he was driven back, he couldn't even memorize the three-character scripture, so naturally he didn't know what "punishment" was? But "three days later, the entrance of the west vegetable market in the west of the city will be cut" can still be understood.
When even though he was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, then a smoky smell hit, and he was incontinent.
Xiao Hu was also so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, and when he came back to his senses, he touched the ground with his head and cried loudly.
While crying, he pleaded for his son: "My lord, spare my life!" Spare his life, San'er, he knows it's wrong, he knows it's wrong, you can spare his life.......".
However, the law of Great Xia is something that she can overcome with a single word of her mistake. No matter how she spilled and cheated, the people in the hall were indifferent.
even scolded her harshly, and if he messed around again, he would be rewarded with a few boards to eat.
Xiao Hu cried and begged Qin County to no avail, so he turned his head and pounced on Lao Hu, hugged her legs, and begged urgently: "Sister, I was wrong."
I beg you, spare the lives of my three sons, he is still young, you have a lot of adults, let him go this time! ”
Old Hu kicked her away coldly: "I'm bah! Shameless thing.
Are you still young in your twenties? My granddaughter is not yet a year old, what did she do wrong? When your precious son attacked her, did you think about letting her go!
Brute thing, something that should go down to the eighteen layers of hell.
Lord Qingtian judged well, he deserves to die! If he's dead, there's one less scourge in the world! ”
Xiao Hu watched as his little son on the tip of his heart was shackled and dragged away like a dead dog.
looked at the Jiang family who looked at each other angrily, and then looked at the eldest son and second son who also resented her, and suddenly they didn't even have the strength to cry, and they rolled their eyes and passed out completely.
The Jiang family got the 30 taels of silver compensated by the Tan family on the same day, and took Jiang Yuqing back to Xijindu.