Chapter 5: The Secret of Xianmi (I)
Early the next morning, the town's yamen was opened, and it was full of villagers early in the morning. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info everyone stopped going to the morning market, and came directly to see the excitement. The reason why this excitement is so good is that today's yamen is not trying prisoners, but a big god in this town -- Hu Xiao is also. Everyone thinks that Hu Xiao can be regarded as planted this time. In addition to Hu Xiao, there was also a child and a middle-aged man who were interrogated in the hall, and the child was about 15 or 6 years old. The middle-aged man had a sad face, as if he was worried about what he would be convicted of next, and the child was asleep, and he slept very soundly. Everyone feels more and more that today's trial of the county lord will be very exciting.
"Hu Xiao," Zhang Sheng whispered to Hu Xiao beside him, "Will we be sentenced to death?"
"You bastard, don't talk to me!If it weren't for your clumsiness, I wouldn't have ended up like this!" Hu Xiao glanced at him angrily.
"You kid, you can't talk like that. How can you say that our two neighbors have been neighbors for so many years, and they are so close upstairs and downstairs, and if something happens, it is a grasshopper on a rope, do you dare to say that you didn't steal other people's fruits?"
"Do you think stealing fruit will be so serious that you will be caught by the yamen? You fool! It's not that you clumsily fell off a tree, and as a result, you scared away the cattle in the field, and the people relied on us to steal them. Also, I have nothing to do with you, I don't know you, don't pull me with you, I'm different from you, I still have children to raise. Hu Xiao said and hugged the fairy rice beside him and wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth.
Xianmi had already slept day and night at this time, grinning at the corners of his mouth, not realizing what would happen next.
"You stinky boy!" Zhang Sheng still wanted to argue with him, but saw that the county lord was already seated. He immediately stopped talking.
The county lord picked up the shocking wood in his hand and slapped it down, and shouted: "The two of them, last night, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, sneaked into the orchard and stole a farmer Wang's farming cow, can you confess?"
"Master, you can make a mistake, we didn't steal the cow, we just stole a few ......" Zhang Sheng was about to argue, but before he finished speaking, he was twisted by Hu Xiao behind him, and he was speechless in pain. Hu Xiao was so stupid that he wanted to slap him to death with a stick, so he had to whisper in his ear: "Have you lived enough, stealing cattle is stealing, isn't stealing fruit considered stealing?"
"What did you steal?" asked the county lord.
"We just felt that it was too hot for us to sleep, so we went to the orchard and secretly ...... Admire the moon! Yes, it's to admire the moon!" Zhang Sheng was immediately enlightened by Hu Xiao's correction.
The county lord touched his mustache, his eyes rolled slightly, and he didn't believe what he said. His little eyes rolled around the two of them, and he finally made up his mind to get the words out of Zhang Sheng's mouth. Hu Xiao, this kid is too thief, he must not be fooled. Zhang Sheng, timid as a mouse, just set up a little trick and entered.
Hu Xiao saw that he was always staring at Zhang Sheng, and he was suddenly shocked: Oh no, this thief and rat are going to be trapped. He ruined his son's marriage at the beginning, and he had long hated himself, and finally seized such an opportunity not to put himself to death. Zhang Sheng is so stupid, he must be fooled!
He hurriedly made a color at Zhang Sheng, and muttered in a low voice: "You remember, once you confess, we will both be punished, so we can't admit our guilt alive!"
Zhang Sheng hurriedly nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and thought to himself at the same time, don't want to get rid of my relationship now, you kid, we are grasshoppers on a rope.
"You two big men and a little girl, don't you sleep at night, don't you think it's ridiculous to go to the fruit forest to admire the moon? Hmph~" The county lord let out a strange laugh and touched his mustache again.
"Master, what to do at night is the freedom of our little people, you can't control this. Hu Xiao choked him back with a word.
The county lord glanced at him and didn't answer. Then he rolled his eyes, and suddenly he thought about it. He announced that Zhang Sheng and Hu Xiao were separated, and the two of them were located on the left and right sides of the hall, and then preached to Zhang Sheng: "It is an indisputable fact that the peasant Wang family lost his cattle. So you're the most suspicious. But I also know that there may be people who are innocent. Now, I'm giving you both the choice of exposing each other or being exposed by the other. If neither of them denounces the other, then each of you only needs to compensate Wang's cattle for money; if one of them denounces and the other is silent, the whistleblower will be acquitted, and the silent person will be punished and imprisoned; if they expose each other, then because the evidence is conclusive, the two of you will be punished together and compensate Wang's cattle. ”
This is a trap! Oops, Zhang Sheng is going to be tricked! Although it is the best choice for neither of us to admit our guilt, this guy has always felt that I have to get rid of my relationship with him, so out of self-preservation, he will definitely say that I stole the cow, and he will confess, and I will not be able to escape. Hu Xiao suddenly felt a pang in his heart, and he couldn't wait to immediately pull out his knife and hack the thief and rat in the hall to death.
Zhang Sheng fell into deep thought, as if he was really thinking about this question. Hu Xiao involuntarily looked towards him and found that he was clenching his fists as if he was making some important decision. Suddenly, Zhang Sheng turned his head to look at him, and then smiled at him sincerely. Hu Xiao's heart suddenly tightened, what is this stupid hat laughing at!
Zhang Sheng took a step forward, and then solemnly said to the county master: "If you want me to betray my friend, I Zhang Sheng really can't do it." Sir, the cow was stolen by the two of us. Let's take responsibility together. ”
"Bear your uncle!" Hu Xiao didn't wait for him to finish, he kicked him down with a flying kick, and then pressed him to the ground and beat him fatly. The county government suddenly fell into chaos.
The county lord smiled treacherously and ordered someone to pull them apart. Naturally, what he was talking about was just a bureau, in the Ming Dynasty, those who committed theft for less than 120 yuan were to be punished with corporal punishment, tattooing the word "theft" on the right arm of the first offender, and stabbing the left arm for the second offense, and the third offender would be sentenced to hanging of the head. And a cow is worth about a dozen taels of silver, and although the thief cannot constitute hanging, meat punishment is inevitable.
In a panic, Xianmi was woken up, she rubbed her eyes, looked at everything in chaos, and then looked at Hu Xiao with a black face, and asked, "Old Hu, what's going on?"
Hu Xiao originally had a stinky face, but when he saw the fairy rice who woke up at this moment, he suddenly had an idea. So he immediately defended himself: "Master, the two of us did not steal cattle. Just now, Zhang Sheng has to say that in order to protect my children. ”
"Oh?" the county lord squinted at Xianmi, full of suspicion.
"The child next to me is the daughter of my distant cousin's aunt's nephew, and has recently been entrusted to my care. But I'm a vagrant, and my child is too hot in the summer, but I don't even have the money to buy her a bowl of mung bean soup. I had to take her to the woods to enjoy the coolness. The boy had never seen a cow before, and the first time he saw it, he was not happy, so he had to sit on the cow's back. As a result, the cow was accidentally startled, and the cow was scared away. We really didn't steal cattle. He sighed as he spoke, as if he was really a relative of Xianmi.
Xianmi stared at everyone in the hall with hazy sleepy eyes, not figuring out what was going on in front of her. She touched her stomach, which was already deflated, and complained to Hu Xiao: "Old Hu, I'm hungry, buy me something to eat." ”
Hu Xiao knew that it was useless to reason with her, as long as he coaxed her and said, "You wait a while, Lao Tzu is not tender to leave here now." ”
Xian Mi didn't care if he was in trouble now, he unceremoniously bit him on the arm, and then bit his arm fiercely, snorting and chirping: "I'm going to starve to death...... starved to death...... You abuse teenage girls......"
Hu Xiao's arm was bitten by her, but she couldn't shake it off if she bit it so tightly, so she simply let her bite it. Above the lobby, everyone was shocked by Xianmi's strange behavior, especially the county lord, he had never seen anyone dare to be so wild in the public court over the years, this girl looked like 15 or 6 years old, but her mind was like a 6-year-old child, and she was not a parent official to ask much.
If the trial continues, it is basically inconclusive, and after Hu Xiao and this stinky girl are so mixed, nothing can be tried, and they tossed for so long. He looked at the two scoundrels in the hall angrily, and said angrily: "It's a waste of so much time for this official, you all get out." ”
At this time, the man who lost the cow was in a hurry, and he wanted to say something, but when he saw that the county master had gone to the back hall with the master, he swallowed back his stomach and thought that he was unlucky.
At this point, the farce that had been raging all morning was finally over.
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After Xianmi ate a bowl of clear soup noodles, he licked his lips and shouted at Hu Xiao: "Ah~ I haven't eaten enough, I still have to eat~"
Hu Xiao looked at her sadly and replied, "I don't have a copper plate on my body, you can eat me." ”
After saying that, Xianmi pounced on him and bit his head, only to swallow a mouthful of hair. She took several sips with a disgusted face, and glanced at Hu Xiao with a loveless expression: "You stink, I can't eat it." ”
Hu Xiao was also angry: "Okay...... I really haven't showered for two days, and I hate myself when it stinks. But Lao Tzu has no money left, so you can do it yourself. ”
Xianmi knew that he meant to drive her away, and because he was very hungry, he was also very angry, so he really left in a bad mood.
Hu Xiao continued to squat on the side of the street, watching the people coming and going, wondering if he could find a foreigner to cheat a few money. He really regretted picking up the fairy rice now, and he had a soft heart to take her in, but he didn't expect her to eat better than a cow, and her temper was so bad, I really don't know which village she ran out of the girl. If she could just leave in such a huff, it would save her a lot of trouble.
Xianmi went into the alley, to the back of the kitchen of a restaurant, and she deftly slipped through the window. At this moment, the chef had just cooked and went outside to cool off, and there happened to be no one in the kitchen. Xianmi began to look around for food, she killed a whole plate of chicken, swallowed ten drawers of steamed buns, and was about to leave satisfied, but she was attracted by a green dish on the side of the stove, and she picked up the plate and swallowed it all without thinking. After swallowing it all, she had no time to regret it, and at the same time realized what a mistake she had made - the green dish turned out to be chili.
When she escaped from the kitchen, she was already full of gold stars, her throat and eyes were almost smoking, and her whole body was weak as if she was going to be paralyzed at any moment. "Old Hu ......" she leaned against the wall and tried her best to return to find Hu Xiao along the same road, but her body was paralyzed little by little, and finally she slowly lost consciousness......
The moment before she fell, she regretted it a little, she shouldn't have been angry with Hu Xiao just now, she shouldn't have come to steal food by herself, this may be a punishment from God, she may be going to die, just like her father said, she can't survive here at all...... The whole world seemed to be spinning, and she fell to the ground, looking at the world with half-open eyes, and as far as the eye could see, a person gradually approached her. Although her vision was blurred, she sensed that the person seemed familiar. Even if I couldn't see the face clearly, the familiar feeling didn't change. Could it be him? She was so tired that she finally fell asleep.