Han official!

Chapter 54: Mrs. Jia

A groom is someone who is responsible for herding and raising horses.

If there is anyone who knows the situation in the stable best, it is the groom. Ask him for details about the place.

Guo Jie walked back along the wooden railing until he reached the inner wall. He continued walking along the wall and saw a thatched house with bamboo and mud covering its roof. At the door stood an old catalpa tree as thick as an arm.

Next to the house, a large number of straw were piled up, forming a haystack more than one person tall.

There was a piece of material on the haystack, and a handful of fu.

Zhi is a wooden pad. It is most commonly seen in the East Market of the Nine Markets of Chang'an. Criminals were beheaded and thrown into the market in the most prosperous East Market. Zhi is the pad placed under the head during beheading.

The hammer is somewhat similar to an axe, but has a long handle. It is often used for chopping or cutting, and is also a torture instrument.

"Records of the Grand Historian: The Biography of Xiang Yu" says that "being tortured to death" means being executed.

Chu is grass and gansu is straw. They cannot be fed directly to livestock as feed. They need to be cut and chopped with a hammer before being fed to horses in the stable.

Since there were no guillotines in those days, chopping grass with a hammer was a form of torture, and most of the grooms were powerful people who had become prisoners.

Guo Jie had seen ferrous metal in the Book of Han.

"Han Shu Yin Weng Gui Zhuan" records: "When powerful people are convicted of crimes, they are handed over to the livestock officials to chop weeds. They are required to fulfill the duty and cannot be replaced. If they fail to meet the duty, they must report to the supervisor. In extreme cases, they are even killed by being stabbed with a metal hammer."

The powerful people who became criminals chopped weeds with a hammer. The torture was unbearable and they committed suicide with the hammer.

"If I moved to Maoling."

Guo Jie looked at the ferrous metal placed next to the haystack and felt a lingering fear: "Before being sent to the East Market to be beheaded and thrown into the market, he will also suffer the cruel torture of being beheaded with the ferrous metal."

He walked quickly to the window and door of the house and looked inside, trying to see if Yi Shuo was hiding there.

"Yi Shuo. Yi Shuo"

Guo Jie was afraid of alarming the residents nearby, so he leaned on the window and shouted softly several times towards the inside of the house. Although the residents outside could not hear clearly, the people inside the house could definitely hear it.

The sky was just getting light, and the thatched house didn't even have a bean-shaped lamp that was common in the homes of ordinary people. The house was dim, and it was impossible to tell whether Yi Shuo was hiding inside.

Just when Guo Jie was about to ask Mang Gong to use an iron hammer to break down the door and rush in to look for Yi Shuo.

A disheveled woman came from behind the house. She saw the two thieves lying by the window, but acted as if she didn't see them. She picked up the hammer, stood behind them, and chopped grass silently.

Startled, Guo Jie immediately defended himself, saying, "I was a prisoner on a prison patrol with the county magistrate. I called out for a long time but no one answered. I was worried that someone inside might have been wronged, so I went to the window to check. It wasn't a thief."

The female groom turned a deaf ear and continued to chop the grass with the axe in her hand.

Is it
She was Yi Shuo, who was tortured beyond recognition by Qiu Jing. She suffered too much torture, which led to mental problems and she even did not recognize Guo Jie.

Guo Jie was shocked and even more anxious. He had read many reports about abducted women who were sold to the mountains and tortured beyond recognition. A beautiful female college student was turned into a lunatic.

He hurriedly took a few steps forward and looked at the female groom who was chopping grass, trying to figure out her original appearance from her disheveled face.

The female groom was wearing a pile of tattered jackets and trousers pieced together, as if they were some man's discarded jackets and trousers, which she had picked up and piled on her body. Her hair was disheveled and her body was thin and withered.

She had become emaciated, her eyes becoming large and bulging, like a starving cat or dog.

The female eunuch has a large skeleton, and one can vaguely tell that she had a good life in the past. She was not well fed since childhood and could not have grown to such a height.

Guo Jie estimated that the height of the female groom was over 1.8 meters. Not to mention the Western Han Dynasty where the average height was shorter than that of modern people, even in modern times it is rare to see women over 1.8 meters tall.

"It's not Yishuo." Guo Jie secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "You know Yishuo, a lady with fair skin, who looks gentle and virtuous, and has a hint of herbal fragrance on her body."

Xijun means wife, and is also used to refer to women who have not become nuns.

The female groom was tortured terribly, with only numbness on her face, no other expression could be seen. She just numbly repeated the action of chopping grass, without any reaction to anything outside.

"Mrs. Jia?!"

Mang Tong rarely showed any fluctuations in expression, and he had never shown any surprise. He followed Guo Jie closer to the female groom, and when he saw her appearance, his face was filled with astonishment.

He hurriedly took a few steps closer and said in disbelief, "Are you Madam Jia? Yes, the famous Madam Jia in Chang'an. I heard that you disappeared a few months ago. How did you appear in Kunchi?"

Mrs. Jia?
Guo Jie was also stunned. He took a few steps forward and looked at the female groom who had caused Mang Tong to be startled.

Like Madam Jia, Madam Xi is one of the four ladies in Chang'an. She is extremely beautiful and as charming as peaches and plums. She is one of the four most beautiful ladies in the eight streets and nine alleys of Chang'an.

Mrs. Jia had a high status. Her husband was Lieutenant Jia during the reign of Emperor Jing. The regular soldiers in Chang'an were divided into two armies, the Southern Army was commanded by the Weiwei, and the Northern Army was commanded by the Lieutenant.

The lieutenant was later renamed the Praetorian Guard by Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che.

Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty once said, "If you want to be an official, you should be the Prefect of the Guards, and if you want to marry, you should marry Yin Lihua."

Guo Jie and Mang Tong approached and were only a few steps away from Lady Jia, and immediately woke her up while she was chopping grass.

"Ah wow wow."

Madam Jia screamed with fear on her face, and swung the iron hammer in her hand at the two men. The hammer made a whistling sound and had such great force that it could break bones on the spot.

Guo Jie and Mang Tong were very skilled in sword fighting and reacted in time to hide aside.

Fortunately, he was skilled in fighting and swordplay. If it were someone else, they would have been seriously injured or hacked to death on the spot.

"boom!"

The iron hammer in Mrs. Jia's hand fell to the ground with a dull sound, splashing a lot of soil and creating a large hole in the ground.

Guo Jie was amazed: This woman is really strong.

Until Guo Jie and Mang Tong took a few steps back, no longer approached Lady Jia, and stopped chopping people with the iron hammer.

Madam Jia turned her tall body around, with a numb look on her face, holding an iron hammer, and continued to take the coarse materials and put them on the ground to chop fodder.

At this time, the voices of two villagers talking were heard not far from the haystack.

"Will holding the hemp rope be of any use? Don't let that taller stupid woman break it again."

"Don't worry, I spent a lot of money in Liu City to buy a strong hemp rope. A stupid woman can't break it. We brothers will definitely enjoy the taste of stupid women this time."

"Hehe, we brothers are the first. After having fun, we can even use the female groom to make money."

Mang Tong was filled with anger. He turned his head to look at Guo Jie beside him, holding the iron hammer with great strength.

Guo Jie looked at the two villagers approaching, sneered and said a word.

"kill!"

(End of this chapter)