Concubine

Chapter 166
Song Tongzhi was about to get angry again, so Yang Qiuchi waved his hand and said, "I know what you're talking about. You're making jokes about Sanyi's insanity during the day, making fun of her for making a fool of herself, and predicting how the old man will deal with her. Right? ?”

Yang Qiuchi's guess was so accurate, which surprised Yang Aixiao. Yang Qiuchi's words were thorny, which made her a little embarrassed, so she nodded.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "In the second aunt's room, there is also the eldest grandma, right?"

Yang Aixiao nodded, feeling even more surprised that Yang Qiuchi spoke so accurately, as if she was watching from the side.

She didn't know that just now Yang Qingshui had already told all about how they punished and tortured the third concubine.The third aunt was so ugly, how could they not be together and gloat.

"Who else is there besides the three of you?" Yang Qiuchi asked.

"And sister-in-law Zhou."

Sister-in-law Zhou is also there?Surprised, Yang Qiuchi turned his head to look at Song Tongzhi. He also discovered this problem, and looked at Yang Qiuchi suspiciously.Both of them thought in their hearts, didn't Yang Qingshui just say that his wife could testify that he was at home that night.Did Yang Qingshui lie?It seems that Yang Qingshui still concealed something, and Yang Qingshui will have to be interrogated again later.

Yang Qiuchi then asked: "Have the four of you been chatting all night in Second Aunt's room?"

"No, it seems that we talked until five o'clock. I remember that grandma said that if you don't go back to sleep, it will be dawn. That's when we left."

"Are you sure it's from Five Watches?"

Yang Aixiao nodded: "I'm sure, after we chatted, I realized that it was late when I heard the clapper ringing at the fifth watch. Grandma said she wanted to go back, and sister-in-law said that everyone had a good chat. Now I'm a little hungry, why don't we eat snacks?" Go back at night. Grandma agreed, and ordered Housekeeper Pang to go to the kitchen to prepare supper for us, and we left after eating supper."

"Butler Pang? Is Butler Pang with you too?"

"Yes, he also hates Third Auntie, saying that Sanyiniang is immoral, so we asked him to stay and talk together. He will serve tea and water at any time. I remember my mother teasing him that he has no wife. How does it feel to have my aunt naked and hug him? Everyone laughed at him. His old face was flushed with shame."

"Is Steward Pang not married?"

"No, I heard that in the early years, he married a relative. Later, he went out to sea with the boat, and when he came back, he found that his daughter-in-law had run away with him, and he never got married again."

"Going to the sea?" Yang Qiuchi was a little curious, "What kind of sea? There is no sea in Guangde?"

"I'm not too sure. This is what Housekeeper Pang said when he was drunk. He wanted to introduce him to a marriage. He said that he would rather sleep with... a sow than find a woman. He said he hated women to death. "

It seems that Pang's housekeeper's daughter-in-law eloped with others, which caused great trauma to his heart.That's why he hates women so much, no wonder he beat his second aunt, Mrs. Zhang, so hard that day.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "You guys have been chatting in your mother's room, haven't you ever gone out halfway? Like urinating or something?"

Yang Aixiao frowned and thought about it for a long time, then shook her head: "It's been so long, I really can't remember. Besides, who would pay attention to things like going to the latrine. However, someone must have gone to the latrine. There must be some who stayed all night, drank tea and ate snacks."

Yang Qiuchi estimated that the murderer strangled the third concubine to death, and then prepared to hang Bai Ling on the beam of the house, and hang the body up. The whole process would take at least 10 minutes. Paste and window paper should have been prepared and placed near the site.

The distance from the second aunt's yard to the third aunt's small attic is relatively long, and it takes about 5 minutes to run fast, and 10 minutes to come and go.If one of the four of the second aunt and the others is the murderer, it will take about four to ten minutes in total. This is not a short time. If someone disappears for so long, they should have an impression.

Since Yang Aixiao couldn't remember, it was likely that none of them had been out for that long.If true, none of the four had time to commit crimes.Can be ruled out.

Where's Butler Pang?Butler Pang is a big man, it is impossible to chat with the four of them all night, right? Yang Qiuchi asked Yang Aixiao: "Hasn't Butler Pang ever gone out? I mean the kind that takes a long time, nearly half an hour." ?”

Yang Aixiao thought for a while, then shook her head with certainty: "No, I remember that when we were talking about the third aunt, Steward Pang sat at the bottom all the time, interjecting a few words from time to time, often talking about everyone's pain and itching. I remember that everyone praised him for being on point, and when she wanted to go back late at night, Mother refused to let him talk with her all the time. So, he didn't leave until the fifth watch was over."

This butler Pang seems to be quite good at flattering, since he has no time to commit crimes, he can be ruled out.

However, even if he had the time to commit the crime, he didn't have sufficient motive for the crime. Could it be that he committed adultery with Third Aunt?

Although Steward Pang is relatively capable, he is a shriveled old man after all. He looks shriveled and worse than Old Mrs. Yang. Why does the third aunt ask him for adultery?Looking for guilt?In addition, Steward Pang hated women extremely. If he was still interested in adultery with women, he would not refuse to find a wife.

Yang Qiuchi then asked: "What about you? You can always remember whether you have ever been to a latrine, right?"

After all, a big girl was a little embarrassed when asked about going to the latrine.Yang Aixiao blushed and said: "I can't remember, it's been almost two years, who would remember this."

"You can't remember this, but you always remember that you went to strangle Third Aunt, right?"

Yang Aixiao was shocked: "I didn't! I didn't kill Third Aunt."

"Who killed that?"

"how could I know!"

"Who else could it be if it wasn't you? You strangled the third aunt first, and your mother poisoned the young master Shan'er for you. You also tried to poison the young master to make the young master hallucinate and then scared to death after seeing a ghost. However, you didn't expect the young master to leave You have left the village, and your tricks have failed. Therefore, you and your mother have premeditated everything from the beginning to the end!"

Both Song Tongzhi and Luo Xiancheng were taken aback, they never expected this result.Only Song Yuner looked at Yang Qiuchi excitedly, happy that his detective brother had solved another big case.Although she didn't hear how the case was solved.

Yang Aixiao was even more stupid, she didn't react for a while, and asked: "No, it's not us, why should we do this?"

"It's very simple, for the sake of the family property!" Yang Qiuchi smiled skillfully, complacent about his ability of analysis and reasoning, "Your mother poisoned the young master to death, and at the same time drugged the young master to scare him to death, and then strangled the third aunt to death. No one is here to compete with you for the property of the Yang family, right?"

Song Yun'er didn't quite understand, and asked: "There is also Eldest Young Master's daughter, Cao'er, and Eldest Young Master's daughter-in-law, Zhou Shi."

"Cao'er is a granddaughter, can she compete with Yang Aixiao's daughter? Zhou is a daughter-in-law, so it is impossible to have inheritance rights." Yang Qiuchi came to this conclusion mainly based on the current inheritance law in China, and daughter-in-laws generally do not Inheritance, unless it is a widowed daughter-in-law who has fulfilled her main support obligations.In ancient times, there is no need to think about it.

"Then, there's still Grandma here!" Song Yun'er seemed to be deliberately criticizing this time.

"The eldest grandma is also the daughter-in-law..." No, the eldest grandma is the original wife of Mrs. Yang, and belongs to the spouse. Unlike the daughter-in-law, according to the inheritance law of our country, this spouse is the first-order heir and has the right to inherit the husband's estate , I just don’t know if it will work in the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Qiuchi thought about it for a while, and felt that it was impossible. In ancient China, the eldest son inheritance system was adopted. When a daughter-in-law remarried, she might not even be able to take away her own dowry, let alone her husband's family property.

According to the reasoning, this is the case, but it is more practical to ask.Yang Qiuchi turned to look at Old Master Yang, and asked, "Uncle, can this daughter-in-law inherit the inheritance of the husband's family?"

Although Mrs. Yang was born in the imperial examination and read all the Four Books and Five Classics, he is not very familiar with the laws of the Ming Dynasty, but he still has some common sense.Said: "Woman, if the husband dies and has no children and remarries, the property of the husband's family and the original dowry will be merged, and the former husband's family will be the master. But widows who keep the festival will inherit the husband's share."

Although Yang Qiuchi's level of ancient prose is not very good, he can still understand these few sentences. In other words, if the husband died in the Ming Dynasty and his wife remarried, he would not even be able to take the dowry with him. The memory is consistent, but if the widow keeps the festival and does not marry, she can take over her husband's property. Of course, this is not an inheritance in the true sense, because she only has the right to use but not the right to dispose of it, and cannot take it away.

It seems that if Yang Aixiao and her mother did all of this, she still won't be able to get the family property, which will be controlled by the grandma in the future.

After thinking about it again, the eldest grandma is not young, she will die, and she will still fall into Yang Aixiao's hands at that time.Excitedly said: "Grandma is old, after she passes away, won't she belong to Yang Aixiao?"

Yang Aixiao was almost crying when Yang Qiuchi said: "I don't have it, I really don't. If I want to marry in the future, it's fine if my husband's family has money, and the old man will send me a dowry. What is the family property for?"

That's right, Yang Qiuchi's heart was shocked. What Yang Aixiao said made sense. What is she doing with the Yang family's property?After all, she was going to get married.After marrying into her husband's family, she can't even control her own dowry, so she moved the entire Yang family's property to contribute to her husband's family for free?It doesn't make sense.Besides, she doesn't even have her husband's family now, so what kind of mind is she doing.

Song Tongzhi said again: "That's right, even if Grandma is gone, this, this family property will not fall into Yang Aixiao's hands."

ah?Yang Qiuchi was even more surprised: "Why?"

Song Tong knew that he had tried quite a few cases like this, and he was quite familiar with the relevant provisions, so he recited immediately: "The law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates: 'If there is no successor of the same clan, the daughters born will inherit the inheritance, and those who have no daughters will be admitted to the government.'"

Yang Qiuchi also understood this sentence, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, daughters had to inherit the inheritance, unless all male members of the same clan in the family died, that is, "extinct households", they could inherit.

This old man Yang is the patriarch of the Yang family village. The men in the family are thriving. Yang Qiuchi and the old man Yang are also of the same clan. Not to mention others, as long as Yang Qiuchi is not dead, Yang Aixiao will not be able to inherit. In addition, the entire Yang family village is a family , the men are prosperous, if Yang Aixiao wants to seek family property by killing people, at least kill all the men in Yangjia Village.

Yang Qiuchi was a little embarrassed. It seemed that his speculation would not work.

In fact, if this case happened in modern times, Yang Qiuchi's speculation could be established.

According to the current inheritance law in our country, Yang Aixiao, the Eldest Young Master, and the Younger Young Master are all legitimate children of Old Master Yang, and he and the second concubine are the first-order heirs. When Old Master Yang dies in the future, Yang Aixiao and her mother have the right to share the estate of Old Master Yang equally with the eldest grandma.If Grandma died before Mrs. Yang, all of Mrs. Yang's property would belong to Yang Aixiao and her mother.

According to this logic, Yang Aixiao and her mother tried to poison the young master Shan'er to fight for the inheritance. Similarly, they used hallucinogenic drugs for this purpose in an attempt to scare the young master to death, and bought the nanny Lu Shi to strangle him to death. The third concubine poisoned Shan'er to death, all of this was for this purpose.

It is a pity that this purpose could not be established in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is not that Yang Qiuchi has a problem with his reasoning ability, but that Yang Qiuchi does not have enough understanding of the legal system of the Ming Dynasty. If he uses our country's current inheritance system to analyze the succession issue of the Ming Dynasty, of course he will make mistakes.

Since Yang Aixiao's motive for killing was insufficient, after Yang Qiuchi asked her to step down, she decided to continue investigating others.

Next, we need to find the daughter-in-law of the young master Yang Qingshui, Mrs. Zhou, to check whether what Yang Qingshui said is true.At the same time, the Zhou family was also one of the gang of four who persecuted the third concubine Guo's family. They are also suspected of major crimes and must be investigated.

When Mrs. Zhou brought her there, she still looked so gentle and quiet. It was hard to imagine that such a girl had made things difficult for her third concubine, Mrs. Guo.

Yang Qiuchi had a good impression of her at first, but after knowing that, he was disgusted beyond words, and he didn't even bother to be polite. He didn't even call out to his sister-in-law, and asked directly: "Mr. Zhou, on the night when the third aunt Guo died, What are you doing?"

Mrs. Zhou did not dare to neglect Yang Qiuchi when she saw that Yang Qiuchi was putting on airs, and there were Mr. Song, the magistrate of Ningguo Mansion, and Mr. Luo, the county magistrate of Guangde County sitting on it. Therefore, there is no fear of officials.Neither arrogant nor humble said: "Sleep at home."

"Really? Who can testify?"

"My husband, maids and servants are fine."

"Mr. Zhou, remember it carefully. Don't blame me for not reminding you. If you play tricks and force the elder to tear his face and torture him, it will be bad."

"I'm telling the truth," Zhou sneered, "If cousin, you plan to torture your sister-in-law, then I can only admit it."

Song Tongzhi said in a deep voice: "You, although you are Mrs. Yang's sister-in-law, if you don't answer well, answer your questions, or even violate the king's law, Yang, Mr. Yang can also torture you!"

Seeing Tongzhi Song get angry, the Zhou family certainly knows how powerful the government is. The so-called people don't fight with officials, not to mention his father has been impeached and is now a commoner.The anger disappeared immediately, and she said in a low voice: "The woman is telling the truth."

Song Tongzhi slapped the table: "Bold! How dare you play tricks! That night you, your mother-in-law, the second aunt, Yang Aixiao and you three were talking about the third aunt's embarrassment in the second aunt's room, how dare you now?" Just talking nonsense here, do you really think that this official dare not torture you? Hmm?"

When Mrs. Zhou heard it, she realized that she already understood everything, and she couldn't hide it if she wanted to hide it. She forced a smile and said, "My lord, it's the women who remembered it wrong. I was with them that night. It was too long and I forgot. .Please forgive me, my lord."

Yang Qiuchi asked: "Where was your husband that night?"

Mrs. Zhou didn't dare to answer nonsense this time, and said honestly: "The women really don't know. After dinner, I went to the second aunt's room to talk. Yang Aixiao and the eldest grandma were already there. We talked until late at night. It's the fifth watch. Grandma asked Steward Pang to prepare a supper, and I didn't go back to my room until after the supper."

"Was your husband already in the room?"

"Here, he's sleeping in his room."

That is to say, Yang Qingshui probably took advantage of Zhou's stay in the second aunt's room to sneak out over the wall, slipped into the small attic, and strangled the third aunt to death.

Yang Qingshui has the time to commit the crime, has a certain motive to kill, and has concealed important facts, and the criminal suspicion has become stronger again.

Yang Qiuchi continued to ask Mrs. Zhou: "Did the four of you stay in the room that night? Did anyone go out halfway? Like going to the latrine or something."

Mrs. Zhou recalled it for a while, and said: "I really don't remember. But it seems not. Everyone chatted very happily that night, and no one left for a long time. Even if it was going to the latrine, there were in the second aunt's yard. No need run away."

Zhou's statement is more reasonable, they are too embarrassing to see the third aunt during the day, so they don't take pleasure in their misfortune at night, so they are willing to slip away halfway and not participate.It is also necessary to check the statements of the eldest grandma and the second aunt. If they are consistent, it can be preliminarily judged that these people have alibi.

Yang Qiuchi asked again: "Has your husband ever been beaten by your father-in-law because he stood up for the third aunt, and couldn't get out of bed for a month?"

Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhou said bitterly: "This fox knows how to seduce men. At the beginning, he wanted to be my husband's concubine. After entering the gate of our Yang family, he took advantage of my husband's going out to collect the bills, and hooked up with his father-in-law to marry him. After the father-in-law became an aunt, he still wanted to hook up with my husband, this fox, a broken ass, born..."

After Zhou gritted her teeth and uttered a series of curses, her chest kept heaving, still unable to let go of her hatred, she continued to curse in a low voice.

Yang Qiuchi and the others were stunned. They couldn't understand how such a quiet young woman could swear such vicious and filthy words in front of so many men.

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