Hou Men Splendid

Chapter 80

Mr. Wei stayed in Pengcheng for a few days and then left. Shao Ziyu immediately ordered people to distribute the silver that Mr. Wei brought.

Summer has already begun in Pengcheng in June, and there are a lot of people going out to enjoy lotus at this time, and the whole Pengcheng shows a sense of leisure, and there are fewer things in the yamen.

Shao Ziyu often only went to the yamen for half a day, and returned to the magistrate in the afternoon, waiting for his son to wake up and chat with him, Lin Qingran came in to measure Brother Han's size.

With less clothes in summer, this one with fleshy arms and legs looks even thicker. Lin Qingran squeezed his fleshy legs, "I won't be able to find a wife if I'm so fat."

Brother Han didn't understand what the word daughter-in-law meant, so he turned his head to see Shao Ziyu's doubtful questioning. Shao Ziyu touched his shaved head and said, "It's edible."

As soon as he heard that there was something edible, Brother Han got excited, grabbed Lin Qingran's hand with his little hand, and called out indistinctly, "Daughter-in-law."

A father can still teach his son like this, Lin Qingran glared at Shao Ziyu, Shao Ziyu pulled Brother Han over, let him sit cross-legged in front of her, and taught him earnestly, "Your mother is father's daughter-in-law, your future Find."

Still immersed in the atmosphere of being able to eat, Brother Han stubbornly asked Lin Qingran to take it out. Lin Qingran couldn't laugh or cry, and took a fruit from the fruit plate on the side and put it in his hand, okay, holding it with his small front teeth and started gnawing it .

After measuring the size, let Siqin send it out. Lin Qingran took the fruit from his hand, peeled off the skin, took a spoon and slowly scraped the flesh for him to eat. Brother Han opened his mouth wide, and forgot what he said before. passed.

There were rumors of whining at the door, it was hot outside, and there was an ice basin in the house. The puppy knew he couldn't enter the house, so he just stood next to the door, whimpering to attract the owner's attention.

"It hurts!" Brother Han pointed with his little finger, and the dog barked at the door. Brother Han was happy, and after eating the fruit, he wanted to go downstairs to play with it.

After teaching him for a long time not to grab the dog harshly, Brother Han knew he had to pet it. Lin Qingran gave the dog a collar so he could lead it away. Brother Han took the rope, regardless of whether it wanted to, pull it Watch it drag and drop in the corridor.

Lin Qingran felt a little sleepy in the room, it was like this in summer, she was so lazy that she was always unwilling to move, Shao Ziyu saw her like this, let her lie on the bed for a while, and went out to play with his son.

From time to time there was brother Han's laughter outside the house, Lin Qingran lazily picked up a book and flipped through it. Not long after, the sky outside the window suddenly darkened.

When the wind picked up, Shao Ziyu walked in with Brother Han, Siqi ordered a few maidservants to put away the things, after a while, the rain poured down heavily.

Children like to watch this, Brother Han went out to sit on the threshold again, pulling the rope, squatting on the side in pain, when the rain was heavy, the water splashed into the corridor, Brother Han walked over and stepped on it, There are maids and nurses taking care of them, and they have a good time.

It was only in the evening, the sky was very dark, after a while Si Hua came in to report, the eleven guards in the yamen came to look for my uncle and were waiting at the gate.

"It's raining so hard, there must be something urgent, you go." Lin Qingran put on his coat and umbrella for him, Shao Ziyu walked to the gate, driving a carriage on Shishi, wearing a thick coir raincoat, looking When he came out, he opened the curtain of the carriage and helped him to the carriageway, "It was raining heavily at the gate of the yamen, and a woman fell down at the gate of the yamen, pregnant with Liujia, unconscious, and the yamen servant carried her in. Ah Jiu went to ask the doctor, and I will come to you. "

"Just this woman?"

"The yamen servant who brought her in said that when he found her, she was completely soaked, and there was no one else around, and she was holding a small package in his hand."

When they arrived at the yamen, as soon as they entered, Ah Jiu hurried out and had a face-to-face meeting with them, "The doctor said that this lady is going to give birth!"

Shao Ziyu ordered Ah Jiu to find Mrs. Wen. When he walked to the backyard of the yamen, there were painful groans from the room. The doctor and the governor on duty at the yamen were waiting outside. Shao Ziyu stepped forward to inquire about the situation. The doctor took the pulse, and after a while the woman woke up, clutching her stomach and moaning, soon a puddle of water came out from under her body, the doctor saw that the amniotic fluid had broken, and quickly asked them to invite Mrs. delivery.

"Eleven, you go to the magistrate to ask the lady to prepare things for the baby, and then ask the lady to send a maid to take care of it." Shao Ziyu ordered Eleven to go to the magistrate. We must first let the family safely give birth to the child

After a while, the rain subsided, Ah Jiu hurried over with a Wen Po, the yamen was full of rough people, so they only prepared some hot water, Wen Po asked them to prepare scissors, and went into the house after cleaning their hands.

Then Eleven also came back from the magistrate, and Lin Qingran sent Si Hua and a little maid, Qiu'er, over to help. They brought the small clothes that Brother Han had worn before, and two clean clothes for the mother to change into.

Si Hua brings Qiu'er into the house to help.

After the rain stopped, the sky became brighter. Giving birth is a long process. Shao Ziyu asked the two yamen servants who brought the woman in in the inner hall. They still saw the woman leaning against the yamen gate by accident. Beside the stone lion, unconscious.

On the table was the package that the woman had been holding on to, and the contents inside were soaked in the rain. When Shao Ziyu came, Ah Jiu had already opened the package and took out all the contents and put it on the table to dry.

Inside the package was a suit of clothes, a pair of shoes, a money bag with a few taels of silver in it, and another wooden box. Ah Jiu didn't open it to see if the box wasn't wet.

Several hours passed, and it was already late at night. The news finally came from the backyard. The woman had given birth to a son, but she passed out and couldn't ask anything for the time being. Po Yinzi, leave her in the yamen to take care of this woman for a while
The next day, the woman woke up.

It was inconvenient for Shao Ziyu to come in and ask questions, so the painter did it for him, and asked some basic information. The woman's surname is Guan, her husband's surname is Le, and she is from Ronghe County. The family runs some small businesses, has several shops, and has been there for more than eight months. Her husband died of illness, and her father-in-law passed away two months ago, and her mother-in-law and her eldest brother, who has never been married, are still at home.

Si Hua paused, "My lord, she said that she was kicked out of the house by her mother-in-law and elder brother. They framed her for having an affair with others, and said that the child in her belly was a bastard. The county magistrate awarded all the family property to her elder brother." , nothing was left for her, she can only come here to report to the official."

Many people knew that Shao Ziyu severely punished the only son of the Yin family at that time, and the reputation spread, and the common people thought that the magistrate was a just and strict official, and the woman came to complain about her grievances when she heard about this.

"Send someone to Ronghe County, go to the county government to get the file of this case, Ah Jiu, go and find out about this family." Shao Ziyu immediately sent someone to Ronghe County, within half a day, Eleven took the file over in the afternoon, and Ah Jiu didn't come back until the next morning.

Mr. He, the magistrate of Ronghe County, also came over with him. He was also puzzled. This magistrate always didn't care how the counties tried the cases, so why did he suddenly want the files.

Shao Ziyu read the dossier yesterday, and after hearing about it from Ah Jiu, he looked at Mr. He, "This is not enough evidence, how can it be said that Mrs. Guan had an affair with others."

"My lord doesn't know that the Guan family married into the Le family out of joy. The second son of the Le family has been weak and sick since he was a child, and his health is not getting better when he grows up. On the contrary, he is getting worse and worse. He spends most of his sickly days lying in bed Keep on talking, the soup and the medicine keep coming." Master He lowered his voice while speaking, "This couple has difficulty in intercourse, how can they have children."

"How does Mr. He know whether other people's couples can share the same room?" Shao Ziyu looked at Mr. He, who smiled awkwardly, "This sick body."

"A sick body is not a dead person." Shao Ziyu said lightly, and didn't want to ask any more questions. He turned a blind eye to many things in the county, and it was impossible for him to intervene in the county. All these matters, big or small, are now being sued. For such a muddled case, Shao Ziyu also needs to give the county magistrate some face.

They sent people to Ronghe County to bring the Le family and the person who had an affair with the Guan family in the confession
When the case was retried, Shao Ziyu looked at the people in the hall and questioned them one by one. The testimony was the same as that of Mr. He's trial, it was all rhetoric.

Shao Ziyu looked at the man, "You said you had an affair with Guan Shi, you must have a very close relationship, then let me ask you, is the birthmark on Guan Shi's body on the left arm or the right arm?"

The man thought for a while, "Left arm."

Shao Ziyu frowned, "You are sure it is the left arm."

"No, it's the right arm." The man changed his words immediately, and Shao Ziyu clapped the chopping board, "Is it the left hand or the right hand!"

"In the case of my lord, it's the right hand, it's the right hand!" The man hastily confirmed that his forehead was already sweating.

"There is a mole on Guan's neck, is it on the left or the right?" Shao Ziyu asked him again.

This time the man answered quickly, "My lord, the one grows on the right."

Shao Ziyu looked at the clerk who was sitting there taking the confession, "I've written it all down." The clerk nodded, and Shao Ziyu directly finalized the case for this man, "It's a bunch of nonsense, slandering a good woman for having an affair with me, destroying other people's reputation, dragging Go down and play twenty big boards."

The sound of the man begging for mercy from being beaten outside frightened Le's parents and Mrs. Le.

Shao Ziyu looked at Mrs. Le, who was still young and still charming, "You are Master Le filling the house."

"Yes" Madam Le nodded.

"You said your daughter-in-law was having an affair with someone else, and the child in her womb is not the second son of the Le family, but you have other evidence." The evidence was dragged out and she was being beaten outside until she almost passed out. What else is there? Evidence, Mrs. Le thought for a while, "I saw that she often flirts with other men."

"With which man, when and where are you flirting with each other."

"And the one outside." Mrs. Le pointed to the outside, and just as she finished speaking, the man howled from outside, "My lord, my lord, let me tell the truth, they gave me 30 taels of silver to tell me to talk to Le Jia My daughter-in-law has an affair, I, I didn't know she had a birthmark, my lord."

Mrs. Le's face turned pale.

"My lord, I know my second brother's health best. It's not easy to go to the ground these few years. The soup is constantly served, and they are all served on the bed. How can there be a child?" Le's parents refused to accept, "What's more, my second brother left She was diagnosed as pregnant after she died, and this child can never belong to our Le family!"

Shao Ziyu sent a message to Mrs. Wen to confirm that the child was born at full term, and if the date is calculated forward, the child was born before the death of the second son of the Le family.

"You are not a doctor, nor are you your second brother. How did you know that he can't have a child, and how can you be so sure that this child is not from your Le family?" Shao Ziyu was speechless when he asked, Mr. He who was sitting below It was also wet on the back, how could his luck be so bad, who in several counties did not do such and such things, how could he turn the boat over here.

"My lord, my second brother has gone now. You can't refute Xiaomin if you say that, but as a man, don't you know what kind of body you can do?" Even the people outside have already begged for mercy. The confession was retracted, and Le's parents still stubbornly refused to admit that the child in Guan's belly was his brother's.

(End of this chapter)