Chapter 5 The fifth chapter: martyrs wish to die for their festivals, villagers have no intention of suffering disasters

By the way, when old Dong said this, Lao Can asked: "Isn't it possible to stand up to death with all three of this family?" Old Dong said: "That's not true! His daughter—Yu Xueli's daughter-in-law—followed him to the yamen gate, sat down in the pharmacy of Yanshengtang, and inquired about the news. I heard that the master of the mansion had not seen his father and had already gone to the yamen to ask for his master. Mrs. Wu Knowing that things were not good, he immediately asked someone to invite the leader of the third class. "The boss is surnamed Chen and named Renmei. He is a well-known capable official in Caozhou Prefecture. Mrs. Wu invited him here, told him the situation of being wronged, and asked him to find a way out of it. When Chen Renmei heard this, she shook her head several times. Said: "This is a trap for robbers to avenge. Your family has a night watcher and a housekeeper. Why do you let the robbers send the stolen goods to your house without knowing it? You can be regarded as a top-notch fool!" Wu wiped a pair of golden Shuzi from her hand, handed it to Chief Chen, and said, "No matter what, the chief has to worry about it! But if it can save the lives of three people, no matter how much money it takes. I am not afraid to sell the land and real estate. If they are sold out, our family will make whatever food they want.” Chief Chen said, “I will try to help the young mistress. Don’t be happy if you can do it, and don’t complain if you can’t. Just use as much strength as I have. That’s it. Sooner or later, the three of his father and son will probably arrive, and the adults are already sitting in the hall waiting. I will hurry up and make some arrangements for the young mistress."

"Let's say goodbye. Go back to the classroom, put the gold bracelet on the table in the middle of the hall, and say, "Brothers and uncles, the case of Yu's family is clearly wronged today. What can you do, let's think about it together. If the lives of the three of them can be saved, one is a good thing, and the other is that everyone can get a few taels of silver. Whoever can come up with a clever plan, this pair of bracelets will be theirs.' Everyone replied: 'There is a sure way Well! I have no choice but to take a camera and go to the kiosk, and let’s talk there.’ As I said, everyone first informs the fellows who are already standing in the hall to be careful.

"At this time, the father and son of the Yu family had already arrived in the hall. Master Yu told them to stand up. Several policemen dragged them down and dragged them out of the hall. The head of duty here went to the public case In front of him, he knelt down on one leg and replied: "My lord's words: there is no space for standing in the cage today, please show me." When the lord Yu heard this, he said angrily, "Nonsense! I don't remember anyone standing in the past two days. How can I stand?" Will there be any space?" The day-duty officer replied: "There are only twelve cages, and three days are full.Sir, please check the notebook. The adult looked up the book, tapped the book with his hand and said, "One, two, three: there were three yesterday."One, two, three, four, five: the first son is five.One, two, three, four: The big front is four.Not free, but it's not bad. The messenger replied again: "Can you put them in prison first today, and some of them will die tomorrow. When there is a vacancy in the cage, can you make up for them?"Please show me, my lord! '

"Master Yu concentrated his attention, and said: 'I hate these things the most! If you want to put them in prison, won't he live another day? Absolutely not! You go and put down the four who stood the day before yesterday, and pull them away. Come and see.' Send someone to put down the four people and drag them into the hall. Your lord personally went down the case, touched the noses of the four people with his hands, and said, "Yes, there is still a little bit of breath." Go back and sit in the hall, and say: " Each person hits two thousand boards, let's see if he dies or not!' Who knew that if each person needed dozens of boards, the four of them would all be dead. They had no choice but to stand up and choose three thick boards at their feet. Brick, so that he can not die for three or four days, I hurriedly thought of it. Who knows what method I thought of, but it still didn't work.

"This Mrs. Wu is such a virtuous woman! Every day, she would come to the cage to drink some ginseng soup, cry after drinking it, and beg for help when she cried. How old is Yu Chaodong? He died on the third day. Yu learned poetry on the fourth day. Mrs. Wu will bring back Chaodong's body, inspect the coffin, and replace it After paying filial piety, he entrusted his uncle and husband's affairs to his father. He knelt down to the gate of the government office and cried to Yu Xueli. Finally, he said to his husband, "Go slowly, I will go first for you." Go underground and clean up the house!" After that, he took out a Feili knife from his sleeve, and wiped it on his neck, and then he lost his breath.

"Chen Renmei, the head of the third class here, saw it and said, "Everyone, this young lady Wu's integrity can be praised. I think if Yu Xueli is put down at this time, he can still live. Why don't we use this topic to go up and replace it?" Let him beg.' Everyone said: 'It's reasonable.' Chen Tou immediately went in and looked for the door of the manuscript case. He told how the Wu family was so virtuous, and said: 'The folks said: This virtuous woman committed suicide for her husband. , The situation is really pitiful, can you ask the adults to put his husband down to comfort the ghost of the martyr?" The draft said: "This is very reasonable, and I will go back for you." Grabbed a big hat and put it on, and walked to the lottery Fang, when I met my lord, I told him how fierce Wu was, and how everyone begged for favor. Lord Yu laughed and said, "It's good for you, suddenly compassion arises! You will be merciful to Xueli, but you will not be merciful to your master." Well, no matter whether this person has been wronged or not, if I let him go, I will not be reconciled, and I will not even be able to keep my future. As the saying goes, "When you cut the grass, you have to get rid of the roots", that's the truth. Besides, this Wu family is especially hateful, he has a full stomach I feel that I have wronged his family. If it wasn't for a woman, even though he died, I would still beat him two thousand boards to vent my anger! You spread the word: whoever comes to intercede for Zi's family again is the proof of bribery, and there is no need to come up Come back, just use the standing cage to stand up for the begging person, and it’s over!” After the manuscript was finished, Chen Renmei was told everything. Everyone sighed and dispersed.

"There, the Wu family has prepared coffins to collect. In the evening, Yu Xueshi and Yu Xueli died one after another. The coffins of a family of four were all parked in the Yin Temple outside the west gate. I went to the city in the spring to have a look. Woolen cloth!" The old man said: "What happened to the Yu family later, don't you want to take revenge?" The old Dong said: "Then what can I do! The people's family was harmed by the government, what else can I do except endure it? If it is the upper control, it will remain the same as usual. Send it back for interrogation, and if it falls into his hands again, won't it be another one spared?

"Yu Chaodong's son-in-law is a scholar. After the four of them died, Yu Xueshi's daughter-in-law also went to the city to discuss the prosecution. There was an old man who had seen the world and said: 'It's not right. , That’s not right! Who do you want to call? If outsiders go, they are called not doing their own thing, and there is a crime of meddling. If you ask Grandma Yu to go, the two grandchildren are still young, and the family borrows a big business. It depends on him alone to support him. No matter how good or bad he is, the family business may not be shared by all relatives. Who will take care of these two children? Instead, Yu’s family cigarettes will be wiped out. "Someone said: "Grandma can't go Yes, if it’s my aunt who goes for a walk, there’s nothing wrong with it.” His aunt said: “I can go, but it’s useless. Instead, I want to add more dead ghosts to the cage. You think, Futai must be sent back to the original official for interrogation. Even if a committee member is sent to interrogate, the official and the official will protect each other, and he will come to us with someone else's lost clothes. We just say: It is the stolen goods of the robbers. They ask: Did you see the robbers transferred it? What evidence do you have? Of course you can’t tell at that time. He is an official, we are civilians; Win?' After thinking about it, everyone really had no choice but to do so.

"Later I heard them say: The robber who moved the stolen goods regretted it very much when he heard this, saying: 'I hated him for reporting the crime and destroying my two brothers, so I used a borrowed knife to kill people, and let his family eat a lot of money. I'm not afraid that I won't ruin him for one or two thousand coins. Who knew it would be so violent that it even cost four of his lives! I really don't have such a big feud with his family.'" After the old Dong finished speaking, he said again: "Think about it, isn't this a weapon for the bandit?" The old disabled said: "Who heard what the bandit said?" The old Dong said: "That's Chen Renmei and the others. After touching the top, seeing that Yu's family had a terrible death, and receiving a pair of gold bracelets from others for no reason, I felt a little bit offended, so everyone was aroused by public outrage and worked together to solve the case. In the nearby area, some heroes in the rivers and lakes also hated this group of robbers for being too vicious, so in less than a month, five or six people were arrested. Three or four people who were involved in other cases all stood dead; There were two or three who were only guilty of the case of embezzling stolen goods from Yu's family, and Master Yu released them all."

The old man said: "Yu Xian is a cruel official, he is really hateful! Except for this case, how is he handling other cases?" Old Dong said: "There are many, let me tell you slowly .There is one case in our village, and it is wronged, but it’s nothing if you lose your life. Let me tell you..." Just as he was about to continue, his buddy Wang San yelled: "Shopkeeper, what's wrong with you? Everyone is waiting for you to dig noodles and cook! Your old words have a hole in your cloth bag, so you can't finish talking!" Dong stood up when he heard this, and went to the back to dig noodles for cooking.A few more cars came one after another, and gradually the top customers came to the store one after another. Old Dong greeted him back and forth, and he didn't have time to gossip.

After a while, after eating, Lao Dong was busy counting the money for the meal and calling for business.Nothing happened to the old and disabled, so they wandered around the streets.Walking 20 or 30 steps to the east, there is a small shop selling groceries such as oil and salt.Lao Can went in and bought two packs of Lanhua Chaoyan.Sit down by the way, look at the person in the counter, about fifty years old, and ask him: "What's your surname?" The man said: "The surname is Wang, which is the local name. What is your surname?" The old man said: "The surname is Tie, People from Jiangnan." The man said: "Jiangnan is such a good place! 'There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below', unlike our hell world." The old man said: "There are mountains and water here, and rice and wheat are also grown here. , how is it different from Jiangnan?" The man sighed and said, "It's hard to say!" He stopped talking. The old man said, "How are you, Mr. Yu?" The man said, "He's an upright official! He's a good official! There are twelve standing cages at the gate of the yamen, and they are not empty every day. It is rare that one or two of them are empty one day." The one who spoke At that moment, a middle-aged woman walked out from behind, searching for things on the mountain shelf, holding a thick bowl in her hand, seeing someone outside the counter, she took a look, but was still looking for things. The old man said: "Then there are so many robbers?" The man said: "Who knows!" It is said that anyone who he sees casually, as long as he doesn't like him, he will stand him in a cage to death; or if he speaks illegally and offends him, he will also die. Is there such a saying?" The man said Said: "No! No!" I just felt that when the man answered, his face gradually turned blue and his eye sockets gradually turned red.When he heard the words "or speak inappropriately", the man had already had many tears in his eyes, but did not fall.The woman who was looking for the object looked outside, but couldn't stop the tears from rolling down. She didn't look for the object, she held the bowl in one hand, covered her eyes with the sleeve in the other, and ran behind, and then walked into the yard. Awow crying. The old man wanted to look down and ask again, because the man looked too miserable, he knew that there must be a lot of suffering of being wronged and wronged, and he dared not speak out, so he had no choice but to go along.After walking back to the store, I sat in my room for a while, read two pages of the book, and seeing that the old director was also busy, he walked out slowly, chatting with him, and told him what he saw in the small grocery store just now, and asked What is his reason.Old Dong said: "This man's surname is Wang. There are only two husbands and wives. They started a family at the age of thirty. His wife is ten years younger than him. After they got married, they only had one son, who is already twenty-one years old this year. This store The bulky ones are bought when there is a market in the village; the finer ones are bought by his son in Fucheng. In spring, his son was in Fucheng. For some reason, he ate two more cups. Liquor, at the door of other people's shops, he talked nonsense about how confused and wronged Master Yu was. He was arrested by people who were privately visited by Master Yu's confidantes. He sat in the hall and only cursed: "You Rumors about this thing confuse the public, is it worth it!' Standing up the cage, she died in less than two days. The middle-aged woman you met when you were old is the wife surnamed Wang, and he is over forty years old. The husband and wife only have this son, and there is no one else. When you mention Lord Yu, why don't you make him feel sad?" The old man said: "This Yuxian is really a person who deserves to die. How can the officials of the provincial capital be so good? It's really strange! If I have the right, this person must be killed." The old Dong said: "Your brother Shout out! You are always here, so it doesn’t matter what you say casually; if you go to the city, don’t say that, you will die!” The old man said: “Take care of me, I just pay attention.” After dinner that day, rest.The next day, I resigned from the old director, got in the car and set off. In the evening, I lived in Macunji.This episode is slightly smaller than Dongjiakou, only forty or fifty miles away from Caozhou Fucheng.Lao Can looked on the street and saw that there were only three car shops, two of which were already fully occupied, and only one was unoccupied.The door is closed.The old man opened the door and went in, but he couldn't find anyone.After a long time, a person came out and said: "I don't have guests in my house these two days." Ask him why, but he doesn't say anything.If you want to go to another house, there is no room for it. As a last resort, you have to discuss with him again and again.The man opened a room listlessly, and said: "There is no tea or food, and the guests have no place to sleep, so let's just order here. Our shopkeeper went to the city to collect the corpse, and there is no one in the shop. Eat and drink tea, there is a restaurant with a teahouse on the south side of the gate, you can go there." The old man said repeatedly: "Excuse me, please! People who travel can do whatever they want." The man said: "I am trapped in the south room next to the gate. Li, you always have something to do, come and greet me." After hearing the word "recover the corpse", Lao Can was really worried.After dinner in the evening, I went back to the store, bought a few pieces of dried tea, four or five packs of long-lived fruit, bought two bottles of wine, and brought back the sand bottle.The clerk had already held the lamp in his hand.The old man said to the clerk: "There is wine here, you can lock the gate, so you can come and drink it." The clerk readily agreed, ran to lock the gate, walked in, and stood up and said, "Please use it Come on, I don't dare to be that." Lao Can pulled him to sit down and poured him a glass.He gritted his teeth happily, and even said "dare not", but in fact the wine glass had already been brought to his mouth. At the beginning, he was gossiping, but after a few drinks, the old man asked: "You just said that the shopkeeper went to the city to collect the corpse, what do you mean? Could it be that someone else was killed by Mr. Yu?" the shop assistant said : "Since there is no one here, I can say a few words boldly: Our Lord Yu is really amazing! It is better than the king of Hades, if you touch him, you will die!" "My shopkeeper came to the city because of his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law is also a very honest person. Because the shopkeeper's brother and sister are very good, they both live in the back of this shop. His brother-in-law often buys a few on the country plane. Go to the city to sell the cloth, earn some money to supplement the pocket expenses. That day, I carried four white cloths into the city, and sold them on the ground at the temple gate. I sold two in the morning, and then I sold five feet later. Come to a person, tear eight feet and five inches of cloth, and must tear it on the whole piece, and say that he is willing to pay two more dollars per foot, but don't tear the cloth on that piece of cloth. Is there anyone who doesn't want to? Naturally, he tore it up. Who knows that there is no time for two meals. Master Yu rode a horse and passed by the gate of the temple. Someone next to him went up and said something. He looked around and said, "Take this man, Lianbu, to the yamen." "When I arrived at the yamen, my lord sat in the hall and ordered the cloth to be brought up. After looking at it, he patted the hall and asked, "Where did you get this cloth?" He said, "I bought it from the countryside," and asked: "How many sizes does each have?" He said: "One sold for five feet, and the other sold for eight feet and five inches." The adult said: "You are a retailer, and the two are the same cloth. Why is the top torn? What about the top? How many sizes are left? Why can’t you tell?’ Call the messenger: “Measure this cloth for me!” Two feet, one foot and five inches.' "My lord heard this, and was furious at the time, and sent a list, saying: 'Do you know the characters?' He said; "I don't know. ’ The adults said: ‘Read it to him! A book office gentleman next to him took the list and read: "On the morning of the 16th, Jinsi reported that when the sun went down yesterday, he was robbed fifteen miles outside the west gate."It was a man who came out of the woods, hacked on my shoulder with a big knife, and robbed me of four hundred coins and two white cloths: one was two feet and five feet long, and the other was two feet and one foot and five inches long. After reading this, Lord Yu said: "The size and color of the cloth are all in line with the lost order. Didn't you rob this case?"Do you still want to be cunning?Pull down and stand up!Return the cloth to Jin Si to complete the case. '" I don't know what will happen next, let's listen to the next chapter.