Chapter 15 The Fifteenth Chapter of Lie Yan Loudly Shocking Er Cui Severely Torturing an Orphan Widow

It was said that Lao Can and Huang Renrui would discuss how to rescue Cuihuan, and Lao Can said to Renrui: "Just now you said that there is an earth-shattering case, which involves infinite human lives and has a bizarre plot. Is it true or not? I am really worried." Renrui said: "Don't be busy, don't be busy. I just talked about this little girl for a long time. It's a serious business. I haven't finished my cigarette yet. Let me eat it. Two puffs of cigarettes, refreshing, let me tell you." Cuihuan was very happy at the moment, she didn't know what to do, when she heard that Renrui wanted to eat cigarettes, she quickly took the stick and made two bites for Renrui to eat.Renrui said: "In the northeast of Qihe County, forty-five miles away from the city, there is a big village called Qidong Town, which is the hometown of Qidong savages in the Zhou Dynasty. There are three or four thousand families in this village, and there is a street. There are more than a dozen small streets. On the third small street in the south of the road, there is an old man Jia. This old man is only in his fifties. He has two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was in his thirties when he was there. At the age of 20, he married a girl from the Wei family in the village. Both Wei and Jia lived on farmland, and each had forty or fifty hectares of land. The Wei family had no sons, only this daughter, who inherited a distant nephew At home, manage all affairs. It's just that the successor son is not very good at learning, so Old Wei doesn't like him very much, but he likes this son-in-law like a treasure. Who knows that this son-in-law felt the tide last July, and in the middle of August, he will be After a hundred days, the old man Wei was afraid that his daughter would be sad, so he would often take his daughter home for ten days and a half months, to relieve his sorrow.

"In this Jia's family, the second son is twenty-four years old and studies at home. He is also handsome and handsome, and his writing is fluent. Since Mr. Jia killed the eldest son, the second son Then he became a treasure. I'm afraid he will be troubled, and the book will not teach him to read. His daughter is nineteen years old this year. People in the village gave him a nickname, "Jia Tanchun". The second child was also married to a scholar's daughter, with an extremely gentle personality, and would not speak easily, so people saw him as honest and useless, and hated him. A muddy name is 'two idiots'.

"This Jia Tanchun is nineteen years old, why doesn't he have a husband's family? Just because he is both talented and beautiful, and he comes from a rural household, how can there be such a handsome man to match him? There is only a prodigal son of Wu Er in the neighboring village, but he is born like Melancholy and unremarkable, handsome in appearance, skillful in conversation, rich in family background, good at riding and archery. This Jia family is an old relative, and they have always been in contact with each other's female relatives. Only this second prodigal son of Wu once entrusted Someone came to ask for a marriage. Old Jia thought to himself, this marriage can still be done; but I heard people say that this Wu Er prodigal son has stolen several women in the countryside, and he likes to gamble, and he often goes to the provincial capital Playing around, not coming back for a month or two. I calculated in my heart that although this family is the richest man in the country, they will not be able to keep their property for a long time, so there is no promise. In the future, I will find someone with a similar family background. I couldn't find it, so I put this marriage on hold.

"August 13 this year is Boss Jia's anniversary. The family invited monks to pray for three days, the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth days. After the repentance, Mr. Wei took the girl home for the festival. Who I think that afternoon, I heard people say that the whole family of Jia Laoer’s family had died. The panic was beyond words! When I rushed to see it, I found that the township and the Lizheng had all arrived. The whole family was dead. Only Jia Tanchun and his aunt came, and they were all crying like tears. In an instant, the aunt of the Wei family, the eldest lady of the Jia family, also rushed to the door; Knowing that it was indiscriminate, she had to cry out loudly.

"At that time, Lizheng looked back and forth. In the gatehouse, one of the gatekeepers and two long-term workers died; in the hall and hall, a book boy fell to the ground and died; There are two Jia and Laoer couples, an old lady next to her, and a three-year-old child on the kang; an old lady and a girl in the kitchen; an old lady in the wing room; Name: Men and women, big and small, thirteen people died in total. At that time, they were reported to the county overnight. "There was a severe drought in the county the next day, and I took my companions to the countryside for a test. None of the injured people's joints were not hard, and their skin did not turn blue. They were neither killed nor poisoned. This case is a bit difficult to handle. While Jia's family was handling the coffin collection, the county government reported a series of reports to Futai. The county was in the process of drafting, and suddenly Jia's family sent a complaint, saying that they had found signs of being murdered."

When Fang said this, Cuihuan raised her head and shouted: "Look! Why are the windows so red?" "Fire! Fire!" A few people rushed out of the upper door, and then lifted the curtain, only to see that the fire was at the back of the wing where Lao Can lived.Lao Can hurriedly took out the key to unlock the door, Huang Renrui shouted loudly: "Two more people, help Master Tie move things!" Lao Can just unlocked the iron lock and pushed the door, only to see a big cloud of black smoke in the room, looking out, the tongue of flame had come out of the window.Lao Can was rushed by the black smoke, and hurriedly looked back, but was caught by a brick and fell over.It just so happened that those who came to move things had just arrived, so they helped the old man up and walked across to the east.

Looking at the flames, Huang Renrui's family members led everyone into the upper room to grab things.Standing in the heart of the courtyard, Huang Renrui shouted, "Move out that tent first, but the rest will come later!" When he said that, Huang Sheng had already moved out the tent.Those people with many hands have moved out Huang Renrui's box and luggage and put them at the foot of the east wall.The shop owner had already moved some long benches and asked them to sit on them.Renrui checked the things, there were many of them, but there was one more, so he hurriedly asked someone to move it into the locker room.Officer, what do you think is one more thing?It turned out to be Cuihua's luggage.Renrui knew that the county magistrate would come to see the fire, and if he saw it, it would be embarrassing, so he asked people to move.And he said to Er Cui: "You also take shelter in the locker room, the county magistrate will come soon." Er Cui heard that, and walked along the wall to the front.

Let's say that when the fire broke out, the neighbors and the river workers all searched for buckets and basins and rushed to put out the fire.Unfortunately, both sides of the Yellow River have been frozen solid, although there are places where water flows, people can't take it.There is a big pond behind the store, but it has been frozen to the ground.There are only two wells outside the city that have water. You think, what is the use of slowly pumping up buckets one after another?All these people were eager to think, so they dug open the ice in the pit, and threw them into the fire piece by piece.Unexpectedly, the power of ice is greater than that of water, if a piece of ice is thrown, there will be no fire in one place.The pit is at the back of the upper house. There are seven or eight people standing on the ridge of the upper house, and dozens of people behind are transporting ice to the house. The people in the house then look into the fire and throw it into the fire. Half of it is thrown into the fire, and half of it falls on the upper house. So the fire cannot reach the upper room.

Lao Can and Huang Renrui were watching people putting out the fire on the east wall, when they saw lanterns and torches outside.When I entered the door, I saw that the fire had subsided. While tearing down the house with a hook, I ordered people to throw thin ice from the shallow part of the Yellow River into the fire to suppress the fire, and the fire gradually went out. Seeing Huang Renrui standing under the east wall, the county magistrate stepped forward, greeted him, and said, "Old Xiantai was quite frightened!" Renrui said, "It's not too bad, but we are suffering from burns. " Because he said to the county magistrate, "Zi Weng, I will introduce you to someone. This man's surname is Tie, and his name is Bucan. He has a lot to do with you. It is easy to rely on him in that case." Ah! Is the Tiebuman here? Please come and meet me." Renrui waved and shouted: "Old man, please come this way!"

Lao Canben and Renrui sat on the same stool, seeing the county palace coming, they walked through the crowd, and avoided by looking at the fire.Now when I heard the greeting, I came over and made a bow with the county magistrate, and said some words of admiration to each other.The county magistrate has a horse, and the old man and Renrui still sit on the bench.It turns out that the surname of Qihe County is Wang, and his nickname is Jin. He is also from Jiangnan, and he is from the same hometown as the old and disabled.Although he was born as a Jinshi, he is not confused. At that moment, Renrui said to the prince: "I think about the case of your Excellency Qidong Village, the only way to get it right is to ask the old man to write a letter to Gongbao, and send Bai Zishou to come; I don't dare to be too stubborn. They are all the same officials, so it is not easy to offend him; Bu Weng is an outsider, so there is no need to be jealous. What do you think?" Zijin was very happy when he heard this, and said: "Jiawei's family should have a savior! Excellent, excellent !" Lao Can listened in a dazed way, agreeing but not, not agreeing and not, so he could only make vague promises.

At that time, the fire was all extinguished, and the county magistrate wanted to drag the two of them to live in the Yamen.Renrui said: "Since the upper house is not burning, I can still move in. It's just that Tiegong will be homeless." Afterwards, I will go to the street to buy my luggage, no problem." The county magistrate tried hard to persuade the old man to go to the yamen.Lao Can said: "It's okay for me to disturb Brother Huang, please don't worry." The county magistrate asked politely again: "What are you burning? It's a big loss of money. But what our county can buy and do, it should be a little bit of meager." Lao Can smiled and said: "One cloth quilt, one bamboo tube, two cloth shirts and trousers, several torn books, one iron string bell, that's all." The magistrate laughed and said, "Not sure." Just as he was about to leave, he saw Dibao, accompanied by a messenger, locked a person with an iron chain, knelt on the ground, kowtowed like chickens signing rice, and only shouted: "My lord, my lord! My lord, my lord!" !" The local guard knelt on the ground with one leg and shouted: "The fire started in this old man's house. Please tell the old man: should I take it back to the Yamen for trial, or try it here?" The county magistrate then asked: " What's your surname? What's your name? Are you from there? How did you start the fire?" Seeing the underground man kowtow again and again, he said: "The little one's surname is Zhang, his name is Zhang Er, he's from this city, and he's in the shop next door. I work as a long-term worker. Because I got up from dawn yesterday and worked until two or more days in the evening, I had a little free time and went back to sleep in the house. Unexpectedly, my little shirt and pants were drenched in sweat. I just fell asleep and felt strangely cold. The colder the more Fighting and fighting, I couldn't fall asleep. The little one saw a lot of millet straw in the room, so he smoked a few and burned it. Then he remembered that there was leftover wine from the previous guests on the window sill, and rewarded the little one. I took the food and simmered it on the fire, and drank it for a few minutes. Who knew that a person who was exhausted for a day, got a little heating, and had two glasses of wine in his stomach, and sat there in a daze, and then fell asleep. Just fell asleep, and in a short time, I felt the smoke in my nose was uncomfortable. I hurriedly opened my eyes, and a large piece of the cotton-padded jacket on my body was burned, and the wall made of corn straw was already open. Come out quickly Looking for water to pour it on, the fire has already gone out of the roof, and there is nothing we can do about it. The trick is true, please be kind to the Lord!" The county magistrate scolded "bastard" and said: "Take it to the yamen to do it. !” After finishing speaking, he stood up and announced his farewell to Huang and Tie Er: He told Renrui again and again that he must try his best to complete the case, and then left in a hurry. At that time, the fire had been extinguished, and there was only white gas.Renrui watched as Huang Sheng led the crowd, then moved the objects in and put them on display.Renrui said: "The smoke in the room is too heavy, so burn a box of longevity incense to smoke it." Renrui smiled at the old man and said, "Tie Gong, I think you are still busy going back to the house?" The old man said: " They were all kept by you again and again. If I were in the house, I wouldn’t have been burned so clean by him.” Renrui said, “Hey! Don’t be ashamed! If I let you go back, I’m afraid even you will still be burned to death in the house. What's inside! You don't thank me well, instead you blame me, you really don't know what is good or bad." The old man said, "Am I a dead man? If you don't pay me, why should I sleep with you!" As he said that, the door curtain was lifted, and Huang Sheng led a man in a big hat in. He slapped the old man and said, "I said hello to Mr. Tie. I sent a set of bedding. It's my Use what you use, marinate it, please don’t be disgusted with it, my lord, I’ll ask a tailor to make a new one for you tomorrow, and let’s make some for tonight. And a set of fox fur robes and mandarin jackets, please use it as you like.” Standing up, he said: "I'm tired, you don't need to worry about it. I'll leave the luggage here for a day or two, and I'll pay it back when I buy it myself. I've already worn all the clothes on my body, and I haven't burned them. Don't worry about it." Thank you very much when you go back.” The family still refused to take the clothes with them.It was still Huang Renrui who said, "Master Tie will never accept clothes. You just say what I said, and you take it back." The family called again and went. The old man said: "It's all right to burn mine. You always mess up and burn a roll of Cuihuan's luggage in it for no reason. Do you think it's wrong?" Huang Renrui said: "That's all the more important. I said his bedding is worth less than ten taels of silver, and I will reward him with fifteen taels of silver tomorrow, so I can't stand it if I like it." Cuihuan said: "That's right, it's probably me, the unlucky person who The bed linen has ruined Master Tie and many good things have been destroyed." The old man said: "The things are worthless, but it's a pity that I have two blackboard books of Song Dynasty. I have nowhere to buy them. It's a pity. Of course, it's only a few days, just ask That's all for him." Renrui said: "I'm not surprised to see Song blackboard script, but it's a pity that your string of bells is also destroyed, so you lost your clothes and jobs?" The old man said: "That's not it. You should pay for it, what else do you have to say?" Renrui said, "Come on, go on, go on! Burn his bedding and your string bells. Good luck, congratulations, congratulations!" Facing Cuihuan After making a bow, he bowed to Lao Can again, and said, "From now on, he doesn't have to be a whore who sells skins, and you don't have to be a doctor who talks!" The old man yelled: "Okay, okay, it's so bitter to scold! Cuihuan, don't screw his mouth!" Cuihuan said: "Amitabha! It's always the mercy of the two of you!" Cuihua nodded and said: " Huanmei became a good man from this, and Tie Lao became an official from this, this fire is really a fire of great auspiciousness, and I have to congratulate the two of you." The old man said: "According to you, he is a good man, but I am Are you mean?" Huang Renrui said, "Stop talking nonsense, and I'll ask you: are you talking or sleeping? If you're sleeping, pack your luggage; if you're talking, I'll tell you the strange case." Then he yelled: "come!" The old man said: "You say, I am willing to listen." Renrui said: "Didn't it just say that Jia's family sent Ding Bao to report that they found out the murder? Half of the moon cakes, there are traces of eating moon cakes in most of the rooms. The moon cakes were delivered by the Wei family two days ago. Therefore, the new son of the Jia family is named Jia Gan, who is the same as Jia Tanchun. The report said that his sister-in-law Jia Wei had committed adultery and murdered a family of thirteen with poison. "Prince Qihe County would like to send this Jia Gan and ask him who the adulterer is, but he can't point out. There is only half of the leftover moon cake, which has been broken, but there is a little arsenic in the stuffing. Prince I would like to send this Jia Wei family to ask about the situation. Jia Wei's confession: "The moon cakes were delivered on the twelfth. I was still in Jia's house. What's more, someone ate them at that time and did not die." The old man came. Wei Laoer confessed: "The mooncakes are made by Simeizhai on the street. They are poisonous and non-toxic. They can be cross-examined." The stuffing was delivered by the Wei family. It was this festival, but the father and daughter of the Wei family had to be taken into custody temporarily. Although they were taken into custody, they were not tortured. It was just an empty room in the prison. Let him go by himself. It’s just an arrangement. Zijin feels that it’s not poisonous when tested by others. He personally tested it and found that there is no poisoning. Even if the moon cakes are poisonous, everyone may not eat them at the same time, and there is no difference between the poisonous and the serious. ? "The bitter master's family is pressing for a verdict, so I went to Futai in detail, and please send someone to interrogate. A few days ago, Qiqiao sent Gang Shengmu to come. This person's surname is Gang, and his name is Bi. Like his teacher, he is so clean and honest. As soon as he ran, he took that old man Wei with a stick, and Jia Wei with a stick. Both of them fainted, but there was no confession. Narrow: The manager of Old Wei's family is a foolish and honest man, and when he saw the owner suffering from this wrongful lawsuit, he raised some money for him, went to the city to do some money, and once invested in the family of a squire, Hu Ju." Speaking of this, I saw Huang Sheng opened the curtain and walked in, saying, "Master is calling." Renrui said, "Clean up the bedding." "It's cold outside, let's all sleep inside." He said to the old man, "The kang inside is very big. I'll sleep with you on the other side, and ask them to open their bedding and sleep, okay?" The old man said, "Very good." , Very good. It’s just that you’re lonely.” Renrui said, “Who are you so lonely if you’re guarding two?” How is it?" To know what will happen next, let's listen to the next chapter to break it down.