Chapter 26 Chapter two

After leaving the Wang's house, Duke Di hurried to the entrance of the Confucius Temple on the ice and snow. He untied the rein, led his horse, got on the horse and galloped towards the west gate at high speed.At this time, he was anxious: It is unfortunate enough to kill one person, and another person cannot be killed! When he arrived at the west gate, Duke Di dismounted, hurriedly climbed up the high tower, and looked inside and outside the west gate.But he saw a woman standing far away beside the battlements at the corner, about to jump down the tower. Mr. Di hurried to the woman, ignoring a lot to avoid suspicion, grabbed her arm with one hand, and shook her with the other: "Mr. Second-rate."

Mrs. Zhang woke up a lot after eating Di Gong's drink. She opened her eyes wide and looked at Di Gong in panic.Di Gong saw that although she looked haggard, she still had some beauty. "Sir... You think you are a public servant in the yamen. My husband really killed him? It's all my fault!" He began to weep sadly. "Is the shopkeeper Shen who was killed?" Duke Di asked. Mrs. Zhang nodded sadly, and whimpered, "Oh my God! I'm so stupid! Shopkeeper Shen and I have never had anything wrong, I just wanted to make a joke to tease my husband. Shopkeeper Shen I ordered a set of embroidered silk handkerchiefs from me to give to his concubine during the New Year. I never told my husband about this, but I just wanted to get my wages after the end of the year, which unexpectedly made my husband happy. ——This evening, I When I was rushing to embroider the last piece of silk handkerchief, my husband came home and happened to come across it. He saw the word "Shen" embroidered on the silk handkerchief. He was very suspicious and asked me why. I smiled and replied that it was for shopkeeper Shen. He believed it, went to the kitchen angrily, drew a kitchen knife, and shouted that he would kill me and shopkeeper Shen. I was so scared that I ran out of the house, and wanted to stay overnight at my sister's house in Ximenli, but my sister went out , I had no choice but to turn back home. Unexpectedly, my husband has disappeared, and the house is full of blood... It must be that shopkeeper Shen was killed by my husband indiscriminately when he came to my house to pick up the goods according to the appointment. Telling the truth earlier, jokes become disasters. Now that he has killed someone, and my husband has a high mountain and a low water, how will my mother and son live?" He couldn't stop crying like rain.

Mr. Di comforted him with kind words, and said, "Ms. Wang and Zhang, let's go home first. Since this matter has become a big deal, and we can't regret it, we have to take it easy and let the government deal with it according to the law." Mr. Di and Mrs. Zhang slowly walked down the west gate tower. Back to Wang's house.Di Gong ordered the yamen servants to lead Mrs. Zhang upstairs to Tailor Liu's house for a rest, so he and the two yamen servants hid aside and waited patiently for Brother Wang Mo to come back.Upstairs is still playing boxing games, and there is a lot of noise.

Suddenly the door opened, and a broad-shouldered man burst into the room.The yamen servant jumped up from left to right, took him under arrest, put on chains, and pushed him down in front of Di Gong.A paper bag fell from his sleeve, and the flour spilled all over the floor. A yamen servant picked up the unpacked white noodles from the ground. "My lord, this white flour has been spilled all over the floor. It's so dirty that I can't eat it." Di Gong found that the big man's right finger was indeed bloodstained. "Brother Wang, what's the matter with the blood on your hands?"

Brother Wang Mo opened his eyes wide and looked at the fingers of his right hand, and then at the blood on the ground. He couldn't help being shocked, his lips moved, but he didn't say a word.After a while, he suddenly raised his face and asked anxiously: "Where is my wife? She... Could something happen to her?" Di Gong said coldly: "At this moment, I am asking you! Hurry up and tell me the truth! What is the matter with so much blood in this room?" "Where is my wife?" Brother Wang Mo woke up from his dream and jumped up frantically.The yamen servant gave him a stick in the head.He shook his head, only to feel that there were stars in his eyes, the sky was spinning, and he fell to his knees again: "My wife—could it be her? Oh! My precious son—where is my son?" His eyes flashed almost terrifying shine.

Di Gong breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Brother Wang Mo, what happened tonight?" "Tonight?" Brother Wang Mo hesitated. The yamen servant took another stick and shouted: "A master asks a question, answer it quickly!" " Brother Wang Mo resisted the pain, frowned, looked down at the blood on the ground again, and said in a low voice, "Tonight, when I came home, I met a boy from Mipu on the way, and he said that he saw shopkeeper Shen personally. I came to my house in the afternoon. The villain came home to see that the pot and stove were cold, and the New Year’s Eve dinner was not ready. I saw my wife was still sitting on the bedside flipping a piece of silk handkerchief. I saw that the silk handkerchief was embroidered with a The word "Shen" is fully understood in my heart. I was so hungry and panicked, but I ran into this heart disease. When I got angry, I went to the kitchen and took out a knife. I thought I would kill this prostitute first, and then go to the surname Shen. Settle the bill. Seeing that I was holding a kitchen knife in my hand, my wife ran out of the door in fright. I didn’t want to deal with her in a hurry, lest she fly with wings? I picked up the kitchen knife and rushed to Shen’s shop, thinking about it , and grabbed the square silk handkerchief from the bed, holding this testimonial, in order to teach the surname Shen to die clearly. Unexpectedly, a needle on the silk handkerchief made my fingertips bleed. ——It turned out that the square silk handkerchief The lace is not yet finished."

"At this time, I remembered that my wife used to make embroidery and needlework for rich families to supplement the family. Could it be that this silk handkerchief was just for the shopkeeper Shen? A few days ago, when I saw a stack of silk handkerchiefs by the bedside, it looked like The goods ordered by someone else. Only then did the villain realize something, and I was afraid that I had mistrusted my wife. I hurried to her sister's house in Ximenli, and saw that the door was locked. I hurried to shopkeeper Shen to ask what happened. Seeing me go, he put on a smile, handed me two copper coins, and said that he ordered ten squares of silk handkerchiefs from his wife. This afternoon, he went to my house to get nine squares, and there was still one piece that had not been embroidered. His concubine was very happy to see the silk handkerchief, and said that the lesser party was not in a hurry to ask for it, and it was New Year's Eve tonight, so he offered two copper coins as salary. The villain took the copper coin and knew that he had wronged his lowly wife. So I hurried to the rice shop to buy this bag of white noodles, and I was going to go home to make dumplings. I regretted that my recklessness just now scared my wife, and I felt very uneasy, so I went to buy a small hairpin and went home. I apologize to my slut wife and wear it with her, I am very happy. The villain’s words are true, I hope the master will check it out. Right now, I just don’t know that my slut wife is..."

The yamen servant got angry when he heard it, and cursed loudly: "You are so eloquent, it's a coincidence. You killed someone, and the ground is covered with blood, and you still want to quibble? Seeing that the body of shopkeeper Shen has been buried, why don't you come here?" Come in front of the master to fool me with sweet talk!" He was about to hit him hard with a stick.Di Gong shook his head to stop the yamen servant, stroked the long black beard under his chin, and nodded frequently. "Brother Wang Mo, show me the little hairpin you bought." Brother Wang Mo took out a small purple-red hairpin from his bosom and handed it to Duke Di.Di Gongqing looked at it in his hand for a while, then at the pile of loose white noodles on the table and the blood under the table, and remained silent.

Suddenly there was a burst of wild laughter upstairs, and the thin ceiling was trampled. Di Gong ordered: "Take Mrs. Zhang and the child downstairs!" When Brother Wang Mo saw his wife and son, tears of joy flashed in his eyes, and redness appeared on his pale face. "Thank God! You mother and son are all right." Mrs. Zhang knelt down in front of Brother Wang Mo, whimpering and said, "Brother Mo, it's all the bitch's fault. I just wanted to make a joke. Who would have thought that the fake would come true. Now that you have become a sinner, they will soon arrest you." Captured and killed, can we not pay for it? How will our mother and son survive in the future!" As he spoke, he couldn't help but choked up and burst into tears.

Duke Di let out a sigh of relief.He said loudly: "You all stand up with me!" Then he turned his face and ordered the servant: "Unlock the chains on Brother Wang Mo." The two yamen servants looked at each other, and gave Di Gong a suspicious look.Seeing Di Gong smiling slightly, he didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he stepped forward and untied the chains on Brother Wang Mo's body. Di Gong helped Brother Wang Mo, and said with a pleasant face, "You almost got into a catastrophe tonight. It is a great blessing for you to have such a wise wife. Oh, your son Baosheng is also a very smart and lovely child. If it weren't for him tonight , but the family is really going to be ruined. Well, it’s almost midnight on New Year’s Eve, and your stove hasn’t caught fire yet. I’m leaving, you guys make dumplings, and get ready to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year!”

Di Gong signaled to the two yamen servants that they were about to go out. Mrs. Zhang said in a trembling voice: "Master, how to deal with the case of shopkeeper Shen being killed? Are you really lenient?" Di Gong laughed and said: "How can there be any case? Shopkeeper Shen is at his home admiring your embroidered silk handkerchief with his concubine. ——Brother Wang Mo didn't kill Shopkeeper Shen." "So—then, what's the matter with all this blood in the room—the river of blood?" Mr. Di looked up at the ceiling and said with a smile: "Tonight, Tailor Liu's house hosted a banquet and invited Butcher Li to slaughter a pig. Mrs. Liu was clumsy and accidentally spilled the big wooden basin containing the pig's blood. The pig's blood flowed down from the ceiling, and flowed all over the table and floor of your house,—do you understand now? It was a false alarm!" Brother Wang Mo and his wife were full of surprises. They looked up and saw that there were bright red blood stains on the smudged black ceiling. They couldn't help laughing at each other: "Hahahaha." "Hahahaha." The two yamen servants were just waking up from a dream, and couldn't help laughing out loud. "Haha." The laughter of the guests who were full of barbecue and drunk with liquor came from upstairs. Brother Wang Mo carefully inserted the little purple hairpin between Zhang's temples.The three of them smiled and looked at Di Gong, with sincere gratitude in their eyes. When the midnight bell struck, the streets and alleys suddenly sounded with firecrackers, one after another, forming one piece. Di Gongnai thought that it was already the morning of New Year's Day, so he hurriedly cupped his hands to greet Wang Mo's family: "Congratulations on the new year."