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In case Du Cheng really wins Juren in the future, he, the father-in-law, will also have infinite glory.

Taking a ten thousand step back, even if Du Cheng failed the Juren examination, he would definitely be fine in the scholar examination.At that time, with proper support, the daughter will not suffer from poverty.

However, a businessman is a businessman after all, and Ji Yuanwai's calculations are very precise. Although the marriage is settled, there is also a condition, that is, Du Cheng must be selected as a scholar before his daughter can pass the family.

Later, Du Cheng lived up to his expectations and finally passed the examination as a scholar. Naturally, it was time to talk about marriage.

But at this time, Ji Min has grown up and has his own thoughts.

She didn't want to marry from the bottom of her heart. To be precise, she didn't want to marry into the Du family.

The Du family's family background was very ordinary, and Du Cheng's father was ill in bed. In order to treat his father, Du Cheng had already sold most of the property.

As a result, life is even more stretched, and it is difficult to maintain food and clothing.

As for the quarterly member, although he regretted it a bit, he was still a face-saving and trustworthy person. He didn't want to let all the villagers poke his back, so he took the initiative to find Du Cheng, saying that he might as well get married as soon as possible, so that he could be happy.

Chongxi has always been a folk custom.

On the one hand, I want to take advantage of the festive day to transfer luck, so that the elderly who are seriously ill at home can recover as soon as possible.

Secondly, it is also related to another custom. Once a close relative dies unfortunately, the children in the family must observe the filial piety according to the rules. They are not allowed to get married within three years, and they are not allowed to leave their hometown.

Otherwise it is unfilial.

For Ji Yuanwai's proposal, Du Cheng was naturally very grateful, and began to hastily prepare for the marriage.

But he never thought that the fire in the backyard would cause Ji Min to rely on his parents' doting since he was a child, making troubles at home all day long and refusing to marry no matter what.

Naturally, the Ji Yuanwai couple can't let their daughter's temper go, after all, the wedding date has been set, how can there be any reason to go back on it?

If it spreads out, what's the face of the Ji family?

Du Teng didn't know about it, so he pieced things together, and finally got some betrothal gifts, invited bridal sedan chairs, bands, etc. to come to welcome the bride on a regular basis.

Unexpectedly, Ji Min still didn't marry, and hid in the room crying and making noises, and even threatened her with death, saying that if she insisted on marrying, she would hang herself.

Ji Yuanwai and his wife took turns to persuade her, and promised that they would take care of her after they got married and would not let her suffer from poverty and so on.

However, no matter how much the couple tried to persuade, Ji Min was as determined as if he had eaten a weight, and refused to change his clothes no matter what.

When the quarrel was raging, the younger sister Ji Yao, who had always been sensible, walked into the room and said, "Father, mother, since my sister refuses to marry, then don't force her, my daughter is willing to marry instead of my sister."

"what?"

"This"

The quarterly member and the couple couldn't help but look at each other.

But Ji Min got excited, and said with joy on his face: "I didn't say this, this is my sister's voluntary, if she wants to marry, let her go."

Although this matter is a bit absurd, but the matter has come to this point, Ji Yuanwai has no choice but to discuss with his wife for a while, and is forced to accept the sister's easy marriage.

In fact, this is not a rare thing, there have been many such cases since ancient times.

Sisters marry sisters, sisters marry, and even widowed sister-in-laws marry sisters-in-law

In this way, Ji Yao seized the time to wash and change her makeup, put on a red hijab, got on the sedan chair, and paid her respects.

When he entered the bridal chamber and lifted the hijab, Du Chengfang realized with a dazed expression how did his little aunt become a bride?

Fortunately, Ji Yao is kind-hearted, and she didn't tell the truth that her sister dislikes the poor and loves the rich, but fabricated a white lie, saying that her sister was not feeling well, and she was afraid of delaying the wedding.

However, Du Cheng was not stupid, he had already guessed what was going on in his heart.

On the contrary, he was even happier in his heart, thankful that he married a sensible wife.

After getting married, the husband and wife are loving and loving, and work hard to manage the family.

And Du Cheng's father's condition miraculously improved day by day. The fact that the sisters were easy to marry became a good story in the town for a while.

Ji Yao was ingenious, she took some shoe soles, embroidered flowers and so on and sold them on the street when she had nothing to do, she didn't have the air of a pampered young lady at all.

For this, the people in the town admired her sincerely and rushed to buy the things at her stall.

Du Cheng also writes some calligraphy and paintings to sell while studying, and the small life is getting better and better day by day.

At the beginning, Ji Yuanwai felt a little ashamed, and tried to persuade his youngest daughter several times, telling her not to go to the street to set up a stall, but to go back to her mother's house to get money if she was short of money.

However, Ji Yao rejected her father's kindness, saying that relying on her mother's family would hurt her husband's face, and besides, she is living a decent life now. Not only is she not hungry, but she and her husband have a little savings.

He also said that he would slowly buy back the previously sold land.

At the same time, Xianggong is also studying hard, maybe one day he will be in high school

In this regard, Ji Yuanwai's mood is quite complicated.

On the one hand, he feels sorry for his little daughter, and on the other hand, he is also relieved that his little daughter is so sensible.

I can't help feeling secretly in my heart: They both came out of the same mother's womb, why are the two sisters so different?

Chapter 2 is another strange case...

"Daddy, what happened next?"

Nie Xiaoqian also seemed to be quite interested in this story, and when her father paused, she couldn't help asking.

"Later, that woman named Ji Min finally got her wish and married into a wealthy family named Lei in a neighboring town."

Nie Hongshu took a sip of tea, and then continued to talk.

After marrying into Lei's family, Ji Min also lived two years of prosperity.

But the good times don't last long.

Both the father and son of the Lei family like to gamble, but in the end they were tricked by someone. In just a few days, they lost tens of thousands of taels of silver and owed a loan shark

As a last resort, the Lei family began to sell their land and real estate.

For the sake of his in-laws, Ji Yuanwai also helped out.Although the debt was paid off in the end, the Lei family has completely declined since then.

Lei Yuanwai fell ill and passed away within a few days.

Ji Min also moved to a few run-down houses in the countryside with her husband. If it wasn't for her natal family subsidizing some silver taels, even eating would be a problem.

On the contrary, Ji Yao and Xianggong's life is getting better and better.

Ji Yuanwai knew that his son-in-law and daughter were both independent and strong people, and he didn't want to be honored by his natal family, so he thought of a way to subsidize his son-in-law to open a private school.

To this, Du Cheng really couldn't refuse.

For a scholar, this is undoubtedly a very decent thing.

Coupled with the reputation and popularity of the couple in the town, many families are willing to send their children to private schools.

With a little spare money in hand, Ji Yao did not forget her family affection, and from time to time asked people to send some daily necessities such as food, firewood, clothes, etc. to her sister's house.

Not only was Ji Min not grateful for this, but he thought it was her younger sister showing off in front of her, taking the opportunity to mock her easy marriage back then.

Jealous and resentful in her heart, but she took things as they were, after all, she couldn't go hungry.

What made her even more desperate was that she had gotten into this situation, and the husband didn't know how to restrain himself. As long as he had two coins in his pocket, he would itch to gamble, and if he had no money, he would force her to go back to her mother's house to borrow.

Fortunately, the guy got drunk one day and drowned in the river on the way home.

Seeing that the eldest daughter is helpless, of course Ji Yuanwai can't just sit idly by and let her move back to her natal home

"About half a year after this, Ji Yuanwai suddenly felt unwell and was bedridden. Du Cheng and his wife rushed over after hearing the news and stayed by their side to take good care of him.

Unexpectedly, Ji Yuanwai died of serious illness two days later

Ji Min thought his father's death was strange, so he asked someone to write a pleading to the county government, saying that his father had always been in good health, and he must have been drugged and murdered.

After an autopsy, it turned out that Ji Yuanwai really didn't die of illness, but was poisoned.

The other party added arsenic to the medicine, but the dose was not enough to kill him at once. After drinking the medicine for two days, the toxin was deposited in his body, causing him to die.”

Hearing this, Gu Ming couldn't help but wondered: "Father-in-law, it sounds like this case is nothing special, but since my father-in-law is worried about this, there must be something left to say?"

There are countless poisoning cases of this kind among the people, and most of them are just trying to seize family property.

And most of the methods are very simple, basically a little investigation can find out the murderer.

However, there are still many people who enjoy it and try their best.

To put it bluntly, most of the murderers or accomplices have a fluke mentality, or they are motivated by temptation, regardless of the consequences.

There was a case of murdering her husband before in Guobei County. A woman had an affair, and in order to be with her for a long time, she wanted to kill her husband.

She thought she was clever, but she came up with an extremely ridiculous idea and secretly asked a quack doctor to prepare a powerful medicine.

That's not enough, in order to get better effect, I went to the pharmacy to buy some of this whip separately, and boiled it together with the velvet.

As a result, the effect of the medicine was too strong, and it was out of control, which caused her husband's blood to rush to his brain and died.

As soon as she came to the hall, she heard "mighty", the woman was so frightened that her whole body went limp, and finally confessed the matter obediently, and it was spread in Guobei County for a long time.

"Ugh!"

Nie Hongshu let out a long sigh.

"My son-in-law, this case is indeed nothing special from the outside, and it can even be said that the case has been successfully solved."

"Huh? Daddy, since you've already been sued, what are you worried about? Who is the murderer?"

Nie Xiaoqian couldn't help asking.

"Actually, Dad is not worried, but has many doubts in his heart. The murderer is Du Cheng and his wife!"

"what?"

Gu Ming couldn't believe it.

"Daddy, did you make a wrong judgment? According to what you said before, aren't the couple quite filial and upright? How could they do such a rebellious thing?"

"That's right, this is exactly what Dad can't figure out.

However, for now, all kinds of clues point to them, there are witnesses and evidence, and the important thing is that the two of them did not complain, did not plead guilty, but did not complain. "

Gu Ming couldn't help asking: "Father-in-law, have you ever been sentenced?"

"The two committed a serious crime. According to the rules, they must be sentenced. However, Du Cheng has a reputation as a scholar, so he cannot be punished for the time being. I have already reported to him and temporarily removed his reputation.

As for that Ji Yao, I have already hinted that the yamen servants should be more lenient, let's just make a cutscene."

Gu Ming can understand this.

After all, filial piety is not only a virtue, but also a means of governing the world that the court attaches great importance to.

No matter how good your official performance is, no matter how much you have contributed to the court, as long as you are not filial to your parents, you will lose your official position or your life if you are found out.

The same is true for the common people, as long as they are not filial to their parents, once they are brought to the government, it will be a felony!

Since ancient times, there have been many stories about filial sons among the people.

Even some filial sons will be promoted exceptionally by the court.

Unfilial piety is a felony, not to mention poisoning one's own parents, it is a felony among felonies.

Once there is evidence, let alone torture, even if the superior is killed in court, he will not be held accountable.

"Father-in-law, what is their motive for committing the crime? If it is for family property, it may not make sense.

As you said before, at the beginning Ji Yuanwai offered to subsidize their husband and wife, but they refused to accept it, which shows that they are not greedy people. "

"That's what I said, but knowing people and faces but not knowing the heart, it doesn't necessarily mean that the two of them put a long line to catch big fish.

Judging from the results of the current investigation, the couple is the most suspected

Putting other factors aside and analyzing the case itself, Du Cheng and his wife probably didn't intend to kill in the first place.

They don't want financial support from outsiders, maybe it's to save face, anyway, they know that outsiders have no children, and the family property will be left to them sooner or later, so why rush?

But then the situation changed, Ji Min was in trouble, and returned to her natal family without worries.

In this way, it is difficult to say who the property belongs to.

After all, the two of them used to be high-profile, and now if they tear up their faces and run to fight for the family property, wouldn't it be a slap in the face?Wouldn't the reputation accumulated before be destroyed? "

Gu Ming thought for a while, and replied: "That's the case, even though they poisoned the season member, it is still inevitable to divide the family property with Ji Min. After all, Ji Min has already returned to her mother's house, so why should they take risks?

It can't be said that this time it was a fluke, and next time I will take the risk of getting rid of Ji Min as well? "

"That's right, I thought about it too, but the current evidence all points to their couple, it can be said to be solid evidence!

First, the shopkeepers and assistants of two pharmacies in the town testified that Du Cheng went to their shops separately to buy arsenic, and there were related records in the books.