Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

The villagers arrived quickly, and under the encouragement of Tao Ming and other students, they quickly lined up by village.

The villagers, young and old, were all beaming with joy after they were given food, their own land, and tax relief. This was in stark contrast to the indifference that Chen Shao had seen when he first came here the day before.

After Hu Qinglu began distributing copper coins and snacks according to household registration, village and household, Chen Shao stood beside him for a while, and seeing that there was no scramble, she decided to go to Ding Lisheng to have a look. After taking two steps, an old man who had just received money and snacks came over to her with his children, bypassing the table where the money was distributed.

"Old man, what's wrong?" Chen Shao went up to him with concern.

The old man said nothing. He shouted at all his children to kneel down, then he knelt down himself and kowtowed three times without saying anything.

Chen Shao quickly stepped forward and helped him up, "Old man, what are you doing?"

"Your Excellency is our benefactor. It is only natural for us to kowtow to you!" the old man said loudly.

Listening to the increasingly loud voices of agreement, Chen Shao stopped them and said, "Old man, you think too highly of me, and you all think too highly of me. This money was taken from the Wen family. I didn't pay a penny."

"It's your ability to get money from the Wen family. You gave us the money and shared it with us, so you are our benefactor. Moreover, you not only gave us money, but also gave us land and exempted us from taxes!" The old man said, and was about to kneel down and kowtow. Chen Shao quickly stopped him, "Old man, you can't do that. The land originally belonged to you, and I just returned it to the original owner. The taxes were also paid by you in vain for the past 20 years. I have only exempted them for five years, and I am very ashamed. Please don't use these to praise me, I will be embarrassed if you continue to praise me."

Without waiting for the old man to reply, Chen Shao said to the children around him, "It's getting late, you should help him go back and have some rest. Now that you have land and money, living a good life is the greatest thank you to me."

Having said that, the old woman's children still knelt down on the ground again, kowtowed to her three times to express their gratitude, then stood up and helped the old woman walk away.

As soon as the old man left, another person came forward to kowtow. Chen Shao quickly stopped them: "Don't come. I'm still young and haven't married yet. If you all kowtow to me like this, my luck will be gone. Fu Jiu, Chan Yi, listen to me. From now on, if anyone kowtows to me again, I will take back all the money they gave me."

Chan Yi smiled and said "OK".

But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

The common people did not come to kowtow to her, but when they left the village, they kowtowed to her from a distance, and left without saying a word. In order to avoid them, Chen Shao simply went to Ding Lisheng's place.

There weren't many people queuing in front of Ding Lisheng's table.

When Chen Shao came over, Tao San happened to be the one standing in front of him. Chen Shao waited until he received the money before asking, "Uncle, how is your leg? Is it feeling better?"

Tao San smiled, "I'm much better now. Miss Chan Yi is really a miracle doctor!"

He had tried all kinds of folk remedies for this leg, and it was very painful in the past two years. He shamelessly went to see a doctor, but the doctor couldn't cure it. Unexpectedly, after being pierced by a few needles on the delicate skin of the cicada shell and taking the medicine she gave him twice, he didn't feel any pain at all.

Chan Yi went over and pinched his leg, and reminded him: "You must take the bottle of pills I gave you on time. Don't think of saving them just because you feel relieved for a while."

Tao San was touched by this and couldn't help asking, "Now that it doesn't hurt, I don't need to take it, right?" It would be better to wait until the next time it hurts to take it.

Chan Yi said, "Don't worry, just take the medicine on time. As long as you don't put any weight on this leg, it won't hurt anymore."

Tao San immediately said, "I'll go back and eat later."

Chan Yi gave him a few more instructions before letting him go.

Those who lined up to receive the money from Ding Lisheng were all people with disabilities or injuries at home. Chen Shao could not favor one over the other. When she met people with disabilities at home, she would ask about the situation of the disability. If the situation was not serious, she would let it go. If the situation was serious, she would ask them to go back and bring the person over to Chan Yi for treatment.

They came here mainly to investigate the case, and they did not bring too many pills with them. In order to avoid the people not going to get the medicine to save money after the prescription was given, and also to promote the official pharmacy, Chen Shao asked Chan Yi to write down the address, name, age and other information of the disabled people on the prescription, and wait until tomorrow when they return to the county town to get the medicine together and send it to him.

With various measures in place before her such as distributing grain, returning land, reducing taxes, and giving money, the people did not question whether she could fulfill their promises. Instead, they followed the actions of the people around them and kowtowed to her one by one.

Chen Shao couldn't persuade them any more, so he let Chan Yi continue to treat them and went to the accounting office to check the account books of the farm.

But after reading only two pages, she gave up: she couldn't understand it.

After asking Fu Jiu to load all the account books onto the carriage, she came out from the back door and took a detour to Dashu Village to find Xu Guang.

In front of Tao Fengchun's coffin, Wu'er held a torch while Xu Guang was concentrating on piecing together the bones. He didn't even notice Chen Shao approaching. After signaling Wu'er not to disturb him, Chen Shao stood beside him and watched him holding a piece of broken bone. He hesitated for a long time between his arm and calf, not knowing where he had put it together, and reminded him, "The fibula of the calf."

Xu Guang quickly raised his head, and when he saw that it was her, he immediately said with joy, "Sir."

Chen Shao hummed, squatted down, took the broken bones from his hand, and after he pieced together the broken fibula, he picked up a piece of broken bone from each part of the corpse and handed it to him: "There are skills to piece together bones. First, turn the broken bones over and look at the bone or marrow behind them to see if there is any difference between them."

Xu Guang said as he looked at them: "I have seen them before. Some of them can be seen at a glance, but some of them are not very different."

After asking Li Tianliu to hold the torch closer, Chen Shao took the bone fragments from him and picked out the few pieces that were not very different from each other without asking him. "When there is no difference in the bone quality or bone marrow, we can also judge by the thickness and curvature of the bone fragments, such as these two pieces..."

Many knowledge points are not from textbooks, but are spread through years of experience accumulation, with old forensic doctors leading new forensic doctors. But no matter which way it is spread, with the progress of society, basically all forensic doctors come from the system. In ancient times, few forensic doctors were full-time, and more often they were butchers. Xu Guang was even more different. He was originally a scholar, but he was simply interested in forensic doctors, and he took this path after failing the imperial examinations many times. Fortunately, he has good talent, a spirit of research, and is also smart. After Chen Shao finished talking about some key points, he took a few pieces of bone fragments and pondered them for a while, and soon found a little trick.

With the trick, Xu Guang became more excited. Soon, he left Chen Shao aside and threw himself into the bone fighting again. Chen Shao did not disturb him. He stood up and stepped aside. He watched silently for a moment. After confirming that he had indeed found the trick, he asked Wu Er: "How long has he been fighting here?"

Wu Er tried to muster up some energy and answered, "From last night till now, I haven't left for dinner."

After signaling Li Tianliu to arrange a Yulin Guard to replace her, Chen Shao called her aside and said, "According to the current subsidies, your family should receive at least 25 strings of cash. I won't give you this money, just consider it as atonement. Don't do stupid things again in the future, otherwise I will punish you twice as much."

Wu Er looked at her in disbelief. As she looked at her, her eyes turned red and tears soon rolled down her cheeks. "My little bastard, I don't need to..."

"No need for imprisonment." Chen Shao said affirmatively.

Wu Er knelt down and kowtowed to her three times earnestly, "Thank you for your mercy, my Lord!"

Chen Shao did not avoid her. He accepted her greeting firmly and said in a slow tone, "The fields that were taken away by the Wen family have also been returned. When you bury your parents, go to the governor's mansion to bring the child back, and then live a good life."

Wu Er cried bitterly and kowtowed to her three times: "Thank you, my Lord!"

Chen Shao smiled and said, "Don't thank me, get up."

When she got up, he said, "Live a good life in the future, which will be the best way to thank me."

Wu Er burst into tears and said, "My little bastard, I will definitely live a good life in the future!"

Chen Shao said, "Wait and see," and returned to Xu Guang. Seeing Tao Fengchun's body gradually becoming complete in his hands, Chen Shao was relieved, but also reminded him, "After you finish this one, go back to the manor."

Xu Guang asked: "Are you going back?"

"I'll go back after the subsidy is distributed." Chen Shao paused and said without allowing any argument, "If I ask you to go back, how long have you not closed your eyes?"

Xu Guang subconsciously said: "I'm fine."

Chen Shao said indifferently: "Whether you are okay or not is not up to you to decide."

Even though Xu Guang was slow to react, he could tell that her tone was not right. He looked at Tao Fengchun's body, then at Tao Yuan's open coffin, and said reluctantly, "I'll finish it soon. I'll go back after I'm done."

Chen Shao said "hmm" and went back first.

Before I knew it, another night had passed.

All the money for the more than 30 carts of food had been distributed, and not a single box of snacks was left. Hu Qinglu and Ding Lisheng, who had not moved all night, breathed a sigh of relief, stood up at the same time, and looked at each other at the same time. After a glance, they immediately avoided each other's sight, walked away in the opposite direction, slowly stretched their waists, and pounded their shoulders and backs.

Chan Yi is still busy.

That night, she saw nearly fifty sick and disabled people.

With the help of Liu Deming, Sun Qi and others, he sorted out the prescriptions and put them in the carriage before he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Let's go cook." Seeing that everyone was too tired to talk, but breakfast was still not prepared, Tao Ming suggested loudly, "We still have some rice and flour left from yesterday. Let's make some porridge and fry some pancakes to make a meal."

"Don't worry." Master Luo looked across the street, "Someone is bringing food."

Everyone looked over in the direction he said.

Dashu Village, Dashi Village, Liujia Village... From seven villages and seven directions, villagers were carrying porridge buckets, pancakes and side dishes and coming here.

Soon, these people gathered at the farm one after another.

"You must be hungry after a busy night. The porridge is still hot. Hurry and bring a bowl over."

"There's nothing special about it, just some vegetable pancakes, just make do with it to fill your stomach."

"I have eggs here. Come on, one for each of you."

At the beginning, everyone was distributing porridge and cakes as usual, but from some point on, the villages began to compete secretly, comparing porridge and cakes, and later on, even side dishes and eggs began to be compared.

Ding Lisheng had investigated serial murder cases with Chen Shao, and had felt the enthusiasm of the people for Chen Shao, but this was the first time he had seen such a scene of enthusiasm. This was the first time for him, not to mention Hu Qinglu and the students who followed him. Hu Qinglu had been so tired in the past two days that he had no time to think about Chen Shao's dealing with the Wen family, but at this moment, watching the people scramble to give him biscuits and eggs, he suddenly felt a sense of panic in his heart, a panic that Chen Shao would eventually confiscate all the nobles and gentry in Hongyuan County.

He had never thought about this before.

Compared with his panic, Liu Deming, Sun Qi, Tao Ming and others were particularly excited by the enthusiasm of the villagers. They were not excited about the food in their hands, but a heartfelt satisfaction, a satisfaction of being supported after doing things for the people.

Chen Shao was also very happy, and he accepted all the porridge, cakes, eggs, etc. handed to him by the villagers.

After a lively dinner, Chen Shao took out the list of remaining items in the manor that Mr. Luo had compiled. After taking a rough look at it, he asked Fu Jiu to invite the village chiefs from several villages in.

Knowing that they were going back to the county town, villagers from several villages came to see them off. The village chiefs were naturally among them. Several people followed Fu Jiu into the house. After Chen Shao told them not to be polite, he handed over the list and said, "This is what's left on the farm. Take a look first."

None of the Muramasa answered because they were illiterate.

After Luo Ye reminded him, Chen Shao finally reacted, withdrew his hand apologetically, read out the remaining items on the list one by one, and said, "I won't help you divide these, you can discuss and divide them among yourselves. Don't say you don't want them and ask me to take them away. You have been oppressed and bullied by this village for so many years, your bodies can still hold on, but the elderly and children in the village can't. You should go quickly, discuss and divide them as soon as possible, so that the elderly and children can make up for it quickly."

After hearing what she said, the few people swallowed their words asking her to take away, went out to find a quiet place to discuss the matter, and then dispersed to call people.

While they were busy distributing chickens and ducks, Chen Shao, who had almost finished his work, also set off to return to the county town. The villagers followed the team for a long distance before slowly stopping and watching them disappear before dispersing.

"Sir," Ding Lisheng rode up on his horse as they were about to reach the county town. Under Li Tianliu's eager eyes, he said cautiously, "The money distributed to those villages was forcibly robbed from the Wen family..."