Mr. Xiang teases her husband every day

Recently, a major event happened in Tongping Mansion.The people in the city waited at the gate of the magistrate's yamen except for the necessary daily work, waiting for the time of the public trial to be posted every day, so that they could arrive early when the day came, so as to occupy a good position and get a better view. clear.

On this day, the aunt who sold vegetables was rushing towards the Yamen with a basket in her hand early in the morning. On the way, she met a woman selling sesame seed cakes who was also rushing towards the Yamen. She greeted with a smile, "Ms. An, you are so early."

An Niang shrugged the cloth scarf on her head embarrassingly, and said, "I can't help it. My family finished work late last night and couldn't get up today. He told me to come early to check the time, lest I miss the public trial."

The aunt laughed and said: "Oh, don't talk about you, even us who are old and powerful, rarely watch the excitement. Where have we seen this kind of public trial made by Xiang Zhifu? Those big families were beaten to death. A servant can spend money to settle the matter, when did you see them interrogated? Xiang Zhifu is a good official."

That An Niang also nodded straightly, and the two of them rushed all the way to the place where the notice was posted in the yamen, and when they got to the front, they found that there was already a large group of people surrounded there.At the front, a scholar-like man shook his head and read the notice to the onlookers.

"The case of land encroachment in Xianyao Village is scheduled to be tried at the gate of the magistrate's office at 18:23 on September [-], [-] in Jing'an. Anyone with knowledge is expected to provide clues in time. The following is the recent progress of the case: He's family has been obtained Zhuangzi made a statement and summoned the head of the village and the thugs involved in the case; the villagers of the occupied fields in Xianyao Village made statements and witnesses of five people. That’s all. Tongping prefect’s yamen sued.”

"September 23rd? Isn't that today!"

"Yes, yes, it's Mao Shizhong now, and there is still a while before Si Shi, oops, I have to go back quickly and call my old man over."

After listening to the vegetable seller, she also hurriedly said to An Niang: "Oh, it's about to start, I have to go back quickly and tell my boy and the old man to go."

An Niang also nodded straightly, and the two of them turned around and walked back in a hurry before they got here.

The public trial set up by Xiang Zhifu has not been seen once in decades, and they don't want to miss it.An Niang, who sells sesame seed cakes, also thought that maybe she could take this opportunity to sell her own sesame seed cakes.

And in the inner house of the magistrate's yamen, Xiang Yuan and Zhao Shen had breakfast, watched Zhao Shen play around with Xiang Dazhuang for a while, thought of Zhao Xinlan's matter, and asked Zhao Shen how the investigation was going.

After Xiang Dazhuang's activities, Zhao Shen handed it over to the wet nurse to take him down to nurse him. Hearing Xiang Yuan's question, he looked a little dignified, and said, "I'm afraid we didn't make a mistake. Zhao Xinlan's death was really not easy."

Xiang Yuan pulled Zhao Shen to sit on the kang in the inner room, leaning against the kang, sticking to his side, stretching out his hands to help him rub his waist slowly.

"You asked Niu Er to find out what?"

"You must have seen it, Congzi. Zhao Xinlan always brings two girls with her when she comes out? But whether it was when we went to condolences that day or the funeral yesterday, we only saw one of them. I also asked that Sun Jun However, Sun Jun said that the girl was in great grief because her mistress hanged herself, and because of her loyalty, she also followed her."

"That girl doesn't look like a loyal master."

Xiang Yuan shook his head.He had seen the two girls beside Zhao Xinlan before, and they were quite impressive.Gein, although one of them is young, has extremely flexible eyeballs, and his face is full of small calculations that cannot be concealed, he feels bored when he sees it.The other one didn't have a deep impression, I just remembered that although he was handsome, he was a little dull.

"That's the reason. That girl is not safe at first glance. I deliberately talked to the girl guarding the spirit before her head. She accidentally slipped her mouth and said that the little girl was ungrateful and wanted to climb on the master's bed. Later Discovered by Zhao Xinlan, she was severely punished and almost kicked out. You said that such a girl would be so sad that she didn't want to live because of the death of the mistress?!"

Hearing this, Xiang Yuan had a bad premonition in his heart, and asked cautiously: "Daughter-in-law, you don't know what to do?"

Zhao Shen moved his body uncomfortably, and grabbed Zhao Shen's hand rubbing his waist. "Don't rub it anymore, as long as you are lighter at night, I won't have a backache, and I don't have to make you rub my waist in the morning."

Xiang Yuan grabbed Zhao Shen's hand, bit it lightly, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of rubbing your waist, as long as you cooperate at night, I will do my best, and I will be happy to serve you in the morning."

Zhao Shen cast a glance at him, remembering what Xiang Yuan asked before, and said: "I called Niu Erda to hear where the Sun family buried the little girl. Taking advantage of the dark night and high winds, I brought my assistant to dig the grave for an autopsy. .”

"That's why you came back last night?!"

Xiang Yuan covered his face.

The daughter-in-law is also so bold that she actually takes someone to dig a grave!As a native of the country, he was able to find out the truth without fear of karmic reincarnation. This kind of courage really made him admire and anger him.

"Go digging up the corpse at night, and you are not afraid that the gangster will come back and accuse you of blasphemy!"

Zhao Shen was a little proud when he heard the words, and said, "Don't worry, son, I've taken precautions against this. That guy signed a confidentiality clause in advance, no matter what he did, he was not allowed to go back on his word, and he couldn't disclose it, otherwise I would have to claim compensation from him." A lot of money. But these efforts are in vain. You don’t know, my son, but the author knew that he was going to dig a grave for an autopsy, and he was more active than me. The little girl was dug out. I didn’t dare to look at it at first, but the author did I was inexplicably excited, chanted, and finally took my hand and thanked him loudly for giving him such a chance."

At the end of speaking, Zhao Shen frowned, somewhat dumbfounded.

This must be the case of a research fanatic, and Xiang Yuan is also a little speechless.People who are obsessed with research really don't distinguish between dynasties, and at any time there are things that they don't care about except for the things they are interested in.

But having said that, as soon as my daughter-in-law was looking for it, she found such a temperamental assistant, not only extremely professional, but also strict with her mouth. This luck is really not hidden.

As for the work of cleaning up after the incident, let me as the husband-in-law clean it up.

"Then did you find out?"

"Well, it's really a bit intrusive to say. That little girl's face was bruised, her mouth and nose were bleeding, Wu Zuo deliberately pried open her lips to dig out the accumulated blood inside, and it turned out to be black. That little girl was obviously poisoned to death. It's not what Sun Jun said, he hanged himself."

"Where is that little girl now?"

"I asked Wu Zuo to carry it back and put it in their morgue with ice cubes. Fortunately, the weather is getting colder now, otherwise it would be really difficult to store."

Xiang Yuan unconsciously pinched Zhao Shen's shoulders back and forth with one hand, and touched his chin with the other hand, thinking about how to arrange this matter reasonably.

After about a cup of tea, Xiang Yuan came back to his senses, the first thing he noticed was that the hand around Zhao Shen's shoulder was pinched by Zhao Shen at some point, pressing one finger after another.

Xiang Yuan smiled unconsciously when he saw it, his expression was gentle, and his tone couldn't help but drop.

"Don't say anything about this matter in advance. If I have not made a mistake in my estimation, Mrs. Zhao will probably come to Tongping today. Find a chance to tell her about the doubts about this matter, and she will come forward to sue Sun Jun. First, Sun Jun Hold on, and at the same time, send someone back to Lizhong to find the little girl's family members and bring them to Tongping, and use the little girl as a breakthrough to find out the cause of Zhao Xinlan's death."

"We already have the evidence of the little girl, can't we directly sue Sun Jun for murdering Zhao Xinlan?"

Xiang Yuan shook his head.

"No, we are not directly involved, so we have no reason to sue. And you dug up the little girl's body in private, and you must not let others know about it. When Sun Jun is under guard, you will take someone to bury the body back. At that time, the public trial will have people from the Yamen dig up the grave for an autopsy, which is the most convincing and the most reason to open Zhao Xinlan's coffin for an autopsy."

Zhao Shen nodded, seeing that it was late, he hurried down to arrange for people to go back to Lizhong to find the little girl's family.Fortunately, Zhao Shen remembered that this little girl was not sold by a matchmaker to sign a death contract without knowing her life experience. Her family was in Lizhong, and what she signed with the Zhao family was only a ten-year life contract. When the time comes, she will be released to go home.Sun Jun probably didn't know about it, otherwise he wouldn't have come up with a story about a little girl who died faithfully.

After burying the thread at this end, Xiang Yuan straightened his clothes and walked towards the front office.

At this point, it's time.At the gate of the magistrate's yamen, there was a circle on the third floor and the outer three floors to watch the excitement.There are also people pushing small carts and carrying burdens to sell things, and the surrounding area is full of the smell of sesame seed cakes, fried dough sticks and fried sparrows.

As soon as the clock was pointed, the big drum at the entrance of the government office was sounded by the servants. Immediately afterwards, Xiang Yuan came out of the office and sat behind the bill set up at the entrance of the government office.

The dozen or so villagers of Xianyao Village were led to kneel on one side of their heads, and five or six people were also kneeling on the other side. It looked like they were not dressed like ordinary farmers.The onlookers pointed at these five or six people and speculated about their identities.

Xiang Yuan knocked on the gavel to start the trial.

First, the dozen or so villagers were asked to narrate the incident, and the documents were recorded on the side. After memorizing it, the scholars present passed it on for reading, and signed it to the villagers if they were correct.Strive for all confessions to be open and transparent.

"That being the case, then, do you recognize the people on the other side?"

Xiang Yuan didn't tell the villagers the identity of the person kneeling at the other end in advance, so after asking this question, the dozen or so villagers all turned their heads to look, and after a while, shook their heads hesitantly and said, "It seems familiar, it seems I've seen it in Hejiazhuangzi."

"Then they are the ones who occupied your fields and injured you?"

"No, that man is the head of the He Family Zhuangzi. He is big and thick, with a sloppy face."

It was the old woman who was the first to complain to Xiang Yuan among the group of people who spoke. The middle-aged man on the side also nodded, saying the same thing as the old woman.

Xiang Yuan said to the kneeling people at the other end: "Tell everyone present, who are you?"

"Going back to the magistrate, Xiaomin is the head of Hejiazhuangzi. He has been working in Hejiazhuangzi for 11 years."

The few people who were with him also realized that they were Hejiazhuangzi's inspectors. They had worked in Hejiazhuangzi for either eight or nine years, or five or six years. Hurt.

When the man said that he was the head of Hejiazhuangzi Zhuangzi, both the villagers of Xianyao Village and the onlookers all showed expressions of disbelief.Just when everyone was in a daze, people with malicious intentions started to show up again.

"Is it true? Why did so many people suddenly appear and say that they are the head of the village? Then what happened to the villagers who forcibly occupied the head of the village before?"

"It can't be that the He family is the ghost?"

Being deliberately instigated by someone with a heart, the onlookers were all suspicious for a while, and there were buzzing discussions.