Little husband, he is born with a good life

Deng Shiqiang and Cao Liang, one checked the Ping'an Inn, and the other checked the thrush girl, but they found nothing.

When he was in a state of desperation, he learned that Zhou Jinnian had escorted a scholar back to the Yamen, so he ran over curiously to watch the excitement.

Watching and watching, the two became the chief officers of the interrogation.

That Zhang Ren didn't know Qu Wenbo, had never seen the three-color thrush, his expression was calm, his brows were stretched, and he was calm.

But the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple can see the problem at a glance. The more natural and impeccable the attitude, the more problematic it is.

Deng Shiqiang was impatient, he slapped the table and drank: "The criminal in this case is not clear-headed, come here..."

"I am a talented scholar in the 34th year of Qingyuan!" Zhang Ren stood upright, looking straight at the senior officials with his head raised.

"Did I ask you to kneel down? No. Did I handcuff you? Nope. Come here, wash Zhang Xiucai's face, sober up."

Wetting the face is also a punishment. The prisoner is tied behind his back on the execution bed, and thick mulberry paper is soaked and pasted on the prisoner's face, one by one, making his breathing difficult, as painful as suffocation on fire.

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At dusk, the sky will be dark.Zhou Jinian's interrogation work was taken over by the more professional Criminal Department and Dali Temple, so he and Xie Ning went to have dinner first, and the two chatted about the case while walking.

During the interrogation in the yamen, Xie Ning, who has no official title, could not enter, so he asked Zhou Jinian curiously about the result of the interrogation in the afternoon.

Zhou Jinian: "It turned out that Zhang Ren's family had reported two cases, both of which were due to domestic violence against his wife. Both times, he was sentenced to settle the housework because it was difficult for an upright official to judge."

"After all, he has read books and is a bit clever. It has been a year since the crime happened. He thought we had no evidence, so he refused to speak."

Xie Ning sighed, "Poor little girl."

Thinking of Zhang Zhitao, Zhou Jinian felt a little pity, "Although Zhang Zhitao is a girl, she has a bit of a temper. In October 39, she went to Youshu Teahouse to help Zhang Ren buy peanuts, and it happened that Duan Maocai was showing off the three-color thrush."

"At that time, Duan Maocai said that anyone who dared to touch his three-colored thrush would have their hands chopped off. After Zhang Zhitao heard this, he used the excuse of getting lost to deceive Duan Maocai into trusting him, and tricked him into stealing Duan Maocai's birdcage and taking him home."

Xie Ning suddenly realized, "She wants to use Duan Maocai to cut off her father's hand?"

"That's right." Zhou Jinnian nodded, recalling Zhang Zhitao's immature voice and weak tone, talking about the reality that made her despair.

Zhang Zhitao said: "After my brother came to my house, he quarreled loudly with him...Grandma Wu lived next door, so he didn't dare to quarrel..."

"Brother beat him and said... that he would die without a place to bury him."

"Then my brother took the bird and left. It was dark, but the little bird was colorful..."

Zhou Jinnian told Xie Ning about this, "It turned out that Zhang Ren's motive should be revenge first, and then kill the bird. Cutting off Duan Maocai's head was just for the purpose of venting anger. Before we checked Duan Maocai's social circle, we also found If there are any inns and teahouses, the direction is wrong."

Xie Ning could even imagine a scene where Zhang Ren said to the dead Duan Maocai with disdain: Don't you want me to die without a place to die?Then I'll let you see it first!

Xie Ning was furious when he heard this, "This Zhang Ren is really a coward! He is cruel and heartless to his wife and daughter who are powerless, and he will not fight back when he treats Duan Maocai and other outsiders!"

Xie Ning muttered to himself, "No wonder Zhang Zhitao reported his family name before he snatched my purse this morning."

Zhou Jinnian surrounded him, and the first thing he thought about was Xie Ning's safety, "Money is something outside of your body, if someone snatches it from you in the future, it will lead you to a place where there is no one, so don't chase after it."

Because of Zhang Zhitao's testimony, Zhang Rencai changed his words and said that he had met Duan Maocai, but after the dispute, Duan Maocai picked up the birdcage and walked away. He went back to his study to copy books, and never went out again.

This is the person who insisted that the government has no evidence. It seems that Zhang Ren understands the law quite well, and he thinks that the evidence has been dealt with cleanly by him.

After the couple finished their meal, Xie Ning picked up Zhang Zhitao with a food box and sent her home.

……

Zhang Zhitao, who had finished answering, was sent to a waiting room. She obediently sat on a chair, waiting for the gentle elder brother to pick her up. After she returned home, she could live a life with her mother without being beaten. She is already ten years old and can help the guests in the restaurant refill tea, her mother no longer has to be bullied by those bad men.

Just as she was thinking about the days to come, the door was pushed open, and her eldest brother came in together with another tall man.

She looked outside the door, and it turned out that it was already dark.

Zhang Zhitao shook hands in front of her chest, lowered her head, and walked quietly beside Xie Ning, listening to Xie Ning talking to another tall man, who she recognized, was the official who took the lead in arresting 'him'.

Xie Ning pushed Zhou Ji Nian to go back, "You go back, Mr. Cao and the others haven't had a meal, they tried the case for a whole day, you go to change the guard."

Zhang Zhitao also stopped, looking at the two people in front of him.

What Ning Lang said was reasonable, Zhou Jinian had no choice but to compromise, nodded, and confessed: "I'd better arrange for the two yamen servants to see you off, and after you see her off, go back to the inn obediently, and I'll come back to accompany you when I'm done."

Xie Ning nodded repeatedly, pursing his lips, he was more ambitious than Zhou Jinian.

This was originally a homicide case, but the perpetrator Zhang Ren was duplicity, beating his wife and scolding his daughter. After Xie Ning found out about this incident, he was in a depressed mood all afternoon. Xie Ning was so well-behaved, and there was no one around, so he couldn't help but go up to Xie Ning and kiss him.

Xie Ning subconsciously turned his head to look at the short Zhang Zhitao, kicked Zhou Jinian with his feet, "There is a child!"

Normally, Zhou Ji Nian would accept it when he saw a good deal, but today was special, deliberately teasing Xie Ning, wanting Xie Ning to relax his depressed mood.

So he grabbed the leg kicked by Xie Ning with his left hand, and wrapped his right hand around the man's waist, hugging him tightly, "Then you still hit me?"

Xie Ning stood on one foot, and was pulled over by force, forced to cling to Zhou Jinian tightly, with his right leg resting on Zhou Jinian's waist. This shameful action made him blush instantly.

He was still saying in his heart yesterday that he would change it and stop beating her husband, but now he completely forgot about it, and stretched out his hand to grab Zhou Jinnian's ear, "Let go!"

Zhou Jinnian hissed, let go of his hands, palms up and spread out on both sides, as if surrendering.

"Huh!" Xie Ning exhaled, carrying the food box, blushing and said to Zhang Zhitao, "Let's go, brother will take you home."

Zhang Zhitao shrank his head, his eyes were full of fear, obviously frightened by the two couples who were fighting.

Zhou Jinnian didn't notice, he bypassed his husband and stepped out the door, called the two yamen servants, explained a few words, and went to try the case.

Xie Ning was also embarrassed to look at the little girl, he was embarrassed.

The four of them left the government office, walked out of the street and walked to the market.There were many pedestrians on the street at dusk, and many closed market vendors were pushing huge carts on the road. Xie Ning reached out and grabbed Zhang Zhitao's wrist, "Be careful."

Zhang Zhitao looked at the hands holding his own. These hands were fair, with well-defined joints but not delicate, just like the big brother, who looks handsome but dares to beat her husband.

"Why did he let you beat him?"

There was a lot of voices on the street, Xie Ning couldn't hear clearly, "What? Is Xiaotao talking to me?"

Zhang Zhitao stopped talking.

Xie Ning had no choice but to protect her and continue walking.

On the road, I saw a shop selling small bamboo baskets. Xie Ning especially likes to buy small baskets to carry around, a must buy when going out on the street!And there is a very small one on the stall, which is just right for Brother Yu to carry.

Xie Ning stopped in his tracks. The small bamboo basket was square and had a strange shape. He took out his wallet and bought it. The square bamboo basket was only as big as his feet.

"Does Xiaotao like bamboo baskets?" Xie Ning wanted to buy one for Xiaotao.

Zhang Zhitao glanced at the bamboo basket stand, she didn't understand why the elder brother bought such a small bamboo basket that the family didn't need.

Seeing that she was silent, Xie Ning stood up and looked around. There was a stall selling embroidered shoes. He held Zhang Zhitao's wrist and said to the shoe seller, "Look if there is one she can wear. Is it?"

Zhang Zhitao was stunned, the color of the shoes on the stall was really beautiful, just like the three-color thrush she saw that day, colorful and unattainable.

In the short time she was dazzled, Xie Ning had already bought two pairs of embroidered shoes, one big and the other small. Large clusters of pink peonies were embroidered on the black uppers, and the flowers were blooming richly.

"Can you take it yourself?" Xie Ning pointed to the cloth bag handed over by the shoe seller, and said to Zhang Zhitao.

Before Zhang Zhitao could react, the peddler handed it forward again, forcing it into Zhang Zhitao's arms, and she stretched out her arms to hug her.

The peddler was empty-handed, and quickly took the scraps of silver that Xie Ning handed over, tested and tested, and finally found more than a dozen copper coins.

Zhang Zhitao saw it, she knew that these two pairs of embroidered shoes were not cheap, but she didn't understand, how could she deserve such an expensive pair of embroidered shoes?

The little girl thought to herself: He was arrested, and then she will live a good life, and so will her mother.

Zhang Zhitao lowered his head, held the embroidered shoe in one hand, raised it up with the other, and handed it to Xie Ning, but still didn't dare to look up, buried his head and said in a low voice, "Thank you...brother."

Xie Ning looked at the hand in front of him, and sighed inwardly, feeling even more distressed about the little girl.Handing the bamboo basket to the yamen servant, he took Zhang Zhitao's wrist again.

It was the first time for Xie Ning to see such a family affair with his own eyes. In this world, besides his natural good fortune, could it be that only by choosing a good husband like his sister-in-law Li Shiyi can he avoid misfortune in his life?

Li Shiyi was born in the Li Mansion, how many people can be born in the family of the mansion?Most of them are still like Mei Niang. When they reach their age, their parents point their hands and are carried back by a strange man. They can only be beaten and scolded next to each other.

Xie Ning planned to send Xiaotao back, give the mother and daughter some expenses, and try his best to take care of the poor mother and daughter.

When the group walked into Calabash Alley, Zhang Zhitao spoke again, and she asked, "Why did he let you beat him?"

Apart from the four of them, there was no one else in the alley, and the surroundings were dark and quiet.

Xie Ning had been thinking about the misfortune of their mother and daughter all the way, and when he heard this question, he felt a sense of mission, and said solemnly: "He said, because I am his husband, I am the one he should hold in the palm of his hand." people."

Zhang Zhitao didn't understand, why?

When she was five years old, she remembered that the man named 'Father' had just won the prize of a scholar, and Father was hired by a rich master to be his teacher. She knew that Father had gone to teach someone else's son.Not long after the days of poverty passed, when the persimmons were blooming and bearing fruit, my father was fired and locked in the study all day long.A few months later, she remembered that she had only eaten a few sweet persimmons before Father started to go out.

Little Zhang Zhitao thought that Father had gone to teach someone else's son again, but this time it was strange that Father went out during the day and would come back at night, and often brought a few uncles home for drinks.

Finally one day, the uncle who came to drink at home quarreled with my father. The uncle knelt in front of my father, and my mother hid in the room and washed her face with tears. She huddled in the corner and saw my father took a brown money bag. Uncle left her home.

After that, her uncle came to her house almost every night, and her father became more and more violent, beating and scolding her mother every day, including her...

She didn't understand why the father was in the study every day, but the family suddenly had meat.The family has no shortage of meat to eat, why is life more difficult for her and her mother?

Little Zhang Zhitao didn't dare to look up at people anymore, because the child looked at Zhang Ren with black and white, clear and flawless eyes, and would get more violent beatings in return.

So today she was frightened, how dare the big brother hit that tall, stalwart man with a serious face?

Seeing that the little girl didn't speak again, Xie Ning thought she understood, and the group walked to the door of Zhang's house in silence.

There was only one woman in the room, so the door was locked. The two yamen servants knocked on the courtyard door and shouted: "Is there anyone in the Zhang family? Come and open the door."

Xie Ning was afraid of scaring the women in the house, so he touched the top of the little girl's head, "Ask your mother to open the door, here is roast chicken, take it home and eat it with your mother."

Zhang Zhitao thought that Xie Ning was leaving, she wanted to remember this big brother's face so much, so she mustered up the courage to raise her head...

Xie Ning saw that Zhang Zhitao held his head up, his reflection was reflected in his big black and white eyes, his skin was black and yellow but delicate like a child's, and he pursed his lips nervously.

Xie Ning smiled at her.

Zhang Zhitao quickly lowered his head, buried his head, turned around and walked to the door, patted the door with his small hand, and said in a cheerful tone, "Mom, I'm back!"

No matter how much she knocked, the courtyard was silent.It was completely dark, and it was not safe to leave the little girl at the door, and the two yamen servants knocked on the door louder.

Aunt Wu in the room next to them was scared out of the door, Xie Ning quickly apologized, and asked by the way, "Did the people in the house ever go out?"

Aunt Wu: "No, after you left, I talked to her for a while, but she kept crying, maybe she fell asleep right now."

I had no choice but to ask the yamen servant to borrow something from Aunt Wu's yard, pass through the yard, and opened the door.

Two yamen servants stood guard outside the courtyard gate, Aunt Wu carried an oil lamp and Xie Ning entered the courtyard together, Xie Ning carried a food box and put it in the main room, the room was dark, Mei Niang was probably really asleep.

Xie Ning took out his money bag, put the whole money bag on the table while it was dark, and said, "Then I'll go back, eat first when you're hungry, and tell your mother when she wakes up that this food box has to be returned to the restaurant. The money is settled."

Zhang Zhitao hugged the embroidered shoes and shed tears in the dark, he couldn't bear Xie Ning and the big brother who gave her the embroidered shoes.

Xie Ning tried to rub the little girl's head in the dark, but his hands were wet with tears. He wanted to say something to make the little girl strong, so he simply asked Aunt Wu to wake up Mei Niang, so as to give the mother and daughter some hope.

"It's the first time I see you cry, cry, you are still young."

Zhang Zhitao wiped away tears, "I'm not young."

She is not young anymore, she wants to protect her mother.

A scream interrupted the conversation between the two and broke the silence of the entire yard. Aunt Wu hurried out while shouting.

"Ah!!!! Hurry up! God...Mei Niang!"

Seeing this, Xie Ning subconsciously understood that something happened to Meiniang.

……

Mei Niang died, hanged under the beam.

Xie Ning carried the fainted Zhang Zhitao back to the inn, invited a doctor to see her, and asked someone to guard her.

Zhou Jinnian returned to the inn after finishing his work, and when he heard Xie Ning talk about the tragedy, he also fell silent.

Xie Ning sat on the edge of the bed and opened his hands to hug him. After being hugged, he put his face against Zhou Jinnian's abdomen, put his hands down, and hung powerlessly by his side.

"When I left the Zhang family, Mei Niang said that my daughter entrusted me to take care of her. It turned out that she didn't want to live anymore..."

Zhou Jinian stopped touching Xie Ning's hand, it was wrong.

A wife who was tortured by her husband reported the crime and asked for help. She was so desperate that she didn't want to commit suicide, but she committed suicide when her husband was arrested and she and her young daughter regained their freedom. Why?

Mingming regained her freedom and escaped from the sea of ​​misery, but Meiniang was about to die.What is Mei Niang afraid of?She was afraid that Zhang Ren would expose something that she didn't want to face after being arrested. What is the truth of this matter?

"No, autopsy!"

……

Zhou Jinnian didn't rest all night, and finally got the test results from Wu Zuo. Mei Niang was suffering from haemorrhoids, but her husband, Zhang Ren, was not.

Zhou Jinnian immediately ordered that all the scholars in the city who went to the pharmacy to buy medicine for the treatment of diseases of the willows and willows be arrested and questioned, especially those who knew Zhang Ren.

The results of Mei Niang's autopsy plunged the case into a darker abyss. A demon dragged a family into hell.

Zhang Zhitao woke up, and Aunt Wu who came to visit her brought porridge to feed her.

"Auntie, why doesn't my mother want me?"

The thin Zhang Zhitao was lying on the bed, curled up facing the inside, holding a pair of embroidered shoes in his arms, while Aunt Wu stood by and wiped away tears.

Aunt Wu gasped, and said calmly, "It's not that she doesn't want you anymore, she's had a hard life, and she's going to heaven to enjoy the blessings."

"Does a person go to heaven to enjoy blessings after death? Does he also want to go to heaven to enjoy blessings?" Zhang Zhitao's voice was soft, so fragile that people dared not take a deep breath.

Aunt Wu wiped her tears and shook her head, "No, it's because your mother has never done evil in her life and suffered too much in the world, so God is kind."

Aunt Wu didn't know much, it was her husband who found out from the patrol soldiers.

But she firmly knew that Zhang Ren was a beast, he killed his wife and abused his daughter, so she told everything she knew, "Your father..."

Thinking that Sister Tao always called Zhang Ren "he", Aunt Wu also changed her words and said: "He snatched other people's birds, killed them, and even beheaded them. He will go to hell, and he will suffer a thousand knives. cut!"

Zhang Zhitao's eyes widened. He killed his elder brother who was so proud that he could punch and kick him and he dared not fight back?

……

Zhou Jinnian strode boldly in front of Zhang Ren, lifted his hem, and kicked Zhang Ren, who fell to the ground with his chair.

"Master Zhou!" the jailer guarding Zhang Xiucai hurriedly said, Zhang Ren is a scholar, and he can't spend time in prison until he is expelled from the rank of meritorious service. Now he is born in the house, but tied to a chair, which limits his freedom. Just act.

"Bastard! Married to someone, but not treating him well, staying at home all day with nothing to do, relying on the meat bought by his wife?" Zhou Jinian moved his eyes away, even looking at Zhang Ren made him feel disgusted.

Zhang Ren simply lay on the ground and smiled contemptuously, "Master Zhou? Zhou Jinian in Nanyu County?"

He is really a scholar who's a scholar who can know the world's affairs without going out. Although he didn't go to Zhou Jinnian's banquet, some of his friends told him vividly.

The information is underdeveloped, and their scholars can only have one in the east and one in the west to understand current affairs, and then they often get together to drink and talk.

Zhang Ren snorted: "Isn't that bitch afraid of being soaked in a pig cage?" He thought it was Mei Niang who revealed the family scandal.

Hearing his unrepentant words, Zhou Jinnian directly called someone to come to torture him.

Zhang Ren said hastily, "What's the difference between you and me? Did your husband buy you Yuxiang?"

Zhou Ji Nian smiled instead of anger, "The difference between me and you? Let me tell you, I carry him into the house, and I Zhou Ji Nian can make him live like himself! With Zhou Ji Nian around, he is good. No matter the secular world, no one can hurt him in the slightest."

"Hmph, after all, it's not about spending the money your husband earned. If I marry him... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

Zhou Jinnian kicked him in the air, with a condescending look on his face, "Are you worthy? Do you dare to say that your wife is voluntary?"

"Ah...she... seduces people...she doesn't obey women's rules! Ah..." Zhang Ren's hands were tied, and he could only shake his legs and try to tighten his lower body.

Zhou Jinnian didn't speak, and quickly reasoned the logic in his mind, "You know in your heart whether she is unruly, but it's just an excuse you use to make yourself feel at ease and force her to betray you."

"Ah..." Zhang Ren was in pain, but his vigilance was still very high, and he retracted into the turtle shell again and stopped talking. He was aggressive in Zhou Jinnian, but he just didn't speak.

The jailer at the side waited for Zhou Jinnian to leave before he stepped forward and spat at Zhang Ren, "You idiot! If you can be as stubborn as a prisoner of war, then you will be convinced."

……

Xie Ning got the news that Zhang Zhitao had woken up, and hurried back to the inn to visit her.

Aunt Wu was gone, Zhang Zhitao sat on the bed with her arms around her knees, and the embroidered shoes were no longer there, they fell out of the cloth bag and lay quietly beside her feet.

Seeing her lifeless appearance, Xie Ning was very pitiful, "Xiao Tao, do you know grandpa?"

Zhang Zhitao thought about it, and since he was born, he had never seen her before, so he shook his head and said, "No."

"What about grandpa?" Xie Ning sat beside her and asked softly.

"Dead." She knew this. The year grandpa passed away, he was fired and returned home. The family had no income, and her mother and her nightmare began.

"It's okay." Xie Ning took a deep breath, made up his mind and said, "I have an older brother, and my older brother will support you."

Zhang Zhitao rubbed his chin against his knee, and asked in a low voice, "Why hasn't he beheaded yet?"

Seeing that she didn't respond to his decision, Xie Ning thought that Zhang Zhitao was embarrassed because the little girl had been shrinking in her own world.

I had no choice but to answer her: "Because there is insufficient evidence."

Thinking of what his husband was investigating, he tried to ask Zhang Zhitao: "Do you know anything about the family? Those who bully your mother, brother, arrest them, okay?"

"Can't catch..."

"how could be?"

Zhang Zhitao picked the embroidered shoes with his fingers and said, "I don't know, I just can't catch them. They came to my house and said that it is difficult for an upright official to break up housework." Zhang Zhitao refers to the arresters in official uniforms and the yamen servants in blue shirts. "Later, my mother refused to report to the official."

"Why didn't you report to the police?"

Zhang Zhitao replied softly, "I can't say it, my mother's reputation will be ruined if I say it."

She remembered that her mother's original words were as follows: I can't say it, my mother's reputation is gone, it's gone, my mother's death is not a pity, my mother can't harm my daughter's reputation.

That's what she said, but immediately she continued: "I remember the names of those who bullied my mother, he called them Brother Chengye, Brother Zhongxian..."

Xie Ning was still wondering why Xiaotao couldn't say it before, but she said it right away afterward.

But Zhang Zhitao recited seven or eight names in one go!He was so surprised that he had no time to analyze the others.

The more Xie Ning listened, the angrier he became, his hands were shaking...

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