Yu Shimingyan

Chapter 22
Time flies like an arrow, and Shanshu has grown into a 14-year-old before he knows it.It turns out that Mrs. Mei has been cautious all her life, and never mentioned a word about the past in front of her son.I'm afraid that the baby's mouth is slippery, leading to right and wrong, which is useless and detrimental.When Shou Deyi was 14 years old, the division gradually became clear in his chest, and it was hard to hide it from him.One day, I asked my mother for a new silk dress to wear, and Mrs. Mei replied, "I have no money to buy it." Shan Shu said, "My father was a prefect, and he stopped giving birth to two brothers. Seeing how rich my brother is, I am If I want a piece of clothing, I can’t tick it off, what’s the matter? Since my mother has no money, I’ll ask my brother for it.” After saying that, he left.Mrs. Mei grabbed hold of it and said, "My son, a silk garment is a very important matter, so I also ask for help. As the saying goes: 'Cherish blessings and accumulate blessings', 'Small ones wear thread, big ones wear silk'. If you wear silk when you are young In two years, when you improve in your studies, a mother will sell herself to make clothes for you to wear. That brother of yours is not easy to mess with, why pester him!" Shan Shu said: "Mother is right." Although he agreed with his mouth, he didn't think so in his heart.Thinking: "My father has a lot of family property, and it is necessary for the two brothers to share it. I am not an oil bottle that was dragged along with my mother. Why didn't my brother take care of it at all? My mother said it like that, but in the end it would be a horse. Juan'er, I don't have a share, I'll wait for my mother to sell her body to make clothes for me. This is so strange! My brother is not a man-eating tiger, what are you afraid of him?" He made a plan, and went to the mansion without telling his mother.When he found his elder brother, he called out, "Bow." Shanji was taken aback, and asked him, "What are you doing here?" Shan Shu said, "I'm a son of a nobleman, with blue hair on my body, and I've been ridiculed by others. I'm here to look for it. Brother, ask for a piece of silk to make clothes." Shanji said: "If you want clothes to wear, ask your mother." Shanshu said: "My father's property is in the care of my brother, not my mother." Shanji heard that The word "furniture" is a big topic, so he blushed and asked: "Who taught you this sentence? Are you here today to beg for clothes, or to fight for furniture?" Shan Shu said: " You have to analyze your property for a day, and today you need a piece of clothing to pretend to be decent." Shanji said: "You are such a bastard, why do you want to be decent! Even if Daddy has thousands of family possessions, he has his own sons and grandsons, and you are a bastard." Shit! Did you listen to some people's urging you to come here to beg for wild fire? Don't provoke me, and teach you that there is no place for mother and son!" Shan Shu said: "It is usually born by the old man, why should I Is it a bastard? If it provokes your temper, what will you do? Could it be that you have monopolized the family property by murdering both of my mothers and daughters?" Shanji was furious, and cursed: "You little bastard, how dare you bump into me!" On the sleeve of his sleeve, he clenched his fist and punched him seven or eight times in a row until his scalp was bruised and swollen.Shanshu broke free, walked out with a stream of smoke, and came to his mother crying sadly, and prepared to tell his mother about it in detail.Mei complained: "I'll teach you not to cause trouble. If you don't listen to the lesson, you'll be beaten well!" Even though he said so, he pulled his blue shirt and rubbed the swollen place on his head for Tata, and he burst into tears.There are poems to prove it: the young widow hugs the orphan, eats thin clothes and has nothing to do.Just because the family lacks filial friends, the same branch and the same tree are sentenced to prosperity and decline.

Mrs. Mei thought about it, and she was afraid that Shanji would hide her anger and send her servant girl in to pay her respects, saying that elementary school students don't know the world, and they offend their elder brother, which is not right.Shanji was still angry.In the early morning of the next day, he invited a few clansmen to stay at home, took out his father's handwriting to separate customs, and invited Mei's mother and son to come. The father-in-law looked at it and said, "The elders are superior, it's not that Shanji refuses to raise his mother and son, and wants to force him out. Just because Shan Shu fought with me for family property yesterday, and talked a lot. I am afraid that he will grow up in the future, and he will talk a lot. Today, I analyzed that his mother and son live away. There is a house in Dongzhuang, with 58 acres of land, and they all obey the old father. I dare not be self-confident in my will, and I beg my elders to testify." This group of relatives, who have always known the pros and cons of being a good person, and their father wrote the will, are they willing to talk too much and be idle enemies?They will all say nice words.The flatterer said: "It's hard to buy a dead man's pen with a thousand gold. According to the customs, there is nothing more to say." Even the poor and good at describing mother and child, only said: "Men don't eat time-sharing meals, and women don't need to marry. Shi Yi. How many self-made families! Now that you have a house to live in and a field to farm, you don’t have a foundation, you just have to work hard on your own. Don’t be too thin to get porridge, everyone has their own destiny.”

Mrs. Mei said: "Living in a garden house is not a day." I had to listen to the analysis, thanked all the parents with the boy, bid farewell to the ancestral hall, and the Shanji couple; taught people to move some old house fires and the original The two married cages hired animals to ride and came to the Dongzhuang house.I saw weeds all over the ground, and the roof tiles were sparse, which had not been repaired for many years.How can you live if the top leaks and the bottom gets wet?Just clean a room or two and make a bed.When the farmer was called to ask, even the 58 mu of land was the worst: in a ripe year, half of the harvest could not be harvested; in a bad year, they had to pay for grain.Mei only cried bitterly.When the elementary school student was wise, he said to his mother: "My two brothers were both born by my father. Why is it so biased? There must be a reason. Could it be that it was not written by my father? Since ancient times, it is said that family property does not matter whether it is high or low. Why not mother?" Sue the officials to appeal? The thickness depends on the judgment of the government, so there is no resentment." Mei's clues were brought up by the child, and she concealed her heartfelt feelings for more than ten years, and said: "My son, don't doubt the words of separation, this is exactly Your father's pen. He said that you were young, and he was afraid of being plotted against by his elder brother, so he handed over all the furniture to him to make him feel at ease. On the day of his death, he only wanted to have fun with me, and repeatedly asked: "among them Contain riddles, wait until the wise and responsible secretary is in office, send him for detailed examination, and ensure that your mother and son can live well without poverty.'" Shan Shu said: "Since this has happened, why didn't you say it earlier! Where is the picture of Xingle? Get it quickly and give it to me. Take a look." Mei opened the box and took out a cloth bag.Unpacking the bundle, there was another heavy oiled paper to wrap it inside.I opened the seal, unfolded the small shaft, which was one foot wide and three feet long, and hung it on the chair, and the mother and child bowed down together.Mei Shitong said: "The incense candles in the village are inconvenient, please forgive the blasphemy." After Shan Shu worshiped, when he got up and looked carefully, it was a sitting statue with black gauze and white hair, which was painted as if it were alive.Holding the baby in her arms, she pointed to the ground with one hand.After thinking about it for a while, I was completely puzzled.I had no choice but to keep the volume and hide it, feeling very depressed.

A few days later, Shanshu went to Qiancun to visit the master for an explanation.Passing by the Guanwang Temple, I saw a group of villagers carrying pigs and sheep as sacrifices to Guan Sheng.When Shanshu stood on his feet to watch, he saw an old man passing by, leaning on a bamboo stick, who also came to look around, and asked the crowd, "Why are you so godlike today?" The crowd said: "We have been wronged. The lawsuit, thanks to the government's understanding and determination of this official matter. I made a wish to the sun, and I am here today to pay my respects." The old man said: "What kind of lawsuit? How can it be broken?" One of the people said: "This county wants to ask Feng The boss clearly stated that the ten families are Jia. The villain is the head of Jia, and he is called Cheng Da. In the same Jia, there is a Zhao Cai who is a first-hand needleworker. He often does night work at other people's homes and does not return home for several days. The sun went out, and it took more than a month to return. His wife, Liu Shiyang, searched everywhere, but there was no trace. A few days later, a corpse surfaced in Hanoi, with its head broken, and the local government reported it to the government. Someone recognized the clothes. It was Zhao Cai. One day before Zhao Cai went out, he had a gossip with the villain after drinking, and in a moment of anger, he beat him to his house and destroyed several of his furniture. The villain was sued for his life. The former magistrate of Qi County believed the one-sided words and accused the villain of a death penalty; Tong Jia couldn't raise his head, and they were all charged with crimes. The villain had nowhere to redress his grievances and was in prison for three years. Fortunately, he met the new Lord Teng, Although he came from a rural background, he understands it very well. The villain cried out his grievances during the hot trial, and he also wondered: "Arguing after drinking, it's not a big enemy, why did you kill him?" Ci, play a card to arrest people for review. Master Teng looked at Zhao Cai's wife, never said anything, never said anything, and asked him if he had remarried? Liu said: "The family is poor and hard to keep, and I am already married." "Ask again: "Who do you marry?" Liu said: "It's a tailor of my class, named Shen Bahan." At that time, Lord Teng took Shen Bahan to ask: "When will you marry this woman?" Bahan said: " His husband died for more than a month, and the villain just got married. " Master Teng said: "Who is the matchmaker? Hearing Zhao Cai's dead letter, he went to his house to inquire, and demanded the money. Then Mrs. Liu didn't get any compensation, and she was willing to marry her to a villain, and she was allowed to break the money. In fact, there was no central mediator.' Master Teng asked again Said: "You are a craftsman, where do you get this seven or eight taels of silver?" Eight Han said: "It was collected with him one after another." Master Teng taught him the amount of silver to be borrowed one by one. Eight Han opened it , or rice or silver, a total of thirteen times, making up seven or eight dollars. Master Teng looked at it and shouted: "You killed Zhao Cai, how can you trap a flat person?" He picked it up with a stick, eight Han still refused to admit it. Lord Teng said, "I'll tell you about the disadvantages of love, and I'll convince you: Since you've let go of your money, isn't there another person who can borrow it from Zhao Cai? It must have been with his wife in the past. There is an adulterer, Zhao Cai was greedy for your things, and he knew it well. He wanted to be a long-term husband and wife in the future, so he murdered Zhao Cai. But he taught the woman to sue and twisted it on Cheng Da. The words you opened today are the same as the old pleadings The handwriting is the same, this life is not who you are?" Then teach the woman to point at the woman and ask him to accept the move. When Mrs. Liu heard Master Teng's words, every sentence was in harmony. Deny it. Put on the mask and admit it. Bahan had no choice but to recruit. It turned out that Bahan was close to Mrs. Liu at first, but no one knew about it. Later, Zhao Cai was afraid of people's eyes, and gradually felt isolated. Eight Han privately negotiated with Liu's plan to kill Zhao Cai , to be husband and wife with him.Liu refused.Eighth Han came back from Zhao Cai's work in other people's houses, coaxed him to eat drunk in the shop; walked to the river, pushed him down, broke his forehead with stones, and sank his body to the bottom of the river.Just wait until things are cold, then marry that woman and go back.Later, because the corpse floated up and was recognized by others, Eighth Han heard that the villain was having a quarrel, so he went to instigate the woman to file a complaint.The woman didn't know that her husband was murdered by eight Hans until she got married; since they were husband and wife, they didn't speak a word.But Master Teng tried to find out the truth, and he and his wife were punished, and the villain Ning's family was released.Let all relatives and neighbors fight for centimeters, and compete for the villains.Old man, do you think there is such an injustice? "The old man said: "It's really hard to meet such a wise government!The people of this county are lucky. "

Ni Shanshu heard it in his stomach, so he went home and learned from his mother, so and so, and so and so: "There is such a good government, if you don't tell me about the fun, when will you wait?" The mother and son have discussed it.After inquiring about the release date, Mrs. Mei got up early in the morning, led her 14-year-old son, and brought a shaft, and came to the county to shout.Dayin saw that there was no adverb, but only a small shaft, which was very strange, and asked why.Mrs. Mei gave a detailed account of Ni Shanji's past actions and Lao Tzu's last will.Tengzhi County took the axe and taught him to go, "Wait for me to go into the Yamen to take a closer look." It's exactly: a picture hides riddles, and the rich family affairs are searched for.It's just because the women and orphans are suffering, and the gods are exhausted.Don't ask Mei's mother and son to go home.

In addition, Teng Dayin has finished his release and returned to his private office. Taking the small axis of one foot wide and three feet long, it is a picture of Ni Taishou's pleasure: holding a baby in one hand, and pointing to the ground with the other.After deliberating for a long time, I thought: "This baby is Ni Shanshu, needless to say; with that finger on the ground, is it possible that the officer should read his underground feelings and help him?" It is difficult for the government to make decisions. He said that there must be a reason for the charades hidden in the scroll. If I can't figure it out, I will be wise for the rest of my life." Every day when I retreated from the hall, I would show the pictures and play with them, thinking a lot .So many days, just puzzled.

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