Yu Shimingyan

Chapter Seven
The madam was furious, and her subordinates dragged him to the ground, beat him with thirty boards, and beat him until blood spurted out.One day, Gu Qian came to the garden by chance and asked the old man to sweep the floor. He heard that he had been beaten by his wife and could not move, so he asked someone to help him and asked why.Lao Oujiang sent his wife to the home of Young Master Yolu, and told them all about the meeting in the room at night.Gu Qianshi was furious and said, "So that's how it is!" He called a sedan chair, went to the county in person, and told the county magistrate about it, and wanted to pay Lu Xuezeng for his daughter's life.The county magistrate made up the indictment, and sent someone to take Lu Xuezeng to come and interrogate him in court.Mr. Lu is an honest man, so he told the truth in detail: "I saw that there were gold hairpins and tins, which were gifts from him. There was no private meeting in the garden afterwards."The old man's eyes are blurred, the face of the fake young master in the dark night before is not real, and today the head of the family has paid for the speech, he firmly insists on young master Lu, and will not let go.The county magistrate took advantage of his favor and tried to torture him.Mr. Lu couldn't bear the hardships, so he had to recruit: "Grandma Gu kindly called me, and she helped me with gold hairpins and tin as a salary. Occasionally, I saw Axiu's beauty, and when he didn't agree, he became lustful and forced him to commit adultery. On the third day, if he didn't agree, he went again. It caused Axiu to hang herself in shame and indignation." The county magistrate recorded his speech, and found out that Lu Xue had proposed marriage with Axiu empty-handedly, but they hadn't been engaged yet, so it was difficult to talk about husband and wife.Since he died due to rape, he was hanged according to the law of coercion.While on death row, he prepared documents to apply to his superiors.Mrs. Meng was shocked when she heard this letter. She also visited his house with only one old woman, who also fell ill from fright, and no one delivered food.Thinking: "This matter has nothing to do with Mr. Lu, and I have harmed him." Privately get some silver, and distribute it to the housekeeper and others to use in prison for him.He repeatedly persuaded her husband to save the son's life.Gu Qianshi became more and more angry.Shicheng County took this incident as news and rumors on the street.It is exactly: good things do not go out, and evil things travel thousands of miles.Because of this bad reputation, Gu Qianshi wanted to put Lu Xuezeng to death.

Besides, there is Chen Lian, the censor, who was born in Huguang. His father and Gu Qianshi were both Jinshi on the same list, so Gu Qianshi called him his nephew.This man is young and intelligent, and he is good at distinguishing wrongdoing and analyzing wrongdoing.At that time, he was on a mission to patrol Jiangxi.Before entering the country, Gu Qian went to entrust this matter in advance.Although Chen Yushikou accepted the order, he didn't take it seriously.After three days in office, he was issued a card and pressed to Ganzhou, which scared the officials of that government to piss their asses.On the date of review, the counties will release the prisoners.Chen Yushi went to Lu Xuezeng for trial, read the words, and looked at the gold hairpin, and asked Lu Xuezeng to ask, "Is this the first time you have this gold hairpin?" Lu Xuezeng said: "Little People only go once, not twice." The censor said: "The recruiter said that he would go again in three days. Marriage. Because the father was an upright official, after his death, his family was poor, and the villain was unable to do the job. The father-in-law, Gu Qian, wanted to repent of his marriage, but the mother-in-law refused, so he sent the old man to call the villain privately, and promised him gold and silk. The villain stayed in the village and left after three days. I only saw my mother-in-law that day, but I never saw the face of the young lady. This adultery was perverted." Yu Shi said: "Since I have never seen the young lady, who will give this gold hairpin? You?" Lu Xue once said: "Miss stands in the curtain, and only blames the villain for being late, not to mention marriage, and even gold and silk can't be given as gifts. This gold hairpin and tain have the right to be remembered. The villain still only If you think you are remorseful, you will argue with your mother-in-law; unexpectedly, the young lady hanged to death in the room, and the villain still doesn't know why." Yushi said: "So, you didn't go to the back garden that night?" Lu Xuezeng said "I never went." The censor thought for a while: "If you specially call to go, will you not only give him two things? Xiang Axiu complained, someone must have taken the things first, and even cheated, so that He died in shame and anger." Then he called Lao Ou and asked, "Did you see Lu Xuezeng when you came to Lu's house?" Lao Ou said, "I have never met Lu Xuezeng." The censor said, "Neither have we met, How did you recognize him when he came at night?" Lao Ou said: "He called himself Mr. Lu, and he came to the appointment. The villain was ordered by his mistress to invite him in. How could he not?" Yushi said: " After we met, when did you go?" Old Ou said: "I heard that the lady left wine inside and gave him many things, and I went at five o'clock." Lu Xuezeng called Qu again, and the censor stopped drinking.Then asked Lao Ou: "Na Luxue came here for the second time, but you introduced it?" Lao Ou said: "He came from the front door for the second time, and the villain doesn't know." Why didn't you come to the front door, but came to the back garden to look for you?" Lao Ou said: "My grandma sent a letter to the villain, and she taught him to come in the back garden." Yu Shi called Lu Xuezeng and asked, "Your mother-in-law originally I teach you to come to the back garden, but how do you go to the front door?" Lu Xuezeng said: "Although he calls, the villain does not know whether it is true or not, I am afraid that he will plot against him in the wilderness in the garden; so he ran away. At the front gate, I never went to the back garden." The censor thought that Lu Xuezeng and Yuangong were clearly different, and there must be some disadvantages in it.Yushi pointed to Lu Xuezeng and asked Lao Ou: "The one from the back garden, but do you recognize this face? Don't just agree." This face." The censor said: "Lu Xuezeng is not at home, who did you send your letter to?" Old Ou said: "There is only an old woman in his family, and the villain told him that there is no idler around. "The censor pondered for a long time, and thought: "If you don't find out the root cause, how can you convict? How can you reply to the old man?" Then he asked Lu Xuezeng: "You said that you are in the countryside, how far away from the city? When did the letter arrive at home?" Lu Xuezeng said: "It's only ten miles away from the north gate, and I can believe it today." The censor clapped the case and shouted: "Lu Xuezeng, you said that you will arrive at Gu's house in three days. It’s such a good thing, and the road is not far away, why delay for three days? I can’t justify it!” Lu Xuezeng said: “Grandpa calm down, the villain reported carefully: the villain borrowed rice from the girl’s house in the country because of his family’s poverty. This letter made me want to go to the city. But I was promised to borrow a piece of blue clothes from my cousin to hide my ugliness. But I have something to go out today, and I will not return until tomorrow night. The villain is waiting for clothes, so it is two days late. "The censor said: "Does your cousin know why you borrowed the clothes?" Lu Xuezeng said: "I know." The censor said: "Who is your cousin? What is his name?" Lu Xuezeng said: " His name is Liang Shangbin, a farmer's family." Hearing this, the censor disperses the crowd and says, "Retrial tomorrow." That's right: it's hard to judge lightly like a giant pen like a mountain, but it's like a Buddha's kindness waiting for a small ginseng.Few cases are overturned, so where is there no injustice?The next day, the procuratorate opened the door and came out with a constitution card.The sign reads: "This hospital occasionally suffers from a slight illness, and all officials are expected to implement it as soon as they respond to their official duties. This month's day."

It goes without saying that the magistrates of the prefecture and county greet each other day and night.The words are divided into two ends.Besides, Liang Shangbin felt relieved when he heard that Mr. Lu's questioning was a capital offense.One day, I heard the commotion in front of the door, and when I looked through the cracks in the wall, I saw a cloth seller, wearing a new filial turban on his head, and wearing an old white missionary robe. He talked about Jiangxi Township, saying that he was from Nanchang Prefecture. Selling cloth here, I heard that my father died at home, and I was rushing back in the starry night. I saved hundreds of pieces of cloth, and I never lost my hair.Some of the crowd wanted to buy one horse, some wanted two or three horses, but the guests refused, saying: "When you sell it here and there, you can't leave for a while. The rich man's house always takes off, so let him have more. After listening for a long time, Liang Shangbin came out and asked, "How much cloth did your guest save? How much is it worth?" The guest said, "There are more than four hundred pieces, and the cost is 200 taels." My master? You have to be willing to fold some, so that no one will be greedy for you." The guest said: "It's okay to fold a dozen or so. As long as you make it quickly, you can walk easily." Liang Shangbin looked at the cloth sample and went to the cloth boat again. I went to look through it carefully, and I only boasted: "good cloth, good cloth!" The guest said, "you don't want to buy it, you just mess up my cloth bag and take care of the people's business." Liang Shangbin said: "How come I don't look like a buyer?" The guest said, "When you want to buy, borrow money to see." Liang Shangbin said: "If you add two and agree to fold it, I will give you half of the 80 taels of silver." The guest said: "You are talking nonsense! As a broker, where can you afford to add two? Besides, I only use half of it, who am I going to vote for the other half? I don't want to buy it. I don't think I want to buy it!" He sneered again "There are many families outside the north gate, but there is no rich man, and you can't afford four hundred pieces of cloth! Come on, come on, go to the east gate to find the owner." Liang Shangbin was not angry when he heard about it; He was a bit promising, so he couldn't let him go, so he said: "You are a bully! I want to buy all of yours, what do you think?" The guest said: "You really buy all of mine? I'll let you 20 taels." Liang Shangbin insisted on discounting 40 taels, but the customer refused.The crowd said: "guest, you need to get rid of the goods quickly; this official Liang is also greedy for cheap. According to us, we can take discretion from it, 170 taels, let's make a deal." At the beginning, the guest refused, but was persuaded by everyone. "Come on! These ten taels of silver are flattering to everyone. Hurry up and exchange the silver, I have to travel overnight." Liang Shangbin said: "I can't get a lot of silver. Is there a few pieces of jewelry that I can use?" The guest said: "Jewelry is just silver, as long as the price is fair." Liang Shangbin invited the guests to sit down, and exchanged the silver and two-inch silver clocks for a total of 100 taels; The number of two.The customer received it and delivered the cloth.Liang Shangbin was delighted to see that this deal was very cheap.Exactly: Greedy and ignorant bottomless snakes swallow elephants, misfortunes and fortunes are difficult to understand, and mantis catch cicadas.It turned out that the customer who sold the cloth was none other than Chen Yushi in disguise.He closed the door on the pretext of illness, and carefully distributed the cloth to Nie Qianhu, a Chinese military officer. He arranged for the cloth and hired a boat to serve it in Shicheng County.He secretly brought a doorman here privately, and Nie Qianhu followed him pretending to be a young man. The doorman was only a boy watching the boat, and no one saw through it. This is the magic effect of being an official.

But Chen Yushi said that when he got off the boat, he took out the constitution plate that he had written, filled in Liang Shangbin's name, and asked Nie Qianhu to take it secretly.Write another letter, please Gu Qianshi to meet in the mansion.When the censor returned to the procuratorate and said that he was ill and opened the door, Liang Shangbin had already arrived, and Gu Qian's affairs had also come.The censor is busy teaching to set up wine in the back hall, leaving Gu Qian to do small meals.While sitting, Gu Qianshi brought up the matter of Lu Xuezeng again.The censor laughed and said, "Uncle Qu is here today, just for this public case. He wants to make it clear." He taught the door to open the book case, took out two pairs of silver bells and many jewelry, and gave them to Gu Qian. Look.Gu Qianshi recognized it as something in the family, and asked in surprise: "Where did it come from?" Yushi said: "The reason why Miss Ling'ai died is only in these few things. Elderly uncle, please sit down and let my nephew come out." Tang, ask the old man about the number and look at it, and resolve this unresolved doubt."

The censor opened the door separately, and still called Lu Xuezeng to review together.The censor and the teacher took it aside and called Liang Shangbin face to face.The imperial censor shouted: "Liang Shangbin, you've done a good job in Gu Qianshi's family!" Hearing this sentence, Liang Shangbin seemed to hear a thunderbolt in the blue sky, and he was hard-nosed to distinguish.I saw the censor teaching his disciples to confess the stolen silver bells and jewelry to him, and asked, "Where did these things come from?" Liang Shangbin looked up, and saw that the censor was the cloth seller. "The villain deserves to die." The censor said, "I don't use the stick, you just write the truth."

Liang Shangbin didn't know what to expect, so he had to admit it.How do you write the words?There is a poem titled "Suo Nanzhi" as evidence: "Write a confession, Liang Shangbin. Just because his cousin Lu Xuezeng, his mother-in-law thought he was poor, and asked him to help him to hire him. In order to know this situation with the help of clothes, he was deceived by incompatibility. Wait for him to go. In the dark, fake Xuezeng, Yuan Gong led into the inner room door, met Mrs. Meng, and presented gold and silver generously. Because of staying overnight, there was an affair. Three days later, Xuezeng came and sent the young lady to die. "The censor took the words and called the gardener, Lao Ou, to come up: "Recognize it carefully, that night in the garden pretending to be Mr. Lu, but this person?" Lao Ou opened his eyes and said: "Grandpa, it is He." The censor ordered Zaoli to punish Liang Shangbin eighty times; he opened Lu Xue Zeng Jiajing and put it on Liang Shangbin.Heyi raped and beheaded, and sent to the county prison for execution.

Four hundred pieces of cloth were chased out, and the shopkeeper was still paid to return the warehouse.The silver and jewelry were given to Lao Ou to take back.Gold hairpins and gold tinsel will be returned to Lu Xuezeng.They all released the Ning family.Lu Xue once thanked him for his life.It's exactly: treachery is like a bright mirror, and grace is blooming.There are no regrets in life and death, God Yushitai.

But he said that Gu Qian was in the back hall, and he was horrified after hearing this review.Hou Yushi retired from the hall, and thanked him again and again: "If it weren't for the candlelight of the old ancestor, the little girl's grievance would have nothing to do. But I don't know how the old ancestor got the silver and jewelry?" Yushi whispered: "Little nephew... ...So that's the case." Gu Qianshi said: "Wonderful! It's just one piece, and Liang Shangbin's wife must know about it; there must be a few more pieces of Han's jewelry. I hope the old grandfather will be arrested and questioned."

"It's easy," said the imperial censor. As soon as the documents were issued, Liang Shangbin's wife was brought up in Yangshicheng County for a strict trial, and the remaining stolen goods were still pursued in return.Gu Qian said goodbye to the censor and returned.

But the magistrate of Shicheng County saw the procuratorate documents, and Liang Shangbin was taken out of the prison and asked, "What is your wife's surname? Did you know about this matter?" Liang Shangbin was hating his wife, and promised: "My wife, Tian, ​​is actually an accomplice because of her greed for money. "At that time, the county magistrate sent someone to mention Tian's family to the official.

The words are divided into two ends.But it is said that Tian's parents are both dead, and they only live by the side of his elder brother and sister-in-law.On this day, his elder brother Tian Chongwen was in front of the county. Hearing the letter, he hurried back and reported it to Tian.Tian said: "Don't panic, brother. My sister has her own reasons." At that time, she took the letter of divorce and got on the sedan chair, and carried it to Gu Qianshi's house to see Mrs. Meng.Madam was dazed, she clearly saw her daughter Axiu coming in.When she got closer, she was suddenly born a beautiful woman. She was surprised and asked, "Who is it?" Tian fell down on the ground and said, "This concubine is Liang Shangbin's wife, Tian. Because of the injustice of the wicked husband, I only Afraid of getting involved, I divorced in advance. The master of the expensive house doesn't know, please help my wife." After finishing speaking, he took out the divorce letter and presented it.The lady was watching, when Tian suddenly grabbed the sleeve of the lady's shirt and cried loudly: "Mother, my father has made me feel good!" The lady heard Axiu's voice and started to cry too.Then he called out, "My son, what can I say?" Tian's eyes were closed tightly, and she cried sadly: "The child made a mistake for a while, lost his virginity to the bandit, was ashamed to see the face of the young master, hanged himself to complete his chastity. He Qi's father was not allowed to pay close attention, and he almost killed the young master. Fortunately, he was exposed, but he had no family and no family. In the end, it was my mother and son who missed him. If the mother misses the child, speak up for the father, and be considerate. Don't cut off the in-laws of the same line. The child is under the nine springs, and he has nothing to hate." After saying that, he fell to the ground.The wife also fainted from crying.The housekeeper, the maid, and the adoptive mother all reunited and woke up together.Na Tian was still sitting on the ground blankly, completely unconscious when asking him.The lady looked at Tian, ​​thought of her daughter, and cried repeatedly, and all the maids persuaded her.The madam was very sad, and asked Tian: "Do you have parents?" Tian replied: "No." Is it?" Tian said: "If I can serve my wife, I will be lucky."

Madam was happy and stayed by her side.

When Gu Qian returned home, he heard that Tian had divorced earlier and had nothing to do with him. He wrote a letter and sent it to the county magistrate with the letter of divorce, begging him to transfer back to the procuratorate without hands.I also saw that Tian's family was virtuous and wise, so respectful, and adopted his wife as a righteous daughter.

The madam also mentioned the matter of his daughter Axiu's ghost, and he urged: "Stop the in-laws of the Lu family." Now that the Tian family is young, why not recruit Mr. Lu as his son-in-law to continue his previous marriage?Seeing that Lu Xue had been innocently victimized, Gu Qian felt very remorseful.Now my wife's words are reasonable, why don't you obey?I'm afraid that Mr. Lu will be suspicious, go to his house in person, apologize for his sins, and talk about continuing the marriage.Mr. Lu couldn't refuse again and again, so he had to agree.Take the golden hairpin and tin as an engagement, and choose a day to get married.

It turns out that in front of Mr. Lu, Gu Qian only said that he was his step-in-law's distant niece; in front of Tian, ​​Mrs. Meng only said that she was a scholar, not her real name.Only after they got married, did Tian know that it was Mr. Lu, and the young master knew that she was Liang Shangbin's ex-wife, Tian.Since then, the husband and wife have been harmonious and very filial.Gu Qian had no children, so Mr. Lu took over his family property and set out to attack the book angrily.Gu Qian saw that he had passed through three games, and he was sent to the Imperial College, where he passed the examination.The two sons he gave birth to, one surnamed Lu and the other Gu, were worshiped by the two clans.The descendants of Liang Shangbin died.The poem says: One night of entertainment harms oneself, and a century-old marriage belongs to others.For those who use tricks to commit adultery in the world, please look at Liang Shangbin at that time.

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