Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 71 Kill the chicken to warn the monkey

"If you really had an 80-year-old mother and a child waiting to be fed, would you do something sneaky?" The second wife sneered, "My mother eats more salt than you eat rice! Tell me , who sent you here?"

"My cousin Liu Xi called me here. Liu Xi opened a small restaurant by the pier. This restaurant is basically a business for the poor. The price of each meal is only a dozen yuan, but you opened it like this. After a restaurant, my cousin's business has been bleak. I said aunt, I didn't mean you, you are too bad at being human. It is not such a way to rob business. You keep the price so low, you let How do other people live?"

"The life and death of other people is none of my business!" The second daughter-in-law looked at him, "Is it your cousin's idea?"

"That's not true," the other party shook his head, "It's the idea of ​​many people, such as shopkeeper Wang, shopkeeper Li, and shopkeeper Zhang on this street...that's all I know, and I can't tell you more Auntie, please let me go, I am a person who takes money to do things, I am innocent!"

"Everyone is innocent, you can speak to the county magistrate tomorrow!"

After this matter was resolved, the second daughter-in-law's mind relaxed, she yawned, and lazily said to Xiang Yatou, "Girl, go to sleep."

"I'll stay here and guard." Xiang girl has always been honest and cautious, she pinched her nails into the palm of her hand and said vigorously.

"Both of his feet were injured by traps, and he was tied up again. Can he still go to heaven?"

Xiang girl shook her head.

"You have to get up early tomorrow to cook rice, blanch wild bracken, and wash pigs into the water. If you don't hurry up and sleep now, how will you survive tomorrow?"

"It's nothing, just one day." Xiang girl still shook her head.

The second daughter-in-law was a little helpless, she felt sorry for her daughter, so she said: "How about this, mother goes to sleep for an hour, after an hour, mother will come and watch over him, you go to sleep for another hour."

"Thank you mother." Xiang girl smiled slightly.

"Silly girl," the second wife took off her coat and put it on her body, "is there any mother who doesn't love her daughter?"

So, one night passed like this.

Early the next morning, after Ye Qiongdan and Ye Qinghan came to the restaurant, the second daughter-in-law couldn't wait to lead them to the kitchen to see the tied thief.

The second daughter-in-law also gave Ye Qiongdan the packet of medicinal powder, and said, "Should I go to a pharmacy and ask if these medicinal powders are poisons that make people foam at the mouth and convulse all over?"

Ye Qiongdan sniffed the smell of the medicine through the oiled paper bag, and frowned: "Well, it is indeed a poison that makes people foam at the mouth and convulse all over the body. If you take too little of this poison, it is true that no one will die, but if you take too much, If you don’t receive timely medical treatment, you will surely die.”

"This is too ruthless! Send him to the official now!" The second wife's daughter-in-law broke out in a cold sweat, "My darling, I won't dare to work with you in the future. Of the restaurant's income, our second wife takes up one Cheng Hongli, if something goes wrong, it doesn't matter if I go to jail, my three daughters who won't be implicated will go to jail with you, right?"

The more the daughter-in-law of the second room thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, she quickly took off her apron and said to Xiang Yatou, "Girl, let's quit! Let's go back to Shanghe Village now!"

"Second aunt, as long as we make an example of this time, no one will dare to poison the food and drink in our shop." Ye Qiongdan said hastily.

"Kill chickens to warn monkeys? How do you kill chickens to warn monkeys? You are a young girl, how can people be afraid of you? What's more, there are only a few people in our restaurant? How many people are trying to plot against us? Two fists are no match for four hands, can you fight against me?" What are so many people doing against each other?"

The daughter-in-law of the second room blinked her eyes, thought for a while, and then said: "We can take it as soon as we see it! Anyway, this shop has made a lot of money, and you already have the house and land deeds of this shop. In the future, the shop will be sold." If you rent it out, even if you collect a rent every month, it is enough for the three of you to live well."

"Don't worry, I'm sure I can tidy them up!" Ye Qiongdan said firmly.

"It's up to you?" The second daughter-in-law sneered, "Don't say that the second aunt is cold, the second aunt is taking your sweet girl, today I will do the last day for you, after this day, we will pack up and go back We’ve gone to Hecun. As for whether your shop will hire people to do things or buy people to do things in the future, that’s your own business. We don’t want this [-]% bonus! Think of it as losing money to buy peace!”

"Mother, don't do this!" Xiang girl said hastily.

"Listen to your mother!" The second wife scolded, "You can't rush where the danger is, this is an act of courting death! Mother has eaten rice for so many years and walked for so many years than you, mother will not harm you!"

"Mother, we can't do this!" Xiang girl blushed anxiously.

"My mother is right!"

Ye Qiongdan was not angry either, she pulled Xiangyatou's little hand into her palm, and patted it lightly: "Don't worry, when I come back from the county office today, your mother will change her mind."

Xiang Yatou looked at her, a layer of tears came out of her eyes, but she tried her best not to fall.

The daughter-in-law of the second room has already thought of leaving, so she is a little lazy at work today.

Although Xiang girl was a little upset, she was still very diligent in doing things.

After selling out the lunch, Ye Qiongdan and Ye Qinghan hired a carriage to go to the county, and put the people caught last night in the carriage.

Today happens to be the release day, and the county magistrate will hear the case on this day.

When he arrived at the Yamen, Ye Qiongdan jumped out of the carriage, untied the man he caught last night, and said to him: "Be honest for a while, be lenient when confessing, and be strict when resisting; if you persist to the end, you will die!"

That person usually does some sneaky things, where has he ever been in an official place like the county government?He was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he got up obsequiously.

Ye Qinghan came to the Drum of Crying Wrongs and beat the drum to cry out his grievances.

"Bang bang bang..."

The loud drumbeat attracted a servant.

The yamen servant often followed the county magistrate and was highly regarded by him, so he had met Ye Qiongdan several times.

"Miss Ye, why is it you again? The county magistrate was still talking about your family's food two days ago, and today he specially sent a servant from your family to buy some from your shop to satisfy his hunger. The county magistrate's wife He Qianjin didn't eat it before, but after tasting it last time, he also fell in love with your food, Madam especially likes your cold wild bracken, she said it is fresh and smooth."

"Thank you, the magistrate, for your love." Ye Qiongdan smiled politely.

"You and your elder brother played drums today, what's wrong with you?" the yamen servant asked hastily.

"Last night, I used a trap to catch a person who wanted to poison the well in the backyard of the shop. The certified substances are all there."

"Oh, the nature of that is serious!" The yamen servant immediately treated it seriously, "Wait a while, my lord still has a case to close."

The yamen servant waited in a secluded place with Ye Qiongdan, Ye Qinghan and the arrested people. Ye Qiongdan took out some money from the purse, handed it to him and said, "Brother, you see, we have met several times." It's time to meet, I came and went in a hurry before, and I forgot to give you some money to buy wine."

"Impossible!" The yamen servant hurriedly refused, Ye Qiongdan was a woman that even the county magistrate praised, and he didn't dare to accept her money.

"Just be a friend."

The yamen servant accepted the silver with great honor, and quickly said, "My name is Wang De, you can call me Dezi."

At this time, the county magistrate finished the last case, and it was their turn to go to court.

Ye Qiongdan, Ye Qinghan and the captured man went to court together, and knelt down in the sound of "mighty".

"Who is in the hall?" The county magistrate put on a straight face and knocked on the gavel.

"Ye Qiongdan, a daughter of the people, together with her elder brother Ye Qinghan, sued the people around her for breaking into a private house last night in an attempt to poison the well in the backyard of the restaurant." Ye Qiongdan said loudly.

"Cao, Cao Min Liu Er," the man was so frightened that he sat on the ground paralyzed, "Na, it is the defendant. My lord, Cao Min was wronged!"

"Do you know that almost every defendant who is brought to court will shout that he was wronged?" The county magistrate's expression became serious, "Tell me, why do people wrong you for poisoning?"

"Master Qingtian, it's not that this girl wronged me for poisoning me last night, it's that the wrongdoer has the leader, the debtor has the owner, and the grassroots also use money to do things and obey others!" Liu Er almost cried.

"Even if you use money to do things, that's a crime! In broad daylight, the sky is clear, do you know that your actions are flouting the national laws of the Dalong Dynasty?" , almost lying on the ground.

"Caomin is now convicted. It's because the grassroots haven't read the book. They really didn't know that it is illegal to take other people's money and eliminate disasters for others..." Liu Er had a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, and his face was also a little dizzy. White.

"If you confess and confess to the mastermind behind the scenes, my lord can give you a lighter punishment. I will only hit you with [-] slaps, and save you from being imprisoned!" The county magistrate said in a deep voice.

Liu Er was trembling with fright, he licked his dry lips, and quickly spit out everything he knew, lest he didn't speak carefully enough and be implicated by the mastermind behind the scenes.

"Every sentence is true? Is there any concealment?" The county magistrate asked again.

"Every sentence is true, I dare not hide anything from my lord!" Liu Er hurriedly said.

"Come here, lead him to Qili Town to arrest the suspects, not one less!" The county magistrate ordered sharply.

At this time, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

He loves the food from Jiu Wei Restaurant, and today he sent someone to the shop to buy a few meals, planning to take them home and heat them up for dinner.

If the poisoner succeeded today, wouldn't he also suffer the crime of foaming at the mouth and having convulsions all over his body?
This person who poisoned is really hateful, this is simply harming the people!

If this cancer is not cured, can the common people still have a clean meal?
The more the magistrate thought about it, the more afraid he felt, and the more he hated the poisoner behind the scenes.

An hour later, seven or eight government officials escorted the group of suspects over, and they knelt down together.

Those people complained one after another, but their defense seemed so weak in the face of Ye Qiongdan's personal and physical evidence.

Finally, the magistrate knocked on the gavel, suppressed his anger and said: "My lord has always been upright and upright, and I will never allow such a bad thing to happen in the land under my jurisdiction. The principal criminal Liu Xi will be whipped a hundred times and jailed for three years! The accomplice Liu Xi Second, hit 30 big boards again! The rest of the people will receive [-] big boards each, and each will pay Ye Qiongdan [-] taels of silver and serve three months of hard labor! Don't blame me for being ruthless, it is because the nature of this matter is extremely serious , must be dealt with severely, as an example to others!"

(End of this chapter)