During the Yongzheng period, there was a widow named Chen in Zhaojia Village, Dai County. Her husband Zhao An went up the mountain to hunt in his early years and accidentally inhaled miasma . On the way back, he encountered heavy snow and was caught in wind and cold. He was sick and died after being bedridden for less than four days. Widow Chen is left with two orphans. The eldest daughter is only ten years old and the youngest son is less than three years old.
Wife Chen and her children soon ate all the surplus food at home and lost their livelihood.
On this day, Widow Chen cooked a pot of fish with a blow-dry belly. Seeing her younger son in her arms smiling, the eldest daughter happily helped her serve fish soup. Widow Chen's heart softened and poured all the fish into the river with a pot of blow-out belly. He ordered his daughter Shuilan to take good care of his younger brother Shuisheng, and then went out alone in the night.
On the evening, two babies from the Chen family were so hungry that they cried. Widow Chen brought back a hanging of pork and two kilograms of white flour.
Widow Chen’s own labor force is not enough to support a family of three, but she can always make her family full and well-dressed, and the villagers began to talk about her.
Not long after, Yongzheng pardoned the world, and Zhao Ji, the gangster in Zhaojia Village, was released. It doesn't matter if he has no money, he wants to visit the kiln, but he is penniless. When Zhao Ji learned about Widow Chen's condition, he touched Widow Chen's house at night, locked the two children into the woodshed, and forcibly defiling Widow Chen.
The next day, Zhao Ji was found drowned in the pond at the entrance of the village. The people from the yamen came up to investigate the case, but the cause was not found, and the bento case was hung up.
A month later, a noble man came to the Widow Chen's family. It turned out that he was his eldest brother Zhao Ping, the eldest brother of his deceased husband. When he was a child, Zhao Ping was sold by his bet-hearted father. After years of searching for him, he became a wealthy businessman and wanted to return to his hometown. The family is gone, only the widow and nephew of his younger brother Zhao An. Zhao Ping had served in a military service in his early years, and had injured his lower body. He had sex without any hindrance, but he could no longer have children. He had married three uncles and had no children. At this time, I wanted my two nephews to inherit their huge family business.
After Zhao Ping learned about the situation, he said to Widow Chen: "If your brother and sister don't dislike me, you can marry me and I will divorce all my wives and concubines at home. In this way, the two children are my children, and I will raise you on your behalf."
Widow Chen has been suffering for so many years and encountering pie falling from the sky, how can she not agree?
Zhao Ping is preparing to move his family business back to Zhaojia Village and never leave his hometown again. After giving a few instructions, he went back to his home to make some reservations.
The next day, the village butcher Zhao Yangsheng was also found drowned in the fish pond at the entrance of the village. Zhao Yangsheng is the best foodie in the village. He usually has nowhere to be close to him, and this time he was killed. The county government attaches importance to serial murder cases.
can kill Zhao Ji and Zhao Yangsheng's people, but there is really no Zhaojia Village. The villagers are neither tall nor strong. The county magistrate investigated that when Zhao Ji came out, he was penniless and had no time to make enemies with others. Zhao Yang lost his property and did not make enemies with others in normal times. The county magistrate concluded that this was a love-killing killing, and the most beautiful woman in Zhaojia Village and the unowned woman was Widow Chen.
The county magistrate arrested Widow Chen. When he was promoted to the church, Widow Chen shouted for injustice.
County magistrate said, "It's okay if you don't admit it. I think the fact is this: Zhao Yangsheng is your old friend. He has helped your family for many years. Zhao Ji may have gone out to bully your family. You instructed Zhao Yangsheng to kill someone. You are afraid that the murder will be exposed, so you deceived Zhao Yangsheng to the pond and kill him. Isn't it?"
Speaking of this, the yamen runner asked Widow Chen to write on the paper, and Widow Chen did not resist.
County magistrate said angrily: "You woman, you don't want to live, right? This is not a fact at all. I want to attract you, but you confessed to your guilt by saying nonsense!"
"This county has already investigated clearly that Zhao Yangsheng can swim and has no serious injuries on his body. You can't get him into the pond and drowned!"
Widow Chen: "The Master Qingtian is very clear, but I don't know how Zhao Yangsheng died!"
未分类 also found out that Widow Chen could not support her family by herself. She must have thought about it with the men in the village to survive. But the villagers, except Zhao Yangsheng, could not say that she had anything to do with other men. It seems that there are many troubles in front of the widow, which is not suitable for her. She just wanted to support her family, but she had no choice but to go with the butcher and did not mess with other men in the village too much.
The case has not been solved for a day, and Widow Chen has been locked in the dungeon.
County magistrate looked at the two children who were temporarily living in the yamen, with clean hands and feet and obedient. I hungry them for a day, and then deliberately let them in the kitchen and lock them up for an hour. After I came out, there was a lot of food in the kitchen. Such a child cannot be taught by a bad person. In addition to having a holiday with the butcher's family, Widow Chen had a good relationship with other villagers.
The next day, the county magistrate was promoted to the court to hear Widow Chen again and said, "This county has found out that you have two horses and two lovers, right?"
Widow Chen was stunned for a moment and looked at the county magistrate at a loss.
County magistrate continued: "Zhao Ji went to your house to commit an offense that night, but was caught by Zhao Yangsheng, who went to your house for fun. Zhao Yangsheng killed the second-rate boy. When your other lover saw Zhao Yangsheng killing someone, he was afraid that he would talk too much about right and wrong, he killed Zhao Yangsheng again, right?"
"Called truthfully, who is the other lover?" County magistrate slapped the gavel.
Widow Chen can't speak anymore.
"I have caught the person, it is Zhao Lei who is going to be a bandit in your village."
"How could Zhao Lei, who is thin monkey, kill the tall and powerful Zhao Ji and Zhao Yangsheng?" Someone said in the crowd watching the case.
"Use cloth strips!" The county magistrate took out a few cloth strips to demonstrate on the spot. He saw that he easily subdued a tall and strong yamen runner with cleverness, and there were no visible big scars on his body.
"Zhao Lei learned the method of capturing from that group of bandits surnamed Chen. It is easy for people who do not understand kung fu to subdue them."
Then the county magistrate released Chen's widow without acquit, and Zhao Lei was sentenced to the street market the next day.
htmlWife Chen, who survived the disaster, went home, opened the wardrobe, found a few wrinkled strips of cloth, threw them into the stove and cooked them, and started cooking.Later, Zhao Ping brought his family back to Zhaojia Village, and their family became a well-known big family.
Note: (Blowing belly fish is pufferfish ancient name, poisonous)