Crossing the Ming Dynasty to be the magistrate

Chapter 34

The child panicked when he heard that he was going to look for the chief. He grabbed Wen Yu's sleeve and begged, "Don't take me to the chief, they know they are going to beat me again."

The dirty little hands were in stark contrast to the brand-new clothes, and the child was also aware of this, so he quickly let go of his hands and took a nervous peek at Wen Yu.

Wen Yu looked at the dirty handprints on her clothes and smiled indifferently.This action seemed to ease the child's emotions a lot. He swallowed, and said timidly, "My name is Pan Xiaopan. Those people beat me because my sister didn't accept their feed..."

Wen Yu and Xu Jing looked at each other, but they didn't expect this matter to be related to the farm, so they asked Pan Xiaopan to explain in detail.

It turns out that Pan Xiaopan's elder sister, Pan Xiaorui, was also one of the women captured in the Golden Village. Their parents were killed because they resisted the Gold Village.After Pan Xiaorui was rescued, the siblings had no other relatives, so they depended on each other for life.

Later, Pan Xiaorui went to work in the farm, and because it was really inconvenient, she spent some money to foster Pan Xiaopan at the village chief's house. She didn't ask for anything else, just giving him food.

But the village chiefs of Zhaojia Village and Jinxi Village were timid and ineffective when Huangjinzhai came to loot, and they were old, so their prestige in the village was very low.

Pan Xiaopan lives with others every day, and is often bullied by his peers because of the monopoly of the farm feed.The child caught Pan Xiaopan's elder sister being abused and beat and scolded him all day long.Pan Xiaopan was an honest person, but she was afraid that her sister would be worried, so she fought back when she was beaten, and the villagers just turned a blind eye to it.

Wen Yu's heart was very heavy after hearing this. He helped the child up just now, and felt that he was surprisingly thin. If he continued like this, he might not be able to last long.So Wen Yu decided to take him home and ask the doctor to check him.

Ever since Pan Xiaopan knew that the two of them were officials, he was so nervous that he didn't dare to say a word, and Wen Yu obediently followed him when he left.

On the way, Xu Jing saw that Wen Yu was unhappy, so he wanted to change the topic and ask something related to the case.

Wen Yu said helplessly: "Nowadays, although I generally know that someone poisoned, I have no clue at all. The most important thing is that I don't even know what the poison is, and I can't find out the source of the poison."

Xu Jing also agreed with this point: "Although I have seen many poisons in my travels, I have never heard of any poisons. After eating at noon, it is fine all day long, and it only occurs in the afternoon."

The two felt a little headache after discussing for a while.At this time, Pan Xiaopan, who was silent at the side, suddenly said, "I know there is such a poison."

Wen Yu was shocked: "You know? Where did you see it?"

Pan Xiaopan hesitated for a moment: "It's not just me who knows, many people in the village know that it's on the edge of a river in the west." Wen Yu hurriedly asked him to lead the way and took the two of them to have a look.

When he arrived at the place, Pan Xiaopan pointed to a shrub and said, "That's it, we call it Old Ma."

Wen Yu took a closer look and found that it was a relatively tall plant with round, shield-shaped leaves and spherical fruits.

"This... isn't this castor plant?" Wen Yu vaguely recognized this plant.It was first planted in his hometown, and it is true that it is poisonous, but in the 21st century, it is a commercial crop, and its oil can be used as a lubricant for cars.

Seeing Xu Jing reaching out to pick it up, Wen Yu and Pan Xiaopan hurriedly stopped it.The whole plant of this thing is poisonous, and it's fine if you touch it, but it's just a bit itchy. If you eat the seeds, you may die in the end.

When Wen Yu was a child, she heard that the castor plant was originally from Africa. She thought it was introduced to China in modern times, but she didn't expect it to exist so early.

Wen Yu asked Pan Xiaopan: "You said earlier that many people in the village knew about it, how did you know?"

Pan Xiaopan thought for a while: "A long time ago, our village had a lawsuit with Jinxi Village. His sheep were poisoned to death. It must have been poisoned by people in our village. Later, after investigation, it was found that the sheep ate the grass here. We used to put the sheep here. Clear it once, but the marijuana grows too fast, and it will be all over again in a blink of an eye."

Then he hesitated for a moment: "My lord, when I was catching worms for chickens, I saw Meng Laizi from the village secretly come here to pull weeds. Could it be that he poisoned my sister's rabbits?"

Wen Yu and Xu Jing were overjoyed, is the case solved like this?Lian asked, "When did you see it?"

"About ten days ago." The date was right, it should be him.

Wen Yu hurried back and asked the police to catch Meng Zizi in the name of stealing. He was careful, and if this person was really innocent, he wouldn't startle the snake.

Soon, Cripple Meng was brought over.As soon as Wen Yu asked about the poisoning of the feed, he cried bitterly and begged for mercy, saying that he was just unconvinced and didn't think too much about it.

Wen Yu was furious when he heard this: "You didn't think that much? Do you know that two children died because of you!"

Cripple Meng was stunned: "Sir, I only injected the poison once, and I put a little bit of it to make those people suffer. How could it be possible to poison people to death?"

Hearing what he said, Wen Yu also felt a little strange: "When did you inject the poison?"

"Just ten days ago, I put a little bit in the pigweed because those girls refused to accept my family's feed. I swear it's just that one time! If I lie, I will be hit by thunder!"

What he said could match up with Pan Xiaopan, and he really didn't look like he was lying. Wen Yu asked people to take him down and imprison him first.

If not him, then who?The castor field was between Jinxi Village and Zhaojia Village. Most people in the two villages knew about this poison, and the scope was too wide.

Having no idea for a few days, Wen Yu could only use the most stupid method in the end.

In the final analysis, all of this was caused by money. He asked Liu Guihua and the others to release news that they planned to expand the scale of the farm, collect more feed, and increase the purchase price.

If some rich peasants didn't care about the previous price, it's a lot of money now.As soon as the news came out, there was a lot of discussion in the two villages.

Wen Yu sent several people to stay in the hidden place in Xishan [-]/[-].With Meng Laizi's lesson, he specifically ordered that if he saw someone picking castor beans, he must keep quiet, write down the person's physical characteristics, and go to the village to arrest him later.Everyone agreed, turned around and went to ambush.

In the end, the result was beyond everyone's expectations. The yamen servants lay in ambush there for two days, and unexpectedly found ten groups of people going to pick castor beans, and these ten groups of people... were all the family members of the women in the farm.

Wen Yu was stunned when he received the news. For so many days, he thought that other villagers were the ones who poisoned them, but in the end it was his relatives who did it.

Wen Yu couldn't understand the whole incident, so he decided to interrogate the prisoners separately.

At the beginning, the group of people were still quibbling, most of them said that they just went there for a stroll.The noisy Wen Yu had a splitting headache, and finally couldn't take it anymore, so she asked the yamen servant to pretend to be tortured to scare them.These people are all idlers in the village, how can they stand up to this.Immediately explained everything, it was indeed poisoned by these people, and the reasons for poisoning were varied.

A somewhat prestigious patriarch in the village thought that his daughter had been defiled by others, so he did not commit suicide and kept chastity, and even showed his face all day long, and he couldn't afford to lose this person.So some poison was given to stop the business of the farm, and the daughter came back by herself.

Others are purely seeking money. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, women did not have the right to inherit property, so they could settle in the farm in the name of helping if the business was difficult.

Qin Mei, who was courteous to Xu Jing before, was also arrested, and her reason for poisoning was even more bizarre.She thought that she was better than her elder sister in everything since she was a child. Now that her elder sister lost her virginity, she actually lived a more comfortable life. People in the village sometimes looked at her elder sister's face, so they became jealous and simply wanted to let her have nothing.

While the men admitted to taking the poison, each insisted they only took a little.

In fact, Wen Yu probably already knew what was going on here. Indeed, everyone was poisoned every once in a while.But it happened that on the day of the incident, everyone rushed to release poison at the same place on the same day, and the accumulation made a lot, and finally the two children were poisoned to death.

He handled many cases, but this one made Wen Yu feel the most uncomfortable.The previous people were either for love or for hatred.But they were all other people, and this was the only case in which relatives were killed.

Wen Yu couldn't help but sigh, now that Cheng-Zhu Confucianism is prevalent, and the number of chaste and martyred women is far more than that of other dynasties.Even if they are able to make money independently like those women in the farm, they still have to bear the pressure from all aspects of society. They are obviously victims and suffer both physically and mentally.

The case has been solved here, but how to judge is a big problem.There are a total of more than ten criminals now. If they are judged according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, "If anyone commits manslaughter or injures another person, each of them is allowed to fight, kill or injure others. He will be redeemed according to the law and paid to his family." If you need to pay some money, you can act as if nothing happened.

And even if they want to start with their deliberate destruction of finances, the Daming Law pays attention to "whoever sues, the grandfather of the sue must not point to his descendants as evidence", and those women have no way to sue them.

Although Wen Yu had read the Daming Law thoroughly, she couldn't swallow this breath, thinking about what to do.In the end, it was Mei Hongzhi and Zhou Wan, the natives, who reminded Wen Yu: "Why do you need to be so troubled? According to the law, they only need to pay compensation, but now the government has signed a one-year contract with the farm. Now the deadline is still there. No, they are destroying government property."

Wen Yu was awakened, and they were sentenced to twenty sticks each, five taels of silver, and three years of corvee labor for each family.Finally, it is also stipulated that the farms will not be allowed to purchase goods from the second village of Zhaojia Village and Jinxi Village in the future.

As a result, everyone in the village shouted and beat these families, and the women in the farm became cold and hard when they learned that their family members were doing this, and stopped interacting with them.Even though the entire county of Mengyang developed rapidly in the later period, these few companies lived a mediocre life.

The author has something to say: By the way, I was curious and ate castor when I was a child. The classmate who ate it with me went to the hospital. My mother was terrified and took me to persist several times. Then the doctor told her that I was fine. In the end, my mother had Come to a conclusion, saying that I have been ORZ with a boar-like body since I was a child.

There are two more chapters tonight, happy 520 everyone~