In his sleep, Li Hongda only felt the pain of low-paying jobs. When he opened his eyes, he couldn't help being surprised: Oh, my God, there's a fire! A thick smoke came at him, and he suddenly choked.
Fortunately, the neighbors found the fire and came to help put it out. Li Hongda was also carried out by everyone. As soon as he woke up, he couldn't wait to ask, "fellow villagers, have you seen my wife?"
Everyone shook their heads. A neighbor recalled: "I saw her carrying a big bag and running south in a hurry." Hearing this, Li Hongda hurried into the secret room where the treasure was stored, and found that the most valuable property inside had been looted. He was very angry and sat down on the ground.
Seeing this photo of Li Hongda, everyone ran to the yamen to report him. The yamen immediately sent a policeman named Ma to investigate the matter thoroughly. Captain Ma, with two officers, surveyed the scene and asked about the cause and effect. It was a long time before the crowd dispersed.
Early the next morning, Ma Zhangtou came to tell Li Hongda that his wife, Chen Xiufeng, had been arrested and the magistrate was about to go to court for trial, and sent a message to Li Hongda to make a personal certificate.
Li Hongda arrived when the magistrate was interrogating Chen Xiufeng. I saw him patting the gavel with one hand and yelling at Chen Xiufeng in handcuffs and shackles with the other: "Chen Xiufeng, a bold and unruly woman, do you know the crime?"
But Chen Xiufeng was as cool as a cucumber at the moment and smiled coldly: "If you go back to your master, I will burn down the house and take the treasure. However, this is called good is rewarded, and evil is rewarded. What are the sins of the people and women? "
The magistrate in the class didn't expect Chen Xiufeng to confess her crimes, let alone ask a humble question. For an instant, she didn't know how to continue the trial, and she was stunned for a long time before asking: "How do you say this?"
At this moment, Chen Xiufeng no longer looked at the magistrate, but glared at her husband Li Hongda and told her story.
18 years ago, in the early morning of the twelfth lunar month, a beggar of 12 years old fell in front of Xiangrui jewelry store. Lin, the owner of the jewelry store, woke him up and later took him as an apprentice. Four years later, the little boy grew into a young man. Under the careful training of shopkeeper Lin, he is very smart and independent.
Unexpectedly, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival this year, a fire broke out in the jewelry store, and the owner Lin and his wife were buried in the sea of fire. Pearl, the only daughter of shopkeeper Lin, was born and died, and the young man disappeared. But half a year later, the missing young man returned to Yangzhou and reopened the jewelry store. This young man is Li Hongda.
Past events
Li Hongda couldn't help exclaiming, "Are you the Miss Pearl?"
"Not bad!" Lin Mingzhu gave him a bad look, gnashing her teeth and cursing, "You cruel and heartless thing. My father was very kind to you, and you killed him for money. I want to burn you, just to repay you and avenge your parents. "
Magistrate adults finally recognized the eyebrows. I didn't expect this arson case to lead to an old case today! So he patted the gavel again and asked, "Li Hongda, is what she just said true?"
Li Hongda quickly knelt down and said, "Sir, let Cao Min continue to tell this story."
The magistrate paused and thought, is there anything else I don't know? Then he nodded and said, "Go!"
Li Hongda told his story.
One evening fourteen years ago, Lin's shopkeeper's jewelry store was about to close when a black-faced man came. He took out a picture of Tang Bohu's calligraphy and painting and insisted on selling it for five thousand two hundred pieces of silver. Lin, the shopkeeper, recognized it as a fake at a glance and declined politely. When the big fellow left, he left a message: "Master Wang Da of Dayan Moutain sent me. If you don't even buy his account, you are dead! " Since then, Lin shopkeeper has been living in fear. He put his precious treasure in a bag and prepared to run for his life.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival this year, the shopkeeper Lin was suddenly awakened by the sound of prying doors. He quickly jumped out of bed and looked out through the crack of the door. I saw several masked men prying at the door with knife tips.
So the shopkeeper Lin quickly woke the apprentice, let him take the baby, take Jenny and his daughter and escape from the back door. I didn't expect bandits to guard the back door. When I was desperate, the shopkeeper suddenly thought of a dog hole at the foot of the courtyard wall. But the mouth of the cave is very small, which can only accommodate the thin Li Hongda and * * * to climb out.
Finally, the shopkeeper Lin had to let Li Hongda take her daughter to escape first. Lin Mingzhu was only five or six years old at that time. Lin shopkeeper afraid of her fear, exclaimed. Discovered by bandits, he was shocked and gave it to his apprentice, saying, "No matter what happens, don't report it to the official."
Li Hongda ran away behind Lin Mingzhu's back. When he turned around, he saw that the direction of the jewelry store was on fire. Soon, he found someone coming this way again. By this time, he was already weak. If he walks behind Lin Mingzhu's back again, I'm afraid both of them can't escape the clutches of bandits. In desperation, he had to hide the unconscious Lin Mingzhu in a hidden grass to distract his pursuers. When he dumped the pursuer and came back for someone, Lin Mingzhu was gone.
Li Hongda couldn't help crying. Having cried enough, he opened the bag and found a letter besides the precious treasure. When he read the letter, he couldn't help but be surprised: it turned out that shopkeeper Lin had been a bandit under a man named hemp seed king, and later he washed his hands and opened Xiangrui jewelry store in Yangzhou.
After listening to Li Hongda's narrative, Lin Mingzhu was stunned first, and then scolded: "You talk nonsense, how can my father be a bandit?"
Li Hongda didn't argue with her, but gave a wry smile and went on telling her story.
I am a helpless little beggar, but the shopkeeper saved him and finally got a home. At that time, he lost his big lady and felt very guilty. So he thought, if you continue to open a jewelry store, you may not know when the big lady can get it back. In this way, he returned to the jewelry store, repaired the burned house, and while doing business, he inquired about the whereabouts of the big lady. He never dreamed that fourteen years later, Miss Da went home like this.
After hearing Li Hongda's story, the magistrate eagerly asked Lin Mingzhu, "Where have you been all these years?"
"alas!" Lin Mingzhu sighed and talked about her misfortune: "When I woke up, I found myself lying in the grass and crying. At this time, it was already dawn. But I was too young to recognize the way home, so I cried and ran forward. I don't know how long I ran, but I finally met an uncle driving a carriage. He asked me what my name was and where I lived, but I didn't know. Finally, he carried me into the carriage and walked on. This walk brought me to Beijing! This grandfather, surnamed Chen, has no children and daughters, and makes a living by helping others deliver goods. In this way, I became his adopted daughter when I was sixteen, and my adoptive father couldn't afford to get sick. Before he died, he told me that he found me in Yangzhou. At that time, there was a piece of jade hanging around my neck, and the words of my date of birth and Xiangrui Jewelry Store were engraved on the back of the jade. After taking care of my adoptive father's affairs, I went south to Yangzhou to find my biological parents. After many inquiries, I realized that they had already left. However, I suspect that Li Hongda murdered his life for money, so I decided to answer blows with blows-marry him first and then get revenge. "
When Lin Mingzhu said this, it was already a pear flower with rain, and she choked and said, "I don't believe that God won't help me and burn this ungrateful thing!"
After listening to their statements, it is difficult for the judge to judge who is telling the truth. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he asked Li Hongda, "Where's the letter from the shopkeeper Lin?"
Li Hongda hesitated for a moment, then said with a wry smile, "I lost it."
Lin Mingzhu jumped up and pointed to his nose and said to the magistrate, "My Lord, he is obviously lying. How can such important evidence be lost? " It can be seen that he is slandering my dad, who is not a bandit at all! "
Dispel the dark clouds and see the sun
At this time, the horse catcher on the side sighed and said to Lin Mingzhu, "Your father Lin is indeed a bandit." Then he bowed his hands and said, "My Lord, I have something to say."
The complicated case aroused the judge's interest, so he quickly agreed.
The horse catcher took a deep breath and said, "To tell the truth, Lin is my own brother."
Everyone was stunned. Maybe the horse catcher is also a bandit? This is really a wave of turmoil, and it is a wave. Listen to the horse catching head cleared his throat and told a story:
Twenty-five years ago, the horse catcher studied martial arts with his master in his hometown for less than half a year. His elder brother Lin is in debt because of gambling addiction. In order to escape the debt, he fled to Dayan Moutain and became a bandit. What is even more exasperating is that when he left, he actually stole the teacher's jewelry. Master was very angry about this and couldn't afford to get sick. Later, I heard that my senior brother left Dayan Moutain, and he disappeared.
Ten years have passed in an instant. This summer, just after the horse catcher came here to be an official, there was an arson in Xiangrui Jewelry Store. When Lin arrived at the crime scene, he was already dying. When he saw the horse scratching its head, he was stunned at first, and then regretted it: "If you commit a crime, you can't live!" If I die, please don't pursue all this again! " Say that finish, he gave up the ghost.
Having said that, Ma Shouzhu gave everyone a wry smile: "At that time, I thought what people said on the occasion of dying was still good. Besides, those bandits did come and go without a trace, so they closed the case hastily. Who knows, it is doomed love again. I beg you, my Lord, to be lenient with Lin Mingzhu, because this case has a cause and is intertwined! "
For a time, there was a sigh in the venue. Everyone lamented that good and evil were rewarded and interceded for Lin Mingzhu.
The magistrate sorted out the ins and outs of the case, and was refreshed for a moment, thinking: It's finally my turn to play BLACKPINK. I saw him patting the gavel and shouting, "Lin Mingzhu, a lovely woman, deliberately killed and set fire to the house. The charges are irrefutable, according to the law ..."
"Master Qingtian, please be merciful outside the law." Before the magistrate finished speaking, Li Hongda plopped down on his knees and begged, "People who say they don't know are innocent. Lin Mingzhu was eager for revenge and did something stupid. He also begged Master to be lenient with others. "
The magistrate was stupefied, then picked up the gavel and made a circle in the air. It took a long time to fall down, and he pronounced loudly: "Lin Mingzhu, a deliberate woman who deliberately killed and set fire, has irrefutable evidence, but everything happens for a reason, and you are sentenced to be Li Hongda's wife for life, and you can't go back on your word."
Hearing this, the touts on the side quickly reminded: "Sir, how can you make such a judgment?"
"Hey hey!" Magistrate laughed, "statutes are dead, people are alive! Since he Li Hongda has stood up and begged for mercy, how can this official stick to the rules and not be an adult? "
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