Chapter 2012 Taking refuge
Then Zhao Han began to ask: "Zhang Si, I want to ask you, where did you hide the murder weapon?"
Zhang Si said incoherently: "Report to your lord, I threw away the murder weapon."
"What was the murder weapon? Where was it thrown?" Zhao Han repeated, seeing that the man was stunned.
"A butcher's knife, I, I threw the murder weapon under the stove in my house."
"Quickly go to Zhang Si's house and get it." Jia Baoyu then ordered a horse to quickly say.
The horse-fast man immediately left the county office, mounted his horse and went to get it.
"Where is the head of the deceased?"
"The head is in the iron pot at my house."
When everyone heard this, they were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweat.
"Sure enough, cruel!"
"Heinous!"
"Too cruel, are these still brothers?"
Zhao Han immediately said to others: "Let's go get it together. .”
Half an hour later.
The murder weapon and the deceased's head were found at the same time by Ma Kuai, who was the first to go.
Na Ma Kuai is a clever man. He smelled blood as soon as he entered Zhang Si's house.
Following the smell, I found the murder weapon. When I opened the lid of the pot, I almost died on the spot!
Until now, Ma Kuai is still rubbing his chest and glaring at Zhang Si fiercely.
Who among ordinary people would dare to do this?
"Sir, it has been confirmed that the head belongs to the deceased Zhang Er." Wuzuo said.
"Okay, I have pronounced the verdict that Zhang Si committed a heinous crime, seeking wealth and killing, regardless of brotherhood, and humans and gods are outraged. Qiu Hou will ask for execution, report to the Ministry of Punishment for verification, and hand it over to the emperor for cancellation!"
< br>"My lord is wise."
"My lord is wise!"
"Thank you, Mr. Qingtian!"
All the squires shouted in unison.
Everyone was convinced.
The whole case seemed to be very simple in the hands of Mr. Jia. With a stick, the real criminal was found out.
Why can’t Mr. Liu do it?
Some squires knew in their hearts that Mr. Liu was not confused.
Instead, he was accustomed to being on the same page, only obeying the instructions of the yamen servants and the clerk and quitting doing things, and was unwilling to put in the effort.
Nothing compares to the daring of a young Jinshi scholar.
Zhao Han shook his head slightly.
In fact, when she checked the case files before, she discovered that most cases in feudal society were very simple.
As long as you do it with a conscience, it is basically unlikely that big problems will occur.
The reason is very simple. In this era, most people have no awareness of counter-reconnaissance.
And in this era, as long as it is the Taiping Period, the floating population is very small.
In a street or a village, there is not a single floating population for ten days and a half.
The vendors who come here to sell things have been coming here for many years and are very familiar with them.
This point is very important.
There is a large migrant population, and the crimes committed would be very fatal even for modern people to solve.
It can easily become a backlog.
When an acquaintance commits a crime, it is equivalent to the same suspects in the Conan world.
Once the clamp stick is used, play a few more rounds, and compare it. A smarter county magistrate can actually solve the case easily.
The reason why there are unjust cases is not the difficulty of the cases.
This case is very typical, it is a crime committed by a close relative.
Why did Zhang Si have murderous thoughts?
It was because he saw a wandering monk.
He thought that if this wandering monk left, no one would be able to find him.
As long as he puts the suspicion on the monk and falsely accuses the monk of adultery with his sister-in-law, no one will be able to find out, and there will be no further investigation. He will only find a scapegoat.
In fact, this Zhang Si is not stupid at all, but he is very smart.
If it weren't for Jia Baoyu, it can be said that this Zhang Jia family is already dead.
If you think about it, you will know that what the yamen servants want is money.
As long as this brother kills his sister-in-law, he can get 200 acres of irrigated land and two shops, and the government officials can take advantage of this brother's guilty conscience and get more than half of the benefits.
In just half a year, these 200 acres of land will fall into the hands of the government officials.
Zhao Han did not say this clearly. She knew better than anyone else that there was an extremely cruel and dark truth hidden behind the seemingly simple case.
That is because the government officials deliberately pushed the situation and caused an unjust case.
Some people may easily ask: Why did the government officials want to extort money after the husband died, instead of going to the wife directly, they obeyed the brother Zhang Si and helped Zhang Si identify Zhang Jia as the murderer? ?
This problem is more complicated.
Because it involves an issue between the husband’s family and the natal family.
The land belongs to Zhang Er, and by default it is the property of her husband's family.
Before his younger son grew up, his uncles and brothers were in charge, not his daughter-in-law.
Although the law also stipulates that it belongs to the daughter-in-law.
But in actual implementation, the people still tend to be controlled by uncles and brothers.
They are worried that their land will be taken away by people with foreign surnames.
For example, the daughter-in-law remarries and so on.
Even the government cannot compete with such powerful clan habits.
For the sake of land, it is easy to kill people.
For this reason, if the government officials want to seize land, they need to find someone who can make the decision.
If they were looking for Zhang Jia's family, they would give them the land and find the murderer, but her uncle would not agree, so the government servant's efforts would be in vain.
The entire Zhang family would not agree with Zhang Jia's actions.
Zhang Jia is a woman, how can she disobey these uncles and brothers?
She can't disobey, not to mention she has a son, and his son's life is still under the threat of Zhang Si.
After Jia Baoyu made the verdict, it did not end there.
He asked again: "Zhang Jia, your husband's eldest brother, what's going on with him? Why didn't he make the decision for you?"
Zhang Jiashi cried and said: "My husband's eldest brother is an honest man. He is too old. He is over 60 years old and cannot move in the house. It turns out that my husband and I have been taking care of him. He knows that I have been wronged and can only Sitting in the house guarding my son, there is nothing I can do. "That's it." Jia Baoyu nodded.
This explains that an old man is not a strong worker and cannot support the family.
Hearing this, Jia Baoyu said to Magistrate Liu: "Mr. Liu, please send someone to send Zhang Jia back quickly, so that she can be comforted."
However, Magistrate Liu , looked at Zhang Jia, and then whispered: "Brother Jia Nian, this Zhang Jia was widowed at a young age. She is less than 25 years old. How can she keep the family business by herself?"
"Even if we decide for her today, tomorrow her relatives, family members, neighbors... I'm afraid they will still take away her more than 200 acres and two shops."
This At this time, Mrs. Zhang Jia suddenly knelt down and said: "Master Jia, I am willing to be your slave and maidservant. I will dedicate the land and shop to your mansion. I just want to give you and my son a place to live."
Jia Baoyu sighed: "Okay, we don't want your shop or your fields, so just make a living contract and I'll let the boys take care of the fields and shops for you."
When Zhang Jia heard this, he immediately kowtowed and said gratefully: "Thank you very much, Mr. Qingtian. I wish you longevity and good luck to your descendants."
Zhao Han sighed again.
Save people to the end, otherwise, a few years later, if Zhao Han hears that Zhang Jia was murdered again, she will be in an even worse mood.
This is the horror of feudal society.
It’s useless even if you have property and land.
If you don’t have a male in your family, and you don’t have a family, you are just waiting to be invaded.
Why was it said in ancient times that man is heaven and man is husband.
No matter how rich you are as a woman, if you don't have a man to take care of things outside, if you encounter danger, you will be doomed.
If it were in later generations, the current Zhang Jia family would be a rich woman, with two hundred acres of irrigated land, two big shops, and even if she had a child, she could hire a few servants.
I live my life leisurely every day, without my mother-in-law above me and without my husband in the middle.
What a comfortable life it is. But not at this time, there are eyes staring at you everywhere, including your husband's brother, your neighbors, your natal brother... and that rogue.
Isn't that one looking at those farm stores?
If you donate it to the Jia family, you don’t have to worry.
Whoever dares to seize land will risk offending the Jia family.
If a letter from the Jia family comes out, your whole family will be destroyed.
The sons of Chang'an Guards were all forced to death by Wang Xifeng.
How much more a common scoundrel?
The Jia family seems to have turned from prosperity to decline, but it is still a skinny camel bigger than a horse.
It can still shock many people.
Although Jia Mu said that she was only from a moderately wealthy family, she still occupied a top niche in the ecology of feudal society, and was not something that the ruffians below dared to touch.
As a result, Jia Baoyu’s private tent had an additional 200 acres of irrigated land and two large shops.
Everyone thinks this is normal.
Master Jia has upheld justice for you and saved your innocence and life. Isn’t it natural for you to dedicate some land?
Of course Zhao Han is not the Jia Baoyu of the past. She took out 20 acres of land from the 200 acres of land and divided it equally among the government officials.
Ma Kuai just now, the government servants who tortured, the clerk who appeared... In short, everyone has a share.
Everyone was very happy and praised him as the great master of Qingtian.
As for Zhang Jia, she has no dissatisfaction.
Although Jia Baoyu took her husband's property as a favor to herself.
Because originally she would not even have her life or her son.
Now there is a large part of the land left, and the shops are also left.
He and his son take shelter under the Jia family and don’t have to do any work.
The Jia family also sent people to take care of the land and shops.
Give the future to her and her son on time.
That's enough.
Of course she knows that the servants will definitely play their part, and it is considered kind to give five points to someone who is very promising.
But she was satisfied. As long as her son was raised, she could establish a family and asked Mr. Jia to take back half of the land and shop.
She believed that Jia Qingtian would never care about this.
Then Zhang Jia and his 9-year-old son followed Jia Baoyu, hired another carriage, and went back to Jia's mansion together.
Jia Baoyu asked Li Gui to leave two young men to take over the Zhang family property.
I went home smoothly.
After returning home, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and other sisters immediately invited Jia Baoyu to the house after receiving the news.
A group of sisters regarded Jia Baoyu as a storyteller and couldn't wait to let him talk about Zhang Jia's story.
After Jia Baoyu told the whole story from the beginning, everyone was very satisfied.
"So that's it. After all, good people are rewarded and evil people are punished."
The sisters were very happy and looked at Jia Baoyu with admiration.
This was something that Jia Baoyu could not have had before.
Everyone is advising him to focus on his career and economy.
Only Lin Daiyu obeyed him.
All the sisters are kind people, at least they have never done any evil, so they are likeable.
Only Wang Xifeng had done evil, so she died miserably in the end, and not many people sympathized with her.
"It seems that our Jia Qingtian is really winning." Lin Daiyu said.
"Brother Bao, you are indeed very wise, no less than Bao Gong and Di Gong." Xue Baochai also praised.
“A case like this really tests your eyesight and wisdom.” Shi Xiangyun looked at Jia Baoyu with admiration and said.
Zhao Han thought to himself, this case does not test your eyesight. It tests nothing but your background.
As long as the background is strong enough and you are not too confused, you can basically close this case.
That county magistrate Liu, it’s not that he can’t tell right from wrong, it’s because he is old.
He didn't want to go against the government clerks, he just wanted to wait for retirement in peace.
So I followed the wishes of the clerk's office and the yamen servants to adjudicate the case.
However, he was also cautious and did not crucify him directly.
Anyway, report to the superior and let the superiors check.
"Unfortunately, as girls, we can't solve the case like our brothers." Tan Chun said.
"Why is there no way? I have many cases here that I can show to the sisters, and the sisters can also see how to solve them, just to pass the time." Zhao Han said with a smile.
As she said that, she asked Mingyan to bring the case collection from the study room for the sisters to read.
Just let these smart sisters do some serious things, so as not to waste their time in vain.
Just like Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, they are obviously very smart, but they can only waste their time in poetry and books and in the back house.
The sisters are very happy.
There are many novels about criminal cases in ancient and modern times.
The ladies have also heard of and even read the biography of Duke Di.
It is also a kind of entertainment to take a look at these interesting cases when you have nothing to do.
It’s better than fighting with those boring old wives every day.
And Jia Baoyu also said that he would give allowances to the sisters.
If you help him solve a case, you will be given 5 taels of silver.
Don’t underestimate this little money, the monthly salary of a big maid is only 1 tael.
Jia Mu’s monthly salary is only 20 taels.
Of course, the living expenses of Jia Mu and other big masters do not need to be paid on a monthly basis.
For Aunt Zhao and some little girls at the bottom, monthly money is very important in their lives.
And young ladies like Tanchun don't have enough money to spend, because if they want to buy some books, rouge, etc., they can only use their own money, and the public school will not reimburse them.
Hearing what Jia Baoyu said, the sisters became interested.
Of course Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai don't care.
Lin Daiyu has extra subsidies from Jia Mu, not to mention she has a fortune of millions.
Of course, just like the Zhang Jia family before, she had no money and no men, so she could only rely on the protection of others.
Lin Daiyu's millions of wealth finally subsidized the Jia family's losses.
Three days later.
Jia Baoyu went to the Ministry of Justice to work again. After moving a group of new case files, he was about to go home.
Who would be willing to sit down and take the next step these days?
They all came and left after having a meal.
When someone saw him, they praised him and said, "Brother Jia Nian, the case you solved a few days ago has reached the ears of Lord Shangshu, who praised your youth and wisdom."
"It's so fast? ?" Jia Baoyu asked doubtfully.
"Yes, that County Magistrate Liu wrote a letter to his teacher, praising you greatly." said the colleague.
“Thank you so much, Magistrate Liu.”
“This is all due to Brother Jia Nian’s youthful wisdom.”
"Thank you Brother Wang for your compliment."
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(End of this chapter)