Detective in the Red Chamber

The whole case goes like this

Li has been a widow for four years and has only a 17-year-old son under her knees.

She used to hang around her son all day long, but she didn't think much of it, but since her son found a job last year, he went out early and returned late every day, and rarely communicated with his mother when he came back. Li Shi suddenly lost his spiritual sustenance. .

At this time, the cobbler Wang at the end of the street took advantage of the gap, and it became a good thing to hook up with him.

If the cobbler Wang had a family and a business and indeed had an affair with Mrs. Li, this case would be easy to discuss.

Pian Wang cobbler is also a widower, and he has some genuine feelings for Li Shi, and even asked someone to propose marriage to Li Shi-Li Shi naturally has no objection, but her son was annoyed, so he beat the matchmaker out on the spot and ordered him to marry him. Mother and cobbler Wang are not allowed to have any further contact.

Mrs. Li agreed, but privately she did not sever ties with Cobbler Wang, and she still hooked up half-covered.

Knowing the reasons behind it, the neighbors turned a blind eye and closed their eyes. They didn't take it as something immoral, but lamented that Mrs. Li had such an unreasonable son.

But three days ago, Cobbler Wang went to have sex with Mrs. Li again, but Mrs. Li's son went home early and blocked him inside.

Li had no choice but to let Wang cobbler hide in the closet.

Unexpectedly, not long after Li's son entered the door, he smelled the smell of Wang Cobbler's feet, so he dragged Wang Cobbler out and beat him head and face.

Seeing that Wang Cobbler was beaten to the point where his head was bleeding, Mrs. Li was afraid of causing death, so she rushed to hug her son and told Wang Cobbler to run away quickly.

Unexpectedly, the son broke free from her shackles and chased after her furiously, and actually killed him-but the one who lost his life was not Wang Cobbler, but Li's son!

It's fine to say that Wang Cobbler once resisted, but this Li's son fell to his own death, and Wang Cobbler didn't dare to touch him at all.

This kind of muddled matter, if it passed without a sound, the government will definitely not pursue it.

However, although Mrs. Li was originally passionate about adultery, when she saw her son lost his life, she immediately turned her face and refused to recognize him, and sued him all the way from Daxing County to Shuntian Mansion.

And she didn't know whose advice she had listened to, so she bit her son to death and determined that her son died during the rape. According to the laws of the Great Zhou, Wang Cobbler should be punished severely!

"Mr. Lee."

Sun Shaozong reminded with a bit of a headache, "If adultery is punished, Wang Laoshi will certainly be punished with a higher crime, but you may not be able to get away with it."

"Report to Master Qingtian!"

Seeing Mrs. Li knocking her head on the ground, she said without hesitation, "As long as I can avenge my son, the women are willing to reincarnate with Lao Wang!"

"I bah~!"

She was willing to die with her, but Wang Cobbler didn't want to pay for her life. He spat angrily and cursed, "It was you who called me over that day, but now there is an accident and you insist on killing me. I owe you everything in my last life." You can't do it?!"

"No debt."

Mrs. Li didn't tell him apart, and just insisted, "So I will die with you, and I will be your cow or horse to pay off your debts in the next life."

"You...you you you...you woman..."

Wang Cobbler was only angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, but he really didn't know what to do, so he had to kneel down and cry for the Lord Qingtian to uphold justice.

But Sun Shaozong was really caught in a dilemma.

These days, there is a lot of emphasis on "obedience to the husband when married and obedience to the son when the husband dies", so according to superficial logic, Li's son is indeed qualified to catch his mother and cobbler Wang for adultery.

According to the law of the Great Zhou, if the victim dies on the spot when the adulterer is caught, regardless of whether he died at the hands of the adulterer, the adulterer must be severely punished—the minimum is two thousand miles, and the more important things are castration and beheading.

In fact, when Sun Shaozong first received this case, he also thought that if it was impossible, he might as well send Wang cobbler two thousand miles away. At worst, he would choose a good place and he would not suffer too much torture.

only……

"Daddy, daddy!"

"I want Daddy! I want Daddy!"

"Father~~~~!"

The trio of "crying fathers" outside the door, the eldest is only nine years old, and the youngest is only four years old. If Wang Cobbler is really going to be sentenced to exile for two thousand miles, how will these three children survive? !

or……

castrated him?

However, not to mention that for most men, this is something worse than death. The survival rate of adult men after being castrated is only about [-]% these days.

Wang cobbler is so unlucky, no matter how you look at it, he looks like a member of the "[-]%".

This case is really much more troublesome than investigating the case!

Sun Shaozong was so embarrassed that he wished he could scratch his head, but he had to worry about his image as a master of the blue sky, especially when he was blown up outside like the stars descending to earth and Baogong reincarnated, let alone...

Wait ~

Sun Shaozong suddenly came up with a crooked idea. Although this method is not very in line with the rules of the king, he has never been such a principled person, especially now that he is in a hurry to follow the power, and he can't control the many taboos.

Now that he had made up his mind, Sun Shaozong immediately said, "The situation in this case is complicated, and it is difficult for me to make a decision for a while. In order not to delay other lawsuits, I will postpone this case for five days for retrial!"

"grown ups!"

Then how could Mrs. Li agree to it, kowtowed her head loudly, and continued to cry for grievances.

slap~

However, Sun Shaozong slapped the gavel without hesitation, and ordered "Back off!"

"Wei~wu~!"

In two rounds, the yamen servants shouted at the prestige, and Wang cobbler retreated in a hurry, followed by Sun Shaozong, who also went to the back hall. Mrs. Li muttered a few times unwillingly, but had to go home to wait for the trial.

However, when Sun Shaozong returned to the back hall, he immediately called Zhao Wuwei to give him a reprimand, and finally confessed, "Tell that Wang honestly, I have already given him the chance to get rid of the crime. If he doesn't live up to it and shows his feet, don't blame Ben. The judge sentenced him to a palace sentence!"

Chapter 329

wow~

Pouring a basin of washing water into the ditch at the corner of the street, Mrs. Li stared at the gurgling stream in a daze for a long time, then moved back step by step with the wooden basin in her hands.

Ever since her son passed away unexpectedly, a large part of her chest seemed to have been dug out, and she couldn't fill the empty space, so she couldn't be interested in anything. Now she dresses and washes, makes a fire and cooks every day. It's just because of the inertia that has been developed over the years.

The only thing that is still on his mind is the word 'revenge'.

But to be honest, in the dead of night, when no one was around, Li once asked herself whether Wang Cobbler was more guilty of her son's death, or she, who couldn't bear the loneliness, was more guilty.

The answer seems obvious...

But what Li Shi wanted was not the answer, but the word 'peace of mind'!

And the only way to make her feel at ease right now is to pull Wang cobbler together to 'atone' - at least that's what Li thinks.

That's why a woman who is on the tip of her horn is just so cute... Ah bah, it's scary!

However, it was said that Mrs. Li took a few steps back with the wooden basin in her hand, and saw three middle-aged women in the corner, chatting together, seemingly lowering their voices, but in fact, they wished that the streets could be full of people. Everyone hears.

If it was left in the past, Mrs. Li would not have joined it early and became a glorious 'three aunts and six wives'.

now...

She didn't look sideways, and even deliberately adjusted her path to avoid the three women as much as possible.

However, people can avoid it, but the content of the discussion cannot be avoided, and it is clearly transmitted to Li Shi's ears.

"Have you heard that the boss of Wang Cobbler's family lost his breath in the middle of the night last night, and when he woke up, he was full of nonsense, and he looked like a human being!"

Mrs. Li had also heard about Wang's illness. It is said that he had a high fever that night when he came back from the yamen.

"It's more than just talking nonsense, it's like a different person. At a young age, he was talking about asking Tian Da Niuer, the daughter of Tian Bidan, to be his wife - and said that half a piece of cloth has been torn and left at home. , I am going to invite Mrs. Liu to be a matchmaker!"

Li's footsteps suddenly stopped.

Before his son died, wasn't he just thinking about that big girl in Tian?

And on the day of the second day of junior high school, my son even brought home half a piece of cloth, saying that he wanted to ask Mrs. Liu to come and talk to me as a matchmaker...

"That's right, that's not the strangest thing. I heard that the child's appearance has changed, and there's a crescent-shaped birthmark on his left buttock for no apparent reason!"

A crescent-shaped birthmark on the left butt?

Li's hands trembled, and he almost threw the wooden basin on the ground. Isn't there such a mark on his son's buttocks?

what on earth is it?

How could Wang cobbler's son...

"It seems that the child also said something, and buried the eight taels of silver that he secretly saved under the old elm tree in the yard - after hearing this, Wang Cobbler almost dug down the elm tree at home, but he didn't even have a hair on it. None of them were found!"

Under the old elm?

Mrs. Li was stunned for a while, and then suddenly ran home - she was in a panic, so naturally she didn't see the relieved expressions on the women's faces.

However, when Mrs. Li returned home, she immediately took the tools and digged around under the old elm tree, but in the end she really got eight taels of silver!

Like most ordinary women these days, Mrs. Li also believes in the matter of ghosts and ghosts—otherwise she would not repeatedly mention 'reincarnation' and 'afterlife' in the court .

Now that she encounters all kinds of strange things, she thinks a little more in her mind, secretly thinking that it is her son's "ghost lingering" who didn't go to reincarnation, but...

Thinking in this way, she was possessed again, and stumbled all the way to Wang Cobbler's house at the end of the street.

Because there are three young children who need to be taken care of, Wang Cobbler was not detained in the government prison, but was awaiting trial at his own home. Of course, in addition to the four members of Wang Cobbler's family, there was also a government servant in charge of the courtyard. guarded.

When Mrs. Li arrived, she saw Wang Cobbler standing at the door of the main room, slapping himself with tears streaming down his face, muttering over and over again, "Father is useless, it's all father's useless!"

Mrs. Li was anxious at first, but when she saw his appearance, she became timid all of a sudden. She was waiting at the gate, and didn't dare to go inside for a long time.

"Mother, mother!"

At this time, I heard the noise of 'children' coming from the main room, "Don't forget the money buried under the big elm tree, I earned it so hard, don't let others take advantage of it!"

Wang Cobbler's mother-in-law died more than two years ago, but where is his son's mother?

Besides, the silver was clearly buried under the elm tree of his family.

This is clearly calling himself!

Mrs. Li suddenly became excited, and rushed into the yard regardless, and was about to run into the hall.

"It's you?!"

Cobbler Wang finally saw her at this time, immediately turned his red and swollen old face down, and cursed angrily, "It's all about you, a wicked woman, who caused my Dalang to be neither human nor ghost, and now he dares to come to the door! "

"Stop, stop, stop!"

He stomped his feet as if singing an opera, and greeted him with bared teeth and claws, "Aren't you going to die with me? I will fulfill you today!"

As he said that, he wanted to fight Li Shi desperately.

The yamen servant who was in charge of guarding next to him saw him, 'for fear' that something might happen, he 'hastily' hugged him by the waist.

But Mrs. Li took advantage of this opportunity to sneak into the room.

I saw Wang cobbler's eldest son, sitting cross-legged on the kang at this time, his hairstyle, eyebrows and eyes were four or five points similar to his own son!

Wang cobbler's son was not like this before!

Li Shi was even more excited. She went up to hold the child in her arms, and took off his pants. When she saw the familiar crescent-shaped birthmark on her buttocks, she immediately cried out, "Son, My poor son!"

At this time, Wang Cobbler and the yamen servant also chased him in. Seeing this scene, he was a little 'dumbfounded'. Wang Cobbler said angrily, "You mother-in-law, are you really crazy? This is my son, why..."

"Mother~!"

At this moment, Wang cobbler's son called out, "I want to eat the pea yellow that you made yourself."

Although the tone was a bit dull and didn't seem to come from the heart, how could Li Shi care to distinguish this carefully?

Tears poured down from her early tears, and she hugged the child without letting go and shouted, "Son, my poor son, mother will never let you leave mother's side again!"

Wang cobbler was even more 'annoyed' when he was beside him, he threw himself forward and shouted, "Hey! You crazy woman, get my son..."

"Etc., etc!"

But as soon as he rushed forward, he was stopped by the yamen servant again, dragged to the corner of the wall and said in a stern voice, "Wang Cobbler, your son was clearly dead last night, but when he regained his strength, it was like this." Appearance, could it be... Could it be that he was resurrected by borrowing a corpse?"

"what?!"

Wang Cobbler turned pale with shock, and then roared angrily, "That little animal will cause trouble for me when it is alive, but it will harm our Dalang when it dies! I... I, I, I will go find the mage and take it away." His ghost!"

As he said, he twisted his body and wanted to break out.

"do not want!"

Mrs. Li hurriedly left the child behind, rushed up and hugged Wang Cobbler, crying, "Even if he is taken in by the mage, your son will not survive. I beg you, please show kindness..."

"Bah~!"

Cobbler Wang spat at her all over her face, and said angrily, "Which one has been arguing for revenge all day long? Now you're making sarcastic remarks?! If we don't accept him, my son will die in vain?!"