I opened a restaurant in ancient times

"Nonsense! They are all nonsense!" The woman frantically gestured, and kept shouting: "There is no such thing, there is no such thing!"

The Master Registrar felt a little dissatisfied when he saw her babbling illogically. He picked up the gavel in his hand, and with a sound of "pop!", everyone around fell silent, even the woman didn't dare to speak.

"Don't make any noise in the hall!" The chief secretary pinched his brows and continued, "Where are you from? Do you have any objections to the boss's words?"

The woman tremblingly raised her head to look at the lord sitting in the main seat, her heart was beating wildly, and she turned her head to look at the tall and strong yamen servants around her, feeling even more frightened for a while.

She already had ghosts in her heart, but what Zhao Heng and the old man said just now made her speechless, and she saw that the master was frowning and his face was serious.

I couldn't help being confused, and knelt down on the ground with a plop: "My lord! I really didn't do it!"

The master inspected her body and saw that she seemed to want to say something, so he said: "It wasn't you who did it, who did it? Is there another hidden story behind it? Tell me carefully, if you tell the truth, I will tell you the truth." I will give you a lighter sentence as appropriate, otherwise you will be jailed for several years if you are charged with poisoning people."

"Yes, someone ordered me to do this! I didn't want to, I didn't want to!" The woman was very scared, she was just an ordinary woman, how could she dare to play tricks in front of the officials?

The woman thought viciously in her heart, even if she couldn't get the money, she would still pull that man in and tell him to look at this muddy water.

She lowered her eyelids slightly, not daring to look directly at the official in charge. After a while, she said everything she knew: "The woman is Ma Zhang from Zhilan Town, and the husband is Ma Lin from Dongxiangzi. A few days ago , A man came to me. He said he would do a good job for him, and he would give me ten taels of silver."

As soon as these words came out, the spectators around took a breath, what kind of thing is this, worth ten taels of silver?

Although the ten taels of silver is not a sky-high price, ordinary people have to use their muscles and bones to spend this money, but I have never seen such a large amount of money to hire someone to do something, but to hire a woman.

This daughter-in-law of the Ma family has a lot of discord with people on weekdays, and few neighbors around her like her. It can be seen that the relationship with her neighbors and neighbors is not good. Such a person, what do you ask her to do?

The curiosity of the people around was aroused, and they looked at Mrs. Ma Zhang with pairs of eyes, wanting to know the source and reason of this incident, but because the official was still sitting in the seat, no one dared to make a sound.

Mrs. Ma Zhang continued: "He gave me five taels of silver and a portion of food, and asked me to take it home for Da Lang to eat. He said Da Lang would get sick after eating it..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the spectators, and someone said angrily: "Just because of some money, I have to give poisonous food to my children. Is this still a human being!"

"That is to say, Tiger Poison doesn't even eat its offspring. This Ma Zhang is not doing his job normally. Who would have thought that he could do such a thing?"

Seeing the disgusted faces of the people she knew on weekdays, the woman was extremely flustered. She was afraid that her man would beat her if she found out about this, so she knelt down on the ground, not daring to continue talking.

Seeing that the surroundings were about to become noisy again, the director gave another "pop" and slapped the gavel, signaling all the villagers to be quiet: "Mr. Ma Zhang, continue talking."

The Master Registrar's attitude reassured the woman, at least the Lord would not let those people beat her, as long as she explained the reason carefully, the Lord would definitely not torture her, that's enough.

"He...he said that he knew that Dalang was different from ordinary children. As long as Dalang was sick, I would go to the food stall and make a fuss so that no one dared to eat his food. That's fine. After the completion, I will give me half of the silver."

"In this way, that man knows Dalang's unusualness, and his purpose is to disrupt the business of the Huangchishi stall, and he gave you five taels of silver earlier." The master clerk paused, and said: "Then What about silver?"

The woman sighed and said: "Give it to the husband..."

The master frowned tightly. The money was stolen money, which was to be recorded in the ledger. In this way, Ma Zhang’s charges would be a little bigger, and her husband was also responsible. Thinking about it this way, the master The book opened his mouth and called the yamen servant: "Come here!"

Two tall and strong yamen servants took a step forward and shouted loudly: "Here!"

"Go to Dongxiangzi and bring Marin, I have something to ask."

"Yes!" The two of them agreed in unison and walked outside.

The Master Registrar is only acting as a director today. He thought it was just an ordinary matter, but he didn't expect it to be so troublesome. He is a person who is afraid of trouble, but saying nothing is useless. It is better to try the case quickly.

He sighed, reorganized his thoughts, and said, "Who is that person you mentioned? Do you know him?"

When the woman saw that the lord sent the yamen servant to her home, she was frightened out of her wits. She just wanted to confess that person and get out from here. When the officials caught him, she would not be afraid that he would come and take revenge on her.

"My lord! The woman confesses to the envoy! Confession!"

She swallowed, and loudly said: "The man said that he is from Zhilan Restaurant, but he didn't say his name, but the women recognize his face, if they see him face to face, they will definitely recognize him! My lord, please You, please forgive the women this time! This time I was confused for a while, and I was blinded by lard, please, my lord!"

She lay on the ground and kowtowed her head, begging the adults to let her go this time: "Please let the women go this time, my lord!"

When the director is the worst, he fantasizes that others can forgive her. Bystanders are not qualified to forgive others for the victim: "The person you should ask for forgiveness is not me, but your Dalang and the owner of the food stall. .”

If she makes a fuss and it really becomes a fuss, how will the little owner of the food stall live without this income?

If her eldest son is really seriously ill, he may not even save his life. This can be regarded as poisoning others. Fortunately, this child has a serious life, and coupled with the medicine prescribed by the old doctor, now he is not only weaker but not sick. No other ailments.

The woman immediately looked at Da Lang: "Da Lang, you know, I have always been very kind to you, and you have a share of everything at home,"

Dalang heard the cause and effect of the incident, and now he has his own judgment on the incident. He remembers that his parents held his hand before they died, and told him that he still has to rely on himself in the future. I'm staying at the house of my second uncle and aunt. They also have children at home, so they will never treat you as their own.

He remembered the whispers he had whispered to his mother when his father was still there, saying that his second uncle and aunt were very selfish and would not care too much about others, including their whole family, even though his father was the second uncle's brother.

He didn't believe it before, but after such a long time, he didn't understand this truth until now. Da Lang looked at Ma Zhang in disbelief: "Second Aunt, you feel your conscience and tell me that you are really good to me ?"

Da Lang recalled his days in his second uncle's house, and suddenly understood his father's good intentions. Unfortunately, he didn't understand before, and now after such a thing, he came to his senses.

"Second aunt, I still remember that my father and mother entrusted me to you before they died, and you forgot what they said at that time? You said that you treat me as your own child, and I will have whatever the stinky bastard has. Now? Are you going to trade my life for money?"

There were still red bumps on his face and body, he endured the pain in his throat and asked her aloud: "Really? Is that so? Ten taels of silver can feed me food that is poisonous to me, and my life Is it only worth twelve taels?!"

The woman was distracted by the questioning, and stared blankly at the ten-year-old child. Da Lang's eyes were slowly moistening. She saw Da Lang kneel down to the official and said, "My lord, I want to Separated from my second uncle and aunt, I want to start my own family."

The master secretary looked at the farce in front of him, then at Da Lang who was kneeling upright, and asked him, "Have you thought it through? You are only ten years old, have you thought about how to live in the future?"

Dalang's voice became more and more certain: "Think clearly. When my parents died, my second uncle and second aunt told me that I was too young to manage the family's money, so I handed it over to them for safekeeping. Today I set up my own family. Everything left by my parents must be returned to me."

"Okay, okay! He's a good boy!" Seeing that he had made a decision in his heart, he dared to set up his own family at such a young age. It's not too late to wake up, and he can be considered a good boy. He clapped his hands and said to everyone Lang said yes.

Seeing that Da Lang was overly agitated, Zhao Heng quickly stepped forward, patted him on the back, and motioned him to calm down: "Are you all right?"

Da Lang stood there blankly for a long time before recovering: "It's all right."

The master book said: "Come here! Go and invite the shopkeeper of Zhilan Restaurant and ask him to bring all the shop assistants here, so Ma Zhang can recognize him."

Two more yamen servants took the order and left.As soon as the two of them went out, it didn't take long for everyone to see the previous yamen servant bringing Ma Zhang's husband, that is, Ma Lin, over.

"Plop!" With a sound, Marin knelt down: "My lord! What did the grass people do?"

God knows that he was lying on the bed at home after drinking, and in a daze, he saw two big men barging into his house. He was so frightened that he woke up instantly, for fear that he had encountered thieves who robbed the house.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the government servants' uniforms on the two tall and strong men, and his heart rose in his throat for a moment. Could it be that he committed some crime when he was drunk?

It wasn't until I heard two yamen servants chatting on the road that I realized what happened. The woman at home actually did this kind of thing behind his back, and almost killed someone!

Although he is a bastard, he has never done anything serious, except for drinking and gambling all day long, but he never dared to kill anyone. This is a matter of beheading. How could he lose his life for a little money? ?

As soon as he saw his mother-in-law, he rushed forward and slapped her twice across the face: "You foolish mother-in-law! Are you trying to kill me!"

Ma Lin was angry in his heart, so these two slaps used all his strength, Ma Zhang was dizzy from these two slaps, and stood up staggeringly: "It's not you! It's because you don't make money all day , so that I, a woman, can only sell vegetables on the street to support the family, if not, where do you get the money to drink? Where do you get the money to support the family?!"