Ding Tian's Ancient Life

"When the murderer was arrested, eight out of ten said the same thing." As a senior arrester, Tian Jing knew the virtues of this group of people too well: "If you are wronged or not, when you come to the lobby, you Just know."

Butcher An shut his mouth tightly and did not say another word.

"If you take the initiative to confess the stolen goods now, maybe you can still avoid the pain of flesh and blood, otherwise, under the three trees, what confession can't be made?" Jin Buhuan pulled his face: "I promise, if you don't die, you can taste it all over again." All tortures that I am proficient in." Bai Zhanfeng looked at Jin Buhuan in surprise, and then at Ding Tian.

Who knows that Ding Tian told An Tuhu very excitedly: "I hope you are tough enough. Let me tell you that many tortures I have researched cannot be carried out. Why? Because there are no prisoners! Ordinary prisoners plead guilty quickly. , there is one less guy like you who would rather die than submit, I really hope you persist!"

The corners of Bai Zhanfeng's mouth twitched, watching Jin Buhuan talk to Ding Tian about the punishment, he not only approached the track and field: "These two..."

Is it really a "cool official"?

"Both of them are used to it." Tian Jing didn't care. "Besides, if this guy is really stubborn, then there is really nothing to do. Sentence is the inevitable result."

In ancient times, a doctor could not be punished, it meant a person with knowledge and a good reputation. What kind of butcher is this?A commoner, but also a butcher in a lowly business.

And he doesn't have any family members. If he really wants to go in, he doesn't even have a prison visitor.

But Tuhu An didn't know what to think. Although his eyes were angry, he just kept silent.

"Probably from Ju County, Shandong!" Ding Tian sighed, "Okay, don't change sir, let's go find something.

"

The two of them went back to the house again, looking for it over and over again, but there was nothing there!

As time passed, they didn't have much time to stay outside, and they had to go back to the county seat.

Ding Tian was really in a hurry, and Jin Buhuan was even more anxious than him.

Even though he was in the house, when the chilly wind was blowing in late autumn, he was sweating all over.

"I can't..." Jin Buhuan wiped his sweat with a sweat towel: "Why isn't there?"

Butcher An's house is not big, no matter the front and back of the house, or the inside and outside of the house, they have been dug three feet, why can't they find it?

He had read the dossier and knew that the Cai family had made several headgears for Ms. Cai in order to prepare the dowry, all of which were gold, and their house had a silver house, so it was not worth making for the daughter.

So there are really a lot of gold and silver, otherwise they wouldn't recruit thieves.

Even if you haven't seen it, Jin Buhuan will know that it is a huge pile of things, and the newly built ones are all used by the women's relatives when they leave the pavilion.

Ding Tian was also worried, but when he searched all the places in the house again... he saw the heated kang, stepped forward and threw the kang table down, and the dirty quilt was also thrown aside.

"Tian'er, what are you doing?" Seeing him like this, Jin Buhuan panicked, "That's a kang!"

"I know." Ding Tian turned his head and bared his teeth at him: "Let me tell you, people's imagination is endless. What's wrong with the heated kang? The heated kang can also hide things."

"Impossible!" Jin Buhuan retorted: "The kang needs to be heated every day. Now that the weather is hot, the kang has to be heated even more...The gold and silver can't be heated...uh...."

Just when he retorted, Ding Tian had already found a kang hole on the fire pit. There are pit mats, and the kang hole is not big, but very deep. Ding Tian took out a big cloth bag from inside.

Ding Tian had an idea. When he saw the heated kang, he remembered the patriotic movie "Tunnel Warfare" he had watched when he was a child. At that time, the heated kang and the stove had tunnel entrances and exits.

So he searched, and sure enough, he found a kang cave.

Wrap it in coarse cloth, inside is a layer of fine cotton cloth, and inside is a large piece of red silk.

Opening the red satin, Ding Tian's eyes were shaken.

There are red gold heads, jewel-encrusted bracelets, gold and silver rings, earrings and other gold and silver jewelry, several jade pendants and jade bracelets, a lot of pearl necklaces, and two of them are the size of the belly of a thumb. Beads...

In addition, there are two gold bricks and several large silver ingots, all of which are money!

"Fuck!" Suddenly, Ding Tian burst into foul language: "I really didn't realize that this guy is so rich!"

"No!" Jin Buhuan also saw something, but narrowed his eyes: "I'm afraid it's not something Miss Cai's lost."

"Huh?" Ding Tian took a look: "Why not?"

"Although the Cai family is rich and rich, they definitely can't afford the Beizhu." Jin Buhuan picked up the two pearls: "It's impossible for non-official families to have this thing, and it must be above the fifth grade." Only a few people will have it, Beizhu has always been a tribute, and the output of Liaodong is counted every year."

Beizhu is a freshwater pearl, which refers to pearls produced in the northern region. It was also called "pearl", "dongzhu" and "true pearl" in ancient times. It has been synonymous with high-quality pearls since ancient times because of its large particles and strong pearl light. It is recorded.

And it was a tribute before the Ming Dynasty, and it became the exclusive tribute of the royal family in the Ming Dynasty.

Beizhu is huge in size, light yellow in color, bright and round, and crystal clear.

This thing is in terms of size and grade. Even if the Cai family is the first in Baiyun County, he is nothing in Fucheng. Fucheng also has Juren, and there are several others.

Even the magistrate's wife would not have been able to wear this thing if it hadn't been rewarded by her superiors.

In ancient times, the more cum was a very big sin.

Just like ordinary people cannot wear official robes, it is impossible for an official to wear a dragon robe once at the risk of losing his head.

The Cai family is not qualified to use these two North Pearls unless they are bestowed upon them by their superiors.

Even collecting it is a great sin, because the North Pearl is a tribute, and there are very few wandering outside throughout the year.

Even if unqualified Beizhu is crushed and made into pearl powder for tribute, it will not be sold to a family of Juren.

It is also a serious crime for the Cai family to be able to surpass the etiquette system.

"This?" If Jin Buhuan didn't say it, Ding Tian really wouldn't know it very well.

In his time, where were there no pearls?

Pearl powder costs 20 yuan a bag, you can buy it casually, there are plenty.

Although pearls can be regarded as expensive luxury items, for the ordinary civilian Ding Tian, ​​such luxury items have little to do with him.

His mother also has several pearl necklaces, as well as pearl earrings. In his eyes, "Pearl" is just a name.

Unexpectedly, in ancient times, there were so many sayings. He thought of the pearl hairpin and pearl flower for his two younger sisters... Well, the pearls are quite small, and they are not northern pearls, but ordinary pearls, the kind of white pearls , it is estimated that it was raised in the southern pearl pond...

Ahem, as early as the Song Dynasty, there were records of pearl cultivation.

Pang Yuanying of the Song Dynasty recorded in "Wenchang Miscellaneous Notes": "There is a method of raising pearls. Take a slightly larger clam, soak it in clear water, wait for it to open, and throw it with pearls...Frequently change the water, and it will become pearls after autumn. !"

In the Ming Dynasty, the cultivation method of special pearls was invented, and the world-famous "Buddha pearls" were successfully cultivated.

Ding Tianguang knew about the "Buddha statue pearl" because it was very magical, but this pearl was also divided into grades, so he really didn't know.

"Go ask that guy!" Jin Buhuan jumped off the kang with his things in his hands: "It's quite heavy."

We went outside together, and under the light of the torches, the pile of things became even more jeweled.

"Hey hey... After finding so many things, don't say you saved them all, it's up to you?" Jin Buhuan threw the things on the ground, and many officials swallowed when they saw it.

But if the gold is not exchanged, it will be invisible, and continue to tell Butcher An: "If you sell the pigs for ten lifetimes, you will not be able to save this property."

"Huh!" Tuhu An suddenly snorted coldly: "Official characters have two mouths, right and wrong, black and white, you have the final say, this is passed down from my ancestors, can't it?"

"Passed down from the ancestors?" Jin Buhuan smiled: "These two Beizhu must be obtained by officials of the fifth rank and above, and must be ordered by the husband.

People can't wear it, your ancestors, who is the senior official? "

In ancient times, officials of the first to fifth ranks were called Gao, and the sixth to ninth ranks were called Chi.

As early as the Ming Dynasty, a very complete imperial feudal system had been formed. Officials of the first to fifth ranks were granted imperial orders, and officials of the sixth to ninth rank were granted imperial orders. The wives followed the ranks of their husbands. There is a saying in the world of "the imperial order lady".

Ordering the wife is related to her husband's official position, which is the source of "the husband is honored and the wife is noble". It is an honor to have a salary but no real power.

reputation symbol.

The canonization is also the mother and wife of the official.

"This can't be faked. Even if it's the official orders of the former court officials, there are records. Even if you don't have them in your hometown, the files and files of the previous court in the court are still there. Let alone hundreds of years, even Going forward, there are all from the Song Dynasty, tell me!" Jin Buhuan said: "The bamboo slips from the Qin and Han Dynasties are also available in the palace, unless it was during the Yin and Shang Dynasties... Was there such a delicate handicraft at that time?"

How could An Tuhu, a mud-legged person, understand these things?

He thought that he would be able to carry it through if he said that it was passed down by his ancestors, but he didn't expect that this thing needs to be investigated.

"And you have such things, why are you still so down and out? Become a butcher? Could it be after the prisoner?" Jin Buhuan said again: "After the prisoner, you are going to farm and guard the border, but you have become a butcher?"

If you don't serve in the frontier army, you have run away privately, which is also a serious crime.

Even if Tuhu An has no knowledge, he has lived in the border for so many years, so he knows a little bit, and he answered neither of them correctly.

"It's useless if you don't tell me now, because there are too many physical evidences." Jin Buhuan turned to Jing Tian and said, "Go ask your neighbors where he was on the night of June [-]."

June [-] was the night that Miss Cai was murdered.

"Okay!" After finding the clothes and stolen goods, Jing Tian was so excited that he was about to fly, so he ran to the next door and knocked

door.

After a while, he came back with two men: "This is his neighbor. They all said that he was not at home that night."

"Do you both remember what happened so long ago?" Ding Tian asked the two witnesses, "Are you sure?"

"Master, I'm sure." One of the men trembled and said, "It's my father's birthday that day, and my whole family celebrated my father's birthday, and there were only a few families in the neighborhood who gave eggs one by one. It's my father's [-]th birthday. "

In this age of "a life of seventy is rare since ancient times", 60 years old is indeed a long life.

"Knocked on the door of his house, but he's not at home..."

Another man said: "I spent the night in the county town that day, and I went to the county town with him. He sold pork, and I was there to deliver firewood. The firewood in a carriage was delivered to the back door of Huixiang Restaurant. His pork came directly To the back kitchen, my firewood was sent to the firewood room, the firewood room was a little far away, he left first, but at that time, the gate of the city had been closed, if the restaurant was not in a hurry, he would have found it for the two of us A Datong shop for one night, we will not close the city gate, knowing that we will stay in the city for one night, and send them firewood and pork

So he also remembered very clearly that it was absolutely impossible to leave the city that day!

Because they are ordinary people with no special status, how can they call open the closed city gate?Not even the county magistrate!

They can't even do it.

"Which Datong shop did you stay at?" Bai Zhanfeng asked the name.

The man answered one place, and Bai Zhanfeng remembered: "I'll check later, although Datong shop is full of people coming and going every day

, but there are account books, I will come over to have a look. "