The enemy has a crush on me

"Master, is this the number of recent cases of reporting face-stealing thieves?"

The man in the red official robe sat high in the main hall, sipped his tea, and said leisurely.

A man in a brown suit under His Royal Highness said: "Lord Bing, the side room of the Wang family in the east of the city reported the original main house, the head of the Liu family in the west of the city reported the daughter who eloped with her lover, and the Jin family of the Jin family in the north of the city reported the brothel actress who made the prime minister happy...every day. Everyone swears that the Face Stealer was caught and taken to the Yamen. Counting today’s family, it’s No. 17.”

The Zaopao man looked at the two rows of heads in the hall, and said again: "In the sixteen reported cases before, how many men and women did the face-stealing thieves report?"

The man in brown clothes said: "My lord, there are two men and fourteen women in total."

The man in the jujube robe said: "I heard that most of the people who were killed by the face-stealing thief were men. How come when it was reported to the police, almost all the suspects were women? Among the common people in Linqi, except for the face-stealing thief Thieves are attracted to it, but they can't find a few men who look good."

The man in the brown suit said: "No, no. Because women in this world are despised by both men and women. In this way, everyone can be despised. Since ancient times, dynasties have been overthrown, it is strange It’s all beauties misleading the country, even if it’s not a face-stealing thief this time, but an evil spirit who deceives people’s hearts, it’s likely that there should be more women than men.”

The Zaopao man nodded, took another sip of tea, and said, "Then how do I judge this?"

The man in the brown suit said: "After my lord's inspection, the first sixteen cases were all accusations of personal grievances. Because of maliciously disrupting the law, they were all punished with dozens of sticks, fined some silver taels, and sent back."

The man in jujube robe said: "Where is the No. 17 pile?"

The man in the brown suit said: "This No. 17 stake is kneeling in the hall right now, trembling."

The Zaopao man seemed to have suddenly realized, he slapped the gavel, and said to the group of people kneeling under the stage: "The Xu family in the south of the city, what is the purpose of your family, young and old, kneeling here?"

This square and square hall is called the Hall of Discipline, and there are government officials holding long sticks standing on both sides. In front of the hall, there are tents hanging from the upper Qimenfang and lower to the ground, covering the six middle doors.In front of the tent is a high stone platform, on which there is a long mahogany square table, which is used as a public office, and a carved mahogany chair is placed behind it.

The jujube robed man was sitting on the carved mahogany armchair, leisurely looking down at the people in the hall.

Mr. Xu's family is a taciturn handyman, but the woman regained her composure, wiped her tears, and said, "The little girl Yinyin was really replaced by a face thief! I am her biological mother, and my husband-in-law is Her biological father, we have worked so hard to bring her up, is the one who loves her the most in the world, there is no reason to harm her!"

The man in the jujube robe said: "You said she was replaced by a face thief, what evidence do you have?"

The woman sobbed twice, and said: "Before we sent her here, we had asked the celestial master to do the exercises many times and spent a lot of money. The celestial master said... the little girl is possessed by evil spirits! We had to put her in a jar, drop her onto a boulder, and sink to the bottom of the water to exorcise the evil spirits. I couldn't bear it anymore, and thought of the recent events, so I tied her here...Master Qingtian, you believe us! "

As she spoke, she began to cry again, and what she said later was somewhat inconsistent.

The middle-aged man beside her just now was obsequious to the man in the jujube robe, and he looked like a real man when he turned around and scolded her.

He whispered: "You woman, why can't you explain this clearly."

The woman stopped talking after hearing this, and just wept mournfully.

The jujube robed man glanced at the middle-aged man, saw a rather fresh scar on his forehead, and asked, "Where did the wound on your forehead come from?"

The middle-aged man said: "Yes, it was knocked out on the ground to stop General Huyan."

The man in Zaopao said: "You are sincere. Then tell me, what's going on?"

The middle-aged man said: "My lord, we are indeed face-stealing thieves. It's hard to say, I'm a handyman, I can't earn much, but I have some savings after working hard for many years. I have both children and children, and the old man is still alive. The neighbors are more or less a happy family living an honest life. We know that as a woman, you should also be educated. Although she was not allowed to go to school with her younger brother, she was taught to read and write at home, and she was well-behaved since she was a child. Never made us worry."

"But a few days ago, she, she suddenly said that she felt that she was a boy since she was a child, and she never dared to tell us. She finally mustered up the courage and asked me and my wife to forgive her and let her dress like a man from now on. She said that although she can't take care of her husband and children like other girls, she will still work hard to be filial like other daughters."

"My wife's child, is it possible that we don't know if it's a boy? If you've seen Yin Yin, you'll know what a beautiful girl she is, and we won't accept any number of rich men who come to propose marriage."

"She said such things, which frightened her mother and my wife first, and then shocked the whole family. I immediately engaged her in a marriage, but she ran away on the night of the wedding. My lord, think about it, this marriage It is such a shameful thing to run away from marriage that night, which man would want to marry her in the future?"

"We caught her back, and Madam cried and begged her to kneel down and kowtow to make amends to her betrothed family. Even if she was scolded a little more, she might be able to be a concubine if they got angry. But she stood in the room, She was so well-behaved before, but this time no matter how much she tried to persuade her, she only had one word 'no'. After a few more words of persuasion, she took scissors, cut her hair short, pushed her mother away and hit the wall, If we hadn't stopped her quickly, she would have crashed to death at home! We tied her up and asked a celestial master to do magic tricks...cutting with a knife, burning with candle oil, pouring salt...all kinds of exorcism methods were tried pass……"

"It hurts my mother's heart. Women are the most soft-hearted. That day the master was exorcising her mother and crying. No matter how I comforted her, it was useless for her mother to cry so badly. She didn't regret it at all. , we were really chilled until then, knowing that the monster must have taken her skin."

The man wiped the corners of his eyes when he said this, and looked very painful and tangled: "Parents who suffer from body, skin, hair, skin, you said that she was not so crazy because of the face thief. What else could it be because of her? It's also because of her, We became the laughing stock of the neighbors in the neighborhood. If this face-stealer can't restore her innocence, our family will never be able to hold up her head. Her brother is still unmarried, how can she get a wife in the future?"

The jujube robed man said: "This matter is indeed a bit strange."

He thought for a while, and said to the yamen servants on both sides: "Come on, push Xu Yinyin up to me."

After a while, two handymen dragged a girl to the court.

She was only in her teens, with disheveled hair and a corpse-like complexion when she was dragged in.

The jujube-robed man patted the gavel and said: "Is the rebellious girl Xu Yinyin under the hall?"

The woman shook her head and nodded.

The man in the jujube robe said again: "Can you admit to the crimes mentioned by the Xu couple?"

The woman nodded.

The jujube-robed man said: "So, you consider yourself a face-stealer?"

The woman shook her head.

The jujube-robed man looked at her for a while, and felt that this person was not good enough, so he summoned two yamen servants to intimidate her, and showed them kindness and power. If there was a grievance, he would explain it clearly. He pleaded guilty for a while and denied it for a while. How could he be contemptuous of justice? !

Asked again.

——Do you admit the crimes mentioned by the Xu couple?

--I think.

The man in the jujube robe pouted angrily.

——So, you consider yourself a face-stealer?

——…

--say!

——I am not a face-stealer, but I am indeed a disgusting monster who deserves death and cannot be tolerated by the world.

The woman saw her expression clearly with tears in her eyes, showed a terrified expression, and hurriedly screamed: "My lord, stop her quickly, she wants to die!"

The Zaopao man was stunned for a moment, and said loudly: "Stop her!"

The yamen servants all stepped forward, but they couldn't stop them.

Xu Yinyin was wearing her long gown-like white dress with no visible skirt, her skinny body slammed into the corner of the long mahogany table on the stage.

Immediately a big red flower bloomed on her head, clinging to the koan, her body slowly slid down.

The bloody face was pressed against the ground, and the blood dripped out little by little.

Nuo Da's courtroom was dead silent, and the words that she could not utter in her short life, whether she was a woman or not, were buried in her body forever.