Deng Shiqiang and Cao Liang, one to check the Ping'an Inn, and the other to check the little lady who sold thrushes, found nothing.

When I was in despair, I learned that Zhou Jinnian had taken a scholar back to the office and ran over curiously to watch the excitement.

Looking around, the two became the chief officers of the interrogation.

Zhang Ren killed him and didn't know Qu Wenbo. He had never seen the three-color thrush, his expression was calm, his brows stretched, and he was calm.

However, the Ministry of Justice and Dali Temple can see the problem at a glance. The more natural the attitude, the more invulnerable and problematic.

Deng Shiqiang was impatient. He slapped the table and drank: "The criminal in this case is not very clear-headed, come here..."

"I am a talent in the thirty-fourth year of Qingyuan!" Zhang Ren stood straight and looked straight at the official sitting above.

"Did the officer make you kneel? No. Did the officer torture you? No. Come here, wash Zhang Xiucai's face, sober and sober."

Wet face is also a punishment. The prisoner is tied back to the torture bed, and thick mulberry paper is soaked and pasted on the prisoner's face, one by one, making him uncomfortable breathing, as painful as suffocation on fire.

At dusk, the sky will be dark. Zhou Jinnian’s interrogation work was taken over by the more professional Criminal Ministry and Dali Temple, so he had to go to dinner with Xie Ning, and the two of them walked and talked about the case.

During the interrogation in the office, Xie Ning, who has no officials and no job, could not enter, so Zhou Jinnian curiously asked about the results of the afternoon interrogation.

Zhou Jinnian: "It turns out that this benevolent family reported two cases, both of which were due to domestic violence and his wife. Both times, he was sentenced to be judged that it was difficult for an upright official to break the housework and settled it."

"After all, he was a bit clever after reading a book. It has been a year since the crime happened. He expects that we have no evidence and will not speak."

Xie Ning sighed, "Poor girl."

Zhou Jinnian thought of Zhang Zhitao, and it was a pity, "Although Zhang Zhitao is a girl, she has a temperament. In October of 39, she went to a book tea house to buy peanuts for Zhang Ren, which coincided with Duan Maocai showing off the three-color thrush."

"At that time, Duan Maocai was talking. Whoever dared to touch his three-color thrush, he chopped off his hands. Zhang Zhitao listened to this and deceived Duan Maocai's trust with the excuse of getting lost, so that Ji stole Duan Maocai's birdcage and hugged him home."

Xie Ning suddenly realized, "She wants to use Duan Maocai to cut off her father's hand?"

"Yes." Zhou Jinnian nodded, recalling Zhang Zhitao's immature voice and weak tone, talking about the reality that made her desperate.

Zhang Zhitao said: "After my brother came to my house, he quarreled loudly with him... Grandma Wu lives next door, so he dare not make a noise..."

"My brother beat him and said... I want him to die without a place to bury him."

"Then my brother took the bird and left. It was dark and the bird was colorful..."

Zhou Jinnian told Xie Ning these things, “It turns out that Zhang Ren’s motive should be revenge first, and then killing the bird, cutting off Duan Maocai’s head, only for the purpose of venting his anger. Before we checked Duan Maocai’s social circle, it was still If there is an inn or teahouse, the direction is wrong."

Xie Ning can imagine a picture in which Zhang Ren disdainfully said to the dead Duan Maocai: Don’t you want me to die without a place to bury? Then I will let you see and see first!

Xie Ning was full of anger when she heard it, "This Zhang Ren is really a hideous! Treating the wives and daughters who are incapable of killing chickens is cruel, and treating outsiders such as Duan Maocai, if you can't fight back, you can't fight back!"

Xie Ning muttered to himself, "No wonder Zhang Zhitao reported himself before he robbed me of my purse in the morning."

Zhou Jinnian encircled him, thinking about Xie Ning's safety for the first time, "Money is a thing outside of the body, and there will be people robbing you in the future, and you will lead you to no one's land. Don't chase it anymore."

Because of Zhang Zhitao's testimony, Zhang Rencai changed his words and said that he had met Duan Maocai, but after the dispute, Duan Maocai raised the birdcage and went away, went back to the study to copy the book, and never went out again.

This is because the person who insisted that the government office has no evidence. It seems that Zhang Ren understands the law quite well, and thinks that the evidence has been handled cleanly by him.

After the husband and wife had finished their meals, Xie Ning brought a food box to pick up Zhang Zhitao and take her home.

Zhang Zhitao, who had finished answering, was sent to a waiting room. She sat obediently in a chair, waiting for the gentle elder brother to pick her up, and when she returned home, she could live a life without being beaten with her mother. She was ten years old, and she could help the guests in the teahouse with tea, and her mother no longer had to be bullied by those bad men.

She was thinking about the days to come, when the door was pushed open, and the eldest brother and another tall man came in together.

She looked outside the door, and it turned out that it was already dark.

Zhang Zhitao shook hands on his chest, bowed his head, and walked quietly beside Xie Ning, listening to Xie Ning talking to another tall man. She recognized the man as the official who took the lead in arresting'him.'

Xie Ning pushed Zhou Jinnian back, "Go back, Master Cao and the others have nothing to eat. After a day of trial, you go to change the guard."

Zhang Zhitao also stopped and looked at the two people in front of him.

Ning Lang was right, Zhou Jinnian had to compromise, nodded, and confessed: "I'll still arrange the two government officials to send you off. After you send her off, she will return to the inn obediently, and I will come back to accompany you when I finish my work."

Xie Ning pursed his lips and nodded, he was more ambitious than Zhou Jinnian.

This was a homicide, but the perpetrator Zhang Ren had mixed appearances, beating his wife and scolding his daughter. After Xie Ning knew about this, he was very depressed all afternoon. Zhou Jinnian had a lot of heart to accompany her husband, but he was entangled in official affairs. See Xie Ning was so well-behaved and there was no one around, so she couldn't help but squeeze up to kiss Xie Ning.

Xie Ning subconsciously tilted his head and glanced at the short Zhang Zhitao, and kicked Zhou Jinnian with his feet, "There are children!"

If it's normal, Zhou Ji will take it if he sees a good year, but today is special, deliberately teasing Xie Ning, wanting Xie Ning to relax his depressed mood.

So he grabbed the kick kicked by Xie Ning with his left hand, put his right hand around the waist, and hugged him tightly, "Then you still hit me?"

Xie Ning stood on one foot and was swept over by brute force. He was forced to cling tightly to Zhou Jinnian, with his right leg resting on Zhou Jinnian's waist. This shameful action made his face instantly flushed.

Yesterday, he still said in his heart that he would change, and he would not beat his husband again. At this moment, he completely ignored him, and stretched out his hand to pull Zhou Jinnian’s ears, "Let go!"

Zhou Jinnian hissed, let go of his hands, and spread his palms up on both sides, making a gesture of surrender.

"Huh!" Xie Ning sighed, carrying the food box, blushing, and said to Zhang Zhitao: "Let's go, brother will take you home."

Zhang Zhitao shrank his head, his eyes were full of fear, and he was obviously frightened by the harassing husband and wife.

Zhou Jinnian didn't notice, walked away from Fulang, shouted the two government officials, gave a few words, and went to trial.

Xie Ning was not embarrassed to look at the little girl, too embarrassed.

The four of them left the government office and walked to the bazaar when they left the street. There were many pedestrians on the street at dusk, and many vendors at the closing market were pushing huge carts along the road. Xie Ning reached out and held Zhang Zhitao's wrist, "Be careful."

Zhang Zhitao looked at holding his own hands. These hands were white, with distinct joints but not delicate, just like the big brother, who was handsome and beautiful in appearance, but dared to beat her husband.

"Why does he let you fight?"

There were noisy voices in the street, Xie Ning did not hear clearly, "What? Is Xiao Tao talking to me?"

Zhang Zhitao didn't speak any more.

Xie Ning couldn't, so she had to protect her and continue walking.

When I saw people selling small bamboo baskets on the road, Xie Ning likes to buy small baskets and carry them. And there is a very small one on the stall, which is suitable for Brother Yu to carry.

Xie Ning stopped. The small bamboo basket was square and strange and beautiful in shape. He took out the purse and bought it. The square bamboo basket was only the size of his feet.

"Does Xiaotao like bamboo baskets?" Xie Ning wanted to buy one for Xiaotao.

Zhang Zhitao glanced at the bamboo basket stall. She didn't understand why the elder brother should buy such a small bamboo basket, which is not used at home.

When Xie Ning saw her silent, he stood up and looked around. There was a stall selling embroidered shoes. He took Zhang Zhitao’s wrist and took it and said to the shoe seller: "Look if she can wear it. Is it?"

Zhang Zhitao was stunned, the colors of the shoes on the stall were so beautiful, just like the three-color thrush she saw that day, colorful and unattainable.

In the short time she was swaying, Xie Ning had bought two pairs of embroidered shoes, one large and one small. The black vamp was embroidered with large clusters of pink peonies, and the flowers bloomed.

"Can you hold it yourself?" Xie Ning said to Zhang Zhitao, pointing to the cloth bag handed over by the shoe vendor.

Before Zhang Zhitao could react, the hawker handed it forward again, and squeezed it into Zhang Zhitao's arms before she reached out and hugged it.

The hawker emptied his hand and quickly took the broken silver that Xie Ning handed over, tested and tested, and finally found more than a dozen copper plates.

Zhang Zhitao saw that these two pairs of embroidered shoes were not cheap, but she didn't understand how she deserved to own such an expensive pair of embroidered shoes?

The little girl thought to herself: He was caught, and she was living a good life right after, and so did her mother.

Zhang Zhitao lowered his head, held embroidered shoes in one hand, raised one hand, and handed it to Xie Ning. Still not daring to look up, he buried his head and said, "Thank you... brother."

Xie Ning looked at the hand that was in front of him, sighed in his heart, and felt sorry for the little girl even more. He handed the bamboo basket to the servant, and held Zhang Zhitao's wrist again.

It is the first time for Xie Ning to see such family affairs with his own eyes. In this world, apart from his natural fate, can it only be like his sister-in-law Li Shiyi that he can avoid life misfortune by choosing his own husband?

Li Shiyi was born in the Li Mansion, how many people can be born in the mansion? Most of them are still like Mei Niang. When they are old, their parents point their hands and they are backed by a strange man. They can only be beaten and scolded next to each other.

Xie Ning intends to send Xiaotao back, give them some money for their mother and daughter, and do their best to take care of the poor pair of mother and daughter.

When the group walked into Hulu Alley, Zhang Zhitao spoke again, and she asked, "Why does he let you fight?"

Except for the four of them, there was no one else in the alley, and it was dark and quiet.

Xie Ning has been thinking about the misfortune of their mother and daughter all the way. When he heard this question, he had a kind of mission and solemnly said: "He said, because I am his husband, I am what he should hold in his hand. people."

Zhang Zhitao didn't understand, why should I?

She remembered at the age of five that the man named ‘Father’ had just been selected as a talented person. A father was hired by a rich master to be a master. She knew that A father had gone to teach to someone else’s son. Not long after the days of poverty, when the persimmons were blooming and bearing fruit, Afather was resigned and locked in the study all day long. A few months later, she remembered that she had only eaten a few sweet persimmons, and my father started to go out.

The little Zhang Zhitao thought that his father had gone to teach to someone else's son again, but this time it was very strange. Father went out during the day and would come back late at night, and he often took a few uncles home to drink.

Finally one day, the uncle who came to drink at home and the father had a quarrel. The uncle knelt in front of the father, and the mother hid in the room to wash her face with tears. She huddled in the corner and saw that father took a brown money bag. The uncle left her house.

After that, my uncle came to her house almost every night, and my father became more and more violent, and he would beat and scold her mother every day, including her...

She didn't understand why her father was in the study every day, but there was meat all over the place at home. There is no shortage of meat at home, why is it even harder for her and her mother?

The little Zhang Zhitao no longer dared to look up at people, because the child looked at Zhang Ren with clear black and white eyes, and he would get even more violent beatings.

So today she was frightened. How could the eldest brother dare to hit that tall, stern-faced man?

Seeing that the little girl didn't speak again, Xie Ning thought she understood, and the group walked silently to the door of Zhang's house.

There was only one woman in the room, so the door was locked backwards. The two yamen knocked on the courtyard door and shouted, "Is there anyone in the Zhang family? Come and open the door quickly."

Xie Ning was afraid to scare the woman in the room, and touched the top of the little girl's head, "Sell your mother to open the door. There is roast chicken here. Take it back to eat with your mother."

Zhang Zhitao thought Xie Ning was leaving, she wanted to remember this big brother's face too much, so she plucked up the courage and raised her head...

Xie Ning saw Zhang Zhitao's head held high, his own reflection in his **** and white eyes, and his dark and yellow skin but the delicateness of a child, and his lips were tight.

Xie Ning smiled at her.

Zhang Zhitao quickly lowered his head, turned his head and walked to the door, patted the door with a little hand, and said in joy, "Mother, I'm back!"

No matter how she knocked, the courtyard was silent. It was completely dark, and it was not safe to leave the little girl at the door, and the two yamen patted the door louder.

Aunt Wu in the next room was frightened out of the door. Xie Ning quickly apologized and asked by the way, "Did the people in the room ever go out?"

Aunt Wu: "No, after you left, I talked to her for a while, she kept crying, maybe she fell asleep now."

There was no way, so I had to ask the Yamen to borrow something from Aunt Wu’s yard, go through the yard, and open the door.

Two yamen guarded outside the courtyard. Aunt Wu went into the courtyard with Xie Ning carrying an oil lamp. Xie Ning carried a food box and placed it in the hall. The room was dark, and Mei Niang Xu was really asleep.

Xie Ning took out the purse and put the entire purse on the table while it was dark, and said, "Then I will go back. You will eat first when you are hungry. When your mother wakes up, tell her that this food box must be returned to the restaurant. The money has been settled."

Zhang Zhitao held the embroidered shoes and shed tears in the darkness.

Xie Ning felt the dark and wanted to rub the little girl's head, but he touched wet tears. He wanted to say something to make the little girl strong, so he asked Aunt Wu to wake up Mei Niang and give the mother and daughter some hope.

"The first time I saw you crying, cry, you are still young."

Zhang Zhitao wiped away tears fiercely, "I am not young."

She is not young anymore, she wants to protect her mother.

A scream interrupted the conversation between the two and broke the silence of the entire yard. Aunt Wu hurried out while shouting.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Hurry up! God... Mei Niang!"

When Xie Ning saw this, he subconsciously understood that Mei Niang had something wrong.

Mei Niang died, hanged under the beam of the house.

Xie Ning took Zhang Zhitao, who had fainted, back to the inn, asked the doctor to see her, and asked someone to guard her.

After Zhou Jinnian returned to the inn after busy, he was silent when Xie Ning said about the tragedy.

Xie Ning sat on the edge of the bed, holding his hands open. After being hugged, he put his face against Zhou Jinnian's abdomen, put both hands down and hung weakly on his side.

"When I left Zhang's house, Mei Niang said that my daughter entrusted me to take care of her. She didn't want to live anymore..."

Zhou Jinnian stopped stroking Xie Ning's hand, which was wrong.

A wife who had been tortured by her husband had reported the case and asked for help. She was so desperate that she did not want to commit suicide. However, after her husband was arrested, she and her young daughter committed suicide when they were free again. Why?

Obviously regained freedom and escaped from the sea of ​​suffering, but Mei Niang was about to die. What is Mei Niang afraid of? I was afraid that after Zhang Ren was arrested, she would reveal something she didn't want to face. What was the truth of this matter?

"No, an autopsy!"

Zhou Jinian stayed up all night, and finally waited for the results of Wu Zuo's test. Mei Niang was suffering from a disease of bloom and willow, but her husband, Zhang Ren, did not.

Zhou Jinian immediately ordered that the scholars who went to the drugstore to buy medicines for Hualiu disease in the whole city should be arrested for questioning, especially those who knew Zhang Ren.

The results of Mei Niang's autopsy plunged the case into a darker abyss, and a demon dragged a family into hell.

Zhang Zhitao woke up, and Aunt Wu who came to visit her brought porridge to feed her.

"Auntie, why doesn't my mother want me anymore?"

The thin Zhang Zhitao was lying on the bed, curled up face inside, holding a pair of embroidered shoes in his arms, Aunt Wu kept aside and wiped tears.

Aunt Wu gasped, and said steadily: "It's not that she doesn't want you anymore, she has had a hard time, and she has gone to heaven to enjoy her blessings."

"Does a person go to the sky to enjoy the blessing when he dies? Then does he also want to go to the sky to enjoy the blessing?" Zhang Zhitao's voice was soft, fragile, making people afraid to breathe.

Aunt Wu wiped her tears and shook her head, "No, it's because your mother has never done evil in her life, and she has suffered too much in the world, so God is kind."

Aunt Wu didn't know much, it was her husband who inquired from the patrolman.

But she firmly knew that Zhang Ren was a beast, killed his wife and abused his daughter, she said everything she knew, "Your father..."

Thinking that Sister Tao always called Zhang Ren'him', Aunt Wu also changed her words and said: "He took other people's birds, killed them, and also chopped their heads. He went to hell. He suffered a thousand swords. cut!"

Zhang Zhitao's eyes widened. He killed the older brother who could punch and kick him and didn't dare to fight back?

Zhou Jinnian strode boldly in front of Zhang Ren, flicked his hem, raised it with a kick, and kicked Zhang Renlian with a chair and fell to the ground.

"Master Zhou!" The jailer guarding Zhang Xiucai hurriedly said. Zhang Ren is a scholar. Before he got rid of his fame, he couldn't go to jail. At this moment, he was well kept in the house, but he was only tied to a chair to restrict him. Just action.

"Beast! Married, but not treated well, staying at home all day long and doing nothing, relying on the meaty fragrance bought by his wife?" Zhou Jinnian moved his eyes away and looked at Zhang Ren more of him, disgusting him.

Zhang Ren simply lay on the ground and smiled contemptuously, "Master Zhou? Zhou Jinian in Nanyu County?"

He is really a talented scholar who "knows the world without going out". When Zhou Jinnian hosted a banquet, although he didn't go there, some of his friends, friends and foxes told him vividly.

Information is underdeveloped. They can only learn about current affairs and get together to drink and talk.

Zhang Ren snorted, "Is that **** not afraid of immersing in the pig cage?" He thought it was Mei Niang who said the ugliness of the family.

Zhou Jinnian heard his words of repentance and directly called someone to be sentenced.

Zhang Ren hurriedly said: "What is the difference between you and me? Did your husband buy you the fragrance of fish?"

Zhou Jinnian didn't get angry and laughed, "What's the difference between me and you? I'll tell you, I carry him into the house, and I can make him live like himself! With my Zhou Jinnian, people are good, Regardless of the mundane, no one can hurt him at all."

"Hmph, after all, it's not the money that your husband earned, if I marry him...ahahahah!!!"

Zhou Jinnian flew up and kicked him, with a condescending expression of disdain, "Are you worthy? Do you dare to say that your wife is voluntary?"

"Ah... she... seduce people... she doesn't obey women's way! Ah..." Zhang Ren could only try to clamp his lower body with his hands tied.

Zhou Jinnian didn't speak, and quickly reasoned logically in his mind, "Whether she does not obey the woman's way, you know it in your heart, but it is just an excuse you use to make yourself feel at ease and force her to sell yourself."

"Ah..." Zhang Ren was in pain, his vigilance was still high, and he drew back into the tortoise's shell and stopped talking. Ren Zhou Jinnian, a radical general, just didn't speak.

The jailer on the side waited for Zhou Jinnian to leave before he stepped forward and slapped Zhang Ren, "You softie! If you become a prisoner of war, you can be so hard-talking that you will be convinced."

Xie Ning got the news that Zhang Zhitao was waking up, and hurriedly went back to the inn to visit her.

Aunt Wu is no longer there. Zhang Zhitao is sitting on the bed with her arms around her knees. She no longer holds the embroidered shoes. The shoes are scattered from the cloth bag and lie quietly beside her feet.

Xie Ning was very pitiful seeing her lifeless look, "Little Tao, do you know Grandpa?"

Zhang Zhitao thought for a while. He had never seen her since she was born. He shook his head and said, "No."

"What about Grandpa?" Xie Ning asked quietly, sitting beside her.

"Dead." She knew this. In the year Grandpa passed away, he was fired and returned home, and the family had no income. Her mother and her nightmare began.

"It's okay." Xie Ning took a deep breath and made up his mind to say: "I have a brother, and my brother will support you."

Zhang Zhitao rubbed his chin on his knees and asked in a low voice, "Why hasn't he beheaded yet?"

Seeing that she did not respond to her decision, Xie Ning thought Zhang Zhitao was embarrassed because the little girl had been shrinking in her own world.

I had to answer her: "Because of insufficient evidence."

Thinking of what his husband was investigating, he tried to ask Zhang Zhitao, "Do you know anything about the family? Those who bully your mother, can your brother catch them?"

"Can't catch..."

"how could be?"

Zhang Zhitao grabbed the embroidered shoes with his fingers and said: "I don't know, but I can't catch them. They have come to my house and said that honest officials are hard to break housework." Zhang Zhitao and them refer to the arresting officers in official uniforms and the servants in blue shirts. "Later, my mother refused to let the newspaper official."

"Why didn't you let you report to the official?"

Zhang Zhitao replied softly, "I can't say it, but my mother's reputation will be bad."

She remembered that her mother's original words were like this: I can't say that my mother's reputation will be gone if she is gone, her mother's death is not regrettable, and her mother can't harm my daughter's reputation.

She said so, but immediately she continued: "I remember the names of those who bullied my mother. He called them Brother Chengye, Brother Zhongxian..."

Xie Ning was still wondering why Xiao Tao couldn't say it before, but she said it immediately afterwards.

But Zhang Zhitao said seven or eight names at once! Surprised that he has no time to analyze the others.

Xie Ning became more angry as she listened, her hands shook...

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