Farming: I dressed up as a widow and beat my parents-in-law violently

Zuo Li was so angry that he frowned, and the scar on his face looked even more fierce. Wang Yuanshan was so frightened that he grinned.

After saying that, Zuo Li followed Wang Yuanshan with seven or eight official servants, preparing to go to the shop. He was worried that Yuanshan would be scared, so Yan Xia also came with him.

"Zhang Ji Food Store?"

After walking a few steps, Zuo Li stopped when he heard the name of the shop mentioned by Wang Yuanshan. He narrowed his eyes and his voice was mixed with confusion.

"what happened?"

Yan Xia saw his paused steps and asked.

"Aunt Yan, I'm telling you this because we are acquaintances. The county magistrate is planning to investigate them thoroughly. I heard that they only collect grain in the northernmost part of Jiangnan Province. Because they lower the price too hard, they will beat others if they fail to force the purchase to force the seller to give in. , even if it caused trouble to the government over there, they would leave it alone because the shop belongs to Jiashe County. They probably paid filial piety to the officials over there, so they are so rampant now."

“…”

Zuo Li saw Yan Xia listening attentively.

I couldn't help but say more.

"Aunt Yan, you have to know that not all officials are parents of the common people. There are very few major cases of robbery and killing in Shuangqiao Town. It is precisely because our county magistrate has strong governance capabilities. No, there was a woman the day before yesterday , the drum of grievances was sounded outside the government office, saying that there were grievances to be complained, but it was a drum of grievances! I have never seen it sound since I entered the county government..."

"Tsk tsk——"

Yan Xia clicked her tongue. She had heard about this. The grievance drum was placed outside the government office. It was two meters high. There were two drum sticks placed on each side of the drum.

If there is a great grievance, the drum can be beaten by raising the drum stick high.

When the county magistrate hears the sound of drums, he must immediately go to court.

That day when the drums sounded, she happened to be making cakes in the backyard of the pastry shop.

The government office was not far away, and the sound of the drums was so loud and penetrating that she thought someone had hired a lion dance team to celebrate the occasion.

As a result, when the shop opened in the afternoon, she went to the front to help for a while, and only then did a customer tell her that the sound was a drum of grievance.

She didn't know the rest.

Yan Xia came to his senses, and Zuo Li in front of him continued.

"As soon as the drum of injustice is sounded, men and women, regardless of gender, must be beaten before they can be promoted to the hall. A man will be beaten forty times and a woman will be beaten for thirty times. The woman was already weak and almost lost her life after being beaten. But She crawled into the county government office in a daze, and the magistrate took pity on her, so Zuo San and I went to call the doctor first to stop her bleeding."

"It turns out that when her husband went to sell grain, he refused to sell because shopkeeper Zhang Ji set the price too hard, so he planned to take the grain to find another buyer. As he was passing by the alley, he was beaten to death by shopkeeper Zhang Ji until he vomited blood. Food was also taken away.”

"He reported it to the official immediately, but the official did not do anything and drove him away. He was probably seriously injured inside. He vomited blood and died before he could even walk back to the village."

"The body was discovered by the villagers the next day."

"This woman's only son was seriously ill, and he was waiting for the money from selling grain to save his life. Now the man died, and the grain that was supposed to be sold for money was taken away. The son also went with him because he couldn't afford the medicine. The woman The world fell apart. Coincidentally, the scene of her man being beaten was witnessed by a villager. She was a young daughter-in-law who had just been married for a few days. Only when she saw the face of the corpse and the familiar clothes did she know the man she saw being beaten. , who was from the same village as her, told the woman about it.”

"Where to sell grain, you have to go to a shop or go to the market to collect grain. I asked the retail households one by one. The price of grain collected by retail households was slightly higher than that of the shops. According to the description of the little daughter-in-law, the woman found the shopkeeper Zhang Ji, and was afraid that she would also be sold. She was beaten, so she went to sue the local magistrate first. Unexpectedly, she was slapped, but the magistrate still ignored the matter. She refused to accept it and asked around where shopkeeper Zhang Ji was from and what his name was."

Zuo Li gritted his teeth and continued.

"It's a pity that this man is cunning and no one knows where he is. The woman is also very powerful. She followed the carriage mark of shopkeeper Zhang Ji all the way to Shuangqiao Town. It had rained and snowed on the road, so the carriage mark would be washed away. She just stayed there, sleeping in the snow on snowy days, eating grass after eating dry food, and getting hungry when there was no grass to eat. When she was hungry, she would drink stream water, snow water or even rainwater, just to wait for Zhang. I remember the shopkeeper came back to collect grain again."

"Shopkeeper Zhang Ji didn't know how many times she made the trip. It took her seven months to finally find her in our town. The guard guarding the city gate saw that she was acting like a beggar and stopped her from entering."

"This woman was smart. She used the money she had left to go to the villagers and buy some clean old clothes. Although the weather was getting warmer, it was only the end of April. She washed herself with cold water and changed her clothes by the river before entering. City, and searched every grain store in the city. When I found Zhang Ji, I saw the shopkeeper leaning against the door of the store eating melon seeds, so I immediately went to the county government office to play the drum..."

"........."

This was the first time that Yan Xia saw Zuo Li talk so closely.

He talked for more than half an hour.

He seemed very angry.

She felt a little uncomfortable when she heard it. This family was so miserable.

Seven months.

It only took eight or nine days for the carriage to come and go. The woman relied on her legs to catch up with the carriage.

It wasn't until she lost track of him and couldn't find any traces of the carriage that she gave up running. Then she hid on the roadside at the fork in the road, in ditches, behind trees, and in the grass, living like a savage.

In seven months, shopkeeper Zhang Ji's carriage made at least seven or eight trips.

Yan Xia couldn't even imagine how the woman persisted.

It snowed so heavily during the Chinese New Year.

Not to mention outside, even if you don't light the stove in the house, your feet will be numb from the cold.

"Hey... Aunt Yan is really not afraid of your jokes. I couldn't help but shed tears after hearing what she said. This woman has become so thin that she has lost her appearance. Cases of injustice must be disclosed to the public. Your Excellency pities her and cannot bear to let the people see her beaten and lying on the ground. In violation of the law, you have to order us to close the gate of the county government office and not open it to the public. Otherwise, a lot of people outside the county government office will cry. Your Excellency plans to listen first. The woman’s grievances were resolved and the case was publicly brought to court during the second trial.”

"But she passed out after she complained. The adults could only wait for her to wake up before arresting shopkeeper Zhang Ji. I just wanted to check if they had committed any other crimes and we did it together. Unfortunately, nothing was found. , Aunt Yan, even if you don't come to me today, I should go to Zhang Ji's grain store, this woman has already woken up this morning."

"Then what are you waiting for? Go quickly, don't let him get wind of it and run away."

Yan Xia urged.

"Ouch, wait."

Yan Xia suddenly called Zuo Li, and she had an idea. Since Zhang Ji shopkeeper can be so arrogant, he must have a trump card. What if Zuo Li catches him rashly and he denies what he has done?

Listening to the woman's testimony alone is not enough to convince the public. You know, the county can't go to the woman's town to investigate. After all, there are regional restrictions. In the end, this matter can only be reduced to a big one.