Then Zhao Han began to ask: "Zhang Si, I want to ask you, where did you hide the murder weapon?"
Zhang Si said incoherently: "Reporting to your lord, I threw away the murder weapon."
"What is the murder weapon? Where was it thrown?" Zhao Han saw that the man was stunned and repeated again.
"A butcher's knife, I, I threw the murder weapon under the stove in my house."
"Quickly go to Zhang Si's house and get it." Jia Baoyu then ordered a horse to quickly say.
The man named Ma Kuai immediately left the county government office, mounted his fast horse and went to fetch it.
"Where is the dead man's head?"
"The head is in the iron pot at my house."
When everyone heard this, they were so frightened that they broke into cold sweat.
"It's really cruel!"
"Heinous!"
"Too cruel, are these still brothers?"
Zhao Han immediately said to others: "Let's go get it together."
Half an hour later.
The murder weapon and the deceased's head were found at the same time by Ma Kuai, who was the first to go.
Na Ma Kuai is a clever man, and he could smell the smell of blood as soon as he entered Zhang Si's house.
Following the smell, I found the murder weapon. When I opened the lid of the pot, I almost died on the spot!
Until now, Ma Kuai was still rubbing his chest and glaring at Zhang Si fiercely.
Who among ordinary people would dare to do this?
"Sir, it has been confirmed that the head belongs to the deceased Zhang Er." Wu Zuo said.
"Okay, I have pronounced the verdict that Zhang Si committed a heinous crime, seeking wealth and killing, and disregarding the brotherhood of his brothers. Humans and gods alike are outraged. The Queen of Autumn will ask for execution, report to the Ministry of Punishment for verification, and hand it over to the Emperor for cancellation!"
"My lord is wise."
"Your Excellency is wise!"
"Thank you so much, Mr. Qingtian!"
All the squires followed and shouted in unison.
Everyone was convinced.
The whole case seemed very simple in Mr. Jia's hands. With just a few sticks, the real criminal was found out.
Why can’t Mr. Liu do it?
Some squires knew in their hearts that Mr. Liu was no longer Hutu.
Instead, he is accustomed to being on the same page, only obeying the instructions of the yamen servants and clerk, and quitting doing things, and is unwilling to put in the effort.
He is incomparable to the courage of a young Jinshi scholar.
Zhao Han shook his head slightly.
In fact, when she checked the documents before, she discovered that most of the documents in feudal society were very simple.
As long as you do it with a clear conscience, it is basically unlikely that big problems will occur.
The reason is very simple. In this era, most people have no awareness of counter-reconnaissance.
Moreover, in this era, as long as it is the Taiping Period, the floating population is very small.
In a street or a village, there is not a single floating population for ten days and a half.
Even the vendors who come here to sell things have been coming here for many years and are very familiar with them.
This point is very important.
There is a large migrant population, and the crimes committed are very fatal even if modern people can solve them.
It can easily become a build-up.
When an acquaintance commits a crime, it is equivalent to the same suspects in the Conan world.
Once the clamp stick is on, hit it a few more times and compare it. A smarter county magistrate can actually easily break the gum.
The reason why there are injustices is not the difficulty of the case.
This eucalyptus is very typical, it is a eucalyptus produced by a close relative.
Why did Zhang Si have murderous thoughts?
It was because he saw a wandering monk.
He thought that if this wandering monk left, no one would be able to find him.
As long as he puts the suspicion on the monk and falsely accuses the monk of adultery with his sister-in-law, no one will be able to find out, and there will be no further investigation. He will only find a scapegoat.
This Zhang Si is actually not stupid at all, but he is very smart.
If it weren't for Jia Baoyu, it can be said that this Zhang Jia family is already dead.
If you think about it, you will know that what the government officials want is money.
As long as this brother kills his sister-in-law, he can get 200 acres of irrigated land and two shops, and the government officials can take advantage of this brother's guilty conscience and reap most of the benefits.
It only takes half a year for these 200 acres of land to fall into the hands of the government officials.
Zhao Han did not say this clearly. She knew better than anyone else that behind the seemingly simple eucalyptus, there was an extremely cruel and dark truth hidden.
That is because the government officials deliberately pushed the situation and caused injustice.
Someone can easily ask: Why did the government officials want to extort money after the husband died, instead of going to his wife directly, instead they obeyed the brother Zhang Si and helped Zhang Si identify Zhang Jia as the murderer?
There is more complexity behind this issue.
Because it involves an issue between the husband's family and the natal family.
The land belongs to Zhang Er, and by default it is the property of her husband's family.
Before the disaster when his younger son grew up, his uncles and brothers were in charge, not his daughter-in-law.
Although the law also stipulates that it belongs to the daughter-in-law.
But in actual practice, the people still tend to put it under the control of uncles and brothers.
They worry that their land will be taken away by foreigners.
For example, the daughter-in-law remarries.
Even the government cannot compete with such powerful clan habits.
It is easy to take lives for the sake of land.
For this reason, if government officials want to seize land, they need to find someone who can make the decision.
If they were looking for Zhang Jia's family, they would give them the land and find the murderer, but her uncle would not agree, so the government servant's efforts would be in vain.
The entire Zhang family would not agree with Zhang Jia's actions.
Zhang Jia is a woman, how can she disobey these uncles and brothers?
She couldn't disobey him, not to mention she had a son, and his son's life was still under threat from Zhang Si.
After Jia Baoyu made the verdict, it did not end there.
He asked again: "Zhang Jia, your husband's eldest brother, what's going on with him? Why didn't he make the decision for you?"
Zhang Jiashi cried and said: "My husband's eldest brother is an honest man. He is too old. He is over 60 years old and can't move in the house. It turns out that my husband and I have been taking care of him. He knows that I have been wronged and he can only
Sitting in the house guarding my son, there is nothing I can do."
"That's it." Jia Baoyu nodded.
This explains that an old man, even if he is not a strong worker, cannot support the family.
Hearing this, Jia Baoyu said to Magistrate Liu: "Mr. Liu, please send someone to send Zhang Jia back quickly, so that she can be comforted."
However, County Magistrate Liu looked at Zhang Jia, and then said in a low voice: "Brother Jia Nian, this Zhang Jia was widowed at a young age, less than 25 years old. How can she keep the family business by herself?
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"Even if the decision is made for her today, tomorrow her relatives, family members, neighbors... I'm afraid they will still take away her more than 200 acres and two shops."
At this time, Mrs. Zhang Jia suddenly knelt down and said: "Master Jia, I am willing to be your slave and maidservant. I will dedicate the land and shop to your mansion. I just want to give you and your son a place to live."
Jia Baoyu sighed: "Okay, we don't want your shop or your fields, so just make a living contract and I'll let the boys take care of the fields and shops for you."
When Zhang Jia heard this, he immediately kowtowed and said gratefully: "Thank you very much, Mr. Qingtian. I wish you good luck to your descendants for many generations to come."
Zhao Han sighed again.
Save people to the end, otherwise, a few years later, if Zhao Han hears that Zhang Jia was murdered again, she will be in an even worse mood.
This is the horror of feudal society.
Even if you have property and land, it's useless.
If you don't have a male in your family, and you don't have anyone to support your family, you are just waiting to be invaded.
Why was it said in ancient times that man is heaven and man is husband?
No matter how rich you are as a woman, if you don't have a man to take care of things outside, if you encounter danger, you will be doomed.
If it were in later generations, the current Zhang Jia family would be a rich woman, with two hundred acres of irrigated land, two big shops, and even if she had a child, she could hire a few servants.
I live my life leisurely every day, with no mother-in-law above me and no husband in the middle.
What a comfortable life it was.
But not at this time, there are eyes staring at you everywhere, including your husband's brother, your neighbors, your mother's brother... and that rogue.
Isn't that one looking at those farm stores?
If you donate it to the Jia family, you don't have to worry.
Anyone who dares to seize land will risk offending the Jia family.
If a letter comes out of the Jia family, your whole family will be destroyed.
All the sons of Chang'an garrison were forced to death by Wang Xifeng.
How much more a common scoundrel?
The Jia family seems to have turned from prosperity to decline, but it is still a skinny camel bigger than a horse.
It can still shock many people.
Although Jia Mu said that she was only from a moderately wealthy family, she still occupied a top ecological position in the ecology of feudal society, and was not something that the ruffians and hooligans dared to touch.
As a result, Jia Baoyu's private tent had an additional 200 acres of irrigated land and two large shops.
Everyone thinks this is normal.
Master Jia has upheld justice for you and saved your innocence and life. Isn't it natural for you to dedicate some land?
Of course, Zhao Han is not the Jia Baoyu of the past. She took out 20 acres of land from the 200 acres of land and divided it equally among the government officials.
Ma Kuai just now, the yamen servant who tortured, the clerk who appeared... in short, everyone has a share.
Everyone was very happy and praised him as the great master of Qingtian.
As for Zhang Jia, she has no dissatisfaction.
Although Jia Baoyu used her husband's property as a favor to herself.
Because originally she would not even have her life or her son.
Now there is a large part of the land left, and the shops are also left.
The man and his son took shelter under the Jia family, and there was no need to work.
The Jia family also sent people to take care of the land and shops.
Give income to her and her son regularly.
that's enough.
Of course, she knew that the servants would definitely do their best, and it would be considered kind to give him five points if he was very promising.
But she was satisfied. As long as her son was raised, she could establish a family and asked Mr. Jia to take back half of the land and shop.
She believed that Jia Qingtian would never care about this.
Then Zhang Jia took his 9-year-old son with Jia Baoyu, hired another carriage, and went back to Jia's mansion together.
Jia Baoyu asked Li Gui to leave two young men behind to take over the Zhang family's property.
Went home smoothly and smoothly.
After returning home, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, Shi Xiangyun and other sisters immediately invited Jia Baoyu to the house after receiving the news.
A group of sisters regarded Jia Baoyu as a storyteller and couldn't wait to let him talk about Zhang Jia's story.
After Jia Baoyu told the whole story from the beginning, everyone was very satisfied.
"So that's it. After all, good people are rewarded, and evil people are punished."
The sisters were very happy and looked at Jia Baoyu with admiration.
This was something that Jia Baoyu could not have had before.
Everyone is advising him to focus on his career and economy.
Only Lin Daiyu obeyed him.
All the sisters are kind-hearted people, at least they have never done anything evil, so they are likeable.
Only Wang Xifeng had done evil, so she died miserably in the end, and not many people sympathized with her.
"It seems that our Jia Qingtian is really winning." Lin Daiyu said.
"Brother Bao, you are indeed very wise, no less wise than Bao Gong and Di Gong." Xue Baochai also praised.
"Such eucalyptus really tests your eyesight and wisdom." Shi Xiangyun looked at Jia Baoyu with admiration and said.
Zhao Han thought to himself, this is not a test of eyesight. It tests nothing but your background.
As long as the background is strong enough and it is not Taihu paint, the eucalyptus can basically be broken.
That County Magistrate Liu, it's not that he can't tell right from wrong, it's because he's old.
He didn't want to go against the government clerks, he just wanted to wait for retirement in peace and contentment.
So I followed the wishes of the clerk and the yamen servants to make the decision.
However, he was also cautious and did not crucify him directly.
Anyway, report it to the higher-ups and let the higher-ups check it out.
"It's a pity that as girls, we can't break the law like our brothers," Tan Chun said.
"Why is there no way? I have a lot of eucalyptus here that I can show to the sisters, and the sisters can also see how to solve it, just to pass the time." Zhao Han said with a smile.
As she said this, she asked Mingyan to bring the eucalyptus from the study room for the sisters to read.
Just let these smart sisters do some serious things and avoid wasting their time.
Just like Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai, they are obviously very smart, but they can only waste their time in poetry and books and in the back house.
The sisters are very happy.
There are many novels about ancient and modern judgments.
The ladies have also heard of and even read the biography of Duke Dee.
It is also a kind of entertainment to look at these interesting events when you have nothing to do.
It's always more useful than fighting with those boring women every day.
Moreover, Jia Baoyu also said that he would give allowances to his sisters.
If you help him break a coin, you will be given 5 taels of silver.
Don't underestimate this little money, the monthly salary of a big maid is only 1 tael.
Jia's mother only has 20 taels of silver per month.
Of course, the living expenses of Jia Mu and other important masters do not need to be paid on a monthly basis.
For Aunt Zhao and some little girls at the bottom, monthly money is very important in their lives.
And girls like Tanchun don't have enough money to spend, because if they want to buy some books, rouge, etc., they can only use their own money, and the public school will not reimburse them.
After hearing what Jia Baoyu said, the sisters became interested.
Of course Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai don't care.
Lin Daiyu has extra subsidies from Jia Mu, not to mention she has a fortune of millions.
Of course, just like the Zhang Jia family before, she had no money and no men, so she could only rely on the protection of others.
Lin Daiyu's millions of wealth finally subsidized the Jia family's losses.
Three days later.
Jia Baoyu went to work at the Ministry of Punishment again, and after bringing in a bunch of new eucalyptus scrolls, he was about to go home.
These days, who would be able to sit down and take the next step?
They all came and left after having a meal.
When someone saw him, they praised him and said, "Brother Jia Nian, the eucalyptus you broke a few days ago has reached the ears of the minister, and the minister praised your youth and wisdom."
"Is it so fast?" Jia Baoyu asked doubtfully.
"Yes, that Magistrate Liu wrote a letter to his teacher, praising you very much." said the colleague.
"Then thank you so much, Magistrate Liu."
"This is all due to the wisdom of brother Jia Nian."
