People say that women are weak, mothers are strong, and there is a natural affinity between mothers and children, which is a blood relationship that is inherently destined. A mother, to work hard to raise her child, is indeed not an easy task. A book that appeared in the Ming Dynasty and was written by the literary scholar Feng Menglong at that time, "The Complete Collection of Wisdom Tanks", tells the wisdom of the ancients, and there is a story in it, which reflects the difficult life of ancient women and also highlights the wit of the county order.
In Wucheng County, Zhejiang Province, in the Yuan Dynasty, one day, a villager accidentally passed by a forest, and he found a group of wild dogs in the forest competing for something, and out of curiosity, the man stepped forward to watch. It was okay not to look at it, and it turned out to be a blackened baby corpse. The villagers quickly informed the local county commander Yu Wenbo of this matter and handed over the body to the officers and soldiers.
After Yu Wenbo received the case, he immediately arranged for his men to investigate the babies born in the last two months. In the end, the root of the problem was found: the local wealthy merchant Zhang Jia had a wife Wang And a concubine in his family, because the Wang family failed to give birth to a child for the Zhang family, so Zhang Jia took a concubine to continue the family's incense. In order to investigate the case, Yu Wenbo had Wang summoned to court.
In the courtroom, Yu Wenbo asked Wang if the recent case could be related to her, and Wang denied it, saying that we have a child in the Zhang family, how can we kill people. The child was carried into the house. The county order also asked the Wang family to feed the child, and the other party said that the child was born of a concubine, so it was better to let her feed the child.
After that, the concubine of the Zhang Jia family picked up the child to breastfeed, not thinking that the baby had been struggling desperately and refused to drink milk. Wang Shi was a little panicked when he saw this scene, and the county commander said to the concubine, "Your son is long gone. The concubine hurriedly asked, "Who killed my child?" The county order looked at the Wang family, and then called another woman to the court, and carried the so-called Zhang family child over to breastfeed, and the child really stopped struggling and drank milk quietly.
It turned out that this was the neighbor's child, and The Wang family was the murderer of the concubine's child. Taking advantage of the rich merchant's absence, she took the child for a while after the concubine gave birth to the child, because the child kept crying, as if she wanted to find her own mother. The Wang clan quarreled that they could not rest well. Later, she felt that the sound of the baby crying was very noisy, and in a fit of anger, she threw the child to death, destroyed the corpse, burned the body and threw it in the forest, and bought the next door neighbor's child instead.
When the Wang family saw this scene, they could only admit their crimes, and the Concubine of the Zhang family was devastated and left this sad place. From here, we can also see that although the concubines of the Zhang family married into a rich family, they could not even protect their own children, after all, the identity and status of the Wang family were overpowered by her, and they had no choice but to take the other party. It can be seen how strict the social hierarchy in ancient times was, and the Wang clan was fierce and fierce, and she was also a woman, so why bother to embarrass the other party again? Fortunately, the county commander was smart, otherwise the concubine would never have known that her child was gone.