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During the reign of Emperor Xuanwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was an ordinary family in Shouchun County, and the family lived in a family of three, living an ordinary and simple life.
On the day of the First Yuan Festival, His father Gou Tai took his three-year-old son Xiaobao to the county town to see the lanterns. The streets are crowded, there are jugglers, there are guessing riddles, there are selling all kinds of gadgets, in short, even the big girls and daughters-in-law who usually don't go out have come out.
Everyone watched the liveliness while enjoying the play, everyone had a smile on their faces, happily walking on the street, Gou Tai had not come out to play for a long time, happy to be happy, he had been carrying his son on his shoulders and lifting him high.
This son is his baby, just married in the years when the daughter-in-law has not been able to conceive a child, these years have not been less to seek medical advice and medicine is not easy to have a small treasure.
When Xiao Bao was born, Gou Tai's daughter-in-law injured her body again, and the doctor also gave them permission, saying that the couple would only have this one child in their lives.
Gou Tai saw that there were too many people in the market, and he was afraid of rubbing his son and touching it, so he carefully put the child on top of his head. At this time, there was a stall selling sugar people in front of it, and the stall owner had been shouting loudly: "The candy seller, a delicious and good-looking sugar man." ”
Xiao Bao saw it from afar, and kept saying in his mouth: "Sugar Man, Daddy, I want to eat Sugar Man!" ”
Gou Tai thought about the big festival, and it was not a big deal for his son to want a sugar man, so he went to the stall selling sugar man and said to the stall owner: "Boss, get a candy man for my son." ”
The stall owner made a candy man as quickly as possible and handed it to Gou Tai, and then raised his voice and said, "A penny!" The candy man for a penny is sweet and delicious. ”
Gou Tai held the candy man in one hand and the other hand to go to the money, and worried that his son was unstable on the shoulder, he took the son off the shoulder and put it on the ground, and then handed the candy man in his hand to the son, watching the son happily eat the candy man, Gou Tai raised his head to pay the stall owner.
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However, when he paid the money and went to lead his son again, he found that the child was missing, Gou Tai looked left and right, except for the people coming and going, there was no shadow of Xiao Bao at all, he turned back to the stall owner and asked: "Boss, have you seen my son?" In which direction did you go? ”
The boss was also dazed and shook his head at a loss. Gou Tai was completely flustered, did a three-year-old child run away by himself or was abducted by someone with teeth? He asked when he saw people, and whenever he asked people, no one told him where the child had gone.
He searched for most of the night, until there was no one in the market, and he did not find Xiao Bao, so he had to go back to his home in frustration and tell his daughter-in-law about Xiao Bao's disappearance.
Where Gou Tai's daughter-in-law could withstand this blow, her body was not particularly good, plus her most precious son was gone, and she did not come up in an instant, and she fainted.
Gou Tai had to order someone to ask the doctor, this small one was gone, the big one was dizzy again, and this Shangyuan Festival made Gou Tai exhausted.
After the doctor came, he finally woke up Gou Tai's daughter-in-law, but the doctor secretly pulled Gou Tai aside and said, "She is attacking the heart with a rapid fire, this fire can't come out, and it is difficult to get better!" Heart disease also needs heart medicine, you still hurry to find a way to find the child. ”
Gou Tai also knew that this was the case, so he went back to the room and said to his daughter-in-law: "You relax your heart, I will go to find the child, and if I can't find the child, I won't come back." "He packed up some things all night and went out to look for the children.
He turned over every corner of the county town, and then ran to the nearby villages and towns to find, he inquired while looking, spring to winter, unconsciously came out for more than a year, and the coils on his body were also used up.
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However, he remembered his original promise to his daughter-in-law, he did not dare to go home, there was really no way, he found a coachman's work in a Zhao yuan's house in the county town. I want to do some scattered work, earn some money and then continue to look for my son.
On the fifteenth day, Zhao Yuanwai led his wife Yang Shi and took a little boy who was more than four years old to go to the temple outside the county town to incense and let Gou Tai drive the carriage over.
Gou Tai was a subordinate and could not enter the inner courtyard normally, so he was seeing Madame and the little young master for the first time, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this boy looked like his lost son, because he had been staring at the boy, and Zhao Yuanwai and Madame were not happy.
Zhao Yuanwai yelled at him and said, "Look, a coachman, it is disrespectful to stare at the young master like this, hurry up and drive!" ”
Gou Tai also felt that he was a little rude, apologized one after another, and hurried to the car. But this is what he thought in his heart, this child is taller than his son, strong, and gorgeously dressed, but the child, growing fast, changing is also normal. How nice it would be if it was really his own son.
Ever since Gou Tai met the little young master, he had been thinking about this child, sometimes secretly running to the inner courtyard to see him, and also looking for some people around him to inquire whether this child was born outside of Zhao Yuan.
But everyone around the Zhao family is jealous of the strength of the Zhao family, as long as Gou Tai asks about the child, he will deliberately avoid this topic, which makes Gou Tai more suspicious of the child's origin.
Gou Tai thought that in order to inquire about this matter, he must give up some money, and that night, he went to beat a pound of wine and bought some meat to mention the miscellaneous room. There was only one small squatter in the miscellaneous room, and at this time he was doing nothing, and when he saw Gou Tai coming with wine and meat, he greeted him very warmly.
The two of you drank and chatted with me one by one, and soon half a pound of wine went down, and when Gou Tai saw that the time was ripe, he led the topic to the little young master.
Xiao Wei may have drunk too much wine, and he couldn't stop talking, "You said little young master, he only came to zhao mansion a year and a half ago, our wife has been infertile for many years after marriage, and someone has come up with the idea to let her hold one first, maybe she can get pregnant." ”
"Are you saying that the little young master was raised?" Gou Tai shouted excitedly. Xiao Wei may feel that he has said the wrong thing, so he simply pretends to be drunk and climbs onto the table to fall asleep.
Gou Tai had already satisfied him with this news, according to the time calculation, this child was likely to be his own son, but how could he recognize his son?
He remembered that when his son was a child, there was a small triangular blue birthmark on his shoulder blade, but the little young master was in the backyard, and it was not easy to see this birthmark, and it could only be seen when the nurse bathed and changed his clothes.
Gou Tai could not care about any courtesy and shame at this time, he calculated the time, sneaked into the backyard, watched the nurse prepare to bathe the little young master, secretly climbed to the bottom of the window, he pierced the window paper with a small eye, carefully looked inside, he actually saw the birthmark on the shoulder blade of the little young master.
Gou Tai was sure that this child was his lost son more than a year ago, and he quietly withdrew from the backyard, came to the hall house, and pleaded with Zhao Yuanwai openly: "Dongjia, the little young master is my lost son, you give him back to me!" My daughter-in-law is still at home waiting for me to get the baby back. ”
Zhao Yuanwai looked at him with contempt and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, that's my son, you ask all of them, who dares to say that it's not my son?" ”
None of the people present dared to say a word, either bowing their heads and doing things, or making excuses to quit. Gou Tai knew that these people did not dare to speak, so he shouted at Zhao Yuanwai: "That is my son, I have evidence!" ”
At this time, Zhao Yuanwai said to the housekeeper, "Drive this person out of me, don't disturb the quiet of madame and young master." ”
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Under Zhao Yuanwai's order, no one dared to disobey, and three or five strong men came to drive Gou Tai out of the Zhao family. However, Gou Tai, who knew the whereabouts of his son, did not recognize it, so he went straight to the county court and beat the big drum at the door of the county court.
The county grand master smelled the drums and thought that there would be an unjust case, so he hurriedly ordered someone to ascend to the church. Bring Gou Tai up, above the lobby, Gou Tai did not dare to talk nonsense, so he told the county master what he saw, and also said the birthmark on the little young master's back.
The county grand master immediately ordered someone to call Zhao Yuanwai and the little young master, but Zhao Yuanwai insisted that the child was his son, and the county grandfather was also very embarrassed, so he sent someone to visit the neighbors of the two families.
Gou Tai's neighbors could prove that he had lost a boy a year and a half ago. Neighbors outside Zhao Yuan's were also afraid of his strength, saying that the child was outside Zhao Yuan's. The county master could not decide the case, and finally he came up with a solution.
He summoned both Zhao Yuanwai and Gou Tai to the hall and said to them, "Since you both have their own opinions, now send the child to the county court, and I will raise it for you for half a month." ”
Neither of them knew what medicine was sold in the county grandfather's gourd, and Zhao Yuanwai did not dare to fight with the county grandfather no matter how strong he was, so he could only obediently send the little young master to the county court.
Half a month later, the county grandmaster called the two people to the church again and said in a very sad tone: "Tell you a very unfortunate news, last night the child died of an acute illness!" ”
Both looked suspicious and didn't seem to believe it.
"This officer never lies when he speaks, come on people, and carry the child up."
Gou Tai couldn't believe that this was true, his legs were weak, he staggered a few steps and fell to his knees in front of the child, and suddenly his emotions were out of control, and he was devastated, and he fell on the child's body and cried loudly.
Zhao Yuanwai had a serious expression and looked nervous as he also followed. Reaching out and touching the child's sniffle, he found that the child really did not breathe, and he could not help but sigh twice.
The county grand master looked at the color of the speech, and already had the answer in his heart. He slapped the wood in shock and scolded Zhao Yuanwai: "What is the crime if you hide someone else's child and refuse to return it?" Come, drag him down, beat him thirty times, put him in prison, and wait for the verdict. ”
Then, he beckoned to the medical officer who had long been hiding behind the screen. Only to see him walk to the child's side, crouch down and gently pinch the people a few times, the child miraculously came back to life.
After Gou Tai was greatly sad, he was overjoyed and looked at the county master with a puzzled face. The county grand master smiled, walked down the hall, helped Gou Tai to stand up, and explained: "The two of you have different opinions, which makes this official very embarrassed, and it is difficult to judge the case for a while, so he had to make this decision, let the child fake death, and hope that it will not frighten you." ”
Gou Tai heard the words, busied himself and knelt down, and kept prostrating his head in thanks.
The county grand master pulled him up and said, "Well, you don't have to thank him so much, it is the duty of this official to be the master of the people." You see it's not too early, so take your child home! ”
Gou Tai thanked him again, picked up his lost and recovered son, and went home to see his daughter-in-law with joy.
Write at the end:
After years of seeking medical treatment and medicine to get a son, both of them are very precious children, but Gou Tai took the child to see the lamp on the yuan festival, but unfortunately lost the child, he went through all kinds of hardships, looking for children everywhere, and finally found the traces of the child in a deep house compound, but the other party had money and power, and he forcibly competed for the child.
Gou Tai had no choice but to sue the other party to the county court, but the two sides still insisted on each other, and the county master could not decide the case, and finally came up with a brilliant solution with wit to get the child back for Gou Tai.
This story also makes us understand that when encountering the problem of riding a tiger, we must rely on wit and strategy to solve it, and we can't solve the problem by doing things recklessly!