Qinjia Village is a special village, saying that Qinjia Village is special, of course, there are special points. Qinjia Village has a big mountain on one side and the Yangtze River on the other side, and Qinjia Village is a piece of land between the mountain and the Yangtze River.
On this day, there was an accident in Qinjia Village, and someone found that Li Xiaotao, a 23-year-old beautiful widow in Qinjia Village, was pregnant. According to the rules of the Qin family village, a widow who is pregnant is burned to death along with the man who caused her to become pregnant. Since someone found out that Li Xiaotao was pregnant, the old patriarch of the Qin family village came to Li Xiaotao's house with 8 men who maintained the family rules. Li Xiaotao was the only one in her family, and her in-laws had long since died.
After the old patriarch and 8 men arrived at Li Xiaotao's house, they arrested Li Xiaotao without saying a word, and then escorted her to the big tree at the entrance of the village and tied her to the big tree. After Li Xiaotao was tied to a big tree, the old patriarch did not order her to be burned. It turned out that the old patriarch was sinister and cunning, and he wanted to use Li Xiaotao as bait to lure out the man who caused her to become pregnant.
After nightfall, the moon appeared. In the middle of the night, a man quietly came to the tree. It turned out that this man was a young single stick in the Qin family village, named Qin Ying. After Qin Ying came to the tree, he began to untie the rope on Li Xiaotao's body, and suddenly, the 8 men who maintained the clan rules appeared. Soon, 8 men grabbed Qin Ying and tied Qin Ying to a big tree. Subsequently, 8 men went home to sleep.
When it was almost dawn, the second-rate son of the Qin family village came to the big tree, and after untying the rope on Li Xiaotao and Qin Ying, he said to Li Xiaotao and Qin Ying: "You hurry up and leave, and you will not come back in the future." Li Xiaotao and Qin Ying thanked the second-rate son and left the Qin family village.
After dawn, the villagers found that Li Xiaotao and Qin Ying were missing, and there was a lot of discussion. After the old patriarch and the 8 men who maintained the clan rules came to the tree and found that Li Xiaotao and Qin Ying were missing, the old patriarch said, "Someone must have let them go." As soon as the old patriarch's voice fell, the old guanggun in the Qin family village said, "I saw the second-rate people let them go." After the old single stick finished speaking, the second-rate son said, "You old single stick, you are really blind, when did I release them?" If you talk nonsense again, I'll hit you. As a result, the two quarreled. Because the villagers all know that the relationship between the second-rate son and the old single stick is not good, they think that the old single stick's words cannot be used as evidence.
Time flies so fast, unconsciously, that it is the second year, this year, there is war. Because Qinjia Village is remote, the war did not burn here. One morning, the second-rate son left the Qin family village and went to join the army. The second-rate son thought that instead of living in the Qin family village, it was better to join the army, and maybe he would be able to make meritorious achievements in the future.
Six years after the second-rate sons joined the army, the war was over. After the war, the second-rate children did not return to Qinjia Village. The villagers in the Qin family village all believed that the second-rate son had died on the battlefield. One morning, the old patriarch gathered the villagers to the threshing ground. He said to the villagers: "Now, the war is over, the second-rate man has not returned, it is estimated that he has died on the battlefield, when he went to join the army, he borrowed 100 taels of silver from me, and now that he is not coming back, naturally he cannot pay back the silver, his family's real estate and fields can be priced, and in the future his family's real estate and fields will belong to me." ”
Although the villagers suspected that the old patriarch was lying, even if the second-rate man really opened his mouth to borrow money from the old patriarch, the old patriarch would not lend him money. However, the villagers did not dare to say anything suspicious of him. Since then, the property and fields of the second-rate family have been occupied by the old patriarch.
Suddenly, one morning, the second-rate man returned. Looking at him, it was like a beggar. Not long after the second-rate children returned, Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao also returned to Qin Family Village, followed by a group of strange men. When the old patriarch and the 8 men who maintained the clan rules saw Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao return, they quickly grabbed them and tied them to a tree at the entrance of the village. Next, 8 men who maintained the clan rules called the villagers to the entrance of the village. The old patriarch said to the villagers: "Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao violated the clan rules, and according to the provisions of the clan rules, they will be burned to death." ”
Unexpectedly, as soon as the old patriarch's voice fell, the second-rate son said: "This kind of clan rule should have been abolished a long time ago, and now I declare that from today onwards, this clan rule has been abolished, and in the future, whoever dares to burn a pregnant widow and the man who caused her to become pregnant will be rude to him." The old patriarch said, "Second-rate son, your boldness is too great to announce the abolition of the clan rules, I see that you don't want to live, come on, arrest him for me." "The 8 men who maintained the clan rules were just about to arrest the second-rate children, and they were controlled by the strange men. Next, the strange men tied the old patriarch and 8 men to a tree.
At this time, the second-rate son spoke: "Everyone doesn't know it yet!" I am now the zhi county of this county, and over the years, the old patriarch and 8 men who maintained the clan rules burned 12 widows and 12 men with blood debts on their backs, and now I sentence them to death, and now I set them on fire. After the second-rate son finished speaking, the villagers cheered one after another. Next, the villagers brought dead branches and hay piled under the trees. It wasn't long before a strange man lit the fire. After the fire burned, the old patriarch and 8 men who maintained the clan rules kept screaming. It turned out that these strange men were all servants of the county court, and they were wearing plain clothes.
It turned out that after the second-rate sons joined the army that year, they followed the army to the south and fought in the north. He was wounded 12 times, but fortunately he did not die. After the war, he was made the zhi county of his hometown by the imperial court. One day, the second-rate son went to the provincial city to run an errand, and accidentally met Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao in the provincial city. Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao told the second-rate children that after they left qinjia village that year, they went to the provincial city to work. The second-rate son said to them, "Don't work in the provincial city, first follow me back to the county, and then I will take you back to Qinjia Village, where I am now the Zhi County of my hometown." Qin Ying and Li Xiaotao were very happy to hear that the second-rate son had become the Zhi County of his hometown, and they immediately said that they would go with the second-rate son.