During the Qing Daoguang period, there was a "Xiaohe" silk cloth shop in Haifeng County, which was run by Cheng Xiaohe girl and her elderly mother. Cheng Xiaohe is eighteen or nine years old, his face is like a peach blossom, his lips are red and his teeth are white, and his big eyes are black and bright.
The mother and daughter moved to Haifeng from other counties, did not have much capital, and almost did not maintain it when they first opened the store, but fortunately they survived thanks to the financial support of Xu Wenhe, the young treasurer of "Ayayun", the largest silk cloth store in Haizhou. How could the young shopkeeper of the big silk cloth shop sponsor them? Coincidentally, on that hot day, Mrs. Cheng went to the street with an iron rod to buy vegetables, and fainted at Xu Wenhe's feet while walking. Xu Wenhe picked her up, asked someone to bring her water, and hired a bicycle to send her home. Cheng Xiaohe blushed when he saw the handsome and free-spirited Xu Wenhe, his eyes drooped and raised, casting a shy and affectionate glance... After beating this, Xu Wenhe often came to the store to help with anything.
Mrs. Cheng lifted her eyelids and squinted at him and asked, "You can trust us?" ”
The young man put the big silver on the counter and grinned, "What is this!" Just ask these vendors selling melons and fruits outside the door to testify. So he brought in a few vendors. The vendors all said that the Cheng family mother and woman were good, and they never bombarded her business in front of her door, and they were willing to testify.
The young man took the satin and left, and Mrs. Cheng asked Cheng Xiaohe to go to the back room to order goods, and told her that the ruler for measuring cloth was broken, and that Xu Wenhe would buy a handful by the way. She herself sat at the counter with an iron staff in her hand, guarding the large silver ingot.
After a while, Xu Wenhe entered the store, and saw Mrs. Cheng sitting at the counter and falling asleep, and there was a sound of moving cloth in the back room, so he walked in and spoke with Cheng Xiaohe. When he came out, the old lady was still not awake, so he went out to the street.
He walked on the front foot, and the young man who bought the satin came in. It happened that Mrs. Cheng opened her eyes and saw the young man and asked, "Broken silver is here?" "Got it." Mrs. Cheng reached to the counter to get the big silver, but took it empty, she turned her head and looked at it, "Huh". The young man exclaimed: "Where is the silver?" "The big silver ingots on the counter are gone.
Old Mrs. Cheng glared, "Didn't you kid come in and see me asleep and pick up the silver first?" ”
The young man was anxious: "Conscience of heaven and earth, as soon as I step into the door, you open your eyes, I am standing here, can I reach the silver!" Where are the stalls outside, ask them! ”
The vendors wondered why the young man entered and started arguing in the blink of an eye. Hearing that Da Yin was gone, everyone's eyes widened, "The young man can't arrive?" "Shouldn't it be the one who went out just now..."
Cheng Xiaohe, who was in the back room, heard the noise and learned that Dayin was stolen, and her face turned white. She muttered that she had just told Xu Wenhe about selling satin, but she didn't let him change silver, only let him buy a ruler for measuring cloth, could it be that he took big silver to his store for broken silver? Mrs. Cheng said that she felt someone flashing by her in confusion just now, and the eighth achievement was Xu Wenhe, and when he returned, it would be clear where Dayin's whereabouts were. But when the sun tilted to the west and did not see Xu Wenhe return, the young man was anxious to take the silver to do something, and let Cheng Xiaohe think of a way, Cheng Xiaohe went to Xu Wenhe's Ayayun store to find someone. But she went to the Ayaun store to ask, saying that the young treasurer went out at noon and never came back. She went all over the shop that sold the ruler, and said that she had not seen Xu Wenhe to buy the ruler.
Seeing her come back with a dejected look, Mrs. Cheng was stunned: "Report the official!" ”
Cheng Xiaohe was just about to block, but the young man had already run to the county office on the front street. After a while, two servants came and asked her mother and daughter and the vendors in front of her to come to Yamen to listen to the county commander's questioning. When she arrived at the county hall, Li Xianling was very polite to Mrs. Cheng and asked someone to move a stool for her to sit. After listening to the young man's statement, Xiao He's mother and daughter's statement, and the testimony of the street vendors, Li Xianling made it clear that he first asked the servants to search the young man's body, and then called the female servants to search Xiao He's mother and daughter. Seeing that he had been able to confirm their innocence, he frowned and said, "The young treasurer of the big silk cloth shop saw 20 taels of silver and felt evil intentions?" "He had just sent an order to sign the order to go to Xu Wenhe, and Xu Wenhe came by himself, drunk.
After listening to Li Xianling's interrogation and introduction to the case, Xu Wenhe said that he didn't know anything, and in the afternoon he went into the Xiaohe shop to see Mrs. Cheng asleep, and when she came out, she was still asleep, and did not pay attention to whether there was silver on the counter. Cheng Xiaohe asked him to buy a ruler, and as soon as he turned the corner of the street, several people hijacked him into the carriage, holding him down and pouring wine, making people unconscious. He woke up to find himself dumped in the wasteland outside the North City Gate. He returned to Xiaohe Store and heard from the neighbors that there was a case in the store, so he came. Li Xianling glared at him and asked, "Did you really not take that silver ingot?" He didn't take it.
Li Xianling lowered his face and said that everyone else who might have come into contact with that big silver had been ruled out of suspicion: the young man could not go to the big silver, and Mrs. Cheng and the vendor could confirm it; Cheng Xiaohe did not leave the back house before Dayin's disappearance, and the vendor can confirm it; Although Mrs. Cheng can get the big silver, she sits in front of the counter with a bare board and no place to hide, and if she gets it, she can only hide it on her body, but she does not have it. The vendor confirmed that she had always sat there and had not left, so there was no possibility of transferring the big silver. Then, the only one who approached the position of the enlarged silver and left was Xu Wenhe.
Xu Wenhe was dumbfounded, looked around at the people around him blankly, and finally stared at Cheng Xiaohe. Cheng Xiaohe seemed to be about to cry. Xu Wenhe turned his face to Li Xianling and said that he would pay for the 20 taels. Before Li Xianling could speak, Mrs. Cheng preemptively said, "Everyone knows that you are not poor in money, but it is no longer a matter of money." If you admit it as soon as you enter the church, now that the county order has judged it, I think I can only do it according to the law. ”
Li Xianling was a benevolent official, and did not care about Mrs. Cheng's offense, and echoed: "This county is planning to deal with it like this. It is late today, so Xu Wenhe will be imprisoned on suspicion of theft and tried tomorrow. Withdraw! ”
As soon as Li Xianling's drinking order fell, Cheng Xiaohe cried out, but Mrs. Cheng shouted in a loud voice: "The county order lord judges the case fairly, and if you can't find that ingot, you can't let Xu Wenhe go!" ”
The young man asked with a bitter face, who should he ask for his 18 taels of silver? Old Mrs. Cheng stabbed him with an iron crutch and said, "Don't make a mess for the county commander, when the case is solved, the stolen goods will not be able to deal with you." ”
After everyone dispersed, Li Xianling returned to the back hall to drink tea, and suddenly heard the drumming outside the hall being beaten to the sky, and he hurried out of the hall to see that it was Cheng Xiaohe who returned to beat the drum.
Cheng Xiaohe cried that Xu Wenhe must have been wronged, he had funded us, how could he steal us again? Please let him out, he is too guilty to stay in prison. Li Xianling said helplessly, logically speaking, Xu Wenhe would not see the fortune, but if he couldn't find 20 taels, he couldn't get rid of it. Cheng Xiaohe asked to see Xu Wenhe, and Li Xianling agreed.
Seeing Xu Wenhe, Cheng Xiaohe cried into tears. Xu Wenhe said: "There must be entanglement behind this matter, I have long noticed that your mother's attitude towards me is a little strange, and today this matter may be a set set by her, but I can't figure out why." And my dad didn't allow us to interact with each other. Cheng Xiaohe cried and said, she saw that this was abnormal at the beginning, and just after leaving the hall and going home, she repeatedly asked her mother why this was, but the old lady only said that she would understand it all when the results of the county order came out tomorrow. After crying for a while, Cheng Xiaohe wiped away his tears and said: "Obviously, they have a grudge, I went to ask your father to find my mother to settle the grudge, and let my mother tell the truth to save you." ”
Cheng Xiaohe went to the Ayayun store, but was blasted out by Xu's father Xu Changrong, and was scolded as a "harmful spirit". She didn't cry, hiding in the shadows and looking at the closed shop door to find a way. She thought: Xu Changrong is angry, and it is reasonable not to listen to her words, but the father does not see his son suffering and is not distressed, and he will talk to him when he is discouraged. When I went in in the dead of night, he would not yell at me for fear of disturbing his neighbors and would not let me speak, but if I was allowed to finish speaking, he would surely be able to impress him. But how do you get in? She went to the backyard of the store and saw a large elm tree next to the courtyard door, with branches reaching into the courtyard, and she quietly climbed up and hid in the dense foliage.
When she was about three times old, she was about to jump from the tree into the courtyard, when she suddenly saw a loaded carriage driving to the gate of the courtyard, and the chaser knocked on the door three times, and the people inside opened the door to let the carriage enter the courtyard, and closed the door tightly. Xu Changrong came out and muttered with the chaser for a long time, and the chaser lifted the tarpaulin and pulled out a few paper packages from the satin and opened them. One of the guys lit a torch and illuminated the contents of the paper package: something black in pieces.
Cheng Xiaohe saw his head flicker, and almost fell off the tree. She had heard her mother say that the object was called opium, a drug smuggled from a foreign country, and that it was a capital crime for the smugglers to be caught by the imperial court. Xu Changrong is actually doing this kind of business, which will affect Xu Wenhe! Hurry home and discuss with your mother. She scrambled down the tree trunk, "clicking" to break a branch, alarming the drug dealers in the courtyard. She slipped down the tree and was about to run when a figure flew over her head and landed in front of her.
"Dead girl, you and your mother framed my son and came to spy on me again. You are looking for death! The long sword in Xu Changrong's hand pierced Cheng Xiaohe's throat.
"Stop!" With a broken drink, a figure flew into the air, stretched out a black python-like iron cane, and blocked the long sword. Xu Changrong scolded: "Cheng Shuyun, after many years, you still don't let me go, and you frame your son and ruin my business!" ”
Old Mrs. Cheng said, "Although my son has followed you over the years, his conscience has not deteriorated. I put him in jail so that he wouldn't be implicated by your harmful deeds. ”
These two really have an insoluble entanglement, what is going on? It turned out that in the early years, the two fell in love in the wandering rivers and lakes and had a son Xu Wenhe. But later, Xu Changrong became greedy for money and committed evil, and Cheng Shuyun decided to break up with him. Xu Changrong did not let go of his son, and Cheng Shuyun endured the pain of ion. Cheng Xiaohe is an orphan she has since adopted. She raised Cheng Xiaohe as her own daughter and relied on her for life. She always thinks about her son and often entrusts friends to inquire about his son's situation. Years later, she heard about Xu Changrong's silk business and secretly selling opium, and immediately hung up for her son and brought Cheng Xiaohe to Haifeng. When she observed that her son was not getting worse, she was slightly relieved.
Not long ago, friends from the rivers and lakes received another news: the anti-narcotics officials of the imperial court will arrest Xu Changrong in the near future. She thought: Xu Wenhe didn't know that his father was selling drugs, maybe he would fight hard with the anti-drug officer to protect his father, then he would be ruined. When arresting Xu Changrong, he must not be present, and he must be rescued from the fire pit. But this matter told him that he would not believe it, and it was difficult to accept it, and he would question his father, which alarmed Xu Changrong. Cheng Shuyun thought about it and asked friends from the rivers and lakes to help act in a framing scene, and sent him to prison before arresting Xu Changrong to avoid disaster. In order not to worry Cheng Xiaohe and to avoid extraneous problems, Cheng Shuyun did not tell Cheng Xiaohe about this plan.
After returning home from the county office just now, Cheng Xiaohe disappeared. Cheng Shuyun knew that Cheng Xiaohe must have gone to ask Li County Ling, so he also went to the county office, but he heard that Cheng Xiaohe went to Ayayun Store out of prison. Cheng Shuyun secretly shouted "not good" and rushed to go immediately. There was no movement in the first half of the night, and at midnight she heard a riot in the backyard, she used her kung fu and rushed over...
Xu Changrong understood that Cheng Shuyun was trying to get his son away from him, and cut his teeth and cursed: "You fucking go against me everywhere!" Although my son is not interested in my business at the moment, I believe that sooner or later I can train him to become my right-hand man, teach him to learn to accumulate wealth and enjoy prosperity. If I don't kill you two, it's hard to understand the hatred in my heart! ”
He swung his long sword and stabbed Cheng Xiaohe wildly. Cheng Shuyun rushed out to intercept the long sword, and the sword staff clanged and collided, knocking out a little spark. Xu Changrong's stabbing of Cheng Xiaohe was actually a false move, he suddenly made a grass snake rush to the ground, and then another python circled the tree, causing the long sword to stab from the lower road, and suddenly picked off Cheng Shuyun's iron cane. Cheng Shuyun was slumped to the ground by the inertia that flew out of the iron cane.
Xu Changrong laughed maniacally: "Your martial arts have not grown for so many years, and you dare to go against me, go to death!" Cheng Shuyun grabbed a shoe that fell when he fell, fell back against the ground, retreated and turned over sharply, and in his right hand he held something to be thrown, a shiny thing that looked heavy. It was the big silver she used to frame Xu Wenhe. Xu Changrong, who was pressing step by step, was stunned, "Where did you poor woman get such a big amount of silver?" Are you going to use it to cast stones? Well, count you ruthless, there will be a period later! ”
Cheng Shuyun practiced accurate and ruthless stone throwing skills when she was a child herding sheep, and she used this skill to smash many wolves to death.
Just when Xu Changrong was shocked by the big silver in Cheng Shuyun's hand, several officials quietly surrounded him. Xu Changrong was just about to turn around and run, but the officials rushed up and threw him down, tying him up with a hemp rope into a rope reel.
After dawn, Cheng Shuyun went to the county to file a complaint with Li County Ling, explaining the hidden circumstances of Xu Wenhe's case. Li Xianling was moved by Cheng Shuyun's good intentions and righteous deeds to eliminate evil, and announced on the spot that she would not be prosecuted for framing others on the grounds that there was a reason for the incident. After the case was concluded, Li Xianling was unwilling to keep Cheng Shuyun and asked flatteringly: "I really want to know, where are you hiding that silver ingot?" ”
Cheng Shuyun smiled mysteriously, sat down on the stool and took off a shoe, pulled out the pocket-like insole, and turned over the shiny tin foil lining. Cheng Shuyun blew on the corner of the tin foil insole, and the insole swelled into a large silver ingot...