In ancient times, rich and powerful families often hired male and female servants, called servants or handmaidens, who not only had poor living conditions, but also had inferior status, inferior to ordinary people.
If these maids are sold to rich families, then the rich families can also decide her marriage.
For example, Pan Jinlian in "Water Margin", she is the maid of a large family, and the big family looks at her beauty and flirts several times. Pan Jinlian was very reluctant and went to the master mother. In a fit of rage, Ōto married her to the ugly and short Wu Dalang, which was revenge.
In fact, there are many handmaidens who are worse than Pan Jinlian, and there is a "case of abuse of maids" in the Qing Dynasty, which is simply outrageous after reading it. And the final result is even more indignant.
What happened to the case?
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there was an alternate ZhiXian in Sichuan, surnamed Ni, so let's call him NiZi. Ni Zi married someone else's concubine as a wife, called it a certain clan. A certain family is very rich, and Ni Zi also borrowed her family's money to donate officials, so she was qualified to wait for Zhi County.
However, Ni Zi was a man who was not a good person, so he had not yet officially become a zhixian county, and because he had committed something, he was disqualified from being an alternate. There was no way, Ni Zi and his wife only had to live in Chengdu temporarily.
The skinny camel was bigger than the horse, and although Ni Zi was not an official, he was still a rich and noble family. So they hired some servants and maids. However, a certain clan is short-tempered, more vixative than a humble woman, and often abuses people, especially maids.
In the case of abusing maids, there is not only one person of a certain clan in Chengdu, but also many local officials and even many people. Some even abused concubines. By the way, when they mistreat concubines or maids, they even use all kinds of cruel lynchings.
Although the concubines have a low status, they are human beings in the end. Besides, there are already relevant laws, how can this be the case? But what about ordinary people? They can't do anything, so even if they know, they can only dare to be angry.
At that time, there was a Taishou from Chengdu named Liu Youdan. He was not bad as an official, and I heard that many officials here beat and abused concubines, and decided to stop this trend.
To this end, Liu Taishou issued a list to inform that it is strictly forbidden for someone to abuse concubines, maids, servants, etc. And he made a reward, as long as he found that someone abused the concubines and subordinates in the family, and reported it in time, there was a reward.
As mentioned earlier, Ni Zi has a maid in his family, and his wife, a certain clan, also abuses the maid, and is very vicious. Later, she even tortured a maid to death. After the maid was tortured to death, a certain clan let people directly pull outside to bury, and did not take it seriously.
When the maid's family heard about it, they went to Liu Taishou to sue the Ni family.
After Liu Taishou understood the situation, he sent people to investigate the defense and found the place where the maid who was tortured to death was buried. Therefore, Liu Taishou took someone to open the coffin for autopsy.
Soon, the results of the autopsy came out, and the maid had seventeen wounds on her body, even there was burned with a soldering iron, and it was burned with an iron stick. And these injuries were all caused by Ni Zi's concubine.
Liu Rao's people visited him, and they knew where his coffin was located, but he was sent by the servants. And the beginning of the test, then the body is scarred seventeen ... There are burn marks, which are caused by the insertion of the fire, all of which are also done by a certain clan.
In addition, the maid also had a wound on her body that was kicked by the tip of her boot, which was done by Ni Zi. But in general, a certain clan is the main culprit, and Ni Zi is an accomplice.
Seeing this, no one is not angry. Therefore, Liu Taishou arrested Ni Zi and sent a certain clan as well. However, a certain clan happened to have a child at this time, so they could not come to court. Liu Taishou ignored all this, and after arresting Ni Zi and putting her in prison, he also said that after a certain clan gave birth to a child, he would also arrest her.
Liu Taishou especially confessed that after the certain clan came, she would definitely use the method she abused the maid to death to treat the certain clan and "treat the body of the person in the way of his people."
Liu Naifa was sent to the Bureau of Examination and Judgment, and ordered him to hand over to a certain clan, and said: When it comes, it should be ruled by law for killing a.
Ni Zi was afraid that his wife would be humiliated in court, and insisted that he had killed the maid. Of course, Liu Taishou did not believe it, so he sent Ni Zi to prison while waiting to arrest a certain clan.
At this point, it seems to be very happy. Soon, however, something changed.
When she went to arrest a certain clan a few days later, this woman actually joined the Heavenly (Lord) Sect and came to Liu Taishou with missionaries and official letters. Liu Taishou had to let her go, and even Ni Zi was acquitted.
Soon after, a certain clan threw himself into the Heavenly (Lord) Sect, and the priest sent a letter to Liu, liu ignored it, and Ni was also released.
Finally, someone told Liu Taishou that even if a certain clan was exonerated, he should be interrogated in a dignified manner and go through a process. Therefore, Liu Taishou had no choice but to interrogate a certain clan, slap his mouth twenty times, and then let Ni Zi lead him home to discipline.
At this point, the abuse case is over.
This case, from the "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", belongs to the late Qing Dynasty.