According to the timeline, when Zhu Pingan was finishing the case of the private meeting of monks and nuns at the county office, Eunuch Qian had just finished flogging Liu Jie, the new military official of Jingnan, at the post house, and he was proud of himself for flogging Liu Huangshi, who had been the governor of the postal service.
Zhu Pingan had only finished the case of the monks and nuns when another person came to the county office to cry out for justice.
At this time, Eunuch Qian was incited by Master Yao, gritting his teeth and ordering the little eunuch Xiao Congzi to go to the county office to notify Zhu Ping’an, so that Zhu Ping’an would take the Jingnan County Record and send it to the post house to pay a visit to his Eunuch Qian.
The melon eating crowd outside the public hall had not yet stepped out of the inside of the county government office, when they saw that someone had come to cry out for justice again, they could not help but stop, turn around and walk back, take up a good place outside the public hall, and continue to wait to watch the good show.
“Zhixian big master, I have grievances ah, please Zhixian big master for the old body to do the Lord ah …….”
Before the people arrived, the voice arrived first, an old woman’s voice with a crying tone came into the county office from outside.
Then, they saw an old woman with a miserable face from the outside into the public hall, as soon as they entered the public hall, they knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, “Wooooooooo……Zhixian big master, the old body has injustice ah ……..”
Zhu Pingan saw the old woman’s face was miserable, crying up and down, really pitiful, and quickly opened his mouth, “This damsel, don’t be sad, what are the grievances, please tell this official, this official will do it for you.”
“Oooooo, my governor big master ah ……Old body’s life is so bitter ah, really so bitter ah, in our Jingnan I’m afraid that we can no longer find a second person as pitiful as the old body, oooh oooh ……”
The old woman’s face was even more miserable, while kneeling on the ground, while using her hands to constantly slap the ground to express her emotions.
“This old lady is suffering from how much aggression ah, sad into this appearance.”
“Alas, poor ah, such a big age, crying like this, it’s really heartbreaking.”
“This reminds me of my old mum.”
“Is this a home that was burgled? Or was a family member murdered? Why is the old man so aggrieved, what’s wrong?”
The onlookers outside the public hall couldn’t help but discuss the old woman when they saw her looking so sad.
“Don’t be sad old man, what grievances do you have, but please tell us, this official will do it for you.”
Seeing that the old woman kept crying that she had a hard life and did not speak of her grievances, Zhu Pingan could not help but repeat it again, reminding the old woman.
“Wooooooo……My magistrate ah, you are not ah, the old body’s life is bitter ah. Old body married when I was young, the good life did not last two years, my man got seriously ill, scattered hands and left us orphans and widows. Old me is a handful of sh*t and urine to raise my son to adulthood, this intermediate sufferings are uncountable ……”
The old woman kneeled on the ground, crying with a handful of snot and tears, several women outside the public hall cried as they listened.
Hear the old woman said this, the public hall outside a lot of people guess in their hearts, presumably the old woman’s son is unfilial. Alas, this old woman is really a bitter life, young without a husband, hard work to pull the eldest son, the result of an unfilial son, really bitter life, no wonder the old man cried so pitiful.
Zhu Pingan listened patiently to the old woman’s complaints in the public hall, listening while carefully observing the old woman.
“However, suffering more and more and more, the old me I am willing, as long as my son grows up safely. Finally, the old body’s son grew up to adulthood, the old body I used all my savings to get my son a daughter-in-law ……”
The old woman continued to cry in the public hall.
This is a son who married a daughter-in-law and forgot his mother? Alas, this unfilial son ah, really sorry for his old mother ah.
The crowd of onlookers outside the public hall thought so, thinking that this is a typical case of marrying a daughter-in-law and forgetting his mother.
However, the next thing the crowd realised was that they were wrong.
“My son has been obedient since he was a child, and can endure hardship, learned a carpentry trade, after marrying a daughter-in-law, is even more hard-working. In order to support his family, my son often went outside to do carpentry work. But, alas, the old body regrets ah, how did I blindly give my son to find such a daughter-in-law ah, delicious and lazy, disobedient and unfilial, disobedient, and never served the old body well in the weekdays, especially when my son went out to do carpentry work, this daughter-in-law of mine is even more aggravated ……”
The old madam couldn’t help but burst into tears at the mention of her daughter-in-law, her hands constantly slapping the ground.
“So it’s here to sue her daughter-in-law.”
“So it’s not the son who is unfilial, but the daughter-in-law who is disobedient and unfilial. Alas, marrying a wife when marrying a virtuous, married a lazy, disobedient and unfilial, alas, that can be really unlucky ah, I’ll tell you ah, we are next door to the Liu Damiang her daughter-in-law is not a light, I personally saw Liu Damiang was scolded by her daughter-in-law cried several times.”
The onlookers of the melon masses then suddenly realised, after half a day, the original old woman to the public hall is to sue her daughter-in-law disobedience and unfiliality to come.
“My governor big master ah, my son two days ago to go outside to do carpentry work, has not yet returned, today is the old body’s sixtieth birthday ah, my daughter-in-law ah, she, she ……She even only gave me a bowl of stewed rotten vegetable leaves rotten radish soup, she herself alone in the room big fish and meat eat. The old body life is bitter ah, the old body really can not help it, please know the county big lord to give the old body to do the Lord ah, judge my son repudiated my son in law, but also my family peace ah ……Wooooooo……”
The old woman said to the sad place, the whole person paralysed on the ground, repeatedly patting the ground, choking out of shape.
Alas, poor ah, stalled such a wicked daughter-in-law, the old man birthday only to eat rotten vegetable leaves rotten radish stew, she herself is a big fish and meat, see the old woman this appearance, the crowd can not help but sympathise.
“Old man, may I ask how do you call yourself? Where does your family live? Who is the son? Who is your daughter-in-law? So that I can have your daughter-in-law summoned to the court for interrogation.”Zhu Pingan said to the old woman.
“Old me, He Li, my family lives by the east neighbourhood of the county town, my son’s name is He Dabao, and my daughter-in-law, He Wang.”The old woman said back.
“Men, summon He Wang’s to the court.”Zhu Pingan ordered.
The old woman’s family lived in Dongli Fang, Dongli Fang was not far from the county office, just a few hundred metres away, in no time the old woman’s daughter-in-law He Wang’s was brought to the county office hall by two officers from Dongli Fang.
“Mother, why did you go out in the middle of the meal, I couldn’t find you, why did you run to the public hall.”
He Wangshi was brought to the public hall in a panic, saw the old woman and asked with a surprised face.
“Heh, cheek really thick, but also how to eat half of the meal to go out, rotten vegetable leaves rotten carrot soup who can drink ah! Why also ran to the public hall, but not to sue you this evil daughter-in-law came ……”
The onlookers and melon eaters outside the public hall, whispering sneers.
“He Wangshi, your mother-in-law is suing you for being disobedient and unfilial, disrespecting your elders. Saying that it’s her birthday today, but you only gave her a bowl of messy stewed rotten vegetable leaves and rotten carrot soup, while you yourself are alone in your room eating big fish and meat. Yes or no, quickly tell me the truth with this official.”Zhu Pingan slapped the shocking wood in the hall and asked.
“Huh? Granny are you accusing me of being disobedient and unfilial?”
He Wangshi was thunderstruck at the words, looking at her mother-in-law in disbelief, her tears instantly like a river bursting its banks.
