At the beginning of February of the 27th year of Qin Shi Huang, Anlu County Prison Pengfu received a report, and the self-confessed person was Tian Zuo of this county.

Although the title is not high, he is the first powerful man in the county, and the brother of the right chief Heifu, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately received him in person.

He was already in his thirties, he used to be a black and thin farmer, and in recent years, after becoming rich, his complexion has become much more rounded, but his clothes are still simple, and he is dressed in sackcloth.

Although Heifu is famous and famous, he has always been very low-key, honestly working in the county temple, conscientiously inspecting agricultural affairs, and sometimes even barefoot and carrying a hoe to the ground to demonstrate to the people the method of deep cultivation from Guanzhong.

It's hard to imagine that he would be involved in a lawsuit, let alone as a plaintiff.

After being invited to the court, he sincerely explained the reason for the trip.

"Someone actually falsely claimed to be the eldest of the right concubine's wife and adulterous child?" After listening to this, he was shocked.

The grandmother is the "little three" in ancient times. "Adulterous son" is the name of the illegitimate child in Qin Law, because unmarried adultery is not advocated by the government, so the status of adulterous children is very low, and there is no right to inherit the identity.

Although Qin Shi Huang legislated to crack down on adultery, the "adulterous sons" in Nanjun are still endless, after all, the land of Jingchu Yunmeng has had this tradition since ancient times.

For example, five hundred years ago, if the nobleman of the Ao clan of Chu Guo Dou Bobby, and the princess of Yun Guo had an adulterous child, in order to cover up this ugly thing, he abandoned the baby to Yun Mengze, was raised by the tigress, fed with milk, and did not avoid seeing people, Yun Zi thought it was a divine object, so he brought it back to Yun and ordered his daughter to raise, named "Dougu Yusu", which means "the son of the tiger breastfeeding".

Therefore, it is normal for the officials of Nanjun to have a foreign wife outside, but Nu doesn't believe that Heifu would do such a thing.

"Many years ago, the right chief served as the head of the Huyang Pavilion, and I was the history of the county prison order, and I often corresponded with him. I know that the right chief only loves to play and play with strong men, and is not close to women. When encountering a woman in the street and alley market, she laughed and seduced, and she didn't squint, and in those two years, Hugh said that she was a foreign woman, and she didn't even go to the female Lu once! ”

"Not really."

Heartfelt said: "But the woman claimed to be from Yuzhang, Jiujiang County, and was a prostitute in the military market, and three years ago my middle brother passed through Xunyang on his southern expedition, and she was recruited to sleep ......."

"This ......"

It's hard to judge this anger, the army is the loneliest, the Qin army of hundreds of thousands of people conquered Chu, and it took two years to completely destroy the Chu State. As a result, in the past two years, many adulterous sons have sprung up in Chu, all of which are the seeds left by the Qin soldiers in the local area, and it is unknown whether those Chu women were voluntary or forced.

He sighed and said, "Brother Zhong never mentioned this matter to us, but the woman told me the time and place one by one, and even Brother Zhong's title and authority at that time were not wrong. My mother always wanted my middle brother to have an heir, and after hearing this, I saw that the three-year-old child was black, and it was really similar to my middle brother's youth, so I believed it......"

The old man is always gullible, and he thinks that the more children and grandchildren the better, and it is nothing to have a son born to a foreign wife.

But the eldest woman didn't think so.

"Fortunately, my brother-in-law only asked one sentence, and the woman showed her flaws."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but admire the calm and rational of her younger brother-in-law, if she were an ordinary woman, she would definitely be jealous, but she just asked the woman coldly.

"You said that he slept with you several times, did he send someone to summon you to the big tent, or did he drill the women's shack himself?"

The woman said that the man had come by herself at night, and she had asked questions, but the person who called himself 'Sima Heifu of the other department' said that his status was noble, and it was not good to summon her directly to the big tent, so he came in disguise.

In fact, Ye Zijin was also a little uncertain at that time, when she was happy with the curtain, although her beloved claimed that she had never touched a woman before, Zijin was a little unconvinced.

The lover is skillful, except for the wedding night to pity her, a shallow taste, and then he is out of control, always asking himself to do some embarrassing postures, I am afraid that he is a veteran of the amorous field, although I have not heard of any bad deeds, but there must have been many women, otherwise where is so skilled?

Although there is suspicion, from what this woman said, Ye Zijin also expected that this matter was eighty percent false.

"Will he pay afterwards?" Ye Zijin asked another crucial question.

The woman hesitated for a moment, said no, but gave her a piece of sackcloth to make clothes, and the next day she left with the army, and was not heard from again.

But she kept it in mind, and she didn't have sex with anyone for months until she became pregnant, and she kept her stomach on the riverside looking forward to it, but the officer who claimed to "come to pick her up after the truce" never appeared again.

After giving birth to a baby, the woman raised her alone for two years, inquired in many ways, and then found a way to get the test, and took the ship arranged by Heifu to transport the soldiers' families between Xiakou and Jiujiang for free, and came to Anlu......

"When I heard this, my mother and I knew that such bastard things were definitely not done by my middle brother."

By the way, he handed over the evidence, which was a roll of bamboo slips and a linen paper-bound book. This is something that Heifu has newly concocted, and in the past a book would have to be divided into many volumes, but now it can be compiled into one.

After receiving it angrily, I saw that it was written in Li, and then looked at the handwriting inside, it was very beautiful, like a woman's book......

"It was written by my middle brother when he marched south to Yuzhang, recording the daily marching formation, customs and customs, and what he did, and my brother-in-law copied it on paper for him."

And the night when the corresponding woman said that "Heifu" got into her shack, although the location was in Xunyang, the old bamboo slips and paper books were impressively recorded:

"The boat crossed Jiujiangzhou Zhu, not ten miles, suddenly the wind and clouds surged, the waves were big, and the cable was urgently tied to Xunyang. It is to stay overnight in this town, board the boat to visit the five hundred lord Zhao Tuo, talk with him until late at night, stay on the ship, the next day, reopen the Ji, and go away."

Although the woman denied it, saying that she had misremembered the exact day, Heifu remembered clearly, he only stayed in Xunyang for one night, and the lie was self-defeating.

Afterwards, the woman also confessed honestly, she had already guessed that the officer who came to stay overnight that day was bragging and pretending to be a black man, and it was impossible for a big official like Sima of another department, but she still crossed the river with her son with a one-ten-thousandth expectation.

"The mother took pity on her and wanted to take in the mother and son, but the younger sister-in-law did not agree."

When I first saw Ye Zijin, I only thought that she was a gentle lady, speaking softly, but today, she showed her strength!

She said: "If this girl is really a beloved woman, and this son is really the son of a beloved, I should settle it properly, and raise her with Jiarou delicacies, as if it were my own." ”

"But they are just hypocrites with luck in their hearts, if they are soft-hearted and take them in, the rumors may spread all over Anlu and Nanjun. The contemptible people in the township are mostly people who like to be lively, and they would rather believe in it, and if the fake comes to their mouths, it will become true! ”

This is all reasonable, so the heartfelt mother took a step back, saying that if you don't stay, you won't stay, don't blame this poor woman, give her some pestering, and let her go back to Xunyang.

Ye Zijin still disagreed, she was to the ground, her voice was gentle, but her attitude was very resolute.

"Mother, reward is not persuaded, and punishment is not punished. Although this woman is pitiful, what she has done is illegal, if she is given money and silk to let her go, not to mention that my family has committed the crime of harboring hidden evil. When the people of the county saw that this woman was profitable, they were afraid that after some time, the woman who came with a child in her arms and pretended to be the son of a beloved person would break through the threshold! ”

The girl gave the only solution: "Blame the official, ask the government to clarify the case, and then send the woman back to her hometown for trial, and you must find the villain who pretended to be a lover and owed a romantic debt!" ”

Although Qin's laws are strict, there are still many traitors and criminals, and impersonation fraud also occurs from time to time, such as a few years ago, a disciple of the Nanyang School who had a great impact pretended to be Feng Wuxuan's son to defraud money and silk, and the good and bad of the Southern Expedition army were uneven, and it was not excluded that some officers pretended to be their bosses in the female army.

The military official who pretended to be a black man was the root of all evil, and he must be caught and severely punished.

"In this way, this matter can be settled!"

That's why I came to be the plaintiff for the first time today.

"Mrs. Right...... is really worthy of being the daughter of the county guard, and she acts with the residual authority of the county guard. Angry and amazed, feeling that this lady really couldn't be provoked.

Zhen also nodded in agreement, and brought the crying woman to the county temple, and he also asked his younger brother and wife worriedly:

"My family has done this, although it has practiced the law, but if it treats orphans and widows like this, will it be considered unkind by the county people?"

Ye Zijin has her reasoning: "Uncle, a gentleman loves people with virtue, and villains also tolerate lovers." I thought that we should do the love of a gentleman, not the mercy of a villain, and then ......"

"Set up a ship, open a sugar mill, feast on my father, raise children, my family's benevolence in Anlu is enough, and the people of Anlu also love my family very much, but the concubine thinks that there is still a little thing missing......"

"What's missing?" Asked sincerely, unconsciously, when Heifu was away, their family had Ye Zijin as the main backbone.

The girl who is a first-time wife has lost her well-behaved and obedient in front of the black husband, and there is a faint power in her smile.

"Awe!"

……

Just when Heifu was cleared of his wife by his wife and was suspected of adultery and childbirth, thousands of miles away in Pei County, Surabaya County, in the Lilu next to the Surabaya Pavilion, the bearded Liu Ji lifted a sleepy-eyed baby high and laughed.

"This nose, this forehead, is exactly like mine! It's really my seed! ”

The pale and sweaty Widow Cao lay weakly on the shabby straw mat, showing a relieved smile, she had already begun to dream of marrying Liu Ji and being called "Mrs. Pavilion Chief".

But her smile quickly froze, and after Liu Ji teased the baby named "Fat", he lowered his head and said a word to Widow Cao confidently.

"I admit that this son is mine, and I will send two stone millet every month to feed your mother and son, but I can't marry you!"

He said shamelessly: "My wife is going to marry a beautiful lady, you can only be my foreign wife......"

Widow Cao suddenly changed color, and was so angry that she grabbed a clod of soil and threw it at Liu Ji, scolding.

"Liu Ji, you it! In the past, he was a wanderer, and today he is a small official, has no money and no house, and still wants to marry a famous lady? Phew! ”

She picked up Liu Fei and cried: "My mother is not rare for you to raise, this baby is not yours, it was born to me and the shoemaker next door, you get out!" ”

Liu Ji hurriedly dodged, and after running out of the door, he also stretched his head in, and said with a hippie smile: "Cao's, I only promised to raise you in advance, but I didn't promise to marry you, the eldest husband will do what he says, you wait, I will pick up this month's grain now!" ”