As soon as Qu Nan came out of Shuiyundu, Li Dazhuang greeted him, and lowered his voice and said, "My lord, another baby girl has been stolen. ”

Qu Nan turned over and got on his horse: "Let's go, go and see!" ”

Li Dazhuang turned on his horse and followed.

When the two came to Lao He's house, they saw the woman with a big belly weeping alone in the courtyard.

The woman's man's name is He Youyin, and he has already gone to work in the grain store at this moment.

Weeds had grown in the yard and the house was badly damaged. It can be seen that the family can earn a living in the county, relying on Lao He's meager income from working in a grain store.

When the woman saw that the county magistrate was coming, she hurriedly stood up, kicked down the little horse at her feet, and fell to her knees with a pop, her body trembling, and she couldn't say a word.

Qu Nanyi asked the woman to get up and reply.

The woman stood up tremblingly, but she almost fell several times because of the weakness of her legs.

Qu Nanyi walked around the courtyard and asked, "Tell me, how old is your baby and how did you lose it?" ”

The woman stumbled, and her words did not match the afterword, and she could not say why.

Li Dazhuang looked anxious, so he interjected: "My lord, this woman is as timid as a mouse, I'm afraid I can't understand it." It's better to go down and call her man back, and the adults will know when they ask. ”

The woman suddenly raised her head and said in alarm, "No, no...... No, my lord, you can't call your husband back. Women's ...... The women can speak clearly. ”

Qu Nanyi looked around very seriously, took out a small horse with a missing leg from the corner, blew away the floating ash, lifted his robe, sat on it, and said, "Let's talk." ”

The woman looked at the county magistrate who was sitting on the pony and looking up at her, and her knees went limp, and she was about to kneel down again.

Qu Nanyi stopped: "You also sit down and talk to the official slowly." This official is the most pro-people, and he will not get angry easily, so you can be relieved and speak slowly. ”

The woman hesitated, but at last she picked up the little Maza, pouted her buttocks, and sat down carefully on the side of the Maza.

Qu Nanyi asked again: "How old is your baby?" How was it stolen? ”

The woman shed tears before she spoke: "The baby of the people's family is two years old. The women didn't know how she was stolen. The folk woman just coaxed the baby to sleep as usual, and she also slept herself. When I woke up, I found that the baby was gone. ”

Qu Nanyi asked, "Where is your husband?" ”

The woman replied honestly, "My husband has gone to work at the Taihe grain store. ”

Qu Nanyi asked, "Why don't you call him back?" ”

The woman shrank her shoulders as if she were afraid of her husband. She timidly replied, "Husband...... Husband, husband knows that he will kill the people's women. ”

It seems that He Youyin is still a good man who loves children.

Qu Nanyi asked, "Your husband was not at home last night?" I don't know if the baby is lost? ”

The woman sniffed back and replied, "Yes, yes." He glanced at Qu Nan secretly, and whispered, "The husband knows that the baby is lost, but if he doesn't go to work, he will be hungry, and the woman can't bear this in her stomach." If the husband knows that this incident has alarmed the adults, he must teach the women a lesson. ”

Qu Nanyi found out that he had misunderstood the reason why He Youyin was angry, so he asked, "Why?" ”

The woman glanced at Qu Nan again, and replied cautiously with temptation: "Min...... There is no ...... in the house of the women There is no silver, and there is no silver to honor the lord. ”

Scold...... It was because of the silver that he did his hand to the woman.

Qu Nan glanced at Li Dazhuang with a slanted eye.

Li Dazhuang immediately blushed and explained, "No, my lord, we confiscated a copper plate from her." ”

Qu Nanyi shook his head and said, "You can't teach your son." This official is asking you, since her family refuses to report it to the yamen, how did you learn that his family lost a baby girl? ”

Li Dazhuang was stunned for a moment, and replied in a daze: "My subordinates heard what people said. ”

Qu Nanyi raised his eyebrows: "Who did you listen to?" ”

Li Dazhuang recalled: "Early this morning, my subordinates were going to the county office, and I heard someone whispering in the ears of my subordinates, 'He Youyin in the west also lost a baby girl at home. The subordinates turned their heads to look, but there was no one in sight, only a few pedestrians on the road hurrying on the road. The subordinates were afraid that someone was deliberately playing tricks on their subordinates, so they didn't take it to heart, and they didn't want to investigate, but when they thought that the person was saying that they had also lost a baby girl, they remembered that someone had reported that they had lost a baby girl at home four days ago.

At first, the woman refused to say anything, but then she was frightened by her subordinates, and she told the truth. also only said that the baby was lost, and he did not dare to alarm the government. ”

The common people generally believe that "the yamen is open to the south, and you should not come in if you have no money", which can also explain why the woman did not want to report this to the yamen. She was afraid that the baby girl would not be able to find it, and she had to take the silver of filial piety. The family is already poor, and if her husband He Youyin knows that she is not restless, she will not have good fruit to eat.

Qu Nan nodded and motioned for Li Dazhuang to continue.

Li Dazhuang continued: "My subordinates saw that this matter was a little strange, so they went back to the county government and wanted to tell the adults. The adults were not in the county office, so the subordinates went around looking for them. After inquiring for a long time, I found out that the adult went to see Zhang Tianshi's closed disciple. The subordinates didn't dare to delay, so they ran to see the adults. ”

As soon as Qu Nan stood up, the legless little horse under his ass fell to the ground with a thud, and the woman trembled again.

Qu Nanyi patted the ashes on his body and said to the woman, "Don't panic, go, take the official to see where the baby lives." ”

The woman, the baby girl, and He Youyin all lived on a simple bed made of wooden planks.

There was a window in the room, but it was pitifully small, and it was unlikely that a woman would want to get into it, let alone a man.

The door of the house, which was bolted at night, showed no signs of being pried open.

Thieves don't pick when there are people in the house, but not necessarily when they steal baby girls. Especially a two-year-old baby girl, she will not be left alone at home under the care of her mother.

However, who will steal a baby girl? And he can take her away without knowing it, and he can't make her make a single sound.

Thinking of this, Qu Nanyi asked the woman, "Last night, you slept deeply?" ”

The woman replied, "There is a noisy woman in her belly, and she does not sleep deeply. ”

Qu Nanyi asked, "Don't smell any peculiar smells?" Didn't hear anything? ”

The woman pondered for a moment, and then replied, "The woman only heard her husband's snoring, and she smelled it...... I smelled the smell of my husband's feet, and ...... and fart smell. ”

Qu Nan was slightly stunned and almost laughed. He thought that this woman had just lost her baby, and his smile was a little inappropriate, so he endured the smile alive, and his face was wrinkled, which was very hard.

When the woman saw Qu Nanyi frowning, she mistakenly thought that her husband's stench had remained in the house, so she waved her sleeves to try to make the smell in the house not smell so bad.

Qu Nan couldn't stay any longer, and after reluctantly turning around in the shabby hut, he called Li Dazhuang to return to the county office together.