Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

Ye Fangxue's beautiful eyes were full of smoke, and she was about to cry.

Wang Cai snorted coldly and said: "Third Miss, stop pretending. Your father is a man of great fame. None of us here can cure him of his sins. Besides, you don't have that much love for him." Deep love."

Wang Cai has always been a good man, but it was the first time for Fei Yuer to hear such merciless words.

Miss Wang frowned slightly, Cheng Xiucai looked unbearable, and Wang Heng's eyes were expressionless, but everyone was understanding and looked at Ye Fangxue, waiting for her to speak.

Ye Fangxue said aggrievedly:
During the Mengxia season, the Jiang family in Yunjian County came to offer Xiaopan as a betrothal gift. Mrs. Ye Shen took Ye Fangxue and a little maid back to Fenhu to live in Yejiadai for a while.

Since there were more people in the family, it was difficult for a clever woman to make ends meet without rice, so Aunt Ju asked Ye Tianliao for more household supplies.

Wang Heng interjected: "Is your aunt the head of your family?"

"Yes."

Ye Tianli couldn't get the copper coins, so he asked Aunt Ju to go to a shop she knew well to get the money on credit first, and then find a way to pay it back later.

Aunt Ju began to babble, saying that if she did not work as a good official, she would be tired from being an official in Nanjing and become a country woman, condescending to do credit with these lowly people.

Aunt Ju asked Ye Tianliao again, saying that the dowry for the third girl was eighty taels of silver for the small plate and five hundred taels for the large plate. Aunt Ju then asked how to buy the dowry for the third girl and how much silver she would get back, but Ye Tianli didn't know. Spreading his hands, there was nothing.

Aunt Ju was so angry that she immediately forced Ye Tianli to teach in the county academy. She would first spend some money to live on, and then borrow some money from her relatives in the same year to buy a few decent dowries.

Unexpectedly, Ye Tianli became furious and accused Aunt Ju of being "selfish and vain" and "forcing the scene".

Zhu Aju came from a poor rural background, so she couldn't compare to Ye Tianli. She could only roll around and retaliate to Ye Tianli with her local talk: "Marry a man, marry a man, wear clothes and eat." "You are worthy of being a man, and you are worthy of being someone else's." father."

It seemed that Ye Tianli's sore leg was right, and the two of them started scolding and fighting. Ye Tianli got really angry and beat Aunt Ju severely.

Mrs. Ye Shen turned a blind eye and others in the family were indifferent.

Aunt Ju cried all night and disappeared at noon the next day. Later, the younger brother told Ye Fangxue that Aunt Ju had taken three cents from his lucky money.

At dusk, Ye Tianliao was sitting in the hall sulking. The third uncle came over in a hurry and waved to her. The two of them hid quietly in the compartment and talked for a long time.

Ye Fangxue hid at the foot of the wall and listened to the corner, and heard her third aunt say that she saw Aunt Ju talking and laughing with the salesman who often came to Yejiadai, and left the village in an ox cart to go north.

After the third uncle left, Ye Tianli angrily picked up his sword and went out. Ye Fangxue followed him a few steps and saw him heading north out of the village. Although she was worried, she couldn't follow him anymore.

After Ye Tianli left, it was already dawn on the second day when he came back.

Ye Fangxue had doubts in her heart. She pricked up her ears and heard her father entering the room and closing the door, so she got up immediately. The clothes of everyone in the Ye family were placed on the bamboo raft, waiting for Uncle Xing's wife Ayue to wash them. Her father changed them. He took off his clothes on the bamboo raft, and the bright red blood stains on his shirt and pants were shocking.

The most suspicious thing is that in the pocket that she took off, she found a flower head made of crab apples. Ye Fangxue didn't pay attention to see if Aunt Ju was wearing this flower head yesterday, but she must have seen Aunt Ju wearing it before. However, the flower head was soaked with blood.

Ye Fangxue felt extremely sad. Could it be that her biological mother, Aunt Ju, had been caught and raped by her father?

From the next day, Ye Tianli reported illness and stayed in his room without going out.

By the seventh day, there was no sign of Aunt Ju. She already understood that the idea of ​​hoping that Aunt Ju was just hiding out of anger was just a beautiful dream. After serving her father for a few days, her aunt Shen Ye took Ye Fangxue back to the Shen family in Songling.

As soon as Aunt Ju passed away, there was no news. Ye Fangxue knew in her heart that she was dead.

Wang Heng paced back and forth, nodded and said: "So, your guess is somewhat reasonable, but I still don't know something. Ye Tianli killed Zhu Aju, why did he pick up Zhu Aju's hair?"

Xiaocai thought about it and said, "Perhaps I killed someone in anger and regretted it later. After all, they were married for more than ten years and had two children."

Wang Heng was noncommittal and asked Ye Fangxue: "Miss Ye San, I won't beat around the bush with you. Mr. Xue, the head of Xue Si family, is the real reason why you escaped from marriage, right? You also know about Xiao Cuibao, because It seems unkind for me to announce it to the public."

Ye Fangxue didn't expect that Wang Heng even knew this. She was so shocked that she couldn't even speak: "You, you..."

Wang Heng, the old god, said: "Third girl, let's talk it out. You have finally found your freedom. You probably don't want to return to the Ye family or the Shen family. I am sure that I can convince your father to let you practice Taoism. As for you, as a It is not good for a person who has attained the Tao through profound cultivation to hide and hide.”

After a long silence, Ye Fangxue finally spoke in embarrassment:
Mr. Xue is a classmate of the second cousin of the Shen family. They have known each other since they were young and can be considered childhood sweethearts.

There are many cousins ​​in the Shen family, and they have all read "The Story of Hui Zhen" and "The Story of Purple Hairpin", about a young man in trouble who becomes the number one scholar and decides to have a private life in his backyard. These old-fashioned dramas have become popular from generation to generation.

When Ye Fangxue got married, she once thought that Mr. Xue would go to her house to propose marriage soon. Later, Mr. Xue told her that he was actually a member of the Jianghu gang, and she had to wait for him to donate his fame before going to Ye's house to propose marriage.

This year, Mrs. Sheng, an old relative from Yunjian County, acted as a matchmaker for her, talking about the wealthy Jiang family in Yunjian Mohua Village, but Mr. Xue told her to just rest assured, he had his own way.

Ye Fangxue knew that Mr. Xue was rich, so she thought he wanted to use money to solve the problem. Although the Ye family was poor, it was hard to talk about it, but it was still a solution.

But until the end of July, Mr. Xue still made no move.

In July, Miss Wang advised Ye Fangxue to embroider her wedding dress at home. She was anxious for a while and suspected that Miss Wang was ridiculing her and had bad words with Miss Wang. Soon I received an invitation from Miss Wang, asking her to attend the Autumn Appreciation Party at Guitianyuanju on the first day of August. Of course she would not go.

In the afternoon, the second cousin's maid took Ye Fangxue to the main room. Mr. Xue visited the second cousin in the open, but in fact he was meeting with her. As usual, he comforted her and claimed that he had found a solution. Please relax. After chatting about daily life, she told Mr. Xue about the quarrel with Miss Wang, so she was not going to attend the Autumn Appreciation Party on the first day of August.

The next day Mr. Xue came again and told Ye Fangxue that the plan had been decided. Mr. Xue had seen a servant girl named Xiao Cuibao in the Yang Family Courtyard. He was about 50 or 60% similar to her and about the same age. Yesterday he brought her with him The little Cuibao dressed up, took off her red and green clothes, put on the clothes of a boudoir daughter, and told her not to speak. She actually hid it from everyone in Gui Tian Yuan Juli. No one at the Autumn Scenery Gathering noticed that this was not the case. Ye Fangxue, so he has redeemed Xiao Cuibao.

Therefore, Mr. Xue's plan can be started. He has hired a theater troupe to go to Mohua Village in Yunjian County to sing in advance. The theater troupe is ambushing his helpers. They will only wait for the sedan chair to disembark on August 15th. There was a chaos, and in the chaos, Mr. Xue switched Ye Fangxue and Xiao Cuibao.

Xiao Cuibao was overjoyed to be able to marry into the wealthy Jiang family as a good daughter. All she had to do was pretend to be sick when she came back from Sanchao. Even if she got through it, she asked her servants to bring some gifts to her parents' house. She was already very considerate. Ye Tian Liao didn't have much affection for his daughters, and Ye Fangxue's two sisters basically never returned to Ye's home.

It turned out that Mr. Xue had this idea, and Ye Fangxue seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.

She is a smart little girl who can tell the truth. Xiao Cuibao has since gained the status of a good girl, which means that she, Ye Fangxue, has never seen the light of day.

The one who runs is a concubine.

Aunt Ju's misery all her life was due to being a concubine, and Ye Fangxue could never be a concubine.

So she kept her cool and thought about it all night. The next day, she asked Miss Wang in humble words for help. She asked her to go to Bixiao Palace in Taiping Town to bring a message to Taoist Huayang, asking Huayang to come to Songling Shen Mansion. They agreed on a time and place, and by the time Ye Shen noticed that she was missing, the boat had already reached Taiping Town.

She decided to enter Taoism from now on, and everything in the world had nothing to do with her.