Concubine

Chapter 85 The Unreasonable Reason

The old man Yin's face was pale, and cold sweat was pouring out from his forehead. He wiped the sweat with difficulty, and continued in a low voice: "I found out later that she was out of breath, so I panicked and quickly put on my clothes and ran away with a cane. It's gone." Old man Yin wiped his sweat again, "I thought that with Hu San as the scapegoat, I should be fine, but I didn't expect..."

"I didn't expect the Skynet to be restored, and it's not missing!" Yang Qiuchi sneered.

Boss Bai Qian's eyes shot fire, and he yelled: "Go to hell!" He punched old man Yin's face. If the punch hit hard, old man Yin's head would be a rotten watermelon.

However, Mr. Bai Qian's punch was in vain. Mr. Bai Qian took a look, it was Song Yun'er who pulled old man Yin aside in time and avoided his iron fist.It turned out that after Yang Qiuchi found out that Boss Bai Qian was too emotional, he was afraid that he could not control himself and killed old man Yin by accident, which would cause serious trouble, so he secretly told Song Yuner to pay attention to Boss Bai Qian, and if he did something, save old man Yin .

Boss Bai Qian said angrily: "Let go! I'm going to kill him!"

Yang Qiuchi said: "Don't you want to know who pinched Bai Sumei?"

Boss Bai Qian was stunned for a moment, and said: "Yin De just admitted..." Then he remembered that Yin De also admitted to strangling Bai Xiaomei, but it turned out that Old Man Yin did it. Could it be that Bai Sumei was also strangled by her?With a chill in his heart, Mr. Bai Qian waved his fist and asked old man Yin: "Did you pinch my daughter Bai Sumei?"

Old man Yin shivered: "I didn't! I really didn't! I don't know how Meier collapsed in that room. I didn't see her when I left. Really, I swear! I didn't!"

Mr. Bai Qian saw that the old man didn't seem like a liar, so he also thought in his heart, since he admitted that he raped and killed Bai Xiaomei, if Bai Sumei was also pinched by her, then he had no reason to hide it. One hides one.He looked at Yang Qiuchi with some doubts: "Brother Yang, didn't he really kill him?"

Yang Qiuchi looked at Bai Sumei in Mrs. Bai's arms, sighed, and said, "I'm afraid this question can only be answered by Mrs. Yin herself." Bai Sumei's face turned pale, and Yang Qiuchi's words brought her back to that horrible noon.She shook her head vigorously, and then let out a series of coughing sounds.

Mr. Bai Qian said distressedly: "I asked her several times, but she just refused to say, hi~!"

Yang Qiuchi said: "Mrs. Yin, no, I'm sorry, I'd better call her Miss Bai Sumei——she refused to say it because the person who almost strangled her was his husband Yin De!"

Boss Bai Qian also knew the answer, and Boss Bai Qian said, "Yin De also admits..."

"That's right, I heard what Yin De said, but do you know why he killed his wife?"

Although everyone guessed most of it, they still hoped that Yang Qiuchi could give a more reasonable explanation.

"Yin De killed his wife to cover up the scandal of his father, the old prostitute, because when old man Yin was making love to little sister Bai, Miss Bai Sumei brought her husband Yin De to play with her sister and witnessed the incest. Since the two of them saw that Bai Xiaomei didn't resist at all, they didn't know that Bai Xiaomei had been poisoned by the mist and was strangled unconscious at this time, and they thought it was adultery, so the two of them quickly hid aside until old man Yin left, After entering the room, they realized that little girl Bai was out of breath. Miss Bai, am I right?" This whole process was completely conjectured by Yang Qiuchi.

Bai Sumei didn't answer, she lowered her head and sobbed softly, coughing from time to time.

Mr. Bai Qian said: "Young Master Yang, please continue."

Yang Qiuchi continued to analyze: "Miss Bai and Yin De realized that the big thing is not good. Miss Bai wanted to report, and Yin De tried to cover up his father's scandal, so he strangled Miss Bai to death. Fortunately, Miss Bai was killed. , was able to escape from death. Right? Miss Bai Sumei."

Bai Sumei raised her head and said hoarsely, "I... I didn't intend to report!"

Everyone was surprised, it turned out that Bai Sumei could speak!Mr. Bai Qian and Mrs. Bai surrounded Bai Sumei excitedly. Mr. Bai Qian asked, "Mei'er, can you talk now? That's great!"

It turned out that after Bai Sumei's throat was treated by the doctor, her pronunciation function has gradually recovered, but it is still very laborious.Now that Yang Qiuchi accused her wrongly of saying that she was going to report the scandal of old man Yin, in a panic, she opened her mouth to distinguish, and spoke out.

Yang Qiuchi was surprised and said: "You can talk now? That's great, Miss Bai, did Yin De strangle you unconscious?"

Song Zhixian also said from the side: "You, you don't have to worry, Yin De is dead, so there is nothing to worry about."

Bai Sumei nodded, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Yes~, but I... I never thought... that I would report... Father-in-law."

"Ah? You don't want to sue this old man Yin, this old ghost is the murderer who killed your sister!" Yang Qiuchi asked in surprise.

Bai Sumei's tears fell down, her throat was hoarse, she coughed lightly, and said slowly: "I tell my husband, cough cough..., I am a filial woman, cough cough... I won't... no I will report on my father-in-law, but he didn't believe me, so he pinched me...I struggled desperately, the tables and chairs were overturned, and then...I don't know..."

Now I understand that Yin De pinched Bai Sumei to kill people, so after Bai Sumei came back to life, of course he was afraid that Yin De would continue to kill him, so every time he saw Yin De, it was like a mouse seeing a cat.And old man Yin didn't know that Bai Sumei and Yin De had peeped into his scandal, so he wouldn't think of killing Bai Sumei, so Bai Sumei didn't have to be afraid of old man Yin.

However, Bai Sumei mentioned that she did not report on Mr. Yin because of her filial piety. Yang Qiuchi did not understand this point. What does your father-in-law have to do with a murderer?"

Song Zhixian said on the side: "My nephew, you, how can you be so smart that you have been confused for a while? The sage Confucius once said: "The father hides from the son, and the son hides from the father. It is right in it." Since ancient times, kings have always ruled with benevolence and filial piety In the world, I would rather obey the law for the sake of filial piety. It is natural for the son to hide for his father. Although Miss Bai knew that his father-in-law had committed a crime, she was unwilling to report it. Hidden." At this point, Song County Magistrate clapped his hands and sighed, "Bai, Miss Bai is still so filial in such a catastrophe. It's really, really rare, rare."

What shit logic?Yang Qiuchi cursed inwardly, the father-in-law raped his sister, and if he didn't report him, he was still filial, what the hell.

Yang Qiuchi used modern thinking to think about ancient regulations, and of course he came to the conclusion of bullshit logic. In fact, as early as the Han Dynasty, Confucian classics had been used as the theoretical basis for adjudicating cases, which was called "Spring and Autumn Judgment of Prisons" in history.And formally established the judicial principle of "relative concealment".Since then, successive dynasties have continued this principle and developed it. The Tang Dynasty expanded it to "cohabitation and concealment", which means that slaves and maidservants who are not related by relatives also have the obligation to conceal crimes from each other.

The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" also stipulates the legal principles of "cohabiting relatives must conceal each other's crimes", "brothers do not testify to brothers, wives do not testify to husbands, and slaves do not testify to masters".The son includes the daughter-in-law. If the crimes of the father and father-in-law are reported to the government, the government will punish the son and daughter-in-law for the crime of "unfilial piety".

Of course, there are exceptions to the application of the principle of relative concealment.Since the theoretical basis of kinship concealment lies in "filial piety", and according to Confucianism, the highest interest of feudal society is naturally the "loyalty" of subjects to the monarch, so when there is a conflict between loyalty and filial piety, the only choice is to sacrifice filial piety and take loyalty.Therefore, it is stipulated: "The three things of treason, treason, and treason cannot be hidden from each other. Therefore, the law of concealment is not applicable." That is to say, the three crimes of treason, treason, and treason do not apply to cohabitation. This hidden principle must be exposed. (Both rebellion and treason are easy to understand. The crime of "conspiracy of great treason" refers to the act of destroying the ancestral temples, tombs and palaces of feudal emperors.)
Bai Sumei witnessed the rape and murder of her younger sister by the old man Yin. This crime does not belong to the three exceptions. Therefore, she is obliged to conceal it. This obligation is not only a moral obligation not to make a family scandal public, but more importantly, it is a legal obligation. If this obligation is violated, on the one hand, she will be despised by the morals and ethics at the time, and on the other hand, she will be held criminally responsible.That's why Bai Sumei has been unwilling to speak out, but Yin De doesn't believe that Bai Sumei will stick to this secret. Because it involves the reputation of old man Yin and the safety of the Yin family, Yin Decai is determined to kill her.

And why Bai Sumei didn't say that Yin De pinched her is also the requirement of ancient Gangchang ethics. The "Daming Law" even stipulated it as a legal responsibility "wife does not give birth to husband". There is another reason, that is: if When she mentioned Yin De, she had to explain why Yin De pinched her, so she had to tell about Mr. Yin's rape and murder of little sister Bai.

In order to observe filial piety, including strictly adhering to women's ethics, and fulfilling legal obligations, Bai Sumei had to put aside her sister's death and stick to this secret. Killing himself to silence him led to this even bigger killing.

(End of this chapter)