"Yes, yes, yes. When some girls in the village get sick, they are thrown into the mass grave at the entrance of the village. Girls are worthless and it costs money to treat them. Some girls who have given birth to many children are even sold. So, the Bai family's wife is really good to her girl. She often sees her girl crying, so she takes her for a walk at the entrance of the village, and the girl will feel better..."
"Speaking of which... Pingting was a little abnormal last year... I heard from my wife that her mother-in-law said that Yu Pingting seemed to have some problems with her brain, but she felt ashamed and didn't tell anyone. In this family, if there is a mentally ill person, it is not easy to stay in the village, and there is a possibility that she will be driven out of the village... Why is she abnormal? Ah... She is always in a daze. Sometimes when she was washing clothes by the river, she would be in a daze, and then, she would forget that she was washing clothes by the river. I don't know exactly what happened..."
"Pingting always cries secretly. I've seen it several times. But she doesn't dare to let her mother-in-law see her. You know her mother-in-law, she's not fierce or scolding, she just says things in a sarcastic tone, like, oh~~ I'm so unlucky, my son got a wife and I have to serve her... oh~~ The eldest daughter is so precious, she can't do anything, it's hard for me~~~ Then she just pretends to cry and says something mean..."
"Oh oh oh! Bai Zhankui also beat Pingting! It was Chen Jinhua who instigated that. Bai Zhankui was always very nice to his mother. He believed everything his mother said. When Pingting had conflicts with his mother, he always sided with his mother. It was hard for Pingting..."
"This beating of the wife... is very normal in the village. I don't know how it is in your city. Anyway, in this village, the wife follows the man. How many families have never beaten their daughters-in-law? If she is disobedient, she will be beaten. The father-in-law can beat her, the mother-in-law can beat her, and the husband can beat her too. So, it's normal, normal, hehe..."
"Tsk tsk tsk, that old bastard Bai Youcai is so disgusting! He stared at Pingting all day and wanted to touch her. I bumped into him once! Pingting was breastfeeding, but he went straight in. Don't you think he was an old bastard?! He was later pulled out by Chen Jinhua. To save face, Chen Jinhua said that Pingting seduced her old man. But who would believe it? There are a lot of fathers-in-law in the village who want to cheat on their husbands. They are all old bastards! Old bastards! Humph!"
"Pingting always cries..."
"Pingting didn't even speak out about the grievances she suffered..."
"I heard that Pingting had severed all ties with her family because she was going to marry Bai Zhankui..."
"Pingting's mother-in-law is the most arrogant..."
"Chen Jinhua is the most vicious..."
"After Pingting died, for some reason, she went to live in the town..."
"I heard that he exchanged the maid for the house..."
"How can it be so bad..."
"Bang!" Duanmu Qingchen angrily slammed the transcripts on the table, his face turning red with anger.
Fu Mingrui continued to read the transcripts carefully. He was much calmer than the furious Duanmu Qingchen.
Duanmu Qingchen sat there unable to calm down his anger. He stood up and began to wander around. After wandering for a while, he became even angrier when he saw Fu Mingrui looked calm: "Why aren't you angry? Why aren't you angry?"
Fu Mingrui still looked at the transcript calmly: "We who are solving cases must remain calm and not be swayed by the confessions of various people. Especially when we want to clear someone's name." After Fu Mingrui said this, he continued to look through each transcript carefully.
"I'm so angry!" Duanmu Qingchen was so angry that he continued to wander, "How can a person be so bad? Oh, my wife, my daughter-in-law, they are my family! This Bai Zhankui can ignore his wife and children on the pretext of studying?! Oh! This mother-in-law can treat this woman as a servant just because she is their daughter-in-law? And that father-in-law! He actually took advantage of his own daughter-in-law?! Me!" Duanmu Qingchen clenched his fists, "It would be a relief for them if this family died! Otherwise, I!"
"How are you?" Fu Mingrui asked back.
Duanmu Qingchen glared and thrust his hips forward: "I'll chop off their heads?!"
"Just because Bai Zhankui doesn't care about his wife and children?" Fu Mingrui asked again.
The angry Duanmu Qingchen was speechless because of Fu Mingrui's question.
"Or is it because Chen Jinhua ordered Yu Pingting around?"
Duanmu Qingchen opened his mouth, unable to speak.
"Or is it because of Bai You that he has that lustful intention?" Fu Mingrui frowned. These sins are all innocent according to the law!
Duanmu Qingchen calmed down and stroked his forehead: "These... killed Yu Pingting..." His heart ached. He felt sorry for this girl and was heartbroken for her short life.
"Hey..." Fu Mingrui put down the heavy transcript in his hand, "These things are common in the city, not to mention the village. Rich families have to have servants and servants. Women obey their fathers at home, their husbands after marriage, and their sons after their husbands die. In this life, they have never obeyed themselves. Your Highness, are you trying to challenge the concept of the Qian Dynasty?"
Duanmu Qingchen was startled. Fu Mingrui's sharp, deep and helpless eyes hurt his heart even more. Indeed, this is the system, a concept that has existed since ancient times.
Men are superior and women are inferior. Women's virtue lies in their lack of talent. Women should obey the three obediences and four virtues. These concepts have been deeply rooted in people's minds. From the royal family to the common people, everyone believes in this concept and lives by this concept.
Duanmu Qingchen fell completely silent because of Fu Mingrui's question.
"On the surface, no one is wrong in this case." Fu Mingrui frowned, but his beautiful eyes were covered with heavy thoughts. "Bai Zhankui concentrated on studying, passed the imperial examination, and brought honor to the family. What's wrong with that?"
Duanmu Qingchen rolled his eyes and didn't want to listen to Fu Mingrui's words. At this moment, it wasn't that he didn't want to hear Fu Mingrui say that they were right, but he himself didn't want to admit that these were actually the most normal things and the most normal concepts in the Qian Dynasty!
"What's wrong with Chen Jinhua scolding her own daughter-in-law? Here, only Bai Youcai is wrong. He shouldn't have had any evil thoughts about Yu Pingting, but did he really do anything out of line? Can you punish him? There is no law in the Qian Dynasty that can convict a person who does that." Fu Mingrui sighed with a stuffy chest, "Prince, these things are just the tip of the iceberg in the cases I have handled. Yu Pingting, like those women, died in the concept of favoring boys over girls. I once saw a case in the case file library. There was a village with a special tower. The local villagers called the tower the Baby Crying Tower. Inside, there were all abandoned baby girls..." Fu Mingrui lowered his face in grief, "The evil of human hearts and the disregard for life have complicated causes that are difficult to explain. In summary, it is still a lack of education. Educated people will respect life more..."
"Bai Zhankui has passed the examination and become an academician! Has he ever respected his wife?!" Duanmu Qingchen asked back. Studying did not change Bai Zhankui's character, but only changed his fate. It made him escape from the fate of a farmer and become an official in the future. (To be continued)