Chapter 77
Situ Ce asked, "Did anyone else come to you for food during this period?"
"No." The old farmer said with certainty, "because the business is not very good, I can always remember a business. They should not have anyone else when they eat. Because there were only four groups of people that day, two groups in the morning, one group at noon, and another group came when the stall was about to close in the evening."
"Who are they? Do you still remember?"
"It seems like they are all quick businessmen..."
"There is a man!..." the young wife said timidly.
"Public man?" Situ Ce was stunned for a moment.
The old farmer said, "Is there a public man? Why didn't I see it?" The old woman and the young man shook their heads and turned their inquiring eyes to the young wife.
The young wife seemed to feel embarrassed to be misunderstood and lie. She lowered her head, her face turned red, and even her neck turned red.
Situ Ce glanced at them and said, "How do you know that it was a man? Your parents-in-law and men didn't see him, so he shouldn't have worn a soapy shirt, right?"
The young wife raised her head slightly, glanced at Situ Ce quickly, then lowered her head and shook her head gently.
"Then how do you know he is a public man?"
"When he took money out of the package to pay, I saw a brown short shirt worn by a man in the package."
In ancient times, clothes were all exquisite. The common people usually wore white, so they were called Bai Ding. The yamen officials wore brown shirts, long gowns, and soap servants wore shorts. So when the young wife saw this brown shirt, she immediately guessed that it was a man.
Situ Ce nodded slowly and asked, "What does this person look like?"
"So tall."
“Where is the accent?”
"Uh--," the young wife blushed and lowered her head for a long time, saying, "I don't know where the accent is, but it's not from us anyway, and she talks around her tongue."
Situ Ce didn't know where the person was talking around his tongue, so he asked again: "Do you still remember what he looks like?"
The young wife's face turned redder and she lowered her head without saying anything.
His man was anxious and pulled her: "I'm asking you!"
The young wife was embarrassed and embarrassed, and she was so low that she almost crawled into her arms. Xirumoshi said, "I, I didn't look at him carefully..."
Situ Ce suddenly felt relieved. This was already the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the feudal ethics was already very strong. During this period, Hai Rui, a clean official, once locked up and starved to death because his five-year-old daughter accepted a piece of cake from another man because of her five-year-old daughter's acceptance of a cake from another man. Her daughter destroyed her chastity and starved to death. Although this story is a record of the unofficial history at that time, it also shows that the world at that time had already attached great importance to the defense between men and women.
This young wife is only over twenty years old. It is not easy to follow her husband to show up and set up a stall to make money. If she wants her to stare at the face of a male guest, it will be abnormal.
So, Situ Ce believed that the young wife was telling the truth. She looked at the old farmer and the others and said, "You should see clearly, right? Who is it?"
The old farmer said with a sad face: "I don't even understand who she is talking about. After so many days, I really can't remember it. - Is that person the person?" The old farmer looked at his daughter-in-law pitifully.
The daughter-in-law Nuonuo said, "It's... the few people who came before the three people who ate snails and drove the carriage."
The old farmer frowned and thought while stroking his beard, but the old woman remembered first: "It's them? I remember."
Situ Cexi said: "How many people are there? What do they look like?"
"It seems like there are four or three, and I can't remember it." The old woman recalled.
"It's three!" said the young man, "If it's the three people who are driving the car with snails, there must be three. I forgot what kind of appearance the people look like, but it's three, because I remember that the three of them were made into a row and were not separated, just filled our long bench, and that long bench could only sit three adults."
"They sit in a row? Are there no other spaces?"
"Yes," said the young man, "There is an empty seat next to it, but they didn't sit, just sat on a stool. By the way, they kept whispering while eating."
"What did they say?"
"I don't know about this. They are very low-sounding, and I don't listen carefully, and I'm busy preparing for food."
"What did they eat? Do they snails?"
"No, I ate frogs. I ate them all."
"What do they look like? Please recall it for a few of you. It's very important!"
Long Xiang kept listening. He didn't quite understand why Situ Ce kept pestering these three people. Could it be that there was something wrong? He had not yet clarified his thoughts. When Situ Ce wanted to repeatedly ask about the appearance of these three people, he immediately became alert and listened with his ears.
The old farmer and his family were thinking hard, but except for the young man who could remember that they were three people, they could not remember how these three people looked like.
Situ Ce was not discouraged and asked again: "How did they come from? Walking or taking a car, or riding a horse and a donkey?"
The old farmer family thought for a long time and said apologetically: "I really can't remember it. It's been a bit long, and we didn't care much."
The young wife whispered: "It must have been in a donkey cart."
"Donkey cart? Have you seen it?" Situ Ce said happily.
"I can't remember it, but..." The young wife lowered her head and twisted the corners of her clothes. She thought about it, as if she was clarifying her own ideas. "If they came on horseback or on a carriage, then we would definitely have an impact, because we rarely see horses in the countryside, all of them are donkeys, mules or cows. If we see them, we will definitely pay attention."
"Then how could you figure out that they were on donkey carts?"
"If they were riding donkeys, they would tie the donkey to the pillars of our pergola. I sat next to the pillars of the pergola. If that were the case, I should have some impression. Since I can't remember, I should have come by a donkey cart."
Situ Ce smiled and nodded: "You are right in the analysis, but unfortunately you don't take the job. Otherwise, you will definitely be a good constable, no, a good teacher! Hahaha."
The young wife's pretty face turned red with shame. She glanced at Situ Ce, and then hurriedly buried her head low.
Situ Ce said again: "No matter how happy you are, what else is there? No matter what it is, as long as it is related to the three of them, tell us, it may be useful!"
The old farmer's family thought about it again.
The young wife suddenly had her eyes lit up and she said, "By the way, there is one more thing..."
"Oh? What's the matter?" Situ Ce looked at her anxiously.
The young wife's pretty face turned red again, she quickly lowered her head and said shyly: "They, after eating, and when they left, they exchanged some scattered silver coins with us..."
"Oh? How many have you changed?"
Chapter completed!