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    Li Ji shuddered. When I was a child, I seemed to have heard similar stories. The family couldn't afford to support the family, and the boy was left behind to carry on the family, and the girl directly tried to kill her. Haven't heard of it in recent years.

    The high incidence period of this kind of thing is when the harvest in the field is not good, or even when there is a famine, some people's wives and daughters are even reduced to rations.

    Two hundred years ago, a county was given a "Stele of a Martyr", and that story has been passed down to the present, that is, a woman saw that her husband and in-laws were about to starve to death, so she hanged herself and left a will to let them eat and live.

    After the famine passed, the family survived, and the news spread, and the government was greatly moved to give a monument to the martyr girl and reward silver, so that the descendants of the woman would suffer from it. The ancestors gave birth to strong girls, and the girls in the whole clan were all scrambled for.

    I don't know how many people educate their daughters in this way. Of course, more of them are the husband's family teaching the daughter-in-law to learn from the chaste women.

    In fact, during the famine era, many children and women were reduced to food rations. Did any of them really volunteer? Not really, people are dead, of course what the living people say is what.

    For those baby girls who are still in their infancy, they don't even have the right to choose to live.

    But now that the weather is going well, I haven’t heard of similar things for many years, because people who don’t want to see girls will sell them to rich families as maids when they are four or five years old. It has nothing to do with life and death after the deed, but it is much more cost-effective than killing one at birth.

    "And then?" Li Ji asked hurriedly.

    The magistrate's eyes were deep, recalling the past that he didn't want to think about:

    "After a few days of recovery, the mother went to the county government to beat drums and complain. I heard the woman's complaint, and the family clearly violated the law and killed her." The baby girl should be beheaded according to the law. Before I waited for the sentence, a total of 100 relatives from that family blocked the gate of the yamen to plead for mercy. They said they were pleading, but they were threats. They shouted at the door that they would kill their own children. , or a newborn child, it is not counted as homicide, and it should not be a crime, and there has never been a precedent for being convicted for this before."

    "There must be!" Li Ji's eyes were bright, "It's just that we haven't heard of it."

    "Maybe." The county magistrate sighed, "At that time, I was young and energetic, and under pressure, I sentenced the mother-in-law to ten years in prison. I didn't want to save him, so I beat him fifty times."

    "It's light." Li Ji said.

    Of course, Li Ji knew that this kind of incident happened frequently, because no one had ever paid the price for it. Even if it happened in the village, Li Ji could only talk about it if he felt dissatisfied, and could not solve the problem at all.