The next day, Shen Yanzhi invited a well-known scholar from the next town to come back to help teach, and he packed his bags and prepared to go to the state capital to take the exam.
Daqing's civil service examination is scheduled for June, so there is not much time left until now.
When he left, Li Tannian led four little ones to see him off.
The four little ones have been in contact with Shen Yanzhi for a longer time, and their teacher-student friendship has become increasingly strong. Now that Shen Yanzhi is leaving, the four little ones are a little reluctant to let go.
However, they also knew that Shen Yanzhi wanted to fight for his future, so even though they felt uncomfortable, they did not dare to cry.
"Master Shen, you will definitely pass high school, we believe in you!"
"Master Shen, come on!"
"Sir, I'm waiting for your good news!"
"Four treasures are waiting for Master to come back!"
Shen Yanzhi rubbed the heads of the four little guys, feeling deeply moved in his heart.
Putting aside Lu Zhi, his biological father, in fact, he really liked them. In his opinion, a gloomy person like Lu Zhi could not raise such a well-behaved and obedient child.
All of this should be due to his voice.
He couldn't help but imagine that if he and Yinyin had their own child in the future, how well-behaved that child would be.
As soon as he thought of this, Shen Yanzhi felt that his whole body was full of motivation, and he became more and more determined to earn a good future for him and her!
"Yinyin, I will write to you!"
When he got in the car, he looked at her deeply until Li Tannian smiled and replied: "Okay! I'll write you a reply." He couldn't bear to leave and waved goodbye to her.
After Shen Yanzhi left, Li Tannian wanted to send the four little ones to school, but the four little ones refused to do anything.
It had been a long time since they had seen Li Tannian. This time, they all clung to her, wishing they could be inseparable from her.
Li Tannian had no choice but to take two days off for them, and then took them to the city to buy new clothes and eat delicious food. It was then that she discovered that Lu Zhi had secretly left a group of people to follow him. she.
It turned out that Lu Zhi was afraid that Magistrate Zhou and his accomplices would jump over the wall and take advantage of her, so he just asked people to follow her.
Li Tannian is not annoyed. After all, there are four little ones around her now, and it is also important to protect the four little ones.
Seeing that there were many people, she arranged for two people to watch the county government office.
It turns out that the iron ore case is more serious than she imagined.
She had only been back to Qinghe County for three days when Magistrate Zhou seemed to hear some noise and hurried out of the house towards Qingzhou.
In the evening of the fourth day, a small sedan with green curtains appeared at the gate of the Hou Yamen. They said they were here to pick up Yuan Ruolan to meet Magistrate Zhou. As for the specific address, the other party did not tell her.
Li Tannian keenly discovered the problem and led others to stop the sedan that night.
Yuan Ruolan didn't know why, so Li Tannian didn't hide it from her anymore. He only told Yuan Ruolan about the iron ore case and Magistrate Zhou's intention.
After hearing this, Yuan Ruolan's beautiful eyes widened and she didn't believe what Li Tannian said.
"Mr. Zhou will not treat me like this!" She was extremely determined and wanted to get on the sedan to find out what was going on. Li Tannian had no choice but to say, "If you go this time, you will enter a mansion that is nine thousand years old. You will never See you again Master Zhou!"
When Yuan Ruolan heard this, she stopped in her tracks.
"If you want to get the exact answer from him, it's not difficult." After saying this, Li Tannian walked over and whispered a few words in her ear.
Yuan Ruolan's eyes opened wider and wider, filled with a look of disbelief.
But after a long time, she still nodded gently to Li Tannian.
"Go and tell your master that Mrs. Yuan is at my place. If he still wants to see his wife, he can come to Qingshi Town by himself!"
After saying this, Li Tannian took Yuan Ruolan and left.
After waiting for about three or four days, Magistrate Zhou hurried over.
At this moment, he is no longer the high-spirited and handsome man with the handsome mane he used to be. On the contrary, he has a look of vicissitudes of life on his face, as if he has suffered a lot.
When he saw Li Tannian, Magistrate Zhou said nothing.
Li Tannian didn't say much. In fact, she didn't understand why he had such courage to even do such things as privately digging iron ore.
However, it was not her place to ask these questions.
She provided a separate space for Magistrate Zhou and Yuan Ruolan to let them talk. Of course, she did not go far. As long as there was any movement in the house, she could rush to rescue Yuan Ruolan as soon as possible.
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The room was silent for a long time. After a long time, intermittent crying was finally heard. After a while, Magistrate Zhou, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.
"Madam, there is no need to cry for a dying person like me. Without me, Madam and Brother Gao, you are childhood sweethearts. I believe that he will take good care of you."
"Why do I need him to take care of me? I have a husband, why do you entrust me to others! How can you bear to do such a thing of abandoning your wife and children!"
After Yuan Ruolan finished shouting, the room was silent for a while. Magistrate Zhou finally said: "Qi'er, I have already settled down. Now, it's up to you. It's also my fault that I was so obsessed with it when I was unsuccessful in officialdom that I actually got involved.
Of those things, in the end...it was me who couldn't help you and Qi'er."
Li Tannian, who was listening to this outside, was quite shocked. She suddenly understood Magistrate Zhou's intention.
This is not selling his wife for glory. He clearly wanted to protect Yuan Ruolan. Come to think of it, in the original book, in order to win Li Tannian's heart, Gao Jin never told Yuan Ruolan the real reason.
There was no doubt that Yuan Ruolan's louder sobs could be heard in the room. Magistrate Zhou was heartbroken. At first, he restrained himself from getting closer to her.
Later, when he heard the sobbing getting louder and louder, Magistrate Zhou couldn't help but rushed forward and hugged his wife in his arms. At the same time, Li Tannian quietly walked away.
She thought she should give them time to say goodbye.
On the second day, before dawn, Magistrate Zhou found Li Tannian.
Although it was Lu Zhi who exposed this matter, at this moment, when he saw Li Tannian, he didn't feel at all tense.
He smiled at her and said in a low voice: "Back then, I was just a dog of the governor. If I could manage things, I wouldn't have let him attack you when you were in Qingzhou.
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Magistrate Zhou twitched the corners of his lips, but he couldn't smile.
In fact, after receiving the secret letter, he also thought about blackmailing Li Tannian to find a way out, but he later compromised for the sake of his wife and children.
That Captain Lu was clearly not an idle person at first glance. If he touched his wife again, I'm afraid his wife and children would also suffer in the future.
Now that he thinks about it, he is really glad that he didn't make random decisions...
"Thank you." He whispered to her and left.
Within two days, news spread in the county that Magistrate Zhou and the governor were secretly digging iron ore. Moreover, it was said that Magistrate Zhou even wrote a confession.
For the remaining few days, Yuan Ruolan was in a state of confusion and saw almost no strangers.
When she came out again, it was already a sunny day two months later.
That was the day when the county magistrate of Zhou and the governor of Qingzhou were sentenced to death.
Yuan Ruolan went to see Magistrate Zhou off in person, and after returning, she locked herself in her former private residence.
The personal maids and maids around her were all worried, fearing that she might get distracted and commit suicide.
Li Tannian was much more calm about this.
After all, she and Magistrate Zhou still have a son who is still alive, and Yuan Ruolan should be reluctant to part with it. What's more, in her previous life, she survived even more difficult times than here. This time, she believes that she can also
The same is possible.
It's just that what she needs is time.
"Take care of your master."
After giving these instructions, Li Tannian received a letter from Zhao Chen from Qingzhou.