Outside the official residence of Qinghe County, Ms. Zhang was dressed in white linen mourning clothes. Her hair was a little disheveled, her red eyes were dull, and her formerly round and plump face had lost its luster. She looked pitiful. People passing by looked at her sideways, and even
The two bankers following her also sighed from time to time.
The child was left at home and her husband was in jail. At this moment, Mrs. Zhang felt as if she was dead, like a lonely ghost, helpless.
A clerk came out from the corner door, and Zhang's eyes suddenly became bright again. The clerk came towards her and handed the basket to Zhang. Zhang opened the lid and saw that there was all the rice and soup inside, and she felt a sudden joy in her heart.
Liang: "You haven't sent the meal to my husband?"
The clerk said: "You can't send anything in, what should I do if it's poisonous?"
Mrs. Zhang suddenly woke up and took out a bunch of five-baht money from her arms and stuffed it into the hands of the clerk. The clerk tried it up and down, looked at Mrs. Zhang twice, then handed the money back and said, "I don't want to do this."
How dare you charge money like this."
"As long as I try to let me see my husband first, my kindness will be unforgettable." Mrs. Zhang refused.
The clerk urged: "Put it away quickly." He looked around and said with a mysterious face, "How can you bribe me like this? In this way, Mrs. Zhang will go to stay in the guest house over there first, and I will come to find you later.
Madam, it’s a good time to have a business meeting.”
When Mrs. Zhang heard that she had a solution, she nodded in agreement.
The three of them settled in the guest house, and Mrs. Zhang was waiting with hope. She had heard that there were rats and bugs in the prison, that they could not eat well or sleep well, and that people often died. At this moment, she just wanted to see her husband, so that she could feel at ease.
When the sun turned to the west, the clerk finally came. When they met, they said they wanted to take a moment to talk. So Zhang asked the banker to wait outside the door, but the clerk asked Zhang to take them farther away and go out to the street.
Mrs. Zhang already felt something strange, but when she saw someone walking outside the door, she first obeyed the clerk's wishes.
Soon the clerk changed his stern look from outside, and began to look at Mrs. Zhang unscrupulously, and his expression became vulgar and frivolous. After looking at it for a while, he almost drooled, "I can find a way for Madam to see it with her own eyes."
I want to attract people, but I have to defy the ban and take a lot of risks. I don’t need the money..."
Mrs. Zhang looked at the door and window behind the clerk and sneered: "You are so anxious, how can I believe that you really have a solution?"
The clerk slowly stepped forward and answered the question, and his speech was a bit unclear, "I have seen many women, but I have never seen a woman like this. If you really want to be pretty, you should be filial, no, no, with a figure like Madam's,
Although she is not slim, she has a plump charm."
"Get out of here!" Ms. Zhang immediately turned against her, "or I'll call someone."
The clerk begged for a while, "Madam, please don't blame me, you are so beautiful." Then he threatened, "If you dare to offend me, I will make your husband's life in prison worse than death!"
Mrs. Zhang didn't dare to provoke him too much and just said: "Stop dreaming. If I expose my innocence, I will be killed here. Even if you risk your life, you won't get a good ending!"
But the clerk said: "It's cool to die under the peony flowers and be a ghost. As long as I can kiss my wife's beauty, it's worth dying here." When he said this, he remembered the door behind him, stepped back to the door, and carefully closed the door with his hand.
Zhang was nervous, but she could still calm down, so she moved a few steps to the side, trying to find an opportunity to run out of the room. This way she could escape without angering the clerk.
The light dimmed slightly and the door was gently closed.
Unexpectedly, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the clerk was thrown away and fell to the ground. After a moment, a young man jumped in.
"Erlang!" Mrs. Zhang was embarrassed and delighted at the same time. Qin Liang rushed forward, bent down and twisted the lapel of the clerk's clothes, punched him, and cursed, "You motherfucker took advantage of others' danger, you
His |mother|’s!”
Then Mrs. Zhang was stunned in place, because her husband Qin Sheng suddenly appeared at the door! For a moment, Mrs. Zhang couldn't even believe it was true. She suspected that it was her husband's soul, and she felt sad and scared. But soon she saw
When the sun had not yet set outside the door, he rubbed his eyes, hurriedly stepped forward, and immediately reached out to rub Qin Sheng's arms and chest. Qin Sheng's face was slightly scratched, and his body was covered with dirt, but he still wore the same clothes he went out on that day.
The clothes he wore at that time were not prison uniforms.
Qin Sheng rolled his eyes at her: "I'm not dead!"
Zhang wanted to laugh and cry at the same time, so she raised her fist and hit Qin Sheng gently, "My friend, you don't know how I got through these days. I have been frightened for so long, and you just talk to me like this."
So in the room, the two pairs of people were each beating each other. Qin Liang was on the ground holding the clerk down and beating him hard, while Zhang was also beating her husband with her fists.
At this moment, Mrs. Zhang seemed to have knocked over the bottles and jars in the kitchen, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings. Then a deep fatigue hit her heart, and her body became weak. Only when she saw the two men at home did she feel
To: Although I am impatient and strong-willed, I still want to rely on them.
Qin Liang had beaten the little official until his nose was bruised and his face was covered with blood. He then twisted him up and dragged him out of the room, shouting: "Spare Dashan!" Then Qin Liang's voice said, "Send this thief to the county government to report."
The official asked for a bribe and attempted to commit adultery!"
When Zhang heard this, he suddenly realized that Erlang's judgment seemed to be unexpectedly accurate. Even Erlang's first sentence "taking advantage of others' danger" when he entered the door was very clear. He seemed to be hiding in the corner and saw what happened.
The calculation is too accurate.
"Why were you released?" Ms. Zhang asked at this time.
Qin Sheng said: "People from Zhong Chang's family made false accusations. Now that the case is clear, the government will naturally release him." He then took out a document, "Zhong Chang Ke signed a confession of false accusation, as well as Qinghe County Sheriff and Lu from the home of Jizhou Governor."
The case cannot be overturned if the young master acts as guarantee."
Zhang was surprised and happy at the same time. She took the slip and looked at it, but she couldn't understand it because she couldn't read. She had to ask: "So, it really worked for Erlang to go to General Lu, the governor of Jizhou?"
Qin Sheng snorted and said: "It doesn't work, how did I get out?!"
Mrs. Zhang sighed, "General Lu is really a wise man who makes decisions for the people and decides cases impartially."
Qin Sheng glanced at her and said: "How can it be that simple? But now that Erlang has written an article praising General Lu, it is considered solid. Let's go home first."
Mrs. Zhang was overjoyed and said, "Go home!"
The group of people were assigned carriages and horses, Erlang and Rao Dashan were still on horseback, Zhang and Qin Sheng were sitting in the carriage, and the remaining two villagers were one driving the carriage and the other sitting on the wooden board in front.
When Erlang put his feet on it, Mrs. Zhang was very attentive to help him hold the horse to prevent it from moving. She whispered: "Erlang, my sister-in-law said something serious a few days ago, please don't take it to heart. Sister-in-law
I'm also anxious." She felt her face was a little hot, and it was probably red. Thinking about it, she had hardly ever spoken to anyone like this, and she felt ashamed and ashamed. "Sister-in-law has never seen the world, and a woman can't.
As people see it, Erlang still has a way."
"It's okay, I'm used to it anyway." Erlang said with a wry smile.
What was originally a good conversation started to change, and Mrs. Zhang had no choice but to curse softly: "I have the same virtue as your brother."
While the city gate was still open, the group of people left Qinghe City under the gradually setting sun. It would be dark when they got home today. The carriages and horses walked on the post road, and Mrs. Zhang opened the bamboo curtain from time to time, and couldn't help but observe Erlang riding outside.
.
His figure stretched very long on the post road under the setting sun, and his figure seemed to be taller. Zhang had never observed him so carefully before. Upon closer inspection, he felt that his movements were crisp and his face was very crisp.
There is a kind of calmness that is indescribable.
Looking at his face for a while, Zhang actually felt that Erlang had a comfortable and natural feeling. It was not because Erlang's face was very handsome, but because a certain spiritual aura could infect people. The more Zhang looked at it, the more he felt that Erlang had indeed grown up.
He is no longer the unreliable young man she thought he was.
"Writing an article has such a great effect, can you invite General Zhenbei?" Zhang asked her husband a little confused.
Qin Sheng smiled and said, "Isn't it true?"
As the sun sets in the west, the dust rising from the post road looks like mist and smoke in the light.