When Ximen Qing looked at the person who was crying so hard, he turned out to be Li Ming, the son of Grandma Li of Li Chun Courtyard. He untied the leather earmuffs on his ears and asked, "Why don't you stay at home with your mother?"
Counting money, why are you crying here?"
Li Ming cried: "Young official, Star Lord, my mother has been taken away by the servants in the Yamen! As an act of mercy, please save her!"
Ximen Qing frowned: "It's so good, how could your mother eat someone else? I think no matter how greedy she is, she doesn't have the guts to rob the Qinghe County government treasury."
Li Ming murmured: "Because there are old people in the family, the local Baojia was stirred up, and everyone started shouting, so they called in those servants from the yamen. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is approaching, it is the time for them to collect money everywhere.
Seeing that there is no one in my family, why don’t you insist on squeezing oil out of the stone? Star Lord, high official, you know my grandma’s temperament, not to mention that she is reluctant to let go, even if a Tongbao is broken into two halves
, she couldn’t even part with that half! Those businessmen talked for a long time, but when they couldn’t agree, they changed their faces and took my grandma away..."
A bad shadow suddenly came over Ximen Qing's heart. He stared into Li Ming's eyes and asked, "Is there an old person in your family? Who is it?!"
Li Ming avoided Ximen Qing's eyes and muttered in an accent like a mosquito's hum: "Sir, if I tell you, don't be sad. My sister Jiao'er didn't know she was possessed by a ghost last night.
What the hell, he actually hanged himself!"
Before he finished speaking, Ximen Qing's whole body started to tremble. He grabbed Li Ming's neck and asked: "Where is your mother? I have something to ask her. If she instigated Jiao'er to death, I would
Let her die!"
Li Ming was pinched by Ximen Qing's hands and rolled his eyes. He struggled and said, "Star Lord, please forgive me! It's none of my business! My mother was also taken to the county government office for trial!"
Ximen Qing threw Li Ming in the snow, turned around and ran towards the county government office. After a while, he ran to the gate of the county government office and saw Li Zhixian sitting in court. The old madam was kneeling on the ground and crying. Ximen Qing poured out the anger in his heart.
Pressing down, Ying was behind the crowd listening to the trial, wanting to hear what the old madam had to say.
Suddenly, his sleeves were gently pulled a few times, and a sneaky voice called softly: "Master! Master!"
Ximen Qing turned around and recognized Li Waichuan, a clerk in the Yamen. Everyone said: "A big-brimmed hat, with both ends turned up, eats the plaintiff and eats the defendant." This Li Waichuan is the most intelligent among the big-brimmed hats.
Yes, the people in Qinghe County all call him "making money from inside and outside". Before Ximen Qing died, he and Li Waizhuan were mutual friends. They worked together in the county yamen and took charge of lawsuits. They actually did a few dirty things.
things.
Therefore, everyone in Qinghe County believed that Ximen Qing was a kind-hearted person who had reformed his evil ways and returned to the right path. Li Waichuan was the only one who did not believe it. As the saying goes, all gentlemen see gentlemen in the eyes of gentlemen, and villains see all villains. Li Waichuan believed that Ximen Qing's
Therefore, the person who opened a porridge shed and a medicine shed just became a star master and got rich and established himself. If you look deep into his bones, you will find that he is still the same evil-hearted "tiger on the post, Simon on the post"
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After Ximen Qing came back to the underworld, his net worth was so high that Li Waichuan had long wanted to join him for some money. However, Ximen Qing's family status was high, and the people he interacted with were either the county magistrate or the prison guard, and even the censor, the censor, was patrolling and supervising.
, where is there any room for Li Zaoli to intervene? If he had the shamelessness to come to the door, he might not even be able to pass the test of Lai Jue who was guarding the door, but would not be slapped in the face. Therefore, Li Waizhuan was groping around day after day, trying to find him.
What kind of capital can be used to advance from scratch?
His hard work paid off, and he finally found one - Li Jiaoer from Madam Li's house in Li Chun Yuan suddenly hanged herself. Li Waichuan and a group of fellow big-brimmed hats went to the house to fight against the autumn breeze. Everyone else was there. While he was busy bargaining with the old madam, he looked around with bare eyes. When he saw some key things confiscated on Li Jiaoer's table, he had an idea and immediately grabbed them.
After getting these things, Li Waizhuan was very excited and wanted to use these things as a stepping stone to win a new respect from Lord Ximen, so that he would have endless food from now on.
When Ximen Qing saw that it was Li Waichuan, he thought of all the past events and hated this person from the bottom of his heart, so he asked in a cold voice: "What's the matter?"
Li Waichuan smiled in a low voice: "It's about Li Jiao'er." After saying that, he turned around and left, and Ximen Qing hurriedly followed. Li Waichuan heard the sound of footsteps on the snow behind him, so he secretly laughed and said: "What is Ximen Star Master? Or is it? You fell into my trap!"
Arriving at the deserted corner near the county government office, Li Waichuan took out a few pieces of paper from his arms without waiting for Ximen Qing to speak, respectfully presented them to him, and said: "The Star Lord, the great official Mingjian, this is the little one here." I found it at Li Jiaoer’s house. I didn’t show the little one to anyone else, only the officials who were filial to the Star Lord were kept!”
Ximen Qing took it and opened it. The top one was Li Jiaoer's old and new deeds of sale. The bottom one was Zhang Xuetao's note. On the paper were written twenty-eight hairpins in small regular script. The handwriting was soft and belonged to Li Jiaoer. Autograph. When Ximen Qing looked at it, he couldn't help but feel a great pain in his heart.
At first, he was filled with unknown karma. He only said that when the old bustard saw Li Jiaoer clean up and leave the house, he wanted to kill the goose to get the eggs for the last time, so he didn't know how to bully her in every possible way, causing Li Jiaoer to hang herself from the beam—— But after seeing Li Jiaoer's death letter, Ximen Qing realized that he was wrong.
It turned out that yesterday, after Ximen Qing left the Lichun Courtyard with a cold remark about "finding Chen Xiaoguan'er", Li Jiaoer was at the window upstairs, watching him go further and further away. This kind of condescending look up to her made her even more agitated. Heartbreak.
I don't know how long I stood there blankly before the old madam, who had enjoyed counting money, came up, talking and laughing, and kept saying: "Jiao'er, you will marry into the house of Lord Ximen tomorrow, that is, Xingmen." Your wife, mama, I usually treat you a thousand days bad, but also a day good, please take care of my age and stupidity, please let me go! If you have time in the future, I will always treat you well. Come back and take a look, and pick up your brothers and sisters, because we are destined to..."
When Li Jiaoer heard these colorful words, she was heartbroken. Finally, she raised her head with tears in her eyes: "Mommy, can you just let me stay in our yard for the last night tonight?"
Seeing the tears in Li Jiaoer's eyes and the sadness in her mouth, the old madam thought it was her sincere words that touched Li Jiaoer's tender heart. She was so happy that she said, "What's wrong with that? My dear. My daughter will leave the palace tomorrow, so naturally she won’t want to leave the house where she grew up. Just stay in this house for a while and let Guiqing sleep in another room. Alas! It’s a pity that this house can’t be moved, otherwise, grandma would have moved it. It has been given to you as a dowry for a long time..."
Finally, the Madam went out, but Gui Qing came in again. The two sisters held their heads and cried. Li Jiaoer hid all her colorful clothes, exquisite flowers and green clothes in a secret place to avoid being searched by the Madam. The few gold coins that came out for the New Year's Eve were all given to Gui Qing, and he only said: "I will never need it again, and it is a waste of things to put around." Gui Qing only said that it was Li Jiaoer who married Ximen. I became a concubine in the house, and from then on I had good clothes and fine food. I no longer looked down on these things, so I stopped being polite and accepted them with great gratitude.
It was already getting late, so the old bustard showed a rare act of generosity and brought in two bright red candles and a plate of exquisite food and wine. How could Li Jiaoer have the appetite for food and wine? She just lit up the red candles and filled the room with food.
The room suddenly became brighter and happier, and Li Jiaoer's tears also flowed down drop by drop along with the candle tears.
Under the candle, she unfolded the two deeds of betrayal and read them over and over again. Thinking of Ximen Qing's instructions to be free, Li Jiaoer couldn't help but choked softly and said: "Master, you are so cruel! I'm eighteen.
You are a weak woman who is 20 years old, you give me freedom, and where do you want me to go? I can't live in Qinghe County. I am left alone in a foreign land, with my feet on the ground and my eyes on strangers. How can I be such a man?
What is my ability? I usually hate this fire pit, but today I discovered that even if I had a chance to jump out of this fire pit, I have been steamed and boiled by this fire pit, and I never have the courage to leave this fire pit! Senior official, you
Although you pulled me up, you let go of me halfway, you are so patient!"
After complaining for a long time, he came back and said: "Don't blame him! Don't blame him! I just hate that I didn't control myself. If when Chen Xiaoguan'er comes, I can grit my teeth and hold on for a few more days, and I won't accept him until I die.
I won’t be in this situation today! I only said that I was looking for another career that day, but I didn’t expect that I would end up like a chicken and an egg. Li Jiaoer, Li Jiaoer! It was you, an unlucky little slave, who created your own career, but you didn’t expect it to happen.
What happened to the official?"
Thinking of Ximen Qing's kindness in the past, although there were times when he was rude and cruel, after all, there was more time for pity and less time for abuse. Today, he ignored the old grudges and redeemed himself, but also released his freedom.
.Such a character, placed in the tick column, is also a rare and strange man.
However, I regretted that I was so unlucky that such a strange man still let him slip through my fingers.
After thinking about it, I only hate Chen Jingjing, the demon star in my life. If he hadn't appeared, I would have had a different fate today.
But ask yourself, even if there is no Chen Jingjing, what will happen if it is replaced by Feng Jingjing, Zhu Jingjing, and Wei Jingjing? Li Jiaoer smiled bitterly. She is a prostitute, and she still wants to follow people's saying that she is as good as jade? Life is like a floating moon, and it will be a long time ago.
It’s doomed!
Thinking about tomorrow, when Ximen Mansion didn't have a sedan to pick someone up, she didn't know what the expression would be on the old madam's face. Li Jiaoer felt chilled when she thought about it, and thought to herself: "I have suffered from her for more than ten years.
Nian's face, from now on, I will never tolerate her again!"
After a decisive thought, I got up and went to the bed, took off my clothes and took a bath, washed myself clean, then put on the otter skin jacket left by Ximen Qing, and covered it with a bright red dress, thinking to myself
He said: "Master, please don't complain about Jiao'er's shamelessness. I wore your clothes in the end, and it was as if you were holding me! Even if I'm walking on the Netherworld Road, I'm not afraid anymore!"
Finally, I combed my hair into a bun, looked at my face in the mirror, and couldn't help but shed tears. I turned back to the table, spread out my pen and paper, and wrote: "I have been living in Goulan for eighteen years, and I am only favored by you and have your pity. I am ashamed to see you today.
The official's face is tied with a grass title to report to the nine springs." After writing the twenty-eight words, tears fell like rain, and the paper was stained.
Hearing the sound of a watch outside the building, the cold night was already deep, Li Jiaoer drank a pot of cold wine in one go, and heard the silence of people in Lichun Courtyard, so she smiled to herself: "It's time for me to hit the road!
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At that moment, Qing Qing knelt down at the shrine in the house and kowtowed. He thought to himself: "This first boss, I kowtow to my estranged parents. If they didn't sell me, Jiao'er would have died long ago."
How can we recognize the high-ranking officials of Ximen when we are hungry for a long time? Father and mother! Today, Jiaoer is on his way, so I will kowtow to you first!"
He kowtowed again and congratulated: "This second head, I kowtow to my good sister Gui Qing. You have suffered so much injustice from that old godly woman for me. If my sister has a spirit under the spring, I will help you find a good opportunity.
In this life, I will never be as miserable as my sister."
Finally, I bowed down deeply, my heart was as painful as a knife: "This third head, I kowtow to the gods and Buddhas in the sky. Please look at Jiaoer for a moment, so that my soul can reach the high official position."
I don't expect to be able to talk to him in this house, I just want to see him for the last time, just one look is enough!"
After kowtowing three times, Li Jiaoer felt no nostalgia anymore. She folded up the chairs and hung herself on the beam.
At this time, Ximen Qing was reading the twenty-eight words "I have been living in Goulan for eighteen years, and I am only favored by you and have mercy on you. Today I am ashamed to see an official, so I tied a grass ring to report to Jiuquan." Looking at the tears on the paper,
Chewing on Li Jiaoer's last sad feelings, I thought of the three words "Don't lie" among the nine-character mantra that Brother Ye Dao left for me. I also recalled my last heart-wrenching words when I left yesterday, and then recalled that I woke up in the middle of the night.
That last ray of nostalgia at that time, it was really too late to regret it, it broke my heart and heart, and suddenly burst into tears. This is exactly:
Who moved the red candle and the night faded, and I shed tears of blood and sorrow. But I don’t know what happened to Li Jiaoer’s funeral. Let’s hear the explanation next time.