Yuzhu drank several cups of tea, stood up slowly, and said, "It's time to go back and practice calligraphy."
Unlike the semi-literate Hanshuang, Lin Yan'er has read a lot of books, and she secretly admires Yu Zhu's determination to study hard.
With Yuzhu's prominent family background, he could still be an official even if he couldn't read half of the Chinese characters.
However, Yuzhu happens to be able to rely not on his father but on his own energy and spirit. This is extremely rare!
Last night, after sleeping on the same bed as Yuzhu, Lin Yaner had completely resigned herself to her fate.
Even if she goes to the end of the world, she will still be Yuzhu's woman!
The difference in mentality made Lin Yaner always pay attention to Yuzhu's every move, fearing that she would not serve him well.
Yuzhu saw that Lin Yan'er acted like an old hen protecting her young. He smiled slightly, that's right.
After sending Yuzhu back to the ship, Xiao Zhang did not leave, but kept guarding the dock with the soldiers of the garrison.
Xiao Weihan, his immediate superior, made it very clear that Xiao Zhang had not completed his errand until Yuzhu left Tianjin Wei.
Yuzhu was very able to keep his composure. After he returned to the cabin, he sat down at his desk and carefully studied the papers he had done recently.
Lin Yan'er and Han Shuang stood on either side of Yuzhu about a foot away. This distance was just right, so that they could see Yuzhu's gestures and hear his instructions clearly.
Just when Yuzhu had been practicing large calligraphy for more than ten pages, he suddenly heard shouts coming from the pier.
"Silver woman, sink her."
"Shenhe, Shenhe..."
"Dip the pig cage and drown this bitch."
Yuzhu frowned, it was really disappointing. His calligraphy practice, which was getting better, was disturbed.
"Hanshuang, go and see what's going on?"
Yuzhu is not a person who likes to watch the excitement. However, the commotion on the pier is getting louder and louder, and the birds are very noisy. It can't be a civil commotion, right?
With Yuzhu's identity and status, he is fearless even in the presence of the prince's brothers. However, it is different to start a civil commotion. It is a fatal thing and must be guarded against.
After Hanshuang went out, about a quarter of an hour later, he came back and reported: "Second Master, it was a scandal. I heard it with dirty ears. A Zhizhou who embezzled money from the treasury died in Ningguta, the place of exile. Who would have thought that the Zhizhou
The wife of the wife couldn't bear the loneliness, so she had her affair with the housekeeper and had someone catch her. Now, the husband's family members are going to put her in a pig cage."
After all, Hanshuang is an unmarried young lady. I was embarrassed to explain, so I replaced her with that one.
In his two lifetimes, Yuzhu had only heard of pig cages soaked in ponds, but had never seen them with his own eyes. He immediately became curious.
After walking out of the cabin, Yuzhu stood at the bow of the ship and looked at the dock.
Then they saw several strong men carrying a huge pig cage, and a woman was indeed tied up in the pig cage.
"How despicable, actually stealing from a wild man."
"She is immoral and must be drowned."
"Bah, what the hell? Fortunately, she is still an official's wife..."
"You shameless bitch..."
'Bitch.'
On the pier, someone was so angry that he picked up the porridge bowl in his hand and poured most of the bowl of porridge into the pig cage.
The woman in the pig cage must have been burned by the porridge. She was twisting and turning like a live shrimp that had fallen into the frying pan, bouncing around pitifully.
Yuzhu noticed that the woman in the pig cage was obviously severely burned. Although she struggled hard, she never cried out in pain.
He took a closer look and found that the woman's mouth was blocked by a large piece of cotton handkerchief.
The pig cage was getting closer and closer. Yuzhu suddenly realized that although the woman in the pig cage was crying, she could vaguely see that she was a mature woman, much more charming than the famous star Xiao Qiang.
In the past, when Yuzhu was in college, the female star she was most fascinated by was Xiao Qiang, who exuded femininity from head to toe.
Alas, you are a beautiful woman, how can you steal a man?
Seeing helplessly a living person being thrown into the canal and drowned, Yuzhu is still the soul of modern people after all, and he can't help but feel compassion.
A woman who steals a man and is dipped in a pig cage is not a stipulation of the Qing Dynasty law, but a lynching abused by the clan.
Yuzhu thought about it carefully and ordered his servant Wu Jiang to call Xiao Zhang, who had been guarding the dock.
"Xiao Zhang, I want to save that woman, please help me think of a way. If it is done beautifully and without any future troubles, I will personally tell Mr. Xiao and ask him to promote you to the official commander-in-chief."
Yuzhu had been a department and bureau-level leader, so he naturally knew what Xiao Zhang valued most.
Sure enough, as soon as Xiao Zhang heard Yu Zhu's promise, he immediately bowed down and said with a smile: "Thank you in advance for the second master's promotion. Since the second master thinks so highly of me, even if I risk my life, I won't do it."
We need to save that woman."
As the saying goes, a strong dragon cannot overwhelm a local snake.
No matter how powerful Yuzhu is, it is impossible for him to fully understand all the local customs and customs in Tianjin Wei. Instead of blindly interfering in it, it is better to let the real local snake Xiao Zhang handle it.
Xiao Zhang knew that this year was his lucky year and he was destined to have great luck.
Second Master Yu helped me to say a few words. Xiao Zhang must have saved thirty years of hard work in the officialdom.
Xiao Zhang energetically summoned his more than twenty soldiers and shouted sternly: "Brothers, there is an order from above to capture the pirate Liu Laoqi!"
"Hey." When the soldiers heard this, they immediately beamed with joy. Hey, catching pirates is a great opportunity to make a fortune.
These days, if the government soldiers are short of money and spend money, it is often a dirty trick to turn a good person into a thief.
Such crimes as catching pirates, bandits, and remnants of the Qianming Dynasty, which are enough to exterminate a clan, are arbitrarily imposed on you, leaving you with nothing to eat and having to spend a lot of money to eliminate the disaster.
"Listen up, I have been ordered to arrest the pirate Liu Laoqi. Those who dare to harbor bandits will be punished on the spot, and their homes will be confiscated and their clans will be exterminated." Xiao Zhang pressed the hilt of the knife and stood on the top step of the dock menacingly.
, staring eagerly at the people on the pier.
Xiao Zhang roared so loudly that everyone on the dock turned pale with fear, lost their minds, and trembled.
Collaborating with bandits is really a serious crime of confiscating homes and exterminating families. Everyone is afraid of being involved in a big disaster and dare not take action.
At Xiao Zhang's suggestion, the soldiers of the garrison drew their swords in their hands, and they wanted to eat people with ferocious looks.
Xiao Zhang was staring at the woman in the pig cage, but he was very calm and let his soldiers pretend to search her body one by one.
"Get out." Every time the soldiers searched a person, they would take the opportunity to steal all the money in that person's arms, and then drive the person out.
There is no way, the officers and soldiers are much more cruel than the bandits, so the unlucky ones can only swallow their anger and spend money to ward off the disaster.
There is strength in numbers, and soon everyone near the pig cage was driven away.
"Bah, you bitch who steals people to raise men. Come on, throw the pig cage into the river." Xiao Zhang walked to the edge of the pig cage, deliberately raised his leg and kicked the pig cage hard, and then gestured
He called a few close soldiers and asked them to carry the pig cage onto Yuzhu's official ship.
When officers and soldiers arrest pirates, who dares to stay and watch the excitement is probably because they are tired of living, right?
The rest of the people at the scene had long been cleared away by the officers and soldiers of the Tianjin Guards House, brandishing swords and guns.
Just like that, the pig cage, together with the woman in the pig cage, were carried into Yuzhu's cabin without any appearance.