A group of Lehu people put on their newly made clothes and looked around with a bit of excitement. Although the clothes were made of the coarsest linen and the workmanship was not very good, they were still new clothes. Jians like them
People, you may not get one for a year, but now you are happy to get a new one for free.
Only Shi Sheng looked a little unconscious. He recognized that one of the people who brought the clothes was Du Datong, who was with Hou Mubai that day. He was worried that he would recognize him and cause trouble. Fortunately, Du Datong just glanced at him and left.
He didn't say anything, as if he didn't recognize him, which made Shi Sheng secretly relieved.
After waiting for a while, the sound of firecrackers going off came from outside. Shi Sheng knew that this was the sedan chair brought by her husband's family to welcome the bride. Sure enough, there was a noise in the small building. The bride was wearing a phoenix crown and harem on her back while the eldest lady came down. Grandma Li
Grandma stood beside me and followed behind me.
Wearing a group of girls, the two in front are obviously better dressed than the others. They should be the dowry girls of Miss Hou. Because they are covered with red hijab, no one can see the appearance of Miss Hou. They only feel that her figure is exquisite and graceful. Come to think of it,
The appearance should also be flawless.
As early as when Miss Hou came downstairs, Shi Sheng and the musicians had already played the music diligently according to the previous instructions, and then divided into two groups to accompany the bride to the front hall to say goodbye to her parents. When they were about to walk out of the corridor,
A little girl accidentally bumped into Shi Sheng. The brocade box she was holding accidentally fell to the ground, and a pair of white jade lotus pendants with concentric ears fell out.
The little girl stood there rubbing her shoulders vigorously and complained: "How do you walk? You can bump into people in such a big place, and you are blind."
It was obvious that she had bumped into someone, but she still complained there. Shi Sheng was in a hurry to catch up with the person who left in front of him, so he had no time to argue with her, so he hurriedly put the pair of jade pendants into a brocade box and handed them back to her.
After bidding farewell to her parents, the bride continues to be carried by Xi Niang onto the sedan chair. Before arriving at her husband's house, the bride's feet do not touch the ground. Even when she bid farewell to her parents before, a red carpet was laid underneath.
After the bride gets on the sedan, all the dowrymen follow. As for Shi Sheng and others, they have to play music all the way until the bride arrives at her husband's house.
silver.
Miss Hou's husband's family is one of the largest households in the neighboring town. It took a long time to walk from Qingjiang Town to get there. There was already a flowing banquet there, but the servants like Shi Sheng were not allowed to serve.
After a bowl of wine, they were sent back.
When they returned to the Houfu, it was already time to enter the house. Although they had worked hard for a day, everyone was very happy. The two coins were enough for them to use for a long time. They could even have some money left to buy some meat to try.
When they got inside, one by one came forward to receive the money. Shi Sheng followed Uncle Zheng. When the boy who handed out the money heard his name, his face suddenly changed. He waved to a group of boys in green clothes behind him and said: "Come on, bring me the money."
Take down this audacious thief!"
The boys seemed to have been prepared for this. When they heard this, they immediately came forward with ropes and tied Shi Sheng tightly before he came to his senses.
"Why did you arrest me for no reason?" Shi Sheng asked in a panic.
"Unprovoked?" The person who responded to his words was Du Datong who walked out of the darkness. He walked up to Shi Sheng, waved his hand and slapped him in the face, saying in a vicious voice: "You are a policeman, you did not treat us last time on the street.
Young master, you are disrespectful. I thought you were ignorant and let you go once, but now you dare to come to our house to steal things. Do you really think that our house is easy to bully?"
"I didn't!" Shi Sheng endured the pain in his right cheek and said, "I didn't steal anything."
"You are still quibbling here at this time. You really can't shed tears until you see the coffin!" Du Datong gave him a fierce look and said: "Bring Xiaoxiang up."
After a while, a girl with beautiful features was brought up. It was the little girl who bumped into Shi Sheng when the eldest daughter was getting married. As soon as she saw Shi Sheng, she pointed at him excitedly and said: "That's him, Brother Du,
He is the one who stole the pair of white jade lotus pendants with concentric ears that the young master gave to the eldest lady!"
"I didn't..." Shi Sheng just said two words and was hit hard on the other cheek. Du Datong stared at his triangular eyes and said coldly: "I didn't ask you anything!"
At Du Datong's signal, Xiaoxiang said: "When the eldest daughter got married during the day, I was ordered by the young master to bring his pair of white jade lotus pendants with double ears to the eldest daughter. The young master asked someone else for the jade pendant.
It is still very precious, and it was not until today that the person whom the young master persuaded was willing to sell it. As soon as the young master got it, he asked me to deliver it to the eldest lady. At that time, I met
I went to the sedan chair to pick up the eldest lady. There were many people downstairs. I was accidentally bumped by someone, and the pair of jade pendants fell out. I was hit very painfully. When I came to my senses, the man was already there.
He put the jade pendant back into the brocade box and handed it back to me. After he left, when I wanted to open it and check again, I found that there was no trace of the jade pendant in the brocade box."
After hearing what she said, Du Datong said again: "Xiaoxiang, you said that the person who hit you was wearing Lehu's clothes. Can you tell me clearly, is he the person who is tied up now?"
Xiaoxiang said with great certainty: "Even if he hit me, I would recognize him even if he was burned to ashes!"
Shi Sheng shook his head repeatedly and said in a panic: "I haven't. I have seen a pair of jade pendants, but they were put into a brocade box for you at that time. You also saw them, how could you steal them? Also, it was you at that time.
It hit me."
"You, a soldier, are still telling lies when you are about to die!" Xiaoxiang pointed at Shi Sheng in defeat, and then said to Du Datong: "Brother Du, this soldier is very cunning, search him quickly.
See if the jade pendant is still on him."
"I haven't taken anything from your house, don't accuse good people unjustly!" Being regarded as a thief for no reason, Shi Sheng was angry and angry, but his joy and anger were not regarded as the same thing at all in the house.
Du Datong searched Shi Sheng's body through the rope and found no trace of the jade pendant. However, he found a flower that looked like a butterfly. Du Datong sneered and said, "Didn't you just say that you didn't take anything from the Houfu?"
?Then where does this flower come from? Don’t tell me that it was stepped on casually by outsiders. This kind of flower is called jade butterfly, and it can only be found in Houfu in Qingjiang Town."
Shi Sheng was silent for a while and lowered his head and said: "I...I have only picked this flower, and I have never taken anything else."
"Hmph, do you think I will believe you?" Du Datong grabbed Shi Sheng's lapel and said coldly: "I'll give you one last chance to hand over the jade pendant, otherwise don't blame me for being rude and beating you to death.
Killing a citizen is like killing a dog, even worse than a dog, because you don't even have to pay for it."