"Li Xiucai." Huang County Zun looked at Li Xuedong.
Li Xuedong didn't react.
Mr. Gao hurriedly stepped forward and pushed Li Xuedong, "I'm calling you."
"Yes, boy..."
"Wrong, wrong!" Mr. Gao quickly slapped Li Xuedong on the back.
"Yes, student..." Li Xuedong quickly changed his words.
Mr. Gao taught him how to respond and how to be polite on the way here, but he was too nervous and scared.
"Bring a chair to Li Xiucai. Li Xiucai, sit down and talk." Huang Xianzun ordered, then pointed at Li Xuedong with a smile, motioning for him to sit down and talk, then looked at Mr. Yao and said with a smile: "Look
, still a child."
"No, during the county examination, didn't the county magistrate say that if he was born a month later, our county would have a child prodigy." Mr. Yao laughed loudly.
"Li Xiucai, did you hear clearly the denunciation of your third uncle Li Wencai?" Huang County Zun looked at Li Xuedong sitting on the chair and asked with a smile in a very casual tone and expression.
"Yes." Li Xuedong was so nervous that his whole body stiffened, and his back was covered in cold sweat.
"Did you expect this complaint, or was it unexpected?" Huang Xianzun shook the complaint and said with a smile, as if he was not trying the case, but chatting with Li Xuedong while drinking tea.
Li Xuedong was startled by Huang Xianzun's question, and subconsciously looked at the eldest sister Li Jinzhu. Li Jinzhu hurriedly raised his chin and raised his mouth at him, signaling for him to answer Huang Xianzun's question.
"Back to County Lord, I thought about it, but I didn't expect it either." Li Xuedong turned to look at County Lord Huang. Seeing County Lord Huang smiling kindly, he felt calm and replied in a trembling voice.
"Have you thought of it?" Mr. Huang County's voice rose, with an exaggerated look of surprise on his face, "You have thought of it? Why? Please tell me carefully."
"Boy, no, the students study day and night and work hard to pass the exam, just because of Third Uncle, because if they can't pass the exam, the student will not be able to survive, and the student's family will not be able to survive." Li Xuedong's throat choked,
Tears fell.
"Pour a cup of tea for Li Xiucai, don't be impatient, speak slowly." Huang County Master ordered in a gentle voice.
Mr. Yao poured a cup of tea himself, served it to Li Xuedong, and said with a warm smile: "Drink some tea, don't be anxious, speak slowly."
Li Xuedong drank all the tea in one breath, feeling a little calmer, and continued:
"In the autumn three years ago, the student's father took the cow that the student's family and his third uncle's family raised jointly to Caojiabu for breeding. On the way back, there was a heavy rain. The father covered the cow with something to protect it from the rain.
When I got home, Niu was fine. My father had a high fever and stayed up for three days, but he couldn't survive.
"When my father left, he left a message. There was no need to hold a funeral, and there was no need to buy another coffin. Just open my mother's coffin and put him and my mother together. But the third uncle insisted on having a grand ceremony. With the help of the grand ceremony,
Third cousin got a lot of money from his father's funeral, but the student's family savings were all wiped out.
"When my father left, the eldest sister combed her hair in front of him and vowed not to marry. The Zhang family, who were engaged to the eldest sister, agreed to cancel the engagement, but the third cousin stood in the way. The third cousin said that the eldest sister would cancel the engagement.
In order to ruin the reputation of the Li family, the eldest sister took a gold and silver hairpin left by her grandma and gave it to the third uncle for half a shilling, so the third uncle no longer stopped her.
"When the cow that my father died was pregnant with its calf, the third cousin said that the cow's belly was big because it was sick. The third uncle also said that the cow's diseases were all caused by her father. Give the cow
To take the medicine, he asked for the copper coins from the fanger to be paid by our family. He said that the copper coins used to treat the cow's disease were more expensive than the cows. He asked our family to give him the copper coins of half a cow. We didn't have any copper coins, so the third uncle said that.
The cow belongs to their family.
"When my father was buried, it was raining. The third hall uncle said that a filial son should kneel at his grave. The third hall uncle held an umbrella and personally watched the student kneel in front of his father's grave for more than three hours. The student was already weak and was wet.
It rained so much that I fell ill when I got home.
"The student has been ill for more than a year and has just recovered. The first day I walked out of the house, I bumped into my cousins Li Xuefu and Li Xueshou and was beaten violently by them. Fortunately, the third sister tried her best to protect me, and the eldest sister and the second sister rushed in time.
Back.
"After about half a month, one night, A-nan went to the edge of the bamboo forest behind the house to look at the moon. She was hit on the head with a stick by her cousins Li Xuefu and Li Xueshou, and she fainted for two days and two nights before she woke up.<
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"Grandma was beaten because she was wearing a student's long jacket."
Gu Yan raised his eyebrows when he heard Li Xuedong talking about Grandma watching the moon by the bamboo forest.
Lu Xiu likes to admire the moon the most, especially the moon in the bamboo forest. She says that the bamboo forest is swaying and the light is mottled, which is the most spiritual.
He felt that the yin energy in the bamboo forest in the cold moon was too heavy, so she could only spend time admiring the moon.
Which day was it when grandma was beaten to death? We need to find out clearly.
"Sister-in-law also brought someone to see Grandma. She was a nanny, and she said that Grandma could be sold for ten taels of silver.
"The eldest sister said that the third cousin is determined to eat up our family's more than 30 acres of paddy field, as well as the money that grandma is worth. The eldest sister, the second sister and the others can also sell it for three to five taels of silver. "Later, the eldest sister said that students have to go to school. This is the only way for our family to make a living. We do not expect students to pass the exam to be a scholar, even if they can go to the county school to study..."
Li Xuedong's words stopped abruptly and he looked at Mr. Gao.
On the way, he told Mr. Gao that if he could go to the county school as an affiliated school, he could get to know the children of the county's yamen and grain book families, and build some connections. Mr. Gao once told him that these words were hard to say.
Okay, don’t talk about it.
"I understand. I understand why you go to school. You can continue." Huang Xianzun answered in a clear voice.
"Yes, last autumn, when it was time to hand over the grain, the eldest sister did not follow the third cousin to hand over the grain like in previous years. It was the students, the eldest sister and the second sister who went to hand over the grain. This time in the autumn, the grain was handed over.
, we saved more than 1,300 copper coins, used this copper coins to pay the students' tuition, and sent the students back to the Gao Family School.
"Students in Gaojia Academy are not studying, but fighting for their lives, fighting for themselves and their eldest sister, second sister, third sister, and grandma. Students..."
Li Xuedong's throat choked up again and he couldn't speak anymore.
Mr. Huang Xianzun had already wiped away his tears, and Mr. Yao followed suit. The two rows of government servants hurried to follow. Some of them snorted sharply from time to time, and some kept following Huang Xianzun's rhythm.
Raising his hands to wipe away his tears.
Huang County Zun put his handkerchief on his face, blew his nose hard, coughed again, and asked in a loud voice: "Are Li Xuefu and Li Xueshou here?"
"Here we come." The Yamen leader replied, and walked a few steps, holding Li Xuefu and Li Xueshou with each hand, pushing them to the middle of the two rows of Yamen servants, and then pushed them down to their knees.
Huang Xianzun looked at the two people carefully, pointed at Li Xueshou, who was staring blankly with two bull's eyes, and asked: "Tell me, have you ever beaten your cousin?"
Li Xueshou followed Huang Xianzun's finger and glared at Li Xuedong, then nodded immediately, "I beat him."
"Why did you beat him?" Huang Xianzun asked next.
"My mother-in-law told me that if I kill him, I can eat meat every day!" Li Xueshou looked straight at him and told the truth directly.
