Jia Gui's casual remark made Su Cheng's mother Zhang almost stand up in shock: "Who wants to take my name?"
Su Cheng hurriedly said: "No, it's just our guess. If I don't get married, the Deng family may not be willing to let go of this advantage. Most likely, they will marry someone else from our family. My brother and the others can't even think about it. Or they may marry someone else.
The girl is married to the mistress or the second girl. The news that the Su and Deng families are getting married has already spread throughout Jingzhou. For the sake of good looks, it is the cheapest to take the second girl under her mother's name, but I don't know who to marry."
After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang thought for a long time and said, "If this is really the case, I can't refuse."
Jia Gui held his chin and said: "The trouble with this matter is that Uncle Su and Mrs. Su are both people who cannot be dealt with directly. And it is difficult to persuade them at such an old age. I can only make it small, and it is inconvenient to use a sledgehammer. It is very difficult.
ah."
Su Cheng had never studied how to deal with women in the back house, so he was at a loss and said: "I have the book about the disputes in the back house written by Princess Mu of Dongping Prefecture, but I haven't read it. I left it in the capital this time and didn't bring it with me.
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Jia Gui clapped his hands: "Buy it now!"
Mrs. Zhang glanced at them: "Don't go too far. Do you guess what Aunt He did?"
Jia Gui said "Oh": "I guess some monks and Taoists will do it." Nai thought to himself, "The old woman went to tell the secret this morning, and the second-rate aunt who was used as bait this morning was coaxed out.
It can be seen that Aunt He is an activist and will do whatever she says. She bribes people around the second-rate aunt - it is impossible for her to instigate it herself. Aunt Su will have to investigate such a stupid thing and cannot expose herself.
Then she may have bribed people around other aunts. Aunt Su, you have to be careful that those women have several mouths to noisy you at the same time."
Mrs. Zhang frowned; Su Cheng quickly said: "My mother just ignores them. She shuts up whoever makes noise. They are just cats and dogs. It's not that big of a deal to kick them out."
Mrs. Zhang sighed: "How can it be so easy? Your father always hopes that everything will be prosperous for the family and everything."
Su Cheng said: "A harmonious family means that no one causes trouble, but Aunt He is causing trouble now."
Zhang sighed again before speaking. Jia Gui suddenly clenched her fists excitedly: "I know what Aunt He is going to do~~"
Su Cheng asked quickly: "What?"
Jia Gui said: "Pull Aunt Su off the horse! Is there anything bigger than witchcraft in the world? The queen can even be killed."
Su Cheng was startled and sneered: "She said there is no witchcraft but witchcraft?"
Jia Gui said with a bad smile: "Aunt Su, that second-rate aunt went to the door of Sister Su's courtyard to make trouble. Should you fix her?"
Zhang said: "I'm going to punish her by kneeling in prayer."
Su Cheng frowned: "Is this the penalty for kneeling to meditate? It's too light."
Jia Gui hurriedly said: "It's neither serious nor serious. In my opinion, it's too serious. Her crime can only be called an attempted crime, so there's no need to deal with her at all. But the mother-in-law in Sister Su's courtyard cannot be spared."
Su Cheng glanced at her: "What's your idea?"
Jia Gui blinked: "No, I'm just waiting." Then he snapped his fingers and said, "We have a plug-in!" Then he called Li Xia over and said, "Send a message to the inn where I stayed before." He whispered like this.
Lixia looked at Su Cheng, and Su Cheng nodded; Lixia then went out.
The three of them discussed some more things, and Su Cheng and Jia Gui said goodbye and went back to the courtyard. Mrs. Zhang stopped talking and looked at Su Cheng and then at Jia Gui. Jia Gui said, "Do you two have any relationship?"
As I said, I'll go back by myself first~~ If you don't send me away, I won't." He ran away with a smile.
Mrs. Zhang heard her footsteps disappear and saw Su Cheng waiting quietly aside. After hesitating for a moment, she finally pulled Su Cheng away and said, "Why is this Miss Jia still snapping her fingers? She looks like a man."
Su Cheng said: "She was happy and just playing around."
Mrs. Zhang said: "How can any girl snap her fingers? Fortunately, no one else heard her, otherwise it would be a joke."
Su Cheng couldn't laugh or cry: "It doesn't matter if she doesn't laugh at anyone in the world, who dares to laugh at her? Mother thinks too much."
Mrs. Zhang frowned and said, "She has such a temperament, what will she do if she gets married one day?" Seeing Su Cheng's carelessness, she sighed softly, "Who didn't have a lot of favors at home when she was a girl? After she got married, she didn't.
Do you have to be sensible?"
Su Cheng thought for a moment and said, "What if I'm not sensible?"
Mrs. Zhang was startled: "What?"
Su Cheng said: "What if you are ignorant after getting married? For example, you still like to snap your fingers and play, don't mind people's jokes, don't give your husband's concubine a good look, and don't want to take the concubine in your name, what will happen? What if?
What will happen if you are not virtuous? My mother has me and my brother, as well as my grandfather and uncle. So, are Aunt He’s children comparable to us or is her natal family comparable to my mother’s family? "
Mrs. Zhang said: "Who can compare with her mother's family? Is she worthy? I'm afraid you and I will be unhappy."
"Oh. What will happen if I am unhappy?"
Mrs. Zhang thought for a long time, if she just refused to accept the concubine... she had to have an excuse. Both her daughter and Miss Jia were clever, and they would be able to arrange it. She murmured: "It doesn't seem to be the case...
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Su Cheng clapped his hands and said: "That's right! It doesn't matter anyway, what's the point of being virtuous? Just think of them as ordinary relatives who come to fight in the autumn wind."
Mrs. Zhang smiled bitterly and stroked the back of her neck: "Mom knows what you mean. It's just... you have to save some face for me."
Su Cheng pouted: "It's about saving face again..." The mother-in-law and her daughter sat quietly and said nothing. Mrs. Zhang then ordered people to deal with the intrusive mother-in-law in her daughter's courtyard, but there was no movement from the aunt who caused the trouble.
, it seems a bit like they have a guilty conscience.
The next night, the nursing home of the Su Mansion caught three thieves who came to check on the spot, and they made a fuss for half the night. Even if a thief was found in the house of the prefect, he had to be sent to the government. At dawn, the three thieves were sent from the Su Mansion.
Entering the magistrate's office, Su Tao interrogated him personally. There was a thief at the magistrate's house, and it was so interesting for the magistrate to interrogate the case! A few idle men gathered together, and a crowd of people rushed over to watch the fun. Su Tao himself also had a headache. Everyone was talking
Look, wow, how come these three thieves are still Taoist priests? The Taoist robes they wore were torn, their Taoist crowns were long gone, and their buns were messed up. It was so embarrassing and interesting.
The opening of the interrogation case was also interesting and tense. Su Tao asked the plaintiff first, and the plaintiff shouted angrily: "This slave is the nurse in the home of Mr. Su, the prefect of Jingzhou - Sun Zhuzi -" and the people laughed in unison.
Su Tao coughed and said, "How did you catch these two thieves? Tell me quickly!" Sun Zhuzhu heard this and spoke in a loud voice with joy.
He was originally the head of the nursing home of the Su family, and he patrolled as usual the night before. After the third watch, a boy of thirteen or fourteen ran over in a panic, pulled him and said: "Brother Sun... I, I, I
Did I...did I see a thief?"
Sun Zhuzi suddenly became more energetic: "Where is it?"
The boy said: "Outside the west corner gate."
Sun Zhuzi's face made a tiger's face: "You're not in our house, so you must be pouring night fragrance after midnight, right?" He looked at him again, "Where did you go to bed at night? Why are you so young?
Children’s vigil?”
The boy said: "I am not a night watchman. I am watching the night at the west corner gate. My mother saw the wind and sent me to deliver a coat to him. I, I, I... I saw the shadows of two people sneaking around us.
He was wandering around outside the house and quickly grabbed me. I looked at it for a long time and thought it might be a thief. He kept an eye on it and asked me to look for Brother Sun."
Sun Zhuzi nodded: "You have some courage." He hurriedly led a few big and round guard boys to the west corner gate.
This group of boys heard that there were only two thieves, and they were still circling outside the house, not daring to come in. They all became more courageous, and rushed out of the house shouting to catch the thieves. How could they not alert the thieves like this? Wait for them to run away.
When I went out, I only saw two black figures running wildly in the distance, and I couldn't catch them no matter how hard I chased them.
The night watchman stamped his feet vigorously: "What are you shouting? Didn't it scare the thieves away? All the reward money they got was gone. Those two thieves are so timid, just like fish. Can't you just be quiet? Didn't you catch any fish?
Have you fished?" Everyone was just a little bored at first, but when they heard him talk about "rewarding money", they immediately regretted it and complained that each other was too noisy and scared away the thieves. The night watchman said regretfully, "I wonder if they will come tomorrow night.
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His son said: "I was scared today, so I probably won't dare to come tomorrow."
The vigilante said: "As the old saying goes, thieves will never die. Since they have not stolen anything, there is no guarantee that they will come back tomorrow." Then he recited a Buddha chant, "Buddha, please bless these two little thieves who will come back tomorrow! Bless the villain to catch them."
!Bless me with many rewards!"
Sun Zhuzhu scolded: "Who are you? It's not your turn to catch the thief!" The boys guarding the courtyard made a noise in unison, hoping that the thief would come again tomorrow.
Last night, Sun Zhuzhu specially arranged for someone to guard the west corner gate. No one can stop a person's luck. As the third watch approaches, the sneaky black shadow comes again, and today it is
Three! Can Sun Zhuzi let them go? The guards under his command divided into two teams to outflank them, and captured the three thieves without any effort.
Su Tao was startled when he heard this. The news he got this morning was not like that. It said that the thief was caught stealing things in the house and was caught on the spot. Why didn't he enter the house at all? If he didn't protect everything, he was not a thief? Wouldn't it be embarrassing and embarrassing?
At this point, so many people came to watch the fun, Su Tao had no choice but to ask the three thieves: "What are you doing outside my house in the middle of the night?"
The three thieves looked at each other and smiled bitterly. The older one said to Su Tao: "I am not a thief." Then he also said something.
It turned out that these two were Taoist priests from the Taihui Temple in the city. Someone came to their temple the day before yesterday and said that someone in the Su Mansion was using ghost exorcism to harm people. Someone had seen it with their own eyes the night before yesterday. Their master had reminded Mr. Su that Mr. Su only
I don’t believe it. I heard that the person who is good at magic has been practicing magic recently. I don’t know who he wants to harm, but it is probably Mr. Su himself. With no choice, their master is willing to pay fifty taels of silver to Taihui Guanqi and ask the two immortals to go and destroy it.
The evil man's spell. He also said that this matter was extremely important, so he asked the Immortal to go there that night. After the deed was accomplished, both their master and Mr. Su would be generously rewarded. The Taoist temple accepted the money and sent two Taoist priests who had practiced for many years that night.
Go to Su's house and hang out.
Since the "master" said that Mr. Su refused to believe it, they couldn't tell the Su family clearly. The high wall was deep and they couldn't get in, so they could only wander outside. Near the middle of the night, the two Taoist priests suddenly saw a black shadow.
Floating from the tree, he quickly pulled out the mahogany sword. Before he could take out the talisman, the shadow floated forward quickly. The Taoist priest shouted: "Where are you monster!" and chased after him. The shadow floated to the west corner gate of Su Mansion.
Nearby, he suddenly climbed over the wall and disappeared! Two Taoist priests wanted to chase him. One was afraid that the Su family didn't believe it, and the other was seeing that the black shadow was moving quickly, so they were afraid that they were no match. Just as they were hesitating, they heard Sun Zhuzhu and his men guarding the courtyard.
They screamed and rushed out to catch the thief. The two Taoist priests immediately understood that they were being regarded as thieves, and they were so frightened that they ran away. Fortunately, they ran fast, and even the dogs couldn't catch them.
Returning to Taihui Temple, the two Taoist priests told their master what had happened. Their master thought about it for a long time and said: "We cultivators have good intentions, how can we ignore death and not save him." Then Ming'er went with them. He never thought about it.
The flying black shadow was not seen the next night, but instead the Su family arrested him as a thief.
After hearing this, Su Tao sneered and said, "Nonsense!"
The old Taoist priest saluted and said, "Sir, don't be stubborn and harm your own family."
Su Tao said: "You said that the person who asked you to break the law reminded me, why did this happen?"
The old Taoist priest was stunned: "That person really said that."
"You are lying!" Su Tao said with a dark face, "You must have made up an excuse to get away with it when you saw that you were arrested." Su Tao slapped the alarm and ordered the officials to take down the three Taoist priests and beat them.
I heard someone shouting below: "Master Su is confused! These three Taoist priests are obviously not thieves."
Su Tao lowered his head and saw a young scholar slowly walking out of the crowd. He pointed at the old Taoist priest and said, "Ignore other things. How could such an old Taoist priest come out to be a thief? Something happened.
Can he run away? It's not like he has no disciples or grandchildren."
Su Tao asked: "Who are you?"
The boy bowed and saluted: "Wansheng's surname is Dong, from Zhangzhou, Fujian. He passed by Jingzhou on his way north to study. I was buying food on the street just now. I heard about a lawsuit and followed him. I hope you will forgive me for being presumptuous."
Su Tao was a scholar. Seeing that the scholar had a good face, he became fond of him. Hearing that he was a Confucian scholar from the south made him even more fond of him. He asked, "Just because of the age of this old Taoist priest, how dare you
Do you think he is not a thief?"
Dong Sheng pointed out: "Please see, sir, these three Taoist priests are all wearing Shifang shoes. No thieves would wear these to step on the ground, because it takes too much effort to run. Most of the green forest thieves wear ground-grabbing tiger boots. Also,
Their clothes are all Taoist robes, and it is not easy to move around. How can one step on them if they wear these clothes? I am afraid they will have to be stepped on." The three Taoist priests all claimed.
Su Tao said: "Really, no one has ever reminded me."
Dong Sheng smiled and said: "Of course not."
"Um?"
"If so, why didn't you tell these three Taoist priests your names?" Dong Sheng said, "Even if you don't tell me your names, you still have to tell me who you are. Otherwise, the Taoist priests will break the spell for Mr. Su in the future.
Who are you going to thank, sir?"
Su Tao thought for a long time after hearing this, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became: "Why don't I understand?"
Dong Sheng said: "Wan Sheng doesn't understand either. This matter is unreasonable. We must first find out the person who deceived several Taoist priests."
Seeing his confident look, Su Tao couldn't help blurting out: "Can you find it?"
Dong Sheng put his hands behind his hands and smiled, his eyes suddenly lit up.