"Ah Shou, do you think I am smart? I know that if there are just a few witnesses, a few victims, and a group of indignant people, those old immortals will definitely not admit it, so I asked Lao Xianyu specifically
, is there any respected old scholar in Cangzhou City... preferably a teacher, and then I will go out and invite him personally!"
"At first, old man Xu thought that I was showing up as a woman. He was too lenient. In the end, he almost choked to death because of my few words! I told him directly that such a big thing happened in Cangzhou and that the wealthy gentry were so greedy.
Shameless and irresponsible, God knows whether scholars from Cangzhou will be implicated in the future provincial examinations, and God knows whether the Tibetan Academy will treat Cangzhou scholars differently."
"That Xu Weng is really frightened! He himself has failed in many examinations all his life and has no ambition to take the imperial examination. However, he always hopes that the disciples he has spent countless efforts to teach can be successful, right? What if he is really beaten by such a few dogs?
If a big businessman is implicated, wouldn’t he even want to vomit blood? You don’t know, when he saw the bodies being recovered from the pond, he almost vomited out the yellow bile water!”
"I think he was really angry. Grandpa Ge told me at the beginning that among scholars there are hypocrites, shameless ones, pedantic ones, aloof people, and indifferent people... But most of them are at least still
He knows the difference between black and white, and he still has a little sense of shame. Xu Weng was really frightened by what he saw and heard, so he took the lead to come forward tonight."
"If he, a scholar, takes the lead, and other scholars in Cangzhou City still stand by and watch, then they will be stabbed in the spine and scolded to death by the people! After reading the books of sages for so many years, they don't know how to make decisions for the people. What should they do?"
Zhang Shou sat there quietly, becoming more and more excited as he listened to Zhu Ying's words, his face glowing with joy, and the joy of doing something good burst out from the inside out, and it could even infect the whole room.
He couldn't help but chuckle. Although Zhu Tingfang shook his head helplessly when he saw her again, the approval on his face was not hidden at all.
At that moment, he said: "Yingying, you are really thoughtful this time. If you hadn't invited that Xu Weng, these stubborn old men would probably have continued to carry on. Now they are in a daze.
, but it is impossible to get away with it. I have already ordered people to publicize Xu Weng's jokes about criticizing hypocrites, so that the scholarly public opinion will naturally know how to turn."
Zhu Ying immediately beamed, and then looked at Zhu Tingfang again, with a look on her face that begged for praise and praise. The more praise and praise the better. Facing such a sister, Brother Zhu could only sigh and said: "Although your reason for threatening that Xu Weng is really
It’s too straightforward, but considering that the final result is good, you did the right thing this time.”
Zhu Ying immediately snorted unhappily: "Brother, can't you praise me sincerely like Ah Shou?"
"Praise? If you meet a tougher person, not to mention that this trick may not be effective, it may even make you a mess, so you have the nerve to show off your merit?" Zhu Tingfang couldn't help but scolded again, and when Zhu Ying saw Zhu Ying, she simply hid.
Zhang Shou walked behind the chair, tilting his chin slightly and looking at himself. He could only glare at Zhang Shou, "Don't indulge her like this in the future, otherwise you will suffer a lot!"
Seeing Zhu Tingfang getting up from her seat and striding out of the door, Zhu Ying snorted softly at his back, and then said unhappily: "Ah Shou, after my brother came back this time, he always treated me rudely."
Picking his nose and raising his eyes, he has never been like this before!"
Zhang Shou suddenly touched his nose with a guilty conscience, he might have deliberately not told the truth, but seeing Zhu Ying holding the tassel of the jade pendant and getting angry, he finally decided to pierce the window paper.
"Yingying, every brother in the world hopes that his sister will marry well, but even if he settles on a marriage that seems to suit his sister's wishes, he will feel unhappy. Sometimes he is worried that his sister will be deceived, and sometimes he is worried that she will give her sincere love.
There are too many things that are not reciprocated. Sometimes I am worried that the female foreign minister will forget about her father and brother when she has a husband. Sometimes I am worried that my future brother-in-law will be spoiled by his foreign affairs."
Zhu Ying initially thought that Zhang Shou was also preaching, so she just listened indifferently. But when Zhang Shou mentioned those few examples, she suddenly became a little startled and couldn't help but stare at Zhang Shou and asked in surprise:
"Ah Shou, what you said... seems to be what eldest brother is thinking right now, right? Well, I think about his words and deeds in recent days, it seems that he is worried about this!"
Zhang Shou did not answer clearly, but laughed: "I worry about gains and losses, and my sister is married. If something happens, no matter how powerful the eldest brother is, he will inevitably be out of reach, so Brother Zhu will look different in your eyes."
After all, I am worried about you."
"You are right. I used to be the closest to my eldest brother. When I was a kid, he would let me sit on his shoulder to look at the lights... I have to tell him, don't worry about me... There are still people in this world who can bully me.
It hasn't been born yet, and besides, you and I have made an agreement."
Zhu Ying's smile was as genuine as ever, bright and without any impurities.
She took a deep look at Zhang Shou and said with a smile: "I believe you won't lie to me... Moreover, with your high vision, Ah Shou, you can't find anyone better than me in this world! I'm so early
I just said that if you fall in love with someone else in the future, just tell me clearly that I am not that kind of shrew!"
While saying she wasn't a shrew, Zhu Ying gently pinched her fingers with an expression that said you understand.
Seeing that this eldest lady was so generous, Zhang Shou could only rush forward and open the door, then bowed and said: "Okay, for a pot like me, naturally only a lid as powerful as yours can be worthy of it.
It's getting late, you go back quickly, before Brother Zhu comes to kill me and ask for my life!"
"Hmph, it sounds like you are afraid of my elder brother...don't you think I can't tell? You are not like Zhang Chen Lu Sanlang, you are not afraid of him at all!"
When Zhang Shou smiled and said nothing, watching Zhu Ying go out briskly and disappear outside the courtyard gate, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then when he was about to close the door, he suddenly looked to the side as if he had a tacit understanding. Sure enough,
I saw Ah Liu standing in the shadow of the wall at some point. He had long been used to people disappearing and disappearing. He hooked his hand at people, and then turned around and entered the house.
Ah Liu followed Zhang Shou into the house, hesitated for a moment and then whispered: "I should have come back earlier..."
"This is in the county government. Besides, Yingying created the turmoil by her own hand. If something goes wrong, don't worry about it."
Zhang Shou signaled Ah Liu to close the door, and then asked with great interest: "I am very curious, what was the scene like when Mr. Jiang, who confessed for his father, met his father, who committed suicide? If you want me to guess,
, I think it’s probably not that the father and son hugged each other and cried when they met, but they probably had a huge quarrel and almost got into a fight?”
"How does the young master know?" Ah Liu was a little surprised, and then the corner of his mouth curled up, "Is it possible that you have a bad mouth like me?"
"Not only are you talking more and more in private now, but you are also becoming more and more good at telling bad jokes!" Zhang Shou pointed at Ah Liu with his hand, and then said angrily, "What is the crow's mouth? This is called Yiyu.
It’s a prophecy, do you understand?”
"Oh...it turns out that this is called a prophecy, and I learned another idiom."
Ah Liu answered in a very natural tone. When he saw Zhang Shou grabbing the lid of the tea cup and trying to throw it away, he immediately got back to his words and said: "When father and son first met, they were about to hold each other's hands and cry. But when the man
Master Jiang asked why Young Master Jiang came here, and immediately started to get angry. Later, he took off his shoes and started chasing people around..."
He paused for a moment, and then said nonchalantly: "Young Master Jiang just ran away at first. When he found out that he couldn't escape, he probably became very angry. He took the shoes from his father's hand and started fighting with others.
They yelled at each other, and eventually the father and son started fighting."
Zhang Shou was actually just making a random guess based on the tempers of Young Master Jiang and Master Jiang. He didn't expect to get it right just now, so he asked with interest: "Oh? What did they both say to each other?"
"The accent is quite strong, I didn't understand it." Ah Liu didn't hide his helplessness at all, and then added, "It seems to be the accent from the south, but I have never been to the south, so I can't tell where it is.
of."
Zhang Shou immediately slapped his forehead, thinking that Wu Nong's soft words were repeated thousands of times. Not to mention that northerners couldn't understand it, southerners also might not understand the dialect of the county next door... Just like he once said in
After staying in the capital for a long time, and finally being able to barely understand the dialect in the capital, I went to Suzhou and had the same meal. When I arrived in Ningbo, I was still dumbfounded.
Now think about it, people said before that the Jiang family and the Hua family, the richest man in Suzhou, are related by marriage. It seems that the Jiang family may have stayed in Suzhou. Otherwise, where did the southern accent that made Ah Liu completely confused come from?
"Originally, I wanted to ask Commander Du to ask if there were any southerners in the Ruiqi camp, but in the end I came back directly." Ah Liu saw Zhang Shou nodding knowingly, approving that he had done the right thing, and he couldn't help but smile.
Zhang Shou's idea is very simple.
Du Heng had left Master Jiang as a hot potato before, but then he ordered people to escort Master Jiang and the ruffians to the palace, and asked Du Heng to send someone to guard him. With Du Heng's temper, if the guard reported him, he said
It was the southern accent used by the Jiang family and his son when they spoke. I couldn't tell what they were talking about specifically. They would definitely search for someone to be the translator.
As for him... he actually doesn't care what the Jiang family and his son discuss in private, but it's a pity that he can't stand up to others' disbelief!
When Ah Liuzheng told Zhang Shou that he could not do anything about the conversation between the Jiang family and his son because of his accent problem, the father-son fight between Mr. Jiang and Young Master Jiang, which went from scolding to fighting, had already ended.
Because the guards did not come in to stop them, the war between father and son lasted for a long time, so both of them were in a state of embarrassment. Mr. Jiang lost all his shoes and was barefoot at this time.
Young Master Jiang still had a bright red slap mark on his face, his hair was messy, and his clothes had been ripped open with a huge hole. At this time, he was glaring at his father angrily. He didn't seem to notice that the guards had changed.
Two, two eyes were staring at their father fiercely, their faces red and necks thick with anger.
"You damn old man, you don't know what's good or bad! Who am I being imprisoned here for? It's all because of your disorder!"
At this moment, he had switched to a Mandarin accent. After scolding him, he couldn't help but grab a handful of rotten straw and threw it at Mr. Jiang. Seeing that the straw fell to the ground halfway, he simply supported the ground with one hand and climbed up.
He came and immediately found a corner farthest away from his father and sat down, putting his head between his knees, as if he was dozing off from exhaustion.
Only he himself knows how many messages he and his father exchanged just now when they seemed to be scolding and beating each other in Wu Nong's soft language. His father is from Cangzhou, but he started his family in Suzhou, and his mother is the daughter of an in-law of the Hua family.
Therefore, both his parents can speak Suzhou dialect, and the eldest son has been nurtured by his parents to speak some Suzhou dialect, while the second and third children cannot.
And because of this, he was shocked to learn just now that his father almost committed suicide. It was not because he was temporarily blinded by grief and anger, but because he was forced to do so! The eldest prince was held hostage by the mob before, and the guards and accompanying sharp cavalry
All the battalion guards were captured in one fell swoop, but a close aide was still outside, and it was this person who came out to threaten his father into doing this.
But the eldest prince's staff actually threatened his father and put all the blame on the eldest prince... What the hell is this? This is unreasonable, right? If he is a loyal servant who cares for the eldest prince, his father should be blamed
It is only right to take it all and clean the eldest prince!
Young Master Jiang was thinking hard, and Master Jiang had closed his eyes to rest. The father and son seemed to be paying no attention to each other, but this scene was a relief to the eyes of the two guards who rushed outside to change shifts.
Du Heng specially changed the two of them, whose ancestral home was Changzhou and Yangzhou, to try to understand what the Jiang family and his son were talking about. They had to come, but they all disagreed in their hearts. There are as many prefectures and counties in the south as there are local accents.
Even if they could barely distinguish the accents of the Jiang family and his son, they probably wouldn't be able to understand their words!
Since the father and son don't talk about it now, they can save some effort!
As the night passed little by little, the two guards gradually began to take a nap, but suddenly, they heard an exclamation: "That's not right! When the little brother sent me here, he said he wanted me to come and see me.
Dad, you asked me if I wanted to be locked up so much...it means he didn't want to lock me up! Then why did he let me squat here? No, I want to get out, let me out!"
The two guards suddenly woke up and saw through the crack in the door that they had been fighting with their father before. Therefore, the disheveled Young Master Jiang rushed over angrily and beat the door with his fists desperately. One of them cursed angrily.
Up.
"It's midnight, what are you making a fuss about? Go back!"
"I'm not a prisoner, why should I go back!" Even though he heard his father tell the truth before, he was scolded severely and then really beaten. Young Master Jiang felt very angry.
Not only did Shi not stop, but he slammed the door louder, "I want to see the guy who sent me here before, I want to see him! He said it's none of my business!"
Is this young master mentally ill? The guard was so angry that he immediately said firmly: "If you don't want to go back and sit through the prison, then get back here. Tonight, Mr. Xu has brought someone to
You have sued me, you have taken human life lightly, you are unkind for the sake of wealth, your days of being a mere common man are over!"