The entire capital city was dyed a stark white. People coming and going shrank in coldness and opened their mouths to exhale circles of white mist. Workers shoveling snow on the street also joked and joked from time to time, and he passed by the roadside steamer shop selling steamed buns.
In the fog, I saw two girls standing on the porch holding an umbrella.
He lowered his head, brushed off the fine snow on his shoulders, and stood silently beside the girl in pink.
The two of them seemed to be young ladies from a wealthy family. They were wearing gold silk robes on their heads and silk and satin on their bodies. This outfit alone was worth what their mother would earn from a year's bathing.
Later, the snow stopped, and the two girls were laughing and chatting. He was about to move forward when he heard a sweet cry from behind -
"Hey..." He looked back and saw that the girl in pink slipped under her feet and was about to fall to the ground!
The situation was urgent, and in his subconscious reaction, he did not take care of the defense of men and women, and rushed to the ground first to support others.
The girl was startled, stood up with a blushing face, thanked him in a low voice, and asked him if he was hurt.
He did not dare to talk to such a charming young lady, so he hurriedly said that he was fine, but accidentally exposed his damaged cloth shoes.
His shoes were made for him by his mother last year. They were not very strong to begin with, and now they were even more unstable after a fall.
"I'm Wang Jing." He licked his lips and lowered his head.
She smiled and just said: "My surname is Zeng."
The two wanted to meet each other several times and fell in love with each other. Later, he repeatedly told her that one day he would obtain fame, and when he became famous, he would come back to marry her.
But after all, she didn't wait until the day when Wang Jing was admitted as a scholar, because the Zeng family wanted to marry her off. She was already sixteen years old. She was supposed to get married last year, but because Zeng Wei was unwilling to do so, she delayed it for a while.
year, but Mr. Zeng is unwilling to delay it any longer this year.
Because the bride price given by the other party was too much.
Zeng Wei didn't want to. She belonged to Wang Jing in her heart and refused to marry. What's more, the man was not in the capital, but a member of the Communist Party of China. He was over fifty years old. If Zeng Wei married, she would be Jiu Yiniang.
After all, the Zeng family was an official family, but unfortunately it was not popular in the capital where there were many powerful people. Zeng Wei was an unpopular concubine, so she might as well have sold her as a trade.
Wang Jing said with red eyes: "But even so, I still dare not take her away. I am afraid that she will be criticized by others, and she does not dare to really abandon the family. She ran away from Zeng's house and was homeless at night, so I
I just brought her home, but I never broke the rules, and the Zeng family also knows where my family lives."
"She stayed with me for about five days. After the five days, I personally sent her back to Zeng's house. The concierge at the time should be able to testify for me."
"Can what you say be guaranteed to be true?" Jiang Wu actually believed most of it in his heart, because according to what his neighbor said before, assuming that Zeng Wei and Wang Jing eloped, Wang Jing took the person directly into his home.
If they really eloped, and the master of the Zeng family was an official, how could he not find out where Wang Jing lived? If he was determined to find his daughter and was concerned about her reputation, how could he let her stay with the foreign man for five days.
Besides...Jiang Wu tested it and found that Zeng Wei's virginity was intact.
But even though Jiang Wu already knew the ins and outs of Wang Jing's side, he still had to confront the Zeng family in court, so Wang Jing still needed to go to the capital.
He didn't object, but asked at the end: "Did it hurt when she left?"
Jiang Wusi just said: "The examination of the body has been completed, and it will be buried soon after the case is solved."
When Jiang Wu went back, he was still sitting on the horse. At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the pale moonlight emerged. Wang Jing's wooden house was quiet, and the oil lamp in the next door room was lit.
"Creak-" The door of the neighbor's house was violently knocked open from the inside. A little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old cried and struggled to run out. Behind her was the neighbor she had seen before. She raised her hand
With a huge stick, he hit the little girl repeatedly, cursing in dialects that others could not understand. The little girl struggled and cried, and her skin and flesh were torn apart from the beatings.
Jiang Wu was also a girl, so naturally she couldn't see this scene. However, there was a Qianhu next to her who understood Shouxian dialect and sighed: "This little girl is so pitiful."
Jiang Wu turned to him and asked: "What did she say?"
Qianhu rubbed the back of his head and said, "I'm complaining about why this little girl is so thin and can't go out to work and make money early for my brother to spend."
Isn't this reason too bizarre? Jiang Wu found it unbelievable. When he looked inside, he saw a round table in the small courtyard. Sitting beside the table was a man in white. He was estimated to be around 20 years old.
He could be completely indifferent to the fact that such a young sister was punished because of him.
Jiang Wu's intuition was a little strange, and she wanted to take another look, but her neighbor had already discovered it. She glared at Jiang Wu fiercely, slipped the little girl back into the courtyard, and closed the door with a bang.
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It was already late at night, the weather was not good, and it started to snow again. Jiang Wu didn't feel cold while sitting in the sedan chair, but he felt pity for Zhou Xian'en and others who were riding outside.
After all, she was not from ancient times and did not have such heavy defenses against men and women. She simply opened the curtain and called: "Master Zhou!"
Zhou Xianen turned around, her handsome face turned red from the cold. He couldn't hear what she said through the wind and snow, so he could only shout at the top of his lungs: "What did you say?"
Jiang Wu raised his hand to stop the convoy, and then trotted to Zhou Xianen's horse. Zhou Xianen dismounted in confusion before he understood what she was going to do.
The wind and snow were howling, and Jiang Wu was afraid that the other party couldn't hear him, so he simply leaned into the other party's ear and said, "Master Zhou, are you in a hurry to go back tonight?"
There was a "boom" in Zhou Xianen's head, and the girl's warm breath fell on his neck.
"You...what did you say?" His ears turned a little red.
Jiang Wu frowned, thinking, don't you martial arts practitioners have extraordinary ears?
"I said! If you are not in a hurry to go back tonight, why not go to the sedan to repair it for a while! It is snowing too much outside!"
Zhou Xianen was frightened by her sudden increase in volume.
He looked at Jiang Wu in embarrassment and said, "Miss Jiang hasn't left the cabinet yet..."
Jiang Wu became impatient and thought about how you can look like Fu Heng without losing any skin. Why are the old men so nagging, but in front of others she still had to say gently: "Zhou
Don't worry, sir, I'm not that squeamish."
Zhou Xianen glanced at his brothers who were about to turn into snowmen from the rain, and the scholar who felt like he was about to pass away, and finally decided to find a place to rest for a while.
Others don't say it on the surface, but they all feel in their hearts that Miss Jiang is really a good person.
Not to mention that Jiang Wu wanted to avoid suspicion. People got into the sedan, but the horses had to stay outside in the cold.
Finally, we found an earthen shed that barely had a roof, and arranged for someone to light a fire to keep warm, so we could barely survive the night.
When Jiang Wu fell asleep, he suddenly felt the person next to him move.
Who is sleeping next to her? No one.
Jiang Wu is a bit of a bed-worn person and won't be able to sleep well outside. In fact, she didn't sleep well at Fu Heng's place last night.
Just when she was debating whether to open her eyes and take a look, the cold blade suddenly touched her neck.
Then there was a hoarse voice: "Are you awake?" As he said that, the man holding the knife pressed hard, and Jiang Wu immediately felt a sharp sting on his neck.