Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

Chapter 56: Half a Day in Shackles

All the students were excited to hear that Lu Bozhou had returned.

Everyone turned around to greet the king in their hearts.

"Brother Bozhou, you really bring honor to our students from Nanli County. We will be able to stand up straight when we meet students from Wangju County next time."

"Captain Lu, well done!"

A student patted Lu Bozhou's shoulder hard.

As Lu Bozhou walked along, he was patted on the shoulder countless times.

Arriving at the court, Lu Bozhou bowed and said, "Student greets the Master."

"Oh, the chief judge of the case is here!" County Magistrate Xu was so happy today that he made a joke.

"I dare not!" Lu Bozhou still bowed.

When Magistrate Xu heard Lu Bozhou claiming to be a student, he did not slap Lu Bozhou in the face, which made Lu Cunren very dissatisfied.

He covered his swollen face.

My mouth is full of the taste of rust and my heart is filled with sorrow.

Magistrate Xu had two chairs placed at the entrance of the court hall. He sat on one of the chairs and asked Lu Bozhou to sit on one of the chairs.

Lu Bozhou refused to sit down no matter what.

Magistrate Xu had no choice but to sit down and hold a meeting with the students.

"…When the examination began, He Xuezheng took out the examination questions for the undergraduate course and placed them before Confucius."

"For some reason, when I was burning the incense, it suddenly collapsed."

"Then, invite King Zhao to come in and give the test questions again..."

It was a rare occasion for the students to hear Magistrate Xu speak, and it was also the first time they had heard such a thrilling story.

As Magistrate Xu explained, there were exclamations of amazement.

One student said, "Lu Cunren is really abominable. He actually wants to frame Brother Bozhou for cheating in the imperial examination?"

"It's ridiculous. The questions were given on the spot. How could there be cheating?"

"Lu Cunren has bad intentions."

Hearing this, Lu Bozhou showed a look of surprise: "What happened to Cunren?"

County Magistrate Xu knew that Lu Bozhou had been in the capital for the past few days and had not returned, so he smiled and said:

"You don't know yet? You barely escaped."

He told the story of how Lu Cunren framed him with a fire stick.

Lu Bozhou immediately bowed to Magistrate Xu and said, "Mr. Gaoyi, if you hadn't sent runners to protect us students, we would have been in trouble."

"Years of hard work were destroyed in one day..." Having said this, Lu Bozhou bowed deeply.

"The county TV station is really like a parent and the students are like children. This is the true love for the people."

When Lu Bozhou bowed, the students behind him also followed suit.

Seeing so many students bowing to him at the same time, County Magistrate Xu was very excited for a moment.

"Get up, get up quickly!" County Magistrate Xu smiled and helped Lu Bozhou up first, and then helped the other students up.

"When you go back, study hard and pass the exams to become a scholar or a juren. This will be your way of repaying me." Magistrate Xu said.

The top prize in this year's provincial examination went to Nanli County, and County Magistrate Xu was extremely happy.

If you think about it carefully, including this time's first prize, Lu Bozhou has won two prizes in a row.

If you can pass the college entrance examination, you will be one of the top three.

This is a beautiful story.

Looking at the crowd around him, Lu Bozhou lowered his voice and said, "I have something to say. Can you please spare me a moment to talk?"

When they arrived at a secluded place, Lu Bozhou asked about Lu Cunren's case.

"I don't know how to judge him?"

Magistrate Xu thought that Lu Bozhou was going to increase the sentence, so he hesitated for a moment:

"If the frame-up fails, the only punishment is expulsion from the community school and 20 strokes of the cane. If not..."

Before he finished speaking, Lu Bozhou bowed to the ground and said, "I beg you to release Lu Cunren."

No wonder Li Jinglan wanted him to forgive Lu Cunren, it turned out to be just this punishment.

This punishment is too light.

It doesn't satisfy my hatred at all!

If Lu Bozhou were to speak, he should be exiled or beaten to death.

"Release Lu Cunren? Why?" County Magistrate Xu was puzzled.

"Meng Fu said, 'Respect the elderly as well as the elderly of others.' Although Lu Cunren is not kind, his grandmother is over 60 years old... Lu Cunren is the only grandson in the family. If he has an accident, I am afraid his grandmother will not survive."

Lu Bozhou raised his hands above his head.

County Magistrate Xu never expected that Lu Bozhou would plead for Lu Cunren. He was stunned. "He is the one who framed you."

"It is true that he framed me! But I have been reading books of sages since I was young, and the books say that we should love the world. After reading the books of sages, I can no longer be like them."

Magistrate Xu's first reaction was that Lu Bozhou had become stupid from reading the books of sages.

Lu Bozhou still doesn't dare to go home and has been staying at Teacher Wang's house.

Who is to blame for not being able to return home?

Wasn’t it the Lu family’s fault?

But what do you mean by forgiveness?

But then I thought again.

People like Lu Bozhou are true gentlemen.

Since he could forgive his relatives who framed him, he would certainly not harm others.

Be a little silly!

It is much better than those who talk about morality and justice but are full of thieves and prostitutes.

"It's good for a gentleman to be honest, but he should also be on guard against villains." County Magistrate Xu reminded softly.

Lu Bozhou still raised his hands above his head: "I am grateful for your advice."

"The student turned to Teacher Wang in times of crisis. At that time, the student was still suffering from tuberculosis. Teacher Wang did not hesitate at all!"

"From that time on, I vowed to be a gentleman like Master Wang."

County Magistrate Xu smiled. Although he complained, he was full of praise: "If you learn from that old guy, you will only learn a lot of upright and old-fashioned things."

Everyone in Nanli County praises Teacher Wang as a good person.

Isn't it because he has been willing to help any student who comes to him for decades?

If a major case occurred in Nanli County, the first person everyone would rule out would be Teacher Wang.

Teacher Wang will never do anything evil.

This is the reputation that has been cultivated over decades.

"Well, since you've come to plead for mercy, I'll spare him the twenty strokes of the cane, and I won't order him to drop out of the community school, but I'll just shackle him for half a day."

County Magistrate Xu is truly a wonderful man.

The students of the community school were shackled at the gate of the county government for a long time, and they were afraid that they would be expelled from the community school if they returned.

This is his alternative protection for Lu Bozhou.

"Poor child, he has no parents to protect him and no relatives to rely on." County Magistrate Xu sighed softly.

Without relatives to rely on, you will be bullied by outsiders.

But a child without a father will be bullied by his own relatives.

Thinking of what Lu Bozhou had gone through over the past four years, County Magistrate Xu was filled with sympathy.

When the students heard that Lu Bozhou asked Magistrate Xu to release Lu Cunren, they were outraged.

"Are you stupid? Why did you let Lu Cunren go?"

"He wants to make a living in the Lu family! Are we going to let him start his own business?"

In this era, without the protection of a clan, you are just a piece of meat in someone else's mouth.

Because they bullied you, no clan will stand up for you.

"No one else bullied him. It was the people of the Lu family who bullied him. He suffered for four years. Who brought this upon him? Have you forgotten everything?"

"If I were him, I would never forgive Lu Cunren. This is a frame-up for the imperial examination."

The human mind is strange.

If Lu Bozhou did not plead for Lu Cunren, some people would say that he was heartless and did not consider the feelings of his relatives.

But now, everyone thinks that Lu Bozhou should not forgive Lu Cunren.

But no matter what others said, Lu Bozhou's reputation as a kind and honest gentleman spread after Lu Cunren was shackled in front of the county government office for half a day.

"If it weren't for Brother Bozhou pleading for you, you would not only be beaten with twenty sticks, but also be expelled from school!" A classmate stepped forward and scolded Lu Cunren.

"Those who know better should voluntarily drop out of school and not tarnish the reputation of our community school."

In the court, Lu Cunren had several teeth knocked out by the bailiffs, and his speech was lisp.

"I still have to study! I can't drop out! I have purple energy."

He grabbed the yoke around his neck, tears streaming down his face.

The news that Lu Cunren had been in shackles for half a day soon spread to Wangju County.

Mr. Zhang from Wangju County is talking to his housekeeper.

"Li leaked the exam questions to Lu Bozhou?"

"Li has another daughter?"

Mr. Zhang was so angry that he laughed.

Do you think I'm a fool?

The questions for the provincial examination are already revealed, and everyone knows them.

Ning Xin was being dishonest by using this topic to fool him.