The road to get rich through salted fish

Liang Feng was driving the donkey cart, listening to the weeping sound of Xiao Li from behind, and the old lady panting like a scrap, he really didn't know what it was like.

This old lady is usually fierce and vicious, and she made herself like this when she entered the yamen, isn't she too stern?

In order not to delay farming, the Zhou law stipulates that from October to February every year, it is a fixed period for the county government to deal with these family affairs. Tong'an County is a large county. Although it has always been stable and prosperous, these days, the government needs to deal with it. Cases are also piling up.

But after all, the widow of the Guo family is also well-known in the county. In a few years, she even plans to apply to the state for the honor of the chastity memorial archway. , this matter was immediately jumped into the queue.

The ins and outs of the pleadings are very clear, the rape was caught on the spot, the witnesses and the evidence were all available, and the county magistrate didn't want to waste time, there were still many cases in the study, and they came up to throw the ballots, without even giving them a look, so they rewarded each person with ten sticks first, and beat them up. They made them cry for their fathers and mothers, and after that, Baofeng quickly asked questions.

Ordinary people have a saying, "If you don't live in a public house, you can't go to hell if you die." This shows how terrifying the Yamen is to these ordinary people. With the previous series of thunderous methods and killing power, how can the two of them still have the courage to speak hard? .

It’s just that Widow Xiao insisted that it was Liang Rong who forced her to marry her in order to escape the guilt. In order to mitigate the crime, Liang Rong couldn’t bear to shirk responsibility, and even took out some small items such as the handkerchief that Widow Xiao had given him earlier. There was his name on it, "Rong Lang" or something, Liang Feng almost vomited watching the excitement outside, are the two adulterers still romantic?

In the dog-eat-dog wrangling, more unknown things were revealed in the middle, including partnerships pretending to be sick, wandering Taoist priests, pretending to be monks and practicing deeds, and defrauding Guo Er of money.

Hearing this, Guo Er's family, who were listening outside, had red eyes and trembling uncontrollably. For this good sister-in-law, their family sacrificed too much, and they almost sold their sons and daughters.

The magistrate listened coldly for a while, and then directly issued the verdict.

After each of them was hit with 300 big boards, they were imprisoned for half a year, all the property they got from the Guo family was returned, and Guo's family was compensated [-] taels of silver. Liang Rong was also deprived of his childhood status and could no longer take the imperial examination for life.

Mrs. Liang witnessed her son's future ruined with her own eyes, and was beaten to a bloody mess by the yamen servants.

At that time, she couldn't bear the heart attack, but she couldn't touch anyone else, so she slapped Xiao Li who was beside her hard, and cursed, "It's all because of you, an ignorant funeral star, who killed my son. "

Then I probably ran out of strength and passed out directly.

The donkey cart ran all the way, and I met many people on the way into the village. Today is a good day, and on the threshing ground in front of the ancestral hall, there are many villagers who come out to bask in the sun and chat. Of course, there is basically only one topic they talk about, and that is Liang Rong's romantic affair.

Seeing that they came back from the county seat, there were still a few aunts who were usually bold, so they greeted them directly and asked enthusiastically.

"Why didn't you see your Liang Rong?"

"Is Liang Rongren alright? How about not being killed?"

"It's still been detained and hasn't been released. Do you want us to help together?"

There were those who couldn't get along with Mrs. Liang and gloated, "Oh, this Liang Rong is really too, why are you so angry with the old lady?"

"That's right, didn't the old lady always say that his eldest son is the most filial and courteous?"

"Yeah, I'm still a scholar, to do such a thing, tsk tsk!"

Mrs. Liang was lying on the donkey cart. She had just woken up not long ago. She had neither strength nor energy. She was angry, but she could only breathe heavily, unable to argue with these people.

From the time the county government sent the verdict to the time he returned to the village, old man Liang never said a word, nor did his expression change once.

Until now, returning home in a state of embarrassment, looking at these familiar faces, all kinds of emotions rushed into my heart, and my face changed again and again, and finally there was only an eager curse, "Second, what do you want to do, get out of here immediately, go home."

I have heard that riches and honor do not return to their hometowns, like traveling at night in brocade clothes.

The meaning of hometown to people is always different. When they are rich and prosperous, they are afraid that they will not see them.

With the help of old man Liang, after Liang Feng put old lady Liang on the bed in the old house, he planned to go home. He didn't see his big baby all day and night, and he really missed him a little.

"Second brother, take the money and ask the doctor to show it to your elder brother, and then buy some things for him to send in. He was beaten like that, and he suffers inside!"

The sleeves were pulled, and Liang Feng's figure, which was about to leave, paused.

He turned around with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Mother, Yao Wen Yao Wu is not at home, let them go and show their filial piety to their own father, I won't be able to see them for half a year soon."

"You go, they are still children, not sensible."

"No." Liang Feng was too lazy to talk, and shook off her hand directly.

"You...you...have no heart!"

The old lady clutched her chest and cried again. She was about to die just now, but now her strength recovered really quickly.

Mrs. Li came out of the kitchen and came over with a bowl of white water, being extra careful.

"Mom, drink some water!"

The old lady swept her bowl away, "Fuck off...you are the loser, I shouldn't have let Rong'er marry you in the first place, you made him so bad."

With a miserable face, Xiao Li cried, "Mother, I don't know. I didn't mean to shout. I was so angry at the time. I didn't know it would end up like this."

The old lady is in a fit of anger now, and she just wants to vent her anger. How can she listen to her explanation, "Get out, get out of here."

Liang Feng looked at the figure of Xiao Li running out, and sneered in his heart. He is a good sister-in-law, and he is a typical character who is out-and-out troublemaker, shit-stirring stick, sweet-mouthed, ruthless, and merciless.

But in Liang Rong's case, she was the undoubted victim.

However, because she is a woman and a wife, the old man Liang and the old lady do not think that their precious son is at fault. They only blame everything on this person in front of them, the only person they can vent their emotions, and blame her for breaking Liang Rong. Bad things, blame her for not knowing how to swallow her anger, blame her for shouting out to make everyone know.

Don't blame the person who made the problem, but blame the person who found it.

Liang Feng lowered his head, looked at the old lady with a horrible expression and eyes full of resentment, and said softly, "Mother, do you know why big brother became like this?"

The old lady suddenly raised her head, furious, "It's just those two sluts."

"No, mother, it's not them," he smiled and shook his head, and continued to speak softly, "It was you, mother, it was you, it was you who caused Liang Rong to enter the prison and ruined his future, and you caused The Liang family has no reputation at all and has become a laughing stock."

"You, what nonsense are you talking about?" The old lady raised her hand and was about to slap him, "Get out of here too."

Liang Feng easily grabbed her wrist and threw her back onto the kang.

"Don't make trouble, listen to me. When I was young, I went to a private school. Obviously, I was the best at studying, but Liang Rong came back to lie to you. If he can take the imperial examination in the future, you just let me and the third child stop school and go home to work." , Because of your unprincipled pampering, he has been lawless and unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals since he was a child."

"After we separated, the third child and I went out of the house and worked hard for our livelihood every day, but Liang Rong didn't touch the spring water. He spent more than 30 years in the county academy. In the end, he spent money while learning knocked at the widow's door."

The old lady Liang wanted to reach out to hit him again, but Liang Feng wrapped her tightly with the quilt and couldn't move at all.

Liang Feng's expression was also very serious at the moment, pointing at her and said, "Okay, the most important thing is here, listen carefully. Last night, you worked so hard to raise enough money, and everything is over, Liang Feng Rong should be eating hot food and drinking hot soup at home at this time, instead of dying in the prison. Except for the Guo family, who will remember how long this happened? Xiucai, I will call you an old lady."

Hearing this, Mrs. Liang's eyes suddenly changed from anger to longing, as if she had already imagined that scene.

It's just that happiness is short-lived.

Liang Feng clapped his hands together, "But it's all gone now, it's all you, Mrs. Liang and Li, thank you for this, you are so stupid and selfish, you have a small belly, you love money like your life, and you treat the Guo family as their own." That kind of people, that kind of insults wronged them. Let me tell you, the Guo family is a famous family in the county, and there are several scholars in the family. How can they bear your accusation, so they are fighting for money and trying to spread the scandal , I have to go to the yamen to make a clean sheet!"

"So, it's you, Mrs. Liang and Li. It's you who have pushed Liang Rong into the abyss of prison step by step since he was a child, made him a useless person, and made him suffer so much. Not only that , You also humiliated the entire Liang family, and you are not worthy of entering the Liang family's ancestral grave after you die, because you raised the only son in the history of the Liang family who has been in prison."

Hearing this, Mrs. Liang opened her mouth wide, unable to utter a word, not even angry, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Seeing this, Liang Feng smiled softly, supported her arm, and raised his finger to point out the window, "Listen, it looks like the patriarch's little grandson is asking Dad to go to the ancestral hall. This is because the clan wants Dad to divorce you." , drive you out, or should Liang Rong and you be crossed out from our family tree and let you get out of Xinghua Village?"

"After all, our Xinghua Village's reputation has always been well-known. How can it be ruined by your mother, these two rat shit?"

Mrs. Liang grabbed his hand and kept opening her mouth, but she couldn't say a complete sentence, "Ahh...no..."

After struggling desperately for a long time, the old lady could only "plop" back on the bed.

Liang Feng stood where he was, sizing up the chaotic bed and the people on it for a while, thinking of something good, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He walked to the door and called out, "Sister-in-law."