dressed as a scholar

When Qiao Xinnian returned home, although he hadn't suffered too much in the sky prison for the past few days, after walking in such a harsh environment, he still felt like he was getting old.People in Qiao's house were rushing in and out, washing Qiao Xinnian's dust, and preparing food and wine for the people who had been frightened for a few days to have a good meal.

In fact, it wasn't just Qiao Xinnian, he was in prison alone, and his family didn't have to feel comfortable in prison even if they were outside.

Qiao Xinnian patted Qiao Hezhi's head lovingly: "You mother and son must have been very anxious these days. Fortunately, my uncle supported me, otherwise I would not trust you mother and son in the prison. My uncle is willing Running around to manage, otherwise I will not be able to get out of the prison safely today."

"I'm coming out now, and my tired son-in-law has to go to thank Fang Yu and repay the favor." A friend in adversity sees the truth, this time the family really felt Fang Yu's kindness.

"My son-in-law should be running away." Fang Yu bid farewell to the judge and hurried back to Hufengjing. When he entered the house, he heard the family talking about this time: "Father-in-law is safe and sound, son-in-law, don't worry, if there is anything wrong, He Zhi, the crying bag, can't help but look at me and cry every day."

Qiao's father and mother laughed at his words. Qiao Hezhi patted his arm lightly, and gave him a reproachful look.

"Originally today, the general judge said that the cost of administering medicine will be borne by the government, but I thought about it. If this matter can be done well, on the one hand, the suspicion can be removed, and on the other hand, it is also a good deed, so the cost of administering medicine will still be paid by the government. We're out."

The family sat down at the dinner table, and Fang Yu briefly talked about his plans for the future.

"This amount of money is nothing. I thought that I would be ransomed with a large sum of money when I was imprisoned this time, but I didn't expect Xianxu to act as a lawyer to defend me and release me in court. I have already saved a lot of money. "

Qiao Xinnian has become accustomed to the government's yamen detaining merchants for a small matter, and taking the opportunity to extort money. The so-called money-losing to eliminate disasters is well known among merchants.Those big merchants like them have a better life, after all, they can get out money, if they are small merchants, they will be miserable, and they can only eat Coptis chinensis dumb and have no money to save themselves when they are oppressed.

Business people don't have much human rights. If it weren't for this, how many people would want to curry favor with scholars.

Qiao Xinnian had to sigh with emotion again, the ancestral grave of the Qiao family was also full of smoke, and he found a promising son-in-law, not only that, but also willing to run for the Yue family, if he were an ordinary person, he might be in a hurry to join the Yue family if the incident happened Clearing the boundaries and even angering his wife, Fu Lang, Fang Yu not only never blamed Fu Lang, but even used his own contacts to run around. How could their family not be moved.

"Father-in-law has been exhausted for the past few days, so let's eat more food and drink and have a good rest. Let my son-in-law handle the rest of the matter."

After dinner, Fang Yu and Qiao Hezhi went back to the house instead of resting at this end. They will prepare to apply medicine and record statements tomorrow, and it will be too late if they go through this end tomorrow morning.

Qiao Hezhi sat in the carriage with a better mood: "Although the source of the disease has not been found out, I am relieved to see that my father is safe and sound. You have worked so hard for the past two days."

He turned his head to look at Fang Yu, and said softly, "Thank you husband."

"If I were the only one today, my father-in-law might not be able to get out of the prison so smoothly. It's good that you carefully collected the witnesses and evidences one by one, and quickly sent the letter to the Tongju Mansion. These things are indispensable. , even if something goes wrong, I can't speak so confidently and boldly in class."

Fang Yu leaned against the wall of the carriage, half-closed his eyes and smiled: "But you said thank you, and I feel in my heart that the busy days are worth it. But I'm not particularly happy. You thank me and that's it. Thanks?"

Qiao Hezhi frowned slightly, and then moved his eyes again. He patted himself on the shoulder lightly: "Yesterday, my husband stayed up all night to sort out his thoughts, and today he has traveled here again, so let's rest and sleep in the carriage. Call me husband again."

Respect is worse than obedience, Fang Yu hurriedly leaned his head on Xiao Qiao's shoulder, although the young man was thinner and shorter than him, leaning against people was a bit awkward and the position was not suitable, but the fragrant neck and warm body were still very good. attractive.

He still enjoyed it very much, rubbed against Xiao Qiao's shoulder, and was about to close his eyes, when suddenly there was a burst of warmth on his forehead, and the touch of his lips made him lose his mind for a moment, he raised his eyes and Qiao Hezhi also raised his eyes He straightened his head at first, stared straight ahead as if nothing had happened, but his ruddy lips pursed lightly and betrayed himself.

Fang Yu lowered his eyelids and pursed his lips tightly to hide the smile on the corners of his mouth, and his face, which was thicker than the city wall, was also tinged with a blush for the first time.

The next day, Qiao's alms site boiled two large pots of soup, as well as a series of herbal medicine packs for curing diseases and some healing and nourishing medicines. People were waiting for the medicine outside the alms site early in the morning.Although the number of people who came this time was not as many as those who received the alms, the number was still shocking.

What surprised Fang Yu was that besides the common people receiving medicines, there were also many scholars waiting outside.

"How did you get here?"

Since the family had a new funeral after the end of the township examination, he fell ill again, and then something happened to Yue's family. He has not had time to go back to the academy, and has been on leave until now. The master is quite sympathetic, although I hope he can return as soon as possible. The academy held a lecture to impart experience to everyone, but it never urged him to sell his vacation and go back.

Seeing Qiu Yanqi, Wu Shuyou and a series of familiar faces now, he felt pleasantly surprised and surprised.

"We heard about the poisoning of the common people. The incident has really spread widely. Even the students in the academy have suffered from this disease. Yesterday we learned that Brother Fang was a lawyer. The students were very excited when they heard about it. It's a pity that I didn't hear Brother Fang's argument on the spot."

Qiu Yanqi said: "I learned that I need to record statements for the common people. I think I need a lot of people who can read and write. I took a day off with Mr. Zhang and prepared to come over to record statements for Brother Fang. It didn't work, but everyone knew about it. For this matter, one after another asked for leave to come and help. Mr. Zhang saw that there were many people who asked for leave, and thought that this was also a matter of benefiting the people, so he did not give a lecture today, saying that anyone who is willing to come and help can come, so the big guys went They're all here."

Fang Yu was greatly moved when he heard the words, the more people who gave statements, the faster the common people could get the decoction, and the matter would be resolved faster. The teachers brought them all over, and the moment the students from the academy came, there were more than [-] more people, so it was not too fast.

"Fang Yu would like to thank all the classmates for their generous help."

Seeing Fang Yu bowing and saluting, everyone was embarrassed to come: "Brother Fang, we are not only here for you. When you are away, the master will guard us strictly. If you slip away a little, you will be held by the ear Scolding, it’s hard to come out today to take a breath.”

"That's not it, besides, we can still do a good deed. If we find out the source as soon as possible, everyone can feel at ease when they study."

You were joking with each other, and the atmosphere became very relaxed.Fang Yurang went to borrow more than 20 long tables nearby, served the pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and prepared tea and fruits for the students who came to help. When he delivered things to everyone, he found that Liang Minxu had also come. So many people have not noticed just now.

Seeing Fang Yu looking at him, Liang Minxu dipped his pen in the ink uncomfortably, lowered his head and pretended to be seriously recording his statement, and did not greet and chat with Fang Yu.

About a quarter of an hour later, both Ji Yongyong and Qian Wuzhang came to the scene to condolence to the sick people, and monitored the situation at the scene. Seeing so many scholars spontaneously coming to help, Ji Yongcong praised everyone for their noble character, Without losing the demeanor of a scholar, Qian Wuzhang also followed the gourd painting's praise.

"grown ups."

After Qian Wuzhang looked around, he felt tired after walking a few more steps because he was a bit fat, and was just about to find a place to sit on his buttocks when he saw his master hurried in.

Seeing this appearance, he knew it was an urgent matter, he looked at Ji Congyong in the distance who was concentrating on reading the statement recorded by the scholar, and said: "What's the matter?"

The master leaned forward and murmured in Qian Wuzhang's ear for a while, Qian Wuzhang's face was slumped after hearing it: "I don't know the severity, don't you know that this official is busy with important matters! Tell him to see you and tell him to go back."

"The younger one has already tried to persuade her, but the uncle said that it is an urgent matter, and he has to find an adult to discuss it."

Qian Wuzhang faintly felt that something was wrong: "Where is he at this time?"

"It's in the tea shop outside the charity site."

Qian Wuzhang flicked his sleeves: "If the judge asks me later, you will say that I am unwell and go to the toilet."

"Small ones are measured, adults can rest assured."

Then Qian Wuzhang followed his servants to lead him to the teahouse, and just now he entered the reserved private room, his uncle knelt down with him with a thud: "My lord, my lord! You must Save the grassroots!"

"Brother, what are you doing, get up quickly."

Not only did the man get up, he knelt on the ground and grabbed Qian Wuzhang's clothes and cried bitterly: "If the adults don't save the grassroots, the grassroots dare not get up."

"Brother uncle is still alive and well." Qian Wuzhang pulled up his robe impatiently. Seeing this battle, he didn't say any polite words, and said directly: "Come on, don't pretend, this officer will replace you." You don’t have much cooking? Tell me, how many people were killed, how did you kill them?”

The man dared not answer.

Qian Wuzhang narrowed his eyes: "If uncle doesn't say anything else, then I won't be able to help you."

The man hurriedly said: "Don't, don't, brother-in-law, I say, I say!"

He lowered his voice, not daring to look at Qian Wuzhang's face: "A while ago I bought a large amount of rice at a low price. The price of that rice was really low, but the quality was really not very good. I was thinking about my brother-in-law again. It is said that Qiulai always has restless pillows at night. If there is a gold pillow, I will definitely sleep more comfortably. But the cost of making this pillow is really not small, and I am also a little tight on money. I think if I can make a lot of money, I will let my brother-in-law soon. Pillow."

"So I took the batch of rice grains, processed them carefully, and sold them out. It happened that the merchants in the city were selling grain and cloth at a low price to benefit the people. I raised the price of this batch of grains and then lowered them. It's really easy to sell... But, but I didn't expect that those people who bought rice were so weak that they fell ill one by one..."

"I was in a panic at this moment, so I bought a few civilians and sent in the Qiao family, which had always had some conflicts in business. Firstly, there was someone to cover this matter, and secondly, I thought that my brother-in-law was here... how can I imagine that?" , how could I ever want to..." As he said that, the man cried out, seeing so many scholars coming to record statements today, it would be difficult for him to get in the way, seeing that the source of the disease was about to be found out, he was so frightened that his feet were vain "Brother-in-law, you must save me, whether it's for my sister's sake, or for the sake of giving my brother-in-law trouble-shooting gadgets for all these years, you must save me!"

Qian Wuzhang was so angry that he almost rolled his eyes and passed out, and when he calmed down, he slapped the man hard: "Why didn't you tell me that you did it before you fell into the prison! Moldy rice, that’s going to eat dead people! You want to kill me even if you don’t want to die!”

He slapped him in disbelief, Qian Wuzhang kicked a few more times: "Go and see if I can save you, if you dare to say one more word, you did it for my own sake, and tomorrow you will pay back with your whole family." Go die with your little sister!"

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law!" The man ignored the pain, tears and snot streaming into a ball: "I will never say that this is for brother-in-law, it's all because of my own obsession, and that poor villager tricked me by saying that moldy rice was washed with vinegar water It’s nothing to do with me if it’s been soaked and dried, then it’s crushed into pieces!”

Qian Wuzhang gave the man a cold look, his gloomy eyes seemed to be thundering at any moment: "Stupid!"