After dressing as a widow

Three days passed in the blink of an eye. At about ten o'clock in the morning on the fourth day, Lin Zhenzhen put the spoiled cabbages and greens into sacks and prepared to throw them away. The yamen servant from Pianzidao walked in: "Who is Lin Zhen?"

Lin Zhen put down the broken cabbage and green vegetables in his hand, and hurriedly washed his hands: "I am Lin Zhen, if you dare to ask the official, he came to summon me."

The two yamen servants said: "That's right, the petition you handed in will be heard today, and now I'm going to take you to the county yamen to confront Mrs. Cai, the person you're suing. Let's go."

Lin Zhen has been waiting for these few days. Hearing this, he said to Lin Xiaoyao and Gu Shuanzi who were standing beside him with worried faces: "You all stay at home and wait for me to come back after finishing my work."

Then he turned and walked towards the two yamen servants: "Thank you, the officer, for coming to summon me, let's go."

The magistrate in the county yamen who tried the matter was waiting, the two yamen servants did not dare to delay, and immediately sandwiched Lin Zhen, one on the left and the other on the right, and walked towards the county yamen with big strides.

Compared with the two of them, Lin Zhen's slender figure looks extremely weak, and he feels like he will be annihilated in the next moment when he is caught in the middle.

Lin Xiaoyao looked at Gu Shuanzi and Lin Shitou and Lin Zhuzi, and gritted her teeth: "You three stay at home, I'll be back after I go out for a while."

His figure quickly disappeared into the shop, chasing Lin Zhen who had just left the door and two yamen servants.

Gu Shuanzi looked at his back with dark eyes, and said to Lin Zhuzi: "Uncle Lin and Aunt Xiaoyao are gone, you take the stone back to the backyard, and close the door of the shop by the way, it's not me and Uncle Lin Xiaoyao Don't open the door even if my aunt knocks."

Lin Zhuzi probably knew what he was going to do, nonuo said: "But Uncle Lin and Aunt Xiaoyao let us stay at home...you..."

"I'll be fine."

Lin Zhuzi couldn't say the next thing, he knew what Gu Shuanzi said was true, even though he was one year older than Gu Shuanzi, it was safer for Gu Shuanzi to go out than him.

He nodded: "I will follow what you said, stay in the shop with Shi Shi, and wait for you to come back."

Gu Shuanzi hummed, turned around and walked out quickly. When he left the shop, his pace became faster and faster, and finally turned into a run. His name was mentioned by his ear.

"Isn't that Lin Zhen's stepson, Gu Shuanzi? Are you not afraid of falling when you run so fast?"

"I heard that this kid is studying at Mr. Xu's place. It's a pity. Maybe something will happen in the future, and he will be implicated by his stepfather."

"What are you talking about about Lin Zhentu? He was sent out by the Qian family back then, and now he's getting together with Young Master Qian and Yu Xituan, causing the wife of Young Master Qian's family to chase after him. I knew it would be bad for Qian. The young master and you can't do without."

"You know what the hell, Young Master Qian has always liked Lin Zhen. The old lady at home forced Young Master Qian to write a divorce letter because he didn't allow it."

"In that case, Young Master Qian and him are still a pair of fateful couples?"

"Hey, Young Master Qian already has a wife. What did he do with it? If you ask me, he deserves it. It's easy to be beaten to death by the people in the yamen!"

"He was the one who was taken away by the yamen just now, let's go and see the excitement."

"Let's go."

"I'll go as well."

"..."

It's rare for those who have nothing to do to have such a big crowd to watch. They all want to see for themselves how Lin Zhen was beaten, and they all go to the county government with their friends.

Gu Shuanzi huddled in the crowd, and managed to get to the front, when he saw Lin Zhen, led by two yamen servants, walk into the county yamen, and the county magistrate sitting high on the top patted the gavel, his voice From the main hall directly opposite came out: "Who is in the hall?"

"Grassman Lin Zhen, please meet your lord."

The person who was more dazzling than the sun in his eyes knelt down to the people in the hall and knocked his head on the ground, while Cai Jinzhu, the second class of yamen servants in the hall, stood upright, as if he could stomp Lin Zhen with one foot. underfoot.

Gu Shuanzi was squeezed by the surging crowd of spectators, and he heard someone say: "Didn't Lin Zhen sue Cai Jinzhu? Why Cai Jinzhu stood there well, and asked Lin Zhen to kneel alone."

The person next to you has an expression that you don't know: "Not to mention that the Qian family is one of the most wealthy households in the town. I heard that Cai Jinzhu's father is an official in the government office in Fucheng. Our county magistrate also wants to give some favors. Naturally, Cai Jinzhu will not be asked to kneel like Lin Zhen."

"Why don't you say that someone in the family is an official and easy to handle."

The county magistrate was sitting in the middle, and the person next to him next to him was the master. The county magistrate had already read Lin Zhen's statement, and because he had a very good impression of Zhong Yan's writing and literary talent, he even had some patience with Lin Zhen. , He looked at Lin Zhen who was kneeling on the ground, and said: "As you stated in the form, on the seventh day of May, Young Master Qian came to your store and said that he still had an old relationship with you, and then you called Lin Xiaoyao, Lin Shitou, and Lin Zhuzi in the store. The three drove Young Master Qian out of the shop, is it true?"

"Returning to my lord, it is true," Lin Zhen stood in the hall, "That day when the friends of the caomin children came to play in the shop, as soon as the children left, Young Master Qian appeared, and even he himself said that he hadn't seen me for three years , and then said some nonsense."

"But just now Mrs. Qian Jingyuan said that you and Qian Jingyuan have not broken the affair. Not only did you secretly communicate with Qian Jingyuan, but also coaxed Qian Jingyuan to give you money to open a shop."

As soon as the county magistrate's words fell, the teacher closest to him put his hands behind his back, and the old god said authentically: "As far as I know, Qian Jingyuan and you were once husband and wife?"

Of course, Lin Zhen would not hide this matter: "Yes, but I have no relationship with him a long time ago. I am married, and he married another, and each lives his own life. If he hadn't appeared that day, I would have forgotten the name." people."

The master smiled, "A husband and wife can be kind for a hundred days. The Qian family is a big family in the town, but the family you married into is of ordinary background. Don't tell me you never thought about getting back together with him."

His words were reversed, that is to say, Lin Zhen was unwilling to marry Gu Da, and wanted to be with Qian Jingyuan, so it was only natural that the two were secretly involved.

Lin Zhen could see that this master was full of malice towards him and was digging a hole for him to jump.

He said to the master: "Although there is such a saying as a husband and wife for a day, but after leaving, he walked his Yangguan Road and I crossed my single-plank bridge. Although my food at Gu's house is not as good as that of Qian's house, and my clothes are not as beautiful as Qian's house. But it’s not rare for these things.”

The master didn't take it seriously: "You said these things, and only you know what's inside."

Cai Jinzhu snorted, and interjected, "Isn't it? Only the two of you know whether it's done or not. We didn't see or hear it, so you can turn black and white."

Lin Zhen knew that he was just a commoner now, and if he was not careful, he would be punished with a stick, so he could only explain clearly what the master said without pain or itching. When Cai Jinzhu intervened, he found a chance. Immediately said the words that had been typed several times in the draft.

Why did Cai Jinzhu say that he had a relationship with Qian Jingyuan, whether he saw it with his own eyes, or heard it, and he had to catch them with his own hands, and he convicted himself with just one word of her mouth, and went to the snack room indiscriminately Throw something in.

Lin Zhen kept his mouth shut, and his words were concise and penetrating, and Cai Jinzhu couldn't be right.

Indeed, she had never seen the two of them messing around, but everyone saw Qian Jingyuan looking for him. She held on to this point, saying that if he hadn't seduced Qian Jingyuan, how could Qian Jingyuan go? look for him.

Two people come and go, one stands in one place, the smell of gunpowder is strong.

Slowly, people realized that Lin Zhen might really have nothing to do with Qian Jingyuan. According to Lin Zhen, she married Gu Da after she came out of the Lin family. Follow Gu Da to the town to buy some rouge powder.

After Gu Da died, he returned to his home, and set up a stall to make money to open the shop.

But Cai Jinzhu couldn't come up with evidence to prove that Lin Zhen seduced Qian Jingyuan, and only said that Qian Jingyuan went to him and opened a shop for him with money.

This was also dialed back by Lin Zhen's few words, and in front of the county magistrate and two groups of government officials, he explained clearly how much he had set up a stall, how much he paid, and how he used the accumulated money to open the shop.

"If I really took Qian Jingyuan's money, why bother to walk an hour and a half on the mountain road to the town before dawn, and then rush back after collecting the stalls. Wouldn't it be better to open the current shop directly?"

Cai Jinzhu, who was at a disadvantage, stared at him firmly. As soon as he finished speaking, Cai Jinzhu rushed forward like crazy, pinching his neck with hands with long nails: "It's all your fault, if it wasn't for your Qian Jing How could Yuan not take me seriously, why don't you die!"

She shot so suddenly, Lin Zhen was held down by the neck by accident, and the sharp nails almost poked his eyeballs, causing him to back away quickly in fright.

The magistrate of the county did not expect that the two of them would scuffle in the courtroom, and the gavel in his hand was slapped hurriedly: "How decent is Cheng, quickly pull people away!"

The two classes of yamen servants rushed to pull Cai Jinzhu and Lin Zhen away. Cai Jinzhu went crazy with great strength. scattered.

The magistrate was so angry that his beard cocked up. He looked at Cai Jinzhu and Lin Zhen: "This is the court, how can it be a place to honor your presumptuousness? One person has ten boards, come back when you wake up."

The master standing under him twitched his eyebrows, and quickly possessed him: "Master, Cai Jinzhu's father..."

The two were whispering, and soon, the county magistrate looked at Cai Jinzhu and Lin Zhen: "You two are roaring in the court, Cai Jinzhu has five boards, Lin Zhen has ten boards, and it can be executed."

A stick fell to the ground with a slap, and one of the two classes of yamen servants who separated the two just now held them down, and another set up a stool in the hall, and pressed them firmly on the stool, with a whoosh, Two palm-width boards fell on the waist and hips, and Lin Zhen almost couldn't breathe in the pain.

And Cai Jinzhu yelled, "My father is the tax envoy of Fucheng. You are really brave. Be careful that I will trouble you!"

After hearing what the master said, the county magistrate who had spared her before was even more angry, and said loudly: "If it weren't for your father, all the five missing pieces would fall on you!"

"call."

"call."

Cai Jinzhu's five strokes were soon finished, but Lin Zhen still had five strokes left. This was the first time he had received such a heavy beating, and every blow seemed to split his waist and buttocks and grind him to pieces.

The author has something to say:

How to say, Lin Zhen didn't count the sudden madness of Cai Jinzhu, a crazy woman (?__)?I got a board for nothing.