Tang Tiequan tied up the ox cart, then got out of the car with his mother-in-law, found a shady place to put her down, and said to her: "You are waiting for me here, I will come back after asking." ”

Huang Shi nodded and said, "Well," he took out a dozen copper plates from his pocket and said, "If they ignore you, you can stuff a few copper plates into their hands and buy them wine to drink!" ”

Tang Tiequan took the money and put it in his arms, and walked to the official standing guard outside, as he got closer and closer, he unconsciously held his waist and greeted him carefully: "Big brother, what about standing guard?" ”

The official ignored Tang Tiequan, still looking at the front dizzyingly, Tang Tiequan had no choice but to take out a dozen from his arms and hand them to him, he reached out and counted the weight, saw that there was no one left and right, and quickly kicked the money into his arms and said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Tang Tiequan said: "I just want to ask my eldest brother about someone?" ”

"Who?"

"Is there a man named Tang Tiezhu in this prison?"

Someone from above had already greeted him, but whenever someone came to ask about Tang Tiezhu, except that he was in prison, if he asked about anything else, he didn't know anything, tunnel: "Yes,"

As soon as Tang Tiequan heard the drama, he continued to ask, "Do you know why he was arrested?" ”

"How do I know this, I'm just a prison guard, not a government official who arrests people in the government office,"

"Oh, that's it, then he's okay to eat in it!"

"You will know when you go in, if someone wants to stay in the prison after entering the prison, that person must be a fool," the official said impatiently, in fact, Tang Tiezhu's food in the prison was better than what they ate, and the second child of the Xiqing Building came to bring him food, and sometimes the brothers who were guarding the prison inside could still rub him for a meal?

When Tang Tiequan heard him say this, his legs trembled a little and said, "Big brother, I don't stay here longer if I have something to do?" He lifted his leg and left.

The official grabbed his arm and said, "I just asked three questions, and you're leaving, by the way, you ask Tang Tiezhu, who are you?" The people above also instructed him, if someone came to visit Tang Tiezhu, ask who the person was?

Tang Tiequan's hands and feet were weak, and his legs and stomach trembled: "I...... I...... I don't know him, I was asked to come and ask about him. ”

"Oh, that's it, let's go!" As he spoke, he let go of Tang Tiequan's arm and let him go.

Seeing Tang Tiequan leaving, the official turned around and went into the prison, and said to Tang Tiezhu: "Big brother, someone came to ask you about it just now?" ”

Tang Tiezhu, who was talking to the prison officials, was stunned when he heard this: "Who are you?" ”

The official said, "I asked, and he said that he asked someone to inquire about your situation." Seeing the irrepressible look of disappointment on Tang Tiezhu's face, he hurriedly said: "The person who came is about seven feet tall, with dark skin, and his forehead and eyebrows are slightly similar to you, but his age is much younger than you,"

Tang Tiezhu guessed in his heart: Is this person the third or the fourth, anyway, it can't be the second, if the second is the second, he will definitely come in to visit him, instead of just inquiring and not coming in.

The official looked at Tang Tiezhu's face and pondered, and continued: "Could it be that he is your brother? ”

"Maybe it's my brother?"

"Since it was your brother, why didn't you come in to see you, when I said that you didn't eat well in prison, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to come in, and left in a hurry," the official said unclearly.

Tang Tiezhu knew that the official was hinting at himself, but now that he was in prison, his brother ignored it, and it made people laugh when he said it, he said: "But there is something urgent!" ”

The official smiled and didn't answer, sat down in a chair with him and said, "You are the most laid-back person I have ever seen in prison,"

"Alas, this is all arranged for me by my uncle, I am afraid that I will suffer here," thinking that after entering the prison, Xue Qianxun arranged him properly, so that he did not feel a trace of discomfort.

"Big brother, I don't know who your uncle is?" The official asked with some curiosity.

Tang Tiezhu scratched his head and said humbly: "My aunt is the eldest son of the Xue Yuan family in the town,"

With a bang, the officer's head seemed to be blown open, and he stumbled: "But...... But...... Xue Mansion's Young Master Xue Qianxun? ”

Tang Tiezhu nodded and said, "Yes, but he hasn't married the little girl yet,"

The officer's surprised eyes glared and said, "Really! ”

"Yes, really!"

"Then your uncle is so rich, why did you still go to prison?"

Tang Tiezhu couldn't tell outsiders about the family affairs of the old Tang family, and said bitterly: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, hey, it's not worth mentioning, besides, the little second brother who brought me food today told me that I stayed in this prison for two or three days before going home." ”

"That's right, hehe." The official laughed dryly, and then talked to Tang Tiezhu about other topics.

Tang Tiequan walked to his mother-in-law's side with weak legs and feet, Huang saw that his face was pale, his forehead was sweating, and he asked worriedly: "What's wrong with you, just to ask about the eldest brother, why are you scared like this?" ”

"Can a prison be a place for people? Just now the official said to me, "If anyone wants to stay in the prison after he has been in prison, he must be a fool, and you can imagine how terrible it must be in this prison." "Tang Tiequan is a peasant who doesn't know a few big characters and throws food in the soil, and he has always been respectful of people like officials and officials, and when he hears what the officials say to him, how can he not be afraid.

Huang was also a little scared after hearing this, but he still comforted the head of the house: "You calm down first, and then let's drive the ox cart back to the village, and tell my father and mother that they are going to add a grandson This is the good news," Although the eldest brother is in trouble now, it is not suitable to tell his father and mother that she is pregnant, but since he has put his handprint on the severance book, he will no longer be a relative in the future, and it is not an exaggeration for them to tell his father and mother about this great happy event.

Tang Tiequan took a deep breath and said: "You are right, although some of you can't stand the eldest brother, but we have been married for so many years, you are finally pregnant, for the Tang family, this is a great joy, saying that the eldest brother is suffering is this time, forbearance will pass, the sister-in-law and the second brother will not bear to let the eldest brother suffer, and will raise money to rescue the eldest brother, we are worried in vain." ”

In fact, he didn't get weak just now because he was worried about his eldest brother, but fantasized about what he would do if he was arrested and put in prison? The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, so I appeared like my mother-in-law said.

Huang wiped the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief and said, "Let's go home!" It's better to come to this place less. ”

"Well," after speaking, he picked up the mother-in-law into the car, picked up the whip and drove the ox cart back to Tangjia Village.

Slowly driving the ox cart back to the village, Tang Tiequan hugged his mother-in-law as if he was used to it, and then said to her: "I will return the ox cart to Uncle Tang, and if you give me three copper plates, I will give the money borrowed from the ox cart to others." ”

Huang took out three copper plates from his arms and gave them to the owner, watched the owner lead the ox cart away, slowly walked back to the house to prepare to rest for a while, and when the head of the family returned, he told his father-in-law and mother-in-law the news that he was pregnant.

Before Huang entered the house, Zhang saw the fourth child go out through the window, and felt that he had seized the opportunity, so he immediately came out of the main house, and said in a bad tone: "The fourth daughter-in-law, she is back from the town!" ”

When Huang saw his mother-in-law, he thought of the ugly words that she used to say that she was a hen that didn't lay eggs, and that she didn't when she stood in a pit, and today she was finally able to stop her mouth, and said with a smile: "Yes, mother." ”

The happier the Huang family was, the more angry Zhang became, and said angrily: "I just said that if there was something at home, you would have dragged the fourth child backwards, and now you actually took the initiative to pick me up, it turned out that you wanted to go to the town with the fourth child." ”

Now that she is pregnant with a baby, it is impossible for the Huang family to have a hard time with her mother-in-law: "Mother, I and the head of the family have some other things to do besides going to the government to see the eldest brother." ”

Speaking of Tang Tiezhu, Zhang immediately asked, "Is your eldest brother really locked up in prison?" ”

Huang nodded yes, and said: "I heard the head ask the guard officer, saying that the prison is not a place for people to stay at all, and almost everyone who comes out must become fools and go crazy." In order to let her mother-in-law hear a satisfactory answer, Huang deliberately exaggerated the tragic situation of the eldest brother to her mother-in-law.

Zhang Shi said uneasily: "Then have you gone in to see the boss?" ”

Huang said: "No, we don't dare to go in, for fear that the eldest brother will know that we didn't help him,"

"What are you talking nonsense? Where we refuse to save him, we have no money in our hands, how can we save him," Zhang yelled at Huang angrily.

"That's what my mother said!" Huang lowered his head and admitted his mistake, just when Tang Tiequan saw it when he came back, he rushed over like an arrow, pulled his mother-in-law behind him, and said to his mother: "Mother, why are you okay to find fault with my daughter-in-law?" ”

"What nonsense are you talking about? Which eye did you see me looking for fault with her? "Zhang was dissatisfied with the fourth child, and as soon as he came back, he surrounded Huang like an eagle guarding a chicken, as if she could eat Huang.

Tang Tiequan said angrily: "Mother, you can't bully my daughter-in-law in the future." ”

Huang, who was hiding behind the head of the house, took advantage of her mother-in-law's lack of attention, and chuckled at the corner of her mouth, hum! In the past, I had shortcomings, let you beat and scold, but now I have Lin'er in my belly, see what else you have to say.

"Where did I bully her, you will explain it to me today," Zhang said indignantly.

"Mother, we won't talk about it when I look at it in the past, and when I can't see it, you don't know how to bully my daughter-in-law?"

"Okay, fourth, according to what you said, what can I do if I bully her, a daughter-in-law who has been married for four years, she didn't add more children to the old Tang family, what's the use of asking her, if you hadn't stopped me, I would have divorced her a long time ago, a hen who doesn't lay eggs, hurry up and make room for others."

"Mother, why do you talk more and more, who said that my daughter-in-law can't give birth to a baby, so what is she pregnant with?" Tang Tiequan jumped like thunder.

"What, what did you just say!" Zhang didn't understand what the fourth man said, so he opened his eyes and asked again.

"Mother, I'm ...... Daughter-in-law...... Woman...... Bosom...... Pregnancy...... It's over," Tang Tiezhu opened his mouth and said word by word.

With a bang, Zhang sat on the ground in shock and muttered, "I'm pregnant...... Pregnant. Suddenly thinking of the previous fake pregnancy of the Huang family, he grabbed the arm of the fourth child and said, "Your daughter-in-law won't be a fake pregnancy again this time!" Our old Tang family can't afford to lose this face. ”

Tang Tiequan's face darkened and said, "Otherwise, why did you say why did my daughter-in-law go to the town with me?" ”

Zhang Shi said again: "You mean that the doctor in the town has been diagnosed!" ”

"yes!" Tang Tiequan saw that her mother still didn't believe it, and was angry with her and said helplessly.

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