Chapter Ninety-Five: The Way
In this afternoon, the people of Dongshan Village were choked by this evil spirit for a while and sunny for a while. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Well, now that the evil god is finally gone, most people are eager to jump up and rejoice and celebrate with each other.
But there are still some families, that is, the families of those boys, who still have to watch their children suffer from whipping.
Twenty whips, they are still small bodies that have not yet grown, how can they stand it.
The families of the children were on the sidelines, seeing that their children were almost dying, but they had no choice but to cry or cry.
Fu Shen's son Futu was the main culprit and should have been given thirty lashes, because he was weak and sick, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand ten lashes to save his life, Fu Zhaoshou decided to write down Futu for the time being, and add ten more lashes when he caught someone.
Fu Shen escaped, crawled from the scene of the execution, and finally fainted to the ground.
After a ghost crying wolf howl, the whip was finished, and no kid was still conscious, and they all fainted.
Fu Zhaoshou led the men and horses away, leaving more than 20 seriously injured people in Dongshan Village.
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This night, Xie Yujiao and the six of them rushed all day, entered the guest room, and all fell asleep as soon as they dipped their pillows.
The next day, everyone set off in high spirits, deciding to find Li Hou first, and then plan how to meet Master Taifu.
Taifu's Mansion is very inquiring, and I heard about it from the innkeeper last night.
Taifu Mansion is located on Yanqing Road on West Street in the inner city, which is not a place where ordinary people can enter.
And usually, Lord Taifu is either in the court, or works in the study outside Taifu's mansion, and wants to meet Taifu.
Difficult!
Everyone sat on a donkey cart and came to the door of Feng's Pharmacy on the north street of the inner city.
At this hour, the pharmacy had just opened, and the work inside was cleaning the floor.
Li Ke saw his nephew Li Hou at a glance, and hurriedly beckoned people out.
"Uncle, why are you here?" Li Hou was dressed in a clean and neat gray and white short fight, and he was very surprised when he looked at the uncle who suddenly appeared.
He looked at it again, not only the uncle, but also the village chief, the elders of the Zhang family, Zhang Huaiyan, who went to school in the county, and the grandchildren of the Qu family, why did these people suddenly come to Beijing.
"What's going on in the village?" As soon as he thought about it, he could guess that if it wasn't for something big in the village, how could he work these people to go to Beijing together.
Zhang Huaiyan pulled him aside and explained: "It's a long story at this time, Li Hou, let's find a place to sit and talk, you better explain to your master first, there is a big incident in the village, I'm afraid it will delay you for a few days." ”
"Okay, there's a tea stall in front, you go there and wait for me, I'll talk to the master." Li Hou pointed to a street stall a hundred zhang away and said.
"Okay, let's wait for you at the stall!" The village chief led the way, Zhang Huaiyan supported his grandfather, and a few people behind him also followed.
Someone came to drink tea so early, so that the stall owner was very happy, although these few people are not rich at first glance, but they are customers who enter the door, and the opening so early also indicates a good start today.
The boss invited a few people to sit down, and they were not annoyed when they saw that they only ordered tens of thousands of large bowls of tea and two plates of snacks, and they also warmly wiped the table and talked.
"How many of you came to Beijing to ask for help, right?"
"The owner has a good eye! How do you see that? Zhang Huaiyan is a communicative person in this line, and he took the initiative to take the conversation.
"Hey, what kind of eyesight, my stall has been open for five or six years, and it is a place where ordinary people take a break and drink a bowl of water when they are tired. The real master doesn't look down on my street stall. Like you, who drink tea early in the morning, they are all from other places who come to Beijing to ask for people or do things! The boss said while serving tea and snacks.
"Boss, you really guessed right, we really came to ask for someone, we have a big matter related to our lives to ask to see Mrs. Fu, I don't know how to meet Mrs. Fu?" Zhang Huaiyan inquired when he saw someone, in case this boss knew something.
Everyone looked at the owner of the tea stall, hoping that the owner would say something useful.
"Master Taifu? Mrs. Fu? The boss waved his hand again and again, "That's a big man above 10,000 people under one person, how can we know the way to ask to see Master Taifu." He said that he was a flat-headed commoner, and a big man like Taifu was not something they could climb.
"This Taifu rarely goes out, usually in the palace and the mansion. However, two or three times a year, he can go to Daxiangguo Temple, or the military camp, but his wife always goes to Daxiangguo Temple to burn incense and worship Buddha, or go to the city to give soup to the poor.
However, the third lady of the Fu family often goes to the street, maybe you can take the third lady's door? ”
The boss's proposal is good, but none of them know when Miss Three will go on the street, not to mention that they don't know Miss Three, and they don't know who to look for!
After a while, Li Hou changed into a long shirt and came over.
Several people talked about the things in the village with sad faces, and Li Hou was silent.
He was just a small apprentice in a pharmacy, and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries would not pay attention to him.
Zhang Huaiyan looked at Li Hou and said, "Li Hou, can you ask your master, what powerful people can he get acquainted with, can he think of a way?" “
Li Hou said with a bitter face: "Feng Ji Pharmacy is a small pharmacy in the capital, and there are ordinary people who come in and out on weekdays, how can there be any powerful people?" ”
Zhang Huaiyan patted him on the shoulder with sympathy, and also sighed: "The gentleman in my school knows a general, but that general is fighting against the Khitan in the north. “
"How's that okay?" Mrs. Zhang was very anxious, and the village chief was also worried.
Old Man Qu didn't know what he was thinking, he kept looking at the sky in the west, and he looked worried.
Xie Yujiao thought of Zhao Chengxi, and remembered that he said before he left that if there was anything, he could go to Zhao's house in the six alleys of Beixi Street in the capital to find him.
If there is really no way, she can only trouble him.
Everyone was relatively speechless, except for sighing and shaking their heads, the methods they thought of were all rejected one by one, and there was no way to see Mrs. Fu as soon as possible.
"Well, I thought, I can find someone to try." Xie Yujiao knew that it was not good to rush to the door, but at the moment they had no other way but to try it by chance.
When the village chief heard that Yujiao had a way, he patted his thigh and shouted: "Oh, doesn't Yujiao have friends in the capital?" How did we forget? Yujiao, what does that friend of yours do, can you directly ask to see Master Taifu? ”
Xie Yujiao saw that everyone pinned their only hope on her, and she was also a little apprehensive in her heart, afraid that in case Zhao Chengxi would not be able to enter the Fu Mansion, let alone see Master Taifu.
"I only know that Zhao Gongzi is a soldier in the Gyeonggi battalion, and his father's official position is not low. He said I could go to him if I had something. I want to try it with him, but I just try, and it doesn't always work. ”
It's always good to have hope, but if it happens.
The sluggish atmosphere instantly picked up a lot.
Li Hou is familiar with the capital, he took everyone to take a shortcut, and came to the six alleys of North West Street in the capital that Xie Yujiao said in the shortest time.
Li Hou asked passers-by for the Zhao family's house number, and then took everyone to find it.
Xie Yujiao stepped forward and knocked on the door, the corner door opened a crack, and an old man came out to ask, like a gatehouse of a large family guarding the door.
"Looking for whom?" The other party looked at Xie Yujiao and the group of people behind her.