Chapter Eighty-Six: Starting from the Beginning
After a night's hard work, the burning yard was not saved, and only a side room was saved.
The original family's warm paradise is now only scorched earth and rubble, and more importantly, Wang Yueying can no longer use this small courtyard to compensate for the ten thousand taels of silver. In this way, things get quite tricky again.
No one will be more heartbroken than Wang Yueying, watching the family business she bought single-handedly become such a field, her heart once again tasted the taste of loss.
A man who looked like a servant walked through the crowd of onlookers, trying to get close to Wang Yueying.
"Where is Wang Yueying, where is Wang Yueying?" Seeing that he couldn't get over, this official simply shouted out and asked Wang Yueying to come over by herself.
"I'm Wang Yueying, what's the wrong master's business?"
"The county commander summoned you to go to the yamen quickly, and your case will be tried today."
"I don't know what the case is?"
"Where there are so many words, you will know when you go. Let's go! ”
The officials urged tightly, and Wang Yueying didn't have time to clean herself up, so she could only rush to the county government with the officials unkempt.
The yamen was already crowded with people, and although it was not a market day, there were more people than the market day. There were two people kneeling in the lobby, their hair was scattered, their clothes were ragged, one was covered in blood, and the other was slightly better. Two classes of officials lined up on both sides with killing sticks. Xing Zhutou and the master stood on both sides of the county order on the left and right. Wu Xianling slapped the startled wood in his hand, and said: "Take Chen Shouli and Wu Shi to the court." ”
There were four catchers out of the inner hall, and two teams dragged two people to the hall. One is Chen Shouli, and the other is Wu Shi, but Wang Yueying doesn't know him.
"Master Cui, do you know this person kneeling next to you?" Wu Rui pointed to Wu Shi beside Cui Junshi.
"Little acquaintance, he is Wu Shi." Cui Junshi said tremblingly.
Wu Rui had a smile on his face, and then asked, "A few days ago, did he go to Qinglong Village to look for you?" ”
"Yes."
"Oh, find out what you are doing, and get it from the truth."
"Wu Shi actually came to me for the second time. He came to me before and told me that he had a sworn brother, because he was angry with a girl named Wang Yueying, and was beaten dozens of boards by the eldest master, he said that his brother was resentful in his heart, and he wanted to find our village owner to come forward and teach that girl a good lesson. ”
"Where is Wang Yueying?" Hearing Wu Rui call her name, Wang Yueying's first reaction was to come out of the crowd and walk to the hall. This is the second time she has stood on top of this court, the last time she stood here, Chen Shouli's ass bloomed, and this time she stood here again, and I don't know what the result of the person who knees now will be.
"The folk girl is here."
"Master Cui Jun, Wu Shituo, is she the one you asked the three-eyed green to teach a lesson? You tell the official what happened. ”
"Yes. Half a month ago, Wu Shi came to Qinglong Village with gifts to find me, saying that he wanted to ask our village owner to be angry for his brother. He said that Wang Yueying's family didn't look good, but she actually hid a lot of money, and said that she could take the opportunity to help his brother get her money. He also said that Wang Yueying has a little daughter who is her heart, and wants us to tie up her daughter and let Wang Yueying redeem it at a high price, and the ransom will be three or seven points at the beginning, but our owner of the village does not agree, and finally he said two or eight points. "This tall and thin Cui Junshi wanted to see the cruelty of the three-eyed blue punishment in prison, and he was already frightened, and now as long as someone asks in the court, he must say it in 1510.
Cui Junshi paused and then said: "The brothers in our village squatted outside Wang Yueying's house for several days without waiting for the little girl to come out, and finally on the day of the winter temple fair, I saw the girl and a child and the fool come out, so our people followed, and took advantage of the fool's inattention at the temple fair to kidnap the little girl. In the middle, a man blocked him, but he didn't succeed. The next day, someone took the money and went up the mountain with the official to ransom the man. Seeing that they were generous, the owner of the village, at my instigation, decided to extort them another ransom of 5,000 taels. As soon as it was said that there were five thousand taels, the onlookers began to let out a sound of surprise, and one by one they began to privately discuss whether Wang Yueying's family really had so much money.
The noise only attracted Wu Rui's astonishment, and the crowd fell silent again. Wu Rui motioned to Master Cui to continue. Three days later, the woman came to the gate in an ox cart carrying ransom money and wine, pretending to ransom people, and tricked her brothers into going down the mountain. How do you know that there are already officers and soldiers in ambush around, and the brothers are drinking and rising, but the officials rushed out and were defeated. The owner and I escaped desperately, but after all, we couldn't swallow this bad breath. I originally wanted to burn down Wang Yueying's house last night and leave, but I was ・・・・・・ by a good man again" Speaking of this, Xing Zhutou hurriedly coughed a few times and interrupted Cui Junshi's words, and interjected: "Who knows that we are being caught by our patrol men!" ”
Cui Junshi seemed to be deflated, kneeling on the ground and shaking his head. Xing Zhutou bowed down to Wu Rui and said: "My lord, the matter is very clear, the kidnapping case of Wang Yueying's daughter and the arson case of the Wang family last night were all committed by this group of thieves in Qinglongzhai. ”
"Don't talk about sycophants. Wu Shi, let me ask you, is what Fang Cai Junshi said true? After Wu Rui finished interrogating Cui Junshi, he pointed the finger at Wu Shi who was on the side.
Wu Shi squeaked and refused to explain honestly, and the corners of Wu Rui's mouth rose and asked Chen Shouli to explain clearly. Chen Shouli looked at Wu Rui and then looked at Wu Shi without speaking, "Chen Shouli, you forgot that you got beaten on your buttocks!" As soon as he said this, he heard Chen Shouli fall to the ground in fright, and hurriedly begged Wu Rui for mercy.
"If you want to avoid the pain of flesh and skin, you don't want to invite it from the truth. Are you asking Wu Shi to find the three-eyed blue to wait for an opportunity to take revenge on Wang Yueying? ”
"The little one should be damned, the little one was just angry for a while, so he mistakenly believed Wu Shi's words, and asked the adults to be gracious, gracious!"
As soon as Chen Shouli was frightened, he recruited them all, Wu Rui thought to himself, now look at how you Wu Shi still quibbles. "Diao Min Wu Shi, it's better to recruit it truthfully to avoid some flesh and skin suffering."
As the saying goes, a good man doesn't suffer immediate losses. Wu Shi didn't plan to make the last struggle, so he honestly confessed in the court. The three-eyed blue hasn't said a word yet, and with a black face, he is looking left and right at Cui Junshi and Wu Shi and the others. In the end, Wu Rui turned the conversation to Three-Eyed Qing again, and scolded sharply: "Three-eyed Qing, the three of them have confessed, what other quibbles do you have." ”
"Damn, don't talk nonsense, if you want to kill or kill you, Lao Tzu will be a good man again after eighteen years, and a good man again." As he spoke, he shouted, trying to break free from the shackles on his hands, which frightened Wu Rui and hurriedly called the officials on the left and right to escort him down.
Wang Yueying watched from the sidelines, just like watching excerpts, scene after scene, but she was so depressed that she didn't want to say a word. Last night's fire not only burned down the property she had worked so hard to purchase, but also ruined her plan to use the property to compensate for the profit. The most urgent thing at the moment is how to repay the 10,000 taels of silver as soon as possible.
The outcome of the court trial is this. The three-eyed Qing, Cui Junshi, and the captured bandits in Qinglong Village were sentenced to be beheaded together, and Wu Rui reported to the state government to ask for the approval of the imperial court, and waited until the autumn to ask for beheading. Wu Shi and Chen Shouli were beaten 30 boards respectively, fined 100 taels of silver, and confiscated for three years.
Back at home, only Caidie and Yangyang were taking care of Chen Shouxin. Zhao Han is the only one in Wang Yueying's family except for Caidie, in order to find someone to learn to cook, plug a dragon horse's mouth, and in a hurry, he decided to leave Zhao Han with money, but he never thought that he became the only student in Wang Yueying's cooking school. Originally, it didn't matter if there was only one person, Wang Yueying planned to teach him some cooking methods with his heart, but unfortunately he encountered Yangyang's kidnapping again, and he was anxious for a while, and he was in no mood to care about his affairs.
Zhao Han has been doing chores in Wang Yueying's house during this time, doing some subordinate work. Wang Yueying is very strange, everyone else has left, why hasn't Zhao Han left, his family property has been burned, and there is a patient at home, so he doesn't want to teach him cooking anymore.
The town can't go on anymore. Wang Yueying instructed Caidie to go back to the village, inform Wang Zicheng of the fire that broke out last night, and ask him to catch a car to take the unconscious Chen Shouxin and Yangyang back to the winery first. Fortunately, the few rooms left behind when the new winery was built can still be occupied, otherwise this time it would really be homeless. Another reason why Wang Yueying is in a hurry to move back to the village is that she still owes a few hundred taels of silver in ten thousand taels of silver, so she will avoid trouble for the time being, and then slowly turn over some silver taels to pay it back.
Withered vines and old trees, faint crows, small bridges and flowing water. The ancient road is a thin horse with a west wind, the sun is setting, and the broken intestines are at the end of the world.
A song by Ma Zhiyuan's "Tianjingsha Autumn Thoughts" suddenly caught Wang Yueying's heart, sitting on the rickety carriage, walking on the dirt road that came out of the village a year ago, watching the changes in the surrounding scenery, and starting from scratch.