Chapter 136: Help
Liang Chenjing looked down at her: "Do you want to care?" ”
Well, he guessed his mind at once: "Husband, aren't you a well-known hero chasing the wind?" Sit back and ignore such injustices? ”
Liang Chenjing didn't speak, just looked at her lightly, as if to say don't think that a few words can trap me in.
Linglong secretly rolled his eyes, don't be so smart, okay?
"Okay, okay, I admit that I want to help her, but I'm a weak woman, powerless and can't do kung fu, so I can only count on you, husband!" Linglong jokingly threw a wink at him.
The two of them laughed and came to the alley opposite, which was quite a quiet alley, which happened to be the intersection of the walls of the three mansions, there were no shops on both sides, few pedestrians, and it was unusually quiet, because the surrounding people lived in high-ranking households, and the officers and soldiers rarely came here to search for trouble, and over time this place became the habitat of beggars and wanderers in the city.
The previously clean street suddenly turned into an alley crowded with beggars, and Linglong couldn't react, staring at the alley in amazement. Obviously, the beggars in the alley were also a little frightened, seeing them retreat in panic one by one, staring at Linglong and the others with wary eyes.
Zhihua exclaimed: "There are so many beggars here! ”
The beggars looked at Zhihua together, and many people still had a little hatred in their eyes.
Zhishu pulled her and motioned her not to speak, Liang Chenjing glanced around her chest with her hands and looked down at Linglong: "Is your eldest cousin really here?" ”
"This ...... I don't know! ”
"Cousin! Cousin, I'm here. A woman with a dirty face limped out of her stomach, and she was accompanied by three equally timidly children, who were not known to be boys or girls in their outfits.
Linglong stared at the woman. It's really Gu's: "Sister-in-law, ...... you How did you get to this? ”
Linglong's concerned voice made her eyes red, and she knelt down with a puff before she could reach the front: "Cousin! Please, save the child's father! Please, please! Gu kept kowtowing.
"Don't be like this, sister-in-law, you know books and paintings, don't help her up quickly."
Gui Ying Guilan also went to help, and Liang Chenjing helped push the wheelchair.
"Husband. Is there an inn or a small courtyard for rent nearby? ”
Liang Chenjing Muran replied: "I don't know." ”
"They can't bring it into the house. We've got to have to find a place to talk, right? ”
Liang Chenjing thought for a while, "Go out from the front and turn left, and there is an inn at the end." ”
"Then let's go there!"
Liang Chenjing and Linglong Advanced Inn booked a room. Zhishu Zhihua helped the beggar-looking cousin's family in, and the shopkeeper and Xiao Er were immediately dumbfounded: "Second son Liang, these are ......"
Linglong peeked at him, thinking that he would feel embarrassed and pretend not to see it. Who knew that he blurted out: "Relatives, prepare water and bathe." ”
The shopkeeper and Xiao Er both looked incredible. Seeing that Liang Chenjing didn't look like a joke, he hurriedly ran to the backyard to prepare water without saying a word, and ran outside to buy clothes and shoes, while Liang Chenjing and Linglong waited in the room.
It's been a long time since I've sat across from each other so quietly. Remembering that when he first saw this man, he seemed to be sitting in the teahouse like this, and he was quite dissatisfied with himself with a cold face, and he was anxious about his family affairs at that time. It's almost to the point where I want to catch a man when I see him, but I didn't expect to have a chance to be married to him. Though...... Nominal.
Thinking of this, Linglong grinned, and Liang Chenjing glanced at her: "What are you laughing at?" ”
Linglong smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing, husband, what do you say about this?" ”
"Let's figure out the cause and effect."
Linglong nodded, thought about it and said sincerely: "Thank you!" ”
Liang Chenjing looked at her in surprise, but didn't say anything, and looked out the window instead.
About two quarters of an hour later, the cleaned Gu came in with three children, and as soon as the children saw the snacks on the table, they couldn't wait to pounce on them and gobble them up.
Seeing that they were choking and coughing, Gu wiped his tears again and again, and helped the child stroke his back in a choked voice: "Eat slowly!" Silly child, it's all blamed on the mother for not being useful, slow down! ”
"Madam, let them eat, the slave and maid will help you watch, you can do your job." Zhishu intimately brought tea to the children, while Gui Ying helped Gu to walk to the Linglong table and sit down.
Gu Shi saw that Linglong was about to kneel again, and Linglong hurriedly helped her: "Sister-in-law, don't be like this, you speak well and explain things clearly, so we can help you!" ”
Gu Shi was surprised and delighted when he heard this: "Cousin, are you really willing to help us?" ”
"Sit down! Cousin-in-law, why did you make it like this? Didn't you stay at your second uncle's house last time? Where do you live now? ”
"I ...... I ......" Gu Shi was about to cry before he could say anything, Linglong frowned slightly, talking like this was the saddest, Gui Ying persuaded: "Madam, don't cry, make things clear, otherwise our young master and grandmother won't be able to help you!" ”
Gu wiped his tears with his sleeve and intermittently talked about the events of more than a month.
At first, the Gu family did live in the second uncle's house, and looked forward to the second uncle helping to save the eldest cousin every day, but the second uncle had no real power as a bachelor of Hanlin, not to mention that it was a major crime of murder.
Formal procedures will not work, nor will it be feasible to entrust favors to follow relationships, and there is only the bribery of the presiding judge's officials.
But the second uncle's family background is not thick, he is also an official himself, and the crime of knowing the law and breaking the law is added to the first, he will never dare to take this road, so he can only wait slowly and occasionally help inquire about the news.
The second uncle, as a relative, helped everything he could, and he could only do so, and it was really unreasonable to force it.
Besides, Linglong's father's side, his father had just returned to Beijing to report on his work, his house had not yet been completed, and his old acquaintances had not been visited, he was already very busy, and his mother was really embarrassed to bother him with this matter.
Even if he sued his father, his father helped him run away, but his popularity was worse than that of his second uncle, and he couldn't help.
In addition, my father also did one thing, that is, to go to my aunt and reprimand her with righteous words. asked her to immediately send her second cousin to prison and replace her eldest cousin back.
But the eldest aunt promised well at the time, and the next day when my father and the second uncle went to pick up people, they found that the house was empty, and asked the neighbors to inquire, and it turned out that the eldest aunt ran away with the second cousin's family in the middle of the night last night.
That's not all, the eldest aunt swept away the yard rented by the eldest cousin and sold it again.
The owner of the house who rushed to hear the news heard that his father and second uncle were relatives of the family, so he insisted on pulling his father and second uncle to prevent them from leaving and wanted to see the official. My father was furious. On the spot, he stomped his feet and shook his hands and put down his words: "I don't know that person, I like to find whoever I want!" ”
The eldest aunt really offended Linglong's father and second uncle this time, and both of them were light-hearted. I don't want to care about that family's affairs anymore.
The second uncle made it clear to the eldest cousin that the eldest cousin's crime would be beheaded, and the worst crime would be exiled, and there was no room for turnaround. Unless you can get your dick back and confess your sins. And as long as the eldest cousin is willing, the second uncle can support their family until they can support themselves.
The eldest cousin was heartbroken. I really wanted to hang myself directly, but a few children surrounded her, and she couldn't bear it, so she gritted her teeth and ran out secretly with a few children. The city is looking for the traces of the eldest aunt and the second cousin, and the second child must be made to confess no matter what.
The eldest cousin's mother and daughter smuggled out of the second uncle's house, so naturally they had no face to go back. The second uncle thought that they blamed him for not helping, so he didn't want to stay in the house. and no one was sent to look for them.
In this way, the eldest cousin can only take a few children to beg on the street and look for someone. More than half a month has passed, no one has been found, but the mother and daughter are getting more and more pitiful, and the situation is getting worse and worse!
Seeing her crying silently, Linglong felt panicked for a while, that eldest aunt was really hateful, only she could do this kind of thing, I really doubt that the eldest cousin was her own child?
"Sister-in-law, have you been to see your cousins recently? How is he? ”
At the mention of this, the eldest cousin cried even more, and her youngest daughter said: "We went, every day, but the guard didn't let us see our father, and asked us for silver, and we couldn't see it without silver, and said that our father was convicted and would be exiled to the border, and we would leave in two days!"
Sister, what is the border gate? Let's go to the border pass, then we can see my father, our family can be reunited, let's open a steamed bun shop, there are steamed buns to eat every day, is it good to eat full? ”
The child was only four or five years old, his small body was as skinny as wood, but his dark eyes were extremely dexterous, and he purred and spun: "Sister, why are you crying?" We're about to reunite with Daddy, don't cry, don't cry! ”
In addition to the little girl, the eldest cousin and the other two girls cried very sadly.
This scene was really uncomfortable, Linglong sighed lightly, she wanted to help them but didn't know where to start, she turned to look at Liang Chenjing, Liang Chenjing thought about it and asked, "What's your eldest cousin's name?" ”
"Song Anshun."
"Which yamen are you locked up in?"
"Are there many yamen in the capital?"
Liang Chenjing raised his eyebrows slightly, stood up and said, "Forget it, you settle them down and go back!" ”
"Husband, where are you going?"
Liang Chenjing's footsteps stopped for a moment, and he strode out without saying anything.
Seeing his back disappear at the door, Linglong was relieved, she knew that he must have helped inquire.
Linglong sat with his eldest cousin's mother for a while, gave them ten taels of silver, and paid for half a month's accommodation and food before leaving the inn with a few maids.
On the way back, Zhihua asked, "Miss, did my uncle help inquire?" ”
"It should be!"
"Alas, their family is so pitiful!"
"Hmm!"
"Miss, your aunt is so bad!"
"Hmm!"
"Your second cousin is also bad!"
"Hmm!"
"Miss, I heard that your uncle is also very bad!"
Linglong looked back at her impatiently: "Are you trying to say that the Song family doesn't have a good thing?" ”
"Huh? Nope! I say...... Hey, miss, look, that person looks like your aunt! ”
Linglong looked in the direction she pointed, and saw that there was a soup kitchen at the door of the store in front of her, and there was a group of people around, and it was not the eldest aunt who was rampage with a wooden basin!
"Second young grandmother, do you want the slave to arrest her?"
"Wait a minute, Gui Ying, you follow her secretly, see where she settles? Who are the people, and when they found out about their second cousin's whereabouts, they tied him back. ”
"Yes!" Gui Ying approached the group of people silently, Linglong watched from the side, and saw that the eldest aunt was sweating profusely, and finally came back with a small half pot of gruel, she frowned and looked at the gruel for a moment, then turned back and spat at the pile of people:
"Damn, just give porridge and porridge like this, how can it be enough for six or seven people in my family? Isn't that sincere? I want to ...... when my wife was rich and rich."
The eldest aunt's words came to an abrupt end, because she also saw Linglong on the side, and Linglong smiled and said, "Auntie, I think you never thought of going back to wait in line for soup soup when you were in the limelight, right?" ”
The eldest aunt smiled embarrassedly: "Heh, Linglong, such a coincidence, what are you doing here?" ”
"Go shopping! I haven't seen my aunt for a long time, and I thought you weren't in the capital anymore, so you haven't left yet? ”
"Alas, what to go, is it for people to stay anywhere else? It's still good in the capital, there are people giving porridge every day, someone getting married every day, even if you go to the street to pick up happy money, you can live, but you can't go out of the capital, there is wind and sand everywhere, and the countrymen are stingy and rustic, and it's boring......"
The eldest aunt swept Linglong's body with her eyes as she spoke: "Oh, Linglong, you are really ...... It's getting richer and richer, I heard that you married a concubine of the Liang family? What's the matter, the Liang family is really rich, right? A little leakage between people's teeth is enough for us to eat and drink for a lifetime!
That one...... Hehe, Linglong, your aunt and I have been a little tight lately, can you ......?"
"Auntie, I heard that my eldest cousin has been sentenced and exiled to the border, do you know?"
The eldest aunt's face changed, and she waved her hand again and again: "No, no, no...... I don't know. ”
"Didn't I just sue you? The eldest cousin is also your son, can you bear it? ”
"This ...... What can I do, it's that he doesn't fight on his own, oops, I won't tell you, I'll go back first! The eldest aunt ran away with the wooden basin, and Linglong didn't call her, just looked at her with a smile, because Gui Ying had already followed her, and she couldn't run away.
This pickled mother-in-law, originally thought that if she knew her mistakes, she could change it, as long as she didn't gamble money to live a good life, she would receive a few taels of silver every month, and let her raise her second cousin's children well, but I didn't expect her to be so virtuous, this person is really hopeless!
Linglong made up his mind that he must get the second cousin back to replace the eldest cousin, and the children will be sent to Zhuangzi, so that they can endure hardships and hone their skills.
As for the eldest aunt...... Staying in the capital is also a scourge, just drive it out of the capital.
Linglong returned to the Liang Mansion with Zhishu Zhihua and Gui Ying, and still entered the mansion through the south side gate, but as soon as he entered the door, he met Miao Dandan: "Hey, brother and sister, are you back?" Keep me waiting, I heard...... You punished Liang Tai for no reason? Is there such a thing? (To be continued)