Chapter 33: Behind bars

Luohua Lane, Li Mingshuo's courtyard.

A gray-haired old doctor was taking the pulse of Dong'er, who was sleeping on the bed, and Li Mingshuo and Li Moge were nervously watching and waiting.

The old doctor took his hand away and said to Li Mingshuo quite calmly: "Son, your wife is fine, but the two days of anger and sorrow, mental disharmony, coupled with excessive exhaustion, physical exhaustion, the old man will prescribe a prescription for you, you take the medicine according to the prescription, feed the lady to take it, the lady is young, and it will be back to the same as before in a few days." ”

Sending the doctor away, Li Moge hurriedly grabbed the medicine and boiled the medicine, and complained to the master while fiddling with the charcoal fire: "Master, the people we invited are really not good at doing things, it's been two days, and the girl hasn't been sent yet, you see how I've lived in the past two days, and I'm a boy and a maid, I can't figure out whether I'm a man or a woman." ”

Li Mingshuo disagreed: "I think it's good, it would be better if you were a few years younger, I recognize you as a son, you recognize me as a father, we are a family of three, living here harmoniously, there are no messy people, no messy things, how quiet the years are." ”

"Master, how can you think about good things, don't say anything about picking up a daughter-in-law for nothing, but also want to pick up another son for nothing, want a son, you are born by yourself, and it is not that you don't have a daughter-in-law, and you think about getting it for nothing all day long."

"Okay, my son, is the medicine for your mother boiled, bring it over as soon as it's ready."

Mogo rolled his eyes in anger.

"The medicine is ready." Mo Ge brought it with a bowl, Li Mingshuo took it, tasted it, bared his teeth and complained: "Why is it so bitter?" Did you poison it? ”

"Is it still called medicine if it is not bitter? I have never taken medicine that is not bitter since I was a child. Li Moge also retorted unceremoniously.

Li Mingshuo had no choice but to order: "Then you go and make a bowl of honey water, so that Miss Wan will be bitter to death by this bitter medicine soup before she dies." ”

Li Moge quipped: "Master, you are really concerned, she can't wake up, even if you feed her coptis water, it is estimated that she is ignorant and unconscious, what honey water to feed, eating sweet will reduce the effect of the medicine." ”

"If I tell you to go, you can go, where is so much nonsense."

"Okay, I listen to you, you are the master."

Mo Ge soaked honey water and sent it over, and put it on the small desk at the bedside where the medicinal soup was put just now. Li Mingshuo first took a mouthful of medicinal soup in his mouth, and then fed it to Dong'er mouth-to-mouth, because he felt bitter, he quickly drank a sip of honey water, and fed it mouth-to-mouth like feeding the medicinal soup, and so on three times, he actually fed the medicinal soup cleanly, and not a drop was wasted, and Li Moge, a single dog, was dumbfounded.

After Li Mingshuo finished feeding the medicine, he took out the white silk handkerchief that originally belonged to Dong'er from his sleeve pocket, and wiped the remaining medicine drops on Dong'er's lips before wiping himself, because he saw Li Moge's eyes that were about to pop out, he was very puzzled and asked him: "Why is this expression?" Any questions? Why are you looking at me like this? ”

Li Moge's head shook like a rattle, and he quickly denied it: "No problem, no problem." I just sighed with emotion, what my wife said was really not wrong. ”

"What did your wife say?"

Li Moge replied seriously: "My mother said that in this world, there are two poles who will love his wife the most. ”

Li Mingshuo really didn't think about himself for a while, but just joked: "How can a mother say this about her son?" ”

Li Moge honestly corrected: "Master, my mother is not talking about me, my mother says that I am like a scholar, and that I am gentle and elegant." The second pole is the kind of person in front of me. ”

Only then did Li Mingshuo understand that the "second pole" was talking about him, he was extremely angry, and pointed at Li Moge and scolded: "Bastard, it's against you, you actually learned to scold the master in a roundabout way, you come over to me, I promise not to kill you." ”

Li Moge hurriedly took two steps back, waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't dare, don't dare, borrow a hundred guts, I don't dare to scold my master, I'm just making an analogy with you, hehe." ”

Li Mingshuo couldn't beat him, so he had to wipe up a pillow and smash it on Li Moge, scolding: "Get out." ”

Zhejiang Taizhou Prefect Prison.

Chun Yubin was wearing a dirty and yellowish prison uniform that was too fat and unfitting, and looked opposite Wan Kezhou, who was also wearing a shabby fat prison uniform in the opposite cell.

Wan Kezhou sighed melancholy, and said faintly: "Chun Yu Xian nephew, I didn't expect that I came to the south to visit Lord Ling Zun this time, but it brought such a big disaster to you, Xian nephew. Knowing this, I should have returned immediately after seeing Ling Zun, but I was stranded for so many days, showing up everywhere and participating in the affairs of your family, but I was not good at learning and art, and I was imprisoned for my nephew. ”

Chun Yubin is a person who has experienced several times of officialdom, he has some disdainful attitude towards the unwarranted disaster he suffered this time, and persuaded Wan Kezhou to say: "Uncle Shi must not think so, my family's old cemetery was originally flooded, I was afraid that the ancestors would blame, and I should choose another good cave, Uncle Shi helped my father choose a new cemetery, which is also anxious for our family, who would have expected that those of them would talk about the topic of Wang Qi, and sentence me to a crime of plotting against the Chun Yu family, according to the little nephew, Wang Qi's rhetoric is pure nonsense, the excuse for wanting to add to the crime, what is the excuse for trouble, is just a means for the party above the officialdom to fight against dissent and eradicate dissent. Today's prison disaster may still be dragged down by me, and those people deliberately suppress me under the guise of Uncle Shi. ”

Wan Kezhou was a little relieved when he heard Chun Yubin persuade him like this, but he didn't dare to believe it all, and asked cautiously: "Can the nephew of the world guess who did this accident?" ”

Chun Yubin sighed, and said helplessly: "The left and right are just done by the Yan Party's group, the foolish nephew has always been different from their group of humanitarians, as long as there is such a big opponent, it doesn't make much sense to find the person who does it himself, it's just that he was instructed, when this group of people has gone, the world will be clear and peaceful." ”

Wan Kezhou asked anxiously: "Then we have no way to save ourselves?" Can't we appeal upward? ”

Chun Yubin lowered his head and said very depressedly: "Uncle Shi, you don't know, throughout the ages, what is the most taboo thing for these emperors, what they are most taboo about is that someone shakes their throne, you are corrupt and pervert the law, and they may let you go, if you plot against the throne and covet the throne, this is the dragon scale against the Son of Heaven." The accusations that we are being crowned with today are actually the most hated by emperors. Taking such a thing as entrenching in the land of the king to rectify us can be regarded as a trick. ”

"Then we're just going to have to wait in prison and die?"

Chun Yubin shook his head and said: "That's not it, the case still has to be tried for the first instance after all, even if it's just to go through the motions." As long as the swordsmen are not anxious to take my life, we will probably have to spend some more time in this prison. ”

Wan Kezhou said frankly: "In fact, it doesn't matter how long I stay here, it's just that the little girl in my family is just at the age of talking about marriage, if I marry her out and I encounter this accident again, it's better, but I am not by her side in the most important years of her life, this is not a mistake for her life, I am really worried about my daughter." ”

"In this case, why don't Uncle Shi send your servant Lao Zhou home first to help the family, as far as I know, you came out this time, the first male in the family is gone, there are only female dependents in the family, in the end, people are not at ease, although I am a bad official, after all, there are clansmen and in-laws here to take care of you and me, there will be no one to take care of, let Lao Zhou go home, if there is anything at home, you can still find someone to come out and do your best to run errands to take care of, it is better than letting him spend every day here, waiting for the day you and I are released from prison. He can't help much here. ”

"There is some truth in what the virtuous nephew said, tomorrow Zhou Ning will come to deliver the clothes, I will arrange for him to go back to Beijing to take care of the family, I am here with the virtuous nephew's family to breathe together, share the fate, if there is anything needed, I will deliver it to you."

On the second day, Zhou Ning came to visit him in prison, and Wan Kezhou really arranged for him to go back to the capital to take care of his family.

Half a month later, Zhou Ning returned to Beijing, heard that there were many changes in the family, and he was terrified, and returned to his hometown in the countryside to find his wife and little daughter, and learned from them that Wanjia was threatened, and also guessed that there were many doubts behind these changes, and there were many shady scenes, and Wanjia and Chunyujia must have been implicated in each other.

Zhou Ning was a cloth cloth, and he was soft-spoken, even if he wanted to save his master, he was powerless, so he had to cautiously avoid living in the countryside with his wife and children, doing odd jobs everywhere, and living in poverty, and the family all looked forward to the lord's release from prison as soon as possible, and then inquired about the true whereabouts of Miss Dong'er after returning to Beijing.