Chapter 148: The Old Woman on the Street
Fu Guibao likes to watch the excitement the most, and when he heard a voice in front of him, he put on his pants and said, "I'll go and see, it seems that something is happening in front!" ”
Quan Shufang said: "Classmate Fu, please call my scholar to bring me a pair of pants, let him come quickly!" ”
Fu Guibao said: "Okay, I know, you wait a while, I'll call your scholar." ”
Saying that, Fu Guibao strode to the front yard and shouted: "The scholar of the whole family, give your young master a pair of pants, he is in the toilet!" Well, take the panties too! ”
When Quan Shufang heard it in the thatched house, he only felt that his eyes were dark, and he found out that as long as he met Fu Guibao when he was in the thatched house, then there must be no good thing!
Fu Guibao ran to the front yard, and saw the scholars gathered around, all pointing and pointing, I don't know what he was talking about, so he ran over, and saw Li Rizhi standing in the crowd, so he asked: "Big brother, what's the matter, is the inn on fire?" ”
The shopkeeper of the inn also stood in the crowd, and after listening to Fu Guibao's words, his face turned dark, did he talk like this, but he knew that Fu Guibao was a big customer, so he didn't dare to refute it, but accompanied by a smiling face, and said: "Young Master Fu said that he was joking, it was a matter on the street, and it had nothing to do with the shop!" ”
A gentleman said: "There is an old woman crying outside, not far from the inn, and it seems that she is going to stop the officials, which makes it difficult for us to go out, and this kind of excitement is not so good-looking." ”
Li Rizhi frowned and said, "It's a little strange, you need to be cautious." ”
Fu Guibao sighed, it turned out that there was an old lady outside crying loudly, as if she was looking for trouble with being an official, this kind of thing should really be watched first, so as not to go out rashly and get into unnecessary trouble.
Fu Guibao looked at the innkeeper and asked, "Do you know what's going on?" ”
The shopkeeper heyed and said: "This, the villain who is too specific doesn't know much, but, it's a complaint or something, what else can be strange, I guess it's not a good thing, anyway, the old woman won't cry here for long, if you think she's too noisy, the villain will call someone out and drive her away!" ”
"No, we don't have to, just wait for her to go by herself, and we're not in a hurry to go out." The scholars shook their heads together, and no one was allowed to drive the old woman away.
They are out of the house, and close to Chang'an, at this time they are very afraid of getting into trouble, especially under the premise of unknown circumstances, getting into trouble is the most wrong, if it can be done, then it doesn't hurt to be nosy, but before they figure it out, they still stay away, especially looking at the expression of the shopkeeper, obviously they also want to stay out of the matter, then they are even more reluctant to get into trouble.
Everyone talked for a while, and then they all went back to the house to pack their luggage, the scholars are all planned, anyway, there is plenty of time to go to Chang'an, so tomorrow to go to Huashan to see, it is also a beautiful thing, all say that Huashan is steep, it is worth seeing it.
Li Rizhi walked out of the old Xihua shop, but when he looked across the street, he saw an old woman in her fifties sitting on the street, with her hair scattered and covered with mud all over her body.
However, the old woman sat alone on the ground and cried, but the passers-by nearby, as well as some people on the street, did not go over to persuade her, and even some of the shop men had unhappy expressions on their faces, as if they wanted to go forward and drive the old woman away!
Why didn't the people around her have compassion for this old woman? Is it because everyone is snobbish and looks down on this old woman, or is this old woman doing unbearable things, so no one sympathizes with her?
Li Rizhi slowly walked to the street, a distance of more than ten steps from the old woman, looked at the crying old woman, and saw that although the old woman had a dirty face, her skin was still well maintained, although she did not wear jewelry on her head and hands, but the clothes on her body were very expensive materials, and the shoes on her feet were also good materials.
Li Rizhi frowned, if it is a poor old woman, then there may be grievances, but if it is an old woman from a rich family, although the possibility of grievances cannot be ruled out, but there will be more other reasons, no wonder everyone is reluctant to approach her, it seems that there is indeed a hidden secret.
The old woman was crying, it seemed that she was really sad, whether she was rich or poor, but the crying at this moment could be seen that it was really sad, and it was by no means pretended.
At this moment, two people wearing official clothes came in the distance, Li Rizhi turned his head to look, and saw that these two people belonged to the officials, and they were by no means characters like the county commander or the county lieutenant, these two officials were originally talking and laughing, but when they saw the old woman in front of them, the expressions of the two people suddenly became impatient.
A slightly chubby clerk said: "It's really unlucky, why did you run into her again, this time she actually ran here!" ”
Another thinner clerk said: "This old woman is really messing around, she doesn't wake up well, but she insists on making trouble, it's really disgusting!" ”
As he spoke, the two officials walked up to the old woman, and the old woman, as if she had seen a savior, rushed over at once, grabbed the thin official's robe, and shouted: "Wronged, the son of the people's woman is wronged, please ask the master of the blue sky, be the master of the people's woman!" ”
The thin official's face was extremely ugly, and he said: "It's you again, you are now an official all over the city, right?" However, if you want to block people from complaining, you don't want to find a small official like us, you have to beat the drum, or find the county magistrate to shout grievances! ”
The fat clerk also said: "It's useless for you to shout grievances from us, we can't try the case for you, you are so old, and you are not an ignorant child, what kind of people are you looking for, what kind of things to do, can you still not know?" ”
The old woman said: "Both of them are in charge of the affairs in prison, and please take care of the son of the people's woman, he has no tongue, but he will suffer in prison, and I hope that the two masters will be gracious and make his life better." ”
The two officials snorted, and the fat officer said: "Your son, he is not as good as a beast, such a person dies early and lives early, and he is also not educated by you, you are like this now, who do you want to show it, you know today, why bother in the first place!" ”
The thin clerk simply pushed the old woman with his hand to prevent her from pulling her robe, but the old woman grabbed it tightly, and there was no one around her who came up to help her, and even persuaded the clerk not to be so rude to the old woman.
Li Rizhi thought to himself: "It seems that this old woman's son is in prison, and this old woman wants these two officials to take care of her son in prison, this kind of thing is actually not difficult to do, as long as you are willing to make money, a few times the money is used, the cell boss will take care of it, if you are more generous and send a few more ingots of silver or gold, then her son lives a similar life in prison as outside, it is not a difficult thing!" ”
This old woman doesn't seem to be a person who has no money, and she can't spend all her money, but she wants to be like this, and it seems that there must be something strange about this matter!
Li Rizhi didn't immediately step forward to meddle in his affairs, he planned to ask the people next to him first, maybe others knew what the reason was, and after figuring it out, he would say anything about injustice, or simply ignore it.
The thin clerk was really impatient, he pushed hard, pushed the old woman away, and shouted: "It's still a long time to leave the knife and ask for a beheading, if you are not satisfied, you can go to the state to complain, it really can't work, you can go directly to Chang'an to complain, why bother to act here, just ask who else in this city will pity you!" ”
As soon as the words fell, I heard someone shout: "Are you also an official of the imperial court, how can you dare to treat an elderly woman like this!" ”
Li Rizhi turned his head to look, and saw Quan Shufang striding over, full of righteousness and sunshine on his face, as if he was the embodiment of justice, and walked over to the old woman.
Li Rizhi frowned, before he found out the truth, it was really inappropriate to shout like this, could it be that you are the only one on this street who has compassion and a sense of justice, it is a bit nonsense!
Quan Shufang waited in the toilet for a while, and his scholar came with clean pants, he changed the dirty ones, wiped his buttocks clean, and went out of the toilet, just because Fu Guibao was yelling just now, so he was very embarrassed, and felt a little shameless to greet his classmates.
Fortunately, the classmates were busy in their respective rooms, and no one paid attention to him, so Quan Shufang breathed a sigh of relief, but after all, he was embarrassed to stay in the inn, so he went out to avoid the limelight, thinking that everyone would forget Fu Guibao's words in the evening, and he would go back to the inn.
Who knows, after going out, he saw such an unsightly thing happening on the street, the people in the government actually bullied an old woman in public, and there was no royal law, so he strode forward, wanting to take care of such an unfair matter, after all, he is still a hot-blooded young man!
When Quan Shufang came to the old woman, he was about to help the old woman up, but the two officials were not happy.
The fat official said: "Listening to your accent, it doesn't look like a local, pretending to be a hero, do you know who this person you want to help is?" ”
"What nonsense to talk to him, this person looks like an evil face, presumably a silver stick, he doesn't fall into our hands, it is estimated that if he falls into our hands, such a wicked person will definitely not be able to make him better!" After the thin clerk finished speaking, he pulled the fat clerk away.
It wasn't until this time that Quan Shu found that Li Rizhi was standing not far away, and he said in surprise: "Classmate Li, why don't you say that you don't care about it when you see this kind of thing?" ”
Li Rizhi sighed: "I was about to take care of it, but you took the lead!" ”
While talking, a few more scholars came out of the inn, but they didn't have such a good attitude as Li Rizhi, and one of the scholars said: "Brother, before you take care of things, you must also figure out whether this matter is worth taking care of!" ”
Quan Shu Fang was immediately embarrassed on the spot, he was in a hurry for a while, and he didn't want to think about whether this matter was idle or not, so he took a more action, and now he regretted it, which seemed even more inappropriate.
But the old woman said: "Don't meddle in your affairs, look at your appearance as scholars, you have a bright future after studying hard, and those who are officials are all officials and officials protect each other, you can't control it, you can't control it!" ”
As soon as she said this, Quan Shufang and the scholars didn't want to leave her alone, but they also faintly found that this old woman didn't seem to be as pitiful as she looked on the outside, maybe the poor person must have something hateful, otherwise she wouldn't be like this on the street, but no one came to sympathize with her, only Quan Shufang, a fool, rushed out to meddle in his affairs and put everyone in together.
Li Ri knew: "I don't know what this lady is called, why don't we go to the inn and talk?" ”
The old woman on the ground nodded and said, "The surname of the people's husband's family is Shang, if you talk to me, aren't you afraid that the powerful will find you trouble?" ”
The scholars all frowned, if they didn't talk to this lady Shang at this time, would it be tantamount to acquiescence, they were afraid that the powerful would find trouble?
Li Rizhi snorted and said: "Then it also depends on what it is, the road is uneven, if Aunt Shang is really wronged, then we are also willing to help, but well, Aunt Shang should not always use words to squeeze others, otherwise, the last person who suffers must be you, or the person you want to save!" ”