Everyone entered the restaurant, but they were blocked by the shopkeeper in the lobby, stopping the people who wanted to enter the store to watch the excitement.

The shopkeeper shouted: "Don't be like this, you all come in, we can't do business in this store, if you want to see the excitement, buy two steamed cakes per person, four cents, this is always okay, buy steamed cakes, enter the store to see the excitement, if you don't buy it, you will just go outside the store!" ”

The people in the town laughed and scolded, taking this opportunity to make a profit, not thinking about money and going crazy, but the second person in the store is also right, everyone has come in, he doesn't want to do business in this store, and he has to eat if he opens a store, how can he have money to eat if he doesn't do business!

Anyway, four copper coins can buy two steamed cakes, many people took out the money and handed it to the shopkeeper, more and more people came in, and finally more than 200 people came in, and even the stairs were full of people, and they couldn't see or hear what was going on in the private room.

But the people in the town are still in high spirits, even if they can't see anything, they have to look at it, it's a big deal to see what the front sees, say it to the people behind, and then spread it one by one!

In the private room, Guo Youji stood up and said, "The old man is impatient to listen to your trial of the case, go to the next room to take a nap, and when you are done, call the old man!" ”

So saying, he went to the private room on the partition wall, but fortunately the two rooms were tightly spaced, otherwise the people would have to occupy them, and he would not even have a place to rest.

Zheng Gangling knew that his old friend was afraid of noise, so he didn't stop it, but just continued to sit in the house with two children alone.

Duan Baokang came in with a few people and said, "This adult is the county magistrate of this county, you have kowtowed to see the county magistrate!" ”

The young man in coarse cloth clothes immediately knelt down and kowtowed, and the short man hesitated for a moment, then he also knelt down and kowtowed, and the beautiful woman held the child and also saluted Zheng Gangling.

Zheng Gangling waved his hand and said: "This is not a lobby, there is no need to do this big gift, you should report your name first, where you live, and what you will do in Xingyang!" ”

The young man in coarse cloth clothes preemptively said: "Student Xu Rongcai, a native of Shaanzhou, has been studying poetry and books since he was a child, and plans to take the state exam next year. ”

After Xu Rongcai finished speaking, the short man said: "The county commander is the master, the small people are called Lu Lu, the forehead is from Guanzhong, the hometown is Yongzhou, and he has entered the city, only because the father at home is seriously ill and asked someone to send a letter, so he rushed home with his wife and children, passing by Xingyang here, this woman is Qin's wife!" ”

Zheng Gangling nodded and said, "Why are you making a lot of noise, tell it to the official, well, Xu Rongcai, you will talk about it first!" ”

Xu Rongcai turned his head and glared at Lu Lu, and then turned his head and said: "The county respects Mingjian, the student has the ambition to take the imperial examination, and he traveled from his home to Qufu to study two years ago, and this time it will be two years!" ”

Fu Guibao suddenly said: "Qufu, I've heard of this place name, it's quite far away from us!" ”

Li Rizhi booed, told him to be quiet, don't interject, how can anyone who has read the book of Confucius not know the truth of Qufu, what is there to show off.

Xu Rongcai said: "When the student left home, his wife Qin was not pregnant, but when the student returned home, she actually saw her here in Xingyang, she was not only with this Lu Lu, but also held a baby, this baby is less than two years old, this is obviously not a student's child......

According to Xu Rongcai, the situation should be like this.

A few years ago, Xu Rongcai studied in the local academy, which was run by the government, and the plaque written by the state thorn Shi himself, the purpose of establishing the academy was to let the state have more scholars, and in the future, the Chinese imperial examination would enter the official career, so that the local style of study could also be cheered up.

But Xu Rongcai was unlucky, he took the exam twice in a row, but he couldn't pass the test, and he couldn't even pass this hurdle in the state, let alone go to Chang'an to take the Jinshi exam, so Xu Rongcai felt that he might not be able to be an official in his life.

It's just that he can't enter the official career, he has been married for many years and married a wife to the Qin family, but the Qin family has never given birth to a son and a half daughter, and things at home are so unsmooth, so Xu Rongcai borrows wine every day to drown his sorrows, his grades in the academy are getting worse and worse, and he always quarrels with the Qin family because of his poor relationship at home, he feels that he is not as good as dead!

But just two years ago, a friend of his teenager returned to his hometown, and was recommended by the state officials to go to Chang'an to participate in the scientific examination.

Xu Rongcai asked this friend how he got the recommendation, and the friend told him that it was because his friend went to Qufu, which was considered a trip, and made friends with several very powerful elders, and the elders wrote letters to their friends, and then the friends returned to their hometowns with the letters and handed them over to the officials in the state, and the officials gave the elders face, so they recommended their friends, so that the friends could go directly to Beijing to catch the exam.

Hearing this, Zheng Gangling frowned, and thought: "Your friend is lying to you, he most likely just doesn't want to tell you the real reason for being recommended, if you believe it, it's too stupid!" ”

But he didn't stop Xu Rongcai from going down, just listened quietly, Li Rizhi next to him didn't know the specific matters of the scientific expedition, so he couldn't hear anything wrong.

Xu Rongcai then recounted, he said that after listening to his friend's words, he decided to go to Qufu to meet those powerful elders, hoping to get their favor, and also write a letter for himself, so that he could go directly to Chang'an for the exam.

So, Xu Rongcai said goodbye to his wife, packed his luggage and went to Qufu, but he said that his wife Qin did not show reluctance when he left, but because he was leaving his hometown, she was still a little happy!

Because Xu Rongcai and the Qin family had a bad relationship at that time, mainly because they had no children, so the Qin family did not keep him, and he did not plan to go with him, Xu Rongcai thought it was not surprising, he set off to Qufu alone and went for two years.

However, Xu Rongcai was in Qufu and did not see the elders that his friends said, the elders either didn't see him at all, or they were wandering around, and he didn't even see any of them, so he knew that his friends should have lied to him, and the entanglement was about to run out, so he had to return to his hometown.

When he came to Xingyang, he saw a woman riding on a donkey, followed by a man, he didn't care at the time, he had walked thousands of miles, he had seen all kinds of people and things, so he naturally wouldn't take it to heart.

Originally, he thought there was nothing wrong, but he inadvertently saw the woman's appearance, which turned out to be his wife Qin, but Qin didn't recognize him at that time, probably because he had suffered too much in the past two years, so his appearance had changed.

Xu Rongcai was afraid that he would recognize the wrong person, so he secretly followed behind, and it was not until he got here that he finally determined that the woman on the donkey was his wife Qin, but the child in his arms was not his son, and this man named Lu Lu was not known to him before, so what happened just now.

After Xu Rongcai finished describing, he said loudly: "The student begged the county to be the master, and the student didn't ask for anything else, either let the Qin family go home with the student, and Lu Lu compensated the student, or the Qin family went with him, but according to the law, this Lu Ru has to go to prison, the student is not an unreasonable person, the Qin family is not willing to live with the student, then let her go, but the student just can't swallow this breath, just can't swallow this breath!" ”

After speaking, Xu Rongcai cried on the ground, it seemed that he had really been wronged, and he could be called in pain!

But Lu Lu and Qin's retorted loudly, both of them said that Xu Rongcai was talking nonsense, there was no such thing at all, Xu Rongcai was talking to himself, but neither Lu Lu nor Qin's said that they didn't know Xu Rongcai!

Li Rizhi watched from the side, thinking: "It can't be this woman surnamed Qin, there is a sister who looks very similar to her, they are all surnamed Qin, it may be a family, and they married in different places, and the news was cut off, so that their husbands did not know each other, or the two sisters were separated since childhood, this is also possible!" ”

He thought of this, so he whispered to Zheng Gangling, Zheng Gangling listened, thought about it, and felt that his nephew was more thoughtful, if it was really similar in appearance, so it led to this misunderstanding, this possibility cannot be ruled out.

Zheng Gangling asked: "Qin, this official asks you, do you have sisters, sisters who look similar to you?" ”

Qin Shi held the baby in her arms, she was very sad, she said: "If you go back to the county to order the master, there are no sisters in the people's daughter's family, and the parents only gave birth to the people's daughter, and it is precisely because there are no other children that they recruited a son-in-law, that is, the husband of the people's daughter, Lu Lu, who has been married for three years. ”

Zheng Gangling frowned and said, "Maybe your parents had other children, who were also daughters, but they didn't tell you because they were separated since childhood?" ”

Qin shook his head and said: "There is no such possibility, the folk girl was born at home by her parents and raised at home, and the neighbors around her have been friends for decades, if the folk girl really has other sisters, how can she never have heard of it!" ”

Zheng Gangling had no choice but to turn his head and ask Xu Rongcai, "Then did your wife Qin, have you ever told you that she has a sister who looks similar to her?" ”

Xu Rongcai shook his head and said categorically: "County Zun, the student's wife Qin, is the one in front of me now, the student definitely did not admit his mistake, the student has evidence, but this involves privacy, and the student is really reluctant to say it as a last resort, and I hope that the county will save some face for the student!" ”

Zheng Gangling hummed, this can be understood, whose wife ran away with another man, and did not give birth to a son to him, but gave birth to someone else, no one will be able to get off the stage, this is really embarrassing.

Zheng Gangling looked back at his little nephew, and saw Li Rizhi bowing his head and pondering, not knowing what he was thinking. Zheng Gangling didn't bother, and said to Lu Lu: "Xu Rongcai said what happened just now, looking at your appearance, you must not agree, then, what happened to you, you can also talk about it, this official tries not to listen to and believe partially!" ”

Lu Lu agreed, and began to narrate what happened, but what he said was completely different from Xu Rongcai!