Rong Yuxue saw Zhao's embarrassed face, looked at the drowsy one in her arms and said, "How old is the child?" ”

Seeing Murong Yuxue asking the child in his arms, Zhao smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, his eyes revealed the kindness of his mother, he gently touched the child's face with his hand, and said softly: "There are ten days left to be three years old, and it is a male baby who belongs to the tiger." ”

Murong Yuxue saw that some fine beads of sweat oozed from the child's forehead, probably because of the hot weather, and his face was also red, which made people want to pinch it.

Murong Yuxue gently touched the child's face with her hand and said, "Are you holding it tighter, I think the child's face is hot, and there is prickly heat in the place where you are close to it." ”

Zhao pursed his lips and smiled, and said: "It's not in the way, he has been sleeping like this, and he must be held and asleep at night before he can be put on the bed, otherwise he will never sleep by himself." ”

Seeing Zhao's happy face, Murong Yuxue couldn't help but sigh and said, "Let's go faster, look at this day, I'm afraid it will rain at night." ”

Zhao snorted, and also quickened his pace and followed Murong Yuxue towards the entrance of the village.

Meng Tianchu sat in the car, it was really hot, there was no wind outside, the whole village was like an empty city, although the carriage was parked under a few big weeping willows, but in such weather, even if it was immersed in water, the exposed part was scorched by the sun.

Gently leaned on Meng Tianchu's shoulder and took a nap, his head fell from time to time, and then leaned back again, muttering something in his mouth, and the position close to Meng Tianchu's shoulder was already soaked with sweat.

Wang Yi lifted the curtain on the carriage. Seeing that she was falling asleep, she whispered, "Master Meng, someone is here." ”

Wen Rou still woke up, rubbed his eyes that were still sleepy, and Meng Tianchu said: "Then the Zhao family has already brought it, you can sleep in the car for a while, I'll go down and take a look." ”

After speaking, straighten your gentle body. Jump out of the car yourself.

Zhao looked left and right and didn't see the pillar. Instead, I saw three carriages parked at the entrance of the village. The people in the car were dressed very differently from the people in the village, and Zhao began to be a little scared, holding the child in his arms tightly, looking at Meng Tianchu who jumped out of the car in fear, and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Meng Tianchu stepped forward and met the woman in front of him, but she was about the same age as herself. Although he is wearing coarse linen clothes, his eyebrows are clear and beautiful, especially his eyes are clear and bright, and this kind of appearance can be regarded as quite a bit of beauty in the countryside.

Meng Tianchu said: "You are the Zhao family?" ”

Zhao nodded submissively to the handsome man in front of him, but he didn't make a sound, probably frightened.

Meng Tianchu said: "We are the famous master of the county government, responsible for investigating and handling cases. These are the officials of the county government. ”

The ancients were the most afraid of officials. Especially the woman, Zhao's feet were so weak that he almost knelt on the ground.

Meng Tianchu said: "The fifth day of this month. Did the pillar in the next Yulan village spend the night with you? ”

When Zhao heard this, the three souls had already gone to the seven spirits, and the whole person knelt on the ground.

Murong Yuxue stepped forward and said softly: "Give me the child, you will heat the child like this, I will take the child to the car, it will be cooler." ”

Zhao quickly shook his head, for fear that Murong Yuxue would snatch her child, and hugged the child tighter.

At this time, Wen Rou poked his head out of the car, and saw Zhao kneeling on the ground with a child in his arms, so he said: "Master, that child is sunbathed like this, I'm afraid he will suffer from heat stroke." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "Zhao, you call the child to this girl, and I will hand it over to you after we finish asking, or the child will suffer from heat stroke, and you, the mother, will always feel distressed." ”

Only then did Zhao carefully hand over the child to Murong Yuxue, and then he also explained: "It's good to put it in the car like this, you have already peed before going to bed, and your car will not be dirty." ”

Murong Yuxue carefully took the child, then walked to the side of the carriage, let the official on the carriage take over, and got into the carriage himself.

Meng Tianchu said: "Zhao, what I asked you just now, you can answer me now." ”

Zhao squeezed the corner of his clothes tightly with both hands, bit his lip with his teeth, and knelt on the ground in silence.

Meng Tianchu said: "I know what you're worried about, you are also a married woman, why do you still do those unseemly things with men from other places." ”

Zhao hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Meng Tianchu, and said in his mouth: "The slave family knows that it is wrong, it is because the slave family did the wrong thing for a while, and the slave family will never dare to do it again in the future." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "You get up and speak." ”

Zhao Shi trembled all over, and he didn't get up, but he still put his head on the ground, and kept saying what he was wrong about.

Meng Tianchu said: "If you kneel like this, aren't you afraid that the people in the village will be suspicious?" ”

When Zhao heard this, he immediately got up, first looked around vigilantly, and then carefully patted the dirt on his body, and then looked at Meng Tianchu with palpitations, but there was still mud and tears on his face, and his handsome face had changed.

Meng Tianchu glanced at Zhao and said, "You haven't told me if the pillar went to you on the fifth day of the first month, where did your man go at that time?" ”

Zhao looked at Meng Tianchu with some embarrassment, paused, and then said: "Yes, it's the fifth day of the first month of this month, because they all rush to the market one day, and the pillar has always left me some good meat, and it's not my high price, so I met, on the fifth day of the new year, my man made an appointment with other people in the village to go up the mountain to hunt, so it's..."

Meng Tianchu said: "When did he arrive at you and when did he leave?" ”

Zhao said: "It was almost noon, because at that time, most of the people in the village were resting at home, and when the weather was the hottest, no one would go out. I had already left before dawn the next morning, and I was afraid that the early risers in the village would see it, so I left early. ”

"When he arrived at your house, didn't he come out again?"

"He came during the day, and he was already afraid of people seeing. Where he dared to go out, he stayed in the house all the time, and he didn't even dare to come out of the yard until he left the next day. ”

"What about the two children?"

"The big one is back to grandma's house, and the little one follows me."

"How long have you been with the pillar?"

When Zhao heard this, he hurried

With a pale face, he said, "No, really not." The slave family is really the fifth day of the first month. I really never overdid it again. ”

Meng Tianchu looked at Wang Yi, Wang Yi understood, took the pillar out of the other car, and pulled it in front of Meng Tianchu.

Zhao and Zhu just glanced at each other, and quickly shifted their gaze.

Meng Tianchu looked at them coldly, there was no discrepancy between Zhao's words and what the pillar said, so to speak. On that day, Zhuzi was indeed in Zhao's house, so he didn't have the time to commit the crime, it seems that Yulan's death should have nothing to do with Zhuzi, so who is the murderer?

Meng Tianchu was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard a cry of the child, Zhao immediately walked to the carriage, and Murong Yuxue had already carried the child out. As soon as the child saw his mother in front of him, he immediately stopped crying. Stretch out your little hand and let Zhao hug it. Zhao hugged him in his arms, as if he had been away for a long time, and whispered in distress.

Meng Tianchu looked at them one by one. said coldly: "You should know that adultery is a capital crime to be immersed in the pig cage!" ”

When the two of them heard this, they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged Meng Tianchu for mercy.

Meng Tianchu sighed and said: "I can save you from many people, not for anything else, but I don't want the pillar's mother to be old and have nothing to rely on, the children of the Zhao family have nothing to rely on since they were young, I will give you this opportunity, do you know how to cherish it?" ”

When the two of them heard this, they went from despair to joy, and immediately said: "We all know it, we must never do such a foolish thing again, you are like our reborn parents, and we will never forget your life-saving grace for the rest of our lives." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "Don't say anything nice, if I let me know that you will commit it again, I will definitely not spare you." ”

The two of them hurriedly kowtowed to Meng Tianchu to thank him.

Murong Yuxue whispered to Meng Tianchu: "Master Meng, I think the Zhao family's children are probably hungry, since the matter is clear, do you see if you can let the Zhao family go back, if the people in the village see it, it will not be good." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded, made the two of them stand up, and said, "Okay, Zhao, you can go back." ”

After Zhao thanked him again and again, he stood up and walked away quickly with his child in his arms.

Meng Tianchu looked at the pillar and said, "Do you really want to be good with Lamei's mother?" ”

The pillar nodded firmly.

Meng Tianchu said: "Then why do you still have nothing to do to trouble Magnolia?" ”

Zhuzi said ashamedly: "I admit that the only woman I really like in my life is Yulan, but I also know that I can't wait for her, and she doesn't want to live with me, I can't help but give up, so I also want to live a good life with Lamei's mother." ”

Meng Tianchu nodded and said, "Then you want to live with Lamei Diniang, why don't you go to the county seat to find her man and ask for a letter of resignation?" As for how your mother and your Lamei will get along in the future, I think you are a man, you won't be unable to control your mother-in-law. ”

Zhu Zi immediately said: "The pillar that Meng Ye said is understood, from now on the pillar must be a good person, if Meng Ye needs the pillar to serve, the pillar must go to the soup and go to the fire, and he will not give up." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "Where do you need to go to the soup to fight so seriously, you need to give some gifts to Li Zheng after you go back, as the saying goes, many people are not to blame, if he doesn't pursue it, you really don't have to worry." ”

The pillar nodded gratefully.

Gentle poked her head out again and said lazily: "Master, can you go, I'm dying of heat." ”

…

Meng Tianchu returned home with Wen Rou and the others, except for the people in the hall, the courtyard was extremely quiet, and even the housekeeper Lao He Tou was not in the yard.

Wen Wen looked around and said, "Ah, what about people?" Where have they all gone? ”

Meng Tianchu walked to the hall and it was empty, he walked out and saw a subordinate running from the foyer.

Wen Rou looked displeased, sat under the gazebo, and said to the man, "What about the people at home? Why just a few of you? ”

The subordinate hurriedly bent down and said humbly: "Madame and grandma took the young master to the West Lake, and also brought a few maids and subordinates, and some of the rest of the people cleaned the attic in the back garden, and some went to the market to buy things. ”

He stood up with a gentle sigh and pretended to be surprised, "Is there anything important today?" ”

The subordinate smiled and said, "Then the slave is not clear." ”

Meng Tianchu said: "You go down, by the way, how long have they been gone?" ”

The servant said: "Master, you have not been gone for a while, and the eldest lady and they have left." ”

Meng Tianchu thought about it, it didn't seem to be a big deal, and he didn't know what they were doing, so he didn't bother to deal with it. But seeing that Gentle was very sleepy, he asked her to rest, but Gentle refused, relying on Meng Tianchu to accompany him to the back garden to sit, it was rare that no one at home disturbed, so he quickly contacted Meng Tianchu to contact his feelings.

Where is Meng Tianchu still in the mood to accompany Wen Wen to visit the garden, the two of them were entangled, and they heard a child's crisp laughter, coming from outside the door.

I saw that Meng Wenbo had already put on new clothes, a lotus-colored short coat, a pair of light cyan silk pants, looking well-behaved and cute, holding a windmill in his hand, laughing while running, just ran into the door, the people in the hall hurriedly stepped forward and shouted respectfully: "The young master is back." Hurriedly smiled and took the windmill in Meng Wenbo's hand, and said in a low voice: "The master and the second lady are back." ”

Meng Wenbo looked at the courtyard and found that Meng Tianchu and Wen Rou were looking at him there, so he hurriedly ran over, first knelt down respectfully and kowtowed to Meng Tianchu and Wen Rou, and then shouted Dad crisply! Erniang!

Meng Tianchu hurriedly pulled Meng Wenbo to his side, smiled and touched the sweat on Meng Wenbo's head, and said, "Is Hangzhou fun?" ”

Meng Wenbo nodded and said happily: "It's fun, my mother also bought me a piece of jade, Dad, look at it." After speaking, he took it out of his clothes and showed it to Meng Tianchu.