It doesn't matter if you are an ink official or a clean official, whether you are drowned by the spittle of the common people, or you take the people's book of all people. After all, it is the person who lost a county and made more than 10,000 people suffer. If you have merit like Chang He, then you don't need to get into the prisoner car, and if you have money to redeem your sentence like Qin Guang, you can pass the test.

But Zhou Cong has no merit, and he has no money to redeem his sentence, so he can only wear a sin dress and a sin skirt.

"Brother Zhou, I'm going to enter the capital soon, and the torture tools ......"

"I know. Thank you Zhang Yuanjun for taking care of you all the way. ”

When he entered the Tingwei Mansion, he was still the same as the few jailers who had taken in Han Taiwei. The person in charge of the prison procedures is still the prison warden who even the great eunuch Song Yuyao has to give gifts.

He has recently gained a little fatter, and in addition to wearing thick clothes in winter, he looks even more round: "Is it Shi Zhoucong, the magistrate of the county?" ”

"Sinner Zhou Cong."

"I heard that you are a Qing official, or a Qing official. You have received 20 copies of the Book of the People from 20 counties in the whole county, which shows that you are highly regarded by the people. Well, the rules are the rules, your situation is special, pay half. ”

"I don't have any money."

"I know you don't have any money, so I'll give you a discount and pay half of it. But it doesn't matter to me if you have money or not, you have to pay anyway. ”

"How can I pay if I don't have any money?"

"Zhou Changshi, don't blame the little ones. Since you don't have any money, let's be honest and take the kill. ”

"Can I avoid being beaten?"

"My circumference history, I'll also give you half of the killing stick! Beat! "Throw the stick on the ground and start fighting.

“？” Zhou Cong felt that something was wrong, you must know that the killing stick is down but the skin is open, how can it feel like taking a beating? Forget it, just don't talk.

After beating for a while, it suddenly worsened, and the pain was so painful that Zhou Cong almost didn't scream, and his teeth were so gritted that his cheeks bulged out.

He was beaten three times with heavy hands, and then he was put into the cell by two jailers, who told him:

"Zhou Changshi, we are from Shangjun, and I beat you three times just now to deal with it. Rest assured, it's just a flesh wound, and we won't let you suffer. ”

"What did Zhou Cong do? So loved by the people of Shangjun County? ”

"The family has a little letter, saying that you have given some free food, and you can live better this winter."

"It seems that the people are not very demanding, and they only ask for two meals and one night. Zhou Cong just did a little thing, and he ......" said and cried with emotion, "With the love of the people of Shangjun, Zhou Cong is worth dying." ”

Outside, Pei Shao originally planned to settle Zhou Cong's wife and two children in the Jianmen Mansion Courtyard for a temporary stay.

"Thank you Pei Daxia, Pei Daxia took care of our family along the way, and Zhang thanked Pei Daxia for my family Zhou Lang." As he spoke, he led his two sons to Pei Shao to kneel and salute. Pei Shao hurriedly stretched out his hand to make a gesture of supporting: "How can Mrs. Zhou make this big gift?" Pei also respects Zhou Changshi. ”

"It's just that our mother and son can't trouble the heroes anymore. Fengyang Bo also has a mansion in the capital, and we went to find Fengyang Bo. ”

"Mrs. Zhou went to find Uncle Fengyang, as she should. However, I heard that there was a gap between Zhou Changshi and the prince of Fengyang, and because of the Chunhua incident, he was at odds with the Zhou family. There is a history of Zhou Changshi, and the clan relatives always take care of one or two, and now Zhou Changshi is in prison, afraid that his wife and the two little sons will be excluded. In this way, Mrs. Zhou will go to the Shangjun Hall to take a look, and the merchants of Shangjun will also take care of you for the sake of Zhou Changshi's face. ”

"I am a woman from a Taoist family, I have lost the blessing of my husband, and I am already duckweed in the rain, but the two children are Zhou's bloodline after all, and the clan relatives always have to think of some bloodlines. If I take my two children to the Shangjun Hall to seek the blessing of merchants, those two children will never be able to return to the gate of the Zhou family. Pei Daxia, don't leave it at that. Saying that, he picked up Zhou Sheng, pulled the six-year-old Zhou Heng and turned around and left.

And Fengyang Bo Zhou Zong didn't like Zhou Cong because of the "scandal" between his daughter-in-law and Zhou Cong and Zhou Cong's "reputation as a cool official", and even disliked Zhou Cong, a wife who had not gone through the elders of the family. So when the housekeeper said that Zhou Cong's wife and two children were asking to see him outside the mansion, he was very embarrassed.

Back then, the so-called "also worthy of the surname Zhou" was just an angry sentence. No one can deny that Zhou Cong is a descendant of the Fengyang Zhou family, and he is the youngest and most promising one in this generation. Now that Zhou Cong is in prison, his wife and children are waiting outside his door, if he doesn't take him in, he will seem to be an unkind elder, and let Zhou's blood be dusty. But Zhou Cong has left the Zhou family for five or six years over the years, and he has never sent a letter to his family, and he has never told his parents when he married his wife. Moreover, Zhou Cong has obviously been Han De's disciple in recent years, the eagle dog of the Son of Heaven. It is an existence that is opposed to the aristocratic party.

"Take their mother and son to the backyard and find a clean courtyard to live in. Zhou Cong is also the head of a county, although he is reckless this time, but the style of the long history still has to be there. Go to the storeroom and find two longevity locks for the two young men, and a bracelet for his wife. ”

"No, your lord." The housekeeper went to lead Zhou Cong's family into the door. Nevertheless, he did not appoint a servant to serve him, but commanded that food and cloth should be delivered to the mother and the child on time.

Zhou Cong's wife, Zhang, was very grateful, lived in this dilapidated courtyard, and recited some poems and books every day to teach Zhou Heng to study.

Zhou Cong was pardoned by the king for capital crimes and pardoned for corporal punishment. However, under the pressure of the ministers, he still had to go to prison for three years. If it was someone else, the ministers would not let it go, this was because they saw that Zhou Cong was so poor that he had no money to redeem his sentence.

Prince Zhao was a month old, and when the New Year was approaching, he planned to add Zhou Cong's name to the list of amnesties. However, Tang Bingzhong couldn't speak in the Zhongshu Pavilion, and Pei Song and Yang Zhen, the two old foxes, just played haha and didn't speak. That Wen Yanbo didn't know what ecstasy soup was poured by the ministers, but he didn't let go.

I had to tell the truth when I visited Gongsun Fu: "I have nothing to do. ”

"Your Majesty, Zhou Cong is a rare talent, I hope Your Majesty will be preserved, and I hope Your Majesty will reactivate Zhou Cong's ......"

"Ge Lao, if you're not here, I can't do anything."

"Then give Zhou Cong some money and let him redeem the punishment. At this time, he has to continue to experience in officialdom...... Old minister......"

"Elder Ge, you have focused on cultivating no less than ten people, can't you have one less?"

"One less is one less hope. No one should give up until they are finally successful. Besides, His Majesty saved Zhou Cong, which will give hope to many people. ”

"Okay, it's just that I'm not good at coming forward, so let's let Hua Fang come forward. She is the daughter of the first prince, don't the ministers respect the first prince the most? ”

"Your Majesty."