Chapter 1: Asking for Directions and Borrowing Water

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Zhou Ning gently tapped the door panel and asked, "Is anyone there?" ”

"Here we go." A woman's voice came out of the room, and Zhou Ning took a step back, quietly waiting for the door to open.

'Squeak', the door slowly opened, and the woman in the house saw a strange man standing in front of the door, only opened the door halfway, and asked, "Are you?" ”

Zhou Ning took another half step back, and said gently: "I'm from a foreign country, first, I'm a little lost, I want to ask my sister-in-law to show me the direction to the ferry, and second, I want to ask for a bowl of water to drink, I don't know if it's convenient?" ”

The woman glanced at the avenue and replied, "Go to the ferry and follow the avenue to the south, turn left at the fork in the road, and you will be there for five or six miles." ”

She quietly looked at Zhou Ning, and saw that he looked like a scholar and was very gentle, so she said, "I'll go get water, please wait a while." ”

"Thank you, sister-in-law." Zhou Ning waved lightly and waited outside the door honestly.

I didn't see a man in her house, and Zhou Ning didn't dare to get up and go into the house to rest, there should be a small county town in front of her, go into the city to find an inn and rest well.

"Ahh A sharp scream suddenly came from inside the room, which immediately interrupted Zhou Ning's train of thought, and he almost instinctively pulled open the door and jumped in.

A gourd scoop swirled on the ground, water spilled on the ground, and the woman fell to the ground and struggled to get up. Zhou Ning ran to her in three steps and two steps, and asked anxiously, "What's wrong?" It didn't hurt, did it? ”

The woman tried twice but could not stand up, and her face turned pale and her breath was unsteady, and she said, "One, a mouse crawled on my feet and startled me. ”

"Oh." It turned out that she was frightened by a mouse, and this woman was brave enough. Zhou Ning didn't dare to make a rash move, he asked softly, "Shall I help you up?" ”

"No, no." There is a big defense between men and women, how can that woman be embarrassed to let a strange young man support her? She struggled to get up again, only to get up halfway up and fall to the ground.

Zhou Ning quickly supported her, not so much to help, but to hug her. The woman was injured in the leg, and she couldn't exert her strength at all, and half of her body leaned into Zhou Ning's arms.

Zhou Ning saw that she couldn't stand at all, so he hurriedly picked her up. Only then did I see that there was a short axe on the ground, and the woman's calf was hitting the axe.

At this time, she couldn't take care of much, Zhou Ning saw that the door of the bedroom was open and walked in with her directly, put her on the bed, her face was almost the same as the background color of the Spring Festival couplets.

Zhou Ning said to her while rolling up her sleeves: "Sister-in-law, don't be afraid, my ancestors practiced medicine for generations, and although I am not Langzhong, I also know some Qihuang techniques." I'll help you look at the injury, don't move. ”

"I just knocked it off, and it's fine." The woman was injured in her left leg, and she bent her right leg to sit up, but her left leg was completely unconscious, and she couldn't even sit up.

Zhou Ning gently took off her shoes, grabbed her ankles, and held her feet and spun around. Then start at her ankle and pinch it up inch by inch, all the way up to the top of her knee.

"Fortunately, there is no fracture, but the knee joint is misaligned, and it is good to come over." Zhou Ning gently patted her legs, in order to let her relax and straighten her bones, but she became more and more nervous.

"Sister-in-law doesn't have to be nervous, the bones are not terrible, and it doesn't hurt at all." Zhou Ning didn't know her, and it was difficult to find some gossip to distract her.

One was wounded, the other was healing, and neither of them noticed that many people were approaching the room at this time, and even under the window there were two people squatting and eavesdropping.

"You relax, the more you relax, the smoother it becomes." Zhou Ning didn't have anything to say to talk to her, and suddenly started without saying a word. There was a crisp 'click' that sounded like a bone had broken.

"Ahh The woman screamed, tears welling up in pain. "It hurts, it hurts."

Just like this, she thought that she would have to break back and forth many times like this, but she begged for mercy in pain: "No, I'm not coming, don't." ”

Zhou Ning smiled slightly, and didn't comfort her: "You move and try." ”

The woman gently flexed her left leg, and sure enough, she was conscious, and it really didn't hurt anymore, she tentatively slowly stretched and flexed her leg.

"Are you comfortable?" Zhou Ning carefully observed her legs, and she was moving very freely, so there should be nothing to do. "Is it awkward?"

"Well, that's good."

The woman was about to sit up with her hands on the bed, when suddenly the door was kicked open, and seven or eight servants rushed in viciously.

Before Zhou Ning could react to what was going on, the people were already surrounded. The woman's face turned pale with fright, and she involuntarily shrank into the corner of the bed, her big apricot eyes shining with fright.

With a wave of the leader's hand, these servants rushed forward and tied up Zhou Ning, ripped the woman off the bed, and tied her up.

"What do you mean by that? I'm just a passerby, so what's my sin? "No matter how stupid Zhou Ning is, he knows that these officials are here to arrest people, even if that woman is guilty, he shouldn't be arrested together, right?

Although Zhou Ning was angry, he did not resist, he could see that these people were real servants, and to resist was to fight against Wang Fa. He could only refuse to argue, hoping that they would realize that they had arrested the wrong person.

The woman didn't resist or argue, there was only anxiety and fear in her eyes, she looked at the leading officer, pursed her lips, and finally mustered up the courage to ask: "Didn't you say that everything was found out?" Why did you catch me again? ”

"Less nonsense, take away."

The officials pushed Zhou Ning and the woman out of the house without saying anything, and two carriages with canopies were prepared outside the house, and Zhou Ning and the woman were taken into one car respectively.

It's a little far from the county seat, and they came to catch a woman, so they were naturally impatient to walk back to the county office, so they hired a carriage, and the money for the car was paid by the public anyway.

Zhou Ning can understand this, but Zhou Ning can't understand that it takes so many people to catch a woman? Two is not enough, four is enough, why bother eight people and hire two cars?

Could it be that they want to arrest more than just a woman? If that's the case, they must have mistaken themselves for criminals.

Zhou Ning sighed heavily and closed his eyes. He has nothing to say to these officials, Xiucai met a soldier, and he couldn't explain it clearly, it seems that only when he sees the county officials can he have a chance to clarify.

The carriage was very bumpy, Zhou Ning was just pretending to sleep, and it was impossible to fall asleep.

He secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, he was going to take up his post in a very low-key manner, but now he was going to be arrested in the lobby of his colleagues, is this the rhythm of forcing people to make gifts?

Compared with Zhou Ning's silence, several officials were excited to go to heaven.