Upstairs, Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan were panicked, and hurriedly ran to the staircase and shouted, "Sister-in-law Qin!" Brother Sang! ”

There was no response.

Bai Zhihan grabbed the escalator and went downstairs first. Zuo Shaoyang and Zhao Sanniang followed, and hurriedly told her to be careful. The three of them went downstairs, and at this time, a light came from afar, and soon, the door of the bell tower lit up, and a lantern appeared, and the one holding the lantern was Master Zhikong, the abbot of Qingfeng Temple.

By the light of the lantern, I could see that on the bluestone slab under the stairs, Sang Wazi's head was strangely flipped and collapsed on her back, while Huang Qin was curled up, with a pool of dark red blood on her lower body.

………… Huang Qin had a miscarriage.

Sang Wazi suffered a cervical vertebra fracture and high paraplegia.

Zhao Sanniang and Zuo Shaoyang didn't know how things could have come to this, although the two of them fell downstairs and had nothing to do with them, but they always felt as if they were the culprits, and they felt very uncomfortable.

High paraplegia is an incurable disease that is difficult to overcome under modern medical conditions, and Zuo Shaoyang could not cure his injuries under ancient conditions. In this life, Sang Wazi is already destined to spend time in bed.

No one said what happened before the two of them fell, Sang Wazi and Huang Qin didn't say anything, let alone Zuo Shaoyang, Zhao Sanniang and Bai Zhihan. Therefore, no one else knows the bitter fruit of this cheating affair that makes people laugh and cry and has a tragic ending.

Huang Qin's injury was treated by Zuo Shaoyang, and none of them told about it, so no one knew that she was pregnant with a child and had a miscarriage.

Because Sang Wazi was paralyzed, Huang Qin did not go. It's just that since that day, she has become a silent person, and after the injury is healed, there is no smile on her face, no tears, just often in a daze alone.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't know what to say to her, and he didn't know how to treat this kind of psychological trauma.

The unfortunate things of the Sang family came one after another, and the Sang mother, who wanted money and didn't want to die, failed to hold out until Sang Xiaomei passed the door, and finally died with a completely swollen and deformed body after struggling for a few days.

Before she died, Sang Mu couldn't speak because of the swelling of the whole person, the throat was swollen and congested, so she couldn't leave a last word, otherwise, I don't know what would happen again.

On the occasion of Sang's mother's death, Zuo Shaoyang asked his brother-in-law Hou Pu to invite the secretary of the Yamen Department and the street to be a middleman, and re-signed the deed of selling a girl as a concubine with Sang Lao's father.

Zuo Shaoyang put the deed of the Qingxiang Tea Shop and the 35-yuan IOU in the hands of Sang's mother, and told her that he would take good care of his little sister in the future, and he would do his best to take care of the Sang family.

Sang Mu clutched the tea shop deed and IOU, stared at Zuo Shaoyang, like a salmon out of the water, couldn't speak just by opening her mouth, and stopped breathing like that.

―――――――――――――― doesn't stop because of misfortune. The grass in the fields is still growing wildly day by day.

After dealing with Huang Qin and Sang Wazi's injuries, Zuo Shaoyang took Miao Peilan and Bai Zhihan to hoe the grass. The Li brothers also came to help.

In order to promote the new technology, Zuo Shaoyang specially invited the medicine cabinet and the Yu shopkeeper, as well as the Yamen County Wei Fan Black Face, brother-in-law Hou Pu and others to observe their new cultivation and hoeing methods.

When he came to the land, Zuo Shaoyang stood on the ridge of the field and looked around, except for the twenty acres of land cultivated by his own family, where the grass and rice grew together, all the fields became a bare and bright puddle. The rice is cut along with the weeds, and then the water is diverted to irrigate the fields and the weeds.

Zuo Shaoyang sighed and shook his head, and began to use tools such as claws to demonstrate how to hoe grass and keep rice.

The head is very poisonous, all the people are sweating, Zuo Shaoyang is even harder, hoeing grass underground, although he has a wide-brimmed straw hat woven by Bai Zhihan, he still can't block the exposure of the head.

His hard work did not bring a good return, because his new method of hoeing did not cause the expected sensation, although Zuo Shaoyang's hoeing farm tools invented according to the farming methods of later generations are very useful, and the hoeing speed is relatively fast, but Li Erzhuang's words represent the voices of everyone except him, and also make Zuo Shaoyang's dream of promoting new technologies shattered. Li Erzhuang said:

"There are so many fields, if you want to hoe the grass like this, I'm afraid that you don't have so much free time to be busy, so it's better to cut them together, and then irrigate and rake the grass, which is fast and labor-saving."

The Li brothers, Miao Peilan and others who knew farm work all nodded together. Fan Heimian, Yu Shopkeeper and Zhu Medicine Cabinet, who don't know how to do farm work, have also seen the cropper man simply cut the rice and weeds together and irrigate the weeds, and now he sees that Zuo Shaoyang hoeing the grass is so hard, it is far less easy and simple than the old method, so he also smiled and shook his head kindly.

Zuo Shaoyang only now deeply perceives that intensive cultivation is based on less land and more people. In the early Tang Dynasty, when the population was declining sharply and the number of people on the land was small, the old farming methods were enough for the peasants to cultivate grain that could meet their living needs, so there was no incentive to develop and popularize high-yield intensive farming tools and technologies.

He didn't want to distinguish the benefits of this new type of farming, but he also dispelled the idea of letting the shopkeeper Yu and the medicine cabinet help promote the farming tools.

However, their family's twenty acres of land still took Miao Peilan to hoe the grass using his own method, and he needed a high yield to promote intensive farming. Although the right time for this kind of farming is far from coming due to the small population.

―――――――――――――――― preparations for the marriage of Zuo Shaoyang and Bai Zhihan are also going on simultaneously.

chose a good name, Liang and Mrs. Qu took the maid grass to Longquan Temple to burn incense and worship the Buddha to make a vow, and then found a famous matchmaker in the city to marry.

The two families were even more happy, and let the matchmaker choose the auspicious and plan to get married seven days later.

The two families thanked the matchmaker happily and came back, and saw the door of Guizhi Hall from a distance, and saw an official sedan chair flickering out of the old mansion of the Qu family next door to Guizhi Hall.

Liang recognized this official sedan chair, it was Qian County's order, and the last time Ni Er's case was reviewed, Qian County's order once came to Guizhitang in this sedan chair, and Liang always remembered it.

Liang told Mrs. Qu about this, and both of them pondered, what is the county lady doing at home? Visiting Mrs. Qu? Although the old lady Qu is a six-grade Beijing official, but he was forced to return to his hometown after committing a crime, the so-called phoenix that falls into the grass is not as good as a chicken, and the county master has visited him from the future. I didn't expect this to be here, it's really fresh.

The two old women walked back to Guizhitang while talking, but found that the door of the Guizhitang store was closed, very surprised, stepped forward to knock on the door, and the shopkeeper Ding Xiaosan came out, nodded and said: "Old lady, the old man and the young master are talking about things in the old house, and they didn't let the door open." ”

Liang and Mrs. Qu hurriedly came to the old mansion, and Aunt Long was about to close the door, but when she saw this, she hurriedly opened the door again.

Old lady Qu said, "What is the county magistrate here for?" ”

"I don't know, I was looking for Zuo Langzhong's father and son to talk to the old lady, talked for a while, and then left."

Old Lady Qu smiled: "It must be their master's business, forget about them." ”

Aunt Long hesitated for a moment, and then said in a low voice: "Two ladies, the county lord is here this time, I'm afraid it's not a good thing." ”

"Huh? Why? ”

The old lady only sent it to the door of the living room with a gloomy face, but Zuo Langzhong's father and son sent it to the door, and their faces were darker than the bottom of the pot. As soon as the county lord left, the two of them also walked back to the west courtyard, and they didn't even go to Guizhitang to open an outpatient clinic. ”

Old Lady Qu and Liang were a little panicked, and immediately separated and went to their husbands to see what was going on.

Liang came to the small courtyard to the west, and in the hall, Zuo Gui's father sat on the Taishi chair in the middle of the lobby with a gloomy face. Zuo Shaoyang sat on the chair at the bottom, his face was even more gloomy, as if he had become a black-faced bag after such a good work.

Liang walked to the chair next to Zuo Gui's father and sat down, looked at the faces of their father and son again, and then asked cautiously, "Master, what's wrong?" What is the county lord here to do? ”

Zuo Gui's father sighed: "The county lord has come to say, Zhi'er can't be Zhong'er's daughter-in-law, at most she can only be a concubine." ”

"Why?"

"With the royal law of the Tang Dynasty!"

"What?" Liang was stunned, "Who will our son marry as a daughter-in-law, and there are also regulations in the royal law?" ”

"Yes!" Father Zuo Gui pushed a thick book on the table in front of Liang, "Oh, read it yourself!" ”

"What's this?" Liang took it, "Wu De Lu? ”

Zuo Gui sighed, took the book back again, turned a folded page, and read: "Those who take their wives as concubines and maidservants as their wives will be imprisoned for two years." To each his own right. If the maidservant has a son and a good one is released, she shall be treated as a concubine. Zuo Gui patted the book and snapped: ""Wu De Law" said that if you marry a servant girl, you will be imprisoned for two years, and you will also break up the marriage and still be a servant girl!" Even if the servant girl is pregnant with the master's child, or puts the handmaid as a beloved, she can only be a concubine at most. Nor can she be a wife! ”

Liang was taken aback: "Why don't you let you marry a maidservant?" ”

"I didn't understand it, let alone me, Mrs. Qu didn't know, the county lord brought this book of "Wu De Law", opened it and showed us this paragraph, the county lord also said, the maid is cheap, this is not a class. If you take a maid as your wife, you will lose the right way of the husband and wife, and you will be unscrupulous, reverse the crown and disrupt the scriptures, it is absolutely not allowed, and the violator will be imprisoned for two years, and from the true colors! ”

The "Law of Wude" was promulgated by Emperor Li Yuan of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh year of Wude, that is, three years before the first year of Zhenguan. Because it has just been promulgated, many people do not know what the provisions of this law are, this law has 12 articles and more than 500 articles, the content is very detailed and even cumbersome, not to mention ordinary people like Zuo Gui, that is, officials like Old Lady Qu, as long as they do not specialize in legal work, they do not know what is in it, what kind of provisions are there.

Because there are very few people who marry a maid as a wife in real life, except for their special circumstances, it is difficult to hear news about this, and I don't know that the Tang Dynasty Law also has a ban on surnames in this regard.

No wonder Zuo Gui's father and Zuo Shaoyang both kept their faces cloudy and didn't speak.

Liang said: "There is no other way? ”

(To be continued)