When Ximen Qing looked at the person who was crying and his eyebrows and eyes were swollen, it turned out to be Li Ming, the son of Mama Li of Lichun Courtyard, so he untied the leather earmuffs on his ears and asked, "You don't accompany your old lady to count the money at home, why are you crying here with me?" ”

Li Ming cried: "Star Lord official, my mother was taken away by the soap in the yamen!" If your old man has mercy, please save her! ”

Ximenqing frowned: "It's so decent, how can your mother eat people and take it?" I think no matter how greedy she is, she doesn't have the courage to rob the silver of the Qinghe County official treasury. ”

Li Ming snorted: "Because the family is old, it has coaxed the local armor, and everyone shouted, so they recruited those soap officials in the yamen." Seeing that the Chinese New Year is over, it is the time when they are collecting money everywhere, and seeing that there is no one in my family, is it not the hard thing to squeeze oil in the stone? Star Lord official, you know my grandmother's temperament, not to mention that she is reluctant to give up, even if a Tongbao is broken into two halves, even that half she is reluctant! Those who were in charge of the business talked for a long time, and when they saw that they couldn't get along, they changed their faces and took my mother away......"

Ximen Qing's heart suddenly felt a shadow of unhappiness, staring at Li Ming's eyes and asking, "Are you old in your family?" Who is it?! ”

Li Ming avoided Ximenqing's eyes, and muttered in a mosquito-like tone: "Big official, if I say it, you don't have to be sad, my Jiao'er sister didn't know if it was a ghost or something last night, and she actually hanged herself!" ”

Before he could finish his words, Ximenqing's whole body trembled, he grabbed Li Ming's neck and asked, "Where is your mother?" I have something to ask her, if Jiao'er is killed by her, I want her to die! ”

Li Ming was pinched by Ximen Qingyi's hands and rolled his eyes, and struggled to say: "The star lord and the official spare his life!" Nothing is my business! My mother was also arrested and put on trial in the county yamen! ”

Ximen Qing threw Li Ming in the snow, turned around and ran in the direction of the county office, and after a while, he ran to the gate of the county office, but saw Li Zhixian sitting in the hall, and the old bustard knelt on the ground and cried something. Ximenqing pressed the fire in his heart down, and the shadow was behind the crowd of people who were hearing, but he wanted to hear what the old bustard said.

Suddenly, his sleeve was gently pulled a few times, and a sneaky voice called softly: "Great official! Great officials! ”

Ximen Qing turned his head and saw that it was the soap Li Waichuan in the yamen. The world said, "The big-brimmed hat, with both ends upturned, eats the plaintiff and eats the defendant." "This Li Waichuan is one of the most clever in the big brimmed hat, the population of Manqinghe County is smooth, and he is called "making money inside and outside", before Ximen Qing died, and this Li Waichuan also had each other's inside and outside, and he worked up and down in the county yamen, covering the lawsuit, and really did a few dirty things.

Therefore, the people of Qinghe County believe that Ximenqing is a kind-hearted person who has changed his evil and returned to righteousness, but this Li Waichuan does not believe it. This is the so-called gentleman in the eyes of a gentleman, and villains are villains in their eyes, Li Gaichuan believes that the reason why Ximen Qing opened a porridge shed and a medicine shed is just to become a star lord and make a fortune.

After Ximen Qingdifu returned to his soul, his worth was steep, and Li Waichuan wanted to get together and smack some oil and water. But Ximen Qing's door is high, and the people who come and go with each other are either the county magistrates or the criminal guards, and there are even patrols and supervising the imperial history, where is there room for Li Sooli to intervene? If you are cheeky and go to the door, I am afraid that I will not even be able to pass the door of the door, but I will not be slapped in the face. Therefore, this Li Gaichuan is touching day by day, trying to find something to make capital from the beginning.

The work paid off, and it really made him find a Li Jiao'er of the Li Lao Bustard's house in Lichun Courtyard and suddenly hanged himself, Li Waichuan went to the door with a group of peers with a big brimmed hat to fight the autumn breeze, and everyone else was busy bargaining with the old bustard, but he looked around with his bare eyes, and saw that there were some confiscated key things on Li Jiao'er's table.

After getting these things, Li Waichuan was overjoyed, and he wanted to use these things as a stepping stone to take a different look at the Ximen Star Lord, and there would be endless drinking water in the future.

Seeing that it was Li Waichuan, Ximen Qing remembered all the past in his heart, and hated this person in his heart, so he asked in a cold voice, "What's the matter?" ”

Li Waichuan lowered his voice and smiled: "Li Jiao'er's matter." With that, he turned around and left, and Ximenqing hurriedly followed. Li Waichuan heard the sound of snow stepping behind him, so he quietly laughed and said, "What is the Ximen Star Lord?" I'm still in my hands! ”

When he arrived at the corner near the county office, Li Waichuan didn't wait for Ximen Qing to speak, so he took out a few pieces of paper from his arms, presented them respectfully, and said, "Star Lord and Great Official Mingjian, this is the little one found in Li Jiao'er's house. The small one didn't show it to anyone else, only the filial piety of the star lord and the big official! ”

Ximenqing took it and opened it, the top one is Li Jiaoer's old and new two deeds of sale, and the bottom one is Zhang Xue Tao's note, on which are written twenty-eight hairpin flowers, the handwriting is weak, it is Li Jiaoer's own handwriting. Ximen Qing looked back and forth, and his heart couldn't help but feel a faint pain.

At the beginning, he was still with a nameless karmic fire, and he only said that the old bustard saw Li Jiaoer leaving the house and wanted to kill chickens and take eggs once, so he didn't know how to bully him in every possible way, so he caused Li Jiaoer to commit suicide by hanging the beam, but after seeing Li Jiaoer's desperate letter, Ximen Qing knew that he was wrong.

It turned out that after Ximenqing left Lichun Courtyard with a cold sentence of "go find Chen Xiaoguan'er" yesterday, Li Jiaoer was upstairs by the window, watching him go farther and farther, this kind of condescending look up was even more heartbreaking.

I don't know how long I stood in a daze, before the old bustard who was addicted to counting money came up, talking and laughing, and saying all the time: "Jiao'er, you will marry into the mansion of the Ximen Star Lord tomorrow, that is, the mother of the star monarch, Mama, I treat you for a thousand days on weekdays, and there is also a good day, you will see that I am old and confused, spare me!" If you have free time in the future, come back often to see, and bring your brothers and sisters with you, it is also our fate to have a ......"

Hearing these flowery words in Li Jiao'er's ears now, it was really heart-wrenching, and Zuihou raised her head with tears: "Mama, tonight, let me stay in our yard for another night, can it be done?" ”

The old bustard saw Li Jiaoer's tears in her eyes and sadness in her mouth, but she just thought that she was bitter, which touched Li Jiaoer's weak heart, and under the joy in her heart, she was full of tickets: "Then what's not to do?" The good daughter will leave the cabinet tomorrow, and she is naturally reluctant to leave the house where she grew up. You can stay in this room for a while, and let Gui Qing sleep in another room. Alas! It's a pity that this house can't be moved, otherwise, Mama would have taken it as a dowry and sent it to you for a long time......"

Finally, the old bustard went out, but Gui Qing came in again, and the two sisters hugged their heads and cried. Li Jiaoer gave Gui Qing all the bright colored clothes, fine flowers and emeralds, and a few old gold coins hidden in a secret place that were not searched by the old bustard, and only said: "I won't need it anymore in the future, and I've ruined things in vain." Gui Qing only said that Li Jiaoer married into the Ximen Mansion as a concubine, and since then, she has no more clothes and food, and she can't look down on these things anymore, so she is no longer polite, and she accepts it with a thousand thanks.

At this time, it was getting late, and the old bustard was rare and generous, and sent in two bright red candles and a plate of exquisite wine and food. Where does Li Jiaoer have the appetite to move when drinking and eating? Just lit the red candle, and the room suddenly brightened up and became much more joyful, and Li Jiaoer's tears also flowed down with the candle tears.

Unfolded the two deeds of sale under the candle and looked at them again, thinking of Ximenqing's advice to be free, Li Jiaoer couldn't help but choke softly: "Big official, you are so ruthless!" I am a weak woman of eighteen years old, and you will give me freedom, and where will I go? Qinghe County is impossible to live in, let me live alone, step on the raw land, and see the living people, where do I have such a manly ability? I usually hate this fire pit, but today I realized that even if I had the opportunity to jump out of this fire pit, I had already been steamed and boiled by this fire pit, and I never had the courage to leave this fire pit again! Great official, although you pulled me up, but you let go of your hand in the middle, you are so bearable! ”

After complaining for a long time, he returned to his heart and said, "Don't blame him!" Don't blame him! I only hate that I didn't grasp myself, if that Chen Xiaoguan'er came, I could grit my teeth and keep the necessary days for a few more days, and I wouldn't pick him up if I died, and I wouldn't be in this situation today! That day, he only said that he was looking for another career, but he didn't expect to fall into a chicken and fly eggs, Li Jiaoer, Li Jiaoer! It's your own karma created by you, a little slave with no luck, but what's the matter with the big officials? ”

Thinking of Ximenqing's kindness in the past, although there were times when he was rude and tyrannical, after all, there were more times for pity and less time for spoiling. Such a character, put in the hook bar, is also a rare strange man.

However, he hated his own thin life, and such a strange man still let him slip out of his fingers.

Thinking about it, I only hate the demon star Chen Economy who was in my life, if he didn't appear, I am afraid that today's self will have another fate.

But ask yourself, even if there is no Chen economy, what will happen if it is replaced by Feng economy, Zhu economy, and Wei economy? Li Jiaoer smiled bitterly, she is a prostitute woman, and she still wants to learn from others to say that she is as good as jade? Fate is like a wanderer, it has long been doomed!

Thinking that tomorrow, when Ximen Mansion did not carry a sedan chair to pick it up, the old bustard's face did not know what the expression was. Li Jiao'er was chilled when she thought about it, and thought: "I have suffered from her for more than ten years, but from now on, I will never accept her again!" ”

After a thought of making a decision, he got up and came to the bed, stripped off and bathed, washed himself cleanly, and then put on the otter skin coat left by Ximenqing, and covered it with a red coat outside, and secretly thought in his heart: "Great official, don't complain about Jiao'er shamelessly, I zuihou wore your clothes, just like you hugged me!" Even if I walk on the path of the underworld, I am not afraid! ”

Zuihou combed his hair in a bun and looked at his face in the mirror, and couldn't help but cry. turned around to the table, spread out the pen and paper, and wrote: "Eighteen years of wandering in the Gooling, I have been favored by the king and have mercy on the king." Today, I was ashamed to see the face of the official, and I reported to Jiuquan with a grass title. After writing the twenty-eight words, tears were already raining down and the paper was stained.

Hearing the sound outside the building, the cold night was already deep, Li Jiaoer drank a pot of cold wine in one go, and heard the silence of the people in Lichun Courtyard, so she smiled secretly: "It's time for me to go on the road!" ”

At that moment, he knelt lightly at the shrine in the house and kowtowed. I secretly thought in my heart: "This first leader, knock to my scattered father." If the ** people don't sell me, Jiao'er will die of starvation for a long time, how can I know the Ximen officials? Daddy, Mommy! Jiao'er is on the road today, and I will kowtow to you first! ”

kowtowed again and said, "This second leader, kowtow to my good sister Gui Qing." For my sake, you don't know how much you have been wronged by that old pious woman. If there is a spirit under the spring, my sister will bless you to find a good opportunity, and in this life and this life, you will not be as miserable as your sister. ”

Zuihou bowed deeply, and his heart was already painful like a knife: "This third leader is kowtowed to the gods and Buddhas in the sky." Please look at Jiao'er a little, so that my soul can go to the mansion of the great official, I don't expect to talk to him, just want to see him Zuihou, just one glance is enough! ”

After three kowtows, Li Jiaoer had no nostalgia, moved the chair, and hung herself on the beam.

At this time, Ximen Qing read, "Eighteen years of exile in the Goolan column, the only one who is favored by the monarch is pity." Today, I am ashamed to see the face of the official, and I will report the twenty-eight words of "Jiuquan", looking at the tear stains on the paper, chewing on Li Jiaoer's sorrowful affection, thinking of the three words "don't lie" in the nine-character mantra left by Brother Ye Dao, and recalling the heart-wrenching words of his zuihou when he left yesterday, and then recalling the nostalgia of the zuihou when he woke up in the middle of the night. This is exactly what it is:

Whoever moves the red candle fades into the long night, I weep blood and tears and shine sadly. But I don't know what happened to Li Jiaoer, and listen to the next decomposition.