Fan Wai 4, Su Qing (4)
Gu Qian understood, although he didn't have it, his children would.
When he thought of that beautiful day, he smiled and said, "I will be like Uncle Wen, the rarest girl, hugging her and kissing her." ”
Su Qing was both happy and sad when she said this. It would be nice if I were still alive that day.
Seeing the tears in his mother's eyes, Gu Qian hurriedly said, "I will let my daughter-in-law and children honor my mother." ”
Su Qing said with a smile, "Mother knows that Qian'er is the most filial." ”
After they finished speaking, Sister-in-law Wang opened a paper bag and said with a smile, "Grandma, this is the tonic given to me by Mama Wei, and it was given to her fourth grandmother." The kitchen will also send an old hen every three days to let the grandmother replenish every day. He also said that he would ask the imperial doctor to check the pulse of the eldest grandmother another day and prescribe some medicine to nourish the body. ”
Su Qingji was moved. She felt that she was ashamed of it, and regretted that she had done so many things that made Gu Lanyin sad when she was in Sujiazhuang. She touched Gu Qian's head and said, "Remember, Aunt Xu is kind to us." Even if we don't have the power to repay them, we must remember this in our hearts. ”
Gu Qian nodded and said, "Well, I'll always remember it." My mother said that the grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring. ”
Su Qing laughed. She forgot when she said it, and the child remembered it. Her son is the smartest.
At the end of the next day, Su Qing was carrying a food box in one hand and Gu Qian in the other, and was led to the outer courtyard by the little girl.
Su Qing wore a navy blue cotton linen dress, a silver hairpin on her head, and light makeup. Gu Qian wore a dark green knee-length muslin coat and white trousers. The food box contained a roast chicken and a pot of wine.
Jia Dazhu was waiting for them at the corner gate.
Su Qing handed over the fifty taels of silver wrapped in a handkerchief to Jia Dazhu and asked him to hand it over to the cell boss. She is a young woman, and it is difficult to deal with cell bosses. Moreover, the Wen Mansion gave the silver to the cell boss, and the cell boss knew that he had the Wen Mansion behind him, and he would not be difficult for her in the future. What's more, there are too few cell bosses who want to buy off the criminal department with this bit of silver.
She also couldn't do it, so she bought Sujiazhuang and 200 acres of land, and spent almost the same amount of money on her previous inventory and the output in the field. gave Jia Dazhu twenty taels, and then went out for another twenty taels, leaving less than one hundred taels of silver, and he had to count the flowers.
They got into the carriage and went straight to the prison of the Ministry of Punishment.
The prison of the criminal department was at the back of the criminal department, and He Dong was standing at the gate waiting for them, and a person who looked like a cell head was laughing with him, and his attitude was very humble.
He Dong made an introduction, and Yu Cell said with a smile, "Master Jia, Mrs. Su, let's go." ”
He Dong didn't follow in, and Jia Dazhu accompanied Su Qing's mother and son into the prison gate. When he came to the prison where the condemned prisoners were held, Jia Dazhu gave the small package to the cell head, and he didn't want to enter that gloomy place.
Yu didn't dare to ask for it, so he hurriedly refused, "Jia Ye is polite, I can't help it." ”
Jia Dazhu said with a smile, "If you let you take it, you can take it, and my marquis won't blame me." This is Su Niangzi's intention, and she will help take care of it in the future. ”
Yu took the money from the cell head and led Su Qing and Gu Qian into the prison cell. As soon as I entered, there was a big room with four jailers sitting in it, and various torture instruments were hung on the wall, which scared Su Qing away.
Even if Gu Qian couldn't understand what the torture instrument was doing, he was frightened by the eerie aura inside. He instinctively didn't want to continue walking, but when he looked up at his mother, he felt that he couldn't let his mother in by himself, so he gritted his teeth and didn't retreat.
Yu was instructed, "You can bring him some food and wine, but you can't leave hard things like bones, bowls, and pots." ”
The main reason is that the prisoner is afraid of committing suicide with a sharp object.
Su Qing said, "Thank you, uncle, I know." The food is braised pork, and I will wait for him to finish drinking the pot and take the pot away. ”
Yu nodded at the head of the cell, did not continue to walk, asked the jailer to lead them to the door of Prison No. 6, and specifically instructed the jailer to stay away.
Su Qing and the others entered the small door, and the other jailers looked at the cell head carefully, and said with a smile, "Boss, how much did you collect today?" ”
Yu snorted coldly and said, "This Su lady came to see Gu Wangchen, and Uncle He Dong personally spoke. He pointed to the door again and said, "See, that's Steward Jia in Lord Wen's mansion, and he personally drove Su Niangzi over." How much do you still 'collect', is it because you are tired of the itchy flesh on your cheeks and want to be hit by the board? ”
Those people laughed a few times and didn't dare to say anything more. Yu was very satisfied, and took out a few small silver ingots of one or two, and threw one out of each person.
The cell was dark, with only a little light from the skylight above. It was damp and smelly inside, and the ground was uneven, so Xiao Guqian couldn't help but pinch his nose with his hand.
There was a man in a prison cell, his hair was covered by a canopy, and he stretched out his dirty hand with iron shackles from the iron door and said, "Little lady, are you coming to see me?" ”
There were also people in the other two cells, but no one spoke, only the sound of iron coats mopping the floor.
Su Qing shrank her neck in fright, and Gu Qian couldn't care about the stink, and grabbed her mother's skirt tightly with both hands.
When he came to a prison cell, the jailer stood down and said to the people in the iron gate, "Gu Wangchen, someone has visited the prison. With that, he retreated to a place two feet away.
Gu Wangchen was sitting inside in a daze waiting to die. I heard that someone came to see him, and knew that it was impossible to help his Zhou family with a finger, which clan member of the Gu family should be.
He looked up, and the light was extremely dim, and the little light that leaked in was still behind the tall and short ones, and it was even more difficult to see their faces. But he could clearly see that it was a woman, and that she was also carrying a child. Could it be that Zhou Zimei, the slut, led her daughter to see him?
He dragged the iron shackles to the door, but the person who came was Su Qing, whom he never dreamed of. She's alive!
He was a little ashamed at first, but he saw that the little boy next to Su Qing looked very similar to himself.
Thinking of a possibility, Gu Wangchen excitedly grabbed the iron railing of the door with both hands, and the iron shackles on his wrists made the iron door make a crisp sound.
Gu Qian was so frightened that he hugged Su Qing's thigh and hid behind her.
Su Qing said softly, "Gu Qian, don't be afraid, this is your distant uncle Gu Wangchen." ”
Gu Qian listened, his body didn't move, and he stretched out his little head to look at Gu Wangchen. The uncle was tall and dirty, with messy hair, shackles, and a foul stench.
Gu Wangchen heard that the child's surname was "Gu", and confirmed his identity even more. It turned out that the child Su Qing gave birth to back then did not die, and she actually had a son! Listening to Su Qing say that he is the child's distant uncle, this is because he is afraid that the child will know that he has a father who has committed corruption.
That's fine!
He said with tears in his eyes, "Your name is Gu Qian, Qian'er? ”
Su Qing's cold voice, "Yes, the humble and benevolent 'humility'." It is hoped that the children will be humble and benevolent in the future, become a true humble gentleman, and do not do things that lose their conscience. ”
Gu Qian said again, "Uncle, why did you commit a crime? If you don't have enough money, you can borrow it from my mother, my mother is very generous. ”