Father Xiao hurriedly called the Chu family to come in, and when he heard it, he said: "Master, my young master was arrested by the yamen, and the patriarch begged the master to find a way to save the young master." ”

"Arrested by the Yamen?" Father Xiao didn't understand, "Xie Kun has already returned to his hometown, who else in the yamen can give orders?" ”

Mei Xiaoren sat next to him, holding his forehead with one hand, and knocking on the square table with the other.

"Master, the young master is the only seedling of the patriarch......"

Father Xiao hurriedly ordered: "Come on, go and inquire, who arrested Zifeng, no matter who caught him, try to release him quickly!" ”

Seeing that Xiao Yuanwai had already spoken to save Chu Zifeng, the people of the Chu family kowtowed a few times to thank him and rushed back to Kuanthe patriarch's heart.

Mei Xiaoren shook his head secretly. Her father's words were of no avail, because it was up to her to make everyone happy.

Only father and daughter were left in the hall.

Father Xiao was anxious, in the past, he and the official well water did not interfere with the river water, but now I don't know if the arresting official is willing to give him thin noodles.

Mei Xiaoren quietly observed her father and found that her father seemed to be desperate to save the Chu family patriarch's only seedling.

After all, her father is a person who values love and righteousness, and it is a big deal that the benefactor's son was kidnapped by the government.

Mei Xiaoren whispered in order to prevent her father from getting sick urgently: "Dad, I want to tell you something. ”

"Say."

"Lord Xie has returned to his hometown, and now that there is no county master, your old man can be said to cover the sky with one hand, but the court did not let it go, and arranged for another adult to serve as the county commander here." Mei Xiaoren leaned over slightly and asked seriously, "Do you know who it is?" ”

"No matter who it is, if you want to save Zifeng, he will inevitably swallow a sum of money from our family."

"Wrong, he doesn't want silver, as long as you don't toss it, and Chu Zifeng wants to die."

"Toss?" Xiao's father was puzzled, and in order to calm down, he picked up the teacup and drank tea.

"Yes, just don't toss, especially my marriage." Mei Xiaoren glanced at her father, straightened it up, and arranged the placket with both hands.

"Why?"

"Because now the county master here is your daughter and me!"

"Poof" ——, her father squirted out a mouthful of hot tea, and asked without bothering to wipe his mouth: "Girl, is this true?" ”

"The appointment under the imperial court, of course, is true."

Mei Xiaoren handed her father a handkerchief and asked his father to wipe the water stains off his body.

In fact, in addition to scolding her in the letter from Governor Li that day, he also added an errand to her, that is, to let her temporarily serve as the county magistrate of Yunxian County until the new county official took office.

Even if she came to Yunxian County, she didn't show up at the Yamen, but the county order seal she brought with her could command the Yunxian Yamen.

So she only went to a letter and Chu Zifeng had to go to the county office to drink tea.

Father Xiao straightened his appearance, sat up straight in a chair and said, "Girl, you can't use your power for personal gain and make fun of Zifeng."

"Abuse of power for personal gain?" Mei Xiaoren leaned on the backrest, tapped the armrest and said lightly, "As long as you don't force me to marry Chu Zifeng, I promise not to let him stay in prison for a year and a half." ”

"Be obedient and let the people go."

Mei Xiaoren turned his eyes to look at the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, indicating that he did not agree.

"Girl, we can't take revenge."

"Dad, I didn't use my power for personal gain, I arrested him, it's because he committed a crime!" Mei Xiaoren said with a straight face, "You can't let me bend the law for personal gain." ”

"Zifeng, what did he do?"

Mei Xiaoren was helpless, shook his head and sighed.

In the evening, a light rain began to fall in the sky. Chu Yu stood alone in front of the inn window, contemplating and contemplating.

"The slave should die, he almost let the people in the street disturb the master."

Xingyun remembered the events of the day in a cold sweat, and led a group of attendants to kneel on the ground and plead guilty.

He went out to run errands according to his master's instructions, leaving his master alone to eat in the restaurant, but when he came back, he saw that his master was surrounded by a group of ruffians and hooligans, and the leader was Chu Zifeng, the son of the head of the Chu family.

Chu Zifeng said that he would do it, if it wasn't for a group of officials who came in time to arrest these troublemakers, if the ruffian touched the corner of the master's clothes, he would be guilty of deserving death in Liuyue.

Chu Yu's hand behind him raised slightly, motioned for them to get up, and asked, "Who is the county order here?" ”

"The slave inquired today, and now there is no county order here."

Chu Yu remembered that someone had mentioned it to him before, but he had forgotten about it.

Xingyun said again: "Since the yamen arrested Chu Zifeng, the slave will explain to the county government and chase the Chu family." ”

"No need, it's good to keep their family to guard my mother's grave." Chu Yu looked sideways and asked, "Did you find the place you were looking for?" ”

Xingyun arched his hand: "Back to the master, the three-room courtyard of the Chu family was sold to the Xiao family by the head of the Chu family, and now it has been incorporated into the Xiao Mansion." ”

"Sold?"

"I heard that the head of the Chu family had a bad life after occupying the property of the third brother. Without the support of the three-room couple, the Chu family deteriorated, to the point where they had to sell their land, and the patriarch gave the three-room courtyard closest to the Xiao Mansion to the Xiao family in order to tie up with the Xiao family. ”

Chu Yu silently looked at the dripping rain, and had some ideas in his heart that he would change.

Three days later, Xiao's father's birthday.

No matter how soft and hard her father has been in the past few days, Mei Xiaoren just refuses to let Chu Zifeng go. Moreover, in order to prevent her father from bribing the jailers of Tongyun County to release Chu Zifeng privately, she has asked people to escort Chu Zifeng back to Qiushui County to ensure that her father cannot save anyone.

Whether Chu Zifeng will be released in the future is a later story, anyway, she will definitely not let go today, who knows if the bastard who even Chu Yu dares to fight will make a big fuss about her father's birthday.

Coupled with Chu Zifeng in her hands, her father would not urge her to recruit any relatives at the birthday banquet.

Although the Chu family is still anxious about Chu Zifeng's arrest, the Xiao family is their job bowl and backer, and no one in the Chu family was absent on Xiao Yuan's birthday. On the surface, they happily drank and talked happily, and only knocked on the side of the banquet to beg Father Xiao to save people.

Now Mei Xiaoren is a daughter, according to the rules, she can't show her head on such occasions, let alone celebrate her birthday in person.

It was a cliché she hated. Women are not allowed to show their heads and study, and when they are old, they have to obey their parents' orders and marry someone they don't like......

In that case, then what kind of woman should you be, and what kind of man should you be.

There are countless women in the world, and perhaps only she is lucky, and she has exchanged her struggle for another way.

The maid came and said, "Miss, the old lady and Miss Tang are here." ”

The arrival of this grandfather and grandson was unexpected by Mei Xiaoren, and the corners of her lips quietly sneered.

Now her father is out entertaining guests, and she is worried that she has nothing to do in the room, and she is going to meet the grandfather and grandson.

Mei Xiaoren asked her subordinates not to take them in, and asked them to take them to the side door to wait, lest her father know that they were coming, and he would treat his stepmother politely regardless of his previous grievances.

"That's how you treat guests?"

The woman complaining in front of the door was her cousin Xiao Ru.

Mei Xiaoren had already taken the maid to the side door and beckoned the family to let him go.

Xiao Ru saw Mei Xiaoren and sneered: "Sister Mei, you treat your grandmother and sister like this? ”

"Today's father's birthday, my father can't be busy, and I can't be busy, if you are lazy, please bear more."

Xiao Ru smiled again, still with a bit of sarcasm: "To put it bluntly, you won't go against the rules of the clan to study, right?" ”

Mei Xiaoren does not deny that a few years ago, she began to study privately in order to gain fame for freedom, but later found that people studied hard and practiced child's skills, and she learned late, and it was not easy to write words that were eye-catching, and it was still far from being able to test fame with real skills.

Now this shallow knowledge is still criticized for violating the clan rules......

Ridiculous or pathetic?