Chapter 43: Being a Hostage

Li Zhang's size is not small, nine months old, the child has not yet entered the basin, and the body is fine, it should be the child's head is too big.

Because considering that Li Zhang's return at this time, there must be another Zhang Luo, if Jian Qing and the two follow, they will definitely disturb each other's peace. Jian Qing decided to go back the next day.

When I got home, it was already time to hold the lights.

Cui Shi brought a bowl of gnocchi noodles for Jian Qing, with white flour in the cornmeal, and some finely chopped pickles in it, although it was still a clear soup with little water, no oil and water, but it was much better than what I ate a few days ago.

Before, Zhao Di sent ten taels of silver, and Jian Qing asked his mother for one or two taels of silver to take to make the funeral of Li Shi's family. Nine taels of silver is worth three years of Jian Qing's salary. However, my mother has recently bought a lot of things for the family, and it should cost a lot, and I don't know how much money is left?

Jian Qing was eating with a bowl, and her mother took out a new sheepskin jacket with blue satin and happily asked Jian Qing to try it. The jacket is not big, and Jian Qing should wear it very well, but she didn't take off the torn sheepskin jacket on her body, "This color is not uncommon for my brother to wear!" ”

"Brother, I don't want it, I'm sitting in the school hall and warming." Jian Che had already gotten on the kang and hid in the quilt, shouting.

"Did Che'er eat it?" Jian Qing took the bowl and sat on the kang, and asked his younger brother while eating.

"I ate it, and I ate the same as my brother." Jian Che's little head leaned towards his brother's side, and his forehead was pressed against his brother's leg, "Brother, have you caught the villain who killed Li Bantou?" ”

"Not yet."

Jian Qing drank a bowl of gnocchi into his stomach in two bites. After all, she did not wear the sheepskin jacket that her mother had made for her, and went into the inner room.

Two months ago, Jian Chong's fall by the river was just an introduction, and some old illnesses and the grievances that had accumulated in his heart over the years were thrown out, so that he couldn't afford to be bedridden.

For a long time, there was no surplus food at home, and naturally there was no money to grab medicine for Jian Chong.

In the past two days, after my father drank the medicine, he looked much better.

Jian Qing sat on the pedal and began to talk about Li Shi's case for his father, "Obviously, Li Zhang's family has been more than nine months, why did his mother-in-law say more than eight months before?" This is definitely not a slip of the tongue. ”

Jian Chong just listened carefully every time, because he was not at the scene and had not conducted an investigation, he never said much.

The same is true at this time. Until Cui Shi came in and said in a low voice, "The prince is here again!" Jian Chong raised his head at this time, although he was very reluctant, he still had to say, "Please come in!" ”

Jian Qing got up and went out, Zhao Di had already opened the curtain of the door, and he was dressed in a black python pattern woven gold brocade black cloud leopard robe, which really made this burrow shine.

Jian Qing took two steps back and pointed to the original stool in front of the bed, "Lord Wang, please take a seat!" ”

Jian Chong was about to struggle to get up and salute, but Zhao Di raised his hand to stop, "No need to be polite!" ”

Cui Shi went out, and for a while, the three people in the house were silent.

After a long time, Jian Qing asked, "Is the prince here for the affairs of the capital?" ”

"Not bad!" Zhao Di said to Jian Chong, "In the capital, I have already analyzed it for Ling Lang last night. Just now, Beiping sent a letter, there was a small force in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and my father ordered me and King Ning to go on the expedition on the same day. I'm leaving tonight. This is the last time, and if you really don't want to pay attention to the affairs of Jingzhong, I will never say anything more in the future. ”

Jian Chong looked at Jian Qing and asked her meaning with his eyes.

Seeing this, Zhao Di knew that there was a play, he beckoned, Zhang Du came in from outside, took out two silver tickets from his cuffs, handed them to Jian Chong, and bowed down.

"When I was observing politics in Dali Temple with a new branch of scholars, Mr. once pointed out to me the principle of 'learning from things', and also told me to remember that 'prison affairs are not more important than the great opening, the great opening is not more important than the first love, and the first love is not more important than the test'."

"This is what Song Ci and Song Ti said." Jian Chong said humbly, "The untouchables are just trying to do what he says." Your Highness, don't call me sir, the untouchables really can't afford it! ”

Zhao Di was probably not very good at saying some kind words, and paused, "If Jian Qingruo goes to the capital, there will be a lot of expenses on this journey, and some of these silver taels will be used as travel expenses, and the other part will be left for Mr. to recuperate." ”

Jian Qingdao, "Your Highness's reward, I shouldn't have resigned, it's just that the Jian family is poor, and the family will be criticized if they have surplus food." Besides, Qing'er offended Mr. Chengzhong School today, and Che'er will definitely be disliked by Mr. when she goes to school tomorrow, and her studies will be hindered. The untouchables wanted to wait until they recovered from their illness, so they went north and moved to Baoding Mansion to find an errand. ”

During the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Northern Yuan government adhered to the purpose of "pulling out its land and slaughtering its city", and wantonly killed the common people, among which Baoding Mansion suffered the most. Emperor Jiayou issued several decrees to require the people to move north, and provided a lot of policies to benefit the people who migrate, including giving the villagers who have no land fifteen acres of cultivated land per household, and then giving an additional two acres of land to grow vegetables.

But Jian Chong wanted to move to Baoding Mansion, but he didn't go to get a piece of land and be exempt from taxes for three years. The Jian family is a lowly family, not a good citizen, and is not eligible for land at all.

Jian Qing figured out the joints, raised his head suddenly, and looked at Zhao Di incredulously.

Zhao Di glanced at her, then raised his head and nodded to Jian Chong, "It's so good, it just so happens that Wanping County is short of a servant, if Mr. goes just right!" ”

When Zhao Di left, Jian Qing did not get up to send him off. After he left, Jian Qing still sat on the pedal for a long time. She stared at the two silver tickets in her father's hand, and had the urge to rush over and tear them up in her hand, how did a person like Zhao Di shout "sir" while getting her parents and family to be hostages in Beiping Mansion?

"Father, it's the child who has harmed you!" Jian Qing pursed her lips, she already knew that it would be difficult to stick to her beliefs. In her previous life, she had seen the family of her colleague who was a criminal police officer being retaliated against by gangsters and drug dealers, and she would inevitably be glad that she was an orphan, had no parents and brothers, and was ready not to marry or have children for the rest of her life.

She is not afraid of death, but she is afraid that her relatives will be persecuted because of herself. When she saw her colleagues who had collapsed, she also thought that she couldn't do it herself, and her relatives were being persecuted by bandits in the rear.

But until now, she has not given up the idea of her beliefs, and even resisted very much, which made her feel ashamed and ashamed.

What qualifications does she have to be a child and a brother?

"Don't think so, my father thought it through. This is the territory of the acting king, and there have been two murders in Lingqiu County recently, and there are many things. plus the previous one in Beiquan Village, a total of three. Sooner or later, the imperial court will send someone to investigate. If Jiang Zhonglin is a good county magistrate, if not, we will all be implicated. It's not that Dad is timid and afraid, firstly, he can't afford to lose his life for Jiang Zhonglin, and secondly, Dad can't bear to implicate your brother and mother. ”