"Big sister, I have a bolt brother, no one can bully me." Zhang Jiuxin raised his head and smiled brightly at Yingniang.

After giving Ying Niang the medicine, Zhang Jiuxin handed the jade Guanyin that he took back from the plug to Ying Niang:

"Big sister, in fact, I don't know why Dr. Han is willing to come to the door, but when my grandmother handed me this jade Guanyin, she instructed me that with it, I could invite the old imperial doctor Han in the county who had already returned to his hometown."

Yingniang carefully rubbed the jade Guanyin in her hand, and then put it back on Zhang Jiuxin: "This is a good jade, since your grandmother gave it to you, you have to keep it well." Grandmother she ......"

"Hey~"

Ying Niang sighed again and again, and then smiled again:

"Xiao Jiu, you are a blessing in disguise this time, the famous Master Shi Mingxin and the Race Immortal all said that you are a person with a rich and noble life, this time, you have to persuade your mother to persuade her grandfather to let you go to the academy to study."

Zhang Jiuxin's face was bitter: "I'm afraid it is more difficult to convince my mother than to persuade my grandfather." ”

Yingniang frowned: "Since the death of the little sister eleven years ago, it has been rumored in the village that you are hard-working, so you killed the little sister who was born with you. ”

Yingniang's words changed: "However, now the truth is revealed, the little sister was not killed by you, but was deliberately murdered by the gang in the second room in collusion with the blind mother-in-law, after my mother knows the truth, she will definitely not be prejudiced against you anymore." ”

Yingniang patted Zhang Jiuxin on the shoulder: "Xiao Jiu, don't worry, my mother was enlightened at the age of five, and she has studied for many years under the teaching of her grandfather. ”

“........”

The two chatted for a long time, and Yingniang explained a few words to the plug in detail, until Shenshi, when the chimneys of each family began to smoke, they had to leave.

As soon as Yingniang left, Zhang Jiuxin asked the bolt to prepare a few things, and went to the ancestral hall where the Du family and the blind mother-in-law were imprisoned.

The ancestral hall of Dongzhang in Miaohe Village is located next to the barn at the end of the village, and the son of the village chief in the twenty-first year of Jiazheng won the Xiucai and funded the renovation of the original old ancestral hall into a large courtyard with two entrances.

When Zhang Jiuxin and the two arrived, the one-eyed Uncle Long, who was in charge of taking care of the ancestral hall, was sitting on the barre, burying his head in a palm-sized bamboo semi-finished product in his hand, he held a 0.1 cm thick and 0.3 cm wide silk in one hand, and quickly passed through the gaps in the bamboo strips, and then pulled out from the other side of the bottom of the basket.

"Uncle Long?"

Zhang Jiuxin greeted, and when he saw that the other party did not respond, he bypassed the pile of scornful silk, and was about to step on the stone stairs of the ancestral hall, but Uncle Long behind him suddenly stood up and blocked the way:

"The village chief has an order that idle people are not allowed to approach the ancestral hall today and tomorrow."

Zhang Jiuxin said: "Uncle Long, my second aunt Du Shi teamed up with the blind mother-in-law to harm me, I have a few words to ask the blind mother-in-law, and please be accommodating, only half a cup of tea." ”

Uncle Long, who lives alone all the year round, rarely communicates with people, no matter what Zhang Jiuxin says, he just refuses to let him go.

Zhang Jiuxin couldn't, and whispered to the bolt: "Brother bolt, you go to the village chief's youngest son, Uncle Zhang, and ask him to deliver a message to the village chief's grandfather, saying that we want to see the blind mother-in-law." ”

"Yes," the bolt commanded.

My father had a good relationship with Uncle Zhang, and he was always able to persuade the village chief through Uncle Zhang.

Sure enough, after a while, the bolt led a young man over, wearing a wide-brimmed deep net scarf and a green cloth shirt and trousers. The man explained a few words to Uncle Long, and then walked towards Zhang Jiuxin:

"Xiao Jiu, my father has already explained, even if you go in, before your father left, he repeatedly told me to take care of you, but the third uncle almost let the blind mother-in-law, the old witch, kill you, it's really ....... I can't say it, I can only let your father's old boy beat him up. ”

Zhang Jiuxin saw the self-blame on Uncle Zhang's face, shook his head and said: "Third Uncle doesn't need to feel guilty, Xiao Jiu is not good now, besides, you also came back from your aunt's maiden home Lugou Village this afternoon, and my father will definitely not complain about you." ”

......

"Squeak"

The two said a few more words, and Uncle Long had already opened the door of the ancestral hall, and Zhang Jiuxin held the bolt up two eighteen-step stone stairs, and when they reached the threshold, Uncle Long stopped and said:

"The bolt is not our Zhang family, so you can't enter."

Zhang Jiuxin nodded: "Brother Bolt, give me the basket, you can stay outside and wait for me." ”

Third Uncle Zhang on the barn field, looking at Zhang Jiuxin's thin back in front of the threshold of the ancestral hall, sighed leisurely: "It seems that I have to tell Xiao Jiu and his father, you can't just take care of one end, and the other end will not be ignored." ”

Zhang Jiuxin walked through the lobby and went directly to the right wing of the room, where there was a row of three airtight small black rooms, specially used to detain the Zhang family who committed crimes.

The second entrance is the place where the ancestral tablets are enshrined.

"Who's coming? Is it here to save me, I am wronged, all this is the blind mother-in-law's own opinion, it has nothing to do with me, let me out, let me out......"

As soon as Zhang Jiuxin approached, Du's hoarse howl came from the first hut on the left, and he howled for a long time when he thought that he had been imprisoned after that.

Zhang Jiuxin took out the key and pushed open the third hut. At a glance, I saw that the blind woman was tied to a pillar erected in the middle of the house.

"You're so calm!" Seeing that the blind mother-in-law was calm and calm, Zhang Jiuxin said lightly: "Say, who instructed you to drug me." ”

The blind mother-in-law snorted coldly: "No one wants to harm you, including me." ”

Zhang Jiuxin's eyes narrowed: "I have long expected that you will not confess easily." That's why I'm going to go through it myself. ”

"The blind mother-in-law is well-informed, I don't know if you have heard of a punishment specially used to secretly execute court officials and court attendants."

Zhang Jiuxin lifted the cloth covered on the bamboo basket, revealing the mulberry paper and burning knife inside, and then blew softly into the blind mother-in-law's ear:

"Oh, I forgot, you can't see it, then I'll tell you, this punishment of killing people without leaving a trace, has a nice name, it's called 'Jiaguan Jinjue'"

Seeing the blind mother-in-law's face twitch fiercely, Zhang Jiuxin laughed softly:

"By the way, there is also a name for this Jiaguan Jinjue is "Tiejiaguan", it is said that the person who punishes the punishment will pick up a piece of mulberry paper prepared and put it on the prisoner's face. ”

Zhang Jiuxin said as he covered the blind mother-in-law's face with a piece of mulberry paper, and continued: "Then, the criminal officer had a burning knife in his mouth, and sprayed it vigorously, and the mulberry paper was soft due to moisture, and it was immediately attached to his face. ”