It is impossible to have any official business today, before the dinner, Zhuang Rou returned to the small courtyard next to Chu Xia's residence, originally with an identity like her, she should live in the mezzanine courtyard, but Ma Dezheng did not dare to arrange it like this.

Fortunately, Chu Xia hasn't gotten married yet, otherwise she would have been suspicious of Mrs. Zhizhou so much that she couldn't sleep at night.

Seeing her come back, Liu struggled to sit up, but was persuaded by Zhuang Rou waving his hand.

Seeing that the girl sensibly helped Liu up and leaned on, Zhuang Rou told her about the things in the lobby, and when she heard that Xu Tianfu was fined 1,000 taels of silver, Liu subconsciously covered her mouth, and her heart was full of horror.

One thousand taels!

There was only one thought in her mind, how could these officials be so greedy and take away so much silver. It is usually said that the yamen is a ghost gate, and if there is no money, there is no entry and no exit, and it is true!

I don't know how much I have left after this lawsuit, maybe even the belt bones will have to be gnawed away. Thinking of this, her tears couldn't stop flowing, causing her daughter to quickly hug her and comfort: "Mother, don't cry." ”

Zhuang Rou looked at her inexplicably, isn't it a happy thing that Xu Tianfu was fined silver?

"What are you crying about, you feel that the punishment is too much, you can't bear to allow the Xu family to give money, and you want to help them pay this money?" She asked bluntly.

Liu immediately stopped crying, and quickly shook his head and said, "No, the women don't think about this." Instead, I am worried about my future life, as long as I have a place to stay, I can also have something to eat if I sew and mend. It's just that my son is suffering, and I'm afraid that the Xu family won't let her follow me, even if she is with me, the women won't let her live a good life. ”

Zhuang Rou asked curiously: "Your mother's family should be here, and they also agree to drown you?" ”

At the mention of this, Liu's expression was a little ugly, and he said in a low voice: "The people's woman's family is from Changlou County, Taide Prefecture, and her deceased husband was doing business there at that time, after meeting my father. My family thought he was a good person, and my family was well-off, so they married me to him. ”

"At that time, the family was good, but then the business did not go well and failed, and most of the business was sold out, leaving only a grocery store to make ends meet. When my deceased husband found out, he didn't let me communicate with my family, so I could only secretly communicate with each other. ”

Zhuang Rou asked: "It's okay for you to take your daughter back to your parents' house, anyway, your husband has passed away, what are you doing here?" ”

Liu looked at her in a daze, how could this kind of thing be possible, "The Xu family will not agree to us leaving, and the daughter is also the Xu family, they will definitely stop it." ”

"As long as you are willing to go back, then I will take care of the affairs here, I saved your life, and naturally I will not let you lose it again." Zhuang Rou lowered her face and asked cautiously, "Let me ask you again, are you really innocent?" ”

"I swear, if the women have half a lie, the sky will thunder!" Liu raised his hand and swore.

After staring at her face for a while, Zhuang Rou retracted her gaze, "You live here temporarily, I will ask someone to bring you some food, and if you want to cook, I will bring you vegetables and rice back tomorrow." ”

She had to find out, although there were some places where a widow could remarry, but it was not okay to fornicate before she got married, but she couldn't kill someone. If there is such a man, he will be arrested and asked to marry him back.

The Liu family is not afraid of checking, thinking that although the family wealth belongs to her family, there is no son to inherit it, and sooner or later it will be taken away by the Xu family, so it is better to protect herself and her daughter a little.

Thinking of this, she said to Zhuang Rou: "Official, the women are willing to donate their family wealth to the government, just so that my mother and daughter can live in peace." There is a place to live and enough to eat, and the daughter has nothing to ask for if she has a dowry. ”

Zhuang Rou raised her eyebrows, it seems that this Liu family is also a smart person, but I didn't expect the Xu family to be so ruthless, and they wanted to kill her directly.

"Don't worry, you won't be left without a place for the rest of your life, my family is a good official."

With her assurance, Liu can only believe in her, and it is much more credible than those men who despise her when they don't save her.

After a few words, Zhuang Rou took out a small lacquer box from her arms and handed it to Liu's daughter, which was the candy she had brought from Chu Xia's room, and then went out again.

She went to Ma Dezheng first and asked him to arrange for someone to send some food to her small courtyard, and then went to the prison department to see her own people.

Although she gave this history temporarily, Zhuang Rou consciously put Ma Dezheng and them under her own name, and Ma Dezheng wanted to follow her anyway. When she walked out of the inner office, she saw Chen Mufeng leaning against the wall boredly, counting when the sun would fall to go to the dinner.

Seeing him, Zhuang Rou remembered that he had forgotten about this young master just now, so he walked over and patted him on the shoulder, "What are you doing standing here, come with me to see the people, I am a classic now, and you will be my deputy." ”

"Sister Zhuang, why did you only come out now, I was originally following the little king, who knew that many people always squeezed me back, and I got lost when I walked. By the time I found the little king, he was already resting, and I didn't know where you lived, so I could only wait at the door of the inner office. Chen Mufeng said with some grievances, there are too many people who pat on the back, and others don't know who he is, and he doesn't look like the four guards, so he squeezed to the back.

The thought of having to work with so many intrigues and sycophants made him feel a little numb, and he really didn't know if he would become a guy that everyone hated.

Zhuang Rou looked at him and smiled, "I live in the small courtyard next door to the adults, you want to come here with Ma Dezheng doesn't know, I guess I'm busy arranging a room for you now." Even if you are your father, he will not make you a broken house. ”

"Don't call the county king, it's better to call the lord with us, sometimes he should want to keep a low profile. Let's go, go to the Prison Arrest Division and see where you want to stay in the future. ”

Chen Mufeng followed her and said in surprise as he walked: "I really didn't expect that you would live in the county ...... Next door to adults. Sister Zhuang, are they all men who should be arrested, so there are so many advantages to take advantage of when a woman comes? ”

"What you said is really ugly, who took advantage of it, I want to earn the silver of the Hongzhou Mansion, isn't this just a clear embarrassment for me." Zhuang Rou glanced at this heartless guy, and actually felt that she had taken advantage.

Chen Mufeng didn't have any way to make money, he asked curiously: "Sister Zhuang, how do you want to make money?" Isn't it like other people who should be arrested, blocking people everywhere on the street? ”

Zhuang Rou glanced at him, "You and I are a robber and still want food, how can you rob it on the street, naturally you have to do it for a legitimate reason." ”

"So how?" Chen Mufeng scratched his scalp, and couldn't think of a small Ying Capture that could feed the entire Hongzhou Mansion?

"You can just follow me then, and I will tell you when I encounter an opportunity to make money." Zhuang Rou took him to the Prison Arrest Division with him.

This prison arrest department is a large courtyard, and there are spacious rooms on all sides, except for two rooms where officials handle official business, the others are divided by several arresters.

Before Zhuang Rou walked in, she heard laughter coming from inside, "Hurry up, take off your hat and take you to the dinner, otherwise you will eat cold steamed buns in the yamen by yourself in a while!" ”

As soon as you hear these voices, you will know who is being bullied, and this kind of thing will happen there. She muttered and walked in, wanting to see who was so unlucky, and that no one wanted to receive her errand runner.

She likes to do this kind of thing, maybe she can get a good follower, and it is not easy to offend people from other head hunters.

Chen Mufeng naturally heard it, but he didn't think it was strange, he was just joking, "Eighty percent is a newcomer, he was teased, hahaha." ”

Zhuang Rou glanced at him, then strode into the prison arrest department, and when he saw the scene inside, he was immediately angry.

Niu Dayong was standing under a tree in the courtyard, dragging his fat body and jumping up and down trying to get the cap on the tree. But he was so fat that he could only jump a little high, and not only did he not reach his hat, but the flesh of his whole body shook like waves.

And more than a dozen arresters and officials in the courtyard were looking at him with their hands crossed, and the laughter just now came out from them.

Niu Dayong's appearance is very funny, everyone laughs once he dances, but he is already tired and sweaty, and the clothes on his chest and back are soaked.

"Hahaha! It's really laughing to death, Sister Zhuang, look at him. Chen Mufeng was also amused, this fat man is really funny. He didn't go to the Douhu County Ya a few times, and except for Ma Dezheng, the sycophant who should be arrested, the others didn't pay much attention, so naturally they couldn't remember Niu Dayong.

And Zhuang Rou yelled at them: "What are you doing! ”

Chen Mufeng was taken aback by her, his smile froze directly on his face, and the other people in the courtyard were also stunned by her roar, and they all looked over. Niu Dayong gasped, his hands were weakly supporting his knees, and he responded weakly, "Sister Zhuang'er......"

"Who hung his hat on the tree?" Zhuang Rou strode to the courtyard and asked, pointing to the hat on the tree.

At this time, a tall Ying Arrest clasped his hands and said with a smile: "It's me, Ying Arrest should be like the person who should be arrested, look at how fat he is, how can he run to catch criminals." This is to let him exercise more and remove the fat on his body, all for his good. ”

"You put it on?" Zhuang Rou looked him up and down, and confirmed it again.

"That's me." Ying Ying smiled disapprenowningly.

"Okay." Zhuang Rou nodded, pulled out the iron rod on his waist, jumped up and unexpectedly pointed at this person with a stick.

Ying Zhu didn't expect to make a joke in the yamen, and there were still people who made a ruthless move, and before they dodged, they were knocked to the ground hard, and their bodies were beaten violently.

"You dare to bully my people, and you don't inquire, who am my Zhuang Rou! It's fun to take a hat, isn't it? If you don't handle the case, you don't collect the money, so you won't take a good shower and rub the old mud, so you won't be embarrassed at the dinner party for a while! ”

"Roll up the tree and take off the hat for me, or I'll pull you up and hang you on the tree for others to see, isn't this fun!" Zhuang Rou slashed his head and face at him is a beating, and stood next to him with an iron rod in his hand and scolded him, and everyone reacted before he was arrested.