Chapter 34 Flowers and Mud
Although his words are high-sounding, Chu Xiaming knows that there is something to do tonight, and his behavior of sitting here and eating barbecue leisurely makes people have no confidence in him at all.
Zhuang Rou looked at him and raised his hand and said, "My lord, my hand is injured, and I need to be healed." ”
Chu Xia looked back at her hand, and couldn't see what kind of injury she was suffering, but she still cared for her subordinates and said, "Then go and heal, Lin Fei said that there is evidence of the assassin in your hand, take it out now." ”
"What evidence?" Zhuang Rou was stunned, hadn't the murder weapon already been brought back by Lin Fei?
Chu Xia stretched out his hand to her, "Purse." ”
"Oh." Zhuang Rou then remembered that the assassin's purse was still on him, so he took it out and handed it to him, which was also evidence.
"Oh, there's a lot of silver tickets in there, not bad." Chu Xia opened his purse and looked at it, and then casually stuffed it into his cuffs.
Zhuang Rou blinked, hesitated for a moment and said puzzledly: "My lord, you are ...... this"
Chu Xia looked at her inexplicably, "I am the county magistrate of Douhu County, the things in this county are not mine, the purse is the things left by the murderer, and it is naturally mine." ”
"This is evidence, at least it has to be interrogated before it can be filled into the warehouse, right?" Zhuang Rou still knows something, so she can take it herself.
Looking at her funny, Chu Xia took out the purse, threw it to Xiao Ran, and then said with a smile: "Okay, just let you put it in the county government treasury and use it to repair the county government, and you will find the insufficient silver." Within three months, if the county government is to be completely repaired, and it must be worthy of my identity, it must be splendid. ”
Zhuang Rou looked at him dumbfounded, why is this person like this, "It's not the court that takes the money, what's the matter with me!" ”
"If you want to be beautiful, it's all repaired by the county itself, and if you want me to work, you naturally have to let me live better." Chu Xia said with a look of underwhelming.
"When did you ever do your job, the only time you went to see a corpse, and you vomited and were carried away." Zhuang Rou said speechlessly, marveling that this person's face was too thick, and he was embarrassed to say that he was working.
Chu Xia saw her indignant look, so he walked to her side, lowered his head and said in her ear: "Take me out all day long, you have to pay some price, you can't use my tiger skin in vain." ”
Zhuang Rou looked up at him fiercely, this guy ......
At this time, the doctor rushed over with a medicine box and a little medicine boy, and Chu Xia walked to the front of the roast with a smile and sat down, continuing to play with his meat skewers.
"My lord, these two people are too seriously injured, I'm afraid they won't be able to survive without good medicine!" The doctor carefully looked at Zhou Zhao and Lu Marriage's injuries, and then shouted in fuss.
Chu Xia said with a smile: "These two are rich and noble people, especially that man is the son of the virtuous king, you just need to use good medicine, don't be afraid of silver." ”
"Yes, the villain must give it his all." The doctor took out paper and ink to find a place, and soon wrote more than a dozen prescriptions, and gave them to the medicine boy to hurry up and get the medicine.
He stood up and bowed to the king of Xiaojun and said, "My lord, this thousand-year-old ginseng is not easy to find, but I have opened ten centuries-old ginseng, top 371 catties and other precious medicinal materials for the two of them, and kept them to bring them back to life." ”
"Well, very good, this king will pay you for this medicine first." Chu Xia glanced at Xiao Ran, he immediately understood, took out fifty taels of silver and handed it over.
The doctor smiled and took the money, and then began to heal.
Zhuang Rou was optimistic about the cheapness, ten ginseng plants were used for a hundred years, and it only cost fifty taels of silver, so she walked to the doctor and said: "Doctor, my hand was pierced by an iron needle, I will help me treat it later, and the medicine fee can be taken by the adult." ”
"Ahem!" Chu Xia glanced at her, coughed lightly, cleared his throat twice, and said, "Zhuang Rou, tomorrow/you go to the Xianwang Mansion and Princess Pingrui's Mansion, and collect the medical expenses on behalf of the king." ”
What a stingy ghost, a dignified county king even had to ask for fifty taels of silver, Zhuang Rou looked at him speechlessly.
Chu Xia said casually: "The two mansions each charge 10,000 taels of silver, and I will ask the master to write two notes to you in a while." ”
"How much?" Zhuang Rou looked at him stunned, isn't it fifty taels?
"You take back the 20,000 taels of silver, and this gate should be able to be repaired." Chu Xia muttered to himself as if he hadn't heard.
Corrupt officials! It's so dark!
Zhuang Rou had never seen such a black person, but the medicine prescribed by the doctor really had to be so much, but she only received fifty taels from the little county king, which made her a little strange.
Don't...... In fact, the doctor just prescribed some ordinary prescriptions, but he deliberately wrote them like this, so that he could hack so much silver?
Zhuang Rou couldn't imagine that this was a favored county king, and he would use this method to get silver, which was so terrifying that it was outrageous.
Not only her, but even Xu Yiheng looked at the little county king in surprise, this is not something that the royal family can do. But thinking of his usual reputation, it is conceivable that he would actually do such a thing.
And Ma Dezheng couldn't go back in the middle of the night, listening to the 20,000 taels of silver, and the whole person was not good. Such a huge amount of money, for them who only have about ten taels of food and silver a year, and have been deducted for three years, they can't imagine how much silver it is.
All of them looked at the little county king with their mouths open, daring to be such an upright and money-greedy official, this is the first one.
The doctor wanted to treat the injuries of Lu Yu and Zhou Zhao, but of course he couldn't be in the courtyard, so he asked the officials to carry people to the rear for treatment.
After the idle people waited, Chu Xia said while flipping through the barbecue: "It's really troublesome for you to bring the prince over, he will definitely not admit that the assassin was sent by him if he doesn't punish him, but I don't dare to punish him, move it, the people of his family will get my mother's trouble." ”
"And who is that woman? I don't know which one it is, I don't have the slightest pity for the jade, but I beat people like this, and I also called the horse master as a groom. ”
Zhuang Rou rolled his eyes, he must have known that he had beaten him, so he snorted and said, "Why didn't the adult pity me, I was almost killed by that woman." ”
Chu Xia raised his head and said seriously: "If you die, it can only mean that you are useless, it is normal for useless guys to die." ”
"Okay, that's what you said." When Zhuang Rou heard this, she immediately exploded, and she said with a cold face: "That woman is Princess Pingrui's maid, and she did the previous cases. Why did Princess Pingrui kill them, and did she want me to stand here and say it directly? ”
"You write it, and I will pass it on to the emperor tomorrow for decision." Chu Xia responded calmly, as if he already knew about it.
Zhuang Rou found pen and ink, and began to write about the case in an unhappy mood, and Xu Yiheng also said that he wanted to go to see Princess Pingrui and wanted to leave first, and now the princess must be very panicked.
Obviously, the princess is a murder suspect, and she will already take advantage of her if she is not caught in prison, but she still has to comfort her. Zhuang Rou glanced at Chu Xia, but saw that he was very considerate and told a few words, nothing more than to ask the princess to take care of her body and not to be too anxious.
She couldn't figure out who was killed!
After she finished writing the case angrily, she shook her head and threw it to the little county king, and she didn't have half a good face.
Chu Xia took a look at the case, then raised his eyebrows and looked at her and said, "Isn't this that has cleared your suspicion, why is your face and mouth so ugly, and it's not me who hurt you." ”
"I'm not happy about this case, and I'm upset when I see you powerful people." Zhuang Rou said bluntly, and didn't give him any face.
"There are good ones in the powerful, like me." Chu Xia said innocently, "As long as I go to see the emperor tomorrow, this case can be closed, and you can be regarded as an official errand." ”
Zhuang Rou stared at him with squinted eyes, and asked after a while: "They will be scolded by the emperor at most, and then this matter will be settled, right?" ”
"And what else do you want?" Drinking a glass of wine, Chu Xia said lightly, "Princess Pingrui's mother is a palace maid, and she passed away after giving birth to her, and when she was five years old, King Xian said that he wanted to find a playmate for his daughter, and if he saw that she was pitiful, he would take her out of the palace for foster care." ”
Zhou Zhao and the others must have seen her petite and cute at the time, so they bullied/insulted her, but this can't just listen to the word Xu Yuma. Even if he says he overheard one of them while drunk, it doesn't necessarily mean the truth. ”
Hearing him say this, Zhuang Rou suddenly rushed forward and grabbed him by the collar. The four guards pounced in an instant, but they were stopped by Chu Xia raising his hand, Xiao Ran and they stared at Zhuang Rou deadly, and they would kill her if there was anything wrong.
Zhuang Rou ignored them at all, but gritted her teeth and said to Chu Xia, "She was only six years old at that time!" That group of brutes is also in their teens, how can they do it! ”
"As I said, Xu Juma is nothing, and what he says is not necessarily true. Unless the princess says it herself, and the prince admits it, what proof do you have? Chu Xia just sat on the chair, looking at Zhuang Rou who was straddling him and holding his collar viciously, with a faint smile on his face that the royal family was accustomed to.
At the end, he also said: "You are just the one who should be arrested for investigating the case, and the trial is my business, this is a royal matter, and it is up to the emperor to decide whether to win the case." There's nothing left for you here, so you can go home and rest. ”
"You guys are dirty!" Zhuang Rou pushed him hard, threw down the words and turned to leave. When Lin Fei saw it, he also said goodbye to the little county king and went out to look for her.
Chu Xia leaned back on the chair and rubbed his neck, glanced at the things on the barbecue, and said with some regret: "Burnt ......"
He stood up, patted his sleeves and said, "Change the clothes of this king, take the injured woman, and go to the princess's mansion." ”
In the princess's mansion, Princess Pingrui was sitting by the door, leaning against the pillar and watching the withered peach blossoms in the courtyard waiting for the green marriage.
At this time, the red marriage walked over quickly, and Princess Pingrui asked a little anxiously, "But the green marriage is back?" ”
"No, princess, it's the horse master who is here." Hongma replied in a low voice.
Princess Pingrui's eyes were lost for a moment, she looked back at the peach blossoms, and murmured softly: "This peach tree doesn't need to be changed, the flowers will always fall, and changing to a different flower tree is just a lie to yourself." ”