Chapter 15: Case Judgment
The male voice in the carriage was a little indifferent, and it seemed to have a slight chill.
"There is a parent official here, why don't you complain to him if you have a grievance?"
Hey? Why is this Mishi-sama's voice so young? Could it be, I really recognized the wrong person, right? But he didn't deny it.
Pei Bao'er stubbornly explained the ins and outs of the matter in the most concise words, and finally gave the other party a high hat: "It is said that the imperial history is strong in autumn, presumably the adults will not be like He Countyling, because they are afraid of the power of the regent and his old man." The slave family has thanked Lord Yushi here. ”
With that, she knelt down awkwardly and kowtowed.
There was silence again.
Pei Bao'er felt a little weird, she looked left and right, and it seemed that the guards next to her had even more strange expressions on their faces.
"Ahem, sir?" She got up neatly and asked tentatively, "My lord, will you uphold justice for the slave family?" ”
She waited for a few breaths before she heard the voice of "Yushi", and there seemed to be a hint of other emotions in her coldness: "En." ”
Pei Bao'er was relieved at this time, and she was blessed again with a thousand thanks, and then looked at the tightly covered car window, and then trotted away.
The faces of everyone in the carriage who stayed in place were a little complicated, and in the end, it was the young man with thick eyebrows and small eyes who couldn't hold back, and was the first to burst out laughing, and the others also broke their work. It's just that after a light cough in the carriage, they immediately covered their mouths and didn't dare to make any more sounds.
"Song Yan, you go to the yamen to deliver a message, and let the county order here cancel the case......
Qi Heng was explaining concisely, but heard another voice suddenly interject. is clear and warm, but at the moment there is a little upward mockery.
"Yo, the prince is in a hurry to send someone to close the case, is it to cover up his in-laws?"
This sound sounds familiar, isn't it?
I heard one or two attendants say "I've seen Xie Yushi", Qi Heng raised his eyebrows, and directly raised the curtain to look over. Sure enough, a man with a long jade face stood in front of the car with his hands on his sleeves, but instead of looking at himself, he looked in a certain direction, not knowing whether he was out of the world or what he was looking at.
Qi Heng smiled coldly, "When did Xie Yushi start to hide his head and show his tail?" ”
Xie Congyuan snorted briefly, "This position of inspecting the imperial history is the reality of a secret visit. Didn't the prince set up this position in the first place to avoid collusion between the officials and subordinates? But the prince has always been rampant in the court, and I can't imagine that there will be a time to stop for a little people's woman? ”
Qi Heng fell off the curtain of the car, too lazy to fight another verbal lawsuit with him.
"Let's go!"
Unexpectedly, Xie Congyuan was still ghostly, and jumped directly into the carriage, and the groom who was driven by the crazy horse was even more startled.
He didn't come in, sat directly next to the groom, and said loudly: "Don't spoil the affairs of the officials, this is the opportunity to inspect the officials here." If the prince is so disturbed, he is afraid that it will spread out, and he will not know how to fill in the evaluation of the lower officials in the future, so he simply drove Ming'er back to Beijing to resign from this official and return to his hometown to farm. ”
Qi Heng let out a long breath and closed his eyes.
"Got it, let's go."
This person did not say whether he agreed or not to interfere, nor did he express his opinion on Xie Congyuan's resignation, which made Xie Congyuan a little strange.
He bowed his hand in vain, said "thank you, lord" and jumped out of the car.
It's just that I don't know if the groom overheard or heard the command of "go quickly", and subconsciously whipped the horse, and the speed of the car became a lot faster, which made Xie Congyuan's originally dashing action of jumping out of the car a little embarrassed. He held his waist and gasped, but saw this Qin Ju rushing over to support him with an angry face.
"The Lord Regent ordered you to be thrown out of the car? It's too much! Anyway, he should call you a little uncle, it's really disrespectful! ”
The young man's babbling thoughts made Xie Congyuan suddenly lose his mind.
Uncle Junior? The name sounds strange and distant.
The next day, the Lin family.
Aunt Chen smashed the makeup box on the bronze mirror again, and the maid hurriedly stopped and comforted: "Auntie, be careful, your favorite rouge is inside, and the Pinxiangge makeup powder that I just bought yesterday ......"
Thinking of Aunt Shui, who had just twisted the waist of the water snake in front of her, Aunt Chen's motherly teeth itched. looked at the servant girl Cuizhu who was cowering on the side, she was even more angry, and directly backhanded a slap, and then pinched the handmaid's waist.
"It's all your little hoof, what a bad idea! The flower girl you found has ruined my face now, what do you say! ”
As she spoke, she pinched with all her strength, and the maid dared to be angry and didn't dare to speak, so she had to cry silently to justify: "Isn't that what you asked the slave to find, aunt?" And the slave and maid didn't look at it obviously, she also said before the point that it would leave a little white mark, and it would disappear after a month. ”
Where can Aunt Chen listen to this, she only hates how her ears are soft, and she was squeezed by Aunt Shui's slut for a few words, saying that the small mole at the corner of her mouth is like a matchmaker mole, very cheesy, no wonder the uncle is not on her courtyard gate now, she is confused, urging Cuizhu to find someone to find a mole. As a result, the mole fell off, leaving a small white spot, if it weren't for the small area, those who didn't know would have thought it was vitiligo.
Ever since the mole left this white mark last month, she has been in a state of panic all day long, and she has to apply a thick layer of fat powder every day to dare to see people. I was looking forward to the uncle thinking of her, but I was afraid that the uncle would see her ugliness when he came to see her, which was very contradictory.
Yesterday at her uncle's house, she heard that Pei Niangzi mentioned the makeup powder, and immediately thought to herself, is her powder not thick enough to cover the mark, so that she can see it? Hmph, but he was born a little beautifully, and there was such a red mark on his face, since it was so useful, why didn't he use it on himself? She doesn't believe her nonsense!
Aunt Chen made up her mind, so she stopped pinching Cuizhu's hand, and urged her to go out to buy pearl powder for herself and come back to paste her face. This is also the method taught by the woman who sells flowers, saying that it can be whitened by mixing egg whites, and maybe it can eliminate that little mark.
Cuizhu covered her slightly red face, with tears in her eyes, and went out in despair.
She walked through the corner door for people to enter and exit, and was about to go to the fat powder shop to buy pearl powder, but she bumped into someone at the door, and she was still familiar.
Pei Bao'er looked at it, isn't this the little girl who Aunt Chen took out yesterday?
"Girl's face is hurt? I was seen when I went out like this, but I was afraid that it would not look good. ”
Cuizhu was slightly stunned, and then remembered that she had just been slapped by Aunt Chen, and she must have left a mark on her face.
"Thank you for the reminder, it's just that my aunt is urging me to urge me to be in a hurry, let me go shopping......" Cuizhu was a little embarrassed.
She wanted to turn back and put on makeup again before going out, but she was afraid of being bumped into by Aunt Chen, and she wanted to beat her on the pretext that she was lazy. Since Aunt Shui entered the door in August, she shared most of Aunt Chen's favor, and the latter became more and more irritable, venting on her from time to time. Cuizhu was scared of being beaten.
Pei Baoer thought about it, pulled her to the side and took out a box of foundation from a modified mini makeup box on her shoulder, and stood directly to put on a light makeup on her. The technique is very gentle, especially when touching the faint red handprint, Cuizhu can't help but feel good.
There was no mirror, and Cuizhu couldn't see what she looked like, only knowing that the other party said "Okay", she nodded stupidly, and asked the other party in a daze: "Pei Niangzi is here to find our aunt?" She hesitated, but still said, "Auntie is not in a good mood at this time, I'm afraid I won't respond to your matter." ”
Pei Bao'er smiled slightly, "Definitely." The county magistrate has already been sentenced in that case, and I came to pay the money. ”
Cuizhu's eyes widened: "Didn't you say that it would cost five hundred taels?" The lady ...... overnight"
Pei Bao'er shook her head, "You'll know later, I'll go find your eldest wife first." Go buy your stuff. After taking two steps, he turned around and smiled: "I just put it on your face, but the new makeup powder made by my ancestral secret recipe, you can look in the mirror when you go back." Don't say I'm talking big, I don't think it's worse than that Pinxiang Pavilion. In the end, he sold an advertisement and reported his address.
Cuizhu watched her go in blankly, and walked away for a long time, unconsciously touching her face. muttered in my heart, if there is really such a good word, wouldn't the aunt suffer a big loss, but yesterday Pei Niangzi wanted to give it to her for nothing! If she remembers correctly, the makeup powder from Pinxiang Pavilion costs a box of silver for the most expensive one, and the most expensive one can be sold for five yuan!
Pei Bao'er, who was introduced into the inner courtyard by the servant, smiled calmly along the way, but in fact, she had already scolded the "imperial history" she met yesterday in her heart.
Hemp eggs! What if you said you would help her get justice? Could it be that she saw the hell yesterday?
Today, when she and Liu Yun arrived at the Yamen, a small servant secretly came to look for Pei Bao'er, and euphemistically expressed the meaning of "the Lin family is pressing step by step, Lin Si has bought off the witnesses such as the painters, and she can't find tangible evidence to overturn the case, so he can only 'deal with it impartially'", and then changed the style of playing Tai Chi a few days ago, and directly cut through the mess and sentenced the case.
Liu Yun had to pay Lin forty or fifty taels of silver as medical expenses. In addition, for the sake of the Liu family's thin background, the county ordered the Lord to allow the Liu family to repay it in installments, which could not exceed ten years at most.
Pei Baoer blinked her eyes and looked around, but she didn't see the "Imperial History" group appear wisely yesterday, only saw Liu Yun who was dejected, and the Lin family servant who looked surprised but the villain was successful. He Xianling didn't even dare to look at her, and hurriedly returned to the back hall after the verdict was announced.
After finally digesting the results of the trial of this "installment loan", she was so angry and funny that she almost wanted to award He Xianling the "Most Advanced Economic Mind" award.
Sure enough, it was the officials who protected each other, and the "Imperial History" probably only pretended to respond to himself, and turned his head and told He County Commander about it. What a sanctimonious hypocrite!
Thinking of this, the smile on the corner of Pei Baoer's mouth became colder.
"Pei Niangzi, the eldest lady is resting, and there are no outsiders. Look at this ......."
Her expression remained unchanged, "Then I'll wait." If your eldest wife wakes up, please tell her that I have a profitable business to do with her. ”
The servant girl who passed the message had a hint of surprise on her face, turned her head and slammed the curtain and entered again. After waiting for a while, he came out with a gentle smile, indicating that the eldest lady had just woken up and invited her in to talk.
Mrs. Lin didn't plan to see this Pei Niangzi, although she didn't care much about the affairs of the outer courtyard, she was also in charge of the housekeeping of the family, and she had heard a little about Lin Si's affairs. I heard that there was a lawsuit with someone outside, at first she was worried that she would cause trouble to her family, but later she learned that it was just an ordinary person, or Lin Sizhan, so she didn't bother to care. As for Lin Si's real injuries and fake injuries, she can't care about it, Lin Hu has always treasured his cousins, she can't be guilty of being this bad guy. What's more, even the county magistrate ruled Lin Si to win the lawsuit, and let the Liu family lose money, and his family didn't suffer a loss!
Unexpectedly, it was not the man of the Liu family who came to apologize and lose money, but a little lady came, and she kept saying that she wanted to do business with herself, which was a little bold.
"Pei Niangzi, Ming people don't say secret words, can you elaborate on the business you just said?"
Pei Bao'er narrowed her eyes.
The woman in front of her had a goose egg face, about thirty years old, and her face was well maintained, but her figure was a little fat. In general, at a glance, she looks like a rich lady who doesn't worry about food and clothing, but when she talks about business, the light in her eyes tells Pei Baoer that this woman is not an ordinary lady in the house, and the news she inquired about is the same. The eldest lady's greatest hobby is not cooking and embroidering, but reading account books, dialing abacus, and counting silver.
Today, if she doesn't come up with some real tricks, I'm afraid she won't be able to suppress her.
"Naturally. Madame, listen to me......"