When Uncle Biao and Su Su saw Xiaowan say this, they knew that they couldn't stop it, and said that he would personally send Xiaowan back to the village, so they waited for Daqing to come, and Xiaowan left.

Halfway through, I saw that my sister-in-law was still on the way, so I picked her up.

Sister-in-law Zhou was still riding the carriage for the first time, looking east and west very curious, and asked Xiaowan: "Late, are you really going to marry Shopkeeper Ling?" ”

Xiaowan nodded lightly: "The dowry has been decided." ”

When he arrived at the door, Uncle Biao sent Xiaowan into the door, and a villager on the side saw it, he plugged his waist and looked back, and one by one he saw Uncle Biao's domineering spirit like blocking the wall, and they all hurriedly ran away.

Uncle Biao was still very uneasy, and said to Xiaowan: "If there is anything, you can run, you can't run to the inn, and you can go to the medical center in the town." ”

Xiao Wan smiled crookedly: "Uncle, don't worry, although the people in this village are not good, they are not bad." Don't worry, when my dad comes back, I'll go back. ”

"Big sister, sister ......"

Before Xiaowan could say goodbye to Uncle Biao, Wen Bao and Wen Juan came out of the house crying.

Both of them were unkempt, their eyes were red and swollen from crying, they grabbed her incoherently and didn't know what to say, Xiaowan sighed, and took them to wash their faces first, but the water tank at home was empty, and there was nothing.

Uncle Biao helped pick two jars of water, lit the fire, found the millet bud rice and boiled porridge, and left without worrying under Xiaowan's repeated urging.

The younger brothers and sisters drank the porridge in a big gulp, they were really hungry, Xiaowan sat on the side and watched them, someone called her outside the door, and when she went out, she saw Aunt Wang sitting at the door of the house.

She had layers of cloth wrapped around her forehead, and when she heard that her head was bleeding, she opened her mouth to speak at this moment, her voice was also hoarse, she pulled Xiaowan's sleeves, and begged her to go to the village chief's house to intercede together.

"If I don't go, it's useless to go." Xiaowan said ruthlessly, "Auntie, that woman is sorry for my father, I will intercede, then I will also be sorry for my father." When I came back, I took care of Wenbao Wenjuan, and when my father came back, I didn't care. ”

Aunt Wang cried: "This shameless slut makes me so miserable, how can my son marry a daughter-in-law, how can my daughter marry ......"

She kept crying, her voice was hoarse and still crying, suddenly her eyes lit up, she grabbed Xiaowan's hand and said, "Yinzi, where is your one hundred taels of dowry, Xiaowan, can you go and dig it out for her and give it to the village chief?" ”

Xiaowan shook her head: "How do I know where she is hiding, besides, she would rather be shameless, skinless or even dead, and she would not give up her silver, but it is not mine to turn around." ”

Wang looked at Xiaowan in a daze, this little girl was beaten and scolded on weekdays, she swallowed her anger, she had such an idea in her heart, and she saw everything in her eyes.

"Aunt Wang, it's only my fault that I can't live with you." Xiaowan said, "I knew they were together, I didn't dare to say ......"

Aunt Wang herself didn't know, blame the Xu family for being too cheap, she hatefully scolded the Xu family to the scum, but this is useless except to vent resentment.

She wanted to take Xiaowan to the field to intercede with the guards, so that she could send saliva and stutter, but Xiaowan refused to live or die, she said that she didn't want to see such a dirty scene.

It's easy to send people away, Xiaowan came in the door, and saw that the two younger brothers and sisters had eaten enough and fell asleep on the kang.

She cleaned up the pots and bowls, and she could hear Aunt Wang's cry next door. Although this kind of punishment is cruel, children are not allowed to see it in the village, so it will not frighten them, but they will not be able to raise their heads in the village in the future, among children of the same age.

If something like this happens to someone else's family, Xiaowan will definitely sympathize with the woman who is tied to the ground, and beat her, even if she kills her, without such humiliation.

But her own family, she really can't sympathize, she hasn't studied, and she doesn't know the word "repay grievances with virtue", but she understands this truth, she can't have half sympathy for Xu's family, she sympathizes with her stepmother, and she is sorry for the mother who gave birth to her with her life.

When you are idle, you will inevitably miss people thousands of miles away. There is something in the inn, there is something in her family, the little lady to be married smiled stupidly, is this also fate?

At this moment, Ling Chaofeng had already rushed to the capital with Aunt Zhang, which happened to be the day when the emperor ordered the investigation of the case, but a few maids and cooks were arrested in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Mrs. Bi was not moved.

Ershan returned from the yamen, and when he entered the door and saw Ling Chaofeng standing in front of the hall waiting for him, he lowered his head, raised his head, and lowered his head again.

"How's it going?" Ling Chaofeng asked straight to the point, "When will you be able to reinstate the official?" ”

"I have been reinstated, but I am temporarily idle ......at home," Ershan responded, "As for that incident, they did not use torture or coerce confessions, and they arrested a few people and locked them in prison, so they planned to spend it like this." ”

"So from the very beginning, you just raised your sword to break in just to be able to shake the Prime Minister's Mansion?" Ling Chaofeng asked, "Just to make Mrs. Bi subjugate?" ”

Ershan saw that his brother knew his mind, and immediately felt a little comforted, although he had not been in the officialdom for a long time, but the mystery had been understood, if he seriously filed a case from the yamen to arrest people, Prime Minister Bi Cheng had countless ways to cover up this matter, even if he had resigned at home.

Only to make things bigger, only to alarm the emperor, but the result is ...... Still so.

He knew that the emperor wanted peace in the world, and if such a trivial matter disturbed the peace among the courtiers, or stirred up a certain force to invigorate and expand, this was the most important thing. The emperor governs the court, paying attention to the trade-off, followed by right and wrong, only when the world is peaceful and will not affect anything and anyone, there will be the existence of right and wrong.

"The world is clear, and the court is not dark, but in this corner, the sun can't shine in, so the emperor chooses to turn a blind eye." Ershan smiled sadly, "Brother, that woman, killed my mother, and now she has killed my child." I thought that if I became an official in the court, I would be able to uphold justice, but as a result, I couldn't even give justice to Lian Yi, let alone my mother in heaven. ”

Ling Chaofeng stepped forward, patted him on the shoulder, and said calmly: "From the moment you decide to embark on your official career, you have to carry this helplessness every step you take, either let go and stay away from your official career, or carry it and do more meaningful things for more people." ”

"But my child, and Lian Yi......" Ershan's eyes were scarlet, and in front of his brother, he was almost about to cry.

"There will be a way, don't worry." Ling Chaofeng said, "You go and pack up, and follow me to visit Lord Tang." ”

Hope bloomed slightly in Ershan's eyes, and he nodded vigorously.

Ling Chaofeng said: "Between you and your brother and sister, how to deal with these things, you must also understand in your heart. Ershan, if you become a Beijing official, you may have to live here for half your life, you have to think clearly. ”

After the two said these words, they came to the inner courtyard and saw what kind of soup Aunt Zhang had boiled, and they were feeding Lian Yi to drink it.

Lian Yi has always been strong, he has experienced so many ups and downs, and he is not afraid of life and death, but he can't withstand this blow.

It's not just the pain of losing a child, when all the virtues and goodness are exchanged for the evil in the world, as if the faith that life adheres to has collapsed, as if it has lived so long in this life, it is all wrong.

Ershan walked into the room and took the dishes and chopsticks from Aunt Zhang's hand, but when Lian Yi saw him, she couldn't eat anything, she threw herself into her husband's arms and cried, crying heartbreakingly.

Aunt Zhang withdrew, and when she saw Ling Chaofeng standing outside the door, she sighed: "The wind and waves are coming, this kid must not be unable to get through this." ”

Half an hour later, Lian Yi fell asleep under the comfort of Ershan, so he changed his clothes and followed his eldest brother to Lord Tang's mansion.

Lord Tang is one of the top officials in Beijing, and the gate in the house is strictly controlled, even those decent princes and princes can't easily enter the gate, but Ling Chaofeng came in with Ershan easily.

But Lord Tang's mansion was not luxurious, on the contrary, it was very simple, the old man stood under the eaves to greet them, and smiled at Ling Chaofeng and said, "I knew that there would never be anything good when you came to me." At the end of last year, I thought you couldn't afford to get sick and were going to leave me behind. ”

They entered the door to talk, studying this matter, how to solve it, naturally what Ling Chaofeng and Er Shan wanted was just the murderer's subjugation.

Thousands of miles away, the lynching in Qingling Village is still continuing, but today's sun is very scorching, and it is so hot in the spring that people are shaking the pu fan, and the people in the village say that it is God who is powerful and wants to kill the pair of dogs - men and women, Aunt Wang's family is so anxious that they have been angry several times.

In the afternoon, the scorching sun dispersed, the dark clouds gathered, and a light rain began to fall, Xiaowan saw Aunt Wang go out in her donkey cart, it seemed that she wanted to find help, in the end it was her own man, and she couldn't see death without help.

Wen Bao and Wen Juan, although they didn't see the tragic situation of their mother, they also knew what was going on, they cried when they woke up, and they didn't listen to the crying, but Xiaowan made them food, but they ate it all the time, and after eating, they cried for a while, and fell asleep again.

At dusk, the rain stopped, Xiaowan splashed water in the yard and washed the ground, there was a sudden noise outside, only to see the Wang family's donkey cart coming from the field, and when they arrived at the door, everyone carried a person in, and someone shouted at her: "Xiaowan, take your mother back." ”

Xiaowan ran out to see that Xu was wrapped in a straw mat and showed his head, as if he was dead, and the people on the side said: "Drag it back, there is still a breath, not dead." ”

I don't know who Aunt Wang went to beg, but the village chief finally gave up and let it go without waiting for three days to be sunburned. But Xiaowan was alone, how could she drag Xu's family, pull and pull, and tear off the straw mat, the naked woman rolled in the mud, so frightened that Xiaowan quickly took off her clothes and covered her, Wen Bao and Wen Juan ran out to see, and were scolded back by her.

In the end, it was the people in the village who begged the people in the village to help carry the Xu family in, and the woman who was spicy and fierce on weekdays was dying at the mercy of others at the moment.

Wen Bao and Wen Juan hid in the corner and cried, crying so much that Xiaowan had a headache, and she yelled at them for the first time in her life: "If you cry again, I will tie you up in the ground." ”