Chapter 595: Country
Ah Zhuo is in love, in today's words, it should be called love, at that time, we didn't have such a fashionable term. As long as there is a chance, Ah Zhuo will go to the city to meet Suo Wenqing, and I will naturally become her cover.
Now there is a saying, how to say it, a woman in love, with zero IQ, can take care of her lover, but she can't take care of her sisters. Usually when they have a private meeting, Suo Wenqing will give me dozens of dollars to let me walk around Kuncheng by myself, at the beginning, I was really happy, after all, I didn't have many opportunities to come to Kuncheng to play, and every time I came before, there were no more than ten copper plates in my purse, but now it's okay, Suo Wenqing is so generous, I can eat a few meat buns if I want to.
After wandering around alone for a long time, it is inevitable that I will meet some new friends, and Shen Ruizhi is my first friend in this city. He is a scholar, and he is not as gorgeously dressed as Suo Wenqing, just an ordinary child. I was wandering around that day in a torrential rain, and I met this sour guy while sheltering from the rain under one roof.
This is a dishonest boy, those thief eyes glanced at this girl vigorously, you say he can look at it, I will not lose a piece of meat, but he just didn't dare to look at me head-on, just secretly, with the corner of his eye on me. In the end, it was this girl who spoke to him first. Then, this kid stammered and replied to me, full of girls, students, faux pas or something, to be honest, compared to the level of humor, he is a lot worse than Suo Wenqing, but that kind of stupid look is also quite cute.
After that, things went in a direction I didn't expect. I'm actually starting to look forward to the day when I go to the city, not because of the fun I used to have, but because I'm looking forward to meeting someone, like Azhuo.
However, for some reason, the family let Ah Zhuo and I have fewer and fewer opportunities to enter the city, and sometimes we are even allowed to enter the city once at the strong request of the two of us. Later, I learned that paper can't contain fire after all, and the matter between me and Ah Zhuo was seen by some people in the village and told our father and grandma, they were afraid that we would be deceived by the city people, so they didn't give us a chance to enter the city.
That time, we hadn't been to the city for more than a month, and Azhuo was waiting for an opportunity every day, and even once when I was playing with her, I saw her shake out a little white powder from her sleeve, and I asked her what it was, and she said it was salt, and when the salt at home was finished, she could go into the city and buy it.
But on that day, after I frolicked with Ah Zhuo, I returned home, but I was surprised to find that the atmosphere at home was very solemn, and there was a person I didn't expect to appear in my home - Shen Ruizhi.
In Daddy's words, he has not seen such a bold city person for a long time, you must know that our village does not welcome city people, whether it is Manchu or Han, it is not welcome. And those people also consciously walked around our village, but that day, he came, and said very directly that he wanted to find Ah Qing's father.
In my impression, Shen Ruizhi has always been a stupid boy who is submissive and doesn't do anything simply. But I didn't expect him to be so bold this time.
Shen Ruizhi's purpose in coming to my house is very clear, he is here to ask my father for marriage. At the end of that day, Daddy still drove Shen Ruizhi away, to be honest, I was also very distressed to see him leave in a gloomy manner, but before he left, he grabbed my hand and said to me: "Ah Qing, don't worry, I won't give up......"
Sure enough, Shen Ruizhi, the Han boy, didn't give up, he ran to ask for marriage again and again, and the last time, he was beaten by my father, and in the end, I couldn't stand it anymore and decided to elope with the Han boy, but what I didn't expect was that when I slipped to the door of the village at night with my little baggage, Ah Zhuo also slipped out with a small burden. She was going to elope with someone.
After we slipped out of the village together, we saw Shen Ruizhi and a young man I didn't know, Ah Zhuo said, that young man was Suo Wenqing's scholar, and it was Suo Wenqing who was sent to pick her up to tell the truth, seeing Ah Zhuo's happy face, I felt a little awkward.
Suo Wenqing is different from Shen Ruizhi, he has never been to the village to mention his relatives, and when it comes to elopement, he doesn't even come in person, but lets his scholar come, I really don't know what he thinks.
However, after all, that's Ah Zhuo's business, and I, as long as that kid is good enough for me, that's fine.
When I arrived at his house with Han Boy, I was surprised to find that there was a letter and some silver lying in my little baggage. The letter was written by Daddy, I don't know much, Daddy doesn't know much, some places are simply drawn, Daddy's letter said that he already knew that the house in the village couldn't keep me, knew that I would leave sooner or later, Daddy didn't plan to chase me, he just hoped that since I took this step, I wouldn't regret it, and live a good life with that simple boy.
I don't know if it's because of Daddy's blessing, I have a very happy life with Shen Ruizhi, a poor scholar, and there are no relatives at home, we had a very simple wedding, and we lived together. Speaking of which, on the second day of the wedding, Shen Ruizhi ignored my obstruction and hugged a jar of daughter red to give it to my father, but this time he was not beaten, but he was so drunk by his father that he didn't even return home that night.
Our days are also considered hard, Han boy has no other skills except reading, usually teaching private school, and some income, I will go to the city to chop wood, or hunt some wild things or something, and sell some money to subsidize the family. However, we are all people who are used to living a hard life, and we don't think there is anything wrong with it.
Han boy said that he wanted to give me a Han name, he said that Jin is a very noble surname, he wanted my surname Jin, because I am so precious in his heart, and we met in the evening, and then eloped at night, so he gave me the name "this night", from that day on, my name is no longer "A Qing" but "Jin this night".
Speaking of which, since I entered the city, I have less and less contact with Ah Zhuo, after all, no matter what happened before, after entering the city, I am a poor and talented wife, and Ah Zhuo has become the third lady of a rich son.
That's right, it's the Third Lady! That Suo Wenqing already had a family, but he kept it from us, and it wasn't until that day that Ah Zhuo entered the door of their house that he knew that he was just a third child. In the beginning, Azhuo always had a smiling face, but every time I saw her, her face became more sad.
That day, I had just come home from selling wild animals at the market, when I saw Han boy rushing in, he took my hand and told me that something had happened to Ah Zhuo.
Ah Zhuo, once the most beautiful girl in the village, the third young grandmother of the Suo family, the richest man in Kuncheng, died, died in such a bad place! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw them carry Azhuo's naked corpse covered in blood out of the green building.
That's right, you read that right, it's Qinglou! Later, Han Xiaozi asked someone to inquire and found out that Suo Wenqing's dog thing likes the new and hates the old, and Ah Zhuo has only been in the door for more than a year, and he married the fourth wife. The girl in the village has a strong temperament, Ah Zhuo made trouble with him, just grabbed a handful of his face, and Suo Wenqing, who had a human face and a beast's heart, sold Ah Zhuo into the Qinglou.
Azhuo was strong, she was tied with rope and received her first guest. Ah Zhuo was not stupid, she used good words to trick the guest into untying her, smashed the guest with the vase in the room, and then slit her neck with the fragments of the vase.
When I heard all this, my whole body trembled, and my sister, and my dearest Ah Zhuo, actually died like this, naked in that kind of place.
Han boy didn't comfort me, but picked up the drumstick and smashed it at the door of the county ya. He said that the heavens are clear, and the court will definitely give Ah Zhuo justice.
Fair, hehe, fair...... What a fair! The people of the Suo family and the government have long colluded, and the shameless county official actually said that my family's Han boy was clever and deceitful, and beat him with a hundred sticks in the court. Han boy is just a weak scholar, he was taken home by a few tolerances, and he died that night.
I didn't cry, I didn't make trouble, I grew up in a cottage since I was a child, and I didn't stand things like those women in the city. That night, I took a sharp knife and went into the county official's house...... Unfortunately, God forbid me, and in the end, I just stabbed him in the thigh.
Later, they convicted me, saying that I intended to murder the court officials, and then found the body of Han Xiaozi who was beaten to death by them from my home, they said that Han Xiaozi was killed by me, and said that I had an affair with a wild man and killed Han Xiaozi.
In the end, my verdict came down, and the wooden donkey paraded the streets. There were a lot of people on the street that day, and they were all looking at the freshness, yes, women like me, who were stripped naked and tied to a wooden donkey, they don't know how many years they could only see once. They kept insulting me with foul language, calling me a barbarian girl of a foreign race, and calling me a shameless alien...... Some rotten eggs and rotten vegetables that they threw on me from nowhere. I wanted to scold, scold these city people, scold those corrupt officials, but I couldn't say anything, my mouth had already been blocked by them.
People were scolding me, throwing at me, and cheering around. I seem to see Azhuo waving at me in the sky, Azhuo, is she waiting for me?
The wooden donkey walked around the city for a long time, and when I was escorted to the court, there was only half a breath left, and I didn't know whether to hate them or thank them, and when they tied me to a wooden post to prepare for execution, Daddy arrived with the villagers from the nearby village.
The villagers killed the corrupt officials, cut down the entire Suo family, and then, Daddy carried me behind my back and escaped from Kuncheng. Because of this, the villagers in the nearby villages were all forced to leave their hometowns and move to the mountains near Dianchi Lake.
Along the way, I kept asking Daddy, isn't there a national law? Why did the Suo family and the county officials dare to mess around like this? Daddy only said one thing: that is their country, not ours.