Chapter 10: First Encounter with Master
sighed, helpless, unable to lift a trace of strength, so he could only catch it with his own hands.
This time it was not as lucky as in the White Tiger Village, and it was not put on the horse, but the entire upper body was tied with a rope, pulled out a head, bolted to the horse, and followed the horse's buttocks. And there is also a little guy who guards Zheng Fan to prevent Zheng Fan from escaping.
Zheng Fan was secretly ruthless in his heart: "What a vicious woman! It is more vicious than the female owner of the White Tiger Village, one day, I will let you pay it back!"
I went to Jinzhou Mansion for 3,000 miles, traveled during the day, and stayed in a hotel at night. This is a caravan, and it can travel more than 100 miles a day on average. It will take more than a month to arrive.
Along the way, Zheng Fan endured all the hardships and humiliations. Fortunately, the little guy who took care of him with him didn't know a single big word, he was a rude man, but he was kind-hearted. also knew that Zheng Fan had been wronged, sympathized with him, and secretly sent Zheng Fan some wine and meat to eat on weekdays.
Zheng Fan also read his good and taught him to read.
On the evening of this day, Zheng Fan was teaching this little guy to read and write, and this little guy's surname was Wang, and his name was five. Zheng Fan was familiar with him, and only called him the fifth son.
"Fifth son, I have never been able to figure out why your mistress wants to send me to the government with no conscience? I believe everyone knows in their hearts that I am not the one who stole. I see that the mistress of your family is also a person with seven tricks, how can she be so confused?" Zheng Fan looked up at the stars in the sky and sighed.
The king looked down and saw that there were no outsiders, so he leaned into Zheng Fan's ear and whispered: "The mistress of my family has fornicated with the dead cousin Wang Fu, because of you, the person in her heart is dead, you say, can I not hate you?"
Zheng Fan nodded: "Wang Fu, it's also a good name, and he is quite handsome, but somehow he has a bad heart and wronged me plainly." After a pause, he asked curiously, "You said that your mistress had an affair with that man?
Wang Wu smiled, scratched his head and said, "The mistress of my family, surnamed Wang Yuehan." This was promised by my master to the young master of the Li family in Jinzhou as his wife, and he will get married when he returns to Jinzhou this time. The cousin and the young lady were inseparable, and every evening, the young lady would call her cousin to her room, saying that she would discuss some poetry and songs, but soon after entering, she would hear the sound of the young lady babbling in the room..."
"Oh......" Zheng Fan let out a long sigh and raised his eyebrows, revealing an expression that all men understand.
"How far is it from that Jinzhou Mansion?"
The fifth king replied, "It will be there tomorrow." ”
Zheng Fan nodded, already thinking about it.
The next day, the group had arrived at Jinzhou Mansion, and Zheng Fan was directly pressed to the official court. The three classes of the Kuaizhuang soap were lined up and stood solemnly, and the prefect turned the screen and sat down. The master stood on one side and waited.
"Smack!" the prefect was shocked and said, "The woman below, who is the complaint?"
The woman knelt down at that time and cried: "The little woman sued this thief who stole the horse, stole the horses of my Wang family, and killed my cousin, and begged the master of the blue sky to be the master of the slave family!"
The prefect nodded, and said in his heart: "This Wang family is a well-known local merchant, there is no reason to falsely accuse this poor scholar, could it be that this thief really stole horses and killed people?"
"Is there any physical evidence?"
Wang Yuehan said: "These two horses are physical evidence, and the people accompanying them can do the certification, and my Wang family will not falsely accuse him of a horse." ”
The prefect said to Zheng Fan: "What do you have to say as a scholar?"
Zheng Fan said: "Back to the adult's words, the villain was originally the son of Zheng Yu in Longyang County, the family was in the middle of the road, and he wanted to go to Jiangzhou to join my uncle, but he was captured by the robbers, but I didn't expect that the owner of the robber leader, who appreciated my literary talents, escorted me to Jinzhou Mansion with two small servants, and waited for two years to gain fame."
Halfway through the encounter with this woman, forced me to be a thief stealing horses, his cousin, was laughing, was suffocated by a gust of wind blow a stone stuck in the throat, has nothing to do with me, please be enlightened!"
When the prefect heard this, he frowned and shouted: "You thief! You are a fool to be an official? The leader of the robbers appreciates you? Isn't that still a robber? I see that you are in collusion with the robbers, and you dare to quibble.
The voice fell, and the master hurriedly stood up and said: "Wait, my lord, a group of robbers in Baihu Village in Longyang County, I have also heard of it, it is said that the White Tiger Village was burned, killed and robbed before, and did all kinds of evil, but then was subdued by a master outside the world, and he will never do that unrighteous thing again."
What this scholar said, the villain thinks, may not be true!"
This prefect is extremely important to the master, since the master has spoken, the prefect also believes three points in his heart, and asks: "How can the master prove that the scholar is not lying?"
The master smiled and asked Zheng Fan, "That scholar, let me ask you, are you a boy now?"
Zheng Fan nodded and said, "That's right." ”
The master smiled: "My lord, I can't be wrong, that master likes to read boys." It seems that the daughter of the Wang family has some misunderstanding with this son. The person who is favored by the master will never be a rooster and a dog thief, let alone hurt people's lives.
Besides, Longyang Zheng Yu, with a clean breeze on his sleeves, a rare good official, how can his son be that stubborn?"
The prefect nodded: "Well, then Lord Zheng Yu, I also admire him." Then he said to the woman: "The daughter of the Wang family, Wang Youhan, right?"
The woman blushed and said, "It's not Yohan, it's Yuehan." ”
"Uh...", the prefect wondered, "What's the difference?"
Woman: "......"
When this woman heard the conversation between the prefect and the master, she knew that she must be biased towards that Zheng Fan, and she was helpless, and she didn't dare to be bored anymore, although her Wang family was powerful, but it was the Wang family, not her Wang Yuehan, and she was a woman, and she had lost her dignity by showing her head to face the court.
The prefect already trusted the master very much, and the woman's unruly appearance below, he already knew that he had wronged Zheng Fan, and cleared his throat and said: "Wang Youhan, you falsely accused Xiucai Zheng Fan, and you should have been punished for your crimes, but you are young and ignorant, and you are a woman, and your Wang family is also a big taxpayer in Jinzhou, and you have contributed a lot to the court, so let's go down." ”
Wang Yuehan gritted his teeth, said "yes", and retreated unwillingly.
The prefect said to Zheng Fan again: "You should also go down, Shicai has wronged you." ”
Zheng Fan also received the order and left the county office.