Chapter 16: Inexplicable
Niu Jianwen was escorted into the courtyard of the yamen by the officials, where he was stopped by a thin old guy in his fifties. The old guy said: "Lai Zhutou, you don't have to ask the county master anymore, the master said, just put the prisoner directly in cell No. 6, when the master is interested, he will interrogate him." "Got it, I'll send the prisoner over. Lai Zhutou said, turned around and waved his hand, urging Niu Jianwen to leave quickly. Niu Jianwen heard their conversation and understood everything. The county magistrate has to be interested in judging the case, if the county magistrate is not interested, then I will be miserable. Don't judge me. How can I wash away my wrongs? If I can't wash them away, won't I become a ghost who died unjustly? Niu Jianwen suddenly turned his head and shouted at the thin old man: "This lord is okay! Please come and judge me quickly! I have been wronged." "Don't shout, he's just a master, and it doesn't matter if he says it. The head catcher stopped Niu Jianwen's shouting, and then he said, "But there is one thing that has the final say, and that is silver." ”
The cell door opened, and Niu Jianwen was pushed in. Niu Jianwen stood there and looked around the cell for a moment. It was dirty, damp, and full of sour, musty smell. In addition to a toilet and hay all over the floor, there were rats, cockroaches, and bed bugs. "Oh my God! what a job this is!" Niu Chongtian muttered, and finally found a piece of land that he didn't know where he was good and sat down. "Hey, what should I do?" he began to think again. Niu Chongtian suddenly remembered what the head catcher said. I thought to myself: Do we really have to ask the family to send them some silver? But if there is less silver, it will definitely not work, and if there is more, how can there be more at home? No, this will not work. Hey, I can only wait patiently for the county magistrate to come to interrogate. As long as he interrogates me, I will seize the opportunity to explain to the county lord well. I'm going to tell the county lord that I don't know anyone at all. I don't even know what a bandit is, so how can I go about it? I should ask the whistleblower, how can you tell if I'm a bandit? If he doesn't say what a bandit looks like, he won't be able to tell me that I'm a bandit. If the whistleblower can tell what a bandit looks like, then he is suspected of being a bandit. Isn't that the truth? Niu Jianwen still admires his defense. Later, Niu Jianwen turned the issue to who was the whistleblower, but he couldn't come up with a result after thinking about it. Niu Jianwen stood up and stretched his body, and after a while, he sat down again and continued to think. Time flies to think about the problem, and it's time to eat.
The first meal Niu Jianwen ate was a bowl of small rice and a piece of pickles. He took a bite of food, and he couldn't swallow it when it was rancid. Niu Jianwen vomited the rice, and the bowl was thrown aside by him. "Damn, I'm not as good as the dog I have at home!" Niu Jianwen said, remembering his puppy Leopard. He smiled. Niu Jianwen remembered the scene when he led the leopard to hunt. Hey, this dog is so smart, he never fights big animals hard but just drives it to the owner or leads it to the owner to let me do it to the prey. So it was never injured, and naturally the quality of the prey skin I caught was guaranteed. The price of the skin that has not been bitten by a dog is good.
One day, Niu Jianwen went to the market to sell skins. When he was combing his fur with his head down, a handsome woman walked over. She was very young and beautiful, and she was followed by two girls of the same age, who seemed to be in her retinue and led three horses! She said and put a small bag of silver in front of Niu Jianwen. Niu Jianwen grabbed the silver bag and looked at it, and hurriedly said, "Girl, this silver is too much!" Niu Jianwen took out some silver and left it, and when the rest was about to be returned, the girl smiled. "That's all, stay all!" she said, turning to leave. One of the attendants, handing over the reins of his horse to the other, walked over and rolled up six skins and turned to leave. Niu Jianwen pulled her and asked, "Can you tell me, who is she and why is she so generous?" The attendant turned around and smiled and said, "Because you are the great benefactor of my mistress." Suddenly, Niu Jianwen stopped remembering, he raised his head and looked at the sky outside the small window of the cell, and said to himself, "Oh my God, how long will I stay here!" It's her. I was so careless, no, the main reason was that I always carried her behind my back and she could see me. I rarely see her face, I can't remember what it is, right?" "The day before this, I was also going to the market to sell skins, and when I went, I encountered an incident. When I was done, it was dark when I got home, and it was almost the same as it was today. ”
After Niu Jianwen stopped chattering, he began to recall the incident. That day, the girl who fell on the side of the road had a leg injury and could not walk. She begged me to save her, and said that someone was coming from behind her. In order to save someone's life, I asked my brother to wait for me at the market first. Later, I didn't make it to the point, and my brother was in charge of selling the things. So I went home and wiped it black. That day, I carried the wounded girl down the ditch and into the woods, and finally escaped from the bad guys. I was too tired to walk and put the girl down. The girl said, "Big brother, you are tired. I really don't have any other way, you save people to the end. I hope you will continue to help me!, "Don't worry, girl, I won't leave, I can't leave you here." Leave you here and leave by yourself, is that still a man's job? Okay, let's go! When I said this, I picked up the girl and left. "My home is far from here. The girl said excitedly. She thought for a moment, raised her hand and pointed to the mountain, and said, "Otherwise, you can send me to a hunter on the other side of the mountain!" You show me the way, and we'll go. I picked her up and walked up the hill. Although the mountain is not high or steep, it is still very tiring and tiring to climb the mountain with an individual on your back. The downhill is not too tiring, but it loves to fall on his heels. We fell and got out of the way, but luckily we were all fine. In less than an hour, they arrived at Orion's house. Thinking of this, Niu Jianwen finally understood that the girl I saved was the bandit they said! Hey! After walking for a long time on their backs, passers-by still recognized them. How stupid!
On the same evening, Niu Chongtian's family of six gathered around the dinner table, and they were crying one by one with a sad face, and no one moved their chopsticks. Xue Chunyan wiped her tears and said, "My son Jianwen suffered tonight, and dinner must be very bad." Tomorrow I will go to the county town to find out the letter and find a way to get people out. You can do whatever you need to do tomorrow!" Niu Chongtian said, taking the lead and picking up the dishes and chopsticks to eat. Niu Chongtian took a bite of the tortilla, took a bite of the dish and said, "I remembered the matter of Jianwen and the bandits." I also heard Jianwen talk about the thing that Jianwu said about saving the girl, and later Jianwen also said about the girl buying our skins at a high price. At the time, I didn't take it seriously, but now it seems that the gangsters can't be relied upon. "Damn whistleblower, how could he see my brother saving the bandits! No, no one before and after us saw it!" Jianwu said angrily and wonderingly. Niu Jianbin finished the last bite of food and said: "The person who bought the skin paid a high price, and the seller was suspected of being a gangster, which is impossible, unless someone said something that leaked his mouth, and it couldn't be wrong." Niu Chongtian listened to Jianbin's words and thought: This kid is not very old, and his analysis is very reasonable. I think that's probably the case. Niu Chongtian finished eating and said to his wife: "Son, you can draw all the money in the house in a while to see how much it has, and if it is not enough, let me take our family's valuable things as a pawn." Let's see if we can sell the relationship and rescue our son. "Okay, I'll go check it out. Xue Chunyan promised and turned to the children and said, "What should the children do, why should they go! Don't block your father, your father will go to the county seat tomorrow!"
The next day, after breakfast, Niu Chongtian was about to set off. Before leaving, Xue Chunyan said to her husband: "Don't be afraid to spend money to save your son, if the money is not enough, we must also save the house and land." You have to take care of yourself, and come back and tell me if you have a letter. "The work of the family will be left to your brothers. When I came back, I found that you didn't do a good job, and I didn't follow it. The father patted the second and third children on the shoulders and admonished. "Dad, won't you say a few words to me?" Jianbin really wanted his father to pat him on the shoulder. "No, your mother is in charge of your and your sister's affairs. Niu Chongtian said, patted his youngest son's shoulder, turned around and walked away. There are bandits in the mountains south of the county seat, large and small. Among them, the power of Ma Zhanshan is the most powerful in Hukou Village, and the position he is located in is the most precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. He always likes to go against the government, and in the eyes of the government, he is the most hateful. I have tried to encircle and suppress them many times, but they have not succeeded. But in the eyes of the common people, he is still good.
"The hostess is not good. Ma Zhanshan's daughter Xiao Piao's portable girl Cuicui rushed into Piaogu's room and said. "Stinky girl, burn your ass, see what you are anxious about? Breathe smoothly, and then tell me well!" "Miss, your benefactor is in danger and has been arrested by the yamen." Cuicui said with a sigh of relief. Ma Xiaopiao was a hard-working child who lost her father very early, and later her mother was snatched away by powerful people. On the way, she was thrown off a cliff by the bad guys and happened to fall into the arms of Ma Zhanshan, who was passing there. Ma Zhanshan adopted her and named her Piao, which means a daughter floating from the sky. Ma Xiaopiao is handsome, but he loves martial arts. She has been practicing with Ma Zhanshan since she was a child, and she has already practiced good kung fu by the age of fifteen or sixteen. One day, Ma Xiaopiao was seriously injured and was rescued by Niu Jianwen. It was because she entered the city alone, and when she encountered injustice, she was uneven, and was besieged by bad people and was hit by an arrow, and fainted on the side of the road due to excessive blood loss. Later, her father asked her to take two retinues with her when she went out. "What a fucking stinky official! He dared to arrest my benefactors, and it seems that they are a little impatient! Well, this time I'll settle the old and new accounts together. Let's go and talk to my father!" she was very angry when she heard the bad news, and as she spoke, she grabbed the whip beside her, and angrily got up and ran out of the boudoir door to the justice hall.
In the Juyi Hall, Ma Zhanshan, the owner of the village, was discussing with Zhao San, the second brother of the worshipper! Ma Zhanshan was less than 50 years old, and he had a full beard and was called a lion's head. This person is fierce and not reckless, he is calm and loves to think, and he loves to discuss with the scheming Zhao San in case of trouble. Today, someone came to report that Piao'er's benefactor Niu Jianwen was arrested by the yamen. Ma Zhanshan immediately sent someone down the mountain to investigate, and then discussed the rescue plan with Zhao San. When Ma Zhanshan saw his daughter rushing in angrily, he said, "Daughter, are you here?" Let me tell you, your benefactor was arrested by the yamen. I'm studying with your second uncle how to save him! It just so happens that you're here too, so I don't need to send anyone to call you anymore! Come, let's discuss what to do together!" Take all the brethren and go down the mountain and go to the prison at once, and rescue my benefactor. Ma Xiaopiao walked into the hall and didn't want to sit, and said anxiously. Ma Zhanshan understood his daughter's mood and comforted her, saying: "Daughter, you are in a hurry, aren't you? If you don't plan well, not only will you not be able to save your benefactor, but many brothers will die." Ma Xiaopiao finally calmed down, she knew that she couldn't come nonsense. He urged: "Okay, let's plan quickly!"