Chapter Ninety-Seven: Joys and Sorrows
The young man was about to be angry with his eldest brother, and his attitude was so obvious that he couldn't see the situation clearly.
He decided in his heart that after passing this hurdle, for the sake of his own future, he would say that he would not help this stupid big brother deal with things in the future.
Hearing his third brother's explanation, the middle-aged man finally reacted, and he hurriedly knelt on the ground like everyone else, and the whole person was trembling with fright.
"Do you want to keep me arrested?"
Zhang Xiaochi looked down at them.
"My lord, it's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!"
The young man wanted to cry, and at this moment, he only hoped that the big man would spare him.
As for not punishing at all, he knew that there was no such possibility.
"Hmph, as a court officer who guards the place, he doesn't do things for the people, and he actually leads the team to bully the people at will, whose power are you fighting?"
"My lord, I heard that my eldest brother was bullied, and I was blinded by anger for a while, so I didn't ask carefully, and I wanted to give my eldest brother an outlet, so I ......"
"Hmph, I don't want to hear you explain."
"I'll just ask you, how will this matter be solved today?"
Zhang Xiaochi asked coldly.
"Big ...... My lord, we are willing to compensate! ”
Zhang Xiaochi didn't speak, the young man looked up and hurriedly added.
"Each of us is willing to compensate fifty taels to the adults."
"What about him?"
Zhang Xiaochi's eyes fell on the middle-aged man, all of this was provoked by him, so naturally he would not let the other party go so easily.
"Leave it to your lordship."
"Isn't he right-handed, doesn't he like to be cheap, you should know what to do next, right?"
Zhang Xiaochi asked lightly.
"Thank you, sir, for sparing your life."
The young man got up, then pulled the middle-aged man to turn around and left the yard, and soon, the middle-aged man's screams like killing pigs came from not far away.
By the time they returned, the middle-aged man's right palm was gone.
"I don't want the silver, you have paid the fine, and you are trying to find ways to loot the people's fat and ointment!"
"Get out of here!"
"Yes, yes, thank you, sir!"
Where did a group of people dare to stay, they came and left quickly, leaving a group of villagers outside the courtyard to look at each other, and when they looked here again, their faces were full of awe.
In previous years, they often bullied Lin Xiaoxi's family, and now they want to come in and apologize, but no one dares to take this step first.
Zhang Xiaochi didn't know what these people thought, anyway, there was no intersection in the future, so he turned around and entered the house directly.
Zhang Xiaochi and the three of them temporarily lived in Linjia Village, in fact, the day after he came, he proposed to take the two old people to Qingwa Town, but was strongly opposed by his mother-in-law, she said that she had little time and did not want to die and be buried in another country.
Seeing his mother-in-law for the first time, Zhang Xiaochi knew that the other party's time was short, although the old man's face looked a lot better during the days of temporary residence here, but this was a phenomenon of returning to the light.
In these days, Lin Xiaoxi washed his face with tears all day long, and stayed in front of the bed day and night, and finally, on a quiet night, the old man passed away with a smile in Lin Xiaoxi's arms.
"Mother!"
The quiet night was broken by a mournful cry, and this night, Lin Songyang looked as if he was a few years older.
The funeral is very grand, whether you know it or not, you come to mourn, and those who have grievances and those who don't have grievances have taken this opportunity to resolve grievances or get closer to each other.
Zhang Xiaochi had no intention of taking care of these, helped the old man take care of the funeral, and stayed at the funeral with Lin Xiaoxi in Linjia Village for seven days, and then took Lin Songyang to leave this sad place.
"Xiaoxi, Xiaochi, if I die in the future, bury me next to your mother!"
This is Lin Songyang's only request to follow them to Qingwa Town, although it sounds very sad, but everyone has this day, and in the end, Zhang Xiaochi agreed.
Along the way, Lin Songyang didn't show any sadness, he seemed to be very open-minded, and even took the initiative to make Lin Xiaoxi happy.
However, Zhang Xiaochi knew in his heart that Lin Songyang didn't care on the surface, but in fact, he cared about his wife very much in his heart, but he kept his sadness hidden in the deepest part of his heart.
Time passed, and eventually, the carriage returned to the bustling streets of Blue Tile Town.
Looking at the streets of Qingwa Town, which were dozens of times more lively than when he left, Zhang Xiaochi, who was sitting outside to catch a car, was simply stunned.
"There aren't so many people in Qingwa Town, right?"
Zhang Xiaochi couldn't help but say.
On the way to Chixi Restaurant, Zhang Xiaochi found a problem, most of these people walking on the street are unfamiliar faces.
You must know that Qingwa Town is so big, although the people in the town can't be unrecognizable, but they are also anxious to know almost, whether it is the people in the town or not, you only need to recognize it at a glance.
"It's been half a month since we left, could it be that something has changed in Qingwa Town in the past half month?"
When he came to the door of Chixi Restaurant, he was even more shocked, at this time Chixi Restaurant can be described as a city, so that he couldn't go in from the front door, and finally had to drive the carriage to the back door of Chixi Restaurant.
Knock knock!
Zhang Xiaochi knocked on the back door and shouted for them to open the door.
The back door was quickly opened, but the person who opened the door, Zhang Xiaochi, didn't know him, and if he hadn't confirmed it, he would have suspected that he had gone to the wrong place.
"Zhang Gongzi, are you back?"
"You ......"
"I'm General Zhao's man."
"Tell me what's going on!"
Zhao Ling'er jumped down from the carriage and asked curiously.
"Miss, this matter will not be clear for a while."
"In this case, you go and get busy first, and we'll do it ourselves here."
After settling Lin Songyang, Zhang Xiaochi came to the back kitchen and found that Zhang Cheng and Zhang Fenghe were stir-frying, and there were many unfamiliar faces.
"Second aunt, what's the situation?"
Zhang Xiaochi did not disturb Zhao Qiankun, but came to the counter of the restaurant.
Seeing Zhang Xiaochi coming back, the second aunt was immediately overjoyed.
"Xiaochi, do you feel that our Qingwa Town has changed a lot?"
"Yes."
Zhang Xiaochi nodded.
"In the future, we will not be Qingwa Town, but Qingwa County!"
The second aunt said happily.
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaochi was stunned for a moment, what is the situation, it has only been half a month since he left here, and so many things have happened!
"Xiaochi, the day before you left, weren't there people from the Chen family and the Su family?"
"That's right."
"Later, more than a dozen teams came one after another, these people came from all over the country, all of them were some powerful families, they thought that Qingwa Town was too small, so after consulting the emperor, they planned to make this place a county seat."