Chapter Forty-Eight: The Nun Kills
The boat docked at the pier in the north of the city.
Zhang Yanke jumped ashore with agility like a monkey, turned around and said, "Brother, don't worry, I will never play in the dark." ”
greeted Zheng Haizhu with a smile again: "Miss Zheng, you and I are happy at first sight." Please, be sure to show my brother the way, he is not as clever as me, there will be a period later, there will be a period later. ”
After Zhang Yanke took the servants away, Zheng Haizhu said to Zhang Dai: "Brother Ling is really funny. ”
Zhang Dai echoed warmly: "Yanke is indeed a treasure of my family. There are also two younger brothers, both of whom are also ethereal geniuses. His younger brother Zhang Min has been frail since he was a child, but he has not delayed reading a wide range of books; Cousin Zhang Yu, blind due to eye disease, never fell into his will, self-taught medical skills, and now he is a famous master of the apricot forest in Shanyin and Huiji two counties. ”
The white head is as new, and the cover is as old as ever, because the insight is similar to the three views.
Zheng Haizhu listened to Zhang Dai's overview of the family, and weighed that this noble son no longer regarded himself as an ordinary servant, so he also listened to Zhang Dai with some well-known officials and gentlemen in Songjiang Mansion, such as Xu Guangqi, Gu Mingshi, Dong Qichang, etc., who could be put on the table to study Western studies, promote agriculture, and collect calligraphy and paintings.
Zhang Dai was really interested in Nan Zhili's celebrity circle, and sometimes asked a few questions.
In front of a wide house, Zheng Haizhu stopped and said to Zhang Dai: "Son, the nunnery at the end of the neighborhood in front of you is the Nine Lotus Nunnery. Because the little woman wants to open a school, she has to look at the house recommended by the people of the ground house. Say goodbye to Childe here. ”
"Kaijuku? Miss Zheng opened it at her own expense? ”
Zhang Dai thinks that he is not a lonely and unheard person, but he has never seen such a servant, even if she comes from a large family.
Zheng Haizhu did not hide her pride in her name, and said with a smile: "The little woman sold her ancestral house in Quanzhou, and she had some money, and the little woman was grateful that Songjiang was a blessed land, allowing me and my nephew to live in peace, so I also wanted to feed the people of Songjiang." The little woman is not a house slave of the Han Mansion, but has signed a contract of employment with the Han Mansion, and the old lady and the eldest lady are all good masters who have a good relationship and are willing to help the little woman in this move. After hearing about it, the Huang officials of the government also said that they would give the little woman's school an inscription and hang a plaque. Huang Daguan is a new science and technology scholar at this age. ”
"Huang Guanren? But the one who is famous and respectful? ”
"Exactly, Gongzi and Huang Daguan know each other?"
Zhang Dai said: "I once met Brother Huang when I tried in Hangzhou, and we had a very happy conversation. Some time ago, I passed by Wuxi Donglin Academy, and I heard that Brother Huang had entered the rank of scholar, and I thought that I would have a chance to congratulate ......"
Zheng Haizhu immediately heard the meaning of the other party's words, and pushed the boat down the river and said, "I'll help my son deliver the name post?" The little woman is doing the thing of leading the way. The first time is not born, and the second time is more ripe. ”
Young women abandon rigidity and make jokes, which are often dismissed as frivolous words by less brilliant brains.
But Zhang Dai is not an old-fashioned defender, and Zheng Haizhu's behavior of running a school out of his own pocket is admirable, so Zhang Dai nodded happily: "Okay, after I return to the inn today, I will write a post." ”
He asked again, "What are you going to teach in this school, Miss Zheng?" ”
"Whatever can help children live in peace, teach them. Writing, accounting, weaving, embroidery, bamboo weaving, carpentry...... Moreover, both men and women accept it, especially female dolls. ”
"Oh......" Zhang Dai thought thoughtfully.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the noise of people on the other side of the street, and the atmosphere of quiet cars and horses at the beginning of Shen was suddenly stirred.
A half-grown boy ran over and excitedly beckoned, "Come and see, the nun has killed someone!" The nuns of the Nine Lotus Nunnery have killed someone! ”
This thunderous message quickly stirred up the atmosphere of peace and quiet in the town.
The look of horror was quickly replaced by excitement, and the people turned their heads, tiptoed for a moment, and then ran in the direction of the nunnery.
Zhang Loan was still in a daze, Zheng Haizhu had already stepped out of the shadow of the eaves, raised his eyes and glanced at it, and his eyes immediately locked on a teenager.
The boy was emerging from the wooden door facing the street, wearing a jacket that matched the late autumn season, but his trousers were rolled up above the knees. He bent down and pulled off his trousers, quickly wiped the red marks on the instep, and ran around him, just like the neighbors around him.
Zheng Haizhu saw that this young man's family opened a dyeing workshop.
When the cotton cloth is dyed, the cloth shrinks, and a craftsman is required to manipulate the rolling stone to smooth the cloth to its original size. Half the size of the child is the age when he is as energetic as a calf, and the work of stepping on the rolling cloth stone at home should be done by this young man, and the red on his feet is left by the dye.
is a young man who lives here and loves to join in the fun, so he is naturally a qualified source of information.
Zheng Haizhu briefly said to Zhang Dai, "Don't go over the son and the servants, wait for me to ask", then approached the young man and said to him in the local dialect: "Little brother, what's going on?" ”
The young man glanced sideways at Zheng Haizhu, and was about to answer, but a woman with thick eyebrows and a round face caught up behind him, grabbed the young man's arm like a chicken, and scolded: "The fox spirit kills people, what is so beautiful about the red blood!" ”
While trying to get rid of the woman, the young man groaned angrily, "I want you to take care of it!" Annoying! ”
Suddenly, there was a "huh", and his anger turned suspicious: "Mom, there is more than one nun in the nunnery, how do you know who killed it." ”
The woman's face changed suddenly, and in her gaze at Zheng Haizhu, panic and defense only flashed in an instant, and she returned to the usual self-righteous appearance of women in the market, and sneered: "How old are the other two nuns?" People don't have the power to kill people without the power to kill? It must be that vixen! ”
Zheng Haizhu did not restrain the curiosity in her eyes, and leaned over to ask the woman: "Sister-in-law, is the fox spirit you are talking about the nun of the Nine Lotus Nunnery in front of you?" ”
The woman gave a cold "um", but gave Zheng Haizhu a fierce look.
In the woman's opinion, Zheng Haizhu, a good-looking little woman among the flat-headed people, is as disgusting as those and nuns who still have charm.
The wives and ladies of large families, such as fairies in the clouds, the men in the dust usually can't see them, and when they meet them occasionally, they dare to look at them for fear of being scolded by the family.
And the women with the cloth skirts, or the helpless women, will seduce the men at the bottom to provoke, and make their mediocre-looking wretched wives angry.
Zheng Haizhu accepted the woman's malice, and watched quietly as the powerful mother dragged her son back to the dyeing workshop and slammed the door.
She tasted the woman's words.
There are many ways to kill people, but the woman hasn't seen it, so how can she know that it is a bloody "killing method"?
She made a note of the family.
At this moment, the crowd that was chaotically crowding the stone street suddenly dispersed like flies being driven, and two soapshirts, one holding a wooden cane the color of pig liver, opened the way, and the other dragged the prisoner with iron chains.