When the news of Fan Zhenglian's suicide in prison came, it had just rained in the sky.

Widow Sun came to buy cloth from the tailor shop opposite, but was stopped by the sudden rain, so she simply sat down under the shed at the door and waited for the rain to stop, while eating melon seeds and telling everyone on West Street the news she had just heard.

The "Fan Qingtian" in the trial court committed suicide last night.

Xu was pampered for a long time and couldn't endure the torture in prison, or maybe he knew that he was guilty of this trip and could not escape death. This well-known and once-prosperous old man hanged himself at night by hanging himself from the beam of the prison with his belt. The jailer came to inspect early in the morning, and saw a long strip of the prison dangling in the shadows, and when he looked closer, he found that it was a dead man.

Widow Sun said vividly, as if she had seen it with her own eyes, "That tongue hangs out and grows long, and it frightens people to death." When he said that he was dead, his eyes were about to pop out of his eyes, as if he had seen a ghost asking for his life. Poor whew—"

Fan Zhenglian has been a "clean official" all his life, and has solved many unsolved cases, but he never thought that in the end, he became a prisoner and committed suicide in prison, and the position of trial and trial was reversed overnight, which is indeed embarrassing.

Sister-in-law Song snorted and scolded "deserved".

"Who told him to pretend to be a dog, colluding with those people behind his back, it is not easy for us poor people to live, they are good, they even have to hold the examination room in the palm of their hands, do they want people to live? Die well, die cheaply for him! ”

Sister-in-law Song's family also has a son, and in a few years, she is counting on the end to make a name for herself, and when she learned that the Gongyuan was smoky, she was naturally very angry.

As soon as he said this, everyone's original sighs dispersed a lot, and they nodded their heads in agreement: "Yes, yes!" ”

Someone said: "Wu Xiucai, who is a fresh fish shop, died and entered the palace of the king of Hades, and he was revitalized, just because the family of good deeds has accumulated more blessings." I don't know how the surnamed Fan will be judged, I won't look at his previous merits, and I will also put it back, right? ”

"Supreme Heavenly Venerable!" He Blind Man squeezed over at some point, closed his eyes and pretended to pinch his fingers, and said, "That's not possible!" The old man counted Fan Zhenglian as a wronged man, bearing the karmic debt of the lives of men, women, and children, and as soon as he entered Jiuquan, he was afraid that he would be beaten to hell by Yan Jun immediately, and he would never be able to turn over. ”

When everyone heard this, they became interested, surrounded He Blind, and the conversation gradually moved from Fan Zhenglian to the feng shui technique of choosing a tomb after death.

Lu Tong looked at the people talking enthusiastically in front of the tailor's shop on the opposite street, took out an umbrella from the wall at the door, and was about to go out.

Du Changqing stopped her: "It's raining, where are you going?" ”

Lu Tong: "Go buy some hawthorns." ”

Yinzheng explained with a smile: "It's all cold dew, the girl wants to make some hawthorn pills to sell, Sister-in-law Song said that there is a fruit shop on Qi'er Street that sells hawthorn big and red, and the girl and I will go and take a look." ”

When it came to making medicine, Du Changqing was silent, and only advised: "There is a person dead on Wangchun Mountain, and the murderer has not been found until now, don't run around." ”

Lu Tong responded, and went out with an umbrella with Yinzheng.

It was raining outside, and it was white. In September, the weather has completely cooled down, and there is already a faint shadow of winter. The bluestone slabs were drenched in a drizzle, and there was a layer of wet cold.

Perhaps because of the rain, Qi'er Street was not as lively as before, and the door panel of the shop at the corner of the corner was half demolished, and several strong men were moving things in and out.

Lu Tong stopped in front of the "Liu Ji Noodle Shop".

The drizzle is like silk, drenching the word "Liu Ji" on the door plaque slightly wet, it seems to be heavily painted, red like blood, and the cold shop is a kind of weird and bleak.

The shopkeeper lady in the pastry shop next door was sitting on a stool at the door peeling walnuts, glanced at Lu Tong and the others, and asked, "The girl is looking for someone?" ”

Yin Zheng pointed to the empty shop in front of him and said, "Wasn't this a noodle shop before?" Eel noodles are delicious, why is there no one left? ”

"Liu Kun's family?" The shopkeeper pouted, "It's closed." ”

Yinzheng asked, "When will you come back?" ”

"I can't come back," the shopkeeper patted the walnut skin on her hand, "something happened to someone, what will you go back?" ”

Lu Tong didn't say anything, walked into the pastry shop, and selected a few jujube cakes in Muge, and the shopkeeper saw this, got up and went into the shop to weigh it. Yinzheng took the opportunity to smile and asked, "What happened to the Liu family?" Our girl likes to eat his eel noodles. ”

The shopkeeper weighed the jujube cake, stood in front of the cabinet to wrap oil paper, and said: "Liu Ji's man died on the mountain last month, the murderer has not been found yet, and the two sons have also been imprisoned." ”

Lu Tong handed over the money, "Why did my father have an accident and my son was arrested?" ”

"It's not the same thing." The woman wiped her hands on her clothes, took the money and collected it, and lowered her voice, "Did you hear about the Gongju case before?" ”

"I've heard it."

"The second child of the Liu family is also out this year, so he is on the list of finding someone to take the exam. This is not counting, the government of the other people checked and found out that the boss of the Liu family also took a dark path in the early years. If this investigation is found, won't they go to prison together? ”

When the shopkeeper talked about this, her tone was very disdainful and disdainful, "When Liu Lao was hit, Liu Kun and Wang Chunzhi didn't swagger in front of our neighbors, and they said 'After Liu Lao Er became an official, he will move to the south of the city to do business', hey, who do you look down on." I just said that I boasted before I took the exam, it turned out that I had already found someone to take the exam for me, shameless! ”

It seems that Liu Kun's family is not very popular in the vicinity, and if something happens, they are all watching the excitement. Lu Tong lowered his eyes, "So this shop ......"

"It's sold! Both sons were imprisoned, but they were not allowed to spend money on it, and I heard that the buyer knew that she was short of money, so he deliberately put the price very low...... Hey," the shopkeeper suddenly stretched out her head out of the door and raised her chin to Lu Tong: "Look, isn't this coming?" ”

Lu Tong looked sideways.

In the drizzle, a group of officers and soldiers came in a prisoner cart, and the people on the prisoner cart were shackled and unkempt outside. That's the cheater in the tribute fraud case.

The fraudsters were in danger of showing the public for three months, these people were not long ago scholars in the science field, and now they are really disgraced.

Crowds gradually gathered on both sides of the street, pointing at the sinners from afar.

At the back of the prison cart, two ragged criminals were wearing shackles, and one of them wanted to wipe the rain from his face with his hands, but because of the shackles, it was difficult to do so, so he could only rub his head sideways and rub his eyes against the wooden cart.

That's Liu Zixian and Liu Zide.

The tribute case was investigated, and as soon as Liu Zide was imprisoned, Liu Zixian was soon implicated. Ironically, it is much easier for the poor to be convicted than for the rich. The Liu brothers were arrested almost immediately.

The woman's laughter rang out faintly.

Lu Tong's eyes froze.

Liu Zixian and Liu Zide were in the car, and there was an embarrassed woman. The woman was dressed in a short brown robe that was already covered with stains, and one of her shoes had fallen off, and she looked crazy and a little crazy, giggling, and followed the prisoner car, clapping her hands and laughing: "My son has been hit, my son has been hit!" I will be the wife of the official family in the future, and I will be the wife of the decree in the future! ”

Silver Zheng was surprised: "That's not ......"

The voice of the shopkeeper came from the ear: "The brothers of the Liu family are going to be assigned to the army, and Wang Chunzhi went crazy when he learned about it." Wandering behind the prisoner's car every day, he said that his son had been hit. He sighed again, and some sympathy appeared in his eyes: "What a sin." ”

Lu Tong looked at Wang Chunzhi. The wheels of the cart slowly rolled closer, and the shackled prisoners looked like puppets with their heads bowed or their eyes blank. Brother Liu Zide stood dumbfounded, his eyes dry like a pool of stagnant water.

"It's okay, it's okay, the old man said that he wants to give us officials...... The big man is talking about it, and my son will be hit immediately, hehe......"

Wang Chunzhi walked past Lu Tong with a smile and didn't look at her.

Lu Tong half-lowered his eyes.

Sheng Jing's tribute this time, the heavenly family was furious, so the punishment was very heavy. The candidates involved in the case were put in a flail for three months, and then the place where the smoke barrier was issued was filled with an army, and the staff was 100 years old.

Although the Liu family is poor, cousin Wang Chunzhi has always doted on her son, and Liu Zide and Liu Zixian are pampered and can't lift their shoulders or carry them, so I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out to the penal colony.

Wang Chunzhi is afraid that it is precisely because of this that he will be in a hurry, so he will lose his mind and go crazy.

Dementia......

Lu Tong clenched the oiled paper bag in his hand.

People in Changwu County said that before her mother died, she was also completely delirious and crazy every day, sitting by the river with the rattle that their three siblings played with when they were young, muttering to themselves. She couldn't know how her mother felt pain at that time, she only remembered that when she was a child, she almost never saw her mother really anxious and angry, and her mother was always very open-minded and hearty, peaceful and broad like a long river, slowly wrapping all the unsatisfactory in the world.

But the river then crumbled.

The family was ruined and separated, and this is what my mother suffered at that time.

People and money are empty, and disasters are not one-sided, which is also what Wang Chunzhi is suffering from now.

She couldn't see her mother again. But there are people in this world who are hurt by their mothers, and crazy mothers are crazy, which shows that there is cause and effect in the dark.

Lu Tong looked at the shadow of the prisoner car and his party gradually moving away, and his eyes were indifferent.

Yinzheng took the oil-paper bag from her hand and carried it, stuffed the umbrella into Lu Tong's hand, and held her to go back.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves in front of him, accompanied by the coachman's loud shouting and scolding, Lu Tong raised his eyes, and saw a carriage galloping at the end of the long street, the carriage was exquisitely decorated, and it was like a wind rushing straight in this small street. Yinzheng was startled, and hurriedly went to the side of the street with Lu Tong to avoid it.

The carriage narrowly grazed the sides of the two men, and the wheels splashed the pedestrians on both sides covered in mud. Yinzheng said angrily: "This ......"

Lu Tong looked at the carriage galloping away.

The carriage canopy was exquisite, spacious and ornate, and she had seen it once a long time ago in Baoxiang Building.

It was the carriage of the Taishifu.

The sky was gloomy, the autumn rain was miserable, the streets and alleys were in a hurry, and she looked at the carriage that was gradually moving away, as if she wanted to see the appearance of the carriage through the heavy rain curtain, through the heavy felt curtain of the carriage, through the flow of people coming and going, and the faces of the people sitting in the carriage could be seen clearly.

Until an unfamiliar man's voice came from the side: "Girl? ”

Lu Tong paused, and then turned around.

Two steps away from her, stood a young man in a white robe, a large piece of the placket of his coat was soaked with rain, and the edge of the umbrella in her hand was propped up on the other party's chest, and the beautiful hibiscus flower on the umbrella surface, the cold rain fell down the flower branches and touched the front of the other party's placket.

It should be that she didn't pay attention when she was dodging the carriage just now, and the umbrella in her hand poked the pedestrians on the side.

Lu Tong said: "I'm sorry. ”

I thought that the other party would scold a few words, but I didn't expect to wait for a sentence of "nothing".

Lu Tong raised his head and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the other party's face clearly.

The man's posture is like jade, his black hair is crowned with a hosta, and his white robe is lined with a layman in the forest and a white crane in the clouds, which is particularly clear and slender. When he saw Lu Tong take back his umbrella, he held up his umbrella, nodded to her lightly, and staggered over.

Didn't say a word more.

Lu Tong stood in place, looking at the other party's back and losing his mind, the umbrella in his hand was tilted, and the rain flowed down from the umbrella surface, accumulating a small puddle on the ground.

Yin Zheng looked at the man and the little guy who were gradually walking away, and then looked back at Lu Tong, a little strange: "Girl, do you know this person?" ”

Even though this man is handsome and dusty, he doesn't just look at the other party to see the god, that little Pei is still very attractive, and his own girl still looks like a piece of wood.

Lu Tong retracted his gaze, shook his head, held up his umbrella and said, "Let's go." ”

At the same time, the little maid walking in the flow of people glanced at the wet marks on the man's clothes a few times, and couldn't help but speak: "It's really ...... that a good piece of clothing is soiled like this" and looked back again, and said indignantly: "The carriage of Taishifu is really becoming more and more arrogant, and I am not afraid of colliding with pedestrians"

The man said, "Okay." ”

The little guy didn't want to say anything, so he just asked: "Son, I have to go back to the Hanlin Medical Hospital later, this clothes ......"

"It's okay, just change it."

……

When Lu Tong returned to the hospital, the rain had almost stopped.

The plum tree at the door has fallen off its leaves, and it is no longer as shady as summer, bare, showing a bit of the future of winter.

Yinzheng brought the hawthorn and jujube cake he bought to the small courtyard, Du Changqing was lying in the shop in a daze, and when he saw Lu Tong coming back, Yu Yu glanced at her, and she wanted to stop talking. Instead, Ah Cheng happily called: "Doctor Lu! ”

Lu Tong asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The young man walked out of it, held a piece of paper in front of Lu Tong, and his eyes lit up: "The post given to you by the county king's mansion!" ”

The county king's mansion?

Lu Tong lowered his head, opened the post and looked at it, it turned out to be an invitation.

Princess Pei Yunshu of Wenjun plans to hold a full moon "washing party" for the little lady born on the fifteenth day of this month, because of the relationship between Lu Tong and Pei Yunshu's delivery before, the county prince's mansion specially sent a post and invited Lu Tong to watch this grand event.

Du Changqing glanced at Lu Tong and poured cold water on her: "Don't be too happy, if you want me to say, you should not go to the Xi'er Society." Last time, you went to deliver a baby, and it was detoxification and labor induction, and you saved the princess and daughter of the princess, maybe you offended someone else. We have no power and powerless, you are a doctor sitting in a museum, rushing to make targets for others, and you think your life is too hard? ”

He coughed twice, "Besides, the gifts from relatives and friends who go to people are valuable, and you don't have the money to give gifts, anyway, I won't lend you money to fill the scene, so die as soon as possible." ”

Lu Tong thought for a moment, put away the post, lifted the felt curtain and walked to the small courtyard.

Du Changqing stretched his head behind his back: "Hey, are you still going?" ”

"Go."

“……”

He was angry: "What are you going to do, what are you going to do to make a fuss?" ”

Lu Tong's voice was calm: "It's not to join in the fun, it's to give gifts." ”

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