Chapter 25

The lieutenant looked at Lin Piao's expression and knew that this brother was not easy to mess with, not to mention that he was indeed frightened today, so he comforted: "You must not spare him, since he wants to run to our village to harm people, then we have to break one of his legs and one hand, so that he can no longer run around and harm people in the future!" ”

"No, if he does such a thing, he will not be convinced if we lynch him, but will only resent us even more, and as long as he is still staring at us, we will not have a day of peace."

They should have been living in the village until Shen Hongneng was admitted to Xiucai, and if Lin Yuan had such a thing again, it would be too risky.

"What do you mean...... Sending the officer? The lieutenant suddenly fell into deep thought: "Lin Piao, I advise you not to be angry, you go and send him to the official, and take the ox cart to the county government to waste a day once and again, not to mention, you don't know, our current county master is a peacemaker, everything is paid attention to harmony is precious, you go, Shen Hong did not really have an accident, maybe he thinks it is not a big deal and may not be able to have a satisfactory result, it is better for our township to solve it ourselves, so as not to suffer this trouble, when the time comes, I will come." They also want to make it clear to them that they will never be allowed to come to the village again in the future. ”

Lin Piao heard another meaning from his words: The county lord values peace, at least he is a kind person, and in the current social background, an official can still be kind to the people, at least he is not a black-hearted person.

"I'm not afraid of wasting my energy, I have to explain this."

The chief secretly praised in his heart, this brother is an assertive person,

"Then since I want to sue the official, I don't have to wait for his family to come, tomorrow I will have a set of ox carts, and we will go to the county government!"

"Then Lin Piao thanked him first."

"No thanks, no thanks, that's what I should do."

After the chief left, Lin Piao knocked on Shen Hong's door.

"Sister-in-law, please come in."

Lin Piao walked in and looked at him lying on the kang, which was so similar to the feeling they had when they first met, but fortunately Shen Hong had grown a little flesh during this period of time, and he didn't look so weak and pitiful.

Lin Piao touched his face: "Poor thing, I didn't have a good meal today, sister-in-law went to get something for you." ”

Shen Hong's expression was a little unnatural, and he turned his head sideways to avoid Lin Piao's movements, but Lin Piao's palms were dry, and the feeling on his cheeks was very warm: "Sister-in-law Xie, ......

Lin Piao went to bring in the food specially left for him in the afternoon, and kept it in the pot all the time, and there was always a slight fire in the stove.

The food was still warm, and it was not until Shen Hong finished eating that Lin Piao told him that he was going to the county government to sue the official.

"If Lin Yuan is lynched, I'm afraid it will attract criticism, so it's better to let the government deal with it and change the name."

Shen Hong held the bowl, raised his half-drooping eyes and looked at Lin Piao for a moment, and then lowered it again: "Listen to my sister-in-law." ”

On the other side, the second aunt hadn't slept yet, and when Shen Hong had eaten the meal and Lin Piao sent the bowl back, the second aunt heard the sound and hurried out.

"Piao'er, Shen Hong has eaten, right? Does he have an appetite for food? ”

"I've eaten everything, I'm hungry until now, how can I do without any appetite?" Lin Piao showed him the clean empty bowl.

"That's good, it's okay if you can eat people, I heard that you're going to sue the official, is it true?"

"Really, the chief said that we should solve it by ourselves in the township, and break one hand and one foot, but I think this is not practical, in case he is even more resentful, how will he live in the future?"

"Well, you don't know when this kind of person is going to come out and bite you." The second aunt looked at him hesitantly.

"Piao'er, there is one more thing I want to tell you, don't be angry, now Dasheng and Ergou are still waiting in the house, they know that they have done something wrong and caused a big incident, and now they are uncomfortable, they were busy before and after they wanted to arrest people, they didn't have time for you and Shen Hong to come and admit their mistakes, and now they have been waiting, waiting for you to take care of Shen Hong so that you can punish them."

"Are they in the house?" Lin Piao walked inside, stepped into the threshold and saw Dasheng and Ergou.

Da Sheng and Ergou panicked, and as soon as they saw him come in, they knelt down in front of him with a plop.

Lin Piao sighed: "I know that you are also afraid, if something happens to Shen Hongzhen, you will not be able to live in this life in your hearts, but this is not your fault, others want to harm others, is it the fault of our side that is being killed?" There is no such reason. ”

Dasheng and Ergou lowered their heads, listening to the little sister-in-law say Don't blame them, they can't wait to slap themselves twice, whether Shen Hong is their husband or not, if they kill a companion because of their fault, they will hate themselves for the rest of their lives, and when they rushed to the river, they listened to the people around them say that Shen Hong was dead, and there was only breath out and no breath in, their heads buzzed, and they felt that the sky had fallen.

Lin Piao persuaded two sentences: "Hurry up, I don't want to bother talking any more." ”

Dasheng and Ergou saw that their sister-in-law was really tired, and hurriedly stood up: "Little sister-in-law, we heard you say that you are going to sue the official, and we will go with you too." ”

Erzhu didn't know where he came from: "Little sister-in-law, I'll go too!" ”

"Why are you going to go to so many people, you might as well stay here and study well, because there are too many people in the county government and you can't take care of it."

Ergou thought for a while: "We are useless people, it's right not to add trouble, at least let Erzhu go, Erzhu has a lot of strength, pressing that person, if he wants to run halfway, someone will be staring." ”

Lin Piao thought for a while: "Okay." "Li Chang is old, he and Shen Hong are not particularly strong people, and they can be regarded as strong men when they take the two pillars together.

"But I have to ask the second aunt's opinion first."

"My mother will definitely agree." The second pillar patted his chest.

By the time the next day came, the lieutenant and his son had already set up the ox cart and brought Lin Yuan, who was tied hand and foot, and Lin Piao and Shen Hongerzhu also got on the ox cart and began to walk in the direction of the county government.

The ox cart was very slow, the morning dew was very heavy, the air was cold, and the eldest son, named Zhou Xishan, was taking out a dry noodle cake to eat at the moment.

In the morning light, he turned his head sideways and smiled shyly at Lin Piao, broke the cake in half, and handed him half of it.

Lin Piao was a little surprised, and he didn't know whether to take it or not, but he looked at the chief next to him, and the chief didn't seem to react, so Lin Piao took the cake and broke it into three parts, and gave two parts to Shen Hong.

The ox cart continued until noon, and the lieutenant looked ahead and said, "It's time for the county government!" ”

Sure enough, as soon as I entered the county hall, I felt completely different from the village, where the houses were next to each other, there were quite a few pedestrians on the road, and every household was doing some small business in front of the door, selling cakes, steaming buns, selling small wontons, selling wine and flowers, all supporting small stalls in front of the house, and the low eaves were pressed down, and the swallows were building nests under the eaves.

Lin Piao hadn't eaten a small wonton for a long time, thinking that Lin Yuan's matter would be solved later, so he would eat a bowl of small wontons in his free time.

The people in the county government didn't have much to care about when they saw too many ox carts, but when they saw that there were still people tied to the ox carts, they immediately inquired in one more heart: "Old man, where are you from, are all the people on this ox cart from your family?" ”

The lieutenant waved his hand: "We are here to report to the official." ”

Zhou Xishan said to the people around him who were paying attention: "This man forced the widowed brother in our village to remarry, but they didn't want to, so they wanted to harm their brother-in-law. ”

When the people around heard this, they immediately became in an uproar: "How can there be such a thing?" The look in Lin Yuan's eyes also became bored.

They looked at the ox cart and saw Lin Piao: "This is the widow, right?" ”

"No wonder, he's so handsome."

"Why are you widowed at such a young age, this doesn't look like twenty, right? It's a hard life. ”

This kind of story, full of emotional entanglements and vendettas, immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Let's go, let's take a look."

"Let's go to the yamen to see how the county lord will judge this person, and if you don't say anything, you will have to have thirty boards."

"Not only that, it's going to be thirty just to force people to remarry, I'll look at eighty!"

The county government has not seen a case for a while, and everyone gathered to see the excitement.

When he arrived at the yamen of the county government, the lieutenant chief walked in first and politely explained his identity and origin to the people in the yamen.

Seeing so many people gathered at the gate of the county government, he thought that this was a big case, not to mention that everyone had already been tied up and sent to the yamen, so he immediately walked down in two steps and carried Lin Yuan in.

When the county magistrate appeared and interrogated who was kneeling, the lieutenant chief reported the names of several people and said the facts of the case, and the lieutenant naturally favored them, constantly saying that Shen Hong was a rare prodigy in their village, who could read a thousand words at the age of three and memorize Tang poems at the age of five, and who could already explain the scriptures at the age of seven.

Lin Piao got goosebumps when he listened to these adjectives, but obviously this set of words was very effective for the man sitting in the hall, his expression kept changing, looking at this pair of lonely and widowed people, the brother-in-law was not very old, although the little uncle was young, but he was quiet and retreated, his eyes were big and dark, and he knew that he did not boast, he was an extraordinary and intelligent face, which made people like it, and these two people who were young were outstanding in appearance and not bad in virtue, but when they encountered such a thing, they were quite pitiful in their hearts, and they were naturally even more disgusted with Lin Yuan.

The county Cheng heard all kinds of things before and after: "How about beating 30 boards, putting them in prison and putting them in prison, and sentencing them to three years." ”

Lin Piao was speechless when he heard it, it seems that although the county man has read books, his professionalism is not necessarily high, and the sentencing and questioning of the crime all depend on his feelings and approximate valuation.

The master on the side lowered his head and said something in the ear of the county officer, and the county man nodded, obviously both of them felt that this case was not a big problem.

After being imprisoned for three years, Lin Piao and Shen Hong had already left the village, and by then Lin Yuan would no longer be able to get close to them even if he still had a grudge, and Lin Piao felt that this result was still acceptable.

The county was about to announce that it had been decided, when there was a sudden commotion outside, and the crowd of people scattered on both sides, and a few people were squeezed out in the middle.

"Your Excellency has wronged! My son has definitely not harmed Shen Hong, even if there is anything, it is all for a reason, adults don't wronged good people! ”

The middle-aged man in front threw himself on the hall and performed a five-body throw, and the people who followed him also hurriedly knelt down.

Lin Piao took a look, oh Huo, his stepmother who was not afraid of big things when she saw the excitement came.

Early in the morning, they set out from the village, and the person who had originally said that he would "go and deliver the news to Lin Yuan's father" also sent out, but the news that they had been invited to witness the verdict was changed to the fact that Lin Yuan had already been sent to the official.

Lin Yuan's father received the news early in the morning, so he hurriedly found Lin Zhou's and promised a bunch of benefits and told her to go with him to save Lin Yuan.

Lin Zhou's heart said that he and Lin Yuan's father were two elders, and Lin Piao and Shen Hong were two juniors.

Lin Zhou glanced at him resentfully, lowered his voice and said, "Do you still have a heart or not, they are all from the same village, do you want people to die?" ”

Lin Piao also lowered his voice and glanced at her: "Yes." ”

Lin Piao...... You ......" Lin Zhou's eyes widened suddenly, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

Lin Yuan's father and Lin Zhou's family began to pull things on Lin Piao, but they were still the same, firmly stating that they were originally a couple, and they were a good marriage intended by Lang You's concubine.

Lin Piao didn't bother to argue with them, and Erzhu jumped out from the side and scolded them for talking nonsense, if Ergou was here, maybe he would be able to beat them up.

Lin Piao thought like this, and suddenly heard Shen Hong beside him speak: "My sister-in-law has not done anything wrong, she has always taken care of me wholeheartedly since the funeral in the family, and she has not had any words or even demeanor that she wants to remarry or miss others, and her sister-in-law has always vowed to only guard me in the future." ”

Lin Zhou shouted: "What do you know about this little hairy man, if it weren't for your family's assets, Lin Piao would have treated you like this, and he would have made you know that he had an external heart?!" ”

"I get along with my sister-in-law day and night, you are just an outsider, and you don't really treat your sister-in-law, so you may not be able to understand my sister-in-law's heart better than me."

Seeing that Shen Hong was small, he had a good attitude, did not speak much, and was very organized, and then looked at Lin Zhou's anxious appearance, and naturally favored Shen Hong in his heart.

On the other side, Lin Yuan's father also defended and said: "My lord, this is a big deal, and it is not a major crime of murder and arson. ”

On the other side, the county and the master also communicated, this matter is not big or small, the main thing is that the two sides insist on their own words, no one recognizes anyone's reason, saying that it is forcing the widow to remarry, but on the other side, it is not said that there is a personal affair, these things that bite each other will not be said, the most important thing is that Lin Yuan wants to kill Shen Hong, saying that it is a killing, but the person did not die, this battle is not a big battle, neither the knife nor the poison.

"Why is it not murder, when I went to the river, everyone said that Shen Hong was dead, he was out of breath when he got out of the water, and I saved him. Don't talk about these lightly. ”

When the county man heard this, he said: "You said that he was already out of breath at that time, and you saved him, what kind of reasoning is this, don't talk nonsense, how can you save people who are already dead." ”

"This point is very simple, the most important place for people is two places, one is the mind and the other is the heart, the soul of man is gathered in these places, the water flooding into the body will also drown the soul, after a long time people will not be able to breathe and will die, but when they are about to die, press the heart area, you can wake up the soul, as soon as the spirit awakens, the aura of heaven and earth is poured in, and the water is immediately spit out, and the person is alive."

Lin Piao looked at the county man without changing his face, and looked at the county man with a look that he didn't understand too much, but he had a powerful expression.

The people who were watching outside were amazed again and again when they heard this set of words, so powerful, it sounded like some kind of immortal method.

"God, it's such a miraculous thing, my neighbor's brother might be fine now!"

"What he said about the gods and souls is true, and I think half of it is at least true, and I think it is reliable."

"Come to think of it, how dare he talk nonsense in the hall like this."

The county also thought for a while: "Where did you learn this technique?" Where did you learn from? ”

"It's not a magic technique, Xiao Min once dreamed of these things in a dream, and when he woke up, he pondered it in his heart, thinking that God wanted to spread this method to the world, so as to teach it to Xiao Min, and also saved Shen Hong's life." Lin Piao continued to look unchanged and unhurried.

It's better to talk about science than to talk about the dreams of the gods, after all, this section has a long history of development.

Xiancheng was obviously impressed: "It's really an adventure! Although there are no big rivers in this county, a small river in the county will drown several people every year, and when they are fished up, they often can't find a way, only some upside down methods, and they may not be able to save five out of ten. ”

The master coughed beside him: "My lord, the case is not over yet." ”