The third grandmother wiped her tears and stood up, took out money for her little grandson, and told him to go to the town to buy meat, "I want good meat, I want the best!" ”

The little grandson's nose and eyes were red, his eyelashes were stained with tears, and he was choking and sobbing, and she wiped him with her sleeve, "Go ahead, there is money left over to buy candy!" Buy more! ”

The youngest grandson answered, grabbed the money and ran all the way to the town with his sister.

On the way, they met relatives and neighbors, all of whom had red and swollen eyes, and ran with the sun on their backs and back against the sun.

It was not yet dark, it was not dark, but every household was lit with cooking smoke, and the whole village was soaked in the smell of fireworks.

This is the most sad and joyful autumn they have ever had.

The barbarians were divided, the decisive battle on the western front began, the two barbarian tribes surrendered, and the decisive battle across the northern border of several hundred miles was fought for more than a month, and the victory was victorious, and the sixteen-year war ended, and the northern barbarians of Daqi, who had harassed from the beginning of the country, were expelled and divided, and then could not constitute a threat.

The dog recovered a lot, Song Liu was able to get out of bed and walk around, and Lu Xu's case was finally broken.

The human and material evidence was there, and the three of them didn't need to say anything, and the county order easily sentenced the case.

Lu Xu was fined 50 taels of silver and imprisoned for one month.

If it weren't for the fact that he no longer uses soldiers now, the official who was beaten by Lu Xu also insisted that he was only rubbed by his clothes, and Lu Xu didn't mean it, and most of the witnesses pleaded with Lu Xu, and if Lu Xu was sentenced to be guilty, he would be escorted to the army.

Song Liu was suspected of killing people on the street, fined 200 taels, and imprisoned for ten years, but the dog pleaded for mercy, stumbling and saying that he had an old wound on his head, otherwise he would not faint on the spot, Song Liu didn't know how serious his old injury was, and he didn't want to kill him, and finally the sentence was changed to three years.

In addition, Lu Xu had to pay Song 60 taels of silver, and Song 6 had to pay 20 taels to the dog.

The dog insisted on not wanting to, and was scared out by the official.

Lu Xu and Song Liu were imprisoned, waiting for their families to pay the money.

The two of them were escorted to the prison together, they were all familiar with each other, and neither of them wanted to deal with anyone.

Soon, Tan Shishi sent the money and brought Lu Xu a pack of winter clothes prepared by Yuan Manniang, the prison was cold, Lu Xu didn't let her come to the prison, she sent some clothes in every three or five days.

Lu Xu is very popular, although he is only allowed to visit the prison once a day, no matter which jailer the Lu family sends them, they can also be sent to him as they are.

Song Liu was different, from the time he came in, it was dark until the sky was dark, Guanyang was curfew, and no one sent him money, so his mother asked the jailer to send him a quilt in.

Lu Xu became curious, what is the situation? Is the Song family really in trouble? Song Liu, no one cares?

He really wanted to gossip, but it seemed a bit immoral to ask these questions in this situation, Lu Xu endured it, but he didn't expect Song Liu to be quite honest and didn't say a word.

The next day, the jailer came to collect the straw sandals and distribute new rattan and hay, but Song Liu didn't complain, and honestly took the rattan and began to weave the basket.

But how did he do this, he was an only child, pampered, and the farm tools were all learned from the last time he opened up the wasteland.

Song Liu is considered a repeat offender, and he is also a single room, looking left and right, no one teaches him.

If you can't finish it, you won't be given food, and Song Liu is embarrassed.

At this time, I only heard Lu Xu knocking on the wall on the other side and shouting to him, "Hey, don't you know, I'll teach you!" ”

Song Liu: "......"

Soldiers can be killed and cannot be humiliated, and he will not learn from Lu Xu if he learns from anyone!

At noon, Yan Junqi brought Lu Xu three meals, one for Lu Xu to eat, and one for Lu Xu to eat at night.

Song Liu couldn't hand over the basket, no one brought him food, he had to be hungry.

In the evening, he still couldn't hand it in, and he was still hungry.

He was so hungry that his stomach growled, and the smell of vegetables wafted to him from Lu Xu's place.

He has spent the last bit of family money by taking medicine these days, and his mother even has used to wear clothes, and he doesn't know how to eat out at this time, who will bring him food?

Staying up until the next day, Song Liu was dizzy with hunger, and when he smelled the aroma of Lu Xu's food, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, and took the initiative to find Lu Xu to bow his head.

Lu Xu: "It's no problem for me to teach you, but when you go out, you have to apologize to the dog." ”

Song Liu sneered, "I'll go out? Okay, just wait. ”

Lu Xu: "You're not convinced?" ”

Song Liu turned over and yelled at Lu Xu: "Who is he, you have to pity him, why don't you pity others when there are so many people?!" You're so badly kind, why don't you give me money? ”

Lu Xu: "He's not me, didn't you let him learn from me to be a snail before I knew him?" ”

Song Liu: "......"

Is there such a thing?

When he thought about it, it seemed like there really was.

Song Liu: "Just because of this?" ”

Lu Xu: "I taught him to cut his tail when he cooked a snail, and he thought I was a good person, so he secretly asked me to avoid you a little, and wanted to help me build a line to find your other brothers to plead with you for me." ”

Song Liu: "...... Gone? ”

Lu Xu: "It's gone." ”

Song Liu was silent.

Lu Xu said solemnly: "So, you should apologize to him, he thinks I'm a good person, I think he's pitiful, seeing that he was beaten like that by you, let him do it with me, or I'll find him another job, he said that you are kind to him, refusal, I pity him so I give him some money to let him see the injury." What kind of kindness do you have to him? ”

Song Liu also wanted to know, what kind of favor did he have for the dog?

In his impression, the dog just didn't dare to straighten his waist, he couldn't do anything, and he threw other people's waste, especially the dog was surnamed Song, and he dared to pretend to be his relative, if it weren't for the thin monkey's ability and the constant pleading, he would have kicked the dog out of the gambling house.

What kindness can he have on that waste?

Song Liu wanted to break his head but didn't come up with it.

Lu Xu stretched out his hands, "Look, I know that it must be nothing serious, he has to say that you are kind to him and cannot betray you." Although you are not very good, but I respect him enough to be righteous enough to make people follow you so desperately, maybe you are not so useless. ”

Lu Xu took a piece of cake and threw it to Song Liu, "Eat it." ”

The two of them were not far from the cell, but the jailer was afraid that they would fight in the prison at first, so there was a room in the middle, and the cake fell in the middle cell, and Song Liu squatted down and stretched out his hand to catch it.

He patted the soil on the cake, chewed the green onion cake that had been cold, and thought back to the time when he got along with the dog, thinking about it, as if he was either beating the dog or scolding the dog, and he really couldn't think of anything else.

Lu Xu asked: "What is the situation in your family, why haven't you paid the ransom?" ”

If the ransom can't be paid, Song Liu will still have to go to the border.

Now in this situation, the border is not going to Shuozhou, but to the west, I heard that it is more bitter and cold than Shuozhou, and it is difficult to say whether Song Liu can go alive or not.

Song Liubi couldn't swallow it anymore, so he said angrily: "If it weren't for you, our family would have lost so much money, and no one would have redeemed me?" ”

Lu Xu was inexplicable and annoyed, "What's the matter with me?" Did I make you resell grain and grass? ”

Song Liu: "If you hadn't mixed up with the Qiu family, would I have fought with the Qiu family?" ”

Lu Xu: "You actually have the face to say!" I sold my snails and paid you all the money, what the are you going to do, you want me to beat me up for all the money! ”

Song Liu: "You country boy who ran out of the countryside dares to scream in my territory, and you are the one who beats you!" ”

Lu Xu: "Come, come, come, see who beats whom!" ”

After a while, the two of them quarreled and scolded, throwing rattans at each other and fighting, and the jailer heard the movement and ran and moved Song Liu's cell far away.

Thanks to their foresight, they couldn't let the two be next to each other.

Chapter 84: Digging for Silver

Song Liu waited and waited, seeing that the day of paying the ransom was over, he didn't hesitate, and asked the jailer several times a day if he had told his mother to find his second brother and third brother.

Jailer: "Tell me, I've told your mother several times." ”

The old lady was crying and crying, and wanted to stuff him with a few copper coins to let him take care of Song Liu, but he couldn't bear to accept it.

Song Liu's heart was cold.

Ten days have passed, not to mention Song Er and Song San, even if they send a letter to the state capital, Song Da should have received it and rushed back.

Two hundred taels of silver, a mere two hundred taels, and no one paid for him.

Song San and the others wanted to collect grain, but he lent them most of it.

Song Liu looked at Lu Xu with a vicissitudes of life, and his eyes were full of thoughts.

Lu Xu swished straw sandals in his hand: "What do you think I'm doing?" At most, I will ask my family to send money tomorrow to repay your ten taels of medical expenses first, nothing else, don't say that I don't have money now, I just have money, and with our friendship, I won't lend you a penny. ”

Song Liu: "I don't want your ten taels, but I want ......"

The cell door creaked open, the conversation between the two of them was interrupted, Song Liu looked out, and saw Song Qi standing at the gate empty-handed behind the jailer.

Song Liu lost his voice: "Old seven? You're back?! ”

Song Qi said "um": "I'm back." ”

Song Liu: "Where's my father?" ”

Song Qi: "I'm back too." ”

Song Qi approached, and Song Liu saw that he was thinner than before, he was calm, and there was an extra long scar on his face, which passed through his nose.

Song Qidao: "I paid the fine for you, and I will take care of the fourth uncle and fourth aunt for you first." ”

Song Liu's eyes were full of tears.

Song Qi looked at the cell, "What are you missing, I'll send it to you tomorrow." ”

Song Liu shook his head, "I don't lack it, you go to the yard and dig out the silver I hidden, you take two hundred taels, give the dog twenty taels for me, and you and my father divide the rest." ”

Song Qi looked at him in surprise.

Song Liu: "Lu Xu, I don't want your ten taels, let me ask you, did you dig up my money when you renovated the shop?" ”

Lu Xu didn't want this to be his business, "What money?" ”

Song Liu: "I buried money in the courtyard of the gambling house, just under your Malatang shop." ”

Lu Xu: "......"

In fact, Song Liu hid more than one place, and by the middle position, they all dug it out to buy grain for Song San, and there was only one place left, and even Song Qi didn't know where it was. He saw that Lu Xu gave money to the dog, and he thought that the dog betrayed him and told Lu Xu that he had hidden the money, let Lu Xu dig it out, and secretly share the spoils with him.

Lu Xu also reacted, and scolded in his heart, you really know how to hide!

He said angrily: "No! Put your heart at ease, I don't want a penny if it's not my money, and when I go out, I'll take your brother to dig it. I can give you the ten taels as I want, and then the two of us will settle the two. ”

A month passed quickly, Lu Hui came to see him in prison once, Tan Shishi came twice, and the rest of the time, Yan Junqi came to deliver food at noon every day, and by the way, he told him about the situation at home and outside.