Chapter 13: The Strange Affair of the Ferry
According to the prior planning of Han Ming and Chen Wenqi, they rebelled against Gou An as they wished, and obtained the secret note of the book with Liang Defei. After two days of releasing carrier pigeons, Liang De and they will receive the news that "the former report of a person's technique is 'like a sword and a knife', and now it is found out that this person is Zhu Rong, the son of Zhu Jun, the king of Chujing", forgive him Liang Fang and Liang De No matter how bold they are, they dare not pluck the hair on the tiger, so they can only do nothing, and at most scold Hao Huai and Gou An for not doing their job well. The stone in Han Ming's heart finally fell to the ground, and when he saw that it was already three watches, he asked the official on duty to clean up an upper room and let Chen Wenqi rest in the mansion.
In his sleep, Chen Wenqi vaguely felt a slight sound in the room, opened his eyes and looked, and found that the sky was already bright, and Jingxing was tiptoeing towards the bed. As soon as Chen Wenqi's eyes opened, he let go of his hands and feet, walked to the side of the bed in a few steps, and said to Chen Wenqi: "Brother Wenqi, are you awake? Miss Shen has been waiting for you outside for a long time, get up quickly." β
As soon as Chen Wenqi heard that Shen Lingshan was outside, he hurriedly got up, put on his coat, and came to the door after washing the water plants and grass brought by Jing Xing. Shen Lingshan and Rui Zhu were standing in front of the corridor as they were dressed the day before, and as soon as Chen Wenqi appeared, Rui Zhu shouted: "Chen Gongzi, you are finally up." You see, the sun is almost shining......" Thinking that she was a daughter, she immediately stopped talking, and her face was slightly red.
"Miss Shen, I've kept you waiting, rude, rude!" Chen Wenqi looked apologetic and hurriedly said.
"It's okay. The eldest brother slept before the third watch, and he shouldn't have been disturbed, but my mother didn't know if things had taken a turn for the better after interrogating Hao Huai, so she was anxious, so she asked me to come over to find out. Shen Lingshan also felt uneasy, and hurriedly explained.
"Yes, how did I forget? Quick, let's tell my stepmother to go. Chen Wenqi woke up for a moment, patted his head, and walked out.
"Big brother, don't worry. Shen Lingshan called out to Chen Wenqi and said, "Uncle has gone to the house, my mother should know at this time." After speaking, he turned around and walked into the room where Chen Wenqi slept last night, and sat down on a chair. Chen Wenqi knew that she had been standing outside the house for too long before, and she couldn't help but secretly blame herself for sleeping too deeply.
"Gongzi Chen, how did you and your uncle subdue Hao Huai and Gou An?" Rui Zhu was curious by nature, and Shen Lingshan had never treated her as a human being, so she asked without any scruples.
Chen Wenqi didn't want to say it again, but seeing that Shen Lingshan and Jing Xing also had expectant looks in their eyes, he briefly said what had happened.
"Brother Wen Qi, is it really uncomfortable to click on that itchy point?" Jing Xing asked in disbelief.
"Why don't you try it?" Chen Wenqi said, pointing his fingers towards the back of Jing Xing's neck, and Jing Xing hurriedly ran away.
"Chen Gongzi, if Hao Huai refuses to confess and his uncle doesn't stop him, do you really want to chop off his hands, feet, fingers (toes) one by one?" asked Rui Zhu.
"I don't believe it, when he is at home, he doesn't dare to look at the chicken. Jingxing pouted.
Chen Wenqi smiled and said, "Whether it's itchy or chopping your fingers, it's all planned with Uncle Yang in advance to scare Gou An, how can you take it seriously?"
Shen Lingshan opened her mouth at this time and said, "Big brother, I think this matter is a bit suspenseful, you and your uncle believe in Gou An so much?
"You can rest assured of this. Gou An doesn't know much about things, which proves that he is not Liang De's henchman, and it is impossible for him to die for Liang De. And we have set him a trap: inducement and coercion. Let him succeed Hao Huai as the manager of the military room, if he wants to sit firmly in this position and sit for a long time, he will inevitably do everything possible to prevent Hao Huai from appearing; at the same time, I gave him a pill, if he does not take the antidote on time, he will lose his martial arts and become paralyzed, and then life is better than death, so he will never dare to go against us. β
"What pill is so powerful?" asked Shen Lingshan in surprise.
"It's just an ordinary antidote. β
"It seems that the eldest brother is a master of deception. In the future, the eldest brother should not cheat the little ...... Little brother. Shen Lingshan made a joke about Chen Wenqi.
"How dare you? Miss Shen is like a human being, how can she deceive you in the future?" Chen Wenqi said with a straight face.
Shen Lingshan frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "Big brother, such a 'girl' and 'girl' are called, what you say is not awkward, I listen to it awkwardly." Who said last night that since Jin Lan couldn't go back on his righteous marriage?"
As soon as he heard this, Chen Wenqi immediately stammered again: "That's ...... Is that...... When I bowed, I didn't know that the girl was a daughter, and she was abrupt. Chen Wenqi wanted to escape, but deep down he was a little reluctant, Rao was clever and resourceful, but he didn't know how to face this absurd righteousness.
"Since you have sworn by the heavens and the earth, if you repent, you are a person who has no faith and no righteousness. Shen Lingshan said a little rudely.
Chen Wenqi only smiled bitterly, thought for a long time, and said: "Who wants to regret it? It's just ...... Ahem, when a girl is dressed as a man and no one knows her true identity, I will call her as I did when I bowed, and the rest of the time, please forgive me for not being able to obey my orders. β
Shen Lingshan knew that he was square, so he was no longer reluctant, and said coquettishly: "Just let it be, it's very pedantic." After speaking, he pursed his lips and smiled.
Chen Wenqi felt that a big problem had been solved, so he also resumed his usual chic, and said to Shen Lingshan: "Miss Shen, although Hao Huai and them are no longer a threat, maybe there will be someone else who covets the 'sword double kill' that day." I guess it's better that you don't use the 'Sword Double Kill' technique lightly. My master passed on a set of palm techniques to me, which is very powerful and easy to use when fighting, do you want me to pass it on to you?" When he fought with Chu San and them that day, Chen Wenqi found that Shen Lingshan was not good at boxing, so he said this.
Shen Lingshan has liked to practice swordsmanship since she was a child, and she has never been interested in boxing, until she played against Chu San and them, and she realized the importance of fist and foot kung fu when the sword was not in hand. Chen Wenqi wants to teach her how to palm, and he is in the middle of it, so he wants Chen Wenqi to teach her right now. Chen Wenqi nodded and said to her: "This set of palm techniques has a total of 12 moves and 24 styles, and the moves are not separated from the acupuncture points of the human body, so it is called 'Acupoint Palm'." The last word in the name of each move is the acupuncture point to be hit. For example, in the first move, the swallow bird pierces through the hall and hits the enemy's Yintang acupoint, the second move, the phoenix and the rising sun, and the opponent's temple, and the third move, the hunger drives knock on the door and hits the opponent's period acupoint. After the fourth move to the twelfth move, they are named hanging Wu Rong, the crowd returns to the sea, stealing the beam for the pillar, the river Han Wuji, the weak defeats the strong, sweeping the hole and plowing the court, galloping the horse in the pool, swooping the ground and lifting the sky, and the fish swims in the kettle, and the corresponding acupoints are the Shenque acupoint, the air sea acupoint, the Tianzhu acupoint, the middle pole acupoint, the Changqiang acupoint, the Shenting acupoint, the Fengchi acupoint, the Tongtian acupoint, and the Jizhong acupoint. Remember, these acupuncture points are the big acupuncture points of the human body, and after being hit, you will faint at least and die at worst. β
"Yes, Master, the apprentice wrote it down. Shen Lingshan said in a pretty voice.
Chen Wenqi explained the essence of the palm technique, and asked Shen Lingshan to learn it with his own moves. Shen Lingshan is very good at heart and brilliant understanding, Chen Wenqi slowly practiced a set of palm techniques with twelve moves and twenty-four styles, Shen Lingshan remembered seventy-seven eighty-eight, and his gestures were actually presentable, which made Chen Wenqi so happy that he was amazed. Seeing that it was almost noon, he stopped the coach and said to Shen Lingshan: "Miss Shen is very smart, and she will be able to teach her, so that she can admire her." As long as you practice diligently for more than a month, it should be more than enough to deal with ordinary thieves. β
Shen Lingshan was still unsatisfied, but when she saw that it was lunch time, she restrained her fists and feet, and said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "Today, the master taught me martial arts, and the apprentice said that he had to put a table of apprenticeship wine." Ruizhu, do you have the money bag?"
"With it, miss, ah, no, yesβchilde. Rui Zhu said mischievously.
Chen Wenqi stopped them and said, "Wait, I want to go with Miss Shen to say hello to my stepmother first and bring over the luggage." β
Shen Lingshan was stunned, everyone was still laughing just now, why did they have to move their luggage all of a sudden?
Chen Wenqi was afraid that Shen Lingshan would misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained the original story.
It turned out that Liu Jian, the chief examiner of the township examination, thought of his impatience when he waited for the release of the results for a long time after the township examination that year, so he asked the marking officer to read and approve the examination papers day and night, and to decide the new imperial examination candidates within seven days, and release the results on August 25, about half a month earlier than the release of the results after the Double Ninth Festival in previous years. Chen Wenqi originally planned to stay in the provincial capital for two days and then go home first, and then come back on the day of the release of the list in September. Now that the release date is advanced, I changed my original intention and simply took a few more days, just getting acquainted with everyone in the same year. Now that the big exam is over, some of the original examinees and examiners have gone home one after another, and the hotel inn is no longer so nervous, so Chen Wenqi plans to move to the hotel.
Shen Lingshan listened, although she was a little stunned, but she had no reason to stay, so she proposed to accompany Chen Wenqi to East Lake and Moshan in the afternoon. This coincides with Chen Wenqi's plan: before the exam started the day before yesterday, Weng Junding (a scholar with a Hunan accent) in the adjacent room asked him to accompany him on a tour of East Lake on the grounds that Chen Wenqi was a local, and of course Chen Wenqi could only agree. Chen Wenqi told Shen Lingshan about this, and Shen Lingshan did not object, so he accompanied Chen Wenqi back to the house, took him to his mother to say hello, and after resigning, he instructed Zhu'er (a little servant dressed as a mute) to help Jingxing carry his luggage and leave Shen's house to go to the "Juyuan Hotel" where Weng Junding stayed.
After lunch, Weng Junding couldn't take a break and was excited to go to East Lake. Just as he was about to go out, there was a shout behind him, and it turned out that several people from the same hotel heard that they were going to swim in East Lake, and they also joined in one after another. For a while, the people were noisy and lively. Everyone was in the same year as each other, and they stayed in the same place, so they knew each other, and when they saw Shen Lingshan's eyes, they stepped forward to inquire. Chen Wenqi hurriedly introduced to everyone, and Shen Lingshan nodded slightly, which was an answer. Chen Wenqi knew that she was reserved, for fear of snubbing her, and talked to her from time to time along the way, which made her smile and look forward to it. Although the scholars were surprised that he had such a daughterly posture with his dignified seven-foot eyebrows, it was inconvenient for them to comment. However, everyone is a teenager, and it won't be long before they become familiar with each other. Hearing that his family lives in Wuchang City, a scholar named Qin Lan said: "Let's sit and wait for the release of the list, it is difficult to pass the time." What should you do tomorrow when you visit East Lake today? Yang Gongzi, your family lives in the provincial capital, please point us a few more places to go on a tour?"
Shen Lingshan said with a smile: "If you have leisure, there are indeed two places to play in Wuchang City. β
"Which two? Qin Lan was a little impatient.
Shen Lingshan pursed her lips and smiled: "Actually, everyone should know about these two places." β
"You all know, I'm in the provincial capital for the first time, and I don't know anything. Wei Chaopeng, a scholar from Baoqing Mansion, hurriedly declared.
"Has Wei Gongzi forgotten the Tang Dynasty poet Cui Hao's "Seven Laws", which has become a swan song?"
"Seven Laws?" Wei Chaopeng didn't understand for a while, Qin Lan was already shaking his head and groaning on the side:
"In the past, people have taken the yellow crane to go, and the yellow crane tower is vacant here. The yellow crane is gone, the white clouds are empty for thousands of years, the clear river has a history of Hanyang trees, and the grass is a parrot island. Where is the sunset township, and the Yanbo River makes people worried. Yin clapped his hands and smiled: "Yes, if you don't visit the Yellow Crane Tower, you will go to Wuchang City in vain." Which brother Ming'er wants to go with you?"
The crowd responded in unison.
"Young Master Yang, what about another place? Could it be that there is also a poem that everyone is familiar with?" Wei Chaopeng asked.
There is also a "Seven Laws" that sings about it, but it is naturally much less famous than Cui Hao's poems. β
Everyone is a talent for the exam, and they think that their attainments in poetry and poetry are not low, as long as they are not very remote, they naturally dabble in it, but they can't remember it for a while. Therefore, I am not in a hurry to know the answer, I just want to secretly test whether I really don't know. But after thinking about it for a long time, no one came up with an answer, so they urged Yang Shanling to ask what kind of "Seven Laws" it was?
Shen Lingshan couldn't help everyone, and then he groaned:
"The ashes of Fengnuma are buried here, and the elegant rhyme is left to build the piano platform. If there is no splendid chest, why should he die, and the world knows that there is no matchmaker. The white hair is lonely for no reason, and the clear voice is lost to pick up sadness. The bamboo fence is old, and occasionally the cormorant winds around a few times. β
"Qintai!" Wei Chaopeng blurted out.
"Yes, Kotodai. This poem was originally written by an anonymous person, and it is not expected to be included in a formal poetry collection. How did Wei Gongzi know?" Yang Shanling asked in surprise.
"How do I know this poem? It's just that this poem has been written very clearly: 'The ashes of the phoenix swamp are buried here, and the elegant rhyme is left empty to build the piano platform', and the legend of the mountains and rivers and the absolute strings of Boya is still a little known. Wei Chaopeng replied embarrassedly.
"'Say how many things are broken, and there are bosom friends in the mountains and rivers'. The place where Yu Boya played the piano and broke the piano should be visited. Qin Lan's interest was unabated.
The group talked and laughed, and soon walked to the shore of East Lake. An elderly captain stepped forward and asked if he wanted to rent a boat. When I asked the price, it was not expensive, so I rented an open-top boat and boated in the lake. I saw that the shore of the lake is tortuous, surrounded by green mountains, the island is full of stars, and the blue waves are vast, which attracts everyone to praise the beautiful scenery of East Lake.
"It is only said that the West Lake is in the imperial capital, and Wuchangxin says the East Lake. Sixty miles of smoke and waves, several teams of jackdaws with thousands of chicks. The wild trees cover the geese, and the fishing boats reflect the flying black. How not to make a Qiantang scene, to draw with Jiangcheng. Facing the beautiful autumn colors, Weng Junding was very excited, and couldn't help but chant in Yueyang accent "Traveling to Wuchang East Lake" by Yuan Shuoyou, a literati of the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Yes, I'm waiting for the scholars of the four states and fifteen prefectures, aren't we boating in the same boat today, drawing pictures with this river city?" The speaker's name is Gong Zhai Nai, which is the scholar who doesn't know the story of "Confucian Seventy-two Sages, Sages and Virtues".
When everyone saw him compare a boatload of people with the jackdaw wild wood and the wild goose flying black, they all clapped their hands and laughed, nodding and shaking their heads.
As he spoke, the cruise ship had arrived on the other side, and the six-peaked Moshan was in front of him. Everyone got off the boat, paid the rent, and then climbed the stairs and traveled all over the Zhubei Pavilion, Chu Tiantai, "Lisao" inscription and other places. Because it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, although the city is hot, the mountain is cold and cool, except for Shen Lingshan and Rui Zhu wearing long clothes, everyone is wearing short shirts, feeling the cold is pressing, even though the beautiful scenery is pleasant, it is already a good mood. So I went down the mountain to find the ferry and prepared to return to the hotel.
"Wait. "The boatman was about to leave the boat when someone on the shore called. Everyone saw that a short boy with a red cloth under his left armpit and a fortune teller in his right hand was staggering towards the ferry.
Weng Junding was so enthusiastic that he hurriedly jumped off the boat, and the short boy helped the fortune teller to get on the boat and sit down, before asking the boatman to start the boat.
The ferry boat is really different from the cruise ship, and before you can make a cup of tea, you will have arrived at the South Bank Pier. The short boy and the fortune teller were the last to get on the boat, and the crowd had to let them get off the boat first.
The short boy stood up, picked up the fortune teller with his right hand, and was about to take the cloth with his left hand, but the fortune teller pushed away the short boy's hand and took the cloth in his hand first.
The short boy smiled and said, "Sir's eyes are not good, so I don't need your help, I'll take it myself." β
The fortune teller said, "How can I let you take my own things?" β
"What?" said the short boy, startled, and raised his voice, "You said the cloth was yours?"
The fortune teller nodded calmly and said, "Yes, is there any problem?"
"You-" The short boy noticed that something was wrong, he was anxious and angry, and his face turned red all over at once, and he said angrily: "You are not so vicious, I saw that you are disabled and have difficulty walking, and I kindly stepped forward to help, but I knew that you actually repaid virtue with resentment, and wanted to slander my cloth." "Then let's go and grab the cloth.
Where did the fortune teller let him take it, hid the cloth in his hand behind him, and raised his voice and said: "I said that there is no such kind person in the world, who is supporting and helping me carry the cloth on the road, it turns out that you have bad intentions, and you have planned to blackmail my cloth." Please give comments and give justice. β
Everyone thought that these two people were together, but now they know that they don't know each other. But they accused each other of blaming each other for their own things, and everyone couldn't tell who was blaming whom for a while. Now they are stuck in the boat, in a dilemma. The boatman waited impatiently and said, "If you want to quarrel, you should get off the boat first, someone is still waiting on the other side." β
Everyone hurriedly agreed, and hurriedly pushed the two of them ashore with a frame, and let the boatman go. The short boy and the fortune teller argue and unanimously demand justice. Someone in the crowd said, "You two are righteous, and your mother-in-law is reasonable, so how can we uphold justice?" Otherwise, you should go to the county government and let the county magistrate judge." β
When the short boy heard this, he asked the fortune teller, "Do you dare to go to the county office?"
"Just go, what's not to dare?" said the fortune teller, "but I want to ask all the guest officers to be witnesses, in case this kid bullies my disabled person." β
The crowd couldn't, so they had to follow them to the county office.
Wu Wei, the magistrate of Jiangxia, happened to be in the public court to inquire about the case, and when he saw that everyone was surrounded by a young man and a blind man coming in, he said to the two people who were in the public court before: "You two can't explain a word or two about the matter, so let's step aside for the time being, and come back to talk to you after the county has dealt with this matter." β
Originally, the two of them had no choice but to step aside and "cede" the center of the public hall to the blind and the young.
Wu Wei slapped the shocked wood and asked majestically, "Who is suing?"
"Me. "Me. The fortune teller and the short boy replied in unison.
"Oh, you're both plaintiffs, who are you accusing?"
"Him. "Him. The fortune teller and the short boy pointed to each other and replied in unison.
"Say it one by one, what do you sue him?" Wu Wei slapped the stunned wood again.
The short boy preemptively said: "My lord, the grass people's surname is Lu Minggouwa, and the people are called 'Liuwazi' (Wuchang dialect, Lu and Liu's homonym). This morning, the grass people carried ten boils of cloth to Moshan to sell, and by the afternoon had sold nine boils, I saw that it was not early, and planned to carry the remaining one boil on my shoulders while walking and selling, and I really couldn't sell it and took it home. At the ferry, I saw him stumbling along (pointing to the fortune teller beside him), and fearing that he would accidentally fall into the lake, I kindly stepped forward to help him. Who knew that after going ashore, he ...... But he said that my cloth was his, and he begged the adults and the grass people to be the masters. β
"Don't listen to this kid's nonsense. The fortune teller said angrily: "My lord, the grass people are telling fortunes with a cloth seller in Moshan, and he praised me for my accurate fortune telling, and when I was happy, I took out a piece of cloth as a hexagram reward." On the way down, the boy came and helped me to the boat, and said to help me carry the cloth and give it back to me when I got ashore. I thought to myself that I met a good person today, but who knew that this kid was deliberately slandering my disabled things, and he was going to snatch them before he got off the boat, which is really intolerable. Please let the adults be the masters of the small people. β
Wu Wei said: "You all say that you are the owner of the cloth. But there is no evidence for what you say, but there is evidence?"
The short boy shouted: "This cloth is obviously mine, who knew that he was going to slander me?
The fortune teller said, "My lord, Xiaomin has proof that this cloth is mine. β
Say. β
"The cloth is red. β
The crowd laughed. But Wu Wei said: "If others say that this cloth is red, of course it can't be regarded as evidence, but he can naturally use it as evidence." β
The crowd immediately realized that the blind man could not see colors, and if it were not his own things, how could he know that it was red cloth?
"That's what I told him. The short boy said urgently.
"My lord, I still have evidence, this cloth is folded twenty-one times, please count it. The fortune teller said unhurriedly.
Wu Wei called the head of the fast hunting squad and ordered him to carefully check whether it was really as the blind man said.
"Yes, my lord, it is indeed twenty-one. β
At this time, Shen Lingshan pinched Chen Wenqi's sleeve with two fingers and gently pulled it, and said in a low voice: "Big brother, I think this blind man has a problem, if it is not calculated in advance, who will count the folded layers of the cloth?"
"There are no three hundred taels of silver here!" Chen Wenqi deeply agreed, but how to uncover this scam? It is impossible to judge the case based on feeling alone. Rao is Chen Wenqi is only eight buckets high, and for a while, he couldn't think of any way to find evidence of the blind man's blackmail.
Shen Lingshan saw Chen Wenqi's hard thinking, and she was both anxious and funny. Because her uncle is the prefect of Wuchang Mansion, he often tells her about some strange cases and unsolved cases he encounters, which makes her interested in solving cases, and often collects and studies various cases and methods of solving cases in the annals of history.
"That man is blind, just like Chu San. Shen Lingshan said secretly.
Chen Wenqi was stunned for a moment, and soon understood: "Please join you?"
Shen Ling bowed slightly, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
"My lord, can you take a look at the cloth below?"
Wu Wei was thinking about the same question, who has nothing to do to count the layers of cloth? To deny this evidence, there is no better way. Hearing Chen Wenqi's request to see the cloth, he didn't know what he was going to do, so he nodded subconsciously.
Chen Wenqi took a few steps forward, flipped through the red cloth, and said to Wu Wei in a low voice: "My lord, you see, there is a 'Zhao' character written on the reverse side of this cloth, which must be related to this person surnamed Zhao, you only need to inquire about the relationship between the two of them surnamed Zhao and them, and the one who can answer is the owner of this cloth." β
Everyone in the hall only saw Chen Wenqi and the county master talking in a low voice, but they couldn't hear what they said, and they only heard "Yes...... Word...... inquiry" and so on. Fortune tellers are not, people who are blind in both eyes have much sharper hearing than ordinary people, Chen Wenqi's conversation with the county master, he can hear it clearly, not a word. So without waiting for Wu Wei to speak, he preemptively said:
"My lord, I still remember one thing, when the cloth merchant gave me the cloth, he once told me that his surname was Zhao, and in order to prevent disputes during the sale, there was a Zhao character written on the reverse side of his cloth, and I wanted to remember it. Please take a look, my lord, there must be this word on the back of this cloth. After the fortune teller finished speaking, a smug look appeared on his face.
Wu Wei and Chen Wenqi looked at each other and smiled, and said, "Sure enough." After speaking, his face sank, and he slapped it heavily, and shouted: "Where is the servant?"
"Yesβ" All the officials agreed in unison, and then the water and fire sticks in their hands struck the ground neatly, and shouted loudly: "Might-martial-"
The fortune teller gloated with a look on his face, as if he had heard the ** sound of the short boy being beaten. Suddenly heard a loud shout:
"Pull down this blind and even more blind villain, and hit the twenty boards. β
"Yes. β
Two wolf-like servants stepped forward and grabbed the fortune teller on the left and the right.
The blind man cried out: "Wronged, my lord, I have evidence, what is the reason why you don't take him, but want to beat me?"
"Do you dare to quibble? You actually said that the cloth merchant's surname is Zhao, and there is a Zhao character written on the reverse side of the cloth, which has a nose and eyes. You show everyone what is written on the reverse side of this cloth?"
Only then did the fortune teller know that he had unknowingly fallen for the man's evil, and in order not to suffer from the flesh, he hurriedly shouted: "I am willing to recruit, I am willing to recruit." At that moment, he told him how the short boy helped him, how he took the opportunity to talk to the boy to make him tell the color of the cloth, and how he secretly counted the folded layers of the cloth while talking to the boy on the boat. Then he wept bitterly and said: "My lord, the grass people were confused for a while, and they did such a stupid thing, and now they regret it. I implore the adults to be light, and the grass people must change their ways. β
Wu Wei turned his head to Lu Gouwa and asked, "Lu Gouwa, what do you think?"
"Since the adults have returned the grass people to a clean slate, and the grass people don't care about themselves, let him go. β
Wu Wei ordered the official to push the fortune teller back and said: "Since Lu Dog Wa is unwilling to delve into it, this county is also an adult. If you are blind and disabled, the 20 boards will be spared. I hope you will change your ways and be a new person from now on, if you do it again, you will definitely be held accountable, go down. β
The fortune teller stole the chicken and couldn't eat the rice, but fortunately, he didn't see the contemptuous expressions of everyone, and walked out of the county office with his head in his hands.
A dispute finally subsided, and the blind people who had been invited to testify breathed a sigh of relief and went home.
Chen Wenqi followed the crowd and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard Wu Wei shouting: "This son, please stay." β