Yingbao was simply stunned.
Dad started fighting with Qian Jiu.
No, it was the dad who unilaterally beat Qian Jiu up.
Qian Jiu's face was covered in blood from the beating, and Uncle Xu quickly dragged him into the house to clean him up.
Xu Qiuniang kept crying, but did not dare to come up and tear Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang apart.
On the way back, Jiang Sanlang carried the twins in a bamboo basket, and Chunniang carried Yingbao. The five members of the family were silent.
Halfway through the journey, they met Jiang Cheng who came to pick them up.
"Uncle San, what happened to your hand?" Jiang Cheng asked.
Only then did Jiang Sanlang discover that there was a cut on his hand and the blood on it had dried.
Chunniang was very nervous and regretted that she didn't notice that her husband's hand was cut. It was really wrong.
"It's okay, just a little scrape." Jiang Sanlang touched his hand and comforted his wife: "It's not my blood."
Yingbao also came over to check, and was relieved to see that her father was really fine.
After returning home, Yingbao washed her hands and face and went back to her room to rest.
It was expected that Dad would fight with Qian Jiu today.
They had fought in their previous life, and it was even more intense than now. Qian Jiu had two teeth knocked out.
It is said that many years ago, the Qian family and the Xu family were discussing a marriage, and the one chosen for Qian Jiu was the eldest daughter, Chun Niang. But somehow, Qian Jiu suddenly and secretly got engaged to the second daughter, Xu Qiu Niang.
So there was a story of the sisters exchanging marriages. In the end, Xu Chunniang married Jiang Sanlang, a poor boy from Dongchen Village, while the second daughter of the Xu family, Xu Qiuniang, married Qian Jiu, whose family was relatively well-off.
Originally, it was Qian Jiu and Xu Qiuniang who were the ones doing the wrong thing, but they didn't think so. Instead, they were complacent and showed off in front of Chunniang.
But ever since Chunniang gave birth to twins and their lives have been getting better and better, Qian Jiu has been looking at his wife with more and more disgust, thinking that she is not as good as Chunniang in every way.
Because of this, Xu Qiuniang disliked her elder sister more and more. She wished that her elder sister would be stuck in the mud for the rest of her life and unable to get up, and live a worse life than her.
So, there may be some sisterhood before marriage, but there is nothing left after marriage.
As soon as the second day of the Chinese New Year passed, the Jiang family began to entertain relatives and friends who came to pay New Year's greetings.
But none of these affects Yingbao and her brother.
Whenever the boys in the family had free time, they would go to the threshing ground at the village entrance to play football. The twins were among them. Yingbao rode a deer to the home of clan leader Chen to see Chen Silang for medical treatment.
Chen Zhu was able to sit up already. He was very happy to see Ying Bao coming and asked his son Xiao Yao to call him sister.
Yingbao checked his wound and saw that it was basically healed, so she nodded and said, "You can walk around now. Don't lie down all the time. It's not good for your recovery."
"Okay." Chen Zhu already regarded this child as a real doctor and responded very respectfully.
Yingbao then asked Mrs. Tang who was standing beside her: "Grandma Tang, how are you doing recently? Are you feeling dizzy?"
Tang smiled and said, "No, I took your medicine and now I feel much better. I used to feel dizzy and my hands and feet would go numb, but now they are gone and I can walk much more flexibly."
"Well, you have to keep doing this in the future. Pay more attention to your diet. Don't eat rice porridge and sweets. You must also give up pickled vegetables. Move your legs and feet more often. Don't sit for long periods of time. Get up slowly."
Mrs. Wen said that many elderly people suffer strokes because they sit or squat for a long time and then stand up suddenly.
"Just listen to Yingbao." Tang said with a smile.
After leaving the clan leader's house, Yingbao rode on the big deer and walked slowly towards the threshing ground. Several boys from the Jiang family were playing football there, and she would go home with them later.
Time flies and it is already the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Yingbao was just about to talk to her parents about going to the county town when she suddenly heard a commotion in the yard.
When he went out to take a look, he saw two constables holding sticks and pulling his father Jiang Sanlang out.
Chunniang screamed: "Why did you arrest my husband?"
A constable said, "Someone has accused Jiang Sanlang of assault and injury, and the county lieutenant ordered us to arrest him! Anyone who has nothing to do with him, get out of the way!"
Yingbao ran out and said to Chunniang, "Mom, let's go!" She had to go to the county town with her father to find out what was going on.
My father was never arrested by the government in his previous life.
Chunniang also reacted and hurried to harness the mule cart.
Sun Lizheng, who brought the constables here, saw the Jiang family panicking and comforted them, "The county lieutenant is only taking people to question them. If your Sanlang has not done anything wrong, he will be released soon."
Chunniang was not comforted at all because she always remembered the scar on her husband's shoulder.
"Third sister-in-law, you stay at home and take care of the children. I'll go." Jiang Erlang was also a little panicked and quickly took the reins of the mule cart.
Jiang Liushi and Jiang Dasao also advised Chunniang: "It won't help if you go, so let Erlang go."
Chunniang shook her head: "I must go, and I would also like to ask my sister-in-law to help look after Xiaojie and Xiaowu." How could she stay at home and wait for news when her husband was arrested
"Me! And me!" Yingbao hugged her second uncle's calf, "I want to go!" She knew the newly appointed county magistrate, so she should be able to say a word to him.
And this matter must be related to himself and that little Han from the Han family.
Jiang Erlang naturally knew what was going on, and he also knew that his niece was rescued by the county magistrate, so taking his niece with him might be helpful, so he picked up Yingbao and put her on the mule cart.
Then Jiang Erlang drove the carriage and followed the yamen runner's carriage with his sister-in-law and niece.
In the afternoon, the mule cart entered the county town.
The constable took Jiang Sanlang back to the government office and said to Jiang Erlang and the others who had followed him, "The great official will hold a trial in court tomorrow. You can come and listen to the trial tomorrow morning."
"Thank you for telling me, brother."
Jiang Erlang thanked the constable and brought his sister-in-law and niece to Gaojia Inn.
The innkeeper still remembered the little girl, registered her household registration, and took them upstairs.
Early the next morning, Chunniang and Yingbao got up and went downstairs to wash up, and saw that the second uncle was already downstairs, with a graceful woman standing next to him.
The lady was holding a large tin kettle and pouring hot water for her second uncle.
"Sister Yanru." Yingbao ran over, craned her neck to look at her second uncle, and then looked at Yanru.
Sister Yanru's makeup today is very elegant and delicate, as if she has been carefully made up, but there is no trace of makeup at all. Anyway, she is very beautiful.
Yan Ru touched Ying Bao's head and said with a smile: "Bao'er, I am very happy to see you again."
Yingbao thought to herself, you are not happy to see me, but you are happy to see your second uncle happy.
"Why is Sister Yanru in the inn?" This Yanru was not a waitress of the inn, and it was even more impossible for her to be a helper in the inn. But she appeared here early in the morning and brought hot water for Second Uncle to wash. Yingbao didn't believe that there was no trick.
Didn’t you see that the inn’s waiters stayed away from them? The innkeeper must have given them some instructions.
Yan Ru blushed for a moment, stole a glance at Jiang Erlang, and whispered, "My uncle went out to do some work today, so my aunt asked me to come to the inn to help."
Jiang Erlang was an experienced man, so how could he not see that this lady was interested in him? He turned his head and coughed lightly, "Yingbao, hurry up and wash up, we still have to go to the government office."
Yingbao blinked, brushed her teeth and washed her face with A Niang, and went to the toilet again.
When the three of them arrived outside the yamen court, they saw two yamen runners sitting inside the gate, looking at them lazily.
Yingbao jumped off the mule cart and stood at the gate of the yamen, looking inside.
Oh my god! I didn’t take a close look at this government office last time, but now that I have a look, I can describe it in three words: old! shabby! dilapidated!
The yamen didn’t even have a gate. Although it had brick walls, the roof was covered with thatch and was already shabby and dilapidated.
The cracks in the stone steps of the court hall were covered with weeds, which were now dry and yellow, making the scene even more desolate.
"Uncle, a weasel!" Yingbao pointed at the small animal running away and shouted, "Two!"
Jiang Erlang took a glance and was not surprised at all.
Although this is the county government office, except for the county magistrate and his runners, it is impossible for ordinary people to get close to this place unless necessary, let alone vendors.
After a long time, this place will become deserted.
Besides, the term of office of a county magistrate is three to four years, and he will be resigned at that time. Who would be crazy enough to pay for its repair out of his own pocket
As long as they could shelter from the wind and rain, the county magistrate and his family lived in the back courtyard.