Soon, Mao Wenzhi and Sister Sun returned to the mountain with the news they had inquired about. The news they inquired about was similar: it sounded very mysterious, it seemed that Ye Xiaotian was about to die, but if you asked carefully, it was not even clear what crime he had committed.
Mr. Dong said worriedly: "Since you guys don't understand, let's rescue the Venerable first. No matter what, we must not let the Venerable die in their hands!"
Sister Sun said: "Elder Dong, you have practiced Gu, how many people can you deal with?"
Mr. Dong said: "Ten or eight is definitely not a problem. If it is the most, with the poison I have now, twenty or thirty people can be knocked down."
Sister Sun shook his head and said: "The prison is heavily guarded. Xu Boyi was afraid that Brother Xiaotian would escape from prison. He also knew that Brother Xiaotian not only won the hearts of the people in Hu County, but also had many confidantes in the yamen. Some soldiers were dispatched from various places to let these people who are not subordinate to each other monitor each other. I think there are more than a hundred people in total, and they all came to guard Xiaotian, but your Gu can only deal with twenty or thirty people. It's not enough!"
Mr. Dong said: "Then go back to the temple to report and ask the God Sect to send some people over, can the little Hu County stop us from rescuing the Venerable?"
Hua Yunfei said in a deep voice: "I still stick to my statement. First, I need to find out what happened to my elder brother. Don't mess around with yourself, so as not to be self-defeating!"
Mao Wenzhi said angrily: "Brother has been imprisoned now, and Xu Boyi has already said that he will die, what are you waiting for, do you want him to die?"
Hua Yunfei said: "Now that the crime of the elder brother is unknown, what if there is no danger? I don't care about the elder brother. You have been imprisoned for seven years. You should know that even if the elder brother is found guilty, he will have to wait until after the fall." Wen Zhan, the future is long, so there is nothing to worry about."
Mao Wenzhi said angrily: "Qiuhou Wenzhan? You think lightly, but you don't know how dark the prison is? Have you forgotten how you killed Meng Xiancheng and Qi Mu?"
Hua Yunfei said: "The two seem to be the same, but they are actually quite different. At that time, Qi Mu could be released from prison at any time. As soon as he came out, the unlucky one would be the eldest brother, so the eldest brother had to take risks at that time. But today it is different. The official arrest document From the Ministry of Criminal Justice in Nanjing, who can zoom out? Moreover, Xu Boyi used all forces to guard the prison, unlike those days when all the prison guards were there. He is not afraid of the news being leaked and someone will find out? How dare he initiate a lynching!"
Mao Wenzhi clapped his hands and said: "Wow, you also said that it is unlikely that the elder brother will be released from prison. If so, why not go to prison?"
Hua Yunfei was so angry that the veins on his forehead were twitching: "Don't mess around, okay? If you can't get out of prison, you still have to go to trial, but it doesn't mean you must be guilty. Just because the orders for this batch of arrests came from above, so what is the result? Not yet known...”
Sister Sun smoothed things over and said, "Don't quarrel! Lao Mao, you should also pay attention, how could Yunfei expect the elder brother to die."
Mao Wenzhi was most afraid of Sister Sun, so he didn't dare to say any more right now, but he just lowered his head and muttered: "Can I not be in a hurry, my elder brother hasn't married a wife and had children yet, if this dies, the elder brother's lineage can't bear it." It completely cut off the incense."
Hua Yunfei said angrily: "If you are worried about this, then you don't have to think about it. Have you heard of 'listening to your wife's imprisonment'? What's so difficult about staying here?"
Younger Sister Sun asked curiously, "What is hearing your wife go to jail?"
Hua Yunfei said: "Before the execution, the prisoner should be entertained with delicious food; during the execution, the death row prisoner's mouth is not allowed to be plugged. If the death row prisoner complains, he must be brought back for a new trial..."
When Mao Wenzhi heard this, he interrupted Hua Yunfei's words: "It's unreasonable. If you call for injustice as soon as you go to the execution ground, wouldn't you never have to die?"
Hua Yunfei glared at him angrily and said: "You are a fool when you are a government official? This kind of thing only happens once, and once it is found out, it is just to delay time. If you are the jailer, will you spare that person? You are about to die, who? I am willing to suffer another living crime before dying."
Mao Wenzhi stopped talking again.
Hua Yunfei said to Sister Sun: "Also, the prisoner is not allowed to cover his face during execution, for fear that some people may look like fakes. These are my court's laws. As for listening to his wife go to jail, it means that if a death row prisoner has no children, his wife is allowed to Imprisonment and the consummation of the house, and execution of the prisoner after the wife is pregnant."
Speaking of this, before Mao Wenzhi could speak, Hua Yunfei said first: "Are you going to say again, as long as the wife is never pregnant, the death row prisoner will not have to die? Don't think about it, you say that, but in fact The death row prisoner is only allowed to marry his wife three times, and whether he can conceive or not is left to fate, which is the best way of the imperial court's benevolence."
Sister Sun exclaimed: "There is such a rule, Yunfei, you are really well-informed."
Hua Yunfei shook his head and smiled wryly: "It's not that I'm well-informed, my father...that's how he came here."
Mao Wenzhi glanced at Hua Yunfei in surprise. He never thought that the Hua family would have such a miracle. The ancestors of the Hua family did not always live in the mountains as hunters. Hua Feiyun's family background must have had a legendary experience, but Now is not the time to be curious about ancient times.
After Hua Yunfei finished speaking, he said again: "I don't want you to act rashly, because I am afraid that elder brother is not guilty of serious crimes, and Xu Boyi's pretentiousness is to lure us to prison, so as to confirm the death penalty of elder brother. Even if you kill someone, We have to plan before we move, let alone saving people, we must hold our breath!"
Hua Yunfei said: "It's useless to hold your breath. We always need to know what the eldest brother has committed, so that we can decide whether to rob prison or file a lawsuit. Nowadays, we can't find any news from the outside, and we can't see the eldest brother. , or you can ask him, since he was arrested, he should know why he was arrested, right?"
Hua Yunfei thought for a while, and said: "It's not impossible to call people, but it must be able to appease them and tell them to wait for their lives, instead of rushing down the mountain to rob the prison. I'm afraid this matter will be troublesome." Elder Dong is here, please go back to the temple, just discuss this matter with the Eighth Elder, don’t say anything, then bring some people here, just in case, we will continue to investigate here!”
Elder Dong nodded in agreement, and when Mao Wenzhi saw this, he stopped complaining. Sister Sun raised her head slightly, her eyes drifted, and she didn't know what she was thinking, but she had no objection to Hua Yunfei's arrangement.
Elder Dangdong is about to set off, because his eyesight is not good, Hua Yunfei asked Ruo Xiaosheng to accompany him into the mountain, if there is any accident on the mountain, Elder Dong will take action, and Ruo Xiaosheng is just playing the role of a crutch.
And Hua Yunfei didn't care about the possibility of being recognized by others, so he cut some horse mane casually, cut it into a beard shape and pasted it under his jaw, put on a bamboo hat, put on a simple make-up, and went down the mountain to inquire about the news . In the end, he was still worried that Mao Wenzhi was careless and unreliable, and that Sister Sun was a Miao who had lived in the deep mountains since she was a child. She didn't know the rules of the world.
After they left, Sister Sun committed a trick. She sat on the threshold of her own courtyard, resting her chin on her hands, thinking over and over again, her heart bursting with joy.
Ye Xiaotian went to jail, although she was anxious, she didn't have much fear. If it hadn't been for Hua Yunfei's repeated stop, she would have killed and gone to the prison to save people. Now that Elder Dong has returned to the mountain to move troops in person, Brother Xiaotian will definitely not be in danger of his life. Rescuing him is just a matter of effort.
However, what Hua Yunfei said unintentionally, "Listen to his wife going to jail", was really heard by her.
"Hearing that my wife is in prison..."
Sister Sun seems to have seen a happy life beckoning to her frequently.
"I want to hear my wife go to jail!"
Sister Sun clenched her pink fists, blushing and said to herself.
She jumped up and walked out of the courtyard. She had just walked a few steps when she suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly turned her head to tell the two little maids who were worryingly discussing their future livelihood under the tree: "Go and boil the water, I Take a bath!"
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An oval-shaped brown-red bath tub, filled with water vapor, and many petals sprinkled on the water surface, the bright red petals gather and scatter with the undulations of the water surface, and the graceful and moving female body under the water is looming.
Shui Wu picked up the water and sprinkled it lightly on her body. Although her figure was graceful and her cheeks were blushing under the steaming heat, her eyes were cold and lifeless.
She had already met the chief minister of the dynasty, his appearance was solemn and his temperament was calm. Although it was difficult to hide his old and sick appearance, the grace and majesty of his extremely human minister were heartbreaking.
In fact, the prestige of the chief assistant of the current dynasty has long been known to her. When she was in the capital, she had heard that Mr. Zhang was not only mentioned by the people in the house, and later she married the young lady to Jingzhou, and Mr. Zhang's name was still heard endlessly.
Zhang Xianggong's hometown is in Jiangling. I remember that once Zhang Xianggong went back to his hometown to visit his relatives. The sedan chair was carried by thirty-two people. There was a living room, a bedroom, and a kitchen in the sedan chair. It was like a mobile mansion. If the road is not wide enough, the wall will be demolished, and the bridge will be built if the bridge is not wide enough. Along the way, officials big and small, and officials from all walks of life came to greet him hundreds of miles away. He was so majestic that even Jingzhou Prefecture, which was thousands of miles away from his hometown, talked about it.
There are also his three sons who accompanied him. The eldest son was Jinshi when he first entered the cabinet, the second son was the second best when he became the second assistant, and the third son was the number one scholar after he became the first assistant. The author of the test plan was precisely Zhang Jiangling, who was getting more and more powerful. Therefore, the servants of the Yang family were divided into two factions to argue fiercely. It is believed that Zhang Xianggong disclosed the test questions to his son in private, and even used his power to influence the results of the imperial examination. She was there at the time and listened with gusto.
It's just that at that time she never thought that there would be such a day that she would be lucky enough to be the woman of Zhang Xianggong who surpassed the emperor. Are you lucky? Is this lucky? Shui Wu laughed at herself.
She had thought about marrying Xie Chuanfeng, whom she had promised to marry since she was a child, according to her parents' orders, but this idea disappeared when he met Xie Chuanfeng's suspicion and shamelessness. She had dreamed of marrying Ye Xiaotian who loved her, pityed her, went through life and death for her, sheltered her from rain and wind, and protected her all the way westward. This idea was shattered with her mother's interference and Ye Xiaotian's engagement with Miss Yingying. .
Now, she unexpectedly returned to the capital by accident and became a member of Zhang Xiangfu. She could tell that Zhang Xianggong would love her with the joy in his eyes when he saw her. But... Shui Wu closed her eyes, and sighed sadly in her heart: "Half life is miserable, and once it is over, I should have been overjoyed. It is even more fortunate to be able to serve such a famous official in the world as Zhang Xianggong. Why... in my heart But don't you have any joy?"
Mr. Shoufu took a bath, came out of the tub with the help of two maids, changed into a light soft robe, and walked into the room with straw sandals. He saw a red lacquer tray on the table. The bowl of medicine soup is the "skin navel" presented by Ji Shuai.
Zhang Jiangling tested the temperature of the medicine, and found it just right, he picked up the bowl, drank the bowl of yang-strengthening and tonic stuff in one gulp, went back to the couch, lay down, closed his eyes for a while, and suddenly frowned, turned over and sat up again , opened the hidden box next to the bed, and took out a "silver holder" from it.
Recently, my health has been getting worse and worse, thinking about state affairs, overworked, and a big bowl of soup, I still feel powerless. It seems that today I can only use the "silver tray" to enjoy myself .
Zhang Jiangling caressed the "silver tray" and breathed a long sigh of relief, only to feel dizzy and faintly painful. The new beauty is taking a bath, and she won't appear for a while. This little privilege of a woman, even if He is Zhang Shoufu who can make the emperor daunting, but he is not immune. Then he raised his voice and called out: "Come here, give this old man a pat on the head."
A slender maid in the outer hall agreed, and just as he entered the inner room, Zhang Jiangling suddenly pressed his stomach and let out a muffled grunt. The maid said in surprise, "Master, what's wrong with you?"
Zhang Jiangling breathed out slowly, and said: "It's okay, the old man just feels a little belly..."
As soon as he said this, the pain in his abdomen suddenly felt like a knife cut, and he let out a loud cry, and immediately curled up on the couch, his whole body was like a rickety shrimp. It was bright red, and blood gushed out from nowhere.
The girl was so frightened that Huarong turned pale, she turned around and ran away, shouting loudly: "Quickly call the doctor, the master is not good, the master is not good, quickly call the doctor..."