The Li family was relieved until Ding Bingren came back with someone an hour later and carried away the three boxes in the yard.
However, not long after the breath came out, he was forced to raise it again.
Xu Mu stood outside for a long time, his nose was red from the cold, Li brought hot water and was wiping his face with a soaked towel when he heard someone knocking on the door again.
Master Li slapped the calligraphy brush in his hand on the table and said angrily, "Is this one over yet?"
Zhang Shi twisted his hands together, frowned, and looked outside with a worried look, "Who is this?"
"I'll take a look." Master Li motioned for them not to go out yet and to open the door by himself.
The noise outside was louder than before. As soon as I walked into the yard, I could hear a woman shouting impatiently: "Open the door! If we don't open the door, we will kick the door!"
The wooden door was slapped with a "bang" sound. Master Li took off the bolt, pulled the door open, and asked angrily, "What's the matter?"
It was not Ding Bingren who stood at the door, but three officials dressed in yamen costumes with iron shackles in their hands. One person stood on the front steps and knocked on the door, and the other two stood on her left and right sides. When the door opened, the two stepped forward to grab someone without saying a word.
"What are you doing?" Before Mr. Li could realize what was going on, he was restrained by the two officials, struggling and shouting, "How can you arrest people casually! Is there any Wang Fa? already?"
The headed official put his hand on the knife at his waist to prevent Master Li from doing anything else. He glanced at the people around him and said impatiently, "Someone went to Jingzhaoyin Mansion to say that you stole something. , I will be ordered to invite your family to sit in the yamen."
Saying that, he motioned the two to restrain the yamen who restrained Master Li, and asked them to put the shackles on her first.
"My ancestors of the Li family are innocent, where did you come from this trumped-up crime!" Mr. Li struggled again. In the end, one man's strength was limited, and he couldn't break free from the shackles of the two yamen. In the blink of an eye, two arms were pinned to his back. , with his hands clasped behind his back.
"We don't know if you are clear or not. I am just ordered to take people. If you have something to say, you should go to the yamen of Jingzhaoyin's mansion." The yamen waved his hand and let the other two enter the room to take people.
Seeing Master Li being shackled, Mrs. Zhang hurriedly ran out of the house and asked, "What, what's going on here? How did you handcuff someone!"
"Someone sued you for stealing." The yamen replied impatiently. He stepped forward and grabbed Mrs. Zhang's wrist. He said to the colleague who was holding the shackles next to him, "Button it up."
Seeing the yamen walking towards him, Mrs. Li pushed Xu Muhu behind him and motioned him to hurry in and stay out of the house, but he calmly said, "Who sued us? ?"
Hearing that, the yamen looked back at the crowd and asked, "Where's Ding Bingren?"
Hearing someone calling him, Ding Bingren squeezed out of the crowd and entered the yard.
The yamen pointed at Ding Bingren and said to Mrs. Li, "Hey, he is the witness, and the physical evidence is now in the yamen of Jingzhao Yin."
Seeing that the eyes of everyone in the Li family were fixed on themselves, as if they were real, and wished to penetrate him, Ding Bingren said with an embarrassed expression: "It's not that I want to harm you, you don't agree with Lady Jia. If you want to carry Li Langjun as an attendant, let's just carry the dowry gift intact to others, but you should never take anything from the dowry gift.
Before I came here, I had counted everything in the dowry gift, and when I brought it back, I found two jadeite bracelets, a mutton fat hosta, and a jade ruyi…”
Ding Bingren looked at Li Shi with condemnation, "If you don't want to be a waiter, forget it, then don't touch the dowry! I want to give it back to Mrs. Jia, and now there are so few of them. Thing, what do you want me to do? I'm a man, and I have no choice but to go to Jingzhaoyin Mansion to report to the official."
Hearing this framed accusation, Mrs. Zhang almost fainted from anger, spit at Ding Bingren, and gritted his teeth: "I have lived for more than 40 years, and this is the first time I have seen a person who speaks such nonsense with his eyes open! You are all watched by the people you brought, and we have never touched it at all, and now you have the face to say that we took it!"
"The people I brought followed me out. The thing is in your yard. Now that it's lost, if you say you haven't touched it, then it can still grow wings and fly!" Ding Bingren pinched his waist and asked the door. Neighbors, "You all saw it just now, I took people out."
What he said was true, but no one paid careful attention to how many people he took out.
Neighbors at the door hooked their heads and asked each other. It was true that no one had carefully counted how many people Ding Bingren took away from Li's house, but after living together for so many years, they still stood up and said a fair word. : "Master Li is not the kind of person who will take your things. Since she said that she will not marry her son, the dowry will definitely not be moved."
"That's it."
"Aren't you greedy for something yourself?"
Ding Bingren gritted his teeth and looked at the crowd, and then said to the yamen on the side, "Are you here to watch the fun?"
The yamen pouted and reached out to catch Li.
"Stop, stop me!" A female voice came from far to near, and after a while, the crowd around the door was divided into a path from the middle, and a young servant pushed people away and let the master behind him come in.
"What's going on?" After Jia Shanren came in, he first looked at Mrs. Li. Seeing that he wasn't looking at him at all, he turned to ask Ding Bingren, "What's the situation?"
Only then did Ding Bingren tell her, "Didn't you ask me to propose marriage? The Li family was unwilling, but they took advantage of my absence and stole the contents of the betrothal gift. I'm not afraid that I won't be able to talk to you. Explain, that's why I invited the official messenger to call the shots."
Seeing Ding Bingren winking at her, Jia Shanren immediately realized that things went as planned, and he felt happy, the corners of his mouth couldn't help grinning to the bottom of his ears.
"Cough," Jia Shanren coughed lightly with his hand on his lips, and then forcefully pulled the corners of his mouth down, walked up to Mrs. Li, and said in a soft voice, "As long as you want, these things are yours, what are you going to steal? ?"
Li looked at Ding Bingren who framed them upside down, then looked at a few yamen who came in to get people without saying a word, and finally Jia Shanren who played the role of a fake good man... Now, what else can't be understood? .
This conspiracy was clearly aimed at the Li family.
From the moment Zhang opened the door after lunch, it was destined that no matter how careful they were, they would reach this point.
The things Ding Bingren said were not necessarily in the box before, but as long as Jia Shanren said yes, then there must be, and even when they arrived at Jingzhao Yin Mansion, the governor would force them to ask where the things were hidden!
Collusion between officials and businessmen, his Li family are only ordinary people, how can they escape.
Li clenched his back molars before refraining from spitting at Jia Shanren's greasy face, "You guys are clearly colluding! I haven't even seen your face before today, how could I agree to give it to you? Servant? This is at the feet of the emperor. You blatantly colluded with the governor to frame the people, and even tried to coerce and rob a good man, aren't you afraid of death?"
"Lang Jun is really smart," Jia Shanren didn't have the slightest fear when he heard this, but smiled approvingly. The Li family is no more than ordinary people. What kind of tricks can they find out
Jia Shanren stretched out a hand towards Mrs. Li, pinched the fingernail of her little finger with her thumb, and gestured: "The Holy One is so busy, how could the old man know about such a trivial matter as sesame and mung beans."
"Langjun, don't resist, if you don't agree to be my servant Jia, then you can only be an unfilial son." Jia Shanren pointed at the second elder of the Li family, who was being held by the yamen, with a gloomy tone. Said: "Jingzhao Yin's house has many means, and it will definitely allow the two elders to tell where the stolen things are hidden."
Li Shi's teeth were almost bitten off, "You!"
Jia Shanren didn't give him time to get angry at all, he waved his hand to ask the yamen to send the second elder of the Li family to the yamen, while he stretched out his hand to pull the Li family, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "As long as you obey me, darling I will assure you that they will not suffer any hardships in the government office."
The yamen was ordered to run errands. Before coming, Ding Bingren said that the second elder of the Li family had taken something, and they could only take the two back to the ya.
Zhang Shi immediately burst into tears and shouted, "Son, don't obey her, even if your parents die in prison, you can't destroy her in her hands..."
Master Li was still struggling, "The officials and businessmen colluded and mutilated the people, aren't you afraid of thunder and lightning?"
Seeing this scene, the neighbors all wanted to come forward to help and talk, but they were deterred by the headed yamen drawing a knife.
Li was being held by Jia Shanren's wrist, her face was pale with pain, and she couldn't exert any strength in her hands, so she could only drag her out.
Going to look back, seeing that Xu Mu was not behind him, the heart that had been holding on to him only let go a little. Although Candied Fruit is smart, he doesn't know if he can enter the Lu Mansion, or whether the person who was hurt by him is willing to save him...
Xu Mu realized what was going on when Mr. Li pushed him into the room with his hands behind his back, so he followed Mr. Li's actions and ran back into the room.
He had never had the chance to return the Lufu waist card Ji Ruan gave him last time. Now, this thing just happened to save lives.
Xu Mu put his waist card in his arms, and took advantage of his short stature to run out through the small door in the backyard.
Yesterday's snow on the road just melted away this afternoon, and when I ran over it, my clothes and shoes were splashed with muddy snow.
Xu Mu was in a hurry, for fear that it would be too late, he stepped on the snow that had been crushed into ice cubes by the carriage and horse without paying attention, and slammed to the ground, squatting and groaning. pain.
Lu Feng.
Xu Mu felt aggrieved and wanted to cry, but his whole body hurt, but he didn't dare to delay. He rubbed his hand on his clothes twice, wiped the muddy water splashing on his face, and ran to Lu Mansion.
General Lu's Mansion, because the return of General Lu is more majestic, the ordinary guards guarding the gate are replaced by the personal guards she brought back from the frontier.
As soon as Xu Mu stood at the entrance of the Lu Mansion, he was stopped by the guard with a long spear, "This is not the place for you to play, leave quickly."
"I have an urgent matter with General Ji, please let me know." When he was stopped, Xu Mu realized that in his urgency, he forgot that this was not his home yet.
He took out the waist card in his arms, showed it to one of them, and said, "This is her waist card. She said that she can find her if there is anything."
The guard took over the waist card, glanced at it, and confirmed that it belonged to General Ji, and then frowned and looked at the person in front of the door.
The clothes and shoes are all gray muddy water, and the clothes in front of him are also very dirty because of the fall. The hair tied by the red ribbon is not only messy, but also stained with mud and snow, like a little beggar.
Could it be that he picked up that waist card
Although the guard thought so, but after seeing the waist card, he hurried in and reported it. There is no chance of General Ji's waist card being lost.
Xu Mu's heart was anxious, and he cocked his head to look at the house, his palms felt even more burning, and he didn't dare to clench his fists because of the pain.
"Candied fruit?"
A familiar voice, with a slightly uncertain tone, rang softly from behind.
Xu Mu was stunned for a moment, and when he turned around, he saw Lu Feng standing under the doorstep. As soon as he saw her, all kinds of grievances surfaced in his heart. Wrinkling his nose, his eyes were red, and with a crying voice, he shouted aggrievedly, "Lu Feng."
Lu Feng saw that Xu Mu was covered in mud, his hair was messy, and his eyes were red like a rabbit. It was obvious that he had been bullied. There was an inexplicable anger in my heart, and it was about to come to the top of my head before I could think about why.
Lu Feng immediately shoved the homework in his hand into his arms, took three and two steps up the steps, stood in front of Xu Mu, tentatively touched the end of his red eyes, lowered his head and gritted his teeth and asked: " Tell me, who bullied you!"
The author has something to say: Little Theater
Crazy all the way: Grandma's! Dare to bully my candied fruit! Said, who bullied you, I will bully you back
Sweet treat: I fell myself...
Crazy all the way: ... Where did it fall, I shoveled all the snow there!