In the original novel of "Mountains and Rivers Forever Longevity", just because Xuanyuan Qing liked the crown prince Zhao Su, Ji Fan split the Zhou court into four or five. Even the protagonist Zhao Su almost suffered a loss and lost his position as crown prince, but Ji Fan was not a good person.
Although he has lost his memory now, his character has not changed, and he will not allow others to take possession of the things he likes.
The degree of blackening quietly rose to 90.
Rong Xuan's throat was pinched in his chest, and he couldn't say anything. He could only nod his head. At the same time, he stared at the blackening degree on the electronic screen and swallowed his saliva, and sweated for himself in his heart.
Ji Fanzhuang then slowly let go of him, and at the same time lowered his eyes to look at his palm, his expression somewhat stunned and dazed. The action just now seemed to be completely instinctive, leaving him no time to think.
Qiaoying, who was standing next to him, didn't expect Ji Fan to suddenly appear, and was startled. Finally, she reacted a little late, and said a little nervously to ease the embarrassment: "Rong... Master Rong, is this your new husband?"
Rong Xuan and his mother had just moved into the village not long ago. They looked well-mannered and seemed like scholars, so Qiaoying unconsciously addressed them with respect.
Rong Xuan didn't dare to talk to her now. Hearing this, he could only nod coldly and say "hmm".
Qiaoying smiled and said, "Your husband is so handsome. If my brother talked to another woman, my sister-in-law would be angry too."
Shuanzhu was a simple and honest farm boy. Hearing this, he glared at Qiaoying and said with some embarrassment: "What nonsense are you talking about? When have I ever talked to another woman?"
Qiaoying made a face and said, "Yes."
The mountain road was already rugged and difficult to navigate, and after a few days of rain, the road was full of fallen gravel. The ox cart was driving well, but suddenly it jolted violently, and Master Liu was so scared that he quickly grabbed the nose rope of the ox, and the people in the cart were also shaken to the point of being dizzy.
Ji Fan's injury had not yet healed and he accidentally hit his head. He felt a few flashes of lightning in his mind, as if several men in black were stabbing him with swords, so fast that it was difficult to catch.
Rong Xuan's expression changed slightly, and he quickly helped him up: "Are you okay?"
Ji Fan shook his head with a pale face, his mind went blank again, and his forehead was covered with dense cold sweat.
Shuanzhu jumped out of the car to check the situation, but found that there was a pothole on the road that had stuck the wheel. He used the shovel on the oxcart to shovel a pile of soil to fill the pothole, then climbed back up: "Grandpa, it's okay, it's just a pothole."
Rong Xuan looked at his actions and smiled: "You are a kind-hearted person."
The weather was hot, Shuanzhu wiped the sweat off his face with his arm and smiled honestly: "What's the big deal? There are many elderly people and children in the village. It would be bad if he fell accidentally."
Rong Xuan thought that if this happened in modern times, Shuanzhu should be awarded the Three Good Citizens Award. He looked at Ji Fan next to him again, but Ji Fan was still frowning, as if he was in great pain. He stretched out his hand and patted his legs: "Come here, lie down for a while, it's still half an hour away from the town."
Ji Fan didn't refuse after hearing this, he closed his eyes and leaned on his legs to rest. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but the headache was slightly relieved.
As Master Liu drove the ox cart forward, he turned back and looked at them: "Mr. Rong, are you going to the town to buy something?"
Rong Xuan's slender fingertips landed on Ji Fan's temple, pressing it lightly from time to time. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "No, my husband is injured. I'm taking him to the clinic to see my husband."
Ji Fan heard his own name, quietly opened his eyes, and closed them again.
Upon hearing this, Master Liu said, "Mr. Rong, I will pay the rent owed to Mr. Wang from last year, and then I will send Qiaoying to her aunt's house and then return to the village. When you finish visiting your husband, I will wait by the roadside and give you a ride."
Rong Xuantou was not well off, so he tried to save as much as possible. After all, renting a carriage would cost a lot of money. Hearing this, he bowed and said, "Thank you very much, sir."
Another half an hour passed before they finally reached the town. Master Liu dropped Rong Xuan and Ji Fan off at the fork in the road, and agreed to meet them there half an hour later before leaving.
Rong Xuan was in town for the second time, and he was not too familiar with the place. He looked around and saw a bun stand next to him. He pulled Ji Fan to sit at the table and said, "Waiter, give me some buns."
The waiter responded, "Okay, please wait a moment!"
Ji Fan's headache had already gotten better. Rong Xuan seemed to want to eat here. He paused for a moment and asked, "Are you hungry?"
Rong Xuan nodded: "Fill your stomach. After you finish eating, I will take you to find your husband."
It seemed that his man could not sustain himself with just the bowl of porridge in the morning. It was no different from drinking a bowl of water. He was already starving.
Ji Fan knew that he didn't have much money, so he was silent for a moment: "Why don't we just stop watching the husband."
Rong Xuan was actually quite serious when he wasn't having any romantic problems. Hearing this, he looked up at Ji Fan and asked inquiringly, "Why? Don't you want to know who you are?"
Ji Fan always felt like an orphan, for no reason, just instinctively. His heart felt empty, as if he had never had anything in it: "It might be a good thing that I can't remember some things..."
He used his fingertips to feel the mottled and old wood grain on the table and said, "I have nothing now, I don't remember anything, I can only follow you..."
"You said I was your bought wife, and I believed you, so you can't go back on your word, and you can't abandon me."
The tone of the first few sentences was calm, but it suddenly became dangerous in the latter part.
Rong Xuan thought that if Ji Fan had recovered his memory, he would not say that, but due to the threat in front of him, he could only nod his head: "Okay, no regrets."
The waiter quickly brought up a basket of steaming hot buns. Not many, just five small buns. Rong Xuan used chopsticks to pick up three and put them in Ji Fan's bowl: "Don't worry, I've got the money to pay you to see your husband, don't think too much."
Ji Fan looked down at the three buns in the bowl and was silent for a long time. Suddenly he asked, "Why did you give me extra buns?"
Rong Xuan never thought that Ji Fan would even struggle with this question. He held the chopsticks and swirled them around his fingertips, smiling and saying, "You are my wife, can't I give them to you?"
Rong Xuan only likes to take advantage of others with words.
Ji Fan has lost his memory now, knows nothing, and is like a fool. If Rong Xuan really does something close to him, it is no different from taking advantage of someone in distress.
So Rong Xuan usually just teased Ji Fan verbally a few times, and rarely did anything even remotely similar.
Ji Fan looked at him when he heard that and whispered, "Rong Xuan, you and I are so good."
Ding! Please note that the villain's blackness has dropped to 80
Rong Xuan listened to the system's prompt and paused for a moment: "Is it okay for you to eat buns? You won't even know if you get sold out in the future."
After Rong Xuan finished speaking, he suddenly thought of his good parents in his previous life. Because they were short of money, they gave him to a very good relative as a son, but he ignored him for more than ten years. Later, when he became rich, he shamelessly came to him and asked for money. He couldn't help but curl his lips.
Rong Xuan raised his hand and gestured to Ji Fan: "... Actually, my mother also bought me buns before, but they were different from these buns. They were stuffed with chicken and vegetables, and they were very expensive. She just bought them and gave them all to me, without eating any herself. I was very happy at that time, because she had never been as good as me..."
As he was talking, he suddenly paused. It was as if someone had pressed the pause button and he suddenly fell into silence.
Ji Fan subconsciously asked: "What's next?"
Later she sold me for 20,000 yuan.
Rong Xuan felt that this sentence was difficult to explain, so he didn't say anything else and shrugged lightly: "Then I finished eating the buns."
Ji Fan always felt that Rong Xuan seemed to have told a story just now, but it sounded incomplete and without a beginning or an end. He had finished the buns in his bowl and gently pushed his bowl over: "All for you."
Rong Xuan asked back: "Aren't you hungry?"
Ji Fan had lost his memory and didn’t know what euphemism meant: “Hungry.”
But if Rong Xuan is good, he can also tolerate Xuan's good.
Rong Xuan was silent for a moment after hearing this, and stared at Ji Fan for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking. Although Ji Fan's face was now smeared with black, it didn't look good: "... Are a few broken buns worth pushing around?"
Rong Xuan snapped his fingers and ordered another basket of steamed buns: "It's just one serving, don't give up."
They were in Changzhou, close to Shengjing. If they left the remote village, it would only take a day and a night to reach the capital by galloping. But if there was no carriage, it would take two days and two nights to walk.
Many traveling merchants would stop in Changzhou. Several merchants sat at the next table, eating buns and exchanging "information" with each other.
"Alas, it's getting harder and harder to do this recently. The capital is now strictly checked for entry and exit. Even the cart driver Xiangli was stabbed through by the official with a sword. He said he was afraid that the assassin would hide. I ruined several bags of goods for nothing."
"Assassin? What assassin?"
"Isn't it the assassination incident at the Nanshan hunting ground a few days ago? Didn't you hear that all the royal relatives were injured? Prince Ji Fan of Yan is missing and hasn't been found yet. All the nobles in the capital have been investigated."
Rong Xuan was originally drinking tea. He glanced to the side when he heard the voice, then withdrew his gaze and continued drinking tea.
Ji Fan felt his head ache again when he heard what the people at the table next to him said. He looked at Rong Xuan blankly: "Prince Yan... Who is Ji Fan?"
This name sounds familiar...
Rong Xuan did not hide it. In short, he had a plan for Ji Fan's amnesia, and he also had a plan for Ji Fan's amnesia. Deliberately hiding it would easily arouse suspicion: "Oh, I heard that he was a hostage sent by Yan State, and he was assassinated and disappeared in Nanshan Hunting Ground."
Ji Fan didn't know why, so he stopped talking. He felt frightened, as if this matter had something to do with him.
Rong Xuan had finished eating the buns and stood up to pay. He asked the waiter how to get to the nearby clinic and left with Ji Fan.
At this time, a group of people happened to gallop past the street and headed quickly towards the mountain road. They all wore swords and looked like neither the constables of the government office nor the auxiliary soldiers of the Ministry of War. No one knew where they came from.
Rong Xuan was sharp-eyed and noticed that there was a crouching tiger pattern engraved on their scabbards, which clearly showed that they were the Tiger and Leopard Battalion under the command of the Marquis of Donglin. He pulled Ji Fan behind him without leaving a trace, and watched them leave before pointing at the billowing dust on the road and saying, "See them? If you accidentally run into them next time, avoid them."
Ji Fan stared at the direction they left, frowned slightly, and said calmly: "Why are you hiding?"
Can't we just kill them
Rong Xuan just gave a few words of advice: "They are full of murderous aura, they are definitely not good people, anyway, it won't hurt to stay away from them."
After he finished speaking, he took Ji Fan and walked towards East Street, intending to find a medical clinic. However, before they had taken a few steps, they heard a fierce quarrel in the distance, and passers-by gathered at the door of the brothel to watch the excitement.
Everyone is curious, and Rong Xuan is no exception. He walked into the crowd and saw a man dressed as a rich man instructing the slaves of the brothel to force a woman into the brothel. The woman's grandfather and brother refused to give in and went forward to fight for her, but were knocked to the ground by the slaves. It was Liu Ye's family.
"Wang Yuan! Wang Yuan! I have already paid the rent I owe you, why did you take Qiaoying away? She is young, you can't harm her!"
Master Liu held on to Wang Yuan tightly, but was kicked away by Fang Jiao. He spat on the ground: "Bah! Do you owe Dong Bu interest? Either you pay a hundred taels to redeem your granddaughter, or forget it!"
Shuanzhu was so angry that he rushed forward to argue with him: "We clearly only owe you ten taels of silver! Where did you get the hundred taels?!"
Wang Yuan, Wang Yuan, sounds nice, but he is actually the kidnapper Wang who lives in the village. He made a fortune by selling money to people and became a landlord of some size. He bought a piece of land in the countryside and rented it to tenants.
Last year's harvest was bad, and Master Liu owed him eight taels of land rent, and agreed to pay him ten taels of land including principal and interest this year. However, Wang the Kidnapper took the money but refused to acknowledge it, insisting that he owed him ninety taels, and wanted to kidnap Qiaoying and take her to a brothel to pay off the debt.
After hearing what Shuanzhu said, Guaizi Wang pulled out a contract from his sleeve, shook it in front of everyone, and said unhappily, "Liu Shuanzhu, look carefully, it's written in black and white: I rent the land to your family, and at the end of the year, I will get 70% of the grain and you will get 30%. As a result, you failed to pay the grain on time and owe me 8 taels of silver. You need to pay me 100 taels of silver, including the principal and interest. You put your stamp on it."
Liu Shuanzhu was shocked when he heard this: "How can it be a hundred taels? It should be ten taels! Mr. Wang, you are bullying us because we can't read! Bring my sister back!"
He rushed forward to snatch Qiaoying back, but was caught by two evil slaves and could not move. The kidnapper Wang Zhuang went forward and punched him, but because the bone of the bolt was hard, he cried out in pain. He looked down and found that the jade ring he was wearing was broken.
The kidnapper king was immediately furious: "You peasant, I spent a hundred taels of silver to buy this jade ring, and you broke it. Go! Go to the police station!"
The crowd of onlookers shouted angrily, "You evil bastard! You do things that do not accumulate virtue every day, and you ruin a girl from a good family, but you are blaming others for your mistakes. Sooner or later, God will take you away!"
The kidnapper king looked impatient and waved his sleeves heavily, saying, "It is only natural to owe money. The contract is here, and I am in the right if I go to the government. He broke my jade ring, is it wrong for me to take him to the government? You poor bastards, get out of the way!"
Rong Xuan was dragged to the government office by him, thinking quickly about how to rescue him. Ji Fan kicked the gravel on the ground, and it hit the cripple king with a whizzing sound, knocking out two of his front teeth.
"Ouch!"
The kidnapper king covered his mouth, jumped on the spot in pain, and spat out blood: "Which bastard dared to hit your grandfather! Stand up!"
Rong Xuanzhuang's pupils shrank slightly, and he subconsciously pulled Ji Fan behind him.
The evil slave noticed Rong Xuan's action and pointed at him, saying, "Master Wang, he was the one who beat you!"
The kidnapper Wang looked over and saw Rong Xuan. He narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, then sneered and said, "I was wondering who it was. It turned out to be Master Rong! You just bought this beauty from me a few days ago, but today you are trying to harm me. Don't blame me, Wang, for being merciless. Beat me up!"
Upon hearing this, the evil slaves immediately rushed forward to train Rong Xuan. But before they could throw a punch, the gloomy-eyed man behind him suddenly grabbed his wrist, and then there was a sound of bones snapping, and his wrist was actually broken alive.
Ji Fan narrowed his narrow eyes, murderous: "You dare to hurt my husband, you deserve to die!"
Rong Xuan is a good citizen who abides by the law in modern times. When he encountered a fight for the first time, he didn't know whether he should rush up to help fight or stop Ji Fan. When he came to his senses, those evil slaves had all been knocked down.
A mere ninth rank, of the lowest rank, certainly not Ji Fan's.
The kidnapper Wang Zhuang was startled and stepped back in panic, not expecting Rong Xuanju to bring his gang. A yamen runner happened to be passing by on patrol, and upon hearing the noise, he immediately pushed through the crowd and walked in, seeing the wounded on the ground, he immediately became angry: "Who is causing trouble here?!"
The kidnapper king looked at them as if he had seen a savior, and immediately ran forward, tumbling and crawling, and complained in an excited tone: "Sir! Sir! You have to help me! They are all in the same gang, not only do they owe me money, but they also beat up all my servants. You have to help me!"
The yamen runner recognized the kidnapper king and knew that he was not a good person, so he ignored him and frowned at Ji Fan who was standing in the crowd: "Is what he said true?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a clear voice in his ears:
"It's hard to tell whether it's true or not. Since he said we owed money and intentionally hurt people, why don't you bring us to the yamen and investigate carefully?"
Rong Xuan walked to Ji Fan's side in full view of everyone, and for some reason he suddenly said these words.
This was the first time the yamen runner had encountered someone rushing to the government office. He dressed up as a scholar and couldn't help but remind him: "Think it through. If you don't enter the government, you will die in hell. It's easy for you to get in, but it's hard to get out."
Rong Xuan nodded: "Please lead the way, sir."
Ji Fan's yamen runners surrounded him and wanted to move reflexively, but Rong Xuan held him down. Rong Xuan held Ji Fan's hand and whispered to comfort him: "Let's go to the yamen to see what's going on."
After hearing this, Ji Fan calmed down and stopped moving.
The yamen runners confessed and took the kidnapper Wang, Liu Ye's family, You Rongxuan and others to the yamen. A bunch of people followed behind to watch the fun, and surrounded the yamen.
He Yanping was a confused official. He was woken up early in the morning and told that there was a case to be judged. He climbed out of his concubine's bed without even opening his eyes. When he went to court, he yawned and slammed the gavel: "Who is in the court?"
In ancient times, solving cases required impressive speech, and the first impression of the county magistrate was very important. Upon hearing this, the kidnapper king immediately fell to his knees, crying and saying, "Please, sir, please help me, my humble servant!"
He filtered out the unfavorable things about himself and exaggerated the story of Liu Ye's family's debt. He also sued Liu Shuanzhu for breaking his jade ring and knocking out his front teeth with his collusion. He made it sound so true. Finally, he presented the contract as evidence.
The kidnapper king knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "This is what happened. Please, sir, make the decision for me!"
The people behind him were pointing and talking, and they wanted to throw vegetable leaves at him.
Rong Xuan lowered his head in thought, and began to review the loopholes in the kidnapper king's words. Ji Fan felt that this man was really shameful, and originally wanted to deal with him secretly, but the government office was so clean that not even a piece of gravel could be found, so he had to give up.
When Master Liu heard the evil kidnapper Wang's complaint, he almost fainted because he couldn't catch his breath. He explained with a pale face: "The person is not here, not here!"
Qiaoying was sobbing beside him that she couldn't even breathe.
County Magistrate He only recognized evidence. He stared at the sealed contract for a moment, then raised his eyes to look at Master Liu: "I want to ask you, did you seal this?"
Master Liu was speechless: "This... this... He told me that it was written as ten taels of silver, so I pressed the seal. He deceived me!"
Hearing this, County Magistrate He hummed, "You only need to pay him 70% of the rent each year, which is only about twenty taels of silver. A hundred taels is indeed a bit too much. But the contract is here, and I can only judge the case according to the law. Next time you sign a contract with someone, remember to read it carefully and don't do stupid things again. If you don't pay the money within three days, you can mortgage your granddaughter and the farmhouse to him."
Upon hearing this, Master Liu closed his eyes and fainted out of shock. Qiaoying hugged him and cried repeatedly. The kidnapper said in hatred, "Beast! I will never let you have your wish even if I die!"
Shuanzhu was beaten so badly that his face was bruised and swollen, and he fell to the ground, unable to even get up.
The kidnapper Wang Zhuang immediately added: "Man! The bolt broke my jade ring which is worth a hundred taels!"
County Magistrate He yawned and said, "This is not easy to handle. Just ask him to pay you an extra hundred taels."
He slammed the gavel after he finished speaking and was about to leave the court when a voice suddenly rang in his ears -
"Wait a minute!"
"Um?"
Hearing this, Magistrate He rubbed his eyes and looked over. Rong Xuan, who had been silent until now, suddenly stood up. He couldn't help but frowned: "Who are you?"
The kidnapper king immediately added: "Man! He is in league with Liu Shuanzhu, and he knocked out two of my front teeth! We must not let him go!"
Ji Fan glanced at him coldly, and the Kidnapper King was immediately frightened and became as quiet as a chicken.
Rong Xuanhe County Magistrate said: "Xue Weiren's recent judgment seems to be inappropriate."
Hearing this, Magistrate He frowned and said, "You claim to be a scholar, so you must have a degree and have studied. Tell me where I made a wrong judgment. Isn't it right to owe money?"
Rong Xuan actually nodded: "Sure."
He County Magistrate asked again: "Shouldn't we pay for the damage?"
Rong Xuan nodded again: "Of course I should."
County Magistrate He slammed the table in frustration: "Then what objection do you have?!"
Rong Xuan nodded slightly: "Kidnapper Wang is suing the Liu family for debt and intentional injury. Xue also has three charges to sue him. Please listen to them before making a defense."
The kidnapper king thought it was ridiculous: "Sue me? What are you going to sue me for?!"
Rong Xuan suddenly turned around and looked at him, his eyes so sharp that no one dared to look directly at him: "When Emperor Gaozu ascended the throne, he sympathized with the people's suffering and changed the law: When collecting land rent, grain can be used as collateral, and no more than 60% can be paid. In case of floods, droughts, or insect disasters, if the land is damaged by more than 40%, the land rent can be exempted. Last year, floods occurred repeatedly, and 16 counties including Chang, Yong, Wu, and Ning were all affected. The government clearly stated that the land rent of tenants should be reduced, and those who violated the regulations would be punished with 20 strokes of the cane! But you forcibly collected 70% of the Liu family's grain. You were disrespectful to the emperor and despised official documents. You are guilty!"
With every word he said, King Guaizi broke out in a cold sweat, and when he heard the last word "disrespectful to the emperor", he fell to the ground with a thud.
Rong Xuan pressed on: "It is written in Chapter 23, Article 7 of the Zhou Law that anyone who seduces a good person to be a slave, a concubine or a child shall be sentenced to three thousand miles of exile and three years of banishment. The contract does not state that if the Liu family cannot pay the debt, they will sell their granddaughter Qiaoying as a prostitute. But you bought a good person and sent her to a brothel. Your crime is even more serious!"
The kidnapper king was already shaking like a sieve.
Rong Xuan suddenly turned around and walked into the court, holding up the broken "jade ring" to show County Magistrate He: "Kid King keeps saying that this is the best jade ring, but the color of this jade is superficial and glamorous, full of mixed colors under the sunlight, and the texture is loose. The best jade is very hard, how can it be easily damaged? This is obviously a low-quality product bought on the street, but he wants the Liu family to compensate him with a hundred taels. It is obviously a deliberate false accusation! The Zhou Law says that those who falsely accuse others will be punished for the third crime!"
The magistrate of He County was stunned, the kidnapper king was also frightened, and the common people were also bewildered.
Rong Xuan gently threw the inferior "emerald jade ring" back on the table, stared at County Magistrate He and smiled: "What the school said is all verified in the Zhou Law. If you don't believe it, you can ask the lawyer to look it up. If the kidnapper king is dissatisfied, feel free to come and argue. You can judge the case."