I played as an assistant in ancient times

Chapter 132: Generous and generous

"Be gentle, be careful not to hurt your hands. I feel sorry for him that he could have used his fame to get an official position, but he has to use it in such a place. It's such a pity." Xu Xiucai grabbed his wife's hand and stroked it gently.

"Hmph, you old man. You smell like alcohol, and you don't want to be with me." Mrs. Zhu let go without any effort. "What kind of conscienceless thing has he done again?"

"Shh!" Xu Xiucai asked her to speak more quietly, then leaned close to her ear and whispered something.

Mrs. Zhu was so surprised that she covered her mouth and asked, "How did you know this?"

"During the New Year holiday, the county magistrate paid for extra meals in the hall, and we clerks sat at one table.

You also know that the teacher's side is usually quiet, but the clerk in the sixth room often deals with all kinds of people.

Someone mentioned the case of Madam Zhu, and after a few drinks, someone started to tell the story they had heard. "Xu Xiucai shook his head, "Our culture and education in the north are not as good as in the south. It's not easy to pass the imperial examination, and he doesn't know how to cherish it!"

Like him, he wasted years and finally failed the autumn examination, so he went to the county government hoping for a chance to be promoted as a clerk. Although today there is no vigorous promotion of clerks to officials as in the time of Taizu, it still offers more opportunities than always failing the imperial examination.

Mrs. Zhu shook her head. "Uninvited marriage, bah."

After a pause, she continued, "Humph, can he be stripped of his honor for such a thing?"

"It's hard to say." Xu Xiucai warned, "You are not allowed to tell anyone else."

“I was afraid of dirtying my mouth.

I guess a lot of rumors have been spread about this matter in private." Mrs. Zhu walked out of the house, waving her handkerchief, and she felt angry for some reason.

As she was walking quickly around the yard to disperse the fire, Shen Xiaoye and the others next door were waiting for Guard Chen at the gatehouse.

He reported: "This little girl went to a hundred-household house in Tu Hutong.

I waited for a long time but she didn't come out, so I asked around and found out that the centurion's daughter had been a widow for a year and had just returned home because she was sick."

"What do you mean?" Shen Cungeng didn't understand.

Shen Xiaoye could hear it, "The little girl is the maid of the centurion's daughter, and is she related to the Geng family?

How did you come up with the answer right away? It's too easy."

"This..." Guard Chen looked at his young master, his eyes full of doubt as to whether he should continue.

Lu Guan wanted to nod, but then he looked at Shen Changsui, who said, "It's okay, go ahead."

Guard Chen lowered his voice and said, "The neighbors over there said that the captain's daughter had an affair with someone, and she was beaten as soon as she came back, and she will be sent away again soon.

But he didn’t tell me who that person was, and when I asked him, he started to suspect me.” He felt very embarrassed after saying the last sentence.

But the knock on the door rescued him.

Xuan Shen ran out to open the door, and then came back to find Shen Xiaoye: "Mrs. Zhu next door is looking for you, girl."

"Please come in." Shen Xiaoye said and walked out, but Xuan Shen said she would not come in.

As soon as Shen Xiaoye went out, she saw Mrs. Zhu running to her house in a hurry, her purse dropped. She couldn't help but shout, "Mrs. Zhu, wait a moment."

Before she finished speaking, she had already caught up with him, picked up the purse and returned it to her: "What can I do for you?"

"I..." Mrs. Zhu took it and regretted coming to her. After all, this child was just a child. Even if he was speaking up for a woman in court, he was still a child. How could he dirty her ears?

Shen Xiaoye smiled and said, "It's okay, I can talk about it some other day when I think about it."

"Yeah." Mrs. Zhu nodded embarrassedly, and walked to the door and pushed it open as she watched him leave.

But after hesitating for a while, he turned around and said, "Miss Shen, I heard that Mr. Lu was asking about that family a few days ago. What does he mean?"

"I was entrusted by Madam Zhu's nephew Zhou Wenchen to redress his grievances." Shen Xiaoye said generously.

Mrs. Zhu asked again: "After all, he is a stranger. Isn't he afraid of other people's gossip?"

"Isn't there me? I've also asked you guys about this!

We have no other intentions, we just can't stand it." Shen Xiaoye was able to get to know all the neighbors quickly because of this incident.

Mrs. Zhu hesitated for a moment, and after seeing that there was no one around, she finally approached her and whispered, "That man had known the daughter of Wan Baihu in Tu Hutong several years ago.

You guys just pass this message to the Zhou family, and don’t worry about anything else.”

After saying that, he walked back to the door decisively, pushed it open and closed it in one go.

Shen Xiaoye stood between the two houses and didn't move for a long time. It was not until her cousin came to call her that she smiled and went home.

If the road is not smooth, there is always a shovel. No matter what time, the people have sharp eyes.

……

The court session started in the afternoon. Shen Xiaoye had not expected that there would be layers of people standing outside the lobby of Shuntian Mansion.

I heard from the yamen runners that the crowd had already lined up on the main street of the government office.

She thought that perhaps because there were many people idle during the New Year, the case was widely spread.

If it weren't for the possibility of her testifying in court today, she might not have been able to squeeze to the front.

The unique "mighty" voices of the yamen runners were heard, and the noise was gradually suppressed by the yamen runners who were maintaining order.

After a moment, the gavel sounded, and both the plaintiff and the defendant went to the hall, but Mr. Geng was injured and was carried up.

The spectators originally thought that there would be a different story today, but after the prefect asked Madam Zhu about the story of how she hurt someone, she still could not prove that she did not actively hurt anyone.

And Mr. Geng even pleaded for mercy.

Unexpectedly, the prefect changed the subject and picked up a complaint, saying, "Geng Shiyong, Zhu's relatives sued you for intentionally defrauding her of marriage seven years ago and deliberately replacing her health-preserving medicine with contraceptives, causing Zhu to be childless and unable to conceive.

You, do you have anything to say? "

Shen Yetang didn't know that her elder brother and cousin Shen Huai did not find a doctor and only took the medicine prescribed by Grandma Qi.

A quarter of an hour ago, Shen Huai came to Doctor Zhou's pharmacy, but found the door closed.

In the nearby villages, apart from Grandma Qi who is good at delivering babies and has medical skills, there is only one pharmacy, which is Doctor Zhou's.

He didn't have time to run to the county town twenty miles away to get medicine, so he could only turn to Dr. Zhou's house on the other side to call for help.

Fortunately, the door was open and he didn't get down. When Zhou's grandson let him in, he saw the head of the village was also there, "Cousin Ci?"

Zhouzhuang and Xiaozhouzhuang are close to each other, and there are many intermarriages between them. The daughter of the eighth master of the Shen family is the wife of the head of Zhou Village.

Therefore, as a relative of the Eighth Master, Shen Huai calling the son of the head of the village "cousin" was not considered as currying favor with the family.

Zhou Ci was almost turning a garden out of the apple trees in the yard. When he heard someone calling out, he stopped immediately, "Cousin Huai, did you hear the news too?"

"What message?" Shen Huai saw that his hair and clothes were messy, and there was even blood on the back of his hand: "Are you injured? Let's go get some medicine together."

Zhou Ci waved his hand: "I'm fine, just cut the ropes.

What's wrong with you? Didn't you come here to get medicine for Fourth Uncle's wound after receiving the letter? "

At this moment, he was discussing with the son of the village chief Zhou, who was waiting for the doctor to pack the medicinal materials, in the corner of the clinic: "Cousin Zhou, when you and Doctor Zhou see my father and others, you must send someone to wait for us at the city gate or the entrance of Xiangfu Restaurant."

"Don't worry, I won't leave you out."