I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 278 Go to the prison

"Master, you want to save Madam!" Lian'er knelt down on the ground with a plop when she saw Yang Xu, kowtowing non-stop, "Madam is ill, eating and drinking well, and being frightened, what will happen now?" It's been nonsense."

Yang Xu froze for a moment, panicked and worried on his dark face, let alone a woman who has been pampered for many years, even the elders can't survive being locked up in prison for a few days.

Qiu Jinyu patted Yang Xu's shoulder reassuringly, and then asked, "Have you seen the doctor?"

Lian'er raised her head abruptly, crying with tears, "The servant gave money, but the military master in the guardhouse was not accommodating, so he just let the guarding mother-in-law boil a medicine at will, they are trying to force Madam to death. "

Although Zhang Yiyi was imprisoned in Xiangwu County Prison, Wu Baihu and others were in charge of guarding it. It can be said that oil and salt did not enter, and Lian Er was useless whether she bribed with money or moved out of the town's Marquis Mansion.

The scene when he saw Zhang Yiyi for the first time came to Yang Xu's mind. With delicate makeup and elegant and noble attire, he looked younger than his father by more than ten years. At this time, Yang Xu could also imagine that she was in prison. situation.

"Young Master, please save Madam." Lian'er kowtowed again, and after a few bangs, her white forehead was torn and bloodshot.

"The madam was forced back then, young master, it was all forced by the Zhang family. If the madam didn't find a backer, I'm afraid she would be sold to a dirty place and be ruined by others, young master..."

Yang Xu was startled, he didn't know there was something about the Zhang family involved, it was her natal family, how could it be?
"Xiao Xu, let's find a doctor first." Qiu Jinyu said again, even though she was only a few years older than Yang Xu, she was much more experienced in dealing with people, "It's freezing cold, once you get sick, your body will never survive. No matter what grievances or grievances there are, we will talk about them later."

"Okay." Yang Xu nodded, as if he had found a backbone, and looked at Lian'er who had stumbled and got up, "Go find some thick clothes, hug a quilt, and wait for us at the gate of the prison."

"It's the young master, this servant is going right now." Wiping away the tears on her face, Lian'er quickly ran out of the alley, planning to go back to the small courtyard at the south gate to take all her clothes and quilts.

Two quarters of an hour later, at the gate of the prison.

"Get out of the way!" Two jailers walked over quickly, drove Yang Xu and his party, looked at Lian'er who was holding the clothes, and angrily said: "Don't you have long ears? Mrs. Zhang is a repeat offender. No one is allowed to visit, get out, or don't blame me for arresting you to be with Mrs. Zhang!"

"Master, I'll give my wife some clothes..." Before she could finish speaking, Lian Er was pushed staggered by the jailer, and fell to the ground with a slap.

Yang Xu became angry, "How do you fight..."

"Master, I'm fine." Hurriedly getting up from the ground, Lian'er shook her head with red eyes, pleadingly: "Ma'am is still in prison, so I can't offend the messenger."

Clenching his fists angrily, thinking of Mrs. Zhang being imprisoned, Yang Xu could only suppress his anger.

"Hey, the kid who hasn't even grown his hair is really angry!" The jailer who pushed him laughed loudly, and looked at Yang Xu with a stern face mockingly, "If you want to go in there, you can give me a few kowtows In the early years, I let you in on the sidelines."

"Old horse, his mother is imprisoned inside. If you become an old man, don't you become a couple with that woman in the prison?" Shoulder, "Do you want a bridal chamber tonight? That bitch is much better than your yellow-faced woman."

"Shut up!" roared, Yang Xu rushed over like an enraged little beast, swinging his fists.

"Xiao Xu!"

"Master!"

Almost at the same time, Qiu Jinyu and Lian Er exclaimed at the same time. Fortunately, Qiu Jinyu moved very quickly and grabbed Yang Xu's arm and dragged him back.

"Xiao Xu, calm down!" Qiu Jinyu said sharply, looking at Yang Xu whose eyes were red with anger, said again: "If you do something, they won't dare to offend you, but think about your mother!"

"I..." Yang Xu opened his mouth. He belongs to the Yang family and is protected by Grandpa Qiu. Even if he beat up these two mean-spirited jailers, the yamen would not dare to arrest them.

But Zhang Yiyi was still imprisoned in the prison, Yang Xu looked at the two horrific guards, they were so domineering, even if they couldn't do it openly, but secretly?

All three meals a day are bad?Or deliberately pour cold water on the quilt, and make it more disgusting, catch some mice or something and throw them into the cell. These jailers have ways to torture the prisoners in the cell.

"Young master, for Madam's sake, bear with it." Lian'er choked up and looked at Yang Xu pleadingly, "Madam's body is weak and she can't stand the pain."

Looking at Yang Xu who was discouraged all of a sudden, Qiu Jinyu walked over to negotiate with the two jailers, "You two servants, no matter what, Mrs. Zhang hasn't been in court yet. If he can't afford it, the responsibility of the guard will be more serious." Your military master won’t bear it.”

At the same time as the voice fell, the book boy Shushan who was following Qiu Jinyu immediately stuffed two silver ingots in the past, ten taels of silver each, and this move was 20 taels, which was worth a jailer's salary for a year.

The money was collected, but the attitude was still bad, and the old horse said in a strange way: "You said something human, unlike this kid who wants to come to the Yamen to play wild, okay, it's not that we are unaccommodating. Visitation, even our Master Zhu can't come to visit the prison, you guys go away, I will pretend that I have never seen you!"

Zhang Yiyi was guarded by Wu Baihu and others, and they followed Dou Qianhu's order, and Dou Qianhu arrested Zhang Yiyi because of the order of the Forbidden Dragon Guard. The jailer's words can be regarded as the truth.

"You two servants, please make it easier for me. If we don't go in, why don't we let the doctor go in." Qiu Jinyu spoke earnestly, and another 20 taels of silver ingots were stuffed into the book mountain.

The money delivered to the door will definitely not be pushed out, and the old horse who received the money still waved his hands and expelled the few people with abusive words, "Okay, stop talking nonsense, if you are not allowed to visit the prison, you are not allowed, doctor No, if you don’t leave, I will arrest you together!”

Seeing Qiu Jinyu, a young scholar of three yuan, bow down to the two guards, Yang Xu hurried forward, "Brother Qiu, forget it."

The old doctor at the side also persuaded: "If you don't do anything after collecting the money, I'm afraid they really don't dare to let people in. You should think of other ways, otherwise it will be useless to give more money."

Qiu Jinyu looked at Yang Xu, who was suppressing his emotions, and said gently: "You wait here, I will go to the magistrate Zhu, and the name of the Qiu family in Qianzhong Road can still be used."

"Brother Qiu." Yang Xu knew that the status of a scholar was noble, if it wasn't for him, Brother Qiu would not go to that fatuous county magistrate, maybe he would even promise a favor.

But thinking of Zhang Yiyi who was seriously ill in the cell, Yang Xu couldn't say anything to stop him, so he could only remember Qiu Jinyu's good wishes in his heart.

"You should call me big brother." Qiu Jinyu laughed, then strode towards the courtroom.

County magistrate Zhu is just a small official, and the current head of the Qianzhong Daoqiu family is a second-rank political envoy, not to mention that Qiu Jinyu is also a scholar of the junior three yuan, and he may be a second-ranked scholar in a few years, so this face County magistrate Zhu will definitely give it.

A quarter of an hour later, the prison.

"It's freezing cold here, brothers, my lord asked the cook to make roasted whole lamb and warmed a pot of wine." The old horse thief smiled mischievously. on."

They are all big men, the best thing is to have a sip of meat and a sip of wine, and they are just guarding the prisoners. After being persuaded by the old horse, the four soldiers left to eat together.

As soon as the people here left, Yang Xu, Qiu Jinyu and the others quickly came out of the corner, and walked to the women's prison under the leadership of the old horse.

"Two quarters of an hour, hurry up, no one will be able to take care of anything!" The old horse confessed a few words, and then called the guard woman over, "Don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't ask what you shouldn't ask." ask!"

The old lady nodded, and took the five taels of silver handed over by the old horse, with a happy expression on her wrinkled old face, "Follow me."

A heart-piercing cough came from the dark cell, Lian'er rushed towards the cell when she saw this, "Ma'am, ma'am..."

Yang Xu stared blankly at the woman lying on the broken quilt through the prison door. She was no longer as glamorous as before. She was lying curled up on her side with her hair loose, coughing one after another, as if she was about to All the internal organs were coughed up.

On a cold day, there was still a musty and foul smell in the cell. There was a cracked porcelain bowl at the cell door, and the water in it was turbid with two straws floating in it.

Next to it was a coarse-grain steamed bun, which was dark and hard. At first glance, it was no different from a rock. Not to mention Zhang Yiyi, even Yang Xu couldn't stand such a simple and rough food.

The mother-in-law took out the key from her trouser belt and opened the cell door. Lian'er rushed in, holding Zhang Yiyi and crying bitterly, "Ma'am, wake up, the young master brought the doctor here."

"Xu'er?" The hoarse voice was no longer as charming as before. Zhang Yiyi opened her eyes and looked towards the prison door. After seeing Yang Xu, a smile appeared on her pale face, "Xu..."

But before he could say anything, another heart-piercing cough sounded.

Seeing this, the doctor also hurried in, "Madam, please stretch out your hand, I will give you a pulse."

Yang Xu stood quietly outside the cell, looked at Zhang Yiyi who was crying silently, and turned his head stubbornly, but he still looked inside from time to time.

When Zhang Yiyi was glamorous, if she uttered bad words to Yang Shoucheng, Yang Xu could still hate her.

But at this moment, seeing her lying alone and helpless on the dirty and moldy old quilt, and seeing her skinny and skinny in just a few days, the hatred suddenly disappeared, leaving only bewildered and faint. worry.

Two quarters of an hour passed quickly, but fortunately Zhang Yiyi didn't have any serious illness, but suffered from the wind and cold, and she didn't eat or drink much for three days, her body collapsed all of a sudden.

Outside the prison, the old doctor said bluntly: "Lingtang should be able to recover after drinking the medicine, but if he continues to stay in the cell and suffer from cold and starvation, he may fall ill again. Once the root is injured and the root of the disease is left, he will die later Suffered."

"Thank you doctor." Yang Xu nodded knowingly, he couldn't stay in such an environment.

"Then the old man will take a step first." The old doctor also explained everything that should be explained, and then left with the medicine box.

Lian'er also hurriedly followed, and she will have to boil the medicine in the medical hall later, and then let the guard woman secretly send it to the cell.

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Worried about returning to the Qiu Mansion, Yang Xu sat on a chair in a daze.

Although he was lonely in Stone Village for the past eight years, he was carefree. He practiced martial arts with his father every day, listened to his grandfather talking about the battlefield, and went hunting in the mountains in his free time.

But in just over half a month, Yang Xu suddenly felt that Stone Village was better, at least there were not so many things to do.

Qiu Jinyu didn't speak, but picked up a book and read it quietly.

It was not until half an hour later that Yang Xu broke the silence in the room, "Brother Qiu, what should I do?"

"Xiaoxu, I don't know much about your family affairs." Qiu Jinyu replied softly, I don't understand, so I don't know what to say and how to persuade, "I want to support you but don't want to be relatives, Xiaoxu, you are still young, I don't know I hope you will regret it later."

The matter of the Yang family was not too complicated. Since Yang Xu trusted Qiu Jinyu, he didn't hide anything, and quickly told what Zhang Yiyi had found.

"Back then she left me to Dad and went to the Marquis' Mansion by herself. This time she came here to make Dad write a letter to the court." Yang Xu lowered his head in shame, and as a son of man he couldn't even say some words.

The Marquis of Zhenbian's mansion married Princess Ren'an back then, and after the death of the princess, Marquis of Zhenbian feared that the royal family would not dare to remarry, so Zhang Yiyi could be said to have followed Marquis of Zhenbian without a name or distinction.

But the Holy Majesty wants to move Zhenbianhou this time, and he said that there is nothing wrong with wanting to impose a crime. The affair between Zhenbianhou and Zhang Yiyi is a proper crime, so Zhang Yiyi is in a hurry.

She wanted Yang Shoucheng to write a handwritten letter. Back then, the Yang family entrusted Zhang Yiyi, who was lonely but pregnant, to Zhenbianhou to take care of him, so there was no romantic affair.

Zhenbianhou also let Zhang Yiyi enter the Hou's mansion because of the entrustment of the Yang family. In the final analysis, he wanted a fig leaf, at least the court censor could not use this to convict Zhenbianhou of deceiving the emperor.

After all, when Princess Ren'an got married, the Marquis of Zhenbian promised to be a couple for a lifetime. Now that Zhang Yiyi has been added, it is a crime of deceiving the emperor in a small way.

After listening, Qiu Jinyu asked: "Xiao Xu, have you ever thought that your mother is a concubine, and she was married to the Yang family as a high-ranking woman, but after something happened to the Yang family, people from the Zhang family might really hurt your mother. She also chose to go to Zhenbian Hou's Mansion because she had nowhere to go."

Nowadays, the Holy Majesty can be called a benevolent monarch or a wise monarch, but every year, many ministers will have their homes ransacked, and the males will be beheaded or distributed.

Those who survived by luck were either sold to the Jiaofang Division or assigned, and anyone with a brain can imagine what a female family member will suffer during the assignment. Humiliation is inevitable, and even if she survives, then What about the future?Sometimes it's harder to live than to die.

(End of this chapter)