Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 178
In the evening, Chen Zijing prepared a table of sumptuous food and wine for Wu You, and accompanied him in person.

After drinking for three rounds, someone came to report, saying that someone was asking to see him outside.

Chen Zijing waved his hands impatiently and said, "It's almost dark today, if there is anything important, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

"But master, the man said that the matter is urgent and concerns...the safety of the master's family."

Upon hearing this, Wu You couldn't help laughing sarcastically: "I'm afraid he's not a charlatan, is he?"

The servant replied: "It doesn't look like it, but it looks like a scholar."

"Forget it, I'll go take a look."

Chen Zijing's heart was somewhat beating, after all, what the servant just said was related to the safety of the whole family.

Now that the family itself is troubled, it doesn't hurt to have a look.

"Master Chen, the old man will go with you to see who the hell is."

"Alright!" Chen Zijing nodded.

When I came to the door, I saw that it was a man who looked like a scholar.

"This is Master Chen, right? Next Zhou Yu, a talented scholar in Qiantang County."

Before Chen Zijing could speak, Wu You couldn't help but sneered and said, "So you're a scholar, I don't know what you said before, which is related to the safety of Mr. Chen's family, what a big deal it is?"

Zhou Yu glanced at Wu You, did not answer his words, but said to Chen Zijing: "Master Chen, can I take a step to speak?"

Chen Zijing hesitated for a while, and said, "Go to the front hall and talk, Zhou Xiucai please!"

"Please!"

When he came to the entrance of the front hall, Zhou Yu stopped suddenly, glanced at Wu You and said, "Why is this old man so ignorant of etiquette?"

"What did you say?"

Wu You couldn't help but look cold.

"I've made it very clear before. Let Master Chen take a step to speak. The implication is that I don't want you to hear it."

"Boy, you are so brave!"

Wuyou couldn't bear it any longer, and roared like thunder.

This roar was not just as simple as anger, the old guy had already activated his magic power secretly, similar to a spiritual attack.

If it were an ordinary person, I'm afraid the shit would be frightened on the spot, and I'd be paralyzed on the ground.

Of course, this was targeted, and it didn't have much impact on Chen Zijing, it just felt that his voice was a little louder.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yu was calm and calm, and said with a smile: "This old man seems to have a bad temper. How dare you ask Master Chen who this old man is?"

At this moment, Chen Zijing also felt that the atmosphere was not quite right.

It stands to reason that he should have reprimanded Zhou Yu, after all, Wuyou was his honored guest, but Chen Zijing had a faint feeling that the scholar in front of him seemed a little unfathomable.

It seems that there is a purpose to provoke Wu Wu on purpose?
After hesitating for a moment, Chen Zijing finally replied: "Zhou Xiucai, this is Master Wu, a mage invited by me to do some rituals at home."

"It turns out that's the case... But Mr. Chen, this person is full of evil spirits. If you ask him to do something, not only won't solve the problem, but it may backfire."

Hearing this, Wuyou couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately raised his hand to grab it: "Boy, you are too arrogant, this old man must teach you a lesson."

"boom!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as he stretched out his hand, Zhou Yu kicked him to the ground.

Before he had time to stand up, Zhou Yu stepped forward and stomped on it, and said coldly: "You old bastard, you don't practice well, you go around bluffing and deceiving, and using poison to harm people..."

"This...what the hell is going on?" Chen Zijing looked shocked.

"Master Chen, you have been deceived by this old fellow. The reason why your wife is bewitched is not because of the feng shui of the ancestral hall, but because of a maid named Cui'er."

"Huh? Tweety?"

"Let go of me, who are you? How dare you slander the old man?"

Wu You struggled a few times, and couldn't help roaring loudly.

"Hehe, slandering you? You instigated someone to set up a magic circle to harm Master Song, don't you understand?"

Hearing this, Wu You's face turned ashen, knowing that the matter had been revealed, but how could this old fellow admit it, and quibbled: "Bloody spout, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't worry, you will know everything when you arrive at the county government."

At this time, Chen Zijing couldn't help asking anxiously: "Master Song? Are you talking about Mr. Song, the county magistrate?"

"That's right, Mr. Song solved a big case before. I believe Mr. Chen also knew about it. He beheaded a murderer named Ma San."

"Yes, yes, I know about this case...Could it be...this person is related to Ma San?"

"That's right, he took Ma San's money for his life, avenged Ma San, and wanted to kill Mr. Song.

He didn't show up himself, and found a scapegoat..."

"Oh my god, it turned out to be like this..."

Chen Zijing was afraid for a while.

He even lured wolves into the house, and treated him like a guest?
"Master Chen, don't listen to his nonsense..." Wu You roared loudly.

I'm really aggrieved.

Speaking of which, Wu You has always been quite confident in his own abilities. Although he can't be called a top expert, he is more than enough to walk in the world.

Unexpectedly, in front of a scholar, it was useless to even fight back. Being trampled under such a humiliating foot, the strength of the whole body seemed to be imprisoned, and he couldn't even cast spells.

He knew in his heart that he really fell for this time.

At the same time, I also understood a sentence, there are mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people.

At this time, Chen Zijing was thinking about his own affairs again, and couldn't help but ask, "Sir, what's the matter with Tweety?"

This time he stopped calling him Zhou Xiucai, and started calling him Mr. Zhou.

After all, he had seen Zhou Yu's strength with his own eyes, how could he dare to be disrespectful?
"Tui'er has a strong personality. When she was wronged, she couldn't think of jumping into the well and committing suicide. She died to show her will. After her death, her soul will linger..."

As soon as he said this, Cheng Shi ran over, knelt down in front of Zhou Yu, and cried bitterly: "I know I'm wrong, I know I'm wrong, please help me, sir."

Zhou Yu glanced at Cheng Shi, and said, "It's not impossible to help you, but as the saying goes, you need someone to tie the bell.

Tweety'er's death was caused by you, so only you can resolve her resentment. "

"Please tell me, sir, what should I do?"

"Admit to Cui'er in front of everyone in the house..."

"Yes, yes, I will definitely do it, I will do it."

That night, under the witness of everyone in the Chen family, Cheng knelt by the well and confessed to Tweety, and promised to take her parents over to take care of her for the rest of her life.

This action finally freed Tweety's innocent soul, and a ray of ghosts returned to the underworld and entered reincarnation.

After dealing with the affairs of the Chen Mansion, Zhou Yu returned to the county government with Wuyou and handed it over to Song Zhi for handling.

This incident made Song Zhi extremely grateful, and regarded Zhou Yu as a benefactor.

……

"Flowers are flying everywhere in the spring city, and the east wind blows the willows in the cold weather. Candles are passed from the Han Palace at dusk, and the light smoke is scattered into the Wuhou's house..."

In the afternoon, a group of students read loudly from an academy in the city.

Qin Song didn't follow along, and lowered his head, not knowing what he was writing.

Suddenly, the gentleman on the stage came down.

This teacher is none other than Xu Xian.

"What are you writing here?"

Xu Xian grabbed the paper on Qin Song's desk, and began to read in public: "Flowers wink at the willows, Goddess peeks at the Fengyue Kiln. The man holds the spring harp and plays softly, and the sister welcomes the autumn rain to the Nine Nights."

After reading, he was so angry that he raised his hand and tore up the paper, angrily said: "Who are you writing these romantic poems for? If you don't study hard all day long, you will know that you are thinking wildly, obsessed with women, wasting your youth, and ruining your studies..."

"Hahaha!"

All the students couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?" Xu Xian glared at the students and reprimanded, "And you too, although reading is not necessarily for gaining fame, it is beneficial to read more books..."

"understood."

"Hmph, keep studying."

Xu Xian walked back to the podium.

Qin Song subconsciously glanced at another building across the river.

It was a brothel named Wanhualou.

Sitting in Qin Song's seat, you can just see the world of flowers in the lobby on the second floor of Wanhua Building.

He often saw a woman in a red gauze dress with a forced smile, drinking with various guests.

I don't know why, but it hurts a little.

One day, he came to Wanhualou by mistake and found the woman, and learned that the woman's name was Hong'er.

Unexpectedly, Hong'er also knew him, and knew that he often visited her in the academy.

The two chatted very happily.

Later, the two often looked at each other across the river, expressing affection.

Slowly, Qin Song learned of Hong'er's life experience. When she was very young, because her father owed a large amount of gambling debts, she even sold her wife and daughter to a brothel to pay off the debts.

Unbearable to be humiliated, Hong'er's mother committed suicide by jumping into the river.

Hong'er grew up in a brothel, and the mother sympathized with her experience, and didn't let her pick up customers, do some chores on weekdays, or accompany guests to drink and drink.

After learning of Hong'er's life experience, Qin Song loved her more and more, and thought of marrying her as his wife.

As a result, when I went home and said, the family naturally strongly opposed it. It was impossible for them to allow their son to marry a woman from a brothel.

For this reason, Qin Song was very distressed.

He didn't hide it from Hong'er either, and told Hong'er the situation at home and his family's opinions truthfully.

Hong'er was not surprised at all, she was already mentally prepared, and instead comforted Qin Song, saying that she knew that there was a man in this world who loved her and loved her, and she was already content and did not dare to ask for too much.

The more this was the case, the more Qin Song loved her, saying that in the future he must get the honor in the exam, and when he passed the exam, he would be able to make his own decisions, even if he couldn't marry Hong'er as his wife, he would redeem her as a concubine.

After a while, there was a sudden commotion from the opposite building.

Qin Song looked at it subconsciously, and couldn't help but his face changed in surprise. Regardless of the fact that he was still in class, he got up and ran downstairs.

"Hey, Qin Song, what are you doing? Come back, come back..."

Xu Xian roared sullenly.

It's a pity that no matter how loud his voice is, Qin Song's heart has already flown to the opposite Wanhualou.

It turned out that Hong'er was bullied.

There is a frequent customer of Wanhualou named Qian Dayou, who is an ignorant dude. His family is a salt merchant, and he is a well-known rich family in Qiantang County.

Qian Dayou has two lovers in Wanhualou, unfortunately, the relatives of the two lovers came tonight, which made Qian Dayou yell and feel unlucky.

So, he ran to the lobby to drink, thinking of another girl to accompany him.

It was Hong'er who went up to pour wine for him. Seeing that Hong'er was quite handsome, this guy dragged Hong'er into his arms and started to fight...

Hong'er screamed in fright.

Any other girl would not have such a big reaction, and would even flatter her.After all, this is business, not shabby.

But Hong'er is different from other girls, she is only responsible for doing some chores, at most she can have a few drinks with the guests.

Although there are customers who are messy on weekdays, it is the first time that Qian Dayou directly hugs her in his arms like this.

"Let go of me, you let me go..."

Qian Dayou said impatiently: "What are you pretending to be? You are the only one who will accompany me tonight."

At this time, a girl came over and said with a smile: "Young Master Qian, Hong'er is just a maid in Wanhualou, she doesn't accept guests..."

"roll!"

Qian Dayou had a domineering face, and kicked the girl over, knocking the girl to the ground.

The old lady also hurried over to persuade him, but Qian Dayou was still extremely arrogant, saying that Hong'er had to be with him tonight.

"Let go of her!"

At this time, Qin Song rushed over.

Seeing Qin Song, Hong'er struggled desperately, burst into tears, and shouted loudly: "Young Master Qin, go quickly and leave me alone."

She didn't want to drag Qin Song down because of her affairs.

"Hehe, the hero saves the beauty? It's interesting."

Unexpectedly, Qian Dayou became more enthusiastic...

Seeing Hong'er being humiliated face to face, Qin Song's eyes were red with anger, and he rushed forward desperately.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he rushed to the front, the two servants brought by Qian Dayou took the first step, punching and kicking Qin Song.

"No, sir, Qin Song was beaten."

A student with sharp eyes saw the movement in the opposite building and couldn't help but yelled.

"It's bullshit!"

Xu Xian was anxious and angry, so he jumped up and hurried downstairs.

A group of students followed closely behind.

After arriving at the Wanhua Building, Xu Xian wanted to reason, but a group of students saw Qin Song being beaten with bruised nose and swollen face. In anger, they ignored Xu Xian's scolding, rushed forward, and beat the two servants and Qian Dayi together. .

No matter how ruthless Qian Dayou and the three of them were, they couldn't stand the crowd, and they were beaten until they cried.

By the time the yamen servants arrived, all the students had already disappeared.

After suffering such a big loss, how can Qian Dayou swallow this breath?The next morning, they brought a lot of people to the academy aggressively, demanding that the academy hand over the student who beat someone last night.

However, this guy encountered a tough problem this time. The head teacher of the academy has always been upright, and he is also a well-known gentry in Qiantang County.

Xu Xian had already told him what happened last night, and he roughly knew what the conflict was about.

Although he was a little annoyed at Qin Song for causing trouble, it was impossible to allow Qian Dayou to show off his might here.

Therefore, the head teacher came forward in person, walked in front of Qian Dayou and said, "The Academy is a place where all the students study, you are not allowed to play wild here, if you are sensible, leave quickly, otherwise don't blame the old man for being rude to you."

"Hahaha, did this old man take the wrong medicine?"

A servant standing beside Qian Dayou couldn't help laughing.

In the end, the laughter didn't stop, but he was slapped to the ground by the head teacher.

"Presumptuous! This old man is a dignified man, but Zhu Zi'an dares to be rude!"

"it is good!"

"Good fight!"

"Headmaster mighty!"

A group of students are usually afraid of the teacher and always think that he is an old pedant, but they did not expect that there are times when he is so domineering.

"you……"

Qian Dayou flushed with anger, and clenched his fists, but he still didn't dare to make a move.

No matter how crazy he was, he still wouldn't have the guts to hit a Ju Ren face to face, that would cause a catastrophe.

"Get out, if you don't get out again, the old man will report to the officials for a crime of provoking trouble."

A group of students are also gearing up, looking like they will fight if they disagree...

(End of this chapter)