Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 70 Wuhan University and Jinlian

Within two days after returning, Zhou Yu found that Meng Longtan was always distracted.

When I asked, it turned out that this guy still missed the experience in the painting wall, and he couldn't forget a woman named Ding Xiang.

"Brother Zhou, I still don't understand whether that adventure was real or an illusion..."

Zhou Yu sighed: "Longtan, there are some things you don't need to think too clearly, whether it's true or not, once you have it, it's fate.

In this way, I will give you a poem..."

After speaking, Zhou Yu went to the front of the case and spread out the paper, grabbed a brush and dipped it in ink, and wrote a song "Butterfly Love Flower·Chunjing".

"The flowers are faded and red and the green apricots are small. When swallows fly, the green water surrounds people. There are few willows blowing on the branches, and there are no fragrant grasses anywhere in the world.

There are swings inside the wall and roads outside the wall, pedestrians outside the wall, and beautiful women inside the wall laugh.Laughter gradually fades away, sentimental but ruthless annoyed. "

"Good words! Such a sentence where there is no grass in the end of the world, such a sentence that is passionate but is annoyed by ruthlessness..."

Seeing this poem, Meng Longtan couldn't help but exclaim.

Soon, this song "Butterfly Love Flower·Chunjing" caused a sensation in the academy, and all the students competed to transcribe and recite it.

Later, it was passed on and was regarded as a classic poem.

Of course, this is a follow-up.

Let's say that Mo Chou has achieved some success in her cultivation, and she can basically go out for a walk every night.

However, for the sake of a long-term plan, Zhou Yu still told her to concentrate on cultivation as much as possible, and the two of them only had a small gathering every few days, which can be said to be a joy.

In the afternoon of this day, a student named Wu Xing suddenly walked up to Zhou Yu and knelt down with a "plop", called "Sir", and burst into tears.

"Why are you doing this great gift for no reason?"

Zhou Yu was puzzled, and reached out to help.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xing kowtowed: "Please, sir, save my brother's life!"

"Your brother? Is he very ill?"

"Returning to Mr., my brother is not sick, but was arrested by the officials of the county government. The other party said that my brother will pay for his life with his life..."

After Wu Xing narrated with sobs, Zhou Yu finally understood the whole story.

His elder brother is named Wu Da, and he often travels abroad to do business. Wu Xing's ability to study is all thanks to his elder brother's funding.

In the morning, Wuda Road passed through Guobei County, so I thought about giving my brother some money along the way.

It's just that I'm a little nervous recently, and I don't have much cash, so I found a pawnshop to pawn a piece of jade pendant, and wanted to cash some cash in case of emergency.

Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper of the pawn shop is a famous profiteer. Seeing Wuhan University's dusty and honest appearance, he became malicious, and exchanged the high-quality jade pendant for a piece of inferior jade, saying that he could only be a jade pendant. two silver.

Wu Da was very frightened and had a dispute with the other party.

The shopkeeper's son and a fellow were also helping out, and even wanted to fight Wuhan University.

During the dispute, the shopkeeper suddenly fell to the ground and died.

Wu Da was sent to the county government office by the other party, insisting that he beat the shopkeeper to death, saying that he would risk his life for his life...

"Sir, the students went to visit my brother, and my brother said that he was wronged. He didn't hit the shopkeeper at all, but just pushed him.

However, the other party insists that my brother is a murderer, and begs the master to uphold justice and save the student's brother..."

Zhou Yu frowned, pulled Wu Xing up, and said: "Well, let's go to the scene to find witnesses to understand the situation at that time."

"Ok sir."

After arriving at the scene of the incident, Zhou Yu found the shopkeeper or the shopkeeper nearby and inquired about it, and he had a rough idea in his mind.

The shopkeeper of this pawn shop is named Zhu Huaishui, and many people secretly call it "pig bad water".

You know him by his nickname alone.

His son Zhu Xiaoren, known as the "little pig", can be seen.

In short, both father and son are not good birds, but any common people who know their details will not enter this pawnshop unless they have to.

Some people testified that Wuhan University did push Zhu Huaishui during the dispute, but no harm was done.

Afterwards, more and more people gathered around, discussing one after another, and Zhu Huaishui suddenly fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

Others said that Zhu Huaishui was old and often went to the chestnut doctor at the end of the street to get medicine.

So, Zhou Yu went to Li Langzhong again and asked in detail...

Then, while it was still dark, he brought Wu Xing to the county government office.

When the yamen servant saw that it was Mr. Zhou asking for an audience, he naturally did not dare to neglect, so he rushed to the inner yamen side hall, and then hurried to report to the county magistrate.

Not long after, a pretty maidservant, about 24 or [-] years old, came in with tea.

Seeing this person, Wu Xing turned pale with shock, stood up abruptly, and blurted out: "Sister-in-law..."

He only yelled a word but then paused.

And the servant girl was even more surprised when she saw Wu Xing's appearance, her hand shook, the tray fell to the ground, and the tea splashed all over the floor...

"Second Uncle, why... why is it you..."

Second uncle?

Hearing this address, Zhou Yu couldn't help being stunned.

Although most of the time the title of second uncle refers to uncles, but just now Wu Xing called the word "sister-in-law".

Then, the second uncle this maid called should be my younger uncle, that is, her husband's younger brother.

Why were they so shocked when they met?

"Why are you here?" Wu Xing couldn't help asking.

"I..." The woman's eyes were red, and tears could not stop flowing down.

"I'm sorry, I made Mr. a joke."

Just now Wu Xing remembered that his husband was still here, so he quickly cupped his hands and said something apologetic.

Zhou Yu waved his hand: "It's okay, but... what's going on here?"

Wu Xing hesitated for a while, then said with a wry smile: "Sir, her name is Jin Lian, she used to be the student's sister-in-law."

"Second Uncle, I'm sorry, I...I didn't know it was you...I..."

Speaking of this, Jin Lian didn't know what to say, she could only bend down to clean up the trays and debris on the ground with tears in her eyes.

Perhaps, she felt that she had embarrassed her second uncle in front of others.

Wu Xing sighed, and said: "Forget it, I'd better call you sister-in-law. I came here because... because my brother was imprisoned."

Originally, Jin Lian had already picked up the tray, but when she heard this, her hand shook again, and the tray fell to the ground again.

"Second Uncle, why did your eldest brother be put in prison? What did he do?"

It could be seen that Jin Lian was still very worried about Wu Da, she rushed forward and grabbed Wu Xing's shoulder and shook anxiously.

"This...that's a long story..."

"Hahaha, Master Zhou is here to visit, and I am sorry to welcome you..."

At this time, Duan Rui's laughter came from outside.

Jin Lian was startled, and quickly stood aside with her hands down, looking at a loss.

Sure enough, as soon as Duan Rui entered the door, seeing the mess on the ground, he immediately lowered his face and shouted at Jin Lian: "How do you do things? Why are you so careless?"

Jin Lian hurriedly knelt down on the ground and said in a sobbing voice, "I'm sorry, it's all the servant's fault, I beg the master to punish me."

"Okay, okay, don't be angry about a little thing."

Zhou Yu got up and tried to persuade him.

Having said that, Duan Rui naturally didn't want to lose his temper anymore, so he said to Jin Lian: "Okay, get up, be careful next time."

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(End of this chapter)