The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

The thugs swarmed up, cut Su Jin's arms back behind him without any explanation, someone brought a rope and wanted to tie them up; Su Jin wanted to resist, but it was just thinking about it, the resistance at this time is meaningless, it is better to save some effort and use your brain to think about getting out It's a good plan. . .

A few people tied Su Jin tightly, and then went outside. Su Jin didn't have time to think about it, and shouted loudly: "Master Xia, what kind of enmity do I have with you, and what crime have I committed? I just want to kill you!" I also want to let myself know why I died, and be a ghost."

Before Xia Song answered, Liu Binhua scolded first: "You little thief pretends to be foolish, breaks into a private house at night, and picks flowers and prostitutes with evil intentions, and you will not be punished for your death!"

Su Jin struggled and said: "How can I trespass? I came here by appointment, so why did I become a trespasser?"

Liu Binhua sneered and said: "It's still time to quibble, you have been with my cousin for a long time, and I have been paying attention to you for a long time; Butler Qiu told me everything, the reason why I have not done anything is because my uncle is far away in the northwest, if you If you make decisions without authorization, I am afraid that my uncle will blame you; you are such a cowardly villain, and you dare to come here; you have polluted my cousin and ruined my uncle's first name, and you will die."

Su Jin's scalp was numb. It turned out that the matter between himself and Xia Siling had already been targeted by Liu Binhua, but how could Butler Qiu know about some things that he and Xia Siling had agreed in private?

Seeing that Su Jin was silent, Liu Binhua said triumphantly: "What? I have nothing to say? Breaking into a woman's boudoir without permission, it doesn't matter if the filthy and innocent thieves are killed, my uncle is merciful enough to bury you alive. Giving you a whole corpse is already an extrajudicial favor." Now, if it were me, Ling Chi, you wouldn't understand the hatred in my heart for three days and three nights."

Su Jin turned her head to ignore him, and only looked at Xia Song, who had a gloomy face, and said, "Deputy Xia, I don't want to talk about anything else, but Miss Xia and I are innocent, and there is no sexual intercourse. , and did not discredit you, Mrs. Xia; Ling Qianjin and I had known each other since we were in Yingtian Mansion, and we hadn't had much contact since we came to the capital. If I hadn't accidentally rented your shop, I wouldn't have known you I can't meet Miss Xia. Today I am indeed here at Miss Xia's appointment, saying that I have something important to discuss, otherwise how could I break into your house in the middle of the night? I have Miss Xia's letterhead as proof."

Xia Song looked at Su Jin coldly, and suddenly waved his hands and ordered everyone to leave the house and close the door. Liu Binhua wanted to stay in the house, but Xia Song drove them out mercilessly.

Only Xia Song and Su Jin were left in the room. Xia Song walked up to Su Jin, stared into Su Jin's eyes and said, "I've heard about your name, Su Jin, for a long time. Amazing, it turned out to be nothing more than mediocre, can't you see that this is a game?"

Su Jin said: "The bureau? What bureau?"

Xia Song sneered and said: "You are so bold that you dare to seduce my daughter, Xia Song. Don't think that I don't know anything because I am in the northwest. You begged the emperor to break the marriage contract between the Yan and Pang families. You want to marry Yan Shu's niece Take advantage of this to make your way to the top; originally these are also human nature, it is nothing for ordinary scholars to climb up by nepotism, and several important officials in the court have also experienced this; but you should not step on two boats, since you want to marry Yan My daughter, come to provoke my daughter from the Xia family again. Do you think my daughter from the Xia family is your plaything? I’m afraid you don’t know the old man’s methods. With you, a monkey boy who can only play tricks, the old man wants to kill you just like It's as simple as crushing a bedbug."

Su Jin was indisputable, sighed and said: "No matter what you think, there is nothing between Ling Qianjin and me, and Ling Qianjin sent someone to send me a letter to invite me to come tonight. Everyone knows that at most it is a crime of misconduct, rather than a serious crime such as breaking into a private house to pick flowers and steal thieves; you just killed me so vaguely, I am afraid it will not be so easy to get rid of it. Mr. Xia, my lord I am also an official of the imperial court, as long as I die, my family members will definitely report to the officials, and with the evidence here, you may not be able to do it if you want to cover the sky with one hand."

Xia Song laughed loudly and said, "It's a joke, I can get into trouble by killing someone? I have already said that you are not as magical as the outside world rumors, and you are just a fool. You think the letter you received is really to excuse you Evidence? This is ridiculous."

Su Jin said angrily: "Isn't it?"

Xia Song's laughter continued, and he read: "Mr. Su Taijian, at the second watch tonight, we will meet at the Junyi Bridge house. We have important matters to discuss. The servants are waiting for you!"

Su Jin asked in amazement: "How do you know the content?"

Xia Song sneered and said, "The letter was written by the old man, how could the old man not know? It's a pity you didn't see it."

Su Jin carefully recalled the content of this letter, suddenly came to his senses, and secretly scolded himself for being stupid; there was a problem with the title of this letter, Xia Siling generally called herself Brother Su, and this title was used from the day Ying Tianfu read it together So far, the letter has been called "Su Gongzi Taijian", which is neither conventional nor nondescript; the title is so respectful, but the content behind it is written as "sweeping couch to wait", which is obviously a contradiction; now that I think about it, it must be Xia Song was afraid that he would not be attractive enough, so he added this sentence to lure him to come.No wonder I felt something was wrong when I received the letter, but I trusted Xia Siling too much, so I didn't think otherwise.

Wanting to understand this section, Su Jin's heart felt cold for a moment. Only Xia Siling knew how to hang silk scarves on the locust tree outside the backyard. Even if Xia Song set up a trap to lure him to come, how did he know these details?If there was no silk scarf on the locust tree in the backyard, I would never have come in; could it be... Could it be that Xia Siling participated in it and helped set a trap to frame him?

I thought that Xia Siling was sincere to me, and I planned to find a way to stay and fly with her, but I didn't expect it to be such a woman; my behavior was indeed improper, but the relationship with Xia Siling was nothing more than kissing and touching Contacts like .ru didn't damage her body, and she was really lucky to be buried alive as a criminal.

Su Jin was furious, this Xia Siling was ungrateful and ungrateful, obviously she was the one who provoked him first, and then made all kinds of arrangements to make him be moved by her infatuation, she never thought of turning around and helping her father to frame her, she really agreed There is a saying that "the needle on the tail of the hornet is the most poisonous woman's heart".It's a pity that I have gone through several catastrophes and managed to turn dangers into blessings, but it was ruined by a woman. It's really not worth it.

Su Jin thought further and further, he even suspected that Xia Siling's father and daughter set up a trap to frame him from the beginning, and all the interactions seemed so suspicious; Wait, it's all like a well-designed trap, poor myself still foolishly take these as coincidence and charm, feel good about myself.

Su Jin gritted his teeth, twisted the muscles on his face, and muttered curses.

Xia Song ignored Su Jin's feelings, and said with confidence: "The letter was not signed, and the handwriting was not my daughter's handwriting. If you want to use that letter as evidence to justify yourself, that is impossible; the old man will bite back and say that you Fabricating evidence to frame the old man, it will be fine if you die, and no one in your house can escape, let the old man slowly concoct them."

Su Jin's eyes were red, and he cursed angrily, "You are shameless!"

Xia Song waved his hand and slapped Su Jin, and cursed angrily: "Hey, you little thief, you are right. You seduced my daughter from the Xia family and did despicable deeds, which ruined the old man's reputation. Could it be that the old man wronged you by concocting you?" I can only blame you for offending this old man. Originally, this old man had no enmity with you. Last time you scalded my nephew Binhua, this old man didn’t bother you. I have no right to criticize you for helping Yan Shu find a favor, but You dare to play with my only jewel, and treat this old man like nothing, how can this old man tolerate you?"

Su Jin knew that it was useless to say anything, today was a day of bad luck, and he was stupid enough to send him to his door to seek death, so what else could he say; but there was only one thing he was not reconciled to, and he had to figure it out before he could die Rest in peace.

"Lord Xia, since you are planning to kill me, I don't want to say more." Su Jin said in a calm tone as much as possible: "Before I die, I have only one request."

Xia Song snorted coldly and said: "Don't try to play tricks, the old man has seen this kind of thing a lot, today you are dead."

Su Jin shook his head and said: "Lord Xia, I'm tied up, and there are dozens of your subordinates outside, what kind of tricks can I play? Everyone is mortal. Although I, Su Jin, am not some earth-shattering hero, I am also a hero." I have never seen life and death as terrible."

Xia Song remained silent, and did not say anything to refute Su Jin's words. Xia Song had heard about all the details of Su Jin's handling of grain affairs, and the dangerous situation when Zhu Shiyong was arrested in Luzhou. Nor is it a person who is afraid of death.

"A person's words are good when he is about to die. Death is not scary, what I am afraid of is dying with regrets; I admit that I have some emotional entanglements with your daughter, but I can swear to God that the relationship between Miss Xia and Miss Xia is innocent, and that I am not afraid of dying." Miss Xia is also sincere and sincere, and has no intention of playing with blasphemy."

Xia Song said: "What's the use of saying this? Even if the old man believes in you, can the world believe it?"

Su Jin shook his head and said: "I'm not begging for mercy, I mean I'll die if I die, I just die with regret, and I'm unwilling; Ling Qianjin seems to have true affection for me, so I just want to see your daughter before I die, Ask her a word, whether she was hypocritical towards me from the beginning, and now she participates in setting up a situation to frame me, what kind of enmity do I have with her?"

Xia Song was surprised and said: "Do you think Ling'er conspired with the old man to design you?"

Su Jin nodded and said, "I just want to know the truth."

Xia Song laughed loudly and said: "You really treat yourself as a person, who has the leisure to care about your life, I, Xia, have so many important things to do, and I will use my daughter as a bait to design you for no reason. This guy?"

Su Jin said: "If it wasn't for Miss Xia's participation, how would you know the secret code agreed between me and her? Without this secret code, how could I have entered this house?"

Xia Song said angrily: "Shut up, you have hurt Ling'er, and now you are slandering her, just based on this, the old man can't let you die so happily."

Su Jin said loudly: "Where is Ling'ai, why don't you ask her to confront me?"

Xia Song reprimanded: "Don't even think about it, she is not in this house at all, I have already arranged for her to be in the main house in Sock Lane."

Su Jin said: "If you don't dare to confront, Ling'ai is conspiring with you. This woman has a snake-like heart. Even if I am a ghost, I will not let her go."

Xia Song yelled angrily: "Shut up, don't force the old man to make you suffer before death, Ling'er doesn't even know about it, all this was explained by the maid beside her."

Su Jin was taken aback and said, "Little Kouer?"

Xia Song snorted coldly: "You know him well, the old man asked you to see someone."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and took Su Jin's arm and pushed it towards the door of the west room, then he stretched out his hand to lift the curtain and shouted, "Look for yourself!"

Su Jin probed his head to look, and was stunned. The lights in the west room were like beans, and a thin and small figure was hanging dangling on the beam of the room. The huge shadow was dangling on the wall. Face, who else is not Xiaokouer?That already pretty face is now dark purple, eyes turned white and tongue sticking out, obviously dead for a long time.

"You...you actually killed her." Su Jin tremblingly said: "Since she has already told you these details, why bother to kill her."

Su Jin didn't need to ask at all, this little Kou'er must have endured a lot of torture, but only then did he explain the matter between himself and Xia Siling, but in the end he still couldn't escape the fate of death.

"This is the fate of not telling the truth. As a slave, you can't persuade your master to correct your mistakes, but go through the needles between you to fuel the flames. You really deserve to die!"

Xia Song's cold voice seemed to come from hell, and the cold Su Jin felt chills all over his body.