Good son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty

Su Mu didn't know what went wrong, why Mei Fugui's wife and daughter came to him.

Recalling what the official said to him when he was in the Ministry of War, Su Mu seemed to understand a little bit.

The government of the Ming Dynasty had a set of strict procedures for its daily management. For example, Mei Fugui was declared dead in battle after his disappearance.Then, the state should notify the family members and issue the pension.

In the same way, when soldiers were rewarded for their meritorious service and transferred to local officials, they should also send the good news to show that the court rewards and punishments are clear and will never treat meritorious officials badly.

Looking at Mei Fugui's wife's attire, she thought that her life in her hometown was poor, and she couldn't bear it any longer, so she came to Cangzhou to find her husband.

It's better to ask clearly face to face.

After sitting in the study for a long time, I saw the Mei family lady walking in with a sad face.Yifu, but didn't speak, just looked at Su Mu with his eyes.

Su Mu stood up, walked over and closed the door.

The light in the room dimmed, and a trace of fear flashed in Mei Niang's eyes.

Su Mu: "How did you come to Cangzhou, and how did you know that Mei Fugui was doing inspection at the Cangzhou Inspection Department?"

Mei Niang trembled, straightened up and looked back at Su Mu, suddenly asked: "Who are you, why are you pretending to be my man, where is Fugui now?"

Su Mu: "You answer my question first?"

"Who are you?" Mei Niang was still asking, her voice became louder: "How rich is my family?"

Su Mu got angry and grabbed her arm, "How did you get here?"

Mei Niang was in pain from being caught by him, and she screamed sharply: "Let me go, let me go, where is my family rich? Ah..."

Su Mu was shocked, and suddenly stretched out his hand to cover Mei Niang's mouth.

Mei Niang suddenly took a bite out of Su Mu's palm.

Su Mu was so painful that he almost cried out, feeling hot liquid flowing out.

He let go of his hand, and saw that the palm was bitten to death, and it was bright red.

Su Mu was furious, the last time he was bitten by Princess Taikang, it was just perfect, and now a woman bit his hand, and he didn't know when he would recover, so he couldn't help but yelled: "Dead, Mei Fugui is dead!"

"Ah, give me back my wealth!" Meiniang was stunned. Although she was a woman from a good family, she was somewhat knowledgeable. Immediately, she had a terrible thought, and she rushed towards Su Mu like a mad tiger, stretched out her straight He pointed at Su Mu's face and grabbed it.

Su Mu was shocked, but Meiniang's movements were too fast, she couldn't dodge it, she quickly turned her head to the side, and tightly hugged Meiniang.

At this moment, a baby's voice came from outside the study: "Father, mother, are you inside?"

Su Mu was already very annoyed, and he didn't know which string in his mind was short-circuited, so he whispered in Mei Niang's ear: "If you want your daughter to live, be honest, otherwise you will be killed! It doesn't matter if you die, I pity you My daughter is only six years old, hehe, the road of life has come to an end?"

Mei Niang's body trembled, she didn't move, she looked at Su Mu fiercely, her eyes were full of hatred.

She nodded.

Su Mu let go, and Meiniang's heart skipped a beat: such a soft body.

Mei Niang turned her head to the outside of the house and said: "Be good, my mother is talking to your father, why don't you play in the yard by yourself, and mother will come over later."

"Okay, my daughter is very good, she can play by herself."

Su Mu opened the window and smiled at Nannan.

"Daddy." Nannui was squatting on the ground with a pen in her hand to tease the ants, and she turned her head and smiled sweetly at her father.

Su Mu: "Ninny, go to the kitchen in front and find some rice grains to feed the ants, okay?"

"Okay!" Nannan clapped her hands and ran out bouncing around.

After closing the window and looking back, Mei Niang's tears had already gushed out like spring water.

Su Mu shouted in a low voice again: "Don't cry, if you cry again, you will kill your daughter. Now, let me ask, and you answer, do you understand?"

Mei Niang nodded, her voice choked up.

Su Mu was so ashamed that he almost couldn't help slapping himself: Su Mu, Su Mu, what kind of evil have you got to scare a woman?

He sat back on the chair and motioned for Mei Niang to come over: "What's your name?"

"My surname is Gong, and others call me Mei Niang."

"Okay, Mei Niang, let me ask you, is it okay to live in a good place? Why do you want to come to Cangzhou, and how do you know that Mei Fugui is doing inspections in Cangzhou?"

Mei Niang raised her head slowly, her eyes were full of deep-seated hatred, but her voice was already a little steady: "The good news of my man's inspection in Cangzhou was delivered to my house two months ago, so I naturally know it. I will definitely send it today." Flood, the family was flooded, the house was washed away by the flood, and the fields were covered with yellow sand. I couldn't survive, so I came to Cangzhou to find my father. Who are you, how did my rich family die, and why did you Taking his name to be an official?"

Su Mu sighed in his heart, and thought to himself: To pretend to be an official in his name, I am a majestic Sumu, in the literary world... Well, it should be said that I am a master of the literary world in the Ming Dynasty. The county magistrate is nothing more than a little effort, so how can he care about this broken inspection?

"Mei Niang, your man actually died on the front line three years ago. His body was found only recently and he was declared dead in battle. My official name is also Mei Fugui. Because of his meritorious service in the army, he was sent to Cangzhou as an official. .Although your husband and I have the same name and surname, we are not the same person. I'm afraid you made a mistake."

"Did you really make a mistake?" When Mei Niang heard the news of her husband's death, she shed more tears: "Although there are many people with the same name and surname in the world, how could the government make a mistake and send the happy news to the wrong party? You can't coax me if you get someone else. It must be you, the thief, who saw my man became an official, and had evil intentions to harm him, and imposted him. Otherwise, why did you threaten me just now and say you want to kill Nannan? You Wicked man, I will fight you today!"

As he spoke, he jumped up again.

Su Mu was speechless, this was a wrong step, wrong step, now I really can't explain clearly.

Seeing that Mei Niang was entangled, he couldn't explain it himself.

He shouted: "You woman... I will talk about this matter later, I told you that I admitted the wrong person... Ouch!"

But the golden light was shining in front of her eyes. It turned out that Mei Niang had already believed that her husband died at the hands of Su Mu, full of hatred, she picked up the paperweight on the desk and knocked it on Su Mu's forehead.

The samadhi of Su Mu was so hot that it came out.

Fortunately, the paperweight he used was made of wood. If it were replaced by a stone paperweight, he would probably be knocked out to bleed.

Hearing such a loud commotion in the house, a baby's voice sounded outside again: "Father, mother, what's wrong with you?"

As if under some kind of magic, Mei Niang immediately calmed down, only looking at Su Mu with her eyes, her chest heaving violently.

Su Mu covered his head, and said softly: "Ninny is good, it's all right, she's just talking!"

"Eh!"

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After her interruption, the atmosphere finally eased up.

Su Mu sighed, put his hand into his sleeve, trying to touch some money, and sent Mei Niang and her daughter away.

But this action of his caused Mei Niang to misunderstand, thinking that Su Mu was going to touch the weapon, her face turned pale and her body trembled: "You big villain, the sun is shining brightly, and the world is bright and bright, do you still want to commit murder? I don't believe it!" There is no kingly law in this world?"

Su Mu suddenly realized that if she just let Meiniang leave like this, she might go to the government to report the crime after she left the inn.

When the yamen checks, although he, Su Mu, will not be regarded as a murderer, but if he wants to clarify this matter, his identity will be exposed.

No, she cannot be allowed to leave, and she is not allowed to leave this inn even one step.Su Mu was depressed, and thought: Not only that, but Taikang must be dealt with as soon as possible. As long as she returns to Beijing, I, Su Mu, will be relieved. "

That dead girl, if she wasn't some bullshit princess, just beat her to death!

Anyway, I have already pretended to be a villain in front of Mei Niang, and I have to do a full set of acting, Su Muhu took his hands out of his sleeves with a face, and deliberately sneered: "Wang Fa, I am Wang Fa. To tell you the truth, This Lord Zhizhou of Cangzhou is my friend, and all the servants and soldiers in the yamen are my people. Not to mention that you, a little girl, cannot enter the yamen, even if you go, will others believe what you say? Show us the witnesses and physical evidence?"

Mei Niang cried: "My own husband, I still don't recognize him, I am the witness."

Su Mu laughed: "Young lady just suffered a catastrophe, she must have been overly frightened and suffered from hypochondria, I will find a doctor to come back to show you someday. No one will take what you say seriously."

Mei Niang gritted her teeth: "There are still people in my hometown, could it be that they still don't recognize you?"

Su Mu was startled. When that day really came, it would take a month or two to bring the letter to Zhending, and then bring witnesses.In other words, the matter of Princess Taikang must be resolved within a month or two.

No, I have to go to see Princess Taikang, go now, and explain the serious relationship clearly.

Thinking of this, he stood up abruptly and walked out.

Behind me, Meiniang's suppressed cry came again.

The girl was feeding a group of ants with rice grains when she saw Su Mu come out: "Daddy, mother is crying, did you bully her?"

Su Mu: "She was so happy that she cried."

Mei Niang cried louder.

Su Mu walked to the front of the inn, and was about to go out, but he cried out in his heart: No, if I go ahead and ask Mei Niang to run to the state yamen, things will be troublesome.

So he beckoned Xiaoer over and asked him to call Zhao Hulu.

After a while, Zhao Hulu came over, knelt down and kowtowed: "Master Mei, what are you calling a villain for?"

Su Mu: "Hulu, haven't you been in the inspection department all the time? Now I will give you one thing. If you finish it, follow me in the future."

Zhao Hulu jumped up with joy: "Master Mei, as long as you give orders, Zhao Hulu will go through fire and water, and he will do whatever he wants."

"Follow me here." Su Mu beckoned, and whispered in Zhao Hulu's ear: "From now on, you will live in my yard, take good care of my wife, and don't let her leave the courtyard, and don't let her talk to anyone. She has a mental illness, and if she goes out, she is afraid that trouble will happen again."

Zhao Hulu straightened his body, nodded hurriedly, and said in a low voice: "Master, don't worry, I've heard about the trivial matter before. Mr. Mei's father-in-law is coming soon. If you let him know that Mr. If you have another wife in the countryside, you will be in big trouble."

"Also, master. This man must not be powerless for a day. If he wants to be an official, he can't take care of some things. But this is not the fault of the master. If I were Zhao Hulu, I would be the same."

Zhao Hulu talked a lot, and he babbled for a long time, with an expression that the master is wise, the master is doing the right thing, and the villain understands very well.

Su Mu was bitter in his heart: "You know what a fart, if you move here from now on, the benefits from you will be indispensable."

Just as she was talking, she heard her daughter's voice: "Mom, where are we going, where is Daddy?"

Mei Niang: "Good girl, let's not live here, find another place."

"No, I'm going to wait for Daddy to come back."

"You you you, why are you disobedient!" Then there was the sound of a slap on the little butt.

"Wow, mother, don't hit me, I want daddy."

"You, hurry up! Your father is in the state government office, just now he brought a letter to let our mother and I go." Mei Niang's voice was full of anxiety.

"You lied, no one came here at all just now." Nannan said.

Su Mu looked back and saw Mei Niang rushing out with her daughter in her arms: "My lady, where are you going?" His heart trembled: I really want to escape, I really want to report to the Yamen!

Mei Niang's body shook, and her face immediately lost all color.

Su Mu: "It will be dark soon, let's go back!"

Zhao Hulu stepped forward to pick up Nannan: "Madam, it's getting late, go back, the master will not be happy."

While talking, it was completely dark, so naturally it was impossible to go to Princess Taikang's place.

Su Mu had no choice but to go back to the yard. He was upset, and because the room was hot, he made a cup of tea and sat in the yard to cool off.

Zhao Hulu is a talkative person, but he is very useful.Running in and out, boiling water, washing clothes, and washing feet for daughters.

Su Mu couldn't help but nodded, and thought: This person is not useless, he is quick-witted, he can be brought back to Beijing in the future, trained for a few years, he may not be able to be the housekeeper of my Su residence.Let's take a look at his performance for a while, and then make a decision later.