Peasant woman

Chapter 56

"Official messenger?" Xu Cao was stunned, thought for a while, and pulled Li Shi to the edge of the field, and then said: "Mother, let's go back and have a look, I didn't do anything bad, presumably the official servant was there for other things, If I run away rashly, I will also implicate you."

Mrs. Li was still a little panicked, "This... this..."

"Let's go, mother." Xu Cao pulled Li Shi back with a hoe on his shoulder.

Before reaching the door of the house, Xu Cao saw a few men in official clothes standing at the door of the yard from a distance, with expressionless faces and looking fierce.Seeing their appearances, Xu Cao's heart felt a little thumping. After thinking for a while, she really didn't cause any trouble, so she dragged Mrs. Li to a few men, "Masters, who are you?"

In fact, an official took a step forward, looked Xu Cao up and down, and then asked, "Are you Xu Cao?"

"It's the folk woman."

The officer waved his hand, "Come on, come with us to the official residence."

Xu Cao panicked, "My lord, but what mistake did the woman make?"

Mrs. Li also looked at the officer with tears in her eyes, "My lord, what did my eldest sister do wrong? You...why did you arrest her?"

"Nothing happened, don't worry, it's a good thing, hurry up, don't delay any longer."

The two of them still had no idea, Xu Cao explained a few words to Mrs. Li, and then left with the official messenger.When I met people in the village on the road, I pointed at them curiously.

"Hey, isn't this the daughter-in-law of a wealthy family? What's the matter? Why was she arrested by the officials?"

"Yeah, you didn't do anything serious, did you?"

Mrs. Li was still standing at the gate of the yard looking around, and the villagers all gathered together when they saw it, "Madam Xu, what's the matter with your eldest, why did you get arrested?"

Mrs. Li scolded: "Your eye saw that my aunt was arrested? I didn't see that the official was very polite to her. The official said that it would be beneficial to take our aunt to see the county master, no? bad thing."

"Ms. Xu's family, just brag. It would be a good thing if you were taken away by an official. I think you should hurry up and find a relationship to clear it up. I think your eldest girl will not make any big mistakes."

"Go away, my big girl didn't make any mistakes!"

Soon, the fact that Xu Cao was taken away by the officials was spread by several villagers and the whole village knew.

Li was flustered, waiting for Fugui to come back at home, and then told Fugui about Xu Cao being taken away by the official.Fugui panicked when he heard that, packed up and was ready to go to town.

Before Fugui went out, Mrs. Chen came to the door, "Fugui, what's the matter with your daughter-in-law? Why does everyone in the village say that she committed a crime and was arrested by officials? Ah, you are talking about it, like this Daughter-in-law, our Yang family can't have it!"

Fugui was still anxious about Xu Cao's matter. Hearing what Chen said, he frowned and said impatiently: "Mother, what nonsense are you talking about? I still don't know what it is. How can you talk nonsense? You should return Well, I'll take care of that myself."

"You deal with it? How do you deal with it? Who doesn't know that only officials who have committed crimes will come to arrest people. You are still stupid. I think you should give her a divorce right now. Let's not do this in the Yang family." daughter-in-law!"

Standing aside, Mrs. Chen has long been displeased with Mrs. Chen. Seeing what she said, she stepped forward and slapped Mrs. Chen, "You shameless old man, what are you talking about! Damn, you still don't know what's going on, so you come to the door to make trouble, and tell me what you really care about!"

Mrs. Chen was stunned by Mrs. Li's slap, and it took a long time to react with her face covered, and stared at Mrs. Li, "Well, you crazy woman, how dare you hit my old lady?"

Mrs. Chen was about to rush over to have a good fight with Mrs. Li, when she heard Father Yang's voice outside, "Old woman, come out!"

As soon as she heard Father Yang's voice, Mrs. Chen fell silent.Ever since Papa Yang broke his leg because of Xiao Osmanthus last time, he rested at Xu Cao's house for three months, and he lost his face towards her after returning.Now the person she fears the most is this old man Yang.

Hearing Father Yang's voice, Fugui strode out, "Father, you are here. I have something to go to town. Mother is making trouble here. You should take her back first."

Father Yang glared at Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Chen covered her face and silently followed behind Mrs. Yang.

On the way back, he seemed to be a little unwilling, and whispered to Father Yang's hunched back: "I'm not doing it for the good of our Yang family. How could she be arrested by the officials as a woman? She must have done something The thing is, our family should get rid of her relationship as soon as possible, otherwise we will be implicated sooner or later."

Father Yang's face was dark and he ignored her.

Now that the old family and the third family have all moved out, only the second family is left at home. This woman should take good care of it, otherwise sooner or later the second family will be tossed out too.

After returning home, Father Yang closed the courtyard door and said something to Mrs. Chen. The second son of the Yang family only heard his mother's mad and crying.

Shen Shi went to the door to listen, and heard something faintly, "After a lifetime...why... give me up" or something like that.

Hearing this, Mrs. Chen already knew what was going on, and she had a rough guess. Maybe Mrs. Chen knew about her sister-in-law and went to make trouble, and her father wanted to take care of her mother.Speaking of divorce, I'm afraid it's just to scare her. After all, it's been a lifetime, and there is no such thing as getting old and divorcing your wife. It's embarrassing to talk about it.

Thinking of her sister-in-law, Shen was a little worried, so she asked Dapeng to discuss it, and planned to ask what happened to Fugui later.

But Fugui entrusted Miaomiao to Li after Fugui left after Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Yang left, and asked Xiaoguang and Xiaoxia to take good care of the house, and then went to town with money.

Fugui was also very terrified. For some reason, his wife would be arrested by the officials. He brought all the family's savings, 150 taels, which were saved by them after they got married.For the sake of his daughter-in-law, Fugui is going to use the 150 taels of silver to take care of it, hoping that the officials have caught the wrong person.

When Fugui came to the town, it was already the end of the unitary hour, it was getting dark, and the gate of the county government had been closed long ago.

He looked at the tightly closed gate of the county government office, gritted his teeth and stepped forward to knock.

Not long after, an officer came out to open the door, saw a burly man, and scolded: "Where are the rioters, are you knocking on the gate of the county government?"

He didn't care about wealth, he grinned and said, "Brother, I want to ask you something. Today, the official of your county government arrested a woman named Xu Cao?"

When the official heard this, he looked at Fugui curiously, "Why, do you know that woman?"

Fugui nodded, "Yes, she is my wife."

The official sent a oh, and then said with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and go in with me, your wife is waiting for you inside."

He followed the official into the gate of the county government office, and walked through several courtyards before seeing his wife. Unexpectedly, his daughter-in-law was having dinner with the wife of the county government official.

Seeing Fugui, Xu Cao got up in a hurry, "Fugui, are you here? Are you scared?"

Seeing Fugui, the madam smiled and said: "Then you two talk about it, and I will send someone to take you back later, sister, you have to prepare well, I'm afraid it will come in two days."

Xu Cao turned around and said with a smile: "The woman knows, thank you Madam."

The lady just left the room, only Xu Cao and Fugui were left.

Seeing that Xu Cao was safe, Fugui's heart dropped, "Daughter-in-law, what's going on?"

"Don't panic, there's nothing wrong with it. The magistrate of the county government sent someone to find me. It seems that because of the matter of planting potatoes, the current emperor has already known about it. He wants to send someone to learn about potatoes. Give me a reward. The magistrate of the county government said that the minister of the capital city will not arrive until the day after tomorrow, so let me go back and prepare."

Xu Cao thought of what the county government lord told her in the afternoon and still felt a little unbelievable. She never thought that she would be rewarded by the emperor for planting these potatoes.The emperor's low position in her mind is just like that of the queen in the previous life, very mysterious, but now he wants to give her a reward, thinking about it, it feels like a dream.

Fugui was also stunned, "Your Majesty? A reward?"

Xu Cao smiled and said: "Yes, I was also very surprised. I think we should go back first, and come here when the official calls us. Mother should be very worried at home."

Fugui nodded, "Okay, let's go back quickly, this is not a place to talk."

After leaving the house, the wife of the county government lord insisted on sending an official to send Xu Cao back, but Xu Cao refused, fearing that the villagers would gossip.

When I got home, it was already Haishi, and Mrs. Li was still waiting at home, even Xiaoguang Xiaoxia was not asleep, she was sitting in the room waiting.

Seeing Xu Cao and Fugui, Li finally breathed a sigh of relief, "You guys are back, what's going on?"

Xu Cao first asked Xiaoguang Xiaoxia to rest, and then briefly explained the matter to Mrs. Li. Xu Cao then told Mrs. Li not to say anything in front of the villagers. alright.

Mrs. Li was stunned for a while, but didn't react for a long time, and then stammered after a long time: "Big girl, you... what are you talking about? The current emperor? Will you give rewards?"

"That's right, the master of the county yamen said so in the letter. I'm afraid I can't be wrong, but the rewards must be valuables, and we can't afford them. If everyone in the troubled village knows about them, I'm afraid they will be recruited." The thieves are thinking about it, mother, you don't want to gossip around."

Mrs. Li was a little dissatisfied, "That's a reward from the current emperor, who dares to think about it?"

"Okay, mother, it's always right for us to be careful."

Only then did Mrs. Li nod her head in agreement, and seeing that it was getting late, said: "Then I'll go back first, your father is afraid that you are really worried, so he came here to ask a few questions."

After Mrs. Li went back, Xu Cao and Fugui also washed up and went to sleep.

The next day, when the villagers learned that Xu Cao had returned, they asked curiously what was going on. Xu Cao only said that it was a misunderstanding and nothing happened.

The villagers thought the same thing. If they really made a mistake, there would be no reason to come back so soon. I'm afraid they really made a mistake.

Soon after two days, Xu Cao has been quite nervous these two days. After all, the most powerful courtiers from the capital she has ever seen in her life is the county magistrate.

Two days later, Xu Cao followed Fugui to the town early in the morning. Fugui originally wanted his wife to dress up, so Xu Cao smiled and said, "We are ordinary people, so we should dress up like this, so we can go like this."

The two went directly to the town without waiting for the official to come to the door. Xu Cao was both curious and a little apprehensive about meeting the Minister of Beijing and China.

(End of this chapter)