Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 77 Restoring Freedom

After Zhang Ao sat down, Li Jing smiled and said, "How did you come up with that idea?"

"Hehe, it's just a coincidence. On the day my elder brother arrived in Lin County, I accidentally heard that officers and soldiers encountered evil spirits while suppressing bandits. I happened to see the mask that elder brother was wearing, so I came up with this idea. I gave my elder brother the cloak I got some money from the pawn shop, and then I found some acquaintances and invited them to drink and have tea."

Now Zhang Ao explained in detail how he spread the rumors.
Finally, Zhang Ao said with a smile: "I don't want Xu Laifu, who is in charge of the Xu family, also said that he saw a ghost that night. So this matter is just like this."

Li Jingjing nodded, knowing that Zhang Ao said it easily, but Zhang Ao must have put a lot of thought into it.

We must know that it is not difficult to make up a story, but the difficulty is to make people listen to it convincingly. This requires not only the people who tell the story, but also the story itself to be reasonable.

It is absurd that the evil ghost takes his life. In the end, even Xu Laifu thought that Li Jing was an evil ghost. It can be seen that Zhang Ao is really good at making up stories.

After thinking for a while, Li Jing asked, "How did you find out that there are words on the lining of the cloak?"

Zhang Ao said with some embarrassment: "Brother also knows that brother is very poor, and it is impossible to do this without spending a little money. Brother really has no choice but to take the cloak that brother gave to a pawn shop. However, this cloak was a gift from my elder brother, so how can I treat it as a dead pawn? In order not to be deceived by the pawnshop, when pawning, my brother carefully checked the cloak inside and out, only to find that there is a word on the lining of the cloak Now, brothers don't dare to be careless, I asked the shopkeeper of the pawn shop to write clearly on the pawn ticket that if there is any damage, it will be compensated at ten times the price."

"Brother, guess how much money this kid pawned and how much I spent to redeem it?" Sun Meng laughed.

Li Jingqi said: "How much have you been?"

"15 taels of silver, I spent 18 taels of silver when I redeemed it. The shopkeeper of the pawn shop said that it was because of my face that I was a thousand households and gave me half a day's interest. His grandma's! 15 taels of silver, one day Interest of one tael of silver. If it takes a long time, my old grandson will not be able to redeem it." Sun Meng said angrily.

"Hahaha!" Li Jing laughed and said, "It's no wonder that the pawn shop, who told our Brother Zhang to write it so clearly on the pawn ticket."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "However, through this incident, we can see that Brother Zhang is a delicate person, and he just happens to be a helper for Uncle Shen."

"Uncle Shen? Could it be Master Shen Zheng?" Zhang Ao questioned.

Li Jingjing nodded and said, "En! Uncle Shen is getting old, you have to take good care of him."

"Brother knows." Zhang Ao responded.

Li Jing was about to explain the matters that Zhang Ao needed to be responsible for, but someone from an outsider reported that Ma Wu had returned.

"Let's go pick up Fifth Brother, let Uncle Shen tell you about your matter later." Li Jing got up and said with a smile.

"Hahaha, how dare you bother elder brother to greet you, Ma Wu has already arrived." Ma Wu's voice came from outside the door.

Sun Meng shook his head and smiled, "This kid can run fast!"

"Hey, last time my elder brother went down the mountain to pick me up, which made Ma Wu feel uncomfortable. This time, no one notified elder brother." Ma Wu opened the door and said with a smile.

"You mean to say that my old grandson is ignorant, and next time I will behave myself, and I won't let anyone notify my elder brother." Sun Meng said with his eyes wide open.

Ma Wu ignored Sun Meng, and clasped his fists to Li Jingyi and said, "Brother, I brought Shouye and Qinghe back, now they are outside the door, when will Big Brother see them?"

Li Jing shook his head, pointed at Ma Wu, then pointed at Sun Meng, and said, "You guys! Our own brothers, why are there so many rules? Qing He is our great hero, how can we let her wait outside? Please come in!"

After hearing this, Ma Wu turned around and waved to the door.

Then a person came out from behind the door.

Seeing that this person has a graceful figure and a beautiful appearance, everyone in the room applauded inwardly.

Ma Wu pointed to Li Jingyi: "This is our big boss, Brother Li Jing, please meet him soon."

Qing He stepped forward generously, and blessed three blessings deeply in front of Li Jing: "Slave Qing He, pay homage to the head of the family."

Then he blessed Sun Meng and Zhang Ao and said, "Meet the two elder brothers."

Sun Meng and Zhang Ao hurriedly got up and clasped their fists together, "Don't dare! Don't dare!"

Li Jing waved his hand, stopped everyone from being polite, and then smiled at Qing He: "You have been tired all the way, sit down."

Qing He shook her head and said: "How can a servant dare to sit in front of the head? The servant can just stand."

Li Jing shook his head and looked at Ma Wu with a wry smile, "Fifth brother, how did you train him?"

Ma Wu hurriedly said: "Don't blame me for this, this girl is sensible!"

Li Jing said helplessly: "Come on! She won't sit down, so sit down and pour the water yourself."

Qing He hurriedly said: "There are slaves here, how can I let you big brothers pour water by themselves."

After finishing speaking, he was not polite, stepped forward to pick up the teapot, and poured a cup of tea for each of Li Jing and the others.

Seeing Qinghe being so well-behaved and sensible, Li Jing nodded secretly in his heart.

After thinking about it, Li Jing smiled and said, "Qing He, you have made great contributions to the cottage this time, what reward do you want?"

Qing He glanced at Ma Wu, turned around and looked outside the door, thought for a while and said: "The master, in fact, the fifth master has already rewarded the servants. Originally, slaves should not ask for rewards from the master, but I heard The fifth master said that Shouye made a big mistake in telling me his identity, and he should have been severely punished, but for the sake of my meritorious service, it was only a lesson for me. The boss let Shouye go back to the mountain, maybe he wanted to punish him Him. If the head of the family wants to reward the slaves, the slaves beg the head of the house not to punish Shouye."

Li Jingwen's face darkened when he heard this, and he turned to Ma Wushen and said, "You said that?"

Seeing Li Jing's stern face, Ma Wu felt terrified, and hurriedly got up and said, "Brother, no matter how confused Ma Wu is, he wouldn't say such a thing. After my brother went back that day and beat Ma Shouye severely, he really treated him twice." People say that if it wasn't for Qinghe's meritorious service, he would have been severely punished this time. But I really didn't say the latter sentence, I guess this girl thought of it herself."

Li Jing turned to look at Qing He and said, "Is that so? Tell me exactly what Ma Wu said when he brought you two back to the mountain."

Seeing Li Jing's stern gaze, Qing He's heart trembled, and she hurriedly knelt down on the ground in fright, kowtowed a few times, and then hurriedly said: "Damn it, you shouldn't put your thoughts on Fifth Master's head, please The punishment of the head of the family. The fifth master took me back to the mountain this time, and only said one sentence. This sentence was "Qing He, the head of the family saw you. I guess he will reward you. You don't have to be afraid, and you will live well in the future." day'"

Li Jing took a deep look at Qing He, and saw that although Qing He was afraid, when he looked at him, he was very firm.

For a moment, Li Jing couldn't decide whether Qing He was lying.

After thinking about it, Li Jing continued, "Call Ma Shouye in."

Ma Wu hurriedly opened the door and waved to Ma Shouye who was waiting outside the door.

After Ma Shouye entered the door, he hurriedly greeted Li Jing and the others. Li Jing waved his hands and said, "Ma Shouye, let me ask you, what did Fifth Brother tell you when he took you back to the mountain?"

Ma Shouye hurriedly said: "Didn't say anything? Just ask me to pack up and let me go back to the mountain with him."

"What did you say on the way?" Li Jing asked.

"No, Brother Wu didn't know what to think about along the way, and he didn't talk to me." Ma Shouye said hastily.

Li Jingjing nodded, turned around and said to Ma Wu: "Don't blame me, fifth brother, do you know why I want to get into this matter?"

Ma Wu hurriedly said: "Big Brother, how dare Ma Wu blame Big Brother, although I don't know why Big Brother is angry, but it must be Ma Wu's words and actions that made Big Brother angry."

Li Jing shook his head and said: "Fifth brother, what you are doing now is related to the safety of our cottage, there is no room for sloppyness, and no mistakes are allowed. Do you want to make the same mistakes that Ma Shouye made? You protect Shouye and Subordinates are your responsibility, otherwise who will help you in the future? But you have to understand the importance and distinguish between the pros and cons. In addition, if you want to intercede, you can tell me directly, even if you say something ugly, or even scold me, I will not I will blame you, I am worried that you dare not tell me directly if you have something to say, but instead use these methods to me. In the long run, there will be a lack of communication between you and my brother, and we will gradually become estranged. Do you understand?"

"Brother, I understand." Ma Wuzhong nodded emphatically.

Ma Wu knew that it was not easy for Li Jing to say this in front of Sun Meng, Qing He and others.

While these words awakened himself, they probably awakened Sun Meng.

And if he said this in front of Qing He and Ma Shouye, he definitely didn't want to pursue Ma Shouye's mistakes anymore, and the reward for Qing He must be extremely heavy.

Thinking of Li Jing's strong subjugation of Sun Meng and others in the past, and now that Sun Meng, Gao Qi and others are completely devoted to Li Jing, Ma Wu thought to himself: "Compared to winning people's hearts, who can compare to him!"

Sure enough, Li Jing paused and continued: "Fifth Brother, Qing He has done a great job this time, you should return Qing He's deed of sale later. How much did you pay for it? I'll have someone send the money to you."

"Yes! In fact, there is no need to send money. My few sellers have started to have a slight surplus." Ma Wu replied.

"Business is business, and one yard is worth one yard. There are some things you have to learn more." Li Jing laughed.

Ma Wu smiled and nodded.

"Qing He, you will be free from now on, do you have any plans?" Li Jing smiled.

What Li Jing and Ma Wu said entered Qinghe's ears clearly, and Qinghe was shocked when he heard Li Jing say that he would return the deed of sale to himself.
When Ma Wu told her that the head of Shanda University would reward her this time, Qing He thought that at most she would reward her with some silver. She didn't want Li Jing to redeem her body directly. The reward was beyond her imagination. Can't believe it's true.

It wasn't until Li Jing spoke to her that Qing He suddenly woke up.

Qing He stepped forward and knelt down in front of Li Jing and kowtowed non-stop, saying, "Thank you, Master, thank you, Master..."

Li Jing waved his hand, motioned for Ma Shouye to help Qinghe up, and then asked again; "What are your future plans?"

Qing He just learned that she was free, and she was still immersed in the great surprise. She didn't think about her future.But since Li Jing asked her, how dare he not answer?

(End of this chapter)