take a wife to support the family

Chapter 137 Conspiracy to seize the jade pendant

The servant of the Chen family came back again, with the county magistrate's reply, saying: "The case of Mr. Song is very clear, and the sentence was fast. He has already ordered people to beat him twenty boards, and now he is in prison. After a few days, when the sores get better, send him to a year of hard labor."

Hard labor is either building river channels or building city walls. If someone commits a crime whose family members don't want him to suffer, and the crime is not serious, they can pay for it for him.After the redemption, the person only needs to transport a certain amount of grain to the designated place every year for three to five consecutive years, and then he can be exonerated.

Chen Bin looked at Song Haonian with half a smile but not a smile, waiting for his reaction.

Song Haonian brought Song Haojie to the utmost, and there is no reason to atone for his crimes. Hearing this, he said: "I see, I will send some medicine, bedding and food to the prison tomorrow."

Chen Bin's face relaxed: "That's easy. If you ask him to take you in tomorrow, it's your brother after all. You don't care about it at all, and it's not your character."

Song Haonian shook his head: "If I didn't teach my brothers well, how could I have the face to see you?" Regardless of Chen Bin's repeated attempts to persuade him to stay for a drink, he went back to town and told his parents about Song Haojie's whereabouts.

Niu cried again until he passed out. Old man Song's old face was tense: "It's better to let that evil person go in, so as not to hurt the whole family!"

Song Haonian told Niu, "Tomorrow allow me to visit the prison and bring some sore medicine and bedding for the third child."

Niu was immediately vigilant: "I have no money, so don't try to take a dime from me!"

Song Haonian had no choice but to say, "I don't want your money, you just have to get your things ready, if you are still worried, ask elder brother to go with me to the county to see the third child tomorrow."

He almost sent his brother to prison with his own hands, how could he not feel heartbroken?But Niu's words and deeds almost made him laugh.

Mrs. Niu was weeping and tangling, and the old man Song made the decision: "In this case, the eldest daughter-in-law will prepare some medicine and food for the third child, and also bring the bedding. Tomorrow the eldest brother and the second child will go to the city to see the third child."

The family here discusses going to the county to see Song Haojie tomorrow, but they don't know that someone has rushed to see someone ahead of them.

The cell of the county government office was dark, dark and damp, with a pile of straw thrown in the corner, exuding an indescribable stench. Bedbugs crawled in and out of the straw pile, and sometimes crawled onto the prisoner to suck blood.

Song Haojie asked the yamen servant to beat him twenty boards, probably because Chen Bin had sent someone to deal with it before, but he didn't hurt his muscles or bones, but his skin was torn and his flesh was rotten.

He wasn't a man of backbone, and when he felt pain, he cried for his father and mother. At this time, he was lying on the straw pile and wept profusely, which added a lot of misery and filth to the wet cell.

There are few people locked in the prison of the county government, and Song Haojie is locked next to the torture room. From the corner of his eyes, he can see the cold light of the instruments of torture from time to time, making it even more terrifying.

Suddenly footsteps sounded in the empty prison cell, Song Haojie was frightened half to death, and wanted to hide himself in the straw pile, but his body hurt so badly, so he had to use both hands to pull some straw to cover his head, regardless of his head. Hitting headlong in the grass and shaking.

"Hey, brother Haojie, what are you doing?" A voice with a smile said.

Song Haojie was taken aback, and suddenly got out of the straw, forced his battered body to throw himself on the railing, and begged to the outside world: "Brother Chen, I didn't mean it, save me, I'll be your cow!" Be a horse, in the future, if you point at the east, I will never hit the west!"

Song Haonian didn't go to court with him, so he didn't know what was going on, but Song Haojie had experienced it personally, knowing that he was sent by Chen Bin, the county magistrate treated Chen Bin's servant very cautiously, he didn't even ask more questions, and ordered someone to beat him directly. The board, Song Haojie couldn't stand the board, screaming and shaking out all his details.

Only then did the county magistrate order people to stop the boards, and sentenced him to twenty rods and one year in prison—it was said to be twenty boards, but in fact he was beaten a lot during the trial.

If Chen Bin can send him to this ghost place, he will be able to get him out.Song Haojie is not good at other aspects, but when it comes to his own interests, he can hit the nail on the head. He knows that it is useless to ask Song Haonian, but he really has to ask Chen Bin.

The servant at the back brought a high-ranking chair and put it on the ground. Chen Bin lifted his robe and sat down, looked at Song Haojie carefully for a while, and then said: "Brother, you look so miserable now, it really hurts my heart."

Song Haojie only learned to look at Niu's face in his life to please her and benefit himself more, but he hadn't learned to look at other people's faces. Chen Bin treated him very connivingly before, so he only thought Chen Bin had good intentions, and cried: "Chen Bin Big Brother, I’m in so much pain... I really didn’t intend to grab the cloth, but I was infatuated for a while, take me out, and I will never do it again in the future!”

Chen Bin said with a smile: "As a businessman, I never do business at a loss. Brother, think about it carefully."

Song Haojie was stunned: "Didn't you say that we are so good, we don't distinguish between you and me?"

"It didn't matter. Since you robbed my shop, I thought, it's better to distinguish clearly." Chen Binren smiled, but his tone was very gloomy, and he didn't look like the smiling face in the past at all. The friendly and friendly owner of the silk and satin workshop looks like a torturer with blood on his hands.

Song Haojie's guts were already very weak, and at this time he was almost scared to urinate, but luckily he didn't drink water when he got up early, and the urge to urinate came to his head, but he didn't urinate a drop.

He said tremblingly: "Brother Chen, I was wrong, I know I was wrong, please, please..."

He looked miserable, if he was outside, it would really make those who heard it cry, and those who saw him would be sad, but the few people who can see him in this prison are all cruel masters, and they don't even move the corners of their eyes.

Chen Bin said to himself slowly: "Your elder brother, although I am not a scholar, I am very envious of scholars. I love beautiful articles in my life, and I seal and carve a few small seals in my spare time..."

He was chattering aimlessly, but Song Haojie couldn't bear it any longer. He was in pain and fear, crying inarticulately, "... Please, please, please..."

Chen Bin held Song Haojie's hand with a smile, "Brother, why are you crying? I won't make you suffer with my brother."

Song Haojie stared at him blankly, already confused by threats, threats, tenderness, and temptations, he didn't even know who he was, let alone what to do Only then can Chen Bin save himself.

Chen Bin smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, it's easy for you to come out. You just need to pay a lot of money. I'm a businessman, and I always want to make a good deal."

"My parents are rich!" Song Haojie shouted immediately, "They have money, they can redeem me!"

"Your Father Lingtang is old, knowing this would be frightening, I dare not go to them."

"My second brother is also rich. He just built a big house and bought a tofu shop. He has a lot of money. Brother Chen, you just go to him, and he will give you whatever you want!"

Song Haojie was already jealous of Song Haonian, and at this moment, she didn't care about being in the fire pit, so she wanted to burn the fire on Song Haonian without thinking.

Chen Bin thought for a while and said with a smile: "Your second brother spends a lot of money, so I'm afraid he's poor right now. Brother, you're a smart person, and you have a baby with you, why do you ask others?"

Song Haojie was stunned for a long time before remembering what kind of treasure he was carrying, and took out a piece of pure white and warm jade pendant from his collar with shaking hands, and asked, "Brother Chen, what are you doing for this?"

Chen Bin stretched out his hand, Song Haojie hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth, grabbed the jade pendant and put it in Chen Bin's hand.

Chen Bin was very satisfied, stood up and brushed off his robe, and said, "Brother, don't let others know about this, I'll go get the county magistrate right away, and try my best to get you out."

Although Song Haojie asked someone to cheat a piece of jade pendant, he was afraid and awed Chen Bin in his heart, and admired him very much.It took a while to realize that I was still injured, and fell back into the straw pile to suffer.

Chen Bin took the jade pendant and went back to show it to shopkeeper Liu: "I got it!"

Shopkeeper Liu frowned and said, "I got the jade pendant, but the method was a bit low-handed. If you pursue it in the future, aren't you afraid of losing it?"

Chen Bin's face darkened, and he paused before saying: "I thought, it's unlikely to be him, even if I offend him, it doesn't matter too much. It's easy to leave this matter to the yamen servant, and I can get away, but I I really don’t feel at ease asking others to do it, but I have to do it myself. If I really misjudged and make Song Haojie proud in the future, I will flee to Nanyang and never come back.”

"Why do you push yourself to this point?" Shopkeeper Liu sighed, carefully observed the jade pendant against the light, and said for a while, "Jade is a good jade, and it's not something ordinary people can use like this, let alone something that was picked up from the womb. ... It's just that we don't know the pattern of the jade pendant back then, so it's good to write to Master Wang to ask clearly."

Chen Bin nodded and said yes, "At the beginning, he urged us to find out the truth, but now that the jade pendant is in hand, he will give us an answer."

Shopkeeper Liu took a pen and paper, and drew the shape and pattern of the jade pendant against him, and handed it to Chen Bin after drawing, "You pass the picture to Mr. Wang, and you must take good care of this jade pendant. Your wealth and lives depend on you." body!"

Chen Bin said: "I know."

His own family members are still in the capital, and only Xue Niang is with him. Although shopkeeper Liu brought his old wife and Yue Niang, how many sons are still in the capital.If something goes wrong, they may be able to escape, and the family will definitely be implicated by them, and there will be no good situation.

Chen Bin secretly made up his mind: Song Haojie is the best, if he is really unlucky, he will kill him even if he is desperate to avoid harming his wife and children.

Chen Bin sent a ruthless reply, went back to his room and wrote another letter, explaining the reason in detail, sealed the envelope together with the drawing, dripped wax on the outside, took out a small seal that he carried with him, and sealed it. Ask Xueniang to send her to the capital as soon as possible.

Xue Niang is not surprised, she has her own channel for sending letters, which is much more confidential than ordinary channels, and even Chen Bin has to ask her.She sent this letter for Chen Bin, so Chen Bin had to buy a golden hairpin embedded with treasures as a thank you gift, so as not to waste her encounter with him.

Xueniang went out and came back again, but the letter was no longer in her hand, so she didn't know where to send it.

The tossed letter was sealed on the wax seal with Chen Bin's small seal. Xue Niang looked down at the letter before sending it out, and the words were "Jinyiwei Chen Bin".

(End of this chapter)