New widow

The carriages and horses outside were ready. Yu Yulan, Zhou Le and Liu Lanhua got on the carriage. Liu Daniu and other servants followed behind the carriage, either riding horses or driving carriages.

Liu Lanhua and Liu Daniu said a few words, and then heard a call coming from her ear. Without raising her head, Liu Lanhua knew that her mother was calling her, but Liu Lanhua only smiled faintly, put down the curtain, and Go see Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu stood on the side of the road, knowing that her daughter was leaving today, so she came early, but even though she saw her daughter, her daughter was still unwilling to talk to her, as if the years of dependence on each other were all fake.

"Orchid!" Aunt Liu choked and shouted again, and the carriage was already slowly moving forward. Liu Daniu came to Aunt Liu: "In a few months, Lanhua gives birth to a child, and we will write back." She was writing a letter back instead of picking her up. Aunt Liu looked up at her son-in-law, wanting to get some other comfort from her son-in-law, but Liu Daniu didn't say anything more and just left in a hurry.

Her daughter finally left her. Aunt Liu chased her forward for a few steps, then stopped. Then she wiped her tears, turned around and staggered away.

"If I had known it before, why bother." Su Qiao sighed softly, and Aunt Wu also sighed: "How arrogant you were before, now you are so hateful."

"Well, let's stop talking about these things." Suqiao put away her thoughts and smiled at Nanny Wu: "At this moment, there are only a few of us left in the house. Think about it, what should we do?"

"There are so many things to do." Aunt Wu knew what Su Qiao meant, and she smiled and talked to Su Qiao. In your lady's life, summer is just about relieving the heat, but Aunt Wu knew that Su Qiao I don’t like these, so I just picked up some other things to say.

At noon, Wan Dequan sent someone back from the city with a message saying that Li had left after lunch. Su Qiao knew that Wan Dequan mentioned this matter to reassure herself, but what Wan Dequan didn't know was that Su Qiao never took Li to heart. Her words were nothing more than words to Su Qiao's ears. Just out of earshot.

The days seemed to go on peacefully again, just like every day in Suqiao's past. However, rumors suddenly spread in the city. Naturally, these rumors were about the dealings between Su Du and Su Qiao.

The first person to know the rumor was Zhang Qing. He walked on the street all day long, and many government officials did not avoid him when they spoke. When Zhang Qing heard the rumor, Zhang Qing grabbed the government servant and said, "Where did you hear that?" These rumors?"

"Four Prefectures, Four Prefectures, we naturally know that these are all rumors, but we can't stand it. Many people are spreading rumors on the street, and some people say..." The yamen servant's voice was very low, and Zhang Qing slapped the table in anger: "What else did they say?"

"Say, Mr. Kuang came to stop him. Who knew that Mrs. Kuang was in love with adultery and even kicked Mr. Kuang out? He also said that that's why Su Tongpan found someone to marry Mr. Kuang." After the Yamen finished speaking, Zhang Qing smiled instead: "Okay, very good, what a vicious idea."

When the yamen officer heard Zhang Qing's words, he started to sweat. Just as he was about to say a few more words, Brother Zhou walked in: "Four Prefectures, ten miles away from the city, someone was robbed. The prefect ordered you to take us. Go on patrol over there.”

This was Zhang Qing's business, so Zhang Qing just hummed, asked someone to prepare, put on his official uniform and walked out. Brother Zhou whispered as he walked: "It's weird."

"What's weird?" Zhang Qing looked at Brother Zhou, who frowned tightly: "Because this city is not big, the security is very good. There are a lot of petty thefts, but this robbery has been going on for several years. Never heard of it again.”

"Didn't it turn out that there were several murder cases?" Zhang Qing reminded Brother Zhou, who smacked his lips and said: "There is a difference between murder and robbery."

Yes, the reasons for killing are all kinds of strange, but for this robbery, people must gather together in groups to rob others.

Zhang Qing led the government officials all the way outside the city. The place looked very peaceful, and it didn't look like it was hiding robbers.

The person who was robbed was a man. He was talking to others, gesticulating, and very excited.

Seeing Zhang Qing coming, the man put aside the person who was talking and knelt down to Zhang Qing: "Sir, Sir, I have pity on the money I have saved for several years. Now I have lost it all. Your Excellency must catch them." Looking at the man, he kept kowtowing to Zhang Qing. Zhang Qing motioned the man to get up. Just as he was about to say something, the man touched his body and took out a piece of paper: "These robbers also stuffed things into my arms. I’m not very literate and don’t know much about it.”

Brother Zhou had already taken the piece of paper and presented it to Zhang Qing. Zhang Qing took the piece of paper, looked at it, and frowned. The piece of paper said that robbery was a last resort, just to attract the attention of the government.

"How could this be so?" Zhang Qing's eyebrows were already frowning tightly. Brother Zhou also recognized a few words. Seeing Zhang Qing frowning at this time, Brother Zhou said to Zhang Qing: "Sir, look, is this matter? Is someone causing trouble?"

"First find this robber." Whether this piece of paper is to disturb the government's attention or for other reasons, the first priority is to find this person. Zhang Qing gave the order, and Brother Zhou naturally followed the order. , took people to follow the traces.

The man who had been robbed was still sitting on the ground crying, crying that his wife had been robbed away, and that his wife, who had finally been robbed, would never be found again.

Zhang Qing only felt that this man was crying so much that his forehead was throbbing and painful, but it was normal for others to cry when encountering this kind of thing, so Zhang Qing could only endure the man's cry, but the local people were normal. Kicked the man: "Stop crying, you are a grown man, what are you talking about when you cry?"

"I, I..." The man was kicked by Li Zheng, and he became more and more aggrieved: "I have suffered so much, can't I just cry?"

Li Zheng only felt a headache, Zhang Qing let the man cry there, and he just looked at the terrain around him. Ordinarily, robbers should not appear in this place.

"Sir!" Li Zheng kicked the man. When he saw Zhang Qing patrolling there, he followed him and was ready for Zhang Qing's instructions. Zhang Qing had already laughed: "You don't have to follow me, I'm just walking around..."

Before Zhang Qing could say the word "Look," Zhang Qing's eyebrows were already furrowed and he shouted: "Who is that person?"

Zhang Qing shouted there, and the government officials around him immediately followed him. While Li Zheng was still stretching his head to look, Zhang Qing pointed to a place: "Over there."

The government officials rushed forward and indeed caught a man from behind a clump of bamboo.