Xue Jiazi

I really don't know if Zhen Fei's calamity is not over yet, or if he has really reached the point where he can't eat the fireworks of the world. After leaving a monk, he walked for a day before realizing that he was penniless. How to find an old wife in Daru Prefecture?

Fortunately, here is already the boundary of Jiangnan, and he can still find some clansmen. Speaking of which, Zhen Fei is actually of the same clan as the Zhen family in Jinling, but he has already released the fifth server. As for a poor scholar like Jia Yucun, he wanted to help out a little, but he had a leftist temper, didn't like official career and fame, only liked to live like a wild crane, and he was not very good at human relationships, so that's not true. Continuing with the scientific research, because of his temperament, the people of the He clan were a bit nasty and could not be called harmonious. Therefore, after the disaster at home that day, they couldn't hold back their face and didn't think about going to the clan. Instead, they went to the father-in-law's house. I don't want my father-in-law to be a stingy person. Seeing that he is no longer as rich as before, he naturally loses his face. Although he managed to accommodate the government after the fire, reapplied the land deed, and sold all of it for silver taels when he wanted to move. He still has some belongings, but when he arrived in Daruzhou, when he was thinking about re-establishing the family business, he was fooled by his father-in-law, who insulted him for not understanding the economics and official career, and took away the money at the price of buying good land, but gave him a large piece of Susukida , This is also one of the reasons why he was discouraged and depressed, and was finally fooled away by a monk.

Now that he has suffered so much, and seeing news of his daughter, he only wants to go home as soon as possible. Naturally, he didn't put on airs and didn't know how to work around, so he hurriedly found a clan's house, thinking of asking for help. two.

After all, they are all members of their own family, and they can't write two characters of "Zhen" in one stroke. Looking at his ragged appearance, and hearing that he has traveled everywhere in search of his daughter all these years, I feel a little pity in my heart , In addition, I heard that there was news that I wanted to find my old wife and go back to the old house. Naturally, the clansmen also helped him, not to mention re-purchasing his clothes, and the relatives and friends of the nearby families also went out for a while. With great strength, he pooled 50 taels of silver and gave it to Zhen Fei as travel expenses.

Zhen Fei looked at these clansmen, and couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Thinking about what he did back then, he felt that there was something wrong with him, so he got closer to the clansmen, and said yes, waiting for himself to reform In the old house, when my daughter came back, I wanted to set up a school at home. First, I could find a way to make a living and support my family. Second, I wanted to live in peace from now on. I don’t want to go out casually. If the clansmen want to entrust their children to study, they can Coming to the door can be regarded as his doing something for the clansmen.

The branch that helped Zhen Fei is already a branch of the Zhen family. Although the master can be counted as a wealthy family, if the children below want to study, they can only go to some outside schools to study, and they are unable to study on their own. Sir, please, although this Zhen Fei is a bit unreasonable, but the learned people know that he is still good, and he is better than ordinary school masters.Hearing him say that, naturally everyone was very happy.There was even a family member who was a little richer and sent one of his entourages to follow Zhen Fei to Daru Prefecture, so that the Zhen family would not be looked down upon by the Feng family.

When Zhen Fei arrived at Yue's house and saw Feng's graying hair, the husband and wife cried with each other in their arms, and heard that Jia Yucun exchanged two pieces of silver for Feng's maid, Zhen Fei sighed that he had no eyes back then. Well, since Jiayu village is an official, the family must have changed, but he came to bully the old wife, and exchanged the usual money for buying a girl for the people around the old wife, not to mention helping the village.Look at this family now, the house is dilapidated, and most of the last property he left behind, a few hundred mu of land, was embezzled by Yue's family. Every year, he still has to rely on his old wife and the last girl left behind to do needlework subsidies. How good this is!

Fortunately, he came back anyway, and didn't say anything to his father-in-law's family. He directly sold the family property again for 200 taels of silver. After taking over Feng's family, he went to the old house in Suzhou. The title deed of the homestead is still in their hands, they just went back to the old house and refurbished the house. As for other things, he always remembered that the monk once told him that there were things left by his ancestors in the old house, It is for the escape route left by future generations, and if he thinks about it, he will not have no food and clothing in the future. No matter how bad it is, he has already thought about it, so he can open a school, be a wife, and support his wife and children .

It has to be said that it is good for Zhen Fei to travel half of the world for so many years. He has turned the old scholar with a hint of pedantry into a vigorous and resolute man.

After they returned to the old house, they sent away the old servants of the family and bought some gifts for the old servants to bring to the families of the families who helped him, and then immediately told Feng that the ancestors left behind For the back road, let the loyal girl watch the wind outside, the couple searched carefully in the old house, and finally found two big jars under a floor tile of their original ancestral hall. Sure enough, there were 1000 jars inside. Now that Zhen Feisong felt relieved, he immediately took out 50 taels of gold, and together with the 200 taels that he sold Daruzhou’s property, he began to rebuild houses, buy furniture, and even build a school to fulfill his promise. , also bought a street-facing cross courtyard in the long-abandoned Gourd Temple nearby. After two months, the house was finally erected again. The three-entry courtyard has a cross courtyard and a small garden. It is more complete than it was back then. Most of the furniture in the house is made of nanmu, and the curtains are also very delicate. They are all authentic Su embroidery, not for anything else, just thinking that if my daughter returns, she will be a ten-year-old girl. If you want to think about getting married in the future, your family's face will naturally not be bad, and people will look down on you.

Then he took out gold and bought land. It was a coincidence that there was a Shanxi merchant in Suzhou City who was thinking of going back to his hometown to take care of his old age. He wanted to sell all his property. Zhen Fei went to see it right away. Mu of paddy field, 7000 mu of middle field, plus [-] mu of sloping land, it happens to be [-] mu of land, and the price is only [-] taels, which is really fair. Zhen Fei eats them all without saying a word. No matter how much it is, it is not as stable as this field property. If all the family property was put on this field back then, it would not have lost most of the family property. Think about the countless rare books, antiques and treasures that were burnt back then, and the money he spent on it. Countless taels of silver, the garden built with painstaking efforts, he felt heartbroken.Hey, it's really painful to know the difference!

Re-established the family business. The family had a total of 7000 taels of silver. It took 500 taels to buy the land, 500 taels to build the house, 1000 taels for furniture, pots and pans, and another 100 taels later. Refilling my study room, although there are no more rare books and ancient books, but they are all official editions, which can be regarded as exquisite.It cost 100 taels to buy two rooms of honest and honest servants to complete the concierge, gardener, cook, sweeper, long-term follower, and maid.There are 100 taels left, Zhen Fei only keeps [-] taels in the public house, and the rest is handed over to Feng Shi, who will start to prepare her daughter's dowry again.

At this time, the annual expenditure of ordinary people is only 20 taels of silver. For Zhen Fei’s family, 100 taels can be spent in the first half of the year. In addition to the public, there is also land. In summer, 200 mu of rice can be collected once a year. No matter how you calculate it, after taxes, there is always [-] taels of rent, which can also be supplemented. When we arrived at Gongzhong, such calculations were indeed enough, not to mention how much the total rent of this thousand acres of land should be in autumn and winter. Their family relied on these land properties, and they would definitely be able to recover in a year or two. vitality.

After hearing Zhen Fei's words, Feng said that she was able to tell her husband that her daughter had news and was about to go home. Although she was a little uncertain in her heart, this was the first time she could get her daughter after all these years. The news, regardless of whether it is true or not, she is willing to believe it is true, not to mention that after Zhen Fei came back, the so-called monastic incident was revised by a monk and turned into looking for his daughter everywhere. Having said that, Feng's heart was very sad, thinking that her husband might be working hard to find his daughter outside, which opened the Buddha's eyes to the help of noble people.So I didn't refute it, and I happily arranged it according to my husband's wishes.

Here Zhen Fei reorganized the family business and waited wholeheartedly for her daughter's return. On the other side, this Zhen Yinglian also appeared. Feng Yuan bought him first and said that he would pick him up in three days. There should be such a catastrophe. Although Xue Pan was not taken advantage of, he still wanted to sell it again and get some more money. The second seller this time happened to be also from the Xue family, a man from the fifth house of the Xue family. Bought it for my sister as a dowry girl.

When the two buyers met, when they talked, they realized that the kidnapper and one daughter were selling two houses, so they naturally stopped doing it. When they started arguing, they almost didn't do anything. Few, even though they still looked aloof, they had a lot more scruples, and the spittle could suppress that they didn't strike first, for fear of ruining their Xue family's current benevolent reputation.

At this time, the person arranged by Xue Pan appeared, (they don’t have to wait for Zhen Yinglian, just stare at Feng Yuan and see, this is not immediately involved in it in time, right! Smart people have smart ways.) Stop it in time After all, this is the key person in this conflict, and he can't be allowed to run away, and then asked Zhen Yinglian carefully, until she knew the situation The kidnapper is not Zhen Yinglian's biological father. This person knows immediately, this is probably the person that the uncle said, and I don't know where the uncle heard about it. He only wants to save such a girl, so of course he knows who it is. He naturally understood what to do, the uncle had taken care of this in advance, and he immediately said to both parties, since this is a kidnapper, then this girl can't be said to be the daughter of a good family, and she can't just let her into slavery Ji, we are a benevolent family, even the benevolent family that the emperor has praised, it’s fine if we don’t meet, but if we do, we should help find the girl’s family no matter what, the two of you It's better for the Lord to go to the yamen and let the adults decide.Firstly, the kidnapper can be caught, and secondly, the two of you can be witnesses.As for the buyer's money, of course the kidnapper would spit it out and pay the two of them back.

Feng Yuan can also be regarded as an eunuch family in a small town in Jinling, and his ancestors also produced officials. Although they are only small officials of the sixth or seventh rank, they are still somewhat famous in the local area, let alone the Xue family. This is very important. Both parties have actually heard each other's name, and they also know that the other party is not an impolite person, and there is no festival. , It’s just that some face can’t be changed, now that Xue Pan’s people are building a ladder, naturally he immediately turned the fire on the kidnapper, and nodded fiercely, expressing that he will never spare this wicked person lightly.

For the people in the fifth room of Xue's family, it really doesn't matter whether the girl buys this or not, but she looks good and her age is right, and it's not that others can't buy it. There is nothing wrong with Xue's reputation!Feng Yuan, on the other hand, was thinking that if she was really a girl from a good family, then what he called buying her as a concubine would not be necessary if she did not marry a wife in the future. The child is a bastard in identity.As for whether the girl's natal family is good or not!He didn't care too much, if his family was not well off, he would be alone in his family anyway, and no one would dislike him for finding someone else.If the family is good, the girl has been kidnapped once, and it would be difficult to marry her. With him coming to propose marriage, and the kindness of helping her, it would not be difficult for him to think about it!

Thinking about it this way, he immediately followed Xue Pan's people to the yamen. The new magistrate has arrived, and his surname is Liu. Speaking of which, he also has some relationship with the Liu family of the four kings and eight princes. Position, since he arrived in Jinling, he also wanted to make some political achievements with the help of old relatives like the Xue family who turned around, so as to break through the fourth-rank barrier earlier.A long time ago, I sent posts to several families in Jinling who could be related. Among them was the Xue family. Anyway, the Xue family has a good reputation in the capital now. I heard that it is also very famous in Jinling, even among scholars. some influence.Master Liu will let this kind of people not make friends!

But it was only a few days after he took office, and when he heard that someone from the Xue family came to file a lawsuit, Mrs. Liu still thought, could it be that the Xue family is not as proper as the rumors say?Why did he have trouble begging him just after he came here, and he felt a little displeased, secretly thinking, if this is something inappropriate, how should he evade it, and how should he plan for the future.Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the hall, what I heard was that they had caught a kidnapper, and my heart immediately became happy. This is a good thing that came to my door!If I can make some articles from this kidnapper, I can't say that the credit for my criminal name will be determined immediately. Sure enough, my father is my father. At that time, I must repay one or two.

There is a reason for saying that it is a credit. Master Liu is different from Jia Yucun. He has been an official for many years and knows much more about the world than Jia Yucun. He understands it very well. Since he is a kidnapper and raised the child for many years before selling it, he must be a veteran. For such a person, the kidnapping and trafficking of children must not be a case that can be committed by one or two, nor can it be committed by a single person. Mr. Liu naturally wanted to torture more, hoping to get more information. If he could find his lair and catch his accomplices, then the case could be done well. If he could save a few more people, then the credit would be even greater. Because once the lawsuit is big, the Ministry of Criminal Justice will pay more attention to it, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice will pay more attention to it, and my name will be heard by Datian!No matter how bad it is, I can immediately gain a foothold in Jinling, and let the common people know that a master Qingtian has come, which is naturally good for his official reputation.

So the so-called old officials are not just because you are a good student. You don't have some experience, you haven't presided over a party's government affairs for many years, and you haven't experienced various lawsuits. It is absolutely incomprehensible, like Jia Yucun. It is absolutely useless to end this lawsuit in order to sell personal favors. Like Mr. Liu, treating kidnappers as big cakes and digging slowly is the right way to be an official. family?Even if he is still a muddlehead like Xue Pan, he has his own way to appease him.It really cannot be said that Jia Yucun was dismissed twice.

Master Liu paid attention to it, and naturally there were people from below running errands to help out, but after a few slaps, the kidnapper confessed countless things, not to mention anything else, just this time selling Zhen Yinglian, then he didn't come out with a girl, but He brought three of them, Master Liu immediately found someone to save them after hearing this, and the lair in the deep mountains, three days away, also imprisoned four or five children, all abducted in recent years , the accomplice is his wife. With clues, the police will be dispatched immediately. There are more and more, and every family is worried about their children going out. It is these policemen who also have families and businesses, and they are also cautious not to let their children go out. No one wants their children to have accidents. no!

Therefore, even the most slick old official hates kidnappers. Almost everyone shouts and beats such people, and no one does not hate them. Not to mention that they are on business now, even if there is no benefit, the policemen also want to hurry up. I caught them back, so as not to harm other people, not to mention the big thing of good deeds, if I can rescue a few more, how many people will thank them, not to mention the adults, even these arresters can think of themselves. How grateful, how much thanks.Well, in fact, there are still benefits here, everyone knows it well, don't talk about it!

Everyone in the world knows that most of the families whose children have been abducted are rich families, and there is no way to say that all the children from poor families are not very good-looking!Either they are thin and can't support them, or they don't look very good-looking, or they are covered by shabby clothes. Only children from rich families can describe them from an early age. These are the most favorite targets of kidnappers.You said that if such a child was saved, how much should the child's family give as a gift?At least it's much more than their salary!Hee hee, there are good deeds and money to get, how can you not work hard!

The policemen here hurried out, and the doorman who transformed into the little novice over there also recognized the six-year-old Zhen Yinglian who was brought in together. The rouge mole between the eyebrows is such an obvious sign that she is pretending It's impossible to be invisible!So his eyes couldn't stop looking at her. His actions were very obvious. Naturally, Master Liu, who was sitting on the top, saw her, frowned slightly, and asked without thinking too much. A few days ago, when I was drinking with a few new friends, I talked about things in Suzhou. Naturally, the Zhen family next door had a profound influence on the fire that year.In my heart, I was very happy to show my face in front of my lord when I took office, so I couldn't explain this clearly, and even explained a series of situations about the Zhen family. .

When Mr. Liu heard this, the person who just brought here had a provenance in a blink of an eye. He felt that this was luck, and that God gave him such a merit for nothing. He was very happy immediately, and asked Menzi to go directly. Suzhou, inquire about the situation of the Zhen family and ask them to identify him.

On the other side, when Zhen Yinglian heard that the people in the yamen actually recognized her and could tell her parents in her hometown, she was also very excited. She heard something that she got lost while looking at the lamp, and she vaguely remembered that it seemed that there really was someone there. With these influences, a name suddenly popped up in her mind, she opened her mouth and asked:

"Do you know someone named Xingjiao?"

When she said this, Menzi became more and more convinced that she was a girl from the Zhen family, and nodded hurriedly:

"Indeed, that's the girl in your family."

At this moment, even Master Liu understood that this person really recognized the right person, and Feng Yuan was even more happy. He could understand that the girl he liked was really the daughter of a country gentry, and he was his regular wife. The candidate can be decided!She didn't bother with the Xue family any more, she just wanted to wait for the news after returning home, and wait for someone from the Zhen family to come forward to say goodbye.

In this lawsuit, the abductee can be found out. Everyone is satisfied. Mr. Liu left Zhen Yinglian in the back house and was taken care of by his wife temporarily. Now he is waiting for the news brought back by the yamen servants outside to close the case!What a joy!I haven't handled such a happy case in so many years, um, thanks to the Xue family!