Tofu Dongshi

Zhen Zhigong was asleep, Dou Jiafu knelt down in front of him, stroked the jade pendant hanging on his chest and said in a low voice: "Jia Ming, I'm sorry, I'm going to give your jade pendant to that jailer, I hope I can exchange some medicine for you Don’t be angry about healing your wounds. Anyway, money is something outside of your body, so if you leave it in the green hills, you’re not afraid of running out of firewood, right?”

Zhen Zhigong moved his eyelids twice, and slowly opened his eyes.

Dou Jiafu was overjoyed, "Are you awake? How do you feel?"

Zhen Zhigong stared at him with dim eyes for a moment, then seemed to bend his lips into a smile, and said in a hoarse voice, "No way, your kid is crying? Don't worry, my young master is blessed in the sky, and he won't die ..." Before he finished speaking, he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Dou Jiafu didn't cry at first, his eyes were red because he couldn't sleep well for a few days, but after hearing Zhen Zhigong's words, his eyes immediately became sour and hot, and he subconsciously grabbed his scalding hand tightly, choking on his sobs Muttering: "You said, you must not die, otherwise...or I will scold you forever!"

Later, when the old Zhao head came to deliver the meal, Dou Jiafu took out the jade pendant, feeling uneasy, and said solemnly: "Brother, this piece of jade is very valuable, so I will give it to you. I just hope that I can do it well and find someone The doctor came to treat my cousin's leg injury, otherwise something really happened to him, wouldn't it be troublesome for you, big brother?"

The jailer didn't respond to his begging, so he looked at the jade pendant twice by the light of the torch, and cursed: "This piece of shit is worth a lot of money!" Having said that, he still tucked the jade pendant into his arms gone.

Dou Jiafu's heart flickered, he did everything he could do, and for the rest, he could only hope that God would open his eyes and not really drive them to a dead end.

Another day later, the jailer did not show up for a long time, and Zhen Zhigong fell into a coma with a high fever, his lips were pale and chapped.Dou Jiafu endured the sadness and half-hugged him in his arms, opened his chin, and slowly fed the half bowl of water left over from yesterday's drink into his mouth.

At this moment, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps in the aisle of the prison, and after a while, the old head Zhao, who hadn't shown his face all day, led several people to walk quickly, and when he got close, he said tremblingly: "People are locked here, Yupei It's the little one for the little one."

Dou Jiafu raised his head, and saw a well-built man in a silk shirt holding on to the iron railing and staring into his cell with wide-eyed eyes. Standing beside him was a middle-aged woman in an azure skirt. About thirty, with good looks.

Suddenly, the rich man let out an earth-shattering cry of joy and tears: "Eldest young master, you are indeed here! God, my poor young master, why have you been tortured into such a state!"

Dou Jiafu was fooled for a while, young master, what about him?Who is this fat man with a white face and big ears? He doesn't know him.

From the perspective of the middle-aged beautiful woman, she could only see Dou Jiafu's face, looked him up and down, and said doubtfully: "Butler Zhou, you can see clearly, I don't think that person looks like Xiao Gong?"

The fat man with white face and big ears—Zhou Fusheng, the chief housekeeper of the Zhen's house, pointed at him with shaking hands, and said in tears, "I can't see clearly. The little guy who is sitting is not, but the one who is lying down is the young master of our family!"

The middle-aged beautiful woman took two steps forward, looked in the direction of Zhou Fusheng's finger, and immediately had no doubts, she said happily: "That's right, he is Xiao Gong!" Then she turned around and ordered sharply: "Hurry up and open the door. Young Master Zhen recite it!"

Old Zhao head hurriedly opened the door, a yamen servant quickly stepped in, took the unconscious Zhen Zhigong from the hand of the dazed Dou Jiafu, carefully lifted his back out of the cell.

Seeing that a group of people were about to leave, Dou Jiafu subconsciously jumped up from the ground and wanted to chase them out: "Where are you going to take him?"

The middle-aged beautiful woman turned her head and said, "Zhou Fusheng, do you know that little guy?"

Zhou Fusheng was only concerned about his young master's injury, so he shook his head carelessly.

Old Zhao said fawningly: "Ma'am, that man's name is Dou Jiafu, and he claims to be Young Master Zhen's cousin."

Zhou Fusheng immediately vetoed it: "Impossible! That kid is lying!"

The middle-aged beautiful woman made a decisive decision: "It doesn't matter, just close it first."

"Obey!" Old Zhao replied loudly.

The few people no longer hesitated, and hurried out of the prison.

The old head Zhao kicked Dou Jiafu back to the prison cell, then quickly closed the door and locked it, cursing and saying: "Damn it, a country bumpkin who sells tofu dares to claim to be the cousin of the richest man in Ningcheng, Young Master Zhen, to deceive you!" Kidnapping, how poor and crazy! You kid will never want to get out of here in this life, just wait until you get out of the prison!"

Dou Jiafu was dizzy from the collision, thinking drowsily that his surname is not Jia, but Zhen (poor little Doufu, who doesn't know the word Zhen, only knows true and false)... I didn't lie, he did. me...

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Two days later, Zhen Zhigong woke up with the fever gone.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw an enlarged face in front of me, white and fat, like dough, and a pair of narrow eyes burst out with joy in an instant: "Thank God, young master, you have been in a coma for two days and two nights, and now you can finally woke up!"

Confused for a moment, Zhen Zhigong quickly realized that he was out of danger.

Indeed, the place he is in now is no longer the gloomy prison cell that can leave a lifetime of psychological shadows on people, but a spacious, bright and elegantly furnished house, where the bright sunlight shines in from the open windows, and the warm spring breeze blows There is a pleasant fragrance of flowers, and you can also hear the birds singing briskly on the branches.Everything is so detailed and beautiful.

Zhen Zhigong closed his eyes, took a deep breath of fresh and fragrant air, then opened his eyes again, and said in a low voice, "Uncle Zhou."

"Hey!" Zhou Fusheng replied, and raised his hand to wipe away his sad old tears.

Zhen Zhigong asked: "Where is this?"

Before Zhou Fusheng could answer, a middle-aged beautiful woman walked up from the bed, still with a heroic spirit rarely seen in ordinary women's eyes, and looked at Zhen Zhigong earnestly, "Xiao Gong, are you still waiting?" remember me?"

Zhen Zhigong searched his memory for a while, before he asked unsurely: "Are you Aunt Xiaolan?"

Sun Qinglan's eye circles turned red in an instant, and she smiled with tears in her eyes: "It's me, it's been 15 years, it's hard for Xiao Gong that you still remember."

When Sun Qinglan was six years old, she went out to play one day. Unfortunately, she was abducted by human traffickers and sold to a couple from other places as a child bride.The couple were mean and vicious, and often beat and abused the young Sun Qinglan.

Zhen Zhigong's grandparents accidentally saw that couple beating Sun Qinglan again while traveling one day. The skin on the poor little girl's arms and thighs was almost torn apart by the rattan.Grandpa Zhen couldn't see it, so he stepped forward to stop him, but was scolded instead.

Grandma Zhen was very angry, and later learned from other people that the couple were not the little girl's biological parents, but bought it from traffickers for five taels of silver.Grandma Zhen donated generously and bought Sun Qinglan with 100 taels of silver. Seeing that she was Yuxue and cute, she adopted her as a foster daughter and brought her back to the Zhen family in Ningcheng to raise her.

When Sun Qinglan was ten years old, Zhen Zhigong was born.Sun Qinglan liked this pink and jade-carved little doll very much. She took care of him and played with him since she was a child. Zhen Zhigong also kissed this aunt Xiaolan very much, sticking to her side all day long.

Sun Qinglan has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and her temperament is as sharp as a boy. When she was 16 years old and Zhen Zhigong was 15 years old, she disregarded the opposition of her adoptive parents and married a poor scholar surnamed Liang who came to Ningcheng from other places to travel, and then left. Ning Cheng wandered around with her husband and never returned to Zhen's house for [-] years.

Liang Shusheng is good at knowledge, but his temper is too straightforward and old-fashioned, he is not good at flattering and dealing with it, and he is also unlucky, so that he has failed in the exam three times in Beijing.It was not until last year that Liang Shusheng, who was just over the age of [-], was finally included in the list, and was released by the imperial court to the small Yongping County as a parent officer. Today, the Liangs have arrived in Yongping County for less than a month.

Zhen Zhigong sighed, "If I knew that my uncle is the magistrate of Yongping County, I wouldn't have to suffer so much in prison."

Sun Qinglan was filled with righteous indignation, she gritted her silver teeth and cursed: "Don't worry, Aunt Xiaolan will definitely avenge you! Those gangsters who are evil-hearted, look at them one by one!"

Zhen Zhigong smiled and said: "Thank you, Aunt Xiaolan. By the way, how did you and Uncle Zhou know that I was arrested and imprisoned?"

Sun Qinglan said: "It's also a coincidence. A few days ago, I ran into Steward Zhou on the street. I learned that you disappeared in Yongping County more than a month ago, so I sent people to look for it. Two mornings ago, I overheard the guard The old Zhao head boasted to a yamen servant that he had won a priceless jade pendant, and then took the jade pendant out of his arms to show off to others. I was shocked when I saw it. There were three green leaves carved on the jade pendant. Fineness, isn’t it the family heirloom of the Zhen family! I immediately restrained the old Zhao Tou, and after some coercion, the old Zhao Tou confessed that the jade pendant was obtained from a prisoner who was recently arrested in the prison. Let’s go to the prison together to recognize someone, and then we will rescue you.”

Hearing this, Zhen Zhigong couldn't help being taken aback. He was too excited to see Zhou Fusheng and Sun Qinglan when he woke up just now, and he didn't care about other things for a while, only now did he think of someone.