[Red Mansions] Why does Xiaoye want to whitewash

The people inside were silent for a while, then they started to make noise again, and then an old man with white beard and hair came out ahead, his eyes searched around everyone, and finally fell on Jia Lian, who was especially well-dressed, and said respectfully: "The county magistrate When an adult comes to visit, he will be greeted from afar, and he will be greeted from afar.”

Jia Lian seemed not to be affected by it at all, and nodded with a smile: "You are the head of Taohua Village, right? I am just a newcomer to this county, and I heard people say that the peach juice nearby is sweet, so I want to come and see it. , didn't bother you?"

"No, no, it's just an ordinary fruit. If adults like it, it will be a blessing for our Peach Blossom Village."

Jia Lian smiled, not really ignoring the Taohua Village, so she said to the village chief in a relaxed tone: "Just now, what happened to the audience, don't you mind me watching?"

"This... I'm afraid my lord will forgive me, but outsiders are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall in the village."

"Then bring it out, people can't be so rigid, can they?" Jia Lian glanced around and said with a smile: "This place is very spacious, let someone bring some chairs over, and I will listen together."

The village chief knew that this matter could not be pushed back, so he gestured to the son behind him with his eyes, and the village chief's son immediately ordered the men to go inside to bring Gu Yue'e out, and brought a few chairs over, and respectfully asked the county magistrate My lord sit down.

Jia Lian stretched out his hand to signal the old village chief to sit down first, and after he sat down carefully, he sat down on the chair next to him.After waiting for a while, apart from seeing the young girl kneeling in the middle with a distressed expression, no one else said a word, and then said to the old village chief as if they wanted to watch a play: "Go on, it's okay, just be I don't exist!"

The old village head glanced at the young county magistrate, coughed, and asked in a loud voice: "Yue'e girl, it is related to the reputation of the whole village. Let me ask you again, who does this child belong to?!"

Gu Yue'e trembled, her lips were pale but she remained silent.

At this time, a thin middle-aged woman suddenly ran out from the side, knelt down beside Gu Yue'e, hugged her and cried while persuading her: "Yue'e! Just say it! Are you going to die? County Master Ling is here, he will make decisions for you! Tell me quickly! Huh..."

"Mother..." Gu Yue'e leaned in her mother's arms, crying out of breath, she was in a daze and almost fainted during the period.

"Don't be shameless!" The old village chief ordered someone to pull Gu Yue'e's mother away, and said coldly to Gu Yue'e: "The county magistrate is here, if you don't say anything, you will hurt yourself!"

Jia Lian raised his eyebrows after hearing this, but remained silent.

Gu Yue'e seemed to have been touched by something, and took another look at her mother who was stopped by the side, fell on the ground sadly, and cried: "It's not Yue'e who doesn't tell, it's Yue'e who doesn't know who it is, woo woo ..."

"I don't know?" This was a bit serious, Jia Lian sat up straighter, looked at her with some seriousness, and interjected, "Please tell me in detail..."

Gu Yue'e seemed to be a little embarrassed to speak, and it took a while before she said: "Yue'e came back from the next village on the first day of April, halfway...was knocked unconscious by someone, and when she woke up...it was already like that, I'm too scared I don't dare to let people know..."

This is a criminal case. Jia Lian frowned, staring closely at Gu Yue'e not to miss the slightest change in her expression, and continued to ask: "Let's clarify the time and place..."

Gu Yue'e's voice was a bit vague, and she said: "The time when I went home was just after Shen Shi, and when I woke up, it was already dark. The location, location...is in the birch forest on the edge of the two villages."

Jia Lian didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing when he went out to pick peaches. When he was having a headache what he could do, a man in the village suddenly said, "It seems that before the pear flower in the next village was hanged, it was said that it was killed by someone. Dirty outside the village!"

"Yes! I've heard of it too!"

"It seems that there is such a thing!"

"The place where their village came from seems to be a birch forest..."

When Gu Yue'e's mother heard this, she knelt down and kowtowed to the county magistrate, "Master county magistrate! My daughter must have been bullied by the evil people who killed that day. You must make the decision for my daughter!"

The old village chief didn't say no at this time, so he also cupped his hands at Jia Lian, "My lord, if you don't catch this man, people in our nearby villages will be in panic in the future, please uphold justice!"

"Oh." Jia Lian looked expressionless, and glanced at everyone, did his feelings turn into repeated crimes again?

The county magistrate's attitude was very strange, and the others looked at each other, not knowing how to react.

But Jia Lian stood up, glanced at Gu Yue'e who was still kneeling on the ground, and suddenly asked the village head: "Then is she still in the pond?"

"This..." The old village chief also took a look at their mother and daughter, but he still felt that she was already unclean, and she should be like the pear flower in the next village to ruin the reputation of their village by self-cultivation.However, in front of the county magistrate, he still said magnanimously: "After all, she is also a victim, so it is not good to treat her like this."

"Whether it's a victim or not, the village can't deal with it privately." But after Jia Lian saw the men in the village, including the old village chief, he didn't take it seriously, and knew that they wouldn't listen, so he had no interest in living here any longer. In the evening, he greeted Mao Yi and the others to go back.

When passing by Gu Yue'e's footsteps, she still didn't say that she would take her away with her, but turned to the old village chief and said, "Look, why don't you pack some peaches for me?"

"..."

Never forget peaches!Mao Yi followed the county magistrate carrying a basket of peaches, thinking that before he left, he would tell people that he would eat well and come back later, he really felt a little ashamed to see his relatives and elders.

After holding back all the way, he returned to the county government office and said to the adult: "If you go to Taohua Village next time, can you not go?"

"No!" Jia Lian stretched out his hand to let his servants take the basket, and said to Mao Yi, "There will be a meeting tomorrow. As an official, how can you not solve the problems for the common people?"

"My lord, do you want to take care of it?!" The other officials did the same. Seeing the lord's indifferent attitude in Taohua Village, I thought he was not going to take care of it.

"It doesn't matter if we bump into each other, where is our face?" Jia Lian waved his hands listlessly, and said to them, "It's getting dark, let's talk about it tomorrow, you are allowed to come at half an hour tomorrow night, go back quickly."

"Thank you sir!"

It was so late, Jia Lian asked people to put the peaches in the well first.When Wang Xifeng saw him coming back, he was a little surprised and said: "Didn't you say you won't be back today?"

"Oh, it's hard to say." Jia Lian wanted to fall directly on the bed, but was pushed by Wang Xifeng, so he could only get up to wash and change clothes.

Wang Xifeng waited for him to come back and questioned him again. Jia Lian said something briefly. She was very angry when she heard that, she patted the bed board and said angrily, "Such a beast must be brought to justice!"

Jia Lian yawned, and said in a muffled voice, "Does your hand hurt? You're speaking quite righteously now."

"What do you mean?" No matter how she thought about it, Wang Xifeng felt that there was something wrong with his words.

"No, I'm complimenting you." After speaking, he turned over and put his arms on her body, "Cousin, go to sleep, I have almost no troubles in my journey all day, and everyone is disabled."

……

The next day Jia Lian also got up later than usual. When he put on the official mansion and went to the county government office, he saw that the officials had arrived, and he greeted them all to sit down. Then he talked about what happened in Taohua Village yesterday: The certificate should bring Gu Yue'e back, but if she is pregnant, I don't want to mention it, and I am also worried about scaring the snake."

Liu Ye, the head of the police station, had already heard about it, so he cupped his hands and said, "Your Excellency, tell me what to do, and you guys will arrange it right away."

"Since it's not the first time to commit a crime, find someone to lure around there, and sooner or later he will still be hooked." This was the only way Jia Lian could think of. Protect it secretly, work harder, and the county government will reward you after the prisoner is captured."

"Yes, my lord."

When Liu Ye went out with a few officials, Jia Lian asked the county government office if there was anything else going on, and when the magistrate said no, he went back to the back house to sleep again.

He didn't know what other people did when they were county magistrates. Anyway, he felt that he didn't exercise hard at all after coming here, and on the contrary, he became a little delicate.

There was no good news for several days. Jia Lian was patient, but Wang Xifeng asked several times, and she seemed more responsible than him.

Still no one was arrested that day, the letter from Beijing was delivered, and Jia Lian saw that there was also a letter from the Wang family to Wang Xifeng, so she took it back together, and the two sat together to read it.

There was nothing wrong with the Rongguo Mansion, but after Jia Lian finished reading the letter, she saw that Wang Xifeng was frowning, so she asked her, "What's wrong?"

Wang Xifeng put down the letter paper, but still did not relax her brows, and replied: "Mother said that my concubine sister is very strange recently. I have been back to Wang's house, not to mention, but I always get close to her."

"Maybe I've suffered a lot, and it's normal to want the support of my natal family." When they arranged such a marriage, they presupposed what she would do. It's strange.

"No." Wang Xifeng pushed the letter in front of Jia Lian, and continued: "My mother said that she has been inquiring about my affairs, and she seems to be a different person in her behavior and speech than before. It looks a bit evil..."

"A different person?" Jia Lian took the letter and glanced at the words written by his mother-in-law, and had some guesses in his heart, but he didn't tell Wang Xifeng, but said: "We are so far away, and we don't know the specific situation. Let’s talk about a concubine who has a bad relationship, you just write a letter to your mother-in-law, if there is no harm, there is no need to care too much, it’s not worth being careful for her.”

"we can only do this."

Jia Lian also replied several letters to the mansion, and sent them back to Beijing together with Wang Xifeng's the next day.

Wang Xifeng went to the front to deal with the fight between the two women. Jia Lian was playing with Sister Qiao and Lin Ke in the backyard when she saw Long Er hurried in and shouted at Jia Lian, "My lord! Official Liu from the yamen is back! He said he caught the prisoner!"

When Jia Lian heard this, his eyebrows and eyes were filled with joy. After handing over the two children to the nuns, he hurried to the county government office.

Liu Ye was waiting there, and when he saw Jia Lian, he cupped his hands and said, "My lord, it's a good luck not to disgrace my life!"

"Already recruited?"

"It's been recruited..." Liu Ye said with a somewhat tangled expression, "We were interrogated on the way back, but he only admitted that he had defiled Lihua from the neighboring village, and Gu Yue'e from Taohua Village would not admit to life. Yes. Many people can testify that they gambled at the gambling house in the county that day. You will know this matter as soon as you ask about it. It cannot be faked, so..."

"Do you think someone else committed the crime against Gu Yue'e?"

"It's also possible that Gu Yue'e lied." Liu Ye hadn't seen any kind of person in the county government for so many years, so it was not impossible for such a situation to happen.

After Jia Lian heard this, he recalled Gu Yue'e's expression at that time, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it might really be like what Liu Ye said, so he directly decided: "Prisoner locked up, let's go to Peach Blossom Village tomorrow. "

"Yes, my lord."

Early the next morning, a group of people drove a carriage to Taohua Village again. The road was still difficult to walk. Jia Lian hated it deeply, so after seeing the old village chief, he didn't directly mention Gu Yue'e, but said: " The road leading to the outside of the village, how about the village chief organize the villagers to level the road? This will make it easier for the villagers to go outside to find some guys to do it when they are not in the field."

Of course, the old village chief also knew that the road was easier to walk, but, "There are only so many laborers in our village, and we usually have to do work, so how can we have time to build roads? Besides, that part of the road is not for the people of Taohua Village. "

"Then let the next section come out and let the nearby villagers repair it together." The government asked the road to be built, but these people dare not move, but Jia Lian didn't plan to let people do the work for nothing, so he said: "Leave this matter to the ancient village. Please send a message to other villages, when the time comes, the official will come to check, and if you do well, you will be rewarded."

When the old village chief heard that there was a reward, he didn't resist as much as he said before, so he agreed to come down and ask about how to divide it.

But Jia Lian waved his hand and said, "It's not urgent. When the county magistrate comes over to tell you, I'm here for something else."

"My lord still wants to eat peaches?"

There were a few puffing sounds from behind, Jia Lian turned around and gave them a fierce look, then turned around and said seriously, "I have something to do with Gu Yue'e."

"So that's how it is, please come here." The old village chief felt that he had slipped his words, and immediately led the people to Gu Yue'e's house.

But as soon as I got to the door, I heard scolding inside, Jia Lian was expressionless, and let the village head call the door, ignoring the panicked expression of the man in this house, and asked people to call Gu Yue'e to the open place, and the official sent They stood around so that no one could overhear their conversation.

Since Jia Lian had doubts, he deliberately lied to her. After all, she was a girl, and finally told the truth.From Jia Lian's ears, she was deceived physically and mentally by a scumbag, and she killed that person just because something was delayed, and she would definitely come back to marry her.