The little Fubao in the deserted village made all the dignitaries in the court go crazy with envy

Cao Wu committed a murder, and his crime must be tried by the government office in the prefecture before he could be convicted and sentenced. The county and town government offices did not have the authority to sentence murder cases.

The friends still don’t know Yan Changqing’s identity, and he didn’t say what power he used to transfer the case.

As long as the result is what he wants.

"Brother Changqing," Bai Xiang crawled to the young boy's side and asked him seriously, "Will those uncles be thrown into prison? Will they be beheaded?"

"If you commit a crime, you must be punished. The law cannot be violated. But Grandpa Xu is a fair and serious person. With him as a lawyer, he will do his best to get the most fair verdict."

Bai Xiang nodded and sighed like a little adult.

There are so many complicated things in this world. Maybe when she grows up and understands more, she will be able to understand them clearly.

The fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival.

Every household in Yuxi Village soaked glutinous rice and beans the night before, bought pork belly and marinated it, and washed and dried the rice dumplings leaves for later use.

Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort and calamus are inserted on the doors of every house, and the women sit in the kitchen and start to make rice dumplings.

After the children woke up, Mrs. Lin smeared realgar wine on their foreheads, put clam powder bells on their wrists, and tied woolen talismans on them to ward off evil spirits and insects.

Whatever the other kids have, Yan Changqing must have a share.

Standing in the Lin family's yard, smelling the scent of realgar wine in the air, looking at the pink clam bell on his wrist, and looking at the woolen talismans hanging behind the two brothers of the Lin family, everything made him feel fresh and novel.

"Bai Xiang, look what I brought you!" There was a shout outside the fence, and Jin Duobao appeared at the gate of the Lin family courtyard. He was also dressed in appropriate seasonal clothes, a small brocade shirt with five poisonous patterns, crescent-shaped silk pants, and black flat-toed shoes.

The most eye-catching thing is that he is holding a handful of blooming pomegranate flowers in his hand.

The little fat boy walked into the yard and pinned the pomegranate flowers on his braids, looking very proud. "There is a pomegranate tree in Xiaoqi's yard, and I went there specially to pick them! On the way here, Dani and Erya snatched several of them!"

After a pause, he patted his head and talked about the gossip that was almost forgotten, "By the way, when I was picking flowers, someone wanted to enter the village, but was stopped. There was a lot of noise over there at the stone bridge, and it seemed that they wanted to go into the village to look for Aunt Sulan. I don't know if I heard it wrong."

Xu Xiaoqi's house is at the entrance of the village, but it is still some distance away from the stone bridge.

Jin Duobao was so focused on picking flowers at the time that he could not quite hear the noise on the bridge. He could only vaguely catch a familiar name among them, and was not sure if he was hearing it.

The woman who was busy in the kitchen frowned in confusion when she heard this.

"Looking for my sister-in-law?" Zhang Cui'e was puzzled. "Doesn't my sister-in-law have many relatives and friends? I have been married for so many years, Xiaosong and Xiaobai are already six or seven years old, and I have never seen anyone come to see my sister-in-law. Who could it be this time?"

Li Sulan's eyes moved, and she had a hunch in her heart, "Even you know that I have no relatives or friends, maybe Duobao heard it wrong."

"How about I go and take a look? If he really comes to see you, it won't be a big deal for me to make the trip."

"No need. No matter if he is here to see me or not, he didn't come when our family was in trouble before, and he comes now that our family situation is better. There is no need to see such a person."

Zhang Cui'e had already stood up and untied her apron. Upon hearing this, she tied her apron on without saying a word and sat down again, patting her thigh, "I understand! No need to say more! It must be similar to those blood-sucking leeches in Old Zhang's house! Don't worry, sister-in-law, I will definitely protect you. If they are stopped outside, we will save trouble. If they rush into the house, I will drive them away with a kitchen knife!"

Li Sulan, "...Puff!"

Mrs. Lin was wrapping the zongzi non-stop. She rolled the zongzi leaves into a funnel shape, added glutinous rice and meat with a spoon, covered it with a layer of glutinous rice, covered it with dough, and tied it tightly with horsetail grass to form a zongzi. "How can you, a woman, always carry a knife? If the sky falls, there are men in the family to support it. You don't have to rush to the front. We don't need wives to charge into battle. If things get bad, we still have mother. How can it be your turn?"

The two young women couldn't help laughing when they heard this.

Yes, no matter what happens, they have someone to rely on in this family.

The gloom that had just grown in Li Sulan's heart disappeared in an instant because of the entertainment provided by her sisters-in-law and mother-in-law.

From beginning to end, she never had the idea of ​​meeting the person who came from outside the village.

People here celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with joy, and the fragrance of rice dumplings wafts through the village.

On the other hand, it was already mid-May when Yu Heng received the letter and he almost got upset again.

His wife had been missing for months, and General Xiao was so worried that he vomited blood and fainted. He fell down and never got up again. The hidden injuries accumulated from decades on the battlefield broke out overnight and almost took his life.

If I hadn't been worried and unable to close my eyes, I wouldn't have been able to hold on until this moment.

Even so, I have to hold on for a long time.

Upon learning that his wife might be found in Wonju, this tough man all his life sat up in shock from his dying illness and decided to set off for Wonju immediately.

Yu Heng almost knelt down in front of him.

He couldn't persuade the old general, so he could only run to the emperor and cry and complain, hoping that the emperor would detain the man.

"Your Majesty, the old general's body is as weak as paper. If he moves, he will be crushed. If he is asked to go to Yuanzhou in person, it will be a long journey. Even if he can get there, he can only see him for the last time. I am not a good doctor and I am powerless to save him!"

Emperor Hong Jing stretched out his hand and pinched his eyebrows, frowning tightly.

Doesn’t he have a headache too?

"Is the old general's health really so poor?" he asked in a low voice.

"Yes, he is relying on his obsession to hold on to his last breath. The minister and the Imperial Hospital have exhausted all their abilities, but at most we can only keep the old general alive until... the end of the month."

"At the end of the month..." Emperor Hong Jing tightened his fingers, and after a long silence, he gave an oral order, "Let him go."

"emperor?"

"It's too late to send a letter to Yuanzhou to send that person to Changjing. The old general is only worried about this matter now. If we stop him from going, he will die in vain. It's better to let him go, at least he can put his mind at ease."

As for whether the person over there is Old Madam Xiao, it is no longer important now.

Many people were sent out from the imperial city, and they searched the entire territory of Da Rui but failed to find the person. Several months have passed since the incident, and everyone actually has a common understanding in their hearts that Madam Xiao may have passed away.

But no one has the heart to reveal the truth.

Only if the old lady is still alive and waiting for someone to find her in some corner of Da Rui, can the old general rely on this obsession to hold on.

But eventually, the candle will burn out.

Human power cannot change it.

Before the old general closed his eyes, he had a persistence, which was the only thing they, the bystanders, could do.

In mid-May, on the night when the moon was at its fullest, a carriage quietly left the side door of General Xiao's mansion and drove out of Changjing.

After the carriage passed through the city gate, the gate was immediately closed and no one was allowed to leave the city without the emperor's order, thus cutting off the tail that wanted to follow the carriage.