Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

On the other side, Shen Huai and his son finally met their friends.

Although this man wanted to help, he had a wife from Hedong at home. At first, he was quite warm and entertained the father and son. But when he heard from the window that they were dismissed and sent back home, his face immediately fell.

She also kept talking about the difficult family situation and the excessive expenses of her husband's several trips to Beijing for the imperial examinations. Shen Huai could no longer sit still and was about to say goodbye.

But the friend was a down-to-earth man. After walking two miles with Shen Xianzhu, he stuffed the five taels of private money he had saved into Shen Xianzhu's hands and ran back.

"Brother Ren..." Shen Huai snatched the silver and was about to chase after him.

Shen Xianzhu blocked his way and said, "Dad, remember to pay Uncle Ren double later, okay?

After I get settled at home, I will send him a copy of the collection of essays I copied from the academy."

"..." Shen Huai was defeated by his son's pleading gaze. He sighed and turned away silently. He felt the silver ingot in his hand was very hot.

The father and son hurried back to the county town, but when they were checking their pass at the city gate, they were directly invited to the county government office, but they entered through the back door.

The magistrate did not show up. They were received by their legal advisor, who accompanied them throughout the process, signed and stamped the transit documents, and then presented them with ten taels of silver and a donkey. He politely sent yamen runners to see them off along with Shen Lingzhu and the other two who were waiting outside the main gate.

After watching them leave, the lawyer wiped his sweat with a handkerchief. As soon as he entered the ceremonial gate, he scolded Captain Luo, "I told you to find someone to hurry them away, not to bring the women back. The county magistrate is just going through the motions out of favor with the Duke.

But you don't even have this much foresight. Mr. Shen might be reinstated someday. Do you want to make an enemy of the county magistrate?

Or is it that a servant of a Duke's mansion has more influence than the master's words? "

His eyes were like sharp arrows. "And he's a fake, a wanted bandit. What's even more outrageous is that none of you noticed, yet a little girl recognized him."

"Master, help me. I didn't know that the followers left behind by Master Shi were wanted criminals. They had fire cards but no pass to enter the city." Captain Luo quickly handed over all the money he had collected from the Shi family and his own belongings.

Nodding and bowing, he said, "Please, please be polite to the master."

"Old Luo, please be more careful next time." The master changed back into his elder form, and the two of them gradually walked away in the sun...

……

On this side, Shen Huai and his son were completely confused and didn't know what was going on. It was not until several yamen runners left ten miles away from the city that they learned the "whole story" from the awakened Hu and her two nieces.

In fact, what Mrs. Hu heard from the two sisters were all processed statements.

The two of them forced the yamen runners to go to the county government office and tell the truth, but in the middle of the incident, Shen Lingzhu got angry and hit people, but then she recognized the Shi family's followers as bandits who were captured by the sea, and exposed them on the spot in the yamen.

Later, the comparison of the portrait and the arrest of the attendant were not their responsibility.

However, the two of them talked in detail about the situation when they asked Doctor Sun to take their aunt's pulse again.

"Third sister, you are too reckless. Most of the wanted criminals are desperate criminals." After hearing this, Shen Xianzhu's first reaction was to care about his sister.

He thought to himself that the rumor in the academy that Duke Zhongguo recruited many strong men for military merit when he broke through the northern barbarians and marched south a few years ago was probably true, and that in recent years, even more people of all kinds have joined his fold.

Shen Lingzhu just laughed and said nothing more, for fear of revealing anything.

But Shen Huai didn't believe it completely. He had a hunch that his wife was hiding something from the two children.

Meeting Hu's gaze, the latter shook his head at him. Now was not the time to get to the bottom of the matter.

After walking a few miles and seeing a village in the distance, Shen Huai sent the three children to a nearby village to seek shelter. While eating leftovers, he asked, "What's the truth?"

Hu sighed. She woke up when Miaozhu shouted "Stop her". Although she couldn't get up and see, she could hear roughly what happened because she was under the eight-shaped wall at the entrance of the yamen.

After Shen Huai heard his wife's story, he said, "I will definitely thank Doctor Sun and the old man who borrowed the car in the future.

Little Zhuzi is becoming more and more like his second brother when he was a child, too lively.

After returning home, I must be more disciplined."

Mrs. Hu said, "If he hadn't jumped, how could he still be missing at this time?"

"Shouldn't he have made arrangements for his hometown? Besides, there wouldn't be any carriages or horses left behind in a house raided by the county government.

It's hard to borrow money from others during the summer planting season." Shen Huai also worked in the fields since he was young, but after showing a talent for reading, he devoted himself to studying. From then on, all the work in the fields was done by his parents and his younger brother.

So he didn't like his wife saying bad things about his brother.

Hu sneered, "Just indulge her."

"My second brother must have been distracted by something and didn't come in time." Shen Huai took the meal and went to eat in a distance. Mrs. Hu stroked her chest and glared at him.

The couple had a brief disagreement, but they didn't show it in front of their returning children.

So Shen Lingzhu, who had borrowed a place to stay and bought some food, was very happy until she went to bed. She was happy even though her senior sister kept nagging her not to act impulsively.

She was still in the mood to chat with her senior sister, saying that she had only walked thirty or forty miles, but had experienced several things, such as making money, being forced to kneel, her aunt's illness worsening, and being troubled by the yamen runners. Fortunately, she got through all of them smoothly.

It’s not easy! After all this time, I can finally take a shower and sleep in bed.

They stayed silent all night. With the donkey as their means of transportation, they could see the tall city walls of Baozhou from afar at the first quarter of the next day.

As they got closer, Shen Lingzhu saw that there were tall fortresses built on both sides far away from the city wall. When she got out of the car to stretch her arms and legs, she looked carefully and saw a bright light flashing from the hole on the top.

"Don't look, there are crossbowmen and archers inside." Shen Xianzhu immediately moved sideways to block her.

Shen Huai also turned around to look at her while leading the donkey, fearing that she would get into trouble again out of curiosity: "Little Zhuzi, come here, uncle."

"Uncle, if you need anything, please tell me and I will run errands for you." After buying rice, vegetables, oil and salt in the village, Shen Lingzhu still had fifteen taels and eight cents. She felt relieved with the money in her hand. She ran to her uncle and asked with her head raised.

Shen Huai carried her onto the cart shaft and said, "Just help me keep an eye on the donkey."

What kind of busy is this?

She turned around and saw her elder brother and senior sister walking on either side, both laughing at her. She decided to ignore them and whispered to her aunt, "It's less than a hundred miles to home. Aunt, I almost forgot what the village is like."

"It's the same village as the one we stayed in last night, and even poorer because it's next to the mountain." Hu couldn't bear to tell her that the Shen family was more than eighty miles away from the county town, several miles farther than the distance from the provincial capital to the county town.

But I couldn't resist my son's honesty, so I started to calculate the itinerary for my little sister.

After hearing this, Shen Lingzhu felt sick. It turned out that the place he mentioned before, which was more than a hundred miles away from home, was referring to the county town.

When her eldest brother told her that there was a shop rented out by her aunt in the county town, she was not very happy because it was her aunt's dowry and not the Shen family's property.

She asked, "After my eldest uncle passed the imperial examination, he should have also bought property in the county seat, right?"

"Grandfather liked to buy land, not business." Shen Xianzhu finished speaking and sighed, "Fortunately, he had the foresight to set aside a hundred acres of sacrificial land and register it with the government office.

Last year, Dad asked my second uncle to buy another hundred acres of land for the sacrificial ceremony, so it won’t be confiscated this time.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Lingzhu quickly exchanged glances with her senior sister. Sure enough, the ancestral property had also been confiscated. "So, do we have to live in someone else's house?"