Lishu Village is not a place where traffic gathers, and water and land transportation are inconvenient, so Liangchen can't call a carriage near the village, so he can only walk to the official road and wait for passing cars to enter the city.

At the tea shop where he stopped last time, Liangchen stood on the side of the road waiting for the bus, and from time to time he saw people in the village hurrying everywhere, thinking that they had come to the relatives and friends of the Wu family to report the news.

The rule in the countryside is that if someone dies in a family, the neighbors on the left and right must go out to help. The women helped with the cooking, and the men were busy delivering letters, otherwise the main family would not have been able to keep busy at all. Afterwards, the host family does not need to be thanked, nor does it have to be paid, because the next time someone else has something to do, they have to do the same.

Some villagers who knew Liangchen saw him standing alone on the official road waiting for the bus, so they casually asked, knowing that he was going to the county to protect his father and eldest brother, so he told him to hurry up and bring some money with him, so as not to make his father and eldest brother suffer.

Wu Dequan, who came out to pick up Wu Xiuzhi last night, also took two people to the county in a carriage, and it seemed that he was going to inform Wu Dezheng.

Wu Fuzi has three children, the eldest Wu Dezheng is working as a bookkeeper in the county, the second Wu Deyi is studying abroad, and the third is the daughter Wu Xiuzhi.

Wu Dezheng is busy again, and he has to rush back no matter what his father dies. Fortunately, he is just a clerk, and if he becomes an official, I am afraid he will have to keep filial piety at home for three years. His qualifications are not enough for the emperor to order "seizing love".

The second Wu Deyi, Liangchen has never seen it, but he knows that this person is also a showman, I heard that he is very good at learning, and in order to study, he went to study in other places. Wu Fuzi left in a hurry, and Wu Deyi was afraid that he would not be able to come back for a while.

But I don't know what Wu Xiuzhi is crying now? Will the Pan family send someone to mourn?

Regarding Wu Fuzi's death, Liangchen was still a little sad in his heart, he didn't want Wu Dequan to take him into the city, because it was not good to follow the people's car at this time.

The heavens and the earth are great, and the dead are great.

The government must be polite to major red and white events.

Liangchen waited patiently at the tea shop, and half an hour later, a carriage came from the east, and it was marked as a "bus" from a neighboring town.

This "bus" is not the kind of bus that "books on the bus", but similar to the bus of later generations. It is a horse-drawn carriage specially set up in the township traffic points in the county, and it is sent back and forth twice a day. When you don't have a car or horse, you usually take this bus. Because there are few vehicles and many people entering the city, the car and horse shops are quite profitable.

Limited by means of transportation, most of the people's activities in this era were only within a few dozen miles to the left, and it was a long time to see if they could go out of 100 miles. In addition, except for the official roads, most of the roads in the countryside are muddy and difficult to walk, so except for the people in the towns and transportation points, most of the farmers scattered in the countryside come out by boat.

The small river at the east end of Lishu Village is a big river that follows Suning County, but this river does not flow through the county seat, but goes to Shandong, so Liangchen can only walk to the official road and wait for the car.

When he got on the bus to pay the money, Liangchen saw a suona team driving the ox cart down the official road and going to Lishu Village. The ox cart is full of funeral supplies, and this kind of suona team is specially responsible for red and white ceremonies, and it is in contact with those "heavy hands" who specialize in digging graves and burying coffins on weekdays, as well as Mr. Geography. Once someone dies, they always arrive as soon as possible, and the things to be used for the funeral are also complete, and they don't bother to bother the master's family at all.

There were not many people on the bus, there were vacant seats inside, and Liangchen did not go in, so he sat on the outermost. When the people in the car saw that he had come from Lishu Village, they asked him who in the village was old.

When Liangchen said that Wu Fuzi of social studies died of illness, everyone in the car was embarrassed, and many people said that they would go to Lishu Village to hang some paper money for Wu Fuzi.

Liangchen was quite touched in his heart, although Wu Fuzi was only a showman, and he had been teaching and educating people in social studies in Lishu Village all his life, but for more than 30 years, including the children of Lishu Village, he taught not 10,000 students, but several thousand.

Among these people, perhaps none of them have been able to progress on the road to the imperial examination, and most of them have even gone home after only a year and a half of study. However, no matter how short the school time is, for these peasant children, Wu Fuzi is their teacher.

Now I heard that the teacher is gone, as long as these people are free, of course they have to go to hang some paper money for Wu Fuzi. It is foreseeable that in the next few days, many people in the vicinity will come to mourn.

This is the way of respecting teachers.

Liangchen also wanted to buy a piece of paper money to give Wu Fuzi a head after saving his father and eldest brother.

After the bus arrived at the county seat, Liangchen went straight to the county office.

"What for?" Outside the county office, two officials stopped the good minister.

Liangchen said that he was here to protect people, and the two officials asked him who he wanted to protect, and Liangchen said that he was from Lishu Village.

"From Pear Tree Village?" A servant looked at the good minister: "Captured for the affairs of the land?" ”

Liangchen let out an "um".

Another official asked, "Which one do you protect?" ”

Liangchen said: "My father and eldest brother. ”

The official asked him, "What's your name?" ”

"My father's name is Wei Jinde, and my eldest brother's name is Wei Liangqing." Liangchen said truthfully.

The two officials talked in a low voice, and then one of them told the good minister to wait here, and he went to the torture chamber to ask.

After the official entered, the good minister asked another officer: "Big brother, where are my father now?" ”

The official said angrily: "If you are caught, where is the prison not closed?" Is it good to eat and drink? ”

"That..."Liangchen hesitated, but couldn't help but ask, "My father and eldest brother are suffering in prison?" ”

The official sneered: "The rules in prison, no matter whether they are justified or not, no matter how many days they are detained, they have to be taught a lesson when they go in." ”

"What do you mean by eating a lesson?" Liangchen felt that these three words didn't sound good.

"You don't understand."

When the official saw that Liangchen was still young, he shook his head, and did not tell him what it meant to "eat a lesson", but only asked if Liangchen had brought money.

Liangchen hurriedly said that he had brought it, and quickly touched two small flat coins and handed them to the officer.

"Wait for Lao Zhang to come out, if there is nothing to do, you and Lao Zhang go into the torture room to go through the formalities, pay the money to take your father and eldest brother back." The official got the money, spoke kindly, and told the good minister: "After you go back, tell your father to stop making trouble." The matter of land acquisition is a major matter of the imperial court, and the county can't control it. ”

"yes, I see." Liangchen nodded, he wanted to persuade his father and eldest brother not to get involved in this matter, his arms couldn't twist his thighs, the old Wei family would be wide in the future, why bother to ask for hardship for these two acres and eight points of land.

The old Zhang quickly walked out of the second gate, saw Liangchen, waved his hand and said, "I asked for you, your father can protect it, but your eldest brother can't." ”

Liangchen was stunned: "Why?" ”

Lao Zhang smiled: "Your eldest brother provoked the county to get angry, and he told him to be locked up for a few more days." ”

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Thank you Dad Liu for having a small treasury and Yuan Xinju for the 100 yuan reward!