Is Master happy?

Chapter 81

In the early morning of the second day, Xi Ya had just left his samadhi when he heard a hasty knock on the door from outside the courtyard.

She went downstairs to open the door, and in front of her were several government servants wearing official uniforms with badges pinned to their waists. The leader had a rather fierce expression on his face. When he saw someone opened the door, he raised his eyes to see Xiya's appearance, and raised his hand without saying a word. Ask someone to take it down.

Xiya was still confused, so the person behind him grabbed his arm and pinched her painfully. She frowned, but couldn't break free due to her status, so she asked coldly: "This official, I don't know if the villain committed a crime?" What's wrong? Why are you arresting me?"

"What did you do wrong?" The yamen servant sneered, "You are still asking yourself what is wrong with colluding with bandits and kidnapping traders in the city?"

"My little boy was also implicated in the robbery of the people. He was trapped in the bandit's place for a few days, and he just redeemed it. Could it be that I colluded with the bandits to kidnap my family members?" Xi Ya calmly replied, But he didn't want to listen, but he didn't listen, he just said: "You can tell the county magistrate about this." Then he pressed people to leave.

A burst of anger rose from her stomach, and Xi Ya was about to throw these unreasonable yamen servants out with her hands, but she thought that she would still live here in the future, so she held back and glanced sideways upstairs, only to see Li Siyuan had already hurried down, seeing this scene, he wanted to come over and ask what happened.

Xi Ya hurriedly forced his voice into a line, and warned her not to come out in her ear, waiting for him in the medical hall, and then was suppressed by the yamen servants without saying a word, and went to the county yamen.

She was very angry in her heart, and she didn't want these people to hold her down, so she used a trick to find a wooden person, and she got out, followed the group of government servants from the side, trying to see what they were going to do .

When they went to the yamen, the wooden man was held down and kowtowed twice by the county magistrate. Xi Ya watched coldly from the side, and saw that the person on this platform was the one who executed Li Siyuan that day.

He patted the gavel, coughed, and said, "Is this Doctor Tianrentang here?"

"Yes." The wooden man bowed in a serious manner.

"You, you... what's your name?" The county magistrate took a few glances at the pleadings and asked with his eyes wide open.

"Little man Feng Ya."

"Feng Ya..." the county magistrate muttered, raised his hand to show her the pleading paper, and said sternly: "A few days ago, the merchant who was intercepted by bandits signed a letter together, saying that they saw you with their own eyes. You were politely invited into the cottage by bandits, can you admit it?"

Hearing the words, the wooden man was silent for a moment, put his hands together, and slowly opened his mouth and said: "My lord, although the bandit came to invite me politely on the surface, he was actually threatening. It is really helpless to have to obey him.”

"It's clearly written on the pleadings. You were calm that day, without a trace of fear, and you were invited in respectfully. Now, it looks like you haven't been abused by bandits anywhere. How did you come here? Words of fear?" The county magistrate has a cautious and blunt temperament, and he didn't use the killing stick to extract a confession from the very beginning, but he held the pleadings and confronted the wooden man word by word.

"The villain was able to come back safely because of my medical skills. The bandits didn't dare to hurt me if they wanted me to heal someone's illness. It's not that the villain colluded with them. And if the villain colluded with the bandits, why bother to come back again?" , wouldn’t it be better to collect the money and flee to another place?”

"This..." The county magistrate looked at the paper and felt that the wooden man was right, but he still ordered: "Perhaps you want to see if the official responds. If there is no response, then continue to deceive people."

The wooden man shook his head helplessly, "What are you doing to deceive others? Am I not caught by the adults as soon as I come back? Even if they want to inquire, the bandits should send someone else."

The county magistrate was blocked and lost his mind. He thought for a while before looking at the pleading paper, and then raised his eyes to look at the master who was sitting at the table next to him. What's the matter?"

The county magistrate received the pleadings and whispered, "I see that what he said is reasonable. This pleading is indeed full of loopholes. Could it be that this Feng Ya was really wronged?"

"Oh my lord, why do you just believe what he says? When he came back to the city, he probably couldn't bear to part with the silver taels he earned in this medical clinic. I have heard about this man. Pawned a lot of valuable treasures and exchanged them for thousands of taels. Tell me, he is such a nameless brat, where did he get those treasures? Maybe it was given to him by the bandit, and let him settle in Now, secretly inquire about the day when the imperial merchant left the city." The master clapped his hands, and said: "My lord, don't trust others casually."

"If he said to himself that he was just exchanging his family's treasures for silver, so what? I can't take care of other people's family affairs, so I should charge him for unfilial piety." The county magistrate still frowned, and asked again.

"That's... denial in every possible way, and I have no choice but to use the stick of death." The master narrowed his eyes and said.

"Being tortured into a trick?" The county magistrate frowned, "No! You must pay attention to the evidence in judging the case. I have committed punishment without evidence. Wouldn't it be unfair? How can I face my mentor and the Holy One?"

"My lord, how can you be tortured into a trick?" The master wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said: "We have complaints, and he has excuses. If you go back and forth like this, and your lord is so sympathetic, why don't you tell him to take advantage of the loophole and escape?" ?”

He moved closer, and his voice became lower and lower, "Besides, my lord should also think about it. A few days ago, there was a traitor Li Jiqiu here. Before you sent him to the capital for trial, he was in prison." Hit the wall and commit suicide, and the capital is about to be inspected, but there is another bandit making trouble, kidnapping thirty or forty traders, one after another, sir, do you not want your own future?"

"You..." The county magistrate looked at him, seemingly surprised, but he didn't want him to continue: "My lord has been an official for two years, but two such big things happened. I'm afraid your mentor can't protect you. The Holy One blames you Come down, all the people in our yamen will lose their heads. At this time, if you don’t hurry up and find someone to spread the blame, is it possible that you want to bear it yourself?"

The county magistrate's complexion was a little pale, his brows were furrowed, and when he thought about it carefully, he was sweating all over. He murmured a few times, and then said with trembling lips: "But, how can he be blamed here?"

The master sighed, and said: "Your Excellency, I told him what I said before. Before he refuted, he ordered the yamen servant to hold him down and hit him with twenty sticks. I'm afraid he would not be able to open his mouth if he wanted to."

The county magistrate nodded, sighed deeply, felt guilty and panicked, and after a long while straightened up and faced the wooden man, he said exactly what the master said.

Although they were whispering just now, Xiya could hear it clearly when she was hidden on the side. She thought that although the county magistrate was gentle, he was also upright, but now it seemed that this integrity was still in place. He manifests when he is not threatened.

She knew that she would have to bear this charge today, and she didn't want to watch it any longer, so as not to upset herself, she raised her hand to enlighten the wooden man a little bit, and let it deal with it by itself. And hit the wall to kill himself, and also avoided the troubles later.

She originally wanted to live here for seven or eight years before getting out, but she didn't want to cause trouble, so now she had to leave early.

Yi Rong became an ordinary scholar, Xi Ya went back to the medical center, bought some dry food for food along the way, and exchanged a few bags of broken silver, the carriage in the courtyard was still parked, she changed the appearance of the body, and then turned over Go upstairs and knock on Li Siyuan's door.

Seeing a stranger after opening the door, Li Siyuan almost raised his hand to throw the cup in his hand, but Xi Ya stopped her first, and raised his hand to caress her face so that she could see his face clearly.

"They let you back?" Li Siyuan asked her sideways to let her in.

"They didn't let me come back, it was I who escaped and came back." Xi Ya sighed and said, "I have prepared the carriage, and today we will leave the city."

"Going out of town?" Li Siyuan blinked his eyes, but became happy again in an instant, "But you want to elope?"

The term "elope" was not used very accurately, Xi Ya explained: "It's to escape, you go and pack your clothes, I'll wait for you downstairs."

"Okay." Li Siyuan didn't feel the desolation of fleeing, it was a novelty, he packed his clothes a few times, and changed into a set of clothes that were easy to move around, before going downstairs.

Xi Ya was feeding the horses, Li Siyuan packed up the things in the car, poked his head out of the car window, and asked her, "Shall we go say goodbye to Wu Tong first?"

Seeing that the horse was almost eaten, Xi Ya put away the fodder and shook his head: "There's no need to say goodbye, I've played a trick on my eyes, if I say goodbye now, I'll have to wear it."

"Are you afraid that Wu Tong won't be able to hide what's on his mind, and if it is exposed, you might cause him trouble?" Li Siyuan half-supported the carriage and asked with a smile.

"...I'm afraid of causing trouble for myself." Xi Ya looked at her, raised his hand a little, and changed her appearance.

Li Siyuan smiled and did not argue with her, but straightened his face and said: "I know, but if you don't tell him, he will think that you really died tragically, and I disappeared. Miss us."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, is it possible that the girl is used to leaving without saying goodbye, leaving others to miss you, and even came to look for you from thousands of miles away?" Li Siyuan said softly, her eyes fell on Xi Ya, looking at Xi Ya felt guilty, making her feel guilty. There is no reason to think that when I left Master, I also left without saying goodbye.

"If you want to say goodbye, I'll take you there." Xi Ya avoided her gaze, closed the door of the carriage, and got on the horse.

"No need." Li Siyuan's voice was a bit muffled, and he retracted his body into the carriage, "The child is most concerned about you, so what's the use of me going."