The magistrate did not expect Master Zhang to do such a ridiculous thing and was furious, picking up the wood and slapping it heavily, “Zhang Jue, do you know your crime?”
Master Zhang hit his head hard on the ground, “I know my crime.”
“Zhang Huai’s heart is not right and he has framed his fellow students, he is hereby dismissed from the rank of Scholar and will not be allowed to take the examination for five years!”
“Zhang Jue, as his father, not only condoned this, but also intended to destroy the evidence and dazed the dean to cover up the facts, fortunately no further harm was caused, so he is warned of what he did, so he is fined a thousand taels of silver and the dean and the Song family.”
……
Coming out of the county courthouse, the dean gave Song Si all the 1,000 taels of silver, “Take it, and don’t think about helping people to copy books again.”
Song Si pushed back, the dean forcefully shoved the silver to him, and arched towards Gu Yi, “Young master Gu, thank you so much for today.”
Without Gu Yi, he would have been safe and sound, but Song Si could have been ruined by his carelessness, and he would have been unable to live with it in his heart for the rest of his life.
“Dean’s words are heavy, we are grasshoppers on a rope, if I didn’t save you, no one would have been able to bounce.”
The crowd, ……
……
The dean and the husbandmen walked away, and Song Si, Song Wan Yue and Gu Yi got on the carriage.
Song Si gave Song Wan Yue a thousand taels of silver tickets, “Five hundred taels for the second young master of the Zhang family, and the remaining five hundred taels to ransom the jade bracelet back.”
Zhang Zhuan was also indirectly helping out, and the 500 taels promised by the shopkeeper Wei naturally could not be given to others, while the jade bracelet had to be redeemed.
The jade bracelet had to be redeemed so that they would have the strength to partner with the Gu family in the herbal tea business.
Song Wangyue accepted the offer without ceremony, “I’m afraid the jade bracelet can’t be redeemed.”
Hearing that Song Si had asked Song Wan Yue to redeem the jade bracelet, Gu Yi was a bit dumbfounded!
He looked at Song Wangyue nervously, afraid that she would agree.
When he heard her say so, he grinned, he knew the little girl couldn’t let go!
Song Si frowned slightly.
Song Wangyue told Zhang Zhuan about the five hundred taels she had given him when he had sent her to that courtyard to save Song Si.
Song Wangyue raised the silver ticket that was still warm, “A thousand taels is just right, we don’t have to owe the restaurant.”
Song Si’s eyebrows relaxed, “In that case, don’t tell your family about what happened today, and don’t say anything about the silver ticket either.”
Song Wangyue nodded her head.
Song Si looked to Gu Yi, “Send us to the market, the family must be waiting impatiently.”
Gu Yi ordered the carriage driver, who drove the carriage to the edge of the market.
Song Si people got off the carriage and walked over along the bazaar.
It was already half-morning, and there were many people eating cold skin.
Song Shu’s family was so busy that they couldn’t wait to grow a few more.
As soon as the customers finished eating, Song Shen quickly put away the dishes and prepared to go and wash them, and the moment he looked up he saw people coming and shouted happily, “Father and mother, big brother and little sister are here!”
Li Cui Lan and Song Shu stopped their actions to look over at the same time.
Song Si smiled and nodded.
Liu Cui Lan threw the kitchen knife on the counter with a snap and turned her back to wipe her tears, Song Shu also turned red with joy and greeted them incoherently, “Still, haven’t eaten breakfast yet, right? Come quickly, come quickly, I’ll cut the cold skin for you.”
“I’ll have a big bowl.”
Gu Yi said as he poked his head out from behind Song Si.
In a rare move, Song Shen didn’t dislike him, put the bowl down, brought a bowl of cut up cold skin with extra cucumber and seasoning, and was the first to hand it to him, “There’s more if you can’t get enough.”
Gu Yi looked at him in surprise, looked up at the sun in the sky again and muttered, “It’s coming out from the east.”
Song Shen was exasperated and looked like he was about to carry the cold skin away, “Don’t eat it and forget it.”
Gu Yi panic to protect the bowl, “I eat, I eat, you do not know, since last night we ……”
“Ahem ……”
Song Si coughed twice.
Gu Yi was shocked to realize that he had said the wrong thing and changed the subject stiffly, “I’ve been craving cold skin since last night, so I finally got to eat it.”
After saying that, he also quietly patted his small chest, fortunately he Ling did not say anything out of turn.
Song Wan Yue smiled as she walked to the case board, “The dean said to let big brother go back to the academy today, second aunt give us a bowl each as well, I’ll accompany big brother back to get something after we’re full.”
Liu Cui Lan turned around with red eyes and sharply cut up the cold skin and put it in a bowl, the two of them each brought it, mixed it up and sat down on the stool to eat.
“Hey, have you guys heard? This Master Zhang has actually drugged the director of Renhe Academy, he has too much guts.”
“What happened?”
Liu Cui Lan and Song Shu also pricked up their ears.
“I heard that ah, it’s because the young master of the Zhang family, Zhang Huai, was jealous of a student named Song Si in the academy who was better than him and framed people, the dean managed to find evidence and brought Song Si to the Zhang residence to question him, the master of the Zhang family was afraid that the matter would be revealed and bewitched the dean and Song Si a few people.”
Snap!
The kitchen knife in Liu Cui Lan fell onto the counter.
The crowd jumped in shock and looked at her.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry ……”
Song Shu accompanied with a smile, “You continue, you continue.”
“And then?”
The man next to him stopped eating his cold skin and waited curiously for him to say.
“Later on, somehow, a few people from Song Si held Miss Zhang’s family hostage, and that’s how they were able to escape.”
The crowd sighed.
“And then what happened?”
The man who spoke shook his head, “I was in a hurry to run an errand, so I don’t know about what happened after that.”
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Liu Cui Lan rushed over from behind the case board and pulled Song Wan Yue up, looking her front and back, up and down, “Yue’er, are you alright?”
“I’m fine.”
Afraid that she wouldn’t believe her, Song Wan Yue even spun herself around, and after she finished, she leaned close to her ear and whispered, “At that time, only the dean drank the tea and was dazed, we are all fine, second aunt don’t worry.”
How could Liu Cui Lan put her mind at ease, didn’t that man just now say that they had held Miss Zhang’s family hostage?
As if she knew what she was thinking, Song Wan Yue then whispered to her, “We had no choice but to do that, the county magistrate did not pursue the matter.”
Liu Cui Lan’s heart hung in the air and she slapped Song Si, “Brat, in future, you can go on your own for such dangerous things, don’t bring Yue Er with you.”
Song Si had been obedient since he was a child, he knew how to behave, he was a good student and no one in the family had ever even pestled him.
Liu Cui Lan glared at him, “Work well.”
Song Shen shrank his neck, he knew that his elder brother was his own son and he was a foundling.
……
After eating the cold skin, people went home in Gu Yi’s carriage.
Both Grandma and Master Song did not go down to the ground and waited at home distractedly. When they heard the carriage outside the door, they immediately came out of the house and walked to the front door just as several people from Song Si entered.
“How was it?”
Grandma Song asked sharply.
“The dean said for big brother to go back to the academy today.”
Grandma Song almost cried with joy, “God has eyes, after all, he didn’t let my grandson suffer from this false accusation.”
“Thanks to Young Master Gu, if it wasn’t for him, I’m afraid my grandson wouldn’t have cleared himself of the false accusation so quickly.”