Chapter 35 Close Combat

"Didn't you want to put it on yourself before?"

Chunzhi said as she walked towards the room where Huo Zheng was.

She said, "When you were most seriously injured, you were still saying that physical contact between men and women is forbidden. Why do you want me to help you now?"

Huo Zheng remained silent.

"Raise your hands." Chunzhi said this, but she quickly helped him take off his outer robe and gave him new clothes to change into.

The size and length are just right.

The bamboo green color suits him very well.

Chunzhi was quite satisfied with the result and said, "My cooking skills are pretty good."

Huo Zheng asked, "Are you even praising yourself?"

Chunzhi smoothed his collar and said, "You don't praise me, but why don't you let me praise myself?"

She asked Huo Qi, "What do you think of my dress?"

Huo Zheng straightened his sleeves and said, "It's okay."

"It's OK again." Chunzhi couldn't help asking him, "Don't you have the word 'good'? You can only say OK."

What she didn't know was that for Prince Chang'an, being able to say the word "okay" was already a very high compliment.

Jiang He, who was lying on the eaves, saw the woman actually approaching the prince and changing his clothes, and his eyes widened.

You should know that His Royal Highness Prince Chang'an is extremely chaste and never lets women get close to him. He is only served by eunuchs and servants.

But this common woman from a small tofu workshop...

Jiang He couldn't help but look a few more times, and after being given a cold glance by Huo Zheng, he immediately left the place.

Chunzhi didn't know someone had come and gone, so she said to Huo Qi, "Okay, wear these new clothes, and I'll wash the rest for you."

Huo Zheng said "hmm".

Chunzhi took the clothes out to wash.

Jiang He received the latest mission, to beat someone up.

The next day, after selling tofu, Chunzhi went to the City God Temple and prayed sincerely, hoping that her wish would come true.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye, and soon it was the day for the trial.

Chunzhi got up early and took the donkey cart of Uncle Wang next door to go to the county.

There are several cases to be tried in the county today, so it won't be her turn for a while.

Chunzhi had no choice but to wait on the side.

And on the Lu family's side.

Lu Jingyun turned down all social engagements and prepared to go to the county government office to testify for Chunzhi. As he was about to leave, his maid suddenly ran up to him and said, "Madam is not feeling well and has a severe headache."

Lu Jingyun immediately ordered someone to call a doctor, then turned back to see Ji Ruzhen, "Madam, why do you suddenly have a headache? Did you get a cold wind last night?"

Ji Ruzhen pretended to be weak and leaned on the bed. "I don't know what happened. I suddenly had a severe headache. My husband, please go and do what you want. Don't worry about me..."

"How can I ignore my wife?" Lu Jingyun sat beside the couch and massaged Ji Ruzhen's head with his own hands.

After pressing for a while, he asked her, "Are you feeling better?"

Ji Ruzhen said, "Better now."

Lu Jingyun put his hand back into his sleeve. As soon as he did so, Ji Ruzhen frowned: "My head is starting to hurt again..."

"Then I'll give Madam another massage."

Lu Jingyun had no choice but to continue massaging Ji Ruzhen.

Ji Ruzhen looked at Lu Jingyun and said to him, "Husband, please don't delay your important work because of me..."

Lu Jingyun said, "Don't worry. I won't be relieved until the doctor comes and treats you."

After a long time, the doctor finally came.

The doctor took Ji Ruzhen's pulse and said that she was suffering from excessive worry and stagnation of heart energy.

Lu Jingyun frowned and asked, "Madam, why are you so worried and depressed?"

Ji Ruzhen said nothing.

The maidservant said, "It's because everyone in Qingshui Town said that Madam was trying to steal someone else's husband from a tofu vendor, and that the Prime Minister's daughter couldn't get married, so she wanted to steal someone else's husband..."

"That's enough." Ji Ruzhen interrupted, "Stop talking!"

Lu Jingyun asked the doctor to prescribe medicine for Ji Ruzhen and prepared to go get the medicine himself.

Ji Ruzhen thought he was taking the opportunity to testify for Chunzhi, so she grabbed his hand and said, "Let the servants handle the preparation of medicine. My husband, please go back to your work."

Lu Jingyun has already turned down all social engagements today, the only thing left to do is to testify for Chunzhi.

But Ji Ruzhen definitely didn't want him to go.

Lu Jingyun could only sit by the window and coax Ji Ruzhen, "Madam, you have a headache, don't worry about these things, just take a nap, you won't feel uncomfortable when you fall asleep."

Ji Ruzhen looked at Lu Jingyun eagerly, "Then my husband..."

Lu Jingyun said: "I'm here with you."

Time passed very quickly and it was afternoon in the blink of an eye.

Because the plaintiff and witnesses did not show up, the case against Chunzhi was pushed from third to last.

All the previous cases have been tried.

When it was the last person's turn, the case could not go to trial because there was no plaintiff.

After waiting for a long time, Wu Xin still didn't show up.

The county magistrate could only declare the case invalid.

Just as the county magistrate banged the gavel and was about to declare the decision invalid, several thugs came over carrying a stretcher. The person on the stretcher was wrapped in several layers of white cloth from head to toe, making it impossible to tell who he was.

The lawyer took one look and asked loudly, "Who is this man here, and why are you dressed like this?"

"I, I, you humble servant Wu Xin!"

Wu Xin spoke with tears in his voice, and collapsed on the stretcher, unable to get up.

Seeing this, Chunzhi couldn't help but think, could it be that my prayers to God were effective and all of them came true?

The county magistrate asked in disbelief, "Are you Wu Xin? How did you become like this?"

Wu Xinxin said, "I was beaten last night!"

The county magistrate asked, "Who hit you?"

"No, I don't know." Wu Xinxin said, "Before the man hit me, he was covered with a sack. I didn't see his face..."

The county magistrate glanced at the legal advisor.

The master asked, "Have you made enemies with anyone recently?"

"She...she!" Wu Xin pointed at Chunzhi with trembling hands wrapped in white cloth.

Chunzhi quickly said, "My husband and I stayed in our courtyard yesterday and didn't go out. The neighbors around us can all testify to this!"

Wu Xinxin said, "Her husband may look crippled, but he's actually quite capable of fighting. A few days ago, I brought my brothers to her house to claim back the tofu workshop my mother left me, and her crippled husband beat all of us to the ground! It was him, it must have been him who beat me last night!"

Chunzhi said: "You have no evidence, what right do you have to smear me?"

Wu Xinxin said, "I haven't had any grudges with anyone lately, except for you. Who knows if you'll try to harm me for that tofu shop? My Lord, County Magistrate, please help me!"

Chunzhi hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, County Magistrate, my husband injured his leg a few days ago and has difficulty walking. He has hardly left the house these days, and we don't even know where Wu Xin lives. How could we have beaten him like this?"

The county magistrate and the legal advisor whispered a few words and felt that what Chunzhi said was true.

The county magistrate said, "Let's put aside the matter of Wu Xin being beaten. Today's trial is about who owns the tofu workshop. You both claim that the tofu workshop is yours. Produce evidence!"