Chapter 118 Su Guo Gongfu 2 ◇
◎Jinjiang exclusive◎
Zhou Jin refused to let Steward Ding take away Song Yi's wife, Liu. Steward Ding, no matter how arrogant he was, didn't dare actually attack Zhou Jin, a third-rank general. Furthermore, judging by Zhou Jin's aura, even if they did, they wouldn't necessarily win...
As the steward of the Duke of Su's Mansion, Steward Ding had naturally heard of Zhou Jin, the new commander of the Longxiang Battalion...
Although he looked down on Zhou Jin's official position and felt that he was courting trouble by daring to offend their prince, and that sooner or later he would kneel down and beg for mercy, Manager Ding did not dare to underestimate Zhou Jin's kung fu.
This man dared to launch a surprise attack on the headquarters of Tatar and Oirat with only 300 soldiers, and blocked more than 10,000 soldiers of Hu Xiang’s group with only 100 guards!
Even their Duke privately praised this guy, saying that he resembled his youth...
Therefore, seeing that Zhou Jin was determined not to release the man, Steward Ding had no other choice but to take the servants back to report...
At this time, Zhou Jin's personal guard Tang Yan also arrived with a doctor and went into the house to examine Liang's injuries...
The final diagnosis was that Liang had simply fainted from the knock, with no internal brain damage. She should wake up in a few hours, take some medicine, and rest for a few days, and she should be fine. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this...
Only then did Zhou Jin have time to ask about the origins of the feud between the Song family and the Duke Su's Mansion...
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It turns out that after escorting Zhou Jin and the others back to the capital, Song Yi used the perfume bottle Zhou Jin gave him to get himself a job as an inspector...
Although he was transferred to the outer city for this job, he was able to manage a patrol office and a dozen yamen runners in the patrol office, which was considered to be a small world of his own.
Also, since the patrol inspection department's job is mainly to check on passersby and merchants, the daily benefits are not as much as when they were escorting, but it is not bad either...
Moreover, this job is much easier and safer than escorting prisoners, so Song Yayi is very satisfied with this position!
He even made some arrangements and transferred his favorite subordinate, Li Mao, over here...
In the past few years, Song Yi has been working diligently in this job. In addition, he is very smooth and has good relationships with his superiors and subordinates. Therefore, he has had a very good life in the past few years!
Not only did he build a big house outside the city and bring my mother over from the old house, but last year, he also married an extremely beautiful wife, Liu.
Song Yi originally thought that once he and Liu had another child, he would be able to live a comfortable and happy life with a wife and children...
But things don’t always go as planned…
Half a month ago, Liu heard a letter from her brothers on her natal side, saying that her elder sister, who had sold herself to the Duke of Su's mansion since she was a child, had suddenly died of an epidemic. The Duke's mansion had generously awarded fifty taels of funeral silver and allowed her family to take the ashes back for burial.
Liu's older brother was somewhat dim-witted, her two younger brothers were still young, and her parents were honest farmers who had rarely left the village. Therefore, they sent a letter to their son-in-law, Song Yi, to accompany Liu's eldest brother to the Duke of Suguo's mansion on their behalf to collect Liu's ashes and the money...
After receiving the letter, Liu thought of the short years she spent with her elder sister and how good her elder sister had been to her, so she wanted to go with Song Yi. Song Yi loved his wife very much, so he agreed!
But I didn’t expect that this would bring disaster to my family!
As they were leading Sister Liu's ashes out of the Duke of Su's Mansion, they happened to run into Lan Renhao, the Duke of Su's son, who was returning from a banquet...
Lan Renhao spotted the beautiful Liu and immediately came over, using his drunken stupor to tease her with all sorts of words...
Song Yi didn't dare to offend this person, so he had to hold back his anger, protecting Liu behind him while speaking kindly to her for a long time. With the help of several servants from the Duke's Mansion, he was finally able to take his wife home...
The couple thought the matter was over. The Duke's son had seen all kinds of beauties, and most likely he was just drunk when he flirted with Liu...
Unexpectedly, a few days later, the steward of the Duke Su's Mansion found Song Yi's inspection office and said that he would divorce Liu in exchange for the position of county magistrate in a wealthy place and five hundred taels of silver!
Was this clearly asking Song Yi to sell his wife?! How could he possibly agree to this? He immediately and sternly refused. But at that moment, Song Yi felt that this was not good. How could a small-time person like them afford to offend the Duke of Su's Mansion?!
So after returning home, I discussed with my mother and Mrs. Liu that I wanted to quit my job as an inspector and return to my hometown in the countryside to take shelter for a while...
Liang and Liu naturally listened to Song Yi. They both felt that as long as the family was harmonious, it didn't matter where they lived or whether they had money or not...
But before Song Yi could submit his resignation, something happened again...
That day, while they were patrolling the intersection according to the law, one of Song Yi's subordinates came to report that a carriage was acting suspiciously and was suspected of carrying contraband...
After hearing this, Song Yi personally took a few people to check. Unexpectedly, when the driver saw Song Yi and others coming, he suddenly resisted and rushed towards Song Yi...
In panic, Song Yi could only pull out the iron bar from his waist to subdue the man. However, during the fight, the man suddenly fell to the ground and began to convulse...
Afterwards, someone from the Duke Su’s Mansion came and said that the person who fell to the ground was a servant from their farm. He was delivering vegetables from the farm to their mansion today, but was interrogated by Song Yi for no reason. Not only did he fail to extort money and property from him, but he was also seriously injured!
The yamen runner who went to fetch Song Yi brought several other yamen runners to testify that they had seen Song Yi injuring someone. Song Yi had no way of defending himself and was immediately taken into custody...
At this point, Song Yi knew that he was framed by the people from the Duke of Su's Mansion, but how could he, a mere inspector, fight against the powerful Duke of Su's Mansion?
When he was being taken away, he could only signal Li Mao, who had rushed over, to hurry home to help him notify his family, hoping that his wife and mother would run away quickly...
But when Li Mao had just arrived at the Song family and was about to take Liang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to hide in his house for a few days, people from the Duke of Su's mansion came and blocked the road, preventing them from leaving...
She also said that Liu was actually her deceased sister Liu Yan, who had escaped from their mansion a year ago and was a fugitive slave in their mansion, so they wanted to capture Liu...
In order to protect her daughter-in-law, Song Yi's mother, Liang, started arguing with the servants. As a result, she was pushed away by one of the servants and fell to the bluestone ground, with a bloody head...
Then, Zhou Jin arrived...
Zhou Jin...
After listening to Liu and Li Mao's stories, Zhou Jin felt that the prince of the Duke of Su was really... a model of using power to oppress others!
Without even a roundabout way, if buying it with money or official positions doesn't work, then just rob it?!
The so-called Liu was her sister Liu Yan's claim. Even a child wouldn't believe it, but they were so brazen about it. I guess they had already bought witnesses and evidence...
But, does Lan Renhao's father, Lan Ting, know about all that he has done?!
"Brother Li, please find a car and take my two personal guards to take Aunt Song and my sister-in-law to my house. I'll leave them with my mother for the time being..."
Zhou Jin said to Li Mao who was standing beside him, and then said a few words of comfort to the panicked Liu.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. Now that I'm in charge of this matter, I won't abandon it halfway. You can go to my house and take shelter for a few days. I'll go see Brother Song first, and then think about how to solve this matter..."
Liu was now extremely panicked. Seeing Zhou Jin willing to stand up for her family, and with Li Mao vouching for her, saying that Zhou Jin was a man of integrity, she had no choice but to accept the offer. She immediately packed up her things, took her mother-in-law, and left with Li Mao and two of Zhou Jin's personal guards...
Zhou Jin wasn't idle either. He used his connections to visit Song Yi in prison. Seeing that he wasn't being tortured, he felt relieved. With the prison warden watching, Zhou Jin couldn't say much to him. He simply said everything was fine at home and assured him that he would find a way to help him.
Song Yi never imagined that the little kindness he showed to Zhou Jin's family during his exile would be exchanged for such a huge reward from Zhou Jin. Logically, the glass bottle Zhou Jin gave him was enough to repay it all!
But the young man who smiled and said to him when they left, "If I can get through this difficult time, I will definitely drink and chat with you when we meet again!" actually got through that difficult time and came to save his family and rescued them from the dire straits when his family was most helpless and in need of help!
Song Yi was so moved that he burst into tears and fell to his knees, insisting on kowtow to Zhou Jin!
Zhou Jin was shocked and tried to pull him up through the bars of the cell, but the guard Song took advantage of the moment to stand up and whispered in his ear,
"Liu has something! I call her Bao'er in private!"
Zhou Jin...
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Originally, after seeing Song Yi, Zhou Jin wanted to go to the palace gate and hand Zhu Xi a letter, asking him to accompany him to the Duke of Su's mansion the next day to see if he could resolve Song Yi's situation without offending the Duke of Su and his son...
Even if Duke Su and his son looked down on him as a third-rank military officer, they still had to consider the Fifth Emperor's grandson and the wife of Duke E, right?
But because Song Yi suddenly told Zhou Jin secretly that Liu Shi had hidden something, Zhou Jin was really curious about what it was, so he did not go to the palace gate to deliver the letter, but went straight home...
However, after arriving home, he took the opportunity to go back to his room to change clothes and went to the space to leave a letter for his sister, asking her to tell Zhu Xi to come see him tomorrow...
Then, he took Mu Qingni, who had just returned home, to the courtyard where Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lived...
When Zheng learned that Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were actually the mother and daughter-in-law of Song Yayi, she was grateful for Song Yayi's care for her family and treated Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with great hospitality. She arranged for them to live in a separate small courtyard and also sent two maids to serve them.
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After Zhou Jin brought his wife into the courtyard where Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lived, he dismissed the two maids and told Liu directly what Song Yi had told him, and asked Liu what she had hidden.
Liu looked at Zhou Jin suspiciously but didn't say anything... obviously she didn't believe him...
Zhou Jin...Okay, it seems that what the yamen runner Song said to him later was indeed a secret code between them...
Zhou Jin was too embarrassed to directly tell his wife what the yamen runner Song had called Liu in private. After thinking about it, he whispered something in his wife's ear... hoping that she would whisper it to Liu...
As a result... Mu Qingni heard this... and shouted directly to Liu:
"Your husband said that when he's with you in private, he calls you Bao'er!"
Zhou Jin...
Liu...
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