Chapter 137: Sharing Difficulties
Lu Mingchao looked down at Cheng Zhi, who had tears in her eyes, with a half-smile. There was a hint of coldness in his smiling eyes.
The bottom of my eyes is as quiet as the vast deep ocean, and as clear as a thousand-year-old well.
Cheng Zhi's heart seemed to be deeply hurt by Lu Mingchao's words, as if a huge hole had split open in her heart, and the cold wind blew through her, making her feel the piercing coldness in every part of her body. Cold sweat dripped down her back, and her fear reached the extreme point, so much so that she dared not look Lu Mingchao in the eye.
"Miss Cheng, evildoers will be punished by heaven."
Master Cheng's lips moved, as if he wanted to say something, but he could only glare like a duck with its neck strangled, breathing heavily through his nose.
"A woman should be gentle and docile. How can you be like this..."
"Unquiet, unvirtuous, and disrespectful?" Lu Mingchao answered naturally.
"I will say whatever the Cheng family does."
"Why? I can't say anything about what the Cheng family did. What kind of logic is this?"
"The Cheng family is capable of fabricating rumors and slandering others, so why don't you allow the Lu family to prove their innocence?"
"Does Master Cheng think that my elder brother should be drenched from head to toe in this basin of dirty water, and remain silent while admitting his guilt and being punished?"
"Is this how Master Cheng's book teaches people to behave? Which sage's book is it? Tell me so I can read it."
Lu Mingchao's series of questions forced Master Cheng to blush and swallow his high-sounding words based on quotations from classics.
If you say it again, you will only bring shame upon yourself.
Lu Mingchao frowned slightly, hiding the deep sarcasm in his eyes, and immediately "begged the county magistrate to send officials to verify what the woman said."
The magistrate of Xu County said: "I returned home from the office late at night, and I went out early in the morning to present my report."
He is truly a good official who is honest, diligent, loyal to the emperor and loves the people. It is unjust that he was not given a first place in the performance evaluation of the Ministry of Personnel at the end of the year.
County Magistrate Xu looked at the inky black sky, touched his increasingly thinning hair, and sighed.
"Lao Shi, take someone to verify it."
He vaguely knew that Shi Bantou and Lu Mingchao became friends because of the Chaofu Grain Store case.
Going to Shibantou can avoid causing trouble to the greatest extent.
Hearing this, Shi Bantou bowed to County Magistrate Xu, slapped the sword at his waist, and walked away with the gait of a dragon or a tiger.
Shi Bantou thought that his good karma was growing stronger and stronger.
"It will take time to verify the testimony. The Cheng family father and daughter and Lu family eldest son will be detained for the time being." County Magistrate Xu slammed the hall wood, his eyes like a hawk and his voice stern.
Master Cheng shouted, "I am the victim!"
Lu Mingchao smiled and kindly explained, "You have a bad memory. You have forgotten so quickly that I sued you and your daughter for slandering my brother."
"As long as the case of losing your virginity is not investigated and concluded, you and your daughter will be detained."
Having said this, he paused and turned his gaze to Cheng Zhi, "Miss Cheng, you are young, you should be able to understand and remember it well, right?"
Cheng Zhi was dazzled by the smile. For some reason she felt that this smile gave her the feeling of encountering a garden full of blooming flowers in the winter night when the cold wind was howling.
But, Lu Mingchao is poisonous.
Beneath the brilliant smile lies a sharp determination.
"Just as Xie Lu said!" County Magistrate Xu winked at the yamen runners.
Lu Lei smiled at Lu Mingchao and calmly followed the yamen runners away.
The hall was empty, and County Magistrate Xu stood up and walked to Lu Mingchao. "Thank you, Madam. I have never had the chance to apologize for my son's ridiculous behavior after he fell into the water at the flower viewing banquet."
"Your Excellency the County Magistrate is too kind." Lu Mingchao smiled. "Mr. Xu has an upright character, treats people sincerely, makes friends with a chivalrous heart, and always adheres to the principle of honesty and trust in dealing with others. He is indeed a person of upright character, so how can he be said to have made mistakes?"
Well, she had already expressed her anger in front of me, and the anger in her heart had dissipated.
A smile appeared in County Magistrate Xu's eyes. He was very satisfied with Lu Mingchao's response and admired him more and more.
Be frank yet scheming, be strong and principled yet not overly sharp, be gentle and tactful when necessary.
With this kind of personality, he was born to carve out a niche for himself.
Lu Mingchao's long eyelashes trembled, and he did not miss the gaze of County Magistrate Xu.
Pursing her lips, she said openly, "I would like to thank the county magistrate for giving me the opportunity to defend myself."
"Don't worry, County Magistrate. Black is white and black is white. I will never make things difficult for you, County Magistrate."
County Magistrate Xu understood what he meant. “Are you so confident?”
Lu Mingchao nodded and said, "The brothers in my family are very close to each other. How could the eldest brother not care about the future and reputation of the second brother and do something dirty and despicable?"
"It's nothing more than a scheme to confuse right and wrong and frame someone."
County Magistrate Xu smiled even more broadly. "Then I will wait and see."
It's just some low-level frame-up.
"I'll take my leave," Lu Mingchao said with interest.
After leaving the county government office, Lu Mingchao breathed a sigh of relief.
County Magistrate Xu was probably ready to cut ties with Sun Zhiye and was ready to show her kindness and support her.
Unfortunately, County Magistrate Xu’s transfer order will arrive in the early spring of next year.
Gu Huai, who caused the chaos, deserves to be damned!
She must use the limited time left to dig her roots deeper and grow her branches and leaves more luxuriantly so that Gu Huai will have something to worry about when he gets sick or goes crazy.
Gu Huai was coming to Changhe County to serve as a local official.
The officials in charge cannot force to death the kind-hearted people who help the poor and the diligent taxpayers in Changhe County!
Just one Ji Ci Hui is not enough.
She needs to be known for more and greater kindness.
Reputation is a bondage, but also a talisman.
The night wind was blowing harder and harder. Lu Mingchao tugged at his cloak and walked quickly out of the alley outside the county government office.
At the entrance of the alley, next to the carriage, Xie Yan was standing tall and waiting for her, holding a lantern.
"Ah Yan."
Lu Mingchao lifted the hem of her skirt and trotted away, while Xie Yan had a smile on his face.
"A Yan." Lu Mingchao hooked Xie Yan's finger and slowly recounted the scenes in the lobby of the county government.
"Master Cheng and Cheng Zhi are extremely shameful!"
"It's good that you can calm down, brother." Xie Yan hung the lantern in front of the carriage and took Lu Mingchao's hand to get on the carriage.
Inside the carriage, the light was dim.
Lu Mingchao only felt a pain in his fingertips and took a breath subconsciously.
Xie Yan frowned, gently grasped Lu Mingchao's wrist, held it in front of his eyes, and looked at it carefully. "There is a bamboo thorn stuck in the tip of your index finger. Don't move. I will pick it out for you first."
The small box under the seat of the carriage contains small commonly used items.
"How did you get stuck with a bamboo thorn?"
After picking out the thorn, Xie Yan was puzzled.
Lu Mingchao did not hide the fact that "I used the bow and arrow."
"After all, it's outside the county government, so it's safer to use sharpened bamboo."
"Sun Zhiye?" Xie Yan was suddenly enlightened.
Lu Mingchao blinked and rested his head on Xie Yan's shoulder. "He is really not a good person."
"Before, you tricked you into going to Fuxianglou, and now you're trying to trick me into marrying someone else, and you're even brazenly claiming that you're willing to give me 70% of your property."
After a series of setbacks, some people became resentful and some were devastated, but Sun Zhiye became obsessed and went crazy.
"He still thinks he is the famous Master Yuxian."
God's will is not in you