No, gentlemen also guard against

Chapter 16
"Father."

"what happened?"

Xie Lingjiang hesitated.

Xie Xun was in front of the desk, laying the paper with his head down, and the towel behind his head hung down on the table, without lifting his head, he said:
"Help me grind ink."

"it is good."

Xie Xun took a small Langhao brush, lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, and began to dip the pen into the ink.This is a letter.

Xie Lingjiang, who was studying ink at the side, looked at the attentive father for a while, then turned to close the window, and it seemed to be raining outside.

"Don't close the window." Xie Xun paused, "Rain is a good thing."

Xie Lingjiang stopped and said directly: "Father, Ouyang Lianghan is different from what I imagined."

"What do you imagine."

"I thought I was a fellow, and we had a good chat."

"What about the reality?"

"Actually... it's a bit weird, and it's not quite the same as what you said before."

"Oh?"

Xie Xun stopped writing, "Everyone changes, let alone experienced ups and downs at a young age."

Xie Lingjiang hesitated for a while, and explained the "misunderstanding" at Sanhuiyuan this afternoon, and concluded:
"He also lied, although it was a good sale. But my daughter doesn't like this kind of sophistication."

At the end of the sentence, she frowned and turned her head, but found that her father was stopping writing and looking at her with great interest.

"I didn't think it was appropriate before. How do two honest gentlemen live their lives? One eye, one eye, and one eyebrow? But now, after hearing what you said, I think it's quite appropriate for a father."

Xie Xun chuckled.

"What's 'living', what's 'fitting', what's father talking about?"

"It's nothing, I'll talk to you when I come back later in the evening."

Xie Xun put down his pen, put the letter by the window to dry the ink, turned around and took out a blue-gray paper umbrella:

"Let's go, I'll take you down the mountain to meet a 'family friend'."

"Secretary? Our sixth-generation noble family, in this small Longcheng County, and even Jiangzhou City, is there anyone who can be a family friend with our Xie family?"

Xie Xun nodded calmly: "If I hadn't met this 'family friend', how could my father have erected a pagoda in this temple in this county?"

Xie Lingjiang was stunned.

……

"First of all, I didn't mess with any of you."

Ouyang Rong spoke the truth seriously.

"Secondly, I have not expressed my support for the marriage that my aunt forced. Even if my junior sister is obsessed with masculinity and eats my face, I agree, and tomorrow I will politely refuse. I want to go home and not delay others. Talented woman.

"Again, the child daughter-in-law that my aunt said was stabbing me with needles... seems to be Xiu Niang, and I didn't mean anything malicious. In my impression, she did stab me. It doesn't look like acupuncture to save people. Maybe I misunderstood me. I can only guess that she has some kind of disease, otherwise why would she murder her husband."

"so……"

Ouyang Rong paused for a while in the cloud-rolling merit hall, and tried his best to coax the titled little wooden fish in front of him: "Can you return my merit?"

After a pause, he made a slight threat:
"You're making random deductions, so you're not afraid that the Buddha will revoke your business license? So give it back to me, or you can add another V[-], and let's just pretend nothing happened, okay?"

Both soft and hard, after sincerely redressing his grievances, Ouyang Rong waited expectantly for a long time, but the merit tower was quiet, and the blue-gold font above the little wooden fish remained motionless:
[merit: ninety]

"Grass!"

Ouyang Rong threw his sleeves and left.

With a straight face, he left the black-hearted merit tower.

He is in a very bad mood now, and the collapse of adults is often in a flash.

This amount of merit has not even started to be earned, so much has been deducted, and I still don't support the wrongful deduction of appeals... I can't live through this day.

It's approaching evening.

Yan Liulang returned to Donglin Temple and delivered a pack of medicinal materials to Ouyang Rong.

Saying goodbye to the former, Ouyang Rong opened the package and checked:
There are cicadas, scorpions, Dannanxing, etc., all caught according to the prescription, and there is also a pot of rice wine and wormwood for disinfection.

This prescription for treating tetanus was learned by Ouyang Rong from a barefoot doctor in his hometown during the summer vacation when he was a child. At that time, a relative had tetanus.

And Ouyang Rong, who was very naughty at the time, also had a similar wound on his arm. The old barefoot doctor threatened that he would also get the disease, and he was so frightened that he went to grab the medicine with his hands on his back. Naturally, he was laughed at by his relatives and friends... …

So the impact is profound.

Just like you may sometimes forget the appearance of your first love, but you especially remember her plaid dress when you first met...

Ouyang Rong came to Liu Ashan's house with the medicine.

It was the original airtight and dark room again, it was the standing, lying down, and kneeling meeting again, and the dull and oppressive atmosphere where he didn't speak.

Ouyang Rong didn't talk nonsense this time, and carefully looked at Liu Ashan's condition. What made him a little relieved was that Liu Ashan's wound-infected tetanus should still be in the early stage, just when he had symptoms.

At this time, there is some hope for interventional treatment, but to be honest, in the end, it depends on whether his life is hard or not, and whether he can survive it.

Ouyang Rong was not sure either.

Just when he was hesitating, how to explain to Mother Liu and the others that a young county magistrate knows how to treat this thing.

Boom-!
There was thunder outside, and the thunder and rain that had been suppressing the clouds for a day poured down like a waterfall.

Ouyang Rong couldn't leave for a while.

Ah Shan's old mother, Mrs. Liu, came and asked him to stay and have dinner with him. Ouyang Rong was not polite, he just refused and agreed.

The guest rooms provided by Donglin Temple for pilgrims are not bad, and Liu Ashan's family lived in a quite spacious courtyard.

The place to eat is a half-open room facing the courtyard, a bit like the living room in the previous life without the floor-to-ceiling windows, where people kneel and live on the ground.

The rain line that slides down from the eaves forms a water curtain that isolates the outside from the inside.

Ouyang Rong was invited here by Mother Liu, and sat alone for a while, waiting for the meal.

As if to save money, the lights in the room were not lit, and he turned his head to look at the rain curtain outside and the dark mountain peaks in the distance in a daze.

In this era of material scarcity, the night is so boring. Once night falls, it is dark outside, and there are many insects and mosquitoes.

Speaking of which, Ouyang Rong found that he didn't seem to be 'sick of home' at night like before, maybe he was a little used to it...

"Squeak" sounded.

Someone opened the door cautiously. Ouyang Rong turned around and saw the little girl named Ah Qing "squeeze" in from outside the door holding a dinner plate and a small lamp. Because she couldn't move her hand, she could only use her slender shoulders to "squeeze" in. to push.

Ouyang Rong stepped forward and opened the door for her.

"Thank you sir."

Ah Qing lowered her head and said something in a low voice, put the lamp on the small tea table, knelt on the floor mat, and skillfully placed the bowls, chopsticks and food in front of him one after another.

Ouyang Rong found that her jet-black hair was a little wet and stuck together, and he didn't know if she had gone out just now and was drenched by the rain.

"Isn't your mother coming to eat?"

Ah Qing buried her head in handing over the rice, shook her head slightly, and said nothing.

Ouyang Rong thought about it, and felt that Mother Liu should be taking care of Ah Shan for dinner, but he asked a stupid question.

After coughing, he took the rice and took a bite, only to find that Ah Qing was just sitting beside him without touching the bowl.

"Um, don't you want to eat? Let's eat some, too. You're welcome."

Ah Qing hesitated, and under the concerned gaze of the young county magistrate, she also went to scoop up some rice.

Because the room is very dark, the oil lamp on the small coffee table is very bright, and it can only barely illuminate the two people who are kneeling and eating.

At this moment, Ouyang Rong could see the girl in front of him clearly through the light.

Like his brother, she was also tattooed on her face. This is called ink punishment. It was a standard equipment for slaves in Dazhou. The ink characters that show the authority of the master are engraved on the face or body. Even after the ransom, it will never be washed away.

There is a small "Yue" character on Ah Qing's forehead, but it doesn't damage the beauty of her little face, but it makes her look even more pitiful.

She is very thin, and the cardamom age is actually not too young. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was the age to marry, but the nutrition of the girl could not keep up, and the body could not grow at all. Her thin arms and legs were like a few sugarcane sticks put together The same, and wearing a large coarse cloth skirt, it looks a bit dull.

But Ah Qing has a pair of big spiritual eyes. The pupils and the whites of the eyes are like the black and white pieces of Go, with clear distinctions.

But these dark eyes, ever since Ouyang Rong saw them for the first time, have been covered with a curtain of sadness.

"Your brother will be fine."

Ah Qing seemed to be thinking about something sad, biting her chopsticks and staring blankly at the ground, Ouyang Rong couldn't help but comfort her.

"Thank you, master." She buried her face and repeated.

After Ouyang Rong finished his meal, he put down the bowl and chopsticks, and began to think about how to explain his "treatment plan" to Ah Qing and Mother Liu. Some of the principles he took for granted were almost impossible for them to understand, so they could only follow him blindly.

Ouyang Rong was thinking about how to persuade Mother Liu and Ah Qing, but he didn't pay attention to the girl beside him for a while.

After reacting, Ouyang Rong was surprised to find that Ah Qing did not send out the bowls and chopsticks, but moved them aside to make room for the two of them. Then she buried her head and stood in front of him with one hand Lifting up, pulling out the wooden hairpin from the hair, the wet but shiny black hair fell loose, and the other hand was not idle, and while Ouyang Rong was about to speak, he untied the slender belt and threw it on the She turned aside, shrunk her thin shoulders, and all the skirts slid off naked—it was indeed as slender as a white sugar cane after peeling off the skin, unable to hang the clothes.

"!!!"

Although his reaction was half a beat slow and his eyes widened, Ouyang Rong's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he quickly stuffed the lamp on the coffee table under the low table.

The light was hidden, the room was plunged into darkness, and the sound of the rain outside became louder.

The extremely low orange fire light "pressed" by the table board only illuminated a pair of bare ankles belonging to the girl, and someone's slender palms leaning back to support the ground in fright.

"Ah Qing, what are you doing?" He lowered his voice in an unbelievable tone.

In the darkness, Ah Qing didn't stop yet, she called out "Master" in a low voice, then went up to meet Ouyang Rong.

The latter was so frightened that he quickly jumped up and backed away. At the same time, he tore off his robe with his backhand and unfolded it, catching the jumping girl, and wrapping it tightly again, only revealing a stupid little head.

Ouyang Rong pressed his little head, took a deep breath, and then came over and asked, "Why are you taking off so well?"

He asked again: "Someone forced you?" The county magistrate Ruoguan began to feel angry.

"No one forced Ah Qing. The family is poor and has nothing to entertain the master." Ah Qing shook her head dumbly, "My mother and elder brother asked me to come, and Ah Qing also volunteered...as long as the master can have fun."

Ouyang Rong was silent.

Because I have been forcing Ah Qing and the members of Ah Qing's family to...

It was him.

(End of this chapter)