bayedsolid Chapter 189 Jiang's Plan
Chapter 189 Jiang's Plan
"My lord, our daughter is still in confinement after giving birth. Please let her go. She has been having a fever for three days in a row. If the fever continues, she will die." Mrs. Liu cried out of pity for her daughter.
"Sir, I know I was wrong. Please forgive me." Li Chengcai was also afraid. Although his living conditions were not very good since he was a child, Li Dajiang and Liu had never let him suffer any grievances.
After spending three days in jail, he felt that he had endured more suffering in his entire life than in those three days.
"Considering that this is your first offense, I will spare you this time. Each of you will be given twenty lashes of the board, and the woman will be given ten lashes. Now the court is adjourned." The prefect gave an order and several yamen runners surrounded him.
They were beaten with sticks one by one, and finally everyone came out with their hands covering their buttocks.
"Li Dajiang's case is not over yet. He was imprisoned with you for three days for nothing and suffered a lot." As soon as he walked out of the county government gate, Li Laosi started to make a fuss. He originally wanted to watch the fun, but he didn't expect to lose more than he gained.
"Yeah, my two children are at home, I don't know how they got through this, it's all your fault, Li Jiaojiao, you jinx, how dare you still live in this world, it would be better if you just died."
Jiang didn't dare to cause any trouble in the county government. She was most afraid of officials. She was like a little lamb in the jail for the past three days.
As soon as he walked out of the county government gate, the anger that had been simmering for several days suddenly came to the fore. He was worried about whether his two children had eaten and drunk enough at home.
People like Old Man Li, who knows what he would think of the child. It makes me angry just thinking about it.
"How can you talk like that? When you first came, you were so happy. Now that something has happened, you put all the blame on us." Liu loved her two children the most. How could she allow Jiang to slander them like this?
"Do I need to explain this? It's right in front of us. Li Jiaojiao had just been married for a short time when the county magistrate fell ill. She has only been home for a few days and now everyone is in jail with her. This is a bad omen." Jiang argued and started quarreling with Liu in front of the county government office.
"Hurry up and leave. What are you making noise for at the gate of the county government? If you don't leave, I'll arrest you." The bailiff at the gate shouted angrily.
Jiang and Liu were so frightened that they quickly shut their mouths and walked away quickly, twisting their waists.
Twenty strokes of the cane were quite heavy. When they reached the market and wanted to ride Zhang San's ox cart back, they could only see Zhang San's back driving the ox cart. Because the distance was too far, they could not hear him no matter how much they shouted.
"It's all your fault, you shameless bitch." Jiang looked at the ox cart going further and further away and cursed at Li Jiaojiao.
"You are the slutty woman. Can you blame Jiaojiao for the ox cart leaving? It's because you were dawdling at the gate of the county government office. It's because of you." Since Liu came back from Chengyang County, she no longer had the title of the county magistrate's wife, nor the title of the scholar's wife.
Doing farm work at the Li family all day, she had to deal with Jiang. As time went by, she lost her original dignity and quarreled with Jiang for no reason. At the beginning, she was too embarrassed to do so.
He was often bullied by the Jiang family, and later he slowly started to quarrel with the Jiang family. Unexpectedly, he had talent in this area, and it has only been a short time, but he is actually on par with the Jiang family.
"Okay, stop arguing." Li Dajiang was furious. He had finally gotten here, but Zhang San actually left. What should he do?
He turned to look at Li Laosi and said, "Fourth brother, do you have any money? How about we rent a carriage to go back?"
"Hey, brother, you don't have any money on you, but do I have any?" Li Laosi glanced at Li Dajiang with contempt.
"Hmph, you still think you are the county magistrate. Don't you see what you are like now? You still want to rent a carriage." Jiang also spoke coldly. She couldn't stand Li Dajiang's behavior the most. He was obviously nothing, but he still acted like a big shot. It was really disgusting.
"You...you..." Li Dajiang pointed at Jiang angrily, but as a scholar, he really couldn't say anything too harsh.
Without the ox cart and money to rent a horse carriage, the group had to walk back, but Jiunu County was still a long distance away from Qinghe Village.
It was already late when they came out of the county government office, and they were delayed for so long that by the time they got home, it was already dark.
Looking at the Li family's gate, Jiang breathed a sigh of relief. She was finally home. She had never felt that Qinghe Village was so far away from the county town.
When she got home and saw that the two children were fine, Jiang finally felt relieved.
Jiang and Liu have one thing in common, which is that they are mean and harsh to outsiders but very good to their own children. However, this cannot offset Jiang's hatred for Li Jiaojiao.
Suddenly he thought of an idea and discussed it with Li Laosi in the evening. The two hit it off and the next day Jiang secretly found Li Chengcai.
Li Chengcai hesitated for a moment and then agreed.
One morning a few days later, Li Chengcai cried out of stomachache and rolled around on the bed in pain. Liu wanted to call a doctor.
Jiang replied coldly, "Sister-in-law, I think you should take Chengcai to the county town. Chengcai is in so much pain that the village doctor may not be able to treat him. It would be bad if we delay any longer."
After hearing this, Liu thought that it made sense, but the two of them would have to take a ox cart to the county town, wouldn't that cost more money?
As if she could see what she was thinking, Jiang took out thirty copper coins from her pocket for the first time and handed them to Liu.
The sun rose from the west. Liu looked at the copper coin in her hand and didn't dare to take it.
"Sister-in-law, take the money to Chengcai for medical treatment first, and then return it to me when you have the money." Jiang said kindly.
Liu then took the money and took Li Chengcai to the county town. But for some reason, she felt a vague sense of uneasiness since she took the money.
About half an hour later, there was a knock on the Li family's door. Jiang, who was inside the house, heard the sound and hurriedly got up to open the door.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw a tall man standing outside. He was broad-shouldered and had a long scar on his face that ran through his entire face. His eyes were wide open and he looked like the kind that could scare a child into tears at first sight.
This man's surname is Zhang, and he lives in Zhangjiatun, 20 miles away from Qinghe Village. When he was young, he often accompanied others on a escort mission. The scar on his face was left at that time, so people nicknamed him Scar Zhang.
Because the scar on his face was too scary, the escort agency actually kicked him out on this ground, and since then he has been working as a long-term worker for others.
But it never lasted long because he was too violent. If someone didn't go his way, he would beat them up, and he would beat them to death.