Dafeng Night Watchman

Chapter 6: Confused Second Uncle



"Hey!" The girl in the yellow skirt named Caiwei blinked her beautiful eyes, "Why can salt turn into silver?"

After she finished speaking, she hesitated, took out a piece of sugar cane and handed it to Xu Qian'an: "Here, this is for you to eat."

Are you trying to bribe me...

The two adults had disappeared, Xu Qian'an retracted his gaze, thought for a while, and replied: "I have seen the alchemy secret book that turns salt into silver in ancient books."

The girl in the yellow skirt widened her eyes: "Where is that ancient book? Who is the author?"

Its name is "High School Chemistry", as for the author... um, People's Education Press? Xu Qi'an said, "The ancient book has been destroyed, but I still remember the content."

The girl in the yellow skirt took a quick breath: "Hurry, tell me."

Xu Qi'an sighed: "I am in danger, and I am not in the mood to be a teacher."

The girl in the yellow skirt rolled her eyes at him and said unhappily:

"You are a sly person. Our Sitianjian does not interfere in the government affairs. Your Majesty has the final say on how to deal with you. It is meaningless to wait for a price with me."

"Why don't you take me in? With the status of the chief supervisor in the court, it should be no problem to take a prisoner." Xu Qi'an said.

He had to add an insurance for himself in case he couldn't find the tax silver.

The girl in the yellow skirt looked up and down: "You are obviously a warrior, why do you want to be a sorcerer."

Practice should be done early, most practitioners have laid the foundation since childhood. It is too late for warriors to become sorcerers now.

"It doesn't matter whether I cling to someone or not. I admire the style of the Supervisor." Xu Qi'an said in a pious tone and with a serious expression.

"Then tell me the contents of the ancient alchemy book first." She said carefully. The girl's eyes were clear and bright, with big almond eyes and black pupils, and clear black and white. Xu Qi'an had only seen such clean and beautiful eyes on children in his previous life.

"The content is a bit difficult and profound. I'm afraid you can't understand it if I just tell you orally. You need to teach in a simple and easy way so that it can be deeply rooted." Xu Qi'an was fishing.

Chu Caiwei rolled her eyes and was not convinced: "Looking at the whole world of Jiuzhou, when it comes to alchemy, the sorcerers of our Tianjian should be the leaders."

"Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, silicon, phosphorus..." Xu Qi'an recited it by heart.

"???"

What is he talking about? The girl was stunned for a long time, her eyebrows raised: "You are kidding me. We only accept boys as disciples in the Sitianjian."

She snatched the sugarcane from Xu Qiyan's hand.

She walked away lightly, her skirt fluttering.

I am also a boy... Xu Qiyan opened his mouth, and then realized that the Sitianjian accepted disciples from childhood.

Well, this road is not going to work.

...

Two days passed in a flash, and Xu Qiyan spent two days in fear in the cell.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

He was afraid that the tax silver could not be recovered in time. If it was after he was exiled, it would not change the outcome even if it was recovered.

Then, what if Chen Fuyin was a black-hearted maggot who took all the credit, it would still be a dead end.

But there was no way, he could only do this step, a prisoner, what could he do?

Xu Qiyan once again felt the horror of feudal society.

"Let it be up to fate..." Xu Qiyan sighed.

'Bang!'

The iron gate at the end of the corridor opened, and a jailer came in holding a fire stick, took out the key and opened the door: "Xu Qi'an, you can go!"

Xu Qi'an was ecstatic and clenched his fists: "The tax silver has been recovered?"

"Follow me to sign and seal, and you can leave." The jailer looked at him: "You are really lucky."

"What about my second uncle?" Xu Qi'an asked anxiously.

"Don't talk nonsense, just follow me." The jailer was very irritable, and hit Xu Qi'an's buttocks with a fire stick, and drove him out of the cell.

Under the arrangement of an official in the yamen, he signed and sealed, and then got the clothes that he had taken off when he was thrown into prison from the jailer.

A yamen runner led him out of the Jingzhao Prefecture Yamen and went out through the back door.

At this time, the east was slightly bright, and the streets were cold.

...

Bang!

Xu Zhiping was awakened by the sound of the iron gate opening. He opened his eyes, and his eyeballs were full of bloodshot.

Xu Pingzhi, with dishevelled hair and dirty face, looked somewhat similar to Xu Qi'an, but Xu Xinnian, his biological son, had too handsome features, which was very different from the two of them.

In the cell across the corridor, Li Ru, who was sleeping, was shocked and woke up. She looked haggard and extremely frightened.

The couple looked at each other across the corridor, and Li Ru said sadly: "Master, even if I die, I will not enter the Jiaofangsi."

She is 35 years old this year, well-maintained, and a beautiful woman with great charm. Even though she was frightened in prison for five days and looked haggard, she still couldn't hide the charm between her eyebrows.

What is the Jiaofangsi?

It is a purgatory for women.

The wounded Xu Pingzhi opened his mouth, unable to speak, and suddenly burst into tears: "Madam, I am sorry for you. We will die together, and I will work hard for you in the next life to make up for you. But I pity the children and my nephew."

Five days have passed, and he is waiting for execution, and the female relatives are waiting for the Jiaofangsi. In addition to Li Ru, the Xu family has two daughters, an eldest daughter of 28 years old and a five-year-old girl.

They were curled up in the corner of the cell and were awakened at this time.

The five-year-old girl rubbed her eyes and murmured "mother", she knew nothing about her

orders.

The sixteen-year-old girl sat up, her messy hair against a white oval face, a thin and rosy mouth, big and bright eyes, her nose is not as small as that of ordinary women, but upright. So her facial features are particularly three-dimensional, especially delicate and beautiful.

There is a kind of beauty like a static sculpture.

She subconsciously leaned towards her mother, her thick eyelashes trembling slightly

because of fear.

Several jailers came in with broadswords on their waists.

Li Ru's eyes flashed with despair and determination.

Xu Pingzhi held the fence tightly with both hands, his joints were pale, and his steel teeth

were clenched. He lost the tax silver and neglected his duties. He believed that he deserved to die, but he would not rest in peace because he had implicated his wife and daughter at home.

Especially the young daughter, who was only five years old, had to be sent to the Jiaofangsi to be raised. Her life was dark.

As a parent, how could they be willing to accept this.

"Xu Pingzhi, come out with us. You can leave after signing and signing." The jailer opened the

prison door without shackles. He stood in the corridor and knocked on the fence with the butt of his knife, indicating that they should come out by themselves.

"Xu Pingzhi has been patriotic and loyal to the emperor all his life, and his family is full of loyal heroes... Hey, what did you say?" Second Uncle Xu suspected that he had heard it wrong.

What do you mean?

"Can I leave? You just said I can leave." Xu Pingzhi was incredulous for a moment: "What's going on? Aren't you taking me out to behead me?"

"I don't know." The jailer said unhappily: "This is an order from above. If you want to know,

go out and ask."

Li Ru was confused and uneasy. Holding her two daughters, the family followed the jailer in silence and walked to the end of the corridor.

"Old, Master... Are you lying to us?"

"How can it be so childish." Xu Pingzhi was injured and walked with a limp. He was also

confused. He felt the joy of surviving a disaster, but also the confusion of not being able to figure out the situation.

Li Ru's heart moved: "It's Xinnian. Xinnian must have been running around outside these few days to help us manage relationships, so that the court would let us have a break." The more she thought about it, the more she felt it was possible, and she said excitedly: "Master, don't forget that Xinnian's teacher was the Minister of the Ministry of Justice in the

18th year of Yuanjing."

Yuanjing 18th year... It was more than 20 years ago... Xu Pingzhi felt that it was wrong, and he couldn't think of anyone else he could rely on without a big backer in the officialdom.

"Maybe."

"I said that Xinnian in our family is a dragon among men. When I asked him to practice martial arts, you didn't agree, and insisted on letting Xu Qian'an, that little bastard, practice

martial arts."

"Mom, rabbits are so cute, I want to eat rabbits." The little girl raised her little face and gnawed her little finger, with the word "greedy" written in her eyes.

"All you know is eating..." The irritable Li Ru cursed subconsciously, and then looked at the little girl with a dirty face, and her face softened, "Be good, there will be rabbits to eat soon."

Xu Pingzhi was too lazy to explain to her that 'your son has no talent for martial arts'.

Anyway, no matter how many times he said it, his wife would automatically ignore it.

In the eyes of a mother, her son is always the best.

When it came to the place of signing and stamping, Xu Pingzhi took the pen from the clerk of

the government office, his fingers trembling slightly, signed his name, pressed his fingerprints, and Xu Pingzhi felt that he had been sublimated in some way.

It was like a seed buried deep in the ground drilled out of a seedling and saw the sun.

The world suddenly became so beautiful, and there was obviously not a single extra copper

coin.

The wife and daughter did not need to sign, just pressed their fingerprints.

Xu Pingzhi could not suppress his curiosity, and said with a bow: "This lord, I don't know why

you have forgiven me and others."

Li Ru immediately looked at the clerk.

"The case has been solved, and the tax silver has been recovered." The clerk replied.

"The tax silver has been recovered? Haha, good, good! Damn the monster, how dare you rob

my Dafeng tax silver."

Second Uncle Xu was quite excited. After laughing, he felt that according to the Dafeng law, the tax silver was indeed recovered, but he was also guilty of dereliction of duty.

It was not his credit to recover the tax silver, so how could the court exempt him from the

death penalty? Even if he was given a lenient sentence, he would be exiled to the border.

"Sir Xu, this is your official robe, keep it." The clerk presented the green robe of the eighth-

rank military officer that he had taken off before.

He was actually reinstated... Xu Pingzhi realized that something was wrong. While taking the official robe, he said in a deep voice: "Sir, can you help me solve my doubts?"

With the official robe in hand, he felt more confident when he said "This official".

In theory, even if he was exempted from the death penalty, he should not be reinstated.

"The Dafeng Law stipulates that if an elder in the family violates the law, the son can make meritorious contributions for his father." The clerk said.

"It's really Nian'er, sir. Nian'er helped the court recover the tax silver." Li Ru cried with joy.

"Nian'er..." Xu Pingzhi's eyes were wet: "My good son."

The clerk glanced at the excited couple, "It's your nephew Xu Qian'an. He helped the prefect to solve the tax silver case. He just left."