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Chapter 84 Give You A Small Watermelon
The next day.

After the dot, Chen Chu went straight to Ximen Gong's valet.

"How is your injury?" Ximen Gong, who was sitting behind the desk, spoke with the same kindness as his smile.

"No problem." Chen Chu looked around, and there were only two of them in the room at the moment, so he lowered his voice and said, "Brother, how will we deal with the matter in my village?"

"Follow-up? You don't need to worry, brother. No one else will do anything to you about this matter. After a year or two, Zhang Dianshi will be gone. Who remembers this matter?"

Ximen Gong looked confident, he thought Chen Chu was talking about killing Hugang.

"No. I'm talking about the Liu brothers"

"Brother Liu?"

Ximen Gong was startled for a moment before he remembered who the Liu brothers were, and subconsciously said, "You mean those two tenants?"

"Um"

"Let's close them first."

"Brother, can you try to let them out? You can just use some money." Chen Chu said in a low voice.

Ximen Gong gave Chen Chu a strange look, not understanding why he cared so much for the two tenants, but he still said, "Brother, it's not about money. After all, we are public officials, and we need to pay attention to what we do. If this case doesn't At the conclusion of the trial, who dares to release the murder suspect in private?"

Concerned about observation, in fact, Ximen Gong said very clearly, he was reminding Chen Chu that to be a public official, one must abide by the rules of a public official.

For example, yesterday, Ximen Gong would prevent Chen Chu from beating Zhang Gui in the street, but before killing Hugang, he agreed to Chen Chu's request to 'not let them' enter the city without much hesitation.

The so-called 'look and see'.
That is, there are some things that need to be put on the surface.In private, Wang Fa, how much is a foot?Conscience, how much is a catty?
How is it different from rebellion if you don't hide it on your face?

Now that the Liu brothers are in prison, there is naturally no shortage of procedures on the surface.

"Brother, according to the past, how long will it take for this case to be concluded? What kind of punishment will be imposed?" Chen Chu asked again.

"It's hard to say, it can be as short as three or five days, and as long as one or two years. Our county venerable is a clay sculpture Bodhisattva, and he often stays out of court for ten or eight days. As for the punishment." Ximen Gong leaned on the back of the chair, pondered for a while, and said: "Liu Erhu killed Zhu A four times for a reason, how to judge and punish is all at the discretion of the county lord, it may be tens of sticks, or flow two thousand miles, it is all possible."

Ximen Gong said it easily, but Chen Chu's heart sank.

Three or five days passed like this.

As Ximen Gong said, it was as if the Liu brothers had been forgotten in the prison, and no one was interrogated or questioned.

However, there is an undercurrent surging beneath the calm surface of the county government office.

According to Chen Chu's inquiries from Neiyamenzi, Zhang Dianshi hadn't stopped in the past few days, and would come here every day to urge the county magistrate to try the case.

Zhang Dianshi's opinion is to be strict and fast.

It's not a secret that Luliuwei is Chen Chu's Zhuangzi. Last time he was skinned by Chen Chu in Caiwei Pavilion, Zhang Dianshi can't help but feel sorry for these vulgar soap clothes. It's good to be able to vent his anger with this matter .

The county venerable Chen Jingyan only perfunctory with nice words every time, but he just didn't open the class.
Chen Chu couldn't sit still.

At Luliuwei's Liu's house, Aunt Liu hadn't eaten a grain of rice for several days. She was lying on the bed with empty eyes and a haggard appearance. She was already out of shape.

If things go on like this, the Liu brothers are fine, but their old lady has to go first.

The third day of August.

After Chen Chu visited Aunt Liu, he drove to Shizipo.

The big hotel is still closed, and the melon sellers under the tree are temporarily replaced by Da Lang and the eldest son.

"Is this melon sure to be ripe?" Chen Chu dismounted.

"Brother Chu, did you get dizzy from work? These are the last two batches of melons, how can you be unfamiliar?" Yang Dalang, who was sitting in front of the melon stand and shaking his cattail fan, looked puzzled.

"Hey, it's boring. You should say, I run a fruit stand, can I sell you raw melon eggs? Then, I can stab you with a knife."

Chen Chu said something that Yang Dalang didn't understand, and then said: "Pick one for me, pick one that looks good."

"good-looking?"

"Well, I want to give a gift."

"How about this?"

"It's too heavy, pick a lighter one."

Chen Chu took the watermelon handed by Da Lang and weighed it, feeling unsafe.

Yang Dalang patted on the melon pile again, picked up a smaller one and handed it over.

Chen Chu took out a bag from the rucksack, put the watermelon in it, picked it up, felt that the bag would not fall, and said, "Well, this will work."

Yang Dalang, who was sitting in front of the melon stall, froze his hand while shaking the cattail fan, and said in surprise, "Hey, isn't this the unique water-proof and wind-wrapping Qiankun bag in the world!"

"It's different." Chen Chu hugged the melon and put the bag back.

"What's the difference! It's exactly the same as the water-proof and wind-proof bag you used to go to Cai's house!" Da Lang was particularly impressed with Chen Chu's family heirloom, and he felt that he would not admit his mistake.

Chen Chu said, "The names are different."

"How is the name different?"

"This treasure is sometimes called the water-avoiding wind-wrapped Qiankun bag, and sometimes called the heaven and earth Hunyuan bag."

"Then what is the name of the one you have now?"

"It's called a transparent plastic bag."

He really didn't want to name it anymore.
County government.

The deepest part of the five-entry county government office is the inner house of the county government.

In the flower hall, Chen Jingyan sat on a low bench and sipped his tea, looking around gently with his eyes.

Mrs. Tan sat in front of the window, carefully looked at the bright place with an embroidery stretcher in her hand, and checked whether the embroidery sample was out of shape or flawed.

His son Chen Yingjun took the scroll and was shaking his head and moaning in a low voice.

The 14-year-old daughter is leaning over the book table, with her wrists hanging empty and her hands pinching her hair, engrossed in writing the next new word from "Today's Toutiao".

The years are quiet.

In this unsatisfactory Tongshan County, this is the only place where Chen Jingyan can feel a little better.

"My lord, Chen Ma, in the torture room, has something to ask to see."

The notification from the outside door broke the rare moment of peace, Chen Jingyan couldn't help frowning, and said: "No see."

Even cats and dogs come to see me, but I, Chen Jingyan, have no ambitions here, and it's not like you just want to see me as soon as you want.

Menzi's report also attracted Chen Yingjun's attention, and he couldn't help but look at his father, "Father, is this Chen Makuai the one who beat up his colleagues in order to occupy the oiran?"

It is impolite to call others by their first names, which violates Chen Jingyan's expectations of his son as a "modesty gentleman".

But, there is no one else here, besides, Chen Chu is a small person, it is not worthy of Chen Jingyan to criticize Aizi for this.

But Mr. Chen also heard the emotion in his son's words, and he couldn't help but asked curiously: "Wei Ting, you usually only deal with classmates from the county school, how do you know such subordinates?"

Chen Yingjun, whose name was Wei Ting, saw his father asking him, and he saluted without hesitation, and then said: "Father, the lady of Caiwei Pavilion has admired Zhang Wencai's books in the Dian Shi Fang for a long time, and the two agree in love. Unexpectedly, Chen Chu is so wicked. Seeing the color, the official took the oiran lady by force, and beat Zhang Dianshu severely. My classmates in the county school were filled with righteous indignation when they heard about this!

It is not a blessing for the common people to have such evil officials under my father's subordinates. My father needs to deal with it more!Don't let such people continue to do harm to the village and the common people! "

Chen Jingyan was stunned when he heard this, because he had already lay down, but he was the lord of the county after all, so there was still a way to understand what happened in the county.

Naturally, he also knew the real situation that night.

"Who and where did Wei Ting hear about this?" Chen Jingyan wondered.

"Go back to my father, I learned about it from my classmate Zhang Wenhao."

"." Chen Jingyan blushed.

At this moment, the doorman left and came back again. Chen Jingyan was very displeased when he saw this. He was about to scold him, but he heard the doorman preach: "My lord, Chen Ma quickly said that the people of Luliuxu deeply feel that their parents and adults have been here for two years. And Zhi, the township is peaceful, and the people are happy. Now that the melons and fruits produced in the village are ripe, the people specially asked Chen Ma to send some, and the lord of Wanwang County will accept it."

Such a long passage, repeated word for word, Menzi seems to have taken advantage of Brother Chen!
Chen Jingyan couldn't help laughing. He knew it was flattery, but the people's words of self-produced melons and fruits still made people feel good.

Anyway, nothing happened, so Chen Jingyan decided to meet the notorious Chen Makuai.

Chen Jingyan got up and walked to the door, but suddenly remembered that he had just had a half-talk with his son, so he couldn't help but look back.

Seeing that Chen Yingjun was still standing on the spot and maintaining the posture of standing with hands down when answering the elders' questions, Old Chen couldn't help but secretly sighed. He taught his son to be a modest gentleman since he was a child, but now it seems that the teaching is pedantic.
So, before going out, Chen Jingyan said one last sentence, "Wei Ting, you need to remember the truth that if you listen to it, you will be clear, and if you believe it, you will be dark."

After finishing speaking, Chen Jingyan went out.

Chen Yingjun, who stayed where he was, looked at his mother in confusion, "Mother, what does daddy mean?"

Mrs. Tan put down the embroidery bag in her hand, first smiled at her son softly, and was thinking of some euphemism to say a few words, when the girl beside the writing desk said flatly: "Zhang Wenhao is Zhang Wencai's younger brother, what he said is serious, brother He believed it so much, and even ran to daddy to complain for him. Dad said that brother was being used by others and he didn't know it."

(End of this chapter)