Song Xintong felt that a greasy line of sight stuck to her body. She felt sick and wanted to vomit, but she couldn't turn around and left. She had to bury her head lower.
The county master spoke to the clerk, and then the clerk nodded knowingly, and then told several old women. After the old woman knew, she began to pick and choose people, and pulled out those who were still married with luck.
"Niang, I won't go. Niang, I'm afraid."
"You have to go if you don't go." The mother-in-law pulled out several pretty girls, "don't want to suffer, just be honest."
"Wu Wu Wu..." a few girls dare not make a sound, can cry silently.
Song Xintong's heart flashed a burst of boredom, suddenly heard a high voice: "my Lord, my daughter is also beautiful, soon to be 14, why not choose her?"
Song Xintong looked up and saw that ye Guihua was holding her second daughter Wan Axiang. Like the old lady who sold melons, she chattered endlessly and said, "how handsome is my daughter? Why do you choose those ugly girls instead of my daughter?"
The mother-in-law took a look at Ye Guihua, "she looks less than ten years old. You are going to serve people, not to find someone to serve you."
Ye Guihua was not happy when she heard this, "ah, how do you speak? Although my daughter is thin and small, she is more than ten years old. Moreover, she can do everything at home and doesn't need to be waited on."
Song Xintong frowned. Everyone else didn't want to send her to the election. She didn't want to push one, but she wanted to push two. It's really bad luck for such a mother in Wan a Xiang's stall.
"If you make trouble here again and delay the county master's business, be careful to hit you on the board!" The old lady told the Yamen servant, "pull her away."
After the noisy Osmanthus fragrans was pulled apart, the sunning field was calm again, so quiet that only the wind could be heard.
Then it's getting faster and faster. Many girls are married, and they have already become other wives. These women have no choice. They are not virgins. Can't they pull them out? If you really send it to the palace and become a maid of honor, it's the crime of deceiving you. No one can afford it.
After he Er Auntie withdrew from the crowd, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon it was song Xintong's turn. After the women looked at her carefully, they were disappointed. When they were about to let her out of the crowd, the county master suddenly called out, "wait a minute."
This words a, public all shocked of saw to come over.
Song Xintong frowned and looked at the fat old man in front of her home. She quickly held her breath, because she smelled a strong body odor, which made her want to vomit.
"Married? The registered residence can be read as "engaged, not married." The master of the county said with a smile, "isn't it a woman who lost her hair to deceive me?"
Not far from the autumn, the wife of the woman hurriedly said, "my excellency, it is indeed a marriage. I guess it's just a mistake in the household registration."
"Well, am I an adult or are you an adult? Don't you know? " The county master glared at Mrs. Qiu, and then said in a loud voice, "I found some women in many villages who wanted to avoid the election by combing their temples, but they were never married. I think this girl of the Song family is the same."
When song Xintong saw that the man wanted to point out that white was black, he couldn't help laughing, "my Lord, the daughter of the people is really married. If you don't believe me, you can ask these two women who are in charge of checking, right?"
The mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law were in a cold sweat and did not dare to speak.
The county master drank in anger, "according to registered residence, the official said he had not married and never married, and came to bring her back to the county government."
Song Xintong clenched her hands into fists. As she was about to avoid the two women's force, she took her hand with one hand and protected her behind her.
Song Xintong stood behind Lu Yunkai, holding his arms in both hands, and said delicately: "Xianggong, you can come."
Lu Yunkai listened to the numb voice and gently raised his eyebrows. He immediately looked at the county master and arched his hand at him. "Mr. Chen, what's the matter with my wife? Do you have to pull with such force?"
Chen Qiangsheng looked at Lu Yunkai, who was blocking the beauty. He frowned, touched his beard and said, "it's Lu Xiucai. I haven't seen you for a long time. I heard you went back to the countryside to open a school? It's a pity. I wanted to marry my precious daughter to you. It's a pity. It's a pity. "
Lu Yunkai took back his hand and said in a light voice, "it's a blessing for scholars to teach and educate."
Chen Qiangsheng smiled, and saw the beauty behind her. "I didn't expect Lu Xiucai to have a wife. But the girl's registered residence is still unmarried. When did you make a kiss, when did you become a relative?"
Lu Yunkai wrote: "Lord Hui, my wife and I were engaged when my father-in-law was alive. Because we were filial in our family later, we didn't engage. We only exchanged the Geng tie. In January of this year, my wife's filial period came, and then we were directly engaged."
Song Xintong looked at Lu Yunkai in surprise, then put his hand in the palm of his hand behind him and gently pinched it.
Lu Yunkai took song Xintong's little hand and said in a low voice, "Mr. Chen is so considerate. He always keeps everything in mind."
Chen Qiangsheng did not hear the irony, and laughed, "this official is naturally for the people. I look at the registered residence written by Song Dashan who died the year before last."
"Yes." Lu Yunkai nodded, "filial piety, filial piety for two years."
Chen Qiangsheng was very angry, but because of the fact that the disfigured scholar had been praised by the magistrate, it was not easy to directly suppress him. He sneered twice and said, "very filial."
Lu Yunkai said: "thank you for your praise."
Chen Qiangsheng nodded. "This is a strange thing about the registered residence. This official thought it was a fake."
In the year of Lu Yunkai, "Chen said," if I had finished my household registration earlier, it would not have caused such misunderstanding. I will take the household registration to the county office tomorrow. "
After a pause, he said, "thank you for your reminding."
Chen Qiangsheng laughed twice.
"That won't disturb the office. The students will leave." Lu Yunkai arched his hand at Chen Qiangsheng, then took song Xintong out of the crowd.
Chen Qiangsheng looks at their back as they leave, gnashing their teeth in anger. If it wasn't for the written reminder, he would not be able to hold back his anger.
After leaving the crowd, song Xintong looked back at the fat county master, and then said, "Master Lu, you're really good."
"Master Lu?" Lu Yunkai slightly raised his eyebrows, "didn't you call me Xianggong?"
"It's too numb. I can't call it out." Song Xintong tut two, "I thought that county master wants to be angry, did not expect to let us go easily, you are really powerful."
Lu Yunkai: "it's not that I'm strong. The reason why he let us go is that the magistrate once treated me differently."
"So it is." Song Xintong nodded, "are you still in touch with the magistrate?"
Lu Yunkai shook his head, "No."
Song Xintong was a little disappointed. "When the county master learned, would he trouble us again? What if I wear shoes for you? It seems that the county master is not a good one, regardless of black and white. " As soon as song Xintong thought of the look in his eyes just now, he felt disgusted, "aren't you in the school? How can you come here?"