Take Away

[Take away]

Su Xingzhe stayed at Su Erhui's house and had his own room. Read 520 official website

He put on the new clothes Su Erhui gave him early in the morning, and then changed back to his old clothes.

He heard the sound of gongs and drums approaching, and stopped outside. His anxiety subsided, and he couldn't suppress his excitement. He couldn't even hear the noise outside clearly. He paced a few steps and sat down, picked up a book, and waited for someone to come and invite him. When the time came, he must act calm and relaxed.

The chaotic footsteps were approaching, and Su Xingzhe couldn't help but curl up the corners of his lips, and then retracted them immediately.

The moment the door opened, he stood up suddenly. The surprise he had practiced before, when it was time to perform, seemed particularly artificial because of nervousness.

At the same time, the cry of Niu Pozi suddenly rushed into his ears like a flood!

The word "thief" made his face turn from red to white, and then from white to blue in an instant.

The book fell to the ground, and Su Xingzhe was shackled by several strong yamen runners while he was stunned.

He was almost lifted up, with his feet hanging in the air, and walked through the crowd and out.

The crying of Niu Pozi, the scolding of Su Erhui, and the mocking of the villagers were intertwined, but Su Xingzhe could not hear anything. He seemed to have entered a silent world. The sky had fallen, and he could do nothing but stare blankly...

"You, are Su Xingzhe?" The head of the police shouted coldly.

There was no need for Su Xingzhe to answer. The villagers who had offended his family on weekdays confirmed his identity.

"Su Xingzhe was so bold that he dared to steal the sample paper of the examiner the day before the college entrance examination. The evidence is conclusive, take him away!" The head of the police raised his hand and waved it, so powerful and resolute, like a guillotine on the execution ground, cutting off Su Xingzhe's life.

"Unfair! Unfair!" Niu Pozi fainted from crying.

Su Xingzhe's father and brothers rushed up to stop him, saying that he did not go out the day before the college entrance examination, and they could all testify.

The head of the police sneered, "Family members cannot testify for it."

Su Erhui, who had thought that Su Xingzhe had a promising future and had planned to make him his son-in-law, now felt unlucky. He threw his things out and shouted to distance himself from the matter, "We just took him in out of kindness, and we don't know anything else!"

The day before the college entrance examination, Su Xingzhe had not left the house, and other people in the village had not seen him, which could not prove that he had been at home. What if he sneaked out before dawn and came back at night, who knows?

Su Bai wanted to say a few words, but the head of the police said "the evidence is conclusive" and he hesitated and gave up. Cheating in the imperial examination is a big deal, and he is a small village head, and he doesn't know the truth, what can he say?

When the team announcing the good news moved forward again, Su Xingzhe finally came back to his senses. With a pale face, he asked in a daze, "Where are they going?"

The captain slapped Su Xingzhe's face with a thick slap, "Go and announce the good news to the top candidate! Ning Jing Ning Gongzi! He got the first place in the exam!"

A thunderbolt struck Su Xingzhe's mind, and he was dumbfounded and crazy.

"It's Ning Jing! He framed me! He conspired with the examiner to frame me!" Su Xingzhe shouted at the top of his voice.

The captain slapped Su Xingzhe with a few big mouths, making his head dizzy, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, and he couldn't even speak.

"Ou Gongzi is a friend of the prince of Beijing. He framed you? Who do you think you are? You dare to slander the examiner? Your crime is even more serious!"

What happened that day was still vivid in Su Xingzhe's mind. What reason did Ning Jing have to frame him? By the way, his mother had a conflict with Su Liang, and his family wanted to occupy Su Liang's house before! That must be the case!

Before Su Xingzhe could explain, the head of the police slapped him again and knocked him unconscious.

Su Bai led the team of announcing the good news to the door of Ning Jing's house, followed by a large group of villagers who were watching the excitement.

Aunt Bai's family was surprised and happy. Before this, they didn't know that Ning Jing had participated in the college examination, let alone that he got the first place.

But when Aunt Bai learned about Su Xingzhe's situation, she didn't say gloating, but puzzlement, "How could he have the ability to steal the things of the chief examiner?"

...

It was Su Liang who opened the door, wearing an apron around his waist. Ning Jing was still sitting under the tree in the yard carving mooncake molds.

There was a man in the team announcing the good news. When he saw Su Liang's appearance clearly, he was stunned for a moment.

Hearing Su Bai excitedly say that Ning Jing got the first place, Su Liang was not surprised, but just smiled slightly, "Thank you everyone."

"Tomorrow the county magistrate will host a banquet to entertain this year's scholars. Mr. Ning must go then." The leader was polite.

Su Liang thought that this should not only be because he won the first place, but also because Ning Jing was recommended by the prince of Beijing.

She looked back and saw that Ning Jing had no intention of coming over, so she answered for him, "Okay."

Su Liang accepted the fifty taels of silver reward for the first place, but refused the gift from the mayor and the gentry. The latter accepted it as a way to make friends.

After the official left, the villagers came forward to congratulate him.

Su Liang remembered something and asked them to wait for a while. He turned back and dragged the remaining half basket of pomegranates picked from the county town to the door.

Everyone who came to congratulate, one pomegranate was given to each family.

The big red pomegranates were pleasing to the eye. The villagers thought it was a good omen, and some said they would go back to worship them.

Bai Xiaohu muttered, "It must be that Sister Su Liang's family had too many pomegranates to eat."

Liu glared at her son and told him not to tell the truth.

It was true. Last time they only picked a small portion of the pomegranates from the county town’s tree. It’s not that convenient to eat after all, and the two of them couldn’t eat much.

In the end, only the Bai family was left outside, so Su Liang invited them in to talk. Suddenly, he thought, "Did Su Xingzhe pass the exam?"

Zhu Zi shook his head, "He was arrested!"

Su Liang was surprised, "Arrested?"

The two children talked to Su Liang about the story of Su Xingzhe's family from heaven to hell.

After listening to it, what else did Su Liang not understand? Even if Su Xingzhe was brave, how could he know where the examiner's sample papers were hidden? And how could such an important thing as the sample papers be stolen by a country scholar?

It must be the so-called sample papers that the examiner asked Su Xingzhe to bring back to Ning Jing after going to the county school that day.

At that time, Su Liang suspected that Su Xingzhe might peek, and now the facts are in front of him.

That was not a backdoor opened by the examiner for Ning Jing, but a trap to frame Ning Jing, and the greedy Su Xingzhe jumped in!

But Su Liang was puzzled. The examiner of Bei'an County had no grudges against Ning Jing, so why was he like this?

Is it that "money makes the devil work" in the Xunyang Ning family?

Or is it that Ning Jing was recommended by the prince of Beijing and was targeted by the enemies of Beijing Palace?

What a troublesome physique. Su Liang looked at Ning Jing and thought.

"Brother Ning, what is this?" Bai Xiaohu looked at the mold carved by Ning Jing curiously.

Zhuzi's eyes sparkled, "There are flowers in it!"

Su Liang smiled, "Tomorrow is the festival, let's make mooncakes together."

...

Su Bai sent the good news team to the village entrance, and one of them asked him, "I wonder who is the girl from Mr. Ning's family?"

Su Bai said seriously, "They are brother and sister."

Looking at Su Xingzhe who was taken away, Su Bai sighed repeatedly. If he was really convicted, he would never come back.

Su Bai also heard Su Xingzhe constantly saying that Ning Jing deliberately framed him, which was confusing. It is impossible that Ning Jing stole the sample and put it in his house, but the officials arrested him directly and did not search.

Moreover, Su Bai felt that Ning Jing could not do such a thing.

…

County government office.

“I have done everything the adults asked me to do. I just didn’t expect that Ning Jing didn’t fall for it.” The examiner of the college examination said respectfully.

A young man in fancy clothes sat in the main seat, with a playful look on his face, “He is indeed a bit scheming to be able to make friends with Xing Yusheng. I will meet him tomorrow.”

The door opened and a man walked in. The young man in fancy clothes waved his hand, and the examiner bowed and left.

“Did you see Ning Jing?” the young man in fancy clothes asked.

The man nodded, “Yes.” Then he told what he had seen and heard after arriving in Sujia Village.

Finally, he said, "Ning Jing has a sister, the one who was met in the restaurant on the day of the college entrance examination. The master said that he felt that she was a little special."

"Oh?" The young man in fancy clothes was very surprised, "She turned out to be Ning Jing's sister?"

"I asked around, they are not biological sisters, but sworn sisters. The girl is a doctor. I heard that she is a good doctor. She grew up in the capital. The master may know her grandfather. His name is Su Yuanzhou."

The young man in fancy clothes stared, "Who?"

"Su Yuanzhou." The man repeated again.

The young man in fancy clothes' face sank, "Didn't the whole family die? How come there is still a granddaughter alive?"

"I was also very surprised to learn her identity. I don't know how she escaped. There was no news in the capital, and people here don't know what Su Yuanzhou did."

After a long silence, the young man in fancy clothes snorted, "Tomorrow I will have a good talk with Ning Jing and ask him to hand over Su Liang and take him away when he returns to the capital to execute him!"