Chapter 22 of the novel "The Blacksmith's Sleepover" The son-in-law came to the door and was arrested by mistake

As mentioned last time, Zhang Boxer walked on the mountain road by the hand of Liu Chrysanthemum along the way, and listened to the story of the flower saucer that Liu Chrysanthemum told him, which caused Zhang Boxzi to laugh constantly.

Unconsciously, the three of them arrived at Liujiazhuang at the mountain pass.

As soon as he entered the village, Zhang Jiuzi said to Liu Juhua: "Sister-in-law, when I came to Shicheng and passed by Liujiazhuang, I also asked this family for a bowl of water to drink." Zhang Jiuzi did not forget, pointing to a family at the head of the village. Liu Juhua said: "This is my fourth uncle's house. Zhang Jiuzi thought, such a coincidence, it was a four-zhang family, and he didn't squeak anymore, so he followed Liu Juhua into the alley.

Liu Juhua led the box and the pillar to the gate of her house, and helped the pillar tie the mule to a large poplar tree at the door. When Liu Juhua saw that the door of her mother's house was open, she shouted: "Mother, father, I'm coming home." He happily took him and the two of them into the courtyard.

As soon as the three of them stepped into the courtyard gate, the gate was closed at once, and then several official soldiers surrounded the three of them. An officer and soldier who looked like a leader said, "But I waited for you to come and tied him up for me." Three or five soldiers tied the box with all hands and feet, and it was strong.

Liu Juhua was shocked by this sudden incident, and hurriedly said to the soldier: "Master Bing, what are you kidnapping him for, he is the blacksmith of the stone castle." Zhang Jiuzi was also trying to break free, and said in a hurry: "I am an anvil." Zhang was in a hurry, and said that I went to buy an anvil as "I am an anvil". The soldier said to Zhang Box, "I know that you are real, take him away for me." ”

Liu Juhua's father and mother had already heard their daughter's shouts in the hall, but several soldiers looked at them, and they didn't dare to respond.

It is said that according to the internal report, Liu Qing Lancet is going home to see his father and mother today. So, he suddenly came to Liu Chrysanthemum's house to squat and arrest the leader of the rebel army, Lancet. When they saw a big man in the courtyard, they thought that the lancet had returned, so they rushed up and tied the box as a lancet.

Liu Juhua's father saw that the officers and soldiers had withdrawn from the hall, and he was about to kidnap a stranger, so he immediately ran out of the hall and shouted: "Master Bing, you have tied up the wrong person, he is not my son." The soldier said: "It's not wrong, look at the flesh bumps on this body, you know that it is a person from the Big Knife Society, don't lie to me, take it away for me!" ”

No matter how Liu Juhua and her father stopped them, those soldiers kidnapped Zhang Box.

The father of the Liu family is strong in martial arts, and Liu Juhua can also have some fists and kicks, but in front of the officers and soldiers with guns, they dare not mess around. If you use force, you will only bleed, and Zhang Box's life will not be saved. Zhang Box was kidnapped, and there may be a possibility of rescue, because he is not a lancet after all.

After a burst of uproar in Liu Juhua's family, everyone calmed down. Liu Juhua said to her father: "The strong man who was kidnapped is a blacksmith who went to the stone castle not long ago, called Zhang Box, and this is his apprentice Zhuzi. "This pillar has never seen such a scene, his face turned pale with fright, and he couldn't stop shivering, but he just looked at Liu Juhua's father and mother and nodded.

Chrysanthemum Daddy said: "Hey, they are here to arrest your brother, I don't know how they know that your brother is going home today, this group of soldiers has been waiting in our house for most of the day, and they don't let me move with your mother, and they don't let us talk." It's good that the people you brought here have been arrested. Liu Juhua listened to her father's words, took her mother's arm, beckoned the pillar, and entered the house.

After entering the house, Liu Juhua said to her father: "Dad, this blacksmith Zhang Box, staying in our family's garden house, is sincere to me, my mother-in-law and patriarch do not object, and the old village chief also supports us." I brought him to our house this time, just for you to see the second elder, and we must find a way to save him back. Then she said to Zhuzi, "Zhuzi, go back at once, report this matter to the old chief, and see if he has any good way to save your master, and the mule will be tied here first." When the pillar received the order, he immediately got up, said goodbye, and hurried back to the stone castle

After the pillar left, Liu Juhua said to her mother again: "Mother, I brought that strong man here today, just to let him come to recognize his relatives, why did he encounter this kind of thing!" Chrysanthemum said: "Chrysanthemum, you have suffered in the past few years, and it is time to find someone, we have no opinion if you like it." Chrysanthemum Niang stroked Liu Chrysanthemum, and said: "Today's incident is the will of heaven, and he should suffer this crime for your brother." After speaking, he said to Chrysanthemum's father: "Old man, don't just keep your head down, we have to find a way to save that box, he is your son-in-law." Daddy Chrysanthemum raised his lowered head, looked at the old woman and said, "Isn't this just thinking, going to the official prison to save people, but you can't save it with some punches and kicks, how can it be so easy." ”

The family of three thought about it, but they didn't come up with a good way.

When it got dark, the three of them didn't dare to hold the lamp, so they ate something in the dark. was worried, Liu Juhua heard a gentle knock on the door, and said to her father: "I heard the sound of knocking on the door, I'll go and see." Liu Juhua said and went to open the gate, which would make her think, if it wasn't for the stone castle to discuss the rescue of Zhang Box? She asked softly, "Who's outside the door?" The man outside the door also whispered, "Open the door quickly." Liu Juhua heard a very familiar voice, so she opened the door, and saw that it was her brother Liu Qing Lancet. Liu Juhua said: "It's brother, come in." ”

The lancet went into the house, and gave a salute to his father, and the old lady lit an oil lamp. The father said to his son: "You are really back, a team of officers and soldiers came this afternoon, trapped me and your mother in the house, they are hiding in our house, waiting to arrest you." Who would have thought, by mistake, kidnapped the blacksmith that your Ju Mei brought. ”

At this time, the lancet looked at Liu Juhua and asked, "Sister, is that blacksmith the one who can hit the sickle?" Liu Juhua said: "It is him, this blacksmith is very good to me, today he and his apprentice Zhuzi are going to the county town to buy a big anvil, ready to make iron tools for you." Liu Juhua looked at her father and mother again and said, "I wanted to take this opportunity to let my father and mother take a look at him, so I brought him home, but I didn't expect to be arrested." ”

The Lancet said, "We want to get this blacksmith out of here, so leave him alone." Liu Juhua said to the lancet again: "Brother, how do the officers and soldiers know that you are going home today?" The lancet thought for a moment and said, "It must be the dog leftover in our village who told the secret, I went home today only he knows, I haven't found him since yesterday, so I have to come back by myself." ”

said that this dog leftover, who is also a member of the Big Knife Society, followed the Lancet to cause an accident and failed, and stationed in the wolf tail ditch with the team, saying that the two of them would go home to see the old lady together, but he couldn't wait, and went out of the wolf tail ditch a day in advance. On the way home, he was caught by the officers and soldiers, and the dog leftover could not withstand the torture, so he defected, and leaked the secret of the Lancet's return home today.

The Lancet thought about the behavior of the dog's leftovers, and panicked for a while, so he said to his father: "Dad, our people are in danger, I must immediately go to the wolf's tail ditch to deliver a message, and let the righteous men move to their hiding place." ”

It is said that this wolf's tail ditch has nine bends and eighteen bends, it is dozens of miles long from east to west, the river flows westward, the cliffs on both sides are high and the mountains are long, the grass is abundant and the trees are lush, and he and the righteous people are stationed in the depth of the wolf's tail ditch. It takes about a day and a half to get out of the ditch along the riverbank path. At the end of this wolf's tail ditch is a big mountain, and over this big mountain, it is a stone castle. The Lancet knew that there was a path on this mountain, and that he had taken this path when he went to Stone Castle to deliver silver letters at night.

Chrysanthemum's father knew that his son was doing a righteous thing, so he said: "Then you can eat something and go and deliver the letter, if the dog leftovers leads the officers and soldiers, something big will happen." The lancet listened to his father's words, hastily filled his stomach, said goodbye to his father and Liu Juhua, carried a long knife, and went back to the wolf's tail ditch to report the news.

It is said that the old village of this stone castle has gathered seven or eight people in the militia group, all of whom are masters of fists, feet, knives and guns, and they are also the backbone members of the militia group, and they are also discussing how to save Zhang Box.

In the middle of the night, it was decided that the soldiers would be divided into three ways: the first way, return to Liujiazhuang by the pillar, ask Liu Juhua's father to come forward, and the pillar went into the city to buy anvils, and after buying the anvils, they rested in the small inn at the city gate and waited for the answer; On the second road, boxer Mei Sanduo led five or six members of the militia to explore the place where Zhang Boxzi was held, and reconnoitred the terrain to come up with a plan for robbing the prison and rescuing him; On the third road, Luan Wenzhai, the head of the old village, led two boxers to Tusikou to find Zhou Wenyan, the squire of Zhou, to come forward, and go to the county government to bail Zhang Box.

The old chief's idea was that this week, the squire had been a master in the county government, and now he was retiring and recuperating at home, and he had an intersection with Ling Zijing, the current county magistrate, and asked him to come forward to bail Zhang Jiuzi to see if it worked. If not, then consider the plan of robbing the prison and rescuing it.

Just said that the old Zhuang had been all the way, and as soon as the morning dawned, the three of them took the silver tael and the all-purpose medicine box used as a cover, and set off on the road. In the afternoon of the same day, I came to the Tusikou Zhoujia Inn in the northern suburbs of the county. This silkworm industry is developed, merchants gather, and it is the largest town in the county. Luan Zhuang entered the city when he was young and stopped at the Zhoujia Inn many times. This Zhoujia inn was opened by the father of Zhou Squire Zhou Wenmo. Back then, when the old Zhuang Chang was staying in the hotel, he became acquainted with the young Zhou Wenmo.

After the three of them stayed at the Zhou Family Inn, it was getting late. After they had a simple meal in the inn, the old chief went to the courtyard of the Zhou family behind the inn to find Squire Zhou.

When the old village chief saw Squire Zhou, he offered the silver he brought, and the two talked about some old feelings, and the old village chief explained his intention straight to the point. Squire Zhou saw that he had a lot of money, and he still gave face, so he wrote a letter and asked the old village chief to go to the county magistrate Ling Zijing with the letter.

This week, the squire did not come forward in person, and it was not in vain to be able to write a letter. At dawn, the three of them went straight to the county seat. Walking to the small inn at the gate of the city, the pillar and the chrysanthemum father were already waiting here. When the pillar saw the old chief, the first thing he said was: "Master Luan, there is a notice posted on the opposite wall, saying that the county lady has a strange disease, who can cure her, and reward her with a hundred taels of silver!" ”

The old chief didn't pay attention to the pillar's words, first got to know each other with Daddy Chrysanthemum, and chatted a few words about the rescue box, and then went into the guest room to rest for a while. said that he was resting, but he was actually thinking about how to deal with meeting with the county master. During his meditation, he suddenly remembered what the pillar had just said to him, and then said, "Pillar, take me to see the notice." ”

The pillar led the old chief to the wall, and there was a notice posted on the wall. There were two officers and soldiers standing under the wall, and many frightened people looked at them from a distance, not daring to come closer. Lao Zhuang was bold, so he took a closer look. After reading it, he thought about it again, and then raised his hand to remove the notice. When the two officers and soldiers saw that someone had taken down the medical notice, they immediately put their guns against the back of Chief Luan Zhuang.

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