To the north of the Zhuangzi, the road to Baisha Town is not far away. It is where the Nanhe River enters Xujiatianzhuang. The river channel here is narrower but the water is deeper.

Xu Ping and Gao Daquan's team were building dams here.

In this era, there are no water pumps or something. It only uses water trucks to lift water, which consumes a lot of manpower and is too low in efficiency. It is far less cost-effective than dam raising the water level and irrigation. After diversion, the lower water level can be lowered, which is conducive to the residual water flowing back to the river channel after irrigation.

The farm tools dug in the soil are made of ripe iron. Although the soil soft work here is smooth, the farm tools are worn out with great damage. Xu Ping sat aside, feeling worried, and couldn't help but think of the truck of coal that Liu Xiaoyi pulled back, or would it be refined into coke and some better steel? It will be used in the future.

Just as Xu Ping was thinking about it, a farmer ran over from the farm in a panic.

This farmer is called Lu Song, who is under Xu Chang, who is in charge of sheeping sheep.

Lu Song ran to Xu Ping and saluted with his hands: "Official, your maid Xiuxiu is back."

Xu Ping retracted his thoughts, looked at him, and replied with a smile: "Come back when you come back, don't tell me specifically. Why are you still panic?"

Lu Song hesitated: "But--Grandma Hong is punishing her..."

"What?!"

Xu Ping stood up. Xiuxiu was his own person, so what was wrong with Grandma Hong?

Taking a deep breath, he said to Lu Song: "What the hell is going on?"

Lu Song's face was bitter: "I am a servant, so how can I make it clear? Xu Duguan asked me to come to you, it would be better to go back and take a look."

Xu Ping ordered Gao Daquan to take people to work, and hurriedly followed Lu Song back to the manor.

There were five or six people surrounding the yard, all of whom were under Xu Chang, and Xu Chang stood in front.

In the crowd, Xiuxiu was kneeling on the ground, Grandma Hong stood beside her, holding a rattan bar in her hand, cursing and whipping Xiuxiu from time to time.

Hearing the footsteps, Xiuxiu raised her head and looked at Xu Ping.

Tears flashed in her eyes. The tears did not flow out, but burst out from her eyes. She forced them back into her eyes, and the remaining sun shone brightly outside.

Xu Ping stepped up and took off the vine from Grandma Hong's hand.

Squatting down, Xu Ping asked Xiuxiu gently: "What's going on? I agreed to go home. Who dares to come and cause trouble for you!"

Xiuxiu shook her head gently, held back her tears and said to Xu Ping: "Official, my family is poor, but I never had the intention to steal anything from here."

Grandma Hong just sneered on the side.

Xu Ping patted Xiuxiu on the shoulder: "It's okay, you get up first."

Xiuxiu didn't dare to do so, just knelt there and shook her head, and her lips were slapped with stubbornness.

Xu Ping stood up and looked at Grandma Hong coldly, with murderous intent in her eyes.

Grandma Hong sneered, "Da Lang is kind to the servants around me, and no one can control this. However, the servants have their rules. The wife told me to manage the village here and do my best to be optimistic about these servants in order to deserve the wife's grace. This little girl was captured by me and I will be punished. Da Lang should not be too stubborn."

Xu Ping said coldly: "What kind of stolen goods?"

Grandma Hong said, "When this little girl came home, she took her home a lot of baggage, and many shopkeepers saw it. She recognized her herself when she came back, and brought her two glutinous rice dumplings weighing four or five kilograms. Dalang, if you don't take the lead, you don't know that salt rice is expensive, and four or five kilograms of glutinous rice is a lot of money! There is meat inside, which is not a trivial matter!"

Xu Ping was so angry that he laughed: "That was what I asked Xiuxiu to take back to honor her parents. I asked you, an old lady, to say anything about it!"

Grandma Hong looked coldly: "Mrs. I can tell you clearly what's in the house. I don't care how good Dalang treats this little girl at home. If you don't tell me if you take it out, then you'll obviously steal it. This is the reason, and I'm not afraid of going to heaven!"

There was no such messy things in Xu Ping's consciousness. When the anger came, it would immediately start to attack.

At this moment, a farmer shouted: "Scholar Lin is here!"

The shopkeeper moved aside and Lin Wensi walked in from outside.

Not to mention that Lin Wensi was Xu Ping's father-in-law, even if she was a tribute tribute in a foreign land, Xu Ping stopped and just looked at him.

Lin Wensi looked at Xu Ping and Grandma Hong in the venue, then looked at Xiuxiu who was kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "What's the big deal? It's noisy. Fortunately, there is no neighbor, otherwise wouldn't it be laughed at!"

Grandma Hong said, "I have met a scholar. This little girl brought things out from this family by relying on her master's favor. There are so many people in the house, and if they all look like this, that's fine? The Xu family has mountains of gold and silver, and one by one, and one by one, it won't take long to get emptied! If she doesn't punish her, others will follow her like this!"

Xu Ping said: "I'll agree first. I'll give those two rice dumplings to Xiuxiu, but they have nothing to do with you. Don't use tiger skin as a banner. Just tell me if you have anything to say!"

Lin Wensi looked at Xu Ping and said in a deep voice: "You are also a scholar. After so many years, I don't understand the basic principles? What's wrong with you giving her? Slaves are selfless and all of them belong to the Xu family, let alone those external things! Taking without complaints is to steal, and why not make a judgment! Scholars must understand the truth, occupy the word "reason" and not be afraid of traveling all over the world! In a few years, you will also be a clerk, and you will just be in trouble!"

Xu Ping was choked by this sentence, his face turned red, and his veins burst out.

Lin Wensi ignored her and turned to Grandma Hong and said, "You should be loyal to you for your work. Since you are both a person and a stolen person, you will tie him up to meet the officials! They are all good people, who gives you the power to set up a private prison hall! National laws, lynching is a great sin. The government will pursue it. Not to mention that you are a mother-in-law in charge of the court, even the Xu family is very implicated! It is foolish!"

Grandma Hong was already panicked when she saw Lin Wensi getting angry with her. As for those reasons, how could a woman like her figure out? She stuttered: "It's just two rice dumplings. How can she tie this girl to the yamen? The magistrate and the magistrate beat me up! Wouldn't you be punished?"

Lin Wensi said: "It's just that you punished me. Did you punish me like this? I understand the reason and move them with emotion. They are usually born and raised by my parents. If I don't live, who can sell my daughter? How can you do it? She is so old that she was sold to the Xu family. What she is afraid of is that her master will beat and scold her every move. She is trembling and walking on thin ice, afraid of taking the wrong path. It's just that when she was a child, even if she has some small mistakes, she just wants to tell her that she knows it. Why do you have to do this? It hurts people's health and insults people's reputation!"

After saying this, each beat fifty boards, and no one said anything.

Even Xu Ping always felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say it, so he had to hold it in. Could this be the power of scholars?

Lin Wensi looked around and said, "It's all gone, everyone will do their own things, what kind of style will it be to gather here! Xu Ping, take Xiuxiu back."

After saying that, he didn't stay much and walked out of the yard.

Seeing that the matter was over, the tourists from all over the village dispersed.

Xu Ping helped Xiuxiu up and called Xu Chang.

He turned around and looked at Grandma Hong and said word by word: "Xu Chang, send Grandma Hong back to my mother's place. You can see it yourself. Tell my mother that if I send this woman back again, I will beat her to death and return the body to her! Don't say that I didn't say anything!"

After saying that, he helped Xiuxiu back to his yard.

Xu Chang was stunned. He had seen Xu Ping, who looked unreasonable, but that was something that happened a long time ago. Recently, Xu Ping's image is much better than that of the playboy who often makes trouble. Today, this episode suddenly happened again, which made Xu Chang very uncomfortable. But he should not be negligent. Xu Ping said that he would beat Grandma Hong to death, and that would really be possible, and he would not care about it.

He turned around and smiled bitterly at Grandma Hong, "Sister, you heard Dalang's words too. Dalang is ruthless, but he can do anything and no one can stop him! Don't make things difficult for him, find a car and I'll take you to the town. If you have any grievances, tell your wife that only the wife can cure him."

Grandma Hong looked at Xu Ping's back fiercely. The little beast had disliked since she entered the Xu family again. She originally wanted to seize the handle of the maid beside him and humiliate him well today, but she did not expect that such a consequence would end up. The master and his wife regarded this guy as a stingy person, and they could not resist him by force. Fortunately, the cause of the matter was reasonable and the wife could not say anything, just to know what would happen in the future.

Xu Ping helped Xiuxiu back to the yard, found a stool for her to sit, and fed water to let her wash her face.

Xiuxiu's tears have dried up and she has been silent.

Looking at Xiuxiu washing her face, Xu Ping whispered: "Does it hurt on her body?"

Xiuxiu shook her head: "We poor children, this is nothing."

Xu Ping didn't know what to say for a moment, but just watched Xiuxiu sit there in a daze after washing her face.

After a while of daze, Xiuxiu suddenly asked, "Official, is Xiuxiu really a thief?"

Xu Ping hurriedly said, "No! How could it be! That's your thing! Do you still remember? I want to give you a gift, but you don't want it!"

Xiuxiu sighed long, "However, Lin Xiucai also said that I am. He is a scholar, and what he said makes sense. I have lived so big that I have never done anything that can be given guidance from behind!"

Xu Ping said: "What's wrong with scholars? What scholars say is not natural! Xiuxiu, don't take it to your heart. Just live in the world and be able to have a clear conscience."

Xiuxiu turned around and looked at Xu Ping: "What scholars say makes sense. They have read such sage books, but you haven't even passed the exam for the exam. You just comfort me. If someone is directed to say that you are a thief, how can you have a clear conscience?"

Xu Ping looked at Xiuxiu, her face was quiet, as if she had really figured out this matter, and she didn't know what to say for a moment.

Sitting there, staring at the ground in a daze. After a while, Xiuxiu suddenly turned around and looked at Xu Ping: "Official, I feel so wronged! I just feel sorry for my brother, just bring him some delicious food!"

Tears finally flowed down.
Chapter completed!