Chapter 63:

On the official road from Huaihe County to Luoyun Town, a carriage was driving slowly.
There are four people sitting in the small carriage. Among them, a middle-aged man is lying on the thick bedding in the carriage. A woman about the same age as the man keeps looking at the man’s expression, preparing if he When his expression showed a little pain, let the coachman outside drive the car more slowly. The other two are young girls, they are not too big, they are 13 or 4 years old, and the girls are only in their teens.
The four people in this carriage were the family of Xia Dacheng, Yang's hung looking son, and they were on their way back to the old house.
"Daddy, do you still hurt?" Xia Dacheng's youngest daughter Xia Lanju asked.
Xia Dacheng's appearance at this time was extremely embarrassed, his appearance was stubborn, and his face was sickly.
"Daddy doesn't hurt, Ju'er is good, we will be home soon." Xia Dacheng weakly comforted his panicked daughter.
Xia Dacheng's eldest son, Xia Hongzhi, was much calmer than Xia Lanju. Although his eyes were still a little uneasy and a little dazed, he didn't have the panic on Xia Lanju's face.
After all, he was 14 this year, a lot older than Xia Lanju, and he was a boy with a lot of maturity. Xia Lanju is only 10 years old this year, and she is extremely brave to bear without crying.
No one had thought that Xia Dacheng would fall into such a field at this time, even Xia Dacheng himself did not expect.
He couldn't compare with those rich kids, but he was born from the mud-legs in the country and slowly became the second shopkeeper of a business. It can be said that Xia Dacheng has worked harder than anyone else, and it is not something ordinary people can do.
Maybe he is not a big deal in Huaihe County, but in Luoxia Village or the Shiliba Townships around Luoxia Village, no one can match him. Any folks who mentioned Xia Dacheng didn't say a word, this kid is amazing, a country kid with no background, it's hard to imagine that he can mix with him.
But now no one can imagine how embarrassed Xia Dacheng is at this time.
Overnight, the company changed the dynasty and changed the principal, and the principal's concubines competed and implicated the people who worked under them. He was pulled up by the big shopkeeper with one hand, and he must always look at the big shopkeeper only. But it was also because of this that Xia Dacheng was involved.
The shopkeeper is a member of the business owner’s concubine, but that concubine passed away due to illness. As for whether or not they died due to illness, it is not clear to them who can no longer be under them. All I know is that the firm has changed the principal, and replaced by the concubine who won in the concubine battle.
The mortals suffered in the fight between the gods and Xia Dacheng and his immediate boss, the treasurer.
If you change the principal, it makes sense to put your own under your hands, just replace others. But the concubine's methods were too ruthless, and he wanted to kill him. I don't know what kind of tactics were used to bring Xia Dacheng and the treasurer to the county office, saying that the two of them had lost the business's money and even produced a bunch of evidence.
Xia Dacheng and the big treasurer were sent to jail.
What I haven't done before, certainly cannot be admitted.
But other people want to fix you, can you say no?
The treasurer was tossed a few times in the prison, but died because he was too old. Xia Dacheng was in grief and resentment again. But these emotions are of no use. If it is useful if you call injustice, if grief is useful, I believe that there will be no grievances in this world and the death of a big shopkeeper will never happen.
The shopkeeper told Xia Dacheng before he died, let him confess his guilt quickly, don't stand it up, it won't make it through. In cases like this kind of business management losing money, generally after pleading guilty, it is determined to pay compensation and then hit a few boards, and when the owner makes him all dead, Xia Dacheng, who is not involved, will not be too embarrassed.
Spend some money to buy people from crime.
As for reputation? People who are about to be tossed to death, why do they want reputation?
The treasurer had actually figured it out, and he was ready to confess his guilt, but he was old and physically weak and did not carry it. He didn't want to see Xia Dacheng, who he pulled up with one hand, stepped on his back. Two mouths with official characters, since others have collected money to punish them, they will wait to die in prison without confession. For shopkeepers like them who do things for people, there is no background to contend with.
So Xia Dacheng pleaded guilty. The result of the judgement of the case is 20 big boards, and there is compensation for the loss of the firm. Because the big shopkeeper is dead, Xia Dacheng, the second shopkeeper, is only an accessory, so he only needs to compensate the firm with 200 taels of silver.
Xia Dacheng's monthly salary is only a few taels of silver, although the shopkeepers have some other extra income. Over the years, I have saved a lot of money, but the family of four lives in the county, and the eldest son is still studying, and he has not saved much over the years. These 200 taels of silver are enough to ruin his family.
Even if the family bankrupted, he could start all over again. It is said that the master caused the poison to poison people here, not only made him go bankrupt, but also made him unable to mix in this business. No one will hire a shopkeeper who has emptied the owner's money, and no one dares to use him.
Xia Dacheng's daughter-in-law is just a womanly family, and there is no way out. In addition to taking care of the cell, he came in to see Xia Dacheng twice. It was not until the verdict of the case that the family house was sold, and all the savings of the family for many years were taken out. It was still not enough. In the end, Zhou sold all his jewelry and some valuables in the family to make up enough. These 200 taels of silver.
The bankruptcy in return was a wounded Xia Dacheng, but this was enough for Zhou and his two children.
After all, a man without a pillar in his family means there is no heaven.
Xia Dacheng was sent to the hospital for treatment. In fact, Xia Dacheng didn’t worry about his life. He was tossed and suffered 20 slabs. The injuries on his body were all flesh and skin injuries. Rest.
After paying the consultation fee, Zhou's money was running out. After selling the shelter in the small yard from home, Zhou and his two children lived in a very simple inn, and now even the inn is almost unacceptable.
Therefore, Xia Dacheng had no choice but to speak, and returned to the old house in Luoxia Village.
These things that happened to Xia Dacheng were kept secret from the Yang family. Xia Dacheng knew that his mother had nothing to do, and there was no author in the family who had something to say: the relationship was trustworthy. There is no other use except to let a lot of older mothers worry about it. So when Zhou came to see Xia Dacheng in jail for the first time, he confessed that he wanted to keep it from his mother.
But now there is no way to hide it, they will all reveal themselves as soon as they go back. It's just that at this time, they have no other choice but to return to their hometown.
There was not much money left, and the county couldn't stay there anymore, so he could only go back to his hometown to heal his injuries first, and then slowly figure out what to do next.
Zhou used the last bit of silver on his body to hire a carriage to send them back to their hometown. The whole family was almost empty-handed except for the clothes of a few people.
Xia Dacheng, who was lying in the car, felt very uncomfortable, but he had to admit his fate. He knew that he might never have a chance to come out again this time. Thinking of his ambitions when he was young, he couldn't help showing a self-deprecating smile...
Mud legs are mud legs, even if you put on silk satin, you can't change your essence. A gentle turn of your hand by someone powerful and powerful is enough to make you fall to pieces. In the future, I will stay in my hometown honestly, at least not to involve my wife and children...
The carriage drove the four people on the way back to their hometown, but the four in the carriage did not have the joy and pride that they usually have when they go home...