A night passed without anything happening.
The excitement of the town wore off, sleepiness set in and people went home to catch up on their sleep.
Zhou Lin went down to the main prison, where the butler stayed with him, and had his underlings return to deliver the message that the Zhou family at the end of the street had closed its doors tight since hearing the news. At the moment the Zhou family’s oldest ancestor, Zhou Lin’s grandmother, had not seen her grandson for a day and missed him so much that she had someone go to the county to call Zhou Lin back.
Everyone in the family knew what was going on, and knowing that it would be a waste of time to go, they all came over to persuade her.
The old lady became suspicious, “Tell me honestly, is something wrong with my eldest grandson?”
She was too old and in poor health, so the family didn’t dare to tell her. Zhou Lin’s father was afraid that she would be anxious, so he had a carriage prepared and he and his wife personally helped his mother out, “Lin’er has something going on in the county, we’ll go with you to find him.”
Only then was the old lady satisfied and happy to get into the carriage. Halfway down the street, she felt that something was wrong, as the streets had long been busy at this time in the past, and she could sometimes hear the sounds of hawking and yelling at home, but today there was no movement at all.
She couldn’t help but ask, “Why is it so quiet today?”
Zhou Lin’s father pretended to lift the curtain of the carriage slightly to take a look, “It is indeed very quiet.”
As he said that, he called for his subordinates to come forward, and while giving a wink, he said, “Go and ask around, why is it so quiet today?”
The guards outside the town naturally saw the carriage and did not stop it.
In the afternoon, Huang Gao and his wife rushed back to the doctor’s office and saw that Huang Yu was fine.
After sitting down for a while, they went home with the others.
There was no reason for Song Wangyue to stop them, so she told the three guards to send them back and stay behind for protection. She took the two guards with the people’s testimonies and went to the county to hand them over to the county magistrate.
The county magistrate read them carefully one by one and was furious, “This Zhou Lin deserves death by a thousand cuts!”
Song Wan Yue didn’t move, “This matter involves the county magistrate and Jiang Tongzhu, it’s not easy to deal with, why don’t you go to the capital yourself and present these to the governor and let him make a decision.”
“Fine, I’ll go now.”
The county magistrate had not slept last night and had thought about it all night. Even if Song Wangyue’s background was hard, she had only brought ten guards with her.
The county magistrate went to the capital, and Song Wan Yue took her guards back to the medical school in the town, “Doctor Chu, I have to stay with you for a few days, I’ll leave after Zhou Lin has sentenced me.”
“You can stay as long as you like, as many days as you want, I won’t charge you a penny.”
Dr. Chu’s eyes burned.
Two days ago, he was scared and didn’t think carefully, but today he remembered that Song Wangyue had saved Huang Yu’s life, and according to Huang Yu’s condition at that time, he wouldn’t have been sure of anything if he had been allowed to treat her.
The first time I saw the look in his eyes, Song Wangyue lost her smile, “I’m not going to hide it from you, I have a very powerful master, even the eunuch doctors in the palace are not as good as him.”
The doctor’s eyes lit up when he heard that, “Then your master is a very powerful master ……”
“He’s gone on a trip, I don’t even know when I’ll see him again.”
Master Chu was disappointed for only a moment, and then looked at her with burning eyes, “Then can you ……”
After he finished his words, Song Wangyue nodded, and Doctor Chu was so happy that he could not wait to jump up, “Wait a moment, I will prepare paper and pencil.”
The paper and pencil were prepared, and Dr. Chu personally ground them, and Song Wan Yue wrote them down for him in the order in which the needles were placed, and the last word had just been written, before Song Wan Yue put her pen down, Dr. Chu had already impatiently stretched out his hand and carefully picked up the paper, looking at it carefully, word by word.
The more he read, the more his eyes lit up, and when he saw the end, he took the paper directly to the back, instructing the man as he went, “Prepare silver needles for me.”
When both he and the mate had left, Song Wan Yue sat on a stool, looking out at the cold street, and said to the guards, “Be alert tonight.”
……
Five miles out of the county seat, a carriage came from the opposite direction, so fast that the two vehicles brushed against each other.
One was heading in the direction of the capital city and the other in the direction of the county town.
“My lord ……”
After the carriage had passed, the magistrate’s coachman reported in a low voice, “The one that just passed was the magistrate’s carriage.”
The county chancellor knew that he had done so much evil that even the carriage driver was bought from someone with martial arts skills. Upon hearing this, he lifted the curtain and glanced towards the County Magistrate’s carriage, seeing how fast it was going, he narrowed his eyes, “Faster.”
The coachman raised his whip and smacked the horse fiercely, the horse rushed up and soon returned to the entrance of the County Chancellor’s residence, before the carriage had stopped, the County Chancellor ordered in a deep voice, “You take a few men back and think of knocking his carriage over.”
The coachman answered, threw away the reins and dashed to the backyard, changed the carriage, called for two more men to ride, and made his way out of the city, catching up with the county magistrate’s carriage twenty miles away.
He lashed his horse with his whip and rammed it hard towards the magistrate’s carriage, and the moment the two carriages collided he flew up and landed steadily on the far side.
Bang!
The magistrate’s carriage was knocked over, overturning the man and the carriage into a ditch by the roadside.
Without looking, the coachman leapt straight onto his companion’s horse and headed back to the county seat.
After they had gone far away, the magistrate crawled out from under the overturned carriage with his face covered in blood, gasping in shock.
“Old, old master ……”
The coachman’s weak voice rang out in the distance, he had been thrown out when the two carts collided and although he landed in the field, it was winter and the fields were frozen, he had been dropped quite badly.
“How’s that, can you still move?”
The coachman got up with difficulty, wobbled to the back of the carriage, lifted the curtain, but saw no one inside and was horrified, “Master, there’s no one there!”
The county magistrate was also shocked and, not caring about the blood on his head, went over and saw that there was no one there, and had a bad feeling in his heart, “Quickly, get the carriage up and hurry to the capital.”
It took the two of them a lot of effort to get the carriage up, but the horse was also injured and was walking very slowly.
He hurriedly pushed the carriage aside and waited for the group to pass before patting his frightened heart and hurrying the carriage onwards.
At the end of the eleventh hour, the guard outside the town suddenly stood up straight, listened sideways for a moment and then leapt onto a large tree by the roadside.