The weather is getting cooler.

At the end of October, a group of water bandits who robbed Lord Envoy on the Cao River were all sentenced to beheading. The manager joined the army, the judge, and the judge participated in the deliberation many times. The facts were clear and the evidence was conclusive. They submitted it to the Criminal Division, and then the magistrate formally

The verdict was signed and posted outside the government office.

Most of these water bandits are from Huaidong, a group of extremely vicious criminals who have committed crimes on the Cao River all year round, causing the people to suffer for a long time. Knowing that they had offended the envoy and were about to end up with their bodies and bodies missing, the people all applauded and applauded.

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Not everyone suspects that there is a hidden secret behind the little water bandit's daring to rob military supplies and food, but there is no proof.

At the same time as the Caohe water bandits, the criminals in the Ge Yong case were also announced.

The criminal official Ge Yong was corrupt, perverted the law, and engaged in favoritism and bribery. He took away more than tens of millions of dollars in stolen goods. He was the most corrupt person in Yangzhou Prefecture, which brought harm to the future of the country. He was an unforgivable crime. He was punished with thirty sticks, sold with his title, and exiled to Salmon Island. The rest of his accomplices were sentenced to death.

The spine canes are fifteen, eighteen, and twenty different, and the locations where they are distributed are also different.

When Xin Yi got the news, he sighed.

In the Song Dynasty, the convictions and punishments for corrupt officials were relatively light. In the past, there was a tattoo and humiliation. Starting from Renzong, in order to avoid damaging the face of scholars, there was no such punishment. In the entire Renzong Dynasty, until the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no such case.

Examples of officials being executed for corruption and bribery.

It's just that being exiled to Salmon Island means you'll have to endure some hardships. For a crime like this, if you're exiled to hard labor for a lifetime, you'll probably never be able to come back alive again.

In early November, it rained continuously in Yangzhou.

"Mrs. Chen?"

The two women shed tears and silently followed the movement of the crowd.

"Mrs. Chen, why are you doing this? Ge Yong treated you like that. He didn't even think of taking you with him when he was escaping. You actually cared about the relationship between husband and wife. Isn't this asking for trouble? Go back and start again.

Find a man and live a good life."

No one had ever said such strange things to her.

Xin Yi remained silent. Looking at the way Yu Mei hugged the package, she knew that it contained money. Moreover, it was most likely all Chen's belongings, which were intended to be used for official duties.

"After getting acquainted, I will give Mrs. Chen one last piece of advice."

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In a few days, Gao Minglou, Yang Huaimin and other criminals will be escorted back to Beijing.

Yu Mei was pregnant and exempted from punishment. After she was released from prison, she had nowhere to go, so she stayed with Chen. Chen hated her for hiding her affair with Ge Yong, but she still had some past feelings. Chen didn't want to

He couldn't bear to let her go alone as a pregnant woman, so he kept her by his side.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, everyone!"

She raised her face full of tears, looked at Xin Yi, and shook her head bitterly.

Only after Ge Yong's accident did Chen truly understand the warmth and warmth of human nature.

Mrs. Chen didn't understand why the princess, who had been so kind just now, suddenly changed her face. She was scared and sad, and she kept begging with choked sobs. Behind her, Yu Mei didn't dare to approach Xin Yi, and she started crying too.

stand up.

"You have something to do with me?"

Chen has never thought about finding a man again.

Mrs. Chen looked up at her in shock.

Yu Mei was quite pretty originally, but after being imprisoned and pregnant, she was a little deformed. From her face, it was difficult to see the beauty of the red brand lady who was famous in Yangzhou in the past.

Only Yu Mei was imprisoned and released from prison together with Chen.

A man relies on his clothes and his horse relies on a saddle. When the Chen family reached middle age, they no longer had the style of an official wife. They were more than ten years older. They had gray hair on their heads and wrinkles on their faces. They were dressed in cloth clothes and skirts, tied with wooden hairpins.

The head looks just like ordinary people.

"Master, do you have any regrets in your heart..."

Ge Yong's wife, Chen, also stood in the crowd, watching Ge Yong cry silently.

Early this morning, Ninety-One Pharmacy sent someone to tell Xin Yi that someone had a difficult disease. Xin Yi had been busy all morning, and as soon as he returned home, he ran into prisoners and set out, so he had to park the carriage to one side.

"My master was exiled to Salmon Island. The mountains are high and the roads are long. It's very difficult. He has bad health and his old cold legs suffer terribly in winter. I made two pairs of knee pads and wanted to wear them for him, but I don't know if it's inconvenient for the princess...

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Turning her head to look, she almost didn't recognize it.

On the day Ge Yong went on the road, the people outside Yangzhou Yamen were crowded.

Early on, the sound of firecrackers came from the city.

Xin Yi stared at her, "Be careful Yu Mei, guard your money, and forget about the old man. Educate your son well, love your daughter sincerely, and start a new life. As long as you want it, there is still time for everything."

Mrs. Chen looked at him angrily, "Don't you know how to seduce men? Go to the official and say a few soft words and hand over the money. What's wrong with you?"

The people of Yangzhou have long been curious about what Gaominglou looked like when the son of the Prime Minister of Dali "slaughtered" Gao Minglou.

These days, when Mrs. Chen was unhappy, she would talk to hurt her. When Yu Mei was so angry, she wished she could just walk away. But since she was pregnant with Ge Yong's child, wouldn't it be an advantage for Mrs. Chen if she just left like this?

Mrs. Chen slowly approached the carriage and put her face close to it.

The sisters who used to surround her and the fawning relatives were all gone. Now she was tired of rolling her eyes, and when she turned around, she realized that the princess whom she disliked the most at the time was actually the most approachable person who didn't look at her differently.

Chen's nose felt sour, and tears fell down.

"A wonderful family just fell apart like this."

Watching him build a tall building, watching him entertain guests, watching his building collapse, his fame, fortune, and fame are all gone in the blink of an eye.

It doesn't sound like serious talk, but it's also very pleasant to the ear.

This little trick.

The crowd pushed forward on tiptoe, and the scene was very chaotic.

"Back off, back off!"

When he heard the shouts of Chen and Yu Mei, Xin Yi was lamenting the fate of Ge Yong and these local officials in Yangzhou.

"Where is your lord?" he asked.

The government officials were busy maintaining order.

Yu Mei hugged the package tightly in her arms, looked around, and whispered: "I wonder if the official job can be taken care of? If it doesn't work, we won't have any more money..."

A person who has done many evil things will be severely punished when he returns to Beijing. This is the consensus of the people. They don't know that in Bianjing, thousands of miles away from Yangzhou, the Dali envoy is constantly negotiating with the Song Dynasty court to ask for people. Zhao Guan's hair

They all turned a few whiter.

Mrs. Chen couldn't speak any more, her face was covered with grief and she kept sobbing.

Several aunts in the Tongpan Mansion were not implicated in the Ge Yong case. On the day of the house raid, they went to the Yamen to conduct an investigation. Then they burst into tears and packed up their bedrolls to find their own way out.

"Stop!" A subordinate held a whip in his hand and raised his arm to shout, and the team stopped.

"Mrs. Chen, just tell me if you have something to say." Xin Yi showed no expression.

Seeing Ge Yong walking with his hunched back and being escorted by officials, Chen was heartbroken.

So she shamelessly wanted to stay with Mr. Chen, at least to give birth to the child, otherwise who would take care of her then?

Mrs. Chen was accompanied by two girls born in the family. She couldn't bear to hear her master crying.

Yu Mei obviously didn't want Mrs. Chen to use the money, so she kept tightening the baggage, as if she was afraid that Xin Yi wouldn't see it.

"Later, his official career was smooth, his official career became bigger and bigger, and new people were brought in one after another. Although I was dissatisfied, I had to bear it, take care of his back house, and help him make friends with official wives. Even though I knew that his hands and feet were dirty,

He could collect some money, but he didn't expect that his appetite would be so big that he would cause a life-threatening lawsuit...

Although Mrs. Chen cried out in front of her, saying that her house had been confiscated, and that Ge Yong had never planned anything for her before and had nothing except his own money and jewelry, Yu Mei did not believe that an old fox like Ge Yong must have money left.

Come down.

The officers and soldiers cleaned up the team, and Zheng Liu brought the envoy's mount, but Cao Yi's people were still nowhere to be seen.

Xin Yi hooked his hands and said, "Come."

A group of criminals came out of it, carrying wounds from the cane that had not healed on their bodies, and shackles weighing ten kilograms around their necks. Their faces were sallow and thin, and their hair was unkempt. They no longer looked like the glory they once had in the lobby.

Xin Yi stuck his head out of the carriage and took a look at the prisoner team going away.

There was laughter and laughter on the long street.

Mrs. Chen turned back and pointed at the package in Yu Mei's arms, crying non-stop.

"Madam, look, is that the princess's chariot? Why don't we go and beg her?"

"A commoner woman and he were a young couple... He married me before he became an official, and we had our eldest son... When I was young, he was really kind to me..."

Two prison cars drove out from the corner gate one behind the other, with Gao Minglou in front and Yang Huaimin in the back. Behind the prison cars, tied in a string with chains, were the fellow prisoners and a large number of official officials.

Xin Yi looked at Yu Mei who was pretending to cry and Chen who was really sad, with a very unhappy expression.

"As soon as the commoner woman entered the body of sin, the princess and the princess were still willing to meet each other. Listening to the commoner woman say a few words of appreciation for herself, she really, really is a living Bodhisattva..."

In this life, I am rich and prosperous because of Ge Yong, and I am poor and miserable because of Ge Yong... I thought, that's it, maybe I owed him something in my previous life. As a couple, I can do a little for him now, maybe a little.
To be continued...