543, heaven and earth
Xiaoxiao's uncle, now Lord Gu, the Hanlin Academy's Zhangyuan, walked out of the imperial study again with a look of disappointment.
I saw Lord Jiang, who was waiting outside, waiting for a while. After thinking about it, Lord Jiang was not an outsider, but the elder brother of the second wife of the Tang family. At this time, I was waiting in the imperial study room and probably also pleaded for the Tang family.
Lord Gu shook his head lightly, and Lord Jiang walked up to him and asked in a low voice: "What crime should we cure?"
"Oh, this crime is serious, and it is mild," Lord Gu sighed. "There are examples of some merchants being killed by all their families because of doing business with royal families in other countries."
The two of them whispered and walked out. Lord Jiang couldn't help asking, "Which is the purpose of?"
"If we know the reason, we can prescribe the right medicine." Lord Gu had no choice but to do anything.
"That girl..."
"The female family members are all going to be sent back to their hometown in Yanzhou. The ancestral fields are already owned by the entire clan, and they can only get a few acres of thin fields to live." When Lord Gu mentioned these, he was a bleak cloud.
Lord Jiang asked further: "Is it because the Tang family is really having something to do with the Goryeo Dynasty? Otherwise, how could the emperor be so angry?"
Lord Gu wanted to deny it firmly, but when he thought of that man Tang Laowu, he really didn't dare to do it correctly, and he didn't say anything at this moment.
Lord Jiang understood a little, and didn't ask much, just said, "Our old lady in our family is reluctant to let his grandson suffer those crimes, but I'm afraid that Old Mr. Gu will not be reluctant to let him go either."
Lord Gu was just surprised that the other party said these words at this moment: "What if you can't bear to give up? There is no conviction yet, and it should be time to accompany the old man to overcome difficulties."
Lord Jiang stopped talking, knowing that his ideas were different, and it was useless to say more.
The aura between the two men changed subtly. When they were a little embarrassed, a sweet fragrance of flowers suddenly came. Not knowing why, I saw several people carrying a sedan chair decorated with flowers in. This is the territory of the Imperial Study Room. Who dares to have such an arrogant appearance?
The two of them watched quietly, and saw the sedan chair parked in front of the door, but the person inside did not come out, but asked people to lift it out of it - a young man covered with flowers quilt lying on a flower bed covered with flowers, looking sick.
In this world, Prince An dares to enter and exit the imperial study room like this?
Because this person has always been weak and has a different personality from others, and his ancestors have made great contributions to the Yuanlong Dynasty, the emperor has always been following his personality, but what kind of morality does this happen today!
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Prince An, Bi Tong, lay on his flower bed for three days, and the flower bed was placed in the imperial study. When Bi Tong was hungry, he ate some flowers and nectar. The rest of the time was spent begging the emperor's brother, basically just rolling around and pleading for the Tang family.
In the end, this set played a small role. The women of the Tang family did not have to go back to their hometowns, and were sent directly to the village in the suburbs of the Tang family. Apart from a single courtyard, there were still a few acres of land left.
As for the other fields of the village, they were sealed on the spot like other properties of the Tang family. Therefore, all the shops of the Tang family were sealed and the fields were deserted. The Tang family's business cooperation with other businesses could unilaterally terminate the contract, and the part that belonged to the Tang family was still sealed.
The court did not investigate, but only let the finances die there temporarily and lose their vitality.
Just like those people from the Tang family: those in prison and those in the village were sealed there like those belongings, and gradually they lost their vitality.
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Although it is a separate courtyard on the farm, there are also two places. In the past, there were crop managers living in the yard, while in the outer courtyard, there were crops who temporarily spent the night here.
Nowadays, guards live in the outer courtyard, while all the women of the Tang family live in the inner courtyard.
There are three main rooms and three main rooms on the left and right sides.
The old lady lives in the main landlord's room, the eldest lady lives in the west room with Jin Baodi, and takes care of Brother Sheng, who is two years old.
The second and third bedrooms live in the east wing, and the fourth and fifth bedrooms live in the west wing.
Because there was no one to serve the old lady, several granddaughters took turns to accompany their grandmother.
Due to the discomfort in the environment and exhaustion, many people fell ill: the second wife has been making trouble in her stomach and can't eat yet; the fifth wife has a fire in her eyes and teeth, her eyes are red, and her toothache makes her cheeks swollen and taller; the second wife, Brother Xian, is not used to eating coarse grains, and now she vomits and has diarrhea...
The one who is most ill is Keju. He started to have a fever since he entered the farm. He had been recurrent for two or three days, but he still didn't get better.
Yanran smiled and returned from the door, still looking disappointed: "The officers and soldiers were not at all accommodating and said that their superiors would not allow them to hire a doctor."
Xiaoxiao was also anxious. After thinking about it, she also went to the door to beg the officers and soldiers: "Brother Bing is fine, my sister is almost ill." As she said that, she cried and shed some tears, "Which child can live with her mother!"
This sentence made one of the officers and soldiers curiously: "The child's mother came over to beg us just now, with the swollen cheeks."
She smiled and sighed sadly: "That's just that the legitimate mother cherishes her. Her biological mother has been taken out and sold... This child is extremely sensible, but now that her biological mother has been sold, no matter how angry she is, she can't bear it!"
After saying this, several officers and soldiers felt pitiful. One of them said: "It's not that we don't want to save us when we see death, but we have given death orders and will never give it to the doctor."
Xiaoxiao hurriedly said, "We dare not hire a doctor, but just ask Brother Bing to find some firewood for us, and at least burn some hot water to drink. I drink cold water these days, so how can the disease be cured?"
Several officers and soldiers did not say anything, and finally one of the older ones stood up: "Okay, you wait."
Xiaoxiao bowed with gratitude: "Thank you, brother, good deeds will be rewarded, Amitabha!"
Xiaoxiao saw some officers and soldiers eating, and they were just steamed buns and dried pickled vegetables. The food was only a little better than their own - the people in the yard ate coarse grain steamed buns and dried pickled vegetables.
Xiaoxiao returned to the simple kitchen, where there were some condiments such as soy sauce and vinegar left before, but there was no rice, flour, grain and oil. The little bit of firewood left before had been used up long ago - the firewood was saved and only enough to boil a little hot water, so she kept it for her grandmother and children to drink. A few young and strong people all drank cold water. The second wife was very dissatisfied with this.
At this moment, Xiaoxiao picked some perilla leaves from the yard and put them on a few small red peppers. There were so many things that were not allowed to carry food and drink in the yard, a large lush piece of perilla and a large bush of chili peppers.
Xiaoxiao cut the perilla finely on the vegetable table, and then mixed it with some red peppers, and mixed it with vinegar and salt, and a special fragrance wafted out.
Xiaoxiao mixed a large bowl and divided it into two parts, one for your own meal, and the other was delivered to the door: "We have nothing to do here, at least these perillas are growing in the yard. Now it's so hot, it's just right to eat this with dry food. Don't dislike it, brother."
Seeing that there was food, the officers and soldiers were also happy. Those who were assigned to come to take care of the women were all soldiers with no power, no power, no background, and this job was consuming people and no money to make.
Everyone, I will taste it, and soon I will eat up a bowl of cold perilla.
Xiaoxiao was also happy. He had found firewood for himself, so he could not give him favors in vain. Such "recitations" of "recitations" can be regarded as a friendship.
After everyone became familiar with each other, an old soldier said, "Have you heard about the Lu family?"
"What Lu family?" Xiaoxiao had never heard of the Lu family.
"It's normal that you haven't heard of it. It was more than 20 years ago. The Lu family was implicated because of the Qin family, and the consequences were similar to yours." The veteran talked about the past.
"You mean, men are also imprisoned, and women are also imprisoned in the village like us?" Xiaoxiao asked.
The veteran nodded: "Really speaking, they are in a better situation than you. The firewood and rice and flour in their granary are full of firewood, but those wives and petite ladies don't even make fires and cook. Although they won't starve to death later, they are also sick and weak. The family finally couldn't survive that winter."
Xiaoxiao looked surprised: "You mean, all the women are dead?"
"Oh, it's a pity. The old lady of that family got on the hang-up as soon as she entered the farm. Now she lost her backbone. There was a child who was hungry for several months at home, and there was no nurse around her. She couldn't even eat a bite of hot batter. The child had not lived for half a month... The girls were weak, and one of them was sick, and the others were all sick... In the end, there was a wife who begged us to get her rat medicine, saying that there were too many rats in the house. We all knew what she was going to do, but she begged us with tears in her eyes, and finally got her..."
Xiaoxiao listened to this tragedy on earth, and felt that these women lived in the village as much as they were in prison.
The veteran thought that the little girl must have been scared, but he saw him lowering his head and thinking about something. He raised his head and looked calm: "Can we meet here?"
"You can meet guests in three days, and you can only see two times a day, once in the first and second a day, no more than half an hour each time, and no more than three people each time." The veteran said this and suddenly showed a complicated smile.
A soldier next to him was in a while and said, "If you can meet the guests, you can deliver things."
The veteran said, "That's someone who's willing to see you. The Lu family committed a crime back then, and some people even went to the court to expose many other things in the Lu family in order to clear their relationship."
Xiaoxiao did not continue to talk about this topic and continued to ask: "If there are guests, can they help bring things?"
"Yes, as long as it is not valuable property or meat to cook, everything else should be fine." The veteran thought to himself that this little girl was still too naive and actually thought that relatives and friends could come to help them.
Xiaoxiao smiled innocently: "We don't have any good things to show off now. When the firewood comes, I will boil a large pot of hot water to make some perilla cooked water. Drink some to relieve the heat. If you have any new news in the future, please remember to inform us for a while."
Several soldiers nodded and thought to themselves that the women were really pitiful. Although it was midsummer at this time, they could not drink cold water all the time. It was okay to deal with it when they were on duty here, but for just a few hours, these spoiled women had to stay here for the whole day and night, no, maybe for many years, or even for a lifetime.
A young soldier seemed to remember something and said to Xiaoxiao: "There are clear regulations that those officials and adults cannot come to this place."
Xiaoxiao nodded and thanked the soldier, but he knew in his heart that his uncle could not come.
Chapter completed!