71 Chapter 71
A few days later, I went to the torture room again and was watched by people as a Western view.
"I didn't know before, Xiaolang is such a talent, what is he doing here to spend time?"
"I didn't know that Xiaolang's painting method could be taught, I tried to draw, although I couldn't master the way of shadows, but it looked really better than before. β
"I'm still a Xiaolang and won't come back, it's a waste of such talent to nest here. β
Zhuang Yan smiled at these words, both responsive and modest, agreed to teach the scribe this way of painting, and bluntly said that he could teach others by himself, "This is not a new thing, it's just that no one painted like this before, and I don't like it, if I really see it, where is there anyone who can't draw, aren't those pictures just very good last time?ββ right, I don't know what happened to Master Huang, but I found someone?"
"I'm about to tell you this, with that painting, it's really easy to find someone, otherwise no one would have thought that the little lady who sold herself to bury her father two days ago turned her head and became a pretty widow who tried to give birth and recruit a husband, if it wasn't for the painting, who would have thought of this? The villagers in that family's hometown have been for many years, and they will not easily call the widow out to check it. β
In this era, it is forbidden to remarry, but if the widow is willing to keep the festival, at least until she marries again, everyone will give some respect, so as not to make anything unpleasant, that is, not even the face of the dead.
In this age of superstition that believes in the retribution of the underworld, the dead are sometimes more worthy of respect than the living.
When it comes to the sale of human beings, I am afraid that if the little widow has no support, she will obediently enter the house to be an aunt, and who will let her sell herself? Even though the documents for selling her body are not complete for a while, the yamen sometimes will judge the case fairly according to the facts.
Zhuang Yan didn't pay attention to this anymore, and after two days of giving birth, he was suddenly summoned by a father-in-law, saying that he was specially recommended and that the emperor wanted to meet him.
This message made Zhuang Yan puzzled, Guo Yihou had long been out of the court, and the news was not well-informed, and in the end, it was Guo Yihou's eldest grandson, Zhuang's father's eldest son, who had already been a waiter, came back and said that it was related to the painting, but it was actually related to the matter of dripping blood and recognizing relatives.
Zhuang Yan is not common to these two brothers-in-law, but compared to this eldest brother, the second son's one is quite common, he is studying behind closed doors, and he rarely mixes outside, the two are not in a circle, even if they go out on the same day, they are likely not to meet, which is normal.
And this eldest brother who has already started a family, except for Zhuang Yangang who has just been recognized and has a serious salute, and knows each other's appearance and other information, the others are basically untouchable, and they have been safe for so long, and many times Zhuang Yan has the illusion that he is an only son.
This time, I heard the eldest brother say this, and then I heard him explain a secret case in the palace, so I understood a little.
Because it is a secret case in the palace, few people know about it, and if it weren't for the fact that the eldest brother is a servant of the criminal department, he can contact some things, and I am afraid he would not know at all.
Two years ago, the emperor was very fond of a concubine from a song and dance workshop, in addition to the four concubines, he deliberately made an exception to the title of Yun Concubine, and the heart of favor was clearly revealed, it is said that there is a trend of "six palaces of pink and no color", under such pampering, Concubine Yun soon became pregnant, and the emperor was very happy, and deliberately let the queen take good care of it.
Seven months later, Concubine Yun gave birth, a boy, who was supposed to be the prince, but someone suggested that it was less than ten months, and there might be a problem. The rumors intensified, and the emperor believed it from the beginning to the later half-believed, Concubine Yun was born in a song and dance workshop, and in such a place, there were one or two handsome musicians or something......
Later, it seemed that there was really a traitor and a husband who committed suicide in fear of sin, and the emperor was furious, and finally adopted the method of dripping blood to verify the bloodline of this son, and the result was naturally not harmonious.
Such a thing suddenly forced Concubine Yun to prove her innocence by dying, she died a poignant death, she actually wore a red dance dress, fell into the lake during the dance, and drowned.
The emperor did not put Concubine Yun's son to death because of his merciful dance, but with his acquiescence, the child was placed in a remote palace room to raise, and when he was older, he might be used as a slave, but it was when the previous love was not completely eliminated, and when the affection was occasionally recalled, he suddenly heard that the blood confession could be faked, but if the emperor's favor for Concubine Yun was a little true, he would ask for verification.
Zhuang Yan nodded clearly, many things the emperor will be the one who is kept in the dark, obviously this emperor doesn't want to be unclear, so he asked him to understand.
The next day, Zhuang Yan was followed into the palace by a sedan chair, along with Guo Yihou and Zhuang's father, who was the eldest brother of the criminal department, and was naturally one of the attendees, and their family used examples to prove the phenomenon of blood fusion or not.
In fact, before asking them to enter the palace for verification, the emperor had secretly asked some fathers and sons to do this kind of blood-dripping confession thing verification, and naturally knew that this matter was true, the seemingly simple salt and acid were actually the key to affecting the fusion, who would have thought about it?
It's only been two years, and the child in the cold palace is still alive and well, but most of the people involved were buried with the death of Concubine Yun, knowing such an ugly thing, which person can live?
Now if you want to verify anything, it can only be a cloud of people, there is no way to know whether it is true or false, whether the bowl of water back then was salted or not, who knows?
The emperor just wanted to ask for peace of mind, and secondly, he carried out another blood confession to confirm whose bloodline the child was, and the result was naturally fused, the emperor looked at the blood flowers that were fused together, and sighed again, Yiren has passed away.
"How could you know this at such a young age?" the Emperor asked.
Zhuang Yan replied respectfully: "I also found it by accident, my aunt can't cook, I broke my finger when I tried it by chance, and when I went to put the knife, it was also scratched, and the blood dripped into the same bowl, but it didn't blend...... Later, I found out that the original fusion has something to do with water, and I tried it a few times, even the soy sauce was tried, but the color was too black to see anything, so I determined that the colorless sour juice and salt had such an effect. β
"I heard that Guo Yi is waiting for a good grandson, and sure enough, Zhuang Yan, your painting seems to be very good, can you paint it on the spot?" The emperor seemed to be in a better mood, and showed his face slightly.
Where did Zhuang Yan dare to refuse, while listening to Guo Yihou's modesty, he said that he was a lot of bad, and at the same time depicted it on the table next to him that quickly laid out rice paper. On the right hand side was not a brush, but a hard pen made of lead, which was more elaborate than the craftsman at home, and was obviously not prepared in a hurry.
Knowing the painting by the pen, there is no limit to the content, the two of them are talking, he is not good to ask again, simply play freely, quietly raise his eyes twice, and paint according to the content recorded by the mental power, for ordinary people, such a full-body sketch, if you want to complete how it will take a day or two, and in Zhuang Yan, even if there are complicated embroidery needs to be depicted one by one, but he did not take another look, but the pen is like flying, about a stick of incense, and the painting is completed.
"Like, it's really like. "The emperor looked at the emperor on the painting, except that he had never used color, I am afraid that he did not look so clearly in the mirror, and it felt very strange to look at each other.
After some compliments, he gave a lot of rewards and let the family go back.
Before he got into the car, Guo Yihou couldn't bear it, and as soon as he got out of the palace gate, he grabbed Zhuang Yan's ears and shouted: "You little rabbit cub, who gave you the courage to dare to draw like that?"
The emperor is the Son of Heaven, the Ninety-Five, without his consent, anyone who paints him privately is trespassing, which is a crime.
Zhuang Yan, who rarely enjoys such violent treatment, stood on tiptoe with "oops", he is good-looking, and he is not ugly like this, but it is so funny that it makes people laugh, and Zhuang's father accidentally laughed.
"What are you laughing at, do you laugh? Look at what your son is like, you taught him. Guo Yihou heard the laughter and immediately shifted his firepower, Zhuang Yan took the opportunity to get out of trouble, ignored Zhuang's father, and left quickly in two steps, saying that he was going to work in the yamen.
He is not very familiar with this road, he is a little confused when he walks fast, but fortunately, the spiritual power is still there, the detective is not good, the exploration of the road is simple, just about to turn on the right path, a gust of wind comes, a side of the embroidered handkerchief floats in, the faint fragrance of flowers into the nose, tempting people to want to reach out to catch this side of the color.
Zhuang Yan's face changed slightly, and he gave way to the side, letting the handkerchief float away from him, and at the same time, his spiritual power also detected that in the embroidery building separated by a wall, a female corpse was lying there quietly, and a person was stepping down the stairs and leaving.
The original owner in the plot was depressed because he couldn't relist the door wall for a long time, he ate some wine, passed by here, and just picked up the embroidered handkerchief that floated into his arms, the value of the handkerchief was not low, and the aroma led people to reverie, he felt that maybe it was a lady who was moved by himself, so he threw the embroidered handkerchief over, with this thought, he walked around here a few more times, wanting to find the traces of the lady, which was seen by many people, and finally became the witness of his murder, and the embroidered handkerchief that he cherished and hid became the best physical evidence, causing him to lose his life in vainγ
Now that he knows the plot, Zhuang Yan naturally won't pick up the embroidered handkerchief that fell with the wind, and he won't let go of the murderer who has never revealed the plot, his spiritual power was quietly entangled, and the resistance was slight, and then the young man who had left the courtyard walked with a limp of his footsteps, and actually went directly to Jingzhao Yin Yamen to beat the big drum and surrendered.
The murderer was the son of Shangshu of the Criminal Department, and the person who was killed was a distant niece of his aunt, who had fled here for many years, with extremely beautiful appearance, but chaste personality, and refused to take a concubine with others, let alone have an affair with him, and was finally raped and killed by him.
The case spread all over the capital in less than a day, the murderer personally admitted it, did not change his words, and was finally sentenced to death, and the criminal department Shangshu was finally dismissed because of the lack of a way to teach his son, and the officialdom was a little turbulent, and the eldest son of Zhuang's father, Zhuang Yan's eldest brother, was not promoted, but was implicated and demoted.
Zhuang Yan was unwilling to face his mother's resentment, and in the name of being self-reliant, he begged Guo Yihou to allow him to split up and take Zhuang's mother to be raised.
Even though she has the status of a good concubine, but Zhuang's mother is really weak, where can she stand up, Zhuang Yan is afraid that she will be even more angry after she leaves, so she simply decided to take it over.
Guo Yihou was not allowed, but later Zhuang Yan took out the evidence that his mother-in-law accompanied the room to change the bowl, and a number of private affairs in the house, the reason why Zhuang's father had no children for a long time was because his mother-in-law used drugs, and there were also some murders of male fetuses, in addition to some dirty things in the public account.
These evidences are all obtained by Zhuang Yan using mental power to cheat, he was unwilling to do so before, it was really because of Edmund's death, Zhuang Yan had a shadow of directly using mental power to influence others, and he was easily unwilling to use it like this, for fear of harming innocent lives again, everyone in the interstellar era has spiritual power, Edmund still can't stand it, where can the people here bear it?
Although there is evidence, the few people who provided the evidence died or went crazy in the end, and none of them got a good death, and this incident was inexplicably regarded by Guo Yihou as a means for his daughter-in-law to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, hating her for being ruthless, and I don't know how many grandsons she killed in secret, so she agreed to Zhuang Yan's request.
In a year, entering Guoyi Houfu and walking out of Houfu, Zhuang's mother lived like a dream, and couldn't help crying when she saw her son again, "I thought I wouldn't see you again!"
Zhuang Yan knew that Zhuang's mother loved to cry, but it was rare for her to cry so sadly, she didn't even pay attention to Zhuang's father coming to comfort him, and blindly pulled him to cry.
Zhuang's mother suddenly had a dream the day before, dreaming that her son was dead, crying and waking up, I can't remember the things in the dream clearly, but this one seems to be true, which makes people like Zhuang Sheng dreaming of butterflies, I don't know where I am.
Xiaoling is not by her side, the maids around her are all sent by Zhuang's father and wife, no one has a confidant, no one talks to her, and she is far away from crying until she comes back after dinner.
Zhuang Yan counted the time, that day, it was the day when the original owner of the plot was beheaded, maybe it was because Zhuang's mother was light, or what kind of reason, she actually knew the things in the plot, fortunately, she didn't know much, otherwise she wouldn't have pulled him to cry, but had to hurry up to find a monk and Taoist priest to pour black dog blood on him.
Guo Yihou felt that Zhuang Yan was good, at this time he wanted to leave, and he would not let him really have nothing, so he deliberately gave a house deed in private, and did not allow him to publicize it, and gave some silver tickets, so he scolded him for having no conscience and let him leave the front quickly.
The new house is not far from the Hou Mansion, it is convenient for two people to go down, but the size is poor, the others are excellent, Zhuang's father likes the delicacy of this house very much, he will always come to rest for a few days in January, and occasionally gather with friends here, obviously it is not an outer house, but he made it like a foreign house.
There are no difficulties in life, Zhuang Yan doesn't care much about reputation, he is a real celebrity and self-style! I know that Zhuang's father will not mess around, no matter how he will not give away a good concubine who has a son, he will let him be happy, anyway, Zhuang's mother has never felt wronged because of this, but feels that she can be the master of the house in this family, and occasionally has some opinions.
Zhuang Yan is still mixed in the yamen, there was no shadow of him from beginning to end in such a big case last time, so the promotion is no play, he himself doesn't feel a pity, and he is idle every day.
At the age of fifteen, Zhuang's father set a marriage for him, the other party is the second daughter of Dali Siqing, a good daughter's family, I don't know how to take a fancy to him, I have to achieve this low marriage, Zhuang's father is happy here, Zhuang Yan's father-in-law has no good face, and completed the marriage process with a cold face.
After marriage, his wife is beautiful, has a delicate personality, knows both calligraphy and painting, and has a good needlework that his family does not know. 166 Reading Network