When the clouds were not dissipating in the courtyard of the Pu family's main house, some news came from the Shi family. Shi Zhonglang's case was closed after more than ten days.

Li Ya didn't change his words in the end, in fact, Shi Zhonglang did not ask them to kill the shopkeeper Sui on the spot, the original truth, they intended to hurt people instead of killing. The biggest change in the matter is that there are two habitual criminals among the people Li Ya found, and the deceased on the day of arrest was really an accident. As for the people who attacked Chen Hao and Cai Wan in Baifu Lane, one of them ran away in the end, and the remaining four people spat under the punishment, saying that they had collected money to teach Chen Hao a lesson. All kinds of confessions were written in black and white, and Jing Zhaoyin's final ruling that Li Ya was still beheaded and sent to Dali Temple for review. Habitual offenders and other murderers were executed, and the accomplices who participated in the murder of the Sui shopkeeper were exiled, and those who attacked Chen Hao were only guilty of wounding, with forty rods each and a fine of 100 taels of silver.

As for Shi Zhonglang's own sentencing, there are other twists and turns. When General Shi Ben was promoted to the banquet, Jing Zhao came to the door to arrest people, although the old man and his wife came up with excuses to push and push, the clear-eyed people definitely didn't believe it. On the day General Shi Ben left Beijing, Shi Zhonglang entered the yamen again, and the matter spread completely in Beijing.

In the end, General Shi Ben was born from Long Jinchen, this case is not big but there are some ups and downs, and Emperor Shangxiang personally inquired about it when he was in the court. Although Jing Zhaoyin's judgment on the facts of the case was clear and clear, the punishment of Shi Zhonglang caused a small controversy.

Some courtiers thought that General Shi Ben had contributed to the country in guarding Chenzhou, and this time he was also a righteous annihilation, which was really worthy of praise. And Shi Zhonglang is only 17 years old this year, and he is still a weak-crowned teenager, so he should be given priority in education and given a lenient sentence. At the same time, there are also imperial historians who believe that the noble and lowly relatives are sparse, and once they break the law, Shi Zhonglang is only seventeen years old now to do such a thing, and if he is not severely punished, he is afraid that he will not return to the right path in the future. As for General Shi Ben, although he killed his relatives this time, he was also suspected of negligence and connivance before.

The court was originally a place where civil and military officials fought each other, and any differences of opinion could be raised to a new level by citing scriptures. However, Emperor Xiang was a decisive king in a hundred battles on the battlefield, and immediately opened Chrysostom before the matter evolved into a big issue of "On the loyalty of military generals and their family management": Jing Zhaoyin dealt with it fairly, and Dali Temple, which was not a capital crime, did not need to be reconsidered.

This is actually kicking the ball back to Jingzhao Yamen, but Jingzhao Yin Yao Fengming's judgment has always been an iron fist, and it was quickly judged. Shi Zhonglang committed adultery with He, the wife of the Sui shopkeeper, with twenty rods, and was not allowed to enter the scientific examination for life. Commanding a domestic slave to hurt a man, the sin is also hurting, and the rod is forty. The restraint of domestic slaves was not strict, resulting in collusion with bandits, killing and injuring good people, and a fine of 1,000 taels of silver. The hired murderer attacked the Jingzhao Yamen to arrest Chen Hao, and injured passers-by, with 40 rods and a fine of 500 silver. Punished for several crimes, remembering his youth and ignorance, he authorized his family to delay medical treatment and medicine, and beat 100 canes in three times.

This can be regarded as an extrajudicial favor, with Shi Zhonglang's physique, a hundred boards at a time is enough to beat him to death. However, this extrajudicial grace is not so easy to bear, even if the Shi family can pay a lot of money to invite the imperial doctor to treat it, in the end, it will be just better, and they will have to be beaten and beaten within a month, and they will not say how much hardship they have to endure to survive, even if they continue to talk about their legs when they go home, they will have to lie down for more than half a year before they can walk again.

Chen Hao asked Chen Run to report these progress and news to Yueluju, Ruji and Caiyun were very happy to hear it, in the end, they saw some heavenly fairness, not only rewarded Chen Run with a thick red envelope, but also added vegetables to Yueluju that night, and was happy like a festival.

Chaolu and Xia Yue didn't know what Ruxi and Caiyun were happy about, they just thought it was because of Chen Hao's marriage. After all, Ru Xi's family affairs are actually very embarrassing, it is naturally impossible to climb any princes and princesses, and Yan Heng and his wife do not have too deep feelings for Ru Xi, even if they can ask and find a five- or six-grade official son or an innocent squire, in the end, they will not be as attentive as giving their own daughters.

So on the whole, Chen Hao is a talent, although outsiders think that he is poor, but his family character is innocent and upright, in terms of his own ability, Chen Hao is the youngest in the Jingzhao Yamen but has the highest rate of solving the case, and Yan Xiaoqing values it, if he can enter the Criminal Department again in the next year to inherit from the six products, the future is not too bad. What's more, the two of them intersect in adversity and fall in love, so they are really the best candidates.

Ru Xi heard the vague meaning of congratulations in Chaolu's words, and knew that she had misunderstood, but remembering that Chen Hao really felt very sweet, she didn't explain much.

After a few more days, the Chi clan gradually recovered his health, which was faster than Cheng Langzhong expected when Xia Yue invited him, but Ru Ji was not very surprised.

The reason is very simple, Cheng Langzhong's concept of food therapy is that fish makes fire, meat produces phlegm, and green vegetables and tofu keep safe. If Chi has no appetite and is not tight, he can detoxify his limbs and limbs after two hungry meals. With Cheng Langzhong's words, the masters of the Pu family, except for Yue Luju, were very calm and arranged to poison for a few days. The kitchen is not unreasonable, and the condiments such as chicken soup and dried shrimp are changed every day, but the main dish sent over is still green vegetable tofu.

In fact, Chi's was not a serious illness in the first place, and he couldn't stand it after a few days of continuous defeat of green vegetables and tofu, so he sent Chi's mother back three hundred and fifty taels of silver as agreed, and also took away the pair of cards and account books.

Ruxi doesn't care about this, as a daughter who will definitely marry in the future, her mother's middle feed is really chicken. If it is in a normal family, it can be said that it is filial piety or learning experience, but for Ruji, it is just a short-term balance of the Chi family's borrowing point, how can there be any interest in really spending time on the internal affairs of the Pu family.

In the blink of an eye, in October, the Chi family may have accepted his fate, and after his body recovered, he sorted out the housework steadily, searched for silver, and successively sent money to Ruxi to fill in the accounts according to the rhythm of three hundred and fifty taels every ten days.

Ruji is quite satisfied with this, the fifteenth day of the new year passed in the main room to say hello, drink tea and say a few words, ten minutes and so on, and each other was fine.

Rushu's courteous flattery is still the same, and the servants and maids of the Shi family are naturally even more enthusiastic. Nowadays, the eldest girl can be regarded as rich and powerful, not to mention the two big girls in Xia Yue, even to the teenage fairy grass and Ganoderma lucidum are polite, and ask the eldest girl at any time if she intends to add some more people to the Yuelu Curie.

Ruji and Caiyun because of the memory of the two lives, they don't have much affection for the Pu family, and the only maid who may be taken away in the future is about the kind Shuangying, anyway, when the girl gets married, it is customary for the housemother to give a big maid to marry, but it is not in a hurry.

On the other hand, Ru Ji received Chen Hao's deed, but she was not in a hurry to move over. First, winter is really not a good day to buy slaves and maids, toss and move, and secondly, Chaolu also mentioned that Chen Hao's intentions are extremely precious, and he must be very low-key usually. But in case anyone knows that the house is his, and Ruxi lived in Chen Hao's house before getting married, it would be bad if there was any gossip in the future. Ru Ji listened to the reason, so she postponed the move, except for going out to see the shop every once in a while to drink tea and go shopping with someone, she was only left to concentrate on planning the tea shop that was about to be discontinued.

The location of the shop has been selected, it is in the southernmost part of Yongning Street, at the intersection of Changrong Street, and is one of the places with the largest flow of people in the entire southeast urban area, very close to the East City Gate.

Chao Lu also accompanied Ruxi to see this shop once, and I thought it was very suitable. Because of the winter, the price of personnel and materials has risen, and it is not a good time to open a new store, but it is the time when people who want to sell stores and return to their hometowns want to get rid of it the most, and it is best to bargain. Ru Ji weighed again and again, and finally decided to take two thousand taels of silver to the store, and asked Chen Run to move directly to the store, and by the way, take care of the store's pù cleaning and decoration, preparing for the new store after the New Year, etc.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, Ruji's fifteenth birthday came quietly. Although Pu Yu and Chi didn't dare to despise Ru Ji anymore, they didn't have any interest in celebrating her, not to mention that they were thrifty and saving money everywhere, so they simply sent a satin as a congratulatory gift with the example of previous years. Huan Ningbo Mansion is more important than in previous years, in addition to the four masters Yan Yan who was released, the Yan family's three rooms and out of the pavilion Yan Yuan all asked people to send congratulatory gifts. Although Ru Ji misses the birthday party with relatives and friends before the crossing, she is still very content when she looks at the abundance of gifts.

On the day of October 13, because he was going out of the city to arrest thieves, he didn't have time to continue to accompany Ruxi to "watch the shop", so he asked Chen Run to send a double butterfly blonde hair inlaid with rubies to comb to Yueluju. When Ru Ji saw it, he knew that this was the white jade peach blossom hair comb that he thought about that day but didn't buy it in Baibaozhai, and he deliberately looked for a more exquisite one. Ruji put on a mirror to take a self-portrait, and the smile born from her heart really can't be hidden.

In the next few days, the weather became colder and colder, and although Ruji did not go out, she was reluctant to take off the butterfly hair comb every day. Cai Wan secretly laughed twice, but Ru Xi saw at a glance that the brocade purse with Fusang pattern that she had recently acquired did not seem to have been bought by herself, and immediately blushed and diverted the conversation.

On October 18, the first light snow fell in the capital since the beginning of winter, and the fine snowflakes fell sporadically, looking at it through the window was quite fresh, and there was no snow on the ground, and it did not affect the travel.

Ru Ji is afraid of the cold, so the weather does not want to step out of the door, but at this time, the Pu family ushered in an uninvited guest, who turned out to be the second lady of the Shi family, Shi Renlang's mother, Zuo.